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* In creepy parallel to Judge Turpin above, ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' has the lead nerd use his college-fair [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] costume to trick the heroine into sex.
* The film ''[[Start the Revolution Without Me]]'' (a humorous account of the French Revolution, and yes, ) has a hilarious send-up of this type of party. Even though it's technically not a [[Masquerade Ball]], everyone still wears elaborate court dress--except for King Louis the XVI, who arrives in an elaborate chicken costume. (Apparently his devious wife told him it was [[
* Happens in ''[[Van Helsing (Film)|Van Helsing]]''. Fun fact: There is an outtake from this scene in which, instead of saying "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...Van Helsing!", Dracula instead declares "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...Van Halen!", followed by Hugh Jackman (that is, Van Helsing) air-guitaring.
* The [[climax]] of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[To Catch a Thief]]'' is set at a ball, where people wear lavish costumes fom the era of Louis XV.
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* American Soap Operas usually have at least one every year. Someone usually gets killed.
** ''[[General Hospital]]'' has an annual Nurses Ball, which is also used to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS.
* The climax of the classic ''[[
** And in the new series, the clockwork robots of "The Girl in the Fireplace" use masquerade masks as part of their period 18th-century disguise to hide their featureless mechanical heads.
* In ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'', Hyacinth wanted to go to the Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball as Marie-Antoinette, but ended up with a Boudiccea costume instead.
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** Some of them have been wearing the masks so long that their faces have deformed in the pattern of the mask's interior...
* [[Infocom]]'s third mystery, Suspect, was set at a costume party. The hostess is murdered with part of the protagonist's costume, making the protagonist...well, as the title implies, the suspect.
* Lord Fain of ''[[Lusternia]]'' has an aesthetic that mixes [[Masquerade Ball]] and [[Chess Motifs]]. Appropriately, his appearance is an extended [[Shout
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