Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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