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18->''"They should be good men, their affairs as righteous. But all hoods make not monks."''
19-->-- '''Queen Katherine''', ''Theatre/HenryVIII''
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21Somebody needs to disguise their identity and/or avoid attracting attention. Their solution? Wear a BlackCloak with a really big hood. Because nothing diverts attention away from oneself better than a big, creepy, black cloak that makes you look like {{the Grim Reaper}}. In modern times, however, a hoodie is a good substitute.
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23Of course, the physics of this attire choice are subjected to RuleOfCool. The hood will obscure their face (or at least from the mouth or nose up) in shadow, regardless of whether it is long enough to actually do so; and if it is, the eyes will be often completely covered by the cloth, making one wonder how they manage to actually see anything. In addition, the hood will never fall off accidentally, even if the wearer is fighting a Wind Mage in the middle of a typhoon.
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25Yes, wearing a hood during a fight isn't a good idea because it constricts your peripheral vision, but who cares [[RuleOfCool as long as it looks cool]]? Besides, being mysterious is badass. Even more besides, [[NoPeripheralVision no one has peripheral vision anyway]].
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27Sometimes the character in question will have GlowingEyes to contrast with their obscured face, resulting in ShadowedFaceGlowingEyes.
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29Video game designers of older days liked the trope because throwing an all-concealing hood (or suitable replacement) over an unimportant or "mysterious" character meant that they could skip on actually animating the character's speech.
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31This can be a JustifiedTrope if in a WretchedHive or BadGuyBar, where this is a perfectly acceptable fashion accessory. Though it shouldn't be confused with a HoodFilm, you can expect to find it there, too. It also works if you are [[BadHabits pretending to be a monk]].
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33Compare EyeObscuringHat. Contrast with the {{Cool Mask}}s worn by {{superhero}}es, which disguise them by making them look ''more'' conspicuous. When not, see MalevolentMaskedMen.
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39* The British public information ad "Lonely Water" has The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of drowning. The Spirit wanders near bodies of water, looking like a sinister monk, waiting for foolish children to fall in.
40* AMC Theaters' Advertising/WeMakeMoviesBetter ad opens with Creator/NicoleKidman approaching a movie theater wearing a hooded jacket, lowering the hood as she prepares to step inside.
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44* ''Anime/BattleSpiritsShonenToppaBashin'':
45** Suiren does this in the fourth episode to disguise herself when she wants to get away from her idol duties.
46** Later, this is also done by Meganeko and Card Sensei to sneak into a tournament.
47* When on an assassination mission, Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' wears a dark cloak with a hood. He's also seen wearing his all-black hooded cape post-Eclipse after he becomes the Black Swordsman.
48%%* ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'':
49%%** Strength and Dead Master, who wear hoods all the time.
50%%** The titular character also wears one, but the hood is rarely up.
51* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' gives us the bizarre Pernida Parnkgjas, a Quincy whose hood renders all but the character's glowing eyes invisible.
52* ''Anime/BloodPlus'': The schiff wear hoods for protection [[JustifiedTrope since sunlight kills them]].
53* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'':
54** Clare wears a hooded cloak while infiltrating the Holy City of Rabona. She however has the sense to wear a dark cloak as a form of camouflage at night. Seven or so years later Clarice and Miata do the same but in broad daylight. It does not work out very well for them.
55** The Seven Ghosts frequently wear these as well. Of course, it is obvious that they are being mysterious, but they seem more concerned with avoiding positive identification.
56%%* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', Light uses this once, with a hoodie (rather less conspicuous than most hoods).
57* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar FINAL'', with the exception of six members, all of the Planetary Masters of Sol wear hooded cloaks. Even after transforming into their mech forms, their actual faces are [[TheUnreveal never shown]].
58* Turkey from ''Anime/HetaliaAxisPowers'' wears a hood and a [[DominoMask mask]] as his default attire, when he isn't the Ottoman Turks (where he wears a mask and a huge hat instead).
59* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
60** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': When the heroes reach Egypt, a Speedwagon agent who arrived earlier spots [[BigBad Dio]]'s [[PraetorianGuard praetorian minions]] leaving a building in hoods after receiving orders.
61** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Diavolo's first appearance has him with this, covered in a shadowed blanket in a dark room while musing about Bucciarati's team bringing his daughter [[spoiler:so he could personally kill her]].
62** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': Daiya's first outfit has a hood with bear ears.
63* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': Hermit's fighting uniform in his early appearances includes a dark hood which, combined with his advocacy of ThePowerOfHate, makes him look kind of like a [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Lord]].
64%%** A number of members of Yomi are also shown like this.
65* ''Anime/KillLaKill'':
66** Guts is a non-speaking [[PartiallyCivilizedAnimal partially civilized doggy]] who is never seen without his little hoodie.
67** When Ryuko gets into her first real fight, she starts out wearing a body-concealing hood and cloak. It eventually gets torn up, revealing her now-iconic {{Stripperiffic}} outfit.
68%%* Zest and Lutecia of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' wear these occasionally, removing them when they go into battle.
69%%* ''Manga/MarchStory'' has the title character with a hood that droops down past his neck.
70* Sara from ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' initially uses a white hood to hide her face. After she removes it for the first time, she never bothers with it again.
71* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': William and Louis wear hooded black cloaks when performing Lord of Crime business to conceal their fairly recognizable features and only doff them when they're in front of their murder victims. William's hood blowing out of his face allows [[MysteriousWatcher Charles Augustus Milverton]] to recognize him.
72* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': When villain Geten wears the fur-lined hood of his parka, his GlowingEyesOfDoom shine from his otherwise completely-concealed face.
73* The members of the Black Valley in ''Manga/MyOtome'' wear these; once it's revealed that they're not evil, it gets {{lampshaded}} when there's a little girl in the group, wearing a cloak and a hood and a pink bow ''over'' the hood.
74* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
75** In Part 1, Kiba Inuzuka wears a jacket with a hoodie that has fur on the hoodie. He has the hood on most of the time, and the fur on it makes it easy for the audience to mistake it for his hair. He later drops the hoodie look completely, starting with the ''Shippuuden''.
76** In ''Shippuuden'', Kiba's teammate Shino Aburame dons a new jacket with a hood, which he wears all the time, making him look even more like a freak than he already was in Part 1. Even when he later switches to a standard shinobi uniform in the Fourth Great Shinobi War arc, he still wears a hood on his head.
77** Averted with Kiba's and Shino's other teammate Hinata Hyuuga, who wears a hoodie in both parts, but she never has her head covered under the hood.
78* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
79** Ku:Nel Sanders manages to go through an entire tournament without ever having his hood fall off (he's the semi-solid projection of a mage, so maybe {{a wizard did it}}). It doesn't generally mask his face from the reader, but the characters themselves can't see his face unless he shows them.
80** After Negi is WronglyAccused in the MagicWorld, he doesn't go out without a hood when he's not disguised.
81* Subverted with Korumi in ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody''. Not only does her black hood disguise nothing, but the second season reveals that it's apparently genetic.
82* Fakir wears a hood to cover his distinctive green hair while he ''wears a mask'' in the tenth episode of ''Anime/PrincessTutu''. This is probably in part because Fakir has a tendency to be a little theatrical when it comes to his role as the Knight.
83* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': Hannibal is an android builder from La-Metal who wears a cloak that covers his face and assists the Queen Millennia cycle. Despite declaring neutrality, he helps the Millennium Thieves a lot. On Earth he's said to be Timerhead Franklin, the mayor of New York.
84* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'': Yukimaru uses a hood that actually covers his entire face (except for his eyes) to hide his identity from the protagonists.
85* In the world of ''Manga/SomaliAndTheForestSpirit'', humans are seen as livestock by the ruling class of monsterfolk, meaning the titular Somali must specifically wear a hooded cloak around other people to hide not her identity but her species. The false horns allow her to pass as a minotaur child.
86* ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' starting with episode 5, "Dial Up Danger", has Kevin Mask, Diabolic, and Pumpinator dressed with hoods that completely obscure their faces in black shadows as well as hide their bodies' true form.
87%%* [[ProfessionalKiller Fang]] from ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'' is a hoodie example.
88* In the beginning of ''Anime/WonderfulPrettyCure'', the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Garugaru]] seem to appear completely independently from any actual villains, as opposed to getting summoned or created by a minion of the season's BigBad. That is, until episode 7, where a shadowy figure is briefly shown commanding a lion Garugaru. All that can be seen of him is a pair of [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]] and a [[SavageWolves wolf's snout]]; the rest is concealed underneath a hooded cloak. To add to this character's mysterious nature, he's only listed as "[[MyNameIsQuestionMarks ???]]" in the episode's credits.
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92* ''ComicBook/TheBeauty'': In flashbacks, Ezerae is shown to have used to wear a red hoodie. It probably helps to differentiate her then and her now.
93** The two [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] that Detectives Vaughn and Foster investigated in their first case together also wore hoodies to help in concealing their identities.
94* ''ComicBook/Calico2020'': The mysterious villain who shows up in Issue #4 has a hood as a part of his get-up.
95* ComicBook/DoctorDoom wears a dark-green hooded cloak of course, seeing as he is rather GenreSavvy about the sources of [[MemeticBadass badassery]].
96* The main villain of ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoPrisonersOfTime'' wears a hood to hide his identity, as he can't let the Doctor recognise him before their first chronological meeting. He has another reason for the hood as well: [[spoiler:He's former companion Adam Mitchell, who was left with a hole in his head when the Ninth Doctor expelled him from the TARDIS for bad behaviour.]]
97* ''ComicBook/FairyQuest'': Red has a red hood, which is obvious given that she's Literature/LittleRedRidingHood.
98%%* ''ComicBook/GhostIsland'': In issue number one, Josh performs a [[SpookySeance seance]] wearing a hooded cloak.
99* The Oliver Queen ComicBook/GreenArrow during the Mike Grell series ''The Longbow Hunters'' and the following ''Green Arrow'' monthly series (1980s and 1990s run) wore a hood. Dinah "ComicBook/BlackCanary" Lance designed it for him so he wouldn't catch a chill in Seattle's rainy clime. Since he had abandoned his trick and gadget arrows for broadheads instead, it was a better fit for a darker and grittier GA than the old "Robin Hood" hat from [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the Golden Age]]. Initially he still wears his domino mask underneath the hood, but after enough people explain that they already know who he is, he gives up the mask and wears only the hood. Depending on the artist, it still hid the face--it was the beard that defeated the whole purpose of it all.
100* ''ComicBook/TheHood'', who downright gets powers from the magic hood he found roaming around.
101* ''ComicBook/{{Horizon}}'': Zhia is wearing a blue hoodie at the end of Issue #6 after the mission's over.
102* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': Newt's characters invariably dress this way as part of his attempt to imbue them with a ShroudedInMyth mystique. No one else is ever impressed.
103* Skroa used this in Book 7 and 8 of ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' to conceal his identity. Partially justified, as his real appearance is a giant, green, anthropomorphic bird-like demon, meaning ''any'' disguise would be better than just going around as himself. Ironically, this is actually of little use, as the only person he shows himself to in the arc dies a panel later, and the protagonists instantly recognize him when confronting him at the end.
104* Time Trapper, the mysterious purple-wearing X-factor villain in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', wears one. But since his identity changes ''all the time'' it doesn't matter when s/he takes it off.
