History BodyHorror / ComicBooks

* ComicBook/TheSavageDragon has on many occassions portrayed the healing factor of the title character this way. In a particularly strange example, Dragon had the mood spoiled during sex when he and his girlfriend are horrified by the sight of his severed arm suddenly and unexpectedly regenerating in a gruesome fashion. Another one was when he was beaten within an inch of his life and left stuck in a chimney, so he couldn't move and all his broken bones would set wrong. It was not a pretty sight.

* Played for laughs in several [[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] ''Treehouse of Horror'' comics. The most notable example is "Sideshow Blob", where criminal Sideshow Bob (who has a bad cold) is injected with the wrong vaccine by Dr Nick Rivera and turns into a rampaging blob monster.
* Al Simmons, the main character of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' was set on fire as he was killed and is shown to have severe burns all over his body, including [[FacialHorror his face]], because of it.

*** ''ComicBook/StarWarsTakes'': "Collapsing New Empires" has Luke's [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic right hand]] get infected by an "art virus" that makes it [[http://images.plurk.com/226a6f3f34ebf812cd4a315d1f0d756c.jpg progressively get larger and more ungainly]] until it's a mass as large as his torso and he cuts it off.

* In Warren Ellis' writing of ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}, the Island of Gamora launched a watered-down superhuman mutagen upon an English town. Most victims were rendered as horrifically mutated corpses. The unfortunate survivors were fused into a giant mass of flesh whose hands were fused together in a shape similar to that tubular seaform known as a lamprey.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': The story "The Price of Life!" (issue #70) has something [[https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/7/78/MarvelUS-70.jpg ghastly]] happens to Megatron and Ratchet.
* In ''ComicBook/TransformersGeneration2'', the Cybertronian Empire boosts its population via Budding, a long-hidden method of Cybertronian reproduction. We see what the process entails at one point: the surface of the "budder" practically comes alive, and slowly forms into a living mechanical foetus, which tears itself free of the host body. While this is happening, the first mechanoid is writhing in pain and discharging all kinds of energy.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' introduces Empurata, a technique employed by the old and corrupt Senate. Basically, they have the head and hands of the victim removed and replaced with boxy cycloptic heads and claws or clamps for the hands. A few of the big named characters suffered this, notably Whirl [[spoiler:and Shockwave]].
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Warrior}}'' mini-series, titular character Ultimate Warrior rips the skin off his opponents' chests, which he turns into armbands to wrap around his arms. Lightning then strikes the Warrior, giving him face-paint, and new pants. One video blog reviewer states [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2oFfo8SNg "There are only so many ways that I can say, what the [expletive] people!"]]
* The Warhol virus from ''Wildstorm: World's End'' is named so because it keeps the victim alive for about 15 minutes while the victim is turned into a hulking, disfigured maniac.
* The Chester Brown underground comic ''Yummy Fur'' has such delights as the author eating his own snot (which he has admitted to doing), a man's hand spontaneously falling off, ComicBook/EdTheHappyClown's [[spoiler:penis growing a miniature talking, thinking Ronald Reagan head at its tip]], a man who shits so much that he suffocates himself and many others, graphic scenes of penis surgery and so much more. Chester Brown himself, by all accounts, has a very amiable, mild personality.

** ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' ([[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]): "Collapsing New Empires" has Luke's [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic right hand]] get infected by an "art virus" that makes it [[http://images.plurk.com/226a6f3f34ebf812cd4a315d1f0d756c.jpg progressively get larger and more ungainly]] until it's a mass as large as his torso and he cuts it off.

** Anyone who gets the cure for The Beauty[[spoiler:, like Detective Foster]], ends up looking like a severe burn victim.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'': The story "The Price of Life!" (issue #70) has something [[https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/7/78/MarvelUS-70.jpg ghastly]] happens to Megatron and Ratchet.

* ''ComicBook/{{Rat-Man}}'' combines this with GoryDiscretionShot. Janus Valker gets hold of a device that allows travel in parallel dimensions, but that one is malfunctioning and manages to materialize ''every'' other Valker in existence ''simultaneously'' inside the body of the first one. We only get to see an arm erupting from Valker's own arm before cutting to Rat-Man and his friends witnessing it. Their horrified faces and the narration are more than enough.

