History Main / FacialHorror

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

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Zuko, who has half his face burned. But he manages to work it well and still have an EstrogenBrigade.

** The SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has the BigBad Amon, who was scarred by a Firebender and has to wear a WhiteMaskOfDoom to cover it up. [[spoiler:This isn't true; he was just pretending to be scarred to gain sympathy. [[RuleOfScary And probably as an excuse to wear that mask.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:320:[-''"You look like Freddy Krueger face-fucked a topographical map of Utah!"''-]]]

* OC [[SourOutsideSadInside Midnight]] suffers from this in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A Rose And A Thorn 5: Resurrection]]'' - the left side of his body was damaged in an explosion in #4, and now he has terrible scarring all down that side of his body, as well as requiring a WeCanRebuildHim ordeal. He's convinced that the amnesiac Mirage will never want him back but finds that she is still sympathetic to his appearance, even ''before'' she remembers him.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhantomBoy'': [[BigBad The Face]]'s... [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLHrkRYD5YHFRShtNUSBhEB0ENYvdncdTgyA&usqp=CAU face]], has a very abstract, colorful, and disjointed appearance that looks like a Creator/PabloPicasso painting. It stands out even against the film's already stylized and abstract style.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhantomBoy'': [[BigBad The Face]]'s... face, looks like a Picasso painting. Don't believe me? [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLHrkRYD5YHFRShtNUSBhEB0ENYvdncdTgyA&usqp=CAU See for yourself.]]

* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': The right side of Hanako's face is severely scarred from when she was caught in a house fire several years before the story takes place. [[PeekABangs She grows out her hair to try and cover the damage.]] And it's not just the scars that explain why she's so [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars traumatized]]. [[spoiler: Her father died in the fire, her mother sacrificed herself to save her, and while the kids at the OrphanageOfLove she was sent to treated her well, in junior high, she was teased and bullied constantly by her classmates.]]

* FacialHorror/RealLife

Interestingly, even the most gruesome examples of this trope will often, like [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two-Face]] from ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'', [[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.

** In the [[Characters/BatmanHuntress Huntress]] feature, Helena fights a human trafficker named Herbert Hynde whose face seems to be chemically scarred -- most of his nose and his lips are gone.

** [[Characters/DoctorWhoDavros Davros]], whose face (and ''the rest of his entire freaking body'') was horribly disfigured when his lab exploded.

[[caption-width-right:320:[-''"[[BrutalHonesty You look like Freddy Krueger face-fucked a topographical map of Utah!]]"''-]]]

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' one of the white suit's face is ground off from having it held down on the railroad tracks. From a MOVING train.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Weirdmageddon", [[TheQuisling Preston Northwest offers his allegiance to Bill Cipher]], and has the functions of every orifice on his face rearranged. His mouth becomes a giant eye, his eye holes turn into a set of ears, and his ears turn into a pair of noses. [[{{Squick}} All of which is shown to the viewer, along with his pained and muffled screams from not having a mouth.]] How they ''ever'' managed to get that past Disney's censors will be a question for the ages.

* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint":

** The Cybermen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]" have cloth facemasks, black void eyes, and mouths that just sort of hang open while they talk, implying severe facial disfigurement going on underneath. It's part of why they are so [[UncannyValley disturbing]].

* One such ad from UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Against Drugs shows a Polaroid photograph featuring a man at a nightclub or rave smiling. Then, as the ad progresses, the man's face in the photo gradually turns uglier and angrier until it becomes a [[NightmareFace horrifying demon spawn]] bordering on the UncannyValley, before melting away. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBMlzYaS4Y Watch this on YouTube if you dare]]. The guy who uploaded it titled it simply "I've Just Shit Me Pants" and proclaimed it the scariest PIF he's ever seen, to the point that he says he doesn't want to see it in a lit up room in the middle of the day, let alone in a darkened cinema. People in the comments say that the ''thumbnail'' was enough for them.

** Toga is also subject to this after [[spoiler:ingesting Peter's blood. Causing half of her face to melt off and her left eye to go cloudy until she resembles Kaine from ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan.'']]
* [[GoodShepherd Priest]] suffers this in ''[[FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons Project Horizons]]'' when [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Sanguine]] [[BreathWeapon blows]] [[DeadlyGas Pink Cloud]] in his face, melting his eyes and sealing his mouth and nose shut.
* 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.

* OC [[SourOutsideSadInside Midnight]] suffers from this in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A Rose And A Thorn 5: Resurrection]]'' - the left side of his body was damaged in #4 in an explosion, and now he has terrible scarring all down that side of his body, as well as requiring a WeCanRebuildHim ordeal. He's convinced the amnesiac Mirage will never want him back but finds that she is still sympathetic to his appearance, even ''before'' she remembers him.
-->'''Mirage:''' ''([touching his scarred cheek]'' If she really loved you before, she would not care what you look like now. And if she did, she was not worth having.\\
'''Midnight:''' But she was...
* ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'': During the Battle of Tobe, Ozeki forcibly removes Yasashi's Oni mask, tearing off her face in the process.

** [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist The 2003 anime]] has [[spoiler:Frank Archer, who lost half his face ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe and half of the rest of his body]]'' while fighting in Lior. The half of his body that was destroyed was eventually replaced by automail.]]

