Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

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