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* A ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case is named "The Scar that Evolves Into Love". It's about a pretty and [[DisabledLoveInterest blind]] [[TheOjou rich woman]] named Kurumi Shoudou who hires Kogoro to find her first love, a man who is supposed to have a scar on his chest coming from the time he saved her life years ago: there are three men who hit this profile... but one of them may be a SerialKiller who's on the loose. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Shoudou's butler Taisuke Houya [[SubordinateExcuse was said man]]... and that Kurumi already knew it, but staged a BatmanGambit so he would stop [[GreaterNeedThanmine putting her needs over his own]] and aknoeledge their mutual love. So of course, it's a Good Scar from his part. (The SerialKiller? Neither of the three guys was him. But don't worry, he's caught in the next case.)]]
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* A ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case is named "The Scar that Evolves Into Love". It's about a pretty and [[DisabledLoveInterest blind]] blind [[TheOjou rich woman]] named Kurumi Shoudou who hires Kogoro to find her first love, a man who is supposed to have a scar on his chest coming from the time he saved her life years ago: there are three men who hit this profile... but one of them may be a SerialKiller who's on the loose. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Shoudou's butler Taisuke Houya [[SubordinateExcuse was said man]]... and that Kurumi already knew it, but staged a BatmanGambit so he would stop [[GreaterNeedThanmine putting her needs over his own]] and aknoeledge their mutual love. So of course, it's a Good Scar from his part. (The SerialKiller? Neither of the three guys was him. But don't worry, he's caught in the next case.)]]
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* In his first appearance, Duke Togo, aka ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'', had no scars. Over the course of the series, he's collected a great deal of them on his body. They're covered by clothing much of the time. As for morality, he's best described as TrueNeutral (you pay him, he does the job, no moral issues involved [[ContractOnTheHitman unless you double-cross him]]).
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* In his first appearance, Duke Togo, aka ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'', had no scars. Over the course of the series, he's collected a great deal of them on his body. They're covered by clothing much of the time. As for morality, he's best described as TrueNeutral neutral (you pay him, he does the job, no moral issues involved [[ContractOnTheHitman unless you double-cross him]]).
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* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's Anime/CaptainHarlock has a large horizontal scar across his left cheek ending at a missing right eye. His female counterpart [[Anime/QueenEmeraldas Emeraldas]] has an identical scar but retains both eyes.
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* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's Anime/CaptainHarlock Manga/CaptainHarlock has a large horizontal scar across his left cheek ending at a missing right eye. His female counterpart [[Anime/QueenEmeraldas [[Manga/QueenEmeraldas Emeraldas]] has an identical scar but retains both eyes.
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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', several characters in the series have scars, and only the good ones at that since their enemies are demonic beings with regenerative abilities as one of their core powers; the hatred fueled slayer, Sanemi Shinazugawa, has a freaky collection of them, making him look somewhat evil, but those are there to show how committed he is in eradicating the actually evil beings destroying human lives; the most positive example is the protagonist himself, Tanjiro Kamado gets some scars along the way, on the chest, neck, and arms, in places where his beauty is not compromised, preserving his sweet nature and appearance. [[spoiler:The greatest demon, Muzan Kibutsuji, is later shown to have several scars he got in a legendary battle before, that could not be healed, just concealed, being the actual evil scars example in the series]].
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* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', several characters in the series have scars, and only the good ones at that since their enemies are demonic beings with regenerative abilities as one of their core powers; the hatred fueled slayer, powers. The hatred-fueled Hashira, Sanemi Shinazugawa, has a freaky collection of them, making him look somewhat evil, evil; but those are there to show how committed he is in eradicating the actually actual evil beings destroying human lives; the lives. The most positive example is the protagonist himself, Tanjiro Kamado Kamado, who gets some scars along the way, way on the chest, neck, and arms, in places where his beauty is not compromised, preserving his sweet nature and appearance. [[spoiler:The greatest demon, Muzan Kibutsuji, is later shown to have several scars he got in a legendary battle before, before that could not be healed, just concealed, being the actual evil scars example in the series]].
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* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', there's a strip known "Liet's scars". Three guesses as to what it's about. And since Lithuania is a good guy, he's able to hide them under his clothes. It's believed that at least some of these scars (which look like whipping marks) come from Russia's abuse, which has been somewhat hinted yet never confirmed in canon. But {{fanon}} loves to assume it's true in an attempt to [[RonTheDeathEater demonize Russia]] [[SympatheticSue and woobiefy Lithuania]]).
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** There's a strip known "Liet's scars". Three guesses as to what it's about. And since Lithuania is a good guy, he's able to hide them under his clothes. It's believed that at least some of these scars (which look like whipping marks) come from Russia's abuse, which has been somewhat hinted yet never confirmed in canon. But {{fanon}} loves to assume it's true in an attempt to [[RonTheDeathEater demonize Russia]] [[SympatheticSue and woobiefy Lithuania]]).
** There's a strip known "Liet's scars". Three guesses as to what it's about. And since Lithuania is a good guy, he's able to hide them under his clothes. It's believed that at least some of these scars (which look like whipping marks) come from Russia's abuse, which has been somewhat hinted yet never confirmed in canon.
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* [[PyroManiac Nice Holystone]] of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has burn scars all over her arms and part of her face following an explosives accident when she was little. The reason why her [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend]] Jacuzzi Splot prominently tattooed his face was to draw attention away from her scars. Before you think this is a subversion, remember that ''no one'' in ''Baccano!'' [[BlackAndGrayMorality is 100% good]].
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* [[PyroManiac [[{{Pyromaniac}} Nice Holystone]] of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' has burn scars all over her arms and part of her face following an explosives accident when she was little. The reason why her [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]] Jacuzzi Splot prominently tattooed his face was to draw attention away from her scars. Before you think this is a subversion, remember that ''no one'' in ''Baccano!'' [[BlackAndGrayMorality is 100% good]].
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** Also in the companion novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', [[SerialKiller Beyond Birthday]] gets an even worse burn scar (presumably covering all or most of his body) as a result of [[InterruptedSuicide a failed suicide attempt]].
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** Also in the companion novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', ''Literature/AnotherNote'', [[SerialKiller Beyond Birthday]] gets an even worse burn scar (presumably covering all or most of his body) as a result of [[InterruptedSuicide a failed suicide attempt]].
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* Sousuke Sagara of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has an X-shaped scar on his cheek. Good guy. The scar actually plays a semi-important role in the final novel: [[spoiler:When Sophia suggests that Kaname change history so Sousuke was a normal boy instead of a child soldier, she ''almost'' goes along with it...but when she sees his unscarred cheek, she realizes that however good a person as he might be, he's not the Sousuke she fell in love with, and rejects the offer]].
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* Sousuke Sagara of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' has an X-shaped scar on his cheek. Good guy. The scar actually plays a semi-important role in the final novel: [[spoiler:When Sophia suggests that Kaname change history so Sousuke was a normal boy instead of a child soldier, she ''almost'' goes along with it... but when she sees his unscarred cheek, she realizes that however good a person as he might be, he's not the Sousuke she fell in love with, and rejects the offer]].
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* Yasuri Shichika, protagonist of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'', had his body scarred horribly in the last episode; though he covers most of them up, the one on his face is very prominent. He's virtually the only character in the series to receive such wounds.
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* Yasuri Shichika, protagonist of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'', ''Literature/{{Katanagatari}}'', had his body scarred horribly in the last episode; though he covers most of them up, the one on his face is very prominent. He's virtually the only character in the series to receive such wounds.
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* In ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', the male lead Randel Oland has his ''entire body'' covered by horrific scars, some of which (if this was reality, or if he weren't MadeOfIron) would have resulted in his immediate death. They serve as a physical mark of the horrors he's endured [[spoiler:as a member of the Invisible 9, the nonexistent (on paper, anyway) terror troops of the Empire]]. They're Good Scars though, as Randel himself is a BrokenHero.
** The scars across his nose make him resemble a giant woobie teddy bear when he's not in the influence of the lamp. But when the lamp is working...
** The scars across his nose make him resemble a giant woobie teddy bear when he's not in the influence of the lamp. But when the lamp is working...
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* In ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'', the male lead Randel Oland has his ''entire body'' covered by horrific scars, some of which (if this was reality, or if he weren't MadeOfIron) would have resulted in his immediate death. They serve as a physical mark of the horrors he's endured [[spoiler:as a member of the Invisible 9, the nonexistent (on paper, anyway) terror troops of the Empire]]. They're Good Scars Scars, though, as Randel himself is a BrokenHero.
**BrokenHero. The scars across his nose make him resemble a giant woobie teddy bear when he's not in the influence of the lamp. But when When the lamp is working...working, though...
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* In ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', [[AnAxeToGrind the axe fighter]] Curio got a nice one across his left eye [[spoiler:by protecting a pre-teen Odin (or better said, Juliet) from abusive guards]]. Also a subversion: unlike many other cases, [[EyesAreUnbreakable his eye was permanently damaged]]. And finally, [[spoiler:Curio's EyeScream incident is what prompts Juliet to become the [[VigilanteMan Red Whirlwind]]]].
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* In ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', [[AnAxeToGrind the axe fighter]] fighter Curio got a nice one across his left eye [[spoiler:by protecting a pre-teen Odin (or better said, Juliet) from abusive guards]]. Also a subversion: unlike many other cases, [[EyesAreUnbreakable his eye was permanently damaged]]. And finally, [[spoiler:Curio's EyeScream incident is what prompts Juliet to become the [[VigilanteMan Red Whirlwind]]]].
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* Ruby from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has a pair of scars above an eye conveniently covered by his NiceHat. [[spoiler:He has these because he took a claw from a frenzied Salamence in Sapphire's place. Surprisingly, the scars have less of an impact on ''his'' CharacterDevelopment than they did on ''hers''.]]
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* Ruby from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has a pair of scars above an eye conveniently covered by his NiceHat.SignatureHeadgear. [[spoiler:He has these because he took a claw from a frenzied Salamence in Sapphire's place. Surprisingly, the scars have less of an impact on ''his'' CharacterDevelopment than they did on ''hers''.]]
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** BigBad All for One has an eyeless face full of scar tissue. Fitting for a guy who's into villainy ForTheEvulz.
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* [=MachGaogamon=] (good guy) from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (specifically, ''Anime/DigimonSavers'') has one across his snout, but his previous forms (Gaomon, Gaogamon) ''don't''. How ''that'' works is fodder for WildMassGuessing.
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* Yukito in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' has a sword slash across his back from his [[{{Reincarnation}} past life]], which is always hidden. Good guy.
* Kaoru in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' has some rather unsightly scars coming from his grandfather's physical abuse. As with most Good Scars though, you can't see them unless he takes off his shirt.
