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A high, flared collar is a common item worn by characters with mystical powers (whether magic, [[PsychicPowers ESP]], or something else).

This was long part of the look for people passing themselves off as mystics (along with turbans, head scarves, and crystal balls). Also, a high collar that fully concealed a wearer's head from behind was useful in certain stage-magic tricks that employ body-doubles. So this showed up in fiction for mystical characters.

A SisterTrope to HighCollarOfDoom (and overlaps with mystical villains), RobeAndWizardHat.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Shiroe in ''Anime/LogHorizon'' is an enchanter and strategist sporting a [[RobeAndWizardHat white and gold high collared cloak]].
* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Seijuro Hiko, Kenshin's instructor (and one of the only people in the world with any knowledge of the Hiten Mitsurugi style of martial arts/swordsmanship) wears a coat with a high collar like this. (It's a ShoutOut to the below-mentioned ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}''.) The coat is weighted, so that he can keep up with the amount of muscle-training the Hiten Mitsurugi style normally requires. At one point, he even confers it on Kenshin, who ends up not taking it.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ComicBook/DoctorFate, a supernatural magician, has high collars as part of his cape in some versions of his costume.
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange, sometime Sorcerer Supreme, wears a blue robe with a high collar, and his red cloak has an even taller one that forms two "horns" over his shoulders.
* ''ComicBook/IronFist'', a SupernaturalMartialArts master, wore an extended collar until recently. Though the reasoning behind it was more [[FadSuper due to the fashion]] [[{{Disco}} of the times]].
%%* Black Racer of ''ComicBook/NewGods'' sometimes has a high collar around his head as part of the black armor he always wears.
* ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'''s cape has a ridiculous collar for a sentient, hell-made cape.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The FallenHero villain the White Magician is a magic user who wears a red-lined white cape with a popped collar that reaches just past the top of his ears.
* Subverted with ''Comicbook/TheFlash'' villain Abra Kadabra, who wears a cloak with an absurdly high collar as part of ''posing'' as a magic user, when he's actually a former StageMagician from the 64th century, with access to SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. Played straight after he sells his soul for real magic in ''Comicbook/UnderworldUnleashed''.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Madame Suliman in ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' is the chief sorcerer to the king, and to fit her high position she wears a fancy dress with a [[PrettyInMink fur-trimmed high collar]].
* Schmendrick is a bumbling magician in the film of ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'' and wears [[http://theblackletters.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/book-tluni-schmen.jpg a flared out collar on his cape.]]
* The evil fairy Maleficent of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' wears a black robe with a high collar.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Trixie's ImpracticallyFancyOutfit for the final concert sports an elaborate high collar, fitting with her CuteWitch thematic.
%%** Twilight's scenic costume also includes one. Note that it's the only Rainbooms outfit that does.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The wish-granting Zoltar machine in ''Film/{{Big}}'' includes a bust of a bearded guy with a high collar.
* In the 1931 ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' film, Creator/BelaLugosi as Dracula sports a high-collared cape. And as in the book, his vampire abilities are supernatural, such as the ability to shapeshift and shroud people's minds.
* Mestema of ''Film/TheDungeonmaster'' is an EvilSorcerer who wears an extremely wide collar on his cloak.
* Jareth from ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' has several powers, as he is the Goblin King, including many illusion powers. He has two outfits featuring high collars -- the shining black one when he first appears, and the red leather jacket with the really high collar when he appears in the tunnels.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''[[Literature/{{Deryni}} King Kelson's Bride]]'', Liam wears a "long, high-collared coat all of pure white wool save for the black Furstáni hart emblazoned on his breast" for his magical investiture as ''padishah'' (called the ''killijálay'').
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* When wearing formal attire, the Time Lords of ''Series/DoctorWho'' sport an ornate cloak-and-high-collar combination.
* Pick any magic user in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' and chances are they routinely wear a high collar, especially if they are villainous. More specifically, magic-users Regina, Rumplestiltskin, and Cora all sport high collars in their most iconic outfits.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Module T1 ''The Village of Hommlet''. The costume of the magic-user Burne demonstrates this, as shown in [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eyAJCfURfCk/SwYOVNg-8aI/AAAAAAAAAVk/FMBYIywBmRI/s1600/rufusandburne.jpg this picture]] of him and his friend Rufus.
