Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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