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== Multiple Media ==
* [[Big Bad|The Shredder]] in all versions of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the mask covering the lower part of his face being part of his helmet. He does take it off occassionally.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* The Iron Mask Marauder from ''[[Pokémon 4Ever|Pokémon 4 Ever]]''.
* Friend from ''[[20th Century Boys]]'' has his signature eye-finger symbol mask, but earlier wore a cartoony monkey mask. ''And it made him no less awesome''.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
** The Battle City arc has villains of the week Lumis and Umbra. This was significant as it marked an "upgrade" of sorts from the first time they had appeared in the show. The masks (which where the half-faced variety, hiding their left and right side respectively
** Arkana was another Battle City villain who wore a mask. Yugi himself says, "never trust a masked man." He wears it due to an accident that horrible scarred him, and while Yugi seemed horrified when he momentarily removed it to show him, Arkana's back is to the viewer, so we have to [[Take My Word for It|Take Their Word For It.]]
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', one of Aoshi's [[Elite Mook]]s, code-named [[wikipedia:Hannya|hannya]], wears the eponymous mask as his mask (his unmasked face isn't that much more pleasant looking).
** Gein wears a black and white cloth with an abstract skull on it over his face.
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*** Char inherited his mask from the character he was inspired by, Prince Sharkin of [[Raideen]].
** Char and his clones tend to be [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]], though, with the mask mostly there because [[Rule of Cool|it's cool]] rather than for creepy factor.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has Kagetarou wearing an abstract mask. In addition, several of Fate's minions seem to wear masks.
* The [[Elite Mooks|Knights of Paris]] in ''[[Noir]]''.
* In ''[[Dorohedoro]]'' there's a ''whole city'' of them (Everyone get their mask as part of a contract with daemons). Most of them ''are'' [[Ax Crazy|malevolent]], or worse, but with the [[Black and Grey Morality]] of the setting you can never be really sure.
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** Every member of CP9 before [[The Reveal]] of their identities.
** Vinsmoke Judge, {{spoiler|Sanji's [[Archnemesis Dad]]}}, has never been seen without his helmet that covers the upper half of his face.
** Killer, [[Professional Killer|an assassin from South Blue]], always wears a metal mask; he doesn't even take it off when he eats!
* Hei, from ''[[Darker than Black]]'', wears an [[Uncanny Valley]] [[White Mask of Doom]] which looks like the child of V's mask and Jigsaw's. While we know him as an [[Anti-Hero]], most of the rest of the cast would see him as [[Hero Antagonist|at worst]] a terrorist and assassin and at best [[Mook Horror Show|very]] [[The Cowl|scary]].
* Darcia from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' has two. The first is a blank mask with a built-in [[Eyepatch of Power]], but the second is a smiling [[White Mask of Doom]] with an eye hole to expose his {{spoiler|wolf's eye}}.
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* Both the protagonist and villain in a ''[[28 Days Later]]'' comic book use a riot mask and a hockey mask, respectively.
* ''[[The Mask (comics)|The Mask]]'', natch. In [[Real Life]], people wearing masks often report feeling uninhibited. In its original form, this work turns it [[Up to Eleven]] with the ''complete'' suppression of the inhibitions of the wearer, essentially a possession by the Id. The titular Mask is also a [[Mask of Power]]. The result is an ultraviolent [[Anti-Hero]].
* In ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', quite a few of Cobra's leaders wear masks, including [[The Dragon|Destro]], Wild Weasel, Scrap Iron, Storm Shadow, and
* [[Doctor Doom]]; when his face was scarred from a failed experiment early in his career, his pride and arrogance compelled him to craft the mask along with his armor, to conceal a face that was, in his eyes, no longer flawless. Scott Lang has claimed that Doom's true reason for the mask (and the rest of the armor) is to pretend that he can alienate himself from humanity because of his scars, but it's really the scars upon his very soul that sets him apart.
* [[Iron Man]]'s enemy and [[Dating Catwoman|former lover]] Whitney Frost, aka Madame Masque, is a terrorist leader with an origin similar to Doom's: a plane crash horribly disfigured her face, forcing her to wear a golden mask (provided by the gold-obsessed criminal leader Mordecai Midas) to conceal it. While the scars have since been healed via surgery, she still wears the mask [[Slave to PR|to continue using her ''nom de plume''.]]
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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has Darth Vader, Darth Maul, General Grievous, and the Stormtroopers. The Jawas aren't that evil, but they probably count.
* The ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' series gives us the Ghostface killer, who can occasionally be a Malevolent Masked Woman.
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* Death Eaters in ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
* Scipio from ''The Thief Lord'' by Cornelia Funke wears a Venetian carnival mask.
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' is possibly the [[Ur Example]]; he is hideously ugly (born that way in the novel, scarred by acid in the movie) and always wears a mask, usually made of ceramic. In some versions it covers his whole face, in others, only the top half or right half.
* In [[Michael Moorcock|Michael Moorcock's]] Hawkmoon saga, the evil and deranged people of [[The Empire|Granbretan]] wear elaborate animal masks all the time, and would rather be seen naked than unmasked.
* The Watraii in [[Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul]]. At first.
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* In ''[[FlashForward]]'', [[mook]]s working for the show's big conspiracy wear clown masks.
* ''[[Luther]]'' has Cameron Pell, who commits brutal murders while wearing a Punch mask, in order to create a striking and memorable image as well as hiding his identity.
* Sqweegel on ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''-not only a mask but a whole body suit.
** ''[[CSI: NY]]'' had an episode with clown masks being used in a bank robbery. An explosion caused an outline of a mask to get seared into one guy's face.
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* In the ''[[BattleTech]]'' universe, Clan warriors are issued full face animal masks reflecting their Clan's totem to wear for ceremonial purposes. Further, the mercenary known as The Bounty Hunter is also only ever seen masked
* The ''Fiend Folio'', another Monster Manual of the 3.5 edition of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', introduces the Ethergaunts, coldly rational and atheistic aberrations from the Ethereal Plane who are [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]] and also sport featureless masks over their faces... which is fortunate since their faces [[Body Horror|are]] [[Alien Geometries|truly]] [[Brown Note|horrifying]].
* In ''[[Planescape]]'', reeves are brutal mercenaries who always hide their faces behind full-head helmets or veils; they have a racial taboo against showing their faces to anyone, including other reeves.
== Video Games ==
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