History Main / BlackCloak

* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'': As the Shroud, Maximillian Coleridge wears a black bodysuit adorned with a black cloak with a spider insignia on the hood.

* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': As befitting their GrimReaper look, The Hooded One wears a green cloak that covers their face and carries a scythe.

%% ZCE * The Hooded One in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}''.
%% ZCE * ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'''s longtime foe the Phantom Blot.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''Comicbook/DemonSpawn'', villainous sorcerer Nightflame wears a black-and-red cloak.

* Members of the Black Hand in the [[MurderInc Dark Brotherhood]] in the video game ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' wear black cloaks and hoods, as do necromancers. Oddly, even brand new Black Hand robes appear to have significant green staining. Then again, since [[spoiler:your former handler's corpse is dangling naked from the ceiling]] when they hand them to you, the robes may not exactly be "new."

* In ''Webcomic/TalesToBehold'', [[WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere Jenny Nowhere]] wears one when operating under the alias of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Evil Cloak]].

* The Hooded Claw from ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop''.

One of the oldest required dress codes by the Forces of Darkness. A Black Cloak villain sometimes even [[CardCarryingVillain refers to himself as "Evil" or "Dark."]] The higher-up Black Cloaks may be supernatural beings patterned after TheGrimReaper. [[EvilMinions Lesser]] Black Cloaks are often {{cult}}ists of some kind belonging to a SecretCircleOfSecrets or ReligionOfEvil.

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* The protagonist's disguise in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' involves a helmet that completely hides the face and a black cloak. [[strike:Though it remains a mystery whether he really is a good person, or is just wanting power for himself.]] [[spoiler:As of the series finale, he is officially a good guy - one might even call him "Christlike..." For obvious reasons.]] %% ?
** In ''Code Geass: Lelouch Of The Rebellion'', the manga series that's most faithful to the anime, Lelouch actually does wear a black cloak before having Zero's costume made. %% ZCE?

* Lord Ashram from ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''. %% ZCE?

** The Rare Hunters in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' wear these. %% ZCE?
** Aki also briefly wore one on-screen twice before officially joining the heroes. %% context?

* The Hooded One in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}''. %% ZCE?
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'''s longtime foe the Phantom Blot.

* Those damn Ephors from ''[[Film/ThreeHundred 300.]]''

* Appropriately worn by Death in ''Film/DeathTakesAHoliday''.

* ''{{Series/Lexx}}'': His Divine Shadow.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' has a few characters in long black garb. %% ZCE?

* ''[[VideoGame/KikiKaiKai Pocky & Rocky]]'' has the villain Black Mantle.
* Los Illuminados of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. %% ZCE?

* The Shadowlords from ''VideoGame/UltimaV''.

* Zuko in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' wears one from time to time. %% context?

* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Malthael]], in contrast to the other angels of the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, wears a very sinister-looking black hooded cloak. He was originally the head of the [[CouncilOfAngels Angiris Coucil]] as Wisdom, but the Sin War Trilogy and [[VideoGame/DiabloIII Reaper of Souls, the expansion to the third game]], make a case for his portfolio actually being Death instead of Wisdom.

* Guts is known as the Black Swordsman because of his cloak in the early volumes of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}''.

* The protagonist's disguise in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' involves a helmet that completely hides the face and a black cloak. [[strike:Though it remains a mystery if he really is a good person, or is just wanting power for himself.]] [[spoiler:As of the series finale, he is officially a good guy - one might even call him "Christlike..." For obvious reasons.]]
** In ''Code Geass: Lelouch Of The Rebellion'', the manga series that's most faithful to the anime, Lelouch actually does wear a black cloak before having Zero's costume made.

* In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'', Link is shown to have worn a hooded black cloak, although he's a wanderer who accidentally sent his town to the Twilight Realm rather than anything malign. He's stopped wearing it in the present day.
* In ''Anime/{{Macross}}'', there's [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Exedore/Exsedol's]] redesigned form in ''[[Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove Do You Remember Love?]]'' and ''Anime/Macross7'': his entire body below the neck is shown as a black cloak with retractable tendril-like arms, but he's a fairly nice guy who serves as TheSpock instead of being a villain.

* Nekozawa from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' wears one of these partially to be mysterious, and because he is extremely photosensitive. He even wears a black wig over his normally blonde hair. Oddly for this trope [[DarkIsNotEvil he's not evil.]]

* Lord Ashram from ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''.

** The Rare Hunters in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' wear these.
** Aki also briefly wore one on-screen twice before officially joining the heroes.

* The Hooded One in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}''.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonMaster'', those who earn the title of Master owing to wield an elemental power wear colored robes. Ash Ketchum, the Shadow Master, wears an ebony-black hooded cloak. He isn't evil, but he's not nice and his powers are ''scary'', and most of his world's people believe the Shadow element is Forbidden because it's evil anyway.

