Masked women in movies, tv-series, cosplay, comics, fan art and fan movies – With villainesses and heroines like Catwoman, Batgirl, Batwoman, Black Scorpion and Spider-gwen. Unmaskings included!
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Some screenshots:
(click to enlarge – more pictures on the page of episode 16, link above)
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Have you seen it already?
What do you think about it?
Leave a comment here or on the page of the episode!
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*EDIT* June 16:
The starting date of season 3 has been announced yesterday!
Batwoman, season 3 will kick off on October 13 (Wednesdays from then on)!
So, the break between season 2 and 3 won’t be very long 🙂
Along with that, the starting dates of more CW shows were announced as well:
That one is on my upload list for a while and it’s time to post this one!
This one features Jet Li VS some evil folks on motorcycles. And as you can guess, not all of them are men 😉
They all are wearing helmets with mirrored visors, so our evil biker chicks is fully concealed.
Preview:
She knows how to handle her bike!
Time to unmask you!
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
Yeah, not exactly a “traditional” unmasking, but I like the reveal.
It isn’t even clear to the audience that that biker is a woman, so the surprise is quite nice. Pretty sure that might be a man on the bike before she finally flew to the ground.
What I really don’t like is what happens after the reveal. He realizes it’s a woman he fighting and then he doesn’t want to fight her because he wouldn’t hit a woman.
What a sexist crap is that? Yeah, the movie is 20 years old, but damn, it’s just so disrespectful to her. She is a skilled fighter who wants to kill him and he doesn’t take her seriously.
And the whole thing to use the other woman to hit her….oh man. Silly, embarrassing comedy….in my opinion.
I cut the scene some seconds short to avoid problems with youtube. She falls on that metal bar and gets impaled what they show with a weird sort of (unbloody) x-ray animation as the metal thing goes through her heart.
If you don’t know these ones yet….you are very lucky as you now will see some great cosplay pictures!
And the chances are quite high that you will love these pictures 😉
(click on the picture to enlarge it to full size!)
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I don’t think I have promised too much! 😉
The model looks stunning and I really like the costume! The cowl is really good as well.
I LOVE all the secret identity issues in many of the pictures. Looks like villainess Punchline found out somehow that Batgirl is Barbara Gordon, as we only have these pictures…we have to speculate how she did it.
The third picture is soooo great, Punchline with pictures of Batgirl and Barbara Gordon….while Batgirl has her cowl in her hands as she masks…or unmasks(?)….herself.
Pictures 6 and 7 are ….well…..fantastic! I love how Punchline presents the cowl of Batgirl triumphantly while the battle-bruised Batgirl realizes the predicament she is now in!
As Punchline knows her secret identity she is now totally at her mercy. Of course, there would be a way out of it for Batgirl if she can free herself…..but as a heroine, she can’t really kill a villain. Or can she? 😉
The last picture isn’t from that storyline, but I just love it as well!
Batgirl tied up, fighting against her restraints…while Harley and Poison Ivy are playing with her 😉
Love how Harley yanks at one Bat-ear while her other hand is toying with the chin strap of Batgirl’s cowl!
Looks like these two are curious……to find out who is hiding underneath that mask!
What I would give to have such a scene in a movie or TV show!!!! But sadly the big majority of the villains are not curious enough to unmask the hero/heroine.
And if they find out who is behind the mask….they do it without yanking the mask off (I hate when that happens).
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Some screenshots:
(click to enlarge – more pictures on the page of episode 11, link above)
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Have you seen it already?
What do you think about it?
Leave a comment here or on the page of the episode!
After their first encounter, our female burglar now is again looking for precious diamonds!
And again, the hero of the show is just waiting for her….
Preview:
There she is again!
Busted!
He is really motivated to get her….
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you go on!
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Really good stuff!
I mean she is in two scenes, does unmask herself once, and is unmasked twice! So, this episode really delivers! 🙂
Even the unmasking is shot very quick here.
I think it’s a little odd that she escapes the building first and seemingly waits on that container to then knock down the guard as he is threatened.
Why wasn’t she focused on escaping as quickly as possible? Was she waiting for him? Seemingly not as she runs away from him.
However I really love their relationship as they know each other, he wants to stop her, but she has a strong motivation to get these diamonds anyway.
Sadly this was the last scene of her as a masked burglar. Will watch the whole episode the next few days to get the full picture of what is going on.
The only thing that was missing was a close combat with a security guard who would then yank on her mask before she barely escapes the unmasking attempt 😉
This episode of a TV show has some really great scenes! Another one that I discovered through a great compilation video with masked women.
In this episode we have two really good scenes, today I wanna present the first one to you.
