Aang packs his bags for the Final Battle.
"Look at these bags under my eyes! Even my bags have bags!"
— Squidward, SpongeBob SquarePants, "Fear of a Krabby Patty"
Often used to show a character is tired to the bone after pulling an all-nighter are the Exhausted Eye Bags. These are circles of darker skin color than normal underneath the character's eyes to represent the Real Life phenomena of pigmentation that occurs around a person's eyes when they are physically exhausted, though in reality, it would usually take more than a single night for this coloration to appear. Usually, it's a one-off situation and after the character gets some sleep they return to their normal appearance.
This is most prominently and obviously used in animation and comics; however, a bit of make-up is sometimes used on actors to show this trope.
Compare Open the Iris, which is a technique to show that a character's pupils (and irises—hey, cartoons) have dilated in order to easily convey an emotional reaction. Often combined with Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes. See Creepy Shadowed Undereyes too, where this trope might be the explanation for it.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- From Anpanman the Donburiman Trio get these in the episode Donburiman Trio and the Mysterious Forest. After being entranced so much by the charms of the princess from said forest that they pull all-nighters for her, the princess actually being Dokinchan in disguise to get free donburi out of them, they have dark purple patches under their eyes.
- In Attack on Titan, Eren has some in episode 15 after being forced to stay up all night listening to Hange explain to him everything she knew regarding Titans. She did warn him it would take a while before starting, however.
- Nero/Secre Swallowtail from Black Clover has these after regaining her human form, likely due to spending five centuries as a bird and her, understandably, somber demeanor. Though they tend to go away or at least be more akin to a natural eyeliner in more emotional moments.
- Blend-S: Kaho gets these as a result of being forced to study all night, but having Eye Bags means she can't show her face to the customers. Fortunetely, Mafyuyu fixes it with some makeup.
- Harumi Kiyama from A Certain Scientific Railgun has these, but we have a flashback that shows her both before she got them and the very moment she developed them. The Academy City leaders are bastards.
- The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family: In episode 6, the start of the episode shows the Daichi family (Dai, Nozomi, Seiko and Mamoru) with eye bags due to lacking sleep from training last night. Haruka, Nozomi's classmate upon seeing her face is shocked that she looks really tired.
- These are the most recognizable feature of Reine Murasame in Date A Live. She says she has had insomnia for 30 years.
- Death Note:
- As a consequence of being an insomniac and the presumably exhaustive nature of his work, L has prominent eye bags.
- Near also develops one of these eye bags
◊ once he becomes L's successor, presumably for the same reasons.
- Another character who has these constantly is Miranda in D.Gray-Man, who suffers from insomnia due to anxiety and low self-esteem. In later chapters, though, she's less tired-looking and doesn't have eye bags but she still has noticeably thicker eye lines than most other characters in the series.
- In Fullmetal Alchemist, Mustang, Hawkeye, and Hughes all have these during the flashbacks to the Ishvalan War of Extermination, to highlight how psychologically exhausted they all are.
- In Gurren Lagann, Rossiu starts to stress out over the circumstances of the falling moon decimating the entire planet and his guilt over betraying Simon out of desperation, leaving him very emotionally exhausted.
- Shirogane from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War suffers from chronic sleep deprivation due to his insane workload, giving him a constant glare that most other students find intimidating. Kaguya ended up developing a Fetish for this sort of look due to having fallen in love with him.
- Kizuna no Allele: In Episode 23 Miracle looks aged because she pulled an allnighter writing the lyrics. She actually intentionally modified her Digital Avatar to show how hard she worked.
- Shown on the three Wannabe Toudai Students in Love Hina after they pull all-nighters. Naru has the eyebags, Keitaro tops it by having them and being wobbly all over... and Mutsumi subverts it, as she looks fresh and relaxed, despite not getting a wink of sleep.
- In episode 5 of NAKAIMO - My Little Sister is Among Them!, Shougo Mikadono's sister keeps calling him around 6 am every day for a week, which causes him to be sleep deprived at school. Then Episode 6 reveals that it was Mei Sagara calling him, pretending to be his sister, to keep him from finding out who she really is, lest his father's company publicly scorns and shame his illegitimate daughter and Shougo's half-sister, once her identity is revealed.
- Naruto:
- Hayate Gekko has these. This feature and his unexplained chronic coughing fits would suggest some sort of illness, but nothing has been officially disclosed.
- The thick black lines around Gaara's eyes are representative of these. He's possessed by a type of demon that torments people in their sleep, so he's naturally an extreme insomniac. This has more than a little to do with his very unbalanced mental state.
- In Boruto: Naruto the Movie, a now-adult Naruto has noticeable bags under his eyes due to the amount of work and stress he has as the Seventh Hokage.
- In chapter 700, the Distant Finale, of the manga Temari had these. It could be due to her age (she's slightly older than the Konoha 12), having to deal with her lazy son and his father all the time, or a combination of the two. In the anime, however, they ended up redesigning Temari so that she looks younger and doesn't have bags under her eyes.
- The main character of No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! has a notable case of these. Strangely enough, she's the kind who would stay up all night playing games, but they seem partially genetic: the rest of her family also have noticeably baggy eyes.
- The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter: On the covers for the light novels, protagonist Kondou is shown with some pretty bad shadows under his eyes from the exhaustion and overwork of his old life.
- A few times in Re:Zero, Subaru gets these. Not because of being sleep-deprived, the cause being the psychological trauma he experienced; the first assault by the Witches Cult and accidentally killing Emilia which led Puck to destroying the world.
- Shiiko from School-Live! is a scientist who spends most of her time indoors "researching" zombies. She does all-nighters and as a result, has Messy Hair and bags under her eyes.
- Shimoneta: Hyouka always has dark rings under her eyes. It's implied that she hardly sleeps due to her obsession with trying to find out how human reproduction works since the Japanese government has forbidden even basic Sex Ed from being taught at schools. So she used to trespass into gynecology clinics and maternity wards to ask expectant mothers about it until she was blacklisted. Now Hyouka spends every waking moment in her lab, or in the forest, studying the mating habits of mosquitos in order to learn the truth.
- Kuro from Servamp always has them, probably to show that he's a Lazy Bum who's always sleepy.
- Faust VIII of Shaman King has eye bags so severe that the heroes initially mistake it for eyeliner. He's a chronic workaholic due to his obsession with studying medicine and necromancy, and as a result, they are both pronounced and permanent.
- In Soul Eater, Dr. Franken Stein acquires these after Asura is released. This is meant to show how the madness is wearing on him for a while before he snaps.
- Tamagotchi Friends: In episode 120 of Tamagotchi!, Himespetchi has some noticeable bags under her eyes after she makes herself tired from fondly watching Mametchi sleeping all night.
- Tokyo Ghoul: Kaneki is stressed from the weight on his shoulders of being forced underground for safety with the other ghouls due to the CCG making it their mission on the surface to exterminate every last ghoul. He is the leader of the pack and the huge responsibility is getting to him as showcased by bags under his bloodshot eyes as commented on by Touka.
- Witch Hat Atelier: Olruggio has visible eye bags (which contributes to his Face of a Thug) since he's frequently pulling all-nighters to meet deadlines for crafting magical items while keeping an eye on Qifrey's atelier which is his is job for the atelier’s Watchful Eye. In the spin-off manga, he seems to be constantly on the verge of collapsing.
- In YuYu Hakusho Hiei gets these after taking everything he had to defeat Bui. Once he hibernates for 6 hours they go away. Also after fighting with Sensui, they appear again and he passes out from exhaustion again.
- In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira has these at the start of the story because of how thoroughly overworked and miserable he is at his Soul-Crushing Desk Job, often being forced to pull multiple all-nighters in a row and never being paid appropriately for all his effort. The eye bags vanish the minute he realizes that he never has to go to work again thanks to the Zombie Apocalypse, emphasizing just how happy and refreshed he feels.
