All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[robkelk]

We have tropes about masks - enough for their own category - but they're all about domino masks, superhero masks, or full-face masks. We don't appear to have one about masks that cover the nose and mouth but leave the eyes and forehead uncovered.

I'd make a page for the Trope Workshop, but I have no idea what to call it... Any suggestions?

Four examples, as required to show that this isn't Too Rare To Trope:

• Soujirou wears one in one episode of Lucky Star to reduce his hay fever symptoms.
  
• Sailor Mars wears one in one episode of Sailor Moon when she's ill.
  
• Since they're required to be worn in operating rooms in order to protect the surgical team and the patient, they show up often in M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H and other medical shows.
  
• Everybody - at least, everybody who gave a damn about other people (rephrase that slightly before posting to the wiki) - wore one during the COVID-19 pandemic.