History Main / CoveredWithScars

* Duane Cutter in ''Hard Time'', an infamous serial killer whose body (including his face) is covered in dense scar tissue. They're the result of ritual scarification and almost look like tattoos. He considers himself an artist, and skin is his canvas; naturally, he leaves his victims in a similar condition.

* The titular character of Film/EdwardScissorhands has scars all over his face from years of cutting himself with his scissor hands.

* ''Franchise/DocSavage,'' his cousin Patricia, and four of his Fabulous Five assistants are aversions of this trope, due to [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower "Doc's fabulous skill]] [[HollywoodHealing at causing wounds to heal without scars"]]. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair, on the other hand, ''embraces'' it; he refuses to let Doc treat him because he ''wants'' the scars to make him look even tougher.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s skin texture, as designed for the [[Film/{{Gojira}} original film]], was meant to evoke the gruesome scars that popped up on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, seeing as he himself is a victim of nuclear weapons. This angle was largely abandoned in the later sequels, which simply went for the typical roughly-textured reptile skin until ''Film/Godzilla2014'' took this UpToEleven when it introduced the [[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla MonsterVerse incarnation of the character]] by giving him explicit and noticeable scars (speaking of the [=MonsterVerse=], look under Comic Books folder for another example from that continuity).

* ''Franchise/DocSavage,'' his cousin Patricia, and four of his Fabulous Five assistants are aversions of this trope, due to [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower "Doc's fabulous skill]] [[HollywoodHealing at causing wounds to heal without scars"]]. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair, on the other hand, ''embraces'' it; he refuses to let Doc treat him because he ''wants'' the scars to make him look [[UpToEleven even tougher.]]

* [[AwesomeMcCoolname Maximum Absolute]] of ''ComicBook/KingCity'' has numerous Frankenstein-stitching-like scars, as well as a missing leg. Presumably he got these when he was in the [[ZombieApocalypse xombie war]], although he already has the one across his face in flashbacks.

* Over the course of his series, Manga/{{Golgo 13}} has developed a number of scars, visible when he removes his shirt. In the first chapter, he was unmarked.

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'': Toshiki Kamishima has burn scars all over his body from when Akutsu set him on fire. He gets even more when it happens a second time.

** Since the 1970s, Batman's body is often shown to be covered in scars from his multiple fights. Same goes for the rest of the Bat-family, special notice maybe for [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]], who has a lot of bullet wounds from her bullet-dodging training by her father.

* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} is another one who's covered in scars.
* Comicbook/{{Deadpool}} is covered in scars, tumors, or both, as a side effect of his HealingFactor being at war with his terminal cancer.

* Marv from ''Comicbook/SinCity'' has many scars across his face. It's likely they're all over his body, [[TheDeterminator judging from his fighting style.]]

* Like Zsasz, Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} villain Mister X also has a self-inflicted scar for each person he's killed. His, however, are arranged in an elaborate pattern.

* Darth Sion from ''[[VideoGame/{{KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords}} KotOR 2]]'' is covered with scars, although calling them that might be a bit of an understatement -- they're more like large cracks in his skin. This results from [[spoiler:his technically being dead; his body is held together through the sheer power of the Dark Side, so his body is decomposing.]] Appropriately, he's known as the [[RedBaron Lord of Pain]].

* VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} veterans Soldier: 76 and Reinhart are both covered in several scars that you can see in alternate costumes or character videos, showing how many battles the two have been fighting since the Omnic Crisis.

* Sergei Dragunov of the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series has two scars on his face (a large one running through his lips and a smaller one across his nose), and, if the player opts to make him [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] in ''Tekken 6'', it can be seen that he has several scars, ranging from large to small (including one that appears to be a bullet wound), on his arms and torso.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'', chapter 37, we learn that there is one person who was [[NightmareFuel burned in a fire]] [[{{Tearjerker}} as a small child]]. Who is the person? [[spoiler:Muneca Powell.]]

* ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'': The Abomination, from the GladiatorGames

* Drago Bloodfist from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' is covered with scars from his days of fighting dragons, he is also missing one of his arms.

** Like Kyoshiro from the above example in anime, Tigerstar has a pelt covered in scars. He even has a scarred nose and an ear nearly split in two.
** Sleekwhisker has several scars on her face and body.

