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Need a striking, original character design, but [[Only Six Faces|only know how to draw about six faces]]? Why, give them a pair of Unusual Eyebrows, of course!

Apart from [[Anime Hair|hair]], giving a character a pair of not-quite-standard looking eyebrows is an easy way to make them physically stand out without making them more difficult to draw. Best yet, there's an easy selection of potential eyebrow styles to choose from:

 

 

Some styles have become so common that they've earned their own tropes:

* '''[[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]'''

* '''[[Big Ol' Unibrow]]'''

 

Make the character's eyebrows odd enough, and you might find fans obsessing over them as much as the [[Memetic Outfit]].

 

Not related to either [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]] or the [[Fascinating Eyebrow]].

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== Kinked Eyebrows ==

 

* [[Sarutobi Sasuke]] from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]''.

* [[Sociopathic Hero|Travis]] [[Psycho for Hire|Touchdown]] from ''[[No More Heroes]]''.

 

 

== Fiery Eyebrows ==

** Her cousin Treize has the same kind of eyebrows, just not as prominent.

* [[media:epicsideburnsareepic.png|Ryoma Nagare]] in any incarnation of ''[[Getter Robo]]''

* The Raikage from ''[[Naruto]]'' has forked eyebrows which go with his forked mustache, dagger-like beard, and pointy slicked back hair. Given his fighting style and title they're probably meant to be more like lightning than fire, but not lightning eyebrows because that wouldn't really fit with the art-style.

* Daigo Ikari of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' is probably the most hot-blooded character in a series full [[determinators]] and manly men. As if to prove how hot-blooded he is, he has flame brows ''drawn'' where his eye brow should be, apparently using black eye grease.

 

* Turlough in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was deliberately given combed-up, sharp, ginger eyebrows to look more alien.

 

* [[Hot-Blooded]] Sanada Yukimura from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' combines these with [[Hotblooded Sideburns]].

* [[Ryu and Ken]], [[Street Fighter|and Fei Long too]].

 

* [[Big Bad|Aku]] from ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has ''literal'' Fiery Eyebrows

** Or rather [[Large Ham|GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS!!]]

 

== Swooped Eyebrows ==

* The [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Tekkon Kinkreet]]''.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Sanji's right eyebrow is not only swooped, but twirly. We do not ever see his left eyebrow -- [[Peek-a-Bangs|or eye, for that matter]].

** {{spoiler|As of the timeskip his other eye is revealed... it swirls on the end that is near his nose making a @_ @_ face.}}

 

* Most characters illustrated by Charles Vess.

 

 

* Spock and other Vulcans in ''[[Star Trek]]''. Also Romulans.

 

* In some incarnations, [[Street Fighter|Dan Hibiki]] is pictured with eyebrows that curve upwards.

* Ishida Mitsunari from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' has dramatically swooped eyebrows, making him look angry and thinner than ever.

 

 

== Lightning Eyebrows ==

* Klan Klang from ''[[Macross Frontier]]''.

 

 

 

 

 

== No Eyebrows ==

* Gaara from ''[[Naruto]]'' doesn't have any. Probably to make him look unnerving. His father, the Fourth Kazekage, didn't either.

** Zabuza ''usually'' has eyebrows, except in [[Off-Model|a few scenes]] in the anime, but they're incredibly thin and short, which was enough for Naruto to call him "eyebrowless freak" a couple times.

** The Second Mizukage didn't have any either, which he claims are a sign of charisma.

** Android 20, Dr Gero.

* Elfman and Gajeel from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.

* The sinister Yokoya from ''[[Liar Game]]''.

 

* The "Mystery Man" played by Robert Blake in [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Lost Highway]]''.

* [[The Terminator]] starts out as a young, good-looking Arnold Schwarzenegger pushed into the [[Uncanny Valley]] by a pointed lack of emotion. The attractive appearance falls away quickly over the course of the movie, culminating in the [[Nightmare Fuel]] skeleton. The first thing to go, however, are its eyebrows, giving it a more brutish appearance.

 

* In the second book of ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', all of the characters residing in the eponymous underwater city lack eyebrows. Bobby mentions that it's quite unsettling, and that one doesn't normally consider eyebrows carefully (unless one is [[One of Us]], naturally,) until they're not there.

 

* Claudia of ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'', in order to invoke the [[Uncanny Valley]].

* [[Street Fighter|Guile.]] [[Patriotic Fervor|He's American like that.]]

* [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Cyrus]] found eyebrows unnecessary for his perfect world.

 

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'', although some like Milhouse have [[Big Ol' Eyebrows|huge eyebrows.]]

 

* The Mona Lisa

** Actually, Mona Lisa originally did have eyebrows, but all the cleaning and restoration works scrubbed the eyebrows (and a lot of details) out.

* Martin Luther McCoy

* [[David Bowie]] during his Ziggy Stardust phase.

 

== Other ==

* Similarly to the above example, [http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7099/41929937480445f6c924o.jpg Paradox] from the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie]]''.

* Raimon "Monta" Taro of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has your standard [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]], except for the fact that they somehow go through ''over'' his hairline in Captain Crunch-like fashion.

* Hoover Kippenburg from the ''[[Area 88]]'' manga has extremely arched eyebrows.

 

 

* [[Songs to Wear Pants To|Andrew]] has triangular eyebrows. Impressive stuff.

 

 

* In ''[[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice]]'', the eponymous character has forked eyebrows.

 

* The Monarch from ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' has long, thin eyebrows that jut out from his face by half a foot and curl at the end.

* Before there was ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', there was ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]'', with a similar array.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' gives us [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Jet]] and his eyebrows; shaped like long, skinny tildes whose curves are slightly pointed. They're difficult to describe - [[media:jet-avatar.jpg|you almost have to see them]] [http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Jet.png to believe them] - and the completely unexplained contrast between him and every single other character on the show has led to his eyebrows becoming a [[Memetic Mutation]] within the fandom.

 

* In ''[[Nectar of the Gods]]'', the protagonist, Bacchus Vindread, bares naturally lifted eyebrows in the shape of large arcs... or should I say unnatural lifted eyebrows, these eyebrows achieve such great heights that if they were any higher they'd be [[Disembodied Eyebrows|floating off of his face]].

 

* [[Amanda Palmer]] paints them on in fancy patterns, and has joked that they're actually alien barcodes.