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7	[[caption-width-right:350:In the place of the Amazing Spider-Man, the "Bombastic Bag-Man" is here to help the ComicBook/FantasticFour.]]
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9	->''"With a saviour clad in a paper bag\
10	that must be one ugly child"''
11	-->-- '''Music/DanBull''' and '''Music/TheStupendium''' on Mono, "[[VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII Tune Into The Madness]]"
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13	Sometimes related to PaperThinDisguise, a plain paper grocery bag is often found to be a simple, yet effective way of concealing one's identity. In many cases, this usually involves a simple bag with a couple of eyeholes cut out, but variations exist. This usually does not occur when a person is planning a disguise, but rather, when a simple one is quickly needed.
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15	This also seems to be commonly used as a mark of shame, whenever something embarrassing or humiliating has occurred, or for characters supposed to be unspeakably ugly. People will usually be able to recognize characters by voice, but it makes things painfully clear that something humiliating has happened.
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17	Compare NewspaperThinDisguise. The SackheadSlasher also employs a simple bag mask, typically connoting a rural connection and usually found in a horror setting--think intimidation instead of humiliation.
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19	!!Examples:
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22	[[folder:Advertising]]
23	* An advertising campaign in the UK against breaking the speed limit had the tagline "Don't let us take your picture", showing a person with a paper bag over their head, with no eye holes, and a sad face drawn on it.
24	* A 1996 UK TV ad for Pizza Hut featured England soccer players Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle eating pizza with Gareth Southgate, who had just missed a penalty for England against Germany in UEFA Euro 96. Southgate wears a brown paper bag and takes it off as his pizza is served.
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': The Cyber City arc has Sonic's minion Zetsubou-kun (a.k.a. the Unknown Sad Sack), a [[TheEeyore perpetually mopey fellow]] who wears a paper-bag mask over his head.
29	* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', during the Agitate Halation Arc, Touma is treated to the surreal sight of a woman wearing a PlayboyBunny outfit with a paper bag over her head. The narrative refers to her as "Paper Bag Bunny Girl". She tries to kill him on sight with a device that resembles a naginata and sprays water with enough force to slice through metal, but he quickly escapes.
30	* In ''Manga/Change123'', when Kosukegawa and Fujiko stroll through town, they get confronted by a mysterious man with an improvised bag mask.
31	* ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'': Medusa wears a paper bag over her head in public to avoid turning people to stone.
32	* In ''Manga/HayateCrossBlade'', when Hayate and Ayana visit the orphanage to tell them they don't need to worry about the loan sharks anymore, Hayate insists on wearing shopping bags on their heads, and introduces herself as "Famima-kamen" and Ayana as "Lawson-kamen" (named after the store chains the shopping bags were from, Family Mart and Lawson). This disguise gets seen through right away.
33	** A variant as they're ''plastic'' shopping bags and thus highly uncomfortable (they aren't labeled as a suffocation hazard for nothing). Much to Ayana's chagrin, especially when she goes out in one solo.
34	* Recently, many characters from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' were given cat versions of themselves. Turkey always wears a plain white mask over his eyes, but a cat can't wear a mask--that would be ''silly''. The feline Turkey wears one of these instead, complete with a drawn-on smiley mouth, in an odd non-disguise example.
35	* Cocoa puts one on Sharo's face in episode 7 of ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'' when visiting Chiya, because of her fear of rabbits. Interestingly, Anko doesn't chase after Sharo until after she rips off the bag.
36	* Mr. X from ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'' always wears one. Interestingly, whenever someone tries to remove the bag off their head, they'll find another bag underneath.
37	* Used in ''Manga/OnePiece'': one of Blackbeard's subordinates, Jesus Burgess, enters the coliseum contest and simply puts a paperbag with "Happy Store" printed on it, calling himself Mr. Store. Once he defeats all his opponents of the first round, he reveals himself.
38	* Shadow Man, the phantom thief of ''Anime/RanpoKitanGameOfLaplace''. The bag is necessary to keep his identity a secret.
39	* ''Manga/ShesMyKnight'': Mogami wears one (without eye holes) to try to be less charming, but it just makes people focus on her voice, and when she stops talking, on her posture.