105* ''ComicBook/LunarGirlAndScarletSparrow'': The man who resurrects Angelo Ombra wears a tattered hooded cape. WHat purpose it serves isn't evident, outside of making him look spooky.
106%%* Knuckle Duster from ''ComicBook/ElMarvo'' wears [[BadassLongcoat a black long coat]] with a hoodie.
107* ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'', whose BadassCape has a white hood with a point end to enhance his TerrorHero look.
108* ''ComicBook/PlanetTerry'' has The Hood, a hooded figure who captures Planet Terry's supposed mother and holds her hostage until Terry rescues her. The Hood, as it turns out, is a child about Terry's age who ends up being revealed as Vermin the Vile's real son.
109* The Red Hood originally only had a red bucket-like mask atop a red cape (The Joker) or a red mask (Jason Todd), but then Jason decided to actually have [[https://comics-n-stuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/redhood-1-e1600825253150.png a red hood along with the mask]] in ''ComicBook/RedHoodArsenal'', likely influenced by his depiction in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''.
110* The secretive ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' villain known as a "Daughter of Acheron" always wears a heavy embroidered hooded cloak with a deep hood up until she has Tim captured and, she thinks, helpless, then divulges to him that she is the half-sister of ComicBook/RasAlGhul and intends to [[ConceiveAndKill make an heir for herself with Tim and kill him]].
111* Damian Wayne, the fifth ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'', includes a hood as part of his cape. ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} points out that a hood could block his peripheral vision and give enemies something to grab. Damian brushes off his concerns, stating that he can even fight blind if needed.
112* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': "Dodge" wore a blue hoodie as his hero costume; after a TeleporterAccident leaves him mutated, he turns villain, blames Robin for it, and keeps the hood up constantly.
113%%* ''ComicBook/RobynHood'': In keeping with her theme of being an urban Myth/RobinHood, Robyn Locksley wears a green hood as part of her costume.
114* In ''ComicBook/TheScorpion'', HotGypsyWoman Mejai frequently wears a long, hooded cloak (although blue rather than black) that wraps right around her whenever she is attempting to move about incognito.
115%%* The eponymous ''ComicBook/SouthPoleSantaClaus'' wears a black hood.
116%%* Every [[LegacyCharacter Host]] for ComicBook/TheSpectre played this straight.
117* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Roderick Kingsley, the original Hobgoblin, has a hood. More often than not, it casts a shadow that hides most of his mask while leaving only his glittering red eyes visible. Very creepy. When he temporarily gives up the role, his successor keeps the hood but never produces the shadow, just one of many many ways he's a failure. Eventually Kingsley comes out of retirement, kills him, takes the role of the Hobgoblin back, and sure enough, lots of creepy shadows.
118** ComicBook/SpiderGwen sometimes has a hood in her costume, even she already wears a mask.
119* In her Spoiler incarnation, [[{{ComicBook/Batman}} Bat-clan]] member Stephanie Brown combines a hood with a featureless black full-face mask further concealing her.
120* ''ComicBook/{{Stray|2015}}'': In one story, [[TheProtagonist Rodney]] is trying to get a bunch of people off a subway car. One of them is wearing a thick hooded coat [[spoiler:to hide that he's really Mister Macabre]].
121* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', Kara needs to carry out several stealth operations, so she dons a full-body black-and red suit complete with a black cowl which effectively obscures her features from the nose up.
122* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Raven}} loves the hood; it somehow conceals her face just as well as a mask but without that pesky glue. It even stays on when she ''flies''. [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 The cartoon]] provides a possible explanation for this by giving her telekinesis, a power she lacks in the comics.
123* ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}, to the point the live-action debut in ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' changed the pirate-like costume to something akin to military armor, but still kept the hood as combining that with a [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset skull mask]] just works so well.
124* ''ComicBook/ThinBlueLine'': A number of anti-cop protestors wear masks and hoodies. This is likely done to conceal their identities while they commit crimes around the city.
125* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': The members of the secret conspiracy that Tintin unmasks in ''[[Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh Cigars of the Pharaoh]]'' dress in large hoods for their meetings so that nobody (except, one assumes, the leader) will know the identity of everybody else.
126%%* ''ComicBook/TrakkMonsterHunter'': Trakk wears a green hoodie during his time as a homeless drunk.
127* Subverted in ''The Traveler''. While the Traveler always wears a hood, it's constantly falling off and he's shown putting it back on numerous times per issue. He wears a mask that covers everything but his eyes and mouth though, so his face still isn't seen even when the hood is down.
128* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': As the Shroud, Kitty Pryde wears a hooded cloak to conceal her identity.
129* As his name suggests, Hooded Justice, the first costumed adventurer in the {{backstory}} of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', wore a black hood that covered his entire face, meant to resemble an executioner or hanged criminal. The resemblance to a Klan hood was not accidental.
130* Sand Masters of ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'' have hoods as part of their robes, as they live in a land of EndlessDaytime.
131* In the comic book version of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', the girls wear brown, hooded cloaks to be able to walk around undetected in Meridian. In their human forms. Note that we're talking about the comic version of Meridian here, where everyone is green-skinned, has tentacle hair, or is otherwise downright monstrous looking. For some reason, it works.
132* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
133** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Earth-based slaver who brainwashes and sells humans to the Empire of Saturn always wears a deep hooded cloak for their dealings with Empire officials. This ensures that Count Dendum cannot identify them after they try to continue selling humans after the Empire makes it illegal, starts trying to return their human slaves to their places of origin, and forms a treaty with the US. They turn out to be the super-villain Hypnota.
134** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Circe will wear a heavy, deep-hooded, green cloak on the very rare occasion she wants to be inconspicuous.
135* Subverted by ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from the ''ComicBook/XMen''. When she first joins the team, her costume has a large hood, but you can count on one hand how many times she's actually seen wearing it. Later costume designs include a similarly-styled hood, which she wears on occasion, but not enough for it to be a signature look like her skunk stripe.
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139* Dr. Zook, the medicine man in ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'' is always seen wearing the hood of his robe that conceals his face except for his long nose which sticks out.
140* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'':
141** A hooded Klan-esque villain appears in ''De Linkadoors''.
142** Another hooded man, this time a good man, yet equally mysterious, appears in ''De Grote Geheimzinnigaard''.
143** In ''De Clo Clo Clan'' and ''De Wraak Van De Grote Clo'', another Klan-esque antagonistic secret society dressed in hoods lives on the North Pole and call themselves ''The Clan''.
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147* Stella Zhau in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FlowingStar'' occasionally puts the hood of her short-sleeved hoodie over her head to hide her face and feel more safe.
148* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FragileHandleWithCare'', Jesse wears a hood to a pharmacy to keep from being recognized, which attracts suspicion from an employee.
149* In ''Fanfic/IveGotYourBack'', Marina wears a hoodie because hoods hide her tentacles. She's also a homeless ShrinkingViolet, so they're also sturdy and fit her shy personality.
150%%* During the Uchiha Zaibatsu Invitational Tournament in ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', Shino wears a red hooded jacket.
151* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku's costume includes a hood styled to resemble All Might's hair thanks to his fanboying for the Number One Hero. It gets used against him during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise when Bakugou stuffs it full of bombs and throws it over Izuku's eyes before detonating them all at once. Luckily, he's [[NighInvulnerability Kryptonian]] and [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper his suit is made of Seventh Metal fibers]], so all he gets from it is AshFace.
152* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6254783/1/Rise-of-the-Wizards Rise of the Wizards]]'', Harry's account manager sends him a note which mentions that Gringotts's nighttime customers tend to be of the more... disreputable sort and suggests that Harry "would not look out of place with a hooded black cloak."
153* ''Fanfic/SinsOfThePast'': Kamala prefers keeping her head covered when she can, as she detests attention. Unfortunately, this is thwarted at school, as her teacher M. Agreste quickly informs her that wearing one during class is against school policy. Once she becomes Ladybug, she's able to incorporate a hooded poncho into its design.
154* ''Fanfic/ViridianTheGreenGuide'': Izuku Midoriya uses [[CheapCostume a dark-green hoodie]] and [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual green-tinted goggles that are Quirk-enhanced to not color the wearer's vision]] in order to hide his identity from villains and Pro-Heroes during his [[VigilanteMan vigilante]] work.
155* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/431046/chapters/728720 Welcome to the Family]]'', Light Yagami determines that not even the genii of Wammy's House can withstand the mighty stealth powers of the "magic hoodie" that somehow renders him unrecognizable whenever he goes out to do nefarious things.
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159* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': Merida hides her head on a few occasions with the hood of her cape.
160* Christine from ''WesternAnimation/BusterAndChaunceysSilentNight'' wears a hooded cloak when she comes to Oberndorf. Likely to keep warm, the movie taking place around Christmastime and all.
161* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel wears his hood up as part of his skeleton disguise.
162* Tip from ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'' wears a hoodie while on the run from the alien Boov.
163* Frollo's guards in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' wear a combination of silver helmets and black hoods to give them that all-important terrifying FacelessMooks look.
164* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', the titular Phantasm's costume is meant to resemble TheGrimReaper, so it naturally includes a hooded cloak.
165* Alia from ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'' is never seen without her large red hoodie. It gets exaggerated in the ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'' series, where she even puts hats on over the hood and wears a hooded wetsuit for swimming.
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170* ''Film/TwentyFirstCenturySerialKiller'': In his improv classes, Aaron is seen wearing a grey hoodie and sunglasses, possibly for the purpose of concealing his identity.
171* In ''Film/FortyFive'', the figure who steals Big Al's jacket and .45 and murders Clancy disguises their identity with a hooded sweatshirt.
172* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': In the "S" segment, Roxanne's mysterious pursuer the Hooded Man gets his name from the BadassLongcoat he wears, complete with a hood that obscures his face.
173* ''Film/AletaVampireMistress'': Aleta's outfits include a BlackCloak that includes a face-obscuring hoodie to hide her identity.
174* ''Film/AssassinsCreed2016'': Aguilar's outfit includes a hood to hide his identity per the franchise's Assassins' tradition. What's more, the Brotherhood's symbol is embroidered on it.
175* ''Film/BloodRansom'': Crystal is attacked in her home by two guys (one of whom is Daniel) in black hoodies and masks to conceal their identities.
176* ''Film/TheBloodyMan'': In [[TheProtagonist Sam]]'s DreamSequence about when his mom was alive, Michael goes to play an arcade game, and Amy goes to watch him. When Michael comments on being low on quarters, Amy's attention is captured by a man in a brown hoodie, who offers her a bloody Nickle. [[spoiler:Later in the movie, The Bloody Man offers Amy a bloody Nickle, implying he was that same person.]]
177* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': Some of the MalevolentMaskedMen wear long hooded robes, probably signifying a high rank among them.
178* The Mountain Man in ''Film/ColdPrey3'' hides his face under a hood.
179* ''Film/ComingHomeInTheDark'': Tubs, one of the two killers who kidnap Hoaggie and his wife, wears a hoodie when he makes his first appearance in the movie.
180* ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'': The protagonist sees a line of BlackCloak-hooded figures coming across the bridge towards him, and is so freaked out that he steals a boat to avoid them.
181%%* ''Film/Desolation2017'': The killer of the movie wears a black hooded coat. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
182* ''Film/ErinsGuideToKissingGirls'': Erin wears a blue hoodie to school one day. When she decides to deliver her LoveLetter to Sydni, she pulls the hood over her head and crawls along the empty classroom floor. Liz comments on her actions.
