Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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