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10* ''Series/The10thKingdom'': Wolf's change into his more feral form certainly ''looks'' like it is incredibly painful and horrible -- though that may only be due to Wolf trying to resist it so mightily. If [[SpecialEffectsFailure the creators had had the proper budget]], we would have been treated to a transformation into a true Dire Wolf... which would likely have been both traumatic and nightmare-inducing. (The miniseries wasn't intended for children, after all -- [[ShownTheirWork rather like the original Grimm fairytales which inspired it]].)
11* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': One episode has a surgeon who can detach body parts to stalk people. Illyria is another example, if an unseen one: she liquifies [[spoiler:Fred]]'s organs and turns the skin into a shell as [[spoiler:Fred was dying]].
12* ''Series/AnimalPlanetHeroes'': Any of the shows can dip into this trope (embedded collars, untreated festering wounds, filth-matted and/or mangy pelts, near-death emaciation), as do Creator/AnimalPlanet's vet-clinic shows.
13* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': PlayedForLaughs, with Tobias' hair transplants rejecting him (yes, not him rejecting the transplant, but ''the transplant rejecting him'').
14* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'': One of the main characters is a werewolf, and his transformation is lovingly described in the opening narration of Episode 2: during the process, he actually has a heart attack, and liver and kidney failure, as his internal organs change; and he eventually becomes unable to even scream as his vocal cords tear. As the narrator points out, while any other human would quickly die of shock, the werewolf is somehow kept alive and conscious for the whole thing. This eventually leads to [[spoiler:his death, when he deliberately forces himself to transform without the trigger of a full moon, in order to fight the vampires who've kidnapped his daughter. Unfortunately, as a result, he only partially transformed and got stuck midway through the process. The accelerated healing that would normally fix the major internal organ failure simply never kicks in]].
15* ''Series/BigBadBeetleborgs'': "Buggin Out" is a satire of ''Film/TheFly1986''. Flabber brings a picture of a teleportation device to life, tests it, and a bug gets in the machine (a gnat-like monster named Kombat Gnat who has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and the ability to shrink). Flabber slowly changes into the bug thing just like Creator/JeffGoldblum in the movie. First, he starts off with CuteLittleFangs, then develops antennae, then [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily a whole row of razor-sharp teeth]] followed by a more bug-like torso and lobster-like claws for hands. He then ''bursts'' to reveal the gnat-like monster he's become. What's worse is that the kids have to fight him in order to turn him back to his normal happy phasm self.
16* ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'':
17** The first episode shows Tommy's initial werewolf transformation as being pretty drawn-out and painful. Subsequent ones are quicker and sillier, perhaps because by then he actually is used to the process.
18** In one episode, Merton gives birth to an alien baby.
19* ''Series/BlackSails'': The syphilitic pirate whose [[{{Squick}} face is rotting away]]...
20* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Occasionally shows up. Often it's in the demons, but once in a while, human types are seen too. One example of the latter are the fish monsters in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E20GoFish Go Fish]]", who are [[spoiler:members of the swim team]] altered by chemicals. Eventually, they tear their old skin away to reveal the monster underneath.
21* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'': After exposure to the exploded reactor, poor Vasily Ignatenko goes from a young, handsome expectant father to a translucent, living rotting corpse, though his wife Lyudmilla [[TearJerker stays by his side to kiss and caress him until the very end]]. Engineer Leonid Toptunov looks like a mummy by the time he's interviewed by scientist Ulana Khomyuk, and they never even show Aleksandr Akimov's face -- or, [[NothingIsScarier according to Khomyuk]], ''[[FacialHorror his lack of one]]''.
22* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is one of the progenitors of this trope, but always finds new ways to put an interesting spin on it:
23** In several Cyberman stories, the Cybermen are said to have replaced their organic bodies with plastic and metal; when injured, however, they are shown to bleed white foam, vomit when shot in the body, groan and scream and writhe in pain. Distressingly human and not like robots at all. Except the Cybus Cybermen from the New Series and some Mondas ones from Series 6. They're so robotic that the body horror element became very subdued.
24** Anything written by Philip Martin requires the Doctor's female companion to be slowly, grotesquely, apparently irreversibly transformed into something else. And then the stories all tend to be filled with skin-crawling, glorpy creatures, in case the audience is not barfing heavily enough.
