Today it’s time for one final post about the great Queen of Swords TV show!
This one is quite short, but it is certainly interesting 🙂
Preview:
Back at home from another crime-fighting escapade…
…and a nosy, impatient visitor wants to see Tessa!
The Queen of Swords has to transform quickly…
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Here is the video:
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I love such “secret identity in danger” scenarios where a masked heroine gets under pressure to protect her secret identity from getting destroyed!
She is under big-time pressure to quickly change into her “normal” persona Tessa so that her nosy friend doesn’t find out that she is actually the Queen of Swords.
And the very nice “bonus” where she almost walks out with her night robe still wearing her mask… is great!
Imagine Vera’s face if she would have seen Tessa with that mask on… 😆
That would have been quite embarrassing…
So, we get a nice self-unmasking which is quite rare in this TV show… I guess there is only one more in it.
All in all a thrilling scene for me, and also a bit funny as well.
I wanted to post something else today… but that video got also blocked by YouTube.
To finally have a new video on the YouTube channel after 4 weeks I present two more scenes from this show.
Again, her secret identity is in danger as she is unconscious and a guy wants to take a look under that mask!
Preview:
He goes for her mask!
She is unconscious…
…and again a hand reaches for her mask!
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Here is the video:
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One episode ends with a cliffhanger as he is reaching for her mask from her right side.
Oddly enough the next episode doesn’t start exactly there, but seemingly his unmasking attempt is interrupted by the doorbell!?
With the woman he enters the room again and goes for her mask… again… and this time the woman intervenes by protest.
I can only guess why she doesn’t want Supergirl to be unmasked… maybe she is a loyal fan and it’s about respecting her secret identity.
If I remember right …Supergirl’s secret identity and the guy are really close, perhaps he even suspected his girlfriend(?) to be Supergirl and finally wants to prove it.
Two nice “close-call” unmasking scenes that remind me of this one:
It’s time for a proper upgrade as there is so little text in these old posts!
This is one of my favorite scenes that I have watched a hundred times, so it’s time to make a proper upgrade post.
Also, the video is on my pretty small Dailymotion channel, so many of you may have never seen the video or that old post.
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In this TV show, Barbara Gordon is Oracle and is bound to a wheelchair.
As her old enemy, Lady Shiva re-appears in Gotham Barbara feels the need to put on her old (GREAT) Batgirl costume and can (shortly) walk again with the help of an experimental device.
Preview:
The two meet again..
…Lady Shiva…
…and Batgirl!
Batgirl is down!
Is that a hand at her cowl? 😉
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
This Batgirl costume (alongside the nearly identical one from “Batman and Robin”) is SO AWESOME for me!
The mixture with the (mostly) black leather and rubber is sexy as hell and I love every second Dina Meyer is in it (and Alicia Silverstone).
If I would live in that Gotham City I would become a criminal in no time or …even better… a cop who wants to arrest the vigilante. #BlackScorpionvibes
Or I would need to be rescued from evil criminals suspectingly often 😉
The cowl is nice but basically my only issue about the whole outfit.
It is cut open very high at the back of the head and …more problematic… has no chin strap and no neck coverage.
So unmasking her is way too easy as this video demonstrates.
Also, the cowl could simply fall off in a hectic fight… and that shouldn’t be possible.
It’s a fantastic tread that here we also have a second masked woman in the scene… Lady Shiva.
And damn… her mask is AWESOME and the costume is quite good as well.
It’s a shame that Batgirl here goes down so easily as that device is failing quickly. 🙁
An epic unmasking battle with these two where Batgirl isn’t paralyzed and is wearing a properly secured/upgraded cowl… is basically my holy grail.
Also a whole TV show with such a Batgirl as the lead character…. would be even more insanely-awesome-fantastic 😉
In this show Batgirl is just in one episode and some black and white mini flashbacks.
I do love that Shiva here immediately goes for Batgirl’s mask as soon she realizes that Batgirl is helpless!
That’s how a villain(ess) should do it! She has the opportunity to find out who Batgirl is and takes it. Perfect!
Not like most of the other villains who just run off and aren’t interested at all to find out who is hiding behind that mask.
Now the helpless Barbara Gordon is lying in front of her and she is ready to finish her off to get her revenge (most likely).
Then Huntress, who is sadly never wearing a mask or even a costume, shows up right in time to save Barbara.
She was too late to save Batgirl from the unmasking though. #timing
Due to the fact that Huntress isn’t wearing a mask, Lady Shiva recognizes Helena and runs off as she doesn’t wanna fight against her.
Or maybe she was afraid to lose and then be unmasked as well? 😉
All in all just an awesome scene!
