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->''Honestly i kind of just want to see his skull like is it, solid where there would be eyes and a nose.''
-->-- ''gameranx''

The human brain is hardwired to recognize faces. Humans will even see faces where there are none, such as TheManInTheMoon. So there is something very disturbing about a person without a face. Meet The Blank.

The Blank is a humanoid character with no face. Perhaps it is a disguise to unsettle opponents. Perhaps they were a victim of [[FaceStealer some entity that steals faces]], a common form of TransformationHorror. Or perhaps they're [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking just that good at poker]]. How the character is able to see, breathe and talk without eyes, a nose or a mouth is not likely to be resolved -- although robots, aliens and monsters might [[BizarreAlienSenses have an easier time justifying this]].

While TheNoseless or NoMouth characters often have part-time facial features with SuddenAnatomy, this seems to happen less often with The Blank. Presumably, The Blank is generally done for dramatic impact, while those others are sometimes simply for creator convenience. It might also be a consequence of running into a FaceStealer.

Not to be confused with TheFaceless, which is where a character's face is hidden from view rather than nonexistent. Compare FacelessEye and EyelessFace. TheNondescript might as well not have a face, given how tough theirs is to recall. See also MalevolentMaskedMen and its extra-blank subtrope WhiteMaskOfDoom.

Has nothing to do with ''VideoGame/StoryOfTheBlanks'', or with ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' AntiMagic.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031062/Faceless-aliens-spotted-crowd-Wimbledon.html A PR campaign for a new car from Lotus had faceless people turning up at public events in the UK.]]
* Advertising/{{Pepsiman}}, Pepsi's mascot (Japan only).
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6AM6aJjYvc This anti mobile theft ad]] from Protect Your Data.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The Pict in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' are an entire species of faceless aliens.
* A one-shot character's face was not drawn for most of the chapter in ''Manga/ChibisanDate''.
* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' had a gadget who erases faces used in one episode, where the faces are then redrawn with a special gadget pen. Nobita tried using this gadget to make himself more "handsome" to impress Shizuka (getting an artist friend of his to sketch his new face) but inevitably Gian and Suneo found out about it. Eventually, the three of them decide, screw that, they'll have the artist redraw from scratch… but alas, said artist broke his drawing arm in an accident, which Nobita and gang doesn't find out until ''after'' erasing all their faces.
* Canti from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' has a [[TVHeadRobot TV for a head]]. However, he expresses emotions well enough with gestures.
* Truth from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is blank all over, save when his face is contorting into a sadistic grin, or when some poor idiot is about to lose a chunk of himself to it.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'':
** One of Naraku's incarnations starts off this way, until he starts stealing people's faces (leaving them faceless and dead).
** There is also the Un-Mother in the episode when Sesshomaru first appears, a faceless woman who impersonates Inuyasha's mother in an attempt to steal his soul.
* Symbolic example in ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic:'' when Alibaba meets his father, [[spoiler:the King of Balbadd]], his face (and hands) are shown as blank [[FaceFramedInShadow darkness]]. Later, on his deathbed, Alibaba finally asks [[spoiler:the King]] if he ever really loved Alibaba's mother; when he confirms that he did, his face is suddenly revealed.
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', practically every OZ [[HumongousMecha Mobile Suit]] has a face dominated by a flat, square camera sensor. This takes on another dimension later in the series, when the [[MechaMooks Mobile Dolls]] are introduced.
* In ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'', Queen Legravalima's final form has a head with no discernable face. In addition to it being incredibly creepy, especially coupled with her [[TranquilFury incredibly calm and relaxed posture and way of speaking]], this form gives her a ''very'' rapid HealingFactor that covers her entire body--the only surefire way to kill a demon is to GoForTheEye--meaning she has no weaknesses.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Like [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Decoy Octopus]], one Shinomori Aoshi's {{ninja}} EliteMook named Hanya more or less destroyed his own face so that he can be a MasterOfDisguise.
* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': A Millennial Thief who kidnaps Hajime has a solid round black head [[spoiler:which turns out to be a mask Selene wears]]. In later appearances the face at least has a shape.
* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'', one makeup-themed MonsterOfTheWeek accidentally erased her own face. She was trying to draw it back with eyebrow pencil on when Sailor Moon zapped her.
* In the first season OP of ''Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', female students are shown with facial features blanked out and various kanji written on them.
* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': "''[[LampshadeHanging WHEN DID THIS]] [[FacelessMasses FACELESS MOB]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall OF EXTRAS START CHASING ME!?]]"''
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': One of the defining traits of the ganmen robots is that they have large faces. Thus, when the enemy [[spoiler: Anti-Spiral]] robots show up, the Gurren Brigade are visibly disturbed that ''they don't have faces.''
* In ''Manga/IThinkOurSonIsGay'', this trope is used twice to indicate a ''hypothetical'' person as [[OpenMindedParent Tomoko]] thinks about something. In Chapter 18, it's [[AmbiguouslyGay Daigo]]'s hypothetical girlfriend when the potential of IncompatibleOrientation is discussed, and the second time is in Chapter 40, when Tomoko admits she considered what is a "happy family" for her children at one point, this appears as [[TransparentCloset Hiroki]]'s hypothetical wife.
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[[folder:Arts]]
* Giorgio de Chirico made spooky use of featureless mannequins in several of his {{paintings}}, including "The Disquieting Muses."
* Several {{sculptures}} by Kevin Francis Gray are of metallic human figures with their faces hidden by waves of what might be cloth, or might simply not have faces at all. In particular, "Face Off", "Pearly Girl & Pearly Boy", and "Hold Tight" give off this impression.
* René Magritte used faceless, suited figures in many of his paintings as well. However, "Son of Man" is not an example, as though the subject may appear, at first glance, to be faceless, if you look closely you can see a single eyebrow and part of an eye.
* ''Art/TheScream'': The central character has no hair, nose, [[NoBrows eyebrows]], or ears, further accentuating the eerie sensation of its excruciating and distorted expression. The two figures in the background also don't have distinguishable features.
* Art/VenusOfWillendorf has no visible face. While her breasts and her vagina is quite detailed, her head is covered in small bumps that can be seen as [[BlindingBangs hair hanging in her face]] or as artistic license.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
** A very early story (''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'' #34, 1939) features a man whose face has been erased by the villain. Weirdly he could still speak and there is no indication in the story that the condition is reversible. Hilariously, he hardly even seems to care. He scares Bruce Wayne in the first few panels, but both men shrug it off like he just stepped on his foot or something.
** Another one-shot Batman villain is Dr. No-Face. No prizes for guessing what his gimmick is.
** Particularly disturbing is another No-Face (no relation to the guy above) appearing in ''Battle for the Cowl: Arkham Asylum'', where he tops off an already creepy comic [[spoiler:by painting his face to look like the Joker]]. ''Why'' he has no face is even more disturbing; he glued a ceremonial mask on (long story) and his father ''tore it off'' when he saw him wearing it. (It later turns out, however, that [[spoiler:he doesn't exist, and Jeremiah Arkham has been hallucinating all of his "special" patients]]. Whether that makes him ''more'' or ''less'' disturbing is another question...)
* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'': The series portray {{God}} as this.
* ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'': The Anti-Monitor briefly causes the Psycho-Pirate to lose his face in order to bring him to submission.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': There was a group of faceless people inhabiting a jungle valley in Creator/CarlBarks's Uncle Scrooge story named ''The Many Faces of Magica de Spell''.
* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'': One strip gives us Shayde, whose head is a featureless black sphere.
** And the faceless children from "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night".
** A ''Doctor Whoa'' strip speculated that the reason for the Tenth Doctor's regeneration would be having his face worn away from too much kissing.
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': During Creator/GrantMorrison's run, Flex Mentallo describes a number of his former teammates in one issue. Among them is the Fact, whose appearance and name are a clear homage to/parody of ComicBook/TheQuestion. The Fact goes on to feature (sort of) in [[ComicBook/FlexMentallo Flex's own miniseries]].
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The Awesome Android is an artificial person with a blank grey cube for a head. He can't talk, and when he appears working in a law firm in the pages of ''ComicBook/SheHulk'', he uses a [[TalkingWithSigns chalkboard to communicate]]. He later upgrades to a modern tablet device that connects to his CPU via Wi-Fi; one wonders why he continued to communicate via text at that point, rather than acquiring a text-to-voice application.
* ''ComicBook/TheHeckler'': John Doe, the Generic Man, is not just blank-faced, his body is an outline with a plain white interior. His face sometimes has a description of his emotions where the mouth should be. He can turn anything he touches equally featureless (but labeled).
* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': Johnny Sorrow has no human face... but [[BrownNote pull aside his mask and you die]].
* ''ComicBook/LoriLovecraft'': The demon Trifoms in ''Lori Lovecraft: The Big Comeback'' has no features on his head (just some vague protuberances), but [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes]] and a BellyMouth on his torso.
* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': The android Zero.
* ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'': Megaman.
* ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}'': The Global Peace Agents use masks to make themselves appear blank-faced. In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', the new [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Question]], Renee Montoya, appears to become the first Global Peace Agent. The implication is that the blank-face masks worn by all Peace Agents in O.M.A.C.'s future are based on the Question's mask (and probably use a "later generation" of the same technology).
* ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}'': In the original ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'', one storyline had Halo having a recurring nightmare where her face was pulled off like a mask, revealing her to be faceless underneath.
* ''ComicBook/TheQuestion'': The Question could be considered the TropeCodifier. It's [[DependingOnTheWriter usually]] a mask, but he likes giving people [[CutHimselfShaving absurd explanations]] when they ask about it.
* ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'': Ruby Thursday of the Headmen is a sexy MadScientist with [[NonHumanHead a shape-shifting blob of red plastic for a head]]; its resting state is a featureless sphere. The closest she ever gets to having a face is a pair of glowing "eye" dots that only appear when she needs to indicate which direction she's looking.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': A Marvel-published issue dealt with a faceless phantom trying to scare an inventor into giving up his plans for a teleportation device. Turns out the phantom, when unmasked, was a schmuck who feared teleportation devices would render airlines obsolete and he wouldn't be able to see the stewardesses. And the clincher was the inventor's teleportation device was phony. Shaggy puts on the featureless mask and cracks an obvious joke:
-->'''Shaggy:''' That man tricked us. I have lost face.\\
'''Scooby:''' [[LamePunReaction Ouch!]]
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Chameleon has no face of his own when not impersonating someone.
* ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'': One alien scheme involved an alien "healer" plant, which killed people by making their skin overgrow their mouth and nostrils, leaving the faces of their corpses covered only with skin.
* ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'':
** The Faceless Fiend can transfer features or body parts from others onto his featureless form, leaving blank flesh on his victim in its place. This also somehow kills his victims.
** The Dimensional Man, a minor villain in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse created by Creator/SteveDitko, who also created ComicBook/TheQuestion.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': While most of them have some kind of recognizable humanoid features, a fair few Transformers essentially have ''no'' facial features beyond a [[CyberCyclops single glowing eye]], such as [[BloodKnight Whirl]] (who at least benefits from an ExpressiveMask) and [[TheSpock Shockwave]]; the IDW comics explained this as being a form of deliberate mutilation used as punishment. Somehow, [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vos_%28DJD%29 a more traditionally Blank Transformer face]] can become [[NightmareFace profoundly disturbing]].
** Other characters have a visor-and-faceplate arrangement, such as Chromedome, Tailgate and Rewind, which gives the general outline of eyes but no other details (although ExpressiveMask is sometimes in place, and Tailgate starts venting energy while under stress that gives the impression of tears). It's confirmed that this ''usually'' means a lack of a traditional mouth, since the lack of lips means that Chromedome has been trying and failing to make a dismissive "pfft" noise for ''four million years''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Rorschach, the CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/TheQuestion, a particularly weird example because of the shifting patterns of his mask. It seems like you should be able to project facial expressions onto it, but you can't.
* ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'': The original miniseries features a villain who ''calls'' himself "The Blank" (picking it up from a bystander in the bank he's robbing at the time), a petty thief with nothing but a pistol and a stolen force field belt that makes him bulletproof, hard to grab, and makes his entire body look like a light gray silhouette when active. After escaping the newly-formed team in their first encounter, he entirely sensibly decides that he is badly outclassed against "real" superheroes and should leave town ASAP -- unfortunately for him, other events prevent him from doing so, leading to his eventual apparent DisneyVillainDeath.
* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'': In one of the early issues, Will dreams that she's woken and looked in the mirror to find that she has no face! Then she tries to [[FaceDoodling draw one on]] with a black marker before being woken up.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth Vol. 5]]: When Deimos and Phobos steal the soul of Veronica Cale's daughter, she's left with no facial features. Luckily, she doesn't need to eat or breathe in this state, but she's left entirely unresponsive, including not aging alongside the other kids her age.
* ''ComicBook/XStatix'': The villain Mr. Code has a [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Question]]-style featureless mask with a [[ScannableMan barcode printed on it]].
* Yor, the Faceless Hunter from Saturn, an obscure Creator/DCComics space villain best known for his appearance on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. His people have evolved all their facial features away; [[BizarreAlienBiology their ears expanded and took in visual information, they smelled with their skin]] and also photosynthesized through it while developing telepathy for communication.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': [[TropeNamers The Blank]], a.k.a. Frankie "Faceless" Redrum, considered to be the first true {{supervillain}} that Dick Tracy fought, was a disfigured criminal who hid his hog-like face behind a featureless, flesh-colored cloth mask attached to his face. In the ''Film/DickTracy'' [[TheMovie live-action film]], in which the character is downgraded/retrofitted as a generic vigilante alter ego of [[spoiler:FemmeFatale [[GenderFlip Breathless Mahoney]] (conceived mainly to eliminate Big Boy Caprice's gang so that she can have Dick Tracy)]], the mask is changed to a generic stocking mask and [[spoiler:Mahoney]] simply talking in a husky voice.
** Interestingly, [[EnsembleDarkhorse even though Redrum hardly appeared in the strip at all, the Blank became one of Tracy's most intriguing and iconic foes]] -- so much so that, when plans were first made in the 1980s to do a movie version, the Blank was the very first villain that the screenwriters thought to include.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fic ''The Avatar's Love'' by RainAndRoses, Aang has his face stolen by [[FaceStealer Koh]]. Katara then has several nightmares throughout the story, most of which end with her uncovering Aang's face only to reveal that it's completely blank.
* [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] fic ''Fanfic/ByTheFiresLight'' features the tall, dark, and faceless Slender Man as the antagonist.
* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos The Slender Men]] have blank white mask like faces. Somehow, they can still shriek. And yes, ''men''. There are thousands of them and for added NightmareFuel, they can shapeshift, they can fly, they travel by shadows, they're mercenaries from [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles the Winter Court]] and implied to be the children of something ''even worse''.
* The Face is a comic book parody character used in short stories of comic book fan fiction by Ben del Mundo. He was created on November 20, 2004, and was inspired by the DC Comics character, the Question. His attire consists of a costume of gray, complete with trenchcoat, fedora, pants, and gloves. In addition he wears a faceless mask in order "to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies" and uses his journalistic investigative skills to solve crimes.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13601236/1/Five-Minutes-to-Save-the-World Five Minutes to Save the World]]'' Hermione used human experimentation to create supposed super-soldiers known as the Faceless. As a punishment by magic for going against the natural order of things, every one of them is ''literally'' faceless.
* VideoGame/FromTheFog: One of the alternate skins that Herobrine may use is the default skin completely devoid of facial features.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', Lola's nightmare involves parts of her face falling off until she has no face.
* One of the dominant villains of ''Fanfic/TheOtherworldAnthology'' is The Hatter, an evil version of the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' character with no face save for a pair of bulging eyes.
* In the long ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fic ''Sink to the Bottom With You'', our heroes face up against faceless soldiers, among other similar horrors cooked up by Hojo and hiding out in the Midgar Sewers.
* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'' has a temporary example in Episode 15, when Leafa refuses to believe that Kirito's mission to rescue Asuna isn't some sort of prank at her expense, and [[VirtualRealityWarper Yui]] demonstrates just what she can do with her admin privileges - giving Leafa several seconds to [[AndIMustScream try to scream]] when her eyes, nose and mouth are deleted from her avatar.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Radio from ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'', who for some reason, unlike all of the other appliance characters in the film, actually lacked a face.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'': President Business rubs off Good Cop's face so Bad Cop won't be hindered by his morality. Luckily, Bad Cop later crudely restores it with a marker upon his HeelFaceTurn.
* Just pick any of ''WesternAnimation/TheMindsEye'' series, and you're guaranteed to find at least one humanoid figure lacking a face and, much more frequently, [[BarbieDollAnatomy anatomy]]. One submission in the first in the series even goes as far as to lack the ''blank itself'', reducing the character's head to a thin ring.
* The Princesses Rhyme and Reason in the Creator/ChuckJones animated version of ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'', as well as the Terrible Trivium, as in the literature version mentioned below.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'': The epilogue features Willem Dafoe's character being surrounded by a large group of faceless female spirits who walk through the forest, ignoring him.
* The mysterious navigator androids aboard the ''Cygnus'' in ''Film/TheBlackHole''.
* In ''Film/BloodAndBlackLace'', the killer wears a featureless white mask, as part of his CoatHatMask ensemble.
