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** Lampshaded in "[[Love at First Bite]]."

*** Dracula doesn't wear a black cloak in the book. The cloak originated in the 1924 Hamilton-Deane play and was made famous by (of course) [[Bela Lugosi]].

* Poked fun at in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[~~Discworld/~~Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', where an experienced con man is annoyed that his underling thinks hurrying through city streets in a voluminous black cloak avoids attention.

* Poked fun at in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', where an experienced con man is annoyed that his underling thinks hurrying through city streets in a voluminous black cloak avoids attention.

{{quote|[[The Igor]]: Allow me to take your highly notithable hooded black cloak thur.}}

** The Auditors physically manifest as gray hooded robes... with nothing inside them.

** Also parodied (of course) in ''[[~~Discworld/Guards! Guards!|~~Guards! Guards!]]'' by the Mysterious Ancient Brotherhood of ... something, complete with passwords, magic rituals, and much debate between members of the circle.

** Also parodied (of course) in ''[[Guards! Guards!]]'' by the Mysterious Ancient Brotherhood of ... something, complete with passwords, magic rituals, and much debate between members of the circle.

* Averted in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' in a town next to [[Mordor]], where clothing that conceals your face in any way is against the law, because the servants of The Dark One could use them to pass as human.

** Not before there were loads of [[Eyeless Face|Myrddraal]] whose cloaks don't even stir however strong is the wind.

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