History Main / FacialHorror

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Franky gets caught in an explosion so powerful that it ''blows his skin off.'' Luckily, he's a cyborg, but the sight of his unskinned face is pretty terrifying. It's PlayedForLaughs as much as horror, [[BlackComedy though]].

** DarthWiki/DarthVader. Yeah, you probably don't want to see what's behind that mask...

* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': A chimp goes crazy at a filming of a sitcom. One of the survivors of the attack, Mary Jo Elliot, had her face mauled by the chimp.

** In the WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37447840/chapters/93454369 Burned,]] the plot is kicked off when Pepa accidentally strikes Camilo with lightning. Half of his face is scared because of this.

* ''Nope'': A chimp goes crazy at a filming of a sitcom. One of the survivors of the attack, Mary Jo Elliot, had her face mauled by the chimp.

* Film/Nope(2022): A chimp goes crazy at a filming of a sitcom. One of the survivors of the attack, Mary Jo Elliot, had her face mauled by the chimp.

* Film/Nope: A chimp goes crazy at a filming of a sitcom. One of the survivors of the attack, Mary Jo Elliot, had her face mauled by the chimp.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''
** Two-Face 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]].

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s covered in tumors and his face is no exception, lacking hair and featuring bumpy, rough skin, though this also is BodyHorror as said condition is all over his body. ComicBook/UltimateMarvel [[AdaptationalUgliness made this worse]] as its version of Wade is a cyborg whose skull is on display and the top missing, exposing his brain with a dome covering his head.

* In ''ComicBook/TheGoon'', minor villain Houstus Graves is cursed with this when he agrees to provide the Zombie Priest with fresh cadavers. His face becomes increasingly distorted, and his wife [[DeathByChildbirth dies giving birth]] to two sons so grotesque they must hide their faces behind burlap sacks.

* In ''[[ComicBook/BrandNewDay Grim Hunt]]'', after Spider-Man has been pushed to his limit, he presses his hand to the villain's face and uses his wall-crawling ability to rip the skin off.
** This is parallel to Spidey's imperfect clone, Kaine, whose spider-powers are amplified and twisted; back in the 90s, before his HeelFaceTurn in modern times, Kaine would use his gripping power to burn his hand-print into his murder victims' faces. The criss-cross patterns of the lines of his hand would scar, leaving behind what he called "The Mark of Kaine."
* ComicBook/JonahHex has the right side of his face scarred. DependingOnTheArtist, he can just be the bulging eye, permanent sneer, and the mouth tendon, some will remember that he got these from being burned and adding burn scars, and others will make him look like a mirror-flipped version of Two-Face in a cowboy hat.

* Dr. Destiny, a classic ''ComicBook/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/TheSandman1989'' 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'' 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.
** Another ''Thor'' villain, Harald Jaekelsson from ''ComicBook/ThorVikings'', also counts as this by virtue of being a thousand-year-old TechnicallyLivingZombie.

* Arseface from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. A BungledSuicide attempt with a shotgun left him with that looks like an arse.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' has Mazikeen, Lucifer's lover/[[TheDragon Dragon]]. [[TwoFaced 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]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Stray}}'': [[spoiler:The Doberman's killer(s) has(have)]] a scar going right down the middle of [[spoiler:his(their)]] face.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Red Skull calmly sliced off his own face, just to stop looking like his dad.
** The other versions of ''ComicBook/RedSkull'' sometimes have the skull be a mask, [[{{Squick}} some don't]]. In the mainstream stories it's usually caused by The Dust Of Death poison, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own weapon]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Wildstar}}'': At the start of the "Sky Zero" Four-Parter, Wildstar forcibly removes a bounty hunter's [[TheSymbiote Alien Symbiote]], which is attached to his face. He ends up taking the skin off the guy's head.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After Paula's HeelFaceTurn her face was horribly burnt in a fire when she entered a munitions factory that had already been set alight by Nazi spies she'd previously been collaborating with (under duress—they had her daughter) in order to find and disable the explosive device in the factory that would have made everything so much worse. This scarring is never shown as she is bandaged or wears a veil over it, but other character's reactions make it clear it has thoroughly disfigured her.
** In the ComicBook/{{Huntress}} feature she fights the human trafficker Herbert Hynde whose face seems to be chemically scarred with most of his nose and his lips gone.

* Whilst many Villains in the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic strip had deformed faces often overlapping with NightmareFace, only a few had concrete explanations outside of EvilMakesYouUgly.
** TheBlank, underneath his featureless mask had a [[https://live.staticflickr.com/1191/5100501225_a2f9dbafb0_b.jpg decayed skull-like face]], resembling the [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 Lon Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera]], supposedly obtained when escaping prison.
** Haf and Haf had a similar ailment to Harvey Dent, being TwoFaced, but may actually have it ''worse'' than the trope image. Whilst the deformed side of Two Face at least still resembles an actual face, Haf and Haf's [[https://assets.mycast.io/characters/24135_normal.jpg?1523957841 bad side]] is in such a mess it actually appears to be melting and, averting EyesAreUnbreakable, has no eye visible within his sagging flesh.
** Mrs. Pruneface was an uncommonly large woman with sunken eyes, a nearly non-existent nose, and pointed teeth. Her facial disfigurement was the result of a MolotovCocktail being thrown in her face while she and her husband were escaping Europe.

* In ''{{VideoGame/BioShock 1}}'', the villainous Andrew Ryan is one of few non-disfigured people left in Rapture, having forced the entire population to join his super soldier army - a process which entails insanity, cancerous growths, and facial disfigurements. In the last quarter, the player [[spoiler:repeatedly bashes his face in with Ryan's own golf club]]. Ryan ends up looking not unlike the "splicers" he created and sent after you.

* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Vol. 6 episode "The Lady in the Shoe" we finally see what's under Adam Taurus' mask, and it's not pretty, to say the least... [[spoiler:He was branded with the '''S.D.C.''' logo across his '''left eye'''. Said eye has red sclera and a grey and black iris, implying that it's heavily damaged and possibly blind.]]

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyJusticeForAll'': The right side of [[spoiler:Matt Engarde's]] face has [[spoiler:a very nasty scar that also shows his evil.]]

* ''Film/BatmanForever'': How Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face. Unlike ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' iteration, the facial scarring was the result of an acid attack by underworld kingpin Boss Maroni.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang Magnus Greel]]'s face looks like it's melting, or turning to spaghetti, due to a bizarre mutation.

* Played for laughs on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Elaine's handsome outdoorsy boyfriend takes a big fall while rock climbing with George and Kramer - by the looks of the bandages, he landed square on his face. He's not terribly upset, but Elaine (who had emphatically denied the attraction wasn't all physical) pointedly asks him if he recalls the doctors mentioning "horrible scars" or "radical reconstructive surgery".

* ''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.

* In ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'', [[spoiler: Trevor’s]] skin does not keep up with his ever-shifting muscles, and constantly tears away from itself.