Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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