Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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