Here, as a little bonus… two (edited) pictures of the “exposed” Barbara:
Today I wanna present a Batgirl fan film that just premiered this week.
I watched it yesterday and I think it deserves to be the topic of the weekly post here.
And this is a Batgirl film that wasn’t canceled! 😉
At least not yet… don’t know if DC/Warner will let it stay on YouTube or not.
In the past the fantastic “Batgirl: Spoiled” series was stopped after the second episode for example, even these episodes are still available on YouTube.
(That’s why I save every video I think is really good and that I wanna rewatch)
If you have a little over 30 minutes… watch it!
Official Synopsis: Following the murder of Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon must choose between her life and her aspirations of finding and killing The Joker, Jason’s murderer.
Preview pics:
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Here is the video (not my upload):
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Watch the film and then continue!
Wow, that was a dark ending… not really surprising… if you know the comics.
Personally, I don’t like that aspect of the “Killing Joke” as it is such a trauma for Barbara and banned her from being Batgirl for a long time.
I think the movie is shot really well and the acting is quite good as well.
I mean it’s a fan film that was crowdfunded with a little over 2.000$ and is over 30 minutes long, quite a length for such a film.
Her costume is just okay… but I really like the Batgirl cowl they used. A quality cowl, especially if you just have such kind of budget.
Kendall Felix, who plays Barbara and Batgirl, also directed and wrote this film.
The short fight scenes here aren’t really exciting, but that is …again… a money issue I would say.
Not surprisingly… Batgirl has quite a lot of screen time here, but also Barbara as well.
I like the self-unmasking and the re-masking in this one.
Also that she tosses her cowl on the ground as she enters the apartment in the end.
Even that meant that she was standing unmasked in the hallway… quite risky. 😉
Funny that this fan film also has the trope of heroes standing around unmasked on rooftops at night.
I wouldn’t recommend that….
Another plus point is the music in this one, very fitting with a heroic tune as soon as the movie title appears.
In this one “Supergirl” (in her Spider-girl costume) saves the day but encounters some problems afterward!
An epic, bizarre self-unmasking battle is the result 😆
Preview:
She saved the day once more!
Well, something is wrong!
Her mask!
The epic self-unmasking battle goes on…
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
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This is a very early episode of “Supergirl” where she runs around in a costume that looks a LOT like the early “Spider-girl” costumes from the comics and animated TV shows.
Quite bizarre already.
But what then happens inside her home is ….also… quite bizarre and pretty unique.
A heroine who desperately tries to unmask herself over and over again… That is quite a very rare situation!
Her mask is magic and the source of her superpowers. Most of the time…not always… it is secured in place by some kind of force and bad guys have a very, very hard time to unmask her.
Which is quite great by the way 😉
But from what I understand her mask has also some kind of own will or something like that.
I guess it wanted her to stay in her Supergirl/Spider-girl costume 😉
Really odd how she gets thrown around/jumps around the room 😆
Of course, the CGI with the magic mask looks quite bad (#blurry), but the sound effects are nice.
And it’s a nice reversed situation.
Normally masked superheroines don’t want to be unmasked and here she wants to unmask herself but has such a hard time.
Thanks a lot (again) to the one who recommended me this one a while ago!
This bizarre Superheroine show is quite a rollercoaster.
It has 129(!) episodes, which are available on Youtube!
A masked superheroine in different costumes and solid masks is the lead character!
It has a lot of secret identity issues incl. unmaskings and unmasking attempts!
It even has a masked villainess that is in many episodes!
Sounds fantastic? Well yes…. BUT…. there are also some problems.
More on that later on…
Preview:
Supergirl!?!
And a masked villainess!
She is pinned down and someone is reaching for her mask!
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Here is the video:
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I combined scenes from 2 episodes for this one. One episode ends just after the villainess unmasked herself and we see Supergirl’s shocked face. #cliffhanger
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Here are the problems the show has for me:
– Obviously, the language issue if you are not familiar with it… no dub or subtitles are available
– The playlist of this show has 129 videos with episodes but they are …often… not in order… a total mess
– It’s a soap opera, a really over-the-top soap opera… that you can realize very quickly without understanding a word 😆
– Really bad CGI and a total overload of superpowers
– some really annoying characters like a magic micro-mini-human
But, it also has a lot to offer 🙂 (as mentioned above)
Now to the scene itself:
Supergirl knows who the villain is, I think she was/is in love with him as he was turned into this evil character.
So he is shocked to find her under the mask of his enemy… Supergirl.
He wants to protect her so he carries the unmasked Supergirl away before the villainess can find her.
It’s been a while since I watched (skipped through) these episodes and the language issue makes it a lot more difficult to follow the crazy storyline.
