Tropescilloscope: The Faceless

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

More Tropes Karmic Death MacGuffin Even Evil Has Standards Friend to All Children Scenery Porn Creative Closing Credits Demoted to Extra Getting Crap Past the Radar Disney Death Faking the Dead No Antagonist Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Developing Doomed Characters Bittersweet Ending The Atoner Badass Normal The Un-Reveal Camera Abuse One Steve Limit Credits Gag The Musical Match Cut Death by Irony Slashed Throat Amusing Injuries Immune to Bullets As the Good Book Says... 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Military and Warfare Films Final Girl Does Not Like Shoes Mighty Whitey Armor-Piercing Question Red Right Hand Cain and Abel And I Must Scream Exact Words Sole Survivor Hidden Depths Actually Pretty Funny Honor Before Reason The Place Grievous Bottley Harm Cool Old Guy Crazy-Prepared Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bound and Gagged A Date with Rosie Palms The Vamp Big Eater Spiteful Spit Awesome, but Impractical Spell My Name with an "S" The X of Y Pretty in Mink Took a Level in Jerkass Translation Convention Manic Pixie Dream Girl After the End Mood Whiplash Man on Fire Chekhov's Skill Cloudcuckoolander Lampshade Hanging The Chessmaster Mad Scientist Flipping the Bird Madness Mantra An Axe to Grind Bond One-Liner Straight Gay Nice Hat Bad "Bad Acting" Horror Comedy The Smart Guy Almost Kiss Creator Cameo Revenge Heroic Sacrifice My Beloved Smother Mexican Standoff Never Found the Body Death by Adaptation The Sociopath Large Ham Expository Hairstyle Change Jitter Cam Properly Paranoid Evil Laugh Mama Bear Sir Swears-a-Lot Smug Snake In Medias Res Breaking the Fourth Wall Skewed Priorities Hong Kong Films The Dog Bites Back Domestic Abuse Serial Killer Badass Boast Star-Crossed Lovers Bottomless Magazines Fiery Redhead Punch-Clock Villain Anti-Villain Serious Business Depraved Bisexual Hero Antagonist Humans Are Bastards Reality Is Unrealistic Undying Loyalty Attempted Rape One-Word Title Air-Vent Passageway Central Theme Hope Spot Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Drowning My Sorrows Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! As You Know Silence Is Golden Advertised Extra Non-Indicative Name Handicapped Badass Abusive Parents Well-Intentioned Extremist Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Badass in a Nice Suit Adaptational Heroism Spared by the Adaptation Dramatic Gun Cock Nothing Is Scarier Villain Opening Scene Rewatch Bonus War Is Hell Darker and Edgier Real Life Writes the Plot Running Gag Guns Akimbo Noodle Incident Maybe Ever After Brick Joke Humiliation Conga Stylistic Suck Daddy's Girl Deadpan Snarker Blatant Lies Russian Films Abhorrent Admirer Plot Hole Chekhov's Gun Karma Houdini Nice Guy Femme Fatale Everyone Has Standards La Résistance Accidental Misnaming Arranged Marriage Adults Are Useless Historical Hero Upgrade Screw the Money, I Have Rules! She's Got Legs Red Eyes, Take Warning Curse Cut Short Gainax Ending Slasher Movie Not Quite Dead Shout-Out Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold N-Word Privileges Sequel Escalation Bloodier and Gorier Ship Tease Self-Deprecation Scare Chord Drives Like Crazy Blackmail Cat Scare Loophole Abuse The '80s Death Glare Dual Wielding Aluminum Christmas Trees The Cavalry Rich Bitch Does This Remind You of Anything? Rated M for Manly I Need a Freaking Drink Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Love Triangle Continuity Nod Film Noir Index Gender Flip Eureka Moment Broken Pedestal Decoy Protagonist Off-into-the-Distance Ending Up to Eleven Butt-Monkey Dogged Nice Guy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Evil Plan Rule of Symbolism Stealth Hi/Bye Black and Gray Morality Red Herring Killed Mid-Sentence Word of God The Remake Last-Name Basis Funny Foreigner Real Life Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Reasonable Authority Figure Wounded Gazelle Gambit Sadistic Choice Extremely Short Timespan Sacrificial Lion Reality Ensues Same Language Dub Dirty Coward Bury Your Gays Easily Forgiven The Reveal The Alcoholic Punny Name Black Dude Dies First Jerk Jock Dumb Blonde From Nobody to Nightmare He Who Fights Monsters A Minor Kidroduction The Faceless Villain Ball Foreshadowing B-Movie Major Injury Underreaction Bare Your Midriff Anachronic Order Our Vampires Are Different Closed Circle Sassy Black Woman Genre Shift Important Haircut Babies Ever