* The killer in ''Film/TheBoogeyman1980'' is described as this, though he's really just a guy with stocking over his head.
* In ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'', Sasha loses her face due some cursed mud splashed by a crow sent by the Mirror Queen and becomes one for a bit before getting transformed into a Gingerbread Man.
* This trope forms the entire premise of ''Film/{{Bruiser}}''. A man wakes up one day to find that his face has taken on the appearance of a smooth, featureless mask; no eyes, nose, mouth or facial hair.
* Ugg and Lee's default forms in the ''Film/{{Critters}}'' series are white faces that lack features.
* ''Film/DickTracy'' featured "The Blank", a faceless gangster super-villain alter-ego who acts as TheChessmaster of the film.
* Toward the end of ''Film/DoloresClaiborne'', Selena sees the back of her own head while facing a mirror. When she tries to turn around, she has no face. This happens just before her bad memories come back.
* In ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'', when Joel escapes with the memory of his ex-girlfriend into an already-erased memory, the characters he sees are distorted and have no faces. In another scene, he confronts the memory of his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend (who, coincidentally, is erasing his memories) he forcibly turns him around, but since he's only ever seen him from behind all he gets is the back of his head again.
* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': Jade has childhood nightmares about a faceless man who [[RapeAsBackstory raped her]] that she called "Smooth Man".
* ''Film/TheIntruders'' has a nasty one named Hollow Face, a sort of storybook monster who steals children's faces.
* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': The Angel Killer wears a blank white mask reminiscent of [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man.]]
* The trope was subverted in the film adaptation of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun''; makers of the film included extensive dream/fantasy sequences with actor Timothy Bottoms to get around the fact that his character spends the entire novel with a blank, box-shaped mask over his completely destroyed face.
* The faceless dancer from ''Film/{{Legend 1985}}''.
* Xayide in ''Film/TheNeverendingStoryIITheNextChapter'' starts out this way. Then she puts her face on. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwl18czAzY here]].
* Will Turner finds a faceless corpse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. The man had his face sucked off by the tentacles of the Kraken, an event Gibbs mentioned earlier in the film. (Just in case you needed reminding, this is from the same director as ''Film/TheRing''...)
* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': A rare good example are the Kallidahin, who harbor Obi-Wan, Bail Organa, and Yoda after the two Jedi return from their duels, as well as trying to save Padme.
* A soldier in ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' gets his face blown off during Omaha Beach, though that's actually quite distinctive: people would readily be able to recognise that.
* A particularly [[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/smiley02.jpg screwed up]] instance in the slasher film ''Film/{{Smiley}}''.
* The reflective robots guarding the bomb on the train in ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
* Pictures from the movie ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'' (''VideoGame/SecondLife'' in RealLife via sexy androids) show the two leads inspecting android soldiers: their faces consist of two tiny camera lenses for eyes and vague brow/nose ridges.
* Toxie uses video erasing equipment to erase the face of a henchman in ''Film/TheToxicAvengerPartIIITheLastTemptationOfToxie''.
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[[folder:Gamebooks]]
* The {{Gamebook|s}} series ''Literature/TheFabledLands'' features a country whose leader is the person out of every generation born without a face. He does wear a mask over it, but it is featureless too.
* In the ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book ''Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum'', one of the possible endings was that your face gets stolen, and the front of your head only has smooth, blank wax where it used to be.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/AlienInASmallTown,'' Indira has felt self-conscious and "stared at" all her life. She finds it enormously comforting that her alien friend is a good listener and literally does not have a face.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'', the Sandgorgons have no facial features.
* The protagonist of Creator/AlfredBester's ''Literature/TheDemolishedMan'' is haunted in his nightmares by The Man With No Face (Looming. Silent.) Diagnosed as [[spoiler: his subconscious denial of his business rival as his father]].
* The SF novel ''Literature/{{Eudeamon}}'' by Erika Moak uses this trope. An earlier version of it [[http://www.evil-dolly.com/txt/Eudeamon.htm can be found online here.]] Suffice it to say, much of this story qualifies as horror, even though technically it is a ''love story''.
* In Author Mary [=SanGiovanni=]'s books ''Found You'' and ''The Hollower'' the big bad is a faceless creature in a fedora hat and trench coat who uses bogyman tactics to break you so he can feast on your fear and despair.
* In Creator/CliveBarker's ''Literature/TheHellboundHeart'' (which would become ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''), the Engineer (a fifth cenobite known by reputation by Frank at the story's beginning), doesn't show up until the end. This ''may'' be a questionable example [[spoiler: if he was only given human shape by virtue of occupying Julia's wedding dress.]]
* Zig-zagged with The BigBad of James Stoddard's fantasy novel, ''Literature/TheHighHouse''. His head just appears as a white roundish mass with no features. However, occasionally, either his SlasherSmile mouth or his eyes will be visible on it. When [[spoiler:the hero kills him at the end, all his features become visible and he looks just like an ordinary human being.]]
* In one of ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' books, Omri's father is accidentally sent back in time to inhabit a faceless Iroquois Indian corn doll. He becomes a miniature of his human self, with a flesh-and-bone face, but no features. Doubles as AndIMustScream.
* ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' could be said to be a pioneer of this trope going into full-blown horror territory, with the novel's main character (who lost his arms, legs, and face in an explosion during World War I) spending the entire novel with a featureless box-shaped mask covering up the face portion of his caved-in skull. It also gets points for coming up with a way for someone without a face to communicate in a realistic fashion (he uses Morse Code).
* From ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', the Stranger in Pallid Mask aka the Phantom of Truth, whose equivalent haunts the protagonists in one of the short stories. He is a living corpse whose face is white smooth like a mask. The Stranger might also be Hastur "the King in Yellow" of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
-->[[NotAMask "I wear no mask."]]
* In ''The King of the Swords'' by Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Literature/{{Corum}}, an incarnation of the [[CosmicPlaything Eternal Champion]] has to face god of [[OrderVersusChaos Chaos]] "Mabelode the Faceless" (or perhaps "Mabelrode").
* Creator/HPLovecraft's nightgaunts.
* Indirectly used in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/MenAtArms'', when Carrot offers to reveal the face of a killer to a clown. Surrounded by painted eggs which document the make-up worn by professional clowns, he shows the witness an unpainted egg. As the Fools' Guild indoctrinates clowns [[BecomingTheMask to think of their make-up as their]] ''[[BecomingTheMask real]]'' [[BecomingTheMask face]], the clown retreats in horror from the "faceless" egg. In truth, Carrot has deduced that the murderer [[spoiler:isn't a clown at all]].
* One of the titular ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' has this power. Downplayed in that he does still have eyes (of a sort) and a mouth-like hole.
* Creator/SimonRGreen's ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' series has the Harrowing, [[ImplacableMan unstoppable constructs]] with no faces, who are a constant source of terror to John Taylor throughout the series.
* In ''Literature/ParadoxBound'', the Faceless Men have been around since the founding of the US, tasked with protecting American history from accidental or intentional changes by people “skidding” across history. They also protect [[spoiler:the Dream, an extremely powerful artifact that can be used to remake the country to a single person's desires]]. When people are recruited by the Faceless Men, they undergo surgery that removes their facial features and grafts the feeling of certainty into them, as well as the ability to move through history at will. Certainty allows them to know exactly what is around them up to a certain range, which is how they are perfectly fine without eyes. It also makes them very hard to kill, as they can calculate the precise way to position themselves to make bullets bounce off their bones harmlessly at just the right angle.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TerribleTrivium.png The Terrible Trivium]] in ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''.
* In Creator/TanyaHuff's ''The Silvered'', the protagonist tries to practice healing magic on an injured rabbit. To her horror, when she tries to close up the holes in its skin, she closes up ''everything''--mouth, ears, and nose. [[spoiler: This winds up being how she kills the BigBad, who has protections from everything except healing magic.]]
* ''Literature/{{Slimer}}''. Mark is trying to find a woman in a lab coat he saw on the security monitors. He finally locates her again, walking towards the camera instead of away from it, and faints when she's revealed to have FishEyes with the rest of her face a complete blank. Unfortunately Mark is a junkie, so he assumes he was hallucinating when he meets the woman shortly afterwards and she [[ShapeShifting now has a completely normal face]].
* In ''Literature/TheStand'', people see [[BigBad Randall Flagg]] in their [[DreamWeaver dreams]] with a black hole for a face, and many assume that's what he'll look like in person. Thus, one of his many nicknames is The Man with No Face. When they do meet him, he appears normal enough... [[GameFace usually]]... but since he's a HumanoidAbomination, it's hard to say what he truly looks like.
* The E.F. Benson story ''The Step'' features this.
