Good Scars Evil Scars / Video Games

• Age of Conan allowed some scars, ranging from discrete cheek scarring to "a bear took a hunk out of my chest". Mostly good alignment in that game, relatively speaking.
• In Alone in the Dark (2008), Edward Carnby has a rather large, puckered scar over his left eye. It's more prominent than most "good guy" scars, but still reasonable enough to fall into the category. At the end of the game, when he becomes Lucifer, his scar turns into a super-evil all-out rake-burn on the left side of his face. Significant, evil, "I cut my face with glass" scars are also a sign that someone has been possessed by Lucifer in the game.
• Most main characters from the Assassin's Creed series have managed to get at least one scar on their faces, either over the right side of their mouth (Altaïr, Ezio, Bayek, and Desmond), beneath their eye (Connor and Arno), or through one of their eyebrows (Edward, Shay, and Jacob). Some characters, such as Bayek and Edward, have multiple scars.
• Taskmaster in Avengers Academy has a straight scar going down the right side of his face, over his eye and eyebrow.
• While the original game's portraits were pretty smooth-skinned, many of the NPCs in Baldur's Gate II sport scars, including returning ones. In particular, Keldorn and Imoen sport the "over the eye" scar that should be all but impossible without putting the eye out. These can be said to be symbolic — Keldorn, the grizzled veteran; and Imoen, innocent youth having learned the world isn't as nice as she'd like.
• Inverted in Battlefield 3. Vladimir has a hideous scar across the left side of his face and a blind eye. He is the good guy however.
• Beyond Good & Evil's Pey'j has a noticeable scar going over his left eye. Although its origins are never fully explained, he's implied to be a Retired Badass who used to get into numerous scrapes with the authorities, so we can make some assumptions.
• Boktai's Sabata sports what appears to be a scar across his left cheek, starting at the jaw and ending just below the eye — a classic Evil Scar. Subverted in that he pulls a Heel–Face Turn toward the end of the first game; double-subverted in that he winds up villainous again in the third.
  • That's not a scar. It's not really made clear what it is, but from the characters you see in the games, it's easy to infer that anyone with Solar Child blood probably has marks on his or her cheeks: Django has a rectangular one in the same place as Sabata's sharp one, Aaron/Django from Lunar Knights has one on each side of his face, and Vampire Ringo had similar marks as well. Concept art from Lunar Knights◊ that is believed to be Sartana prior to his death also shows such marks. Sabata DOES, however, have a real scar above his left eye, revealed in both Shinbok and early concept art◊ of the first game.
• In the Borderlands series, Helena Pierce, T.K. Baha, and Sir Hammerlock all have Artificial Limbs (well, in the second case, a peg leg) that speak less against their moral character and more of the Death World nature of Pandora. Helena Pierce also has scarring over the entire left half of her face, something mercilessly mocked by Handsome Jack and notably no one else.
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  • On the Player Character side, Axton has two nicks across his chin and eyebrow that go right in hand with his "grizzled soldier" look while contrasting his actual personality, Salvador has a distinct gash on the side of his forehead, and Gaige has has a homemade robot arm after she cut off her original arm For Science!. Finally, Handsome Jack is disfigured with a massive Vault symbol that was branded onto his face by Lilith in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!.
• Gary, the main antagonist from Bully, had a scar extending up from his eye and through his eyebrow. Strangely enough, the reason for having the scar is never explained.
• Sue from Cave Story sports a scar across her nose of the 'cute and warlike at the same time' variety.
• City of Heroes/Villains has a few different scarred faces for males and females, and of course it's your choice as to good or evil or in-between. All of these scars either suggest or outright display eye damage, patch optional. Creative players use some of the various markings for face and chest as scars too, or add metal plates, and many are the player-written character bios that mention scarring hidden by clothing.