40	* In ''Manga/SkullFaceBooksellerHondaSan'', one of the employees at the bookstore wears one of these.
41	* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'', Seina and his classmates were forced to wear paper bag masks to cover up the obscene-looking tattoos that appear on their faces.
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44	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
45	* In Season 7 episode 36 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Lele covers his head with a brown bag when he gets embarrassed over the school magazine publishing a story about him cheating on a math problem.
46	* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'': In the episode "Makkhi Makkhi!", when Jalebi goes over to Samosa's house to show everyone the fly on her head, she wears a brown bag over her head to keep anyone from seeing it and panicking.
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49	[[folder:Comic Books]]
50	* In ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', Cerebus has to spend an issue or two with a bag over his head because he didn't realize that the white paint he used as part of his [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} "Spore"]] disguise was indelible.
51	* Deconstructed in an issue of Chuck Dixon's ''Detective Comics'' - a ButtMonkey small-time criminal wears one of these to his first robbery, but was quickly tripped up by the lack of peripheral vision. In the end, the cops had to save ''him'' from the [[TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar store's manager]] and other customers.
52	* In ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', B.A. sometimes forces his players to wear paper bag masks if he's worried that their facial expressions will give away information the other players shouldn't know. Brian's head is too large to fit in a paper bag so he has to wear a cardboard box.
53	* In ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw'', superpowered SerialKiller the Sleepman wears a paper bag mask with only one eyehole.
54	* [[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]] as a young kid in an orphanarium used one to pass unnoticed to the bully who had previously threatened him. [[TooDumbToLive Unfortunately]], he forgot to remove it during the classes...
55	* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Discussed when Stephanie Brown asks Tim Drake to take her to Lamaze class and since he still doesn't have permission to tell her his secret identity and can't show up as Robin, he uses the sleazy fake ID of Alvin Draper which Steph thinks is hilarious:
56	-->''What was I supposed to do? Wear a bag on my head?''
57	* ''ComicBook/SecretPath2016'': Chanie and the other students at the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School are shown to be wearing paper bags that they drew faces on in several panels. It's revealed in the latter half of the comic that they're Halloween masks.
58	* Vanity Smurf uses one in ''Franchise/TheSmurfs and The Book That Tells Everything''.
59	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
60	** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' #258, After the ComicBook/FantasticFour freed Spider-Man from the Venom symbiote, he needed a temporary costume. A spare uniform was easy, but the FF don't wear masks. Johnny provides a brown paper grocery bag, and ta-da! Introducing the Amazing Bag-Man! Unfortunately, Peter didn't know that [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Johnny Storm]] added a KickMePrank sign on his back and after Spider-Man stopped a crime in that outfit, he was surrounded by reporters asking if this was some kind of initiation for superheroes.
61	** And when he didn't have a real costume handy ''again'' during the ''ComicBook/{{Identity Crisis\|1998}}'' arc, he was forced to go into action as the ''Bombastic'' Bag-Man. When you make up a [[TheAdjectivalSuperhero distinctive adjective]] to describe what is basically your hobo costume, you're pretty much admitting it's going to see some serious usage.
62	--->'''[[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]]''': Bombastic Bag-Man was not my finest moment...
63	** And there was another time when he needed to clean his Spidey costume, but the laundry room at his apartment was being used, and he didn't want the occupants to see his costume (for obvious reasons). So he swings his way to a nearby laundromat with the bag over his head to conceal his identity while he washed it.
64	** The bag returns in ''ComicBook/SpiderManBeyond'', as while Peter is doing physical therapy with ComicBook/{{Black Cat\|MarvelComics}}'' after waking up from a radiation-induced coma, he isn't allowed to use the Spider-Man identity as it is currently owned by the Beyond Corporation, so he trains as the Bag-Man instead.
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67	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
68	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
69	** Explorers come across a tribe whose people and their dogs wear brown paper bags over their heads:
70	--->"This ''must'' be it, Jenkins -- the legendary Ugliest Place on Earth."
71	** A mother is chastising her young son about how if he's really being threatened by a [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight closet-monster]], why can't he describe what the monster looks like.. while the monster lurks in the shadows wearing a paper bag.
