Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

When people wear creepy masks, it is a bad sign. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Psycho for Hire Country Matters The '70s Adult Fear Despair Event Horizon Science Fiction Films It Can Think Too Dumb to Live Retcon Beauty Is Never Tarnished Creative Closing Credits All There in the Script The '50s Scary Black Man Made of Iron Crazy Jealous Guy Punny Name Badass in a Nice Suit Eye Scream The Film of the Book Call-Forward Word of God timeperiod The Ditz The Starscream The Remake You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Contrived Coincidence Vomit Indiscretion Shot Thriller Punch-Clock Villain Adorkable The '90s Dumb Blonde Your Head A-Splode Kill It with Fire Getting Crap Past the Radar Police Brutality Adaptation Distillation The Stoic Overprotective Dad Pet the Dog Running Gag NO INDOOR VOICE Time Skip Bittersweet Ending Manipulative Bastard Unspoken Plan Guarantee Anachronism Stew Badass Grandpa The Lancer Auto Erotica Off-into-the-Distance Ending Eureka Moment Stepford Smiler Unusually Uninteresting Sight Heroic BSoD The Stoner Arc Words Historical Villain Upgrade Big Brother Instinct Let's Get Dangerous! You Killed My Father Dirty Coward Soundtrack Dissonance Ambiguous Disorder Cool Old Lady There Is No Kill Like Overkill Military and Warfare Films Villainous Breakdown Kick the Dog Attempted Rape Becoming the Mask Asshole Victim Fantasy Films Almost Kiss Tempting Fate Cowboy Cop Distracted by the Sexy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Half the Man He Used to Be Composite Character Music Stories Insult Backfire Psychological Thriller One-Man Army Determinator Redemption Equals Death Death by Adaptation Shut Up, Hannibal! A Father to His Men Manic Pixie Dream Girl Meaningful Echo Big Eater Dual Wielding She Cleans Up Nicely Bad "Bad Acting" In Medias Res Plucky Comic Relief Meet Cute Product Placement Alpha Bitch Mind Screw Adaptation Dye-Job Cruel and Unusual Death Historical Hero Upgrade Twist Ending Closed Circle Here We Go Again! Male Frontal Nudity Well-Intentioned Extremist Black and Gray Morality Catch-Phrase Chewing the Scenery Undying Loyalty Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Laser-Guided Karma Groin Attack Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fish out of Water Black Best Friend Anti-Hero Index of Film Westerns Parental Substitute Villain Ball Insane Troll Logic You Have Failed Me Translation Convention Madness Mantra Gory Discretion Shot True Companions Take a Third Option Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Mama Bear Danny Peary Cult Movies List "Well Done, Son!" Guy Artistic License – Biology Yandere British Films Maybe Ever After Evil Laugh Together in Death Flashback Action Genre Fourth Date Marriage Crazy-Prepared Offscreen Moment of Awesome Get Out! The Lost Lenore I'm a Humanitarian Shown Their Work Hair-Trigger Temper Developing Doomed Characters Evil-Detecting Dog Documentary Award-Bait Song Rasputinian Death Red Herring Manly Tears Femme Fatale All Girls Want Bad Boys Paper-Thin Disguise Abhorrent Admirer Names to Run Away from Really Fast Unresolved Sexual Tension My Greatest Failure Funny Background Event Dark and Troubled Past No-Sell Dramatic Gun Cock Broken Bird Hong Kong Films Only Known by Their Nickname Russian Films Amusing Injuries Cool Car Victoria's Secret Compartment Nice Guy Butt-Monkey The Place Naïve Newcomer Curb-Stomp Battle The Smurfette Principle Expy Woman in White Slashed Throat Made of Explodium From Bad to Worse Freeze-Frame Bonus Extreme Doormat The Un-Reveal Silence Is Golden Chekhov's Skill Monumental Damage Crucified Hero Shot Costume Porn Unreliable Narrator Cool Old Guy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Villain Protagonist Happily Married Brick Joke Taking the Bullet Fate Worse than Death A Minor Kidroduction Male Gaze Mugging the Monster Face–Heel Turn Epic Fail I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Badass Normal Defrosting Ice Queen Affably Evil Vacation Films Coming-of-Age Story Ms. Fanservice Red Right Hand Obstructive Bureaucrat Novelization Hell Is That Noise Adaptational Heroism Grey and Gray Morality Bilingual Bonus Character Development Not So Different Fiery Redhead Needs Wiki Magic Love Spared by the Adaptation Faking the Dead Dwindling Party Captain Obvious Black Comedy Rape Death Glare Took a Level in Badass The Stinger It's All About Me Line-of-Sight Name Death of a Child Bare Your Midriff Dull Surprise Due to the Dead Awesome, but Impractical Random Events Plot Immune to Bullets Artistic License – Gun Safety Star-Crossed