So, you may guess what I might be posting next week on Sunday 😉
So, let’s start with some pictures for a preview:
What is he doing there?
A masked burglar!
He sneaks up on her….
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And here is the video:
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Some story-snippets: They two meet earlier in the museum where he witnessed her snooping around. So he had a strong hunch about who he would find under that mask. 😉
I love that he uses the moment of surprise to immediately unmask her, clearly catching her off guard. I think they cheated a little with the unmasking.
The whole time her mask was fitting pretty tightly. But as they cut to his hand grabbing onto her mask, the mask is rather loose and much less fitting.
I guess they “prepared” the mask so the unmasking was easier to be done.
However, I enjoy that he goes for her mask and the lines they exchange. I like how she gets away by choosing the better escape route. She runs into a guard, which could be a big problem, especially as she isn’t masked anymore!
But it’s pretty dark and she is moving quickly to get him out of the way. I’m sure that he didn’t get a good look at her face.
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The other scene with both of them is even better and longer….so stay tuned for the next video!
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For now, I won’t post the name of the show…but I will when I post the other scene next week.
Another one I was pointed at through an epic Youtube video! Again, thanks to the guy for making this compilation 🙂
In this scene, we have a young guy who is suspected to be a (masked) killer.
But as you might guess, the one under the mask….isn’t a man as I would post about it otherwise 😉
Preview:
Looks like he tries to UNMASK her!
Struggling with the killer!
That would be rather bad for your health….
Isn’t that Christopher Walken? YES!
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And here is the video:
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Ok, what do I like and dislike about this one?
And yes, that’s the only scene where you can see the masked killer which lasts longer than a split-second 🙁
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I really dislike that she isn’t more “visible” in the movie. I would love real fight scenes with her. More suspense before the unmasking.
And they really screw up the unmasking. Why doesn’t she defend her mask? Why don’t we get to see a little more of her before his hand reaches her mask?
That is done way too quickly!
This is how you NOT do an unmasking! Especially with such a hot woman underneath the mask.
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I do like that Christopher Walken shows up in the scene! He is great all the time, even in here as he shots the knife out of her hands in a way too cool fashion 😆
Also, as you can see in the first picture, he seemingly tries to unmask her in the struggle! It’s only a split second and I nearly missed it as I watched it as it is so horribly cut.
But nonetheless, it’s great that he goes for the mask!
This one was a lucky find I stumbled upon by pure luck.
I saw this poster, and of course I HAD to watch the movie 😉
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As you can see the poster is strangely cut at both sides, but well, the most interesting part is there to see.
Quite interesting is that the hero is in the background while the masked woman is in fact the “right hand” of the movie’s villain.
But I guess they thought it would help to put an attractive, mysterious woman right in the middle of the movie poster 😉
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Let’s move on to the movie, here are some pictures as a preview:
There she is, the masked villainess!
The villain and his right hand
She enjoys torturing people
She seems …afraid…
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And here is the video:
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I really like the idea of having such a masked villainess in the movie! It is a rare thing in a movie even today, but especially hard to find such a character in a movie from 1959!
Her movie role is quite odd, naturally to the age of the movie and the way women were portrayed…..she doesn’t actively fight, but rather tortures and kills people from the distance or by backstabbing them (literally). She fights with an epee for about smashing 5 seconds, but we will come to that later on.
Now to the video above: The ending is bitter sweet for me. It’s great that he rips her mask off in such manner. Sadly…we can’t see it as the movie shows it from that perspective. And she runs away without allowing us to see her unmasked face. What a wasted opportunity!
And it’s also sad that she actually never puts on her mask again througout the movie. 🙁
She always is wearing that outfit, where she covers her hair completely. Ok, that could be seen as some sort of disguise, but well, doesn’t really work for me 😆
The movie had also a german audio track which I used as I watched the movie. And as you can possibly tell when you know german TV it was a german TV airing (MDR is the channel).
Interestingly the german dialogue is quite different. As the movie is italian, both english and german audios are dubs from the original language.
In german the villain approaches her and says “….say that you laugh at me under your MASK….” in translation.
Here is the scene for those of you who can understand it:
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So, you may wondering what happens to her at the end of the movie?
Well, here is her ending:
[Watch the video first before you continue!]
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After another sneaky murder she meets her final fate as some random soldier kills her with a banner pole!?!
Quite an odd way to finish her off. Especially as it should have been the hero’s job to do that and get his revenge on her after all the things she had done to him, his father and friends.
Interestingly we finally see her hair, she is finally fully “unmasked” in these seconds. A continuation error as we never see that cloth coming off as she still was standing.
Fittingly she has red hair….which was/is a popular hair color for showing evil/crazy women 😉
And here is a promo poster for the movie where she actually shows her hair (which she never does like that):
In the meantime I watched the remaining episodes of the season and…..well…..the BEST scene was shown in the last episode of the season!
