Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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