Lovers It's Personal Zombie Stories Film Series Blatant Lies Only One Name Blood Knight And I Must Scream Every Car Is a Pinto Knight Templar Break the Cutie Easily Forgiven Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Damsel in Distress Have a Gay Old Time Retirony Animal Motifs Works Set in World War II Broken Pedestal Sadistic Choice Even Evil Has Standards No Celebrities Were Harmed Never Found the Body Credits Gag Kubrick Stare Arch-Enemy Mighty Whitey Once More, with Clarity! Blood from the Mouth Enemy Mine Cassandra Truth Brother–Sister Incest Freudian Excuse Genre Savvy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Badass Bookworm Heterosexual Life-Partners Honor Before Reason Alas, Poor Villain Foregone Conclusion Heel Realization Sole Survivor No OSHA Compliance From Nobody to Nightmare The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bland-Name Product No Antagonist Anti-Villain Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bait-and-Switch Insistent Terminology Funny Foreigner Better to Die than Be Killed The Quiet One As Long as It Sounds Foreign 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptation Name Change Spiritual Successor Room Full of Crazy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Creator Cameo Betty and Veronica Tap on the Head Totally Radical Age Lift Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Fanservice Extra Batman Gambit Action Girl Mythology Gag Dramedy Stalker with a Crush Even Evil Has Loved Ones Eyepatch of Power MacGuffin Belligerent Sexual Tension The Cameo Informed Ability Camera Abuse Irony Pragmatic Adaptation You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Not Quite Dead Loophole Abuse The Sociopath Taking You with Me Reality Ensues Chekhov's Gunman Annoying Younger Sibling Martial Arts Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Darkest Hour All Just a Dream Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mystery and Detective Films Affectionate Parody Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cat Scare Beware the Nice Ones Greater-Scope Villain Chiaroscuro Did Not Get the Girl Deliberate Values Dissonance Stealth Pun Revenge Ship Tease Toplessness from the Back Slasher Movie Famous Last Words Ripped from the Headlines Dies Wide Open Fingore Author Avatar Shout-Out As You Know Face Death with Dignity Gender Flip Evil vs. Evil Mood Whiplash What the Hell, Hero? Retired Badass Aluminum Christmas Trees An Aesop Disproportionate Retribution Evil Is Hammy Gold Digger Show Within a Show Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Title Drop Laughing Mad Didn't Think This Through The Alcoholic Heel–Face Turn Instant Death Bullet Manchild Rated M for Manly Framing Device Dirty Old Man Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Amoral Attorney Silent Movie Artistic License – Military Mexican Standoff Gone Horribly Right Final Girl Cluster F-Bomb For Want of a Nail Drives Like Crazy Deliberately Monochrome After the End Parental Neglect Break the Haughty Dressing as the Enemy The Ace The Faceless One-Word Title Big Applesauce Rewatch Bonus Exact Words Match Cut Deal with the Devil Establishing Character Moment Animal Title Index Love at First Sight Air-Vent Passageway Italian Films Eagleland Creepy Child Improvised Weapon Badass Boast Genre Throwback Bloodier and Gorier Animated Credits Opening Interrupted Suicide Cain and Abel Small Name, Big Ego Kill 'em All Calling the Old Man Out Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Our Zombies Are Different Armor-Piercing Question Catapult Nightmare Death by Irony Stealth Hi/Bye Continuity Nod Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Christmas Movies Index Logo Joke The Bad Guy Wins Scare Chord Jerkass Has a Point No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Precision F-Strike Bavarian Fire Drill The Brute Take That! The End... Or Is It? Faux Affably Evil Eiffel Tower Effect Refuge in Audacity Television Movie Index Motor Mouth Be Careful What You Wish For Not Using the "Z" Word Moment Killer A God Am I Parental Abandonment Epic Movie Left the Background Music On Spiteful Spit Villain Opening Scene Same Language Dub Double Entendre Brutal Honesty "Awesome McCool" Name The Voiceless Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Dying Moment of Awesome Only in It for the Money Superhero Death Seeker A.I. Is a Crapshoot Big Damn Heroes Market-Based Title Those Two Bad Guys Wretched Hive Loads and Loads of Characters Body Horror Back from the Dead Suspiciously Specific Denial Ambiguous Ending Film Noir Index Fire-Forged Friends Noodle Incident Does Not Like Shoes Unusual Euphemism An Arm and a Leg Off with His Head! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality A Date with Rosie Palms Flipping the Bird Wham Shot Eldritch Abomination Imagine Spot Anyone Can Die Ironic Echo Love Triangle The Chessmaster Beard of Evil Missing Mom Only Sane Man Red Oni, Blue Oni Sacrificial Lion Pretty Little Headshots As the Good Book Says... No Name Given Horror Films Trailers Always Spoil It Will Never Catch On Darker and Edgier Pragmatic Villainy Sinister Minister The Oner Ungrateful Bastard Older Than They Look B-Movie Anachronic Order The Cavalry Smoking Is Cool Bullying a Dragon Artistic License – Geography Reasonable Authority Figure Dirty Cop Man on Fire Re-Cut Redshirt Army The X of Y Rule of Funny Card-Carrying Villain Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Genre Shift Black Comedy Bring My Brown Pants Mooks Chekhov's Gun Training Montage Lighter and Softer The Atoner Earn Your Happy Ending Storming the Castle Shower Scene Defiant to the End Conspicuous CG Riddle for the Ages Hoist by His Own Petard I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Setting Update Neck Snap I Have Your Wife Evil Brit The '80s Actually Pretty Funny Dogged Nice Guy Canon Foreigner Humiliation Conga folderlabel Shell-Shocked Veteran Artistic License – Law Actor Allusion Bald of Evil Celebrity Paradox Race Lift In the Back Rape as Drama How We Got Here Pay Evil unto Evil Antagonist Title Large Ham Dropped a Bridge on Him Shipper on Deck Cat Fight May–December Romance Action Prologue Playing Gertrude Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Cool Guns Hollywood Law Determinator aka: The Determinator Disney Death Adapted Out Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! '80s Hair Horror Comedy Sassy Black Woman Implacable Man Intrepid Reporter Mundane Made Awesome Straight Gay Jitter Cam Fat Bastard Would Hit a Girl Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Ghost More Dakka Took a Level in Jerkass Children Are Innocent Evil Is Petty Good Is Not Nice Fan Disservice Adaptation Expansion Red Eyes, Take Warning Comically Missing the Point Rule of Three Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fake Shemp Big Bad Posthumous Character Fun with Acronyms Apocalypse How Pretty in Mink Would Hurt a Child Romantic Comedy Artistic License – History Scenery Gorn Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Historical In-Joke Deus ex Machina In Name Only Heroic Sacrifice Only a Flesh Wound The Great Depression Deconstruction Outrun the Fireball Sealed Evil in a Can Spanner in the Works Suddenly SHOUTING! Canadian Movies The Dragon Grievous Bottley Harm Big Fancy House Ominous Latin Chanting The Smart Guy The Musical I Did What I Had to Do Not So Stoic Vampire Fiction Stuff Blowing Up Pimped-Out Dress Sir Swears-a-Lot Rousing Speech Crapsack World Rule of Cool Broken Aesop Disguised in Drag Curse Cut Short Dark Is Not Evil Evil Sounds Deep No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Leitmotif Offscreen Teleportation Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dutch Angle Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Intergenerational Friendship Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Leaning on the Fourth Wall My God, What Have I Done? Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Nice Hat Villain Song Handicapped Badass Karmic Death Serious Business Australian Movies Depraved Bisexual Bad Boss Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Arranged Marriage La Résistance Slasher Smile Corpsing Bloody Hilarious Everyone Has Standards Slap-Slap-Kiss The Dreaded Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Your Cheating Heart Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Berserk Button Combat Pragmatist Film Noir Disappeared Dad Sequel Escalation Does This Remind You of Anything? Rich Bitch Adaptational Attractiveness Light Is Not Good Humans Are Bastards Men Are the Expendable Gender Domestic Abuse I Need a Freaking Drink Sequel Hook BFG Kids Are Cruel Fainting Daddy's Girl N-Word Privileges Drill Sergeant Nasty The Mole Failed a Spot Check Stylistic Suck Very Loosely Based on a True Story Blackmail Driven to Suicide Jerkass Fantastic Racism Whole Plot Reference Anguished Declaration of Love Vitriolic Best Buds Demonic Possession Accidental Murder Covers Always Lie Early Installment Weirdness Our Vampires Are Different Super Strength Those Two Guys Decoy Protagonist Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Heroes Want Redheads Throwing Your Sword Always Works Obfuscating Stupidity Soft Glass Kick the Son of a Bitch Self-Deprecation Real Life Writes the