An obscure Iron Man villain was a Japanese demon called the Face Thief, who was exactly that.Things take a surprising turn, though, when he realizes what good people the FF are, and goes out saving Reed from the Negative Zone. One famous Fantastic Four storyline has an embittered scientist impersonate the Thing by using a special device to transfer Ben Grimm's mutation to himself, reverting Ben to human form.The Chitauri in The Ultimates (2002) need to consume a human to take their shape.Skulljacket typically left those he mimicked alive, so they could take the fall for any crimes he committed wearing their appearance. After taking on a police detective's semblance, he made a snide, mock-sympathetic remark implying that the memory absorption told him the detective's grown son was homosexual and dad was having trouble dealing with it. He mimicked appearance by means of holograms, but could copy enough of a person's memories for a better-quality impersonation by taking a small sample of flesh ( getting the memory info from RNA), usually leaving victims rubbing an aching neck. Skulljacket was a one-shot villain using former-Soviet technology.The Chameleon usually uses masks that perfectly resemble the people that he impersonates (and, Depending on the Writer, killing them - the picture above is from one of his murderous phases), but some continuities have him actually eat the target.She at first uses it without people's will but the third time she makes a deal with a gorgeous, but poor in terms of actual ability, actress that she'd pretend to be her while acting. The ability to turn into someone beautiful attracts her, though it only lasts a day (or until she kisses the person again). Kasane is an Ugly Cute girl who has horrible self-esteem and has suffered bullying all her life. The protagonist of Kasane was given lipstick by her, now deceased, mother that allows her to swap faces with anyone she kisses.In the 96's series, a cute young woman's face is stolen right before her wedding and she's left as The Blank her little brother decides to write to Kitaro and ask him for help, and this leads Kitaro and his friends to a face-off with the youkai who's to blame. One from Japanese Mythology is seen in GeGeGe no KitarÅ.Ashleigh, meanwhile, survived the attack and took on the identity of Colonel Herschel, from Creta he ultimately confronts Atlas about the latter's deception and isn't too happy about it. The twist at the end of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos involves this trope but is also a huge spoiler: The person who the audience has been led to believe is Ashleigh Crichton for the entire movie is actually the Crichton family's security chief Atlas, who had Ashleigh's face alchemically implanted over his own to impersonate Ashleigh, gain his little sister Julia's trust, and use her to create a Philosopher's Stone (the eponymous "sacred star"). Etzali (Unabara Mitsuki) of A Certain Magical Index.In Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Rikuo fights a guy who cuts off girls' faces.Hanzo in Ultimate Muscle slices the faces off his defeated opponents.Zetsu can transforms into people and even imitate their chakra to fool sensor-types, but he needs to take some chakra first.Judging from his appearance when posing as the Sound Team's jonin sensei, he is capable of creating faces if he wants to. He also used it when impersonating the Kazekage. Orochimaru and his underlings literally take the faces from a team of Grass Village genin during the Chunin exams, either while or after killing them and wearing them as disguises.He at first was some sort-of mysterious man with an animal pelt (fitting, since Naraku was badly burned before he made his Deal with the Devil), but then he took over the body of a local Princely Young Man who was dying of an illness and kept the guy's handsome face. Naraku, to a degree, fits in here as well.Later, he killed a young Buddhist monk and took his face, "wearing" it as its own from then on. Being based on Naraku's human side, he at first had no face, presumably to keep the mystery of what Onigumo looked like before he was burnt though in this series it's not much of a secret. One of Naraku's henchmen was Muso, a faceless man who wore the faces of people he'd killed.Used for extra squick points when Diva walked around as Riku, Saya's and Kai's little brother, who she had previously raped and killed. Chriopterans in Blood+ can take on the form of anybody whose blood they have drunk.
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