Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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