Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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