Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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