The Doctor: I cannot reveal my face, Irongron.
Irongron: Why?
The Doctor: Because if I did, it might give you a seizure.
— Doctor Who, "The Time Warrior"
Mr Seta: Did you even bother to ask who I might be, where I came from? No. I blinded you with the legends of my fortune, beguiled you with wealth and the promise of power. You have spent your life looking at masks, Madame Salvadore, without the merest thought of what might lie underneath. See what lies beneath my mask...
[His voice suddenly clears as he removes his mask]
Madame Salvadore: Oh my god...
Mr Seta: Unpleasant, is it not? Would you have let me into your circle if you known? Would you have wooed me if you had the slightest inkling of what you were letting loose?
Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like! Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a very good-looking fellow, eh? When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me for ever. I am a kind of Don Juan, you know! Look at me! I AM DON JUAN TRIUMPHANT!
—Erik, immediately after being unmasked by Christine, The Phantom of the Opera
"Inquisitor Ralei": Dear Sasha, it's taken me a century to insinuate my way into your Inquisition. There are few of my kind capable. Most are mindless, pure, undistracted by personality. But there are those of us who remember. Lords and ladies of another age, converted and purified but not cleansed of memory. I remember the frailty of emotion, the weakness of the flesh, the imperfection of mortality. [pause] Hiding amongst your kind was no challenge at all. In my bearing, in my diaries, in my notes, I have been Inquisitor Ralei. Am I not a convincing counterfeit? [pause] You want to know who I am, yes? Yes. Let me show you.
Inquisitor Sasham: O-oh... oh throne... Your face... it's
Is this some kind of twisted joke?!
—Dimitri, upon discovering that Edelgard is the Flame Emperor, Fire Emblem: Three Houses
"They call you the Hood. Let's see what you look like without it."
— Dark Archer, Arrow, "Year's End"
Connor: As far as I can really recall, Stryfe only really takes his mask off for two reasons, and one is to trick people into thinking he's Cable.
Anthony: Yep.
Connor: And the other is when he's with Cable -
Anthony: As a wig reveal.
Connor: Exactly! It's like "Dun dun Dun dun Dun"!
Anthony: There's like a "hnk, shng"!
Connor: It's always a serve, he's definitely - it is the ultimate reveal in Blood and Metal when he first does it, when he's just like "Oh guess what I'm you, bitch! Oh, you thought - you thought I was just a bad guy but I'm you Nathan! Surprise!"
Anthony: What if you were on the Drag Race stage and you revealed you were RuPaul.
Connor: Right?! Like "Oh, I'm sorry Ru, did you not realize that I'm your clone from the future - or that you're actually the clone of me!" It's truly, like high drama.
Anthony: Yep.
Connor: And the other is when he's with Cable -
Anthony: As a wig reveal.
Connor: Exactly! It's like "Dun dun Dun dun Dun"!
Anthony: There's like a "hnk, shng"!
Connor: It's always a serve, he's definitely - it is the ultimate reveal in Blood and Metal when he first does it, when he's just like "Oh guess what I'm you, bitch! Oh, you thought - you thought I was just a bad guy but I'm you Nathan! Surprise!"
Anthony: What if you were on the Drag Race stage and you revealed you were RuPaul.
Connor: Right?! Like "Oh, I'm sorry Ru, did you not realize that I'm your clone from the future - or that you're actually the clone of me!" It's truly, like high drama.
— Cerebro audio from Episode 30
A pity. I didn't expect my cover to be blown quite this quickly.
— C/Rufus Albarea, The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie
