Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

Character with a hidden face. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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