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* In ''[[One Piece]]'', after Usopp {{spoiler|leaves the crew}}, he comes back under the alias 'Sogeking', with a mask and cape, [[Took a Level In Badass|and a metric tonne more badassery than he had before]]. In the arc after that, he puts on the mask again during a battle and suddenly becomes much more competent.

* The titular heroine of ''[[Kekko Kamen]]'' wears a red mask to conceal her face when she's out protecting her innocent classmates from evil. And that's about all she's concealing, seeing as the rest of the costume consists of gloves and boots... [[Stripperiffic|and nothing more]].

* Subverted to the extreme in ''Ultimate!! [[Hentai Kamen]]'', where the main character's true fighting potential is unlocked ''by wearing a pair of panties over his face.'' It doesn't help that he takes to fighting crime in only his underwear... and somebody else's.

** Hentai Kamen gains new powers based on whose panties he is wearing: he gained amazing speed and agility when he put on a ballerina's panties... Not even going to say it... dammit.

* In ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', Wedge Antilles disguises his identity with a mask - but because it's lavender, and he doesn't like lavender, he doesn't think of it as cool.

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Black Colossus]]", the prophet among the nomads always goes masked.

* Legendary seducer [[Lord Byron's Don Juan|Don Juan.]] Different writers have portrayed him in various ways over the centuries- a high-spirited rascal, a heartless destroyer, even a semi-innocent victim of his own [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|good looks]]- but all the better-known accounts agree he had a penchant for wearing a mask.