* The ''Literature/TalesToGiveYouGoosebumps'' short story "Broken Dolls" features a creepy old woman who crafts dolls, but doesn't include facial features on her creations. It is later revealed that she uses a type of magical gel (referred to as "dolly jelly" by the protagonist's younger brother) which not only robs the unfortunate victims of their faces, which then end up on the specific doll, but their souls apparently become trapped in the dolls, too.
* In ''Literature/ThoseThatWake'', the man in the suit is described as being hard to describe, with a lack of facial or clothing features but definite familiarity.
* ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'': Orual's favorite InUniverse bit of WildMassGuessing about her veil is that she wears it to hide a vast emptiness where her face would be. This theory in particular helps her intimidate wily politicians and brave soldiers into ceding to her demands.
* In the third ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book, Fireheart has a nightmare of a faceless queen losing her kits.
* In ''Who?'' by Creator/AlgisBudrys, a [[KidnappedScientist scientist kidnapped]] by the Soviets is returned to the West [[WeCanRebuildHim as a cyborg after suffering severe injuries]] during his kidnapping. His face is just a blank metal mask, one arm is mechanical and the other might be a transplant, so how do the authorities know if he really is the scientist or a well-briefed spy impersonating him?
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Elli Quinn becomes this in ''Literature/TheWarriorsApprentice'' when she takes a plasma burn to the face. Fortunately, plastic surgery does wonders in the future.
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* Parodied somewhat on ''Series/ThirtyRock''. On a show within a show episode, we see a manager whose face appeared to be blurred for the camera, but we learn he has "Blurry Face Syndrome".
* Tom has a vision of [[WaifProphet Maia]] sans face in ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred''. The combination of The Blank and a CreepyChild pushed this scene into fearsome overdrive. Also, he can't see her face is because she's just been the subject of a RetGone via TimeTravel, making the whole thing ''that much worse''.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Akumuchan}}'', Ayami has a dream where one of her students is completely face-less. To remedy this, one of the other students attempts to draw a face on him so that he can be "normal".
* The true forms of the aliens in the ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor"; [[spoiler: in fact, the protagonist [[TomatoInTheMirror turns out to be one too]] at the end]].
** The people who had their faces stolen in "The Tale of Many Faces". She couldn't take away their personalities, though. Not true blankness, actually.
* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': In "Death's Door", Lord Melford has a nightmare about attending a peace conference where he is greeted at the door by a faceless man. Steed and Emma later discover he had been drugged and the nightmare staged. During the final fight against the bad guys, Emma shows up wearing the costume and mask used to create the faceless man.
* The Franchise/{{Batman}} parody ''Series/BatThumb'' had the Villain No-Face, who had no face, and whose evil plot was to disperse the same chemical which caused him to lose his face throughout the city.
* ''Series/BlackMirror'': In "[[Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister USS Callister]]", Daly does this to Nanette, and can do much worse at any time. This is a reference to "Literature/{{I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream}}" and a possible ShoutOut to both [[Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie movie version of "It's a Good Life"]] and the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E2CharlieX "Charlie X"]], where a woman's face is ''also'' removed by a misanthropic ManChild with godlike powers.
* The Bringers on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' are sort of this, given that they seem expressionless, emotionless and have skin growing over where their eyeballs should be. The show's creators specifically commented that making them look like deformed humans was creepier than most of the other demons they used.
* The Human Being mascot of Greendale on ''Series/{{Community}}'', consists of a faceless white nylon bodysuit.
* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Click Your Poison", the bad guy is laundering money by playing against himself in an on-line poker site. This is represented on-screen by the identical faceless figures sitting around a poker table.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora "The Masque of Mandragora"]], Count Federico does a DramaticUnmask of the astrologer Hieronymous, who is dressed in the [[SecretCircleOfSecrets mask and robes of his cult]], only to get a nasty shock when he finds his face is just a glowing light after absorbing the Mandragora Helix.
--->'''The Doctor:''' Let's say Hieronymous [[BondOneLiner gave him a blank look]].
** All the humans who have their [[FaceStealer faces stolen]] by aliens in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes "The Faceless Ones"]].
** The Raston Warrior Robot from [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]].
** The Cybermen's killer androids from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]].
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]", Sharaz Jek uses faceless warrior androids as grunts.
** The Wire's victims from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]. The police are under pressure to keep things quiet with the coronation happening, so they're just bagging the victims up and locking them in a BlackSite.
** The Silence (or Silents) could partially qualify; as they lack most facial features, save for two bulbous eyes, and a slit for a nose.
** The Handbots in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited "The Girl Who Waited"]], which is commented on by the Doctor, and later lampshaded when Old Amy [[{{Pun}} disarms]] one of them and keeps it as a pet, she draws a face on it and names it Rory.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]]: [[spoiler:The Whisper Men, who are minions of the Great Intelligence]], could also qualify as such. [[spoiler:Aside from a freakish looking mouth, they otherwise completely lack facial features]].
* In ''Series/FrankieBoylesTramadolNights'' all the actors in the "Untitled Street" sketch are given blank faces so they can be as neutral as possible.
* Blank-ness turns lethal on ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', when a string of victims' facial features start rapidly growing over, causing death by suffocation. Even a tracheotomy can't save them, as the growing tissue quickly seals any such airholes as fast as they are made.
* ''Series/TheHauntingHour'': In "Scary Mary", chanting Mary's name three times in front of a mirror will summon the MirrorMonster Scary Mary, who will send her three faceless servants through the mirror to drag the summoner back so Mary can steal their face.
* The Green Man from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' wears a faceless spandex bodysuit.
* In ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'', [[spoiler:the TrueFinalBoss Utopia Dopant does this to all of Shotaro and Phillip's friends in the penultimate episode, since Phillip's emotional turmoil will accelerate his evil plan. Too bad for him all he really did was trigger one of Shotaro's finest [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]].]]
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': In "The White Rabbit Job", the team disguise themselves as crash test dummies of the target's employees (ItMakesSenseInContext) with blank faces.
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'' contains a couple examples of this:
** In the pilot episode, it is explained that the "queen" of a calcium molecule escaping makes the entire molecule unstable and can lead to the dreaded "Helvetica Scenario". What exactly happens is unclear, but the end result is the victim losing their face. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY7XH2ulTEU Clip]]
** In the last episode of Series 2, Prince Charles ends up looking faceless after Leonard Hatred sprays him with his "Psilence" liquid skin. (It's not explained how His Royal Highness is able to breathe after this happens, but he seems to manage.)
* Parodied in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' - Vince describes Howard as "generic-looking" and when he paints his portrait, paints his face as a big pink circle, like a balloon. Howard's uninterested LoveInterest Mrs Gideon agrees that it looks just like him, and later on Dixon Bainbridge draws a sketch of Howard the same way.
* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' had The Face Stealer in one episode, who could steal faces even through the Rangers' helmets, leaving them mindless zombies.
* The eponymous villain of the ''Series/MonsterSquad'' episode "No Face" lived up to his name, as he had no face of his own when not using makeup to impersonate Chief Runny Nose and the mayor.
* ''Series/SapphireAndSteel'' encountered one of these in Assignment 4 (named Mr. Shape in the credits); aside from being faceless, most of the time he could use two actual faces (both of them pretty [[TheNondescript nondescript]]).
* ''Series/SpittingImage'' featured a number of literally faceless bureaucrats.
* When we finally see [[spoiler:Anubis']] face on ''Series/StargateSG1'', it's just a dark swirly energy-thing.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E2CharlieX Charlie X]]", Charlie turns a laughing crewwoman into a faceless freak.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E18TheFight The Fight]]", Chakotay fights a being from a region of chaotic space; the being is wearing a boxing hoodie that hides his face, and when the alien is finally revealed, he has no face, only a starfield.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E06TheImpossibleBox The Impossible Box]]", Soji's father appears in her memories this way, which is a clue that they were faked.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "A Matter of Minutes", every minute is built by faceless blue construction workers who are seemingly incapable of speech.
* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'':
** Zetton from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' has a glowing orange patch that shoots fireballs in place of a face.
** Satanbizor and Bizorm from ''Series/UltramanGaia'', as a homage to Zetton.
** Greeza from ''Series/UltramanX'' has a featureless orange dome for a head with glowing, pulsating lights within.
* ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'' has faceless students as background characters at the academy for supernatural creatures Wednesday Addams is forced to attend.
* The [[LaResistance renegade aliens]] in ''Series/TheXFiles'' have no faces as a result of having sealed every orifice on their body to prevent infection by the [[TheVirus black oil]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* The cover of the Music/BoardsOfCanada album ''Music/MusicHasTheRightToChildren'' shows a faceless family.
* Music/StephenJones' album cover ''Beautiful'' features Stephen Jones himself with women with no faces.
* One of Music/TheMonkees' albums, ''Music/PiscesAquariusCapricornAndJonesLtd'', uses this trope in its cover art.
