Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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