'''Basic Trope''': A scene that plays out like a horror/slasher film but casts the hero as the monster.
* '''Straight''': [[AntiHero Hell]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mask]] stalks and systematically kills mooks working for the BigBad, freaking them out in the process.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Hell Mask goes to great lengths to scare the mooks, including stringing up the dead bodies of their friends, spelling out the names of who's next in blood, and even going so far as to threaten their loved ones.
** Instead of mooks being terrorized, it's the main villains themselves being terrorized in the same location.
* '''Downplayed''':
** The mooks are generally scared of Hell Mask since he's a badass and the beatings he gives them would be pretty stressful to experience.
** Hell Mask isn't going out of his way to scare the mooks, but for all their efforts they only manage to slow him down. Having an unstoppable and seemingly unkillable badass tearing through everything you throw at him would scare the crap out of '''anybody'''.
* '''Justified''':
** Hell Mask is waging psychological warfare on the mooks. The more mind games he plays, the sloppier they get.
** Hell Mask is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge because they killed Alice.
** He's called "Hell Mask" [[EvilerThanThou for a reason.]]
** The villains' previous fights have happened with opponents who are terrified, unarmed, or otherwise not fully capable of facing them. When they meet someone who ''is'', they're scared half to death.
* '''Inverted''':
** Hell Mask is stalked by a gang of mooks who try to terrorize him as much as possible.
** A SerialKiller goes after cops, scaring the crap out of them as he takes them out one by one.
** Hell Mask's attempt to OutscareTheEnemy ironically [[GoneHorriblyRight worked too well]] and has [[CorneredRattlesnake driven the mooks to fight back even more savagely out of suicidal desperation]].
* '''Subverted''':
** The mooks know Hell Mask is playing mind games and refuse to be terrified.
** A bunch of EliteMooks are on guard with them who aren't afraid as they are.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** That is, until Hell Mask laughs and reveals he "was just playing" and the idea that he is being so nonchalant about killing them scares the crap out of the mooks.
** Hell Mask's battle with the EliteMooks still terrifies the regular mooks caught between it.
* '''Parodied''':
** Hell Mask wears a stupid mask and shouts "Boo!", making all the mooks crap their pants. For bonus points, a mook is so scared he bitch slaps Hell Mask out of self defence... And actually knocks him out.
** The mooks are watching the security monitors, and think it's a horror movie going on. Then Hell Mask comes to remind them that ThisIsReality.
** When Hell Mask's massacre of the mooks begins, the story abruptly resembles a campy slasher flick, complete with [[BadBadActing wooden acting]] and VHS-style visual quality.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The mooks are not afraid of Hell Mask and attack, believing they have killed him, only to find out they killed TheDragon of the BigBad. That frightens them enough to force them into hiding but Hell Mask finds them and blackmails them into helping. Feeling comfort due to Hell Mask's protection, the mooks set out to help him take down the BigBad, only to find out he was [[ILied lying the whole time]] and plans to torture and kill them.
* '''Averted''': Hell Mask takes the mooks down in a very professional and clinical manner with no psychological mind games involved.
* '''Enforced''':
** The writers want to let the readers know Hell Mask is not messing around at all with these bad guys.
** The writers want Hell Mask to have some moral ambiguity as he frightens and kills the mooks.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh man, this is just like those horror movies... except the killer is a good guy."
* '''Invoked''': Hell Mask's a BadassNormal who can't hope to take out dozens of armed Mooks in a straight fight. Stalking them one by one allows him to whittle away their numbers while driving the rest into a panic (and thus making them less dangerous).
* '''Exploited''':
** During the MookHorrorShow, one of the Mooks video tapes the carnage and uses it either to make Hell Mask appear ''much'' worse to the public or to use when training new underlings on why they take caution in regards to Hell Mask.
** Hell Mask is actually practicing his intimidation skills on random mooks to see how scary he can be.
* '''Defied''':
** Hell Mask is a nice guy and is actually [[FriendlyEnemies polite to the mooks as he beats them up]], refusing to scare them.
** It is impossible to scare the mooks for whatever reason (maybe they are [[NightOfTheLivingMooks zombies]]/[[MechaMooks robots]], maybe TheMobBossIsScarier, maybe they [[TooDumbToFool are too dumb]]...), so Hell Mask dispenses with the mind games and goes straight to the part where he tears them all to shreds.
* '''Discussed''': "Why is he doing this? He's the hero. He's not supposed to be scary, right? ...[[TemptingFate R-Right]]?"
* '''Conversed''': Characters discuss how this sort of scene in their favorite cop show resembles a horror film.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Hell Mask's actions get a WhatTheHellHero reaction from Alice who can't believe he went so far.
** One of the surviving mooks shows the aftermath at how all of their friends are dead and crosses the DespairEventHorizon.
** Knowing that Hell Mask is out to get them and what he can do if he gets his hands on them, the mooks perform even greater atrocities that they would normally do, [[GodzillaThreshold believing that it's not like it can get any worse]].
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Hell Mask then reveals that, despite the mooks' terror, they were never seriously injured and their fear led them to give the whereabouts of the BigBad. She accepts his methods after this.
** Part of the reason is because [[HeelRealization they come to the realization that]] [[BlackAndGrayMorality they and their friends should have known to expect this might happen to them for being involved in things that even Hell Mask would never do.]]
** As a result, [[MakeAnExampleOfThem Hell Mask leaves behind brutal reminders that he]] ''can'' do worse to those who escalate, and make those who cross the MoralEventHorizon and go beyond the pale [[AndIMustScream dearly]] regret it, making them decide that it's not worth the gamble.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Hell Mask uses CoolAndUnusualPunishment to scare the mooks in funny ways, having a good laugh about it as it happens.
* '''Played For Drama''': Hell Mask's actions are so heinous, they even scare his fellow heroes who don't look at him the same way again.
* '''Played For Horror''': ''"Hell Mask"'' is an X-Rated SlasherFilm starring a hyper-violent SerialKillerKiller as a "hero". The things Hell Mask does to the poor villains makes people (InUniverse ''and'' out) feel faint.
* '''Implied''': Hell Mask is TheDreaded among the mooks due to a NoodleIncident that is never explained.
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