Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

Grotesque body structures, human or not. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Character Development Gilligan Cut Only in It for the Money Apocalypse How Implacable Man Improbable Aiming Skills The '60s Wretched Hive French Films Canon Foreigner Five-Man Band The Brute Adaptation Distillation Agony of the Feet Trailers Always Spoil Logo Joke Novelization Big Applesauce Improbable Weapon User Pretty in Mink Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Index of Film Westerns Intergenerational Friendship Artistic License – Gun Safety Mooks Adaptation Expansion Adaptational Heroism Improvised Weapon Bald of Evil Not So Above It All Car Fu Horror Comedy Bare Your Midriff Light Is Not Good Malevolent Masked Men Funny Foreigner Wham Shot Card-Carrying Villain As Long as It Sounds Foreign War Is Hell Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Vamp The Power of Love Lampshade Hanging Setting Update Badass Normal Exactly What It Says on the Tin Auto Erotica Contrived Coincidence Sinister Minister Adaptational Badass Creator Cameo Calling the Old Man Out The Sociopath Screw This, I'm Outta Here! In the Back Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Mugging the Monster Reality Has No Subtitles Shout-Out Authority Equals Asskicking Adaptational Attractiveness Fake Shemp Obstructive Bureaucrat The Ace Boom, Headshot! Black Best Friend Be Careful What You Wish For Killed Mid-Sentence Redshirt Army Costume Porn Retirony Twist Ending One-Man Army The Voiceless Big Brother Instinct '80s Hair Dissonant Serenity Soft Glass Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Suddenly SHOUTING! Manic Pixie Dream Girl Vomit Discretion Shot Fish out of Water An Axe to Grind Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Anachronic Order Adult Fear Bunny-Ears Lawyer She's Got Legs Irony Catch-Phrase World of Ham Composite Character Eureka Moment Bland-Name Product Advertised Extra Historical-Domain Character Flipping the Bird Cat Fight Offscreen Teleportation Toplessness from the Back Villain Ball Victoria's Secret Compartment Red Herring For Want of a Nail Evil Is Hammy Romantic False Lead Serious Business My Beloved Smother Everyone Has Standards Plucky Comic Relief 20 Minutes into the Future Moment Killer Room Full of Crazy Dirty Coward Spared by the Adaptation Big Bad Duumvirate Amusing Injuries Screw the Money, I Have Rules! My Greatest Failure No Name Given Adults Are Useless Call-Forward Dramatic Gun Cock "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bury Your Gays Race Against the Clock The Stinger Pet the Dog Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Whole Plot Reference Bond One-Liner Revenge You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Neck Snap Very Loosely Based on a True Story Armor-Piercing Question Beware the Nice Ones Hope Spot One Steve Limit Those Two Bad Guys Riddle for the Ages B-Movie Foil A God Am I Badass Grandpa Betty and Veronica Major Injury Underreaction Kill 'em All Parental Abandonment Bowdlerise Meet Cute Didn't Think This Through Your Cheating Heart Ascended Extra Flashback Framing Device Half the Man He Used to Be Rewatch Bonus Camera Abuse Death of a Child Product Placement Curb-Stomp Battle Hoist by His Own Petard Animal Title Index I Did What I Had to Do Neck Lift The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Unwitting Instigator of Doom Race Lift Death Seeker Does Not Like Shoes The Cameo Laser-Guided Karma Take That! The Faceless Covers Always Lie Bad Boss Evil Laugh I'm a Humanitarian Not So Different Wicked Cultured Affably Evil Obviously Evil Death by Sex Badass Boast Public Domain Feature Films Hidden Depths Insistent Terminology Australian Movies Evil-Detecting Dog Insult Backfire Heel–Face Turn Real Life Important Haircut Take a Third Option Heterosexual Life-Partners Rule of Symbolism Bittersweet Ending Domestic Abuse Kick the Son of a Bitch Loads and Loads of Characters The Ghost Does This Remind You of Anything? Intrepid Reporter Red Right Hand I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Male Frontal Nudity Fingore Poor Communication Kills Villain Opening Scene Mundane Made Awesome Pay Evil unto Evil You Have Failed Me Mr. Fanservice Badass Bookworm Rich Bitch Due to the Dead Psychopathic Manchild Age Lift Did Not Get the Girl Adaptation Name Change Same Language Dub The Smurfette Principle Wounded Gazelle Gambit From Bad to Worse Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jerk Jock Dark Is Not Evil As You Know Adaptational Villainy Drives Like Crazy Film Noir The