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DMG, El has a Naruto fanfic.

Weird right?

It's pretty good and takes place 500 years after Naruto and is about a boy from the Sand Village (El Make).

And a few of us make appearances, though only Dranzer and I have appeared so far.

It's a good read though, if you ever have time, you should read.

I'm Oson. I appeared before you.

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Oson appeared quite recently, actually.

 

And wow, no wonder he hates his brother so much.

 

 

Also, I've been working on a new KS, funnily enough. I've just got like, a HUGE idea. It's not even FUNNY how huge it is. I decided to cancel Kyubi High tho, cause...well....I'll tell whoever wants to know over PM.

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Sorry, Ecchi, I'm too busy to be on.

 

Also, WHO ELSE WEARS A BLACK COAT, FUSION? As well as likes Naruto.

Lets see....

 

* Used in Claymore whenever the characters need to go undercover.

* The protagonist's disguise in Code Geass involves a helmet that completely hides the face and a black cloak. Though it remains a mystery if he really is a good person, or is just wanting power for himself. As of the series finale, he is officially a good guy - one might even call him "Christlike..." For obvious reasons.

o In the manga series that's most faithful to the anime, Lelouch actually does wear a black cloak before having Zero's costume made.

* Nekozawa from Ouran High School Host Club 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 he's not evil.

* Naruto has the Akatsuki, who have painted very stylish red clouds on their Black Cloaks, which, in a minor subversion, don't come with hoods (though some of them wear conical hats).

o You can tell when an Akatsuki is about to die, because they will generally throw off their cloak or it'll be burnt or destroyed.

+ Not to mention that the Akatsuki's robes apparently have speakers in them, as whenever they appear for the first time in an episode you hear a chorus intoning something that sounds like "DESHTOOOOOOOOOY, SEPHOIREEEEEEEEE..." Somehow, that just makes them even more Badass

* Lord Ashram from Record Of Lodoss War.

* Exedore/Exsedol's redesigned form in the Macross universe: 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 The Spock instead of being a villain.

* In fitting with mage theme, Mahou Sensei Negima gave us the definitely final boss by the title of "Mage of the Beginning" who wore one of these to emphasize his mysteriousness. He looks like this.

* Wiseman aka Death Phantom, Big Bad of the second season of Sailor Moon is a skeleton in a black cloak.

* The shinigami from Soul Eater. When wearing his black robes and skull mask, Death the Kid looks like a miniature of his father (played with on the first time because it looked like it was until the perspective changed). Seems to be the case with Shinigami, though with how he's drawn he might not actually have much of a physical body.

* Almost all of the Dark Signers in Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds don black clocks. Those that do are typically shown hooded before they officially reveal themselves to the protagonists, ditching the hood for all subsequent appearances thereafter.

o The Rare Hunters in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters wear these.

o Aki also briefly wore one on-screen twice before officially joining the heroes.

 

The Hooded One in Bone.

* In his progression from innocent farmboy to Jedi Knight, Luke Skywalker started in a white outfit (A New Hope), underwent most of his training in a grey flight suit (The Empire Strikes Back) and wore a black jumpsuit under the traditional brown robe when he proclaimed himself a full Jedi Knight (Return Of The Jedi). Also, at the end of RotJ, note that he comes to the celebration at the end with the front of his tunic partly unzipped... resulting in a patch of gray, surrounded by the dark.

o Although the comics and novels that take place afterward state that he stained himself with the Dark Side quite a bit by then, they were primarily written after the fact and may be considered a Ret Con.

+ A straight Star Wars example, though, is The Emperor/Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious, who shows up this way in the original trilogy, the prequels, and the Animated Adaptation, Star Wars Clone Wars. Anakin, his protege, originally omits the cloak from his personalized leather Jedi attire, but as he gets darker, he starts donning it as well. He upgrades to the signature black cape and life-support system of Darth Vader after losing to Obi-Wan.

+ Actually almost all the Sith in Star Wars wear black cloaks, including Darth Maul, Vader and Palpatine. Dooku wears a brown cape, but he does wear black clothing, fitting for a fallen Jedi.

+ Lucas has explained this phenomenon in interviews. In Star Wars, warm colors and Earth tones symbolize "humanity" (in the inclusive sense) while pure black and pure white both symbolize impersonality. Hence the Empire is entirely black-and-white to signify that it is coldly institutional. Luke wears black to signify that he has become more reserved and withdrawn from daily tumult with his Force training.

o This explanation falls apart when you think about it: in the prequels, the Jedi wear earth tones and are also some of the most impersonal characters in the entire series.

