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[[File:Hoodguy.jpg|link=Assassin's Creed|frame|[[Most Definitely Not a Villain|Definitely not hiding something.]]]]
Somebody needs to disguise their identity and/or avoid attracting attention. Their solution? Wear a [[Black Cloak]] with a really big hood. Because nothing diverts attention away from oneself better than a big creepy black cloak that makes you look like [[The Grim Reaper]]. Its hood will cover their face in shadow, regardless of whether it's long enough to actually do so. In addition, the hood will never fall off accidentally, even if the wearer is fighting a Wind Mage in the middle of a typhoon. In modern times, a hoodie is a good substitute.
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Contrast with the [[Cool Mask]]s worn by [[superhero]]es, which disguise them by making them look ''more'' conspicuous. When not, see [[Malevolent Masked Men]].
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Not to be confused with ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]''.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Zest and Lutecia of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' wear these occasionally, removing them when they go into battle.
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* When on an assassination mission, Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' wears a dark cloak with a hood. He's also seen wearing his all black hooded cape post-Eclipse after he becomes the Black Swordsman.
* Turkey from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' wears a hood and a [[Domino Mask|mask]], when he isn't the Ottoman Turks (Where he wears a mask an a huge hat instead).
* In ''[[Blood+
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Skroa used this in Book 7 and 8 [[Les Legendaires]] to conceal his identity. Partially justified, as his real appearance is a giant, green, anthropomorphic bird-like demon, meaning ''any'' disguise would be better than just going around as himself. Ironically, this was actually of little use, as the only person he shew himself to in the arc died a panel later, and the protagonists instantly recognized him when confronting him at the end.
* Time Trapper, the mysterious purple wearing X-factor villain in [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]] wears one. But since his identity changes ''All the time'' it doesn't matter when S/He takes it off.
* [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Spider-Woman_(Gwen_Stacy) Ghost Spider's] costume has a hood worn over her mask, with a web-design on the lining.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[Rise of the Wizards]]'', Harry's account manager sent him a note which mentioned that Gringotts' nighttime customers tended to be of the more... disreputable sort and suggested that Harry "would not look out of place with a hooded black cloak."▼
▲* In the [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] fic ''Rise of the Wizards'', Harry's account manager sent him a note which mentioned that Gringotts' nighttime customers tended to be of the more... disreputable sort and suggested that Harry "would not look out of place with a hooded black cloak."
== [[Film]] ==
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* The Alchemist in ''Vidocq'' wears a black hood over his [[The Faceless|mirrored mask]]. Very creepy, since when a victim to be tries to glimpse under the hood, they only see their own face staring back.
* The Mountain Man in the third ''[[Cold Prey]]'' film hides his face under a hood.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The eponymous "Ghost Jogger" of the short story in ''[[Nancy Drew]] Ghost Stories'' makes full use of his hood to hide the fact that {{spoiler|he's a young man assumed to be dead at the beginning the series}}.
* [[Older Than Print]]: The medieval Icelandic ''[[The Icelandic Sagas|Saga of Grettir the Strong]]''. Grettir was the ''tallest'' man in Iceland. He was an outlaw with a price on his head. He wore a hood and nobody ever recognized the ''[[Paper-Thin Disguise|tallest]]'' [[Paper-Thin Disguise|man in Iceland]].
* In the ''[[Ranger's Apprentice]]'' series, the eponymous Rangers are well-known throughout Araluen for their ability to melt into the forest and move without being seen. The prevailing superstition is that their cloaks are imbued with magic, allowing them to turn invisible. The real reason? Part of it is that the cloaks are camouflaged, with a large hood to completely conceal the wearer's face in shadow. The other part is that due to his training, a Ranger can stay perfectly still and hidden even when the enemy is looking right at them. From any farther than a few meters, a Ranger in hiding literally blends into the surround forest.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* "St. Joan" in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
* The [[Power Rangers in Space|Red Space Ranger]] Andros would often wear a cloak, sometimes even when morphed. When morphed, the cloak had to cover his helmet, so the edges of the opening were almost clamped shut.
