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{{quote|'''Camilla:''' You, sir, should unmask.
'''Stranger:''' Indeed?
'''Cassilda:''' Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
'''Stranger:''' I wear no mask. |''[[The King in Yellow]]''.}}
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** 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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* The Archbishop of Canterbury in ''[[Johnny English]]''.
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* ''[[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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And I was the wild and daring one
Who won the contest for scariest mask--
And (sob) I'm not even wearing one. }}
* In ''Quozl'', the [[Petting Zoo People]] aliens are wandering around Disneyland pretending to be people in suits. ({{spoiler|The protagonist's sister had written them into her kids' TV show}}) [[Hilarity Ensues]] when {{spoiler|the security guards confront them for being dressed up like characters ''[[Glamour Failure|from a rival company]]''.}}
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== Theater ==
* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]]: In Act I Scene I, Cyrano is described by one of his friends, Raguenau (making this [[Older Than Radio]]):
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'' he carries a nose!—ah, good my lords, what a nose is his! When one sees it''
'' one is fain to cry aloud, 'Nay! 'tis too much! He plays a joke on us!' Then''
''one laughs, says ''He will anon take it off.'' But no!—Monsieur de Bergerac''
'' always keeps it on.'' }}
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* In the story "Tall Tales" in the ''[[Paradise]]'' setting, characters who began to see through the [[Weirdness Censor]] assume that the [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] they see are humans wearing costumes. Of course, they are all attending a [[Furry Fandom]] convention at the time.
* In [http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/2011/05/fever-ship.html this creepypasta] for ''[[The Fear Mythos]]'', this trope is applied to [[Enemy to All Living Things|the Plague Doctor]]:
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* [[Hanna-Barbera]] also did it with Loopy de Loop and [[Magilla Gorilla]].
* Used on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' at the end of "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 1":
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** Also, Krusty to Homer in "Homer's Triple Bypass", pointing at his own face: "I got news for ya. This ain't makeup."
** Also inverted by Krusty. In "Bart the Fink", for a while Krusty went under the alias "Rory B. Bellows". The Rory persona looked like a "normal" Simpsons character, that is, with yellow skin, short brown hair and a normal nose. It turns out that it wasn't Krusty without his clown makeup, but Krusty with a disguise that covered his usual clown face... even his red nose was hidden under a fake yellow one!
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