* The interior art of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' depicted a faceless man in the desert dressed in business attire and hawking Pink Floyd records. He probably falls somewhere between The Blank and {{Invisibility}} because while he definitely seems to have a head, his limbs are clearly invisible, which ties in with the album's theme of absence.
%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZsBPK656s Blank]] by Disfigure is probably named after this trope.
* "The Actress" by Creator/JoeIconis is about a struggling actress who [[LiteralMetaphor literally]] belts her face off during an audition. This actually works in her favor, as her lack of unique features means people only care about her impressive voice. Unfortunately, it also means nobody cares about anything else about her, [[spoiler:and they don't notice when she dies because all she already does is scream]]. It appears to be a metaphor about how the industry shuns uniqueness.
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* Probably one of the ''least'' strange things to appear in the DerangedAnimation that is the music video for "I Miss You" by Music/{{Bjork}}.
* The surreal music video for the Music/ManicStreetPreachers' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next]]" features a faceless family -- they have noses although no nostrils but their eyes and mouths are simply papered over with blank flesh. Combined with the song itself, it's very disturbing.
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* The ''noppera-bō'' of [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Japanese myth]] like to do this as a way to scare people: They're [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]], and once they've finished playing with their latest victim, they wipe away their current face before vanishing.
** From the same mythos, ''mujina'' sometimes scare people by posing as noppera-bō (when mujina are their own sort of creature rather than another name for tanuki, anyways.) Westerners primarily know of both from Lafcadio Hearn's short story "Mujina", which has led to noppera-bō being identified as mujina in works such as ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
* It's unclear whether or not a mythological character with no facial features actually exists in Myth/ChineseMythology, but one parable told by Daoist philosopher Chuang Zu tells the story of The Blank "Hun Dun": the other gods took pity on him and tried to give him regular facial features like everyone else, but the process ends up killing him.
* The Grey Man of Pawleys Island, [[TheSouth South Carolina]] has a reputation as a benevolent version of The Blank. A faceless man in a dapper grey suit and hat, he strolls down the beach whenever a hurricane is due to hit the island, allowing just enough time for residents to escape to the mainland. While no one knows exactly who he is the ghost ''of'', the Grey Man is credited with saving thousands of lives over the past century and a half.
* The udug/uttuku demons of Myth/MesopotamianMythology were nameless and formless beings most frequently described as a dark shadow or an absence of light.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* The Silent One, a recurring enemy in ''Podcast/DarkDice'' is described as having no facial features except for three empty eye sockets.
* One of the recurring characters in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' is the [[Creator/MaraWilson faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home]]. Despite her lack of facial features she can see and speak, and would like to know your wifi password.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
%%* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' features a version of the Noppera-bo as inhabitants of the Hedge.
* In ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsHellOnEarth'', the abominations known as the Nowhere Men appear as man-shaped humanoids; their build and rough features matching men's exactly, but they are devoid of facial features. Their eyes and mouths are sealed up and their noses and ears merge seamlessly into their skulls.
%%* ''TabletopGame/DontRestYourHead'': The Smothered Folk.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The ''Basic D&D'' Known World and ''AD&D TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' settings feature a monster called the ''mujina'', which is based off of a [[SadlyMythtaken misidentification]] of the Japanese ''noppera-bō''. [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angels]] are also faceless in 4th edition. According to the WordOfGod, this is a change made specifically to evoke this trope.%%''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the constructs known as the Tomb Tappers also known as the Thaalud.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'': The [[EldritchAbomination Lying Darkness]] can give incredible stealth and mimicry skills to ninja -- the only cost is a literal and figurative loss of identity. Their faces become smooth as eggshells when they're not imitating someone -- when they revert to their shadowy selves, they can cause their features to melt off, revealing this blank slate and seriously [[SanitySlippage freaking out]] whoever sees the effect.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** This overlaps with WhiteMaskOfDoom in the Phyrexian [[EvilutionaryBiologist Machine Orthodoxy]] (the Porcelain Legion to be more precise) and their [[HighPriest Grand Cenobite]] Elesh Norn. The "porcelain" plates they wear on their faces look like masks, but actually grow as a part of the body of native Phyrexians and are [[BodyHorror grafted organically]] into the bodies of new, usually involuntary converts. Elesh Norn herself is only a partial example -- contrarily to the majority of her legion, the lower part of her face is still visible under her extravagant plate.
** The elemental spirit Muldrotha doesn't have a face, as such -- her head is a featureless orb of swamp water, with no features save for a pair of horns a glowing light at its center.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Whisperers, fey described in the ''Bestiary 6'', have a pale light that shines where their face should be.
* ''TabletopGame/ScarredLands'': In ''Swords and Sorcery Creature Collection'', Face Stealers in their natural form look like tall, slightly distorted lanky humanoids covered in shaggy hair, with unnaturally long arms and a horned ferret-like head that seems too small for its body. However, a face stealer is seldom encountered in its natural form as it can magically peel away the faces of their victims, leaving the unfortunate souls with no facial features, just raw flesh covering their heads and two nostril holes where the nose should be.
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': The story of Jaggedy Andy, one particularly nasty case of BodyHorror courtesy of Sascha Vykos. Long story short, Andy pissed off Vykos enough that Vykos used Vicissitude to flatten his entire face. While Andy was dying from suffocation, Vykos had one of their Sabbat goons Embrace him. Now Andy is forever doomed to unlive with a face without orifices. He can subvert this by [[{{Squick}} chiseling]] his face to reopen his eyes and mouth, but being a Vampire means all damage will be healed when he goes to sleep. And the worst part? Andy noted that this isn't the worst Vykos can do.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Eldar Harlequins provide a straight example from the same universe. Being {{Monster Clown}}s, they wear elaborate Harlequin costumes which can cause various hallucinations or delusions to afflict enemy troops. The models often often depict them with a mask that is half The Blank and half face.
** Dark Eldar Mandrakes sometimes have completely featureless faces (though some only lack eyes, and some only lack mouths).
** Some Chaos Champions in Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 are without facial features as a gift from their fickle divine patrons. Usually with no loss of sensory ability. One classic Chaos Champion of Tzeentch model from the late 80s was sculpted to represent this mutation.
** The helmets of the Tau evoke this and CyberCyclops, by contrast with the usual RageHelm style.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': One of the {{Muta|nts}}tions that can be inflicted by Chaos exposure causes the person's facial features to crawl away, leaving them completely blank. They somehow retain their senses of sight, hearing, and smell, and [[TheNeedless lose the need to eat and drink]], but are forever hungry and thirsty.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheBat'': The Bat wears a featureless mask (although up close it can be seen that it has eyeholes). This causes witnesses to describe him as being without a face.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* At [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]], the walkaround characters include the green army men from the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' films...who have green mesh over their face, probably not scaring any children at all.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* Franchise/{{LEGO}}:
** Quite a few minifigs that have helmets covering their heads don't sport faces underneath. This is especially true for older figs. Oddly, the title character of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' continued to receive this treatment in sets inspired by Season 2, even though Seasons 1 and 2 each have at least one chapter exposing his face to the viewers; one of these even inspired a set from the August 2021 wave.
** ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' has the Toa Inika, who have [[http://media.peeron.com/pics/inv/custpics/x1754px1.1179889491.jpg this piece]] as their true head. In-story, it's explained that their faces give off an intense glow, so you couldn't see them anyway.
*** Poor Matoran Kazi has a multi-function socket piece (AKA "hand") for a head. Essentially, it's just a connector for supporting his mask, while the other Matoran all have regular head pieces. [[FridgeBrilliance Maybe that explains his perpetual bad mood.]]
* Whatsherface dolls. Similar to Blanca, [[http://z.about.com/d/collectdolls/1/0/x/M/mattel3.jpg you can make them 'un-blank' but still...]]
* The Gotchi King from ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' is a giant limbless golden egg who has no face, but can eat and communicate with other Tamagotchis with no problems.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'' does something like this with [[FunWithAcronyms COFFIN]]-equipped planes that have no outwardly visible cockpit; it's not as disturbing as a faceless human being would be, but it's still jarring the first time you really notice it.
* Blanca, the cat with no face from ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing''. Because this is a game where AnInteriorDesignerIsYou, you get to ''give her'' a face! Using a [[FaceDoodling magic marker]]!
** In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'', Blanca takes a different role, more akin to the mythical Noppera-Bo (See mythology for more). Instead of letting the player draw on her face, she becomes the April Fools event character, shapeshifting into villagers and letting the player decide who is the real villager and who is Blanca.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Balatro}}'', the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Faceless Joker]] gives $5 if three or more face cards are discarded at the same time.
* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'''s [[spoiler: Sammy Lawrence never had his face shown during the first four chapters. In ''Chapter 5'', when Henry finally sees his face, there isn't one - just a head made of ink. This was later debunked in the credits of ''Chapter 5'' but it's presumably his face is covered in ink.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'': Angels are generally depicted this way, with the exception of the Angel Baby enemies and some angel familiar items. Statues in angel rooms lack faces, as do Uriel and Gabriel. ''Afterbirth'' adds a Seraphim transformation that turns Isaac himself in to an angel, which also gives him a blank face.
* [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Noroko]] from ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'' normally has no face. Until she [[JumpScare begins screaming]].
* Hakumen from the ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' series always has his face covered by a featureless white mask. His name means white face or blank face.
* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', Anonymous is completely lacking facial features. It’s an especially notable example since he’s one of the lead main characters, who isn’t meant to be scary at all. Interestingly, his blankness only gets brought up in conversation once, in an optional scene at that, when Til struggles to guess whether or not he’s “smiling.”
* The Elementalists in ''VideoGame/BravelandWizard'' are the only unit with no facial features whatsoever.
* In the Flash game ''VideoGame/ButThatWasYesterday'', all of the characters have no facial features except for a nose.
* Ethan, Synaptic and C6 robot from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare'' have this, since they're robots and have no facial features.
* The Tall Man from the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'' and Trilby at the beginning of the first game and in ''VideoGame/TheArtOfTheft''.
* The undead German soldiers you fight in the [[HellIsWar Otherworld]] level of ''VideoGame/TheDarkness''.
* Aside from the giants, none of the stick figures in ''VideoGame/DefendYourCastle'' have faces.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', generic JP's members are drawn without a face for a literal version of FacelessGoons. However, they have a face in universe.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{DLIRIUM}}'', [[spoiler: the protagonist, Ada encounters her friends, apparently alive despite their deaths inaugurating the start of the game, but completely faceless and in a state of torment. Whether the player decides to kill them or not triggers the MultipleEndings.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', AGlitchInTheMatrix makes [[spoiler:Natsuki]]'s face disappear at a moment when she's being mind-controlled.
* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' has a faceless god in Cazic-Thule, the god of fear. It's worth noting that the rest of his body is ''heavily'' muscled and brutal-looking, and he has ''four'' arms. And no face. So how ''do'' you tell [[ParanoiaFuel whom he's most likely to put those arms to use on?]]
* [[spoiler: True Assassin]] from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' turns out to have had no face after [[spoiler: [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Dark Sakura]]]] kills him and removes his mask.
* Nobody in the game ''VideoGame/FeelTheMagic: XY/XX'' or its sequel have any kind of distinguishing facial characteristics, aside from one instance, each, of a beard and a mustache.
* Faceless Squall from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. It's so creepy, it's even the game's NightmareFuel page image!
** The [[spoiler:FinalBoss]] has no face either.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'' has no face, only a visored head. This helps the player project themselves onto him.
* None of the characters in ''VideoGame/TheGranstreamSaga'' have any faces ([[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/image/197486.html?gs=19 observe]]), a stylistic choice which some people found disturbing. The only exception is that characters with moustaches still have them drawn on in the right place.
* The Flash game ''VideoGame/GretelAndHansel 2'' introduces creepy squiggly ''things'' that steal faces from other people. Their victims are turned into Blanks and lose all motivation and drive along with their faces - they can't even ''move''. This even applies to their [[spoiler:''ghosts'']].
* Several ''{{VideoGame/Grow}}'' games have humanoid creatures named Onkies (singular is "onky") who have no face but they still manage to look cute with their interactions and how they seems to be made of wax or modeling clay.
* In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', Madison spots Tara outside in a snowstorm, and only realizes "Tara" is an illusion when she sees that "Tara" doesn't have a face.
* Apparently, [[spoiler:Xion]] from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' was faceless at one point or another, or rather [[spoiler:she has a face, but what people see in her depends on who they have connections to or what they expect to see in her. The implication is that anyone who has no connection to either Sora or Ven will see Xion this way.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Krunker}}'', due to (intentional) graphical limitations and stylistic choice, all of the boxy characters have no faces.
* Dark Link from the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. In most games he doesn't even have eyes.
* The homunculi in the last few levels of ''VideoGame/MageGauntlet'' have no faces, and many appear to be decaying or covered in tumors. They appear again in ''Wayward Souls'' as the Faceless. [[spoiler:Justified - they're Whitebeard's failed alchemical clones.]]
* The Cyborgs (the enemies with treads for legs, not the Mjolnir Mark [=IVs=]) in the ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' series.
* While he's not entirely faceless, Decoy Octopus from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' cut off his nose and ears in order to make his disguises more convincing.
* The shareware ''[[http://www.mikesedore.com/mikecard.html Mike's Cards]]'' does this with [[http://wat.midco.net/jvipond/images/mikescourts.jpg the default court cards]] as of version 1.8 (August 2001).
* Guardians from ''VideoGame/NuclearThrone'' have vaguely humanoid or animal shapes, but all of them have a tiny active [[PortalDoor portal]] where their face would be.
* The Queen Eloah Vader from VideoGame/{{OFF}} has no face.
* The many Toads held captive in the Temple of Shrooms in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' have no faces, walk around like zombies, and are functionally lobotomized. [[spoiler:They actually do have faces; it's just that Hole Punch, the boss of the temple, punched them out and stored them away. Destroy Hole Punch and the Toads get their faces back.]]
* Ideal Maki/[[DubNameChange Mary]] of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' becomes this way in the Lost Forest when she [[TomatoInTheMirror figures out she is not the real Maki]].
** In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Innocent Sin'', [[spoiler:Shadow Maya]] still has a face in her character portrait, but her character sprite has no eyes (the only facial feature visible on the sprites) to make her effectively faceless when she shows up. It's the first of several (obvious) signs that something is very wrong with her, though it's surprisingly easy to miss at first but for a subtle feeling of wrongness about her appearance.
* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', Inga suffers from prosopagnosia, so he remembers everyone this way. [[spoiler:When a Divination Seance is held after Inga is murdered, showing what he saw in his final moments, his killer has no face, and his true killer exploits this to try to frame someone for the crime.]]
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', UB-01, UB-03 and UB Burst [[spoiler: aka Nihilego, Xurkitree and Blacephalon respectively]] have nothing resembling a face, likely to highlight their alien nature. [[spoiler: Blacephalon still remains ambiguous with the yellow dots on the floral objects decorating the sides of its head appear to be eyes (since it can blink).]]
** [[StarfishAliens Staryu and Starmie]] are more ambiguous due their cores.
** Zygarde is similarly ambiguous; it has geometric patterns on its face that ''could'' be interpreted as eyes, but it's hard to tell.
** Roggenrola just has a hole where it's face should logically be. It's evolutions have similar holes in places where eyes would normally be implying Roggenrola's face might actually be [[FacelessEye a single giant eye.]]
*** The truth is worse. The Pokedex explains that hole is an EAR.
* Tipp in ''VideoGame/RingFitAdventure'' is rendered in a superflat style that simply doesn't show his face.
* A boxing game based on the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' movies for the Colecovision features fighters without any facial details.
* Johnson from ''{{VideoGame/Schwarzerblitz}}'': his face keeps on oscillating between all possible features, resulting in a blurred image (portrayed in-game as a featureless black face with white eyes).
* The bubble-head nurses from ''Franchise/SilentHill''. A lot of the more humanoid monsters in the series tend to lack faces too, or have {{Eyeless Face}}s. Although, you're lucky if that's the only thing wrong with them.
** Even Pyramid Head is this. In fact, Pyramid Head was designed visually to be this taken to the extreme: not only is he missing a face but his head isn't even ''vaguely'' shaped like a human head; this was to make him come off as completely emotionless; his aura of sheer purpose and oppression marred only by faint traces of physical pain.
* ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'': [[AdventurerArchaeologist The Delightful Adventuress]] has a sidekick called Barnabas, who is an Unfinished [[{{golem}} Clay Man]] created with no face. He normally wears a mask to cover this up and the PlayerCharacter only learns he's Unfinished after you're done transporting them. [[spoiler:After the Adventuress backstabs both of you and bury you alive in the Tomb of the First Emperor, the narration mentions that Barnabas, despite having no face, is ''very'' expressive about how he feels about the betrayal.]]
* Generic nameless soldiers in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' tend to be this, both good and bad. It's not too noticeable if they're wearing space suits, but some of them look rather creepy.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', There is a Rare faceless enemy called the Gentleman, wearing a suit and tie. [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Wait a second...]]
* The Shalebridge Cradle in ''VideoGame/ThiefDeadlyShadows'' has the staff of the orphanage-turned-asylum, shadowy silhouettes created from the memory of [[GeniusLoci the Cradle]], representing the faceless adults keeping order between the children. They're really really scary.
