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Why settle for a secret identity or wearing a mask, when you can let your secret identity have a secret identity and wear a mask under your mask?
This can be done by individuals or organizations, and it can be done in a physical, social or metaphorical sense. Easily combined with a Gambit Pileup. Popular in the world of Ancient Conspiracy.
Characters may describe such puzzling intrigue as "A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma."
Contrast Secret-Identity Identity, where there's only one secret identity but it's becoming the person's real identity. Compare Second Super-Identity, when someone has more than one costumed identities, and Infraction Distraction. If pretending to be the opposite sex in one layer is part of the deception it may involve Recursive Crossdressing. See also Double Reverse Quadruple Agent and Double Subversion.
As this is a form of The Reveal, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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In CMLL, The second El Bronco (or at least the second El Bronco to work in CMLL as there have been many) was unmasked by Black Warrior to reveal another mask underneath. That's right, El Bronco was Spider-man! Further confusing things, a third Bronco later debuted in CMLL and has been seen at the same time as Spider-man.
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El Santos: One episode has a horde of fans wanting to see Santos' face, so they gather at his house and ripping his luchador mask, revealing a rather mundane and ugly man underneath... until they leave and he reveals that it's actually another mask and he's wearing a second Santos mask underneath it. The fans decide to leave well enough alone and just imagine how he really is instead. In the epilogue he says that the truth is that he's not wearing anything, his face just happens to look like a wrestling mask.
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In Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships, Jamaican Johnny Rolle is revealed to be Australian John Poole, who later is revealed to be Dwayne Powers, a previous culprit who wants to prove he still has acting skills. And get back at Nancy for ruining his life.
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Heralds of Valdemar: When the protagonists of the Winds trilogy need to hide their Companions — blue-eyed, white, intelligent Cool Horses that always stand out in a crowd and can't take dye — from a foe who can easily sense and pierce illusions, they simply layer one illusion over another. When the enemy mage peers through the illusion of high-bred horses and sees a pair of broken-down nags, he chuckles to himself and doesn't bother to look further, believing the horses' owners are simply hiding their neglect from potential buyers.
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Parodied in a Sluggy Freelance guest-penned filler arc here.
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World Conquest Zvezda Plot: White Robin wears a Latex Perfection mask of a different looking girl under her mask, so when her mask comes off, her true identity of Renge is still concealed.
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Kent Allard, better known as The Shadow, has several of these — most famously Lamont Cranston.
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Discworld:
In Making Money, the protagonist Moist Von Lipwig (former Boxed Crook, now sort-of reformed) meets Topsy Lavish, who owns Ankh-Morpork's bank. Being a businesswoman, she immediately sees him for what he is, decides he's the perfect person to keep the bank out of the hands of her evil relatives and proceeds to lampshade his relationship with Adora Belle Dearheart with this trope.
Shows up as part of the plot for Jingo too. When an assassination attempt on the Klatchan ambassador seems to point to Klatch as the culprit, Commander Vimes is quick to point out the ease with which the evidence could be a frame up. He spends most of the book thinking his primary suspect is in league with rogue Ankh-Morpork elements to start a war with Klatch, only to find out from 71-hour Achmed that the flimsy evidence had been specifically planted to make him think that due to his own predisposition to distrust his own countrymen.
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From Umineko: When They Cry we have Beatrice, who not only has several different versions of her from different arcs and different time periods (her mother and grandmother also had the name Beatrice) but is also the same person as Shannon and Kanon. And to top that off, the three of them are just idealized personas created by Yasu. Flowcharts have been made in order to explain it.
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An example featuring Cool Shades - one piece of concept art for Proto Man from Mega Man (Classic) has Proto Man holding his helmet, which has shades attached as a visor... and he's wearing another pair of shades. So either this trope is in effect, or he wears shades under his shades.
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One issue of Young Justice has the team playing Truth or Dare, with Impulse daring Robin to take off his mask. He does... only to reveal that he had put on another mask, figuring that the game would come up.
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Parodied in Teen Titans Go!: Beastboy attempts to remove Robin's mask, only to find more and more masks underneath it. In a couple days time, the whole tower is filled with masks. And then his actual face turns out to be a mask too.
