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Expressive Mask
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A character's mask is usually intended to obscure the face. In animation this used to also be a helpful cheat to draw something similar. In order to look less wooden it is very common for the mask to become a character's face. The eyeholes and even the shape of the mask will contort seamlessly depending on the character's mood. At the very least the mask will move as if painted on. This is especially true when a character's eyes are not drawn while in costume. This can even extend to eyeglasses (especially Eye Glasses) and similar accessories. The lenses of an expressive character become organic extensions of the body: widening with surprise, narrowing with suspicion, and scaring with shiny. Interestingly cracked glasses can autorepair thanks to this property between scenes. This is similar to Open the Iris, where the iris, not the pupil, widens and shrinks. Even if the mask, helmet, or head itself isn't very expressive, you can still get a lot of mileage out of Disembodied Eyebrows. For other emotion-conveying clothing see Expressive Shirt. If a character has a similarly animated skull for a head, then it is an Expressive Skull. For a mask that perfectly replicates the face it's modeled on, down to expressions and emotions, see Latex Perfection. Examples |
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In the Tales from the Crypt episode "Only Skin Deep", an abusive creep goes home from a costume party with a shapely young lady - himself dressed as a pirate, her as a body bag ('artificial shell with a corpse inside' - tip off number one?) and with a slightly disturbing mask. Naturally, he doesn't notice that the mouth of the 'mask' and the eyeholes move when her mouth and eyes do, respectively... typical Crypt type 90's horror ensues. It's clearly makeup, but for plot purposes, no one has ever apparently put on corpsepaint in their life, god forbid for a costume party... | |
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Averted by Henderson Security mookks in Super Normal Step - their gasmasks render them completely unrecognisable and devoid of expression. | |
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Emoticon from Welcome to Tranquility is something of a unique example. His mask actually always shows his true emoticons, and is effectively a proxy face for him, given a supervillain by the moniker of The Typist actually mutilated his face beyond recognition and rendered him utterly blind. The mask also has prosthetic eyeballs in it, allowing poor Emoticon to see. Understandably, he's got a bit of an attitude problem. Poor guy. | |
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Rorschach from Watchmen, whose Inkblot mask changes depending on his emotion at the time. | |
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Mortimer Jones' mask from Newheimburg does this a lot. | |
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Accord of Worm is described as having a metal mask woven to match his expression precisely. | |
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In City of Blank, the masks are often drawn changing according to character emotion. Justified because it's hard to convey character emotion otherwise, since (just about) everyone wears a mask 24/7. It's also made clear in the post-Season 1 FAQ that this is only done for artistic purposes, and that the masks don't actually change expressions in-universe. | |
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The skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts have angry "eyebrows." | |
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In The Story of Saiunkoku, Kou Kijin's masks themselves aren't animated, but he has a wide assortment of them made by his friend and colleague Kou Reishin, and some of them are very expressive. | |
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Although generally averted with Wolverine's cowl in All-New Wolverine, Ig Guarra has the eyes shift to fit Laura's expressions and mood in issues 10-12. | |
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The Spirit has a domino mask that's very flexible and shows expression very well. In the movie, they got around this simply by making the mask's eye holes large enough so as not to obscure the actor's performance. | |
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Also used to the same effect with Zazie in Battle Spirits Brave, though he has a different type of mask. | |
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Heimdäl from Noob, whose mask looks like a normal face aside from being white. | |
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Some Hollows in Bleach manage to be rather expressive despite the fact their face is essentially a bone mask. This is helped by the changes to the glowing pits of fear that are their eyes, narrowing and widening to help convey their emotions. The star on Mask de Masculine's mask sometimes changes pattern. It becomes a question mark when he realizes he can't hear Renji, and then a light bulb when he realizes how to fix the problem. When he goes One-Winged Angel, the pattern changes again, and Renji actually calls attention to it this time. |
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In Battle Spirits Shonen Toppa Bashin, Suiren has one, which tends to change shape depending on her mood. Also used to the same effect with Zazie in Battle Spirits Brave, though he has a different type of mask. Inui gets this as well in Battle Spirits Double Drive, with his mask at one point gaining swirly eyes. |
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Skeletor of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is usually shown drawn with what looks like angry eyebrows for his eye sockets, but sometimes it turns out he can emote with his skull face, such as in this video where he manages to look glum for a moment before reverting straight back to his usual short temper. | |
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In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ultron's main body has a moving mouth and eyes, allowing him to make various disturbingly human expressions. His comic self, by contrast, has a fixed, glowing red "smile", and was first seen as a malfunctioning Iron Legion drone that had been hit with acid, resulting in its macabre grin. | |
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In The Belgariad and its prequels, the god Torak wears a steel mask over a severe burn that shifts as his healthy face would. In his defense, he is a god. | |
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Funky Kong from the Donkey Kong Country cartoon. | |
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There were plans for the actor playing the Green Goblin to wear one in the first Spider-Man movie, with makeup and animatronics used to allow a full range of movement and emotions. The mask was scrapped in favor of an unmovable, Power Rangers-like helmet after Sam Raimi decided that audiences wouldn't buy that a simple rubber mask could move like that. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: Almost every Miraculous holder sports one while transformed. The masks are magical and are fused to their faces, so it's justified. | |
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In G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Destro wears a polished metal mask which behaves in all ways like his real face would. | |
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The earliest animated use of this trope may have to go back to the Looney Tunes cartoons whenever a Full-Body Disguise (or at least a Latex Perfection -style mask) is used. Worth of note is this rubber goat mask Sylvester wears in "Fowl Weather," with the eyes and mouth acting like the real thing and a nice double take fully showing through (when Tweety blows his cover, not fooled by the mask.) | |
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales continues this trend with several of Miles' costumes. In addition, Prowler's helmet includes mechanical shutters on his eyesnote oddly the suit the Miles can unlock based on Prowler's suit is one of the suits without the expressive shutter function.. | |
