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* Male ''and'' female example: this is the main point of the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6494704/1/Much_Better_Now Much Better Now.]] After Mai checks out the scars all over Zuko's body, he notices hers, including some she got by self-harming when she was younger.

* The above scene was spoofed in National Lampoon's ''LoadedWeapon1'' when Destiny shows off her various cosmetic surgery mishaps in comparison to Colt's over-the-top war wounds.
* A very similar scene also takes place in ''Film/TheReturnOfSwampThing'', except it's between a pair of male and female mercenaries both in the employ of the MadScientist BigBad.

* Hancock has a rather odd version in which Mary tells Hancock where he got all his scars. He has amnesia, and doesn't remember any of them.

* ''TheWindupGirl'' by Paolo Bacigalupi. Genetically-engineered concubine Emiko does a silent version of this when she's in bed with corporate spy Anderson Lake, trying to work out from his wounds something of his MysteriousPast.

* ''{{Leverage}}'' had Eliot ''and'' guest character Raquel Dayan showing each other their scars. All tropes were played straight for both of them.
* ''{{CougarTown}}'' had a young man Jules was about to sleep with ask her about a stomach scar in the pilot. She awkwardly claims she got knifed as a kid, then reveals it's from her C-Section.
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "The Harsh Light of Day" Parker examines the [[KissOfTheVampire scar on Buffy's neck that Angel gave her]]; Buffy isn't adverse to the attention. Likewise in "Buffy vs. Dracula" the Count slips into Buffy's bedroom and compels her to pull back her hair to reveal the scar.

->-- '''Henry V''', WilliamShakespeare

* ''{{Beauty and the Beast}}'', a past love notices the scar behind Catherine's ear. However, she only tells him "it's a long story" when he asks how she got it.

* A very similar scene also takes place in ''TheReturnOfSwampThing'', except it's between a pair of male and female mercenaries both in the employ of the MadScientist BigBad.

* The above scene was spoofed in National Lampoon's ''LoadedWeapon'' when Destiny shows off her various cosmetic surgery mishaps in comparison to Colt's over-the-top war wounds.
* A very similar scene also takes place in the SwampThing live-action movie, except it's between a pair of male and female mercenaries both in the employ of the MadScientist BigBad.

* The famous scene in ''[[LethalWeapon Lethal Weapon III]]'' where Martin Riggs and Lorna Cole start talking about the injuries they got as {{Cowboy Cop}}s; Cole chickens out when Riggs starts stripping off to show his properly.

* A subversion of the "mysterious badass" version occurs in {{Catch-22}} when Yossarian, an American WWII bombardier asks the Italian woman he has just slept with about the scars on her back. She tells him that she got them in an American air raid. She doesn't seem to take it personally though, because WarIsHell

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Buffy vs. Dracula" the Count slips into Buffy's bedroom and compels her to pull back her hair to reveal the [[KissOfTheVampire scar that Angel gave her]].

* A very similar scene also takes place in the SwampThing live-action movie, except it's between a pair of male and female mercenaries both in the employ of the EvilScientist BigBad.

* Gender-inverted in ''{{Ever17}}'', when Tsugumi shows her many scars to Takeshi during their gondola ride. Then they make love.

** Casca does this to Guts too, as she recants about all of the scars that he got while trying to protect her from General Adon and his troops. In one extremely sexy moment, she licks one of the wounds that she recently gave him, and says that she someday wants a scar on her body that was given to her by Guts. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Hmmm...]]

** Casca does this to Guts too, as she recants about all of the scars that he got while trying to protect her from General Adon and his troops. In one extremely sexy moment, she licks one of the wounds that she recently gave him, and says that she someday wants a scar on her body that was given to her by Guts. [[((Foreshadowing}} Hmmm...]]

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Buffy vs. Dracula" the Count slips into Buffy's bedroom and compels her to pull back her hair and reveal the [[KissOfTheVampire scar that Angel gave her]].

* In ''Rock'n'Rolla'' two Russian mobsters compare their scars while waiting in the car. Culminating with the tougher one presenting a scar he claims to be left by the tank track.

* In {{Rock'n'Rolla}} two Russian mobsters compare their scars while waiting in the car. Culminating with the tougher one presenting a scar he claims to be left by the tank track.