25** [[TheNthDoctor Regeneration]] is actually used as this a couple of times -- most apparently in the regeneration from the Fifth to the Sixth, where the Sixth Doctor is shown to react relatively realistically to the trauma of having [[CameBackWrong transformed into a completely different person with a much less stable brain that he doesn't feel belongs to him]], with this having long-term effects on his behaviour. The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of the regeneration story goes into more detail about this and adds an anecdote about a Time Lord who regenerated into something so horrible all the Time Lords could do was put it out of its misery. The First Doctor's regeneration into the Second in the novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" has Ben watching the Doctor [[PainfulTransformation painfully transform]], with attention paid to bones shifting and reforming and skin moving. In the new series, the Tenth Doctor seems to feel this way about regeneration and finds it completely disturbing, possibly even worse than death.
26** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown Mission to the Unknown]]" introduces us to the Varga plants. Used as watchdogs by the Daleks, these are giant ambulatory cacti with at least a basic animal-like intelligence. They hunt animals -- any animals, including humans -- and then shoot their spines into them. These spines carry a venom with unusual effects: the victim first becomes paranoid and psychotic, obsessed with killing; then, ''they transform into Varga plants themselves''. Even killing the host body does not arrest the transformation. ''Brrrrr.''
27** Polly about to be surgically transformed into a {{Cyborg}} fish creature in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace The Underwater Menace]]".
28** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]", it's not the gigantic bugs; those look silly. It's what seems to be a man in a sleeping bag covered in green goo, and before that, the person ''turning'' into said bag of slop by melting body parts is worse than the [[MonsterOfTheWeek alien creature it turns into]]. "The Ark in Space" also has one of the show's most famous {{cliffhanger}}s, with Noah slowly removing his hand from his pocket to reveal he's being taken over by... [[SpecialEffectFailure green bubblewrap]]?
29** The Master in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" tried to regenerate [[CameBackWrong beyond his regeneration limit]]. He has become a rotted [[TechnicallyLivingZombie walking corpse]], in constant agonising pain, living only on [[ThePowerOfHate willpower and hatred]] as his body continues to disintegrate.
30** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy The Invisible Enemy]]" has a space parasite lay eggs in ''the Doctor's brain'' which begins to passively alter his behaviour, making him go vulnerable, confused and AxeCrazy. [[NightmareRetardant Less scary than it sounds, unfortunately.]]
31** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]" has one character [[spoiler:reduced to a living disembodied head with part of his brain exposed (and with additional bits of brain grafted on), inside a transparent Dalek and pleading for death, a wish eventually granted by ''his own daughter'']]. He has done absolutely nothing to deserve this.
32** The creationist vicar in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Ghost Light]]" is slowly turned into an ape. Another example:
33--->'''Light:''' ''[holds up a bloody, severed arm]'' I wanted to see how it works, so I dismantled it.
34** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld The End of the World]]" introduces Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17, the last pure human in her time. However, she's maintained her [[FantasticRacism "pureness"]] by going through [[CosmeticHorror many rounds of plastic surgery]], the result being a BrainInAJar hooked up to a skin-trampoline with two eyes and a mouth stretched across a metal frame that needs to be moisturized frequently.
35** [[MonsterOfTheWeek The Wire]] from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern The Idiot's Lantern]]" ''pulls people's faces from their bodies''. You actually see people walking around with smooth skin where their face used to be. [[spoiler:''This happens to Rose.'']]
36** The Abzorbaloff's process of absorbing people in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Love & Monsters]]" is both scary and disgusting. There's also a Creator/HarlanEllison-esque [[spoiler:pavement-person]]. Interestingly, the Abzorbaloff was designed by a 9-year-old who won a contest. Watching that episode makes one wonder if the 9-year-old was allowed to watch it.[[note]]He was, and he was disappointed. His design was for the creature to be the size of a double-decker bus.[[/note]]
37** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment]]", this is how Professor Lazarus discovers his experiment wasn't 100% successful.
38** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]":
39*** The Toclafane, blade-wielding metallic spheres, are revealed to be [[spoiler:mutilated humans from the year 100 trillion. After attempting to find the fabled "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]" (a supposed oasis in the dying universe) and finding only darkness, they went insane and ''slowly cannibalized their own bodies''.]]
40*** The Doctor is aged up tremendously, twice. The first time the cruelty and the nature of the transformation leave a sour taste in the mouth. But then the second instance is deliberately framed like a snuff film. And yikes.
41** The monsters in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]" are [[spoiler:the Adipose, creatures born from human fat that, in times of emergency, convert all matter in a human's body to achieve birth, effectively killing them... and yet they're ''[[http://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Adipose adorable]]'']].
42** The bad guy in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]" [[spoiler:turns into an Ood. The sequence has him ''peeling off his skin'', shortly followed by him ''spewing up a piece of his own brain!'']] Talk about trauma. On top of that, it was a [[spoiler:KarmicTransformation]].
43** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]", [[spoiler:when Donna encounters Miss Evangelista in the virtual reality, she's wearing a veil. As Donna finds out when she eventually yanks it off, Miss Evangelista's BrainUploading suffered a glitch that didn't just turn her into a genius, it warped her face like a Picasso painting]].
44** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]", [[spoiler:Davros]] reveals just how he created his [[spoiler:new Dalek empire]]... by opening his jacket, where we get a ''lovely'' shot of the inside of his chest and see ''his still-beating heart.''
45** The people infected by the Flood in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" gain bloated, ruptured skin around their mouths which constantly seeps water, dead white eyes and black teeth.
46** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels The Time of Angels]]" reveals that the image of a Weeping Angel becomes an Angel itself. You know how your retina forms images in the back of your eye? Absolutely played for horror.
47** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]" introduces the [[BlatantLies not-at-all terrifying]] concept of [[spoiler:a zombie Cyberman, whose various disconnected body parts can all move and function in nefarious ways. First, there's the chopped-off arm which can fire its weapon, play dead, and electrocute the Doctor, then there's the severed head, which moves around on the wires protruding from the neck, using them to ensnare Amy -- and then, after the desiccated skull falls out, it tries to snatch up Amy's own head as a replacement. Oh, and then the Cyberman reassembles itself.]]
48** The main cast is chased throughout "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]" by humanoid zombie creatures that are completely charred and burned all over, which are revealed to be [[spoiler:future versions of the main cast that were burned alive by the Eye of Harmony,]] who then proceed to run around the TARDIS, [[spoiler:chasing their past selves,]] in blind pain. It is also worth noting that two of the zombie creatures are [[https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/doctor-who-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-tardis-promo-pics-30-570x321.jpg fused together at the sides]], and another one has its [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809155189415346209/823682497728610365/unknown.png right hand fused to its face]] -- covering it completely.
49** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]", a series of corpses that turn up petrified and bright red. As it turns out, it's [[spoiler:caused by a poison secreted by a prehistoric parasite, which a crazy old lady has been letting latch onto her chest in a nightmarish symbiotic relationship.]] This all goes up a notch in the horror department when [[spoiler:it turns out that the ''Doctor'' underwent the process some time prior and, thanks to his Time Lord biology, ended up alive, red, and half-petrified. When he's discovered, he's only able to gasp horribly and shuffle around like a zombie]]. There's also the matter of poor Ada and her incredibly scarred, raw face [[spoiler:which was also caused by the venom]].
50** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]":
51*** The Teller makes soup out of people's brains. It wouldn't be so nauseating if their brain fluids didn't leak out through their tear ducts afterward, or their heads didn't cave in. (The caving-in part is one of the more unsettling visual effects the show has ever displayed on-screen. Especially when it's later revealed that the people ''continue to live afterwards''.)
52*** In her first few moments on-screen, Saibra demonstrates how unpleasant her power can be when she starts to imitate the memory worm she's touching.
53** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders The Witchfinders]]", all the people who become vessels for Morax don't come back looking so pretty. And then when we meet the Queen, it gets downright horrifying.
54** The [=MI6=] agent [[DeathInTheClouds attacked on a plane]] at the beginning of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall]]" turns out to have had her DNA scrambled to the point of becoming a brain-dead HumanoidAbomination. Judging by the Doctor's description of what happened to this poor woman, she's lucky she's unconscious. And this happened to ''all'' of the attacked spies.
55** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus Praxeus]]", creatures under the effects of an advanced Praxeus infection develop white scale-like growths across their skin... and it is ''creepy''-looking.
56** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]", the [[spoiler:Lone Cyberman]] manages to up the body horror, even by [[spoiler:Cyberman]] standards, to a pretty high level. It primarily accomplishes this by [[spoiler:looking only partially put together, with its mask only partially covering its face, as a good chunk of its left side is clearly unfinished, showing human parts.]]
57* ''Series/EmeraldCity'': In "[[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic Science and Magic]]", [[spoiler:when poor Jack is brought back to life, he wakes up on an operating table and finds that much of his body has been replaced by metal and clockwork]].
58* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
59** In "[[Recap/FarscapeS01E09DNAMadScientist DNA Mad Scientist]]", Aeryn Sun was slowly transformed into some weird human/Pilot mix. And that's just in the first season...
60** In "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E06NaturalElection Natural Election]]", a space-travelling plant infests [[LivingShip Moya]], and by extension, her symbiotic pilot. Pilot is found unconscious, with black creepers spilling out of his mouth, wrapping around his arms and over his console. ''And then he wakes up... and starts screaming!''
61** Another episode set aside to test how loud Lani Tupu can scream -- "[[Recap/FarscapeS03E08GreenEyedMonster Green-Eyed Monster]]", in which Crais is tortured by Talyn through their cybernetic link: as a result, horrible lesions and wounds open on Crais' body. And judging by the fact that he spent a full minute screaming for someone to kill him, it hurt.