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Another good example is Cassandra/Batgirl II's mask: Unlike Batman's it's full face and even the eyes are black, but they get a lot of mileage out of changing the shading on it. | |
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Fain in Lusternia combines this with Not a Mask for creepy effect. | |
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But it's surprisingly averted in the Yogi Bear short "Bear-Faced Disguise", when Ranger Smith dresses up full-body as a polar bear to spy on Yogi so he doesn't steal any picnic baskets. Yogi even lampshades it... | |
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G.I. Joe: Renegades: This version of Destro is a subtler example, as only the parts surrounding his eyes move and even then it's so little that it's only ever shown in close-ups. | |
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Naruto: Kakashi is a notable aversion of this: the entire bottom half of his face (nose to chin) is always covered by a mask and his right eye is covered by his ninja headband most of the time, neither of which moves more than they realistically would. You can usually very easily tell his mood from just that one eye and its eyebrow. The immobile mask thing has improved slightly with Shippuuden, so now we generally see some movement when he speaks. Tobi's almost completely face-concealing mask is likewise immobile, and he mostly expresses himself with body-language or, after he reveals himself as Madara, a close-up of his eye. |
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The Phantom. Arguably the Trope Maker since he's been doing it since 1936, four years before Batman and The Spirit existed. | |
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While for the majority of V for Vendetta movie V's mask is just a mask, several scenes have been digitally edited so that the mask moves very, very slightly. The idea was, because people are so used to masks not moving, if they saw the eyebrow go up an unnoticeable fraction, it would make a huge subconscious difference. And it did, obviously. Watch the mask just before the big fight towards the end. It helps that it already looks a bit CGI in its normal form, but watching closely you can see it move the tiniest bit. | |
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Hawkodile from Unikitty!. | |
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Borderlands 2: Zer0, the Assassin class, has a holographic display in front of his faceplate that projects an image, typically an emoticon, correspondent to how he's feeling at the time and doing a task, such as ":(" when idle for too long, "<3" when reviving a teammate, ":D" when picking up a car from Catch-a-Ride, or "?" when looking at the map. His trademark "0" appears when he kills something with a melee attack. Handsome Jack wears a mask that mimics his appearance prior to getting most of his face scarred at the hands of Lilith. The mask is just as expressive as his face was prior to putting it on. |
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Jack-O' from Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- has one of these, especially◊ when she gets hit by Faust's infamous Stimulating Fists of Annihilation. Faust himself is an example, only he does this with the single eyehole cut out from his Brown Bag Mask. |
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In Darkwing Duck, Megavolt's goggles change to match his expression. | |
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G.I. Joe: In G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Destro wears a polished metal mask which behaves in all ways like his real face would. G.I. Joe: Renegades: This version of Destro is a subtler example, as only the parts surrounding his eyes move and even then it's so little that it's only ever shown in close-ups. |
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Also noteworthy from the DC Animated Universe are Atomic Skull and Blight; both have exposed skulls (the latter because of transparant skin, the former because...well...) which tend to show a greater range of emotion than you should be capable of getting from a skeletal jaw and eye-sockets. | |
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The Extremist Vector: Lord Chaos' mask seems to smile when he's killing people. | |
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The villain Kain in the first Tenchi Muyo! movie had a face that resembled a mask (including not moving when he spoke) and which changed expression occasionally, though it seems to have been a part of his body. | |
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Tenchi Muyo! | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_3c5675b | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_3c5675b | comment |
Like Batman, Black Panther's expressions are usually limited to his eyes narrowing to make him look more intimidating. | |
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Black Panther (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_3cc40e40 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_3cc40e40 | comment |
In Everyday Heroes, Carrie has both expressive glasses and puppy eyes here. Mr. Mighty's mask and most others also have this feature. |
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Everyday Heroes (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_3ce03501 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_3ce03501 | comment |
The goggles that Time Squad officers wear in Time Squad act in this way. The easiest example would be Buck Tuddrussel. | |
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Time Squad | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_3d3b00d9 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_3d3b00d9 | comment |
Mr. Wolf from Halloween Otome will tell you all you need to know from his ears. And if not, then surely his blushing will do the trick... | |
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Halloween Otome (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_3d3b00d9 | |
Expressive Mask / int_3fbd173e | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_3fbd173e | comment |
Freefall has a bunch of straight examples (robots whose normally-oval eyes appear as semicircles when they're annoyed, or as lines), but also a number of justified ones: Sam Starfall's mask was purpose-built to mimic human expressions, and he can control it with his tentacly face. In the case of Sawtooth Rivergrinder, the ^ shapes were displayed inside his eyes, which are confirmed to be capable of functioning as a graphical display. Clippy has a curved magnetic strip which he moves and flips around on his face to make a frown, smile, or eyebrows. He can literally turn a frown upside-down. |
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Expressive Mask / int_400469e | type |
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Expressive Mask / int_400469e | comment |
Calvin and Hobbes - Spaceman Spiff, interplanetary explorer extraordinaire, wears a space visor that is more like a small square black screen perched on his nose, which somehow conveys all of his eyes' expressions. The standard expression is two squares, but he uses circles for alarm, a thin line for when he's squinting, and triangular shapes for when he's angrily blasting stuff. Justified as it is A. an advanced piece of tech specifically designed to do this, and B. imaginary in the first place, so obviously it does whatever Calvin wants it to do. For that matter, the Calvinball masks and Stupendous Man's mask are very expressive for pieces of cloth (the Stupendous Man hood, however, does white out Calvin's eyes in his daydreams.) | |
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Expressive Mask / int_400469e | |
Expressive Mask / int_426a7572 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_426a7572 | comment |
Dr. Scratchansniff of Animaniacs. | |
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Animaniacs | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_426a7572 | |
Expressive Mask / int_44231a75 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_44231a75 | comment |
Necroma from Kong Tower makes her skull mask show her eye and mouth movements using spirit gum. Not that she would admit to that. Other characters manage this without any rational explanation. | |
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Kong Tower (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_44231a75 | |
