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* The Queen Eloah Vader from {{VideoGame/OffVideoGame}} has no face.

* The Queen Eloah Vader from "VideoGame/Off(VideoGame)" has no face.

* The Queen Eloah Vader from "VideoGame/Off" has no face.

* Even though facial features, especially the eyes (compare EyelessFace), are crucial to convey emotions, it is a common trope in manga and anime to make use of blank faces to also convey emotions. Such emotions could be something like a feeling of inadequacy, a loss for words, a complete void in one's mind or heart, or an aura of uncertainty, mystique, rage, or coolness. The blank face could be completely blank, or still retain the nose, the mouth or the eyebrows, but mostly it lacks the eyes. One common way to justify the blank face is to use highly contrasting shadows regardless of the lighting conditions, especially if a character has a sharp, defined brow ridge, or long bangs. More often than not, the character's bangs, which normally magically stay clear from the eyes or the brows, are deliberately extended to cover the eyes when a blank face is needed. In certain pornographic works where the female character's physique and expressions are the focus, especially during sex scenes, the [[HeroicMime male character]], apart from having no voice-over or even lines, may have no eyes whatsoever either.

* 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.

** Shockwave's face is made up of one big, menacing eye, without even so much as a faceplate. The appearance is fitting, as he's the most "robot-like" of all the characters, having few, if no, emotions similar to humans.
** More recently, 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''.

* In ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'', one of the girls loses her face to a mud baby. You might forget it for a time.

* [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Noroko]] from ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'' normally has no face. Until she [[JumpScare begins screaming]].

* The Elementalists in ''Braveland Wizard'' are the only unit with no facial features whatsoever.

* 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 ''VideoGame/TalesofSymphonia'', There is a Rare faceless enemy called the Gentleman, wearing a suit and tie. [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Wait a second...]]

* The title character in ''Tiny Thief'' has a nose but no other visible facial features.
* 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.
* Ethan, Synaptic and C6 robot from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyInfiniteWarfare'' have this, since they're robots and have no facial features.

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.