62** The [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/farscape/images/7/7e/Fento.jpg Plokavian judges]] in "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E17TheUglyTruth The Ugly Truth]]" appear to be suffering from an extremely painful-looking disease that involves open sores, sagging flesh, and oozing bodily fluids. It gets worse when you look at the materials produced on it in the ''Farscape'' RPG:
63--->Movement is impossible on your own, period. Your body is on the verge of turning into nothing but pus and liquefied bone. Your lungs are filling with fluid constantly, and you live in your own filth most of the time. [[AndIMustScream You'd beg someone to shoot you if you could speak.]] Death occurs at + 5 wounds, but the truth is you'd probably die if you were able to stub your toe.
64** "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E14TwiceShy Twice Shy]]" introduces an EmotionEater with a feeding process that leaves [[http://www.farscapeworld.com/gallery/10414/10414-005.jpg unpleasantly necrotic wounds]] that [[http://www.farscapeworld.com/gallery/10414/10414-124.jpg eventually kill]] [[http://www.farscapeworld.com/gallery/10414/10414-128.jpg the victim.]] A few background examples appear to actually ''[[TheBlank erase]]'' the victim's face.
65** Over the course of Scorpius' wormhole project, several test pilots are melted after flying through an unstable wormhole: in most examples, we don't see the process actually occur. However, in the episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS03E11Incubator Incubator]]", one researcher manages to bring her ship safely through the wormhole, only to discover that the shields she used only delayed tissue liquefaction. [[http://www.themakeupgallery.org.uk/fantasy/alien/far/linfer.htm Before and After shots readily available.]]
66* The Burned Ones from ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'' look like charred corpses than got up and started attacking people. People who've been infected by a Burned One gain dark veins and seem to be rotting from the inside out.
67* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Meet the Reavers, a race of insane cannibal space pirates who all have horrific scars, torn-out patches of flesh, and shards of metal jammed into their faces. Even worse, it's revealed that Reavers do this to themselves!
68* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Kurt returns suffering severe burns from an attack while he was inside a tank over his right side.
69* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': The show seems to be overly fond of this:
70** In the ''first scene'' of the pilot episode, an airplane full of people falls victim to a flesh-eating synthetic virus. The scene ends with someone running into the cockpit and the pilot turning in horror just in time to see his jaw rot right off his face.
71** Later in the pilot, Agent John Scott gets exposed to the component ingredients that made up said virus, which ends up slowly turning his skin translucent... and mushy.
72** Next episode? A woman is impregnated with a rapidly aging embryo, which ends up growing too large and kills her after putting her in great pain.
73** Sometime later, a woman's radiological treatment turns her into a walking dirty bomb, causing blood to pour out of people's eyes and [[YourHeadASplode her own head to explode]].
74** A FBI agent ends up with a custom-made parasite wrapped around his heart like a crawling piece of barbed wire.
75** Scientists get infected with a cold virus that grows to the size of a small rat and tears up their throat as it climbs out.
76** A computer signal reduces people's brains to liquid.
77** People get infected with a bioweapon that turns them into spiny rampaging monsters. In the fourth season, some of the same people ''volunteer'' to be infected with the same bioweapon as part of their cult's {{transhuman}} beliefs.
78** A news vendor gets exposed to a protein that causes the skin over his eyes, nose, and mouth to grow over and seal shut.
79** An FBI agent gets attacked by a transgenic creature, and it turns out the "bite" actually gave him a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong and he has the creature's larval young rapidly developing in his stomach.
80** The wife of a scientist is infected with a biological agent that gives her a vampiric hunger for ''spinal fluid''.
81** In the second season, ex-soldiers are injected with a compound that, when activated by radio frequency, painfully crystalizes their tissue and turns them into bombs.
82** There's also a guy who, if he touches you at all, will start ugly malignant tumors growing all over your body.
83** "Jacksonville" opens with an offcie worker being fused with his AlternateUniverse counterpart resulting in a horrifying mass of extra limbs and a head embedded in the chest. Astrid, who worked on all of the previously mentioned cases, takes one look at the combined bodies and decides this is too much even for her.
84* ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'': Emma once cut herself on a piece of strange coral, which infected her with a disease that caused her to mutate into a sea monster. At first, it just affects her mermaid form, turning her scales white and causing them to grow in places they don't belong, but it isn't long before her human form starts growing gills and webbing. By the time the others find her, she's wheezing horribly, and her skin looks like it's sloughing off.
85* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Be female and read a book; that’s a finger amputation. Talk back too much, and Gilead will pluck out the person’s eye. Infidelity is handled with getting a hand amputated at best (usually death). Too important to kill, but still causing trouble? Genital mutilation. Standing up for someone results in tongue removal or getting your mouth literally wired shut. Then there’s DC. [[spoiler:Every Martha and Handmaid’s mouth is wired shut.]]
86* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' has many forms show up. One murderess -- one who thought she was being ''nice'' -- turned one of her patients into a beehive and sent another out shambling after a DIY {{lobotomy}}.
87* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
88** In one of his trademark [[IdiotBall genius moves]], Mohinder injects himself with a serum that he believes will give him superpowers without testing it. It does, in fact, give him superpowers, but the cost is that he begins to turn into a half-insect monster, making him kind of a CaptainErsatz of Creator/JeffGoldblum's character in ''Film/TheFly1986''. At the end of Volume 3, a reversal serum washes over him [[AssPull curing the mutations but leaving the super-strength]].
89** In Volume Four, Sylar steals the power of VoluntaryShapeshifting, but finds out he got more than he bargained for when this latest power combines with another superpower he picked up earlier: {{psychometry}} or the ability to read psychic imprints of people (like their memories) from objects they have touched. He finds himself involuntarily shapeshifting in his sleep or under stress, even [[spoiler:turning into the likeness of his own, dead mother and holding a whole split personality dialogue with himself]].
90* ''Series/{{House}}'': Virtually every PatientOfTheWeek will have some degree of body horror. Then comes the first episode of the eighth season, with [[spoiler:Cuddy kissing the scar on House's leg]]. It's like a scene from a movie by Creator/DavidCronenberg -- though it is actually quite delightful.
91* The science documentary series ''Humanology'' shows TruthInTelevision examples and attempts to treat them, such as face transplantations or an Indonesian man whose limbs were completely coated in giant warts.
92* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
93** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'': Has begun to pull this once every two weeks, as each world Decade travels to results in him teaming up with the nominal Kamen Rider there, and him using a Final Form Ride card that turns his own ally into some sort of weapon. This is mainly a result of the [[MerchandiseDriven transformable action figure line]], but the problem comes in as said transformations are kept frame for frame from the toys. So super neat panel flipping on the toys results in limbs bending in disgusting directions on TV.
94--->''"This might tickle a bit."''
95** ''Series/KamenRiderAgito'' has Ryo Ashihara/Kamen Rider Gills -- while Gills isn't the only rider in the series to transform using mystical powers (in fact, everyone except for G3/G3-X transforms this way), unlike the other riders, his powers don't manifest as armor/clothes, but rather, his entire body gets turned into a monster.
96* ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'':
97** PlayedForLaughs in one sketch in which Kevin [=McDonald=]'s character grows a beard, then gets very attached to his new facial hair. The beard ends up taking over his body and forcing him to do all kinds of nefarious things.
98** And then there was the plastic surgeon who was secretly transforming his assistant into a rat. It also doesn't help that he was giving his client such bizarre suggestions for surgery like "one giant eye in your forehead".
99* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'':
100** [[spoiler:Sheriff Hunt]] turning into a shoggoth was quite horrific, with his body being torn apart as he changes into this.
101** [[spoiler:Ruby and William/Christina's]] later transformations is quite horrific, where their original forms slowly burst out from inside of their assumed ones, with the latter's skin being shed bloodily.
102* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': Emily tried to improve her looks using magic, but this ended up warping her face horribly instead.
103* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS3E3 Judgement Day]]", Jane Rochelle's burns are not a pretty sight, especially her hand.
104* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Lord Zedd is missing ''all of his skin'', has an exposed brain, and is probably wearing a full-face mask for a very good reason. It's heavily implied that he used to look like a perfectly normal human before getting hit by the local MineralMacGuffin's security system.
105* A few episodes of ''Series/MrMeaty'' have dealt with this, often due to the poor quality of the fast-food restaurant's entrees. In the episode "Parkerina", Parker eats too many Ms. Meaty burgers and undergoes an ''American Werewolf in London''-style transformation into a girl. In another episode, Parker mooches off most of the other characters and then gets infected with ''a tapeworm'', "the ultimate moocher", ''[[spoiler:which is later eaten by a scientist who collects internal parasites]]''.
106* ''Series/OddSquad'':
107** One of Symmetric Al's targets in "[[Recap/OddSquadS1E3MyBetterHalfTheConfalones My Better Half]]" just so happens to be Otto himself, due to his name being symmetrical. Without anyone even looking, he manages to take away the entire right half of the agent's body, leaving him screaming for quite a long time when Oprah shows him a mirror and gives him the bad news. It gets to such a point that Oprah bears witness to Otto eating soup with only half of his body, and [[EveryoneHasStandards is utterly disgusted by how surreal and weird it is]].