Expressive Mask / int_44cbf0b3 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_44cbf0b3 | comment |
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty: It’s very subtle, but the lenses on the Reaper’s gas mask move like eyebrows in his unit portrait. | |
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_44cbf0b3 | |
Expressive Mask / int_453a04b0 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_453a04b0 | comment |
Tootie and Mr. Crocker of The Fairly Oddparents. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_453a04b0 | |
Expressive Mask / int_45a29545 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_45a29545 | comment |
In The Secret Saturdays, V.V. Argost's mask moves so well with his lips that you probably wouldn't think it was a mask at first glance. | |
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The Secret Saturdays | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_45a29545 | |
Expressive Mask / int_45a5beb2 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_45a5beb2 | comment |
Some of the villains that wear masks in WordGirl can move to change emotions. | |
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WordGirl | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_468bebb0 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Death gets one Expressive Skull in the animated adaptations of the Discworld novels. | |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_4797fe95 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_4797fe95 | comment |
Kitten from Hunter: The Parenting is capable of emoting through a full-face ski mask and goggles. His mouth is visible through the mask when he's upset or angry, his goggles deform with his emotions, and the cat-ears on his hood move like a real cat's. | |
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Hunter: The Parenting (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_4797fe95 | |
Expressive Mask / int_47dfc6f | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_47dfc6f | comment |
Total Drama: In "Super Hero-ld", Pythonicus (Chef) and Dander Boy (a cat) wear masks that overtly move along with their facial expressions. The Peruvian Zing-Zings in "The Am-AH-Zon Race" wear large wooden masks with a third eye way up above head height. For the most part, these masks are stiff, but whenever the Zing-Zings are seated at the campfire all three eyes gaze in whatever direction is of interest. |
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Total Drama | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_4a1af3cb | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_4a1af3cb | comment |
¡Mucha Lucha!. Seeing as all the characters (yes, even Rikochet's dog) are wearing masks and it would be difficult to portray their emotions otherwise, this is justified. | |
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¡Mucha Lucha! | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_4a1af3cb | |
Expressive Mask / int_4b6f8e36 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_4b6f8e36 | comment |
Citizen V's mask in Thunderbolts is meant to be featureless, but with reflections on it that just happen to resemble facial expressions. Sometimes it looks more like you can see the Citizen's face through the mask, somehow. | |
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Thunderbolts (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_4d1ba412 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_4d1ba412 | comment |
Averted in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja The masks on the titular character and his ninja family stay motionless. However, they manage to be fairly expressive through eye movements (it helps that the masks show eyebrows.) Any inconsistencies with the masks have gotten a preemptive Hand Wave: The Doctor and his family know a variety of "ninja tricksh" which, among other things, let them eat with their masks on. |
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Expressive Mask / int_4efd20ba | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_4efd20ba | comment |
The titular Freakazoid!'s mask is a domino mask that changes shape along with his eyes whenever he changes emotions. | |
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Freakazoid! | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_4efd20ba | |
Expressive Mask / int_4f6709cf | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_4f6709cf | comment |
In Spider-Man (PS4) several of Spider Man's suit's, including the base suit include the mechanical lenses featured in the MCU version mentioned above, while the cell shaded suits on the other hand use a more cartoony version of the same effect. Spider-Man: Miles Morales continues this trend with several of Miles' costumes. In addition, Prowler's helmet includes mechanical shutters on his eyesnote oddly the suit the Miles can unlock based on Prowler's suit is one of the suits without the expressive shutter function.. |
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Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_50b0b88e | comment |
Michael Holt AKA Mister Terrific's T-shaped mask is a skin tight fabric that only covers his face and naturally moves with his expressions. At times it more resembles black makeup than a mask. | |
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Mister Terrific (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_51030ded | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_51030ded | comment |
In Castle Hangnail, Edward is a suit of Animated Armor infused with the ghost of its former owner. The faceplate of Edward's helm (and particularly the eyeslits) are sometimes described as showing facial expressions. | |
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Castle Hangnail | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_5311d36a | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5311d36a | comment |
The human characters in Viva Piñata wear tribal-style full face masks that move and emote perfectly. However, given the cartoonish style of the game and related tie-ins, it's possible that these "masks" are their actual faces. | |
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Viva Piñata (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_5311d36a | |
Expressive Mask / int_55c5a085 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_55c5a085 | comment |
Boss Borot, the robot piloted by Mazinger Z's comic relief Boss, tends to be even more expressive than the human characters! | |
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Mazinger Z | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_55c5a085 | |
Expressive Mask / int_56b4bedd | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_56b4bedd | comment |
Billy Kid of Zenless Zone Zero has a full metal mask on his face, with only his glowing eyes visible through a small slit. Despite this, the slit and his eyes are capable of widening, narrowing, and changing shape to demonstrate his many emotions. | |
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Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_56b4bedd | |
Expressive Mask / int_56e1779c | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_56e1779c | comment |
In Kill Six Billion Demons, devils' masks are what give them a face in the first place, so it's no wonder they're expressive when worn. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_5755b96a | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5755b96a | comment |
Xykon of The Order of the Stick doesn't wear a mask, but his skull is surprisingly expressive, even if it can't do an Evil Laugh. Of course, the rest of his body is also moving more than a normal skeleton. "Suck it, arthritis!" | |
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Expressive Mask / int_5ce3fc86 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5ce3fc86 | comment |
Shinigami-sama from Soul Eater has a mask in which the eyes change shape from round and dopey to triangular when he is about to beat an enemy into the ground. And for a masked character who doesn't seem to have a body inside his costume, he also manages cross-popping veins and tears. | |
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Soul Eater (Manga) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_5ce3fc86 | |
Expressive Mask / int_5cfb879b | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5cfb879b | comment |
