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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]].
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 [[
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]].
Subtrope of [[
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== [[Anime]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[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]].
* 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.
* ''[[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.
* Act II, Scene i of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''.
* Verdi's opera ''Un ballo in maschera'' is [[Very Loosely Based
** 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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