Film of the Book Sadistic Choice Comically Missing the Point Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Eye Scream Butt-Monkey Token Minority I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Abhorrent Admirer Maybe Ever After Morality Pet Chase Scene Cool Old Lady Military and Warfare Films Failed a Spot Check Politically Incorrect Villain Science Fiction Films Eagleland Deconstruction The '70s Not Using the "Z" Word Body Horror Cloudcuckoolander Not Quite Dead Earn Your Happy Ending Stalker with a Crush Berserk Button Star-Crossed Lovers Made of Explodium Those Wacky Nazis Determinator Deal with the Devil The Quiet One Villain Song Continuity Nod Unreliable Narrator Deliberate Values Dissonance Gone Horribly Right Unspoken Plan Guarantee Eyepatch of Power Works Set in World War II Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Disguised in Drag NO INDOOR VOICE Defrosting Ice Queen All Men Are Perverts And Starring The Great Depression The X of Y Sequel Hook Police Brutality Faux Affably Evil Kill It with Fire Superhero Villain with Good Publicity Small Name, Big Ego Make It Look Like an Accident Papa Wolf Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Interrupted Suicide Action Survivor You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Heel Realization Outrun the Fireball Unusual Euphemism Curse Cut Short Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? All Just a Dream Downer Ending Villain Protagonist Dwindling Party Chiaroscuro This Is Gonna Suck Running Gag Disney Villain Death Pyrrhic Victory Precision F-Strike Sir Swears-a-Lot Establishing Character Moment Attempted Rape Idiot Ball Pimped-Out Dress Vitriolic Best Buds The Alcoholic Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Totally Radical Instant Death Bullet Mood Whiplash The Chessmaster Abusive Parents Those Two Guys Left the Background Music On It's Personal Closed Circle Death by Adaptation Arch-Enemy Aluminum Christmas Trees MacGuffin Big-Bad Ensemble Blood from the Mouth Dramedy Four-Temperament Ensemble The Smart Guy Never Trust a Trailer Alliterative Name Slasher Movie Belligerent Sexual Tension Ship Tease Not What It Looks Like Gratuitous English Black Comedy Rape Bilingual Bonus Grievous Bottley Harm Cruel and Unusual Death The Dreaded Historical Hero Upgrade Made of Iron Diabolus ex Machina Creative Closing Credits Stealth Hi/Bye Fantasy Films Oh, Crap! Stylistic Suck Genre Savvy Non-Indicative Name Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Badass in a Nice Suit Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Depraved Bisexual Extreme Doormat An Arm and a Leg Hollywood Darkness Worthy Opponent Early Installment Weirdness Dumb Blonde Took a Level in Jerkass Bar Brawl Ripped from the Headlines Shut Up, Hannibal! Spiritual Successor Broken Aesop Anti-Hero Catapult Nightmare Protagonist Title He Who Fights Monsters Exact Words Well-Intentioned Extremist Too Dumb to Live Fan Disservice Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ironic Echo After the End Off-into-the-Distance Ending And I Must Scream Documentary Heroes Want Redheads folderlabel One-Word Title More Dakka Gold Digger Celebrity Paradox Conspicuous CG La Résistance "Awesome McCool" Name Good Is Not Nice Coming-of-Age Story Red Oni, Blue Oni Scenery Gorn Award-Bait Song Skewed Priorities She Cleans Up Nicely Cold-Blooded Torture Martial Arts Movie Mighty Whitey No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Karma Houdini Roaring Rampage of Revenge All There in the Script Mystery and Detective Films Anachronism Stew Japanese Films Hooker with a Heart of Gold German Films An Aesop Brainless Beauty Actor Allusion Empathic Environment The Un-Reveal Humiliation Conga The Alleged Car Hong Kong Films Greater-Scope Villain Gory Discretion Shot Pretty Little Headshots Artistic License – Physics Rated M for Manly Male Gaze Arc Words A Minor Kidroduction Country Matters Bloodier and Gorier Disney Death Manchild All for Nothing Dark and Troubled Past Happily Married The Starscream Rasputinian Death Thriller Imagine Spot The Oner A.I. Is a Crapshoot Destination Defenestration Missing Mom Needs Wiki Magic Love Pragmatic Adaptation Shower Scene Fainting Soundtrack Dissonance Really Gets Around Redemption Equals Death No Ending He Knows Too Much Adorkable Chewing the Scenery Mad Scientist Tranquil Fury Mistaken for Gay Captain Ersatz Broken Bird Leitmotif Woman in White The Hero Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Translation Convention Visual Pun Mercy Kill As Himself Slashed Throat Serial Killer Let's Get Dangerous! The Remake Scenery Porn Only