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'''Stranger:''' I wear no mask. |''[[The King in Yellow]]''.}}
A horror trope which has become something of a [[Dead Horse Trope]], as it's now almost always played for comedy. It involves a character seeing an ugly face and begin pulling at it, on the assumption that it's a mask. Of course, it's actually someone's face and the puller will typically be [[Horror Struck]]. Sometimes a purely comedic variation will occur with wigs if the joke is that [[Bifauxnen|a woman looks like a man]]. Also closely related to "I'm not pregnant, I'm just obese" jokes. Compare with [[Your Costume Needs Work]] and [[For Halloween I Am Going
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens to the main character of ''[[
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* During the Water 7 arc in ''[[One Piece]]'', a ban on masks is put into effect (since there was a carneval going on in a nearby town) after a failed assassination attempt on the mayor. [[Gonk|An ugly looking woman]] out to board the [[Cool Train|sea train]] can be seen desperately tugging at her face in order to prove that it isn't a mask.
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== Fan Fic ==
* Inverted in [http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=15990 this] ''[[
== Film ==
* Quasimodo in [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's adaptation]] of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. His deformed face is mistaken for a mask, as he is at the Festival of Fools, where everyone is wearing an ugly mask. When he wins, they try to pull off his "mask" , but recoil when they realize he really looks like that. He then has to run away while they throw vegetables at him.
** Actually, they're kind of accepting at first, with some persuasion from the guy running the festival. It's only after the soldiers throw vegetables at Quasi that everyone turns on him.
* Used in the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie, although it was perhaps more a case of Not a Wig.
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== Literature ==
* Played straight in Robert W. Chambers's ''[[The King in Yellow]]'', a short story collection that inspired [[
* In [[Beastly]] Kyle goes to a [[For Halloween I Am Going
* Played straight in [[Edgar Allan Poe|''The Masque of the Red Death'']]
** Parodied by [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld
** Terry Pratchett played a similar situation (almost) straight in his short story ''Turntables of the Night'', with the catch that it's from the perspective of a guest at the party ([[Unreliable Narrator|who may or may not be drunk]].)
** ''[[Discworld
** In ''[[Discworld
* ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' (see above) is also a straight example, from back before it was such a [[Dead Horse Trope]].
* [[Shel Silverstein]]'s poem "Best Mask?"
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== Live Action TV ==
* Used in the first episode of ''[[
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'''s Papa Lazarou is not normally wearing makeup.
* In the ''[[Tales
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== Western Animation ==
* [[
** Same thing happened with Mrs. Puffs and the prison guards after SpongeBob and Patrick tried to sneak into prison disguised as guards.
* Used at least twice in ''[[Scooby Doo]]'', in ''Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase'' and ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'', the former with some enemies that originally were fake monsters, and the latter with one of the zombies.
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