• Played with in Dead In Vinland. Many of the enemies, from Shieldmaiden Mooks to the Big Bad, have various scars, but nothing especially disfiguring or strange; the Shieldmaiden's scar looks like the "X" Marks the Hero type. Several members of the Player Party are similarly scarred; The Hero Eirik has a thin red scar across the same forearm where he has a sleeve tattoo, Lady Tomoe has deep gnarly scars on her upper chest just above the neckline of her outfit (a case of Physical Scars, Psychological Scars), and Brother Angelico has several small scars just above his neckline as well. Brother Angelico turns out to be the one place where this trope is played straight; it's later revealed he's Ax-Crazy and that his back is Covered in Scars from scourging himself with a whip after stabbing people to death and dismembering the bodies. Since he commits both the murders and the self-mutilation during a dissociative state or possibly demonic possession, he doesn't even remember why he has these scars.
• Deadly Premonition:
  • The protagonist, Agent York, has a small scar on his cheek that he got when (in his own words) he "arrested a Catwoman wannabe." It's the talk of the small town he's investigating, and some people are even taking bets on where he got it. He actually has an extremely prominent heroic scar that covers most of his face, but due to his status as an Unreliable Narrator, it only appears to the player as a notch in his hairline for most of the game.
  • Sheriff George also has a small, horizontal scar on his left cheek. It grows bigger every time a murder occurs.
• Devil May Cry:
  • Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening:
    • Lady has the scar over the bridge of her nose.
    • Arkham has the burned, pulsating, disfigured left side of his face, which is actually seen moving along that side in a few cutscenes. According to the 3142 Graphic Arts artbook, he got the scars when the ritual that sacrificed his wife ended up failing.
  • In Devil May Cry 3 and Devil May Cry 4, Vergil has an unlockable costume that shows him with nasty-looking scars all over his face, which are the results of his corruption as Nelo Angelo. In Devil May Cry 5, this trait becomes a hint that Vergil is the mysterious figure who takes Nero's Devil Bringer.
  • DmC: Devil May Cry:
    • Dante has the scar of a small cut under his right eye; the same cut also clipped the outer edge of his eyebrow.
    • Mundus has a messy vertical slash that nearly reaches his nose from the left side of his lips. His right eye is also cloudy.
    • The Hunter has a rather large scar on his face, which apparently took out his nose as well.
• Argilla in Digital Devil Saga has a small scar across one eye, probably to offset the cuteness of her pink hair.
• Adell from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories has a pair of straight lines, one on each cheek, in a textbook example of good scars. They're also the reason why he does not like girls.
• In DragonFable, Konnan has burn scars that nearly cover his face in Chapter 2. However, he's mostly on the here's side during that chapter, whereas he was evil previously, so they could fall in the "mark of shame" category for what he'd done.
• The Elder Scrolls
  • To a degree in Morrowind and more so in Skyrim, facial scars are an option for your Player Character during creation. These range from small, somewhat clean blade cuts to borderline mutilations. Whether these are good or evil is up to how you play.
  • Series' recurring character Jiub has a gruesome scar over his eye that looks very much like an "evil" scar. Played straight initially, as he was a skooma addict and freelance assassin before ending up in prison. After his release, he sought to atone for his "sordid" life, and became a legendary hero by eradicating the much reviled Cliff Racers from Vvardenfell, subverting it.
• In Evolve, several of the Assault hunters have scars. Hyde, the Heroic Comedic Sociopath, has a large burn scar on his face and is missing an eye. Markov, the amiable Death Seeker, has a large cybernetic covering the that was lost during the attack on his colony. Torvald has heavy scarring across his torso from when he was torn apart. On the monster side, the Goliath has several scars across its chest and abdomen, befitting its nature as the most primal of the monsters.
