History BodyHorror / MarvelUniverse

*** When Tony wakes up in the cave[[note]][[MemeticMutation with a box of scraps]][[/note]], he tries to reach for a cup of water, only for something to snag when he rolls onto his side. He turns around to see that he's been attached to a ''car battery'', and when he rips the bandages off his chest, he sees the electromagnet ''embedded in his ribcage''.

*** Bruce's transformation is horrific. Looking closely at the scene in the university lab with the [[spoiler:induced transformation]], it looks as if his bones start growing to Hulk-size before the rest of his tissues.

*** The film gives us a [[SarcasmMode lovely]] slo-mo shot of Stephen Strange's horrific car crash, and close-ups of his bloody and battered body as he's rushed to the hospital. But the real clincher comes when he wakes up with ''twelve metal bars'' embedded in his hands. Even after he's fully healed, his hands -- aside from the nerve damage causing them to shake uncontrollably -- sport nasty scars all over them in all of his subsequent appearances.

** There is an '80s issue of Captain America vs. Batroc, in which the U.S. Agent side-story in the latter part features the Power Broker, who goes through the same superpower-granting process that he provides for others only for it to go wrong, leaving him paralyzed due to his muscles expanding too much to allow movement.

* A particularly chilling example from the ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' storyline "[[ComicBook/CaptainBritainACrookedWorld A Crooked World]]": a fellow named Sid manages to survive an encounter with the techno-organic monstrosity known as the Fury, getting away with only a scratch. Unfortunately, the Fury's scratch is infectious, and the results are ''not'' pretty. Not by a long shot.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s skin appears to be horrifically burned or surgically removed. It's actually ''cancer'', all of it. He had a HealingFactor installed in an attempt to cure his cancer, only to have the cancer ''become'' his healing factor. The dude is a walking tumor. At least he has a holographic projector to alter his appearance.

* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' [[OnceAnEpisode could have this as a tagline]]. Specific examples can be found in [[NightmareFuel/ImmortalHulk the work's Nightmare Fuel entry]], including [[https://media.comicbook.com/2018/10/immortal-hulk-1138402.jpeg Hulk being vivisected]], [[https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Hulk-Please.jpg Hulk reassembling himself]] ''around'' the person who did it to him, [[https://media.comicbook.com/2019/05/immortal-hulk-abomination-1173020.jpeg the new Abomination]] and [[https://comicnewbies.com/2019/06/13/the-harpy-takes-out-the-hulks-heart/ a mangled Hulk getting his heart ripped out]].
* Creator/WarrenEllis (the writer of ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'', below) seems to love this. Remember the "Extremis" arc of ''ComicBook/IronMan''? The cyborg virus that enters the brain? And then causes the immune system to reinterpret the entire body as an open wound? ''And then rebuild it, resulting in a cocoon of scab tissue''?
* There is virtually nothing left of Ted Sallis's mind in ComicBook/ManThing; Man-Thing doesn't need to cope, because most of the time, he's not even sapient. The fact that all those who know fear are horrifically burned more than makes up for that in terms of Body Horror.
* ''ComicBook/{{Royals}}'': The Commander-class [[AbusivePrecursors Progenitor]] from the final issue. [[spoiler:It's what was once Medusa and Black Bolt, with their heads stitched onto another body, with Black Bolt's head forming the torso. And there's still something of them in there.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'' is about a Marvel Universe where [[CrapsackWorld everything goes wrong]]. Gamma radiation turns [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] into a green pile of tumors, [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] develops a deadly viral rash from his spider bite, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is allergic to adamantium, and the ComicBook/FantasticFour end up becoming grotesquely misshapen corpses.

* Hulkling of the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' was once [[spoiler:vivisected]]. And guess what? [[spoiler:His organs move while he's unconscious to protect themselves.]] Then there was the time Hulkling was captured by the cosmic parasite Mother. The next time we see Mother, she's sitting on a bizarre chair made of frozen green tentacles. Then you notice the chair has Hulkling's face...

* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'':

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull The Red Skull]]'s... well, "red skull" used to be a mask, but after his [[DeadlyGas Dust of Death]] backfired, [[FacialHorror he doesn't]] [[SkullForAHead need to wear a mask anymore]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' gives us the two-part episode "Gamma World", where you see the Avengers mutate into Gamma monsters.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has Connors' transformation into The Lizard, especially the part where instead of compressing slowly, his head partially ''implodes'' to form his new lizard head.