* ''Literature/TheBaroqueCycle'': Famous people traveling incognito wear black sashes, anyone who recognizes them is supposed to ignore them while they are wearing the sashes.

* ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'': Initially, black robes are the privilege of the High Lord in the Allied Lands' WizardingSchool. After High Lord Akkarin's exposure as a BlackMagic user [[spoiler:followed by an OutsideContextProblem-level band of foreign black magicians invading when they learned the Guild's protector was gone]], the Guild recognised that hostile black magicians were ''way'' above the GodzillaThreshold and allowed their surviving black magician member, [[spoiler:Sonea]], to teach the art to another, gave them both black robes, and made the High Lord wear '' white'' robes instead.

* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'': The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is a rare example of a good (though still scary) guy being a Black Cloak.
* ''The Cthulhu Casebooks: Literature/SherlockHolmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils'': Holmes observes a suspected Cthulhu cultist entering a costume shop and later comments to Watson that occult crimes can be detected through mundane methods, like the fact you have to get your black robes ''somewhere''. The shop owner thinks his customer is producing a play about Benedictine monks.

* ''Literature/FairyOak'': They are the traditional clothes of the Magicals, who wear them in important occasions, if they are related to magic. It becomes the uniform of the Enemy's army for this same reason.

* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Richard acquires one of these. Slightly subverted as it's magic camouflage.

* ''Literature/TheWitchWatch'': As Gilbert notes, 'Why don't cults ever wear yellow robes? It would catch people off guard'

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' / ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Typical villains in various episodes.

* ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': The Ghouls.

* The members of the band ''Music/SunnO'' wear black robes.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' has a few characters in long black garb.

* Tyrael from ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' is a ''brown'' cloak, and oddly enough, he's one of the good guys.

* The Black Cloak Society from ''VideoGame/KingsQuest''.

* Los Illuminados of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.
* Purge in ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2'' wears a Black Cloak, although he ditches it later.

* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': The members of the eponymous club wear black cloaks whenever they need to sneak around somewhere, especially in places like the Striped Kingdom or the Bippity Bop gala where they're likely to be recognized.

* Used and justified in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. The protagonists use this disguise against guards on the lookout for Agatha. The guards recognize it as suspicious immediately, and arrest them. Too bad the heroes expected it, and had dressed up Zeetha in the cloak instead, just to check if Agatha could sneak in with such a disguise.
* A long, black, face-concealing cloak is worn by one of the ''protagonists'' of ''Webcomic/NegativeOne'', Adele, to hide the fact that she is not human.

* In ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfTaras The Chronicles of Taras: Red Dementia]],'' Ghost, a five-foot-three-inch high Albino girl, wears this kind of clothing to protect her from the sub-freezing temperature of the black desert and the bright sunlight.
* The aptly-named Cloakar from the web fiction serial ''Literature/DimensionHeroes''.

* Zuko in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' wears one from time to time.

* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', worn by the mysterious Hooded Chicken.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Luna Eclipsed", Princess Luna arrives wearing one. It dissolves into ''living bats'' when she wants to take it off.

* Scavenger's first appearance in ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' has him wearing a cloak that hides most of his body. Why does a robot have a cloak?

* Jack Spicer in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' wears one of these.

* TruthInTelevision for the full habit of most Catholic priests, especially those in the religious orders of the Benedictines, the Redemptorists, and the Congregation of Holy Cross (to name a few). The Dominicans are called "the Black Friars" for this reason.

* Ivan the Terrible's secret police, the Oprichniki, were easily recognizable for wearing black, hooded, monks' robes.

* The new evil organization in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', Kara, wears black cloaks.

* The Cabal Fanatics in ''Videogame/{{Blood}}'' wear hooded black robes. The somewhat more common Cultists wear brown robes instead.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}: One episode of the series had Duncan being attacked in his dreams by a Black Cloak. He went to a mystic who specialized in this, who gave a lot of psychobabble about the darkness within, and told Duncan not to fight it and try to understand it. It turned out that the mystic ''was'' the Black Cloak, and it was a scheme to get Duncan to drop his guard.

* The Chairman, the [[BigBad Big Bad]] from the first season from ''Anime/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'', wears a black cloak. After his death, its the only thing that remains from him, and when used by Scratch, it gives him The Chairman's appearance.

** The page picture is the uniform of Organization XIII, though they tend to pull down their hoods and show their faces unless they're being intentionally mysterious. Said coats have darkness-resistant properties, and while Organization XIII mostly just wears them for the effect, characters such as Riku and Mickey wear them to protect their hearts from being worn away by the darkness.

* Sumireko Usami from ''Frachise/TouhouProject'' normally wears a [[HighCollarOfDoom high-collared]] black cloak with a red interior inscribed with runes.

* The cult members in Music/LinkinPark's music video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1zVmfan32U "One Step Closer"]] dress like this. Partially subverted, since curious onlookers ''do'' notice a Black Cloaked individual's strange garb and decide to follow him to his hiding place. HilarityEnsues.