Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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Accidental Misnaming MacGuffin One Steve Limit Black Dude Dies First Sassy Black Woman Only in It for the Money Vitriolic Best Buds Needs Wiki Magic Love Destination Defenestration What the Hell, Hero? Immune to Bullets Gratuitous English Double-Meaning Title Heterosexual Life-Partners Public Domain Feature Films Hypocrite Artistic License – History Chekhov's Skill Fatal Family Photo Fat Bastard The Casanova Insistent Terminology "Well Done, Son!" Guy Enemy Mine You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Eagleland Diabolus ex Machina Villain Song La Résistance Adapted Out Fiery Redhead Pimped-Out Dress Manipulative Bastard Pretty Little Headshots Did Not Get the Girl French Films Shut Up, Hannibal! 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The Vamp Heel Realization Exact Words Sole Survivor Meaningful Echo You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Ace Spiteful Spit Video Credits Camera Abuse Names to Run Away from Really Fast Attempted Rape Not What It Looks Like Wham Shot Central Theme Freudian Excuse Early-Bird Cameo Oh, Crap! Dirty Old Man Death of a Child War Is Hell Moment Killer Running Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome A Father to His Men Improbable Weapon User Manic Pixie Dream Girl Adult Fear Obstructive Bureaucrat Cluster F-Bomb Dropped a Bridge on Him You Have Failed Me Disguised in Drag Instant Death Bullet Scary Black Man Mooks Better to Die than Be Killed Take That! Nice Hat Dumb Blonde Adaptation Expansion Hidden Depths Grievous Bottley Harm Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Morality Pet Celebrity Paradox Broken Aesop Dark Is Not Evil Dramatic Gun Cock Red Herring Age Lift Genre Shift Bullying a Dragon Fan Disservice Department of Redundancy Department Thriller Action Genre As Himself Totally Radical The End... Or Is It? Worthy Opponent Serious Business Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Nice Guy The Ditz Parental Incest Daddy's Girl Re-Cut Red Eyes, Take Warning Mr. Exposition Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! A God Am I Covers Always Lie Red Right Hand Shipper on Deck Not Quite Dead Male Frontal Nudity Stylistic Suck Left the Background Music On The Sociopath Bitch in Sheep's Clothing An Arm and a Leg Room Full of Crazy Only Sane Man Unusual Euphemism Laughing Mad Undying Loyalty Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Title Drop Fantastic Racism "The Reason You Suck" Speech Psychological Thriller Rich Bitch Credits Gag He Knows Too Much Deal with the Devil Anachronism Stew Adaptation Dye-Job Affably Evil Soft Glass Dwindling Party Hollywood Darkness Bald of Evil Rule of Cool Dissonant Serenity Bait-and-Switch Sinister Minister Ominous Latin Chanting Humans Are Bastards Police Brutality Papa Wolf Evil Is Hammy Implacable Man Television Movie Index Skewed Priorities Too Dumb to Live What Happened to the Mouse? Advertised Extra Even Evil Has Loved Ones Jitter Cam Only a Flesh Wound Stuff Blowing Up It's All About Me Not Using the "Z" Word Adaptational Badass Despair Event Horizon The Dreaded Foreshadowing Mighty Whitey Brother–Sister Incest Shout-Out Black and Gray Morality As Long as It Sounds Foreign Anachronic Order Sequel Hook All Girls Want Bad Boys Bunny-Ears Lawyer Visual Pun Almost Kiss Random Events Plot Catapult Nightmare Abusive Parents Comically Missing the Point Bar Brawl Very Loosely Based on a True Story Captain Ersatz The '70s Pet the Dog Unspoken Plan Guarantee Vampire Fiction Arch-Enemy In Medias Res The Atoner Rule of Symbolism Empathic Environment All for Nothing Sadistic Choice Kubrick Stare Same Language Dub Eureka Moment It Will Never Catch On Ascended Extra Race Lift I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Intergenerational Friendship The Bad Guy Wins Setting Update Gone Horribly Right Big Brother Instinct Ax-Crazy Never My Fault Shower Scene Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Adaptation Distillation N-Word Privileges Drill Sergeant Nasty Toplessness from the Back Domestic Abuse Smoking Is