Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

A character has or has had their face gruesomely disfigured. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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