183-->'''Liz:''' Do you have to be so dramatic?
184-->'''Narrator:''': She did.
185* ''Film/TheGingerweedMan'': The main villain of the movie wears a BlackCloak with a hood that covers up his face, concealing his identity. [[spoiler:He doesn't take it off until TheStinger>]]
186* ''Film/GrandmothersFarm2'': The gang are seen pursued by an ominous-looking man who wears a shawl like a hood, which adds to his ominousness.
187* In Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Film/{{Henry V|1989}}'', King Henry wears a hooded cloak to disguise his identity when he goes among his soldiers the night before the Battle of Agincourt.
188* ''Film/HotFuzz'':
189** Subverted with the ominous hoodies seen occasionally and hinted at as possible suspects; they're just local kids raging against authority via minor vandalism. And when you consider what that [[TownWithADarkSecret authority is doing]]...
190** Played straighter with the murderer, who is seen wearing a full-length black cloak and hood. [[spoiler:This helps the Neighbourhood Watch maintain misdirection that there is only one murderer.]]
191%%* ''Film/IAmAlone'': Jacob is seen wearing a hoodie on his second night after being bitten by a zombie.
192* In ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', John Doe's "costume" consists of an expressionless flesh-coloured mask and a black hoodie. Because the mask matches his skin, with the hood up, it is not obvious to casual observers that he is wearing a mask.
193* ''Film/TheJurassicDead'': [[MadScientist Dr. Wojick Borge]] is seen wearing a hoodie down in the bunker after the TimeSkip. He takes it off before [[spoiler:leaving his room, and getting killed by the zombie dinosaur]].
194* ''Film/LittleDeadRottingHood'': Samantha's grandmother wears a red hooded robe reminiscent of [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood a certain story]]. [[spoiler:Samantha has to put it on, as it's apparently her life force. She has it on at the end of the film, stating she is now the new guardian of the woods.]]
195* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Aragorn in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' is first seen with his hood pulled up indoors, with only the light of his pipe illuminating his eyes. It's supposed to be ambiguous as to whether "Strider" is a good or bad guy at first.
196%%** The evil Nazghul also wear hoods. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
197%%* Ethan Hunt in ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
198* ''Film/{{Morgan}}'' spends most of the movie wearing a grey hoodie, to give a CreepyChild effect to someone who looks like a little girl but is actually an ArtificialHuman.
199* ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'':
200** Jace dons a few hoods while investigating Clary.
201** Magnus Bane wears a hooded long coat when he sneaks in the Institute to heal a mortally injured Alec Lightwood.
202%% ** Clothing of choice of all the Silent Brothers.
203* ''Film/TheParanormalDiariesClophill'': Some crew members (Rob and Cris) are seen wearing hoodies at night, possibly to keep warm. [[spoiler:There's also the cultists, all of whom wear hooded robes.]]
204* In ''Film/TheRibaldTalesOfRobinHood'', Robin escapes from his cell by slipping out posing as Marian, disguising himself with her hooded cloak.
205* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': Roxie initially attacks Scott while wearing a hoodie that obscures her identity and gender.
206* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies both avert it and play it straight.
207** The Jedi almost always shed their hooded cloaks before a battle but are otherwise seen in them. The hoods are usually down though. The out-of-universe reason they wear hooded cloaks to begin with is most likely Obi-Wan Kenobi's use of one, as detailed below.
208** Both Palpatine and Anakin (though he isn't hiding his identity, he briefly fights with a cloak on) use this straight. Sith Lords have their eyes obscured under their hoods, Darth Sidious in particular.
209** Obi-Wan Kenobi wears a hood that hides his face at his very first appearance, making him look like a mysterious scary thing that causes the Sandpeople to flee.
210** Luke wears a hood for a while in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' when he's dealing with Jabba and playing the mysterious scary Jedi.
211** ''Franchise/StarWars'' has an entire In The Hood ''species'' in the form of the Jawas, all of whom wear face-obscuring hoods no matter the situation. Does this make them a {{Planet of H|ats}}oods?
212** Queen Padmé Amidala's [[LadyInWaiting handmaidens]] are often dressed in identical outfits with bulky hoods that obscure their faces. As the handmaidens are also the Queen's [[BodyDouble body doubles]] the hoods are a way of making it harder for onlookers to notice when they switch places.
213%%** Kylo Ren sometimes wears a hood with his mask at first, but he abandons both during ''Film/StarWarsTheLastJedi''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what is the purpose of the hood?)
214* ''Film/StrippersVsWerewolves'': The strippers all don Literature/LittleRedRidingHood-style red cloaks with hoods for their final showdown with the werewolf pack.
215* When not invisibly causing "accidents", Sharack's ghost in ''Film/{{Superstition}}'' appears as a robed and hooded figure for mysteriousness purposes.
216* In ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|2023}}'' (the 2023 version), Milady de Winter (Creator/EvaGreen) dons a hood several times.
217* The Alchemist in ''Film/{{Vidocq}}'' wears a black hood over his [[TheFaceless mirrored mask]]. Very creepy, since when a victim-to-be tries to glimpse under the hood, they only see their own face staring back.
218* The killer in ''Film/{{Wishcraft}}'' wears a grotesque mask and a black hooded cloak.
219* Morgana, Eric, and their companion wear black hoodies as part of their disguise when they rob the gallery at the start of ''Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies''.
220* ''Film/TheWrongCheerleader'': Creepy guy Rob does most of his stalking in a black tracksuit, but covers his head with a hood when sneaking about practise gyms, locker rooms, and teenage girls' homes.
221* The killer in ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'' conceals their identity by wearing a large hooded cloak.
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225* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', the criminals whom the Whistlers and the Princesses fight together use hoods. Doesn't help them (much), as the Whistlers just go after the person with the red hood, who they assume is the leader.
226* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
227** Lampshaded in ''Literature/GoingPostal'', in which the antagonist notes that running through dark and rainy streets with a hood and cloak is the surest way to ''attract'' attention and quietly orders a subordinate killed for his incompetence.
228** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Vimes notes the same thing, albeit without the kill orders.
229---> '''Vimes:''' There are probably countless perfectly innocent reasons to stand in front of a secret society's recently destroyed headquarters while wearing a black robe and cowl and muttering to yourself. ''[[ProperlyParanoid Perhaps I should ask him to name just one...]]''
230** Discworld's Death, being a traditionally-minded AnthropomorphicPersonification, wears the classic Grim Reaper outfit, a black robe with a hood. So does Death of Rats (at rat size, naturally). Notably, the Death of Rats is the only "new Death" to wear the outfit; other Deaths shown are a tad more appropriate to the situation (the Death of Trees is the sound of an axe swinging, while the Death of Mayflies is a ghostly salmon).
231%%* ''Literature/DragonQueen'':
232* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': The aptly nicknamed villain The Cowl wears a hood, so his real identity is yet unknown to Harry.
233%%** Rashid the Gatekeeper also wears a hood, though he does not hide his identity. (Adminisrivia/ZeroContextExample; then why does he wear it?)
234* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''' Drizzt Do'Urden rarely wears the hood on his cloak unless the sun is particularly bright, though if he's going somewhere he never has before he at least ''tries'' to keep it up in the hopes that the gate guards will be stupid enough not to challenge a hooded traveler.
235* ''Literature/FridthjofsSaga'': When Fridthjof goes to King Hring's hall to see Ingibjörg again (who is now Hring's wife), he puts on a "great shaggy cloak" and a hood which hangs down over his face. When he enters the hall, pretending to be an old beggar, he takes a seat in a corner and keeps his hood on so that it "fall[s] over his face". Notably, the "success" of this disguise is depicted quite realistically, as the stranger arouses the attention of the king at once, and the further events imply that Hring ''immediately'' suspects that the stranger is Fridthjof, even though he has never seen him before.
236* ''Literature/GoToSleepAJeffTheKillerRewrite'': In the finale chapter, Jeff conceals his face in the shadow of his white hoodie as he shows himself to Randy, before pulling the hood off and revealing who he is.
237* The Dementors from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' wear cloaks with hoods at all times, only lifting them when they are about to suck out your soul.
238* ''Literature/HeWhoFightsWithMonsters'': Jason wears his hooded Cloak of Shadows so much, it's become part of his identity. Amusingly, each of his three familiars ''also'' adopt this fashion, though Colin's "cloak" is a bundle of bloody rags tied together in the rough shape of a cloak.
239* In ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'', Blacknail the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent hobgoblin]] can easily pass as human with a good hooded cloak, if he also keeps his [[HornedHumanoid horns]] filed down and smooths his voice a bit. It helps that the only human city he's been to is [[WretchedHive Daggerpoint]], where a good chunk of the populace goes around hooded.
240* In ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'', Annala takes to wearing a hood [[spoiler:after becoming the chaos cleric known as "Priestess" to hide her identity]]. She enchants it so that her face can't be seen from any angle as long as it is up and can't be removed by things like a wind spell.
241* [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Hastur]], as ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', is often portrayed as being hooded in artwork.
242* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'':
243** The Ringwraiths wear hooded cloaks to conceal the fact that they're permanently invisible -- if they lowered the hoods they'd appear to be headless, which tends to be noticed.
244** Eomer describes Saruman as creeping about on the borders of Rohan in the guise of an old man in a hooded cloak. When Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli actually see him, though, he's wearing a hat rather than a hood.
245* ''Literature/MaxAndTheMidknights'': In order to sneak back into Byjovia during the annual spiking of the town's water supply, Max and the Midknights hide in a potato cart and have Mumblin' and King Conrad disguise themselves as farmers with hooded cloaks.
246* ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'':
247** In ''Literature/GardensOfTheMoon'', Elder God K'rul at first only appears as a cloaked figure with long and sinuous fingers, illustrating the fact that he can't fully materialise outside of his temple or Kruppe's dreams.
248** Shadowthrone's cloak is described as looking like a living shadow, making the rather scrawny and bent Shadowthrone into an imposing figure. Considering that he is the God of Shadow and Illusion, it fits.
249** Cotillion is described as wearing a hooded cloak. Since he is the Patron God of Assassins, it comes with the occupation. Additionally, unlike his companion Shadowthrone, Cotillion retained his human features upon becoming a god and wants to remain unrecognizable to anyone who may have known him when he was mortal.
250* The eponymous "Ghost Jogger" of the short story in ''Literature/NancyDrew Ghost Stories'' makes full use of his hood to hide the fact that [[spoiler:he's a young man assumed to be dead at the beginning of the series]].
251* During ''[[Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy Night's Dawn]]'', Quinn Dexter adopts this trope deliberately to awe his Satanist followers and enemies, using his powers as the Possessed to make the hood [[EvilIsNotWellLit particularly dark]]. The reader can tell he's lost his temper whenever his face makes a sudden reappearance.
252* In ''Literature/OlliesOdyssey'', Ollie wears a green hoodie as a part of his design.
253* In the ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' series, the eponymous Rangers are well-known throughout Araluen for their ability to melt into the forest and move without being seen. The prevailing superstition is that their cloaks are imbued with magic, allowing them to turn invisible. The real reason? Part of it is that the cloaks are camouflaged, with a large hood to completely conceal the wearer's face in shadow. The other part is that due to his training, a Ranger can stay perfectly still and hidden even when the enemy is looking right at them. From any farther than a few meters, a Ranger in hiding literally blends into the surrounding forest.