After Japanese Films "Shaggy Dog" Story Redemption Equals Death Slap-Slap-Kiss Mr. Fanservice Sexy Discretion Shot Affectionate Parody Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mugging the Monster World of Ham Mr. Exposition Shirtless Scene Despair Event Horizon Defiant to the End Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Beauty Is Never Tarnished Stealth Pun This Is Gonna Suck Scenery Gorn My Greatest Failure Yandere Early Installment Weirdness Race Against the Clock Eyepatch of Power Toplessness from the Back Historical Villain Upgrade Only One Name Show Within a Show In Name Only Rape as Drama Card-Carrying Villain Music Stories Title Drop Anyone Can Die Establishing Character Moment Reckless Gun Usage Manipulative Bastard Enemy Mine Motor Mouth Malevolent Masked Men Hair-Trigger Temper Stepford Smiler Tap on the Head Kids Are Cruel Pimped-Out Dress Your Head A-Splode Knight Templar The Chick Bloodless Carnage Villainous Breakdown Ascended Extra Kubrick Stare Idiot Ball Ms. Fanservice Cold-Blooded Torture Superhero The Mafia Rule of Three Dutch Angle Agony of the Feet Foregone Conclusion Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fourth Date Marriage Even Evil Has Loved Ones Adorkable Action Genre Leave the Camera Running Ripped from the Headlines Wham Shot Cool Old Lady Expy Corrupt Corporate Executive Corpsing Deliberately Monochrome Dark and Troubled Past Token Minority The Mole Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Great Depression Four-Temperament Ensemble Redshirt Army Made of Explodium Big Bad Tempting Fate Calling the Old Man Out Romantic False Lead Double-Meaning Title Adaptation Dye-Job Lock and Load Montage Fatal Family Photo Index of Film Westerns Amoral Attorney Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Knife Nut You Have Failed Me Wicked Cultured Irony Brainless Beauty Authority Equals Asskicking Cool Car Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Italian Films The Alleged Car Famous Last Words Stuff Blowing Up Intergenerational Friendship Extreme Doormat Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Vampire Fiction Silent Movie Mystery and Detective Films Bavarian Fire Drill Beta Couple It's All About Me Frame-Up Not Using the "Z" Word Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Biopic Neck Lift Time Skip Character Development Adaptation Distillation Unresolved Sexual Tension Badass Longcoat Imagine Spot Horror Films A God Am I No Celebrities Were Harmed Every Car Is a Pinto Television Movie Index Once More, with Clarity! 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Fake Shemp British Films Face Death with Dignity Adaptational Badass Greater-Scope Villain Shipper on Deck Adapted Out Disappeared Dad Defrosting Ice Queen Really Gets Around Evil-Detecting Dog Christmas Movies Index What You Are in the Dark Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Death of a Child Random Events Plot Cluster F-Bomb Mistaken for Gay Heroes Want Redheads Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fate Worse than Death Ax-Crazy Spanner in the Works Gold Digger Light Is Not Good Overly Long Gag The Oner Leaning on the Fourth Wall Epic Movie Pyrrhic Victory Kill 'em All Insult Backfire Camp Gay Vitriolic Best Buds Roaring Rampage of Revenge Rasputinian Death Not So Different Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hero of Another Story Put on a Bus Deal with the Devil Artistic License – Physics Adaptational Villainy Suddenly SHOUTING! 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The Dragon For the Evulz Brutal Honesty Big "NO!" Artistic License – Biology Here We Go Again! Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Take That! The Voiceless He Knows Too Much Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Morality Pet Big-Bad Ensemble Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique No Name Given Daylight Horror Age Lift Break the Haughty Those Two Guys Boom, Headshot! The Stoic The Stinger Would Hurt a Child Combat Pragmatist Half the Man He Used to Be Jump Scare Pragmatic Adaptation Training Montage Pretty Little Headshots Conspicuous CG The Big Guy Red Oni, Blue Oni Hollywood Law Celebrity Paradox Villain Protagonist Meaningful Echo Death Seeker Psycho for Hire Improbable Aiming Skills Anguished Declaration of Love Re-Cut Brother–Sister Incest Recycled IN SPACE! Dramedy Hoist by His Own Petard Sealed Evil in a Can Foil Bolivian Army Ending Only Sane Man Jerkass Has a Point Ambiguously Gay Disguised