Cool Fate Worse than Death Taking the Bullet Parental Abandonment Big Eater Slasher Smile Killed Mid-Sentence Star-Crossed Lovers German Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Beard of Evil Dressing as the Enemy Punch-Clock Villain From Bad to Worse Martial Arts Movie Sacrificial Lion '80s Hair The Place Documentary The Musical Broken Bird The Power of Love Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Madness Mantra Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Gilligan Cut Abhorrent Admirer Death by Adaptation Tranquil Fury The Cavalry Honor Before Reason Happily Married A Minor Kidroduction Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Older Than They Look Loads and Loads of Characters Anti-Villain Informed Ability Reality Ensues Greater-Scope Villain Composite Character Damsel in Distress Last-Name Basis Superhero After the End Scenery Gorn The Remake Cat Scare Badass Boast Soundtrack Dissonance Peek-a-Boo Corpse One-Word Title Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Love at First Sight The Un-Reveal Break the Cutie Adorkable Bi the Way Card-Carrying Villain The Lancer Handicapped Badass Parental Neglect Jerkass Has a Point Our Vampires Are Different Amusing Injuries Fire-Forged Friends Mercy Kill Chekhov's Gun Properly Paranoid Eldritch Abomination Those Two Bad Guys Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Super Strength Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Evil Sounds Deep There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mad Scientist Sci-Fi Horror Meet Cute Bond Villain Stupidity Rated M for Manly Crucified Hero Shot Improbable Aiming Skills Accidental Murder Genre Savvy Self-Deprecation Never Trust a Trailer Stealth Pun Storming the Castle Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sequel Escalation Market-Based Title Book-Ends Cool Old Guy Our Zombies Are Different Funny Foreigner Mr. Fanservice Determinator Evil Brit Be Careful What You Wish For Villain Protagonist Naïve Newcomer Reality Has No Subtitles Deliberately Monochrome Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Lighter and Softer Neck Lift Jerk Jock Ironic Echo This Is Gonna Suck Drowning My Sorrows Took a Level in Jerkass Epic Fail Drugs Are Bad Beauty Is Never Tarnished My Beloved Smother Off with His Head! A.I. Is a Crapshoot Cowboy Cop Big-Bad Ensemble Evil Plan Fingore Get Out! 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Protagonist Title Film Noir Index timeperiod Black Comedy Major Injury Underreaction Tap on the Head Retired Badass Foil Depraved Bisexual Children Are Innocent Downer Ending All Just a Dream NO INDOOR VOICE Historical Hero Upgrade Italian Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sports Stories Failed a Spot Check Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" No Ending Real Life Adaptational Villainy Fish out of Water Vomit Discretion Shot Pay Evil unto Evil Deliberate Values Dissonance Curb-Stomp Battle Word of God Intrepid Reporter Sir Swears-a-Lot Break the Haughty Playing Gertrude Calling the Old Man Out Bilingual Bonus The Hero Dies Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Eye Scream I Did What I Had to Do Even Evil Has Standards Determinator aka: The Determinator Lampshade Hanging Betty and Veronica For the Evulz The '80s Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Kill It with Fire Monumental Damage Jerkass Dying Moment of Awesome Lock and Load Montage Boom, Headshot! 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Famous Last Words Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Real Life Writes the Plot Big Bad Duumvirate Psycho for Hire Throwing Your Sword Always Works Back from the Dead And Starring Zombie Stories More Dakka Canon Foreigner Big "NO!" The Stoic Unresolved Sexual Tension Hong Kong Films The '90s May–December Romance Overly Long Gag The Stoner Sealed Evil in a Can Retcon Translation Convention Those Two Guys Alliterative Name Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Alpha Bitch Take a Third Option Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Plucky Comic Relief Mundane Made Awesome Ass Shove Twist Ending Fake Shemp Getting Crap Past the Radar The '50s Black Best Friend Straight Gay Unwitting Instigator of Doom Exactly What It Says on the Tin Anyone Can Die Australian Movies Parental Substitute Friend to All Children Would Hurt a Child It's Personal From Nobody to Nightmare Blood Knight Not So Different The Mafia Sexy Discretion Shot Light Is Not Good Character Development Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Reckless Gun Usage Hoist by His Own Petard Asshole Victim Film Series Dramedy Funny Background Event No Celebrities Were Harmed Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Tempting Fate Rule of Funny Serial Killer Dirty Coward Hero of Another Story Coming-of-Age Story Easily Forgiven Agony of the Feet Manchild Disproportionate Retribution Plot Hole Your Cheating Heart Animal Motifs Fatal Flaw Cold-Blooded Torture Fourth Date Marriage Biopic I Need a Freaking Drink Awesome, but Impractical Woman in White Novelization The Cameo Match Cut Large Ham Distracted by the Sexy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Men Are the Expendable Gender Danny Peary Cult Movies List No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Corpsing Broken Pedestal B-Movie Yandere Pre-Mortem One-Liner It Can Think Truth in Television Hope Spot Make It Look Like an Accident Only One Name Curse Cut Short Obviously Evil Military and Warfare Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Scenery Porn Final Girl Jump Scare Suspiciously Specific Denial Malevolent Masked Men Action Prologue Ambiguous Disorder Woman Scorned Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Geography Deconstruction Nothing Is Scarier Noodle Incident The Brute Suddenly SHOUTING! Psychopathic Manchild Hair-Trigger Temper Anguished Declaration of Love Blackmail Hypocritical Humor Dark and Troubled Past Stepford Smiler A Date with Rosie Palms Silence Is Golden The Alleged Car Defiant to the End Ghost Fiction Corrupt Corporate Executive Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Evil-Detecting Dog Kick the Son of a Bitch Aluminum Christmas Trees No-Sell Camp Gay Riddle for the Ages Darkest Hour Rousing Speech Took a Level in Badass Faking the Dead Actually Pretty Funny Would Hit a Girl Death Glare Dramatic Irony Animated Credits Opening As the Good Book Says... 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Epilogue Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adaptational Attractiveness Based on a True Story Time Skip Bad Boss Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Stalker with a Crush Big Applesauce Russian Films Captain Obvious The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Green-Eyed Monster Offscreen Moment of Awesome Death Seeker folderlabel Villain Ball Does Not Like Shoes Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Creative Closing Credits Batman Gambit Silent Movie Bolivian Army Ending Mugging the Monster Villainous Breakdown All There in the Script Henpecked Husband Race Against the Clock Arranged Marriage Hate Sink Heroic BSoD Suspiciously Similar Substitute Facial Horror I'm a Humanitarian Slashed Throat Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Love Triangle Fantasy Films Villain Opening Scene Interrupted Suicide Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Stinger Creepy Child Brainless Beauty Kick the Dog Horror Films Ungrateful Bastard Creator Cameo Death by Sex Blood from the Mouth Training Montage Cassandra Truth Hooker with a Heart of Gold Casting Gag Bavarian Fire Drill Man on Fire Disappeared Dad Spanner in the Works Once More, with Clarity! Author Appeal The Oner The Faceless Eyepatch of Power Dies Wide Open Artistic License – Biology Action Survivor Historical Villain Upgrade Face Death with Dignity The X of Y Bittersweet Ending In the Back Trailers Always Spoil Country Matters Screw This, I'm Outta Here! All Men Are Perverts BFG Maybe Ever After Red Shirt Affectionate Parody Paper-Thin Disguise Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Half the Man He Used to Be Made of Iron Armor-Piercing Question The Starscream Author Avatar Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dark Reprise