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[[Faceless Goons]] are already pretty scary, but some villains just want more. But the faces ''under'' the helmets [[Every Man|aren't particularly fearsome]], and [[Spikes of Villainy]] just don't cut it. Something to suggest the pain these guys are gonna bring...
Solution: make ''the helmet itself'' look angry. Enter the
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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== Gamebooks ==
* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, the Drakkarim -- [[Elite Mooks]] of the [[Evil Overlord|Darklords]]
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* Scary helmets are the default for ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' [[Space Marines]]. Special mention goes to the [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Angry_Marines Angry Marines], pictured above.
** To say nothing of the [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdIK9Dvf6E/TU9Yg9lsNRI/AAAAAAAABpQ/4L6BbzXUbPw/s400/Black_templar_chaplain_by_LordHannu.jpg Chaplains] and their skull-shaped helmets...
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