254* According to the medieval Icelandic ''Literature/SagaOfGrettirTheStrong'', Grettir was the ''tallest'' man in Iceland. He was an outlaw with a price on his head. He wore a hood and nobody ever recognized the ''[[PaperThinDisguise tallest]]'' [[PaperThinDisguise man in Iceland]].
255* ''Literature/TheSagaOfHrolfKraki'': When both Thorir Dog-foot and Bodvar Bjarki, each on their own, depart from their grandfather's kingdom, both of them first seek out their brother Elk-Frodi, who lives as a highwayman. Both times Frodi is not at home when his brother arrives, and both of them sit down in Frodi's cabin and pull their hoods down over their faces. Frodi comes home and behaves menacingly toward the stranger. Thorír reveals himself before they come to blows, but Bodvar simply ignores Frodi's threats until Frodi is about to attack him, and they wrestle with each other. In wrestling, the hood falls from Bodvar's face, and Frodi finally recognizes his brother.
256* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheSwornBrothers'': When Thormod and Skuf go to the ship ready to sail for Greenland, they meet a stranger who calls himself Gest and is "wearing a hood that prevented them from seeing his face", making it obvious that he is a man who does not want to be recognized. Much later, it is revealed that "Gest" is Steinar, a relative of Thorgeir who (like Thormod) wants to go to Greenland in order to avenge Thorgeir.
257* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Faith of the Seven has "[[TheGrimReaper The Stranger]]" as one of the seven aspects of God, his face always half concealed by a hooded cloak.
258* ''Literature/SpiceAndWolf'': Holo switches between wearing a hood and a hat to cover up the animalistic wolf-ears on top of her head in different situations. The hood implies that she is a traveling nun, which is explained in the light novels to be the standard getup of any independent woman who wants to do traveling, and as such doesn't normally get a lot of attention. The hat is part of a typical city girl outfit, which is more convenient when she wants to go drinking and having fun, activities unsuitable for even a nun out of convenience rather than devotion.
259* In ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'', the protagonist, Gary Karkofsky a.k.a Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercy, has a magical hooded cloak. He is often described as looking like a "Discount Walmart Sith Lord".
260* In ''Literature/Twisted2010'', Rodney is able to entirely conceal his identity by wearing a long hooded coat. Please note that Rodney is [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext an animate rollercoaster]] with a long centipede-esque body and, while trying to conceal his [[RedIsHeroic important paint colour]], he isn't wearing gloves.
261* Defied in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Myrddraal, the second-most common type of Shadowspawn, could easily pass for a human by wearing a dark hood. As a result, in several countries, the law states that everyone wearing a hood is to be killed on sight, just in case. In less watchful countries, this is not the case. Aes Sedai use this trick all the time to hide their trademark "ageless face".
262* ''Literature/TheWillBeDone'' has Praen donning a hood for a night in order to deal with the town's criminals.
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266* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
267** The good guys wear them in an episode while sneaking in to spy on Darla and Drusilla as they have a meeting with many vampires and demons.
268** Lorne wears one for a magical ceremony and snipes, "You think this ''Dungeons & Dragons'' cloak is a fashion statement?"
269* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
270** Avenger-of-evil Oliver Queen's entire concept of hiding his identity is painting the area around his eyes dark green/black and pulling his hood up. [[ClarkKenting It's amazing that his family and acquaintances don't put it together]] when he converses with them face-to-face. Consequently, for [[Arrow/SeasonOne the first season]], he isn't known as ComicBook/GreenArrow, but the Hood. The hood was worn by his first mentor Yao Fei and passed to his daughter Shado before Oliver got it.
271** Some members of Team Arrow copy Oliver's style, such as Roy Harper (as Arsenal) and Thea Queen (as Speedy), though they prefer a red hood.
272** In his guise as The Dark Archer, [[Characters/ArrowverseMalcolmMerlyn Malcolm Merlyn]] wore a hood to obscure his identity. Once Oliver discovered his identity, and [[spoiler: Merlyn faked his death]], the disguise was no longer needed. When he returned there was no need for one.
273%%** Villains such as the League of Assassins use the hood coupled with a mask. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
274* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': In "Beer" from the second series, the Queen decides to invade Blackadder's drinking party, by wearing a cloak with a cowl, and introducing herself as a friend of Lord Percy's. Blackadder does not recognise her as the Queen, and thinks she is Percy's girlfriend, whom he had mentioned earlier. Blackadder locks her in a cupboard before she can interfere.
275* The Cape from, well, ''Series/TheCape'' initially uses a hood for a disguise, until it almost reveals his identity. Then he added a mask underneath the hood.
276* When interviewed on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', [[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug Smaug the Golden]] defends his use of lethal force against Bilbo Baggins via this trope. "What would you do if someone broke into your house wearing a hoodie?"
277* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
278** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]": An alien traveling by cart through medieval England adopts this as a [[PaperThinDisguise disguise that completely fails to cover his reptilian snout]].
279** The Headless Monks from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]" have special hoods that stand up to conceal their, well, ''headless'' nature. Usually, lowering one is a death sentence.
280** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", a woman wearing a hooded cloak sets up a meeting with the Doctor. Suspecting there might be [[PleaseKeepYourHatOn something nasty underneath]] he removes her hood...only to find an apparently ordinary human woman. Turns out the Dalek tech is ''inside'' her body.
281** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]", the "Architect" wears an identity-concealing hood in a video briefing.
282** After his first series, the Twelfth Doctor started alternating between his usual smart suit and a more laid-back coat and hoodie combo.
283** This is how the Thirteenth Doctor was revealed in her debut trailer — lowering the hood of an outfit intentionally reminiscent of Twelve's. Her actual outfit also includes a hooded overcoat.
284* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
285** When going incognito, Varys wears a hooded cloak.
286** In Season 1, the assassin who tries to kill Bran Stark, likely for identity-concealing reasons.
287** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E10FireAndBlood Fire and Blood]]", another assassin is introduced wearing a hood to hide his features, [[FakeShemp because the actor hadn't been cast yet]].
288** Barristan Selmy hides his identity with one while shadowing Daenerys in the Season 3 premiere "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E1ValarDohaeris Valar Morghulis]]", where he shows up to save her from an assassin. Doubles as a medieval ConspicuousTrenchcoat.
289** In Season 4, Sansa Stark when escaping from King's Landing, to [[DyeOrDie hide her distinctive red hair until she has a chance to dye it]].
290** In Season 5, Tyrion Lannister adopts this as a PaperThinDisguise when they reach Volantis and [[CabinFever he insists on leaving their coach]]. Varys is not impressed, with justification as it turns out. Tyrion should have known better, having rumbled Lady Stark when she tried to hide her face under her shawl in Season 1.
291* ''Series/Gladiators2024'': Phantom, one of the titular Gladiators, normally wears a hood for his entrance into the arena. It's purely for effect and is pulled back almost immediately, before he competes in any of the challenges.
292* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Daemon Targaryen wears a BlackCloak with a hood when he confronts his UnwantedSpouse Rhea Royce to kill her.
293* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': "Actus Reus" ("Guilty Act") opens with a figure in a boat DisposingOfABody; the figure's identity concealed by the hoodie he is wearing.
294%%* "St. Joan" in ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.
295* In one episode of ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} Highlander the Series]]'', Duncan is challenged by a mysterious spectral figure wearing an all-encompassing hooded cloak. The hood [[spoiler:hides the fact that the figure isn't a specter, but actually another Immortal, once Duncan's friend, now intent on killing him.]]
296%%* In ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'', Long's human form comes with one of these. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
297* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
298** The eponymous ''Series/KamenRiderGhost'', as well as fellow Riders Specter and Necrom, don a hoodie when they transform; since the hoods are worn ''on top'' of the usual Kamen Rider face masks, it's less about hiding their identities than [[RuleOfCool looking cool]] and mysterious. Though when the Riders are using their personal forms and not alternate ones, the first thing they usually do is throw their hoods back.
299** In ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'', Vice gets a hood whenever he becomes a Kamen Rider. Though his various forms' hoods don't really work to make him look cool, as they're all animal-costume hoods with CheapCostume-style fake stitching.
300* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'':
301** [[SorcerousOverlord Zordock]] is never seen without his horned hood. Probably because he's the only character played by a human actor instead of a puppet or a [[RogerRabbitEffect cartoon]].
302** There's also an order of monks called [[UnfortunateName Mosquitobites]] who take vows of silence, work in Lumia castle's library, and wear brown robes with the hoods up. Naturally, at one point, one of our heroes disguises himself as one to sneak into the castle.
303* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Arondir makes his first appearance by wearing a hood, which makes it easier form him to travel incognito.
304* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
305** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'': On a few occasions in season 1, Jessica has a grey hoodie under the [[HellBentForLeather leather jacket]], and at times puts it over her head when she needs to go unnoticed.
306** ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'': Luke wears a bullet-ridden hoodie as his superhero outfit. It's more RuleOfSymbolism than anything, although it does come in useful when escaping into a crowd [[spoiler:or for an IAmSpartacus moment near the end of the season when Harlem is helping him evade police]].
307* Justified in ''Series/Merlin2008'': Morgana creeps around in a hood, but all the soldiers already know that she is a princess and obey.
308* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The killer in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS24E4 A Climate of Death]]" wears a voluminous hooded black anorak to conceal their identity.
309* Superhoodie of ''{{Series/Misfits}}'' wears a hood, but uses a ski mask, and later a paintball helmet, to actually hide his identity of [[spoiler:Simon from the future]], as the hood fits pretty tightly over the top of his head and therefore provides no shadow.
310%%* ''Series/MrRobot'': Elliot is virtually never seen without a hoodie, even at work. His boss chews him out for it.
311* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Bad Medicine", the killer conceals their identity in grim reaper costume with a large hood.
312%%* ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'': Red Space Ranger Andros would often wear a cloak, sometimes even when morphed. When morphed, the cloak had to cover his helmet, so the edges of the opening were almost clamped shut.
313* ''Series/ResurrectionErtugrul'':
314** The Season 5 villain [[spoiler:Beybolat]] wears a face-concealing hood whenever he poses as Albasti.
315** Ertugrul and his beys does this a handful of times. For instance, they wear face-concealing articles in Season 4 [[spoiler:when they walk into Karacahisar, claiming to be Tekfur Ares's soldiers until the time is right so they can eliminate Ares's guards]].
316%%** During his introduction in the second season, Noyan briefly wears a cloth covering almost his entire body. [[spoiler:He also wears a hood when he presents himself as "The Traveler" near the end of season 4.]] (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
317* On ''Series/{{Revenge}}'', Emily Thorne's outfit for doing ninja stuff includes a black hoodie.
318* Overdone in the 2006 BBC ''Series/RobinHood'': Soldiers never inspect people wearing hoods.
319* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': The secret society in "[[Recap/SherlockSpecialTheAbominableBride The Abominable Bride]]" wear hooded robes, not unlike Ku Klux Klan robes, but purple in colour.
320* ''{{Series/Smallville}}'''s Green Arrow gets by with a Unibomber-like hoodie and sunglasses-at-night. Later he gives members of the proto-ComicBook/JusticeLeague matching outfits. Somehow action never knocks them off; even Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'s hood fails to uncover his face [[FridgeLogic while running at super-speed]].
321%%* Done in ''Series/StargateSG1'' by General Hammond. He was on Chulak tracking down Teal'c to help save the rest of SG-1.
