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This is when a helmet's visor is embossed with a furious face or something similarly frightening. Merely having scary-looking eye-slits doesn't count, although features that just vaguely suggest a wrathful expression might. Stern looks also count, and might even be scarier than the raging ones. [[Mecha-Mooks]] might have this, depending on how their "faces" look. Compare and contrast [[Malevolent Masked Men]] (for when the scary visor is the whole point) and [[Expressive Mask]] (which actually ''changes'' expression). See also [[Faceless Goons]] and [[Gas Mask Mooks]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The MS-07 Gouf series of Mobile Suits in ''[[Gundam]]'' have a distinctive triangular protrusion hanging down from the middle of their [[Cyber Cyclops|mono-eye]] visors, giving them a perpetually scowling look.
** The [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Physalis Gundam]] also has an unusually malevolent looking face, with a curious, angry looking red "mouth" in place of the iconic twin horizontal vent slits.
== Film ==
* In the movie of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Prince Caspian]]'', [[Big Bad|Miraz's]] forces wear helmets embossed with a fearsomely snarling face, and Miraz himself wears a slightly fancier one.
* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'': The closure line of Stark's Iron Man helmet suggests a thin-lipped scowl.
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* Agamemnon's helm in ''[[Time Bandits]]''.
* Starting with [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movies, every film version of Batman's costume has frowning eyebrows sculpted into the cowl.
== Gamebooks ==▼
* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, the Drakkarim -- [[Elite Mooks]] of the [[Evil Overlord|Darklords]]—always wears metal helmets with skull-shaped facemasks in battle. To the point this is often the main feature used to describe them.▼
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'' likes to mock this trope. They appear in ''[[
* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', dwarvish helms apparently were like these. One of these helms becomes significant as the signature item of the hero Turin Turambar.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** Except Setesh guards' helmets. [[Noodle Incident|Apparently]], they're the subject of many jokes among the Jaffa, jokes whose humor is [[Lost in Translation]].
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', and a few other series with sculpted mouths on the helmets.
== Tabletop Games ==
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* Rage Helm plus [[Humongous Mecha]] = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhOvbfyyJw Atlas].
▲=== Gamebooks ===
▲* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, the Drakkarim -- [[Elite Mooks]] of the [[Evil Overlord|Darklords]]—always wears metal helmets with skull-shaped facemasks in battle. To the point this is often the main feature used to describe them.
== Video Games ==
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* Inverted with Ordinator (Indoril) helmets from ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''. These display an emotionless [[Frozen Face]]. Played straight, however, with Almalexia's war mask, and with the Daedric helmets.
** ''[[Skyrim]]'s'' Dwarven Helmets exhibit this, with the faceplate of the mask crafted to look like a perpetually furious Dwemer.
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the Firebender [[Mooks]] wear [[Spikes of Villainy|spiky]] helmets with skull-like masks. The effect is kinda ruined by them [[Harmless Villain|never being a credible threat]], though.
== Real Life ==
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