Asian Animation
- BoBoiBoy: In the Season 3 episode "BoBoiBot Arrives", BoBoiBoy arrives at school with eyebags as a result of resisting the urge to transform into his fire elemental at night again. Gopal remarks that he looks like a panda.
- Boonie Cubs: In Season 2 episode 23, Violet and Luna Lu have eye bags by the time they get to school, as they barely got any sleep the previous night.
- In the Animated Adaptation of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Wei Wuxian gains exhausted eye bags during his time at the Burial Mounds.
- Mechamato: Amato develops dark circles under his eyes from being kept awake by noisy singing for several nights. On the night that he fights Karok, the robot causing the racket, several others at school also appear with eyebags the following morning due to all the commotion disturbing their sleep.
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Flying Island: The Sky Adventure episode 11, Paddi develops them when he keeps finding Weslie sleeping after he promised to help him with his labor.
Comic Books
- In Sleepless, Sir Cyrenic and all the other Knights of the Sleepless Order are easily identifiable because of the permanent dark circles under their eyes — a symptom of the magic that prevents them from falling asleep. When Cyrenic's vows are broken after three years of unsleeping service, he falls unconscious for a year (paying off his "sleep debt") and awakens without the dark circles.
Fan Works
- Bandit's Belt: Mackenzie is described as having eye bags when he’s sleepy.
- In Close (But No Coffee), Mitsumi has faint bags because she doesn't sleep well when traveling with Hareta.
- Evangelion 303: Multiple:
- Asuka has eye bags after waking up from a coma because she isn't sleeping well.
- Shinji and Asuka have huge eye bags in Chapters 13 and 14 because they haven't slept in nearly twenty-four hours (the latter because she was running away; the former because he was looking for her to talk her into returning home).
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: After the Sleep Deprivation, to be awake for over 24 hours, to prepare for a difficult battle in a week, Ami's companions are described thus: "dark circles under her companions' eyes".
- Elements of Justice: A Hollow Diamond: When Diamond Tiara reunites with her parents in Chapter 3, she notices that both of them have bags from the stress that their daughter put on them for her bullying tactics making them lose their reputation and a lot of their money.
- In Fear the Superhero, Shirou and Karasuba both suffer from this after their first night together. Rather than sleeping, they exchanged hours of near-unblinking eye contact, Shirou waiting for her to make a threatening move. At some point, they both passed out from exhaustion.
- Ghosts of Evangelion:
- This visual trick is often used to hint that Shinji and Asuka aren't sleeping well.
- Asuka visits Shinji after leaving Kyoto in a hurry. The narration uses visual clues such as eye bags and rumpled clothes to hint that she is physically and mentally exhausted and about to collapse.
- Shinji has eye bags the days after his daughter's birth. He isn't sleeping well because he is worried about Asuka's health and his parental skills.
- Guys Being Dudes: When Arlo is seen in his bad state at the start of the story, his eyes are covered in some combination of dark bags and Guyliner, implying that along with not bathing or cleaning his room, he also hasn't been sleeping well.
- In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Goh obtains them after not sleeping for three days in his attempts to figure out his friend, Chloe, just vanished into thin air.
- In Sotto Voce:
- Zelda gets bags under her eyes after spending a night reading.
- A few days of stress and overwork cause Ruto to have eye bags.
- A Mother's Touch: Reiji is shown having these in Chapter 2, either from the stress on trying to prepare for his father's invasion or because of his shady dealings on wanting Yuya's Pendulum monsters (read: asked a student to steal them that also lead to nearly four students to fall off a tower and then falsely accused Yuya of attacking that very same student) exposed to the world and being harassed for his actions.
- Satsuki Kiryuin in Natural Selection sports a pair of these on account of her being The Insomniac, with flashbacks showing that she would often have these due to rarely sleeping.
- Not A Chance: Vegeta is described as having dark bags under his eyes and looking like he hadn't slept for days after he was up all night training.