I like the struggle with her and that he unmasks her, even the camera should be more focused on her face.
But I certainly love the expression on her face as she realizes in terror that he unmasked her.
She should have put up more of a fight… but I guess the way she got smashed against the tree was still affecting her big time.
I love how the guy is tossing her mask on the ground as he isn’t exactly happy about finding out that his love was Supergirl the whole time.
All in all, a really interesting scene.
In other episodes, she is wearing a costume that makes her look like a version of Spider-girl, also really interesting!
And the mask is actually the source of her power, as soon she puts it on she turns into the superheroine.
That means an unmasking leaves her powerless AND destroys her secret identity, quite a combo.
I guess I could make …at least…. 5 more posts with scenes from this show.
I will think about it….
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The hint where to find the playlist with the other episodes can be easily found in the video 😉
I finally am catching up with the last season of a certain TV show and stumbled upon this scene.
Time to post it here!
We have a guy wandering around, but he isn’t alone. A mysterious masked woman is following him!
Preview:
A mysterious…
….masked…
….woman follows him!
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Here is the video:
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Yeah, a nice scene. I like that she is wearing two masks, even the cloth thing is most likely just there for comfort.
But in my mind, it is her backup mask in case someone yanks off her main mask 😉
It’s also good that the two know each other so the unmasking has a bigger impact as they have quite a history and now she is with the bad guys and is threatening him and his dog.
Of course, I would have preferred that they would fight and then there would be a dramatic unmasking after one or two failed attempts… but no luck 😉
And at least a glimpse of some sort of sexiness in this TV show. Zombie apocalypses are very unsexy after all 😆
I really like this video, and I also hate it! Why? More on that later on…
I stumbled upon this scene as I watch this show for a while and finally started watching it again.
We have two masked women in a heist 🙂
Preview:
Masked woman number 1…
….and number 2
Time for some action!
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Here is the video:
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Ok, where to start?
I watched the episode and the blonde master thief was introduced. The police were never able to prove any of her thefts and she was planning something.
Of course, my fantasy imagined a great heist scene where she would battle some cops who tried to stop and unmask her.
I was really thrilled by the possibilities 🙂
Then she goes on a heist, and puts up a great mask …. and you might imagine how I reacted to the scene that followed 😉
I cursed at my TV as she was running away and unmasked herself for NO reason! DAMN IT! WHY????????
I mean the police already predicted she would show up there and that’s why all the cops were on the scene undercover.
But she is still masked and could escape. WHY does she unmask herself as she is running away?
That makes no sense at all. I mean as long she is masked she is still “safe” as the cops have no proof that she did it.
It would have been so great if Nolan (the guy in the security dude uniform) would wrestle her down and unmask after a fight… but NO, of course not!
It’s a real trope by now that masked women always unmask themselves for no reason.
That drives me crazy! Another wasted opportunity 🙁
I mean she is already wearing a nice catsuit (sort of) and the mask in combination with the cap is a great disguise… but they screw it up.
Also, it is quite odd that she is on a heist and is wearing these ankle boots with heels but… ok, not as crazy/unrealistic as a Catwoman with stiletto heels (TDKR)….even she was insanely sexy.
The second masked woman is just a little bonus as she is just a nameless henchwoman.
In my imagination, she would have also prevented the unmasking at a nightly heist (without a crew) and would then re-appear in later episodes 😉
Well, I don’t write these scripts…. hopefully, there will be more masked women in the show.
I posted about the best mask-related scenes here some years ago… but I missed one scene that surely needs to be here as well!
This TV show is in my Hall of Fame and is certainly one of my favorites 🙂
Here we have an episode where Tessa finds out that there is a man who actually knows who killed her father.
Of course, she wants to know and actually saves this guy (as Queen of Swords) from the evil duo the Colonel and the Captain.
But then something really bad is happening….
Preview:
She unmasks herself…. and someone is peeping!
He is really evil and has special plans…
…for Tessa!
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In the past, I often mentioned how careless some masked heroines are when it comes to self-unmaskings in (more or less) public places.
For example, Batwoman unmasked herself on rooftops and alleys at night in the TV show. There was always the danger that someone might show up or would watch it from the distance.
I’m not a big fan of such careless behavior… as I don’t want anyone to uncover a secret identity out like that.
The Queen of Swords was more careful in general and here she thought it would be safe to unmask herself in her own home which is placed quite remote.
But, unlucky for her… the scumbag was peeping through her windows and saw how the Queen of Swords unmasked herself and he recognized the face of Tessa.
And that is such an enormous problem for any heroine with a secret identity… especially if it’s a bad guy.