* In ''Comicbook/{{MAW}}'', Marion Angela Weber undergoes a lot of it.

* In ''Comic Book/MAW'', Marion Angela Weber undergoes a lot of it.

%%* In ''Comicbook/{{MAW}}'', Marion Angela Weber undergoes a lot of it.

* In ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/MAW MAW]]'', Marion Angela Weber undergoes a lot of it.

** Other examples of Body Horror come from some of the villains from Dragon's rogue gallery. For instance the Doctor Octopus expy with real squid tentacles growing from his stomach (including a beak) or Openface, whose entire head splits vertically to reveal rows of sharp teet and a freakishly long tongue. Then there's a guy whose entire skin turned invisible so his organs are showing, exactly like "the Visible Man" example above. The List goes on.

!!Franchise/TheDCU
* In Creator/GrantMorrison's first story arc for ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'', the super-powered (and temporarily insane) NatureHero B'wana Beast, in a series of failed attempts to rescue his kidnapped ape friend Djuba, uses his telekinetic helmet to fuse various animals together (including a homeless man and a rat). When Djuba dies from laboratory smallpox inoculation, B'wana Beast avenges her by [[spoiler: fusing her body with that of Dr. Myers, the scientist responsible. The lab technicians, not recognizing their supervisor, prepare to do ape surgery without anesthesia while their fully aware victim, attempting to stop them, can only grunt "Ma urrs! Ma urrs!"]]
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Some Batman's villains have this as their schtick, most notably Clayface III, who must stay in a containment suit because his touch disintegrates any living thing he touches, and The Corrosive Man, whose skin releases acid and ''he can feel every bit of it''.
** DependingOnTheArtist, as well as in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', Two-Face's scarring isn't just limited to his face, but also involves his left arm. [[spoiler:In ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'', a hallucination of the Joker wonders if this included ''everything''.]]
** The ComicBook/New52 rendition of ComicBook/TheJoker has a fellow villain slice all of the flesh off his face... then the Joker reattaches the skin to his face with straps sewn into the skin.
** A group of ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' villains called the Council of Spiders cause body horror for their victims. First there's Funnel, who has created a poison she describes as horribly painful. It somehow causes the victim's skin to start exuding tendril-like things which almost look like spider webs, presumably a combination of sweat and minerals from the victim's body. Then there's Sac, a PestController who can make his "spiders" lay eggs in people, at which point he's able to listen in on their surroundings. When he's done using them as a spy, he has the eggs hatch, chew and claw their way out of the victim ''en masse'', killing them.
** ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': The {{unwitting test subject}}s of Strader Pharmaceuticals' debilitating PsychoSerum start looking more and more monstrous with each appearance. Eventually their bodies start liquefying around their veins while they're fighting the mercenaries Strader sent to [[DeadlyEuphemism clean up]] their mess.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanDamned'': Usually, Deadman's design is just a red-suit with a high-collar. Here, it's designed to look like muscly sinew without skin.
*** DemonicPossession by Deadman turns the possessed person's eyes red, their skin blue and causes their veins to bulge as though they are being choked to death. It feels as pleasant as it sounds, the experience compared to food poisoning and Deadman's spirit ejected as quickly as it occurs from the strain.
*** When Harley sexually assaults Batman, she unbuttons her shirt, [[spoiler: revealing she has a full-torso, crudely-stitched Y-shaped incision as if she'd been autopsied.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheCrawlingKing'': In one story, a woman puts on a ring, and then her skeleton exits her body through her mouth. It then takes the ring and leaves the woman a lump of flesh on the floor.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': In ''ComicBook/TheTrialOfTheFlash'', Big Sir mutilates Flash's face with an energy mace, distorting it beyond recognition. When a couple of kids unmask the Flash, they scream in terror and run away.
* Doppelganger, a villainess introduced in Issue 1 of ''ComicBook/GreenArrow: The Midas Touch'' (Volume 5 of his solo line and the first of the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot), is presumably a shapeshifter. Within panels of her first appearance, she [[HulkingOut hulks out]], [[GrowingMusclesSequence bulking up]] and [[ClothingDamage shredding a good portion of her]] [[LittleBlackDress slinky black dress]]. Any {{fanservice}} [[AmazonianBeauty this might have been played for]] [[FanDisservice is immediately thrown out the window]] as she not only grows [[MultiArmedAndDangerous an extra set of arms]], but ''[[MultipleHeadCase a second face]]''--still stuck to the first one as if it were a {{conjoined twin|s}}-- and [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/10/107028/1998771-doppelganger.jpg breaks out into warts.]] Appropriately so, Ollie quips that she's making him nauseated and her accomplice Supercharge refers to her as a freak when Dynamix (the third member of their villainous trio) wonders where she's been taken after they've all been incarcerated.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** Dr. Destiny was afflicted with this during the late 1980s and early 1990s (mostly notably his appearances in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'') extending the original rationale for the SkullForAHead ([[FacialHorror his face shriveling as a result of]] [[CannotDream the League ridding him of his ability to dream]]) to his whole body becoming emaciated. Creator/GrantMorrison, the writer of ''Arkham Asylum'', even stated in their notes they never bought the classic [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]-esque look.
