Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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