Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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