A select few comic characters, including Mister Miracle and Mike Allred's Madman, really go the extra mile. They wear full-face masks with openings that are flawlessly molded to their eyes, nostrils, and lips, and that move/open/close freely along with them. For any practical purpose, their masks are faces, made of some miracle fabric known only to comic creators. | |
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New Gods (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_5cfb879b | |
Expressive Mask / int_5e11dafe | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5e11dafe | comment |
Chopping Block, with Butch's Jason mask. | |
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Chopping Block (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5e150650 | comment |
Exalted has a somewhat terrifying example in the Mask of Winters. He wears a mask that covers his entire head — one side has a diabolical grin, while the other side has an expression of sorrow and fury. You can tell what mood he's in by which side is facing you — and he'll always be facing you, as he can reverse every joint in his body at will. | |
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Exalted (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_5ef424cf | type |
Expressive Mask | |
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Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic got King Lewie the Lich with expressive eyesockets. He also has no difficulty smiling or frowning. | |
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Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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All the Robins have expressive domino masks, and Dick retains one as Nightwing while Tim moves on to an expressive cowl like his mentor as Red Robin. | |
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Robin (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_5fc3d52f | comment |
Steel: John Henry Irons usually wears a metal mask that looks exactly like his face and moves the way his face would. A lettercolumn suggested this was either something to do with his mysterious superpowers (during a period when he could teleport the armour on and off, but didn't know how) or "really strong facial muscles". These days (the mysterious superpowers having long been abandoned) generally accepted that there's some kind of motor that detects his expressions and relays it to the mask, and the mask itself is surprisingly flexible in the same way that there aren't obvious joints on his arms and legs. | |
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Steel (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Spider-Man shows in particular traditionally seem to love using the mask to not only show but also highly emphasize the character's emotions and expressions. Spider-Man: The Animated Series was fond of using the mask for expressions of surprise, including one instance where the eye-parts of Spidey's mask become so large that they take up most of his face. This extends to the The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series, which also takes a lot of pleasure in the marvelously emotive full head masks of Spider-Man, the Green Goblin and the Chameleon. Green Goblin's mask is so expressive and kooky that it could be mistaken for an actual face covered in makeup. The Chameleon, at least, has a good excuse; his whole thing is being a Master of Disguise, and his white mask is designed to fit under various personalized ones. |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Iron Man and Ant-Man might have a broader range of expressions with their masks than without. Ms. Marvel can also express a range of emotions with her mask. Black Panther's mask occasionally does this as well. Could be justified by the fact that he's from Wakanda, a country known for having extremely advanced technology. |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Marvel Universe: Spider-Man and Deadpool often manage some pretty goofy expressions even though they wear masks concealing their entire face. These are usually of the "cocked eyebrow" variety. Depending on the Artist, Deadpool's mouth can be seen through his mask, making his expressions even goofier. Most dramatic is when Spider-Man narrows his eyes. Somehow this makes the whites of his mask narrow as well. (During the McFarlane big-eyes era, this was particularly emphatic.) They experimented with this for the movie, but decided that it looked too creepy in live-action. However, by the Spider-Man: Homecoming Trilogy, it was incorporated — the mask was redesigned by Tony Stark to expand and contract the eyes as it adjusts to what he sees. Lampshaded in a recap issue of Superior Spider-Man (2013), where the in-character design sketch for the new costume's reactive eye-lenses has a note saying "lens can also be used for emotion!" Also from Spider-Man, the Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Goblin Knight have masks so expressive and kooky that they could be mistaken for actual faces covered in makeup. Like Batman, Black Panther's expressions are usually limited to his eyes narrowing to make him look more intimidating. Both Iron Man and Fantastic Four villain Doctor Doom have masks specifically described as made of metal, yet both can show emotion when needed. The trick is the angle from which they're shown. Justifications exist: Iron Man is shown creating a faceplate for his armour that follows his own expressions, the better to intimidate his foes. In The Ultimate Super-Villains anthology, Doctor Doom's updated mask contains micro-servos that can mimic expression. He habitually keeps it locked in an arrogant scowl to better intimidate his underlings. The Iron Man villain Madame Masque, Depending on the Artist. Sometimes her mask is essentially "painted on" (like Destro's), and moves with her facial features. Other times it's clearly a metal or ceramic mask that doesn't show any emotion other than from the holes for her eyes. In one story, Kate Bishop actually gagged her by putting a strip of duct tape over the mouthpiece on the mask, implying that it's normally movable. The supervillain Taskmaster wears a skull mask that is quite expressive, to the point where his mouth seems to move when he talks. Depending on the Artist is will either contort with his expressions like a rubber mask, or rely on the expressions of his eyes if it's a harder mask. All-New Wolverine takes the "eyeblack around the eyes" method beneath his skull mask. Citizen V's mask in Thunderbolts is meant to be featureless, but with reflections on it that just happen to resemble facial expressions. Sometimes it looks more like you can see the Citizen's face through the mask, somehow. Although generally averted with Wolverine's cowl in All-New Wolverine, Ig Guarra has the eyes shift to fit Laura's expressions and mood in issues 10-12. |
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In Fall of Cthulhu by Boom! comics, the Masked Mute IS this trope. Her communication is literally all the different expressions her masks make. | |
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Fall of Cthulhu (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_6619c0b3 | comment |
Rock, Paper, Scissors: The shades that Scissors wears change shape depending on his current emotion. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Watch_Dogs 2 has an interesting variation in Wrench, whose mask is deliberately designed to invoke this trope. The eyes use LED screens to display various ASCII characters, with the effect of simulating certain emoticons like @_@, >_<, and ^_~, depending on the situation. | |
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Watch_Dogs 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Taokaka (and presumably other members of the Kaka clan) in BlazBlue wears a black mask with red dots for eyes and a huge Cheshire Cat Grin. Said mask is as expressive as any normal face, though, and she can even eat while wearing it. | |
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BlazBlue (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ultron's main body has a moving mouth and eyes, allowing him to make various disturbingly human expressions. His comic self, by contrast, has a fixed, glowing red "smile", and was first seen as a malfunctioning Iron Legion drone that had been hit with acid, resulting in its macabre grin. Spider-Man has retractable lenses that allow him to mimic this effect. This is justified by the fact his Spider-Sense risks giving him Sensory Overload whenever it activates, so Tony Stark crafted the adjustable lenses to let Spidey modulate how much he sees at once (beforehand, he made do with welding goggles). |
