History Main / TearOffYourFace

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/{{Changes}]'', [[spoiler: Murphy]] slices the front of a Red Court noble's skull off with one of the Swords of the Cross. Not as horrific as some examples, as the vampire in question was wearing a mask, so the actual face is fully covered as it falls to the ground.

* The Female from ''ComicBook/{{The Boys}}'' has a tendency for maiming, delimbing and mutilating her enemies/victims. At one point, she walks into a room for a hit early on and while we don't witness it directly, the face of one of the criminals inside splatters against the window. We do get to witness her do this in a fight against a low tier superhero team, where she rips the face off clean off a rather pretty superheroine without actually killing her.

* There was a ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'' story that featured a demon that ripped the face off an angel and now wears it as a mask. It would make [[DealWithTheDevil deals]] for fame and fortune.

* It's normal for Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'s pal Mazikeen to be missing half her face, just don't try to "fix" it.
* Comicbook/MoonKnight infamously cut Bushman's face off, even ''wearing'' it once!

* Comicbook/{{Ultimate|Marvel}} Comicbook/RedSkull did this and gained his red face after killing over 200 men ''at 17'' in order to reject his father [[spoiler:Comicbook/CaptainAmerica]].

* Comicbook/BlackAdam did this to Father Time in the ''ComicBook/WorldWarIII'' miniseries, at the same time as he cracked a joke about Americans always trying to "save face".

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* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'' shorts, after the statue-making machine the whole cast has been abusing runs out of power and gets stuck in a statue of them all in a big hug, [[BigBad Black Hat]] facepalms, followed by ripping his face off. Yes, he has a bit of a temper.

''[[Film/{{Cabin Fever}} Oooh faced!]]''

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* ''Literature/ThursdayNext'': Acheron Hades took the face from his dying {{Mook|s}} Felix and applied it to a succession of abducted and brainwashed replacements. He later threatened to make Thursday the next Felix.
* ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': This, plus evisceration, is the primary M.O. of the DepravedDentist SerialKiller. The sight of a faceless victim is enough to make one priest throw up his whole breakfast (although in fairness, the child's corpse was found in a garbage dump, so the nauseating smells of decay certainly played a part).
* In the ''Literature/LauraCaxton'' books, when a vampire brings a victim BackFromTheDead, the psychological trauma of the event causes the revived person to rip their own face to shreds.

* In ''[[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1635: The Eastern Front]]'', an explosive trap set to take out the John George blows the face of his wife off her skull, the face winding up plastered onto the hindquarters of one of the horses hauling their carriage.
* In ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Changes]]'', [[spoiler: Murphy]] slices the front of a Red Court noble's skull off with one of the Swords of the Cross. Not as horrific as some examples, as the vampire in question was wearing a mask, so the actual face is fully covered as it falls to the ground.
* ''Literature/TheSagaOfArrowOdd'': When the half-trollish Ogmund and Odd fight at Geirrodsgard and Ogmund once again realizes it is looking bad for him, he tries to escape from Odd by diving into the earth (as trolls can). As Ogmund sinks into the ground, Odd gets hold of his beard, and rips his entire face off. As Ogmund is nigh-indestructible, he survives and takes to permanently wearing a mask.

* In the ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''Frantastic Voyage'', one of Franny's experiments going wrong because of her dog Igor's meddling has her Automatic Face Scrubber tear her face clean off. Fortunately, she had the surgical skills needed to reattach her face.

* Inverted in the [[BLAM/PuppetShows "Operatic Orange"]] sketch from ''Series/SesameStreet''. "L'AMOOOOOUUUUURRRRR-" (face explodes).
* An underground pit fighter in ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' does this to defeated opponents, then wears their faces as masks.
* A MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Series/TheXFiles'' conducts a ritual that will allow him to change his face by [[HumanSacrifice killing hospital patients as sacrifice]]. 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.

* Happens at least once in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', when a dumbass drunk gets a literal face-full when operating a machine...

* ''Series/BattleBots'': [=DUCK!=] had its entire "face" (= front plow/shield) ripped off by a massive hit from Cobalt in the show's second Discovery Channel season.

* Music/LouReed's video for "No Money Down" is a head and shoulders shot of an animatronic Lou singing - already UncannyValley creepy, then halfway through "he" starts pulling his face off down to his ''robotic skull''.

* The music video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwlNdvVJlk "Mono"]], created by the [[WebOriginal/CatGhost]] crew and premiered in Candy Bowl 2017: [[spoiler:shows a cat girl whom has an unrequited crush with a rabbit girl, [[NotGoodWithRejection not handling her silent refusals very well]]. Eventually [[FlayedAlive skinning the latter alive]] and then [[GenuineHumanHide wearing their face]].]]

* This is the M.O. of [[SerialKiller the Identity Thief]] in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. First he paralyzes the victim's vocal chords, then removes the face while they're still alive.
* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow2'', Guido Szandor, the final acolyte you need to fight, gets [[YouHaveFailedMe "rewarded"]] with this by [[BigBad Satan]], who's very unhappy that he never took notice of the fact that Dracula has been tailing him. Noticeably, either due to Guido's or Satan's endurance, Guido's face is ''still moving'' as Satan's holding it in his hand.
* One of Shinnok's [[FinishingMove brutalities]] in VideoGame/MortalKombatX. Appropriate that it's called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Face Off]].
* One of Baraka's new fatalities in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' involves him first tearing off the skin of the victim's face once for pain, again to reveal their skull, then ripping their skull open, impaling their brain and eating it.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Phantom Ganon does this to himself before the fight begins.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': When party members first rip off their [[MaskOfPower Persona masks]], their face becomes appropriately bloodied as if it were their actual face. Ripping the mask off Shadows also hurts them, giving you an advantage in battle.
* ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' Joel discovers a ''horrifying'' instance of this on the game over screen of a Russian bootleg ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' Genesis game.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', Susie -- who's some kind of purple lizard attending high school with the other monsters -- has a habit of threatening to bite people's faces off when she wants to scare them. The first time, feeling like she's doomed to be expelled and ponders going out big, threatens to bite off Kris' face and it's not entirely clear if she was serious before she thinks better. [[spoiler:When she shows a [[{{Keet}} perky]] IneffectualSympatheticVillain how to be scary in almost the exact same way, he is ''very'' briefly dismayed and then has an "oh, ''I'' get it" reaction.]]

* In ''Mall Monkeys'', Mikey has this [[TimeSkip an hour after]] being advised by Nicholai that "chicks dig scars". Apparently on his skateboard, judging from the new blood stains on it.

* Harry, the Handsome Butcher of WebAnimation/CyanideAndHappiness shorts does this to himself when asked for the most handsome meat he has. He uses a knife though.

* In WebVideo/BartBaker's 22 Parody, Taylor Swift slices off Harry Style's face.
* In the Kickstarter video for ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', the page from the anthropomorphic Sketchbook with her face on it is briefly shown on the ground. Given that she's a sketchbook, it could very well be the equivalent of this trope for her.
* In the [[WebAnimation/AOKRuinsYourChildhood AOK]] short, "[[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 MUPPET ELDERLIES]]", Kermit does this to Fozzie when the latter continues making inappropriate jokes about Miss Piggy dying from complications in her hip surgery.
* In the ''WebAnimation/DingoDoodles'' Fools Gold series, this is the reason [[spoiler:Gothi is always wearing a mask.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', 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 [[{{Pun}} face-on]], smashing the caboose to bits, and tearing off his face.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KorgothOfBarbaria'', Korgoth does this to a thug who spends too much time monologuing about the "Whole new spectrum of pain" he's going to introduce to Korgoth.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Courage the Fly", Eustace accidentally rips off Muriel's face while trying to grab Courage with flypaper. When she orders him to put it back, he puts it on upside down and then fixes it, and predictably she [[RunningGag hits him with her rolling pin]].

