Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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