Contrast: SunkenFace where the disfigurement is played for pure comedy.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* The Grunts and Brutes in ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''. The Grunts have grotesquely distended mouths, stretching all the way to their chest and past the sides of their heads. The Brutes, on the other hand, don't even have faces - their heads are ripped up masses of flesh with teeth protruding in random places and a single eye somewhere within.
* If you get stung by wasps in any game of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', your face will be noticeably affected, with one eye swollen shut, and the other swollen halfway. Talking with any of your villagers in this manner has the chance of frightening them, as they might mistake you for a monster, before their fright immediately turns to sympathy.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'':
** Once again, Two-Face. The damage done to his face is particularly gruesome here, much like in Nolan's films.
** Scarecrow's design in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' displays this as well. After Killer Croc mauled the guy in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', Crane is implied to have had to [[SelfSurgery reconstruct his own face]], with gruesome, terrifying, and undead-looking results. It's impossible to tell the difference between grafted-on burlap and actual flesh.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' has Two-Face once again, this time with his injuries caused by the Penguin in the climax of Episode 2 if the player chooses to help Catwoman instead of Harvey. His injuries look similar to those from the Nolan films, but with the added horror of ''continuing to fester and bleed long after''.
* In ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', 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.
* Concept art for ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' depicted that traveling through tears could result in the traveler being merged with versions of themself from the past, future, or alternate timelines, resulting in various facial deformities.
* The backstory for Our Lady of the Charred Visage in ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'' involves this. The people of her village worshipped her for her beauty, to the point they were praying to images of her face instead of the Miracle. Horrified at the sacrilege, she poured boiling oil on her face and joined a convent, but [[WoundThatWillNotHeal her burn scars never healed and never stopped smoking]]. You fight her as a boss, and the effects of the oil [[NightmareFace are all too apparent]].
* Handsome Jack from ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' wears a mask modeled after his original face because, as revealed in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', [[spoiler:after receiving a vision from a relic found in the Vault of the Sentinel, Lilith blasted it and branded Jack's face with the Vault symbol it depicted. It also [[EyeScream destroyed one of his eyes]], so his mask has a prosthetic eye attached to it.]]
** Comedic example in the Mad Moxxi's Wedding Day Massacre [[DownloadableContent DLC]], where completing the campaign awards you with a head customization item that pulls off the player's face exposing their skull to mimic the Goliath's exposed head. In the case of [[TheFaceless Zer0]], it reveals that he's robotic underneath but amusingly is called "N0t [=C4n0n=]".
** In ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''' fourth episode, Rhys needs to scan [[spoiler: Vasquez]]'s corpse to make a disguise. When he gets back to where the body is, he finds [[spoiler: Psychos have quite literally cut the face off the body, and ends up having to sneak through an alley full of sleeping Psychos to figure which one of the face-thieves is wearing Vasquez's stapled to his mask.]]
* Exaggerated in ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': If Lance can't escape the Beautifier in Vivi's Salon, the mechanical powder puffs will close in on his head, screw it up, and turn it into a skull!
* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The boss of the Clock Tower, the Child With a Chainsaw, is a cybernetic version of the earlier boss monster the Child. Its face is covered in mechanical panels that open up to reveal a particularly horrifying visage, as seen when it tries to stop Vincent from escaping at the end of the level.
* Near the start of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', a man is transformed into a necromorph right in front of you. It's not pretty.
* Much like most of the other body part horrors, this can be easily inflicted in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''. With enough wrestling skills, you can easily hold your opponent down by the head while you systematically pinch and gouge their facial features to your leisure.
* The various kinds of enemies in ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' all suffer from this. Ripped off or shredded flesh, gaping holes in the skull, impaling glass or metal struts, barbed wire wrapped tightly around the face, or any combination thereof, are all in vogue. One particularly rare and nasty substrain capable of invisibility has had its face... "peeled out" to resemble a writhing nest of tentacles, making them look somewhere between an open wound and a {{cthulhumanoid}}.
* Ull, the chieftain of the [[CannibalTribe Udam tribe]] in ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' has a melted nose and ears, and exposed cheek muscles, due to getting injured by [[{{Pyromaniac}} Izila]] fire arrows in the past. It makes him look inhuman.
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** The original game has the main character's eyes popping out of the Freddy suit he gets stuffed into on the GameOver screen, as well as a certain EasterEgg in which a poster changes to depict Freddy ripping the top part of his head off.
** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' has Withered Bonnie, who completely lacks a face save for a lower jaw and two faint lights serving as eyes.
** And then there's Springtrap from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3''. In two rare bootup screens, you can see [[spoiler:a human head inside him]], with two large eyes jammed into its sockets, hooks being dug into its cheeks and its mouth speared open and lacking a few teeth. It also completely lacks a nose.
** The entirety of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' animatronics can count as this, as each of them has multiple faceplates that open and close to expose their endoskeletons, which is ''especially'' prominent in each JumpScare.
* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', Alexander Leland Cayne (also known to players as Jack), is an EvilCripple with a motorized wheelchair and a half-flayed face. His left eye is also a discolored yellow.
* In ''VideoGame/LetItDie'', the first boss is a twisted handyman/hardware seller/gang leader with a beard made of screws and his arms stitched on his temples. According to the "Tales of Barbs" info, he rams a screw through his jaw every time he destroyed a rival gang.
* ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'': In the Legacy version of the game, Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary would take off her mask while pursuing the Big and Might be Bad Wolf. Players can see why she keeps her mask on: She is missing her skin, her teeth and one of her eyes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Lunacid}}'': The mummies found in the Temple of Silence have a massive cavity above their nose, looking like someone scooped out their brain through their face.
* The very appropriately named boss The Nightmare from ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' starts off with [[NightmareFace a face resembling]] Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'s [[NightmareFace monster]], which gradually falls apart in the most disgusting way possible as the fight progresses. To wit, [[EyeScream green goo comes out of its eye sockets]], running down to its chin. Then the surface comes off, revealing goo everywhere and what look like ''[[ExtraEyes four more eyes]]'' higher up! Then the whole face starts ''melting away'' to the extent that one of the eyes nearly falls off!
* One of the antagonists of ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' is the Tower of Sauron. The lower half of his face looks necrotized, and he wears armor that shows off his skeletal mouth.