* The title characters of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' have had their faces ripped off on several occasions, one specific example comes from "Travelogue" in which Ren has his torn off by a baboon who collects the faces of "lucky tourists".
* This has happened a couple of times in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', such as in "Carnival Knowledge" when on a roller coaster, the ride gets so intense that it peels Heffer's face off.
* ''WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' demonstrated the ability to attach and detach his face at will, with no justification other than the RuleOfFunny in which is shown in the short "Africa Before Dark".
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Warner's 65th Anniversary Special" has a scene where Daffy Duck recalls a cartoon where the Warners got flypaper stuck to their butts. Dot gets hers ripped off when she tries to remove the flypaper from Yakko, and upon seeing this Wakko then rips his own off.
* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'' shorts, after the statue-making machine the whole cast has been abusing runs out of power and gets stuck in a statue of them all in a big hug, [[BigBad Black Hat]] facepalms, followed by ripping his face off. Yes, he has a bit of a temper.
* In a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' sketch, an unfortunate jock has his face ripped off by John's Terminator bodyguard for making fun of him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' episode "Requiem for a Reality Show", during a montage of Captain Hero and Foxy bonding over their newfound love of sadomasochism, Foxy plays golf with the tee in Captain Hero's mouth. When she swings the club, his whole face comes off, and it can still emote.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' episode "The Right to Bear Arms", where Boskov and Skarr switch arms but can still control their arms on the other's body, Boskov makes Skarr do this to himself. When they're recovering in the medical wing after Ghastly has chainsawed their arms off and reattached them to their respective bodies, she also sewed Skarr's face back on but sewed his lips together.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder'': In "New Kids on the Block", Michael tries to make [=LaCienega=] look beautiful again by using hot wax and paper to remove her unwanted facial hair. Instead, he rips her entire face off, and she's somehow still able to see and talk from the paper.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In "Nature's Wonderland", Mickey and Minnie ride in a mine train that runs so fast, that the white "mask" parts of their faces peel off.

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* In the first of many horrific injuries she suffers over the series, ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'' features [[LizardFolk Kaiman]] biting on Ebisu's face, then Fujita comes in through a dimensional door, grabs her by the arm and pulls her out. A few scenes later and Ebisu's face is hanging around Kaiman's teeth.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Franky accidentally causes an explosion while exploring one of Vegapunk's labs. Next we see, his face [[EyesAreUnbreakable minus the eyes]] has been blown to ash. The whole thing is played for laughs, as Franky is a cyborg that can replace his face (even though that part appeared to be flesh).

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' features a particularly brutal version. [[spoiler: Seras Victoria finishes off Zorin Blitz by grinding her face against a wall until all that's left is a mass of blood and bone.]]
* Happens [[{{Gorn}} all the time]] in ''Manga/FrankenFran''.

* In one ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' arc, [[BigBad Naraku]] expels his heart, which takes the form of a naked faceless man, who proceed to slay a whole bunch of bandits and rip their faces, looking for a suitable one for him. Without them he's shown to be TheBlank.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' features Free and Eruka Frog hallucinating that their faces are being chewed off.

* Orochimaru ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' does in his first appearance. Offscreen thankfully.

* Overlord does this near the end of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' - since this came out after ''Revenge of the Fallen'', cue fandom yelling the page quote.
* Optimus Prime does this to Ultra Magnus in ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass.'' Before you're too horrified by that mental image, note that this is a MirrorUniverse where the Autobots are the bad guys and Optimus Prime is an evil, megalomaniacal dick--one who could put the Megatron of our universe to shame when it comes to ''really'' being cruel.
* In ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'', the Death-Seed resurrected (and completely insane) Sentry did this, in excruciating detail - even ripping away everything bar his eyes and brain and continuing to communicate telepathically - while giving Thor a BreakingSpeech and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Since the Sentry's powers include de facto immortality and a HealingFactor that makes things like being disintegrated mere passing inconveniences, this is not entirely surprising.
* The ''[[Creator/ECComics Tales from the Crypt]]'' story [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/290943.html "Only Skin Deep"]] (later adapted for [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the TV version]]) features a man who elopes with a woman he met at Mardi Gras, who refuses to remove her mask and insists on consummating the marriage in the dark. He gets curious and tries to remove it, and...well, it's listed as an example here, isn't it?

