Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

Grotesque body structures, human or not. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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