** Oliver Queen returns from his five years as a castaway with scars that cover "22% of his body." They range from weapon weals to apparent bite marks across his arms, back, and torso, and may or may not be explained in future flashbacks.
** In Season 2, [[spoiler:Sara aka ComicBook/BlackCanary also fits this trope. The reveal of her scars even manage to turn a ToplessnessFromTheBack moment into a form of FanDisservice]].

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* [[RetiredBadass Shirou Takamichi]] from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has lots of nasty scars all over his body from back when he used to work as a bodyguard. A shot of him back in episode 3 of the first season shows that his upper arms are shown to be covered in knife/sword wounds and you can clearly see a bullet wound near his heart.

* In addition to the four scars on his face, Lannes is depicted this way in ''Napoleon - Shishi no Jidai'' by Tetsuya Hasegawa, with bullet wounds and sabre cuts all over his arms and torso. May also be the case for Oudinot, given the number of scars drawn on his face and his real-life self's reputation, but we have yet to see him shirtless...

* ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'': When [[spoiler:Nova's]] suit burns away in episode 12, we see that his torso is crisscrossed with nasty-looking scars and that he has an X-shaped scar on his forehead that was hidden by his bangs before [[spoiler:(which contains the miniature black hole his master planted in his body)]]. For what this might mean, see EpilepticTrees under YMMV/SpacePatrolLuluco.

* In the manga for ''Young Gun Carnaval'', every time Jinpachi has a ShirtlessScene, you see that he's acquired many, ''many'' scars over the course of his career--usually bullet or knife wounds. In case you were wondering, he's an assassin. His partner, Yumika, is probably in a similar or worse state, considering [[AbusiveParents her mother]], but the manga doesn't show it.

* Creator/RobLiefeld has drawn many characters covered with scars, but it is hard to tell if they are actually veins, wrinkles, or overzealous hatching and cross-hatching.

* ''Literature/{{Beloved}}'' - the network of whip scars on Sethe's back seems like a growing tree.

** In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', Rincewind's adventures in the last new books have apparently left their mark, and when he is brought back to Ankh-Morpork, the other wizards remark that he's covered in scars - [[LovableCoward but mainly on his back]].

** Remus Lupin, too - probably self-inflicted during his painful transformations.

* Early in ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Oathbound]]'', a young stablegirl sees Tarma coming out of the bath, and is shocked at her scars; Tarma takes the opportunity to hammer home to her that going adventuring is ''not'' a thing to do for fun.

* ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' deconstructs this trope, with multiple expert warriors noting that a face full of scars generally denotes a man who doesn't know how to duck.
* ''The Altar at Midnight'' by C. M. Kornbluth. A spacer has his entire body covered in tiny ruptured blood vessels from working in and out of low-pressure environments. He also wears contact lenses from radiation scarring.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Yerin has many scars, both from her many fights and from her [[TrainingFromHell training]]. In particular, her master was fond of trapping her in a ring of swords where every time she twitched, she was cut. She is covered in countless small white scars from that alone. [[spoiler:They all go away when she ascends to Underlord, and her body is remade in soulfire]].
* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': Will Laurence is heavily scarred from his long career as a Navy captain, DragonRider, and unofficial CosmicPlaything, which takes him around the globe in often-dire circumstances. When he takes off his shirt in the second-last book, his new traveling companion goes very quiet at the evidence of all the battles he's survived.
* ''Literature/{{Kane}}'': Efrel from ''Darkness Weaves'' is hideously mutilated, whatever is left of her skin, is covered with scars, with the sole exception of her hands and half of her face. In her BackStory, her husband, king Netisten Maril, sentenced her to be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath dragged through the streets by an enraged bull]] as a punishment for her betrayal. Being a HalfHumanHybrid, she survived but did not heal.
* ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' has an odd variant. During Dorothy and her companions' trip to the palace of Glinda the Good Witch, they come across a miniature city where everything is made of fine china--including the people, who are more like [[LivingToys living figurines]] than anything else. A local princess explains that while [[LiterallyShatteredLives being broken]] isn't fatal to their kind, anyone who does fall to pieces must go to a local "mender" to get put back together, resulting in scar-like seams appearing on their bodies. On cue, a clown named Mr. Joker, who [[TooDumbToLive never stops trying to stand on his head]], shows up; his entire body and face are absolutely covered in cracks.
* Jamie of ''Literature/TheFold'' was in a motorcycle accident as a teenager and peeled all the skin off her back. The resulting scars leave her with major intimacy and personal space issues.
* The superheroine Antares from ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' (also known as [[spoiler:Victoria Dallon and formerly Glory Girl from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'']]) has a forcefield that can completely nullify any damage that is inflicted against her, but goes down if the hit is strong enough and leaves her as vulnerable as anyone else for a few seconds. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Due to her self-sacrificing nature and willingness to put herself in the line of fire]], by the end of the story she has taken enough hits that made it past her forcefield that she has become pretty scarred up. Highlights include [[spoiler:a gunshot wound to the arm, acid burns, claw and bite marks from giant centipedes, numerous stitch scars on her arms, legs, and torso, and a missing fingernail.]] Some of these she could have gotten healed, but due to her traumatic personal history with superpowered healers, she'd rather let them stay and fade naturally.