** Poor ComicBook/SpiderMan underwent quite an unpleasant transformation into [=ManSpider=] in the "Neogenic Nightmare" arc. Later on, the Vulture absorbed Spidey's youth and powers... and also his unstable mutating DNA, [[LaserGuidedKarma meaning]] he sporadically changed fully or partly into the '''same''' creature.
** To avoid the "violence" of sinking his fangs into peoples' necks like regular vampires do, the creators gave Morbius sucking lamprey-like mouths in the palm of each hand. His typical feeding habit was to slap his hands over someone's face and suck out the plasma through them. After getting hit with the neogenic recombinator for the second time he turns into a hulking bat thing.

* In the first ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' movie, Victor von Doom gets a shard of irradiated metal stuck in him, which causes his entire body to gradually turn into metal. Kind of done with Ben Grimm becoming the Thing, too, as well as Johnny becoming the Human Torch while snowboarding. "Johnny! You're on fire! ... No, you're ON FIRE!"
** ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' goes much, MUCH further with the BodyHorror - Creator/DavidCronenberg was named as one of the director's influences, and it really shows. The team's initial PowerIncontinence is played for horror, from Reed's grotesque, involuntary stretching and bodily distortion to Johnny repeatedly (and incredibly painfully) bursting into flames.

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', when Tony wakes up in the cave[[note]][[MemeticMutation with a box of scraps]][[/note]], he tries to reach for a cup of water, only for something to snag when he rolls onto his side. He turns around to see that he's been attached to a ''car battery'', and when he rips the bandages off his chest, he sees the electromagnet ''embedded in his ribcage''.
*** This film also features a scene where Pepper sticks her hand in the arc reactor's housing, showing just how deep in Tony's body this thing sits. The edge of it is level with his skin, but Pepper's hand goes in all the way to the wrist. This leads to some FridgeHorror when Tony gets it removed in ''Film/IronMan3'', as he's now walking around with a gaping hole where his sternum used to be.
** Bruce's transformation in ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' is horrific. Looking closely at the scene in the university lab with the [[spoiler:induced transformation,]] it looks as if his bones start growing to Hulk-size before the rest of his tissues.
*** In this film, the Abomination lives up to his name. Bruce at least manages to keep his bones in his skin, whereas the Abomination has several of them exposed, including a good portion of his ribcage.
** ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' has a [[SarcasmMode lovely]] slo-mo shot of Stephen Strange's horrific car crash, and close-ups of his bloody and battered body as he's rushed to the hospital. But the real clincher comes when he wakes up with ''twelve metal bars'' embedded in his hands. Even after he's fully healed, his hands -- aside from the nerve damage causing them to shake uncontrollably -- sport nasty scars all over them in all of his subsequent appearances.
*** When the Ancient One throws Stephen Strange across the multiverse, there is a lot of kinda disturbing Body Horror. For example, one dimension just consists of hands and when the hands touch Strange, his fingers developed mini hands and these hands also developed hands, which leaves a very disturbing image.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Thanos uses the Reality Stone to foil an attack from Drax and Mantis by breaking Drax into a mishmashed pile of body parts and unwinding Mantis like a coiled spring, clinched by a close-up of Mantis' ''still-moving'' eye. They [[NoOntologicalInertia change back]] after he leaves, but it's still rather disturbing.
*** Then there's the ending, [[spoiler:where you get to watch almost all of your favorite superheroes graphically turn into dust and blow away. The effect wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep their face and general shape moments before fully disintegrating.]]
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows how a [[{{Muggle}} Vanilla human]] putting on the Infinity Gauntlet with all the Infinity stones will be like. ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk first puts on the gauntlet and once he [[BadassFingersnap snaps his finger to bring everyone]] BackFromTheDead, his right arm is completely withered and has become useless. [[spoiler: Then in the climax, [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] puts on a makeshift gauntlet and does a BadassFingersnap of his own to [[NoBodyLeftBehind obliterate Thanos and his army]] and we see glowing energy sparks shooting out of the gauntlet ''into his face'' and other body parts, leaving nasty scars, and post snap, half of his body has burned and he can no longer form coherent sentences. [[TheHeroDies He succumbs to his injuries shortly afterwards]].]]

*** Several of the deaths in the BadFuture. [[spoiler:First time out, Colossus has his head caved in ''whilst in his metal form'' and Iceman's head is snapped from the rest of his body in his frozen form, only for the events to later be {{defied}}. In the climax, Bishop explodes due to being "force fed" too much energy, Colossus is ripped in two, Sunspot loses an arm, and Iceman has most of his torso vaporized.]]

* From Hydro Man's point of view, after ComicBook/BlackPanther uses electrolysis to make his all water body into composite hydrogen and oxygen molecules, which are fused, making him useless.

** Spider-Man himself. All the mutations he's undergone, from [[MultiArmedAndDangerous gaining more arms]], to transforming into a GiantSpider (with a description of his feelings in the process) and what happened to him when he was killed.

