Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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