Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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