Cool Mask: Difference between revisions

* The Jester from ''[[Grenadier]]''.

* ''Everyone'' in ''[[Dorohedoro]]'', pretty much justified since mages get masks as part of their contract with daemons, and Cayman presumably does not want to scare off little children looking at his face. En is a particular bad case of this, even among a ''city'' of powermasked people.

** Same show has the Shikimoribito, who all wear fullbody suits and bizarre masks through which they eat with straws, and who have the government and everyone else terrified of trespassing on their underground territory, where they dangle by their ankles on ropes from the ceiling in a disquieting way. The main characters can beat them up if they have to, though.

* In [[Digimon]], any 'mon who has a sufficiently humanoid appearance (I.E. could be confused for an actual human if not for a few tells) wears some sort of mask that obscures the top half of their face - for example, [[Our Angels Are Different|Angemon]], [[Monster Clown|Piedmon]], [[Satan|Devimon]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|Myotismon]], etc.

** The turtles' vigilante ally Casey Jones wears a hockey mask. This is more about looking scary than hiding his identity; Casey frequently yells out his name just so people know who's delivering the beatdown.

** The Shredder's helmet and the Foot Clan's ninja masks could count as well.

 

=== Film ===

* In ''[[Onibaba]]'', a mysterious samurai wears a frightful demonic Noh mask which was later the inspiration for the demon in ''[[The Exorcist]]''.

* As noted in Western Animation, Cobra Commander usually wears one. Cobra Commander's mask in ''[[G.I. Joe: Retaliation]]'' elicits this [[In-Universe]] reaction from Zartan: "Cool mask."

 

=== Literature ===

*** Apparently the way its way of speech was described pretty much gave away it was just an ordinary Mi-Go. {{spoiler|With prosthetic hands, mask, blanket and the place being pitch-ass dark,}} it could pass for a {{spoiler|sick old}} man, though.

*** Prosthetic hands and mask that are more or less confirmed to be {{spoiler|made from the actual body parts.}}

** Let's not forget [[The Phantom of the Opera]] himself.

* [[Zorro]], who seems to have been one of the earliest practitioners, if not the [[Trope Maker]] himself.

* Prinny Mask and the whole Masked Hero class in general from [[Disgaea]] 3.

* Salem and Rios of ''[[Army of Two]]'' both wear metal metal painted facemasks, which actually have some practical applications in the game; one of their melee attacks is a simple, brutally effective headbutt, and if an opponent punches one of them in the face, he recoils, shaking his hand in agony, letting them set up to finish them off.

* Psycho Mantis, from the [[Metal Gear Solid]] games. Even if he's a villain, you can't top that [[Gas Mask Mooks|gas mask]].

* Aoi "Zaki" Himezaki of ''[[Rival Schools|Project Justice]]'' is almost always seen wearing a mask covering the lower half of her face. The supplemental board game reveals that she even refuses to eat in the presence of others since it'd require taking off her mask. A number of members in the Ladies Team, the [[Delinquents|delinquent]] gang she leads, also wear [http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z295/NeoChaosX/Seijyun%20HS%20story/ladies-team.png similar] [http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z295/NeoChaosX/Seijyun%20HS%20story/vs-gedo.png masks], though whether they're following Zaki's example or just doing it for some other reason isn't clear.

** Belueth the Calm, an aasimar rogue you can hire in ''Storm of Zehir'', wears a jet-black domino as a symbol of her devotion to the thief-god Mask.

 

* Baron Munchhausen in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]'' always wears a strange, inhuman mask. {{spoiler|Underneath it is a strange, inhuman face. ''Sometimes.''}}

 

 

=== Western Animation ===

 

== Exceptions ==

* Wannabe [[Superhero]] Strike Man, from ''[[You're Under Arrest]]''

* Done in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' (in a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Sailor Moon]]''), where Nagi dons a small face-mask and takes on the name "Mask the Money" when she rescues Hayate from the <s>[[Yakuza]]</s> very nice people looking to collect on his debt. She takes [[Crimefighting with Cash]] [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|very literally]].

 

=== Professional Wrestling ===

* During the mid 80's-early 90's there were several masked jobber tag teams including but not limited to The Conquistadors, The Cruel Connection, The Shadows, The Galaxians, The Thunderfoots, The Executioners, The Head Hunters and various assorted Demons.

* For some reason practically every two bit independent wrestling promotion has to have a Doink The Clown rip off. The role is usually given to the worst wrestler on the roster, a fat, charisma deficient load. The worst part of an already awful idea is that they are given a Doink mask of horrible quality instead of simply painting their face like the original did. In every instance the matches are awful, the fans hate it, and yet the promoters will keep doing it.

** Once they get to the earring stage it doesn't ''have'' to be an earring though (at least one has it as a tongue stud). They still have the masks of pawns, they can just choose how to wear it or customize it.

* Blood Boy from ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' both uses and subverts the trope. Due to hideous facial disfigurations (and REMOVING the skin of his face in one of the game's first posts) he almost always wears a smiley face mask, and was until recently the biggest killer on the island, and is still the most psychotic and sadistic. While lacking physical strength, his surprising agility and knowledge of the body's weak points make him a very capable hand to hand combatant, and his sharp mind makes him even more dangerous. However, this ability doesn't actually come from the mask itself, and he can't see nearly as well with it on. This hinders his combat abilities and actually makes him a worse shot than normal, which inspires his normal gunfighting style of [[More Dakka|just trying to put as much lead in the air as possible]] because it means he can really only hope to hit someone at greater than point blank range by firing an insane number of bullets.

* Shows up many, many times in ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'' (and even on the cover of the DVD!).

 

 

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