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* A recent advertising campaign for the acid reflux medicine [[Unfortunate Names|Aciphex]] features either people shown only from the nose down, or people who have their faces from their nose up conveniently obscured by objects like a lamp, cupboard door, and a car front hood.
== Anime
* In the [[GetBackers]] anime, whenever Raitei and the original Four Kings are shown in flashback, the 4th King, Kurusu Masaki is always hidden in shadow ([[Fridge Brilliance]] because he has the superhuman power to generate/manipulate light) and only his blackened silouhette is shown. This lasts until the first episode of the final story arc, where he is formally introduced
* The [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Noein]]'' wears a spooky, warped golden mask that also muddles his voice and cloaks him in white energy. It turns out to be a good thing, because {{spoiler|he's another quantum version of the male leads}} and is damn creepy-looking.
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* In ''[[Inuyasha]],'' Onigumo, the human core of Naraku, is never shown, and his face is [[Un Reveal|Unrevealed]] often. When Kikyo was taking care of him, his face (and much of the rest of him) was covered in bandages. When we first met Naraku, he always wore his baboon pelt outfit, with face never seen within the hood. He took on a disguise early on (some young feudal lord), and it's the disguise's face that we start seeing under the hood on occasion. When Naraku separated the Onigumo-ness from him by turning it into another, humanoid demon, the demon [[The Blank|had a featureless face]], and took a face (and a name) from a monk who tried to vanquish him. In flashbacks with Onigumo's cohort Rasetsu, Onigumo's face is always kept in shadow.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' thrives on this device. Yui's facial features are a mystery for most of the series {{spoiler|to hide Rei's striking resemblance to her and to emphasize Yui's value as an archetype}}. The face of Asuka's mother, Kyoko, is only shown once, in [[The Movie]] (and even in this case, it's not very clear), and her father's and {{spoiler|adopted mother's}} are never shown. Kouzou Fuyutsuki's students in [[Whole-Episode Flashback|episode 21]] are also The Faceless, strangely enough. As for Shinji's caregivers in the manga, they are [[Hidden Eyes|The Eyeless]]! This device seems to be partly meant to accentuate the theme of alienation in post-industrial Japan... [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|oh forget it]].
** For [[The Reveal|fairly obvious reasons]], the face of {{spoiler|the pilot of Eva-03}} is hidden until the end of episode 18 too, though the character's identity is strongly implied throughout episodes 17 and 18. Also note that both in the manga and in the official spin-off (!) ''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji's Complementarity Project'', the kids and adults who bully {{spoiler|Shinji and Rei, respectively}} are also The Faceless, which adds to the creepiness factor and might also emphasize the mindlessness of bullying and/or the [[Faceless Goons|interchangeability of mindless bullies]].▼
** And in the yet-another-official-spin-off ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion Gakuen Datenroku|Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku]]'' (''Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy''), {{spoiler|Gendou}}'s face is hidden till the very last page of the first chapter in which he appears. Probably because he's supposed to be missing, but we know what he looks like and it's not like we didn't expect it (Shocking news! {{spoiler|Gendou Ikari}} is the head of the Nerv! And he might be scheming something involving teenagers and super-weapons!!). Also, so far Shigeru Aoba, Makoto Hyuga and Maya Ibuki (the operators of the main series) are only seen from behind if at all. Many of the {{spoiler|Angels}} are completely hidden in darkness when they appear.▼
▲For [[The Reveal|fairly obvious reasons]], the face of {{spoiler|the pilot of Eva-03}} is hidden until the end of episode 18 too, though the character's identity is strongly implied throughout episodes 17 and 18. Also note that both in the manga and in the official spin-off (!) ''Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji's Complementarity Project'', the kids and adults who bully {{spoiler|Shinji and Rei, respectively}} are also The Faceless, which adds to the creepiness factor and might also emphasize the mindlessness of bullying and/or the [[Faceless Goons|interchangeability of mindless bullies]].
▲And in the yet-another-official-spin-off ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion Gakuen Datenroku|Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku]]'' (''Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy''), {{spoiler|Gendou}}'s face is hidden till the very last page of the first chapter in which he appears. Probably because he's supposed to be missing, but we know what he looks like and it's not like we didn't expect it (Shocking news! {{spoiler|Gendou Ikari}} is the head of the Nerv! And he might be scheming something involving teenagers and super-weapons!!). Also, so far Shigeru Aoba, Makoto Hyuga and Maya Ibuki (the operators of the main series) are only seen from behind if at all. Many of the {{spoiler|Angels}} are completely hidden in darkness when they appear.
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', {{spoiler|the real}} Syaoran's parents' faces' are always hidden or shadowed when seen, his mother getting more shaded out than his father, for spoileriffic reasons.
* ''[[Naruto]]''
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