12/30/2023 0 Comments Painted skull gas mask![]() ![]() In Mad Max: Fury Road, Immortan Joe, a despotic leader suffering from respiratory problems, wears an oxygen mask decorated with horse-teeth to have a skeletal/feral appearance.In Zardoz, the Exterminators wear grimacing masks of the titular Zardoz, their god who showers them with blessings in the form of guns and ammo.Starting with Tim Burton's Batman movies, every film version of Batman's costume has frowning eyebrows sculpted into the cowl.General Kael, The Dragon in Willow, has a helmet with a terrifying skull face that really leaves an impression.Evil Robot Maximillian in The Black Hole has that bright red eye with a furrowing brow sculpted/painted above it, making it look like he's permanently scowling.Dark Helmet from Spaceballs is an over-the-top parody of Vader.Stormtroopers are intended to look this way, with their frowning mouth grills vaguely resembling a grimace, but they look more sad to some people.Appropriate as the concept was based on samurai armor (see Real Life below.) Darth Vader's helmet has a chillingly penetrating stare, and this was exaggerated for Star Wars Rebels, making him look much more angry.Iron Man: The closure line of Stark's Iron Man helmet suggests a thin-lipped scowl. ![]() In the movie of Prince Caspian, Miraz's forces wear helmets embossed with a fearsomely snarling face, and Miraz himself wears a slightly fancier one.A common feature of Scary Impractical Armor. See also Faceless Goons and Gas Mask Mooks. Compare and contrast Malevolent Masked Men (for when the scary visor is the whole point) and Expressive Mask (which actually changes expression). Mecha-Mooks might have this, depending on how their "faces" look. Don't be surprised if this is part of the Doom Troops' uniform. Stern looks also count, and might even be scarier than the raging ones. Merely having scary-looking eye-slits doesn't count, although features that just vaguely suggest a wrathful expression might. This is when a helmet's visor is embossed with a furious face or something similarly frightening. Solution: make the helmet itself look angry. Something to suggest the pain these guys are gonna bring. But the faces under the helmets aren't particularly fearsome, and Spikes of Villainy just don't cut it. Faceless Goons are already pretty scary, but some villains just want more. ![]()
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