* ''Series/TheIrregulars'': The first shot of Billy is of him at an underground boxing ring waiting to join a fight, shirtless exposing all his scars. Presumably, they are from his abusive childhood at the workhouse and fights from living on the streets, but we didn't get a clear answer.
* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'':
** Inez Green bears a high number of scars from where several glass shards lodged in her back after being attacked by Jessica's mom.
** Jessica's mom lost all her hair as a result of Dr. Malus's reconstructive surgeries and the injuries from the car accident, and they've also left her with some nasty scarring around the back. She covers it up with a wig.

* At the end of the fifth season of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Jack Bauer is captured by the Chinese Government and held prisoner. By the time he's released at the beginning of Season Six, he has numerous scars all over his body from the torture he was put through.
* Season 9 of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' features a new mother whose back and shoulders are covered in small scars. Trixie removes the woman's shirt to help with a breastfeeding complication, and immediately asks, "who did that?" The mother says her ex-husband repeatedly whipped her with a belt, and the scars are from the buckle breaking skin.
* [[spoiler: Boba Fett]], as shown for the first time without his iconic helmet in the first episode of season two of ''Series/TheMandalorian''.

* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: Mrs. Hawking, from years of crime-fighting. Mary discovers them in Part I: ''[[https://vimeo.com/160544306 Mrs. Hawking]]'', when treating yet another wound Mrs. Hawking received in the line of duty.

* Darth Sion from ''[[VideoGame/{{KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords}} KotOR 2]]'' is covered with scars, although calling them that might be a bit of an understatement--they're more like large cracks in his skin. This results from [[spoiler:his technically being dead; his body is held together through the sheer power of the Dark Side, so his body is decomposing.]] Appropriately, he's known as the [[RedBaron Lord of Pain]].

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', Akihito has become this after several months of training in the wilderness.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'':
** The Flagellant from the Crimson Court DLC is, of course, scarred from his self-whipping. Most interestingly, his "armor" is his bare body that becomes more scarred as you upgrade it, culminating in a scar shaped like [[ArcSymbol the Stress symbol]] on his chest.
** In VideoGame/TheSunkenCityCollection mod, the Thrall's life as a gladiator slave has left his exposed skin with a texture like a third-hand cutting board that's been used as a target in a knife-throwing act.
* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'': The few glimpses we get of the Doom Slayer's exposed skin show him to be covered, quite literally, head to foot in scars - we see his feet during the intro and they're not pretty. To be fair, the dude has spent so long fighting the armies of Hell that it's frankly impressive that he still has ''skin''.

* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': 12-year-old Jamie is covered with bruises and scars which disturb Graham, who in a phone conversation compares the scars to those from slave films.

* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture''. Steven does not have any scars, but when he gets an X-Ray for the first time in his life, it's revealed that his skeleton is full of marks from fractures that he never noticed due to his healing abilities. We only see the top half of his torso, but he has an old fracture in his left arm, two in his right arm, and his skull seems to have been completely shattered at one point.
* Ensign Beckett Mariner of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' showed off multiple scars in "Temporal Edict" that she earned through multiple conflicts in her service. Despite living in a time where modern medicine can completely remove scars, she keeps them, as she sees them as trophies.
-->'''T'Ana''': Congratulations, you look like a f''(bleep)''ing scratching post.

