Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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The Stoner From Nobody to Nightmare Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Horror Films Damsel in Distress Rule of Funny Those Two Guys Film Noir Artistic License – Gun Safety "Well Done, Son!" Guy As the Good Book Says... Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Jitter Cam Mighty Whitey Scenery Gorn Bi the Way Contrived Coincidence Hollywood Darkness Slasher Smile Attempted Rape Blatant Lies "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Hypocrite Mundane Made Awesome Artistic License – Law Evil-Detecting Dog The Alcoholic I Did What I Had to Do Twist Ending Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Smoking Is Cool After the End She Cleans Up Nicely Insistent Terminology Trailers Always Spoil Enemy Mine Made of Iron Shell-Shocked Veteran Off with His Head! My God, What Have I Done? The '60s Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Hero of Another Story Improbable Weapon User Bloodless Carnage Rated M for Manly Action Survivor Bolivian Army Ending Evil Sounds Deep Took a Level in Badass As You Know Children Are Innocent Sassy Black Woman Flipping the Bird folderlabel Taking You with Me Developing Doomed Characters The Dog Bites Back Film Series Match Cut A.I. Is a Crapshoot Shipper on Deck Brother–Sister Incest All Just a Dream All for Nothing Toplessness from the Back Jerk with a Heart of Gold Tagline Police are Useless Cool Old Lady Defiant to the End Rule of Three Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Auto Erotica Title Drop Actually Pretty Funny Offscreen Moment of Awesome Instant Death Bullet Character Development An Aesop Destination Defenestration Jerk Jock Bring My Brown Pants Adaptational Attractiveness Death Seeker Getting Crap Past the Radar The End... Or Is It? Outrun the Fireball Closed Circle And the Adventure Continues Curse Cut Short The Film of the Book The Power of Love Would Hit a Girl Catch-Phrase Heroic BSoD Evil Is Petty Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Punch-Clock Villain Training Montage Heel–Face Turn Together in Death The Mafia Not What It Looks Like Exact Words Plucky Comic Relief Despair Event Horizon As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cool Old Guy Fish out of Water Bilingual Bonus Gorn Never Trust a Trailer French Films All There in the Manual Flashback Italian Films Artistic License – Military Smug Snake Humiliation Conga Japanese Films Four-Temperament Ensemble Captain Obvious Earn Your Happy Ending The Un-Reveal Fanservice Extra Kick the Dog Aside Glance Betty and Veronica Adaptational Villainy Broken Bird Wrong Genre Savvy Vampire Fiction Your Cheating Heart Heroes Want Redheads The Ace Kubrick Stare Mama Bear Rich Bitch More Dakka Reality Ensues Butt-Monkey Half the Man He Used to Be Small Name, Big Ego Whole Plot Reference Costume Porn A Date with Rosie Palms Alpha Bitch Adult Fear Redshirt Army Neck Lift Daylight Horror Bare Your Midriff Abusive Parents Works Set in World War II Stuff Blowing Up Stealth Pun Driven to Suicide Novelization And Starring Screw the Money, I Have Rules! My Beloved Smother The Lancer Manipulative Bastard Big Bad O.O.C. Is Serious Business In Medias Res Get Out! Leave the Camera Running Maybe Ever After Sir Swears-a-Lot Retirony Camp Gay Mistaken for Gay Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Too Dumb to Live An Axe to Grind Parental Abandonment Curb-Stomp Battle Blood from the Mouth Chiaroscuro Broken Pedestal Wham Shot Bottomless Magazines Ascended Extra The Atoner Names to Run Away from Really Fast I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Large Ham Berserk Button Credits Gag Martial Arts Movie Gory Discretion Shot Fantasy Films The Bully Market-Based Title Action Genre Offscreen Teleportation The Cameo Dutch Angle Thriller Black Comedy Mugging the Monster Distracted by the Sexy The Lost Lenore Bowdlerise Men Are the Expendable Gender Laser-Guided Karma Mooks You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Tranquil Fury Token Minority Major Injury Underreaction The Starscream Up to Eleven Parental Substitute Insane Troll Logic Suspiciously Specific Denial As Himself Vitriolic Best Buds Ungrateful Bastard Big Fancy House Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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