• Quite a number of the characters in Far Cry Primal have scars of some type. Jayma the elderly huntress has scars on her cheek from wolf bites and scratches on her arm from bear attacks, and actually chides Takkar for not having any scars himself. Tensay the shaman has burn marks on his left arm from when he was a slave of the Pyromaniac Izila tribe, but due to the fact that he wears white paint on his body, you can't tell until he shows you. Karoosh the warrior has one eye scratched out by Mog, the Udam who killed his son. And Wogah the craftsman has a scar over his belly, though the fact that he's also missing a lower arm overshadows this. On the evil side, Warchief Ull of the Udam has a partially-melted face, due to being attacked with Izila fire arrows, which makes him look inhuman and disturbing. Batari, the Sun Daughter of the Izila, has a small line of ritual scarification crossing the bridge of her nose, appropriately for someone with a vaguely Afrocentric appearance.
• Final Fantasy:
  • In Final Fantasy VI, Setzer has many scars, but since he's a good guy, they're all clean, non-disfiguring hero scars.
  • Final Fantasy VII: Zack Fair has a small, clean x-shape scar on his jaw. From the same game, Red XIII / Nanaki mentions his many battle scars at one point when Cloud and company are discussing the mysterious men in the Black Cloaks and what Professor Hojo might have done to them.
  • Final Fantasy VIII plays the trope a little more subtly: Squall has a standard hero scar running diagonally across his forehead and between his eyes. His rival Seifer has an identical scar, which would also be a hero scar... if it weren't a mirror image inverse of Squall's, the two of them having mutually scarred one another in the opening FMV.
  • Auron, a major good guy from Final Fantasy X, has a vertical scar running down one side of his face over his eye. It's a bit more disfiguring than the other Final Fantasy examples listed, and includes some damage to the eye itself (mostly hidden behind dark glasses), but is still recognizably a hero scar.
  • Basch, a good guy from Final Fantasy XII, has a non-disfiguring scar on his forehead which he received during his wrongful imprisonment. His back and shoulders are a bit of a mess, however, as seen during the Barheim Passage segment — still hero scars, though.
  • Gladiolus from Final Fantasy XV has a clean hero scar vertically across one eye, and winds up with another across his chest and forehead respectively, leaving him with a classic hero scar. Ignis is not so lucky: after being blinded, he winds up with a large, raised patch of scarring over his left eye, along with a few assorted nicks here and there.
• In the Fire Emblem:
  • Vaida, the Broken Bird from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, has a huge scar over the left side of her face. She starts out as a villain, but your Lord can make her join their side, and her supports reveal that she's no softie but does have feelings, as well as a fierce loyalty to those she cares for.
    • Also, there's Hector's brother, Uther, with a scar across his forehead and another one across his nose. Black Fang's Legault has a double scar across his left eye, and Brendan Reed has dozens of them on his face alone. In contrast, the Big Bad, Nergal, has a bunch of really nasty burns all around his eye, which he hides with a turban.
    • Let's not even get started on Ogma's X-shaped scar on his cheek...
  • Interestingly, Zihark from Path of Radiance has one on his right cheek; literally the only good guy that has one (even though they all fight every other day!).
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • Saix, The Dragon in Kingdom Hearts II has a similar X scar. Xigbar also has a heavily scarred face as well as an Eyepatch of Power.
  • In the prequel, Birth by Sleep, Eraqus, the heroes' mentor, has scars on his eyebrow and cheek. He's about as scarred as Xigbar, but, being a hero, his scars are light. And speaking of Xigbar, we see how he got his scars in the game.
  • Squall and Seifer also show up, and their scars still match despite the fact that they have no connection in this universe.
• Gaia Online has at least three examples, two straight, one subverted (maybe).
  • Edmund shows the classic Good Scar: an X on his forehead.
  • Zhivago the Psycho for Hire vampire assassin has an obvious Evil Scar on the left side of his face.
  • Marie Von Helson returned after a skyscraper fell on her face with an Evil Scar over one eye. Possibly subverted, as she hasn't been particularly evil since then.
  • A minor example of Good Scar is Sam, from the Body & Parts shop. While she still doesn't hold a great importance to the plot, she is seemingly good.
• Marcus in Gears of War has a number of scars but his most notable one would be a strong line running down his cheek which a number of vertical lines running down it, possible due to poorly done stitches or they're just deep wrinkles.