72	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
73	** In the June 13, 1999 strip, Jon is wearing a bag over his head. He explains to Garfield that he has a date, but has humongous zit, and that it's so bad, he'd hide it. As his date arrives, he hopes she'll understand, but much to his surprise, she's wearing a paper bag covering her entire body!
74	** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1993/10/28 another strip]], Garfield covers himself with a paper bag because he's having a bad hair day.
75	* In a bizarre crossover strip in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Rat is working as a hotel concierge when a man wearing a paper bag asks him for help in getting a "date" so he can get away from his wife. Rat tells him to take off the bag--and it's [[ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward Ted Forth]].
76	-->'''Rat:''' Sally's gonna be maaaaaaaad.
77	* In a 1970s ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' story arc, Charlie Brown wore a grocery bag on his head to hide a rash that resembled the stitches on a baseball. At camp, Charlie Brown became known as "Mr. Sack" and, as long as he wore the sack, his popularity improved greatly.
78	* The February 15, 1987 strip of ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' had Booker wear a brown bag over his head due to suffering a humiliating beatdown from a worm.
79	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', Pierce wears one when he has to drive Mrs Toomey's minivan home from the lake.
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82	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
83	* The protagonist in ''Film/AlmostAnAngel'' robs a burger joint of many fish burgers (he wants to feed the hungry, and he's following a bible very literally), wearing their own clown-face burger bag as a mask. Later, a reporter informs people to be on lookout for a man looking exactly like that (even donning a bag herself to demonstrate).
84	* ''Film/Baghead2008''. Aside from the title character, all four of the main protagonists wear one at least once.
85	* The titular character of ''Le Bagman'', a [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilariously violent]] amateur film, is called just "Bagman" because of this.
86	* [[IconicOutfit Naturally]], ''Film/TheElephantMan'' does this, but with a sheet instead of a paper bag, to cover John Merrick's deformed face.
87	* ''Film/TheFlash2023''. Barry Allen has created an alternate timeline where his parents are still alive. He only discovers he's also traveled back in time when he looks out the window [[OhCrap and sees his eighteen year-old self]], approaching the house with a bag of laundry. Barry tackles him to the ground, grabs some underwear from the spilled laundry and pulls it over his face to hide his identity. It doesn't work as younger Barry quickly unmasks this looney to find himself staring back at him.
88	* In the soft-core porn ''Film/{{Flash Gordon\|Serial}}'' spoof ''Flesh Gordon 2: Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'', the BigBad insists his overweight wife wear a bag on her head during sex. Flesh Gordon [[BedTrick enters the room instead and has sex with her]], which [[BiggerIsBetterInBed doesn't bother her in the least]], even when she realizes who it is.
89	* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', as a kid, the Grinch once shaved after an insult by August Maywho. The results were disastrous, and he hid his face in one of these. And when the teacher asks him to take off the bag, almost all the kids laugh at him, resulting in his hatred for Christmas.
90	* In ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'', Jenkins, Jackson and Henri pull paper bags over their heads when they rob the grocery store. Henri forgets to out any eye holes in his.
91	* ''Film/StrippersVsWerewolves'': In one scene, Barker is seen wearing a paper bag on his head for some reason. One of the other werewolves draws a smile on it.
92	* In ''Film/TrickRTreat'', one of the kids killed in the 'Schoolbus Massacre' is wearing a creepy paper bag mask. Thirty years at the bottom of the pond does nothing to diminish its creepiness.
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95	[[folder:Literature]]
96	%% * One Beggar from ''Literature/Discworld'' (I think it's Arnold Sideways) is paid by the day to wear a bag over his head, lest his hideous appearance cause folk to think that they're upside-down.
97	* ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible''. In a ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists, [[MadScientist Doctor Impossible]] is spotted having a coffee by a superhero who immediately calls in the rest of his SuperTeam. Forced to fight on the spot without his mask and cape, he tapes a napkin over his face to protect his SecretIdentity.
98	* ''Literature/WaysideSchool'': In ''Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom'', Mr. Kidswatter gets embarrassed when his face gets stuck making a silly face and wears a brown bag to hide it until Dr. Pickell is able to cure him.