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The Iron Man villain Madame Masque, Depending on the Artist. Sometimes her mask is essentially "painted on" (like Destro's), and moves with her facial features. Other times it's clearly a metal or ceramic mask that doesn't show any emotion other than from the holes for her eyes. In one story, Kate Bishop actually gagged her by putting a strip of duct tape over the mouthpiece on the mask, implying that it's normally movable. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons there's the Hat of Disguise, which can, when activated, become any type of headgear; thus, it could become a mask, the expression on which could be changed each round. | |
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Downplayed with Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, since he never takes off his hockey mask (as usual for the '87 series). While not too expressive, Casey's mask has moments of emoting, such as Blush Stickers when he high-fives with other characters, and the eye holes going wider should he get flattened. | |
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In Fushigi Yuugi, Chichiri's mask can change its facial expression like it is real face. | |
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The Monarch henchmen in The Venture Brothers wear goggles that blink and move like real eyes. Though in commentary for the Season 1 DVD, either Doc Hammer or Jackson Publick mentioned that they hated blinking goggles. |
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The Storm Hawks have welding goggles that do this. | |
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Transformers cartoons employ this trope heavily because the alternative, especially when not well designed, comes off quite badly. The stiff and primitive CGI of Transformers: Energon is notorious within the fandom for turning almost all facial expressions into Dull Surprise thanks to a lack of expressive features. | |
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Legion in Mass Effect 2 has several articulated plates around his single eye, capable of approximating organic facial expressions like surprise or interest. The effect is similar to Iron Giant and Transformers mentioned above. | |
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V for Vendetta: V's mask does not move, but lighting effects are used to make it more expressive. If you don't show the eyebrows, he looks innocently happy, but focusing on them makes him look more formidable. | |
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The eyeholes in Secret Squirrel's hat change shape to match his expression. In Super Secret Secret Squirrel (the 90's revival), Morocco Mole's sunglasses never change shape, but the reflections on them do (for example, turning into exclamation points when he's surprised). |
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Getter Robo has Stilva, a very expressive Humongous Mecha that mirrors its pilot's expressions, to the point that it even has a full set of teeth and an uvula. Similarly, all of the Ganmen and the titular mecha of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. | |
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Averted in The New Adventures of Zorro (1997), where Zorro's mask actually shows his eyes. | |
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The Pyros in Cuanta Vida. A good thing too, seeing as it's hard enough to know what they're thinking through their muffled speech. | |
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Batman: Batman's mask can sometimes be seen doing this. For Bats it's almost always "brow furrowed." Almost◊. The appearance of this is explained by the live-action films: close-ups on Batman's face make clear that he's wearing eye makeup in the gap between his mask and the edges of his eyelids. (This is the most likely method for any live actors masked in the same style.) Except in certain close ups of Batman's face in the comics, we see that the eyeholes end around his skull holes and there is no black eye makeup. The moving mask could be explained as flexible skin tight material, or just artistic expression, a la the white eyes. Another good example is Cassandra/Batgirl II's mask: Unlike Batman's it's full face and even the eyes are black, but they get a lot of mileage out of changing the shading on it. Spoiler's mask is similar to Spider-Man and Deadpool below◊, complete with the cocked eyebrow◊ All the Robins have expressive domino masks, and Dick retains one as Nightwing while Tim moves on to an expressive cowl like his mentor as Red Robin. Jason Todd (aka Red Hood) wears an expressive helmet in the New 52. |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court Donald got expressive glasses. Especially in flashbacks. Later awesomely — and hilariously — averted with robots: Sky Watcher is very expressive without visibly moving parts of the head in organic style and KingBot found an alternative solution. |
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Any time Fred Flintstone has dressed up full-body as a dinosaur or dino-like monster (such as in "The Monster From the Tar Pits," "The Masquerade Ball" and "Son of Rockzilla"), the mask acts as if it's a real face when Fred is wearing it. Also applies to other masks worn in "The Masquerade Ball" (including the bird mask Mr. Slate wears) and even the hunting trophy heads Fred and Barney wear in "Kleptomaniac Caper." | |
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The mask Sly Cooper and the gang wear are quite expressive, Sly is never seen without it! | |
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The Shy Guys from the Super Mario games do this, at least in Paper Mario and Mario Strikers Charged. Bandits also fit this trope to a T. The mask essentially is their face. |
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Spider-Man: Spider-Verse: The masks of the Spider-People have eyes that move with theirs (and in Peter Porker's case, the nostrils too), except for Miles while he is wearing his store-bought costume. And when he wears his new, custom-graffitied Spider-Man suit, the eyes move just like on the other Spider-people's suits. | |
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Soundwave in Transformers: Prime uses his completely blank face as a video display. While he still doesn't emote much, this allows him to be The Quiet One as well: he doesn't need to say that he's downloading data, he can just display a progress bar, and he can mock the heroes by showing emoticons rather than insulting them verbally. This quiet, faceless presence makes him possibly the creepiest take on Soundwave in the Transformers mythos. | |
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Psycho Mantis' gasmask in The Last Days of FOXHOUND. | |
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Sissel from Ghost Trick wears a pair of sunglasses, which most of the time bend ever so subtly to match his expression. | |
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Buckaress from League of Super Redundant Heroes. | |
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Parodied in Red vs. Blue, which can't do this because it's Machinima in Halo, where everyone wears a helmet. Even talking is merely head bobbing. When the Reds see the Blues talking on the screens under the canyon, but can't hear them, they comment on how ridiculous people look because you can't see their emotion. While vigorously bobbing his head. The directors even noted how the best character to try conveying emotion in spite of the mask is Carolina, given the smaller visor can be interpreted as angry when looking down, and sad when looking up. |
