Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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