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* [[TropeNamer The Blank]], a.k.a. Frankie "Faceless" Redrum, considered to be the first true {{supervillain}} that ComicStrip/DickTracy fought, was a disfigured criminal who hid his hog-like face behind a featureless, flesh-colored cloth mask attached to his face. In the ''Dick Tracy'' [[TheMovie live-action film]], when the character was downgraded/retrofitted as a generic vigilante alter ego of FemmeFatale [[GenderFlip Breathless Mahoney]] (conceived mainly to eliminate Big Boy Caprice's gang so that she could have Dick Tracy), the mask was changed to a generic stocking mask and Mahoney simply talking in a husky voice.\\\
Interestingly, [[EnsembleDarkhorse even though Redrum hardly appeared in the strip at all, The Blank became one of Tracy's most intriguing and iconic foes]] -- so much so that, when plans were first made in the 1980s to do a movie version, The Blank was the very first villain the screenwriters thought to include.
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* The ''{{Goosebumps}}'' short story ''Broken Dolls'' features a creepy old woman who crafts dolls, but doesn't include facial features on her creations. It is later revealed that she uses a type of magical gel (referred to as "dolly jelly" by the protagonist's younger brother) which not only robs the unfortunate victims of their faces, which then end up on the specific doll, but their souls apparently become trapped in the dolls, too.
** In the ''GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book ''Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum'', one of the possible endings was that your face gets stolen, and the front of your head only has smooth, blank wax where it used to be.
* ''JohnnyGotHisGun'' could be said to be a pioneer of this trope going into full-blown horror territory, with the novel's main character (who lost his arms, legs, and face in an explosion during World War I) spending the entire novel with a featureless box-shaped mask covering up the face portion of his caved-in skull. It also gets points for coming up with a way for someone without a face to communicate in a realistic fashion (he uses Morse Code).

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