108** In "[[Recap/OddSquadS1E19HoldTheDoorFlatastrophe Flatastrophe]]", Otto folds a flattened Olive into the shape of a paper airplane, bending her limbs in ways that, even for [[ArtisticLicensePhysics this kind of a show]], would be anatomically impossible and cause grievous injury to her in her regular three-dimensional form. By the time Otto is nearly done and folds her neck backwards, her face expression is frozen in a mix of pain and fear.
109** At the end of "[[Recap/OddSquadS1E20PuppetShowMysticEggPizza Puppet Show]]", Olive and Otto still have puppet hands despite being turned back into humans. When they find out, Olive orders Oscar and Oprah to "get glue, ''lots'' of glue!"
110** In "[[Recap/OddSquadS1E38OliveAndOttoInShmumberland Olive and Otto in Shmumberland]]", Orzack and Oprah work together to transport Shmumberman's body to the latter's office, and this conversation ensues.
111--->'''Oprah:''' Hmm. He's way lighter than I thought.\
112'''Orzack:''' It's because his bones are made out of bendy straws.\
113'''Oprah:''' Ugh, that's just gross.
114* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E3TheArchitectsOfFear The Architects of Fear]]", a man is surgically turned into a nasty-looking alien to give [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the superpowers of Earth]] a common enemy in the form of a faked invasion.
115* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
116** "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E14QualityOfMercy Quality of Mercy]]" involves a young female POW in an intergalactic conflict who is subjected to painful and horrifying surgery with the intent to transform her into an alien. [[spoiler:She is '''already''' an alien and is in fact used as a spy to gather information from her human cellmate.]]
117** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E13TheJoining The Joining]]", after Captain Miles Davidow injects himself with the DNA of an indigenous [[UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} Venusian]] lifeform, he begins to grow duplicate, though initially deformed and unfinished, body parts such as a hand and a torso. It is an extremely painful process.
118** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E20Nightmare Nightmare]]", Lt. Christopher Valentine is struck by an Ebonite weapon which causes the skin around his mouth to fuse over. The same thing happens to the skin around Major Ronald Neguchi's eyes. Both men are eventually returned to normal.
119%%* ''Series/{{Primeval}}'': The Fungus Monster.
120* ''Series/Rescue911'': This show doesn't skimp out on showing the injuries during re-enactments and some can look pretty horrifying. "Bathtub Baby Burn" is a notable example where they actually show the baby's flesh being burned and his skin peeling off as he cries in pain.
121* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': The heat-ray weapon used by Jan, Rachel's friend in "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia." Basically, it's a tightly focused microwave-y beam that cooks the target. Alive, if need be. And when she uses it on two militia soldiers...hoo boy, is it nasty.
122* ''Series/Room104'': "Itchy" deals with a young man with a chronic skin condition filming himself for his doctor, and he shows detailed closeups of the various rashes, boils, and lesions breaking out all over his body. [[spoiler:And that's before an alien creature bursts out of his abdomen]].
123* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In one episode Hilda was dating a man who didn't really listen to her, so she makes up a spell to "make him a better listener." The result? Her hapless ex wakes up the next morning and, to his great horror, discovers that he now has ears all over his head!
124* ''Series/{{Salem}}'':
125** Mary has an extra nipple on her leg, which she uses to feed her familiar (this was based on [[TruthInTelevision real beliefs]] that witches did this). Also, the fact that she keeps the familiar down her [[{{Squick}} husband's throat]]...
126** Mary corrupts a young woman's stillborn child to have a monstrous appearance when it emerges from her body with an unsettling splash as she's huddled in a corner.
127** Mercy Lewis vomits gallons of blood when she sees the accused midwife, followed by several nails.
128** We later see how the witches are controlling her -- there's a snake in her stomach.
129** In order to find out John Alden's secret through necromancy, William Hooke's face is pulled off his dead body.
130** George Sibley cuts open his stomach with a broken-off piece of wood to get Mary's familiar out and escape.
131* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' uses this a ''lot''. After all, this ''is'' a show about morticians, and they spend a lot of time talking about and performing embalmings. There are a lot of really unpleasant things that happen with a body in the first few days after death that a mortician has to deal with to make it look and smell nice for the funeral.
132* ''Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
133** ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
134*** Rhaego's unseen body is claimed to be ''greatly'' deformed.
135*** The disease greyscale causes flesh to calcify and crack, eventually expanding to organs and causing insanity and death.
136** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'':
137*** Craghas Drahar a.k.a. "The Crabfeeder" is (or was) afflicted by greyscale.
