Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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