in Drag Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Improvised Weapon She Cleans Up Nicely Sinister Minister Manchild Intrepid Reporter Darkest Hour Laser-Guided Karma Mundane Made Awesome Captain Ersatz The Smurfette Principle Country Matters Distracted by the Sexy No OSHA Compliance Jerkass Curb-Stomp Battle Papa Wolf Left the Background Music On Adaptation Expansion Empathic Environment Gilligan Cut Bullying a Dragon Precision F-Strike Artistic License – Gun Safety Homage It's Personal Be Careful What You Wish For The Stoner The Lancer Berserk Button Disproportionate Retribution Bi the Way Comically Missing the Point Author Avatar Eldritch Abomination And the Adventure Continues Evil Brit Only in It for the Money Bond Villain Stupidity Bait-and-Switch Taking the Bullet My God, What Have I Done? Zombie Stories Animated Credits Opening Artistic License – Law Fatal Flaw Say My Name Together in Death Faux Affably Evil Fish out of Water Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Double Entendre Broken Bird Better to Die than Be Killed Let's Get Dangerous! Riddle for the Ages Those Two Bad Guys Heterosexual Life-Partners Market-Based Title Obstructive Bureaucrat Never Trust a Trailer Ugly Guy, Hot Wife "Awesome McCool" Name The '60s Flashback The Bad Guy Wins Men Are the Expendable Gender Anti-Hero Outrun the Fireball The Bully Villain Song Shower Scene The Starscream Needs Wiki Magic Love An Aesop A Father to His Men Vomit Discretion Shot Evil Counterpart Bowdlerise Instant Death Bullet Author Appeal Failed a Spot Check Pay Evil unto Evil Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Earn Your Happy Ending Ambiguous Disorder Dull Surprise Ominous Latin Chanting Cool Guns Eiffel Tower Effect It Will Never Catch On Politically Incorrect Villain Epic Fail Whole Plot Reference Alas, Poor Villain Moment Killer Adaptational Attractiveness Black Best Friend Casting Gag What Happened to the Mouse? 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Guy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Worthy Opponent Dark Reprise Posthumous Character "Where Are They Now?" 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For! Emphasis! The Dreaded Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Those Wacky Nazis Dressing as the Enemy I Have Your Wife Apocalypse How Kick the Son of a Bitch Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Blood from the Mouth Crazy Jealous Guy Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dark Action Girl What the Hell, Hero? I'm a Humanitarian Meaningful Name Fanservice Extra A.I. Is a Crapshoot Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dirty Old Man Implacable Man Evil vs. Evil Henpecked Husband Affably Evil Award-Bait Song Dark Is Not Evil Refuge in Audacity Determinator aka: The Determinator Names to Run Away from Really Fast Eye Scream Unreliable Narrator Trailers Always Spoil Fantasy Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Playing Gertrude BFG Rousing Speech Dying Moment of Awesome Police Brutality Bad Boss As Himself Truth in Television Covers Always Lie No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Arc Words Your Cheating Heart Cassandra Truth Public Domain Feature Films timeperiod Deus ex Machina Crucified Hero Shot Annoying Younger Sibling Hell Is That Noise Soft Glass Beard of Evil Actor Allusion Soundtrack Dissonance Setting Update Victoria's Secret Compartment Lighter and Softer Chase Scene Fire-Forged Friends Bar Brawl Naked People Are Funny Off with His Head! Drill Sergeant Nasty Take a Third Option Bald of Evil Dies Wide Open Bunny-Ears Lawyer Missing Mom Car Fu Canadian Movies Cruel and Unusual Death Groin Attack Romantic Comedy Guile Hero Woman in White Fanservice Informed Ability Australian Movies Works Set in World War II Aside Glance Would Hit a Girl Meaningful Background Event Eagleland Sports Stories Loads and Loads of Characters Mooks Small Name, Big Ego The Ditz Woman Scorned Neck Snap Big Bad Duumvirate Betty and Veronica Heel Realization Exactly What It Says on the Tin Tranquil Fury "The Reason You Suck" Speech Psychological Thriller Damsel in Distress Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Jerk with a Heart of Gold Body Horror NO INDOOR VOICE Big Damn Heroes Mercy Kill 20 Minutes into the Future Fantastic Racism Big Applesauce Determinator Bland-Name Product O.O.C. Is Serious Business Not So Stoic Ironic Echo How We Got Here Alpha Bitch Big Brother Instinct All Girls Want Bad Boys Love at First Sight