History Main / AllEncompassingMantle

[[{{Lunar}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mantle2.jpg]]
[[caption-width:320:Ghaleon, equipped with his +5 Mantle of Awesomeness.]]

* Used to [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=29&issue=13 terrifying effect]] by [[DrMcNinja everyone's favorite ninja doc]].

This type of mantle sometimes comes with an [[InTheHood attached hood]] in order to cover the head as well as the body. Females wearing a mantle [[{{Stripperiffic}} and nothing else]] are an uncommon form of FanService. Compare with the less encompassing BadAssLongrobe.

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* The [[HarryPotter Cloak Of Invisibility]] could cover the wearer's entire body and was also rather large.

* [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Syaoran]] has/had a rather [[http://anime.osiristeam.net/images/others/trc_2syaoran.jpg over-long ragged-edged one]] as part of his clothes when he started out on that [[GottaCatchEmAll insane]] [[ThirtyGambitPileup journey]].

* Cloak of ''Cloak and Dagger'', complete with hood. When it wasn't encompassing people whole into a pocket dimension of darkness, it wafted around him looking menacing and dramatic.

* Raven from ''Series/TeenTitans'' has one of these.

* [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Syaoran]] has/had a rather [[http://anime.osiristeam.net/images/others/trc_2syaoran.jpg over-long ragged-edged one]] as part of his clothes when he started out on that [[GottaCatchEmAll insane]] [[ThirtyXanatosPileup journey]].

* Raven from ''TeenTitans'' has one of these.

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* [[StarWars The Empire]] gives these to higher ups such as Imperial Guards and of course, Darth Vader himself.

This type of mantle sometimes comes with an [[InTheHood attached hood]] in order to cover the head as well as the body. Females wearing a mantle [[{{Stripperiffic}} and nothing else]] are an uncommon form of FanService. Compare with the less encompassing and more BadAss BadAssLongrobe.

* Lucia and Ghaleon wear them in ''[[Lunar2EternalBlueComplete Lunar: Eternal Blue]]''. Lucia's is so distinctive that the other characters insist that she pick out a different outfit in order to blend in better. And Ghaleon's is +5 to Awesomeness.
** Ghaleon gets another AllEncompassingMantle added to his wardrobe in ''[[LunarSilverStarStoryComplete Lunar: Silver Star Story]]''...giving him twice as many costumes as any other character in the game.

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* Zealots, special agents of the [[{{Syndicate}} Church of the New Epoch]] wear massive white mantles with brown shoulderpieces and hoods. Justified in how all they hide a possibly inhumanly robotic body - the running animation reveals hoverjets of some sort.

** The Knights of Rounds in R2 hav eosmething between a cape and one of these.

* [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Sharoan]] has/had a rather [[http://anime.osiristeam.net/images/others/trc_2syaoran.jpg over-long ragged-edged one]] as part of his clothes when he started out on that [[GottaCatchEmAll insane]] [[ThirtyXanatosPileup journey]].

* Ghaleon from the first two ''{{Lunar}}'' games and their remakes. Lucia wears one for the first part of the second game as well.

*** They had to do that to accommodate the fight choreography; it's easy to make an AllEncompassingMantle stay where you want it to if it's drawn on paper, but it gets in the way during live-action fighting.

* Why hasn't anyone mentioned this yet? In ''{{G Gundam}}'', more than half the time Domon Kasshu is outside of his {{Gundam}}, he's wearing his red mantle. In the finale, it's even shown that he [[CrazyPrepared keeps it in his cockpit during battle]] when he catches Rain as she shoots through the air naked and wraps her up in it. It then magically turns into a dress.

* [[StarWars The Empire]] gives these to higher ups such as Imperial Guards and of course, [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready the big black himself]].

** Batman's cape is always like this, except for the movies. He just pulls it back over his shoulders for fights and lets it cloak him when he's at rest. Shoulder-fastened cape featured in the Nolan movies is a big pet peeve for this troper.