** Module L1 ''The Secret of Bone Hill''. The cover features a female mage wearing a red bodysuit with a high collar, as seen [[http://www.lordkilgore.com/wordpress/u/2011/03/bone-hill-image-400x281.jpg here]]. We know she's a mage because she's blasting another spellcaster with a Lightning Bolt spell, causing XRaySparks.
%%* ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'': This is popular among Cymrillian wizards.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** The 2nd Edition models for Psykers have high, flaring and decorated coat collars about twice as tall as their wearers' heads.
** The Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels, Mephiston, has a [[AmplifierArtifact psychic hood]] built into his armour, and it resembles one of these. Given the Blood Angels' love of blood-related imagery, it also doubles as a reference to the ClassicalMovieVampire archetype.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* In the framing scenes that open and close ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', Glinda's dress has a high collar that doesn't seem attached to her dress.
* A major stage adaptation of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' in the 1920s gave Dracula a cape with a high collar for purposes of the kind of stage-magic trickery mentioned in the trope description. The cape went on to become part of the popular image of Dracula by way of the 1931 film which used the stage version as its basis.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Several of the Mesmer outfits in ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' have high collars, some even [[DownplayedTrope just slightly flared out]].
* The wizard classes in ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' often include high collars, [[http://img.playragnarok.com/downloads/wallpapers/wallpaper_76_1280.jpg including]] their [[PrettyInMink fur-lined]] [[PimpedOutCape capes]].
* Concept art for Ganondorf made for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' shows the [[https://p.pngkite.com/spng/91-914676.png dark wizard with a massive collar.]]
* A number of magic-using classes in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' have armor sets including collars as high as the back of the character's head.
* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', Arthur wears a cape with a very large, high collar and is never seen without his star-shaped spellbook, though he speaks very little of magic. Kiel talks about magic quite often, but only has a small collar on his capelet.
* When ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' released their Super Booster II: Magic costume pack, one of the new pieces was a [[http://paragonwiki.com/w/images//a/a8/SB2_Male_High_Collar_Collar_Basic_Front.jpg high collar for capes.]]
* The witch cloak in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has a popped up collar. Though any class can wear it, it was initially worn by a witch NPC.
* Invoker from ''VideoGame/Dota2'' wears a massive popped collar. Based on the original Invoker from Defense of the Ancients, which used the Blood Mage model from 'VideoGame/WarcraftIII''. Invoker is a particularly powerful wizard, able to memorize ten spells where most mages could handle two, and is near immortal. Pugna, in the same game, is an undead mage who has an absurdly popped collar.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'': [[EvilSorcerer Warlocks]], [[ADungeonIsYou your]] primary spellcasting units, wear robes with [[HighCollarOfDoom collars higher than their heads]] for easy identification.
* Sumireko Usami's cloak in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has a large collar on it, accentuating her strong psychic powers. It's a lot shorter in ''Violet Detector'' than it is in the fighting games, but still noticable.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/AgentsOfTheRealm'', stylish high collars seem to be part of uniform for Old World [[MagicalGirlWarrior agents]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'', Gaea, a SummonMagic user, has a high collar as part of her late Season 4 / Season 5 / fourth novel outfit.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', The Great and Powerful Trixie wears a cape with a flared collar. As she's more of a stage magician than a spellcaster like Twilight Sparkle is, this is an obvious attempt to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] the look.
* Orpheus the magician in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', since he's an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/DoctorStrange and wears the same outfit.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Underground singer Music/KlausNomi began wearing high collars and [[RegalRuff ruffs]] in the early 1980s. This was partly to go along with his interest in Renaissance music at that time and to add to the mystique of the otherworldly persona he adopted onstage, but mostly to hide the lesions on his neck caused by the AIDS-related [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi_sarcoma Kaposi's sarcoma]] that would eventually kill him in 1983.
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