A character has a scar - 21/ 55 (38.18%)
- Characters.All For Luz Demon Realm: King has got a fracture on the left-side of his skull during the Ten-Year War, curtesy of All For One.
- Characters.Secret War: A horrific one is now on his left cheek.
- Characters.Monster Hunter Orage: Shiki has a thin lined scar on his right cheek.
- WesternAnimation.Golan The Insatiable: According to a flashback in "Golan the Impregnable", the black markings under Dylan's eyes are not make-up, but rather scars from her clawing at her face in anger.
- Characters.The Promised Neverland: She sports a wicked scar down her chest as a result of the surgery that implanted her Dead Man Switch in her heart.
- Characters.The Dinosaur Lords: The knights who defiled her left a nasty scar on her face. - It might be A Scar to Remember, but there’s not enough context
- Characters.Cyber Team In Akihabara: He gets a big scar in the face from his fight against Aphrodite in the final battle.
- Characters.Mabinogi: His face is horribly scarred from Neamhain's attack on him in Generation 11.
- Characters.Dragon Calling Main Companions: Laeka’Draeon is given one of these across the right cheek by Shifra’s dragon-fang dagger, during their first (and unfortunately hostile) encounter.
- Manga.DOGS Bullets And Carnage: Badou has scars on both his right hand and right eye (underneath the eyepatch). These are implied to have something to do with his older brother, but little more than a very brief, bloody flashback has been shown so far to explain the wounds.
- Characters.Nioh Other Characters: His most noticeable feature is the explicit burn scar across his face, something inflicted upon him during Nobunaga's reign.
- Characters.Nakaimo My Little Sister Is Among Them: Shougo has one on his forehead. Apparently, he got it after he was hit by a car when he was younger.
- Characters.A More Flawed Gem: Cielo hints at having a few "cool scars" here and there, and is noted by a few to have a distinguishing scar across the bridge of his nose. Turns out Raven put it there.
- KevinAndKell.Tropes S To Z: Leona has a scar over her left eye thanks to a hunting match at Caliban where a branch smacked her in the face, requiring her to get stitches.
- Fanfic.Living In A Frog World: In the "Toad Tax" chapter, Frank gains two scars on his face during his fight with Tartarus: a small one on his left cheek, and a large one on his right eye. In the following chapter, after Anne removes the bandages from his head, Frank's eye scar still remains. He later gains a smaller scar on the right side of his mouth from Sasha in Chapter 23 during their duel at Toad Tower.
- TheRival.Anime And Manga: As it stars personified countries, many characters of Hetalia: Axis Powers are this to one another, in both the past and the present:
- The Netherlands has warred in the past with Spain, who gave him the noticeable scar on his forehead during one of their conflicts. Netherlands also warred with Portugal in an attempt to dominate maritime trade and make Macau his own.
- Characters.I Left The A Rank Party: He has a scar across his left eye.
- Characters.Buster Keel: Carries some scar from that time when Keel's instinctive Gahou managed to actually wound her while she was shielding some thugs from his wrath.
- Characters.There Was Once An Avenger From Krypton: As revealed in Chapter 26 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, Doom stabbing her through the stomach with a Kryptonite dagger left a scar, apparently a permanent one, above her navel and a smaller, matching one on her back.
- Literature.The First Law: Abercrombie seems to like scars on his characters. It appears to be one of the running features of his main cast to have some physical peculiarity or visible injury about them. If they don't, they soon gain it in one way or another, for example Jezal, who was hit in the face with a mace and from Best Served Cold, Monza, who got thrown down a mountain after being stabbed several times.
- Fanfic.The Lion Of Ivalice: Anyone Can Die: Roughly halfway through the story, this trope sets in to full effect. While certain characters don't actually die, a few of them are still subjected to Scars Are Forever, such as Wiegraf losing an arm and the twins' wounds under dark magic.