** In the same fashion, this can apply to some of the [[OurOrksAreDifferent Uruk]] [[EliteMook Captains]] you can encounter, thanks to the [[CastOfSnowflakes Nemesis System]]. Uruks with faces distorted by cancerous-looking pustules, or facial scarring, all the way up to having their entire head wrapped in a bag from the injuries [[AntiHero Talion]] inflicted on them.
* Sheltem the Dark from ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' has a classic Two-Face appearance under his helm. [[spoiler:Since he's an android]], keeping it that way seems to be a deliberate choice.
* ''VideoGame/Persona2'':
** The Emblem Curse in ''Innocent Sin''. While not explicitly shown in the games, as all students that have it cover their heads with bandages, the anime trailer shows that their faces are ''literally melting''.
** Tatsuya Sudou in both parts of the duology gets half of his face burned off (and loses his eye in the process, both times). He's pretty incensed about it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': When characters first awaken to their eponymous Personas, they have to rip off masks that are ''part of their faces'', causing blood to erupt as they for all intents and purposes ''rip their own skin off''.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** Nemesis from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' has brown, rotting skin, his lips have been pared back so there's a permanent grimace on his face, his nose is missing, and one of his eyes is gone, with a row of staples running down from the top of his head across the empty socket.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', the Novistadors can melt Leon's face off with their acidic vomit. In the Japanese version, decapitations were replaced with facial disfigurement.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', the Majini get progressively more disfigured as the game goes on. The tribal Ndipaya, in particular, look like they've chewed their own lips off.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' The various J'avo encountered in the game all have significant facial deformities, ranging from lesions and cuts to [[EyesDoNotBelongThere multiple eyes in asymmetrical arrangements.]] In the case of [[spoiler: Derek Simmons]], there are his virus-mutated form's first two stages, in which the skin and flesh on his body shift about on his body like Jenga pieces, letting one see his skull underneath.
* The titular character of ''VideoGame/SallyFace'' had this happen to him when he was a child, presumably as a result of a dog attack. We don't know what exactly happened to his face (apart from [[EyeScream losing an eye]]), but he had to wear a prosthetic face ever since. In the flashback, his face right after the attack is covered in so much blood that it's impossible to tell.
* ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'' has [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Lenaia, the Queen of Smiles]]. Her epithet as Queen of Smiles was earned by her habit of cutting a GlasgowGrin into the faces of the many, many people she had executed for increasingly frivolous and nonsensical reasons before hanging the corpses up as decoration. When her reign was finally cut short by a mob of vengeful villagers, it was seen fit to leave her with "the greatest smile of all." By the time you fight her in the game, she's a rotting corpse with a mess of gore where her lower jaw should be.
* [[http://opcfg.kontek.net/t3m/mindless_beast.png This]] is from ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}} 3''. This is your terrifying punishment for failing to [[spoiler:save Jennifer]] in time. Oh, and [[TakeOurWordForIt DON'T LOOK THIS UP AS A VIDEO.]] The music will freak you out.
* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', [[TheStarscream Arcann]]'s face was disfigured in his campaign against the Republic and Sith Empire, and most of it is obscured by a broken metal mask as a result. He gets rid of the mask when he becomes TheAtoner.
* Several cosmetics in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' follow this. One, in particular, is the Medic's [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Second_Opinion Second Opinion]], which gives him a discolored skin graft on the left side of his face that is also a malevolent SplitPersonality (well, more malevolent than normal Medic).
* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'':
** No-Face in ''Twisted Metal: Black'' had his eyes and tongue removed and his eye sockets and mouth stitched up ([[AllThereInTheManual the manual]] explains that he sees through telepathy) by a BackAlleyDoctor who lost several thousand dollars betting on him in a boxing match. [[spoiler:His story ends with him about to return the favor via ExtremeMeleeRevenge.]]
** In the 2012 reboot, Krista Sparks/Dollface receives a small cut on her face, which her mind envisions as a monstrous necrotizing infection over her entire mouth, leading to her getting her WhiteMaskOfDoom to hide it.
* While this is, of course, apparent for various zombies, ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead: Season Two'' takes a step further with the death of [[spoiler:William Carver, who has his face savagely beaten in by Kenny with a crowbar]]. The end result is... not pretty to look at, as a lot of his skin is peeled off with his broken skull showing underneath. Those who are more squeamish have the option to skip this scene, at least.
* ''VideoGame/Waxworks1992'', having tons of nightmarish death scenes, and many of those showing only your face naturally has tons of this. Particularly the plant mutants in the mineshaft, who will claw/melt your face off, if you're ''lucky''.
* In ''VideoGame/XCOM2'', the ADVENT soldiers are supposedly human, but actually underwent genetic manipulation that had the effect of altering their facial structure to resemble a mix between human and Sectoid. Their helmets conceal these disfigurements, only revealing their mouths, the one part of their face that still looks passably human.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
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* There are several real-life disorders that can cause facial disfigurements with varying levels of severity, such as craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (which causes excess calcium to build up in the skull), acromegaly (the result of excess growth hormones built up after the epiphyseal plate has closed), and Graves' ophthalmopathy (caused by autoantibodies binding on the skin, thyroid, and eye tissues).
* Jacqueline Saburido, badly burned in a car accident. She was hit by a drunk driver and her friends died in the fire. After many surgeries, she sort of looks [[http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Jacquis-Struggle-Video_1 like her old self]], but still very badly scarred and nothing like her original face. Unfortunately, Jacqueline died from her injuries in 2019. She was only 40 years old.
* Joseph Merrick, also known as "The Elephant Man," an Englishman from the 19th century who was well known for his face and body disfigurements of unknown causes.
* Fakhra Younus, a Pakistani woman who was the victim of an acid attack by her then-husband. She went through more than three dozen surgeries abroad over a decade in an effort to repair her face before [[DrivenToSuicide taking her own life]] in 2012. Her case brought international attention to the growing problem of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing acid attacks]] in South Asia, with at least eighty percent of victims being female.
* Dallas Wiens had his face completely destroyed (with only his lipless mouth left) by electric shock before getting a full facial transplant.
* Charla Nash, a woman who was mauled by her neighbors' pet chimpanzee before receiving a facial transplant.
* Connie Culp, before becoming the first person in the U.S. to get a facial transplant.
* Isabelle Dinoire was the first person to receive a partial face transplant after her own Labrador mauled her. Looking up pre-operative images is rather horrific. Another warning, there is another aspect to the incident that shouldn't be read by the squeamish. It describes what could happen if she stops taking her medicine. [[spoiler:Her newly transplanted face will "slough off"; that is, it will fall apart in bits and pieces.]] Tragically, the suppression of her immune system caused her to develop cancer and die 11 years after the operation.
* Raymond Robinson, aka "The Green Man", electrocuted at age 8 trying to see a bird's nest. He spent the rest of his life making belts for a living and taking walks at night before dying at a very old age. It's more sad than scary if you think about it.
* Emmett Till (posthumous example). He was beaten up, tortured (including [[EyeScream having his eyes gouged out]]), shot, and left to rot in a river for a few days. His disfigured, decaying face was purposely displayed to highlight the cruelty of lynching.