* [[PyroManiac Nice Holystone]] of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has burn scars all over her arms and part of her face following an explosives accident when she was little. The reason why her [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend]] Jacuzzi Splot prominently tattooed his face was to draw attention away from her scars. Before you think this is a subversion, remember that ''no one'' in ''Baccano!'' [[BlackAndGrayMorality is 100% good]].
* Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has a small scar across the bridge of his nose, given to him by adoptive father Gambino when he tried to kill him.
** He's gained progressively more all over his face and entire body over the course of the story from numerous fights against demons. And he's missing an arm [[spoiler:which he hacked off himself]], and eye (which is depicted as permanently closed).
*** The eye is probably always closed because it's still in the socket, but being punctured by a demon's claw makes it completely useless.
** Casca also gains a number of small scars from her battles in the series. During [[spoiler:her sex scene]] with Guts, he spots them, and she feels ashamed of them at first, given the situation, but he's unfazed and finds her all the more admirable for it.
* Played straight with ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName''[='s=] Giou Takashiro who has a scar on his left cheek, which he got from his former friend [[BigBad Reiga]].
** Subverted with Usui Shuusei who is most definitely a very good guy (though a slightly [[StepfordSmiler broken]] one). He has some very nasty, discolored and badly-healed burn marks on his upper body from when he [[spoiler: interrupted Hotsuma's suicide attempt]].
* Hinako Aikawa, female lead of ''Manga/BitterVirgin'' has a scar on her stomach which is the result of a C-section. Hinako was a victim of [[AbusiveParents sexual abuse]] to the extent that she got pregnant ''twice'' before the age of 16. We see it only twice in the course of the series.
* In ''Manga/BlackJack'' Dr. Kuroo Hazama aka Black Jack is a good guy who sometimes poses as a bad guy to keep his reputation... and is ''massively'' scarred all over his body and face, to the point his skin has some different colored spots. [[spoiler:He actually got these scars as a child, when a bomb exploded and almost killed him and his mother; he decided to become a doctor after finishing his rehab.]]
* Balalaika, ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s resident MagnificentBastard, has a huge scar down the right side of her face (and body) from having survived a point-blank frag grenade in the Afghanistan war. The scar has given her the derisive nickname "Fry-face" amongst the Roanapur gangster community, which is only spoken in her presence by people with a death wish. Although a villain by anyone's standard, she never actively antagonizes the {{villain protagonist}}s and indeed hires them on several occasions.
** Her [[TheDragon Dragon]], Boris, has what looks like a knife scar across his nose.
* Manji from ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' has three separate scars traveling the length of his face. One goes horizontal through his forehead, one horizontal through the bridge of his nose, and the last vertical through his right eye, which actually blinded him in that eye.
* Zaraki Kenpachi from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has a scar straight down the left side of his face, going from his hairline down to his jaw. Hisagi Shuuhei has three vertical parallel scars on one side of his face (from a Hollow attack fifty years before), apart from a tattooed horizontal line across nose and cheeks and a number 69.
** One character who has scars purely for the cool factor is Tsubaki, one of Orihime's Shun Shun Rikka. He springs into existence with a cool-looking facial scar down the side of his face, despite never having fought before.
** OldSoldier Yamamoto is also covered in scars, which is expected considering that he has been alive and in battle for thousands of years. While he isn't evil, [[WellIntentionedExtremist he isn't exactly what you would call good either]].
** MadScientist Mayuri Kurotsuchi is shown to have what appear to be surgical scars criss-crossing his entire body in the brief scene he is shown without his [[EvilMakeover creepy make-up]] on.
** Nel has a scar on her forehead from when [[spoiler:Nnoitra broke her mask and kicked her out of Las Noches]].
** Kenpachi also has two more scars on his chest, courtesy of Nnoitra.
** Grimmjow has one on his chest after he got hit with Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshou in their first fight.
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', Kakei has a fashionable scar on his jaw, which Okatsu tries to recreate on the other side while assaulting him. Okatsu has scars, too, but they aren't obvious until she gets comfortable.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': Tokiko Tsumura, the protagonist's ActionGirlfriend, has a long scar stretching from cheek to cheek across the bridge of her nose. This scar is very noticeable, representing her status as an AntiHero, but it's clean and even, showing her inherently good nature. Interestingly, the author has stated this comes from her design originally being intended for a female professional wrestler.
* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's Anime/CaptainHarlock has a large horizontal scar across his left cheek ending at a missing right eye. His female counterpart [[Anime/QueenEmeraldas Emeraldas]] has an identical scar but retains both eyes.
* A ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case is named "The Scar that Evolves Into Love". It's about a pretty and [[DisabledLoveInterest blind]] [[TheOjou rich woman]] named Kurumi Shoudou who hires Kogoro to find her first love, a man who is supposed to have a scar on his chest coming from the time he saved her life years ago: there are three men who hit this profile... but one of them may be a SerialKiller who's on the loose. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Shoudou's butler Taisuke Houya [[SubordinateExcuse was said man]]... and that Kurumi already knew it, but staged a BatmanGambit so he would stop [[GreaterNeedThanmine putting her needs over his own]] and aknoeledge their mutual love. So of course, it's a Good Scar from his part. (The SerialKiller? Neither of the three guys was him. But don't worry, he's caught in the next case.)]]
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}s'' are all hideously disfigured with scars beneath their armor, presumably as a result of becoming half-yokai. Regardless of their character, they all have potential evil under their skins, and evil was certainly done to ''them''.
* C.C. from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a scar of the Geass sigil placed beneath and partially on her left breast and completely covered if she wears even a midriff-baring top. Particularly relevant as she's got a HealingFactor that lets her come back from the dead, yet this one scar never fades, [[spoiler:probably because it was inflicted just before she was tricked into becoming an immortal, and appropriately enough seems to heal when she loses her powers most of the way through the series.]]
** Asahina of the Four Holy Swords has a nice, neat scar going vertically down his face, above and below his eye.
* Jet Black from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a large vertical scar running overtop his right eye. Typical good guy scar, and Jet is one of the nicest people in the series.
* Wei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' is something of a PsychoForHire and has a nasty burn over half of his face (and likely the rest of his body) following an encounter with electric-powered AntiHero Hei. Also, Wei's power is a form of BloodyMurder and so his arms are covered with scars from his constant cutting of himself, although those scars are usually hidden under clothing.
** Amagiri, a morally ambiguous AntiVillain generally kept one eye [[EyesAlwaysShut shut]], suggesting some kind of injury there (although he did open it occasionally), and at the end of the first season, was seemingly killed in a fire. When he reappears in the interquels, he wears a large [[EyepatchOfPower patch]] over that eye/general area and has lost all of the hair on his head, and has visible scars on his head and face.
** And if you were paying attention during Hei's ShirtlessScene in the second season, he has quite a few scars on his back. Definitely falls into the category of AntiHero scars.
** Mr. Smith, a villainous CIA agent in the second season generally wears sunglasses which cover the fact that while one his eyes is normal, and is blue, the other is milky white and probably nonfunctional, and has a nasty-looking scar running across it.
* Mello (bad guy... [[BlackAndGrayMorality well]], [[EvilVersusEvil sort of]]) from ''Manga/DeathNote'' gets a particularly nasty burn scar over half of his face from blowing up his own hideout to escape capture by the police. (In the manga, the burn scar not only covers the left side of his face, but extends down to his shoulder.)
** Also in the companion novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', [[SerialKiller Beyond Birthday]] gets an even worse burn scar (presumably covering all or most of his body) as a result of [[InterruptedSuicide a failed suicide attempt]].
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', several characters in the series have scars, and only the good ones at that since their enemies are demonic beings with regenerative abilities as one of their core powers; the hatred fueled slayer, Sanemi Shinazugawa, has a freaky collection of them, making him look somewhat evil, but those are there to show how committed he is in eradicating the actually evil beings destroying human lives; the most positive example is the protagonist himself, Tanjiro Kamado gets some scars along the way, on the chest, neck, and arms, in places where his beauty is not compromised, preserving his sweet nature and appearance. [[spoiler:The greatest demon, Muzan Kibutsuji, is later shown to have several scars he got in a legendary battle before, that could not be healed, just concealed, being the actual evil scars example in the series]].
* Allen Walker, protagonist of ''Manga/DGrayMan'' has a scar through his left eye. He also has a [[FauxSymbolism pentagram-shaped scar]] above that, both gotten from his father when young Allen accidentally had his deceased father turned into a demon. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the scar [[CursedWithAwesome is a curse]] that lets him see the souls of [[TheHeartless Akuma]].
** And as of recently, he has some ''huge'' scars going across his chest from [[spoiler:accidentally impaling himself with his own akuma-purifying sword, which ''wasn't'' supposed to hurt him, but... ended up causing him massive injuries and horrible agony. Because, yes, he's [[TomatoInTheMirror actually]] a Noah]].
** Tyki has similar scars [[spoiler:for very similar reasons; Allen tried to remove the Noah from him, but only succeeded in waking it up]].
* [=MachGaogamon=] (good guy) from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (specifically, ''Anime/DigimonSavers'') has one across his snout, but his previous forms (Gaomon, Gaogamon) ''don't''. How ''that'' works is fodder for WildMassGuessing.
** Gatomon's paw gloves conceal "X"-shaped scars from when Myotismon disciplined her. Similar to the [=MachGaogamon=] example, these scars are not visible in her other forms. Gatomon was introduced as one of Myotismon's flunkies, only to perform a HeelFaceTurn when she is revealed to be [[SixthRanger the eighth DigiDestined's partner]].
*** Theoretically, she could still have these scars in her other forms; we've just never seen them. Angewomon has gloves that automatically cover almost all of her arms, Nefertimon has gauntlet-like armor on ''her'' arms, and we never canonically see her Mega forms. There is also Silphymon, but that's actually a combination of her and another Digimon so that could be the reason.
** Also [[SacrificialLion Leomon]] as well as his evolved form [[PaletteSwap Panjyamon]], are covered in scars, although they look less like scars and more like slightly darker patches of skin/fur.
* ''Anime/DivergenceEve'' gives us Luxandra Frail, a woman who is literally covered in scars as part of her backstory. And unlike most characters with a scar across the eye, who seem to have perfectly functioning, intact eyeballs, hers is revealed to have a matching scar on it when she looks off to the side, [[spoiler:in what has to be one of the more disturbing scenes in anime]]. Granted, she is about as good a character as it gets, so maybe it's a subversion?
* Yamcha (good guy) in ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' has 2 scars on his face. One over his eye and an "[[XMarksTheHero X]]" on his cheek. He didn't have them during the earlier sagas, though; they were gained sometime between Goku's defeat of King Piccolo and the start of the 23rd World's Martial Arts Tournament, and it's never explained how he got them.
** Future Gohan has similar scarring on his face and looks a lot like Yamcha.
** We actually see Tenshinhan ([[HeelFaceTurn former bad guy]]) get his scar (a large cut mark from his upper right torso to his lower left) at the hands of his former idol, Murderer/Mercenary Tao.