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101	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
102	* On the third-season ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'' episode "And the Kickstarter", Caroline uses one to conceal her identity in the video she records for her pitch for new pants on the titular website.
103	* ''Series/AllThat'':
104	** In the [[OffToSeeTheWizard parody]] of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' "Dorothy's" companion Mr. [=McToad=] needs to see the Wizard because his face accidentally scares children and animals. The Wizard solves the problem by putting a bag over his head.
105	** They also had a recurring superhero who got his powers when he fell headfirst into a bucket of radioactive waste. The only problem? The bucket was stuck on his head, and thereafter served as his mask. He once fought a villain who's origin story was similar, but actually used a brown paper bag (why he couldn't just tear it off isn't addressed).
106	* Meta-example: When Creator/MichaelWisher was preparing to play Davros in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''Genesis of the Daleks'', he wore one of these during rehearsals. Not as a ''disguise'', though: he wanted to get himself used to being virtually blind in the Davros mask.
107	* RealLife example: the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Comic Unknown Comic]], who appeared on ''Series/TheGongShow'' and ''[[Series/BullseyeUS Celebrity Bullseye]]''.
108	* On ''Series/MadMen'', Joan's advice to Peggy on her first day in the office is to go home, put a paper bag over her head, and assess her own body in the mirror in order to decide which features to play up when dressing for work.
109	* On an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Al got a job as the school's security guard. When he lost the job due to gross incompetence, Bud wore a paper bag over his head and wrote "I am NOT a Bundy!" on the back.
110	** And in "He Thought He Could", both Bundy children start wearing this after Al is caught on video camera "finding" a book in the library that he'd had checked out for decades, but wanted to avoid paying the fine.
111	* The first time [[{{Calvinball}} Numberwang]] is played on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', the loser has a paper bag put over her head with the word "NO" written on it.
112	* On ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', [[TeacherStudentRomance Aria and Ezra]] were angsting about how they couldn't ever go out or take a picture together. Aria solves part of this by making two brown paper bag masks with doodle faces on them, and they take a picture.
113	* ''Series/RadioEnfer'': When the student association is hosting a poll to determine who is the most popular radio host, Jean-Lou is among the most popular ones while Vincent is the least popular. The latter tries to imitate the former's style in order to increase his popularity. However, this instead makes him even less popular, causing a riot among the students. As a result, Vincent decides to wear a brown bag mask to hide his identity during one scene.
114	* One of the Creator/ChrisEvans hosted episodes of ''Series/TopGear'' had the infamous segment where he threw up during a car test. When the segment ended, Matt [=LeBlanc=] said that Chris had left. We then see Chris in the background wearing one of these (with his glasses still on), saying "I'm not here."
115	* ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}'': Undercover agent Vinne Terranova is HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee, but his superior Frank [=McPike=] insists that he testify behind a screen with his voice electronically altered, as he doesn't want Vinnie to blow his cover. An annoyed Vinnie goes into the bedroom, then reappears wearing a pillow case with eyeholes cut in it. "Is this how you want me to appear? [[LetXBeTheUnknown Agent X]]?"
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118	[[folder:Music Videos]]
119	* They are worn by the people holding up their postcard secrets in the video for Music/TheAllAmericanRejects song "Dirty Little Secret".
120	* In Music/TheLonelyIsland video for "I Just Had Sex", one of the characters has one of these foisted on him by his girlfriend before they can get it on. Still counts as sex!
121	* The titular crazy bastard in the music video for the Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Bastard Wants to Hit Me" dons one of these when being snubbed by the narrator pushes him completely over the edge.
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124	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
125	* In 1986, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant was suspended by the Wrestling/{{WW\|E}}F [[CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown but continued to appear under a mask as a Japanese wrestler called the Giant Machine]]. Wrestling/BobbyHeenan had been addressing the issue for weeks and appeared on Piper's Pit claiming to have recently signed two wrestlers from Korea. Two men came out wearing paper bags over their heads and Heenan announced "Isn't this the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen?" just before they removed their PaperThinDisguise to do TheReveal that they were Wrestling/BigJohnStudd and Wrestling/KingKongBundy, two men Heenan managed.