Known by Their Nickname Suspiciously Specific Denial Humans Are Bastards Sci-Fi Horror Fanservice Punny Name Real Life Writes the Plot Red Eyes, Take Warning Bullying a Dragon Fun with Acronyms Jump Scare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Drowning My Sorrows From Nobody to Nightmare Action Genre Naïve Newcomer timeperiod Loophole Abuse Dirty Cop Bait-and-Switch Author Avatar Hypocrite Undying Loyalty Crazy-Prepared Cluster F-Bomb Brutal Honesty Determinator aka: The Determinator Ambiguous Disorder Breaking the Fourth Wall Adapted Out Demoted to Extra True Companions Reality Is Unrealistic Almost Kiss Easily Forgiven Accidental Misnaming The Casanova For the Evulz A Date with Rosie Palms Sacrificial Lion Offscreen Moment of Awesome Meaningful Echo Adaptation Dye-Job Deus ex Machina Death Glare Corpsing Hero Antagonist Dropped a Bridge on Him Line-of-Sight Name Cowboy Cop Epic Fail Nothing Is Scarier What You Are in the Dark Film Noir Index Self-Deprecation Disproportionate Retribution Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Never My Fault Time Skip Sassy Black Woman Asshole Victim Names to Run Away from Really Fast Christmas Movies Index Knight Templar Ghost Fiction Honor Before Reason Leaning on the Fourth Wall Developing Doomed Characters Fire-Forged Friends The Dragon Dirty Old Man Jitter Cam Pre-Mortem One-Liner Woman Scorned Handicapped Badass Up to Eleven Zombie Stories Sports Stories Dutch Angle Say My Name Knife Nut Cool Car Big "NO!" Defiant to the End Big Eater Brick Joke Final Girl Crazy Jealous Guy Evil Plan The '90s Danny Peary Cult Movies List Green-Eyed Monster Show Within a Show Silent Movie Biopic Death by Irony Hypocritical Humor Large Ham Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Only One Name Facial Horror Daddy's Girl Posthumous Character Bloody Hilarious Taking the Bullet Mama Bear Alas, Poor Villain Genre Shift Married to the Job Dies Wide Open Action Girl Reckless Gun Usage The Atoner Noodle Incident Taking You with Me Lighter and Softer Only a Flesh Wound Vacation Films Obfuscating Stupidity Paper-Thin Disguise Rule of Funny Department of Redundancy Department The Musical Cain and Abel Never Found the Body Vomit Indiscretion Shot Creepy Child Artistic License – Biology Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Scare Chord Early-Bird Cameo Stepford Smiler Historical Villain Upgrade Overly Long Gag Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hell Is That Noise Once More, with Clarity! Dull Surprise Cassandra Truth Shell-Shocked Veteran Nice Guy No Antagonist Back from the Dead Even Evil Has Standards Central Theme Foregone Conclusion Recycled IN SPACE! Only Sane Man Rape as Drama Mind Screw Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Deadpan Snarker Shoot the Shaggy Dog Kick the Dog Parental Incest Mythology Gag Shown Their Work Fourth Date Marriage Mexican Standoff Air-Vent Passageway Blatant Lies Eldritch Abomination Off with His Head! Black and Gray Morality Rule of Cool Parental Substitute Dogged Nice Guy Extremely Short Timespan Hate Sink Bi the Way Scary Black Man Jerkass Has a Point There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Big Guy It Can Think Demonic Possession Naked People Are Funny Bottomless Magazines Grey and Gray Morality Tap on the Head Kids Are Cruel Blackmail Playing Gertrude Shirtless Scene Black Comedy Guns Akimbo Anguished Declaration of Love Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Laughing Mad Jerk with a Heart of Gold Straight Gay The Cavalry Beard of Evil Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Psycho for Hire Face–Heel Turn Author Appeal Sealed Evil in a Can Film Series Big Bad Tempting Fate Face Death with Dignity Hero of Another Story Reality Ensues Captain Obvious What the Hell, Hero? Unresolved Sexual Tension Sequel Escalation No OSHA Compliance Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Every Car Is a Pinto A Father to His Men The Place Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The '80s No Celebrities Were Harmed Double-Meaning Title Crapsack World Annoying Younger Sibling Artistic License – History In Name Only Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Spell My Name with an "S" The Ditz Groin Attack Despair Event Horizon Credits Gag Stuff Blowing Up Bound and Gagged Reasonable Authority Figure Insane Troll Logic Drugs Are Bad Animal Motifs The Chick Retired Badass Here We Go Again! Genre Throwback The Load Chekhov's Skill Wrong Genre Savvy Parental Neglect Accidental Murder Brother–Sister Incest The '50s Shipper on Deck Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Man