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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9634326" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, it's a dramatic contrivance that as long as the show/movie/comic doesn't try too hard to pretend its "realistic", we just kind of have to accept.IRL it would be ridiculous.People do vary widely in how well they recognise others, especially facially, but in general, humans are incredibly powerfully wired to recognise specific other, particularly, humans by sight and sound. We recognise faces, we recognise expressions, we recognise small movements/body language as [USER=6906155]@Paul Farquhar[/USER] says, we recognise walks and stances, from their height, from their build - and so on. Overall we're pretty damn good at it if it's someone we know - sometimes just even someone we've seen before. Even people who are face-blind can recognise people from all the other clues, I note. So anyone who relied on anything less than full face mask, voice distorter, and a costume that disrupted their appearance would probably be recognised very quickly by people who knew them well (so long as those people weren't in a panic or the like). And even with all those things you'd be risking raising their suspicion.</blockquote>