As the title of this post suggests she gets UNMASKED, this time by an evil henchman!
Check out some preview pictures:
She is in trouble! More and more henchmen are attacking her!
He yanks on her mask!
UNMASKED!
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And here is the video:
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That’s how you do an unmasking! This short scene is my “unmasking highlight 2020” when it comes to TV shows and movies.
Ok, her leather mask does only cover on half of her face…but it covers more then most of the eye masks that heroines often are wearing.
And many things are done really good in this one:
She isn’t tied up, she can fight back. But he pushes her against the wall, using the oportunity immediately to to grab onto her mask. Finally a bad guy who actually wants to unmask the heroine….and he does it at the first chance he gets. For a moment she is stunned and he swiftly pulls hard on her mask. One of the two leather straps …..which holds her mask in place…. rips and he yanks the mask away from her, tossing it to the ground. Thereby he doesn’t only unmask her but even damaging her mask so she can’t put it on again. She later flees from the fight with others….still unmasked.
Yeah, the bog scar under the mask isn’t that attractive…but as I told in the post last week….she got it as bad guys punished her.
Also I like her reaction to it. She is furious as the mask comes off and all her anger is showing immediately.
Of course this scene is even more intense if you have watched the whole TV show before….
*EDIT* I forgot to mention this: Yeah, her mask doesn’t give her a secret identity, everyone knows who she is, it is like I said last week, a mask that hides the scar (like in Phantom of the Opera), but that doesn’t really change my liking about the unmasking.
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I really love this scene as it shows something very rare.
I wish that season 2 of the Batwoman TV show would include a scene such as this one! Or an unmasking attempt during a fight….that would be awesome!
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As a little bonus, here is the unmasking scene in the short version:
I recommend that you download it and play the file in endless repeat mode 😉
So, after I posed scenes 1 and 2 from this episode last week….it’s now time for the other two episodes I mentioned!
Before you watch the next video:
They SWAT folks actually figured out who the 4 women are under these masks after they have killed and unmasked the first one (scene 2).
They find out where woman number 2 is hiding and try to arrest her…
Preview, Scene 3:
She won’t give up easily as well!
Can they capture her alive?
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue…
Yeah, I know there isn’t actually a masked woman in this one, but I wanted to show what happens to all 4 of the burglars.
There are not many shootouts with a woman armed with a submachinegun.
Even it’s not really a shootout as they try to capture her alive after they had to kill one of the burglars. They could have easily finished her off if they wanted to.
And yeah, there is another video….so, you may guess it by now… it’s an ALL-FEMALE burglar team!!! A VERY RARE thing!
And certainly the most “armed to their teeth womens team” that I know of.
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Preview, Scene 4:
They want more diamonds!
Burglars VS
SWAT! What will happen?
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue…
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Forced to unmask by noise…..
…. well, that’s a new variation for me. 🙂
The last two were determined not to give up, so it was a good weapon to overpower them and capture them alive. So 3 of the 4 women survived the episode.
And I really like the background that all served in the Israeli military as it’s mandatory for men AND women there to serve.
They had a good reason to steal from that criminal murderer and I was kind of disappointed that their plan didn’t suceed as they planned.
But at least it got the dirtbag arrested in the end.
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That’s the episode and TV show in which you can find these scenes:
Thanks again to the friendly blog visitor who recommended me this gem!
This TV episode offers actually 4(!) interesting scenes and I wanna present the first two today.
We have 4 heavily armored, masked burglars who love shiny diamonds!
Can they be stopped? Who is under these masks?
Preview, scene 1:
Shiny diamonds!
They won’t give up easily….
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And here is the video:
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I did cut a short scene out of it where the police car starts chasing them to make the video shorter and thereby making it more likelier to not be blocked on Youtube.
My opinion on this first scene can be found below…
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Preview, scene 2:
S.w.a.t.
VS burglars!
Not a regular burglar!
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And here is the video:
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Scene 1 (watch the video first!):
Yeah, these burglars mean buisiness! Fully masked, heavily armored and with a lot of firepower!
The exact opposite of the sneaky cat-burglar 😉
I like how they blackmail the safe guy, but letting him live as he is no threat to them.
The car chase is pretty cool. They escaped without killing anyone (except the folks who foolishly shot at them).
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Scene 2 (watch the video first!):
Ok, I don’t know if that would actually work to rebound a bullet like that. Also I don’t think it was 100% necessary to kill the burglar.
For examples the feet and hands weren’t protected with bulletproof material and the distance was pretty close. They should have been able to hit the burglar.