* James Vance, the real-life inspiration for the character Arseface of the comic series ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''.
* Music/MichaelJackson is an odd example. While his dramatic change in facial appearance is commonly thought to be the result of constant facelifts, in reality his plastic surgeries consisted solely of a chin-dimpling and a number of nose jobs over the years (the first to fix a broken nose, the rest because the first one was botched). His thinning face was actually the result of weight loss, from both dietary changes and lupus, a painful autoimmune disease that eats away at one's bodily tissues (which is arguably more terrifying to think about than the rumors).
* Pete Burns of Dead or Alive is an infamous example of how plastic surgery can go wrong, and in his case, it's not just false hearsay. Infamously, one surgery was so badly botched it left him permanently disfigured. By the time he died, he looked like a very different man than the one in the music video for "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record Baby)", and not for the better.
* Lai Thi Do, a 15-year-old Vietnamese girl, before she had a ''12-pound'' facial tumor removed in 2008.
* Non-human example: [[http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/cat-rescue-adoption-faceless-chase-no-face Chase the cat]], also known as Chase No Face, who was seriously disfigured in an accident at four weeks old, the trauma of which caused her face to slough off. She has no eyelids, nose, or upper lip and extensive scar tissue as a result and requires medication every day to keep her eyes moist. In spite of this, she lives a happy life and is in no pain. In addition, she acts as a therapy cat for disfigured humans. She is something of a feline [[https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chase-No-Face/101516890806 Facebook celebrity]], and her (very heartwarming) blog can be found [[http://chasenoface.blogspot.com/ here]].
* Novemthree Siahaan, an Indonesian boy who had a rare condition that caused tumors to take over most of his face. The tumors were removed but regrew and he sadly eventually died.
* The case of a horrific bloody assault in [[OnlyInFlorida Miami]] where a naked man named Rudy Eugene attempted to gnaw off the face (not bite, but GNAW) of a homeless victim named Ronald Poppo on a pedestrian ramp near a freeway. Even after the first shot, the drug-addled Eugene still continued to bite until he was finally killed by several more rounds of police gunfire. Poppo was left with his face ripped off, his eyes gouged, and his nose mauled, leaving only his goatee. You may kindly throw up now.
* It happened again in China, where a drunken bus driver named Dong chewed the face of a woman named Du.
* Denise Wagoner, aka [[HarsherInHindsight the real]] "[[Music/ThrobbingGristle hamburger lady]]". Search at your own risk.
* Another non-human example: Kabang, a female hero Aspin (dog) in the Philippines, saved two young girls from being run over by a motorcycle, only to have her face disfigured. This, for the dog, is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and a TearJerker.
* Any 2nd-degree or worse burns to the face.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI brought about many advances in plastic surgery, in large part because medical advances were saving men who had suffered horribly disfiguring wounds that would have killed them otherwise. The French term for them was ''"gueules cassées,"'' or "broken faces." Sir Harold Delf Gillies was one of the doctors who tended to these wounds and used skin grafts to repair the damage, but after one patient died of strain (from infection after too much skin was taken from his chest), Dr. Gillies created the "tube pedicle" (a tube of skin that attached to the site) to [[http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b7/86/84/b786848f158ee1852e8dbc2a29d848a0.jpg regrow the damage]]. Those who couldn't get surgery would buy prostheses from artists such as Anna Coleman Ladd who made masks that looked like they were the same as the [[https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/09/25/before-and-after-cropped_wide-3a7a4f3e06cd96b6e20352d5d016296363cff94b.jpg?s=1400 rest of the body]].
* Noma, a bacterial infection resulting from poor nutrition and dental hygiene (hence why it has virtually disappeared outside of Africa), eats away at the victim's flesh, ultimately creating a scab that falls off to leave a gaping hole in the (often now misshapen) jaw. The worst part is that it mostly occurs in young children.
* An unlucky cow got 80% of its face torn off after colliding with a train, with the remaining half landing just a few feet away. Still alive, it continued to stand and walk. A [[http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=69336 link]] is provided but it is seriously, seriously {{NSFW}}.
* Any suicides or homicides from being shot in the face or head. In severe cases, the face and head can be turned into hamburger meat or pushed into the skull. If extremely lucky, the damage can be repaired and the person can survive, but probably with at least ''some'' disfigurement. For example, in UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} during the [[UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests Winter War]], UsefulNotes/SimoHayha (nicknamed "the White Death," and probably the deadliest sniper of all time) took a ''14.5mm explosive anti-tank round to the face''. The bullet crushed his jaw and blew off his left cheek, leaving him permanently TwoFaced ([[https://frontierpartisans.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2amHhMq.jpg]], [[https://www.simohayha.com/assets/simohayha/simo-hayha-medals.jpg]]), but he ''survived''. And the best part? Immediately after being shot, Häyhä proceeded to kill the [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Red Army soldier]] who shot him.
* Tobacco can have ''nasty'' effects on the mouth, including cancers that require disfiguring surgery. UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud needed ''thirty-four'' operations, starting with the ''removal of part of his jaw'' in 1923 (he wore a prosthesis from then on), and continuing over the next sixteen years until the cancer became terminal and he [[ICannotSelfTerminate convinced a doctor]] to MercyKill him. Even through all that suffering, though, the man never stopped smoking.
* The UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}n musician Winston "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowman Yellowman]]" Foster also needed part of his jaw removed due to cancer, but he ''doesn't'' wear a prosthesis, so the left side of his face sags like the aforementioned Simo Häyhä. In this case, the cancer spread to Foster's jaw from his skin -- likely due to his albinism, which leaves his skin unprotected from the sun.
* After Creator/MarkHamill got in a car crash while filming ''Film/ANewHope'', rumors abounded about all the reconstructive surgery he supposedly needed. [[SubvertedTrope It turned out to be just a broken nose]], but considering all the UncannyValleyMakeup he had to wear during ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'', one can see how the story got exaggerated.
* This, along with [[EyeScream blinding]] and [[GroinAttack castration]], was a popular way to deal with political opponents in the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire. The logic was that, as {{God}}'s worldly representative, TheEmperor had to be physically immaculate. [[CripplingTheCompetition Disfiguring the competition]] thus took them out of the running. (Meanwhile, castration had the added benefit of ensuring that a defeated opponent couldn't produce an heir.) Mutilation was also seen as more merciful than execution because it gave victims a chance to repent and save their souls.
** The Byzantine's [[VitrolicBestBuds neighbour empire]] the Sassanids (and their Parthian predecessors) also had laws that demanded the Shahanshah be in perfect physical health, so at any given time half the princes would be [[EyeScream blind, or missing their eyelids]].
* The Tasmanian devil population is in danger because of the devil facial tumor disease, a contagious cancer passed around by their face-biting habits. Their faces suffer gross deformation which damages their skull and ultimately starves them to death.
* An anti-meth PSA features a middle-aged man reading a blog entry about his problems with meth. He tried to hang himself, but he twitched so hard that the rope couldn’t hold him. So he shot himself instead- and lived. At the end of the PSA, he reveals his face to show that the gunshot has deformed his mouth.
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* [[FacialHorror/LiveActionFilms Films - Live-Action]]

