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** The coffee-table book ''Batman Animated'' reproduces the official model sheet for Harley Quinn, which explicitly instructs that the top of the mask is intended to change shape with her facial expressions ("Think of it like eyebrows").
** One aversion of this trope in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' is Page Monroe's completely unmoving mask in "Mean Seasons," which parallels her aversion to her actual face.
* In an inversion, ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'''s character Hexadecimal, a computer virus of an excessively chaotic and unpredictable behavior, had no facial animation for most of the series. Her face was a "drama mask", and her expression would always [[Weeping Angel Artwork|change on a cut or while her face was not visible (usually blocked by her hand)]].
** Lampshaded in one episode where AndrAIa assumes Hex's identity. She sits in front of a mirror waving her hand back and forth in front of her face, watching the expression change and saying "Happy...sad! Happy...sad!"
{{quote|> "INTRIGUED! I've never been more in touch with my emotions!"}}
** In an episode where Bob actually removes Hex's mask, we see that [[The Blank|there is ''nothing'' underneath]]. The mask ''is'' her face, and her expression is at the mercy of chance. This is why, in the third and fourth seasons, after Hex {{spoiler|becomes sane and does a [[Heel Face Turn]]}}, her face ''does'' become expressive and actually moves when she talks.
* The goggles that Time Squad officers wear in ''[[Time Squad]]'' act in this way. The easiest example would be Buck Tuddrussel.
* Most ''[[Transformers]]'' faces were like this. Despite being made of metal, they would easily slide into various facial expressions. This even happened in ''Beast Wars'', in which the character in question may not even have a ''mouth''.