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In an inversion, ReBoot's character Hexadecimal, a computer virus of an excessively chaotic and unpredictable behavior, had no facial animation for most of the series. Her face was a "drama mask", and her expression would always change on a cut or while her face was not visible (usually blocked by her hand). Lampshaded in one episode where AndrAIa assumes Hex's identity. She sits in front of a mirror waving her hand back and forth in front of her face, watching the expression change and saying "Happy...sad! Happy...sad!" In an episode where Bob actually removes Hex's mask, we see that there is nothing underneath. The mask is her face, and her expression is at the mercy of chance. This is why, in the third and fourth seasons, after Hex becomes sane and does a Heel–Face Turn, her face does become expressive and actually moves when she talks. |
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One aversion of this trope in Batman: The Animated Series is Page Monroe's completely unmoving mask in "Mean Seasons," which parallels her aversion to her actual face. | |
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Quite possibly the most entertaining part of CollegeHumor's animated short Which Is Nerdier: Star Wars or Star Trek is just how impressively expressive they made Darth Vader's mask. And the NES Controller on his chest. | |
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This extends to the The Spectacular Spider-Man Animated Series, which also takes a lot of pleasure in the marvelously emotive full head masks of Spider-Man, the Green Goblin and the Chameleon. Green Goblin's mask is so expressive and kooky that it could be mistaken for an actual face covered in makeup. The Chameleon, at least, has a good excuse; his whole thing is being a Master of Disguise, and his white mask is designed to fit under various personalized ones. | |
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In Wakfu, Nox's mask has shutters that act as eyelids. However, more often than not, we get the full unsettling effect of those unblinking glowing eyes. | |
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Ralsei's glasses sometimes do this in Deltarune. | |
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Played for laughs in Scary Movie, where the expression of the mask worn by the killer changes between shots into anything from mad, to happy, to stoned. | |
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Similarly, Buck from Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire has a belt which sometimes changes to an appropriate expression for the situation. This seems to be a Foglio feature... | |
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Averted by Usopp's Sogeking mask in One Piece, which never moves and generally hides his expressions to make him look calmer, but even then you can see his jaw sticking out from the bottom or his eyes poking out of the holes in a Wild Take. Brook can do this with his skull head. This happens particularly often when he's in battle, when he'll often have angry eyesockets. |
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Rugrats: The Reptar mask used in "Reptar On Ice" is like this, with the mouth moving very realistically and the eyes blinking and showing expression, even though the rubber head is larger than the man wearing it. | |
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In Staines Down Drains, Dr. Drain's gas mask manages to perfectly convey his emotions (usually irritation), especially via the eyepieces. | |
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Kedamono from Popee the Performer has a wide variety of individual masks with different expressions painted on them that he's able to switch between at the drop of a hat. One wonders how he's able to fit all those masks on his face. | |
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Jason Todd (aka Red Hood) wears an expressive helmet in the New 52. | |
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Plastic Man's goggles contort with his expressions, although this is justified since his costume was doused with the same chemical that gave him his rubber powers. | |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Turkey has this, combined with his nice hat. | |
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Scooby-Doo villains can have expressive masks even when it's not logical. It's a show with the main character is a talking dog. Logical isn't the best word for it to begin with. Even as the franchise got more realistic and more logical, the expressive masks remained, probably because they've began to appear more in real life as well (see Real Life below). |
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Daimos is a Super Robot, but he tends to make Oh, Crap! faces when Richter's forces give him a heavy beatdown, as to mimic his pilot Kazuya Ryuzaki. | |
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In Skip Beat!, Kyoko's Bo costume (a giant chicken suit) is somehow capable of blinking, glaring evilly, and a wide variety of other expressions. | |
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Psychonauts: Not quite a mask, but Agent Sasha Nein's glasses are capable of changing shape with his expressions. He is psychic, of course, but that seems a rather trivial use of telekinesis. | |
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Dregs: The shape of the gas masks' noses and size of the eye-lenses occasionally subtly change to convey mood. In moments of extreme fear, the pupils become visible through the lenses. | |
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Even as the franchise got more realistic and more logical, the expressive masks remained, probably because they've began to appear more in real life as well (see Real Life below). | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Gone with the Blastwave got "25 Essential Expressions Challenge" filler. Given that all characters wear gas masks, it's mostly about head tilting and view angles. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Destro in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) was a very good example of this, given that despite his wearing of a metal mask that completely covers his head, it was in essence "painted on", in regards to being able to furrow his brow, smile, frown, move his lips, etc. Destro's mask was played with in the live-action film where his severely burned face is turned to flexible metal through the Applied Phlebotinum of the nanomites. | |
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Expressive Mask / int_b4996199 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
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Spider-Man has retractable lenses that allow him to mimic this effect. This is justified by the fact his Spider-Sense risks giving him Sensory Overload whenever it activates, so Tony Stark crafted the adjustable lenses to let Spidey modulate how much he sees at once (beforehand, he made do with welding goggles). | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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On Invader Zim it's hard to tell that Dib even wears glasses; not only do they adjust with his expression but the frame is apparently wire-thin and there are no temples connecting them with his ears. Zim's fake human eyes and GIR's eye cups also adjust with their expressions, which is presumably Justified as alien technology. | |
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Expressive Mask / int_b7903143 | comment |
Sid Wilson (of Slipknot) wore a robotically-styled mask from 2008-2014 that featured a eyebrows that moved, using a mechanism controlled by Sid remotely. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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PVP: Scratch Fury in his Christmas tree disguise, Kringus. Brent's eyeglasses squint when he squints. |
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Expressive Mask / int_ba666650 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_ba666650 | comment |
The Raikov mask from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is notably able to blink (which makes it the first of its kind in the story), but its mouth doesn't move. | |
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Expressive Mask / int_bac8c243 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
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Justified in The Mask (all versions) because the thing is magic, even if it appears wooden when not being worn. | |
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The Mask | hasFeature |