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In the Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoon "A Sheep in the Deep", Ralph steals a sheep, only for it to be Sam in a sheep costume. Ralph then removes his costume revealing him to be a sheep. Followed by Sam removing another costume to reveal Ralph. The pair go through a few more rounds of shedding costumes until Ralph is left with a sheep costume on a stick of dynamite.
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Naruto: Kakashi wears another mask under his mask.
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In The Phantom, the secret leader of the jungle patrol is The Phantom itself — the masked superhero identity, rather than its mundane counterpart "Mr Walker."
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In Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, Melvin Voyager, the escaped convict from Central Prison, reveals that he is actually Ashleigh Crichton, the long-lost brother of movie protagonist Julia Crichton. Except that he actually isn't; he is Julia and Ashleigh's family's old bodyguard Atlas, with Ashleigh's face grafted over his own as part of his Evil Plan.
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Darkwing Duck: When Darkwing gets targeted by a supervillain who specializes in unmasking heroes, he employs several layers of masks. His final line of defense turns out to be a Latex Perfection rendering of his real face; the villain thinks that he's won when he strips off all of the other layers, only for Darkwing to reveal that he hadn't fully exposed him while rapidly retying his signature mask back into place. Launchpad starts to remark on this, but gets shushed by Gosalyn so he doesn't reveal that said mask is how Darkwing really looks.
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In TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise'', d-buggers is revealed to be Tigerlilly, who is revealed to be the Mysterious Red Cat, who is revealed to be Kizuna.
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In Charade, Peter Joshua is revealed to be the victim's brother Alex Dyle, who is then revealed to be professional thief Adam Canfield, who is then revealed to be undercover government agent Brian Cruikshank (who is being portrayed by Hollywood actor Cary Grant).
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In Jack of All Trades, under the mask of the Daring Dragoon is... another identical mask!
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Undarl in Elminster: The Making of a Mage is a Malaugrym who pretends to be a Yuan-Ti posing as an aspiring Magelord who wants to prove himself and join the magical oligarchy of Athalantar on good terms. Which is how he is given the task to destroy one of the legitimate heirs they don't control, along with the whole village.
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In Making Money, the protagonist Moist Von Lipwig (former Boxed Crook, now sort-of reformed) meets Topsy Lavish, who owns Ankh-Morpork's bank. Being a businesswoman, she immediately sees him for what he is, decides he's the perfect person to keep the bank out of the hands of her evil relatives and proceeds to lampshade his relationship with Adora Belle Dearheart with this trope.
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The Order of the Stick:
Tarquin disguises himself as Thog by wearing a face-concealing helmet and copying Thog's style of Hulk Speak. Roy quickly figures out that he isn't fighting Thog and yanks the helmet off to see who's underneath... only to reveal that Tarquin is also wearing a purple balaclava with "Nope!" written across the forehead. Ironically, the complexity of the facade pretty much confirms their suspicion that it was Tarquin after all.
In "Run to Ground", while fleeing from Xykon, Durkon and Minrah open several dungeon doors, apparently as a distraction from the door they really fled through and closed behind them... except for the fact that they didn't do that either, but instead used Meld Into Stone to hide in the ground just outside that door. Being a relatively simple misdirection, Redcloak does consider the possibility that they never actually entered the door in question, but before he can do anything about that, Xykon impatiently tells him to quit overthinking it and look inside already.
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Shows up as part of the plot for Jingo too. When an assassination attempt on the Klatchan ambassador seems to point to Klatch as the culprit, Commander Vimes is quick to point out the ease with which the evidence could be a frame up. He spends most of the book thinking his primary suspect is in league with rogue Ankh-Morpork elements to start a war with Klatch, only to find out from 71-hour Achmed that the flimsy evidence had been specifically planted to make him think that due to his own predisposition to distrust his own countrymen.
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At WWE's The Bash in 2009, Rey Mysterio Jr. fought against Chris Jericho in a Mask vs Title match. Rey losing would mean that he'd have to surrender the right to wear his mask. During the match, Jericho tried to remove Rey's mask to leave him open to a finisher (the loss of a mask is considered shameful to a Masked Luchador), only for Rey to have worn an extra mask underneath, allowing him to win the Intercontinental Championship.