* It's normal for Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'s pal Mazikeen to be missing half her face, just don't try to "fix" it.

* Comicbook/BlackAdam did this to Father Time in the "World War III" miniseries, at the same time as he cracked a joke about Americans always trying to "save face".
* Comicbook/{{Ultimate|Marvel}} Comicbook/RedSkull did this and gained his red face after killing over 200 men ''at 17'' in order to reject his father [[spoiler:Comicbook/CaptainAmerica]].
* A [[spoiler: Parallax-possessed Hal Jordan]] does this to [[spoiler: The Specter]] during the climax of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.
* Vos from ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' is a bizarre inversion-- he removes ''his own'' face, which is actually more like a mask lined with numerous spikes, drills, and other painful implements, and forces it over someone else's face as a means of torture.
--> '''Vos''': Wear my faaace.
* ''ComicBook/{{Necronauts}}'': A medium tears off his face when he's possessed by entities from beyond during a seance.

* The Female from ''ComicBook/{{The Boys}}'' has a tendency for maiming, delimbing and mutilating her enemies/victims. At one point, she walks into a room for a hit early on and while we don't witness it directly, the face of one of the criminals inside splatters against the window. We do get to witness her do this in a fight against a low tier superhero team, where she rips the face off clean off a rather pretty superheroine without actually killing her.
** She is not the only source of this in the comic however. [[spoiler:During the Russia Arc, a Russian ally's worker is sent on an errand and the protagonists end up receiving their pizza order with his sliced off face plastered across said pie. Also lets not forget what happened to the President during the final arc...]]
* ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'': Joker's vampire henchman [[TheDragon Mr. Creach]] rips a gangster's face with his ''fangs''.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Judge Fear demonstrates this when possessing a resistance fighter as his new host body, reaching somewhere down his throat to present the man's torn off, leathery face.

* The other obvious example is ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace'', where Dr. Génessier's main goal is to find a replacement face for his disfigured daughter Christiane by any means necessary.
* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', Hannibal Lecter. [[spoiler: He does this to a guard and [[FaceStealer wears his face]] as part of his legendary escape.]] In the {{backstory}} to ''Hannibal'', he talked Mason Verger into cutting his own face off. Admittedly Verger was high at the time.
* In ''Dead Alive'' (aka ''Film/{{Braindead}}''), one of the victims of the zombie outbreak has his face torn completely off.

* In ''Film/{{NightBreed}}'', one character starts to cut his own face off as part of his passage into Midian.
* Mike Strauber, the lunatic psycho in the low-budget flick Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness cuts a chunk of his own face off because one of his hallucinations dares him to.
* The "Pride" victim in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' has her face mutilated and nose cut off by John Doe.
* In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', [[GoodIsNotSoft Optimus Prime]] shouts "[[BewareTheNiceOnes Give me your FACE!]]" at The Fallen, the progenitor of the Decepticons of sorts [[ItMakesSenseInContext whose face appears to have inspired their logo]], right before ripping it off. Regardless this quickly [[Memes/{{Transformers}} became a meme in the Transformers fandom]].
* In ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' one of the scientists investigating the Freelings' house hallucinates that he pulls off his own face.

* In ''Film/SonOfTheMask'', Loki removes Dr. Neumann's face from his head and places it in a glass case. As it's a G-rated movie, no blood or gore is shown, and the victim is alive and rather disappointed about the whole situation rather that being in pain.
* Lamon Cranston does this in a dream in ''Film/TheShadow'', revealing the face of Shiwan Khan underneath.
* In the old {{Wuxia}} film, ''Film/MagnificientBodyguards'' (one of Jackie Chan's earlier movies), one of the characters is named Chang Wu-yi the Face-peeler, and lives up to his nickname by ripping off at least three victim's faces with his ''bare hands'' in the movie. Including the main villain's daughter-slash-henchwoman.

