History Main / XMarksTheHero

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* Breaking glass, usually of the sort where it was forcefully stabled into someone, can make miniaturized versions of these types of wounds. In this case the shards breaking off and being forced outward cases a shape like this, although less or more than four "spokes" are also common. If the wound heals it can form a smaller version of this trope, though who is to say if they are heroic.
* X-shaped scars did and do apparently appear on the sorts of people whose living takes them in the path of people wielding blades of all descriptions. Turns out a lot of people will instinctively try to cut the same area in rapid succession and back in the old days you had to focus on any vulnerable areas you could get. However the cheek is one of least likely for this to happen. A single swipe that connects with the cheek is likely to cut all the way through and a subsequent strike wouldn't make a clean line on the floppy dangling cheek bits after things were all stitched back together. You're welcome for that imagery.

* ''Webcomic/AquaRegia'': Has the protagonist, having an X-shaped scar that he hides with his long hair, in Chapter 7 it's revealed that [[spoiler: he got it at the end of his conscript year, because a friend and mentor of his was about to be raped due the fact he was homosexual, something that's sadly TruthInTelevision. Daniel jumped at the guys and saved him, but he ended up tortured instead. Months later, his then girlfriend tells him that he should be proud of that scar, because even if he got desfigured, he did the right thing.]]