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During the storyline Batman: War Games, Black Mask assumes Orpheus's identity by applying make up over his own black mask. On top of that, he also had to wear Orpheus's helmet. He did the same thing while impersonating Batman in War Crimes. Justified since, in canon, his black mask can't come off because it is actually burnt onto his face.
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In Blip, the Adversary uses in-universe Pixellation to hide his face, and wears a mask underneath that.
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In the Speed Racer episode "The Fire Race," Kapetapek's champion race driver, Kabala, is revealed to be Racer X, leading to a scene where Kabala removes his mask and we see he was wearing the Racer X mask underneath.
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Invoked and subverted in a Zero Percent Discount parody of Scooby Doo: Fred takes off a skeleton mask, but assumes there might be another mask under it. He decides to check with a knife.
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Project New Era: Thomas, being a super-powered human being in a world of dog people, maintains the safety of the Heelers by shape-shifting into a dog and going by his middle name Jason; this identity in turn has its own secret super-hero identity named Austra-Violet.
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Paperinik (the superhero alter-ego of Donald Duck) has to involuntarily do this in one story. At one point he decides to demonstrate (for no reason and to no-one in particular) how his masks work, and too late realizes that he's out of the spray that would let him take the sticky mask off. Since the mask he is trying on is one of a caricatural alien, he is forced to wear a new mask on top of this one. (Later on, however, he manages to avoid having his secret identity exposed because he is wearing this additional mask).
In a few other occasions he wore a Donald mask over his Domino Mask for disguise purpose. This is implied to be part of how he maintains his identity secret in spite of wearing only a domino mask, as most will just assume he's wearing a Donald mask under the domino mask for some reason — and in Paperinik New Adventures two people who could see through his masks wasted little time in finding out Donald Duck is Paperinik and were noticeably baffled.
During the final confrontation of the first Inquinator story, Paperinik gets covered with permanent ink, causing the defeated Inquinator to laugh because now Paperinik won't be able to hide his identity, only for Paperinik to zip down the all-covering suit he'd been wearing the whole time, as he had anticipated from the start that fighting a pollution and thrash-themed villain could result in something like that.
Fantomius, the Phantom Thief whose journal would inspire Donald into becoming Paperinik (initially using his costume and some of his gadgets), pulled off the same trick in one memorable occasion: as commissioner Pinko had claimed that if he ever caught him he'd never escape, Fantomius let himself be caught and unmasked, showing his real face... Or rather a mask of his real face over another mask, the one he used to escape the jail while leaving behind the other mask to make Pinko think it was another disguise.
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Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition has a huge variety of mundane and magical disguise options, and even more means of detecting information about a target. A Crazy-Prepared infiltrator might stack (1) a mundane disguise, which foils True Sight if all else fails; (2) a Polymorph spell, which changes their physical form and how they register to Aura Vision; (3) an Alter Self spell, which changes their physical appearance; (4) a fresh mundane disguise on their new appearance; and (5) a Disguise Self spell, which is a visual illusion that a strong-willed person might see through.
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In NUMB3RS, Colby Granger's allegiance. First he's an FBI agent. Then he's revealed as a Chinese double agent. And then, no, wait, he's an American spy infiltrating the Chinese. Unsurprisingly, it takes the others a while to figure out what's true and what isn't.
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: The commoner protagonist's noble identity being in a reverse Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe situation means that if someone already knows or suspects that her official noble mother is not her biological mother, they will be told or come to the conclusion that she's actually the daughter of a different woman who is deceased in the present day, but actually existed. However, on top of her enemies publicising her real origins in a move to discredit her, that extra layer of secrecy isn't enough for her smarter allies, some of whom have gone full Secret Secret-Keeper.
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When Dawson and Martina subdue the killer in Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th, they unmask him to reveal another mask. They continue for some time, accumulating a pile of masks on the floor, until they get to the last one and they (finally) find his true identity: Doughy's identical cousin Hardy.
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Duet", Cardassian file clerk Aamin Marritza impersonates Cardassian occupation work camp administrator Gul Darhe'el who is himself "impersonating" Marritza. His plan is to be captured by the Bajorans, to have the latter part of the facade exposed, and to be executed as Darhe'el to force the Cardassian regime to face the truth about its war crimes.