** The Amazo Virus in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague2011'' had this going on. It depowered superpowered heroes and those it did give powers to would gain them in horrific ways (Batman was blinded when he was becoming more like a bat and had blood leaking from his face, including TearsOfBlood). Armen Ikarus, PatientZero, for the virus, ended up with a messed up mouth, bulging veins, losing most of his hair, and even patches of exposed muscle.
* The original ''ComicBook/OmegaMen'' series had Kalista get mind-raped by an organism which did so by stealing her shape and memories, leaving her an unrecognisable blob. While this is happening, she starts losing her shape, then her features, then her ability to perceive things, then the ability to ''think''. It's horrifying, and it doesn't help that she begs for it to stop the entire time.
* ComicBook/PlasticMan veers into this territory sometimes.
* The Basilik's cult cyber-zombie virus from ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' (the New 52, volume 4). One unfortunately cursed woman was turned into a giant, tentacled blob and thankfully killed (as she requested).
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''Adventures of Superman #466'', the story that introduced Hank "Cyborg" Henshaw, is loaded with body horror. Four NASA shuttle crew members encounter a type of radiation and suffer bodily mutations. One of them, as an example, has his body reformed into a mass of rock (a la ComicBook/FantasticFour's the Thing) only with pieces of the shuttle mixed in. The pain drives him to commit suicide by way of an MRI machine, which rips him apart.
** ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': After Agenda's experiments on him cause his body to start breaking down Superboy's skin starts bubbling and sloughing off.
** In [[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 a classic issue]] of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', one of her teachers undergoes an experiment which turns him into a repulsive mutated creature: his body is huge and hairless, his eyes are two large, red balls without pupils, his limbs are ridiculously long and thin and his feet have only two fingers each.
** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'' saw Superman fly to the edge of Creation fighting Darkseid and, lo, they beheld... an infinitely vast wall of living, breathing, '''screaming''' flesh and faces that act as the "wall" between Creation and the nothingness beyond, the Source Wall. Its current form is apparently made of everyone who's ever tried and failed to pass through it and discover the secrets hidden on its other side.
** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', the body of the titular villain becomes hideously stretched out and deformed before falling apart and exploding when her {{Magitek}} super-suit gets ripped apart.
** ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'': As she's dreaming, Kara sees Superwoman's flesh melting off until the villain becomes a flaming living skeleton.
* ComicBook/SwampThing:
** Though later retconned into "a plant who thought it was Alec Holland" (surprisingly similar to the Nazi Bee Swarm thanks to a certain infamous memory experiment involving flatworms that wasn't debunked till much later) the original story was a man turning into a strange plant monster, incapable of even speech, and having to try and cope with it.
** Later on, around ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' and the New 52 reboot, Alec was brought back from the dead, and it turned out that the plant that thought it was Alec was an accident - Alec himself was supposed to have become Swamp Thing. And since Alec was back and the plant was out of the picture, Alec found himself targeted for the transformation...
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Queen Atomia's two {{Mook Maker}}s horrifically and permanently alter her human victims in two distinct and horrifying ways. Her Nutron Converter is UnwillingRoboticisation turned up to eleven, with the resulting mooks all identical with only enough grey matter left to be susceptible to a JediMindTrick, they are functionally dead. Her Protons started out as human individuals before going through her Proton Machine and becoming identical young women in appearance, with a ring around their heads that has branches that go straight into the skull who obey her every whim and question nothing.
** Diana has been reverted to clay on a couple of occasions, which generally starts with her skin hardening and her hands getting shattered.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Those Ares possesses suffer from catastrophic PossessionBurnout, which tends to start with them smoking and their flesh bubbling before sloughing away and leaving a pile of smoldering bones as their remains.