126	* A similar angle was done by WCW around the same time. "Wildfire" Tommy Rich lost a retirement match and the following week, a masked wrestler named "Mr. R" began appearing. Everyone knew Rich was Mr. R but played along to agitate Rich's heel opponent, Wrestling/TedDiBiase, who happened to be the NWA National Champion. After some time, [=DiBiase=] and "Mr. R" battled in a title match and [=DiBiase=] unmasked Mr. R, only to reveal Wrestling/BradArmstrong. Rich came out from backstage to taunt [=DiBiase=], distracting him and allowing Armstrong to get the pin and become the new National Champion. [=DiBiase=] later tried to claim he "knew" something wasn't right as Armstrong was smaller than Rich.
127	* As [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] decayed, one spectator was witnessed wearing one of these and holding a sign saying "I'M AT A WCW EVENT."
128	* [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]'s {{tag team}} "Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople", essentially two fully-grown {{Alpha Bitch}}es, give some people the "paper bag treatment", in which they stuff a paper bag with construction paper hair and make-up decorations over the victim's head.
129	* Wrestling/CodyRhodes handed these out at ringside to the front-row fans ("at great personal expense"), as well as placing them over the heads of his defeated opponents. It's a part of his {{heel}} gimmick, wherein he's "doing them a favor" by hiding what he perceives as their hideousness from the world. Wrestling/RandyOrton put a bag over Cody's head after defeating him.
130	* Darby Allen wore one of these with Wrestling/JonMoxley's face on it in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling while challenging him for title belt. He meant to wrestle Moxley with it on but Moxley removed it and dropped him to mat with one punch to the mouth that left Allen bleeding.
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133	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
134	* In the ''Series/EureekasCastle'' special, "Don't Touch That Box", Batly touches the aforementioned box, and becomes invisible. He tries to wear a paper bag with his face drawn on it over his head to try and not tip off Eureeka to what he did.
135	* In an episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Kermit is forced to wear a paper bag over his head after a group of thieving prairie dogs steal his collar. It was either that, or [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal walk around naked]].
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138	[[folder:Video Games]]
139	* ''VideoGame/{{Counterside}}'': The Magellan Prediction Society, a {{Cult}} that worships the [[EldritchLocation Counterside]] and its {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, has its members wearing brown paper bags over their heads as presumably a disguise. This actually bites them when police officer Kang Soyoung investigates them in a side story, since she easily deduces their hideout as being the only place in the city that orders so many paper bags and isn't a bakery.
140	* ''VideoGame/EndlessNightmare'' have bag-head zombies in the second and fourth games, undead mooks wearing cloth bags over their deformed faces.
141	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftPizzaDelivery'': One [=NPC=] you encounter in the game, Mr. Fleetwodd, wears a paper bag mask that covers half his head. Why he does it is never stated, though given the fact that one of the first things he asks you is if you're the Spanish Government...
142	* Faust from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is a reformed serial killer who wears one both as a self-imposed mark of shame and to hide his identity.
143	* Mono from ''VideoGame/LittleNightmaresII'' wears one of these as his default hat and in all forms of promotional material.
144	* The ''Elephant Man'' film example above is spoofed in ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'', where the enemies resembling that character have an actual elephant head under the rag.
145	* Crazed ex-employees in ''VideoGame/MyDearBoss'' put brown paper bags on their heads.
146	* Certain {{Mooks}} in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' wear brown paper bags, mostly just so that they look strange.
147	* Interestingly enough, used to scary effect on ''VideoGame/Persona2'' by [[http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/JOKER JOKER]], with the bloodstains, single eyehole, and crudely drawn SlasherSmile emphasizing just how unhinged the guy is. Seriously, just look at this guy. Does he LOOK like someone you'd want to mess with?
148	* In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', one of Choppun's defining traits is that he always wears a brown paper bag on his head, and wears his glasses on the bag.
149	* ''VideoGame/{{Quester}}'': Worn by TWD zombies and their {{Palette Swap}}s. That's also the ''only'' thing they're wearing, though their bodies are so shriveled that there's nothing to see.
