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** This is [[Older Than They Think]], since this situation first occurred in a Golden Age Green Lantern story. The thugs didn't recognize an unmasked Alan Scott, since he wasn't anybody particularly prominent, but {{spoiler|his buddy Doiby Dickles DID}}. |
** This is [[Older Than They Think]], since this situation first occurred in a Golden Age Green Lantern story. The thugs didn't recognize an unmasked Alan Scott, since he wasn't anybody particularly prominent, but {{spoiler|his buddy Doiby Dickles DID}}. |
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* Deconstructed (like [[Deconstructor Fleet|many other things]]) in ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''. {{spoiler|Long before Rorschach is unmasked, his alter ego is shown on-page many times as a random kook with a sign that reads "the end is near". Because the character was not notable at all, it was easy for readers dismissed him as being an extra.}} |
* Deconstructed (like [[Deconstructor Fleet|many other things]]) in ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''. {{spoiler|Long before Rorschach is unmasked, his alter ego is shown on-page many times as a random kook with a sign that reads "the end is near". Because the character was not notable at all, it was easy for readers dismissed him as being an extra.}} |
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* In ''[[Empowered]]'', when some villains unmask the eponymous heroine and are surprised not to recognize her, she stalls for time by trying to convince everyone that she's really a cross-dressing man (despite her ultra-skin-tight costume), and so are ''all'' the other members of her super-team. This works, and she's rescued, but the story turns up on the news the next day. |
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* In ''Astonishing [[X-Men]]'' as written by [[Warren Ellis]], the X-Men spend the better part of a story arc hunting down a man named Kaga who is using dead X-Men, Brood and Sentinels to try and kill them. Kaga turns out to be {{spoiler|an old cripple in a wheelchair.}} Even better, his motivation for trying to kill them is anticlimatic in itself, amounting to {{spoiler|hatred of them for being gorgeous, picturesque mutants, rather than like him, a deformed old freak whose more mundane mutation was a result of Hiroshima.}} Kaga himself [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this, sneering "What were you expecting? A master plan? A scheme to turn off the sun? This is the real world. Hatred and disgust are good enough reasons to want to kill people." |
* In ''Astonishing [[X-Men]]'' as written by [[Warren Ellis]], the X-Men spend the better part of a story arc hunting down a man named Kaga who is using dead X-Men, Brood and Sentinels to try and kill them. Kaga turns out to be {{spoiler|an old cripple in a wheelchair.}} Even better, his motivation for trying to kill them is anticlimatic in itself, amounting to {{spoiler|hatred of them for being gorgeous, picturesque mutants, rather than like him, a deformed old freak whose more mundane mutation was a result of Hiroshima.}} Kaga himself [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this, sneering "What were you expecting? A master plan? A scheme to turn off the sun? This is the real world. Hatred and disgust are good enough reasons to want to kill people." |
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* The long-running Scourge of the Underworld storyline in the [[Marvel Universe]] ended when [[Captain America]] caught and unmasked Scourge, only to discover that he was no one we'd ever seen before, and claimed to be the previously unmentioned brother of one of the villains killed by Scourge. |
* The long-running Scourge of the Underworld storyline in the [[Marvel Universe]] ended when [[Captain America]] caught and unmasked Scourge, only to discover that he was no one we'd ever seen before, and claimed to be the previously unmentioned brother of one of the villains killed by Scourge. |
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