Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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