Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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