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* Larva from ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]''.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' - Shinigami had a simple skull-shaped mask he made to deliberately avoid looking scary to the small children he wanted to recruit to his school. He added a sillier personality to match, which he took to very well in the long run. His older, much more skull-like mask is doomier. Kid occasionally copies his father's appearance with a cloak and mask of his own. But in his case it just looks ''cute''.
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' had a [[Magical Girl]] parody, and Sensei's villain mask and costume [http://img.kyon.pl/img/6529,screencap,Sayonara_Zetsubou_Sensei,parody,Darker_than_Black,.html seen here]{{Dead link}} happen to be a dead-ringer for Hei's outfit, emphasizing how "evil looking" Hei's costume is.
* The Knights of Paris in ''[[Noir]]''.
* Go down to "Real Life". Look at the plague-doctor mask. One of Cardinal Mozgus's lackeys in ''[[Berserk]]'' wears it. He's actually a decent guy, but is he ''ever'' on the wrong side...
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== Real Life ==
* Plague doctors during the Black Death wore white bird masks to prevent from getting the plague. These masks also had the effect of being ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131111214957/http://arts.atenveldt.com/Portals/arts/2005/plague%20mask.jpg frickin terrifying]'', despite being a dead ringer for the Black Spy from ''[[Spy vs. Spy]]''. For some plague victims, that would be one of the last sights they'd ever see. Being scary was intentional—the doctors had to be fearsome and barely-trusted, half mythical figures, or else they'd get mobbed by the sick every time they went out. They also went armed with clubs. The "beak" was stuffed with sweet smelling herbs to mask the sickening smell of dying plague victims.
** Strangely enough, the mask and the rest of the plague doctor outfit actually functioned as a fairly effective, though crude, biohazard suit. Since the mask covered the mucous membranes—eyes, mouth and nose—and doctors covered their bodies entirely with long, waxed robes, they were generally protected from plague spread by fleas or the victim's bodily fluids.
* Guitarist Brian "[[Buckethead]]" Carroll.
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