Tropescilloscope: Body Horror

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

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