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** Regarding the masquerade in Labyrinth, for those of you who like symbolic details:
*** Earlier, we see that Sarah owns a little music box with a princess-like figure twirling atop it, inside walls of glass and mirrors. In Jareth's illusion, he turns Sarah into this music-box princess.
*** There are mirrors in abundance. Jareth removes his mask while the guests retain theirs, and yet he is often in close proximity to mirrors, including two which are held up to him on either side by masked women when Sarah first spots him.
*** The walls of the room itself are mirrors. Sarah has to shatter them to break the illusion.
* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask]]'' uses this to switch out the corrupt (literal) [[Evil Twin]] king for the good one, with the added bonus that the hidden twin had spent his entire life wearing a heavy iron mask, which he flashed to the king from under the decorative gold one to freak him out.
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** If you're referring to the Hilary Duff movie, it still seems pretty obvious who everyone is under the masks.
** It also happened in a Muppet version.
** In ''[[Ever After (film)|Ever After]]'', it is a masked ball, but the Prince doesn't use the shoe to find her anyway.
* In ''[[Zorro]]: The Gay Blade'', the governor holds a [[Masquerade Ball]]. Zorro shows up ([[For Halloween I Am Going as Myself|in costume]]) and is unmasked as Don Diego, but then ''all'' the other male guests show up, also dressed as Zorro.
* ''[[Batman Returns]]'' has a costume Christmas party, where everyone wears a costume except, of course, Batman and Catwoman -- for whom their civilian identities ''are'' their costumes.
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** No, it's a three night ball event where everyone is wearing masks the first night, but then take them off quickly, so the Prince can see their beauty. This troper is not sure if everyone wore them the next nights, but Ella certainly did.
* The beginning of the climax of the sequel to [[Incarceron]], ''Saphique'' takes place in a Masquerade Ball.
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''Witches Abroad'', the story of <s>Cinderella</s> Emberella is done at a masquerade ball. The Witches use this to switch the poor scullery girl with one of their own.
** Just how they managed to change the very dark-skinned Emberella to pale Magrat [[Fridge Logic|is never explained.]]
*** Well, the point is that nobody knows who it is - the herald who was carefully coached to announce "Mysterious and Beautiful Stranger" probably wasn't ''told'' "It'll actually be Ella from the kitchens, who's really the Baron's daughter".
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* Act II, Scene i of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''.
* 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.
** Francois Auber also wrote an [[Opera]] about the same incident, called ''Gustav le troisieme, ou le bal masque''
* [[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.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the retro-[[Steampunk]] ''[[
** They also use them to hide how disfigured their faces [[Nightmare Fuel|now are]].
** Some of them have been wearing the masks so long that their faces have deformed in the pattern of the mask's interior...
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon revolves around a high-class masquerade ball April attends (and looks [[She Cleans Up Nicely|shockingly stunning]] in her evening gown). She brings the Turtles with her, thinking it'd be fun and ironic. Over the course of the episode she is [[Mistaken Identity|mistaken]] for a similarly-dressed European princess and kidnapped, and when security orders everyone to take off their masks, the Turtles are in an obvious bind.
* The episode "Heart of Tarkon" of ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' has Doc crashing one of these and using the opportunity to turn on the charm with Maya. Maya is not fooled by his identity in the slightest, [[Give Geeks a Chance|but is surprised at how charming he can be]].
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