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===Film and television=== [[File:Ironmaskposter.jpg|thumb|230px|right|upright|<div style="text-align: center">mPoster of the 1929 film, starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]].</div>]] Several films have been made around the mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask, including: l ''[[The Iron Mask]]'' (1929) starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]]; ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'' (1939) starting [[Louis Hayward]]; [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film)|the British television production]] starring [[Richard Chamberlain]] (1977); and [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|the American film]] starring [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] (1998). These films were all loosely adapted from Dumas' book ''[[The Vicomte de Bragelonne]]'', where the prisoner was an identical twin of Louis XIV and made to wear an iron mask, per the legend created by Voltaire.{{sfn|Dumas|1850}}{{sfn|Lincoln ''Timewatch'', 1988}} In the Japanese Manga ''[[Berserk (manga)|Berserk]]'' (1989), one of the protagonists, [[Griffith (Berserk)|Griffith]], was imprisoned, tortured, and forced to wear an iron mask. He becomes an antagonist shortly thereafter. In the Japanese manga ''[[One Piece]]'' (1997), one of the protagonists, [[Sanji (One Piece)|Sanji]], was imprisoned during childhood and forced to wear an iron mask, resembling the story of the French prisoner. The movie ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'' (2009) features fictional character James McCullen IX who is the ancestor of the modern day antagonist James McCullen XXIV. In the 1600s, McCullen IX was caught selling weapons to both sides of an unspecified war, and an example was made of him by welding a burning iron mask to his face. In the second season of the television show ''[[The Flash (2014 TV series)|The Flash]]'' in 2014, the Man in the Iron Mask is held hostage by ''[[Hunter Zolomon]]''/Zoom, who pretends to be the superhero ''[[Flash (Jay Garrick)|Flash]]''. The Man in the Iron Mask is eventually revealed to be the real Jay Garrick of his universe, and a doppelganger of Henry Allen, Barry Allen/The Flash's father.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} The Man in the Iron Mask is portrayed as the Duc de Sullun (inversion of ''nullus'', Latin for 'no one') in the first two episodes of the third season of the TV drama series ''[[Versailles (TV series)|Versailles]]'' (2018). In the program, he is visited in the Bastille by [[Philippe I, Duke of Orléans]] on his search to find men to send to the Americas and is revealed to be the secret older brother of [[Louis XIV]] and Philippe I, born from an affair between [[Louis XIII]] and Louise de La Fayette since his wife struggled to produce him an heir. In "[[What If... the Avengers Assembled in 1602?]]", the eighth episode of the [[What If...? season 2|second season]] (2023) of the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] [[Disney+]] series ''[[What If...? (TV series)|What If...?]]'', the Man in the Iron Mask is a variant of [[Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe)#1602|Bruce Banner]], who is freed by [[Peggy Carter (Marvel Cinematic Universe)#Captain Carter|Captain Peggy Carter]], breaking the iron mask after transforming into [[the Hulk]].
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