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From Tropic Thunder: Kirk Lazarus in character as Lincoln Osiris disguises himself as a farmer. Or, if you want to get meta about it, Robert Downey Jr. playing Kirk Lazarus in character as Lincoln Osiris disguises himself as a farmer.
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CatDog pulls this in the episode "Nightmare" when the titular duo faces off with the movie monster Toothpick Head, but later find it's Winslow in disguise. Winslow then pulls off his regular face to reveal he is wearing a Toothpick Head mask, then Cat pulls off the Toothpick Head mask to reveal a Cat mask, and Winslow does the same with Cat, revealing he is wearing a Winslow mask, and Dog isn't wearing a mask. After CatDog is scared out of the house, Winslow takes off his Cat mask, remarking "Oldest trick in the book", just before he sees the real Toothpick Head raiding the fridge for a midnight snack, remarking that it's the second oldest trick in the book. Cue the ending where "The End?" is shown dripping in blood!
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Batman:
Twice in the Intercontinuity Crossover Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk, Batman wears a Latex Perfection mask over his Batman cowl. Here's◊ one of them — he even manages to keep his extra-long pointy bat-ears under the disguise. Batman has also used the same trick in older comics, including a rather infamous one where he wore a Batman cowl, over a Bruce Wayne mask, over another cowl, over his real Bruce Wayne face. All so he could pretend he wasn't Bruce Wayne, just disguised as him.
More indirect than most examples; Oracle has set up false identities for each of the Bat-Family in case someone takes their fingerprints or obtains their DNA.
In his first appearance as the Red Hood, Jason Todd takes off his face-concealing helmet but has a Domino Mask on underneath. Oddly, he does this when revealing his identity to Batman, since Jason also wore a domino mask as the second Robin.
During the storyline Batman: War Games, Black Mask assumes Orpheus's identity by applying make up over his own black mask. On top of that, he also had to wear Orpheus's helmet. He did the same thing while impersonating Batman in War Crimes. Justified since, in canon, his black mask can't come off because it is actually burnt onto his face.
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Meta example: in the ending of Halo: Combat Evolved, there is a scene where the Master Chief takes off his helmet, but part of the ship obscures his head. If you move the camera so that you can get a good look, you can see that under his helmet is another helmet.
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In Total Drama Island, after Duncan gets voted off the show and sent to ride on the boat of losers, Duncan finds that the one steering the boat is actually Sasquatchanakwa who roars at Duncan causing him to scream in fear; Sasquatchanakwa then takes off his mask revealing himself to be Chef Hatchet which makes Duncan sigh in relief, only for another mask to reveal him as Sasquatchanakwa again, then Chef again and continues with masks being repeatedly flung off the boat and Duncan continually switching between screaming and relieved until we fade to black.
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In one Spider-Man strip, when Mysterio disrupts the filming of a movie MJ is appearing in, Spidey defeats him, pulls off the fishbowl to reveal the special effects guy on the movie, then pulls off the Latex Perfection mask to reveal it was Quentin Beck after all.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality:
With Draco:
Which leads to:
Then there's Harry and Snape:
Comes up in relation to Quirrell's true identity.
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Medabots: Hikaru Agata (Henry) with his two alter egos, the Phantom Renegade and Space Medafighter X. At one point Space Medafighter X's golden mask is cracked which reveals the white mask of Phantom Renegade. Note that Space Medafighter X's mask is EXACTLY THE SAME as the Phantom Renegades' mask, just with gold plating and different colored eyes. Yet nobody suspects a thing.
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In Lost, Ben pretends to be the victim of a group of savages. He's actually the leader of this group of savages, which doesn't exist except as a front for an Ancient Conspiracy. However, Ben is not in control: Indeed he is the leader of this Ancient Conspiracy, but the conspiracy itself is also a front for something else, something which Ben cannot even reach, much less control.
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In Noob, Tenshirock at some point gives Gaea his Cool Shades, on which he had transferred data she wanted from him. By the time Gaea looks at his face, presumably to see what he looks like without them, he's wearing entirely new Cool Shades.