* The title character in ''VideoGame/TinyThief'' has a nose but no other visible facial features.
* ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'': The Breach() Function's source, unlike all other Functions' sources, doesn't have a Subject picture, instead being a faceless humanoid silhouette with a blue light coming from its chest, due to data corruption.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'':
** [[https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Citrine Citrine]], the geode warframe, has had her face removed by the [[AbusivePrecursors Orokin]] in order to make space for the powerful crystals corrupting her body that grant her exceptional defensive powers.
** [[https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Dagath Dagath]], a take on the HeadlessHorseman trope, with a twist. Once a Dax cavalrywoman, she was involved in a three-way tryst with an Orokin couple who later had her converted into a Warframe out of jealousy over her fondness for her warhorse. But since Warframes have no emotion, they tired of her and decided to destroy her by having her face vaporized with a laser (the same kind that show up in Orokin tower traps). The couple thought this had killed her. They would eventually find out they were ''very'' wrong, the hard way. Dagath now survives as a creature of revenge, with a hollow hoop for a head where her face used to be.
* The "Nopperabu" effect in ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', which is a reference to the ''noppera-bo'', spirits from Japanese folklore that appear to be ordinary humans, but have no faces.
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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'':
** The Holy Mother, the founder of the Khura'inese belief system and first ruler of the Kingdom of Khura'in, is traditionally depicted with a blank face on murals or artifacts, with a depiction of her face being considered to be blasphemy. [[spoiler:The only artifact that shows her face is a small statue of her inside the Founder's orb, which is normally filled with opaque wax to hide said statue.]]
** Late in the game, [[spoiler:Inga Karkhuul Khura'in]], the prince consort of [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]], is revealed to suffer from prosopagnosia, which makes him see everyone as being this.
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* None of the humans in ''WebAnimation/AnAdventureOfSheepAndChicken'' have faces.
* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie 4'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-9Xi1uCh4 "Well, I stole your face!"]]
* Pumkin of ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman''. And, technically, Squib and the Tubas.
* All humans in the ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' universe lack a face. People only begin getting individualized features when they become important story-wise, but in most cases they will still lack a mouth and eyes. Sanford, Jebediah, and the Auditor take special note for having a mouth, facial hair, and eyes respectively.
* The premise of ''Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story'' involves a pair of unpainted Vinylmation figures. In fact, a fair amount of the cast is faceless.
* The claymotion serie ''Klay World'' features clay figures without any face.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* The Figure from ''Webcomic/TheArtistIsDead!'' is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin living, unfinished figure sketch]]. In an [[BadassLongcoat ugly raincoat]].
* Ghoul runs into one of these in ''Webcomic/AutumnBay''.
* A few characters in ''Webcomic/CatLegend'', notably Mindy, have had their faces erased after they told a secret they were to have never known.
* In ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'', the goddess Sarlise wears a mask because she doesn't want to disturb people with the fact she doesn't have a face.
* This is what happens to people whose faces are stolen in ''Webcomic/CityOfBlank''. What's worse, their faces can never be given back, and the victims usually die from suffocation.
* ''Webcomic/CogaNito'': The lifeless robot shell Eric builds, as well as [[spoiler: the black duplicate BB later inhabits]] both sport blank glass domes for faces.
* [[GenderBlenderName Ma'am, Madam, Lady, etc.]], and [[StickFigureComic Qstickman]] from ''Webcomic/{{Educomix}}''.
* Jerry from ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' is a homeless man whom Izzy meets early in the comic. He initially has no facial features, so Izzy (and on one occasion, Renee) try to [[FaceDoodling draw some onto him]], but they don't stick.
* ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'': Aunt Mayumi is a noppera-bō from a family of {{Youkai}} and therefore has no facial features other than a slight protrusion where her nose would be. She's [[https://tapas.io/episode/1536015 somehow able]] to eat with the area where her mouth would be, though it's not shown how. She's never shown speaking, though it's unclear whether she can.
* In Chapter 18 of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Robot S1 fights a large, bull-like robot whose head is just a square slab of metal. Zimmy and Antimony run into "Nobodies" in Chapter 19, who have nothing but black smudges where their faces should be. Apparently, this is also how ''real'' people sometimes look to Zimmy.
** Chapter 25 introduces a subversion in Kingbot. He's introduced with a face that's a featureless slab (aside from two small eyes), but he [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=645 found a way to give himself facial features]].
* Mr. Three from ''Webcomic/HeroOhHero'', who is a HumanoidAbomination and speaks entirely in unintelligible TV static. He seems friendly though.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Three of the guardians (John's dad, Rose's mom, and Dave's bro) all only have one notable facial feature (Dad's nose, Mom's mouth, Bro's glasses). Bec, Jade's guardian (and pet dog) lacks any features whatsoever. The facelessness is either an art style or a representation of how the four kids see their guardians.
** Doc Scratch has no facial features whatsoever, what with his head being a gigantic cueball.
** In Act 6, the facelessness of the Guardians continues with Alpha!Dave, Alpha!Rose, and [[CatsAreMean God Cat]].
* The faceless villain from ''Webcomic/TheIncredibleAndAweInspiringSerialAdventureOfTheAmazingPlasmaMan'' is named, appropriately enough, Blank. Though he does wear goggles.
* The true forms of angels in ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' can evolve with their personality. In "Wielder of Names", White Chain is criticised for having [[HumanityIsInfectious developed]] a very human (and female) looking form, naturally including a face. When she's finally had enough and decides to side with some extremist angels, she tears off her own face, leaving only a hole all the way through the back of her head.
* ''Webcomic/LovelyLovecraft'': Night Gaunts lack faces in their true Dreamlands forms, but they gain faces in their Earthly forms. Their Dreamlands appearance is consistent with the real H. P. Lovecraft's tales, although he makes no mention of them appearing differently in the waking world.
* All of the characters from ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' are faceless, since they are personifications of UsefulNotes/TheSolarSystem, and are represented with the planets/celestial bodies for heads
* In ''Webcomic/MiasWorld'', we are introduced to King, who has no face. Not to mention not having any sort of distinctive details save for the small, fake crown hovering above his head.
* In the ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' strip "Fairest" (NSFW), the subject of the storyteller's tale is a woman with a cube-shaped head and no face.
* In ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia'' while Visage has a WhiteMaskOfDoom [[spoiler:and actually does have a face underneath, albeit an undead one]], his undead minions are all faceless horrors.
* Three from ''Webcomic/APathToGreaterGood'' has just a white, plain expanse for a face under that mop of black hair.
* T.O.E. in ''Webcomic/RiceBoy'' and ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'' is a machine man with a small circular screen for a head.
* A very major antagonist in ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' is even CALLED 'Mr. Blank.' That's his name. He drinks tea through his mask. He belongs to a sect within the ninja mafia called the 'blankfaces'; elite operatives trained from childhood, who all use masks like this (different colours are apparently used to tell them apart; the only other blankface shown is called Mr. Black and wears the exact same outfit, only, you know, ''black''.)
** [[spoiler:Mr. Blank's face is eventually revealed retroactively when it is revealed he had infiltrated the supporting cast before the start of the current arc in a clever disguise -- namely, by taking his mask ''off''. Mr. Black's face is revealed in a {{Flashback}}.]]
** There's also a somewhat different sect that uses the stitching on their masks to make letters. There's a plot focusing around Mr. X and Mr. Y, though Mr. X seems to prefer leaving his mouth exposed.
* In ''Webcomic/YuMeDream'', Faceless Man is an example of this trope, though he does eventually grow a mouth of sharp teeth.
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* [[FeaturelessProtagonist Generic "anonymous" characters]] are often represented in Internet art as having blank green or grey faces (mouth optional).
* In some images, [[Website/FourChan Anonymous]]. This has even been {{cosplay}}ed using a green spandex mask.
* In ''Website/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', the Wraiths employed as security in the Interdimensional Black Market are the enslaved remnants of people who ran afoul of the Market's boss, and lost their face along with their personhood.
* [[http://splinks.deviantart.com/art/Face-Off-72442203?q=gallery%3Asplinks%2F528272&qo=92 This]] Website/DeviantArt GIF
* Three from ''Literature/LandGames''.
* In ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'', [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/goza.htm Goza]] start out like this, but have a biologically programmed urge to make their own faces through self-mutilation.
* The original faeries on ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' were faceless.
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-600 SCP-600]] has the faceless version visible on camera, but otherwise takes on appearance based on direct human observers.
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2135 SCP-2135-C]], the people inhabiting a world based on Manhattan as it appeared on February 1st, 1959, lack eyes, noses, and mouths, although they're apparently still capable of sight and scent.
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008 SCP-3008-2]], the "staff" of the infinite IKEA, are faceless humanoid figures with inconsistent proportions who try to kill people trapped inside after closing time.