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325%%* The icon of Music/{{Disturbed}}'s {{mascot}} "The Guy".
326%%* {{Supergroup}} Gaia (consisting of Music/ArminVanBuuren and Benno de Goeij) dress up as this when performing, [[http://edmmaniac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1913375_10152042157673316_722549497_o.jpg looking more like stoic warriors]] than DJ's.
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330* In "Literature/TheBuriedMoon", an English FairyTale, the moon spirit visits earth, using a dark cloak to hide her distinctive [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde hair]], equated with moonlight.
331* TheGrimReaper is most often portrayed as [[DemBones a skeleton]] wearing a black cloak with a hood.
332* Myth/RobinHood traditionally wears a feathered pointy hat, which was used by foresters, in his forest hideout. However, since he's an outlaw he has to conceal his face whenever he goes sneaking around in town, so he may use a hood then depending on the adaptation.
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336* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' has various sinister hooded figures that lurk around town. There are implied to be enough of them to have an annual parade.
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340%%* WWC and IWA Puerto Rico were both invaded by two hooded factions at the same time, called La Rabia in the former and Los Encapuchados de la Calle and then, Los Encapuchados Del Consejo in IWA. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
341%%* Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin took to wearing one as Invader X in Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why does he wear it?)
342%%* Wrestling/{{Christian}} started wearing hoods and baring his midriff during his "Captain Charisma" run with Tyson Tomko (or if you prefer, [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin his creepy little bastard run]]). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
343%%* Wrestling/CMPunk wore hoodies during his entrance from late 2012 to 2014. Occasionally he'd wear the official Gracie hoodie. (Aministrivia/ZeroContextExample)
344%%* [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] started doing this in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, this despite the fact that he already wears a mask with tassels hanging off it. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
345%%* Charlie Haas took to wearing a hood during the second WWE run of Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
346* Wrestling/LayCool did this in WWE, which some critics took to be a "{{take that}}" toward AJ Styles since they also tended to wear similar shades of blue and Wrestling/MichelleMcCool used the Styles Clash (a move AJ [[ThrowItIn invented on accident]] and since became his most famous finisher).
347%%* [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Jon Moxley's]] perpetually MessyHair could probably be explained by his love of draping hoods over his head, even indoors, even in warm weather. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
348* Wrestling/CodyRhodes started wearing a hood and acrylic face mask after being "disfigured" and left "grotesque", "undashing" by Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}}, even though he looked exactly the same. This led to Wrestling/TheBigShow calling him "[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Cody Von Doom]]".
349* Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} was known for wearing hoods even in the hot Florida summer. Given how pale he is, he likely figured being sweaty was better than being burnt, rather than any effort to look [[AccidentalPun cool]] or disguise himself.
350%%* Wrestling/AJStyles as part of his entrance attire, although he pulls it up as he comes out, unlike most examples. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
351* The cultist Wrestling/KevinSullivan disguised himself as a Gregorian Monk in Wrestling/{{SMW}} in order to ambush Brian Lee.
352%%* Wrestling/TheUndertaker was prone to hoods when he wasn't wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and his druids were always in hoods. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
353* Wrestling/IvelisseVelez took to wearing a hood during her time in the Radiant Rain's Valkyrie stable. It did more than look nice, it also made it easier to shut out the yapping of her partners when they got too annoying, such as Wrestling/AllysinKay and Taylor Made. A hood and mask became her and Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's signature when they became the main TagTeam of an [[CreateYourOwnHero anti-Valkyrie]] stable.
354%%* Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams typically wore a hooded robe with flame designs as his entrance attire. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
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358* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
359** After her superpower transformed Jenna from an ordinary girl into a [[TheWormThatWalks mass of insects]], she walks around in public in a hoodie to avoid drawing attention to her new, grotesque form.
360** Similarly, Jessica wears a hoodie after the empowering event to help hide her new [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation purple skin]] and yellow eyes.
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364* Of course, professional wrestlers do it because it is common in combat sports. Unlike wrestling, this is done to block out distractions, such as a roaring crowd, as you make your entrance, rather than to give people a distinct look to remember or make your entrance more elaborate. In both actual competition and simulated competition though, athletes may wear heavier clothing, hoods included, so as to stay warmed up and not get stiff before the game/performance starts, as that can lead to injuries.
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368* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': Magi in the [[MasterApprenticeChain lineage]] of Quendalon often imitate his habit of wearing deeply hooded robes. For Quendalon, it wasn't just fashion -- when he [[{{Metamorphosis}} became]] (or was [[KillAndReplace replaced by]]) a Faerie, his eyes turned into [[GemTissue rubies]].
369* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The cliché early-level quest giver is the mysterious hooded figure sitting in a dark corner of the village tavern.
370* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205960 Jace Beleren]] wears one almost all the time. His [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=185816 alternate art]] reveals that this is probably for the better.
371* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': In celestial form, the Archangel Dominic's face is always covered by a deep hood, from whose shadows many eyes gaze out at the world.
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374[[folder:Toys]]
375* Cerise in ''Toys/EverAfterHigh''. She is the daughter of Red Riding Hood and wears a red hood to [[spoiler:hide her wolf ears, as her father is the Big Bad Wolf]].
376* You can find dozens of hoods in many ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' sets, especially ''[[Franchise/StarWars LEGO Star Wars]]'' and ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings LEGO The Lord of The Rings]]'' sets.
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380* ''VideoGame/AbsentedAgeSquarebound'': At the start of the game, a mysterious hooded figure is seen leaving Karen's unconscious body. [[spoiler:In the postgame, they resurface as a {{Superboss}} in the Warehouse Driftworld, and nothing significant is revealed about them even after using a Scan Baton on them. When they drop a gun, Tarte speculates that they're with the Elicio Church.]]
381* ''VideoGame/{{Afterimage}}'': During your first encounters with her, 42 wears a black hooded cloak which hides her face and makes her a mysterious or suspicious individual from the perspectives of Renee and Ifree (the two don't even know her name at first). It turns out 42 doesn't always wear the hooded cloak, and during most times in the endgame when we don't see her putting it on, it's already been made clear that [[spoiler:she's actually an ally]].
382%%* ''VideoGame/AkaManto'': The [[AntagonistTitle titular antagonist]] wears a big, red, hooded cloak that covers its whole body. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
383* The title character's hood in ''VideoGame/{{Amea}}'' turns out to serve as a case of LazyArtist -- [[spoiler:she doesn't need new sprites after [[EyeScream gouging her own eyes out]]]].
384* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
385** Altaïr from ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Assassin's Creed]]'' introduces the series to the Brotherhood's ''modus operandi''. Interestingly, [[JustifiedTrope having a hood on one's traveling robe in the medieval Holy Land wasn't actually that uncommon]]. The shade helped keep your head cool if you needed to walk a long distance. It also matches the local scholars' robes perfectly, making it easy to blend in.
386** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'':
387*** Protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's outfit is amazingly similar to Altaïr's, just updated to fit with 15th-century Italian aesthetics. Amusingly, in that era and setting, a hood like that is very conspicuous compared to the large hats almost everybody else is wearing, so it's most likely out of tradition. [[note]][[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Snake]] later appears in an identical hood as a ShoutOut. He's in the Middle East at [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsofthePatriots the time]]. [[/note]]
388*** Altaïr and Ezio's modern-day descendant Desmond Miles wears a hoodie, but initially isn't seen with the hood up. It should also be noted that said hoodie is white, [[GenerationXerox just like traditional Assassin costumes from the past]]. It turns out that the hood is slightly ''pointed'', just like his ancestors' "eagle beak" hoods. He finally puts his hood up in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', when he [[spoiler:goes to the skyscraper and the stadium for the artefacts that will let him enter the Temple, and the Abstergo building he was held in in the first game to rescue his father]].
389*** Ezio's nemesis, Rodrigo Borgia, wears a stylistically similar, [[EvilWearsBlack but black]] hood. Until he upgrades to [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Papal]] vestments, anyway.
390*** [[EvilCounterpart Il Lupo]], AKA The Prowler, is a Templar agent trained in the skills of the Assassins. Fittingly, his outfit is very similar to Ezio's, though black and red rather than white, and his hood is missing the distinctive point.
391** Connor from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' keeps the tradition during his timeline. Since it's during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution and a large part of the world is snowy, his hood keeps his head warm. In "The Tyranny of King Washington" DLC, he wears a wolf skin instead, which also ends up looking like a (really strange) hood.
392** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'':
393*** Edward Kenway gets a hood early when he takes them from the body of a man who tried to kill him. Most of his outfits after that also have the hood. Not the two ArmorOfInvincibility, though. Which makes it amusing when his animation still has him pulling up a hood that isn't there.
394*** Almost all the assassins players meet along the way also have hoods. The one exception is [[spoiler:James Kid/Mary Read]], who talks a lot more and whose ability with disguise is more important to the plot.
395** Arno Dorian from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' resumes Ezio's "hoods are conspicuous" habit; other Assassins in Revolutionary France have hoods but keep them down, but after getting his hood, Arno only lowers it twice [[spoiler:and once involuntarily]].
396** Jacob Frye from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' prefers a nice hat which is more appropriate for a man in London, unless he's in stealth mode. Then he pulls the hood up.
397** Bayek from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' also has a justified hood despite the Assassin Brotherhood not existing yet, as Ancient Egypt is even hotter than the medieval Holy Land.
398** During the limited-time Assassin's Festival crossover with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', the party gained Medjay Assassin Robes based on Bayek's outfit. Noctis also had a possible unlock based on Altaïr's robes, which was later made available to everyone in a free update. Noctis alone has hooded options, which were mandatory during the event due to an attack by the Niflheim Empire; in this case, he's inconspicuous because ''everyone'' [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles is wearing Assassin cosplay]], and having the hood raised is just to avoid the imperials from noticing his face.
399* Gorath from ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' often wears his hood to conceal his identity from people who'd want to kill a dark elf like him, people who'd want to kill ''him'', personally, or both. Justified, since his long ears are his most striking feature to the casual eye, and a hood does hide them well.
400%%* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why do they have them, either in universe or out?)
401%%** The entire Kaka clan, including playable character Taokaka, wear yellow hooded jackets that conceal their entire face, revealing only glowing eyes and a fanged mouth.
402%%** Platinum the Trinity wears one that obscures the top part of... their face.
403%%* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
404%%** You start with a hooded outfit.
405%%** The Healing Church also favors hooded outfits.
406%%* ''VideoGame/BloodlineChampions'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
407%%** The male Seeker outfits.
408%%** The male Stalker outfit.
409%%** The officer Thorn outfit.
410* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', Jimmy walks around in a ninja suit. Instead of getting him in more trouble, this makes him less noticeable. You could start a fight right in front of a prefect, and nothing happens.
411* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'', this is Sypha's chosen method [[SamusIsAGirl of concealing herself]].
412* Magus of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' adopts this as part of his "Prophet" disguise. Since the sprites are virtually identical to his normal appearance, albeit with a hood, this counts as a PaperThinDisguise.
413* One of many clothing options for a hero or villain in ''[[VideoGame/CityOfHeroes City of Heroes/Villains]]''.
414%%* ''VideoGame/Clea2019'': Chaos servants, the enemies of the game, wear different-coloured hooded cloaks. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
415* ''VideoGame/CrossbowCrusade'': The merchant who sells you arrows in exchange for tickets wears a brown hood that obscures his face. His clothing also has a large cross on his chest, so it's possible he's a part of some holy order.