+ The explanation was made years before the prequels came out. In fact, it has been revealed that originally the Jedi were all supposed to wear black in the prequels, but this plan was ditched because they didn't want the viewers to be confused who's who, and wanted to make Obi-Wan and the rest of the Jedis immediately recognisable as such. Since the original trilogy had established brown cloaks for the Jedi by accident, they had to stick by that to retain the iconic style they had unconsciously created.

+ Occam's Razor explanation: brown cloaks are easier to clean than white cloaks.

* Those damn Ephors from 300.

* Mostly inverted in The Matrix where the good guys were identified by their distinctive black leather trenchcoats. On the bad guys' side, The Twins in particular not only wore white trenchcoats but where themselves albino.

o And it fits within the setting considering the main characters are computer hackers and other varieties of internet geeks, who of course are going to give their avatars cool outfits with long flowing black cloaks.

* Hot Fuzz where the Neighbourhood Watch wear black hooded cloaks when committing their murders, but also when holding their meetings which, along with Ominous Latin Chanting, is done for no other purpose than to spoof this trope.

* In the film version of Angels In America, Prior wears a sort of modernized cloak (almost a hoodie, but not quite) in each scene after he takes the book (except the one post-Time Skip.) It's quite an attention-grabber when compared to the normal people he walks past. (The play creates a similar effect with a black coat and a scarf that's draped like a hood.)

 

* The evil Wizard named NoHeart from the Care Bears children's cartoon was a Black Cloak.

* Skeletor is depicted this way, especially in the newer version of He-Man.

o In the newer version he spends half of the first episode just in a black cloak with his face hidden in the shadows, presumably for dramatic effect, even thought everyone watching knows exactly who he is and approximately what he's going to look like.

* Raven from Teen Titans is technically heroic, but as a half-demon destined to destroy the world, she qualifies as "dark."

o Perhaps ironically, when she is corrupted by a dragon trapped in an ancient tome, she switches to a white cloak.

+ She also wears white when she's gone reclusive and insane in a Bad Future. Light Is Not Good much?

+ But to counterbalance these, she also wears white after she takes down Trigon and restores all the petrified people to life.

+ She also wears white when she unites the disparate parts of herself to take down Trigon within her own mind. White symbolizes her having attained "full power" or something like that. There's probably a psychological aspect to it, Raven being psychic/magical and all.

* The Hooded Claw from The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop.

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

o Same reason Lockdown has a poncho. * The evil Wizard named NoHeart from the Care Bears children's cartoon was a Black Cloak.

* Skeletor is depicted this way, especially in the newer version of He-Man.

o In the newer version he spends half of the first episode just in a black cloak with his face hidden in the shadows, presumably for dramatic effect, even thought everyone watching knows exactly who he is and approximately what he's going to look like.

* Raven from Teen Titans is technically heroic, but as a half-demon destined to destroy the world, she qualifies as "dark."

o Perhaps ironically, when she is corrupted by a dragon trapped in an ancient tome, she switches to a white cloak.

+ She also wears white when she's gone reclusive and insane in a Bad Future. Light Is Not Good much?

+ But to counterbalance these, she also wears white after she takes down Trigon and restores all the petrified people to life.

+ She also wears white when she unites the disparate parts of herself to take down Trigon within her own mind. White symbolizes her having attained "full power" or something like that. There's probably a psychological aspect to it, Raven being psychic/magical and all.

* The Hooded Claw from The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop.

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

o Same reason Lockdown has a poncho.

* The page picture is of the uniform of Organization XIII, from the Kingdom Hearts games, 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.

* The Shadowlords from Ultima V.

* The Black Cloak Society from King's Quest.

* The Sephiroth clones from Final Fantasy VII, though they're more innocent victims forced to take after their namesake, only doing evil when directly manipulated by him.

* Arcanum's final boss Kerghan is a Black Cloak (well, the cloak is red and gold, but its the same idea) as are most of the Molochean Hand assassins trying to murder you.

* Fire Emblem games almost always have a Big Bad wearing a purple cloak, functionally the same as black. They always use dark magic and quite often play the Dragon to, well, a dragon.

o The purple is likly for art reasons, as a black cloak would mess with the outline

o Also, all dark magic users, even good ones, wear cloaks of this kind, though of varying and often nondark colors (normal enemy shamans wear red, for instance).

* Los Illuminados of Resident Evil 4

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

o Although The brown-cloaked figure seen in the cinematics is actually Baal pretending to be Tyrael. And he's definitely not one of the good guys.

o And there's the Dark Wanderer, dressed similarly in almost black, although he doesn't much bother to hide his face with the hood. Maybe because it's not his, anyway.