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* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thanos suffering from a horrible burn scar on the left of his face, including the loss of an entire ear. This is because [[spoiler:he's destroyed the Infinity Stones using their own power, and the power surge has seemingly destroyed the gauntlet and taken Thanos's left side as a result]]. Later, [[spoiler:Tony is shown with the same scar after snapping Thanos and his forces out of existence]].
* ''Film/BatmanForever'': How Harvey Dent becomes ComicBook/TwoFace. Unlike ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' iteration, the facial scarring was the result of an acid attack by underworld kingpin Boss Maroni.
** ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'': This is also how Jack Napier became ComicBook/TheJoker; a combination of being shot through the face and a ''huge'' vat of acid (which did wonders to the rest of his body and hair too). Later, he disfigures his girlfriend Alicia by corroding half her face.
* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': Barbara's first attempt to frighten off the new tenants of their house. When they open the closet door, she's swinging from a noose - then yanks her face off, leaving a freaky skull with bugged-out eyeballs. Too bad they couldn't see her...
* ''Film/{{Bethany}}'': In one scene, when Claire looks at herself in the bathroom mirror, she sees the left side of her face is drooping. She starts pulling on it, causing a cut to appear on her forehead. She then pulls the drooping part off, revealing a while surface covered in cracks underneath. Thankfully, it's a hallucination.
** [[spoiler:When Claire and Bethany were kids, their mom stitched a mask to Bethany's face]]
* ''Film/BloodBags'': The killer's face is extremely swollen, and missing its lips.
* ''Film/BloodPi'': Amber kills a cheerleader with a knife InTheBack, and then cuts off part of her face to make into a DominoMask.
* ''Film/BloodWidow'': The killer catches [[spoiler:Hugh]] in the face with her cat-o-nine-tails, and then yanks back hard, ripping chunks off [[spoiler:his]] face.
* ''Film/{{Bloodshot|2020}}'': Among the injuries that Ray takes and regenerates with his HealingFactor are shots that tear the skin off the left side of his face to expose his teeth.
* ''Film/TheBurning'': Cropsy has a hideously scarred face as a result of a DeadlyPrank that [[ManOnFire set him on fire]], and is eventually finished off with an axe to the face.
* ''Film/CainHill'': While looking about the titular ABandonedHospital, one of the crew finds a dead body with lots of lacerations on its face.
* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': When the evil Red Skull peels off his mask to reveal the facial deformity that gave him his name, sidekick Bucky mutters to Cap, "You don't have one of those, do you?"
* ''Film/Carrie2013'': [[spoiler:AlphaBitch Chris Hargensen gets thrown through a windshield when Carrie crashes her car, leaving her face torn up with huge shards of glass sticking out.]]
* ''Film/TheCasino'' is an excruciatingly violent Creator/ShawBrothers action film, whose highlights include a henchman whose face gets stomped into a red pulp. There is a close-up on his bloodied face, and it's NOT pretty. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kRBTLr-TZ68/SYPqj6D_nqI/AAAAAAAAFtw/XNDtbgEE5Bs/s1600-h/casino19 See for yourself]]. ('''WARNING: GRAPHIC GORE ALERT''')
* ''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.
* ''Film/{{Clawed}}'': Expect to see a lot of deformed, mutilated faces in this movie. Sheriff Reynolds has claw marks on his face in the FramingDevice.
* ''Film/ClownKill'': The janitor's face has a large red area that looks very wrinkly. It appears to be a healed wound.
* ''Film/{{Clownface}}'': After stabbing his second on-screen victim, Clownface cuts part of his face off [[spoiler:to feed it to Zoe]].
* ''Film/TheDark2018'': Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue, and Mina's face has many gruesome gaping wounds still on it from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
* How Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. This is particularly gruesome, as you can see the guy's jawbones.
** Aside from Dent, the Joker's habit of threatening to give his victims {{Glasgow grin}}s invokes this trope. [[GoryDiscretionShot You don't actually get to see any of them happen, though.]]
* Similarly, how Creator/LiamNeeson's character becomes the title character in ''Film/{{Darkman}}'' Durant's thugs burn his hands and dip his face in acid before rigging his lab to explode.
* Pictured on this page is Wade Wilson after he gains his powers in ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'', which results in his face getting horribly disfigured. He covers it up for most of the film with his outfit's mask, though at the end, Vanessa takes off Wade's mask to reveal a cutout of Creator/HughJackman's face hiding his scarred face before that is removed too. All of this even gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at one point.
* ''Film/DeepRising'' has a scene where one of the [[RuthlessModernPirates pirates]] is attacked and swallowed by a monster. His comrades manage to shoot him out, only to find to their horror that he'd been partially digested by the [[HollywoodAcid acidic]] innards of the creature. Half of his face and even part of his skull get eaten away, [[BodyHorror along with most of his body]].
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': [[spoiler:Krueger's]] face gets blown off by a grenade during the second half. [[spoiler:However, that doesn't kill him.]]
* Christiane's faceless state in ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace''.
* In ''Film/{{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.
* The premise of ''Film/FaceOff'', which involves Sean Archer taking Castor Troy's face and voice. Afterward, Archer's original face is left floating in a jar of water to keep it moisturized. Troy wakes from the coma, peels off the bandages in front of a mirror, and is very unhappy with what he sees. We only see a couple of very quick glances that show Troy walking around without his face on, prior to making Dr. Walsh give him Archer's original face.
* ''Film/FairyTaleATrueStory'': The soldier whom Frances befriends on the train suffered extreme wounds to his face, which for most people must be offputting. She's completely undeterred though, and he thanks her later by chasing off a nasty reporter who'd been harassing her, coming to hear that fairies are real.
* ''Film/FightClub'': The Narrator beats the shit out of Angel Face's... um, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment face]] so brutally it's barely recognizably human, and most of his teeth are gone.
* ''Film/TheFinal'': Emily smears flesh-eating chemicals on [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather's]] faces in order to ruin their good looks, [[spoiler:as revenge for their bullying AlphaBitch tendencies. Bridget is seen in the BookEnds as an outcast, wearing a hoodie to hide her disfigured face.]]