* Similar to the Zsasz and Mister X examples, [[Creator/WarrenEllis Jack Cross]], a self-mutilating [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] {{Expy}} is shown to have a cross-shaped scar for everyone he has killed. In his case, it's more of a punishment than a trophy.
* Creator/RobLiefeld has drawn many characters covered with scars, but it is hard to tell if they are actually veins, wrinkles, or overzealous hatching and cross-hatching.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s skin texture, as designed for the [[Film/{{Gojira}} original film]], was meant to evoke the gruesome scars that popped up on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, seeing as he himself is a victim of nuclear weapons. This angle was largely abandoned in the later sequels, which simply went for the typical roughly-textured reptile skin until ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' took this UpToEleven by giving him explicit and noticeable scars.

* In an early scene of ''Film/{{Logan}}'' we see Logan with his shirt off revealing an assortment of scars, half-healed wounds, and nowhere-near-half-healed wounds that make it clear his HealingFactor is far weaker than what it was.

* Comicbook/{{Nightcrawler}}, in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', is covered, [[{{Mutants}} from his pointy ears to all four of his toes]], in rather artistic-looking raised scars. They're self-inflicted; apparently, he felt the need to punish himself for... something. He appears to be part of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellant Flagellant sect]]. When asked, he says they actually a coded language originally given to humans by the Archangel Gabriel, and that he has "one for every sin." But Jean Grey is more interested in the decidedly out-of-place and perfectly circular burn scar on the back of Nightcrawler's neck, which is proof that he was exposed to [[GeneralRipper William Stryker's]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind-control serum.]]

* ''Film/{{Pilgrimage}}'': The Mute's upper body is covered in scars, and he also has a large cross tattooed to his back. This is quite odd given his status as a lay brother in an Irish monastery. It's implied that he's a former crusader.

* Mutsuki Tooru from the sequel to ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is revealed to have a heavily scarred torso. It becomes a significant plot point when the team is investigating a Ghoul called Torso since his preferred victims are scarred women. It turns out the heavy scarring isn't the [[{{Transgender}} only thing]] Mutsuki is hiding, leading Torso to become obsessed with him.

* Tsukune from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' has been portrayed as this during his more recent {{shirtless scene}}s. Not surprising, considering [[ActionSurvivor all the things he's endured]].

* The historical ''Manga/{{Kingdom}} series usually shows almost every character whose fought on the battlefield to be quite literally covered in scars.
** Arguably the first character to personify it in the series, Ou Ki showed quite an impressive number of scars stemming from a lifetime on the battlefield
** Hou Ken received his titular facial [[EveryScarHasAStory story-significant background]] scar from Ou Ki during their first duel.
** Ren Pa's face, ears, and body are covered in numerous scars from experiences in almost endless warfare and battles.
** As proof of his combat experience, Ri Boku's entire upper body to his arms are riddled with scars.

* ''TheIrregulars'': The first shot of Billy is of him at an underground boxing ring waiting to join a fight, shirtless exposing all his scars. Presumably, they are from his abusive childhood at the workhouse and fights from living on the streets, but we didn't get a clear answer.

A character's entire body is covered in hundreds of scars. This trope is used to show that the character is a badass, a veteran or a BrokenBird who lived though a lot of fights or suffered a great deal of pain and [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]]. Often times these scars will be [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars linked to mental scars]] related to how they gained them.

Subtrope of RuggedScar. Related to DentedIron; GoodScarsEvilScars; EveryScarHasAStory and ScarsAreForever. May involve a ScarSurvey. See also FrozenFace.

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' doesn’t shy away from acquired scars after so many encounters and battles with blood thirsty demons:
** Sanemi, the Wind Hashira, one of the stronger demon slayers in the series, is covered in scars all over his body, from actual battles but with a spin that some he inflicted on himself, [[spoiler:due his blood actually being intoxicating to demons, getting them somewhat grogy to make them weaker]].

