Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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