150	* The Aristocrats in ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' wear paper bags on their heads while committing more nefarious deeds, presumably to distance themselves from the act, and this trait is passed on some of the [[{{Mooks}} Imps]], as well. This is probably one of the creepiest instances of the trope in the near history.
151	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', this is the symbol for the "humiliated" moodlet.
152	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims4's'' Eco Lifestyle expansion, Jeb Harris wears one of these. You're given the option to apply it to your own Sim, and a Neighborhood Action Plan causes everyone in your neighborhood to wear them.
153	* The Bombastic Bag-Man mentioned in the Comic Books section is an unlockable costume for Amazing Spider-Man in ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'', complete with mask.
154	* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' these are available for all classes as the "Halloween mask."
155	* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' has a couple of cosmetics that are brown paper bags with crude faces drawn on them, which cover the faces of the characters.
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158	[[folder:Web Animation]]
159	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Issue 11 of ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' features a "Maniac in a Speedo" wearing a paper bag over his head, who disembowels The Ugly One, What's Her Face, and Counselor Shortshorts [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]].
160	* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', during Primarchs roll call, Alpharius and Omegon both wear bags with cut-out eyes on their heads. It's fairly in line with the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 canon material]] -- while often without helmets or masks in-story, the twins never have their faces shown or described.
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163	[[folder:Webcomics]]
164	* In ''Webcomic/DenmaTheQuanx'', Duke Gosan wears a paper bag on his head.
165	* Imperative to Imaginates in ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', where it seems to be a rule that all costumes must be no more complex than a paper bag with something written or drawn on it.
166	* Stan, the main character of ''Webcomic/{{June}}'', always wears a bag mask. His eyes, nose and mouth are occasionally seen, so what exactly is he hiding?
167	* In Chapter 3 of ''[[Webcomic/FifteenMinds Legend of Legendary Mighty Knight]]'', the knight recruits an unpopular stage magician who wears a paper bag over their head, and expresses emotions through cartoony facial expressions scribbled on the bag with marker.
168	* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', [[PsychoForHire Ed]] goes around with a paper bag on his head for a while after having his face blown off in an explosion, until he gets it surgically replaced.
169	* Millie in ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' once wore one to hide her [[FelonyMisdemeanor teal]] hair elastic. Ozy [[SkewedPriorities questioned her judgment of which was more shameful]].
170	* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', May wears one of these after she accidentally slices [[TwoFaced half her face]] off.
171	* Wonderella dons one of these in ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' to hide from her past self. Her past self notices the chick in the brown bag mask but instead of trying to figure out who's under it, just draws a penis on it.
172	* ''Webcomic/{{Unordinary}}'': To hide his identity, John wears a brown paper lunch bag when he confronts Zeke and Juni over their recent bullying. He eventually replaces it with a black ski mask when he becomes "Joker".
173	* Iliad, the cartoonist of ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', always represents himself with a paper bag on his head when he makes a cameo appearance.
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176	[[folder:Western Animation]]
177	* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' when a cow had a brown bag tied around her udder, which is revealed to have a weird looking face on it.
178	* When WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} gets his first pimple, Judy sarcastically suggests that he wear a bag over his head to hide it when he asks for a solution.
179	* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' Valentine's Day special, Ed wears an assortment of paper bag masks [[RunningGag throughout the episode]], ostensibly to disguise himself from girls (especially [[StalkerWithACrush the Kanker Sisters]]).
180	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Chester's father, Bucky [[MeaningfulName McBadbat]], wears a bag on his head because of his shame at losing a major league baseball game.
181	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Thief of Baghead" features actor Langdon Cobb, who is considered the finest actor of his time despite never appearing without a paper bag over his head. He claims that it's so his beautiful face would not distract from his acting, [[spoiler:but in reality it's to hide the fact that he's from an alien species whose appearance robs the witness of its lifeforce, which Landgon feeds off.]]
182	* The U.S. Acres segment "The Monster Who Couldn't Scare Anybody" of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had a monster wear one over his face because his parents were ashamed of his "ugliness" (he looked like a human child), to make them proud he decided to try and scare people to no avail, when Roy Rooster learns this he sets him up with Wade, but Wade knocks himself out because Roy told him of his arrival before he has a chance to see him, eventually they are attacked by Orson's brothers and the monster takes off the bag in an attempt to scare them and it actually works, it turns out they were afraid of him because he was a dead ringer for a sausage salesman and they know sausage is made from pigs.
