Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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