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During one episode of Goof Troop, Goofy and Max are dressed as robbers and end up bumping into each other. They take off each other's masks, then proceed to unveil rubber mask disguises of various people until Max accidentally pulls Goofy's actual face off, before putting it back on.
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Batman: The Animated Series: "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy" has a villain hired to obtain Batman's cape and cowl. When he ultimately succeeds, Batman reveals a second mask underneath the cowl to protect his identity. The villain, bemused, leaves. After all, he was only hired to obtain the cape and cowl, not to expose Batman's secret identity. Of course, the audience might be a little confused here, since they have never, ever seen Batman wear a mask underneath his cowl before, and it is an early clue that Batman is the guy who hired the villain in the first place and thus knew to wear a second mask.
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Xenogears. Hoo boy. The mysterious masked man called "Wiseman" who fights in Fei's style, the mysterious Grahf who hunts him, and Fei's own father are all actually the same person. And to make things even more complicated, said person is actually the remnants of one of Fei's past lives, who is currently possessing his father.
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Done quite literally in Dual Destinies with the phantom, an international assassin who can perfectly mimic anyone. He wears mask upon mask to the point that he's forgotten his own identity. His list of fake identities include Detective Bobby Fulbright, when you initially catch him, as well as every other culprit in the game, several witnesses and defendants, Prosecutor Blackquill, and most disturbingly, Phoenix Wright himself!
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One time, The Great Muta pulled Jushin Thunder Liger's mask off, but he was wearing face paint under it.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney :
The third game has the following line: "I'm afraid you are neither a proud thief, nor an Ace Detective. You're a blackmailer and a murderer." This happens after Magnificent Bastard Luke Atmey says he's an Ace Detective who had a fight with the thief Mask DeMasque. When you prove that this is false, he says that Mask DeMasque attacked him from behind. When you prove that false, he says that he's Mask Demasque. The truth is that he's been blackmailing Mask DeMasque into letting him pretend to be an Ace Detective, and that he then decided to falsely confess to being Mask DeMasque in an attempt to hide the fact that he's a murderer.
Done quite literally in Dual Destinies with the phantom, an international assassin who can perfectly mimic anyone. He wears mask upon mask to the point that he's forgotten his own identity. His list of fake identities include Detective Bobby Fulbright, when you initially catch him, as well as every other culprit in the game, several witnesses and defendants, Prosecutor Blackquill, and most disturbingly, Phoenix Wright himself!
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In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple the fight between Diego Carlo and Ma Kensei thoroughly parodies this trope. "Laughing Iron Fist" Diego has the fighting style of a luchador and so constantly wears a mask. During his fight with with Kensei he gets mad and rips off his mask to reveal another mask, that of the "Angry Iron Fist". When he is finally defeated by Kensei he takes off this mask in surrender, revealing that he is still wearing a domino mask underneath to protect his modesty. Kenichi's reaction at this point is along the lines of "... seriously?"
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In Code Geass, Lelouch has three or four identities: Lelouch Vi Britannia, Lelouch Lamperouge, Zero, and the king of geass. The second series adds another identity, since there are two different Lelouch Lamperouge identities depending on who he says his real sibling is. People who are close to him, like Nunnally, Suzaku, and Milly might know two of the identities, but C.C. is the only other person who knows all of them. In the last five episodes, he complicates it further by pretending that Lelouch Vi Britannia is a monster. And like the Naruto example below, he wears a second, ninja-like mask underneath his iconic Zero helmet. Doesn't stop Shirley from seeing right through it, though.
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When Dooble of Two More Eggs corners his rival chaotic problem-solver, Renfrow, he rips off his face to reveal...another Dooble. Who then unmasks the original Dooble as Renfrow. This then continues into a fadeout, with a narrator claiming this would go on "year after year."
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Scooby-Doo:
Scooby-Doo villains often did this, sometimes wearing a latex mask of a different human under the monster or ghost disguise. In "The Haunted Candy Factory," Velma unmasks one of the "Green Globes" as Mr. Franklin, a watchman at the titular candy factory. But then Velma unmasks him again to reveal the true criminal. It's lampshaded near the end, when the real Mr. Franklin is found, and Shaggy wonders if he is also an impostor as well.
