In the Hood: Difference between revisions

 

Contrast with the [[Cool Mask|Cool Masks]] worn by [[Superhero|superheroes]], which disguise them by making them look ''more'' conspicuous. When not, see [[Malevolent Masked Men]].

 

 

* When on an assassination mission, Guts from ''[[Berserk (Manga)|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 (Manga)|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).

 

 

* How this trope could exist without mentioning [[The Hood]]?

** You'd think he'd be the trope's image.

* [[Batman (Franchise)|Bat-clan]] member Stephanie Brown combined a hood with a featureless black full-face mask in her original 'Spoiler' identity. It's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpoilerR80.jpg surprisingly impressive].

* The Oliver Queen [[Green Arrow]] during the Mike Grell series _The Longbow Hunters_ and the following _Green Arrow_ monthly series (1980s and 1990s run) wore a hood. Dinah "[[Black Canary]]" Lance designed it for him so he wouldn't catch a chill in Seattle's rainy clime. Since he had abandoned his trick and gadget arrows for broadheads instead, it was a better fit for a darker and grittier GA than the old "Robin Hood" hat from the Golden Age. Initially he still wore his domino mask underneath the hood, but after enough people explain they already knew who he was he gives up the mask and wears only the hood. Depending on the artist, it still hid the face--it was the beard that defeated the whole purpose of it all.

* ''[[The Nights Dawn Trilogy (Literature)|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}}.

* In the [[Rangers 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.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Darksiders (Video Game)|Darksiders]]'' both Death and War have this trope well. War in his standard form and Death in his reaper form

* Gorath from ''[[Betrayal At Krondor]]'' often wears his hood to conceal that his identity from people who'd want to kill a dark elf like him, people who'd want to kill ''him'', personally, or both. Justified, since his long ears are his most striking feature to the casual eye, and a hood does hide them well.

* Hector, Lyn, and Eliwood in ''[[Fire Emblem (Video Game)|Fire Emblem]]'', while trying to hide their identities as marquesses in an enemy country. Particularly egregious because [[Mighty Glacier|Hector]]'s still wearing his massive armor and Eliwood's tiara is visible.

** 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 (Webcomic)|Prismatic Vodka]]''.

* [[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|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]].

* ''[[Stripperella (Animation)|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)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.

* Death from ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]''.

* The Grim Reaper from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)|The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' wears the whole hood/shroud deal, but it doesn't cover his face.