With his knowledge, he approaches her when she is the most vulnerable. Tessa is alone, without weapons, and without her costume.
Her dress is also making it more difficult for her as it slows her down.
Quite unusual that the show really gets that dark and that they have a bad guy who actually wants to rape the heroine/her civilian self!
That never was a topic in shows like Black Scorpion, Batwoman, etc.
And here she really gets into a big dilemma, as she wants to know from him who killed her father, but also has to defend herself and take care of the fact that he knows her biggest secret!
The outcome is the only possible outcome for me. He knows her secret identity, he tried to rape her… she has to kill him, even if that means that she won’t find out who killed her father… at least at this point.
These scenes perfectly demonstrate the danger of losing a secret identity… and therefore I need to post about it.
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These scenes are from episode 8 of Queen of Swords.
Today I wanna present some scenes from a documentary!
Well, that doesn’t sound too interesting and sexy…
Indeed, but this documentary has a LOT to offer when it comes to masked women!
Including some unmasking action and interesting dialogues about why some of these fighters a wearing masks and so on.
The documentary was aired on German TV this week. It has Spanish language and German subs.
To present it here I translated the important parts and embedded English subs in the video which took some time.
I don’t speak Spanish so I translated the German subs.
Hope you will enjoy it!
Preview:
There she is at home…
…and now ready for….
…a fight!
She was unmasked and covers her face with her hair!
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And here is the video:
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About the documentary in general:
Well, there are very interesting parts and rather uninteresting ones.
The documentary follows 4 different women who all are Luchadoras and addresses the problematic social struggles in Mexico, where crime rates are very high, women are often murdered and a special macho culture is still pretty dominant (according to the documentary).
About the scenes in the video:
The part where she is at home and talking about why she is wearing a mask is already very intriguing to me.
Actually, she is always wearing one throughout the entire documentary (90 minutes)! That gives her a really mysterious aura, I like that!
I don’t know if all the fight was staged from the beginning to the end. Normally wrestling and Luchadora fights are mostly completely scripted… to my knowledge.
I want to believe that the ending here wasn’t scripted… but I just don’t know.
However, I love quite a LOT about it. Both get unmasked, sadly we only see one unmasking and only from behind.
But I love how she is covering her face all the time to prevent anyone from seeing her face, I admire that kind of effort 🙂
I don’t know if perhaps even the dialogues from one/some pretty loud spectators are scripted as well…but they are just great, it’s like someone with a fetish for masked women had written them 😉
Actually, I even got excited as I was writing the subtitles 😆
I really would like to see such a fight live in person one day.
And imagine a fight like that that isn’t scripted… oh man! 2 masked, hot ladies fighting against each other. The one who unmasks the other one first wins!
And then you could add some other mask types to the mix as well. Some rubber cowls for example… or full-face latex masks 😉
It seems that these female Luchadora masks go off rather easily in comparison to the male full-face masks that have even a lacing.
But they cover up the face quite well, so it’s certainly a mask type that I really like.
And I have to say… it has become one of my favorite unmaskings in a comic book!
I think I knew most of the really good unmaskings by now, but this one has somehow slipped below my radar.
Let’s check it out:
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Well, I love it! The fight with Batman is a nice start, always very sexy material, and the fact that he knocks her out….for just some seconds(?) to deliver her to the cops is quite unusual.
But well, after all, this is a very unusual storyline and many things are very different from the “normal” Batman world.
I love how he orders the cops to unmask her! Pure gold 🙂
A little odd that he leaves that to them, as I would have gladly done the job myself… if I would be Batman.
Of course, it would be nice to have the unmasking in more detail…in more panels…but ok.
However, the result is fantastic! Her mask yanked away to her forehead and the expression on her face…wow! She knows that she is screwed big time!
The cops and Batman now know who she is. They know who the famous cat burglar is and her career is pretty much over!
The big surprise here is that Catwoman is actually NOT Selina Kyle but Vikki Vale, and it makes it even better, especially when she is “interviewed” by Dr. Crane a few pages later on.
After she is injected with a truth serum she admits how she loves “the excitement, the danger, the fun” when she is Catwoman!
They should have added how much she loves to run around in that tight costume and mask and how much it turns her on 😉 . But that would have been too much for the censors 😆
A great fantasy to have a star reporter running around as Catwoman at night! A respected and famous member of society during the day and a wanted criminal at night, certainly a great mixture 🙂
And that makes the unmasking even better!
Of course, I would prefer her not to be handcuffed and to say something like “NO!” or “Not my mask!” or “Don’t you dare!”… but these are only small issues.
All in all, I am very happy to now know this “unmasking gem”.
