Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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