Coat Over the Shoulder

A cool-looking way of carrying your coat. It's not only used to indicate that a character is cool, but also a certain amount of casualness and self-confidence.

Also related to Dramatic Wind and Badass Cape. Compare Coat Cape.

Examples of Coat Over the Shoulder include:

Advertisements

• Practically in every political ad, particularly when the candidate is looking directly into the camera.

Anime and Manga

• Cowboy Bebop: Spike did this a few times at least.
• Yami memorably does this in about 10 episodes in the Battle City arc of Yu-Gi-Oh!.
  • He does the same thing in the 10th Anniversary Movie
• Kyosuke Nanbu in Super Robot Wars Original Generation The Inspector

Film - Live Action

• The movie Charly (an adaptation of Flowers for Algernon) begins with Charly trying and failing to flip his coat over his shoulder in a cool way.
• In Twins (the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Danny Devito film), Danny gets them matching sets of cool white suits. They simultaneously flip their jackets, with Arnold's jacket floating over Danny.

Live Action TV

• Shigeru Jo.
• Booth from Bones has a tendency to do this.

Music

• Michael Jackson in the video for Billie Jean.

Video Games

• Persona 3: Akihiko, as pictured.
• Detective Dojima of Persona 4 never wears that coat of his.
  • Kanji does this in the The Golden opening animation.
• Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations: Jacques Portsman literally rotates from this to wearing the coat.
• The Commissar from the original Dawn of War keeps his coat draped over his shoulders at all time. Particularly jarring in that he was introduced in an expansion called "Winter Assault," where it makes sense for him to actually wear the coat.
• King of Fighters: King will occasionally remove her jacket and drape it over her shoulder as one of her victory poses.

Webcomics

• Homestuck: Doc Scratch does this briefly before beating the shit out of Spades Slick.

Western Animation

• Family Guy: Peter, while running for the school board, combines this with Captain Morgan Pose.

Real Life

• Young Frank Sinatra did this.