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{{quote|'' "The turtles wear rubber masks as a disguise. But why do the mouths move? Those are some ''expressive masks''."''
|'''[[James Rolfe]]''', ''[http://cinemassacre.com/2011/05/31/tmnt-tuesday-top-20-turtle-flubs/ Top 20 Turtle Flubs]''}}
A character's mask is usually intended to obscure the face. In animation this used to also be a helpful cheat to draw something similar.
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* Fain in ''[[Lusternia]]'' combines this with [[Not a Mask]] for [[Uncanny Valley|creepy effect]].
* Bernard from the ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' series has expressive glasses, as shown in the ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'' intro.
== Web Comics ==
* The [[Big Bad]] and common [[Mooks]] for most of ''[[
* Justified in ''[[Freefall]]'': Sam Starfall's mask was purpose-built to mimic human expressions, and [[Mobile Suit Human|he can control it with his tentacly face]].
** But the same strip contains robots whose normally-oval eyes appear as semicircles when they're annoyed, or as lines. (The latter made sense when it appeared on Sawtooth Rivergrinder, however, as the ^ shapes were displayed ''inside'' his eyes, which are confirmed to be capable of functioning as a graphical display.)
* Xykon of ''[[The
** "Suck it, arthritis!"
* Averted in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' The masks on the titular character and his ninja family stay motionless. However, they manage to be fairly expressive through eye movements (it helps that the masks show eyebrows.)
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* Mr. Snippy in ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]'' has open goggle-flaps on his mask which function as rudimentary eyebrows, changing angle to very effectively portray [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/15 anger], [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/36 shock], [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/31 worry], [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/30 desper][http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/42 ation], [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/38 determi][http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/40 nation], [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/60 fear], [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/44 bad][http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/45 ass], and [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/46 oh crap]. All the masked characters also show expression by the angles at which their masks are shown, and their [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|coloured goggles can change in tone and brightness to express different emotions]] or even [http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/59 levels of consciousness].
* [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=4&id=119 Hechter] is nothing more than a magically animated suit of armor, but he manages to have an amazing range of expression with his helmet.
* [[The Phantom of the Opera|Erik]]'s half-mask in the [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' and its [[Spin-Off]]
* Mortimer Jones' mask from ''[[Newheimburg]]'' does this a lot.
* Not in canon, but fans love to take the [[Team Fortress 2|Pyro]]'s gas-mask and deform it according to this trope.
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