History Main / AllEncompassingMantle

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

* Before his appearance at Magister's Terrace, [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Kael'thas Sunstrider]] had an [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090826213726/wowwiki/images/8/8f/Kael%27thas_statue.jpg epic mantled cloak]].

* Grand Convoy of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars Neo'' IS one of these. Seriously. His body is NEVER shown, just the mantle.

* Fumikage 'Tsukuyomi' Tokoyami, the bird-headed student in ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' wears one that allows his LivingShadow superpower a dark place to stay, as it becomes weaker and more timid in bright light.

* Like in the comics, WesternAnimation/{{Batman|TheAnimatedSeries}} usually has his cape fully cloaking his body, looking really creepy when he pops out of the shadows in his own way. The artists even had pencil drawings to specifically show how the cape should look and how Batman should move like this. (The drawings also noted that the cape magically becomes shorter in fight scenes to stop it getting in the way.)

* Like in the comics, WesternAnimation/{{Batman|TheAnimatedSeries}} usually has his cape fully cloaking his body, looking really creepy when he pops out of the shadows in his own way. The artists even had pencil drawings to specifically show how the cape should look and how Batman should move like this.

* Seen [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v16/c147/4.html here]] in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' lampshades the comic book behavior of Batman's cape by introducing memory fabric that can extend, retract, stiffen or relax in response to electrical stimuli. Supposedly intended for making high-end wingsuits, but ended up being too expensive to be marketable.

* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'': Drac does this frequently with his cape when he wants to look menacing.

** They had to give Bats a shoulder-fastened cape in the movies 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.

** Ghaleon gets another AllEncompassingMantle added to his wardrobe in ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar''...giving him twice as many costumes as any other character in the game.

* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' Cole wears one of these for his reluctant ascension to The Source. When the demon priest asks him how it feels he simply comments "Heavy".

* General Baal in ''VideoGame/{{Grandia}}'' wears one, which [[spoiler:hides his CombatTentacles]].

* ''WeaternAnimation/BeastMachines'' has Megatron use his wings as this while he's attached to his control harness.

* Ko-Enshaku, from ''Anime/GiantRobo'', pulls this look off. Many scenes has him appear to be nothing ''but'' a cape and mask. One of the [=gag-OVAs=] explores this, showing him winning a drinking contest because the drinks go straight through him.

* Master Cyclonis from ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' wears one, but it has slits down the sides instead, allowing her to use her arms.

* Movie/TheDarkKnight lampshades the comic book behavior of Batman's cape by introducing memory fabric that can extend, retract, stiffen or relax in response to electrical stimuli. Supposedly intended for making high-end wingsuits, but ended up being too expensive to be marketable.

** After taking up the ComicBook/RedRobin name Tim adopts a cowl and larger cape, in order to make it a glider cape, which can look much like his mentor's ensemble minus the bat-ears. He'd experimented with an armored cowl in his last days as [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] but the cape was shorter.

** Movie/TheDarkKnight lampshades the comic book behavior of the cape by introducing memory fabric that can extend, retract, stiffen or relax in response to electrical stimuli. Supposedly intended for making high-end wingsuits, but ended up being too expensive to be marketable.

* [[OnlySaneMan Rachel]], [[FemmeFatale Androssi]] and [[TheVoiceless Akryung]] are introduced like this in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.

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* [=ScuttleTruck=] wears one of these in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p29/ terrifying effect]].
* Worn by [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=537111 The Speaker]] in ''Webcomic/{{Harkovast}}''.
* [[BigBad Metheos]] wears one in ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'' [[spoiler:before [[GrandTheftMe swapping into another body]].]]
* [[OnlySaneMan Rachel]], [[FemmeFatale Androssi]] and [[TheVoiceless Akryung]] are introduced like this in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.

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* In the ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'' Soyburger Patricia wears a cloak like this.
* In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', the supervillain Tachyon wears one of these, and looks damned impressive doing it.

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* Amon in the ''Franchise/{{Lufia}}'' series wears a absurdly massive mantle, usually gold. In ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals'' his character portrait takes up damn near the ''entire screen'' because of it!

* Used to [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=29&issue=13 terrifying effect]] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''.

* In the Sci-Fi channel's version of ''Series/{{Dune}}'', the Spacing Guild representatives wear purple velvet-ish capes. However, these just keep going up and up into giant purple-velvetish cones.

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