** Although rarely seen, Vegeta's body is covered with scars. We get a good look at them during the Frieza saga while he is changing into his uniform, with his most recent scar up to that point being Yajirobe's sword slash to his back.
** Goku's father [[AntiHero Bardock]] has a large x-shaped scar on his cheek.
** The rebooted version of Broly in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' is covered in scars around his whole body from his harsh upbringing on [[DeathWorld Vampa]], including a prominent x-shaped scar on his chest and one going up his cheek.
* In ''Manga/DragonDrive'' the good-but-disreputable character Rockaku has an eye blinded by a scar (and his dragon has a matching scar). This scar represents the character's grief, anger, and thirst for vengeance for his best friend's death, and it is these emotions that make the character disreputable (getting drunk, lying to friends, diving into battle without strategy).
** AntiVillain-turned-AntiHero Hikaru Himuro is CoveredWithScars after spending the ten-year TimeSkip in Rikyu. His arms appear to have more scarring than intact skin, and two long scars run parallel across his face. They're a result of intense training and battles, and are more a sign of his {{Determinator}} nature and being a total badass than anything negative.
* Eureka, from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', suffers "vein" scars which cover half of her left body (including her face) after an incident in Episode 19 and remains that way until the final episode whereby her scars are no longer visible on her.
* Juumonji, one of a trio of {{delinquents}} turned American football linemen from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', has a cross-shaped scar on his face. His father [[HistoryRepeats has a similar scar]]. Mamoru Banba also got several facial scars after his mysterious summer training.
* ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' Soushi, good guy, has a scar on his left eye. Which is actually plot relevant [[spoiler:when they were both children his best friend Kazuki had to claw at said eye to keep Soushi from being assimilated by the Festum. As a result there is a lot of bad blood between the two since Soushi cannot pilot Fafner due to the injury and Kazuki is in a state of self-denial mixed with guilt over the whole issue]].
* Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' has seven scars that form the shape of the Big Dipper, which were given to him by his rival Shin. The villain Jagi was so badly scarred by Ken that he wears a helmet to conceal it (and to help keep his head from exploding); he also gave himself matching scars on his chest to masquerade as Kenshiro.
* In ''Manga/FrankenFran'', Fran Madaraki has a number of scars across her body, the most notable being a [[GlasgowGrin Glasgow smile]]; they're actually still stitched, because she's a FrankensteinsMonster. Despite certain LiteralGenie tendencies, she is committed to saving lives like a good doctor should. It's best not to ask what [[BodyHorror kind of life]] -- what matters to her is that you're alive.
** Both [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Vero]][[ActionGirl nica]] and [[AxCrazy Gav]][[BloodKnight rill]] have similar scars.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', the zealous, Ishvalan serial killer Scar has, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you guessed it]], a scar on his face, in the shape of an "X". He is a morally ambiguous character, however, since he actually helps Ed and Al on a few occasions when he could just as easily have killed them.
** On the other hand, Ed has artificial limbs, which are listed above as evil, and Al not only has, but is a giant suit of armor.
*** Ed has another scar on his forehead, gained from a small injury early on in the story. It's usually covered by his hair and it's only purpose is to leak blood comically whenever he gets whacked. It eventually heals over time. WordOfGod is that it took so long to heal because Ed kept getting hit there.
** [[spoiler:Dr Marcoh]] has his face basically blown up. It scars as gruesomely as that implies, but despite an iffy past he is pretty much the most unambiguously good character of all. Very much a subversion (though he feels that after his past that [[TheAtoner he deserves his disfigurement.]])
** [[spoiler:Riza Hawkeye]] has a burn scar of traumatic character development on her back.
** Not to mention the scar on Roy's hand from when he had to [[spoiler:cut a transmutation circle into it to kill Lust]]. This scar also heals during the course of the series.
* Sousuke Sagara of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has an X-shaped scar on his cheek. Good guy. The scar actually plays a semi-important role in the final novel: [[spoiler:When Sophia suggests that Kaname change history so Sousuke was a normal boy instead of a child soldier, she ''almost'' goes along with it...but when she sees his unscarred cheek, she realizes that however good a person as he might be, he's not the Sousuke she fell in love with, and rejects the offer]].
** Also, the BigBad of the first season, Gauron, has a deep gash of a scar down one side of his face.
** [[spoiler:Leonard Testarossa]], the BigBad for the overall plotline, gains a vertical scar between the eyes when [[spoiler:he's struggling with Kaname over a gun and she [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally pulls the trigger]].]] After recovering, he drops his AffablyEvil "gentlemanly act" and becomes more of a JerkAss.
* Hayato Jin from ''Manga/GetterRobo'' receives a number of scars on his face -- three on his chin, one across his nose and a couple around his eyes -- which are normally invisible unless he's especially stressed, as well as countless, always-present ones on the rest of his body (which are almost always covered). He's a SociopathicHero, so these are Antihero Scars.
* Kazundo Gouda, the main villain of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Second Gig'' has a horribly scarred face and bizarrely egg-shaped head. He deliberately kept the scars in spite of being a {{Cyborg}} because he thought that it made him distinctive: when picture of him from before the injury is shown in one episode, most of Section Nine comments on how utterly boring and forgettable he looked. He's got a horrible InferioritySuperiorityComplex that drives much of his villainy.
* ''Manga/GlassMask'' plays with the trope. Maya's mentor Chigusa Tsukikage has half her face horribly scarred after the accident that ended her brilliant acting career (bad scar), but aside of looking creepy with her hair covering the burned half of her face and being the acting version of a DrillSergeantNasty, isn't actually a bad person per se.
* In his first appearance, Duke Togo, aka ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'', had no scars. Over the course of the series, he's collected a great deal of them on his body. They're covered by clothing much of the time. As for morality, he's best described as TrueNeutral (you pay him, he does the job, no moral issues involved [[ContractOnTheHitman unless you double-cross him]]).
* ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': [[TheProfessor Kenzo Kabuto]] has a scar runs along of the left side of his head, stopping right above his eyebrow. It is not elegant or unnoticeable, even though he is one of the good guys.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}} UC'''s famous Char Aznable has a scar on his forehead received in a duel with Amuro. Though, Char's intentions are pretty ambiguous, and it's [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor not really an indication]] for his alignment. In-universe, it was rumored among the troops that Char wore his famous mask to hide a horribly scarred face, when it was really just to conceal his true identity; the mask actually kept Amuro's sword strike from being a fatal one.
** The hulking Dozle Zabi, one of Zeon's top naval commanders, has a heavily scarred face. This came from the same car bomb assassination that killed his younger brother Sasro before the start of the series. Despite the scars adding to his already ogre-like appearance, Dozle is (along with his naive youngest brother Garma) the nicest of the Zabi clan, being a devoted husband and father, AFatherToHisMen, and completely uninvolved in the shady dealings that brought his family to power.
* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' has Bean Bandit, mercenary driver, who helps criminals, bank robbers and so with his badass car, The Buff, which could put KITT into self-pity tears. He starts as a respectful antagonist who occasionally can be an ally. A bit of a hero, a bit of antihero, but the [[XMarksTheHero crossed scar]] between his eyes tells us he truly has a HiddenHeartOfGold. And as it was stated on his own OVA, he watches hero movies twice a week.
* Father Alexander Anderson of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' across his cheek. Odd, considering his HealingFactor (probably gained ''before'' his genetic upgrade to ultimate monster-killer).[[note]][[WordOfGod Kohta Hirano]] eventually explained that, yes, if a Regenerator gained a scar before becoming a Regenerator, it would stay as such[[/note]]
** Above example confirmed by another Regenerator, [[spoiler:Heinkel Wolfe]]. Calling it a scar is debatable, considering that [[spoiler:his/her left cheek and face was blown open Jonah Hex-style by The Captain and has stayed like that for ''30 years'']], but it's still a permanent wound, so I suppose that it counts.
* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', there's a strip known "Liet's scars". Three guesses as to what it's about. And since Lithuania is a good guy, he's able to hide them under his clothes. It's believed that at least some of these scars (which look like whipping marks) come from Russia's abuse, which has been somewhat hinted yet never confirmed in canon. But {{fanon}} loves to assume it's true in an attempt to [[RonTheDeathEater demonize Russia]] [[SympatheticSue and woobiefy Lithuania]]).
** China has a single but very large scar on his back, [[spoiler:apparently given to him by Japan]].
** Netherlands has a currently unexplained scar over his right eye.
* Kakihara in ''Manga/IchiTheKiller''. He has a horizontal scar running across his cheeks and nose, a horizontal scar across his forehead, and a vertical scar that connects both over his left eye. In addition to a glasgow smile held together by piercings at the edge of his lips. He is arguably the villain even though the good guy isn't any better than him and Kakihara gets more screen time (about 75% of the manga and film).
* Naraku (bad guy) from ''Manga/InuYasha'' has a large spider-shaped scar on his back. This dates back to his days as a human (despite Naraku technically being a HiveMind...) and extends to all his "incarnations", parts of his body given will and intelligence. (This includes Kagura, one of the incarnations. Though Kagura herself evolves more into an AntiHero than a proper villain, she is still forced to reluctantly serve Naraku out of self-preservation).
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Part 3's Kakyoin has vertical scars in both his eyes [[spoiler:from being attacked by N'Doul, in the very beginning of the Egypt Hen story arc. After his eyesight is mostly recovered, he has to wear sunglasses to cope with the damage.]]
** Also in Part 3, Avdol has apparent scars beneath his eyes, that have a sinuous pattern. He also gets a scar on his forehead [[spoiler:from his "death" at the hands of Hol Horse.]]
** In Part 4, Okuyasu has an X-scar on his face, reminiscent of being attacked by Crazy Diamond, but while he is strong and can erase things with a swing of his right hand, he also is rather... lacking in the thinking department.
** Resident BigBad DIO has a noticeable scar all across his neck, [[spoiler:that is the product of his head being attached to Jonathan Joestar's body.]] As the scar heals, his powers grow stronger.
** From Parts 1 and 2, Speedwagon has a scar that goes from beneath his left eye and across his cheek, mirroring his backstory as a thug. Though, it's ultimately a good scar, since he's a kind-hearted man who's devoted to help the Joestar family.
** And, in Part 7, {{President| Evil}} Valentine has scars on his back that come from past torture; they resemble the American flag. Probably the main reason for him being a VillainWithGoodPublicity despite being an evil lunatic who (among many other things) forced himself onto a 14-year-old girl.
* Yasuri Shichika, protagonist of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'', had his body scarred horribly in the last episode; though he covers most of them up, the one on his face is very prominent. He's virtually the only character in the series to receive such wounds.