• In God of War, Kratos sports a crudely stitched up scar over his right eye. When he gets stabbed through the stomach in the sequel, he gets another on his torso.
• Baiken, of the Guilty Gear series, lost her right arm and an eye when she was a little girl, leaving her a good character with Evil Scars.
• In Gungrave the somewhat titular protagonist lost his left eye when he was brutally murdered in the backstory. In place of his eye, he now has a really large, patchy scar, which is partially covered by the blacked out lens of his glasses.
• In Halo 3, on the final level, a close-up of Sgt. Major Avery J. Johnson is shown. His face appears to be somewhat scarred. However, it is possible that this was not scarring, but him being distraught about the death of Miranda Keyes.
• Norman Jayden from Heavy Rain has a clean scar across his cheek. Its origin was going to be explained in DLC content that was indefinitely postponed.
• inFAMOUS 2: Cole McGrath is sporting a somewhat noticeable scar.
• Two major characters from Jitsu Squad have scars on them - Hero, uh, The Hero, have an "X"-shaped scar on his forehead, while Hero's sworn enemy and primary nemesis, Dash Kobayashi have a straight scar on his nose.
• SNK's portfolio:
  • Gato, a morally conflicted but typically antagonistic character of Garou: Mark of the Wolves, has three large, parallel scars on his back, apparently the result of a bear attack. The scars are typically covered up by his shirt.
  • Geese Howard, following the events of the original Fatal Fury, has a nasty scar on his back, received when he was thrown off the top of Geese Tower. He shows it off in his intro pose.
  • Ax-Crazy clone, attempted Team Killer, and blatant ripoff of Tetsuo Shima K9999, who appeared for a brief time in The King of Fighters 2001 and 2002, has a scar over his eye. 20 years and one mellowing out into "Krohnen" later, it's gone by XV.
• Knights of the Old Republic.
  • Ont of the most over-the-top examples is Darth Sion (appropriately called the Lord of Pain). Early in the game, a medical officer reports several THOUSAND fractures in his skeleton. Combined with that creepy music and the general dark nature of the game, it'll send chills down your spine. Doubly creepy later on when it becomes obvious that these injuries and scars are all self-inflicted; it's implied that Sion has mastered using pain as a source of power the way most Sith Lords use anger and passion; it would seem to work, he's effectively immortal unless someone convinces him that letting go and allowing his body to die is preferable to his existence.
  • Darth Malak wears a metal mask for most of the game, concealing the lower half of his face. When he's finally shown without it, it's more horrifying than any simple scar could be. It's not that he hides something underneath it, it's what isn't there — he's missing the entire jaw...
• In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Ganondorf has a large, glowing scar on his chest. A flashback reveals that he got it by surviving an execution attempt from a sage wielding a sword made out of Hard Light. The scar is also Ganondorf's weak point, and must be struck several times in order to kill him.
• Loopmancer have the hero, Xiang Zixu, bearing a scar from his forehead to his left cheek, and one of the major bosses, Hiroyuki Ogata, having another scar that runs on the ridge of his nose. It's especially evident in their Sword Fight boss battle.
• Averted in Mass Effect: the player can create a character with scars that range anywhere from tiny and stylish to monstrous gashes, and their character's alignment is up to the player.
  • Interestingly, no matter what background you select for Shepard, the manner in which you got that scar is never addressed.
  • The sequel has a great deal of fun with this. First Mordin has a classic X-shaped scar and is missing the tip of one of his cranial horns, then Garrus gets some facial injuries that become evil-looking scars during your initial encounter with him, although he's a good guy. Even Commander Shepard him/herself falls to this: you get small facial scars at the start of the game, and you actions determine what happens. Doing Paragon actions will make the scars look a lot softer to the point where they'll disappear completely. Doing Renegade actions will cause some gnarly looking evil scars, eventually becoming massive burns and your eyes will turn red!
  • Jack also has some scars mixed in along with the tattoos. From the precision and locations◊, they appear to be surgical scars from her time at the Teltin facility.
