Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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