* Tokine from ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' has a scar on her hand and arm that is ''almost'' covered by her clothing, but not quite. This is still a good scar, as it's shown that she received it while saving Yoshimori's life.
** And let's not forget Yoshimori himself, whose body is COVERED in little scars all over from his constant physical training and getting tossed around by demons all the time until Tokine can bail him out. All good scars that are generally covered up by his clothes, unless he's wearing shorts or a short-sleeved shirt anyway.
** Kekkaishi is actually something of a subversion: Tokine and Yoshimori's scars look more realistic, not cool.
* GreaterScopeVillain Ragyo Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has seven star shaped scars that cover all of her back.
* [[EvilOverlord Claw]] from ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' has a scar over his left eye and unlike other characters with an eye scar, he always keeps his left eye closed.
* Shiro Takamachi of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has numerous scars all over his body from his [[VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever bodyguard days]] which we only catch a glimpse of when he takes a bath. He's also the kind and [[OpenMindedParent open minded father]] of Nanoha, a very HappilyMarried man, and definitely a good guy.
* Subverted somewhat in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' by Sergei Smirnov, a Russian lieutenant colonel with a facial scar fit for a Bond villain...who turns out to be one of the most sensible, intelligent, and humane characters in the show.
** Also, [[spoiler:WorthyOpponent Graham "Mr. Bushido" Aker gets ''several'' burn scars on the left side of his face and body during the first season finale, which is why he uses a {{mask| power}}. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gundam_00_Second_Season_-_21_-_Large_38.jpg We see them clearly in Episode 21]]]].
* Domon Kasshu from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' has a cross-shaped scar on his face. Jerk in several shades that go from JerkAss to JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but mostly good.
** Domon's boss Urube Ishikawa has a scar on his face [[spoiler:thanks to the Devil Gundam]]. Wears a [[MaskPower metallic mask]] over it. [[spoiler:Looks like a good guy, but turns out to be a MagnificentBastard and very dang EVIL.]]
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** Inverted by All Might. Despite being a hero, he has horrendous scars on his chest from a fight he got in five years ago [[spoiler:with All For One]] that resulted in him losing several of his internal organs. They serve as a bit of a RedRightHand for him and wouldn't look out of place on a villain.
** Todoroki has a prominent scald burn over the upper left side of his face, that looks not unlike [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko's]], but he's ultimately a good, if [[BrokenAce troubled]] guy.
** Played straight by Aizawa, Izuku, and Iida, who all gain neat and attractive scars. Aizawa gets one under his right eye during the attack on USJ, Izuku gets two on his right hand during the Sports Festival, and Iida gets one on his left arm during the fight with Stain.
** Kirishima also has a classic good guy scar in the form of a small cut over his right eye. He received it when his Quirk first manifested as a small child and he accidentally cut himself with his hardening ability while rubbing his eye.
** Principal Nezu has a large, rugged scar across his right eye, possibly from when he was experimented on by humans in the past. Though he is a Pro Hero and undeniably on the side of good, he does have a sadistic streak and enjoys "toying" with humans when given the opportunity, as he still holds a massive grudge over the abuse he endured from them.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Hatake Kakashi has a scar over his left eye, but it is usually covered by his forehead protector. It is the result of an injury to his eye that led to an eye transplant. Umino Iruka has the horizontal scar through the nose, and a large chunk of the adult population of Leaf Village has some scar or other, generally quite unobtrusive. Morino Ibiki, on the other hand, was very badly scarred in the past during an interrogation, but he is still one of the good guys ([[GoodIsNotNice well]], [[TortureTechnician mostly]]), though he does cover the worst ones up with his bandana.
* The main character of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Negi Springfield, received a small horizontal scar on his cheek during his fight with Setsuna during the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament.
** He also received a scar [[spoiler:fighting a recreation of his father in the final match of the tournament]]. He could have had it magically healed, but he decided to keep the scar for sentimental reasons.
** Jack Rakan has a scar on each arm. We find out in a flashback that he got these [[spoiler:when the Lifemaker attacked Ala Rubra and cut his arms off]]. Obviously, they have since been reattached. Negi may also have a similar scar after his fight with Kagetarou.
** Ako has a large scar on her back of the more "evil" variety of scars, even though she's anything but. It's a large part of her character background that she is ashamed by it, has a phobia of blood from the accident when she received it, and freaks out when Negi sees it.
* Misato of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a huge scar from between her breasts to her abdomen from the Second Impact that is rarely seen and Gendo has horrible burn scars on his hands, which is possibly why he wears those creepy little white gloves all the time.
** [[spoiler:It isn't. At the very beginning, it probably was, but after "Asuka Strikes!", there's [[EyesDoNotBelongThere something]] far more gruesome under his right glove...]]
** The doujinshi ''Manga/ReTake'' has [[spoiler:Future!Asuka discarding her plugsuit in the first issue]]. We're not shown what is underneath but her reflection in Shinji's eye shows numerous scars crisscrossing her torso.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Luffy, TheHero, has a small scar under his eye; the manga originally began with him cutting his face to prove himself to be a man, but this was cut out of the anime. His [[spoiler:grandfather (good guy but reluctant villain) has a similar scar over his eye]]. Also, Coby, another good guy, received an X-shaped scar. X-shaped scars tend to pop out in the series, possibly as a tribute to ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', on which Eiichiro Oda (the author) worked as an assistant.
** Roronoa Zoro (AntiHero) possesses a huge scar across his chest from his first bout with Mihawk (which he tried to poorly patch up by himself at first). Later on, he gains scars on his ankles from his attempt to cut his feet off to escape a villain's trap.
** Curiously, one of the major villains in the Enies Lobby arc, [[spoiler:Rob Lucci, has a scar on his back in the shape of the World Government's flag. It's usually hidden by his shirt, though. Lucci is an interesting case-he has a Good Guy-type scar, and is a legally licensed agent of the ''One Piece'' world's governing body, but he is portrayed as a murderous sort who greatly enjoys the killing and spying that he does in his role as a government agent]].
** [[spoiler:After the timeskip, Luffy has an X burn scar on his chest from Akainu's attack and Zoro has lost an eye and has a thin scar from his forehead to his cheek.]]
** Crocodile (villain) also has the huge stitches spreading across his face mid-way down his nose.
** Shanks has three vertical scars over his left eye from a fight with [[spoiler:a WolverineClaws-toting Blackbeard]].
** Brook's old head wound is, pre-skeleton, a bit more messy-looking and disfiguring than the usual Good Guy scar. This may well fall into "[[RuggedScar hard life]]" or "EveryScarHasAStory" territory, though at the moment all we know is he was formerly part of a kingdom's military.
* Gene Starwind of ''Manga/OutlawStar'' is another example of a good guy with evil scars. Including two rather jagged ones running across his cheek and countless others on the rest of his body. Unlike most heroic body scars, his shirt ''doesn't'' cover all of them. It might if he has ''sleeves'', but...
* Gilbert in ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has a scar across his chest from when Oz accidentally slashed him with a sword at the beginning of the series. This is, in fact, what tips Oz off to his identity.
* The main hero Tetsunosuke in ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'' received a scar under his right eye following his battle with Yoshida.
* Ruby from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has a pair of scars above an eye conveniently covered by his NiceHat. [[spoiler:He has these because he took a claw from a frenzied Salamence in Sapphire's place. Surprisingly, the scars have less of an impact on ''his'' CharacterDevelopment than they did on ''hers''.]]
* Fakir in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has a birth mark that is [[spoiler:supposed to be the scar of the Knight in a fairytale that was torn in two by a monster Raven -- whom he is the reincarnation of]]. Of course, it's always hidden underneath his shirt. [[spoiler:Good guy, although the main heroine doesn't know that in the beginning.]]
* In ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', the male lead Randel Oland has his ''entire body'' covered by horrific scars, some of which (if this was reality, or if he weren't MadeOfIron) would have resulted in his immediate death. They serve as a physical mark of the horrors he's endured [[spoiler:as a member of the Invisible 9, the nonexistent (on paper, anyway) terror troops of the Empire]]. They're Good Scars though, as Randel himself is a BrokenHero.
** The scars across his nose make him resemble a giant woobie teddy bear when he's not in the influence of the lamp. But when the lamp is working...
* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'', Xanxus has scars all over his body that appear when his anger reaches its apex. He's the BigBad for the second arc, and somewhat of a [[spoiler:WildCard / AloofAlly in the new arc]].
* In ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', [[AnAxeToGrind the axe fighter]] Curio got a nice one across his left eye [[spoiler:by protecting a pre-teen Odin (or better said, Juliet) from abusive guards]]. Also a subversion: unlike many other cases, [[EyesAreUnbreakable his eye was permanently damaged]]. And finally, [[spoiler:Curio's EyeScream incident is what prompts Juliet to become the [[VigilanteMan Red Whirlwind]]]].
* Tsukune of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has scars all over his body from several ''very'' close brushes with death. His clothes cover all of them, making him a good guy.
* Himura Kenshin, the hero of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', has a single X-shaped scar on one cheek (hence the alternate title for some North American versions of the show, ''Samurai X''). By contrast, one of the series' chief antagonists, Makoto Shishio, is so heavily burned that his body is kept wrapped and bandaged at all times, save for his eyes and mouth.
* Cho Hakkai in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' has a scar on his belly. He got it during his HeroicBSOD in his {{Backstory}}.
** In a later {{Backstory}} arc we see that Sanzo's body's been covered in scars since his teenage years. Thankfully they're all below his neckline and covered up by his abundant robes, so his handsome face can resume charming fangirls like before.
** Gojyo has two small scars under one of his eyes, from when his stepmother tried to kill him. His hair is usually long enough to hide them if he tilts his head a certain way, but he doesn't always.
* In ''Manga/SakuraGari'', [[spoiler: Masataka]] isn't scarred at the start, but gains ''many'' scars across [[spoiler: his]] back thanks to [[spoiler: Katsuragi whipping him in "punishment" for being his strongest rival for Souma's love. ([[ColdBloodedTorture Among]] [[RapeAsDrama several]] [[AssShove other]] [[FinGore things]].)]]
* Good guy Mugen receives a scar (well, three parallel ones) on his cheek from an enemy with knuckle claws in the three-part finale of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo''.
** Bad guy Umanosuke, leader of the three brothers antagonizing Mugen, however, has a lidless left eye, apparently the inadvertent result of his encounter with Mugen. When his eyepatch comes off, revealing it, he becomes even more unbalanced than before.
* ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' both subverts this and plays it straight. We have Yuya, the heroine, who has a hideous scar on her stomach (it gets de-hideoused later on, but still counts as a subversion). Then there's Akira (good guy), who is covered in scars, but they are mostly on his back and almost always covered by clothes. And finally, we get Hishigi (a rather dark AntiVillain), who is covered in ''nasty'' scars after [[spoiler: the Devil Eyes that have been keeping him alive are destroyed]].
