Domino Mask: Difference between revisions

* The titular character of ''[[The Spirit]]'' is one of the most famous and earliest examples.

** The first issue of Darwyn Cooke's series even offers a [[Hand Wave]] for why this works:

'''Ginger Coffee''': Riggght. I get it. You're a [[Ridiculously Average Guy|big blue average]] with a distraction stuck to his face. }}

* In [[Batman]] comics:

*** He seems to have learned his lesson from this, and his current identity of Red Robin features a full cowl.

** A villain once asked Jason Todd (the second Robin, then the Red Hood) why he wears a mask under his helmet, to which he answers:

** Harley Quinn wears one as part of her outfit. She also wears a hat and full face paint, which gives the impression of a full mask. However this might have something to do with her costume being based on that of Harlequin, a stock character of the Italian Commedia dell'arte.

** The Riddler. As The Riddler is now Edward Nygma, Genius Detective, he often wears glasses that evoke the same effect.

* ''[[Kill Bill]]'': The Crazy 88.

* In ''[[Green Lantern]]'' the limitations of the mask in real life to people who know you is [[Lampshaded]].

* The movie version of ''[[The Green Hornet (film)|The Green Hornet]]''.

* [[Jet Li]]'s character in ''[[Black Mask]]''.

* In ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', Wedge wants to go out and think without being recognized. His local guide gives him a mask that's a little more concealing than a domino mask, but not much — it covers his forehead, too. And it works. He does wince at the color, saying that lavender isn't him, but she tells him that that's the point.

* [[Rudyard Kipling]] did a funny poem, "Pink Dominoes," in which the narrator doesn't recognize until it's too late that the girl he's necking with isn't his fiancee, because she's wearing a pink domino just like his girl had been wearing to the dance. Fortunately, his sweetheart didn't ''catch'' him kissing the other girl....

But I did not tell her so. }}

* In ''[[Wearing the Cape]]'', dominoes or their equivalent are often worn by superheroes who's civilian identities are already publicly known. It's an expected part of the costume, but is also useful for making them unrecognizable to anyone who doesn't know them personally, allowing them a measure of privacy in public--a humorous inversion of movie-stars tendency to don baseball caps and sunglasses to go to Starbucks.