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Want to show off just how rich, elite, and extravagant your [[Blue Blood|upper class]] is? Have them celebrate everything with a [[Masquerade Ball]]. With bizarre masks and elaborate [[Gorgeous Period Dress]], everyone's identity is sufficiently obscured for any number of misunderstandings. Either Horror or [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
Want to show off just how rich, elite, and extravagant your [[Blue Blood|upper class]] is? Have them celebrate everything with a [[Masquerade Ball]]. With bizarre masks and elaborate [[Gorgeous Period Dress]], everyone's identity is sufficiently obscured for any number of misunderstandings. Either Horror or [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
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For really grand scale masquerades, the writers may include festitivities where the entire city [[Gorgeous Period Dress|dresses up in grand costumes]], a la Carnival/Mardi Gras. Which maximizes the chance for confusion and mingling with people one would normally never know. Hard to avoid in [[ |
For really grand scale masquerades, the writers may include festitivities where the entire city [[Gorgeous Period Dress|dresses up in grand costumes]], a la Carnival/Mardi Gras. Which maximizes the chance for confusion and mingling with people one would normally never know. Hard to avoid in [[It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans|New Orleans]] and Venice. |
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A popular 19th century setting, due, as [[The Other Wiki]] puts it, "both to their popularity at the time and to their endless supply of plot devices." To wit: Mistaken identities, untraceable murderers, believing something is [[All Part of the Show]], a normally-costumed character hiding in [[For Halloween I Am Going As Myself|plain sight]], (or mocked for their [[Your Costume Needs Work|poor quality costume]]) and one of the attendees' masks being revealed to be their ''[[Not a Mask|actual face]]''. [[Deadly Decadent Court|A court is a... difficult place.]] |
A popular 19th century setting, due, as [[The Other Wiki]] puts it, "both to their popularity at the time and to their endless supply of plot devices." To wit: Mistaken identities, untraceable murderers, believing something is [[All Part of the Show]], a normally-costumed character hiding in [[For Halloween I Am Going As Myself|plain sight]], (or mocked for their [[Your Costume Needs Work|poor quality costume]]) and one of the attendees' masks being revealed to be their ''[[Not a Mask|actual face]]''. [[Deadly Decadent Court|A court is a... difficult place.]] |
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Has nothing to do with [[The Masquerade]], and can actually mean a break from it; see [[For Halloween I Am Going As Myself]]. |
Has nothing to do with [[The Masquerade]], and can actually mean a break from it; see [[For Halloween I Am Going As Myself]]. |
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Subtrope of [[ |
Subtrope of [[Dances and Balls]]. Has nothing to do with [[Idiot Ball]] or any of its subtropes. |
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== [[Anime]] == |
== [[Anime]] == |
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== [[Live Action TV]] == |
== [[Live Action TV]] == |
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* ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' brought the [[Wig Dress Accent]] to new levels by attending a modern retro masque party, where Sydney meets a [[New Old Flame]] who's probably [[The Mole]]. |
* ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' brought the [[Wig, Dress, Accent]] to new levels by attending a modern retro masque party, where Sydney meets a [[New Old Flame]] who's probably [[The Mole]]. |
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* A black-and-white masque ball in an episode of ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' provides cover for on-the-lam Claire Meade to talk to her estranged husband again. |
* A black-and-white masque ball in an episode of ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' provides cover for on-the-lam Claire Meade to talk to her estranged husband again. |
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* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', being about rich socialite teens, has a [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] costume ball. |
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', being about rich socialite teens, has a [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] costume ball. |
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* ''[[Shakespeare|Romeo and Juliet]]'' fall in love at the masque ball, not knowing that they're members of enemy families. |
* ''[[Shakespeare|Romeo and Juliet]]'' fall in love at the masque ball, not knowing that they're members of enemy families. |
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* Act II, Scene i of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''. |
* Act II, Scene i of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''. |
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* Verdi's opera ''Un ballo in maschera'' is [[Very Loosely Based |
* Verdi's opera ''Un ballo in maschera'' is [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|very loosely based]] around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, who was shot during a masked ball. |
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** Francois Auber also wrote an [[Opera]] about the same incident, called ''Gustav le troisieme, ou le bal masque'' |
** Francois Auber also wrote an [[Opera]] about the same incident, called ''Gustav le troisieme, ou le bal masque'' |
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* [[The Phantom of the Opera]] has one turned [[Up to Eleven]] - the song is simply called "Masquerade," and gets used repeatedly throughout the remainder of the play. |
* [[The Phantom of the Opera]] has one turned [[Up to Eleven]] - the song is simply called "Masquerade," and gets used repeatedly throughout the remainder of the play. |