- Princess Maniacs: Several of the princesses at Princess Academy have bags under their eyes due to exhaustion and irritation caused by the Warner siblings.
- In Rabbit of the Moon, Bell develops these after his second trip to Yharnam, with Eina noting that they normally appear on Adventurers four times Bell's age.
- The Sun Will Come Up, and the Seasons Will Change: This is most defining feature of Dana, from a combination of her mother's emotional abuse and taking it out on her husband and children.
- Adrien has these almost constantly in Scarlet Lady, thanks to a useless partner who forces him to deal with akumas on his own. He usually uses concealer to hide them.
- In Swarming With Hatred, due to his illness making him unable to sleep, Battamonda's eyes quickly grow baggy. They disappear once he heals up enough to rest properly.
- In The Tale Of William Nolis, William Nolis develops a severe case of this. It's not like he sleeps like he should, and his parents and life in general add to the exhaustion and stress.
- A Triangle in the Stars: Bill develops this in the school arc, specifically Chapter Twenty-Six, but it's more from anxiety and even worried fright. It doesn't go away, and at times gets worse.
- In Towards the Sun, Zuko has these throughout his reign as Fire Lord due to his constant overworking and lack of sleep.
Films — Animation
- Almost every character in Arlo the Alligator Boy has these, in keeping up with its faux-retro design. One exception would be Alia.
- Violet in The Incredibles 1 has these, likely to complete the 'emo' look. They partially recede in the sequel.
- Incredibles 2:
- Evelyn Deavor has prominent dark under-eye circles, most likely from working long nights.
- Bob develops them after losing sleep from holding down the Parr family fort, dealing with his kids' problems.
- The character, Goob, has these all the time in Meet the Robinsons due to Lewis's inventing keeping him up all night and using him as a guinea pig for said inventions.
- The Rugrats Movie: Stu gets these after Dil's crying is keeping him awake.
- In Sleeping Beauty (1959), Maleficent gets these after the Time Skip which means, as she notes later on, she hadn't slept well for 16 years due to being constantly enraged that her evil curse on Aurora was not yet fulfilled.
- In Turning Red, reflecting his lethargy, Devon has got noticeable bags under his eyes.
Films — Live-Action
- Mentioned in The Wizard Of Oz (1939).
Cowardly Lion: Look at the circles under my eyes, I haven't slept in weeks!
- In They/Them (2020), Ash has eye bags after staying up all night working on a poem.
Literature
- The image appears a few times in the Aunt Dimity series when a character is tired due to stress. To cite only one example, new mother of twins Lori is described with "her brown eyes smudged with bruises of fatigue".
- The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War: Adam's father has had eye bags ever since his mother died three years ago. The bags become more pronounced after the war begins.
- Ellie from Clade has these after a power outage wakes up her young daughter at 5 AM and she won't go back to sleep.
- Verity Price from Discount Armageddon has to apply copious amounts of foundation to cover her exhausted eye bags from a too-nocturnal existence.
- In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione is described as having shadows under her eyes to rival those of the constantly ill-looking Professor Lupin when she pulls a few too many time travel aided all-nighters in preparation for her exams.
- In Dr. Seuss's Horton Hatches the Egg, Mazie complains of having bags under her eyes. In the Looney Tunes version, she has actual travelling bags under her eyes.
- In Hoshi and the Red City Circuit, Hoshi guesses, from the smudges under Sorreno's eyes and the fact that her clothes don't look like they've been changed since yesterday, that Sorreno didn't sleep last night.
- Junie B. Jones: In Cheater Pants, Herb discreetly shows Junie B. his paper during a spelling test so she can remember how to spell the word "would". That night, Junie B. feels anxiety about cheating, can't sleep, and comes to school with her eyes looking "poopish and droopy". When she meets up with Herb, he looks like that too, and explains that he doesn't feel good about having shown her his paper.
- In Lily and Dunkin, Dunkin's mom has dark circles under her eyes when she visits him in the hospital after his psychotic break.