138*** The last days of the life of King Viserys are not kind to him with the leprosy-like decay afflicting his body. He's practically a walking skeleton with skin barely attached, there's a hole where his right cheek once was, his teeth are rotten and one of his eye sockets is empty. It gets to the point where he wears a golden mask on half of his face to conceal the horrific sight.
139* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Sheppard was slowly turning into something akin to the Iratus bug in "Conversion". Eventually had to be sedated as he was getting increasingly dangerous.
140* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Injuries and illnesses to Changeling characters play up the body horror trope.
141** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E23Crossover Crossover]]", while in the Mirror Universe, Bashir shoots Mirror Odo with a phaser, causing the Changeling to [[LudicrousGibs messily explode]].
142** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E21TheDieIsCast The Die is Cast]]", when Garak tortures Odo using a device that prevents him from regenerating, Odo's appearance becomes horrific.
143** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E26BrokenLink Broken Link]]", the Founders afflict Odo with a life-threatening infection in order to force him to return to the Great Link for judgment. Not only does the infection make it difficult for Odo to maintain solid form, but it also makes his humanoid form look diseased.
144** In the later episodes of Season 7, the [[SyntheticPlague morphogenic virus engineered by Section 31]] causes Odo and the Female Changeling to physically deteriorate.
145* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
146** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E24Conspiracy Conspiracy]]" is full of body horror.
147** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E18IdentityCrisis Identity Crisis]]", Geordi turns into an alien creature.
148** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E18Genesis Genesis]]", everyone in the ''Enterprise'' [[EvolutionaryLevels devolves into some variety of lower life form]].
149** The Borg, who do this to everyone they meet.
150* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
151** The Vidiians are an entire species affected with a disease that causes hideous bodily rotting and requires them to rely on mass-scale organ theft to stay alive. Their appearances feature such things as a Vidiian using a gun that teleports Neelix's lungs out of his body, or a Vidiian surgeon slicing the face off of a RedShirt and grafting it to his own to try and get closer to B'Elanna.
152** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold Threshold]]", Paris and Captain Janeway end up evolving into salamanders after breaching Warp 10.
153** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E25S4E1Scorpion Scorpion]]", Harry Kim gets bitch-slapped by an alien from Species 8472. Alien cells in the wound begin to infest and transform Harry's body, covering his face in strange tendrils. Fortunately, the Doctor is able to cure the infection... except for a solitary tendril up Harry's nose. Or so B'Elanna claims.
154** Nicely inverted when the crew capture Borg drone Seven of Nine, who used to be a human female called Annika Hansen. When the crew first start removing her cybernetic implants, she reacts according to this trope, as the thought of becoming human again is abhorrent to her.
155** "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E17CourseOblivion Course: Oblivion]]" sees the crew begin to suffer from a strange illness. They soon discover that they, their belongings, and even the ship itself are all in fact merely malleable life forms which encountered the real Voyager and its inhabitants during one of their past adventures, replicating them so perfectly that they assumed their very identities. Radiation poisoning from their warp core causes them all to degrade back into a liquid state, their bodies literally melting over time as they become grotesque mockeries of their former selves. The ship's own disintegration is almost as horrific in its own right as it literally falls apart, going from a sleek starship to a shifting, gooey mess before finally becoming a nondescript cloud of particles in space.
156* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
157** The third season is rich with this, much of it seemingly inspired by ''Film/TheThing1982''. The [[EldritchAbomination Mind Flayer]], seeking to find a way to kill Eleven so that it can safely return to our world, first possesses and kills a bunch of rats and then dissolves them to create a massive FleshGolem resembling its spider-like form. Then, it starts doing the same to humans, creating a HiveMind out of its victims before they too graphically dissolve into puddles of gore that merge with the monster and expand its size; if you look closely, you can see human body parts in the monster's mass of flesh. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that the Mind Flayer claimed thirty victims this way.]]
158** In the hallucinations and nightmares Vecna forces on Chrissy she sees her mom as a walking corpse with horrific burns and her father with his mouth sewn shut.
159** Vecna's victims have their limbs and jaws broken and twisted at unnatural angles before he crushes their eyes in their sockets and finishes them off.
160** Steve gets gnawed on by the flying creatures in the Upside Down. Shortly after escaping the things he and the others realize the wounds are growing and spreading when he nearly falls over while standing up.
161** One's flesh was burned, warped, turned grey and stretched after Eleven banished him into the Upside Down, prior to the Upside Down taking on a dark mirror appearance when it was a more chaotic void of volcanic activity and electrical storms.
162* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is quite fond of this one.
163** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E06Skin Skin]]" and "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E12Nightshifter Nightshifter]]", we see that shapeshifters have [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shed their skin]] (by ''ripping it off'') in order to change shape, which includes teeth, hair, and other fun things. But the shapeshifters get PlayedForLaughs (until the end) in [[spoiler:"[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E05MonsterMovie Monster Movie]]"]].
164** The ruguru, a cannibalistic creature that starts out human, before abruptly developing hunger for everything -- including human flesh. The body horror element kicks in when they begin their transformation into their final form as their bones move under their skin, and after they take just one bite of long pig ... urgh.
165** Castiel's vessel briefly develops this from the strain of containing allthe souls from Purgatory plus the Leviathans, and they at one point attempt to force their way out through the skin.
166*** And after being stabbed by Michael's lance, not only will Castiel's wound not stop bleeding, but cracks form all over his body. When he is near death, Castiel starts choking on BadBlackBarf.
167** After Dean mortally wounds her, parts of Billie's body visibly start to rot.
168* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': Not surprisingly, this show utilizes this trope in many of its episodes. In "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS7E11EarTodayGoneTomorrow Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow]]", a partially deaf criminal gains the auditory system of an owl through a surgical transplant, [[spoiler:only to then develop other owlish features, including an ''Exorcist''-style swiveling head, feathers, and a beak. When he grows the beak, his face ''cracks open'' like porcelain and the beak ''bursts out of his skin'']]. It's as unpleasant as it sounds. In the comic this episode is based on, the man gets the auditory system of a bat instead of an owl. Now imagine what would have happened to him if they went with that one instead of the owl. (It really depends on the type of bat, though.)
169* ''Series/TheTerror'': In the finale, we see [[spoiler:the remains of the party led by Lt. Edward Little, as discovered by Capt. Crozier and Silna; Lt. Little has gold chains ''sewn into the skin of his face'']]. Not only is this [[NothingIsScarier never explained]], it's also allegedly how one of the bodies was found in real life.
170* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', being the BloodierAndGorier adult SpinOff of ''Series/DoctorWho'', dials this trope up at times.
171** In "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E2Sleeper Sleeper]]", the sleeper agents' right arm has a sort of implant in it which can turn into a huge blade. [[spoiler:This happens to one of the sleepers while she's in her husband's arms. The result is pretty horrifying.]]
172** "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E9SomethingBorrowed Something Borrowed]]" centers around Gwen's [[spoiler:pregnancy with an alien "baby" and her attempts to hide this from her wedding guests, while escaping from the alien mother, who wants to tear her apart to reclaim the child]].
173** In "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E12Fragments Fragments]]", Owen's fiancée appears to have (very) early onset Alzheimer's. Then it starts to look like a brain tumor. [[spoiler:It turns out to be an alien in her brain. She dies minutes later.]]
174** Season 3, ''[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'', features the 456 aliens. They use human children as [[spoiler:living drugs, a process that stunts the children's growth and leaves them thin, hairless and immobile, but conscious the entire time]].
175** In Season 4, ''[[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Miracle Day]]'', the entire human race becomes functionally immortal, but still capable of feeling pain, getting sick or sustaining injuries. This provides ample opportunities for BodyHorror scenes, such as the suicide bomber reduced to a burnt (still conscious) crisp, the woman who gets crushed inside a car, the fact that deformed fetuses can no longer be miscarried or aborted, and the hundreds of [[spoiler:Category Ones incinerated alive]]...
176* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E7 The Hellgramite Method]]", Dr. Eugene Murrich infects Miley Judson with a Hellgramite worm in order to help him overcome his [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]]. The worm takes up residence in Miley's stomach and absorbs all the alcohol that he drinks. Dr. Murrich offers Miley a choice: he can either continue drinking and allow the worm to remain active or he can stop drinking and suffer extremely painful withdrawals in order to render the worm dormant. Miley [[GoingColdTurkey goes cold turkey]] and almost succumbs to the terrible pain caused by the starving worm moving around in his stomach but he sticks it out and finally achieves sobriety.
177* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': There is a werewolf transformation in 2x11 which takes a big cue from ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' and is preceded by a ton of audible joint dislocations.
178* ''Series/TheXFiles'' does this at least once every season; it's also at the center of [[Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture the movie]]'s plot.
179** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E12LeonardBetts Leonard Betts]]" involves a man who can control the cancer that he has in ''all'' of his organs and tissues (by eating other people's tumors). He uses the cancer cells to generate a new body when his old one becomes too diseased to function. He can also detect any cancer in anyone, accurately and precisely describing the type, location, size, disease status, and detailed prognosis of the person, apparently by sight alone. He can also create a new body (and apparently control both bodies simultaneously) at will (provided that he has enough material, at least), and can (and does, at least twice) kill off one body as a decoy.
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