In "Never Ape an Ape Man," the titular villain (whom is, of course, someone in an ape costume) slips on a rubber Scooby-Doo mask over his Ape Man mask to pull a Mirror Routine with the real Scooby.
In "The Exterminator," the actor Lorne Chumley, known as the "man of a million faces", is filming a new movie with his butler, and has assumed numerous disguises to keep people from the bank away while he prepares his comeback. When guest star Don Adams unmasks the "monster" Lorne is portraying, he initially tugs off various human masks (including a William Hanna caricature and a woman mask), but once he reveals Lorne's true face, he thinks it's also a mask and ends up pulling on his scalp.
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Batman 1939: Batman wears another cowl glued to his scalp under his regular cowl.
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Dog City had an episode about a "masked vandal". When that vandal is caught, the mask is pulled off to reveal Miss Kitty, but Ace realizes it can't be her because she's never caught. He then proceeds to pull off another mask, revealing Baron von Rottweiler, then his henchman, then more people, and ultimately Eliot Shag.
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Game of Thrones has a guild of assassins called the Faceless Men. While they wear the faces of dead people as disguises (shown to have been surgically removed), there's a magical aspect to this in that with the wave of a hand they can change to another face. Arya pulls several masks off a dead Faceless Man in quick succession.
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Spider-Man:
An early comic has Spidey caught unmasked by Alistair Smythe's surveillance camera. His solution is to make a latex Peter Parker mask (which averts Latex Perfection, as it's noticeably not quite right), return to the camera, and take off his Peter mask to reveal the Spider-Man mask underneath. It works: Smythe concludes Spidey was probably screwing with him, and doesn't follow up on trying to put a name to the face.
In one of the earliest team ups between Spider-Man and The Punisher, Frank gives Spider-Man some makeup in case he's caught and unmasked by the bad guys.
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White Sheep (RWBY): Blake hides her smutty books under her bed; everyone knows that. And that's what keeps everyone from realizing that she has much worse books hidden elsewhere.
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In Young Justice (2010), Miss Martian's shapeshifting has created these layers: whatever disguise may be needed for the current situation including a humanized version of her preferred form, her preferred human with green skin form, her true Green Martian form, and her actually true monstrous White Martian form.
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In Fairy Tail's Galuna Island arc, there is an Enigmatic Minion named Zolty, a middle-aged man always wearing a mask. At the end of the arc, after he'd revealed he was trying to take control of the Sealed Evil in a Can the rest of Lyon's team were trying to kill, Zolty takes off his mask in private. This face, which is neither out of the ordinary nor anyone we've seen before, is inconsequential because seconds later it turns out his entire appearance was a magical disguise used by someone who looks completely different—namely, Ultear, the young-adult woman we had seen was part of the Magic Council.
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In Illuminatus!, every ancient secret is actually a cover-up for some other ancient secret. And yes, that same principle applies to pretty much every level, thus creating an infinite loop of The Reveal.
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In El Goonish Shive, Elliot's superheroine spell has not one but three alternate civilian alter ego forms (each with distinctive personalities and clothes) in addition to the super one. This allows him to avoid having to reveal either his true identity or his most discreet alter ego form to those he doesn't trust fully while still having a form with a largely normal appearance to fall back on. Unfortunately for him, this form is the least discreet in terms of personality as this and the following pages demonstrate.
Later on in the comic, we have scenes of Grace revealing that she has magic (which a surprising number of people know exists by this point), without revealing that she gets her magic from being part space alien (the existence of aliens being a much more closely kept secret).
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The Laundry Files: The People's Mandate is disguised by an incredibly powerful glamour that not only makes him seem impossibly charismatic but also renders his face a blur of whatever features you consider kindly and trustable. A character who retains enough presence of mind to don a defensive ward is able to see through the mask, and finds herself looking at a humanoid reptile — but later suspects that it's just another mask, and that there's no actual substance to him, just masks all the way down. The Mandate eventually turns out to be (an avatar of) Nyarlathotep, famously capable of taking "a thousand forms", so she's probably correct.
