Tropescilloscope: Facial Horror

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

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