!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** The ''X-Men'' comics in general feature many cases of BodyHorror. For every two mutants, one of the two is deformed in some shape or form due to their powers. Making things worse was the notion of when these deformities manifest themselves; while some mutants are born deformed, others are born normal-looking until they reach their teenage years, at which point their mutant powers kick in and they find their bodies warping, turning them from being handsome/beautiful to being hideously disfigured freaks. Even then, it's a crapshoot towards the extent of one's body horror: Angel and Wolverine, for instance, only suffered minor deformities, whereas mutants like Marrow (bones growing out of her body, which had to be broken off at regular intervals like one might cut one's hair), Husk (ability to develop and shed layers of skin of various biological compositions), or Mercury (body turning into a liquid metal substance) manifest far more grotesque variations. This led to Chris Claremont conceiving "The Morlocks": an underground community of homeless mutants, most of which were mutants that were too deformed to fit in with normal society.
** Yet another example would be a nameless and hideous mutant who was shot down by the police before he could "transform" into his "final" form, one which was implied to be of incredible beauty and power. Oh and he was a child too. Crying shame, heavy emphasis on crying.
** This is how the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] alien Brood reproduce. They were pretty obviously, ah, ''inspired'' by ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Oddly enough, the Brood had a HiveMind ''first''.
** Masque, a disfigured flesh-warping mutant who got his kicks warping the flesh of anyone who had the misfortune of coming into contact with him. When he took over the Morlocks, following the ''Mutant Massacre'', Masque forced the surviving Morlocks to be his playthings, changing their faces and bodies into such horrific abominations that the bulk of the community were driven irreversibly insane. Part of this motive was based upon the fact that Masque (originally) was immune to his own powers, which drove him mad because he could alter anyone's face except his own disfigured face. Thought killed off in the early 1990s, Masque returned in ''Xtreme X-Men'' #36-39, where he was given upgraded powers: he could now use his powers on himself, which he used to render himself genderless as far as showing the ability to warp his own flesh to go from male to female. However, he was still insane in the head and then some: he used his powers to turn Callisto (ex-Morlock leader who Masque hated) into a tentacle-limbed freak and (with help from his fellow Morlocks) assaulted a subway train full of innocent people and used his powers to disfigure each and every person on said train as an act of mutant terrorism.
** Chamber is another X-Man with quite a unique form of mutation; he has a psychic furnace where everything between his upper jaw and diaphragm would normally be. That's no lungs, ribcage, digestive system, etc. Granted, eventually he gets better, but when he loses his power to contain the energy, boom - everything south of his jaw is quite graphically vaporised. He still lives!
** Kenji Uedo, full stop. Think of what happened to Tetsuo at the end of ''{{Manga/Akira}}'', now give him '''[[https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/f/fc/Kenji_Uedo_%28Earth-616%29_from_Generation_Hope_Vol_1_1_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170611002437 full control over it]]'''. Yeah. Due to his technopathic abilities, he can also force other machines to shapeshift as well, send one way messages through screens similar to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Hermit Purple]], and let him survive extreme damage due to him lacking organs. He also made burgers for a whole group using his own body to make the patties, cook them, and serve them. Thankfully he didn't make the condiments... maybe.
** Many times if a character is drawn super muscular, it's usually just dismissed as the art style. Not so with frequent ''ComicBook/XFactor'' member Strong Guy's top-heaviness: that is how he looks ''in-universe''.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** The alien symbiotes.
** Spider-Man himself. All the mutations he's undergone, from gaining more arms, to transforming into a giant spider (with a description of his feelings in the process) and what happened to him when he was killed.
* In the two-parter ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'', Creator/WarrenEllis writes about a Franchise/MarvelUniverse where everything goes wrong. Gamma radiation turns [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] into a green pile of tumors, Peter Parker develops a deadly viral rash from his spider bite, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is allergic to adamantium, and the ComicBook/FantasticFour end up becoming grotesquely misshapen corpses.
** Warren Ellis seems to love this. Remember ''Extremis''? The cyborg virus that enters the brain? And then causes the immune system to reinterpret the entire body as an open wound? ''And then rebuild it, resulting in a cocoon of scab tissue''?
* Marvel's ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' series [[OnceAnEpisode could have this as a tagline.]] [[NightmareFuel/ImmortalHulk Specific examples can be found on the work's Nightmare Fuel entry,]] including [[https://media.comicbook.com/2018/10/immortal-hulk-1138402.jpeg Hulk being vivisected,]] [[https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Hulk-Please.jpg Hulk reassembling himself]] ''around'' the person who did it to him, [[https://media.comicbook.com/2019/05/immortal-hulk-abomination-1173020.jpeg the new Abomination]] and [[https://comicnewbies.com/2019/06/13/the-harpy-takes-out-the-hulks-heart/ a mangled Hulk getting his heart ripped out.]]
* In Marvel's ''ComicBook/DistrictX'', the mutant Gregor Smerdyakov can't sit anywhere for too long because his feet grow roots that break through his shoes and lash him to the ground. After being [[{{Foreshadowing}} cut away from the pavement]] in an early issue, he later [[spoiler:grows into the wall of a sewer channel and essentially becomes an underground tree]].