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Duckman. His glasses don't change shape so much, but his his eyelids (and eyes) are apparently part of his glasses, while his eyebrows float above them. As his glasses sit about a third down his bill, one can plainly see the blank yellow expanse where his eyes should be, whether or not he's got them on. It has been shown that the glasses contain his eyes even when he sleeps with them on the nightstand next to his bed - literally Blind Without 'Em. |
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Hazbin Hotel: Adam and the Exorcists all wear masks which not only perfectly reflect their eyes and mouths underneath but Adam even eats and drinks through his mask. In fact, before episode 6 showed unmasked Exorcists, it was just assumed by the fandom that the masks were just their actual faces. | |
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Hazbin Hotel | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Taken to an extreme with Transformers: Animated Shockwave, who has no facial features at all. Well, when he's not in Longarm Prime mode. All he has is a red circle as an optic sensor in the middle of his dark face, but it changes shape subtly according to his moods the way the other characters' optic sensors do. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Grace exhibits this during Justin's Fantasy Sequence. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Qujia Vloz'ress, a minor antagonist in Drow Tales wears a black, smooth, featureless mask, which is nevertheless quite expressive. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
Not in canon, but fans love to take the Pyro's gas-mask and deform it according to this trope. | |
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Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask / int_c23bb949 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_c23bb949 | comment |
Mr. Snippy in Romantically Apocalyptic has open goggle-flaps on his mask which function as rudimentary eyebrows, changing angle to very effectively portray anger, shock, worry, desperation, determination, fear, badass, and oh crap. All the masked characters also show expression by the angles at which their masks are shown, and their coloured goggles can change in tone and brightness to express different emotions or even levels of consciousness. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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The masks in The Incredibles are essentially dark patches on the characters' skin, changing shape as their features move and even covering their eyelids. Particularly notable in that when Violet throws one at the ground in the second movie, it bounces and keeps its shape. Given everything else their costume designer, Edna Mode, is able to make their costumes do, this might just be another feature. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Barely noticeable, but Photo Finish and her oversized glasses certainly count. It's most noticeable during her interview with various newsponies about how she discovered Fluttershy as her next big star. The Shadowbolts play it more straight. Rainbow Dash's Shadowbolt costume too, by extension. |
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Arkana's mask in Yu-Gi-Oh! fluxes with his eyes. Since the mask is wider than his head, when his eyes are open large, it can look like Arkana's eyes are wider than his head. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Monkey Island: Murray the evil demonic skull has expressive eye sockets. | |
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Death 13's mask during the Death 13 mini-arc in Vaguely Recalling JoJo. Seen when Kakyoin is stabbing "Baby Stand" into his arm with a knife and when Death 13 is seemingly triumphant over Hierophant Green. | |
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In the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf film Moon Castle: The Space Adventure, the Bitter Gourd King wears a sheet of paper on his face bearing the Chinese symbol "苦", meaning "bitter". This mask does not move for most of the film, but near the end the mask's mouth moves when he accidentally swallows one of Wolffy's tears of joy and stops being bitter. | |
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Invoked and justified in Amazing Fantasy. Peter built motors into his mask's lenses in order to allow them to imitate his facial expressions and eye movements. This is meant to soften his image and make him more personal rather than cement his Creepy Good credentials with those huge, alien eyes. The lenses of Izuku's mask also move for the same reasons, though they're slightly less necessary as it doesn't cover the bottom half of his face. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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The Zoraï of Ryzom wear Kami Masks of Discipleship, which, when seen in the character creation screen, can get extremely expressive at points; however, in gameplay the mask is static, making it a bit of an Informed Ability. | |
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Numbuh Two's pilot goggles from Codename: Kids Next Door. This actually applies to all the members of his family and their respective glasses as well. To a lesser extent, Lenny from the same show. His football helmet isn't exactly a mask, but it covers his face and the mouthpiece has been shown to grin or frown like a mouth. |
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Expressive Mask | |
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The Deadpool movie uses an expressive mask, making this a first for live-action comic book films (since the Batman and Spider-Man movies usually eschew this). The look was achieved by using CGI to have the eyes appear to move whenever his expression changes. | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Inosuke usually wears a mask shaped like a boar's head, presumably skinned from a real boar, to portray his feral warrior nature. His mask is usually still like a dead animal’s skin should be regardless of what Inosuke is saying or doing, but during comedic moments Inosuke’s reactions will sometimes make the boar mask express his emotions through it. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Bernard from the Maniac Mansion series has expressive glasses, as shown in the Day of the Tentacle intro. | |
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Similarly with the protagonist of RUINER, who's entire mask is an LCD display capable of displaying text (which he uses to communicate instead of talking.) | |
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Ruiner (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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In Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher, the Arbiter's skull mask is inexplicably capable of making a ^_^ face. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Little Red's glasses from 2 Stupid Dogs | |
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Strong Bad from Homestar Runner. In his first ever Strong Bad Email, he claimed that his mask and gloves were his face and hands. 161 e-mails later, he was "shown" removing his mask off-screen with a ripping noise, and making painful gurgling sounds until he puts it back on, after which he swears "I am NEVER gonna do that again!" | |
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This effect shows up on the Johnny Wander characters who wear completely opaque glasses; it's subtler than most, but the glasses narrow and widen with emotion and sometimes change shape. Except George's, which are always perfectly round. Yuko demonstrates! | |
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Parodied in Doomsday Clock when Rorschach’s inkblot mask (see the Watchmen examble above) briefly changes into a crude smiley face when he sees a plate of pancakes. | |
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In Life Goes On the Knight's helmets can be quite expressive. As most of them are quite small on the screen it's only really noticable on the intro screen which shows the King ordering knights into the portal and in the few cutscenes that are present in the game. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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The Voynich Hotel: Alice's mask the "Rabbit of Truth" reflects her actual expression, being a magical artefact and all. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Filmation's Ghostbusters Big Bad Prime Evil had a robotic skull for a face/helmet; despite the fact that it was apparently made of metal, it could cartoonishly change appearance for a variety of expressions (but then, since he's already a ghost, this could be a Justified Trope.) | |