* Gorobei in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' has a large upside down Y-shaped scar on his left cheek, but it's never explained how he got it.
* Giroro in ''Manga/SgtFrog'' has a long straight scar diagonally over his left eye. His eye is perfectly fine though.
* There are characters with scars in ''Manga/SoulEater'', but these are 'good guys'. However, their scars are not all attractive. Soul has a massive scar right down his chest after being struck by Ragnarok (the black blood infection this gives him is plot-relevant), though it has not been referred to or seen recently. Stein is covered in scars due to experimenting on himself. [[spoiler:Black Star obtains a clean scar bisecting the star tattoo on his shoulder that symbolizes his CharacterDevelopment]] in the manga. In contrast, most of the main antagonists are not only unscarred but rather good-looking (Medusa, Arachne, Noah isn't exactly ugly in spite of his dress sense and Asura's face is 'pretty-boy' material even if the rest of him is skeletal, skin-stretching squick).
* Ralph in ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' has a classic Evil Scar, right across his eye. Said blind eye turns pink when he's in a murderous rage, accentuating the point.
* Takaya "D-Boy" Aiba of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' was stabbed in the eye by the first villain. The eye got better, since he was made of PoweredArmor at the time, but he still got a scar. When the real [[TheDragon Dragon]] showed up, he made a comment on how D-Boy's scar made it look like he was crying.
* Vash (good guy) in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is horribly, unbelievably scarred, ''and'' has a missing arm, but his shirt (and an {{Artificial Limb|s}}) covers it up.
** His body is so heavily damaged that some parts of it are ''riveted together with pieces of metal''. Figure that out.
*** [[spoiler:Not so disturbing once it's revealed that he's closer to a plant than a human.]]
*** Yeah. Because [[spoiler:that means that he's keeping them ''[[IShouldHaveBeenBetter voluntarily]]''. That's a ''[[SarcasmMode lot]]'' less disturbing]].
* In ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'', the AntiHero protagonist has a scar (technically multiple small scars) covering half his face from the [[spoiler:explosion]] that blinded him.
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' has multiple examples, as often played straight as not.
** While Thorfinn's body is CoveredInScars, his first (and so far only) facial scar is gained during a ThresholdGuardian [[spoiler:fight against Snake]] that cements him firmly as a good person. The scar is a straight vertical one on his left jaw and cheek, which makes him look more rugged than anything else.
** [[spoiler:Canute]] receives a straight horizontal scar on his left cheek from Thorfinn [[spoiler:at the climax of the first arc]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the next time he shows up he is sliding down the slippery slope and becoming a much worse person.]]
** Averted with Floki, who has a rugged straight scar over his right eye (with the eye fully intact) and is a SmugSnake ''per excellence'' and a recurring secondary bad guy for the first third arcs.
** Thorgil has a split lip. True to this trope, he is [[BloodKnight just as menacing as it makes him look]].
** Ulf has some clean scarring on his brow, and is [[spoiler:Canute's]] NobleTopEnforcer during the second arc.
* Balgus (good guy) in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has numerous scars, including one dominating the left side of his face.
** In the same series, getting a scar on his face from Van causes Dilandau (bad guy) [[MinorInjuryOverreaction to go crazy(er)]]. And it was very neat, good-guy looking scar, by the way.
* Reiji Takayama from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' has a badass scar. While he's working for a company not very moralistic at best, it serves as a hint that he's not just an armchair arms-trader, but was in some action personally; later he turns out to be a [[BlackAndGrayMorality good guy as much as practical]] -- when the responsibility (and the fact he fell head over heels for the heroine) comes to the fore, he kicks a fair share of bottom for a BadassNormal.
* Tsume in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' has a large cross-shaped scar on his chest, which is seen in both his true wolf form and his human disguise. The younger wolf Toboe says it looks cool, but it is not until near the end of the series (in Episode 29, one of the OVA bonus episodes) that we learn the reason he carries it. [[spoiler:After Toboe dies, Tsume spends some time alone with his friend's body, and confesses to it (and the audience) that the other wolves of his pack scarred him for cowardice when he tried to run away instead of saving his companions from hunters.]]
* In ''Manga/{{xxxHoLiC}}'', [[spoiler:Himawari]] receives a nasty set of scars on [[spoiler:her]] back and neck in place of [[spoiler:Watanuki, who fell from the second story of the school building and onto a shattered pane of glass]].
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' [[spoiler:Sensui's scars are multiple, as you'd expect of a villain; however, they are entirely covered by his shirt, as you'd expect of a good guy (because he ''used'' to be one). Itsuki becomes scarred over his eye from taking Kuwabara's Rei-ken: a simple heroic scar. Mukuro's scars are also "bad guy" scars that cover half of her body; however, seeing as how she got them (by [[BrokenBird pouring acid over herself to prevent her "father" from raping her as a child]]), as well as her usual hiding of them, makes them "good guy" markings]]. Kurama temporarily gets a heroic X on his cheek as well (giving him a strong resemblance to Kenshin).
* Thief King Bakura from ''Manga/YuGiOh'' has an evil scar -- a vertical slash down from his eye with two horizontal slashes intersecting it. We're never given a story behind it, but given his [[FreudianExcuse back]][[GenocideBackfire story]], it's probably meant to hint at his difficult past.
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* Kaoru in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' has some rather unsightly scars coming from his grandfather's physical abuse. As with most Good Scars though, you can't see them unless he takes off his shirt.
* [[PyroManiac Nice Holystone]] of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has burn scars all over her arms and part of her face following an explosives accident when she was little. The reason why her [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend]] Jacuzzi Splot prominently tattooed his face was to draw attention away from her scars. Before you think this is a subversion, remember that ''no one'' in ''Baccano!'' [[BlackAndGrayMorality is 100% good]].
* Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has a small scar across the bridge of his nose, given to him by adoptive father Gambino when he tried to kill him.
** He's gained progressively more all over his face and entire body over the course of the story from numerous fights against demons. And he's missing an arm [[spoiler:which he hacked off himself]], and eye (which is depicted as permanently closed).
*** The eye is probably always closed because it's still in the socket, but being punctured by a demon's claw makes it completely useless.
** Casca also gains a number of small scars from her battles in the series. During [[spoiler:her sex scene]] with Guts, he spots them, and she feels ashamed of them at first, given the situation, but he's unfazed and finds her all the more admirable for it.
* Played straight with ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName''[='s=] Giou Takashiro who has a scar on his left cheek, which he got from his former friend [[BigBad Reiga]].
** Subverted with Usui Shuusei who is most definitely a very good guy (though a slightly [[StepfordSmiler broken]] one). He has some very nasty, discolored and badly-healed burn marks on his upper body from when he [[spoiler: interrupted Hotsuma's suicide attempt]].
* Hinako Aikawa, female lead of ''Manga/BitterVirgin'' has a scar on her stomach which is the result of a C-section. Hinako was a victim of [[AbusiveParents sexual abuse]] to the extent that she got pregnant ''twice'' before the age of 16. We see it only twice in the course of the series.
* In ''Manga/BlackJack'' Dr. Kuroo Hazama aka Black Jack is a good guy who sometimes poses as a bad guy to keep his reputation... and is ''massively'' scarred all over his body and face, to the point his skin has some different colored spots. [[spoiler:He actually got these scars as a child, when a bomb exploded and almost killed him and his mother; he decided to become a doctor after finishing his rehab.]]
* Balalaika, ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s resident MagnificentBastard, has a huge scar down the right side of her face (and body) from having survived a point-blank frag grenade in the Afghanistan war. The scar has given her the derisive nickname "Fry-face" amongst the Roanapur gangster community, which is only spoken in her presence by people with a death wish. Although a villain by anyone's standard, she never actively antagonizes the {{villain protagonist}}s and indeed hires them on several occasions.
** Her [[TheDragon Dragon]], Boris, has what looks like a knife scar across his nose.
* Manji from ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' has three separate scars traveling the length of his face. One goes horizontal through his forehead, one horizontal through the bridge of his nose, and the last vertical through his right eye, which actually blinded him in that eye.
* Zaraki Kenpachi from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has a scar straight down the left side of his face, going from his hairline down to his jaw. Hisagi Shuuhei has three vertical parallel scars on one side of his face (from a Hollow attack fifty years before), apart from a tattooed horizontal line across nose and cheeks and a number 69.
** One character who has scars purely for the cool factor is Tsubaki, one of Orihime's Shun Shun Rikka. He springs into existence with a cool-looking facial scar down the side of his face, despite never having fought before.
** OldSoldier Yamamoto is also covered in scars, which is expected considering that he has been alive and in battle for thousands of years. While he isn't evil, [[WellIntentionedExtremist he isn't exactly what you would call good either]].
** MadScientist Mayuri Kurotsuchi is shown to have what appear to be surgical scars criss-crossing his entire body in the brief scene he is shown without his [[EvilMakeover creepy make-up]] on.
** Nel has a scar on her forehead from when [[spoiler:Nnoitra broke her mask and kicked her out of Las Noches]].
** Kenpachi also has two more scars on his chest, courtesy of Nnoitra.
** Grimmjow has one on his chest after he got hit with Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshou in their first fight.
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', Kakei has a fashionable scar on his jaw, which Okatsu tries to recreate on the other side while assaulting him. Okatsu has scars, too, but they aren't obvious until she gets comfortable.
* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': Tokiko Tsumura, the protagonist's ActionGirlfriend, has a long scar stretching from cheek to cheek across the bridge of her nose. This scar is very noticeable, representing her status as an AntiHero, but it's clean and even, showing her inherently good nature. Interestingly, the author has stated this comes from her design originally being intended for a female professional wrestler.
* Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's Anime/CaptainHarlock has a large horizontal scar across his left cheek ending at a missing right eye. His female counterpart [[Anime/QueenEmeraldas Emeraldas]] has an identical scar but retains both eyes.
* A ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case is named "The Scar that Evolves Into Love". It's about a pretty and [[DisabledLoveInterest blind]] [[TheOjou rich woman]] named Kurumi Shoudou who hires Kogoro to find her first love, a man who is supposed to have a scar on his chest coming from the time he saved her life years ago: there are three men who hit this profile... but one of them may be a SerialKiller who's on the loose. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Shoudou's butler Taisuke Houya [[SubordinateExcuse was said man]]... and that Kurumi already knew it, but staged a BatmanGambit so he would stop [[GreaterNeedThanmine putting her needs over his own]] and aknoeledge their mutual love. So of course, it's a Good Scar from his part. (The SerialKiller? Neither of the three guys was him. But don't worry, he's caught in the next case.)]]
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}s'' are all hideously disfigured with scars beneath their armor, presumably as a result of becoming half-yokai. Regardless of their character, they all have potential evil under their skins, and evil was certainly done to ''them''.