- Roys Bedoys: In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys”, Roys gets bags under his eyes when he’s sleep-deprived.
- In The Someday Birds, Gram has purple wedges under her eyes on the day of Dad's surgery.
- Spaced Out: About halfway through the story, Jermaine gets bags under his eyes after a night of dealing with negative flashbacks and unwanted memories.
- Rory from Wicked Good has these when he stays up all night during a suicidal crisis.
- Xandri Corelel: Marco Antilles, a diplomat in Failure to Communicate, has "smudges like bruises" under his eyes the morning after he foils an assassination attempt.
Live-Action TV
- In The BBC's Based on a True Story drama We'll Take Manhattan model Jean Shrimpton gets these during her eponymous New York City photoshoot and has to wear sunglasses for part of it. This is either because she's tired and jetlagged, or because she spends every night bonking the photographer, David Bailey.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022): Throughout the climax of "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...", the bags under Louis de Pointe du Lac's eyes are reddish and puffy because he's grieving for his brother Paul, and the loss has pushed him past his Despair Event Horizon. His situation is further exacerbated by the fear and stress brought on by Lestat de Lioncourt's Non-Human Lover Reveal when the latter savagely murders two priests in front of Louis with his vampire fangs and lightning-quick punch.
- LazyTown: Stingy appears to have these despite having no known sleeping problems.
- In The Untamed, though it's hard to notice, Wei Wuxian gains some exhausted eye bags when he's in the Burial Mounds.
Roleplay
- Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
- As a result of school, jobs, and caretaking leaving him chronically overworked, Ciro always sports a pair of bags under his eyes.
- To complement her overall haggard look from being homeless, Harriet has prominent bags. This earned her the demeaning nickname of 'Bag Lady' from Rose.
- Jacob, due to being a stringent Schedule Fanatic with an increasingly poor grasp on his mental health, has heavy bags.
- Hyeon and his cousin Jae both have bags, though for different reasons: Jae because, like Ciro above, he's heavily overworked, whilst Hyeon is a delinquent and rock-star wannabe who stays out late and doesn't prioritize a good night's sleep.
Theatre
- Noises Off: Timothy Allgood, the stage manager, is verbally abused and horrendously overworked to the point of complete exhaustion by Lloyd Dallas, the in-over-his-head director of the play "Nothing On," which is nowhere close to being ready to present to an audience despite the premiere showing being just hours away. Keep in mind Allgood hasn't slept in nearly two days. For instance, when several props are not working properly (a window pane in a door keeps falling out; several doors are locked, etc.), Dallas — ignoring the pleas of the cast — barks at Allgood to make the repairs or else. He also tells Allgood he had better be ready at a moment's notice in case the unreliable actor Selsdon fails to show up or the neurotic Freddy passes out from whatever illness.
Video Games
- Quentin Smith has prominent ones in Dead by Daylight. Justified, as he is the obsession of Freddy Krueger.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
- Marianne has these in her character portrait, as she barely ever sleeps for fear that someone is watching her. After the time skip, these disappear from her portrait to indicate that her mental health has improved.
- Dimitri has these in his portrait after the time skip, indicating his Sanity Slippage. After the battle at Gronder Field, they go away as he begins to recover.
- Silent Hill 2 (Remake): James gradually sports these as the events unfold. By the time he watches his and Mary's videotape at Lakeview Hotel, he has gone full-on insomniac-looking.
- Touhou Project: Patchouli Knowledge occasionally sports these.
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Trip the pawnbroker has prominent dark circles under his eyes, likely caused by his nocturnal work schedule and whatever he suspects of the supernatural troubles afflicting Los Angeles.
- In Wilmot Works It Out, Sam gets eyebags whenever she runs ragged from juggling between her work and preparing for her holiday. She once drops by exhausted because the foxes kept her up at night.
- In Wuthering Waves, Zani has dark bags under her eyes due to being constantly overworked at her day job. That she occasionally spends her nights roaming the streets and doling out vigilante justice to troublemakers does not help.
