History Main / TearOffYourFace

* In ''{{Poltergeist}}'' the man of the house hallucinates that he pulls off his own face.

* Orochimaru does in his first appearance. Offscreen thankfully.

* Peeling the skin downwards from the forehead, exposing the frontal bone, is one of the first steps in accessing the brain during an autopsy.

* [[DeathBySex Tina]] sort of does this to [[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] right before she dies. The "Sort Of" is there because Freddy let it happen to make himself even scarier, and it doesn't take.

* Do you know why [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] never removes his "mask?" Too bad we don't get to see him without the mask on because of that armchair he got in the email where he actually took off his mask.

* ''Repo! The Genetic Opera'' with Amber Sweet during her "Blame Not My Cheeks" song

* In ''BeetleJuice'', Barbra pulls her own face off in an attempt to frighten off the Deetzs. Unfortunately they can't see her.

* In ''ThomasTheTankEngine'', all locomotives have faces, but this is how one of the Scottish Twins actually kills the Spiteful Brakevan (a bullying caboose) at the end of the episode "Brake Van", by ramming into him [[IncrediblyLamePun face-on]], smashing the caboose to bits, and tearing off his face.

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There are few sights more gruesome than that of a human face with all the skin removed. Something about the [[UncannyValley absence of eyelids, lips, and the nose]] combined with the [[{{Gorn}} rather bloody results]] makes this an extremely powerful image. Sometimes, a character will have their face completely destroyed, while other times, their face will be cut off and preserved. BonusPoints if the one who does the cutting ends up [[FaceStealer wearing the face for themselves]]. Note that simply damaging the face isn't enough - to qualify, the entire face must be removed, leaving only some combination of muscle, teeth, blood, bone, and (usually) [[EyesAreUnbreakable eyes]].

* [[MortalKombat Scorpion's]] trademark [[FinishingMove Fatality]] has him doing this to ''himself''.

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[[caption-width-right:325:That's gotta hurt.]]

* In [[http://www.aorange.com/?p=177 this]] ''{{Femmegasm}}'' strip, Grimlock tears off [=Fizzy McBeer=]'s face.

-->--'''Optimus Prime''', ''[[{{Film/Transformers}} Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''

* In one of the more ridiculous moments of ''[[{{Film/Transformers}} Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen]]'', '''Optimus Prime''' shouts "Give me your FACE!" to [[spoiler: Megatron and [[AdaptationDecay The]] [[ObviousJudas Fallen]]]]. This quickly became a meme in the Transformers fandom.

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[[caption-width-right:325:That's gotta hurt.]]

* A MonsterOfTheWeek in ''TheXFiles'' conducts a ritual that will allow him to change his face by killing hospital patients. In the end, he cuts his face with a scalpel and rips it off, revealing the new one underneath it. Mulder later finds the old one lying on the floor.

There are few sights more gruesome than that of a human face with all the skin removed. Something about the [[UncannyValley absence of eyelids, lips, and the nose]] combined with the [[{{Gorn}} rather bloody results]] makes this an extremely powerful image. Sometimes, a character will have their face completely destroyed, while other times, their face will be cut off and preserved. BonusPoints if the one who does the cutting ends up [[FaceStealer wearing the face for themselves]]. Note that simply damaging the face isn't enough - to qualify, the entire face must be removed, leaving only some combination of muscle, teeth, blood, bone, and (usually) eyes.

* In the second movie in TheTexasChainsawMassacre series, a character gets his face cut off with an electric carving knife.
* Repo! The Genetic Opera with Amber Sweet during her Blame Not My Cheeks song
* One guy has face slashed off by a trap in ''Film/WrongTurn 3: Left for Dead''.

* ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' featured a clown with a tear-away face/

* An underground pit fighter in ''[[SpartacusBloodAndSand]]'' does this to defeated opponents, then wears their faces as masks.

* A few enemies in the ''ResidentEvil'' series can do this (for example the [[BigCreepyCrawlies novistators]] from 4 if they kill Leon with an acid-to-the-face attack).

* One of PocketGod's more nightmarish sacrifices.

* Jacob from DominicDeegan

* Happens in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbazH6aE2g this]] excerpt from the LookingForGroup movie.

* In ''ThomastheTankEngine'', all locomotives have faces, but this is how one of the Scottish Twins actually kills the Spiteful Brakevan (a bullying caboose) at the end of the episode "Brake Van", by ramming into him [[IncrediblyLamePun face-on]], smashing the caboose to bits, and tearing off his face.

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* In ''DeadAlive'' (aka ''Brain Dead''), one of the victims of the zombie outbreak has his face torn completely off.

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[[caption-width-right:350:... You look different, Harvey. [[DidYouGetANewHaircut New haircut?]]]]