416%%* ''VideoGame/CrossbowWarriorTheLegendOfWilliamTell'': [[PlayerCharacter William Tell]] wears a white hood. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
417* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'': The character Draven, who helps Death in the Kingdom of the Dead, has his vision impaired by a cloak.
418%%** In ''Darksiders'' and ''VideoGame/DarksidersII'', both Death and War have this trope, War in his standard form and Death in his reaper form. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why do they have them, either in universe or out?)
419* The ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' series:
420** The Thief's Hood, a hood with a scarf blocking the face, the Hollow Thief's hood, a standard hood, and the Darkwraith Helm, a hood with a skull mask, are all pieces of equipment the player can wear.
421** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'':
422*** Priestess Licia wears the Saint's Hood, which not only gives +1 point to your Faith stat when worn, but also gives an extra cast to all your attuned spells.
423*** Loyce Retainers all wear white hoods over their heads. It probably has something to do with how cold it is in the place that they're found in.
424%%*** Emerald Herald Shanalotte wears an emerald-green hooded cape. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
425%%*** Desert Sorceresses.
426%%*** Leydia Pyromancers.
427%%*** Hexers.
428* The Legion from ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' are a gang of four knife-wielding delinquent teenagers who wear both hoodies and masks to obscure their identities during their reckless and criminal activities.
429* The ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series:
430** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Archangel Tyrael]] from ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' wears a hood, [[TheFaceless completely concealing his face]]. [[spoiler:This eventually proves rather unfortunate -- Marius hands the soul stone over to his hooded confessor, who then reveals that he is not Tyrael, but Baal. Not that it would have gone better had he known.]]
431** In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', no one rocks the hoods better than the Demon Hunters, who have them as part of their IconicOutfit. The hoods come with a set of [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing yellow eyes]], which Demon Hunters get if they can see into a demon's soul without going mad.
432* Amy from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' wears a hoodie both in public and on her Twitch streams to [[spoiler:avoid being identified as Princess Amelia]]. She even gets special permission to wear it to summer school, even though it violates the school dress code.
433* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
434** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'':
435*** While a few robes and cloaks include hoods, they are typically shown folded back instead of actually being pulled over the wearer's head; certain helmets are the only hoods the player character can actually wear.
436*** Played straight by the wandering ghost [[spoiler:Serena]], which ironically makes her stand out. On top of that, she's InvisibleToNormals, so the hood doesn't actually serve any practical purpose other than making her look mysterious.
437** During the escape from the Heliodor Castle dungeons in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'', Erik wears a hood over his head, only taking it off right before the final jump to safety when he decides to finally introduce himself by name to the Luminary. He puts it back on and gives the Luminary his own when the two sneak into Downtown Heliodor to avoid the guards while looking for the Red Orb.
438* Apostles from ''VideoGame/DreadTemplar'', worshippers of demons encountered in hell, are clad entirely in long white robes and face-concealing hoods. Whether they're humans, monsters, or ex-humans isn't really confirmed during gameplay, when you kill them their hoods stays on.
439* The NPC in ''VideoGame/EdnaAndHarveyHarveysNewEyes'' is shown to be wearing a hooded robe to cover his face and hide his identity from the players in Hoth Motigor during the game.
440* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
441** The [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] Boethiah (whether in [[GenderBender male or female form]]) most often takes the appearance of a caped BlackKnight. The statue depictions of Boethiah's female form in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'' both have her wearing such a hood.
442** Nocturnal, the Daedric Prince of [[TheSacredDarkness Darkness and the Night]] who is also associated with Thieves and Luck, has been depicted with a hood in each appearance in the series to date.
443** Hoods and cowls are traditional attire for members of the Dark Brotherhood, an illegal [[MurderInc organization of assassins]] whose membership mostly takes a [[PsychoForHire sadistic glee]] in killing and who practice a ReligionOfEvil.
444** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': {{Justified|Trope}} with the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal, a Daedric artifact that warps reality so that the rest of the world [[PerceptionFilter sees the wearer]] as the infamous Gray Fox when they're wearing it and as their normal identity when they're not. It even affects things like the KarmaMeter.
445* Caster in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', though it's really not entirely clear as to ''why''. It's clear that she's a beautiful woman, but she isn't really distinctive enough for it to identify her. Nevertheless, you only get one good look at her actual face. Perhaps it's to make sure the audience thinks of her as a manipulative witch and saves the reveal of her rather elfin features for when she gets all her sympathy points [[spoiler:and won't need us to pity her anymore since she's already dying]]?
446* The semi-human "Habnabits" in ''VideoGame/FerazelsWand'' wear full-length cloaks with the hoods always up, shadowing their faces except for two features: large, vaguely human eyes, and a snout like an anteater. They're the good guys, though, as signified by the fact that their cloaks are a wide variety of colors rather than the generic black.
447* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
448** The White Mage class in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series have hooded robes, but whether or not they wear the hoods is variable--there are exceptions, but the general rule of thumb, as seen in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII III]]'', ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV V]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics Tactics]]'', is that male White Mages tend to wear the hood down, while female White Mages tend to wear the hood up. Particularly young or cute white mages (or related classes, such as ''III''[='=]s Devouts) may get a hood with cute cat ears on it. [[CuteKitten N'awwwww.]]
449** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'', [[spoiler:Kain]] runs around in such an outfit and is thus referred to as the Hooded Man. [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin Dark Kain]] has made him an internationally wanted criminal, so he can't show himself until he gets his name cleared.]] He can adorn this outfit in ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012]]''.
450** Garnet in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' wears a hooded robe to conceal her identity in order to sneak out of the castle. She tosses the hood when Vivi accidentally sets it on fire.
451** Hooded robes are common low-level gear that players can wear in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. The same hooded robes are also worn by enemies that are a part of a cult or gang.
452* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
453** Present in the map and combat sprites of Shamans and Druids in the GBA games as part of their robes. Shamans have the traditional hood, while Druids get ShadowedFaceGlowingEyes.
454** In various entries of the series, male [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Manaketes]] appear as cloaked, hooded figures. The females, meanwhile, are typically [[CuteMonsterGirl cute young girls]].
455** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'':
456*** Hector, Lyn, and Eliwood, while trying to hide their identities as marquesses in an enemy country.
457*** Ephidel, who uses his cloak to partially hide his [[SupernaturalGoldEyes unnatural appearance]].
458** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', getting bumped into by a stranger knocks down Ranulf's hood and reveals his UnusualEars. Unfortunately results in an [[FantasticRacism angry mob]].
459** The Avatar in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' wears a cloak and hood in cutscenes. This is to give them a general appearance since you can customize them.
460* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': Upon meeting them for the first time, all Oracles bound to the Arcarum summons wear the hood of their cloak that covers their face in shadows. Though some of them still have slightly visible facial features underneath.
461* That Man from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' certainly qualifies. Even in the boss battle against him, his hood never falls off even when hit by a Tyrant Rave.
462* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' has Norman Jayden giving Ethan Mars a police coat with a hood so that he can escape.
463%%* ''VideoGame/InexistenceRebirth'': While [[PlayerCharacter Hald]]'s main outfit is a [[BlueIsHeroic blue tunic]], he's also shown to wear a black hood over his head. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; for what purpose, in or out of universe?)
464* In ''VideoGame/InFamous'', the first gang of the game, the normal Reapers, wear red reaper-style hoods while the Conduits wear white. Oddly enough, they normally paint a skull onto the hood itself. The hood happens to hide their face, no matter how much light is actually shining on it. [[spoiler:Then again, they aren't entirely human according to later missions, so maybe they just have pitch-black faces.]]
465%%** [[BigBad Kessler]] wears a white hood. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
466* The enemy Re-class battleship in ''VideoGame/KanColle'' apparently has her hood up for the look of it; you could hardly miss a girl wearing a scarf, a bra, a half-open coat, and a knapsack, with a tail that has its own mouth.
467* In ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'', Lily and Billy wear colour-coded hoodies to conceal their identities while they're hiding out to investigate their new school's dark secrets.
468* A lot of people in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
469** Organization XIII is one prominent example. Justified in that the cloaks most of the hoods belong to are designed to protect the wearer from unwelcome darkness, and the Organization (and most other characters who wear those cloaks) deal with a lot of that stuff.
470** Mickey's hood is actually altered to accommodate his ears... which sort of defeats the purpose of having a hood conceal your face in the first place. "Who's that small person with very large, noticeable, visibly circular ears?" "Hmm, I don't know, it's a mystery!"
471** Averted with Sora, whose outfits have hoods that are ''never'' worn over his head (except in one artwork). His hoods in his first two are instead used to hold Jiminy Cricket and his journal.
472** Kairi also has a hood she never wears (from ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII KHII]]'' to present), but it's not as noticeable as long as you forget that it's the only black part of her otherwise completely [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]]-and-white outfit.
473* [[BigBad Hyness]] from ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' always wears a hood which conceals his true face. Why? [[DontLookAtMe Because he]] '''''[[DontLookAtMe hates]]''''' [[DontLookAtMe having people look at it]]. [[spoiler:So when it falls off in the second phase, he [[VillainousBreakdown flips out]] and begins to ambush Kirby and his friends with the Three Mage Sisters' bodies.]]
474* The blade-obsessed assassin Talon of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' wears one as a ShoutOut to the standard garb of the Assassin Brotherhood from the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, as mentioned above.
475* The Hunters from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' wear hooded shirts, and are appropriately enough the stealth experts of the Infected. It also helps hide the fact that [[EyeScream they have no eyes]].
476* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrails''
477** ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel II'': When Thomas operates undercover in the second game, he also adopts a cloak with a deeper voice to throw people off, leaving Rean shocked when he reveals himself.
478** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsThroughDaybreak Trials through Daybreak]]'', Ashlad's uniform includes a hood, which he has up most of the time to better hid his face.
479* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
480** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'':
481*** The true villains are shown as mysterious hooded figures when they first confront Link. It isn't until the end of either game that they reveal themselves to be [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Twinrova]].
482*** The miniboss Agunima's face is perpetually hidden by a deep hood, leaving only his eyes visible in the shadow.
483** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Princess Zelda wears a hooded cloak for the majority of the game. She only uses it to conceal her identity for about two minutes, before she reveals herself to Link; the cloak is more a sort of mourning garb, given [[DarkestHour the state her kingdom is in]] for most of the game.
484** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'':
485*** The Old Man found on the Great Plateau at the start of game wears one. [[spoiler:He eventually reveals himself to be King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule, and he initially hid his identity from Link so the latter wouldn't be even more overwhelmed than he already is with his amnesia.]]
486*** Among the earliest head armour Link can obtain is the Hylian Hood, which combines this trope with a BadassCape. He's seen wearing the Hood with his Champion's Tunic on the Rider amiibo. It returns in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom Tears of the Kingdom]]'', but completing a quest in Hateno Village will let Link wear the hood lowered (thus baring his face while still providing the armour boost); he wear it thusly for his ''Tears'' amiibo.
487** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': Linkle wears a hooded green tunic as part of her [[HeroicWannabe belief that she is the legendary hero]]. In her original concept, the hood was pointed as a part of her "[[DistaffCounterpart female Link]]" design; in the game proper, this is one of a few elements that were excised to make her into her own character.
488* ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'': Weavers wear hoods that completely conceal their face except for their glowing eyes. (They look like Jawas; since it's a Creator/LucasArts game, this may be a ShoutOut.) An in-universe myth says that it's fatal to look beneath a Weaver's hood; Cobb can't resist testing it out when he meets the main character. [[spoiler:It's true.]]
489* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': ClassyCatBurglar Kasumi Goto wears a hood at all times so no one can ever really see her face.
490%%** [[WrenchWench Tali]].
491%%* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', Snake is shown with a hood in the game's first act. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
492* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Ermac ditches his ninja garb from previous games in favor of something more akin to a sorcerer's coat, complete with hood.
493* The ''MUD Shadows of Isildur'' is guilty of this -- just putting up your hood allows you to disguise everything but your build and the color of your cloak.
494%%* ''VideoGame/NightDelivery'': Michiru, the tenant of Room 401, wears a grey hoodie when he answers the door. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why does he wear it, either in universe or out?)
495* ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'': If she gets cured of being [[EmotionSuppression Fixed]], [[spoiler:Nari Jo]] can be found wearing her hood up around Ajik City to hide from AVAC.
496* ''VideoGame/{{Pankapu}}'': With the Faith Aegis, [[PlayerCharacter Pankapu]] wears a blue wizard robe that has a blue hood.
497* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/Persona5'' wears a gray hoodie with the hood up [[spoiler:after he fakes his death late in the game, since he has to stay incognito so the police and the Conspiracy don't realize the truth]].
498* ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'' incorporates hoods into several of its {{Cool Helmet}}s and Nice Hats. The Vanu Sovereignty's "Avalon", "Avalanche", and the Terran Republic's "Arctic Wolf" are all full helmets with a hood slung over them. For Nice Hats, the New Conglomerate's "Flux" and the TR's "Wraith" are heavy hoods with extra sensors built into the top, obscuring the wearer's face. None of the hooded headgears (or any helmets, for that matter) obscure the user's field of view.
499* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
500** [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Scrafty]] is based off a mohawk hoodie; it is made up of the shed skin of its pre-evolved form. Slightly subverted as it doesn't really wear the hood during battle, but they are fighting-type Pokémon and described as "hoodlums", so they have the attitude befitting the trope.
501** [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Decidueye]] is an archer with a hood-like structure around its head, complete with drawstrings it can use to tighten the hood and obscure its face. The hood helps it narrow its focus when aiming its [[TheStraightAndArrowPath Spirit Shackle arrows]]; said drawstrings also double as its bowstrings.
502* ''VideoGame/PrimalLight'': Sometimes, [[PlayerCharacter Krog]] will run into a green person in a brown hooded cloak. These people seem to be merchants who Krog can buy [[VideoGameLives extra lives]] from.
503* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', the main character, Alex Mercer, wears a hood to cover his face. This is because [[spoiler:the real]] Alex Mercer was wearing a hood [[spoiler:on his way to Penn Station]] because he was [[spoiler:on the run]]. In the game, Alex keeps wearing that hood because [[spoiler:that's what he was wearing when Blackwatch agents shot him dead]]. The Blacklight Virus simply [[spoiler:copied his appearance at the time of his death and made it his ShapeshifterDefaultForm]].
504%%* ''VideoGame/Psych2021'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why do the characters have hoodies, either in universe or out?)
505%%** One character [[PlayerCharacter Alex]] runs into in the park is a man in a grey hoodie. He can usually be seen sitting with his head facing the ground.
506%%** The killer wears a hoodie as well.
507* ''VideoGame/{{Pylons}}'': One character in the game is a mysterious figure wearing a hood that makes his face impossible to see. He usually runs up to the PlayerCharacter to give them some vague warning about the pylons.
508%%* ''VideoGame/QuantumReplica'': The PlayerCharacter of the game wears a hoodie as part of his outfit. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; for what reason, either in universe or out?)
509* In ''VisualNovel/ReflectionsOnTheRiver'', one is worn by Zheng the witch (who's the protagonist). Upon removing it, Zheng notes that it's "great for dramatic effect, but it sort of impaired my peripheral vision".
510* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
511** The hooded figure in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' that is with Wesker and Excella is [[spoiler:a BrainwashedAndCrazy Jill]]. The reason for the hood may be to hide [[spoiler:her radically changed hair color]] until the right time.
512** Lucas Baker from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'' appears to have always favored wearing hoodies, but after he becomes infected by the e-Mutamycete, he's never seen outside of his own personal playground without his hood up, reflecting his villainous status as a sneaky trickster who becomes [[SmugSnake cocky and complacent]] when the balance of power is stacked in his favor. His hood doesn't hide his face during play, but it completely casts his eyes in shadow above a nasty grin in the loading screen for the section of the game he serves as the arc boss of, enhancing his look of deviousness.
513* Tokugawa Ieyasu in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 3'' wears one, though it doesn't obscure his face. Considering his look and moveset is based on boxing, it could be due to this.
514%%* ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'': Plague Knight is shown to be wearing a hood outfit over his armor as part of his attire. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; for what reason, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
515%%* ''VideoGame/SkeletalAvenger'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
516%%** The sorcerer who resurrected [[DemBones the skeleton]] appears to be wearing a red hooded cloak.
517%%** These are worn by fire mages as well.
518* ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'': Prior to arriving on your ship and taking on their true form, the spirits all just look like the same sort of hooded figure that most of the generic [=NPC=]s are, but with an aura shaped like their animal selves. Buck and Daria are exceptions since they're already in their animal forms when Stella recruits them.
519* In the ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' series, Bandits of the more experienced ranks are clothed in black and/or brown hooded raincoats and are always seen with balaclavas covering their faces, unless if it's a named [=NPC=], who usually ditches either the balaclava or the hood, or both. They are the weakest armored experienced enemies in the games, and provide no reason wearing these coats other than to look cool.
520* ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'': Grandmaster Meio always wears a hood to look threatening.
521* Eshe from ''VideoGame/{{Sundered}}'' wears a white cloak with a matching hood. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as she was trekking through a desert in the middle of a sandstorm before getting pulled into the game's nightmarish world, and so would have needed protection from the elements.
522* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'':
523** [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon Belmont]] initially wears one in his trailer, both to protect himself from the rain outside [[HauntedCastle Dracula's Castle]] and to conceal his identity to viewers before doing a DramaticUnmask to reveal himself as a GuestFighter for the game.
524** [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Incineroar]] pulls a similar trick in his own trailer, though in that case it's one of those hooded robes that boxers wear when entering the ring (given that Incineroar is butting in on the aftermath of a boxing match between [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ken Masters]] and [[VideoGame/PunchOut Little Mac]]).
525%%* Subverters from the ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'' reboot wear hoods. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; for what reason, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
526%%* Zack "Half-Pipe" Boyd from ''VideoGame/TeenageZombiesInvasionOfTheAlienBrainThingys'' wears a red hood. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
527%%* ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why do they wear the hoods, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
528%%** The [[CastingAShadow skiakineticist]] class.
529%%** Bowmen also wear hoods, though it doesn't obscure their faces.
530%%** Sarn Kamina pulls off the entire hooded cloak image in the opening of the campaign, but she drops the hood when she reappears later on.
531%%* In ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'', the Beruga cultists wear hooded white robes. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
532* ''VideoGame/TheiaTheCrimsonEclipse'': Seth's unique action if placed at the front of the party is to put his hood on, just for RuleOfCool. During stealth missions, this affects the line-of-sight of certain guards, since some are more inclined to ignore him if he's hooded while others are more inclined to notice him.
533* The main character of the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series. Of course, everyone who needs to know who Garrett is already knows anyway.
534* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'': Referenced with the Bandit's Hood rare item.
535* ''[[VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan2005 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'': In one level, Peter has to spring into action when his costume isn't available to him, so he just puts the hood on his jacket over his head.
536%%* ''VideoGame/AWalkInTheWoods'': One of the kids you can play as wears a grey hoodie. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
537%%* ''VideoGame/WhiteNoise2'': Denali's default and hipster outfits have her wearing a hoodie. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
538* Red Riding Hood from ''VideoGame/WoolfeTheRedHoodDiaries''. Naturally, since she's Red Riding Hood.
539%%* The various unnamed Reapers in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' who bar your path with invisible walls, forcing you to complete tasks for them to proceed. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
540* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Amusingly played with. There are several types of hood, but about 70% of them don't cast any shadows over the face. About half of what is left is composed of larger hoods that also don't hide faces. Hilariously enough, most of the hoods that actually ''do'' cast shadows over the face are intended for ''priests'', and when examined with the rest of their matching gear sets, seem to have been made with ''holy'' priests in mind. Similarly, there's also a [[http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2011/september/season11_paladin_male.jpg properly sinister-looking high-level hood]] for ''Paladins''. There's one for Warlocks too, and Death Knights start with a face-concealing shadowy hood.
541%%** There are a lot of hoods in Outland and Northrend. Pretty much every cultist and many of the spellcasters wear hoods. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
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545%%* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Cody wears a green hoodie. He even has a separate character model for it when he has it pulled up.
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548[[folder:Web Comics]]
549%%* Sarda from ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. The mustache and shiny eyes are still visible, though.
550%%* ''Webcomic/{{Annyseed}}'': On page 19 we see that the sinister Coldsteem has adopted a hooded costume. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why does he have a hood, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
551* ''Webcomic/DemonseedRedux'': The BigBad wears a red cloak that completely shadows his face. [[spoiler:He later reveals to be rather similar to Chico, his son.]]
552* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', [[spoiler:Noah]] wears this along with a BlackCloak to conceal his identity as the one fans refer to as the "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-10-18 The Child Left Behind]]". It helps that he seems to be able to literally cloak himself in shadow too, obscuring almost all details other than his shape. (In later appearances [[spoiler:he has one glowing eye and Noah's bangs covering the other. So that's a bit of a clue.]])
553* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When Agatha's party arrives in Mechanicsburg, they try a BlackCloak with hood [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070416 to sneak in]]. They're stopped immediately by the guards looking for Agatha. Luckily, the heroes were smart enough to put Zeetha in the hood, even using her green hair color as an excuse why she was wearing the hood in the first place. The guards conclude that it's the wrong girl and let them go, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070418 while Agatha watches from a distance]].
554* № 4 from ''Webcomic/{{Hellp}}'' likes to disappear into his black hoodie. For personal reasons.
555* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', hoods (or [[StealthPun god-hoods]]) are a standard part of the clothing of those who have [[CameBackStrong ascended to the God Tiers]]. They vary significantly in design -- a Seer's is a normal hood, but a Knight's is a close-fitting coif, while a Witch's is split and looks like a pair of stockings. Some are even more abstract; a Bard's isn't even a hood but a conical hat.
556* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Scarlet wears one to hide her horns and make herself look more human.
557%%* ''Webcomic/TheMonsterUnderTheBed'': Shadow wears one most of the time. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
558* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
559** Donning the hood of his green cloak is apparently all that's needed for Belkar to use his Hide skill. Examples include [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0107.html #107]] and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0469.html #469]].
560** Miko Miyazaki wears a hood in her first handful of appearances, allowing for a SamusIsAGirl [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0200.html moment]] when it gets knocked off.
561%%* ''Webcomic/PowerOfEther'' has Blake, who is always wearing a full-body green cloak, with a hood covering her head.
562%%* The uniform of choice for the Mysterious Cloak Guys in ''Webcomic/PrismaticVodka''.