- In Yandere Simulator, Oka Ruto constantly has these, due to constantly staying up late to research the supernatural.
Visual Novels
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: Simon Blackquill has the most extreme example of these you could imagine, along with white-streaked hair as a result of being in prison for seven years, and he still looks good.
- In Tavern Talk: Tempest Tantrum, Oleander always has eyebags whenever he visits because he's always running ragged. The Innkeep even points out that his eyebags have eyebags.
- Your Turn to Die: Sara Chidouin occasionally develops eyebags in Chapter 2, showing how just a single day in a Deadly Game has already seriously affected her psyche for the worse.
Web Animation
- 13 Cards: Felix has these from Clones Tell Scary Stories onwards, his character art is even updated after Season 1's conclusion reflect that.
- The Academy of Magic: Asher develops dark circles under his eyes after staying up all night using weather magic to transport himself and his friends across the ocean on a cloud.
- Dayum: The “Overworked” in “Types of Doctors Portrayed by Minecraft” has eye bags from working too much.
- Knights of Guinevere: Andrea has large bags under her eyes caused by her constant overwork at Park Planet.
- Mystery Skulls Animated: Arthur is depicted with big bags under his eyes in "Freaking Out" and the following videos, indicating he's spent more time searching for Lewis than he has sleeping.
- RWBY: Blake Belladonna sports these because she's unable to sleep or eat from stressing over the White Fang and Torchwick's plans.
Webcomics
- Charby the Vampirate: Zeno gains these when he decides the best way to deal with his possession is to just stay awake and not give his mental hitchhiker a chance to mess with him in his sleep.
- DeathSitter: Felix, the protagonist has these. They might be a result of his drug abuse (or general deadbeat lifestyle).
- In Destroyer of Light Persephone sports those all the time, as does Hades. It is part of their gothic persona, implying that they're mainly up at night if they can choose.
- In El Goonish Shive, Tedd has these after a bad night of sleep due to bad dreams.
- The Garden of Plantus: The protagonist Lee Rumi sports these following her first meeting with Aleph and having beholden her true form as a Plantus.
- In Girl Genius, Gil abuses Skifandrian mental exercises designed to help people stay awake for a few days at a time in order to stay awake for two and a half years. It shows.
- The Greenhouse: Mica, caused by the demon 'Red' feeding on her soul. Once she gets a charm to protect her and then a second one because she breaks the first, she stops feeling almost too tired to function, but the bags never go away, a constant reminder that however stable things may seem, her bond with Red is not healthy for her. Once her bond with Red is severed, the eye bags finally disappear.
- A Heartfelt Andante: To emphasize that she is currently in despair, Yeonjo is drawn with prominent bags under her eyes in her debut chapter.
- Life (2012): Five days into her twenty-day mission to complete a portfolio for the graphic design major at college, Felicia develops an impressive pair of these.
- Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: After a wild Halloween party, hung-over Commander Badass and Jonesy are seen sporting these.
- Vaarsuvius of The Order of the Stick at one point has a problem with nightmares...and decides that the best solution is simply to not trance,note since The Order of the Stick takes place in an RPG Mechanics 'Verse and there are no mechanical penalties for not sleeping or trancing. There are visible negative effects, though, including visible bags around the eyes.
- Questionable Content: When he's having an existential crisis, Pintsize (being a robot) draws bags under his eyes with a dry-erase marker. Faye exhibits them after being startled awake by Sam in her guise as Skullmaster.
- Sleepless Domain: After dealing with a night's worth of strong monsters in Chapter 15, Bud and Harley are both looking the worse for wear. Bud is clearly exhausted, and has heavy bags under her eyes; still, she insists to her teammate that she's fine.
- Terra Incognita (2023): Simpson has permanent eye bags, due to his anxious stressed out personality and the fact that the precariousness of the base he's been stationed at has been exploited by a force he knows is likely to kill him and all of the others UEC has stationed there.
Western Animation
- Amphibia
- Anne Boonchuy
- She has these in her first meeting with Sprig, no doubt thanks to the stress of suddenly arriving in a new world she knows nothing about.