Some reference to the permanency of the scar is made - 6/ 55 (10.9%)
- Characters.Tales Of Xillia 2: The Official World Guidance reveals that the scar on Julius's left eyebrow comes from when he was sixteen and fought a Fractured version of Claudia, Ludger's mother. The scar remains twelve years later and results in a bald patch that splits his eyebrow.
- Characters.The Owl House The Owl House: After he gets his second horn back, a visible outline is shown around the area where it snapped off his head. Additionally in "King's Tide", he gets a large crack on his skull when the airship carrying him and the Hexsquad to the Titan's Head crashes and the injury is evidently still there months later given the bandage he has over the spot where his skull cracked in "For the Future". However, by the time of the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", several years later, the crack appears to have mostly healed - though still visible, it is significantly smaller and fainter, and he's wearing a green star-shaped bandage over it.
- Characters.Daikaiju Yuki: The gashes from where Allie stabbed him while possessed never truly leave.
- Characters.Chronicles Of The Kencyrath Knorth: Jame's left cheek is permanently scarred after Seeker's Mask.
- Characters.Receiver Of Many: Most of his scars are thousands years old.
- Characters.My Hero Academia Villain Army: Facial Horror: After the explosive failsafe within Lady Nagant is activated, several cracks appear on her face before she detonates. The next chapter shows that they've left scars running across the middle of her face. She still retains them in her surprise reappearance in Chapter 378.
Scars can be healed but are not with no explanation - 2/ 55 (3.64%)
- VisualNovel.Shelter 2020: Despite Saurian Mana allowing healing and regeneration, quite a lot of the Canine characters sport prominent scars.
- Literature.Stardust: Yvaine limps after her fall from the sky, and Tristran burns his hand — and in contrast to how it usually turns out in fairy tales, both are somewhat crippled for life as a result. Either there was no cure available, (which is difficult to believe, since they are in a land full of magic, and they eventually become king and queen of Stormhold), or they eventually just decided to keep their handicaps.
A scar from the lethal injury is still there after the resurrection - 2/ 55 (3.64%)
- Characters.Horseshoes And Hand Grenades: The slash on his throat made by Ryusei is still on him when he's resurrected.
- Characters.Trails Series Erebonia Thors Class VII Original Part Two: After being brought back to life, a scar remains the front and back of his torso which serves as a reminder of his death at the hands of the Vermillion Apocalypse.
Examples that fit other tropes better - 13/ 55 (23.64%)
- Characters.Dice Funk Season 6 Purgatory: Sharon (as the Woman of Hurt) gets stabbed through the eye by a black amber blade and therefore can't be healed. She's a skeleton, so she's not bleeding out, but it means that anyone who knows about the Woman of Hurt's injury can put two and two together. - Distinguishing Mark
- Characters.Hundred: She has a scar in the middle of her chest from a Savage attack, which also infected her with their virus. Exposing it (along with her breasts) allows Hayato to recognize "Emile" as his childhood friend. Subverted later on, as while she was initially told it would stay for life, it gradually disappears after reuniting with Hayato in Little Garden. - Distinguishing Mark
- Characters.Metal Gear Solid V: If you manage to get a good look at his face, you can see that he still has Volgin's old lighting scars, further hinting at his true identity. - Distinguishing Mark
- Characters.Watchmen: He never loses the half-Glasgow Grin he got in Vietnam, just as the perpetrator intended. - Presumably A Scar to Remember?
- Characters.Lore Olympus Olympians And Other Deities: She has two scars around her stomach, remnants from when Kronos tore her in two during the war. They even sometimes reopen partially. - It’s mostly “she has scars” variety, but the last sentence makes it Wound That Will Not Heal, I suppose
- Manga.Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple: Eyepatch of Power: Kajima Satomi. The eyepatch (as well as the scars all over his body) is a symbol of his high level of combat experience, particularly learning to cope with defeat. Yet to be revealed whether he's really missing the eye. - Covered with Scars
- ComicBook.Batman Three Jokers: The first issue showcases the multitude of scars Batman has obtained over the years, as well as Barbara's gunshot wound and where Jason's head was smashed in. - Covered with Scars
- Subverted with the Joker(s)' own scars, as their many encounters with Batman and other enemies seemingly left them with no major scars distinguishing them from each other. This, despite a bullet to the head, a skinned face, and a point blank gunshot wound to the chest.
