History Main / FacialHorror

* ''Film/{{Clawed}}: Expect to see a lot of deformed, mutilated faces in this moive. Sheriff Reynolds has claw marks on his face in the FramingDevice.

* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': At [[spoiler:the cast party]], Elisa sees a boy singing a song to the accordion. The right half of the boy's face looks droopy and folded.

* In ''Fil/{{Faceless}}'', Ingrid's face is hideously disfigured when one of her brother's former patients throws acid in it. Her brother then surgically mutilates several over beautiful women in attempt to find a cure for her.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''
** ComicBook/TwoFace is a prime example. As mentioned below, it's especially gruesome in the ComicBook/New52, the Nolan films, and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''. [[DependingOnTheArtist Some artists]], as well as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the aforementioned ''Arkham'' series, have gone into BodyHorror and included his left arm in the scarring with [[spoiler: a hallucination of the Joker in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'' not-subtly wondering to Batman if this included Two-Face's penis.]]
** It also happened to ComicBook/TheJoker during the incident with the vat of acid. Exaggerated in the ComicBook/New52, especially when ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'' comes around.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' from .
** ComicBook/DoctorDoom, although of course a) you never do see his face, only people occasionally reacting in horror, and b) as a result, no two writers agree on how bad Doom's face is. Some say his face was horrifically disfigured in a lab accident, with acid scars and burn marks and all that, while some say it was a small cut, which his pride and vanity exaggerated into a horrifying injury. And some combine the two; he suffered a minor cut from the accident, then massive burns when he put on his trademark mask without waiting for it to cool. ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' ultimately shows Doom's face, hideously mutilated and the only thing he couldn't fix.

** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' has the original Bonnie, who completely lacks a face save for a lower jaw and two faint lights serving as eyes.

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* Dr. Destiny, a classic ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain is typically portrayed with a SkullForAHead, originally as a result of [[CannotDream the League ridding him of his ability to dream]]. However, for his appearances in the later 1980s-early 1990s (most notably, ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''), this got extended into full BodyHorror with his whole body becoming emaciated.[[note]]Creator/GrantMorrison, the writer of ''Arkham Asylum'', even stated in his notes he never bought the classic [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]-esque look Destiny had.[[/note]]
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' from Marvel Comics could count as this as well. Half of his face was badly scarred by a wizard he killed, who managed to strike back before dying.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has Mazikeen, Lucifer's lover/[[TheDragon Dragon]]. One side of her face is beautiful, while the other side is horribly mangled and appears to be rotting. She considers the disfigured half a point of pride, as it [[RedRightHand symbolizes her demonic heritage.]] When it gets healed against her will, [[BerserkButton she takes it rather poorly.]] [[note]] Mazikeen is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent one of the Lilim]], and her half-rotted face is the result of deliberate shapeshifting choice instead of injury. She could have "healed" herself at any time. But when she is "healed" by an outside party, she's bound into one shape, which she hates. [[/note]]

* ''WebAnimation/DingoDoodles'': It turns out that this is the reason why Gothi keeps her face covered with a wooden mask. [[spoiler:Her entire face was completely cut off. She has no skin, nose, or lips under the mask]]. The sight of this is disturbing enough that it makes one person who sees it vomit.

** The episode "The Man with Two Brians" had Peter watching an episode of ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' where Johnny Knoxville gets half of his face blown off with a shotgun, exposing his skull.

** The incarnation of the Master [[FanNickname popularly known as]] Crispy Master. He has hit the end of his regeneration cycle and his body is literally rotting, with a fixed skull grin and googly eyes.

* In ''Webcomic/TheZombieHunters'', [[spoiler:Jameson]] gets eaten mostly on the face. Good stuff.

** [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/zarbi/images/8/88/Davros.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101020223109 Davros]], whose face (and ''the rest of his entire freaking body'') was horribly disfigured when his lab exploded.

** Stories written or script-edited by Eric Saward have a tendency to this. Examples include a soldier's face melted off by corrosive gas in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]], and prominent facially-disfigured characters in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash Timelash]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesofAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]".

* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' web episode "Peas in a Pod", Sniffles dies when one of Lumpy's clones wipes his face for an extended period of time and leaves a hole in his face exposing his skull. Both the fact that his face was eroded away and that he died can be chalked up to RuleOfFunny.

* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', Jagi's already-ugly face becomes hideously bloated towards the top after [[TheHero Kenshiro]] fights him for the first time. Afterward, he's never seen without his helmet on. One {{Mook}} walks in on him sleeping and sees his face, and is extremely terrified. [[AxCrazy Jagi, not the sanest of people to begin with]], [[DisproportionateRetribution kills him for this]].

* Byron Stark (a.k.a. Half Life) from ''ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers'' was injured and "[[AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing repaired]]" when an alien craft crashed into his parent's house back in the 1950s and most of the flesh, including his eye, on the left side of his face was replaced with transparent green goo that his skull can be seen through. A fair portion of the rest of his body got the same treatment.

* ''{{ComicBook/Wanted}}'': Mr. Rictus was severely burned in an industrial accident that ([[NearDeathExperience briefly)]] killed him. This has left him with his teeth gruesomely exposed in what seems like a permanent grin, hence his name.

See also GlasgowGrin, MouthStitchedShut, TwoFaced, and TearOffYourFace.

** One of the more infamous bits from [[ComicBook/TomDeFalcosFantasticFour Tom DeFalco's tenure]] is ComicBook/TheThing getting his face mutilated by ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, forced to wear a helmet for a while, and then end up with a red splotch for scar tissue until Hyperstorm reversed the damage.

Interestingly, even the most gruesome examples of this trope will often, like ComicBook/TwoFace from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', [[EyesAreUnbreakable leave the eyes completely intact]]. Perhaps this is to emphasize the facial disfigurement by contrast, or merely a sign that EyeScream is a whole different level of horror. Or perhaps it's so that the victim [[CruelMercy can see]] himself in a mirror.

* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': The worlf Bullseye is described to have a face scratched and torn in twenty different places.