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Murderous Mask
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A mask that through magical or mundane means, kills the person wearing it. The mask does this by smothering, strangling, suffocating, crushing, or poisoning its victim. Most of the time, it's both a Cruel and Unusual Death. A Sub-Trope of Artifact of Death and possible Artifact of Doom. Related to Evil Mask, which is both sentient and malevolent. Contrast with Face Hugger which, unlike the Murderous Mask, is often sentient and able to apply to the unwilling victim's face all by itself. See also Clingy Costume. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Nina Close, the Mask, is so known because she locks her victims in masks rigged to fatally poison them if they tamper with them or she remotely activates them. In issue #80, "The Mask of Mystery!", Wonder Woman falls asleep one day (near a pond, no less), then wakes up to find herself stuck in a mask that's rigged to explode. |
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The Penumbra Podcast's appropriately-titled episode "Juno Steel and the Case of the Murderous Mask" features an Ancient Martian death mask . . . that kills any human who puts it on by trying to mold their head to the shape of the Starfish Alien cranium it was built for. | |
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New Jedi Order: Somewhat related is Yuuzhan Vong vonduun crab armor. If worn by a non-Yuuzhan Vong, it will repeatedly attempt to kill its wearer. | |
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SCP Foundation describes a mask that compels anyone nearby to put it on so it can kill them and possess their body. The mask has expressed interest in 682, since the beast's Adaptive Ability and Healing Factor would provide it with an eternal and powerful host body. | |
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In an episode of Relic Hunter a cursed mask causes its last wearer to have his/her face disfigured and then contract a wasting disease that will kill the victim if the curse is not passed to another person. The mask used to belong to a French executioner and the only way to permanently stop the curse is for Sidney to find the executioner's tomb and return the mask there. | |
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Inuyasha features a mask with a piece of the Mineral MacGuffin embedded in it. It latches onto people's faces to take over their bodies, which then quickly begin to rot. | |
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In Spawn, one bum almost got smothered when he donned Al's mask for a joke. | |
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The lethal masks from Halloween III: Season of the Witch are textbook examples; they are just like any other mask, but if its wearer sees a certain commercial, all hell breaks loose. | |
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An old Dungeons & Dragons monster invokes this: called the Executioner's Hood, it's a flat membrane that lives on the ceiling, dropping down on the heads of unsuspecting adventurers to suffocate them. | |
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Batman: One comic features an African tribal mask that, when donned, scratches the wearer with a needle coated with a drug. The drug drives the wearer into a berserker rage that eventually causes their heart to explode. Roman Sionis, the villain better known as Black Mask, has been known to kill or disfigure his victims with toxic masks. His own mask might be one of these. |
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Love and Redemption: The Loveless Mask. Its wearer must never feel any emotions, and if they do the mask's curse will kill them. | |
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In the Department S episode "The Man Who Got a New Face", an assassin sneaks into the home of a wealthy man and glues a comedy mask to his face. The target dies of a heart attack from overexertion in his vain attempt to remove the mask. | |
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The page image is from Black Sunday; the mask is spiked on the inside and rather brutally hammered onto the victim's face. | |
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes features a constricting frog mask that gradually crushes the head of its wearer. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Dio initially believed the Stone Mask was used for ritual sacrifices after seeing it sprout spikes when blood got splashed on it. It technically does kill people this way, but it also immediately revives them as superpowered vampires. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, clothing/armor/equipment including hoods and helmets can be enchanted to slowly damage the wearer over time. They can be taken off at any time, but by planting one on an enemy they can be tricked into wearing them, and won't take them off of on their own limited initiative. | |
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Saw II has the aptly-named Death Mask, although its structure goes beyond the face. In addition of a metal mask with a spiked interior, there's another panel of the same nature aimed towards the back of the head, which, alongside the harness in the neck and shoulder area, makes the trap function like an iron maiden. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask; The titular object, in addition to possessing its wearer, plans on killing a lot of people with the moon. The Blast Mask is also capable of killing you with its explosions, though given that its use is entirely voluntary and a shield can block its damage, it is a significantly downplayed example. |
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In Judge, a group of people are abducted and forced to wear animal masks with poison spikes on them. Whoever takes it off before the time allowed will get pricked and killed. | |
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Doctor Fate, wears a helmet that forces its user to wear it for life, and then absorb their life force into it. The first volume of The Books of Magic has a part where the young hero is taken into a possible future where the mask has gone full on evil, and it lives up to this trope far more. Especially when it forces a servant to attach the mask to his face, and then only a few minutes later take it off... which requires the poor guy to tear his own face off. | |
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In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, the Decepticon Vos has a removable face which is lined with retractable spikes and hooks on the inside. Being a sadist and Torture Technician, he likes to force his victims to wear it. | |
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Saw: A recurring trap in the series is the Reverse Bear Trap, which, while meant to be a Death Trap to escape from, is placed on a victim like a mask. Saw II has the aptly-named Death Mask, although its structure goes beyond the face. In addition of a metal mask with a spiked interior, there's another panel of the same nature aimed towards the back of the head, which, alongside the harness in the neck and shoulder area, makes the trap function like an iron maiden. |
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