* C.C. from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a scar of the Geass sigil placed beneath and partially on her left breast and completely covered if she wears even a midriff-baring top. Particularly relevant as she's got a HealingFactor that lets her come back from the dead, yet this one scar never fades, [[spoiler:probably because it was inflicted just before she was tricked into becoming an immortal, and appropriately enough seems to heal when she loses her powers most of the way through the series.]]
** Asahina of the Four Holy Swords has a nice, neat scar going vertically down his face, above and below his eye.
* Jet Black from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a large vertical scar running overtop his right eye. Typical good guy scar, and Jet is one of the nicest people in the series.
* Wei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' is something of a PsychoForHire and has a nasty burn over half of his face (and likely the rest of his body) following an encounter with electric-powered AntiHero Hei. Also, Wei's power is a form of BloodyMurder and so his arms are covered with scars from his constant cutting of himself, although those scars are usually hidden under clothing.
** Amagiri, a morally ambiguous AntiVillain generally kept one eye [[EyesAlwaysShut shut]], suggesting some kind of injury there (although he did open it occasionally), and at the end of the first season, was seemingly killed in a fire. When he reappears in the interquels, he wears a large [[EyepatchOfPower patch]] over that eye/general area and has lost all of the hair on his head, and has visible scars on his head and face.
** And if you were paying attention during Hei's ShirtlessScene in the second season, he has quite a few scars on his back. Definitely falls into the category of AntiHero scars.
** Mr. Smith, a villainous CIA agent in the second season generally wears sunglasses which cover the fact that while one his eyes is normal, and is blue, the other is milky white and probably nonfunctional, and has a nasty-looking scar running across it.
* Mello (bad guy... [[BlackAndGrayMorality well]], [[EvilVersusEvil sort of]]) from ''Manga/DeathNote'' gets a particularly nasty burn scar over half of his face from blowing up his own hideout to escape capture by the police. (In the manga, the burn scar not only covers the left side of his face, but extends down to his shoulder.)
** Also in the companion novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'', [[SerialKiller Beyond Birthday]] gets an even worse burn scar (presumably covering all or most of his body) as a result of [[InterruptedSuicide a failed suicide attempt]].
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', several characters in the series have scars, and only the good ones at that since their enemies are demonic beings with regenerative abilities as one of their core powers; the hatred fueled slayer, Sanemi Shinazugawa, has a freaky collection of them, making him look somewhat evil, but those are there to show how committed he is in eradicating the actually evil beings destroying human lives; the most positive example is the protagonist himself, Tanjiro Kamado gets some scars along the way, on the chest, neck, and arms, in places where his beauty is not compromised, preserving his sweet nature and appearance. [[spoiler:The greatest demon, Muzan Kibutsuji, is later shown to have several scars he got in a legendary battle before, that could not be healed, just concealed, being the actual evil scars example in the series]].
* Allen Walker, protagonist of ''Manga/DGrayMan'' has a scar through his left eye. He also has a [[FauxSymbolism pentagram-shaped scar]] above that, both gotten from his father when young Allen accidentally had his deceased father turned into a demon. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the scar [[CursedWithAwesome is a curse]] that lets him see the souls of [[TheHeartless Akuma]].
** And as of recently, he has some ''huge'' scars going across his chest from [[spoiler:accidentally impaling himself with his own akuma-purifying sword, which ''wasn't'' supposed to hurt him, but... ended up causing him massive injuries and horrible agony. Because, yes, he's [[TomatoInTheMirror actually]] a Noah]].
** Tyki has similar scars [[spoiler:for very similar reasons; Allen tried to remove the Noah from him, but only succeeded in waking it up]].
* [=MachGaogamon=] (good guy) from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (specifically, ''Anime/DigimonSavers'') has one across his snout, but his previous forms (Gaomon, Gaogamon) ''don't''. How ''that'' works is fodder for WildMassGuessing.
** Gatomon's paw gloves conceal "X"-shaped scars from when Myotismon disciplined her. Similar to the [=MachGaogamon=] example, these scars are not visible in her other forms. Gatomon was introduced as one of Myotismon's flunkies, only to perform a HeelFaceTurn when she is revealed to be [[SixthRanger the eighth DigiDestined's partner]].
*** Theoretically, she could still have these scars in her other forms; we've just never seen them. Angewomon has gloves that automatically cover almost all of her arms, Nefertimon has gauntlet-like armor on ''her'' arms, and we never canonically see her Mega forms. There is also Silphymon, but that's actually a combination of her and another Digimon so that could be the reason.
** Also [[SacrificialLion Leomon]] as well as his evolved form [[PaletteSwap Panjyamon]], are covered in scars, although they look less like scars and more like slightly darker patches of skin/fur.
* ''Anime/DivergenceEve'' gives us Luxandra Frail, a woman who is literally covered in scars as part of her backstory. And unlike most characters with a scar across the eye, who seem to have perfectly functioning, intact eyeballs, hers is revealed to have a matching scar on it when she looks off to the side, [[spoiler:in what has to be one of the more disturbing scenes in anime]]. Granted, she is about as good a character as it gets, so maybe it's a subversion?
* Yamcha (good guy) in ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' has 2 scars on his face. One over his eye and an "[[XMarksTheHero X]]" on his cheek. He didn't have them during the earlier sagas, though; they were gained sometime between Goku's defeat of King Piccolo and the start of the 23rd World's Martial Arts Tournament, and it's never explained how he got them.
** Future Gohan has similar scarring on his face and looks a lot like Yamcha.
** We actually see Tenshinhan ([[HeelFaceTurn former bad guy]]) get his scar (a large cut mark from his upper right torso to his lower left) at the hands of his former idol, Murderer/Mercenary Tao.
** Although rarely seen, Vegeta's body is covered with scars. We get a good look at them during the Frieza saga while he is changing into his uniform, with his most recent scar up to that point being Yajirobe's sword slash to his back.
** Goku's father [[AntiHero Bardock]] has a large x-shaped scar on his cheek.
** The rebooted version of Broly in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' is covered in scars around his whole body from his harsh upbringing on [[DeathWorld Vampa]], including a prominent x-shaped scar on his chest and one going up his cheek.
* In ''Manga/DragonDrive'' the good-but-disreputable character Rockaku has an eye blinded by a scar (and his dragon has a matching scar). This scar represents the character's grief, anger, and thirst for vengeance for his best friend's death, and it is these emotions that make the character disreputable (getting drunk, lying to friends, diving into battle without strategy).
** AntiVillain-turned-AntiHero Hikaru Himuro is CoveredWithScars after spending the ten-year TimeSkip in Rikyu. His arms appear to have more scarring than intact skin, and two long scars run parallel across his face. They're a result of intense training and battles, and are more a sign of his {{Determinator}} nature and being a total badass than anything negative.
* Eureka, from ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', suffers "vein" scars which cover half of her left body (including her face) after an incident in Episode 19 and remains that way until the final episode whereby her scars are no longer visible on her.
* Juumonji, one of a trio of {{delinquents}} turned American football linemen from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', has a cross-shaped scar on his face. His father [[HistoryRepeats has a similar scar]]. Mamoru Banba also got several facial scars after his mysterious summer training.
* ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' Soushi, good guy, has a scar on his left eye. Which is actually plot relevant [[spoiler:when they were both children his best friend Kazuki had to claw at said eye to keep Soushi from being assimilated by the Festum. As a result there is a lot of bad blood between the two since Soushi cannot pilot Fafner due to the injury and Kazuki is in a state of self-denial mixed with guilt over the whole issue]].
* Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' has seven scars that form the shape of the Big Dipper, which were given to him by his rival Shin. The villain Jagi was so badly scarred by Ken that he wears a helmet to conceal it (and to help keep his head from exploding); he also gave himself matching scars on his chest to masquerade as Kenshiro.
* In ''Manga/FrankenFran'', Fran Madaraki has a number of scars across her body, the most notable being a [[GlasgowGrin Glasgow smile]]; they're actually still stitched, because she's a FrankensteinsMonster. Despite certain LiteralGenie tendencies, she is committed to saving lives like a good doctor should. It's best not to ask what [[BodyHorror kind of life]] -- what matters to her is that you're alive.
** Both [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Vero]][[ActionGirl nica]] and [[AxCrazy Gav]][[BloodKnight rill]] have similar scars.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', the zealous, Ishvalan serial killer Scar has, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you guessed it]], a scar on his face, in the shape of an "X". He is a morally ambiguous character, however, since he actually helps Ed and Al on a few occasions when he could just as easily have killed them.
** On the other hand, Ed has artificial limbs, which are listed above as evil, and Al not only has, but is a giant suit of armor.
*** Ed has another scar on his forehead, gained from a small injury early on in the story. It's usually covered by his hair and it's only purpose is to leak blood comically whenever he gets whacked. It eventually heals over time. WordOfGod is that it took so long to heal because Ed kept getting hit there.
** [[spoiler:Dr Marcoh]] has his face basically blown up. It scars as gruesomely as that implies, but despite an iffy past he is pretty much the most unambiguously good character of all. Very much a subversion (though he feels that after his past that [[TheAtoner he deserves his disfigurement.]])
** [[spoiler:Riza Hawkeye]] has a burn scar of traumatic character development on her back.
** Not to mention the scar on Roy's hand from when he had to [[spoiler:cut a transmutation circle into it to kill Lust]]. This scar also heals during the course of the series.
* Sousuke Sagara of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has an X-shaped scar on his cheek. Good guy. The scar actually plays a semi-important role in the final novel: [[spoiler:When Sophia suggests that Kaname change history so Sousuke was a normal boy instead of a child soldier, she ''almost'' goes along with it...but when she sees his unscarred cheek, she realizes that however good a person as he might be, he's not the Sousuke she fell in love with, and rejects the offer]].
** Also, the BigBad of the first season, Gauron, has a deep gash of a scar down one side of his face.
** [[spoiler:Leonard Testarossa]], the BigBad for the overall plotline, gains a vertical scar between the eyes when [[spoiler:he's struggling with Kaname over a gun and she [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally pulls the trigger]].]] After recovering, he drops his AffablyEvil "gentlemanly act" and becomes more of a JerkAss.
* Hayato Jin from ''Manga/GetterRobo'' receives a number of scars on his face -- three on his chin, one across his nose and a couple around his eyes -- which are normally invisible unless he's especially stressed, as well as countless, always-present ones on the rest of his body (which are almost always covered). He's a SociopathicHero, so these are Antihero Scars.
* Kazundo Gouda, the main villain of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Second Gig'' has a horribly scarred face and bizarrely egg-shaped head. He deliberately kept the scars in spite of being a {{Cyborg}} because he thought that it made him distinctive: when picture of him from before the injury is shown in one episode, most of Section Nine comments on how utterly boring and forgettable he looked. He's got a horrible InferioritySuperiorityComplex that drives much of his villainy.