** Morino Ibiki was tortured as a young man, and is now completely covered in scars. He hides his head with a bandana so people won't see all the burn marks and craters. Considering he hides the rest of his body with a long coat and gloves, it's safe to assume he has more of them.
** The entire right side of [[spoiler:Uchiha Obito's]] body, including his face, is one big mass of scar-tissue. Some part of it may not even be his own skin anymore, and his right arm is basically a prosthetic. No surprise, given that he was [[spoiler:crushed by a huge boulder as a child.]]

** Whitebeard is covered with scars on every part of his body... except for his back. The only wounds on his back are from the times he was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, since he was neither caught off-guard nor forced to retreat even once in his decades-long career. Of course, being Whitebeard (and thus being even more MadeOfIron than the norm in ''One Piece''), these were [[OnlyAFleshWound only flesh wounds.]]

** Stein, in part a self-inflicted example due to the fact he sees even himself as a test-subject for whatever catches his attention.
* ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'': When [[spoiler:Nova's]] suit burns away in episode 12, we see that his torso is criss-crossed with nasty-looking scars, and that he has an X-shaped scar on his forehead that was hidden by his bangs before [[spoiler:(which contains the miniature black hole his master planted in his body)]]. For what this might mean, see EpilepticTrees under YMMV/SpacePatrolLuluco.

* Mutsuki Tooru from the sequel to ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is revealed to have a heavily scarred torso. It becomes a significant plot point when the team is investigating a Ghoul called Torso, since his preferred victims are scarred women. It turns out the heavy scarring isn't the [[{{Transgender}} only thing]] Mutsuki is hiding, leading Torso to become obsessed with him.
* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', the Bishokukai member Cedre has at least 26 scars all over his body. Several of them are on his torso and back, 9 on his face, 3 on his right hand, and possibly all his body is on the same conditions. Almost all of the scars are scratches from attacks of wild beasts, as his job is to hunt them.

* Himawari Kunogi from ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'' becomes this when she [[spoiler:willingly chooses to take on the scars Watanuki would've otherwise received from [[DestinationDefenestration falling out of a window]], after her DoomMagnet status influences the accident to happen]]. The next time we see her, we only need to take a look at Himawari's neck and shoulders to have a ''glimpse'' of what her clothes hide from our view...

** Since the 1970s, Batman's body is often shown to be covered in scars from his multiple fights. Same goes for the rest of the Bat-family, special notice maybe for [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]], who has a lot of bullet wounds from her bullet dodging training by her father.
** Zsasz. His scars are self inflicted, and each one represents one of his victims.

* Duane Cutter in ''Hard Time'', an infamous serial killer whose body (including his face) is covered in dense scar tissue. They're the result of ritual scarification, and almost look like tattoos. He considers himself an artist, and skin is his canvas; naturally, he leaves his victims in a similar condition.

* ComicBook/{{Shazam}}: In the 1990s series, Freddy's back was shown to be covered in surgical scars, thanks to all the procedures he underwent to repair his spine. Like many things in the 90s, this was a source of bitterness for him.

* ComicBook/TheSpirit had no scars in his 40s adventures in serials. However, in the Darwyn Cooke revival, one shirtless scene shows his numerous scars in the back, from his numerous adventures and crime fighting. It's presumed he also has many on his front side.

* Creator/RobLiefeld has drawn many characters covered with scars, but it is hard to tell if they are actually veins, wrinkles, or overzealous hatching and cross hatching.
* ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman Vol 2]]'': Ares, when in his more casual black open shirt get up rather than his tradtional TinTyrant look, looks like an attractive well muscled man from a distance but up close his red eyes and mass of overlaying thin scars give away that he's not to be triffled with.

* Subverted in the crossover story ''Fanfic/TheBridge''. Princess Luna's magic had an adverse effect on the ponified Godzilla's HealingFactor, shutting it off in their fight. Because of this his old scars resurfaced and he was riddled with them. Fortunately after the brawl, Godzilla's regenerative powers returned and he was good as new soon. It's later implied this is how he's supposed to look but his HealingFactor just makes the scars hard to see.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' fanart often gives [[BornUnlucky Milo]] lots of scars; he's mentioned having them in canon but isn't drawn with any. [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8555944 "What Doesn't Kill Him"]] is one fanfic where [[OnlySaneMan Zack]] is shocked to see how many scars Milo has under his shirt, though Milo is [[DissonantSerenity naturally chipper]] about it, since they just [[EveryScarHasAStory remind him about his many adventures]].

* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SugarPlums'' the protagonist Ume is considered unusual because of how many scars she has as a young shinobi. In the story it's explained that shinobi don't scar easily because as long as their chakra levels stay in a reasonable range it will heal their wounds perfectly. So when a shinobi does have scars, it's usually the result of a situation where they are injured while they have incredibly low levels of chakra and the the wound started healing before it could get back up to normal which in general is very dangerous. Which says a [[TraumaCongaLine LOT about the sort of things Ume's been through.]]

* In the oneshot ''Fanfic/{{Chrysanthemums}}'', Cilan and his two brothers have a lot of scars from their time working under Ghetsis. Their most noticeable scar is due a branding they received that marked them as one of Team Plasma, which [[spoiler:Cilan ended up scarring]] at the end of the fic as [[spoiler:a way of detaching from his past]].

* Dr. Weir ends up bald, naked and covered with scars for the final showdown of ''Film/EventHorizon''.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'s skin texture, as designed for the [[Film/{{Gojira}} original film]], was meant to evoke the gruesome scars that popped up on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, seeing as he himself is a victim of nuclear weapons. This angle was largely abandoned in the later sequels, which simply went for the typical roughly-textured reptile skin, until ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' took this UpToEleven by giving him explicit and noticeable scars.

* The epilogue of ''Film/RedDragon'' has Hannibal writing to Will that he must have some collection of scars, and that scars are a reminder of what we've been through. In the book, Will's face is badly disfigured but this is left out of the film and television versions.

* ''Film/TheTerminator'' : It's downplayed, but Kyle Reese has a good selection of scars, and would have more had he lived. Sarah has her share, too, by the end of the second movie.

** [[TheIgor Igors]] believe heavily in self improvement and frequently replace parts of thier bodies with new pieces (with particuarly good body parts being passed down through generations). As such most of them are a patchwork of scars accross thier body. Interestingly they are perfectly capable of doing the sugery without leaving scars (as evidenced by the fact that [[CuteMonsterGirl Igorinas]] don't look like this) but they keep the scars as part of their image.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward notices that Tisala has scars on her face and hands, and the ''fighting'' kind of scars. he's quite impressed. [[spoiler:When he meets her again, and sees her naked for the first time in the sequel, ''Literature/DragonBlood'' her whole body is covered with wounds, thanks to ColdBloodedTorture. She might have had scars everywhere before, but she's certain to have them after those wounds heal.]]

** Bill Weasley during the seventh book and last part of the sixth book, after he is attacked by Fenrir Greyback. It is implied that Bill was handsome before the attack, but that the scars took away a lot of his good looks. Harry even has difficulty reading his facial expressions because he has scars everywhere.

* Druss the Legend in ''Literature/{{Legend}}'' by Creator/DavidGemmell (although it is mentioned that he had noticeably fewer scars on his back, because he always faced up to danger).

* In ''Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfTheSkyValleyCult'' former beauty queen and current ruthless assassin Chavayress Syvier has extensive scarification on the right side of her face, left bicep and right thigh. She did this to herself, [[SoBeautifulItsACurse to escape the abusive and oppressive life her father forced her into, and regular assault she's implied to have faced from men.]]
* In ''Literature/TheRogueKing'', Veng is described a number of times as being covered in scars thanks to having to constant fight for his life.

** Strong Belwas is covered in scars. He lets each enemy he kills scar him once, so that he can count the number of people he has slain over the years.

* In ''Literature/TerraIgnota'', there are few places on Mycroft's body aside from his face that aren't marked in some way, stemming from when his bash'house exploded in an accident when he was eigth years old, almost killing him.

* ''The Altar at Midnight'' by C. M. Kornbluth. A spacer has his entire body covered in tiny ruptured blood vessels from working in and out of low pressure environments. He also wears contact lens from radiation scarring.