183	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Just The Two Of Pus" had Sperg wear one over his face to hide his acne because people wouldn't stop screaming when they saw him. It was recommended by a doctor, who charges out the ass for it in the episode's end when Sperg managed to remove his acne through another method--he couldn't object because he accidentally removed his own mouth as well.
184	* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Lucius wears a bag over his head after he gets a bad haircut.
185	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': In "Aunt Katie's Farm", Johnny has to take Little Suzy to a taping of a kid's show. Embarrassed about it, he wears a bag mask, but takes it off when Carl immediately recognizes him.
186	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': When WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester\|TheCatAndTweetyBird}} is beaten by Hippety Hopper (a baby BoxingKangaroo) yet again, his son (if he's along) wears a paper bag over his head as he feels he cannot show his face in public due to the shame of having a father who gets beaten up by a "mouse".
187	* Even into old age, ''The Manly Bee'''s sidekick wears one of these as part of his superhero gear.
188	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': In "Hostile Makeover", Jenny hides under a paper bag when she gets robo-pimples on PictureDay.
189	-->'''Jenny:''' Great, now I'll have to wear this bag on my head forever! And it smells like fish tacos!
190	* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'': The short "Fuzzy Bunny Presents: A Kid's Life" briefly shows Suzy Cornhusk wearing a paper bag over her head when she's tormented by the blackheads on her nose, who are anthropomorphized as heckling humanoid blobs.
191	* In the infamous episode of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', "In Support Of", Pepper Ann wears one in the library at the episode's climax after she's sent to the principal's office [[ItMakesSenseInContext for flashing her bra in front of the whole school]]. Nicky and Milo take it off of her ''twice'' when they try to console her that there were other embarrassing moments their classmates have been through.
192	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Candace dons a paper bag to hide the skin condition caused by her parsnip allergy (which also gave her the voice of a male blues singer!).
193	* The ''Crazylegs Crane'' segments from ''The All New [[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther Pink Panther]] Show'' had this as a RunningGag. Crazylegs Crane Jr. would put a paper bag over his head every time his father did something embarrassing, which [[BumblingDad happened pretty regularly]].
194	* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
195	** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' Mojo Jojo wear a paper bag as a hat when he's "Hobo Jojo" to cover up his mutated brain.
196	** An episode of [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 the 1998 series]] has Bubbles wear a paper bag after [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Professor Utonium]] reveals her [[PottyFailure (former) bed-wetting problem.]]
197	* In the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch "[[WesternAnimation/{{MASK}} Put A M.A.S.K. On It]]", Matt is a ChubbyChaser looking for the right woman. "Darlene" notes that everyone else has a mask and asks if she gets one as well. Matt assures her she does and then puts a bag over her head.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': In "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS2E10HairLickedGutterBalls Hair Licked]]", Rocko has to wear one after Heffer gives him a terrible haircut and takes him to the Chameleon Brothers' hair stylist shop. It's also spoofed when Heffer initially looks at the results of his haircut attempt, and when offering to make a mask for Rocko he asks like a grocer, "Paper or plastic?" Rocko should be grateful [[TooDumbToLive Heffer didn't just go with the plastic bag]].
199	* The ''Literature/RottenRalph'' episode "Ralph's Super Duper Bloopers" has Ralph put on a paper bag mask after he is humiliated by security camera footage of his misfortunes becoming the winning entry in the video contest for the ''Blunders and Bloopers'' television show.
200	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Sheriff Stone dons one to conceal his identity after he loses his job in "Dead Justice".
201	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
202	** Notoriously [[ReclusiveArtist reclusive novelist]] Creator/ThomasPynchon was depicted this way in two episodes.
203	** Homer once started a website where he revealed all kinds of dirt secrets about Springfield. He made his avatar a picture of him with a paper bag over his head. After his site became popular and won an award, Homer tried to claim credit for it. Nobody believed him until he put on the paper bag in front of everyone.
