Floating Mask

One way to indicate a Mask of Power is having it float. Sometimes, it means that the mask itself is sentient.

Note: That doesn't include masks which float with other items due to Selective Gravity.

Examples of Floating Mask include:

Anime and Manga

• The Noh mask in an Inuyasha episode "The Flesh Eating Noh Mask".

Comic Books

• The Helmet Of Nabu, which gives Doctor Fate his powers.

Film

• The voodoo masks in The Princess and the Frog, which represent The Friends On The Other Side.
  • Also, the Hell Gate the Friends on the Other Side use to drag Doctor "the Shadow Man" Facilier into the Other Side at the end of the film, which resembles a larger voodoo mask.
• The masks representing the ancestral kings of Atlantis in Atlantis the Lost Empire float and spin around the crystal that gives Atlantis its life.
  • Also, at the end of the film, a new mask, representing the now deceased King Kashekim Nedakh is actually constructed by his daughter and son-in-law upon becoming the new rulers of Atlantis, which then floats away into the sky to join the other masks representing the dead kings of Atlantis.
  • And for some reason, the queens never get floating masks.

Literature

• The haunted mask from the Goosebumps series.

Toys

• Bionicle: the Ignika and Spectral Mask

Video Games

• Super Mario Bros. 2: Phanto, which pursue your character if you are holding a key.
• Aku-Aku and Uka-Uka in Crash Bandicoot. Though a variation exists that they make the player invincible when worn.
• The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask: Near the end of the game, the titular mask discards the Skull Kid and begins floating around on its own.
  • Jalhalla from The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker seems to be this and uses a swarm of Poes to create a body.
• Sly Cooper 3: the Mask of Dark Earth
• Banished Pantheon spirits in City of Heroes manifest as floating masks.
• Vector Strong Bad from Strong Bad Zone. "Your Head Asplode!"
• Yamask from Pokémon Black and White, which is a ghost connected to a mask, the former of which can turn invisible.
• The Banished Pantheon spirits from City of Heroes took the form of large wooden masks surrounded by glows of various colors, floating in mid-air.

Western Animation

• Tarakudo, the Big Bad of Season 4 of Jackie Chan Adventures.
• An episode of Aladdin was actually about Princess Jasmine buying an evil floating mask at a bazaar.
• One episode of The Simpsons was about Homer and Ned building a Bible-themed amusement park, with their main attraction being a floating mask representing Ned's late wife Maude. Unfortunately, it turns out that the mask is kept afloat by a leaking gas pipe, and their amusement park is shut down for that reason.