  • Wrex has a series of scars on the right side of his face that make him look evil, fitting his Token Evil Teammate status of the first game as a bloodthirsty mercenary. If he survives the first game, he becomes a full on good guy leading his race to a brighter future.
  • Mostly averted by Kaidan. Despite having undergone a series of painful and slightly traumatic operations in order to receive his (dangerously outdated) L2 implants, and being an active long-term member of the Alliance military, he of all people would be expected to sport numerous scars of various types, but the few he has are only noticeable under certain lighting conditions if your graphics are set to maximum. Though Thane claims that he was able to recognize Kaidan as a biotic immediately due to his implant scars, so they seem to be invisible only to the player. The lack of combat scars makes sense considering he's both a biotic and a field medic. In the rare case when something did get through his barriers, he'd know how to treat his injuries to keep scarring from becoming an issue.
  • Mass Effect 2 Downloadable Content character Zaeed Messani is scarred on the entire right side of his face, with a deep evil scar gouge crossing his whitened eye as a souvenir from being shot in the head at point blank range. He's definitely not what you'd call heroic.
  • This is a bit of a weird example because they're not an organic being, but your geth teammate Legion was left with a large chunk of their chest missing after being shot by a panicky human who assumed he was one of the "heretic" geth. They patched it up (slightly) with a piece of Shepard's old armor. The large chunk of black armour with the N7 markings also serve to distinguish them from other Geth platforms.
  • Big Good candidate Admiral Hacket has a collection of facial scars that hint at his service record.
  • From Mass Effect: Andromeda, teammate Jaal Amal Darav comes with a visible gash on the left side of his face (the reason for which is never given). Depending on the player's choices, he may well end up with a small scar on his right cheek at the end of his loyalty mission.
• Sigma from the Mega Man X games has purple facial scars despite being a robot (and having more than one body throughout the course of the series). Originally he got them when a crazed Zero tore up his face in a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown (more severely than what one would conclude from the scars), but this was retconned so that they were from X clawing at his eyes with a white-hot hand. In the manga, they're self-inflicted using the heat from his Finger Firearms.
  • In Mega Man X7 Red (bad guy) has a lightning bolt-shaped gash starting from his forehead and ending below his missing right eye, while Axl (good guy) has two clean, straight scars forming an X across the bridge of his nose. Both are robots.
• Colonel Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has deep scars all over his face (and presumably his entire body), and The Pain's face is one big bee sting.
  • Fallen Heroes Major Zero and Big Boss both have scars across the eyes, with Big Boss lacking his eye. As of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Big Boss, or rather his body double Venom Snake, now firmly established as an Anti-Villain Protagonist, sports more than a few thin scars across his face, as well as a prosthetic left hand and a piece of shrapnel embedded in his forehead in the shape of a horn.
  • The Boss also has an impressive scar on her abdomen from a C-section.
  • It's said that The Fury has burn scars on over 90% of his body, but not his face.
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: Skull Face, the villain who blew up Snake's Mother Base and put him in a coma, truly lives up to his name; his face is pretty much nothing but burn scars, in addition to a Glasgow Grin, and he overall looks as if he's rotting.
• The younger Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat got a scar running from above his eye downwards between Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3. As the series progressed, he became a substitute for his older brother and became much more heroic.
• Nobody Saves the World: The tough-looking Guard Form has a small, stitched-up scar right under his right eye.
• During the interim of Persona 3 and Persona 4: Arena, the result of Akihiko Sanada's global journey has left him with several sets of jagged but otherwise neat scars all over his arms and his torso. The sequel, Ultimax, introduces Sho Minazuki, who has an X-shaped scar on his face. It's actually smaller and neater than many of Akihiko's scars, but he's the Big Bad.
• Soldier:76, aka Jack Morrison, has some facial scaring from the explosion that destroyed Overwatch's former headquarters; one across the bridge of his nose, one over his mouth, both of them neatly healed cuts. In his default skin, these are hidden behind his mask and visor. Before his face was revealed in the origins trailer, some fans speculated the scarring from the explosion might be ''much'' worse [including but not limited to second degree burns, skin grafts, scar tissue, blindness, etc...].
• Averted in Planescape: Torment, in which the protagonist, known only as The Nameless One, is scarred horribly all over his body — his skin is almost literally made of scar tissue from all the wounds he's taken over his millennia-long existence. You can play him as a villainous monster, but the possibility exists for him to be the capiest cape that ever put on a (metaphorical) cape. However, conversation options reveal that at least one part of him is (against all odds) completely intact.
• During the course of events in Resident Evil 4, Leon gets a small cut across his otherwise perfect face during a knife fight. Contrast his rival antagonist Krauser, who already has several scars along his face and lips.
  • And then Krauser gets another one straight across his chest after a lengthy knife fight with Leon.
  • Jake Muller of Resident Evil 6 has a long, but otherwise clean scar going down his left cheek towards his neck.
  • In her epilogue in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Ada Wong, the series' resident morally ambiguous Femme Fatale, is shown to have a long, straight, and apparently deep scar stretching along the right side of her ribcage. However, no mention of the scar has been made since.
  • Due to a device being forcibly ripped off of her, Jill Valentine gets an unusual burn-like scar with pin pricks on her chest, courtesy of a boss fight in Resident Evil 5. It presumably remains there. In this case, she was Brainwashed and Crazy.
• Vyse, the main character of Skies of Arcadia has a neat little scar under his left eye. In Legends, it is explained he received it via a knife thrown by Piastol, AKA the Angel of Death, when they were younger.
• Soul Series:
  • In Soul Calibur V, the character editor allows you to place facial scars on your character, with most of them heroic-looking, like a neat scar across the cheek or a vertical cut through the eye. The closest thing to evil-looking you can get is a nasty scar with stitches running horizontally across the face, across the nose.
  • From the series, Warrior Monk Kilik has a neat checkmark scar below his left eye, and Mitsurugi has a bullet wound scar on his left shoulder. The latter's scar is a Continuity Nod to his ending in the first game Soul Edge, where he challenges a gunman to a duel; you can fail or succeed against him in the game, but the fact that the scar exists later on notes that he canonically got shot during the duel. Siegfried starts the series with a pretty boy's face but come his return in the original Calibur, he sports a long vertical scar over his left eye, speculated to have been gained during his battle with Souledge/Inferno at the end of Soul Blade.
• In Splatoon, Octarian Big Bad DJ Octavio has an X-shaped scar on his left tentacle-arm. This scar is also present on the tentacles that serve as the weak points on the Octoweapons and Octobosses (given that said tentacles are implied to come from Octavio himself).
• Star Fox 2 was the first game to feature Wolf O'Donnell, Fox's Evil Counterpart. However, thanks to how long Nintendo kept it on the shelf, it wasn't the game that introduced the character to fans. Originally, Wolf had a very large, vertical scar over his right eye. All of his later incarnations instead have some kind of eyepatch over his left eye instead.
  • Star Fox: Assault brought us Panther Caroso, a suave ladies' man, who has a large white cheek scar on the right side of his face. It greatly resembles a Dueling Scar, but there has so far been no indication how he got it. However, the worst that could be said of him is that he is mercenary in his pursuits and not above being a shameless yet noble flirt besides.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic, from what we've seen so far, tends to use massive scarring to indicate a badass. Both Jace Malcolm, the Republic trooper who founded Havoc Squad, and Darth Malgus have major facial scarring... mostly from the times they've encountered each other. Especially the time Malcolm detonated a grenade in melee combat.
  • During character creation, all manners of scars are available, from simple, stylish cuts to burn-victim scars an ones that channel Pinhead. What manner you play your character is still up to you. At the same time, there is a huge discrepancy in the amount of NPCs you encounter with Bad Scars on the Sith Empire's side and the Republic's.