* Jamie of ''Literature/TheFold'' was in a motorcycle accident as a teenager and peeled all the skin off her back. The resulting scars leave her with major intimacy and personal-space issues.
* The superheroine Antares from ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' (also known as [[spoiler:Victoria Dallon and formerly Glory Girl from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'']]) has a forcefield that can completely nullify any damage that is inflicted against her, but goes down if the hit is strong enough and leaves her as vulnerable as anyone else for a few seconds. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Due to her self-sacrifcing nature and willingness to put herself in the line of fire]], by the end of the story she has taken enough hits that made it past her forcefield that she has become pretty scarred up. Hilights include [[spoiler:a gunshot wound to the arm, acid burns, claw and bite marks from giant centipedes, numerous stitch scars on her arms, legs, and torso, and a missing fingernail.]] Some of these she could have gotten healed, but due to her traumatic personal history with superpowered healers she'd rather let them stay and fade naturally.

* In the BadFuture that the ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' team goes to in the Gemini arc, Chell is covered in scars she got from either saving people, or getting shot at by Vivaldi so that she doesn't get killed trying to save people.

* This trope is the sign of a GarbageWrestler. The scars are usually most heavily concentrated around the forehead, such as Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher, Wrestling/MasatoTanaka and Wrestling/NewJack but one of the more disturbing cases is Invader #3, who has a huge scar running down the middle of his torso. Most of Invader 3's scars are hidden because of his ring attire though, especially his {{mask|edluchador}}.

* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: Mrs. Hawking, from years of crime fighting. Mary discovers them in Part I: ''[[https://vimeo.com/160544306 Mrs. Hawking]]'', when treating yet another wound Mrs. Hawking received in the line of duty.

** Most [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giants]] have decorative scars carved into their bodies. While they are not known to have a true written language, these markings apparently do have some sort of symbolic meaning for the Giants. In addition to be carved into their bodies, they can also be found painted/carved on trees and rocks around their campsites and burial grounds.

* VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} veterans Soldier: 76 and Reinhart are both covered in several scars that you can see in alternate costumes or character videoes, showing how many battles the two have been fighting since the Omnic Crisis.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', Akihito has become this after several months training in the wilderness.

* Hex of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' wears long sleeves and gloves that hide his vast array of scars, at least some of which were self inflicted when he used bits of himself in his [[{{Necromancer}} necromancy]].

* In ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'', Alison's axiology teacher Gurwara has scars all over his face and hands. Their origin hasn't been explicitly revealed, but during the conversation he has with Alison after [[spoiler:she strongarms Max into using his biodynamic ability to help Feral]], he reveals that he lived in a war zone when he was young.

* ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'': Vard has scars across his face, arms and torso and a couple prominent ones on his legs as well. Kai helping him after he received the injuries which caused the scars that run across his face and his missing eye is why Vard owed him a big enough favor that Vard allowed himself to be dragged into the plot against his wishes.

** The Porcelain Doctor's elegant outfit hides most of his scars. He tries to avoid others look at them, since it instantly makes clear that he is not just a scrawny doctor. He received them on battlefields and hunts, and even with his HealingFactor, they look hideous. The self-inflicted ones on his face and the ones left by lighter wounds are hardly visible, but the scar left by a domesticated tiger sicced on him and another by a javelin were too deep to fade, and he has scars from the injections and the latest battle injuries, too. He hates his scarred body, both because he thinks is unattractive and because he considers them the remnant of his failures. Gervas has a different opinion, and starts to realize that Niall is not just a fragile doll after seeing them. The Merry Company mistakes the scars as evidence of ParentalAbuse for some reason.

* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': 12-year old Jamie is covered with bruises and scars which disturb Graham, who in a phone conversation compares the scars to these from slave films.

* When the boys at ''WebVideo/MonsterFactory'' were making their ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' character, they initially added ''every single one'' of the burns, cuts and blemishes available on the customization menu, [[EveryoneHasStandards but the result was so horrifying that even they had to tone it down.]]

* When the cruiser squadron Task Force 67 put into harbor at Espiritu Santo after the first phase of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII night surface battle of Guadalcanal]] the USS San Francisco had 26 shell holes from fighting a tangled point blank melee with Japanese ships that almost resembled a galley battle rather then a modern one. Just getting her back into port was an achievement. Her primary opponent, the Japanese Battleship Hiei, ended up on [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Ironbottom Sound.]]
* Tasmanian devils often end up with scars across their face and body due to brutally fighting to see who gets the more nutrient rich parts of carcasses.