- They're firmly present in "Fight at the Museum", since she's burning herself out by constantly looking for ways to open the portal to return to Amphibia and keeping everything a secret from her parents.
- Anne Boonchuy
- Taken to an extreme in The Angry Beavers when the characters stay awake for a "bah-zillion" years .
- Arthur
- On Arthur's Perfect Christmas, Buster has a bad case of this due to being repeatedly awoken really early in the morning by his mother Bitzi because she thinks it's Christmas when it actually isn't. By Christmas morning, Bitzi herself has them.
- In "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Mrs. and Mr. Read both have these after catching a cold. D.W. is depicted as having them also at the end of the episode from being exhausted doing chores. Arthur catches the cold but isn't shown with them due to only having Black Bead Eyes when wearing his glasses.
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph all have bags under their eyes when they go without sleep due to being chased for days by Azula and her Quirky Miniboss Squad. Later Aang gets this when he goes three days without sleeping due to nightmares of the coming battle. His early morning training and late-night shenanigans also mean that his friends get very little sleep which results in them getting another bout of exhausted eye bags as well.
- In the second to last episode, Azula herself starts sporting these when she starts banishing people left and right. She's clearly losing sleep.
- Bill Green from Big City Greens has small bags under his eyes, which are fitting for his age and probably has to do with the stress of Cricket and Tilly's antics.
- In BoJack Horseman, Princess Carolyn always has these, as early as her late teens, due to her workaholic nature.
- BoJack himself has these, from being middle-aged and likely from being a heavy alcoholic and drug abuser.
- BoJack's parents, Beatrice and Butterscotch, had these after their Shot Gun Wedding and having BoJack, representing their jaded and bitter attitudes towards each other, their life, and their son.
- Notably, Beatrice’s eyes were larger and more expressive as a young adult. In the years after having BoJack her eyes are smaller and her eye bags steadily get bigger as she ages, representing her growing more jaded and bitter and being shut off from the world.
- On Caillou, both Rosie and Caillou get this in "Caillou's Puppet Show" when they're sick with the flu.
- In "Belly Ball" from Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot, Share Bear wants to get a ribbon for winning at belly ball like Cheer and Tenderheart because she thinks it'll make everyone like her. She practices all night, but just ends up with these and so tired that she can barely play at all, let alone win a ribbon.
- Naturally, Tex Avery exaggerates in the cartoon "Doggone Tired" with the characters having bag upon bag piled under their eyes, running down all the way to their cheeks.
- On Elinor Wonders Why, Elinor's father has these in "Bird Song" after being woken up early by a bird loudly singing outside the window.
- The Fairly OddParents!:
- Timmy makes a wish where no one had to sleep, and everyone in Dimmsdale had bags under their eyes from fatigue, and various other Gross-Up Close-Up ailments coming from not sleeping.
- In "Birthday Battle", Chloe gets these when she stays up all night setting up her birthday party.
- An episode of Family Guy parodied celebrities who looked like this by having Ashley Judd and Vince Vaughn in a fake TV show entitled People Who Always Look Really Tired, drawing attention to the bags under the celebrities' eyes.
- Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls always has slightly-baggy eyes; he likes to stay up late reading. In "Carpet Diem", when the two swap bodies Dipper's eye bags follow him into Mabel's body. In the episode "Sock Opera", this is taken one step further when Dipper stays up late at night for days on end trying to figure out the password to a laptop.
Mabel: You look like a vampire, and not the hot kind!
- Hazbin Hotel: Under Adam's mask, it's revealed that his lower-eyelids are shadowed with bags, giving off a tired expression.
- In the Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Justice Masters", Mr. Cat, who is tired and stressed out, goes around with these for the whole episode.
- The Loud House:
- Lincoln Loud has bags and discolored eyelids, probably from constantly dealing with the antics of his ten sisters.