* In Marvel's ''Mutopia X'', Agent Popova (after a failed assassination attempt on Daniel Kaufman) was blackmailed into performing favors for Kaufman by having her surgically altered into what many might consider a hideous (or beautiful) mutant appearance.
* Swamp Thing's Marvel (sort of) equivalent Comicbook/ManThing. There is virtually nothing left of Ted Sallis's mind in Man-Thing; Man-Thing doesn't need to cope, because most of the time, he's not even sapient. The fact that all those who know fear are horrifically burned more than makes up for that in terms of BodyHorror.
* Oftentimes characters who are effectively immortal or have "healing factors" will venture into this territory. The ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' version of Wolverine has been subjected to such horrors as regrowing his entire body after being decapitated and having the flesh stripped entirely off his bones but still being alive. Orson Scott Card's "Ultimate Iron Man" gives Tony Stark similar powers (for some reason) and has many creepy scenes of him regrowing his various severed limbs (which he loses so often, it becomes a running joke).
* Hulkling of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers was once [[spoiler: vivisected]]. And guess what? [[spoiler:His organs move while he's unconscious to protect themselves.]]
** Then there was the time Hulkling was captured by the cosmic parasite Mother. The next time we see Mother, she's sitting on a bizarre chair made of frozen green tentacles. Then you notice the chair has Hulkling's face...
* There is an 80s issue of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica vs Batroc, where the U.S. Agent side-story in the latter part featured a guy who appeared to be undergoing extreme steroid enhancement(to the point that he was paralyzed due to his muscles expanding too much to allow movement).
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''
** Explored in "What If The ComicBook/FantasticFour All Had The Power Of The Thing?"
** Reed Richards' stretching can cause mild body horror sometimes. Especially if you think about what stretching like that would feel like. Reed doesn't seem to mind. [[CursedWithAwesome He thinks it's useful.]]
** Something like this happened to Johnny Storm while he was held captive by Annihilus. He is repeatedly killed, only to be brought back to life, often times stitched back by worms. It's not very lovely.
* A particularly chilling example from ''Comicbook/CaptainBritain'': a fellow named Sid managed to survive an encounter with the omnicidal AttackAnimal known as the Fury, getting away with only a scratch. Unfortunately, the Fury's scratch was infectious, and the results were ''not'' pretty. Not by a long shot.
* There is ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, whose skin appears to be horrifically burned or surgically removed. At least he has a holographic projector to alter his appearance. It's cancer. All of it. He had a healing factor installed in an attempt to cure his cancer, only to have the cancer ''become'' his healing factor. Dude is a walking tumor.
** While fans hated him mostly for his completely different character, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of Deadpool isn't any better; his face is ''gone'', leaving his head a naked skull, with eyeballs and an exposed brain, wrapped in translucent plastic.
* Ultimate Universe ComicBook/RedSkull: not liking the fact that he looked like his father (Captain America), the Red Skull removed his entire face and scalp.
** Main Universe Red Skull counts. His "red skull" used to be a mask, but after [[BreathWeapon his Dust of Death]] backfired, [[FacialHorror he doesn't]] [[SkullForAHead need to wear a mask anymore.]]
* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'':
** Ben Grimm has stone skin, and it's apparently a miracle that he can even breathe.
** Reed Richards' transformation removed most, if not all, of his internal organs.
** Johnny Storm has to hibernate occasionally so that the layers of his skin that have been over-exposed to flames can flake off.
** Doctor Doom has become a being of [[ChromeChampion living metal]] with a frankly demon-like appearance (including goat legs and a reptilian tail). Also, his organs are ''rotting into a noxious slime inside his body'' because he doesn't need them anymore; he can [[BreathWeapon blast opponents with this slime or the fumes from it]] if he pleases.
** Rhona Burchill augmented her intelligence by ''literally placing some of her brother's brain matter in her own brain'', causing her head to become hideously disfigured in the process.
%% ** Red Ghost
%% ** ''Everybody'' in [[spoiler:"President Thor" who took the Skrull pills]].
* [[BeeBeeGun Swarm the Nazi-Made-Of-Bees]] was a Nazi scientist studying bees who [[ILoveNuclearPower exposed them to radiation]], only for them to mutate and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath devour him down to his bones.]] These bees apparently had a HiveMind, which he became, and lived on as a man made of bees, sometimes wrapped around his human skeleton, sometimes not. This has never really been explored, perhaps because of the absurdity of a colony of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies, but being devoured and becoming a colony of bees sounds like it would be pretty damn traumatic.
** Venom eventually ate the skeleton, but because you can't keep a good Bee-Nazi down, Swarm can now create new bodies by possessing a queen bee and using her hive. He's gone from horrific to pure ParanoiaFuel, a rather impressive feat for a fairly lame villain.
* ''ComicBook/{{Royals}}:'' The Commander-class [[AbusivePrecursors Progenitor]] from the final issue. [[spoiler:It's what was once Medusa and Black Bolt, with their heads stitched onto another body, with Black Bolt's head forming the torso. And there's still something of them in there.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'': The story "The Price of Life!" (issue #70) has something [[https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/7/78/MarvelUS-70.jpg ghastly]] happens to Megatron and Ratchet.

