Tropescilloscope: Malevolent Masked Men

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

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