- Characters.Noragami: During a fight with Bishamon, Yato ends up cutting out one of Kuraha's eyes in self-defense. - Eye Scream
- Literature.The Illustrated Mum: Marigold has two diamond tattoos covering up two scars on her wrist, which are the result of her apparent suicide attempt before Star and Dolphin were born. - Tattoo Conceals Scars
- Characters.Brave 10: He gets a long, deep slash from his sternum to his stomach from Fuuma, and forgoes baring his midriff from then on, covering up with a long black shirt underneath his usual clothes. - Clothing-Concealed Injury
- Manga.Tricks Dedicated To Witches: Helga has a scar around her neck from her defeat against Valery two years ago. She keeps it hidden with a choker. - Clothing-Concealed Injury
- Characters.Princess Mononoke: Ashitaka keeps one under his left eye, courtesy of San, even by the end of the film, when all his wounds have been healed. Miyazaki also made the decision to keep a tiny patch of Nago's curse scar on his palm to act as a reminder of what it cost to lift; stating that to remove it entirely would not only ruin the symbolism but be too condescending for the intended audience of teenagers who might think it will resurge in a sequel. The joke's still on us though. - Keeping the Handicap seems to include scars, so I’d put it there
- Literature.New Jedi Order: In Ruin, Ganner consciously chooses to heal an injury to his face in such a manner that it leaves a scar, as an admonition to himself concerning the arrogance that led him to be injured in the first place. In Rebirth, Tahiri says that she refuses to allow the scars on her forehead to be removed because she "earned" them from injuries inflicted on her in Conquest. - Keeping the Handicap once again
ZCE and unclear - 11/ 55 (20%)
- Literature.Prophets House: Ira's fingers were brutally broken by his nurse as a child. Later Marius cuts open his cheek. - The injury is described but no mention of any scar
- Characters.Ghost Rider Central Rogues Gallery: Averted but he did hold a grudge against Ghost Rider for burning his face (because he was dumb enough to try and bite a flaming skeleton). - An aversion
- TabletopGame.Candela Obscura: so forever they come in three different categories depending on what happens to your investigator during a case; physical, mental, and supernatural.
- Film.Mary Queen Of Scots 2018: As in real life, Elizabeth is permanently marred by scars from her smallpox infection, even after recovering from the disease. This is the reason she wore heavy white makeup at all times. - It seems to fall somewhere between Masking the Deformity and Tattoo Conceals Scars, though, admittedly, it’s neither, technically speaking. Otherwise it’s just “she has scars”
- Characters.Feral Hearts:
- Characters.Hekikai No Ai ON
- Characters.My Hero Academia Students From Other Classes: Innocently Insensitive: She's not very good at reading moods when interacting with Class 1-A. She bluntly asks Todoroki about his burn, Shoji's mask, and continues to play with Ashido's horns, despite her annoyance.
- Critical Failure: In E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, every now and again in combat, you get the message, "Bullshit! Ultra-failed attack!" though these can still kill enemies. However, when you fail a hack, there is always a slim possibility that your brain will be fried by the firewall, resulting in instant death regardless of how many resurrectors you had. Using dangerous psychic abilities has a chance to drive you insane, kill you, or give you permanent trauma. Excessive use of the medkit before it has time to regenerate can give you tainted medicine (though you get an achievement for killing an ally with this). - A pothole and it seems to be about emotional trauma, not actual scars
- Characters.Chronicles Of The Kencyrath Animals: What Greshan did to her to get revenge on Kinzi.
- GunsOfFiction.Assault Rifles A To H: Rifles may change, but Scars Are Forever. - A caption to a picture of a gun
- Arrow.Tropes N To S: Oliver's scars from his time on the island are a major plot point. See the page illustration to see what we mean.