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In the Chinese drama Nirvana in Fire, when the hero first returns to the capital to begin his revenge plot, he introduces himself as "Sir Su" a mere visiting scholar. When his enemies get suspicious, they do a background check and discover his "real" identity, the powerful Mei Changsu. This prevents them from thinking to dig deeper and discover his actual Secret Identity, the presumed dead traitor Lin Shu.
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Team Fortress 2:
The spy's arsenal is effectively this. You can disguise as your enemy, only to turn invisible once your enemies catch on, or use a backup watch that creates a dummy of your character while you turn completely invisible instead of taking fatal damage. The Your Eternal Reward knife causes you to instantly steal the identity (but not the abilities) of the player you kill with it, allowing you to combo a series of stealth kills while harnessing near-seamless combos of disguises.
Works on a more physical level as well, when disguised Spy wears a paper mask with a drawing of the class he's disguised as over his ski mask.
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In one of the earliest team ups between Spider-Man and The Punisher, Frank gives Spider-Man some makeup in case he's caught and unmasked by the bad guys.
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Brawl in the Family takes this to an extreme, with Kirby copying Mega Man copying Doopliss transforming into Ditto transforming into Link wearing the Deku Mask. Even Kirby doesn't know who he is by the end.
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G.I. Joe (Devil's Due): During the second Cobra civil war, having apparently defeated him, Serpentor forces Cobra Commander to remove his helmet, only to discover he is wearing a ski-mask underneath. Cobra Commander then detonates the explosives in the helmet so it explodes in Serpentor's hands.
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Daredevil: For a while, Matt Murdock pretended to also be his non-blind twin brother Mike, who everyone suspected was secretly Daredevil.
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Yakitate!! Japan has Koala—a man wearing a koala mask. When another character snatches his mask, it is revealed that he's wearing another koala mask. The other characters don't bother taking that one of because by that time, they've already figured out who Koala really was (it's Mokoyama), and they're not really keen to see his face.
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Dragon Ball: Son Gohan had two different vigilante identities: one that is called "the Golden Warrior" by the citizens of Satan City, and "the Great Saiyaman" which he created himself. The reason he "became the Golden Warrior" was because he wanted to hide that he had Charles Atlas Superpower. Originally, Gohan wanted a costume that allowed him to transform into a Super Saiyan (the aforementioned Golden Warrior) without anyone recognizing him, although the Great Saiyaman made this purpose redundant, so Gohan settled with this superhero identity instead. (Dragon Ball Super is the only instance where he really transformed into a Super Saiyan while wearing his complete Great Saiyaman costume). While Videl figured out that he's the Great Saiyaman, Gohan still denied that he's also the Golden Warrior. But during the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai, his classmates recognized him through his Great Saiyaman disguise (although they assumed it might be just cosplay) because of his lack of headgear. Right after that, Gohan transformed into a Super Saiyan 2, revealing to everyone that he's the Golden Warrior.
Despite the Great Saiyaman's original purpose to hide his identity as the Golden Warrior, the tournament's rules prohibited him from wearing a helmet, so he settled down with a pair of sunglasses and a white bandana. And despite the fact that Gohan didn't want any Saiyan to transform at the tournament because the broadcast of the Cell Games made them widely known to the public, Gohan's rage-induced transformation into a Super Saiyan prior to his match ripped his bandana apart, something that wouldn't have happened had he still his helmet on. Which means that Gohan's attempt to hide his real identity with his Golden Warrior identity with the identity of the Great Saiyaman was absolutely fruitless.
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In the Johnny Bravo episode "Bravo Dooby-Doo", a crossover with Scooby-Doo, the villain turns out to wear multiple masks on top of each other. The masks are, in order: two Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! characters, Bigfoot, Don Knotts, and Joseph Barbera. ("Who's that?") The gang shouts in surprise-like unison each time they reveal a new mask.
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In the Revelation Space Series novel Chasm City, the protagonist is shocked to discover that, due to a Memory Gambit, he himself has a Multilevel Facade: he had the memories of Tanner Mirabel implanted to cover the identity of notorious armsdealer Cahuella, which is itself an alias hiding immortal Magnificent Bastard (and mass murderer) Schuyler Haussmann. Amnesiac Dissonance from the Memory Gambit assists him in Becoming the Mask.