* ''Manga/GlassMask'' plays with the trope. Maya's mentor Chigusa Tsukikage has half her face horribly scarred after the accident that ended her brilliant acting career (bad scar), but aside of looking creepy with her hair covering the burned half of her face and being the acting version of a DrillSergeantNasty, isn't actually a bad person per se.
* In his first appearance, Duke Togo, aka ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'', had no scars. Over the course of the series, he's collected a great deal of them on his body. They're covered by clothing much of the time. As for morality, he's best described as TrueNeutral (you pay him, he does the job, no moral issues involved [[ContractOnTheHitman unless you double-cross him]]).
* ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': [[TheProfessor Kenzo Kabuto]] has a scar runs along of the left side of his head, stopping right above his eyebrow. It is not elegant or unnoticeable, even though he is one of the good guys.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}} UC'''s famous Char Aznable has a scar on his forehead received in a duel with Amuro. Though, Char's intentions are pretty ambiguous, and it's [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor not really an indication]] for his alignment. In-universe, it was rumored among the troops that Char wore his famous mask to hide a horribly scarred face, when it was really just to conceal his true identity; the mask actually kept Amuro's sword strike from being a fatal one.
** The hulking Dozle Zabi, one of Zeon's top naval commanders, has a heavily scarred face. This came from the same car bomb assassination that killed his younger brother Sasro before the start of the series. Despite the scars adding to his already ogre-like appearance, Dozle is (along with his naive youngest brother Garma) the nicest of the Zabi clan, being a devoted husband and father, AFatherToHisMen, and completely uninvolved in the shady dealings that brought his family to power.
* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' has Bean Bandit, mercenary driver, who helps criminals, bank robbers and so with his badass car, The Buff, which could put KITT into self-pity tears. He starts as a respectful antagonist who occasionally can be an ally. A bit of a hero, a bit of antihero, but the [[XMarksTheHero crossed scar]] between his eyes tells us he truly has a HiddenHeartOfGold. And as it was stated on his own OVA, he watches hero movies twice a week.
* Father Alexander Anderson of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' across his cheek. Odd, considering his HealingFactor (probably gained ''before'' his genetic upgrade to ultimate monster-killer).[[note]][[WordOfGod Kohta Hirano]] eventually explained that, yes, if a Regenerator gained a scar before becoming a Regenerator, it would stay as such[[/note]]
** Above example confirmed by another Regenerator, [[spoiler:Heinkel Wolfe]]. Calling it a scar is debatable, considering that [[spoiler:his/her left cheek and face was blown open Jonah Hex-style by The Captain and has stayed like that for ''30 years'']], but it's still a permanent wound, so I suppose that it counts.
* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', there's a strip known "Liet's scars". Three guesses as to what it's about. And since Lithuania is a good guy, he's able to hide them under his clothes. It's believed that at least some of these scars (which look like whipping marks) come from Russia's abuse, which has been somewhat hinted yet never confirmed in canon. But {{fanon}} loves to assume it's true in an attempt to [[RonTheDeathEater demonize Russia]] [[SympatheticSue and woobiefy Lithuania]]).
** China has a single but very large scar on his back, [[spoiler:apparently given to him by Japan]].
** Netherlands has a currently unexplained scar over his right eye.
* Kakihara in ''Manga/IchiTheKiller''. He has a horizontal scar running across his cheeks and nose, a horizontal scar across his forehead, and a vertical scar that connects both over his left eye. In addition to a glasgow smile held together by piercings at the edge of his lips. He is arguably the villain even though the good guy isn't any better than him and Kakihara gets more screen time (about 75% of the manga and film).
* Naraku (bad guy) from ''Manga/InuYasha'' has a large spider-shaped scar on his back. This dates back to his days as a human (despite Naraku technically being a HiveMind...) and extends to all his "incarnations", parts of his body given will and intelligence. (This includes Kagura, one of the incarnations. Though Kagura herself evolves more into an AntiHero than a proper villain, she is still forced to reluctantly serve Naraku out of self-preservation).
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Part 3's Kakyoin has vertical scars in both his eyes [[spoiler:from being attacked by N'Doul, in the very beginning of the Egypt Hen story arc. After his eyesight is mostly recovered, he has to wear sunglasses to cope with the damage.]]
** Also in Part 3, Avdol has apparent scars beneath his eyes, that have a sinuous pattern. He also gets a scar on his forehead [[spoiler:from his "death" at the hands of Hol Horse.]]
** In Part 4, Okuyasu has an X-scar on his face, reminiscent of being attacked by Crazy Diamond, but while he is strong and can erase things with a swing of his right hand, he also is rather... lacking in the thinking department.
** Resident BigBad DIO has a noticeable scar all across his neck, [[spoiler:that is the product of his head being attached to Jonathan Joestar's body.]] As the scar heals, his powers grow stronger.
** From Parts 1 and 2, Speedwagon has a scar that goes from beneath his left eye and across his cheek, mirroring his backstory as a thug. Though, it's ultimately a good scar, since he's a kind-hearted man who's devoted to help the Joestar family.
** And, in Part 7, {{President| Evil}} Valentine has scars on his back that come from past torture; they resemble the American flag. Probably the main reason for him being a VillainWithGoodPublicity despite being an evil lunatic who (among many other things) forced himself onto a 14-year-old girl.
* Yasuri Shichika, protagonist of ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'', had his body scarred horribly in the last episode; though he covers most of them up, the one on his face is very prominent. He's virtually the only character in the series to receive such wounds.
* Tokine from ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' has a scar on her hand and arm that is ''almost'' covered by her clothing, but not quite. This is still a good scar, as it's shown that she received it while saving Yoshimori's life.
** And let's not forget Yoshimori himself, whose body is COVERED in little scars all over from his constant physical training and getting tossed around by demons all the time until Tokine can bail him out. All good scars that are generally covered up by his clothes, unless he's wearing shorts or a short-sleeved shirt anyway.
** Kekkaishi is actually something of a subversion: Tokine and Yoshimori's scars look more realistic, not cool.
* GreaterScopeVillain Ragyo Kiryuin from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has seven star shaped scars that cover all of her back.
* [[EvilOverlord Claw]] from ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' has a scar over his left eye and unlike other characters with an eye scar, he always keeps his left eye closed.
* Shiro Takamachi of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has numerous scars all over his body from his [[VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever bodyguard days]] which we only catch a glimpse of when he takes a bath. He's also the kind and [[OpenMindedParent open minded father]] of Nanoha, a very HappilyMarried man, and definitely a good guy.
* Subverted somewhat in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' by Sergei Smirnov, a Russian lieutenant colonel with a facial scar fit for a Bond villain...who turns out to be one of the most sensible, intelligent, and humane characters in the show.
** Also, [[spoiler:WorthyOpponent Graham "Mr. Bushido" Aker gets ''several'' burn scars on the left side of his face and body during the first season finale, which is why he uses a {{mask| power}}. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Gundam_00_Second_Season_-_21_-_Large_38.jpg We see them clearly in Episode 21]]]].
* Domon Kasshu from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' has a cross-shaped scar on his face. Jerk in several shades that go from JerkAss to JerkWithAHeartOfGold, but mostly good.
** Domon's boss Urube Ishikawa has a scar on his face [[spoiler:thanks to the Devil Gundam]]. Wears a [[MaskPower metallic mask]] over it. [[spoiler:Looks like a good guy, but turns out to be a MagnificentBastard and very dang EVIL.]]
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** Inverted by All Might. Despite being a hero, he has horrendous scars on his chest from a fight he got in five years ago [[spoiler:with All For One]] that resulted in him losing several of his internal organs. They serve as a bit of a RedRightHand for him and wouldn't look out of place on a villain.
** Todoroki has a prominent scald burn over the upper left side of his face, that looks not unlike [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko's]], but he's ultimately a good, if [[BrokenAce troubled]] guy.
** Played straight by Aizawa, Izuku, and Iida, who all gain neat and attractive scars. Aizawa gets one under his right eye during the attack on USJ, Izuku gets two on his right hand during the Sports Festival, and Iida gets one on his left arm during the fight with Stain.
** Kirishima also has a classic good guy scar in the form of a small cut over his right eye. He received it when his Quirk first manifested as a small child and he accidentally cut himself with his hardening ability while rubbing his eye.
** Principal Nezu has a large, rugged scar across his right eye, possibly from when he was experimented on by humans in the past. Though he is a Pro Hero and undeniably on the side of good, he does have a sadistic streak and enjoys "toying" with humans when given the opportunity, as he still holds a massive grudge over the abuse he endured from them.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Hatake Kakashi has a scar over his left eye, but it is usually covered by his forehead protector. It is the result of an injury to his eye that led to an eye transplant. Umino Iruka has the horizontal scar through the nose, and a large chunk of the adult population of Leaf Village has some scar or other, generally quite unobtrusive. Morino Ibiki, on the other hand, was very badly scarred in the past during an interrogation, but he is still one of the good guys ([[GoodIsNotNice well]], [[TortureTechnician mostly]]), though he does cover the worst ones up with his bandana.
* The main character of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Negi Springfield, received a small horizontal scar on his cheek during his fight with Setsuna during the Mahora Martial Arts Tournament.
** He also received a scar [[spoiler:fighting a recreation of his father in the final match of the tournament]]. He could have had it magically healed, but he decided to keep the scar for sentimental reasons.
** Jack Rakan has a scar on each arm. We find out in a flashback that he got these [[spoiler:when the Lifemaker attacked Ala Rubra and cut his arms off]]. Obviously, they have since been reattached. Negi may also have a similar scar after his fight with Kagetarou.
** Ako has a large scar on her back of the more "evil" variety of scars, even though she's anything but. It's a large part of her character background that she is ashamed by it, has a phobia of blood from the accident when she received it, and freaks out when Negi sees it.
* Misato of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a huge scar from between her breasts to her abdomen from the Second Impact that is rarely seen and Gendo has horrible burn scars on his hands, which is possibly why he wears those creepy little white gloves all the time.
** [[spoiler:It isn't. At the very beginning, it probably was, but after "Asuka Strikes!", there's [[EyesDoNotBelongThere something]] far more gruesome under his right glove...]]
** The doujinshi ''Manga/ReTake'' has [[spoiler:Future!Asuka discarding her plugsuit in the first issue]]. We're not shown what is underneath but her reflection in Shinji's eye shows numerous scars crisscrossing her torso.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Luffy, TheHero, has a small scar under his eye; the manga originally began with him cutting his face to prove himself to be a man, but this was cut out of the anime. His [[spoiler:grandfather (good guy but reluctant villain) has a similar scar over his eye]]. Also, Coby, another good guy, received an X-shaped scar. X-shaped scars tend to pop out in the series, possibly as a tribute to ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', on which Eiichiro Oda (the author) worked as an assistant.