* The Warhol virus from Wildstorm: World's End is named so because it keeps the victim alive for about 15 minutes while the victim is turned into a hulking, disfigured maniac.

* ComicBook/TheSavageDragon has on many occassions portrayed the healing factor of the title character this way. In a particularly strange example, Dragon had the mood spoiled during sex when he and his girlfriend are horrified by the sight of his severed arm suddenly and unexpectedly regenerating in a gruesome fashion. Another one was when he was beaten within an inch of his life and left stuck in a chimney, so he coulnd't move and all his broken bones would set wrong. It was not a pretty sight.
** Other examples of Body Horror come from some of the villains from Dragon's rogue gallery. For instance the Doctor Octopus expy with real squid tentacles growing from his stomach (including a beak) or Openface, whose entire head splits vertically to reveal rows of sharp teet and a freakishly long tongue. Then there's a guy whose entire skin turned invisible so his organs are showing, exactly like "the Visible Man" example above. The List goes on.
* Al Simmons, the main character of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' was set on fire as he was killed and is shown to have severe burns all over his body, including [[FacialHorror his face]], because of it.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain Dr. Destiny was afflicted with this during the late 1980s and early 1990s (mostly notably his appearances in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'') extending the original rationale for the SkullForAHead ([[FacialHorror his face shriveling as a result of]] [[CannotDream the League ridding him of his ability to dream]]) to his whole body becoming emaciated. Creator/GrantMorrison, the writer of ''Arkham Asylum'', even stated in their notes they never bought the classic [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]-esque look.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain Dr. Destiny was affected with this during the late 1980s and early 1990s (mostly notably his appearances in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'') extending the original rationale for the SkullForAHead ([[FacialHorror his face shriveling as a result of]] [[CannotDream the League ridding him of his ability to dream]]) to his whole body becoming emaciated. Creator/GrantMorrison, the writer of ''Arkham Asylum'', even stated in their notes they never bought the classic [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]-esque look.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain Dr. Destiny was affected with this during the late 1980s and early 1990s (mostly notably his appearances in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'') extending the original rationale for the SkullForAHead ([[FacialHorror his face shriveling as a result of]] [[CannotDream the League ridding him of his ability to dream]]) to his whole body becoming emaciated. Creator/GrantMorrison, the writer of ''Arkham Asylum'', even stated in his notes he never bought the classic [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]-esque look.

