Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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