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== Professional Wrestling ==
* "The Icon" [[Wrestler/Sting (wrestling)|Sting]] played with this trope in [[WCW]] during the fall of 1996 and most of 1997, effectively creating an enormously popular new wrestling character in the process. After being framed by [[Hulk Hogan]]'s New World Order, Sting announced that he was going to go into seclusion for a while until he thought of a way to [[Clear My Name|clear his name]]. As he made this announcement, the audience could see that his "[[Ultimate Warrior]]"-style greasepaint had begun to consume his face in a bizarre and unsettling literal example of [[Becoming the Mask]], bleaching everything but his nose, lips, and lower jaw clown-white. The following week, Sting appeared in the rafters above the arena with a ''completely'' white face, black lips, and black Gothic "crosses" over his eyes, making him look suspiciously like a mime (although Sting's portrayer, Steve Borden, would eventually admit in an interview that the makeup design was suggested to him by nWo member [[Scott Hall]] as a tribute to Brandon Lee's appearance in the movie version of ''[[The Crow]]''). Not only that, but Sting [[The Voiceless|did not speak a single word]] while wearing the whiteface for over a year (finally blurting out an insult to Hogan in anger after he was stripped of the WCW Championship). In the meantime, he kept showing up in the ring (sometimes via the rafters and sometimes via the crowd) with a black baseball bat, attacking the nWo or silently subjecting his former allies to a series of "loyalty tests." The whiteface, black bat, and [[Badass Longcoat]] that Sting also wore would go on to become key parts of his wrestling [[Stealth Pun|iconography]] and are still part of his signature look today (although he now speaks quite frequently, and has hardly ever been a heel since). Long story short: While Sting was never supposed to be taken as a mime, [[Fan Nickname|his fans took to nicknaming him things like "The Sad Mime" or "The Angry Mime."]]
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