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* In the film ''[[La Femme Nikita]]'', we briefly see a supporting character applying a complex, realistic looking disguide, complete with extensive makeup to alter the shape of his face and a wig. Not quite a mask, but it does completely alter the way he looks.
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. The title character, while masquerading as an elderly janitor and {{spoiler|[[James Brown]]}}.
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' ''[[Help!]]'' has the Eastern bad guys getting captured when they knock Ringo unconscious, then find it's Paul, and then John (but not George?) in a Ringo mask as bait for a police ambush.
* The big reveal at the end of ''[[Murder By Death]]'' is that Bensonmum, after being accused of murdering Lionel Twain using increasingly outlanding deductions by all the assembled [[Amateur Sleuth|Agatha Christiesque detectives]], {{spoiler|pulls off a mask that he is really -- Lionel Twain}}. And ''then,'' after all the detectives go home, {{spoiler|he then pulls off ''another'' mask to reveal he's really -- the mute maid, who laughs very vocally.}}.
* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] spy movie ''The Second Best Secret Agent in the World'', the James Bond-like hero meets up with a sexy, petite Asian girl... who then tries to kill him. And the latex mask comes off, revealing (in standard fashion for special effects back then) a male Asian martial arts master in drag.
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* In an episode of ''[[Due South]],'' Ray Vecchio and Benton Fraser are each simultaneously abducted by someone in a mask of the other.
* A staple of the Canadian action show ''[[FX the Series]]''. Averted in the sense that lead character and makeup/effects artist Rollie Tyler often takes several hours to create the masks he wears, which are applied as separate strips with supplemental makeup. The same goes for his arch-nemesis, Victor Loubar. On the other hand, they do fall prey to the "extrapolate the face from a few photos" setup.
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** As a fun bit of trivia, Arnaud De Thiel is also the name of the first case of identity theft legally recorded in France.
*** Better known for the name of the man he stole the identity of, Martin Guerre.
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** It fulfills its intended purpose of getting Snake through the Colonel-only security checkpoint, but the trope is subverted when Volgin becomes suspicious of the disguised Snake because [[Crotch Grab Sex Check|crotches are hard to disguise]], latex perfection or not.
** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', although the player doesn't find this out until well after the fact, one of the NPCs you interact with turns out to be master of disguise Decoy Octopus in a very convincing mask. Octopus, in fact, [[Invoked]] this trope: he had sliced off his own ears and shaved down his cheekbones in order to remove distinguishing features under masks.
*** Speaking of Octopus, there's the face camo that Snake nabs off of Laughing Octopus in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', which is somewhat of a [[Justified Trope]] example, if only because it's explicitly tech and not just a fancy disguise. Still, it does have the problem that it has nowhere to ''breathe'' out of.
* ''[[Professor Layton and the Curious Village]]'' has Don Paolo disguising himself as Detective Chelmey with a mask featuring a full body suit. It gets more ridiculous in the second game where he disguises himself as ''{{spoiler|Flora}}'' who is about half his size.
** ''Unwound Future'' has him impersonating {{spoiler|Dr. Schrader, the Dean of Layton's university and Layton himself during their [[Enemy Mine|temporary truce]]. Paolo pulls each one off so well that even Layton requires some serious contemplation on each person's mannerisms to begin catching on.}}
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