* There is SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}, whose skin appears to be horrifically burned or surgically removed. At least he has a holographic projector to alter his appearance. It's cancer. All of it. He had a healing factor installed in an attempt to cure his cancer, only to have the cancer ''become'' his healing factor. Dude is a walking tumor.

*** When Harley sexually assaults Batman, she unbuttons her shirt, [[spoiler: revealing she has a full-torso Y-shaped incision as if she'd been autopsied.]]

** In [[ComicBook/Supergirl1982 a classic issue]], one of the teachers of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} undergoes an experiment which turns him into a repulsive mutated creature: his body is huge and hairless, his eyes are two large, red balls without pupils, his limbs are ridiculously long and thin and his feet have only two fingers each.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Queen Atomia's two MookMakers horrifically and permanently alter her human victims in two distinct and horrifying ways. Her Nutron Converter is UnwillingRoboticisation turned up to eleven, with the resulting mooks all identical with only enough grey matter left to be susceptible to a JediMindTrick, they are functionally dead. Her Protons started out as human individuals before going through her Proton Machine and becoming identical young women in appearance, with a ring around their heads that has branches that go straight into the skull who obey her every whim and question nothing.

*** When Harley sexually assaults Batman, she unbuttons her shirt, [[spoiler: revealing she has a large y-shaped incision sown together with large stitching similar to a corpse having undergone autopsy.]]

** A number of the ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' villains the Council of Spiders cause body horror for their victims. First there's Funnel who has created a poison she describes as horribly painful which somehow causes the victim's skin to start exuding tendril like things which almost look like spider webs, presumably a combination of sweat and minerals from the victim's body. Then there's Sac, a PestController who can make his "spiders" lay eggs in people at which point he's able to listen in on their surroundings, then when he's done using them as a spy he has the eggs hatch and chew and claw their way out of the victim en mass killing them.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': "Collapsing New Empires" has Luke's [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic right hand]] get infected by an "art virus" that makes it [[http://images.plurk.com/226a6f3f34ebf812cd4a315d1f0d756c.jpg progressively get larger and more ungainly]] until it's a mass as large as his torso and he cuts it off.

* ''ComicBook/{{Rat-Man}}'' combines this with GoryDiscretionShot. EvilAlbino Janus Valker gets hold of a device that allows travel in parallel dimensions, but that one is malfunctioning and manages to materialize ''every'' other Valker in existence ''simultaneously'' inside the body of the first one. We only get to see an arm erupting from Valker's own arm before cutting to Rat-Man and his friends witnessing it. Their horrified faces and the narration are more than enough.