I’m not sure if she sacrificed herself to cover the retreat of the others or if they let her or they left her behind on purpose.
But it was a nice reveal and highly unusual to find a woman under that mask! 🙂
With such a disguise there is no chance at all someone would know who is behind these masks.
Off course without a masked woman in the team I wouldn’t post these scenes here….
And the fact that I wanna post 2 more scenes from this episode….. may “hint” that this wasn’t the only woman under these masks 😉
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Until the other two scenes are posted…I won’t reveal the title of the show and episode number.
The movie is one crazy mess, but this scene has certainly something 🙂
Preview:
Villainess VS
Heroine!
Who will win?
And who is behind these masks?
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue reading!
Well, a shame that the villainess wasn’t unmasked, even she is only wearing a one dollar Halloween mask. But it did hide just enough to make me curious.
The unmasking of the heroine is solid. Good to see a villain(ess) who cares enough to unmask the hero(ine).
And the smoking hot Carmen Electra does look better without that weird metal thingy.
The stunt/fight coordinator is sadly on the same level as the person who designed the mask….
However it is a very rare sight to see two masked women fighting each other….+ one of them is Carmen Electra….. 🙂
(I edited/shortened the scene slightly to remove two rather…..really, really, really low level jokes….)
Well…yes, it’s a good scene….but it has some flaws also.
Let’s start with the good aspects of the Spider-girl scene.
The idea of putting the stunning Carmen Electra in a tight Spider-girl suit……is pretty awesome! 😉
I really like the boots and the suit is good, even the net structure looks a little….cheap.
It’s great to have such a woman in a full face mask….BUT the front part of the mask looks pretty awful and they cheated big time in this scene!
The front part of the mask is SADLY just a piece of material that is fixated on the rest of the mask. It looks really cheap and ruins the unmasking.
The scene would have been so much better if she would actually rip open a spandex/latex Spider-mask to reveal her face! I really like to see masks getting damaged and/or ripped. But they choose the very easy way and ruined that unmasking…in my opinion.
However Carmen does look great in that costume and I wish the scene would have been longer and in a movie that isn’t a comedy.
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The scene can be found in this movie (with more Carmen Electra):
Somehow I completely forgot to post about Ravager in season 2 of Titans.
Ok, her mask is more like a fashion item in the show and doesn’t really give her a secret identity, but a mask is a mask.
And this mask is solid and covers enough of her face 🙂
For this video I edited two scenes together. The first scene os from episode 12 of season 2 and the 2nd is from episode 13.
Preview:
There she is!
Ravager….
….in action!
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And here is the video:
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Some fine fight scenes and I like how she unmasks her father and then herself at the end.
There are some more scenes with her in mask, but nothing with action if I remember right.
Would be nice to see more from her in season 3 if she is still around then. Perhaps then she might have a secret identity and fights against people who don’t know who is under that mask.
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Some INTERESTING news on season 3 of Titans:
On the DC Fandome they talked about the upcoming season 3 of Titans.
They confirmed that
A) season 3 will be set in GOTHAM! (Oh…. the possibilities for appearances of masked women!!!) 🙂
B) there will be also a commissioner Gordon! And not the one YOU think! It won’t be Jim Gordon….it will be BARBARA Gordon who leads the Gotham police!
That is already good news!
Of course it doesn’t mean that Barbara will dress up for her other job at night….but who knows? It wouldn’t surprise me if Barbara is frustrates as hell with the police in Gotham and pursues justice in a more “direct” way….at night 😉
At the DC Fandome on September 12 there will be a 30 minute panel, hopefully some more news already shows up there.
The panel on the last weekend had only 15 minutes.
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Another masked heroine on this TV show is Dove and I posted about her best scene in season 1 a while back:
Thanks to a nice guy I was pointed to this episode of a TV show. 🙂
The episode has 2 scenes with a masked woman in action.
Preview:
Masked….
…and dangerous!
Who is under that mask?
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Here is the video:
Ok, if you don’t understand german it’s minus point, but you should still enjoy it as there is enough aspects for folks like us in the video 😉
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I did edit the video to not show her face before the actual unmasking to build up the mystery. So I excluded a short scene until she is actually masked in that van.
She also does have some scenes with her practising kick-boxing just before the first scene of the video.
A shame that she didn’t show her skills in a scene where she is masked. She should have fought some cops before they manage to unmask her….
It was also nice that she wore solid leather boots in both scenes.
She was an ex-cops and they know who was under that mask by the end, that’s why she unmasked herself as her secret identity wasn’t so secret anymore.
Perhaps I will watch the full episode to fully understand the background story 😆
P.S.: Funny enough the video was blocked in germany, austria and switzerland by Youtube.
If you can’t see the video above…here is another link for you:
