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13	[[quoteright:320:[[Film/Deadpool2016 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadpool_face_1.png]]]]
14	[[caption-width-right:320:[-''"You look like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] face-fucked a topographical map of Utah!"''-]]]
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16	->''"OH MY GOD, what's wrong with your face!?"''
17	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/MisterPlinkettReviews Mr. Plinkett]]''', ''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia''
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19	Much like audiences get [[{{Squick}} squicked out]] by horrible things happening to our {{body\|Horror}} or our {{eye\|Scream}}s, so too do they get absolutely sickened by the thought of something horrible (and permanent!) happening to our faces. It's the #1 part of the body we use for socializing and is strongly tied to our sense of personal identity, so in essence, destroying a person's face is the equivalent to destroying his or her life. It can often lead to a NightmareFace, but if the victim is lucky, he can maybe at least achieve the level of TheWoobie or even UglyCute. This trope can include those who [[DeathByDisfigurement die]] from the disfigurement, but it's more effective (and more horrifying) to have the victim live with it.
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21	Compare and contrast to NightmareFace. The main difference between these two tropes is that Facial Horror deals specifically with severe mutilation of most or all of the face, whereas NightmareFace covers exceptionally scary faces in general.
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23	Interestingly, even the most gruesome examples of this trope will often, like Two-Face from ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'', [[EyesAreUnbreakable leave the eyes completely intact]]. Perhaps this is to emphasize the facial disfigurement by contrast, or merely a sign that EyeScream is a whole different level of horror. Or perhaps it's so that the victim [[CruelMercy can see]] himself in a mirror.
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25	See also EyeScream, GlasgowGrin, {{Jawbreaker}}, MouthStitchedShut, TwoFaced, and TearOffYourFace.
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27	Contrast SunkenFace, where the disfigurement is played for pure comedy.
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30	!!Example subpages:
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32	[[index]]
33	* [[FacialHorror/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
34	* FacialHorror/VideoGames
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37	!!Other examples:
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39	[[foldercontrol]]
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41	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
42	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' features this pretty often in later chapters.
43	** Exhibit A, after Eren has far and away overtaxed his Titan Shifting abilities, [[spoiler: it gets harder and harder to pull him out of his Titan, until the third time they yank him out and his entire face comes off his head, leaving eyes and barely-fleshed skull underneath.]] Hange wisely decided to move on after this.
44	** Reiner has this happen to him midway through the Shiganshina battle, [[spoiler: having the top half of his head blown off only to regenerate it. As expected, it looks pretty gruesome between then and when it's mostly done, showing brain and eyes at one point and later still not being fully covered in skin when he's defeated and being tortured by Hange.]]
45	** At the same time, [[spoiler: Zeke goes up against Levi and loses, and Levi makes a point of trying to torture information out of ''him'' by shoving his blade up through Zeke's mouth and into his eye socket and then out of his head. It left him mangled even worse when he had to suddenly yank it out to dodge the Mule Titan.]]
46	* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' one of the white suit's face is ground off from having it held down on the railroad tracks. From a MOVING train.
47	* In the manga adaptation of ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', [[spoiler: Mitsuko]] gets shot in the face at point-blank range with a Magnum, and we are "treated" to a two-page splash panel of the results. Her nose and the center of her face are completely destroyed, with broken teeth peeking out of the bloody wreckage, and one of her eyes is popped out of the socket.
48	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': After Guts and company rescue Griffith after his year-long torture, his normally {{Bishonen}} face is implied to have been affected as we see them [[NothingIsScarier take off his mask, gasp, and put it back on]].
49	* In ''VideoGame/CorpseParty: Another Child'', there are the three ghosts of the children murdered in the [[EldritchLocation Heavenly Host Elementary School]]. The teacher who killed them used scissors to mutilate them, prompting their spirits to seek revenge on the unlucky victims transported and trapped in the dilapidated school by killing them the same way as was done to them. Out of the three ghosts, Tokiko is the most worse for wear. This is because while the other two ghosts, Yuki and Ryou, only lost an eye and tongues, Tokiko lost the ENTIRE TOP HALF OF HER HEAD, LEAVING NOTHING BUT AN EXPOSED TONGUE AND LOWER JAW.
50	** This example also provokes some FridgeLogic if one is knowledgeable about skeletal anatomy, though that could be chalked off to RuleOfScary.
51	* Happens to [[spoiler:Mello]] from ''Manga/DeathNote'' after he blows up his own base.
52	* One chapter of ''Manga/DissolvingClassroom'' features girls whose faces distort in monstrously ugly ways after hearing Yuuma praise them too much [[spoiler:which is implied to be something similar to the lethal properties of his [[BrownNote apologies]], as he's actually praising the devil]].
53	* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'':
54	** Jagi's already-ugly face becomes hideously bloated towards the top after [[TheHero Kenshiro]] fights him for the first time. Afterward, he's never seen without his helmet on. One {{Mook}} walks in on him sleeping and sees his face, and is extremely terrified. [[AxCrazy Jagi, not the sanest of people to begin with]], [[DisproportionateRetribution kills him for this]].
55	** Facial horror is also a common outcome of the fights Kenshiro has against mooks, whose heads are subject to swelling and contorting before [[YourHeadAsplode popping like gore-filled balloons]].
56	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist:''
57	** Tim Marcoh had his face damaged by Scar so people wouldn't recognize him during his travels.
58	** Scar himself may count as a minor example, but his face isn't really ''disfigured'' like most of the examples here.
59	** When Roy Mustang burns them to death, Lust and Envy both have their faces destroyed before they die.
60	** [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 The 2003 anime]] has [[spoiler:Frank Archer, who lost half his face ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe and half of the rest of his body]]'' while fighting in Lior. The half of his body that was destroyed was eventually replaced by automail.]]
61	** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheSacredStarOfMilos'' features a villain who removed [[spoiler:Julia's brother's]] ''face'' and wore it as a mask for years. [[spoiler:Julia's brother later returns, still faceless but with a horrifying mask covering the scars and exposed fascia.]]
62	* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' invokes this trope several times, most of them involving [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Alucard]]. The worst is probably Zorin Blitz, who gets her face cheese-grated down a hallway by a [[UnstoppableRage supremely pissed-off]] and newly-awakened [[spoiler:Seras]], leaving only ragged strips of skin. Towards the end [[spoiler: Heinkel Wolfe]] ends up suffering this trope when the Captain (nonlethally) shoots her through the mouth, giving her a GlasgowGrin and forcing her to wear bandages over it for the rest of her life.
63	* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 7, Gyro uses the Super Spin technique to prematurely age half of [[spoiler: Valentine's]] face.
64	* Happens to Wakatsuki in ''Manga/KenganAshura'' during his fight against Julius, when the latter smashes his head against the wall and drags his face halfway across the arena with enough force to break the concrete. Thanks to his [[MadeOfIron incredibly dense muscles]], the resulting injury isn't that bad, but he does spend the remainder of the match with half of his face torn off. [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished This doesn't last]], however, as Furumi grafted new skin on his face, and he suffers no permanent disfigurement.
65	* Kichikujima:Mari the oldest daughter of her family lost half of her face to her crazy giant grandma Otoki by Accident which is why she has been wearing a mask to cover it.
66	* One minor antagonist in ''Manga/{{Murcielago}}'' had an experiment with a high-powered laser go awry and got the right side of his head horribly burned, making him look a lot like Harvey Dent in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
67	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
68	** Save for his jaw, All For One's ''entire head'' consist of nothing but scar tissue. As such, he has no visible nose, ears, hair, or eyes. In public, he wears a [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]-esque helmet connected via tubes to a collar-like life support system around his neck.
69	** The HeroKiller Stain has no nose, with only a gaping hole left in its stead. And ''Manga/MyHeroAcademiaVigilantes'' reveals that he cut it off himself, [[spoiler:which signified his transition from hero to villain]].
70	** Dabi's face looks about as good as the [[BodyHorror rest of him]], which means it looks like a patchwork of burned flesh and skin grafts more befitting a corpse. He also admits he's UnableToCry because his tear ducts are burned away. [[spoiler:It's also the reason Endeavor and Shoto never realized he was actually the assumed-dead Toya Todoroki, which he sarcastically lampshades when he reveals himself at long last while removing his black hair dye and admits he knows that he doesn't look at all like how they remember him.]]
71	* ''Anime/{{Nightwalker}}'': An episode reveals that [[spoiler:Yayoi accidentally burned her own face while she and her twin sister Kasumi were trying to lit up their birthday cake's candles, while also setting their house on fire. Kasumi later sacrificed her life to save Yayoi, while also giving up her face for her]].
72	* ''Anime/NinjaScroll'': In the final battle, Jubei caves in Genma's face and the floor beneath him with repeated headbutts. It only stops him until he regenerates.
73	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
74	** Franky gets caught in an explosion so powerful that it ''blows his skin off.'' Luckily, he's a cyborg, but the sight of his flensed face is pretty terrifying. It's PlayedForLaughs as much as horror, [[BlackComedy though]].
75	** In the manga only, Akainu blows half of Whitebeard's face off. Even more scarily, Whitebeard barely slows down and proceeds to smash his attacker, while his face is melting by magma.
76	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
77	** A mild example late in the first season is how, after a road accident, Team Rocket's Meowth cries over how he lost his charm (the huge coin on his forehead), and there's a deep gash where it should usually be. So deep, in fact, that Meowth didn't seem to realize that the charm was actually just stuck ''inside'' the gash until it popped right back out.
78	** In one Unova episode, the victims of having their memories altered by Beheeyem have their faces become Beheeyem-like.
79	* Minor character Hannya from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' did this to himself in order to become a perfect spy, capable of wearing any mask. Specifically, he burnt his lips, sawed off his nose, shattered his cheekbones, and chopped off his ears.
80	* Several characters in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' have been left with disfigured faces as a result of run-ins with ghouls.
81	** Chuu Hachikawa's lips were torn away to leave his teeth exposed, which he usually covers with a high collar. He likes to pull the collar down to intimidate people. In comparison, Torturers Goumasa Tokage and Shiki Kijima both ended up mangled beyond recognition when ghouls [[TheDogBitesBack took revenge]] for their cruelty. They are left suitably hideous to match their cruel natures.
82	** Used as TheReveal late in the series. [[spoiler: After years apart, Kaneki asks Hide to show him the damage he inflicted while out of control. Hide obliges and takes off his scarf, revealing very little flesh left on the lower half of his face and a hideous neck injury. Even Hide's vocal cords have been torn, so he can't speak until he's given a voice prosthesis]].
83	* Pandora/Arkana from ''Anime/YuGiOh'', probably. The viewers never actually see his face under the mask, which was scarred in an accident he had as a stage magician, but Yugi seems pretty horrified when he briefly sees it.
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86	[[folder:Comic Books]]
87	* ''ComicBook/AlbertEinsteinTimeMason'': While fighting a time-traveling Nazi in AncientEgypt, Albert dips his face in a fountain full of mercury, leaving his face burned and swollen, and [[EyeScream turning his eye from blue to red]].
88	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
89	** Two-Face is a prime example. As mentioned below, it's especially gruesome in the ''ComicBook/New52'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', and the ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries''. [[DependingOnTheArtist Some artists]], as well as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the aforementioned ''Arkham'' series, have gone into BodyHorror and include his left arm in the scarring, with [[spoiler:a hallucination of the Joker in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' not-subtly wondering to Batman if this includes Two-Face's penis]].
90	** It also happened to the Joker during the incident with the vat of acid. {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} in the ''ComicBook/New52'', especially when ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'' comes around.
91	** Before the reboot, there was also a character called "No-Face", a perfectly harmless inmate at Arkham who lost most of the skin from his face in an accident, and the "Hamburger Lady", a middle-aged woman who might have been hideously disfigured... or might just ''think'' she is.
92	** Black Mask also suffers from this as one of his earliest fights with Batman caused his namesake mask to fuse to his face -- and while adaptations present his current SkullForAHead look as a mask, in the comics, it's his actual face, having finally somehow ditched the mask in ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand''.
93	** Warren White a.k.a. The Great White Shark in ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumLivingHell''. After having "gills" carved into the sides of his neck by Killer Croc, he's later locked into Mr. Freeze's cell, causing severe frostbite and resulting in him losing his hair, nose, ears, lips and some of his fingers. He later files his teeth into fangs in order to fully look like a shark.
94	* ''ComicBook/TheBeauty'': [[spoiler:Mr. Calaveras]]' face, when we do see it, looks [[spoiler:quite skeletal under the Dia De Los Muertos-style skull mask that he wears. He even has a visible lack of nose]].
95	* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Sometimes, the Red Skull's [[SkullForAHead skull-face]] is just a mask a mask. [[{{Squick}} Other times, it isn't]], usually caused by the Dust of Death poison, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own weapon]].
96	* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Wade's covered in tumors and his face is no exception, lacking hair and featuring bumpy, rough skin, though this also is BodyHorror as said condition is all over his body.
97	* In ''ComicBook/{{Dolltopia}}'', Soccer Scotty has half his face damaged [[spoiler:after leaving the dollhouse to go after Kitty. The doctor replaces the damaged half once Scotty comes to Dolltopia]].
98	* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
99	** Doctor Doom, although of course a) you never do see his face, only people occasionally reacting in horror, and b) as a result, no two writers agree on how bad Doom's face is. Some say his face was horrifically disfigured in a lab accident, with acid scars and burn marks and all that, while some say it was a small cut, which his pride and vanity exaggerated into a horrifying injury. And some combine the two; he suffered a minor cut from the accident, then massive burns when he put on his trademark mask without waiting for it to cool. ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' ultimately shows Doom's face, hideously mutilated and the only thing he couldn't fix.
100	** One of the more infamous bits from [[ComicBook/FantasticFour1961 Tom DeFalco's tenure]] is ComicBook/TheThing getting his face mutilated by ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, forced to wear a helmet for a while, and then end up with a red splotch for scar tissue until Hyperstorm reversed the damage.
101	* ''ComicBook/TheGoon'':
102	** The minor villain Houstus Graves is cursed with this when he agrees to provide the Zombie Priest with fresh cadavers. His face becomes increasingly distorted, and his wife [[DeathByChildbirth dies giving birth]] to two sons so grotesque that they must [[SackheadSlasher hide their faces behind burlap sacks]].
103	** Also the faces of the inbred Decaster family, and various other monsters and mutants throughout the run of the comic. Eric Powell clearly really likes drawing hideous monsters.
104	* ''ComicBook/JonahHex'': Jonah has the right side of his face scarred. DependingOnTheArtist, he can just be the bulging eye, permanent sneer, and the mouth tendon, some will remember that he got these from being burned and adding burn scars, and others will make him look like a mirror-flipped version of Two-Face in a cowboy hat.
105	* Judges convicted of corruption in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the Titan penal colony. The work is done outside, and space suits aren't used because they make the wearer too clumsy for the work. Instead, the offender is surgically altered so they can survive in vacuum, which includes removal of the nose, sealing the lips together, and shoving cybernetic implants wherever they'll fit. They don't ''reverse'' the surgery if the offender survives the sentence, either.
106	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': The classic villain Dr. Destiny is typically portrayed with a SkullForAHead, originally as a result of [[CannotDream the League ridding him of his ability to dream]]. However, for his appearances in the later 1980s-early 1990s (most notably, ''ComicBook/{{The Sandman\|1989}}'' and ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''), this got extended into full BodyHorror with his whole body becoming emaciated.[[note]]Creator/GrantMorrison, the writer of ''Arkham Asylum'', even stated in their notes that they never bought the classic [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]-esque look Destiny had.[[/note]]
107	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'':
108	** Half of Malekith the Accursed's face was badly scarred by a wizard he killed, who managed to strike back before dying.
109	** Harald Jaekelsson from ''ComicBook/ThorVikings'' also counts as this by virtue of being a thousand-year-old TechnicallyLivingZombie.
110	* ''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'':
111	** When forcibly removing the two [[MacGuffin mask fragments]] that Gull is wearing, Maika tears her entire face off in the process.
112	** While we haven't seen the damage yet, [[TheBrute Hammer]]'s face was apparently ravaged by the [[FantasticNuke Constantine blast]], hence why she's mute and always wears a veil.
113	* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': A BungledSuicide attempt with a shotgun left Arseface with... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a face that looks like an arse]].
114	* Jigsaw from ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' christened himself with this moniker after Frank Castle threw him through a glass panel and reduced his face to a jigsaw puzzle-like mess of scars.
115	* In ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' #17's end, [[spoiler:a trap the Joker left in Jason's helmet sets off, covering him with Joker Venom and scarring him deeply. He remains unconscious until the end of #18, and doesn't have his face shown in that time]].
116	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' has Mazikeen, Lucifer's lover/[[TheDragon Dragon]]. [[TwoFaced One side of her face is beautiful, while the other side is horribly mangled and appears to be rotting]]. She considers the disfigured half a point of pride, as it [[RedRightHand symbolizes her demonic heritage]]. When it gets healed against her will, [[BerserkButton she takes it rather poorly]].[[note]]Mazikeen is [[OurDemonsAreDifferent one of the Lilim]], and her half-rotted face is the result of deliberate shapeshifting choice instead of injury. She could have "healed" herself at any time, but when she is "healed" by an outside party, she's bound into one shape, which she hates.[[/note]]
117	* In ''ComicStrip/SnarfQuest'', Snarf and others assume that Aveeare ([[FishOutOfWater a robot stranded in a fantasy world]]) is a victim of this trope, mistaken the circuits and gears under his faceplate for scar tissue.
118	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
119	** In ''ComicBook/GrimHunt'', after Spider-Man has been pushed to his limit, he presses his hand to Sasha Kravinoff's face and uses his [[WallCrawl wall-crawling ability]] to [[TearOffYourFace rip the skin off]].
120	** This is a parallel to Spidey's imperfect clone, Kaine, whose spider-powers are amplified and twisted; back in the '90s comics, before his HeelFaceTurn in modern times, Kaine uses his gripping power to burn his handprint into his murder victims' faces, leaving scars from the crisscross patterns of the lines of his hand (the so-called "Mark of Kaine").
121	* ''ComicBook/{{Stray\|2015}}'': [[spoiler:The Doberman's killer(s) has/have]] a scar going right down the middle of [[spoiler:his/their]] face.
122	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
123	** ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'': Thul-Kar's face is half-skinned, half-melted, a grim reminder of what happened when he challenged a cosmic horror.
124	** ''ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers'': Byron Stark (a.k.a. Half Life) was injured and "[[AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing repaired]]" when an alien craft crashed into his parent's house back in the 1950s and most of the flesh, including his eye, on the left side of his face was replaced with transparent green goo that his skull can be seen through. A fair portion of the rest of his body got the same treatment.
125	* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'', Soundwave gets shot in the head. It takes him out for several issues, and when he's brought out of his coma, he now has a TwoFaced appearance and cannot talk because his voice box has been damaged. In the sequel ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', he's been fixed as of issue 13.
126	* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':
127	** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The Red Skull calmly sliced off his own face, just to stop looking like his dad.
128	** The version of Deadpool in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' [[AdaptationalUgliness has it even worse than his mainstream counterpart]], being a cyborg whose skull is on display and the top missing, exposing his brain with a dome covering his head.
129	* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', the group ironically known as the "Saviors" faces this as a punishment if any of the men attempt to sleep with a member of their leader Negan's PaidHarem. Negan responds by [[TwoFaced burning part of their face off with a hot clothes iron]]. At least two members of the Saviors are marked like this, and one of them, a man named Dwight, becomes an important character.
130	* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': Mr. Rictus was severely burned in an industrial accident that ([[NearDeathExperience briefly]]) killed him. This has left him with his teeth gruesomely exposed in what seems like a permanent grin, hence his name.
131	* ''ComicBook/{{Wildstar}}'': At the start of the "Sky Zero" Four-Parter, Wildstar forcibly removes a bounty hunter's [[TheSymbiote alien symbiote]], which is attached to his face. He ends up taking the skin off the guy's head.
132	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
133	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After Paula's HeelFaceTurn, her face is horribly burnt in a fire when she enters a munitions factory already set alight by Nazi spies (who she'd previously been collaborating with, under duress; they had her daughter) in order to find and disable the explosive device in the factory that would have made everything so much worse. This scarring is never shown as she is bandaged or wears a veil over it, but other characters' reactions make it clear that it has thoroughly disfigured her.
134	** In the Huntress feature, Helena fights a human trafficker named Herbert Hynde whose face seems to be chemically scarred -- most of his nose and his lips are gone.
135	* When ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'' and ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' were part of the same universe, part of the backstory was that Chapel from the former killed series Al Simmons, thus setting into motion Al becoming the eponymous character of the latter series. Spawn repaid this by ripping off the area of skin on Chapel's face where he wore his skull-themed facepaint, exposing his skull for real. Then again, as said murder of Simmons involved setting him on fire, Spawn himself is an example of this, featuring burnt skin (and later a skull-like face) and missing a nose.
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138	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
139	* Whilst many villains in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' have deformed faces often overlapping with NightmareFace, only a few have concrete explanations outside of EvilMakesYouUgly.
140	** Underneath his [[TheBlank featureless mask]], the Blank has a [[https://live.staticflickr.com/1191/5100501225_a2f9dbafb0_b.jpg decayed, skull-like face]] resembling the [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 Lon Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera]], supposedly obtained when escaping prison.
141	** Haf and Haf are TwoFaced but may actually have it ''worse'' than [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} the trope image]]. Whilst the deformed side of Two-Face at least still resembles an actual face, Haf and Haf's [[https://assets.mycast.io/characters/24135_normal.jpg?1523957841 bad side]] is in such a mess that it actually appears to be melting and, {{avert\|edTrope}}ing EyesAreUnbreakable, has no eye visible within his sagging flesh.
142	** Mrs. Pruneface is an uncommonly large woman with sunken eyes, a nearly non-existent nose, and pointed teeth. Her facial disfigurement is the result of a MolotovCocktail being thrown in her face while she and her husband were escaping Europe.
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145	[[folder:Fan Works]]
146	* ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy:''
147	** Stain is subject to a brutal beatdown courtesy of Peter, who decides to cut loose out of disgust for Stain's actions and with confidence that the Hero Killer's MadeOfIron status would let him survive a punch comparable to a mortar strike. By the end, Stain's jaw is fractured and partially dislocated, a chunk of his cheek is torn off, and his lips are a bloody smear.
148	** Toga is also subject to this after [[spoiler:ingesting Peter's blood. Causing half of her face to melt off and her left eye to go cloudy until she resembles Kaine from ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'']].
149	* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': The face of the second doppelganger Delia's father, whom Galbraith sees in London, has a gray tint, causing the inspector to think that it is in fact an actor in make-up.
150	* In the WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37447840/chapters/93454369 Burned]]'', the plot is kicked off when Pepa accidentally strikes Camilo with lightning. Half of his face is scarred because of this.
151	* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'':
152	** Calisto, one of the wardens of [[TheAlcatraz Cavigor]], is missing all the flesh on the lower half of his face, which was burned off by [[spoiler: Drago]] when he was captured and locked away. This looks even worse when Calisto is in his [[PantheraAwesome tiger form]].
153	** After Phobos [[spoiler: kills Uncle]], Jade goes into an UnstoppableRage and slashes his face, destroying his left eye, removing his nose, and taking a chunk out of his right cheek.
154	* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeries'': While taking Tynar prisoner in "The Knights of Vengeance", Drago also takes the time to slash an immobilized Drake's face, [[ForTheEvulz purely for his own amusement]].
155	* In ''Fanfic/TheJudgementOfTheWorld5Ds'', Yubel's attack leaves horrific burns on half of [[spoiler:Momoe]]'s face. [[spoiler:What's worse is that the corrupted flame Yubel used continues to eat away at Momoe's flesh and will apparently burn through her skull eventually, spelling out a slow and painful death]].
156	* ''Fanfic/KingExplosionMurderTheShieldHero'': When Rino got the upper hand on Malty, she wastes no time using her spear to deliver a diagonal scar to the evil princess's face then tricked the princess into burning half her face. While this did result in Malty using her hair to cover this disfigurement, but Neia humiliates her by having her hair shaved off and cursed to keep it from growing back along with keeping her from wearing anything to cover her disfigurement and baldness.
157	* In ''Fanfic/ProHeroMetalBat'', [[spoiler:Izuku gets punched so hard by the USJ Nomu that part of his face comes off. Shoji and Sero need to tape a piece of cloth over it to stop it from falling off]].
158	* [[GoodShepherd Priest]] suffers this in ''[[FanFic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons Project Horizons]]'' when [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Sanguine]] [[BreathWeapon blows]] [[DeadlyGas Pink Cloud]] in his face, melting his eyes and sealing his mouth and nose shut.
159	* ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'': During the Battle of Tobe, Ozeki forcibly removes Yasashi's Oni mask, tearing off her face in the process.
160	* OC [[SourOutsideSadInside Midnight]] suffers from this in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfic ''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600081124 A Rose And A Thorn 5: Resurrection]]'' - the left side of his body was damaged in an explosion in #4, and now he has terrible scarring all down that side of his body, as well as requiring a WeCanRebuildHim ordeal. He's convinced that the amnesiac Mirage will never want him back but finds that she is still sympathetic to his appearance, even ''before'' she remembers him.
161	-->'''Mirage:''' ''([touching his scarred cheek]'' If she really loved you before, she would not care what you look like now. And if she did, she was not worth having.\
162	'''Midnight:''' But she was...
163	* In ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'', Schmitt says that he was present when Red Skull got hit by the worse side effects of the super soldier serum. His face ''melted'' off.
164	** In a later story, "The Haunting of Villa Layla", a vampire minion of Velanna is shot through both cheeks and barely flinches. Instead he smiles, tearing the wounds open wider and giving himself a GlasgowGrin that shows off his fangs.
165	** Another story shows the death of [[spoiler: Velanna herself]], in which her jaw unhinges and stretches to the ground the same way her limbs do before her entire body collapses into tar.
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168	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
169	* The ''WesternAnimation/DCShowcaseJonahHex'' version of its title character not only keeps the traditional elements of Hex's appearance (the bulging eye, permanent sneer, and the mouth tendon) but also depicts most of his right cheek being gone.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'': During the final battle, Mano is tossed at Emerald Empress while his TouchOfDeath powers are turned on, causing him to inadvertently burn half her face off. We only get [[FreezeFrameBonus a brief glimpse]] of the damage, but it's [[NauseaFuel stomach-churning]].
171	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' has The Clown with the Tear-away Face, whose easy removability (and perfect reattachment too) at will makes it less awful and more playful.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/PhantomBoy'': [[BigBad The Face]]'s... [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLHrkRYD5YHFRShtNUSBhEB0ENYvdncdTgyA&usqp=CAU face]], has a very abstract, colorful, and disjointed appearance that looks more like a Creator/PabloPicasso painting than an actual human face, making it stand out against the film's already stylized and abstract style.
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175	[[folder:Literature]]
176	* ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'' has the story of a woman who walked with a mask ever since, in a delirium, she approached a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]] too closely.
177	* The title character in ''Literature/EdenGreen'' has her teeth and nose broken in a violent murder; when an alien needle symbiote awakens her, she carefully describes the sensations of her face being repaired with microscopic needles.
178	* ''Literature/ErebusSequence'': It turns out that the reason Anea wears a veil and can't speak is that she doesn't have a jaw.
179	* ''Literature/FightClub'': By the end, the narrator has had both cheeks ruined--one split open after a tooth punched a hole in it, and further fights exacerbated the injury to the point that it became half a GlasgowGrin, and the other [[spoiler:opened by a gunshot]]. The former injury is omitted from the film.
180	* ''Literature/FoxDemonCultivationManual'':
181	** Sun Yunniang had her face ripped off on her husband's orders.
182	** The people Song Ci sees outside the inn had their skin [[TearOffYourFace ripped off]] by Sun Yunniang's ghost, leaving their faces a "skinless, bloody mess of rotten meat".
183	* ''Literature/TheGhostWriter'': The climax reveals that [[spoiler:Alice Jessell's face is horribly deformed]].
184	* The owl Metalbeak/[[spoiler:Kludd]] from ''Literature/GuardiansOfGaHoole''. He had his beak, among other parts of his face, ripped off in a fight and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin replaced it with a metal one]].
185	* In ''Literature/TheGirlWhoDrankTheMoon'' Antain is attacked by a flock of animate origami birds that slash his face, leaving it a mass of scars.
186	* Mason Verger in ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}''. He peeled off his own face under the influence of Lecter, plus some party drugs.
187	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
188	** ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' describes Alastor Moody's face as rough and misshapen, with heavy scarring and a big chunk of his nose missing. He also averts EyesAreUnbreakable, since his most striking feature is his bulging, lopsided GlassEye (they don't call him "[[MadEye Mad-Eye]] Moody" for nothing, you know). Chalk it up to years and years of ferocious battles against practitioners of TheDarkArts.
189	** At the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'', [[spoiler:Bill Weasley]] gets mauled by Fenrir Greyback and acquires a series of nasty facial scars that are compared to Moody's.
190	* Quasimodo from ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Has a disfigured face and body from birth. This is also implied to be the reason why he was abandoned as a toddler. He is also deaf and half-blind.
191	* Joelle Van Dyne in ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' [[spoiler: following an incident with some acid]],([[UnreliableNarrator maybe]]) causing her to wear a veil and join the Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed.
192	* Vlad Menshikov from ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' had part of his face, along with his lungs and eyes, burned when he tried and failed to awaken Ra.
193	* ''Literature/TheLivingDead'': Chuck Corso, known as The Face due to the amount of plastic surgery’s he had to better his appearance, is attacked by a zombie with glass shards, slicing his open his nose, cutting of one of his ear, and slashing it in a hundred other places. Though he survives, he is rendered unrecognisable, and hides his identity in the post apocalypse, simply going by The Face.
194	* Lorka Trench in the steampunk series ''Literature/LockhartAndTeague'' had her lips cut off when she was a teenager. This causes her to make very unconventional word choices when speaking, as she doesn't use words she can't pronounce correctly.
195	* HandicappedBadass Colonel Lomax in the ''Literature/MatthewHawkwood'' novels. Pinned under a dead horse and caught in a grass fire, the left side of Lomax's body was badly burned; crippling his left arm, destroying his left eye, and [[TwoFaced badly scarring the left side of his face]].
196	* ''Literature/MortalEngines'': Hester Shaw sports a very nasty scar and is missing an eye and most of her nose as a result of being attacked during her childhood.
197	* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': The wolf Bullseye is described to have a face scratched and torn in twenty different places.
198	* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'': Erik the opera ghost. He has a deformed face and body and therefore hides himself away from the world and lives beneath the Paris opera house.
199	* The eponymous painting becomes for a while this in ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray''. The book is kind of vague about it, but many adaptions show all the gruesomeness.
200	* ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries'': The daughter of one of Moriarty's men had acid thrown in her face by a CrazyJealousGuy. Moriarty has Lee Chow pay said crazy jealous guy a visit and cut off his cheeks.
201	* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'': The assassin Chade's face and body are covered with deep, angry pockmarks by a long-ago accident with volatile chemicals. Combined with his [[YoungerThanTheyLook prematurely wizened appearance]], some peasants actually mistake his face for the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Plague.
202	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' has Slagar the Cruel, who wears a mask to hide his deformities caused by [[spoiler: Asmodeus' venom]]. There's also Riggu Felis, whose face was mostly torn off by a hawk. The lower half of his face is described as [[spoiler: "red, glistening flesh and bone... the whole muzzle, nose and upper lip had been torn off. Half of the warlord's face was a spitting, bubbling skeleton."]] Lovely.
203	* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': Hartnet is an otherwise attractive young woman who is missing her nose. She wears a veil (and later a helmet with a nose guard) to cover it, but people are still unnerved by the sight of her.
204	* What the BigBad of the first ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' book does to his victims, magically cracking their bones, shredding their muscles, and stretching their skin until they become perfect imitations of [[spoiler:[[Theatre/PunchAndJudy Mister Punch]]]]; when he finishes with them, their face falls apart and they die. If they are lucky. A survivor's face is described in book two in excruciating detail, [[spoiler: for a start her nose and lower jawbone is mostly missing]] having been shattered into too many pieces to rebuild. Talking is only possible with one of those Stephen Hawking speech programs.
205	* A lot of the art in ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'' straddled the line between this trope and NightmareFace. Probably the best example would be the art for "The Red Spot", a story where what seems to be a zit on a girl's face actually [[spoiler: contains a nest of baby spiders]].
206	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'':
207	** In the story "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", Kitty Winter gets {{revenge}} on Baron Adelbert Gruner, who destroyed her life, by throwing acid in his face, leaving him hideously disfigured. The story was later adapted by '"Series/{{Elementary}}''.
208	** The eponymous character in "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger".
209	* ''Literature/TheShining'': Towards the end, [[PrecociousChild Danny]] tries to break his father from the hotel's influence (and temporarily succeeds), only to have Jack become completely possessed and forced to smash the roque mallet into his own face, repeatedly, until it is a barely-recognisable mess. [[spoiler:This fully kills Jack and allows the ghosts to take full control of his body.]]
210	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Sandor Clegane's burned face is described as horrifying, Shireen Baratheon's is badly scarred by greyscale and [[spoiler: Brienne's was half '''eaten''' by Biter.]] And then there's the delightful face of Tyrion, with that long scar and all[[spoiler:, including having his nose pretty much cut off]]. Most of these are [[AdaptationalAttractiveness downplayed]] in the TV show.
211	* ''Literature/ASorrowFierceAndFalling'': [[BlobMonster Molochoron]]'s Familiars, which [[TheProtagonist Henrietta]] recreates for a test for Maria, are described as having melted faces.
212	* ''Literature/ThebeAndTheAngryRedEye'' provides a fatal example. During a spaceship crash, a panel on a bunk wall in the control room explodes and hits TheMedic's head so hard that her face is torn off.
213	* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Elli Quinn has her face burned off by plasma-arc fire - "she looked like an onion". Fortunately, she lives in a universe of advanced biotech where the commander of her mercenary company buys her reconstructive surgery which leaves her looking better than she had before, but plasma fire is one of the few things that can truly terrify her.
214	* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Brightheart was savaged by a pack of dogs, who mangled her face to the point that she lost an eye and parts of her skull were showing even after she recovered. She was even called "Lostface" for a while, but fortunately, Firestar renamed her.
215	* ''Literature/WasteOfSpace'': [[TheProtagonist Dashiell Gibson]] feels this way about Sonja Sjoberg when she's not wearing her makeup. Sonja has had many plastic surgeries before coming to Moon Base Alpha, and since they were all designed for Earth's gravity, the moon's lower gravity is having an adverse effect on them. To wit, her inflated lips have swelled up to three times their size, and the helium micro-pockets she had injected into her face are rising too high.
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218	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
219	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Jasmine, once someone is freed from her love spell, has a mangled, maggot-infested face. [[spoiler:Once the spell is broken for the whole world, her face breaks out in boils and lesions.]]
220	* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
221	** ComicBook/JonahHex's appearance on ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' depicted a more {{pragmatic\|Adaptation}} version of his scars, mostly due to being a series on Creator/TheCW and hence lacking the budget to go all out.
222	** ''Series/{{The Flash\|2014}}'' reveals that the right side of Savitar's face is covered with burns, with his eye discolored and possibly left blind for good measure.
223	* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Richard Harrow lost his left eye and the left side of his face in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, forcing him to wear a crude-looking half-mask with face-like features.
224	* ''Series/BreakingBad'': from the appropriately titled "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E13FaceOff Face Off]]" episode, [[spoiler:Gustavo Fring meets his end when hit with a bomb, but not before surviving long enough for the camera to pan around and showing half of his face blown off.]]
225	* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'': Besides blackened legs, we never get to see what's happened to Akimov for ourselves, but after interviewing the still-living Chernobyl operators, Ulana reports to Valery that she found the poor guy with ''no discernible face''. The fact ''an HBO series'' had a GoryDiscretionShot, especially during an episode which showed [[BodyHorror the effects of late-stage radiation poisoning]] on screen, [[NothingIsScarier must mean that whatever happened to Akimov's face was genuinely too horrible to depict]].
226	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
227	** The Cybermen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]" have cloth facemasks, black void eyes, and mouths that just sort of hang open while they talk, implying severe facial disfigurement going on underneath. It's part of why they are so disturbing.
228	** Davros, whose face (and ''the rest of his entire freaking body'') was horribly disfigured when his lab exploded.
229	** One incarnation of the Master: he has hit the end of his regeneration cycle and his body is literally rotting, with a fixed skull grin and googly eyes.
230	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang Magnus Greel]]'s face looks like it's melting, or turning to spaghetti, due to a bizarre mutation. He covers it up with a mask as a result.
231	** Stories written or script-edited by Creator/EricSaward have a tendency to this. Examples include a soldier's face melted off by corrosive gas in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]], and prominent facially-disfigured characters in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash Timelash]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesofAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]".
232	** Kane's face melting off his bones in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]", one of ''Doctor Who'''s most gruesome moments.
233	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]" gave us a PainfulTransformation into a mindless zombie with a gas mask, with the air-filter forcing its way up through your throat and out your mouth, and your eyes turning into goggles. Ouch. The effect was originally going to be accompanied by a graphic bone-cracking sound, but the staff decided that was a bit too much. They were probably right.
234	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod "Planet of the Ood"]] has [[spoiler:{{jerkass}} slaver Mr. Halpen, whose face ''peels off'' as he turns into an Ood.]]
235	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]] has [[spoiler:[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Forest_Of_The_Dead.JPG/275px-Forest_Of_The_Dead.JPG Miss Evangelista]], whose face was warped in Donna's dream world so she looks more like a walking Picasso painting.]]
236	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]]: Ada Gillyflower had her face burned (and lost her eyesight) [[spoiler: when her mom experimented on her with leech venom.]]
237	** The main antagonist of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]], the aptly titled "Half-Face Man", is [[spoiler:a cyborg millions of years old kept alive with stolen human body parts from the customers at the restaurant]], leaving him with a face that is half robotic and half human.
238	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"]]: The antagonist, alien warlord-to-be Tzim-Sha[[note]]no, ''Tim Shaw''[[/note]][[spoiler:, takes teeth as [[BattleTrophy trophies]] from the people he kills, and implants them on his face.]]
239	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
240	** [[spoiler: Oberyn Martell]]. Not only were [[spoiler: his teeth knocked out and his eyes destroyed]] but also [[spoiler: his head is crushed into a disgusting pulp]]. His gorgeous, gorgeous [[spoiler: head]].
241	** Sandor Clegane has nasty scars on his face from his brother holding his face into a brazier as a child.
242	** Ramsay's dogs begin their feast by ripping his face off jaw-first.
243	** Gregor Clegane's face is rotten and deteriorating more and more over time.
244	** The left side of Shireen Baratheon's face is scarred by (cured) Greyscale.
245	* ''{{Series/Gotham}}'': Jane Doe acts like her face is horribly scarred or deformed underneath the mask she wears. It's {{subverted}} though as she's perfectly normal. Her conviction is just a part of the delusion she has.
246	* ''Series/Kingdom2019'':
247	** In a flashback, we see the people in Yeong-shin's home village having their faces covered in bloody bandages. This is likely a result of UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi ordering the invading Japanese soldiers to bring back severed Korean noses for their remuneration claim. It may also be connected to the fact that the village is said to be afflicted with some kind of disease.
248	** Lord Cho Hak-Ju also gets a dose of this when a zombified Lord Ahn Hyeon tears into his cheek.
249	* The Helvetica scenario from ''Series/LookAroundYou''. The scenario is a fictional experiment, presented in Switzerland (Helvetica), which assumes that removing only the nucleus (the center of an atom) of a calcium atom in one's skin, but still leaving the electron shell at its position, would cause a massive reaction ending up in heavy mutations.
250	* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E13Imprint Imprint]]":
251	** The disfigured prostitute has the features on the right side of her face stretched out.
252	** The dwarf pimp is missing part of his nose.
253	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Stitcher's Society", [[NeverOneMurder the third]] VictimOfTheWeek is killed when one barrel of his shotgun is stuffed with rages, causing it to backfire in face. TheCoroner Fleur Perkins comments that there wasn't much left of his face afterwards.
254	* Roan's face in ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' was partially permanently disfigured when Nikita splashed hydrochloric acid on him, in an effort to escape.
255	* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' [[CombatPragmatist Shaw]] does a relatively minor version in her first appearance when she throws a flashbang inside a mook's gasmask.
256	* A fourth-season episode of ''Series/QuincyME'' ("The Depth of Beauty") involves an incompetent plastic surgeon who kills two women and leaves an actress with a horribly disfigured face. Includes a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming when Quincy gently unpins the actress' veil and kisses her; also a Crowning Moment of Awesome when she later accuses the plastic surgeon by revealing her face on live television.
257	* In the fifth season of ''Series/ResurrectionErtugrul'', this happens to [[spoiler: Artuk Bey]] after the Mongols interrogate him regarding the location of several important documents, [[spoiler: responding with the burning of both of his eyes]] when he refuses to give them a reply.
258	* ''Series/RoboCopTheSeries'' featured a disfigured villain named William Ray Morgan, nicknamed "Pudface" because of his face, which was disfigured in a chemical accident [[NeverMyFault that he chose to blame Robo for]], despite Sgt. Parks ([[AdaptationNameChange Sgt. Reed from the movies in all but name]]) saying it was his own fault.
259	* Played for laughs on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Elaine's handsome outdoorsy boyfriend takes a big fall while rock climbing with George and Kramer -- by the looks of the bandages, he landed square on his face. He's not terribly upset, but Elaine (who had emphatically denied the attraction wasn't all physical) pointedly asks him if he recalls the doctors mentioning "horrible scars" or "radical reconstructive surgery".
260	* ''{{Series/Sharpe}}'': Captain Frederickson's head is pretty much covered in scars. He has burn scars all over his head that cost him most of his hair, and took a musket ball in the face which shattered his jaw, knocked out most of his teeth, tore one of his eyes out of its socket on the way out, and left him with a GlasgowGrin. He deliberately cultivates his fearsome appearance to instill fear in his enemies, removes his false teeth and glass eye before going into combat (much to the disgust of people around him), and collects teeth from dead Frenchmen to make himself a set of dentures.
261	* From the third season of ''Series/TeenWolf'', [[spoiler:the true face of Jennifer Blake, who was grotesquely mutilated and left for dead by a werewolf. She hides it via supernatural means - most of the time.]]
262	* A segment of ''Series/UntoldStoriesOfTheER'' concerned saving a woman who had been mauled by a mountain lion. When she regained consciousness, she despaired at the state of her mangled face but calmed down when she saw the "before" photo and realized she was lucky she still even ''had'' a face.
263	* The now little-known 1961 anthology series ''Series/WayOut'' (hosted by Creator/RoaldDahl) had an episode called "Soft Focus" where a man finds that he can alter people's appearances by [[RealityChangingMiniature retouching their photos]]. Unfortunately, his wife (whose face he started tampering with when he found out she was cheating on him) spills retouching fluid on his ''own'' photo [[http://dicksmithmake-up.com/wp-content/uploads/images/Filmography/wayout3.jpg and...!]] One of Creator/DickSmith's more interesting makeup works.
264	[[/folder]]
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266	[[folder:Music]]
267	* Music/PeterGabriel: The Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}-designed cover art for ''Music/{{Melt}}'' depicts half of Gabriel's face melting off, courtesy of a manipulated Polaroid. According to Hipgnosis member Storm Thorgerson, the imagery was inspired by a dream he had about a wax figure being melted by fire.
268	* The video for "Zick Zack" by Music/{{Rammstein}} has the band as a long-past-the-expiration-date lounge act, relying on ''massive'' amounts of plastic surgery to stay in the game. The facial prosthetics to represent their surgical-nightmare faces is one thing, but then the surgery starts ''collapsing''.
269	[[/folder]]
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271	[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
272	* In Myth/NorseMythology, Loki was punished by some dwarf blacksmiths for losing a wager by having his lips sewn shut. (He was originally going to lose his head, but he managed to finagle himself out of that one due to a clever application of ExactWords.) Since he is not represented as mute in any of the other myths, presumably he just tore his lips free later.
273	[[/folder]]
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275	[[folder:Podcasts]]
276	* ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous'' has the following description of radium jaw, a malady caused by the body incorporating radioactive substances into the bones instead of calcium after a victim ingests radium:
277	-->"When we say that your jaw falls off, radium jaw describes what happens before that happens. When your jaw is breaking down, your body's response is basically to inflame it as much as possible... People with radium jaw have these giant jutting protuberances sticking off their jaws. Like, it doesn't just quietly drop off one day... It's just this necrotic mass of rotting tissue."
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder:Roleplay]]
281	* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' character Blood Boy had his face heavily mutilated as a child by having a marble stuck in his throat, and clawing at it to get it out. He wears a [[MalevolentMaskedMen mask]] over it to hide it. Later he slices off what's left for a trap. Other examples have occurred throughout the versions, such as Melina Frost getting a Molotov cocktail to the face.
282	[[/folder]]
283
284	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
285	* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', Captain Tycho of the Blood Angels Chapter of [[SuperSoldier Adeptus Astartes]] suffered a near-fatal psychic attack from an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] Weirdboy that caused the right half of his face to freeze into a hideous rictus grin. Given the Blood Angels' aesthete inclinations and general physical beauty, this was an especially damaging blow to his psyche, and the trauma [[SanitySlippage compounded to the point that he snapped]].
286	* Appears a fair bit in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'':
287	** The Nosferatu Embrace warps people who receive it, to the point that they become atrocious wretches that cannot be seen in public without risking the Masquerade (luckily, they have powers to get around that). Some people get more messed up by the Embrace than others, like the Camarilla Justicar Cock Robin, whose mouth is more of a beak. He primarily communicates in Morse code, has to be fed by his assistants, and - in the rare cases that he succumbs to Frenzy - is noted to feed by gouging out his victim's eyes and drinking deeply.
288	** Vicissitude can regularly produce cases like this. ''Mexico City by Night'' features Jaggedy Andy, a fratboy visiting Mexico who had the mistake of throwing out a bunch of racist and transphobic insults to Sascha Vykos. Sascha responded by making all the features on Andy's face disappear, ''then'' having someone Embrace him. He has to chisel his eyes and mouth open every night and is pretty much barred from exiting the junkyard he lives in for the sake of the Masquerade.
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291	[[folder:Theatre]]
292	* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment again]].
293	** Incidentally, [[http://img386.imageshack.us/i/orig1rs4.jpg/ this]] is what the Phantom looks like unmasked in the play.
294	* In the musical ''Theatre/{{Violet}}'', this is the title character's reason for traveling by bus to meet the televangelist. However, this is an InformedDeformity, since her scars are left to the audience's imagination, rather than being depicted through makeup or prosthetics.
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296
297	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
298	* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': The right side of Hanako's face is severely scarred from when she was caught in a house fire several years before the story takes place. [[HidingBehindYourBangs She grows out her hair to try and cover the damage.]] And it's not just the scars that explain why she's so [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars traumatized]]. [[spoiler: Her father died in the fire, her mother sacrificed herself to save her, and while the kids at the OrphanageOfLove she was sent to treated her well, in junior high, she was teased and bullied constantly by her classmates.]]
299	* In one ending of ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', [[spoiler: Luna's face falls off as Zero III shuts her down]], though in this case, it's more tragic than horrific.
300	* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'': The right side of [[spoiler:Matt Engarde's]] face has [[spoiler:a very nasty scar that also shows his evil.]]
301	[[/folder]]
302
303	[[folder:Web Animation]]
304	* Simkin, from ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'', who survived Viceroy's attempt to extract his gland, has been left disfigured, with half of his face gray and sunken, while the rest of him is blue; his mouth is cut off half-way, and a second mouth formed on the Pallid side, and only one of his eyes remain as well.
305	* ''WebAnimation/DingoDoodles'': It turns out that this is the reason why Gothi keeps her face covered with a wooden mask. [[spoiler:Her entire face was completely cut off. She has no skin, nose, or lips under the mask]]. The sight of this is disturbing enough that it makes one person who sees it vomit.
306	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'':
307	** In "[[Recap/HTFFlippinBurgers Flippin' Burgers]]", Fliqpy grab's Petunia's head and shoves her face onto a piping hot grill. He pulls her back up to reveal most of her face, [[EyeScream including one of her eyes]], is still stuck to the grill. He then shoves her back onto the grill.
308	** In "[[Recap/HTFRemainsToBeSeen Remains to Be Seen]]", when she's killed and comes back as a zombie, Petunia has had most of her face skinned, the maggots burrowing into her flesh are visible, and her right eye is sunken into its socket.
309	** In "[[Recap/HTFPeasInAPod Peas in a Pod]]", Sniffles dies when one of Lumpy's clones wipes his face for an extended period of time and leaves a hole in his face, exposing his skull. Both the fact that his face was eroded away and that he died can be chalked up to RuleOfFunny.
310	** In "[[Recap/HTFWrathOfCon Wrath of Con]]", after Giggles has her toy lightsaber modified by Splendid (using laser vision) to become a real lightsaber, the heat ends up melting the plastic which falls on her head and sets it on fire. The next time we see her, her entire face and most of her head is gone, with the only thing remaining being a few of her teeth embedded in her skin.
311	* ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'':
312	** In "Market Day", Lobo's face is reduced to some brain matter.
313	** In "Lobo for President", Lobo's face gets covered in acid urine. His face's flesh is visible.
314	* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Vol. 6 episode "The Lady in the Shoe" we finally see what's under Adam Taurus' mask, and it's not pretty, to say the least... [[spoiler:He was branded with the '''S.D.C.''' logo across the front of his face including his '''[[EyeScream left eye]]'''. Said eye has red sclera and a grey and black iris, implying that it's heavily damaged and possibly blind.]]
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316
317	[[folder:Webcomics]]
318	* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': [[spoiler:Spongebob’s face is torn off during his battle with the Tortured One, giving way to a ''horrifying'' NightmareFace.]]
319	* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'':
320	** Jerry's face grows in feature-by-feature, starting with his mouth. Second, his eye... his left eye.
321	** One of the strip's major Call Backs involves this. [[spoiler: Venus' face is horribly scarred and her left eye is damaged due to an allergic reaction to the whale semen Izzy unwittingly poured on her.]]
322	** A filler strip has a man who cranked off a chimp get his face torn off.
323	** Asher gets half of his face chopped off, and we get a nice view of it in the strip where it happens. He "fixes" it with a crude cybernetic mask.
324	* [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/18 This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip.
325	* ''Webcomic/TalesOfGreed'': "Face Correction" is about a photo-editing app that also changes the person's face in real life. Vandalizing the picture will painfully distort the face, possibly killing the person too.
326	* ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'': Trevor's skin does not keep up with his ever-shifting muscles and constantly tears away from itself.
327	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'':
328	** When they ambush and try to kill her Elka spells one of the Ethelmik constable's faces off in a rather gory panel.
329	** When Duane is having his breakdown at Litriya he rips the skin from around his right eye.
330	* In ''Webcomic/TheZombieHunters'', [[spoiler:Jameson]] gets eaten mostly on the face. Good stuff.
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332
333	[[folder:Web Original]]
334	* ''Literature/GoldTongues'' has Petrol, a giant man whose nose and cheeks have been sliced off, forcing him to constantly wear a gas mask to cover the deformities. On top of that, his face is gradually decaying from an unknown virus.
335	* {{Creepypasta}} character Literature/JeffTheKiller. His face was heavily damaged by chemicals, and ''then'' by [[GlasgowGrin self-mutilation]]. The resulting face is a shocking image that will take quite a while to get out of your head.
336	[[/folder]]
337
338	[[folder:Web Videos]]
339	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2x8s9GZlo "BLUE_CHANNEL: THALASIN"]], an AnalogHorror commercial about a fictional brand of emotions-in-a-pill, quickly delves into the deep end of this trope when the advertisement starts listing "new emotions" as part of its sales pitch. The facial expressions shown get progressively more horrifying until the last image, which is a straight up EldritchAbomination.
340	* [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] discussed an instance for ''WebVideo/CounterMonkey'', recounting his ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' TabletopRPG campaign. Because of an [[ATragedyOfImpulsiveness impulsive]], critically-hitting interrupt, [[NighInvulnerability Tempus]] [[TheCavalryArrivesLate Thales]] takes a [[HollywoodAcid flask of acid]] to the face. Because of this utter humiliation, his goddess revokes his HealingFactor until he took bloody retribution. [[HumiliationConga The players continually outwit him]], so the goddess makes his condition ''worse''! [[DrivenToMadness Tempus]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge doesn't]] [[OmnicidalManiac react]] [[EscalatingWar well]]...
341	* [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} I got]] [[MemeticMutation Terminal 7 Luigi]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/terminal_7.PNG this is what it looks like, Luigi.]]
342	* One such ad from UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Against Drugs shows a Polaroid photograph featuring a man at a nightclub or rave smiling. Then, as the ad progresses, the man's face in the photo gradually turns uglier and angrier until it becomes a [[NightmareFace horrifying demon spawn]], before melting away. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBMlzYaS4Y Watch this on YouTube if you dare]]. The guy who uploaded it titled it simply "I've Just Shit Me Pants" and proclaimed it the scariest PIF he's ever seen, to the point that he says he doesn't want to see it in a lit up room in the middle of the day, let alone in a darkened cinema. People in the comments say that the ''thumbnail'' was enough for them.
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344
345	[[folder:Western Animation]]
346	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Too Old," Lemongrab 2 is revealed to be alive after Lemongrab 1 tried to eat him in "Another Five More Short Graybles", but horribly disfigured. The extent of his disfigurement includes, but is not limited to, almost half of his head just being ''gone,'' replaced by massive bite marks.
347	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
348	** In the episode "Flirting With Disaster", Francine gets hit in the face with acid. For the remainder of the episode, until the last few seconds, her face is conveniently obscured. For good reason.
349	** In "The Long Bomb", Stan kills a terrorist by melting his face with superheated steam.
350	** In "The Mural of the Story", Hayley ends up hated by the town after Stan blames her for his botched attempt to restore a mural, so Stan attempts to reconstruct her face in her sleep, with horrific results. Hayley later has a real plastic surgeon give her a new face as part of a plan to make Stan suffer.
351	** In "Men II Boyz", Stan gets the right half of his face burnt in an explosion. He doesn't notice.
352	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]], who has half his face burned. But he manages to work it well and still have an EstrogenBrigade.
353	** And then there's [[EldritchAbomination Koh]], who actually ''steals your face'' and leaves you as a [[TheBlank blank]].
354	** The SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has the BigBad [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraAmon Amon]], who was scarred by a Firebender and has to wear a WhiteMaskOfDoom to cover it up. [[spoiler:This isn't true; he was just pretending to be scarred to gain sympathy. [[RuleOfScary And probably as an excuse to wear that mask.]]]]
355	* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet Garbage Ballet]]"; in Molly's comic, after Fista-Puffs' kiss melts Kite Boy's face, he reveals that the skin around his mouth has been melted off revealing his teeth and bone.
356	* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': In "Snowflake Day," Abe keeps getting gruesomely injured in his face and mouth. First he is forced by Napoleon to eat a glass he dropped on the floor during his shift at the dish pit at TGI Chili's, then accidentally cuts his cheek open with the knork (a combined knife and fork he and Gandhi invented) when eating with it, then gets even MORE injured when he loses control of a motorized version of said utensil, and finally, when he eats a weenie tot that Joan hid a razorblade in during a fit of anti-holiday pique.
357	* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Good Ol' Days", when Timmy gives his grandfather a sour ball that causes his face to suck in. It then pans to Timmy as his grandfather's [[EyeScream disembodied eyes]] roll to the former's feet, the latter complaining that "candy was better before when it didn't make your face implode".
358	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
359	** Though we don't see the damage, in "Petarded", Peter learns that he's legally retarded and [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery starts using his status to do whatever he wants without repercussions]]. The fun stops when he attempts to take a deep fryer from a restaurant and throws the oil onto Lois, severely burning her.
360	** "The Man with Two Brians" had Peter watching an episode of ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' where Johnny Knoxville gets half of his face blown off with a shotgun, exposing his skull.
361	** "Hannah Banana" had a scene where Chris smashed Peter's face between two logs ala ''Film/SawIV''. Miraculously, he survives despite [[EyeScream one of his eyeballs hanging out his socket]], part of his bone structure sticking out of his face and overall disfigurement and [[TooDumbToLive stupidly,]] he did to win a free hat.
362	** "Bigfat" had Peter eating some [[KnowYourVines poisonous berries]] that caused his lips and the skin around his eyes to recede.
363	* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': Circe looks like a beautiful young woman at first glance, but whenever she uses her EVO powers, her jaws protrude from her face, tearing her skin in the process. She can go back to normal with little fanfare, and can still speak normally with her GameFace active.
364	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Weirdmageddon", [[TheQuisling Preston Northwest offers his allegiance to Bill Cipher]], and has the functions of every orifice on his face rearranged. His mouth becomes a giant eye, his eye holes turn into a set of ears, and his ears turn into a pair of noses. [[{{Squick}} All of which is shown to the viewer, along with his pained, terrified, and muffled screams from not having a mouth.]] How they ''ever'' managed to get that past Disney's censors will be a question for the ages.
365	* Billy on ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has his face shredded, ripped open, or removed at least seven times over the show's run, from having his face ground against the road after he gets sent flying off his bike, putting his mouth on a running egg beater, getting hit in the face with a push mower, the school's cat mascot clawing his face (which it also does to Grim later), a [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack wampa]] tearing his face clean off after he wanders into its cave, being caught in the explosion from his future counterpart returning to his own time, and a living tornado.
366	* The 2002 reboot of ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' rewrites [[SkullForAHead Skeletor]]'s history so that he was [[WasOnceAMan originally a human warlock named Keldor]] who had his face burned off with acid fighting King Randor.
367	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' episode "Dethvanity", Murderface goes to a [[BackAlleyDoctor back-alley plastic surgeon]] to have his face rebuilt. When the operation is complete, he's ordered to wear a metal helmet until his face fully heals, but when he takes it off at a ceremony, it turns out that his face got an infection that made him even more disfigured than before.
368	* A less horrifying example is ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Hats Off to Smurfs", where a new yellow hat worn by Vanity causes his face to be disfigured every time he gets it wet by washing his face with water.
369	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Britney's New Look," Music/BritneySpears ''gets the top half of her head blown off,'' leaving just a lower jaw and a tongue. ''And she survives.''
370	* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'': Played for laughs in "Flipmode". At the end of the episode, Space Ghost learns they lost the footage to the "Space Ghost: A Tribute to Freedom" segment and a RevealShot shows that all the skin has been removed from Space Ghost's face as he complains "Then what was the point of sanding my face off?"
371	* A much lighter example is from the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", where a jellyfish scientist called Dr. [[PunnyName Manowar]] talks to a crowd about how he was stung by [[BeastWithAHumanFace a monstrous jellyfish]] called "Big Lenny" ''and lived''. He now has a huge welt that "only hurts when you touch it" which Patrick does immediately after he says that.
372	* Happens to the Spiteful Brakevan (a bullying caboose) at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Brake Van" (The Scottish Twins' debut episode).]] [[spoiler: He is smashed into pieces after being hit by one of the aforementioned Scottish Twins head-on, and in the process, his face is ''torn off his body.'']]
373	** Just right before this scene happens, for some reason, if you look very closely, you can easily tell that this Scottish twin's face is falling off his body!
374	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': There's a security checkpoint at Dr. Venture's yard sale (as it's a magnet for arch-villains) where Baron Underbheit is made to remove his metal lower jaw, which leaves his tongue hanging limp out his exposed throat hole and horrifies people around him.
375	-->'''Dr. Girlfriend:''' I'm gonna throw up, I swear, I can taste it!
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