History Main / GasMaskLongcoat

* The original design for the ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' [[GasMaskMooks Combine Mooks]] featured the civil protection with gasmasks and longcoats. The longcoats were cut, gasmasks were not.

* [[http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/18893944/mysterious-figure-photographed-in-woodland/ The Loyon]], an unidentified person spotted wandering in a Swiss forest, regularly seen for a decade. He wears a gasmask and sometimes a long camouflaged coat. Although the previous link can look like a hoax (it is actually quite exaggerated), the Loyon (gender unknown) really exists (look [[http://www.lematin.ch/faits-divers/Le-Loyon-ne-fait-rire-personne/story/25650014 here]] for an article - in French - from an actual Swiss newspaper).

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' has the {{Renaissance}}-period version of it, the PlagueDoctor.

* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'': Gas masks and longcoats are among the most common choice of wear for many characters. The masks are necessary to protect against the Miasma which transforms revenants into Lost, while most [[StylishProtectiveGear Blood Veils]] have some sort of coat or cloak involved.

* Death's Head, a supervillain with the power to cause spontaneous illness and infection, from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', wears a World War II-era gas mask, a fedora, and a trenchcoat for his costume.

* The mooks from ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' wear greatcoats as part of their uniform and gas masks during the underground expedition, which is rather prudent since the risk of poison gas pockets would be very real and the climax takes place in an erupting volcano.

* Standard uniform of the [[DoomTroops Deathwatch]] in ''TabletopGame/UnhallowedMetropolis'', it's also the signature look of the [[HunterOfMonsters Undertaker]] class though many other individuals sport that look given future London's pollution problems.

* Standard uniform of the Deathwatch in ''TabletopGame/UnhallowedMetropolis''

* An episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had vampires using these to attack a group of {{Vampire Hunter}}s in daylight.

* In ''VideoGame/CodeVein'', gas masks and longcoats are among the most common choice of wear for many characters.

** By the time of New Vegas' main campaign, the Desert Rangers have been amalgamated into the [[TheFederation the New California Republic]], and their iconic outfit has become the uniform of the [[EliteMook NCR Veteran Rangers]]. Counter to the ominous look, they're the elite force of one the [[BlackAndGrayMorality more or less good]] factions, spreading democracy at gunpoint.

---> Random Chairman: "Hey baby, you dig these new troopers? The hot fashion is [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot killer robot chic!]]

** Also, [[TheRival Ulysses]] wears a coat with [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead the Old World flag]] on his back as well as a gas mask due to the radiation of The Divide.

* [[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} Popular summer wear in Chernobyl]].
** However, because the longcoat is the worst armour in the game, don't expect to combine this with BadassLongcoat, except the badass part means [[SelfImposedChallenge looking for a tougher challenge]].

* Kroenen from the film version of ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' is dressed in a Nazi uniform, with a black coat and black cap, and a metallic gas mask.

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* Partially invoked during the first few arcs of ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': Yorick disguises himself with a gas mask and poncho, since his main aim is to disguise his male figure and features, rather than look intimidating or cool.
* Dr. Kroenen from ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}''. He is seen wearing a long coat as part of his Nazi uniform once or twice, but eventually trades it in for a significantly less awesome apron.

* Vlad from ''[[ComicBook/HackSlash Hack / Slash]]''. The gas mask helps his breathing. The coat is to hide he looks like humanoid lizard.

** It should be noted that ''both'' are based on real world militaries from the same nation but of different eras. The Death Korps is intended to resemble World War 1 German infantry, whereas the Steel Legion bears more of a resemblance to the later Wermacht uniforms. Interesting fact: the original Death Korps models were just Steel Legionaires painted with skulls on their masks. Now only the Grenadiers and Quartermasters wear skulls.

* [[SerialKiller The Corroder]] from ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'' wears a gas mask and a long brown, stained apron that greatly resemble a coat. Justified in that his weapon of choice is a gun that shoots acid.

* ''Videogame/EYEDivineCybermancy'': standard issue uniform for all Federal Cops

* [[BigBad Zero]] from ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' uses the look. It serves to hide their identity by hiding their voice and concealing their face, and protecting them from the knockout gas he uses to kidnap the main characters.

* If you count a nun's habit as coat, then the satanistic [[NunsAreSpooky Little Sisters of Belial]] from ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' do fit this trope.

* More primitive versions can be found in the PlagueDoctor (Wikipedia articles on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor the profession]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor_costume the costume]]), who were employed during the Black Plague. The plague doctor's mask possessed glass eyepieces, and the nose was filled with herbs to ward away 'bad air', which was one of the believed causes of the plague at the time. The doctor then wore long thick outer garments to protect them from their surroundings, and carried a cane to interact with things without directly touching them (think that claw thingy the trashman carries). Although there was very little the doctors could actually do for their patients besides taking note of the infected and instigating quarantines, they were paid relatively handsomely for the risk involved in their jobs. [[note]]it's now theorized that those long coats, with all their folds and fibers, might actually have made great hiding places for the disease carrying fleas which actually spread the plague.[[/note]]
* [[http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/18893944/mysterious-figure-photographed-in-woodland/ The Loyon]], an unidentified person spotted wandering in a Swiss forest, regularly seen for a decade. He wears a gasmask and sometimes a long camoufled coat. Although the previous link can look like a hoax (it is actually quite exaggerated), the Loyon (gender unknown) really exists (look [[http://www.lematin.ch/faits-divers/Le-Loyon-ne-fait-rire-personne/story/25650014 here]] for an article - in French - from an actual Swiss newspaper).

*** All of these are 200 year old AncientArtifacts, actual scavenged Pre-War riot gear since production of new models is impossible given the high level of tech put into it.

* During the first few arcs of ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', Yorick disguises himself with a gas mask, but phones it in a bit on the coat, wearing a poncho instead.

* In ''FalloutNukaBreak'', we meet an NCR Ranger at the end of Episode 6 wearing the armor seen at the top of this page. Turns out he [[spoiler:isn't even a Ranger at all. He just beat up a Ranger and stole his armor]], which makes him even ''more'' badass.

Can overlap with GasMaskMooks if said mooks also include trenchcoats in their uniforms. Not to be confused with BadassLongcoat. For a more historical version see PlagueDoctor.

** It should be noted that ''both'' are based on real world militaries from the same nation but of different eras. The Death Korps is intended to resemble World War 1 German infantry, whereas the Steel Legion bears more of a resemblance to the later Wermacht uniforms.

* Shingen Kishitani from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' wears a gas mask at all times while visiting his son to protect him from Tokyo's air quality, even wearing it while showering (it's all but stated he's a CloudCuckooLander). He wears a doctor's smock, much like his son, Shinra, because of his occupation as a medical doctor. His second wife and Shinra's step-mother, also a doctor, wears a smock and a gas mask when she visits, but in a form of GogglesDoNothing, she mostly wears it like a hat rather than a breathing device.

* The Sandman from ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre''. Notable in that he also has a hat. Probably the UrExample in fiction, since he's been sporting the look since [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks 1939]].
** Neil Gaiman's [[ComicBook/TheSandman version of the character]] homages the look - though in his case, the "gas mask" is actually the [[DarkerAndEdgier skull and spinal column of a dead god]].

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* The Sandman from ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre''. Notable in that he also has a [[CoatHatMask hat]]. Probably the UrExample in fiction, since he's been sporting the look since [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks 1939]].

* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] Kroenen from ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}''. He is seen wearing a long coat as part of his Nazi uniform once or twice, but eventually trades it in for a significantly less awesome apron.

* The Storm Troopers in the final mission of ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne''.