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See also: [[The Blank]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Several of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Angels]] in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' have what look like white, flattened plague-doctor masks.

* Assassin apparel in ''[[Phantom of Inferno]]''.

* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' - The brainwashed kids under Mask of Ice in the manga.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' - Haku's mask in the Land of Waves arc has no mouth and thin slits for eyes. The ANBU members wear similar animal-shaped ceramic masks. Then there's Naruto's six-tailed form, in which [[Demonic Possession|a fox skull engulfs his head]].

* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' - The villainous [[Mysterious Protector]] is another mask with no mouth and thin slits for eyes.

* ''[[Liar Game]]'' - The dealers and most attendants are [[Malevolent Masked Men]] with white masks.

* 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''.

* The mask worn by Ghostface in the ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'' series.

* The serial killer in the horror parody ''[[Scary Movie]]''.

* ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'': Michael Myers, the killer from the movie series wears a spooky white mask. The original was a [[Star Trek|Captain Kirk]] mask, bought for all of $1.98, painted white and modified. In the film it doesn't look much like Shatner.

* Used symbolically in Ingmar Bergman's ''[[The Seventh Seal]]''. Two of the characters (ironically, {{spoiler|the only major characters to survive the film's ending}}) are a husband-and-wife team of actors who [[Street Performer|perform shows in the streets of the towns they visit]] while wearing stark white face paint so glaring it shows up even on the film's black-and-white palette. We get to see one of their performances, which consists largely of them singing and playing [[Bawdy Song|Bawdy Songs]] while wearing the whiteface. Their songs, while ostensibly entertaining, are quite crude and sound a bit...off, suggesting that something dire is about to happen. And in fact something dire ''does'' happen - namely, the show is interrupted by a procession of flagellating penitents wreathed in incense, loudly moaning ''[[Ominous Latin Chanting|Dies irae, dies illa, solvet saeclum in favilla...]]'' (which in English is "Day of wrath, day of mourning, Earth in smoldering ashes falling...").