* Seth Brundle's face falls off in a slimy mess near the end of ''Film/{{The Fly|1986}}''.
** ''Film/TheFlyII'': A security guard gets a faceful of acid vomit from Brundle's son. The worst part is, he's still breathing afterward.
* Over time, the mute colossus Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' has taken some serious facial damage. Notably, he took a boat motor to the face in [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives part six]]. It's little wonder he's seldom seen without his trademark hockey mask.
* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': A couple of examples.
** Rocco The Clown rips the mask, and face, off a park employee.
** When Morgan and Gerardo [[spoiler:kill Animal, they do so by pressing his face against a rotating hot dog grill]].
* In ''Film/TheGambler'', [[spoiler: Axel picks a fight with a pimp and the hooker he’s with slashes his face to defend said pimp. Axel actually looks happy about this once he escapes.]]
* The eponymous ''[[Film/TheGirlOnTheThirdFloor Girl on the Third Floor]]'' has a bizarre, mangled face that looks more like ground beef than anything. It's possible that [[spoiler:this was the state her body was left in when she was originally killed]]. There's also the death of [[spoiler: Milo, whose left eye is replaced by a gaping hole when Sarah hits him with a hammer]] and the state of [[spoiler:(the fake) Don's face when Liz finds him after attempting to cut the Nymph's marbles out of his body]].
* ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad''. In the {{backstory}}, the Grand Vizier of Marabia had his whole head badly scarred by a fireball (think melted wax). He wears a helmet throughout, until near the end when he takes it off to frighten some natives with his hideous face.
* At the end of ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'', Michael Myers is set on fire and presumed dead. Cue the horrific morgue scene that reveals his mask had ''melted into his face''...[[spoiler:''and he was still alive''.]]
* Creator/GaryOldman's character in ''Film/{{Hannibal}}''. [[http://www.killerfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/gary-oldman-hannibal-300x199.jpg Here.]]
* ''Film/Hayride2'': Ol' Pitchfork kills one of the hospital orderlies by pressing his head against a scalding hot pipe. In his struggle to escape, the orderly tries to get his face off the pipe, showing that his flesh has melted against the pipe's surface.
* ''Film/{{Head}}'': Mild example - this is when Music/TheMonkees made every effort to distance themselves from their cultivated image. In a parody of boxing movies, preteen heartthrob Davy Jones got his face beaten to a bloody pulp by sparring partner Sonny Liston (think the '60s era Mike Tyson). Intercut into this we see Jones joshing with Liston beforehand, saying "You won't hurt the face, will you? Million-dollar face, this is!"
* ''Film/HouseOfTheWitch'': Dax gets a wound on his back early on. As time goes on, the wound somehow turns into a large collection of pustules covering half his face.
* ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum''[=/=]''Film/HouseOfWax1953'' The cloaked and horribly disfigured killer, [[spoiler: revealed to be Henry Jarrod, the wax sculptor who was presumed dead when his business partner set his museum on fire. He made a [[LatexPerfection perfect wax mask of his former face]] when he returned to open [[WaxMuseumMorgue his new museum]].]]
** Done again by Creator/VincentPrice in his ''[[Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes]]'' film series, almost certainly as an homage.
** ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'': Vincent wears a wax mask to hide [[spoiler:a whole section of his face ''missing'' from when he was separated from his brother Bo, joined at the back of the latter's head]].
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': [[spoiler:The beautiful tribute, Glimmer, is horribly disfigured after she is stung by trackerjackers. Her face is particularly horrifying in the movie version.]]
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' has this in the climax of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. Safe to say, it was a really stupid move for ThoseWackyNazis to open TheArkOfTheCovenant. While the soldiers are disposed of very quickly by [[ShockAndAwe burning lightning]], the main villains are [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed brutally via head-related injuries]]. [[TheStoic Herman Dietrich]] has his head shriveled and crushed inwards, [[TortureTechnician Arnold Toht]] [[ImMelting has his face melted off his skull]], and [[TheHeavy René Belloq]] is swathed in holy flame before [[YourHeadAsplode his head literally explodes.]]
* ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'': An infamous scene where a man caves in another man's face with a fire extinguisher. [[spoiler:Poor Alex also has her face beaten and mangled so badly that she will never be beautiful again.]]
* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': Jennifer gets revenge on one of her rapists via putting lye in the tub of water she has him suspended over. His face falls in when he can't hold the position anymore and his face ''burns and melts off including his tongue''.
* The film version of ''Film/JonahHex'' depicted a more {{pragmatic|Adaptation}} version of this, as (which [[WebVideo/TheBookWasBetter Krimson Rogue]] rightfully pointed out), no one's willing to lose their right cheek for a part and the movie didn't have the budget to do a motion capture effect and opted to use make-up.
* ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'': Håkan [[spoiler:pours acid over his own face as an attempt to become unidentifiable to the police. He lives, and the effect is ''horrifying''.]]
* Mel Gibson in ''Film/TheManWithoutAFace''.
* ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'' features a fatal and extremely gruesome jaw dislocation scene.
* ''Film/TheMonsterMaker'': Lawrence's face becomes hideously distorted by the acromegaly Dr. Markoff infects him with. Acromegaly causes distortion of the extremities (hands, feet, and face), and the version created by Markoff causes to Lawrence to advance in a week to a state that would normally take two years of the disease's progression. Glimpsing her father's face in a darkened room causes Patricia to scream and faint.
* ''Film/MurderParty'': [[spoiler:Macon tries to light a cigarette while wearing a rubber or latex wolf mask, which naturally catches ablaze. His friend Lexi and the photo assistant of his friend Paul manage to put the fire out, but not before it horribly disfigures him, fusing much of the mask to his face. He remains like this until he dies, though that isn't very much later.]]
* Freddy Krueger, the iconic dream demon from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', has extensive burns all over his body, the result of the parents of Elm Street taking the law into their own hands during his days as the Springwood Slasher.
* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonight'': The killer twins' bodies have boils covering their bodies. [[spoiler:This is likely the result of the twins being host to a black alien slime that came out of a space rock they hid under their bed]]. The highest concentration of boils seems to be on the twins' faces, and feet.
** In [[Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII the sequel]], when [[spoiler:Zosia kills Wanessa]], one of the first things [[spoiler:she]] does is tear all the skin off [[spoiler:her]] face.
* ''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.
* Another Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/OathOfDeath'', sees Jin Liang, the main character, being betrayed by his older sworn brother and becoming a wanted man. In order to evade authorities, he's forced to put a burning hot sword upon the left side of his face, and the aftermath isn't pretty at all.
* ''Film/OneNightInOctober'': At the climax of Michelle's story, when she has Jason in her garage, she reveals to him that she sliced all the skin off Hewitt's face.
* ''Film/TheOrphanage'': The fake social worker gets hit by a bus, and you can see her lower jaw completely unhinged, hanging off from her face. Even worse, before the face is fully shown the main character's husband tries giving her CPR.
** Ironically, her face ended up worse than [[spoiler:her son's Tomas, who was forced by her, because of his disfigured features, to wear an actually much more unsettling scarecrow mask]].
* One of the most well-known images of ''Film/{{Overlord|2018}}'' is its [[BigBad main antagonist]] Wafner missing most of his left cheek while sporting a SlasherSmile, after having been shot in the face about two-thirds through the film and taken the [[PsychoSerum serum]] to save his life.
* ''Film/PacificRim'': One of the {{Kaiju}} gets subjected to a dose of this during a deep-sea battle, thanks to a conveniently placed hydrothermal vent. Not enough to kill, but the thing had a lot less face by the time it broke free.
* A similar scene in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', except with the bottom of a bottle of wine. And later on, [[spoiler:the villain is given half a GlasgowGrin with a kitchen knife which gives him some trouble with enjoying whiskey afterwards]].
* ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', though the extent of Phantom's facial scarring has [[ProgressivelyPrettier noticeably decreased with each adaptation]].
** Creator/LonChaney's skull-like face in [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 the 1925 silent film]], which close to the description given in [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the original novel]].
** The [[Film/PhantomOfTheOpera1943 1943 version]] introduced the idea of the Phantom having not been born disfigured. In that adaptation, he was a normal-looking man until he was [[HollywoodAcid scarred by acid]].
** In the tradition of the 1943 version, the title character of [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1962 the 1962]] Film/HammerHorror adaption was an ordinary man disfigured by acid. However, they take his facial injuries even further with one of [[EyeScream his eyes having dissolved]] and his flesh slowly rotting and turning grey.
** The Phantom in [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1989 the 1989 version]] has no skin around his head at all, and his "mask" is a patchwork of skin that he has taken from his victims.
* After the eponymous ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' [[spoiler:destroys the videotapes and contracts keeping Swan, Phoenix and himself immortal, Swan’s face begins to rapidly putrefy before he is stabbed to death]].
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': Will Turner is searching a shipwreck for survivors when a man falls from aloft. Will helps the guy turn over, only to recoil in horror when he sees that his face is a twitching mass of sloughed-off skin and one moving eyeball due to an encounter with the giant suckers on the Kraken's tentacles.
* ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'': FatBastard Gomez suffers horrendous facial burns (and [[EyeScream loses an eye]]) when Antonio tosses a pan of boiling oil in his face while escaping the dungeon.
* ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'': One mook who attacks Rama gets the side of his face pressed against a hot stove, leaving the mook severely burned.
* ''Film/{{REC}}'': Alex has extremely nasty and gruesome bite wounds on his face after encountering Mrs. Izquierdo.
* ''Film/RedMist'': [[AssholeVictim Sean]] suffers arguably the most horrific death - having a funnel forcefully shoved into his mouth, duct-taped to his face... and ''industrial-strength acid'' poured into it. After his corpse is discovered, it is mentioned that half of his face had practically melted off.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'': It's revealed that [[spoiler:Amber Sweet's]] face is horrifically scarred from repeated low-quality surgeries. Rotti gets her a transplant, but during the climax, [[spoiler:her transplanted face falls off during her performance at the titular Genetic Opera, and she storms off the stage in embarrassment]].
* In the American remake of ''Film/TheRing'', [[spoiler:Noah's]] face is horribly distorted and shown in close-up after Samara killed him.
* In the ending of ''Film/RolliAmazingTales'', [[spoiler:the [[SinisterMinister High Priest]] is forced to enter the Rölli Forest from the Trashers' {{collapsing lair}}. His face starts deteriorating because [[WeakenedByTheLight the light and purity of the forest are detrimental to evil creatures such as him]]. He claims that this will be remedied once the Trashers are revigorated and the forest destroyed through pollution, but he's killed before this claim can be put to the test]].
* ''Film/{{Rush|2013}}'': Niki Lauda's horrific burns after being pulled out of his burning car during the German Grand Prix where his helmet was knocked off and the Nomex sock he wore was not enough to protect his face.
* The "reverse bear trap" device in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films does this to its victims, ripping their lower jaw off completely. Amanda is forced to escape from one in the first film, and since then it's become (along with the titular "cut off your foot to escape") the signature DeathTrap of the series.
** At the end of ''Film/SawVI'', [[spoiler: Hoffman]] is placed in a Reverse Bear Trap 2.0 and isn't able to get it off in time, so he places the arms of the device between bars on the window of the door out of the room, which causes it to only open partially. He is able to get it off before it opens completely and rips his jaw apart, but it does give him half a GlasgowGrin.
** ''Film/Saw3D'' finally shows the effects of the reverse bear trap when [[spoiler:Hoffman]] uses it to kill [[spoiler:Jill Tuck]].
* ''Film/{{Se7en}}'': The ''Pride'' victim is a model whose face has been mutilated by Doe; she was given the option to call for help and live disfigured, or commit suicide by taking pills.