* The "blank slate" Presidential candidate depicted by Tom Tomorrow [[http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/02/11/tomo/ here.]]
* The [[https://sweaterjacketorcoat.com Swackett weather application]] uses this for its "peeps".
* The facelings from ''WebOriginal/TheBackrooms'' are human-like entities without faces who roam the backrooms, and are some of the most common entities found. There are multiple types, but the two most common are "Child" and "Adult" types. Adult Facelings are friendly and are not hostile unless provoked. Child Facelings, on the other hand, are [[CreepyChild mischievous and hostile]]. Some [[EnfantTerrible will try to murder survivors]], others are simply pranksters.
* A lot of videos in ''WebOriginal/WellBeRightBack'' involve characters' faces becoming completely blank. Examples include Creator/PBSKids mascots Dot and Dash in both "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hmh2SzYZtI PBS Kids System Cues Workprint (1999)]]" and "Disney Channel Broadcast Anomaly (2004)", Patrick Star and a background fish in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5UAm_Atvhg July 25th Anomaly (2005)]]", and various Nicktoons characters in both "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_94VuNDBP4 Red Mist Anomaly (2008)]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPaCPWqWvRg Abstract Idents (2003)]]".
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* In ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'', there's the ghost of a monk haunting the Stocksbridge Bypass. Many who have encountered him up close were shocked to find out that underneath his robe's hood was nothing at all, despite having felt that they were being watched by him the entire time.
* ''WebVideo/TheBritishRailwayStories'': For some reason, most of the diesel engines in the series didn't have faces. The sole exceptions were Gronk, and one minor diesel seen early in episode 6.
* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PR9NZlAB4 The Cat with Hands]]'', the cat who wants to be human takes a boy's face and leaves him without one.
* The protagonist of the short film ''[[https://vimeo.com/42903209 Face]]'' starts out this way, with a smooth white head with no facial features.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVLmC8Motfg They took my FACE!]] [[Music/JustinBieber JUSTIN]]!
* Slendy of ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'', would definitely take the prize for TropeCodifier [[{{Pun}} along with his various victims]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke see what I did there]]). Amongst his original list of attributes was that his face was supposed to look different to every viewer, implying his facelessness in photographs was some kind of GlamourFailure, but [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets everybody]] [[Blog/SeekingTruth stuck]] [[Blog/JustAnotherFool with it]] until the popular perception of him drifted into actual facelessness.
* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows' [[http://thebutterfly.deviantart.com/gallery/27488765 title cards]] depict him like that.
* WebVideo/SuperMario64Classified: The ''Automatic Enhancer'''s personification of itself, Stanley, appears as a textureless Mario model, and he's not happy about it.
-->'''I'M NOT HAVING FUN'''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' YouTubePoop "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbp7fFxFcJI Enchanto]]", Alejandra shouts to Alma and Dolores that Mirabel was about to tell them about her "super awesome face". Dolores responds that Mirabel didn't get one, and there is a brief shot of a faceless Mirabel.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Enter Stanman", one of the caricatures of Stan in Francine's subconscious is just him with no face. Stan gets confused about what he represents and guesses that it's him as [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]], but is informed that it symbolizes her perception of his emotional openness.
* Koh the FaceStealer from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' can turn people into this. Aang sees a monkey on his way to visit Koh that has been turned faceless.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' villains the Royal Flush Gang are a criminal family that dress like playing cards. One member of the group is Ace, a [[NighInvulnerability nigh invulnerabile]] robot that has no face.
* The heads of the Global Peace Agency in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "When OMAC Attacks!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Loss of Face", Squishington accidentally scrubs his face off and ends up losing the washcloth he used, requiring Mr. Bumpy's help to get his face back.
* One of the ghosts in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifter]] whose default form is faceless.
* Peter's "poker face" on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is this.
* The E.V.O. No-Face in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''.
* Cobra Commander from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'', and every Cobra Viper level henchman, who are always portrayed in [[FacelessMooks faceless masks]]. Also the episode "Glamor Girls", which was one huge horror episode involving a face erasing machine.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids''. The title opponents in the episode "Attack of the Faceless People".
* Mastermind from the ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' episode "Never Mind a Master Mind". (Mastermind may have been patterned after the ComicStrip/DickTracy villain the Blank, as the Dick Tracy characters were appearing in ComicBook/ArchieComics at the time.)
* There's ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'''s Question. As in the comics, his seemingly blank, featureless face is just a mask, which he affixes to (or releases from) his face with the help of an aerosol sprayed on his face. The spray also changes his hair's color, from its true red shade to the brunette tint he's normally seen in as the Question.
* The Warlords of ''WesternAnimation/KingArthurAndTheKnightsOfJustice'' are soldiers made from stone. They have the same bodily movement potential as humans, except for the face. Their heads evoke helmets and as such, they don't have mouths and don't do expressions.
* ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': The Magic Globe can talk, but does not have a face.
* Tweety erases Sylvester's face in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Trip for Tat", and Sylvester is forced to have a new one tattooed on the blank space.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' involved a face-stealing doppelganger.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/MrPickles Momma Named Me Sheriff]]'', being born without a face is apparently a medical condition in-universe. Sheriff unknowingly burns the money donated to get some faceless kids new faces but makes up for it in the end by giving them the faces of some recently-killed forest animals.
* Hexadecimal of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has a series of masks that she quickly swaps out behind her hand to change expressions. Her real face isn't shown until halfway through the second season, when Bob removes it and reveals that there's absolutely nothing beneath. After a few seasons, she gets a serious character revamp, including a face. Said face is still a mask, only [[ExpressiveMask animated]]. It later goes back to static, leading the viewer to assume there's still nothing behind it.
* There was a 1976 episode of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' where the villain was a faceless robot zombie, "The No-Face Zombie Chase Case". [[SincerityMode Yes, that's the actual title]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ScreamStreet'': Sir Otto's manservant Nameless is a hulking faceless humanoid construct.
* Probably not the same thing, but in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer goes on an impromptu vision quest, and at the end sees what appears to be his wife. When he goes around her to look at her face, it's just her backside all the way around.
** In another episode, the family watches the Guinness World Records. One is "A man who holds the current record for least amount of faces, with none!" ["Help me!"].
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', during woodworking class, Clyde informs Mr. Adler that Tommy got his face stuck to a belt-sander, and Tommy shows up without any facial features.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Dirty Bubble Returns", a teacher becomes this after Dirty Bubble wipes away her face. He also does this to Perch Perkins briefly until putting his face back on upside-down.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' featured a parody of Franchise/IndianaJones named "Indiana Joe", who had NO FACE for no explicable reason. He could talk just fine - if he hadn't been drawn with no face, it would be impossible to tell because the plot and the characters react to him as if he ''did'' have a face. [[https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2018/09/11/do-the-mario-perry-martin-on-scripting-the-cartoon-adaptations-of-the-super-mario-bros/ The script described him]] as a caricature of Creator/HarrisonFord, but Creator/DiCEntertainment was afraid of legal repercussions from Ford and Creator/GeorgeLucas.
* Henrietta (Toby's passenger coach) from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' was, for a long time, one of only a few mechanical characters in the show not to have a face. She did, however, gain a face in one of the storybooks, and it carried over after the show went fully [=CGI=].
** One episode of ''Thomas the Tank Engine'' featured a real-life locomotive known as the ''City of Truro'' visiting Sodor. However, unlike all the other locomotives in the show, the ''Truro'' actually does not have a face. The producers felt it wasn't necessary to put a face on such a famous engine, especially when that engine only appeared briefly.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** Omega Supreme's original toy has a head, but only a blank screen where a face would be, having a similar appearance to the all-concealing visors on astronaut helmets.
** The ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' version of Soundwave. His faceplate occasionally shows data he's browsing but never betrays himself. Add on the fact he's TheVoiceless, speaking only ''once'' in the entire series [[spoiler:before attempting suicide]] and it's quite disturbing.
** The protoforms in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' are completely featureless from head-to-toe.
* In the last episode of the short-lived series ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongCoast'', co-host Debbie-Sue begs the director Mack to show his face on TV, only he really has no face.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': In "The Fix", Miss Martian and Artemis make a JourneyToTheCentreOfTheMind in an attempt to repair Aqualad's shattered psyche. There they are confronted by a version of Aqualad that has no face.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' parody ''The Scary Door'' brings up the trope as part of one of its opening narrations, invoking what sounds like a stereotypical ''Twilight Zone''-style twist in a hypothetical scenario. From the way the narrator says it, it sounds like any other twist reveal would do.
-->''"You're on a scenic route through a state recreation area known as the human mind. You ask a passerby for directions only to find he has no face or something. Suddenly, up ahead, a door in the road. You swerve, narrowly avoiding... ''The Scary Door''."''
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