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Parodied on Police Squad! when Frank pulls off a woman's wig and reveals he knows who she really is. He then does it several more times, describing different identities she's apparently lived under, while pulling off multiple wigs.
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The Rigel Black Chronicles: Harry's core secret is that she's illegally attending Hogwarts; if that gets out, she's liable to life in Azkaban. To keep people from putting together the pieces, she remains generally secretive and lets people make wrong assumptions about her, like allowing folk in the Lower Alleys to think that she's a boy. She also sets up a contingency plan, with an empty apartment and a brewing job and correspondence schooling, so that if Archie is found out but Harry isn't, she can claim to have been quietly living in the Lower Alleys for the sake for giving Archie his dream, and that "Rigel Black" was someone else; the legal penalties in that scenario are vastly less.
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The Sandman (1989): During a nightmare, one character is confronted with Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, who pulls her mask off to reveal the Wicked Witch, then that mask off to reveal another mask...
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More indirect than most examples; Oracle has set up false identities for each of the Bat-Family in case someone takes their fingerprints or obtains their DNA.
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The Legend of Korra: Amon claims his mask covers burns from a firebender, but it's actually so his brother Tarrlok doesn't recognize him. Just in case he loses it or wants to contradict someone who knows he's lying, he wears makeup that fakes burns. Unfortunately for Amon, it's not waterproof.
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In What Tomorrow Brings, Jake notes how weird it is that Charlton is a robot pretending to be a Puppeteer Parasite pretending to be his brother.
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Oathbringer: In order to use her Lightweaving powers for disguise without losing the impersonation and infiltration skills she has associated with her "Veil" Alternate Self, Shallan needs to layer the new illusion on top of the "Veil" illusion, who may or may not be an illusion layered over the "Shallan" persona, who is herself an illusion layered over Shallan's true self. That's either three or four layers of illusion, depending on whether you think Veil goes over the Shallan persona or displaces her.
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The Prisoner (1967): In the Grand Finale "Fall Out", Number Six takes off Number One's mask, revealing a gorilla mask. Six takes that off to reveal... himself?
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In Diabolik, the title character has occasionally pulled this. Most notably, in a prequel from before his perfect masks became known, he was wearing one under the cowl, so when Ginko arrested him and took off his cowl, he preserved his real identity and was later able to use this as part of breaking out of jail.
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Moon Knight sometimes did this. His original identity is Marc Spector, a onetime soldier of fortune trying to make amends. He also took on the Bruce Wayne-ish identity of financier Steven Grant and — to catch up with street level gossip — cab driver Jake Lockley. As part of his multiple personality disorder, sometimes even he didn't know who the "real" person was under all the double- and triple-personalities.
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Towards the end of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, "Granny" (who helped the heroes find the Blue Monkey) unzips herself to reveal that she was the chairman of Acme in a full-body disguise. He then takes off that disguise the same way to reveal that he's Damien's father. When Damien refuses to believe that, he unzips this to reveal Michael Jordan, and then the Acme chairman again.
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In Dawnshard, this is part of Rysn and the Sleepless's final strategy. They tell the general public that the expedition to Aimia encountered the Sleepless guarding a cache of Soulcaster fabrials, but that Rysn was able to win her crew's life and the Soulcasters from the Sleepless in a duel of wits. They then share with Queen Navani and other dignitaries the first secret, that in exchange for her crew's life and the Soulcasters Rysn agreed to train the Sleepless in imitating humans, and that a few of them followed her to Urithiru for that training. While not a lie, this secret's primary function is to provide something for those who dig into the story to discover, so that they'll stop before they find the real secret: that Rysn has become one of the titular Dawnshards, and that the Sleepless are actually guarding her from those who might try to might wish to acquire and misuse a Dawnshard.
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Kinnikuman's match against Warsman has Warsman keep trying to unmask him, but he has a mask under a mask under a mask ad nauseam.
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Dexter's Laboratory: In one episode of The Justice Friends, Krunk tries to take off the mask of Major Glory — only to reveal several layers of masks beneath it.
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Identity Index
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The Secret Index
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Who Was That Masked Index?
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