204	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
205	** [[InformedDeformity Ugly Bob]] is forced to wear one, because, he's so [[LampshadeHanging damn ugly!]]
206	** "How to Eat with Your Butt" has Butters' being forced by his father to wear one because of the "stupid" face he made in his school picture, even though his face is normal (implying that Butters' father thinks his son's face is stupid by default).
207	** "Turd Burglars" has Ike Broflovski makeshift one out of a bag of potato chips to cover his face with when Sheila talks about her recent fecal transplant to the other women while grocery shopping.
208	* The ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1981'' episode "The Sandman is Coming" has Spider-Man forced to flee his fight with the Sandman because he loses his mask during the fight. To avoid his secret identity from being exposed, he web-swings home with a paper bag mask.
209	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
210	** In "Something Smells", Patrick wears one when he thinks he caught "the ugly" from [=SpongeBob=].
211	** In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', King Neptune wears a brown bag on his head to conceal his [[PleaseKeepYourHatOn shiny baldness]].
212	* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenWolf'' episode "The Beast Within" has Mr. Howard turning into a werewolf while in the middle of working at his tool shop, so he puts on a paper bag to conceal his wolf face from his customers.
213	* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'', Ennui and Crimson wear these after their {{goth}} makeup and wigs are accidentally washed off, as they're both ashamed of what they look like underneath.
214	* In the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah's Umbrella", Larry wears one (with a little frown face drawn on it) on the countertop, due to being ashamed after some kids in another booth at Burger Bell laughed at him for praying over his food. After the episode ends, he still has the bag on, but now it's smiling. Bob gets quite a shock when Larry has no idea that there even ''was'' an emotion on the bag, and an even bigger one when it changes emotions by itself!
215	** An earlier instance of this happens in the spin-off series ''WesternAnimation/LarryBoyTheCartoonAdventures'' episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Eggly", where Larry-Boy and Dark Crow wear these (and pajamas) after their original costumes were reduced to over easy eggs.
216	* Dr. Flug from ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous\|CartoonNetwork}}'' wears a pair of dark-tinted goggles over a paper-bag mask.
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220	* At Mephit Furmeet 5, an attendee concealed his identity in the cheapest fursuit ever--a mouse mask made from a bag and a rope through the belt for a tail. At the end of the conference, the attendee's identity was revealed: [[spoiler:none other than Dr. Samuel Conway, AKA Uncle Kage, chairman of Anthrocon]].
221	* Fans of sports teams who are on a particularly painful losing streak will wear brown bags over their heads at games to express dissatisfaction at the way a team is being run to denote shame rather than the desire to conceal one's identity for nefarious purposes. For example, for a period in the 1980's and 1990s, the New Orleans Saints, a UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague team, had notoriously lousy teams. Their fans took to calling them the "Aints" and wearing paper bags over their heads. The Detroit Lions have gotten a lot of this since 2002 as well - [[EpicFail their 0-16 season in 2008]] in particular [[https://img.bleacherreport.net/img/slides/photos/003/881/693/84f8d21dac9e3a0b3b8a2f1060712a0a_crop_exact.jpg?w=2975&h=2048&q=85 is a lowlight]].
222	* Creator/ShiaLaBeouf [[http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/10/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/shia-labeouf-berlin/ wore such a mask]], with "[[CreatorBreakdown I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE]]" written on it, during the Berlin premiere of Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}.
223	* Linus Torvalds named the 2.2 Linux kernel the "brown paper bag" release in 1999, wearing a metaphorical one online, due to the number of bugs. It also helped establish the convention of even point numbers being used for beta releases of the kernel.
224	* A British Army [[BritishEnglish/EnglishSlangAToF slang phrase]] is "[[ButterFace double-bagger]]".[[note]]A "single bagger" is a girl who should wear a bag over her head during sex, lest you lose the urge. A "double-bagger" is a woman with [[ButterFace a good body whose face is so stupendously ugly]] that the man has to wear a bag over his head as well - in case hers falls off. A "triple-bagger" is one so ugly that even the dog gets one [[EvenTheDogIsAshamed so he'll respect his owner come morning]][[/note]]
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