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

* The secret conspiracy that [[Tintin (Comic Book)]] unmasks in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''.

* 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.

* Subverted in ''The Traveler''. While the Traveler always wears a hood, it's constantly falling off and he's shown putting it back on numerous times per issue. He wears a mask that covers everything but his eyes and mouth though, so his face still isn't seen even when the hood is down.

** Altaïr's descendant, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the protagonist [[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|of the second game]], has a similar hood. Actually his outfit's amazingly similar to Altaïr's, just updated to fit with 15th Century Italian aesthetics. Amusingly, in that era and setting a hood like that is very conspicuous compared to the [[Nice Hat|large hats]] almost everybody else is wearing, so it's most likely out of tradition.

*** It does keep his face hidden though, which given his status as a [[Hero With Bad Publicity|wanted criminal]] is something he's not exactly going to leave exposed, as evidenced by the Notoriety system.

***** That's because it's the game [[Justified Tutorial]] for the Notoriety system. In ''II'', it occurred just after Ezio's {{spoiler|father and brothers had been killed}} and in that he was the one being instructed. In ''Brotherhood'', [[The Mentor|it's Ezio doing the instructing.]]

** Averted with Altaïr and Ezio's modern-day descendant Desmond Miles, who wears a hoodie but has yet to be seen with the hood up. Although presumably he may later as he now has all of Ezio's skills. It should also be noted that said hoodie is white, [[Generation Xerox|just like traditional Assassin costumes from the past.]]

** It turns out that the hood is slightly ''pointed'', just like his ancestors' "eagle beak" hoods.

** Ergo, the Hunter as Altair - ''[[Memetic Mutation|Hunter's Greed]]''.

** The hood also helps shadow their face and hide the fact that [[Eye Scream|they have no eyes]].

* In ''[[In Famous (Video Game)|In Famous]]'', the first gang of the game, the normal Reapers wear red reaper style hoods while the Conduits wear white. Oddly enough, they normally paint a skull onto the hood itself. The hood happens to hide their face, no matter how much light is actually shining on it. {{spoiler|Then again, they aren't entirely human according to later missions, so maybe they just have pitch-black faces.}}

** [[Big Bad|Kessler]] wears a white hood.

** 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 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 (Video Game)|City of Heroes/Villains]]''.

*** 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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