Neon Genesis Evangelion: Sachiel's face bears a strong resemblance to the carnevale mask.Overhaul's Quirk, in addition to the ability to kill his targets with a single touch, allows him to heal the physical and mental diseases entirely, with the drawback of a moment of intense pain. My Hero Academia: Several members of the Shie Hassaikai, including their mysophobic leader, Overhaul, wear masks like that of a plague doctor.In GARO: The Animation, there was a Horror spawned from a doctor which had the whole plague doctor getup.
Chainsaw Man: The Violence Fiend has a pointy, beak-like mask and black suit, though ironically the mask is meant to poison him rather then protect him from sickness.He is a torturer rather than a doctor - he has to wear a suit due to a serious allergic reaction to sunlight. In Berserk, one member of Inquisitor Mozgus' Quirky Miniboss Squad wear such a suit.
It's also noteworthy that, due to its creepy appearance, the Plague Doctor's (in)famous bird costume is often a target for the Nightmare Fetishist.įor a modern equivalent see Gas Mask, Longcoat. The plague doctor's costume is also very often associated with the Middle Ages, despite they only starting to get used in the 17th century, quite long after what is considered to be the end of the medieval period - likely because it was in the 12th century that the most famous plague pandemic happened.Īs the costume is particularly associated with Venice (due in part to being a popular Carnevale costume), these guys will often show up in a City of Canals. Or a complex blend of whatever else mixed in with the Yersinia pestis that'll keep you up at 03:00. note There's probably some Truth in Television to this: the lax hygiene standards of the period meant that the coats they wore were probably washed infrequently at best (and most certainly weren't sterilized to modern standards), and thus some would literally carry the plague, or any other nasty and opportunistic hitchhiker, with them wherever they went. Another common interpretation of this trope is to make the Plague Doctor spread plague instead of treating it. It is particularly used when the setting has The Black Death or its equivalent featured. Thus, a plague doctor's outfit is a typical go-to creepy costume, the resemblance to both The Grim Reaper and Creepy Crows doing this effect no harm at all. The costume itself was associated with death (where there's plague, commonly known as the black death, there's the beak doctors), which has become deeply ingrained in popular culture. We now know that the miasma theory is false, but the full-body leather costume did a good job protecting doctors from exposure to infection, and the mask blocked airborne infections (especially if the plants contained phytoncides), thus the plague doctor's outfit is essentially a grandfather to our modern mask-and-labcoat medical uniforms even more so to hazmat suits. The explanation behind the beak mask is simple: according to the miasma theory of infection, diseases essentially transfer via the poisonous stench, and the doctors protected themselves from inhaling it by placing various herbs, flowers and other aromatic substances inside the beak.
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Interestingly, the beak mask itself predates the full head-to-toe protective garment, invented in the fourteenth century. And now for the story behind it.Ī plague doctor is a physician specializing on tending to those who suffered from the bubonic plague. An ankle length overcoat, boots, thick gloves, a brim hat and, most importantly, a mask reminiscent of a raven's face, complete with a beak.
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