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Filmation's Ghostbusters | hasFeature |
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No Face's noh mask in Spirited Away is meant to be a complete blank and rely on tricks of lighting to convey mood, both as real noh masks do and to suggest his lack of individual personality. It winds up betraying some emotion, though, with the mouth and eyes seeming to tilt up and down slightly. | |
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Spirited Away | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Pretty much every masked character in The Tick exhibits this, but especially the titular character. | |
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The Tick | hasFeature |
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In Hotel Transylvania, Griffin the Invisible Man is visually nothing but a pair of floating eye glasses that bend and distort with his emotions. | |
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Hotel Transylvania | hasFeature |
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Expressive Mask | |
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A great example is Kinnikuman, where the main character and just about everybody on his Planet of Hats wears a skintight mask meant to completely replace his face. It follows each and every one of his expressions perfectly. Due to the series being primarily about Professional Wrestling, several other characters wear masks of varying properties (Mystic wood, crushed sapphire/steel alloy, etc.) that are likewise expressive, just not to the degree that Kinnikuman's is. | |
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Raideen: Raideen is a Super Robot who's metallic face tends to look sad or shocked from time to time. When Charkin commits suicide in front of everybody, you can see the shock on the poor thing's face. | |
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Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist could be remarkably expressive with his helmet, despite the fact that it never moved (even when he talked; his voice came from inside the armor). He's actually able to blush visibly, despite being a soul bound to an empty suit of armor. The helmet only changes when he's drawn as chibi. Which happens fairly often — possibly because of this trope. The rest of the time it never changes. Most of his expressions can be seen in the way he tilts his head; when it's tilted back he can look surprised, or when it's forward he can look angry. Barry the Chopper from the same place also has an expressive mask, though his is made of bone instead of metal. Even so he can look surprised or angry when the situation demands it. | |
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The newest WWE Video Games have a handful of face-concealing "Halloween" masks that take on the expressions of the wrestler wearing them. This looks hilarious and somewhat creepy at the same time when you give one of them the Oni mask and see it yell in a panic along with its wearer as you trap them into a suplex. | |
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): The goggles the titular superhero wears are not only technologically advanced enough to mimic her eyebrows and lids, but also contain screens that use different icons to express with her as well. | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Erik's half-mask in Roommates and its Spin-Off s (Girls Next Door and Down the Street). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Phantom of the Opera (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fb173de | |
Expressive Mask / int_fb9c177d | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_fb9c177d | comment |
Most Transformers faces were like this. Despite being made of metal, they would easily slide into various facial expressions. This even happened in Beast Wars, in which the character in question may not even have a mouth. Taken to an extreme with Transformers: Animated Shockwave, who has no facial features at all. Well, when he's not in Longarm Prime mode. All he has is a red circle as an optic sensor in the middle of his dark face, but it changes shape subtly according to his moods the way the other characters' optic sensors do. Averted in the Live-Action Adaptation, in the same way as The Iron Giant (see above) did. Transformers cartoons employ this trope heavily because the alternative, especially when not well designed, comes off quite badly. The stiff and primitive CGI of Transformers: Energon is notorious within the fandom for turning almost all facial expressions into Dull Surprise thanks to a lack of expressive features. Soundwave in Transformers: Prime uses his completely blank face as a video display. While he still doesn't emote much, this allows him to be The Quiet One as well: he doesn't need to say that he's downloading data, he can just display a progress bar, and he can mock the heroes by showing emoticons rather than insulting them verbally. This quiet, faceless presence makes him possibly the creepiest take on Soundwave in the Transformers mythos. |
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Expressive Mask / int_fb9c177d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fb9c177d | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc0e7530 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc0e7530 | comment |
Dexter of Dexter's Laboratory. | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc0e7530 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc0e7530 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dexter's Laboratory | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fc0e7530 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc83a067 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc83a067 | comment |
In Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, the Big Bad wears an expressive metallic mask with eyes that not only change shape, but also colour, turning bright red when they get angry. In the end the villain is unmasked as Heather Jasper-Howe, and she is then unmasked as Jonathan Jacobo wearing a Latex Perfection mask. Jacobo was thus wearing an Expressive Mask on top of an Expressive Mask. | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc83a067 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fc83a067 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fc83a067 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fdd8d054 | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_fdd8d054 | comment |
The Hollow: War one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse helmet completely covers his face, yet he can still be rather expressive with it a la Alphonse Elric. | |
Expressive Mask / int_fdd8d054 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fdd8d054 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Hollow | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fdd8d054 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe16b92c | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe16b92c | comment |
Happy Heroes: One of the standard designs of the citizens of Planet Guling in Season 6 is that of one wearing a stone mask whose eyes will move to match the expression they would be making otherwise, but not the mouths. | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe16b92c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe16b92c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Happy Heroes (Animation) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fe16b92c | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe83990a | type |
Expressive Mask | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe83990a | comment |
The female Saints from Saint Seiya, but the viewers have to look very closely at them to notice. | |
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1.0 | |
Expressive Mask / int_fe83990a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Saint Seiya (Manga) | hasFeature |
Expressive Mask / int_fe83990a |
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