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This can be a [[Justified Trope]] if in a [[Wretched Hive]] or [[Bad Guy Bar]]; where this is a perfectly acceptable fashion accessory.
Contrast with the [[Cool Mask
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* The secret conspiracy that [[Tintin]] unmasks in ''Cigars of the Pharaoh''.
* [[Batman|Bat-clan]] member Stephanie Brown combined a hood with a featureless black full-face mask in her original 'Spoiler' identity. It's [[wikipedia:File:SpoilerR80.jpg|surprisingly impressive]].
* The Oliver Queen [[Green Arrow]] during the Mike Grell series _The Longbow Hunters_ and the following _Green Arrow_ monthly series (1980s and 1990s run) wore a hood. Dinah "[[Black Canary]]" Lance designed it for him so he wouldn't catch a chill in Seattle's rainy clime. Since he had abandoned his trick and gadget arrows for broadheads instead, it was a better fit for a darker and grittier GA than the old "Robin Hood" hat from the Golden Age. Initially he still wore his domino mask underneath the hood, but after enough people explain they already knew who he was he gives up the mask and wears only the hood. Depending on the artist, it still hid the
* Subverted in ''The Traveler''. While the Traveler always wears a hood, it's constantly falling off and he's shown putting it back on numerous times per issue. He wears a mask that covers everything but his eyes and mouth though, so his face still isn't seen even when the hood is down.
* [[Doctor Doom]] of course, who <s> probably wears it to cover his grotesquely disfigured face even more than his mask already does</s> is [[Genre Savvy]] about the sources of [[Memetic Badass|badassery.]]
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** Obi-wan Kenobi wears a hood that hides his face at his very first appearance, making him look like a mysterious scary thing that causes the Sandpeople to flee. This was probably what determined the Jedi cloaks and hoods would become standard issue.
** Luke wears a hood for a while in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' when he's dealing with Jabba and playing the mysterious scary Jedi.
** ''[[Star Wars]]'' also had an entire
* Aragorn in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' is first seen with his hood pulled up indoors, with only the light of his pipe illuminating his eyes. It's supposed to be ambiguous as to whether "Strider" is a good or bad guy at first. The evil Nazghul also wear hoods.
* ''[[Cthulhu (film)|Cthulhu]]'' (2007). The protagonist sees a line of [[Black Cloak]] hooded figures coming across the bridge towards him, and is so freaked out he steals a boat to avoid them.
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** Altaïr's descendant, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the protagonist [[Assassin's Creed II|of the second game]], has a similar hood. Actually his outfit's amazingly similar to Altaïr's, just updated to fit with 15th Century Italian aesthetics. Amusingly, in that era and setting a hood like that is very conspicuous compared to the [[Nice Hat|large hats]] almost everybody else is wearing, so it's most likely out of tradition.
*** It does keep his face hidden though, which given his status as a [[Hero with Bad Publicity|wanted criminal]] is something he's not exactly going to leave exposed, as evidenced by the Notoriety system.
**** Oddly enough, in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Brotherhood]]'' the Notoriety system does not apply until you do the Sequence 3 Core Memory where you help the Thieves Guild, which can be done last if the player so
***** That's because it's the game [[Justified Tutorial]] for the Notoriety system. In ''II'', it occurred just after Ezio's {{spoiler|father and brothers had been killed}} and in that he was the one being instructed. In ''Brotherhood'', [[The Mentor|it's Ezio doing the instructing.]]
** [[Metal Gear Solid|Snake]] later appears in an identical hood as a [[Shout-Out]]. He was in the Middle East at [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|the time.]]
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* [[Classy Cat Burglar|Kasumi Goto]] and [[Wrench Wench|Tali]] in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* While a few robes and cloaks in ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' include hoods, they are typically shown folded back instead of actually being pulled over the wearer's head; certain helmets are the only hoods the player character can actually wear. Played straight, however, by the wandering ghost {{spoiler|Serena}}, which ironically makes her stand out.
* The White Mage class in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series have hooded robes, but whether or not they wear the hoods is
** Particularly young or cute white mages (or related classes) may get a hood with cute cat ears on it. [[Cute Kitten|N'awwwww]].
** In ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years]]'', {{spoiler|Kain}} runs around in such an outfit and is thus referred to as the Hooded Man. Precisely ''why'' he is disguising himself, asides from giving the player a meta thrill, is not gone into.
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* In the webserial ''[[The Descendants]]'', the character Occult wears a hood that magically covers her face in shadow. Subverted due to the fact that under the hood, a glamour makes her look Nordic instead of Hispanic. So what's the point of the hood?
** So that if someone manages to pierce her disguise, they still wouldn't see her face? It's unlikely they would think of the possibility that the revealed face was a [[Mask Power|fake]] as well.
* [[Todd in the Shadows]] is
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