* ''Film/ShallowGrave'': The scene where the titular grave is about to be filled. But the dental records need to be removed. Up comes the hammer, [[GoryDiscretionShot then down again, off-screen]]. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExsDEsd3pKw Crunch]]''.
* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': The villain looks pretty normal, until he's captured and confronted by his former boss, M, who sold him out to the Chinese. He explains how he was tortured for months before attempting to commit suicide via the CyanidePill in his back molar. It didn't work. What it did instead is revealed when he removes a prosthetic from his mouth and the left side of his face just ''sags inwards''.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** Darth Vader. Yeah, you probably don't want to see what's behind that mask...
** His master [[BigBad Palpatine]] had the [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse face of a kindly old man]] during his time as Chancellor. Then his own [[ShockAndAwe Force Lightning]] quite literally [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blew up in his face]], leaving him permanently disfigured. His eyes also permanently turned [[SupernaturalGoldEyes glowing yellow]], making them look much bigger in contrast with the rest of his face and further contributing to the creepiness. It's only somewhat mitigated by the [[InTheHood hooded robes]] he wore from that day forward.
** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', his {{fanboy}}ish successor Kylo Ren subverts this. The heroine Rey calls Ren a "creature in a mask", likening him to his idol Vader -- to which he responds with a DramaticUnmask that reveals [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse a pretty normal face]]. Later, [[spoiler:Rey slashes him across the face with a lightsaber, but even that scar isn't at all disfiguring]].
* ''Film/StrangeNature'': Joe and Michelle have some pretty deformed ones, though they looked like that before they came to town. Joe has small lumps and is missing his upper lip, while Michelle has several large lumps on her forehead.
** There's also Nikki's puppies, which has a unilateral cleft lip.
** Jodie's newborn daughter, Danielle, has a cleft lip as well as just a smooth surface with nostrils in place of a nose. [[BodyHorror Though that's just one of her many deformities.]]
** Finally, the two-faced wolf.
* Creator/LeslieNielsen's character in ''Film/SurfNinjas'' has half of his face squished by an elephant, forcing him to wear a half-mask a la ''The Phantom of the Opera''.
* ''Film/Suspiria2018'': [[spoiler:The viewer is treated a nice and very up-close shot of Olga's jaw being slowly twisted out of its hinges during her iconic [[CruelAndUnusualDeath 'destruction' scene]]. Later, we also see Olga's decomposing (but still breathing) body laying on the floor of the mirror room, complete with a few close-ups of her motionless and discolored face, fractured jaw still clearly visible]].
* In the "Cat from Hell" segment in ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'', the cat has killed nearly every member of an old man's family (to get revenge for some brutal animal testing he did to earn his fortune), and the old man hires a hitman to kill the cat. The cat keeps evading all attempts to kill it, getting a few claw swipes at the hitman's face, and then finishing him off by [[OrificeInvasion leaping into his mouth]], making the hitman choke to death as the cat is crawling down his throat. The old man is taken out when he comes back home, sees the hitman's body, sees [[OrificeEvacuation the cat crawl back out of the hitman's mouth]], and the old man dies of a heart attack.
* Film/{{Terrifier}}: Art the Clown does this to multiple victims. Notably, [[spoiler: this happens to the moves FinalGirl Victoria after Art eats her face.]]
* [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} The Terminator]], in all of the movies, takes plenty of face damage to show off the cybernetics underneath.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'': Leatherface has a disease that makes the skin on his face decay. it's only seen briefly in profile, but it isn't pretty.
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1993}}'': One of the guards/torturers in the dungeon is a hulking misfit with a very creepy face, disfigured by many severe burns and dermal neurofibromas.
* The climax of ''[[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' has two examples in quick succession: [[spoiler:First off, Optimus Prime breaks Megatron's arm and forces him to ''[[ArmCannon shoot]] half his own face off''. He then proceeds to go after the Fallen, delivers his [[MemeticMutation famous one-liner]], and doesn't wait for the Fallen to ''give'' it to him. (Contrary to popular belief, Fallen is actually killed by being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice punched through the chest]] and getting his [[OurSoulsAreDifferent spark]] ripped out.)]]
** Earlier, Optimus is in a three-on-one fight between Megatron, Starscream and [[AllThereInTheManual Grindor]], and kills the latter by stabbing a pair of hooks into his face and tearing his head apart.
* ''Film/TronLegacy'': One of the prisoners on the Recognizer has half of his face derezzed. When that particular program looks at Sam Flynn, he just growls.
* SoBadItsGood B-movie ''Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness'': Mike Strauber is a man who, among other things, cuts a chunk of his own face off when dared to do so.
* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'': When [[BigBad Roscoe]] kills [[spoiler:who he thinks is Ms. Hayes]], he presses her face against the stove top, leaving a large red burn mark covering half of it.
* ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'':
** Victoria is horribly disfigured by acid in a [[FreakLabAccident lab accident]] that melts the skin off her [[BeautyToBeast once beautiful but now grotesque face]].
** Neville has [[YouDirtyRat rats]] gnaw on his face.
** Molly uses her [[ManBitesMan teeth to rip chunks off another girl's face]]
** Carol's face turns into a skeleton after [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishing to be older]].
** A girl's face is burnt to a crisp after [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishing to be hot]].
* ''Film/TheWholeTruth2021'': The StringyHairedGhostGirl next door has a swollen right cheek. [[spoiler:Pinya had it in life too.]]
* ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'': The Djinn is particularly fond of mutilating people's faces. In the first film, for instance, he uses his powers to make a criminal unwillingly rip out a cop's lower jaw, tongue still intact.
* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' features the character Dr. Poison, who covers the lower half of her face with a segmented porcelain mask that makes her look like a broken doll. Towards the end, the mask is torn away to reveal that her nose and mouth are horribly burned and melted, giving her half a GlasgowGrin that's missing half its teeth.
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