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[[File:for-halloween-i-am-going-as-myself3_9609.jpg|link=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|frame|"Halloween in [[New York City]]. ... A day when you fit in with everyone else... when even a teenage mutant ninja turtle can walk around in the open."]]

 

'''Spider-Man:''' Yeah, it's kind of itchy... and it rides up in the crotch a little bit, too...|''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 2''}}

 

* An issue of ''[[Impulse]]'' has him going to a school Halloween party in his costume. He is, of course, not the only Impulse there.

* In Vertigo's ''[[Proposition Player]]'', Moloch and Anubis (of Hebrew and Egyptian theology) are looking for the protagonist in Las Vegas, the latter not bothering to hide his animal head.

* An old (and probably not canon [[Retcon|anymore]]) [[Superman]] comic had Supes going to the Daily Planet's halloween costume party... As Superman! So he [[Deconstructed Trope|buys a cheaper Superman costume]] (the spandex part is OK but the cape is a solid plastic piece which he has to throw away halfway thru the party), and goes with his glasses on, so that he's [[Clark Kenting|obviously just Clark Kent disguised as Superman]]. It helps that every other guy at the party ''and one girl'' decided to go as Superman too, and many of their disguises [[Your Costume Needs Work|were better]]. All this leads to one of the most amusing scenes in Superman ever, when the obligatory supervillains crash the party and he tears down his Superman costume to reveal his Superman costume.

** [[Supergirl]] sort of gets away with a variation of this a few years later in [http://www.comics.org/issue/23416/cover/4/?style=default ''Adventure'' comics #392]. It's Supergirl Day at Stanhope Women's College, so everybody's supposed to wear a Supergirl dress. Unfortunately, Kara flew through something radioactive and now her dress is being decontaminated. As Linda, she gets a replica dress at school, but has to wear it for some actual super-deed that leaves it badly ripped. She simply tells everyone she took it off because it was a bad fit and didn't look right.

* An issue of "The Amazing Spider-man" has the Black Cat meeting [[Spider-Man]] at a costume party. She wore her own costume, but mistook a random party goer dressed as Spiderman for the real thing. Turns out Spidey was [[In the Hood]].

** During the JMS run on [[Spider-Man|The Amazing Spider-Man]] Peter takes a tailor who designs costumes for supervillains to a safe place, the safe place? A Coffee House where he often goes in full attire, because no way [[Hidden in Plain Sight|would the real Spidey just hang out at a coffee shop.]]

'''Waiter:''' (Calling back) Yeah...You're Spider-Man....nutjob... }}

 

== Literature ==

* In one of the [[Discworld]] books, as an homage to ''[[Edgar Allan Poe|The Masque of the Red Death]]'', a wizard who has just summoned Death is surprised to notice that, besides the usual outfit of cowl and scythe, he is also holding a cocktail sausage on a toothpick.

'''Death''':{{smallcaps| That's when they think I'm going to take my mask off. }} }}

** In the later novel ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', as well as the non-Discworld short story "Turntables of the Night", Death ''is'' wearing a cheap skeleton mask over his actual skull.

* In the first book of the ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'', Anomander Rake has a remarkably realistic dragon mask. Did we mention he can turn into one?

* Used in some ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' novels, including Ed Greenwood's ''Silverfall'' (Qilue came round a masquerade "disguised" as "drow princess") and Elaine Cunningham's ''Daughter of the Drow'' (Dark Elves are [[Evil Is Stylish|stylish]] and thus a valid "costume"):

'''Liriel Baenre''': I'm a drow, of course. It's quite an exotic costume. And authentic, too! }}

** In Ed Greenwood's ''[[Side-Story Bonus Art|Ladies Night at the Yawning Portal]]'':

* In Charles de Lint's ''Jack of Kinrowan'', a pink-haired fairy mentions that one reason she likes the modern era is that she no longer has to dye her hair.

* ''[[The King in Yellow]]''.

** [[Humanoid Abomination|No mask?]] [[Go Mad From the Revelation|No mask?!?]]

* The protagonist of ''The Gargoyle'' enjoys the lack of attention his hideous burns receive during Halloween. Now, if only they didn't make his angel costume look so satanic...

* In the ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' 2008 Hallowe'en special, everyone dressed up as Caboose...including Caboose, who didn't know it was Hallowe'en.

* In the ''[[Smashtasm]]'' 2010 Halloween special, Super64 tells H and Lamp:

'''H:''' I hate you. I ''really'' do. }}

 

* The scariest example, no doubt, is from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': "I'm yet another resource consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!"

** In another comic, Calvin asks Hobbes to come up with the scariest costume possible.

* Averted with in [http://www.brunothebandit.com/w/20000619.html this storyline] of ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]'': The monsters visit a party disguised as humans.

* [http://comics.com/jump_start/2008-10-31/ This] ''[[Jump Start]]'' strip.

* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', [[Mad Scientist|Dr.]] [[The Brute|Mundo]] has a skin which is him dressing as himself for Halloween. As he puts it himself: "Mundo dress up like himself a lot, else he forget! Has happened before." It can be seen [http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=67988&d=1287429271 here.]

* In [[Saints Row]] The Third, when the Saints rob a bank at the start of the game, the Saints all wear Johnny Gat caricature masks, including Johnny Gat.

 

 

* In ''[[DC Showcase: Catwoman]]'', Catwoman briefly pretends to be an exotic dancer in a Catwoman costume in order to get closer to Rough Cut.

* In the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "Starcrossed" the Earth was invaded by the Thanagarians, the same species Hawkgirl was from. Because of Hawkgirl's intel, they were able to neutralize the Justice League by countering their various powers. Once the League managed a jail break, they found themselves on the run and forced to hide. But the one thing Hawkgirl couldn't have known was everyone's civilian identities (it was the one thing they didn't have to share with the rest), so they changed out of their superhero costumes and [[Hidden in Plain Sight|blended in with the crowd]]. They then split up and made their way on foot to Wayne Manor and the Batcave. This was also the first time you saw [[The Flash]] without his mask.

'''[[The Flash]]:''' (Unmasking himself) Show off. }}