* In ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2'', a character gets his face cut off with an electric carving knife.

* Preston in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' kills a dude by slicing his face off with a katana.
* Inverted by ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'': A character gets everything ''except'' his face destroyed.
* In ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', Barbra hangs herself in her closet by her dress via a clothes hanger, pulls her own face off, her eyes fall out of her face and screams in an attempt to frighten off the Deetzs from their home. Unfortunately, she soon realized they can't see her when they moved her like a shirt.
* This is the MO of the killer in ''Film/{{Wrestlemaniac}}''.
* Angela rips a girl's face off with her bare teeth in the ''Film/NightOfTheDemons2009'' remake. When the victim returns as a demon, she's still faceless.
* ''Film/GoingOverboard'': Dickie Diamond does this to his face at the end of Shecky's nightmare, when he [[MediumBlending becomes animated]] in a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
* A JerkAss farmer named Edgar gets his face ripped off along with the rest of his skin by a cockroach-like alien in ''Film/MenInBlack''. It tears the "suit" off so it can fight properly.
* In ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'', this is done to some of the surrogates as a surgical procedure.
* The killer from the half-comedic SlasherMovie ''Film/UnmaskedPart25'' rips the first victim's face off, and then [[AndShowItToYou pulls his heart out]], all with his bare hands. Later killings are not nearly as brutal.
* In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', [[spoiler: Furiosa kills [[BigBad Immortan Joe]] by hooking his mask to a harpoon and onto the wheels of his car, gruesomely ripping his face off in the process.]]
* In ''Film/HanselVsGretel'', [[spoiler:Gretel]] removes [[spoiler:Jacob]]'s face with her bare hands after he rejects her advances.
* The Emperor from ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' uses this trope ''as a combat tactic'', ripping his own terra-cotta face off like a death mask and hurling it at the heroes. His curse immediately rebuilds his ceramic features.
* One of the villains in ''Film/Hellboy2004'' is a cybernetic Nazi MadScientist named Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, who, we're told, became addicted to surgery and amputated most of his own face. We only briefly see what he looks like under his gas mask, but it's very nasty.
** This is in contrast to Kroenen's characterization in the comics, where he wore the gas mask at all times due to an intense case of germophobia, and there was never any indication that there was anything especially wrong with his face.

* Do you know why Strong Bad from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' 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.

* In one ''Manga/InuYasha'' arc, [[BigBad Naraku]] expels his heart, which takes the form of a naked faceless man, who proceed to slay a whole bunch of bandits and rip their faces, looking for a suitable one for him. Without them he's shown to be TheBlank.

* Done rather subtly in ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence]]''. You don't know that the person is a cyborg [[RoboticReveal until the face is taken off to plug in data cables]].

* In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheSacredStarOfMilos'', this happened to [[spoiler: Colonel Herschel aka the real Ashleigh Crichton]] in the past. It's the reason why [[spoiler: he wears a mask.]]
* A more mystical example in ''Manga/SazanEyes'': a minor villain from the second series tries to force Pai into lending her her Triclop powers by forcibly putting the souls of her best friends inside a monstrous, two-headed marionette she can control and threatens to burn. The ritual involves making the faces of the girls disappear entirely and reappear on the doll's heads. Fortunately, Yakumo give them back their faces and souls.

* The cliffhanger to #1 of ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Detective Comics]]'' is the Dollmaker freeing ComicBook/TheJoker from Arkham ... and leaving the Joker's face pinned to the wall. This sets up ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily''; an event that happened issues later. [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'' had the Joker with his face again and revealed he had a {{healing factor}}.]]