• In the Street Fighter universe, Sagat (a morally ambiguous fighter, but usually either the final or penultimate fight) has both a missing eye and a giant scar on his chest, the latter of which Ryu, his rival, gave him with his signature Shoryuken. Although he's presented as a Proud Warrior Race guy (and Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, oddly enough), his boss status means that he's a Designated Villain.
  • He did, however, kill Dan's father. And he works for Bison...
    • Note that in the case of Dan's dad... according to a Retcon, Sagat killed Go Hibiki because he ripped his eye off during a fight, which sent Sagat into an Unstoppable Rage. Sagat was not happy when he calmed down and found out. And about Bison, it's also retconned into him being more confused, misguided, and extremely pissed off, rather than evil and fully converted to Bison's cause.
    • In addition, he made a Heel–Face Turn, choosing to be a Worthy Opponent rather than a Rival Turned Evil, way back in Street Fighter Alpha, which retconned his appearance in SFII as not actually working for Bison after all. Going back to Dan's dad, Dan coming after Sagat for revenge was what caused him to realize his hatred was destroying him and led him to his Heel–Face Turn in the first place.
  • On the good scar side, Cammy's manages to make an overly muscular woman downright adorable.
  • Ah, comrade!! Zangief will be the first to tell you that no scars are as good as those earned when wrestling bears for Mother Russia! Hahaha!
• Super Robot Wars 64: Brad Skywind has a cross shaped scar on his forehead, and though people label him a "bad boy", he's a good one.
• Team Fortress 2 has the Sniper, who was previously unscarred but received a cut on his nose and cheek after being slashed in the face by The Spy in the course of "Meet The Spy." Whether this is a heroic or villainous scar depends on one's personal opinion of Snipers in the game; in-universe he can be either a Cold Sniper or a Friendly Sniper depending on circumstances.
• Tekken
  • Sergei Dragunov has several scars, his most notable being the one that runs through his lips and down his chin. He also sports one across his nose, and, if one opts to make him shirtless via customization in Tekken 6, it can be seen that he sports numerous ones over his torso and arms, including a bullet wound on his left shoulder. He isn't exactly a bad guy, but he is at least morally ambiguous.
  • Kazuya Mishima, occasional Big Bad of the series, sports a large diagonal scar running across his chest in the first two games. However, upon being thrown into a volcano and subsequently coming Back from the Dead, he now has additional (and numerous) scars all over his body. His father, Heihachi, also sports a large cross-shaped scar on his chest.
  • Also, Raven has a large X-shaped scar across the middle of his face.
  • Steve Fox has a very large, raised scar that runs pretty much the entire length of his arm.
  • Marshall Law, in the later games, has three claw-marks that run across his chest, although this is clearly a nod to Bruce Lee's famous scars in Enter the Dragon.
  • Lars Alexandersson has two facial scars: one through his left eyebrow, and one on his cheek.
• Rikimaru, playing character from Tenchu, sports a scar over the right eye.
• Uru: Ages Beyond Myst features Nekisahloth, leader of the He Who Fights Monsters Bahro, who's got this big scar where Esher removed a patch of his skin.
• The Witcher:
  • The first game both plays this straight and subverts it. On the one hand, the hero Geralt has the stylish rugged variety of scars on his face, notably a large scar which crosses over (but does not damage) his left eye. His body, however, is covered with a horrific collection of claw-marks, stab wound scars and what looks like what's left of a torn off nipple. Fellow Witchers also have scars, and while most are also of the rugged variety, Eskel◊ has a truly horrific scar completely covering half of his face, though he is as close to good as it gets in this world as well as a pretty decent bloke.
  • In the sequel, Letho and Iorveth have extensive scars. Letho has scars crisscrossing his whole head, it almost looks as though someone tried to scalp him but didn't get the job done. Iorveth, has a very large scar covering half of his face, which apparently destroyed one eye. He covers the scar with a special hat that covers part of his face.
• Osamu Kashiwagi from Yakuza has a deep evil-looking scar running across his face under his eyes. Subverted because he's one of the more calm and respectable members of the clan and was Kiryu's senior back when he was starting out in the yakuza.

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