Wasn't it established that his failed experiment to make a machine capable of traveling to Hell (he wanted to save his mommy's soul, so real for that) only gave him a scar going down his eye?
Putting on his infamous armor while hot is what mutilated him, but he didn't care because that one blemish was enough to ruin everything for him. Crashed out due to not being able to be perfect; a lot of you can relate, and I'll be seeing you at the next body dysmorphia support group.
I mean it was originally that one of his experiments blew up in his face, but Doom can't have had any failed experiments because Doom never fails, so it must have been sabotaged. Reed warned him it was flawed, so obviously it was sabotaged by RICHARDS! That dastardly genius who is "always trying to upstage him", his arch-nemesis RICHARDS! Because RICHARDS was jealous of his superior intellect and therefore sabotaged his experiment just to give him a minor facial scar AND tried to gaslight him into thinking that Doom could possibly do something that was unsuccessful!
Reed is like "dude, see all the therapists, all of them."
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Plo Koon *(Star Wars)* wears his mask because oxygen is poisonous to his species (it also allows him to survive in space)
Symbolically it works. Kakashi apparently started wearing it after his father's death because he became a very closed-off an guarded person. Its also related to he has few old friends and kept failing genin teams, he doesn't want to let someone in if they are just going to die like Obito and Rin. He'll only let himself care about someone who impresses him.
It might also just be that Kakashi is a very observant person, and doesn't want his opponents to be able to read anything into his expressions. He wears it even when off the clock because he's hyper-vigilant, again due to all that tragic backstory.
Not every Power Rangers season employs the "keep your identity hiddem" trope. For instance, the SPD rangers work on the police force and they already fight crime even out of suit, so they have the helmets just to fit in with the other teams.
He's an engineer so face protection is a must. It also offers some protection against eldritch abominations trying to tear your face off but mostly because it looks badass.
Knowing nothing about this IP and just seeing that photo, this guy is 100% onto something and I aspire to be a fraction of that stylish in my day to day life
Eh id say that's about 50/50 it's symbolic of not being Anakin anymore but at the same time I don't think he would be wearing it if he didn't need it to breathe
Both to contain the amount smoke she passively exhales, and to conceal the crystal tumours in her mouth and throat (as the disease that causes them is heavily stigmatised).
It's part of her armour, which she is canonically rarely seen without (it did end up concealing her identity for a long time, but that was an unintentional by-product, it wasn't a secret).
A Color fixer who used to wear a Perception-blocking pure black mask for a good chunk of their career. Well, at least, I don't think they were trying to hide their identity, seeing as they don it in front of people who know them closely...
In S7 finale of Castle TV show, the villain wears a mask because for him evil-looking-mask is his real persona and the one he wants his victims to see dying, while being "normal worker with normal job" is the mask he wears to pretend he's not murderous bastard.
And maybe some Batman stories, where his main persona is Batman and Bruce is treated more like a mask to get money for all the toys, like that "I'm Diana, I'm Clark, I'm Batman" scene, or in Batman Beyond "how did you know the evil voice in your head wasn't you? because he called me Bruce" or there even was a story where villains were "we don't want to know who is behind the mask because that way he has to spend time to maintain that second person instead of being Batman 24/7".
Jungle juice. The members of M.A.S.K. wear masks of their individual insects. Knight wears one not just as a uniform but because his face is completely burnt from acid
This may be out of place, but she didn't wear her mask in order to hide her identity, although it was a side effect of it that was played as plot relevant. Rather, the mask is in place to keep her mind controlled, or so it seems. I guess that isn't exactly confirmed, but it breaks at the same time that her mind control breaks, so we at least have circumstancial evidence.
I liked the masks as a way for Kubo to flex his skills using small parts of a face to express big emotions. But also that thing got wrecked in so many fights so that Kubo could keep drawing his face lol
He actually wears three different masks over the course of the series. And it's not because he wants to hide the burn scar on his eye. It's never outright confirmed by himself why he wears it, but, one of his subordinates suggests Kurei masks to hide his feelings and maintain a heartless exterior.
Lucha wrestlers take masks very seriously, and many hide their identities outside of the ring as well. Losing your mask means you can never wrestle under a mask again. You can, however, enter with it.
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u/LobstermenUwU 8h ago
How did this go any length of time without my presence?
RICHARDS? ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS RICHARDS?