- Similarly, his friend Ronnie Anne Santiago acquires eyebags by Season 3, after she has moved in with her massive extended family and to represent the stress she puts up with them similar to the sisters.
- Her brother Bobby sports eye bags and darker eyelids just like Lincoln.
- Around Season 5, Leni Loud later gains eye bags just like her brother, likely from dealing with the stress from becoming the oldest sibling after Lori leaves for college.
- Lincoln's friends Zach Gurdle, Rusty Spokes, and Liam Hunnicut all sport eye bags, likely due to the stress they have with their paranormal investigations, sports, and farm work respectively.
- In-episode, the entire Loud family spouts heavy eye bags at breakfast near the beginning of "Dream a Lily Dream", as a result of being kept up for three straight nights by Lily's nightmares.
- Molly of Denali: Molly, Tooey, and Trini all get eye bags in "Turn on the Northern Lights" because they stayed up late the previous night.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- Applejack gets those when she is badly overworked with apple harvest (and too stubborn to accept help)
- Scootaloo briefly gets these in "Sleepless In Ponyville" due to sleep deprivation.
- Princess Cadence gets them when she has to constantly stay up to cast a spell that keeps evil at bay.
- Twilight has these in "Princess Spike" due to being awake for three consecutive days preparing for the Grand Equestrian Pony Summit. It comes through in her voice as well.
- And the entire Mane Six get them when they are kept up by nightmares in "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?"
- The Owl House: Hunter has a perpetual case of these, and seems to be overworking himself quite a bit. They've receded by the Distant Finale.
- Prep & Landing: Magee has these. They become more noticeable in stressful situations.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: Ren gets some truly epic ones in the episode "Space Madness."
- Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko gets them after working overtime at work, to the point where they hit the floor.
- The Simpsons: Homer Simpson gets these, along with pink bloodshot eyes, whenever he gets a hangover from a hard night of drinking.
- Sonic Boom: One episode has Sonic himself sporting these. He even sleep-slides through a laser fence as a result of his fatigue.note
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", Mr. Krabs forces SpongeBob and Squidward to work at the Krusty Krab non-stop. At one point Squidward exclaims, "Look at these bags under my eyes! Even my bags have bags!" We are then treated to a Gross-Up Close-Up of Squidward's eyes.
- In "Have You Seen This Snail?", SpongeBob has three layers of these when he comes in late for work, as a result of being up all night looking for Gary.
- In "Squid Baby", both SpongeBob and Patrick sport these as a result of exhaustion from taking care of the baby-morphed Squidward.
- Stanley: In "Caterpillar Countdown", Elsie gets these when losing her mind due to being tired of waiting for the butterfly to come out of the chrysalis.
- Star Trek: Lower Decks:
- "Temporal Edict": Everyone on the Cerritos except for Boimler develops pronounced eye bags these when they're forced to work nonstop. Captain Freeman also develops eye bags even if she's not completely non-functional.
- "Cupid's Errant Arrow": Mariner develops baggy eyes after she finishes her String Theory about the possible true identities of Boimler's girlfriend. Her fatigue is still visually evident in the mess hall when she cuts a sample of Brinson's hair, and also when she's in the shuttlebay ranting about Barb probably being a reptoid.
- Steven Universe: A few episodes have Steven getting exhausted eyes, one occasion being helping Kiki with her pizza-related dreams repeatedly.
- Superman: The Animated Series: Lex Luthor develops these in "Ghost in the Machine" after Brainiac kidnaps him and forces him to repair him for weeks, Lex is horrified when he discovers he has them.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): News reporter Joan Grody always has them.
- Total Drama: Sometimes, the campers don't get enough sleep.
- "The Big Sleep": All the contestants develop bags under their eyes as a result of the challenge being who can go the longest without sleep.
- "Truth or Laser Shark": Dakota has poor sleep due to Dawn's conversations with the local fauna. Come challenge time and she has major bags under her eyes that she initially tries to hide with sunglasses.
- Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): Peter suffers these as a result of being sick and not getting enough rest due to wall-crawling heroics.