Plot Advertised Extra Hero Antagonist Up to Eleven The '60s Major Injury Underreaction Video Credits Hypocritical Humor World of Ham Make It Look Like an Accident Wham Line Gainax Ending Not What It Looks Like Double-Meaning Title Accidental Misnaming Boom, Headshot! Worthy Opponent Disney Villain Death Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ghost Fiction Those Wacky Nazis Neck Lift Downer Ending Protagonist Title Vomit Discretion Shot Narrator Adaptational Badass Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Romantic False Lead Token Minority She's Got Legs Artistic License – Physics Tranquil Fury Japanese Films Gorn Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bond One-Liner The Power of Love Foreshadowing Peek-a-Boo Corpse Daylight Horror "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Reckless Gun Usage Camp Gay Abusive Parents As Himself Book-Ends Bar Brawl Wicked Cultured Beta Couple Last-Name Basis For the Evulz Historical-Domain Character Adults Are Useless The Hero Karma Houdini Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Real Life The Vamp Bolivian Army Ending The Alleged Car Based on a True Story Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Badass Longcoat Pyrrhic Victory The Casanova Bond Villain Stupidity Diabolus ex Machina Tagline Hero of Another Story Sexy Discretion Shot One Steve Limit The Reveal Not Even Bothering with the Accent Meaningful Background Event Gilligan Cut Hate Sink Big-Bad Ensemble Reality Is Unrealistic Cloudcuckoolander Ascended Extra Lampshade Hanging Big "NO!" What Happened to the Mouse? Race Against the Clock Red Shirt Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Alliterative Name Leave the Camera Running No Ending The Bully O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Chick Chase Scene Improbable Aiming Skills Cool Shades Malevolent Masked Men Hidden Depths Villain with Good Publicity Hypocrite Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Authority Equals Asskicking War Is Hell And the Adventure Continues Guile Hero Bowdlerise Sanity Slippage Big Bad Duumvirate Improbable Weapon User "The Reason You Suck" Speech Five-Man Band Ax-Crazy Bound and Gagged Brainless Beauty Expository Hairstyle Change Henpecked Husband Parental Incest Bottomless Magazines Corrupt Corporate Executive Not So Above It All Spell My Name with an "S" Casting Gag Drugs Are Bad All Men Are Perverts What You Are in the Dark Action Survivor Plot Hole Public Domain Feature Films Mr. Fanservice The Hero Dies Psychopathic Manchild Gratuitous English Police are Useless Babies Ever After Obviously Evil Nothing Is Scarier Call-Back Bury Your Gays Dark Action Girl Recycled IN SPACE! This Is Gonna Suck Poor Communication Kills Serial Killer Knife Nut Mad Scientist Rule of Symbolism Frame-Up Department of Redundancy Department Truth in Television Ass Shove And Starring Jump Scare Dramatic Irony An Axe to Grind Cold-Blooded Torture Never My Fault Author Appeal German Films Agony of the Feet Hope Spot "Shaggy Dog" Story Wrong Genre Savvy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Evil Counterpart Empathic Environment Drowning My Sorrows Sci-Fi Horror Evil Plan Death by Sex He Knows Too Much Ambiguously Gay The Dog Bites Back Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Four-Temperament Ensemble The Mafia Mistaken for Gay Stock Footage Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Unwitting Instigator of Doom Politically Incorrect Villain Really Gets Around Important Haircut Bloodless Carnage French Films Never Trust a Trailer Hollywood Darkness Foil Demoted to Extra Morality Pet Breaking the Fourth Wall All for Nothing Put on a Bus Reality Has No Subtitles Married to the Job Bi the Way Hooker with a Heart of Gold My Beloved Smother Central Theme Shirtless Scene Destination Defenestration Friend to All Children Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Say My Name Facial Horror Dark Reprise He Who Fights Monsters Deadpan Snarker Fanservice Lock and Load Montage Extremely Short Timespan Naked People Are Funny Visual Pun Idiot Ball Overly Long Gag All There in the Manual Fatal Family Photo Smug Snake Aside Glance Skewed Priorities Homage Scenery Porn Adaptational Villainy Properly Paranoid Dissonant Serenity Car Fu Mercy Kill Black Dude Dies First Oh, Crap! Killed Mid-Sentence Jerk Jock Papa Wolf Non-Indicative Name Biopic Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Green-Eyed Monster Captain Ersatz Mr. Exposition Sports Stories Woman Scorned The Load Meaningful Name Fatal Flaw Guns Akimbo Early-Bird Cameo The Big Guy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism