Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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