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* Superhoodie of ''[[Misfits]]'' wears a hood, but uses a ski mask, and later a paintball helmet, to actually hide his identity of {{spoiler|Simon from the future}} as the hood fits pretty tightly over the top of this head and therefore provides no shadow.
* In ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'', Long's human form comes with one of these.
* The Cape from, well, ''[[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]]'' used to use a hood for a disguise, until it almost revealed his identity. Now he has a mask on underneath the hood.
* [[Green Arrow|Oliver Queen/The Arrow]] from ''[[Arrow]]''.
== [[Music]] ==
* The icon of [[Disturbed]]'s [[Mascot]] "The Guy".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205960 Jace Beleren] of ''[[Magic: The
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** [[Big Bad|Kessler]] wears a white hood.
* In ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'', the main character, Alex Mercer, wears a hood to cover his face. This is because {{spoiler|the real}} Alex Mercer was wearing a hood {{spoiler|on his way to Penn Station}} because he was {{spoiler|on the run}}. In the game, Alex keeps wearing that hood because {{spoiler|thats what he was wearing when the FBI shot him dead}}. The Blacklight Virus simply {{spoiler|copied his appearance at the time of his death and made it his [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]}}.
* Caster in ''[[Fate/stay night
* The entire Kaka clan, including playable character Taokaka, from ''[[BlazBlue]]'' wear yellow hooded jackets that conceal their entire face, revealing only glowing eyes and a fanged mouth.
** Platinum the Trinity wears one that obscures the top part of... their face.
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** Death Knights start with a face-concealing shadowy hood.
*** Face-concealing scarves are mostly reserved for rogues, Defias Brotherhood, and the Syndicate. Enemy rogue NPCs are pretty rare and Defias and the Syndicate are fairly low-level enemies. Once you hit level 40 or so, there's nary a scarf in sight. A lot of hoods in Outland and Northrend, though. Pretty much every cultist and many of the spellcasters wear hoods.
* [[The Legend of Zelda|Princess Zelda]] wears a hooded cloak for the majority of ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The semi-human "Habnabits" in ''Ferazel's Wand'' wear full-length cloaks with the hoods always up, shadowing their faces except for two features: large, vaguely human eyes, and a snout like an anteater. They're the good guys, though, as signified by the fact that their cloaks are a wide variety of colors rather than the generic black.
* One of many clothing options for a hero or villain in ''[[City of Heroes|City of Heroes/Villains]]''.
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* [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] in ''[[Sengoku Basara]] 3'' wears one, though it doesn't obscure his face. Considering his look and moveset is based off boxing, it could be due to this.
* The various unnamed Reapers in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', who bar your path with invisible walls, forcing you to complete tasks for them to proceed.
* And now there's a ''[[Pokémon]]'' [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/1/11/560Zuruzukin.png based off a mohawk hoodie]{{Dead link}}. Its hood is made up of the shed skin of its pre-evolved form. Slightly subverted as it doesn't really wear the hood during battle.
* In ''[[Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse]]'', this is Sypha's chosen method [[Samus Is a Girl|of concealing herself]].
* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' has Norman Jayden giving Ethan Mars a police coat with a hood so that he could escape.
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* Altair's peaked hood has inspired a wave of homages from other sneaky characters, such as the blade obsessed assassin [[League of Legends|Talon]].
* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has the Thief's Hood, a hood with a scarf blocking the face, the Hollow Thief's hood, a standard hood, and the Darkwraith Helm, a hood with a skull mask.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** Miko Miyazaki wore a hood in her first handful of appearances, allowing for a [[Samus Is a Girl]] [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0200.html moment] when it was knocked off.
* The uniform of choice for the Mysterious Cloak Guys in ''[[Prismatic Vodka]]''.
* Sarda from ''[[8-
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance
* ''[[Rumors of War]]'': appearing in Chapter 8 is a character by the name of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Manaus]]. He wears a brown cloak complete with a hood, which obscures everything but his eyes, creating an implausible, yet creepy effect akin to [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]. He's implied by context to be a [[Devil in Plain Sight]].
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', hoods (or [[Stealth Pun|god-hoods]]) are a standard part of the clothing of those who have [[Came Back Strong|ascended to the God Tiers]]. They vary significantly in design - a Seer's is a normal hood, but a Knight's is a close fitting coif, while a Witch's is split and looks like a pair of stockings. Some are even more abstract; a Bard's isn't even a hood but a conical hat.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' played with this one - when Agatha's party arrives in Mechanicsburg, they try a [[Black Cloak]] with hood [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070416 to sneak in]. They're stopped immediately by the guards looking for Agatha. Luckily, the heroes were [[Genre Savvy]] enough to put Zeetha in the hood, even using her [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|green hair color]] as an excuse why she was wearing the hood in the first place. The guards conclude it's the wrong girl and let them go, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070418 while Agatha watches from a distance.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
* Ace in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' [
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the webserial ''[[The Descendants]]'', the character Occult wears a hood that magically covers her face in shadow. Subverted due to the fact that under the hood, a glamour makes her look Nordic instead of Hispanic. So what's the point of the hood?
** So that if someone manages to pierce her disguise, they still wouldn't see her face? It's unlikely they would think of the possibility that the revealed face was a [[Mask Power|fake]] as well.
* ''[[Todd in the Shadows]]'' is constantly—you guessed it—shrouded in darkness, which makes the hood a bit of a redundancy but also gives him a very unique look. The hoodie actually hides nothing out of the shadows, though, so in his own videos if he's required to be out of the darkness his back is to the camera. In crossovers, he wears a black piece of fabric completely obscuring his face from the nose up, eyes included.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Zuko in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', because he's melodramatic like that. Aang also once tried to pull his robe up over his head [[Beavis and
* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' wears an outfit that includes a blue cape and hood. She's not disguising her identity, though, because that's a bit hard to do when you have purple hair and a big red gem encrusted in the middle of your forehead. Nor does she seem to have a problem being seen with her hood down in public places, either; it's just part of her superhero ''chic''.
* Kenny from ''[[South Park]]'' has his face permanently obscured by a hood. Voice too, though apparently none of the main characters have a problem understanding him. In a few episodes, as well as the movie, we've been permitted a glimpse of what's underneath, but he definitely belongs here.
* The evil Daedalus from ''[[The Mighty Hercules]]'', who usually ends each episode being dragged off by said hood.
* ''[[Stripperella]]''. When supervillain Queen Clitoris first makes an appearance she's hidden under a hood, solely so Stripperella can make the inevitable [[Double Entendre]].
* Frollo's judges in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
* The supervillain [[Obviously Evil|Grim Reaper]] in ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' wears a hooded cape that covers his eyes.
* Death from ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* The Grim Reaper from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[Big Bad|Mumm-ra]] from [[Thundercats (2011 series)|both]] ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Medieval executioners' black hoods were designed to intimidate prisoners and give would-be troublemakers pause, as well as providing a measure of anonymity for a ''very'' unpopular profession.
** Except that this, like so many "facts" about the Middle Ages, is a Victorian myth. Medieval executioners had no standard uniform, and made no effort to hide their identity. They were usually depicted in contemporary art as bald and pox-ridden or scarred, but never with hoods. Everybody knew the executioner's identity, and shunned him for it. The small population centers of medieval times did not provide the anonymity that would have allowed a man to hide his profession by simply covering his face.
*** This probably came about due to the fact that after the
*** The popular views about the executioners varied widely even within one nation. In some times and communities they were shunned, in others they were thought of just as another trade — it generally depended on the populace's view to the [[Public Execution|capital punishment]] itself. In one place the execution was a dark and solemn ceremony where people gathered to think of the eternal, and in another it might be a sort of grisly spectator sport.
* The [[wikipedia:File:Unabomber-sketch.png|iconic police sketch]] of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
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