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* Fakir wears a hood to cover his distinctive green hair while he ''wears a mask'' in the tenth episode of ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. This is probably in part because Fakir has a tendency to be a little theatrical when it comes to his role as the Knight.
* Subverted with Korumi in ''[[Onegai My Melody]]'' - Not only does her black hood disguise nothing, but the second season reveals it's apparently genetic.
* Holo from ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' wears a hood to cover up the animalistic wolf-ears on top of her head. She switches over a less-conspicuous hat, however.
** She switches a lot between the two. The point of the hood is to imply that she is a traveling nun, explained in the light novels to be the standard getup of any independent woman who wants to do traveling, and as such doesn't normally get a lot of attention. The hat on the other hand is a part of a typical city girl outfit, which is more convenient when she wants to go drinking and having fun, activities unsuitable for even a nun out of convenience rather than devotion.
* 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).
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Roderick Kingsley, the original Hobgoblin, in ''[[Spider-Man]]'' has a hood. More often than not, it casts a shadow that hides most of his mask while leaving only his glittering red eyes visible. Very creepy. When he temporarily gave up the role, his successor kept the hood but never produced the shadow, just one of many many ways he was a failure. Eventually Kingsley came out of retirement, killed him, took the role of the Hobgoblin back, and sure enough, lots of creepy shadows.
* Raven of the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' loves the Hood; it somehow conceals her face just as well as a mask but without that pesky glue. It even stays on when she ''flies.'' ([[Teen Titans (animation)|The cartoon]] provides a possible explanation for this by giving her telekinesis, a power she lacks in the comics.)
* In the comic book version of ''[[W.I.T.C.H.|WITCH]]'', the girls wore brown, hooded cloaks to be able to walk around undetected in Meridian. In their human forms. Notice that we're talking about the comic version of Meridian here, were everyone is green-skinned, has tentacle hair, or is otherwise downright monstrous looking. For some reason, it worked.
* As his name suggests, Hooded Justice, the first costumed adventurer in the [[Backstory]] of ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' wore a hood- a black one that covered his entire face, meant to resemble an executioner or hanged criminal. The resemblance to a Klan hood was not accidental.
* Every [[Legacy Character|Host]] for [[The Spectre]] played this straight. And it is ''[[Rule of Cool|awesome!!!]]''
* How this trope could exist without mentioning [[The Hood]]?
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* Aragorn in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' is first seen with his hood pulled up indoors, with only the light of his pipe illuminating his eyes. It's supposed to be ambiguous as to whether "Strider" is a good or bad guy at first. The evil Nazghul also wear hoods.
* ''[[Cthulhu (film)|Cthulhu]]'' (2007). The protagonist sees a line of [[Black Cloak]] hooded figures coming across the bridge towards him, and is so freaked out he steals a boat to avoid them.
* Subverted with ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. The ominous hoodies seen occasionally and hinted at as possible suspects are just local kids raging against authority via minor vandalism. And when you consider what that [[Town with a Dark Secret|authority is doing]]...
* 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.
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* ''[[The Nights Dawn Trilogy|Night's Dawn]]''. Quinn Dexter adopts this trope deliberately to awe his Satanist followers and enemies, using his powers as the Possessed to make the hood [[Evil Is Not Well Lit|particularly dark]]. The reader can tell he's lost his temper whenever his face makes a sudden reappearance.
* 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]] ==
* "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.
* ''[[Smallville]]'''s Green Arrow gets by with a Unibomber-like hoodie and sunglasses-at-night. Later he gives members proto-[[Justice League of America]] matching outfits. Somehow action never knocks them off; even [[The Flash]]'s hood fails to uncover his face [[Fridge Logic|while running at super-speed]].
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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.
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* Caster in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' though it's really not entirely clear as to ''why''. It's clear she's a beautiful woman but she isn't really distinctive enough for it to identify her. Nevertheless, you only get one good look at her actual face. Perhaps it's to make sure the audience thinks of her as a manipulative witch and saves the reveal of her rather elfin features for when she gets all her sympathy points {{spoiler|and won't need us to pity her anymore since she's already dying?}}
* The entire Kaka clan, including playable character Taokaka, from ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' 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.
* Amusingly played with in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. There are several types of hood, but about 70% of them don't cast any shadows over the face. About half of what is left is composed of larger hoods that also don't hide faces. Hilariously enough, most of the hoods that actually ''do'' cast shadows over the face are intended for ''priests'', and when examined with the rest of their matching gear sets, seem to have been made with ''holy'' priests in mind.
** There's one for warlocks too.
** Generally, the baddies hide their faces behind scarfs, though.
** 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: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]''. Subverted in that it only conceals her identity for about 2 minutes, before she herself reveals herself to Link.
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** Particularly young or cute white mages (or related classes) may get a hood with cute cat ears on it. [[Cute Kitten|N'awwwww]].
** In ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'', {{spoiler|Kain}} runs around in such an outfit and is thus referred to as the Hooded Man. Precisely ''why'' he is disguising himself, asides from giving the player a meta thrill, is not gone into.
* [[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]. 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.
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* The hooded figure in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' that is with Wesker and Excella is {{spoiler|a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Jill}}.
* 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.
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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-Bit Theater
* [[Sluggy Freelance|Oasis]] subverted [[Little Dead Riding Hood]] in her red hoodie, which eventually developed a reputation of it's own among the underworld. With the hood up, she was much less conspicuous.
* ''[[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.
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* 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.
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* [[Truth in Television]]: Hoodies. Many shops in the UK have banned them.
** And if you walk into a bank wearing a hood, you will probably have a chat with the police.
* 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 english civil war, no one wanted to execute the king, so the executioner disguised himself with a black hood in order to protect his identity.
*** 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.
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