"No one cared who I was 'til I put on the mask."
Masks of all forms, and for all reasons.
Doesn't matter if it's for maintaining your Secret Identity while fighting crime (even if it's not that believable), dressing up for Halloween, or going to a Masquerade Ball. Masks can be useful for all of those.
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Physical Masks:
- Anti-Climactic Unmasking
- The Blank: The facelessness is sometimes the result of a mask.
- Blatant Burglar (a mask being part of the getup)
- Brown Bag Mask: Someone wears a brown bag over their head.
- Coat, Hat, Mask
- Cool Mask
- Deathly Unmasking
- Domino Mask
- Dramatic Unmask
- Evil Mask
- Expressive Mask
- The Faceless: This trope often uses a mask to cover the character's face.
- Floating Mask
- Gas Mask, Longcoat
- Gas Mask Mooks
- Hockey Mask and Chainsaw
- Inhuman Eye Concealers: Sometimes, characters with usual eyes hide them with masks.
- Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery
- Latex Perfection
- Malevolent Masked Men
- Mask of Confidence
- Mask of Power
- Masked Luchador
- Multilayer Façade: Wearing several disguises over each other.
- Murderous Mask
- Mysterious Veil
- Nixon Mask
- No Face Under the Mask
- Not a Mask: What's thought to be a mask is actually the person's real face.
- One-Way Visor
- Plague Doctor
- Post Apocalyptic Gasmask
- Sackhead Slasher
- Sleep Mask
- Stocking Mask
- Stranger Behind the Mask
- White Mask of Doom
Metaphorical Masks:
- Becoming the Mask: A character's cover ends up becoming their true nature.
- Beneath the Mask
- Cast as a Mask: A character and their disguise are played by separate actors.
- Mask of Sanity
- Stepford Smiler: A character hides their depression and grief by putting on a mask of happiness.