* The Seekers from Gothic 2.

* Princess Zelda in The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess. In this case, it's a cloak of mourning for her fallen kingdom.

* The Ethereals of X-COM: UFO Defense take them in orange. The image under their autopsy research entry is the only time we see their faces. Subversion: Without the cloaks, they don't look very badass.

* In the DS adaptation of Final Fantasy IV, when monsters are represented over the gameworld (normally during a cutscene) it is through a black cloacked figure.

o Happened in the orginal and the Sequal too. Though in those the cloaks are more Blueish.

* The Cult of the Damned, as well as Putress, from World Of Warcraft.

* Darth Revan sports one of these, as well as a face-concealing mask, hakama-pants, and complex armor. Darth Nihilus's costume is all in black and also includes a hooded cloak; Traya as well. Most other Sith in those games aren't quite so concealed - Dark Jedi mooks have hoods and cloth covering their noses and mouths, but no capes.

o Of course, the real reason for Darth Revan's mask was that he/she's your player character and you're not supposed to find out about that just because of a few visions.

* Purge in Space Channel 5 Part 2 wears a Black Cloak, although he ditches it later.

* Members of the Black Hand in the Dark Brotherhood in the video game Oblivion wear black cloaks and hoods, as do necromancers. Oddly, even brand new black hand robes appear to have significant green staining.

o Yeeeah, new... did you not notice the * naked* upside down mutilated corpse when they handed you the robe?

* The Haunted Mansion features a ghost powered by High Octane Nightmare Fuel that wears one.

* Not technically a villain, but still inspired by the Reaper, this is the garb of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published in 1843.

* The Ringwraiths in The Lord Of The Rings.

o Lampshaded in Bored Of The Rings.

* Voldemort's Death Eaters in the Harry Potter series. Also Snape, who is always seen in head-to-toe black, but he's actually an atoning Anti Hero spy.

o The cloaks are Dementors bodies

* In The Baroque Cycle famous people traveling incognito wear black sashes, anyone who recognizes them is supposed to ignore them while they are wearing the sashes.

* Subverted in Don Quixote, when the titular ingenius hidalgo mistakes a group of Benedictine friars for evil wizards, making this Older Than Steam.

* Somewhat subverted in the Dragonlance novels, by Takhisis, the "Queen of Darkness". Although she has a great many forms (including a giant, five headed dragon) not one of them contains a Black Cloak... Although, the followers of Nuitari, including Raistlin, wear black robes with hoods...

* Dracula himself.

o Lampshaded in "Love At First Bite."

+ Dracula doesn't wear a black cloak in the book. The cloak originated in the 1924 Hamilton-Deane play and was made famous by (of course) Bela Lugosi.

* Poked fun at in the Discworld book Going Postal, where an experienced con man is annoyed that his underling thinks hurrying through city streets in a voluminous black cloak avoids attention.

The Igor: Allow me to take your highly notithable hooded black cloak thur.

o The Auditors physically manifest as gray hooded robes... with nothing inside them.

o Also parodied (of course) in Guards! Guards! by the Mysterious Ancient Brotherhood of ... something, complete with passwords, magic rituals, and much debate between members of the circle.

* Averted in The Wheel Of Time in a town next to Mordor, where clothing that conceals your face in any way is against the law, because the servants of The Dark One could use them to pass as human.

o Not before there were loads of Myrddraal whose cloaks don't even stir however strong is the wind.

* The Riftwar Cycle comes at this trope from both sides. To the Kingdom of Isles, the black-robed Tsurani magicians were the most horrible monsters, maintaining the portals that made the war possible and occasionally bringing their unheard-of power directly to the battlefield with terrifying results. On the other side, the magicians were hardly evil and considered themselves loyal citizens, selflessly serving their empire (which itself isn't The Empire after all). And the black robes weren't meant to be ominous - it's just their uniform.

* Cowl and Kumori in The Dresden Files. Harry loves making fun of them for their fashion sense. For instance:

Touche, oh dark master of evil bathrobes.

I told these guys yesterday I didn't want to buy a ring.

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

* Several characters and organizations in The Death Gate Cycle wear them- the Kir Monks, Sinistrad, the necromancers of Abarrach, and sometimes Lord Xar. Not all these characters are evil, but all have some connection to death or darkness (such as the Kir, a True Neutral religion of creepy but largely harmless death-worshippers).

 

To name a few.

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