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.

** 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.''}}

 

* 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 ===

** 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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