Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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