on Fire Meaningful Background Event Plot Hole Expy Animated Credits Opening Fatal Flaw Romantic Comedy Music Stories Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bloodless Carnage Big Damn Heroes The Bad Guy Wins No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Cool Old Guy Ass Shove Babies Ever After Blood Knight Psychological Thriller The Hero Dies Badass Longcoat Aside Glance Gainax Ending Karmic Death Our Vampires Are Different Gorn Suspiciously Similar Substitute Sanity Slippage Manly Tears Daylight Horror Artistic License – Geography Nice Hat Rule of Three Fanservice Extra Based on a True Story Fatal Family Photo Driven to Suicide Stealth Pun Vampire Fiction BFG All Girls Want Bad Boys Word of God Double Entendre Leave the Camera Running The End... Or Is It? The Lancer Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Hair-Trigger Temper Informed Ability Love at First Sight Henpecked Husband Call-Back Refuge in Audacity Heroic BSoD Stock Footage Fat Bastard Your Head A-Splode The Mole My God, What Have I Done? Training Montage Police are Useless The Stoic Slap-Slap-Kiss The Reveal Bavarian Fire Drill Friend to All Children Crucified Hero Shot Love Triangle Homage Immune to Bullets Enemy Mine Affectionate Parody Sexy Discretion Shot Monumental Damage Bring My Brown Pants Distracted by the Sexy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Becoming the Mask Overprotective Dad Cat Scare Children Are Innocent Beta Couple It Will Never Catch On What Happened to the Mouse? Dying Moment of Awesome Historical In-Joke Bolivian Army Ending The Mafia Super Strength Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Spiteful Spit How We Got Here Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Have a Gay Old Time Corrupt Corporate Executive Would Hurt a Child Punch-Clock Villain Darker and Edgier Manipulative Bastard The Dog Bites Back Antagonist Title Freudian Excuse The Stoner Amoral Attorney Book-Ends Ungrateful Bastard Motor Mouth The Bully Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Anyone Can Die Together in Death Famous Last Words Would Hit a Girl Dual Wielding Dark Action Girl Funny Background Event Heroic Sacrifice In Medias Res I Need a Freaking Drink Combat Pragmatist Epic Movie Decoy Protagonist Faking the Dead Pragmatic Villainy Older Than They Look I Have Your Wife Break the Cutie Horror Films Ominous Latin Chanting Narrator Properly Paranoid The Lost Lenore Anti-Villain Unusually Uninteresting Sight Bad "Bad Acting" All There in the Manual Action Prologue Hollywood Law Market-Based Title Match Cut Men Are the Expendable Gender Red Shirt Gender Flip Alpha Bitch Villainous Breakdown Dark Reprise Retcon Madness Mantra Silence Is Golden Black Dude Dies First Evil Is Petty As the Good Book Says... Chekhov's Gunman Dramatic Irony Camp Gay Evil Sounds Deep Sole Survivor Femme Fatale Big Fancy House Peek-a-Boo Corpse Batman Gambit Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism It's All About Me British Films Last-Name Basis Damsel in Distress Fate Worse than Death May–December Romance Mr. Exposition Ms. Fanservice Casting Gag Wham Line "The Reason You Suck" Speech N-Word Privileges Jerkass Even Evil Has Loved Ones Random Events Plot Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Not Even Bothering with the Accent Getting Crap Past the Radar Guile Hero Tagline Disappeared Dad Evil vs. Evil Bitch in Sheep's Clothing You Killed My Father Smoking Is Cool Title Drop Expository Hairstyle Change Yandere "Shaggy Dog" Story Lock and Load Montage Break the Haughty Not So Stoic Video Credits Ambiguously Gay Arranged Marriage Artistic License – Law Dressing as the Enemy Darkest Hour Beauty Is Never Tarnished Spanner in the Works Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Took a Level in Badass Meaningful Name Italian Films Our Zombies Are Different Awesome, but Impractical Foreshadowing Bond Villain Stupidity Truth in Television O.O.C. Is Serious Business Russian Films Actually Pretty Funny And the Adventure Continues Get Out! Fiery Redhead Cool Shades Better to Die than Be Killed Eiffel Tower Effect Deliberately Monochrome No-Sell Artistic License – Military Fantastic Racism Evil Brit Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Drill Sergeant Nasty Broken Pedestal Smug Snake Rousing Speech Ambiguous Ending Chekhov's Gun Put on a Bus Evil Counterpart Canadian Movies Television Movie Index Cool Guns Storming the Castle Re-Cut Throwing Your Sword Always Works Slasher Smile Ax-Crazy Freeze-Frame Bonus Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Frame-Up Kubrick Stare