** Roronoa Zoro (AntiHero) possesses a huge scar across his chest from his first bout with Mihawk (which he tried to poorly patch up by himself at first). Later on, he gains scars on his ankles from his attempt to cut his feet off to escape a villain's trap.
** Curiously, one of the major villains in the Enies Lobby arc, [[spoiler:Rob Lucci, has a scar on his back in the shape of the World Government's flag. It's usually hidden by his shirt, though. Lucci is an interesting case-he has a Good Guy-type scar, and is a legally licensed agent of the ''One Piece'' world's governing body, but he is portrayed as a murderous sort who greatly enjoys the killing and spying that he does in his role as a government agent]].
** [[spoiler:After the timeskip, Luffy has an X burn scar on his chest from Akainu's attack and Zoro has lost an eye and has a thin scar from his forehead to his cheek.]]
** Crocodile (villain) also has the huge stitches spreading across his face mid-way down his nose.
** Shanks has three vertical scars over his left eye from a fight with [[spoiler:a WolverineClaws-toting Blackbeard]].
** Brook's old head wound is, pre-skeleton, a bit more messy-looking and disfiguring than the usual Good Guy scar. This may well fall into "[[RuggedScar hard life]]" or "EveryScarHasAStory" territory, though at the moment all we know is he was formerly part of a kingdom's military.
* Gene Starwind of ''Manga/OutlawStar'' is another example of a good guy with evil scars. Including two rather jagged ones running across his cheek and countless others on the rest of his body. Unlike most heroic body scars, his shirt ''doesn't'' cover all of them. It might if he has ''sleeves'', but...
* Gilbert in ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has a scar across his chest from when Oz accidentally slashed him with a sword at the beginning of the series. This is, in fact, what tips Oz off to his identity.
* The main hero Tetsunosuke in ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'' received a scar under his right eye following his battle with Yoshida.
* Ruby from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has a pair of scars above an eye conveniently covered by his NiceHat. [[spoiler:He has these because he took a claw from a frenzied Salamence in Sapphire's place. Surprisingly, the scars have less of an impact on ''his'' CharacterDevelopment than they did on ''hers''.]]
* Fakir in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has a birth mark that is [[spoiler:supposed to be the scar of the Knight in a fairytale that was torn in two by a monster Raven -- whom he is the reincarnation of]]. Of course, it's always hidden underneath his shirt. [[spoiler:Good guy, although the main heroine doesn't know that in the beginning.]]
* In ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', the male lead Randel Oland has his ''entire body'' covered by horrific scars, some of which (if this was reality, or if he weren't MadeOfIron) would have resulted in his immediate death. They serve as a physical mark of the horrors he's endured [[spoiler:as a member of the Invisible 9, the nonexistent (on paper, anyway) terror troops of the Empire]]. They're Good Scars though, as Randel himself is a BrokenHero.
** The scars across his nose make him resemble a giant woobie teddy bear when he's not in the influence of the lamp. But when the lamp is working...
* In ''Manga/Reborn2004'', Xanxus has scars all over his body that appear when his anger reaches its apex. He's the BigBad for the second arc, and somewhat of a [[spoiler:WildCard / AloofAlly in the new arc]].
* In ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet'', [[AnAxeToGrind the axe fighter]] Curio got a nice one across his left eye [[spoiler:by protecting a pre-teen Odin (or better said, Juliet) from abusive guards]]. Also a subversion: unlike many other cases, [[EyesAreUnbreakable his eye was permanently damaged]]. And finally, [[spoiler:Curio's EyeScream incident is what prompts Juliet to become the [[VigilanteMan Red Whirlwind]]]].
* Tsukune of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has scars all over his body from several ''very'' close brushes with death. His clothes cover all of them, making him a good guy.
* Himura Kenshin, the hero of ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', has a single X-shaped scar on one cheek (hence the alternate title for some North American versions of the show, ''Samurai X''). By contrast, one of the series' chief antagonists, Makoto Shishio, is so heavily burned that his body is kept wrapped and bandaged at all times, save for his eyes and mouth.
* Cho Hakkai in ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' has a scar on his belly. He got it during his HeroicBSOD in his {{Backstory}}.
** In a later {{Backstory}} arc we see that Sanzo's body's been covered in scars since his teenage years. Thankfully they're all below his neckline and covered up by his abundant robes, so his handsome face can resume charming fangirls like before.
** Gojyo has two small scars under one of his eyes, from when his stepmother tried to kill him. His hair is usually long enough to hide them if he tilts his head a certain way, but he doesn't always.
* In ''Manga/SakuraGari'', [[spoiler: Masataka]] isn't scarred at the start, but gains ''many'' scars across [[spoiler: his]] back thanks to [[spoiler: Katsuragi whipping him in "punishment" for being his strongest rival for Souma's love. ([[ColdBloodedTorture Among]] [[RapeAsDrama several]] [[AssShove other]] [[FinGore things]].)]]
* Good guy Mugen receives a scar (well, three parallel ones) on his cheek from an enemy with knuckle claws in the three-part finale of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo''.
** Bad guy Umanosuke, leader of the three brothers antagonizing Mugen, however, has a lidless left eye, apparently the inadvertent result of his encounter with Mugen. When his eyepatch comes off, revealing it, he becomes even more unbalanced than before.
* ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' both subverts this and plays it straight. We have Yuya, the heroine, who has a hideous scar on her stomach (it gets de-hideoused later on, but still counts as a subversion). Then there's Akira (good guy), who is covered in scars, but they are mostly on his back and almost always covered by clothes. And finally, we get Hishigi (a rather dark AntiVillain), who is covered in ''nasty'' scars after [[spoiler: the Devil Eyes that have been keeping him alive are destroyed]].
* Gorobei in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' has a large upside down Y-shaped scar on his left cheek, but it's never explained how he got it.
* Giroro in ''Manga/SgtFrog'' has a long straight scar diagonally over his left eye. His eye is perfectly fine though.
* There are characters with scars in ''Manga/SoulEater'', but these are 'good guys'. However, their scars are not all attractive. Soul has a massive scar right down his chest after being struck by Ragnarok (the black blood infection this gives him is plot-relevant), though it has not been referred to or seen recently. Stein is covered in scars due to experimenting on himself. [[spoiler:Black Star obtains a clean scar bisecting the star tattoo on his shoulder that symbolizes his CharacterDevelopment]] in the manga. In contrast, most of the main antagonists are not only unscarred but rather good-looking (Medusa, Arachne, Noah isn't exactly ugly in spite of his dress sense and Asura's face is 'pretty-boy' material even if the rest of him is skeletal, skin-stretching squick).
* Ralph in ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' has a classic Evil Scar, right across his eye. Said blind eye turns pink when he's in a murderous rage, accentuating the point.
* Takaya "D-Boy" Aiba of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' was stabbed in the eye by the first villain. The eye got better, since he was made of PoweredArmor at the time, but he still got a scar. When the real [[TheDragon Dragon]] showed up, he made a comment on how D-Boy's scar made it look like he was crying.
* Vash (good guy) in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is horribly, unbelievably scarred, ''and'' has a missing arm, but his shirt (and an {{Artificial Limb|s}}) covers it up.
** His body is so heavily damaged that some parts of it are ''riveted together with pieces of metal''. Figure that out.
*** [[spoiler:Not so disturbing once it's revealed that he's closer to a plant than a human.]]
*** Yeah. Because [[spoiler:that means that he's keeping them ''[[IShouldHaveBeenBetter voluntarily]]''. That's a ''[[SarcasmMode lot]]'' less disturbing]].
* In ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'', the AntiHero protagonist has a scar (technically multiple small scars) covering half his face from the [[spoiler:explosion]] that blinded him.
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' has multiple examples, as often played straight as not.
** While Thorfinn's body is CoveredInScars, his first (and so far only) facial scar is gained during a ThresholdGuardian [[spoiler:fight against Snake]] that cements him firmly as a good person. The scar is a straight vertical one on his left jaw and cheek, which makes him look more rugged than anything else.
** [[spoiler:Canute]] receives a straight horizontal scar on his left cheek from Thorfinn [[spoiler:at the climax of the first arc]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the next time he shows up he is sliding down the slippery slope and becoming a much worse person.]]
** Averted with Floki, who has a rugged straight scar over his right eye (with the eye fully intact) and is a SmugSnake ''per excellence'' and a recurring secondary bad guy for the first third arcs.
** Thorgil has a split lip. True to this trope, he is [[BloodKnight just as menacing as it makes him look]].
** Ulf has some clean scarring on his brow, and is [[spoiler:Canute's]] NobleTopEnforcer during the second arc.
* Balgus (good guy) in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has numerous scars, including one dominating the left side of his face.
** In the same series, getting a scar on his face from Van causes Dilandau (bad guy) [[MinorInjuryOverreaction to go crazy(er)]]. And it was very neat, good-guy looking scar, by the way.
* Reiji Takayama from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' has a badass scar. While he's working for a company not very moralistic at best, it serves as a hint that he's not just an armchair arms-trader, but was in some action personally; later he turns out to be a [[BlackAndGrayMorality good guy as much as practical]] -- when the responsibility (and the fact he fell head over heels for the heroine) comes to the fore, he kicks a fair share of bottom for a BadassNormal.
* Tsume in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' has a large cross-shaped scar on his chest, which is seen in both his true wolf form and his human disguise. The younger wolf Toboe says it looks cool, but it is not until near the end of the series (in Episode 29, one of the OVA bonus episodes) that we learn the reason he carries it. [[spoiler:After Toboe dies, Tsume spends some time alone with his friend's body, and confesses to it (and the audience) that the other wolves of his pack scarred him for cowardice when he tried to run away instead of saving his companions from hunters.]]
* In ''Manga/{{xxxHoLiC}}'', [[spoiler:Himawari]] receives a nasty set of scars on [[spoiler:her]] back and neck in place of [[spoiler:Watanuki, who fell from the second story of the school building and onto a shattered pane of glass]].
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' [[spoiler:Sensui's scars are multiple, as you'd expect of a villain; however, they are entirely covered by his shirt, as you'd expect of a good guy (because he ''used'' to be one). Itsuki becomes scarred over his eye from taking Kuwabara's Rei-ken: a simple heroic scar. Mukuro's scars are also "bad guy" scars that cover half of her body; however, seeing as how she got them (by [[BrokenBird pouring acid over herself to prevent her "father" from raping her as a child]]), as well as her usual hiding of them, makes them "good guy" markings]]. Kurama temporarily gets a heroic X on his cheek as well (giving him a strong resemblance to Kenshin).
* Thief King Bakura from ''Manga/YuGiOh'' has an evil scar -- a vertical slash down from his eye with two horizontal slashes intersecting it. We're never given a story behind it, but given his [[FreudianExcuse back]][[GenocideBackfire story]], it's probably meant to hint at his difficult past.
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