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', during a montage of Captain Hero and Foxy bonding over their newfound love of sadomasochism, Foxy plays golf with the tee in Captain Hero's mouth. When she swings the club, his whole face comes off, and it can still emote.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'', the Sheriff does this to himself when he goes insane after a young Rusty inadvertently shampoos him with half a million dollars of crystal meth. Later at the end of the episode "Butt Trouble", he gets his face ripped off by [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext vampire squids]], and near the end of "Forever Autumn", he's shown with his face removed again in Dan Halen's latest ad.

* Roll does this in the ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon to a cosmetics robot.

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. The one who does the cutting may end 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|AreUnbreakable}}. In a more cartoony version, it's probable that only the skull will be left behind the face. Despite having just been deprived of lips, the victim's ability to talk will be rarely impeded.

* Done rather subtly in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell: Innocence''. You don't know the person is a cyborg until the face is taken off to plug in data cables.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder'': In "New Kids on the Block", Michael tries to make [=LaCienega=] look beautiful again by a using hot wax and paper to remove her unwanted facial hair. Instead, he rips her entire face off, and she's somehow still able to see and talk from the paper.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLOudFamilyLouderAndProuder'': In "New Kids on the Block", Michael tries to make [=LaCienega=] look beautiful again by a using hot wax and paper to remove her unwanted facial hair. Instead, he rips her entire face off, and she's somehow still able to see and talk from the paper.

* In the video for Tricky's "Evolution Revolution Love"; he, Creator/EdKowalczyk, and Hawkman (the singers on the track) peel their faces off when the singer changes.

* Happens in ''Film/Houseof1000Corpses'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects''. In the former, Otis guns down Denise's father, then he skins off the face and chest, wearing it to taunt the captive Denise, even trying to kiss her. In the latter, Otis holds two men at gunpoint in the desert, before a fight breaks out and he kills one and injures another. He grabs the wounded one after he shot him in the throat and uses his combat knife to skin off his face while he's still alive. He then wears the face in front of the man's wife, then forces her to wear it.

** In "Doing Time" when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick come up to Mrs. Puff revealing themselves to be disguised as prison guards, they walk away and two real guards appear. Mrs. Puff accuses them of being "[=SpongeBob=] and that guy who likes the chili" and rips off their faces, at which point they decide she's gone completely insane.

* In ''WesternAnimation/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 [[{{Pun}} face-on]], smashing the caboose to bits, and tearing off his face.

* Lamon Cranston does this in a dream in ''Film/TheShadow'', revealing the face of [[NotSoDifferent Shiwan Khan]] underneath.

* In ''film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'', one of the Frankensteins tears off a Union soldier's face.

* One of the villains in ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' is a cybernetic Nazi MadScientist named Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, who, we're told, became addicted to surgery and amputated most of his own face. We only briefly see what he looks like under his gas mask, but it's very nasty.

* Happens in ''Film/HouseofaThousandCorpses'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects''. In the former, Otis guns down Denise's father, then he skins off the face and chest, wearing it to taunt the captive Denise, even trying to kiss her. In the latter, Otis holds two men at gunpoint in the desert, before a fight breaks out and he kills one and injures another. He grabs the wounded one after he shot him in the throat and uses his combat knife to skin off his face while he's still alive. He then wears the face in front of the man's wife, then forces her to wear it.

* A very graphic and detailed example is shown in ''Film/{{Hostel}}''. A scalpel is used to cut an outline onto the face, before the torturer uses the scalpel to pry away the top layer of skin. Then, using his hands, he slowly peels off the rest while the man being tortured screams in absolutely agony, being alive afterwards while an audience of rich elites watch in enjoyment before the torturer places the skin on a mannequin head like it's an art piece. It's definitely one of the harder example to watch.
%%* Happens in ''Film/HouseofaThousandCorpses'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects''. In the former, Otis guns down Denise's father, then he skins off the face and chest, wearing it to taunt the captive Denise, even trying to kiss her. In the latter, Otis holds two men at gunpoint in the desert, before a fight breaks out and he kills one and injures another. He grabs the wounded one after he shot him in the throat and uses his combat knife to skin off his face while he's still alive. He then wears the face in front of the man's wife, then forces her to wear it.