563%%* ''Reverie'''s Bronjay and Bronwen are never seen without their gray hoodies.
564* ''Webcomic/RumorsOfWar'': Appearing in Chapter 8 is a character by the name of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Manaus]]. He wears a brown cloak complete with a hood, which obscures everything but his eyes, creating an implausible, yet creepy effect akin to ScaryShinyGlasses. He's implied by context to be a DevilInPlainSight.
565* In ''{{Webcomic/Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-13 the executioner]] in the dungeon Squigly falls to wears a medieval black executioner's hood to convey his profession to the reader.
566* Oasis from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' subverts LittleDeadRidingHood in her red hoodie, which eventually develops a reputation of its own among the underworld. With the hood up, she's much less conspicuous.
567%%* Endorsi, Ghost, and [[spoiler: Rachel]] during their introduction in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.
568* Duane from ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' constantly wears a hood because he's a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent galit]] and the glamour that keeps him looking human is broken by eye contact. In his case, being unhooded would actually draw more attention to himself. And mobs.
569* ''Webcomic/VampireGirl'': The Vampiress' robe features a hood that darkens and obscures her face from the nose up; her lackeys, Saul and Paul were initially introduced as ConspicuousTrenchcoat varieties.
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573* In ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfTaras The Chronicles of Taras: Red Dementia]]'', Ghost, an albino girl, wears a black hoodie to protect from the sub-freezing temperatures of the black desert and the bright sunlight.
574* In the webserial ''Literature/TheDescendants'', the character Occult wears a hood that magically covers her face in shadow. Subverted due to the fact that under the hood, a glamour makes her look Nordic instead of Hispanic.
575%%* The servants of Lord WebOriginal/{{Inglip}} wear distinctive red hoods when receiving their master's commands. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what is the reason for the hoods, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
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578[[folder:Web Videos]]
579* ''LetsPlay/HoboBros'': Parodied in [[https://youtu.be/fvOZ7_EZwJU "SM64 Halloween Mayhem"]]. Luke, wearing a hoodie, claims that he's dressed as a "scary hobo" for Halloween.
580* Ultimately the most important character whose identity is initially hidden in ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' is the Hooded Man, also known as [[spoiler:Brian Thomas, aka totheark, one of the most famous parts of the series]]. [[DullSurprise This was a surprise to anyone who bothered watching the video that revealed it.]] [[BlatantLies No, really.]]
581* ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'':
582** Spectre plays with this in his webseries and novel first appearances. His gaming avatar is wearing a face-concealing hood, but his identity gets revealed (to those who read the novels) when the cursor donning the name of a retired LivingLegend appears over his head at the end of his battle against Ystos.
583** The Season 1 [[QuestGiver quest givers]] and the [[EliteMook Soulless]] [[spoiler:who are actually the same group of people]] have this for pure identity-concealing purposes.
584%%** Game Masters just have a hood big enough to hide their face in the webseries, but the comic gives them shorter hoods and faces hidden in shadow except for glowing red eyes. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why do they hide their faces?)
585* ''LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys''' Lord Dona'tor uses a red hood [[SarcasmMode to extremely effectively]] hide his identity.
586* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows is constantly -- you guessed it -- shrouded in darkness, which makes the hood a bit of a redundancy but also gives him a very unique look. His Twitter profile pic is even [[Comicstrip/{{Peanuts}} Schroeder]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1519611811/28809km_400x400.jpg in said get-up]]. The hoodie actually hides nothing out of the shadows, though, so in his own videos, if he's required to be out of the darkness, his back is to the camera. In crossovers, he wears a black piece of fabric completely obscuring his face from the nose up, eyes included.
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589[[folder:Western Animation]]
590* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'':
591** Marcy Wu always wears her school hoodie and never once took it off while on Earth. In Amphibia, her outfit features a hood that she occasionally has put up.
592** One of [[spoiler:King Andrias' former friends, Leif, also wore a light brown hood as part of her normal outfit.]]
593* Malachia from ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'' hides himself from people by wearing a gray-black hoodie with yellow eyes.
594* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
595** Zuko does this mostly just because he's melodramatic like that.
596** At one point Aang tries to pull his robe up over his head [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead cornholio-style]] as a "disguise".
597* The supervillain [[ObviouslyEvil Grim Reaper]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' wears a hooded cape that covers his eyes to reinforce the motif that his name implies.
598* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': At the end of "Long Goodbye", [[ArchEnemy Chip Whistler]] appears plotting his revenge while wearing a hoodie over his head. The only thing visible is a SlasherSmile with his trademark gap.
599* Barbara Gordon/Batgirl from ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'' always wears her purple bat-eared hoodie in her civilian identity. Diana of Themyscira initially donned a hooded black cloak when she wanted to move through populated areas without being disturbed, but she gets accosted by a truancy officer in the very first episode. Karen Beecher even explains to Diana that Diana was trying too hard to avoid drawing attention.
600%%* ''WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s'': No-Heart.
601* Death from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes the form of TheGrimReaper, and so has the requisite black hood associated with him.
602* Hooded sweatshirts are probably the most common means of identity concealment for wrongdoers on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}''.
603* The Grim Reaper from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' wears the whole hood/shroud deal, but it doesn't cover his face.
604* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'', Keldor initially sports this look after the TimeSkip following his failed attempt to claim the Elders' power in the prologue. After using his new magical powers to defeat Randor in their rematch, he pulls the hood back and reveals his new identity as Skeletor.
605%%* The evil Daedalus from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHercules'', who usually ends each episode being dragged off by said hood. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why does he wear it, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
606* The Mysterious Figure in ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' keeps most of his face hidden with a hood. He's eventually revealed to not only be [[spoiler:Professor Venomous, but also KO's father]].
607* Hoods are very common in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
608** Luz herself usually a hoodie with cat ears, which she often pulls over her head when she's feeling vunerable or is trying to be cute.
609** The Hexside school uniform has a black hooded tunic, though very few students are actually shown wearing it up (in fact, it'd be pretty much impossible for many of the demon students to do so due to their oddly shaped heads).
610** Members of the Emperor's Coven and the heads of the other nine main covens all have white hooded cloaks. Unlike at Hexside, coven members pretty much always have their hoods up, though the only coven head we see doing so is ironically [[MoleInCharge the most trustworthy one]].
611** Luz and Amity spend a good chunk of "Any Sport in a Storm" chasing after a hooded figure that they belive to be the author of ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Good Witch Azura]]''. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Tiny Nose wearing stilts.]]
612** "Hollow Mind" features three members of the rebellion who spend the entire episode wearing cloaks and never speaking a single word. Despite this, there's more than enough clues for the audience to immediately ID them as [[spoiler:Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf]].
613%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pandamonium}}'': The villain Mondraggor wears a purple cloak with a hood.
614%%* ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSketch'': There are a couple of examples.
615%%** One of the street rappers wears a green hoodie.
616%%** Captain Gagtastic has a purple hoodie draped over his head and down his back.
617%%* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'': The King of Shadows appears as a giant hooded figure when Rainbow finally confronts him. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; why does he wear it, either in universe or from a design standpoint?)
618* ''WesternAnimation/SantasChristmasCrash'': The desert robe SantaClaus changes into is revealed to have a hood when he gets back into the sky during a storm. When he's in it, he pulls the hood over his head as a form of protection.
619%%* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'': Shadow Weaver.
620* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Nemesis, who wears a hood over his face because it's so scary to look at. He will even remove the hood to show his face in order to scare his victims into submission.
621%%** The druid leader in "The Smurfs' Time Capsule". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
622%%** Hefty in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol'' starts off as this in his role as the Smurf Of Christmas Future.
623* Kenny from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has his face permanently obscured by the hood of his parka. Voice too, though apparently none of the main characters have a problem understanding him. In a few episodes, as well as the movie, we've been permitted a glimpse of what's underneath, but he definitely belongs here. He also adopts a face-obscuring hood when disguised as [[spoiler:Mysterion]] (or at least one that hides his hair).
624* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', "Fulcrum" communicates with Hera and Chopper via holograms rendering their appearance as a hooded figure with all features obscured, along with using a voice scrambler, until "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E13FireAcrossTheGalaxy Fire Across the Galaxy]]" reveals that Fulcrum is [[spoiler:Ahsoka Tano. Usually hoods don't disguise her head cones/montrals, but this version did.]]
625* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[EvilOverlord Blue Diamond]] wears a hooded veil, [[HiddenEyes concealing her eyes]] and making her look somewhere between a feminine [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Sidious]] and an [[LightIsNotGood evil]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Virgin Mary]].
626* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}''. When supervillain Queen Clitoris first makes an appearance she's hidden under a hood, solely so Stripperella can make the inevitable DoubleEntendre.
627* Raven from ''Franchise/TeenTitans'':
628** In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', she wears an outfit that includes a blue cape and hood. She's not disguising her identity, though, because that's a bit hard to do when you have purple hair and a big red gem encrusted in the middle of your forehead. Nor does she seem to have a problem being seen with her hood down in public places, either; it's just part of her superhero ''chic''.
629** In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', her hood is ''always'' up. However, later episodes have begun to avert it every now and then.
630%%* [[BigBad Mumm-ra]] from [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 both]] ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' series wears a hood while in his ShapeshifterDefaultForm, though it doesn't usually cover his entire face.
631* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': The Red Wizard in the Season 3 episode "Madman's Paradise" appears to be an old man wearing a red hooded cloak. It's actually a [[StarFishAliens Quintesson]].
632* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': Haggar still wears a hood as part of her dress, and part of the reason why is to hide [[spoiler:her Altean ears and other traits that pass her off as Altean. She drops the hood after returning from Oriande and resuming her Altean appearance]].
633%%* Chloe Park from ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears''.
634* In ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' we have Jim, who wears a hoodie with a hook-like design. [[spoiler:Jim is revealed in the season finale to be a rejuvenated [[Literature/PeterPan Captain Hook]], making the purpose of the hood to hint towards his identity.]]
635* Nightcrawler wears a trenchcoat with a hood during his introduction in the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' episode "[[Recap/XMenEvolutionS1E1StrategyX Strategy X]]" to hide his demonic appearance.
636* Miss Martian from ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' occasionally wears a stealth outfit that includes a hooded cloak. She usually doesn't wear the hood up unless she's using her [[VisibleInvisibility camouflage powers]].
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639[[folder:Real Life]]
640* TruthInTelevision: Hoodies. Many shops in the UK have banned them, and in the US some businesses at high-risk for robbery (liquor stores, gas stations/convenience stores, banks) have a sign on the door stating "Hoods or face obscuring headgear must be removed prior to entry", or some variation.
641* A partial example occurs with this in regards to [[TheExecutioner medieval executioners]] and their hoods. They were usually depicted in contemporary art as bald and pox-ridden or scarred, but never with hoods. The association probably came about due to the fact that after the English Civil War, no one wanted to execute the king, so the executioner disguised himself with a black hood in order to protect his identity, and later on pieces of art made this standard even in settings where it would have made no sense.
642* The white, pointy, face-concealing hood has become all but emblematic of the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, who frequently used them when engaging in cross-burnings and other acts of terror.
643* The iconic police sketch of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Which is how the poker player Phil Laak got the nickname "The Unabomber", as he always wears a hoodie and sunglasses similar to Ted Kaczynski. He wears them to make it harder to read his facial expressions.
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