** Many Spider-Man villains in general to varying degrees. Doctor Octopus and the Scorpion's artificial appendages are fused to their spine physically and mentally. The Rhino's suit is permanently melded to his body. Sandman and Hydro-Man are living masses of earth and water who can only maintain human form so long. The Lizard's mutation unwillingly turns him from a nice scientist into a feral, deformed reptile monster. Carrion is a failed clone resembling a living corpse with a touch that withers his victims to dust. And then there's [[TheWormThatWalks the Thousand]], a sentient swarm of spiders with the mind of a PsychopathicManchild who eats his hosts from the inside out. Probably for the best he was a one-shot villain.

** So of course this trope gets explored in the ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story "What If the Fantastic Four All Had the Power of the Thing?" Ben Grimm ends up with his now-iconic form, Johnny ends up lookin like Ben's original Thing form, Reed ends up looking like a hairless purple ape[[note]]based on a duplicate version of Reed from the Counter-Earth stories, who there became a Thing-like mutate called "Brute"[[note]] and Susan ends up as the spitting image of the ComicBook/ManThing.

** Explored in the ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story "What If the Fantastic Four All Had the Power of the Thing?"

** Masque, a disfigured [[{{Biomanipulation}} flesh-warping]] mutant who gets his kicks warping the flesh of anyone who has the misfortune of coming into contact with him. When he takes over the Morlocks following the ComicBook/MutantMassacre, Masque forces the surviving Morlocks to be his playthings, changing their faces and bodies into such horrific abominations that the bulk of the community are driven irreversibly insane. Part of this motive is based upon the fact that Masque (originally) was immune to his own powers, which drove him mad because he could alter anyone's face except his own disfigured face. Thought killed off in the early 1990s, Masque returned in ''ComicBook/XTremeXMen'' #36-39, in which he is given upgraded powers: he can now use his powers on himself, which he used to render himself genderless as far as showing the ability to warp his own flesh to go from male to female. However, he is still insane in the head and then some: he uses his powers to turn Callisto (ex-Morlock leader who Masque hated) into a tentacle-limbed freak and (with help from his fellow Morlocks) assaults a subway train full of innocent people and uses his powers to disfigure each and every person on said train as an act of mutant terrorism.

** [[BeeBeeGun Swarm the Nazi-Made-Of-Bees]] was a Nazi scientist studying bees who [[ILoveNuclearPower exposed them to radiation]], only for them to mutate and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath devour him down to his bones]]. These bees apparently had a HiveMind, which he became, and lived on as a man made of bees, sometimes wrapped around his human skeleton, sometimes not. This has never really been explored, perhaps because of the absurdity of a colony of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies but being devoured and becoming a colony of bees sounds like it would be pretty damn traumatic. ComicBook/{{Venom}} eventually ate the skeleton, but because you can't keep a good Bee-Nazi down, Swarm can now create new bodies by possessing a queen bee and using her hive. He's gone from horrific to pure ParanoiaFuel, a rather impressive feat for a fairly lame villain.

* ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'' is about a Marvel Universe where [[CrapsackWorld everything goes wrong]]. Gamma radiation turns [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] into a green pile of tumors, Peter Parker develops a deadly viral rash from his spider bite, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is allergic to adamantium, and the ComicBook/FantasticFour end up becoming grotesquely misshapen corpses.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** The alien symbiotes.
** Spider-Man himself. All the mutations he's undergone, from [[MultiArmedAndDangerous gaining more arms]], to transforming into a GiantSpider (with a description of his feelings in the process) and what happened to him when he was killed.
* In the two-parter ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'', Creator/WarrenEllis writes about a Marvel Universe where everything goes wrong. Gamma radiation turns [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] into a green pile of tumors, Peter Parker develops a deadly viral rash from his spider bite, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is allergic to adamantium, and the ComicBook/FantasticFour end up becoming grotesquely misshapen corpses.
* Creator/WarrenEllis seems to love this. Remember the "Extremis" arc of ''ComicBook/IronMan''? The cyborg virus that enters the brain? And then causes the immune system to reinterpret the entire body as an open wound? ''And then rebuild it, resulting in a cocoon of scab tissue''?
* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' [[OnceAnEpisode could have this as a tagline]]. [[NightmareFuel/ImmortalHulk Specific examples can be found on the work's Nightmare Fuel entry]], including [[https://media.comicbook.com/2018/10/immortal-hulk-1138402.jpeg Hulk being vivisected]], [[https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Hulk-Please.jpg Hulk reassembling himself]] ''around'' the person who did it to him, [[https://media.comicbook.com/2019/05/immortal-hulk-abomination-1173020.jpeg the new Abomination]] and [[https://comicnewbies.com/2019/06/13/the-harpy-takes-out-the-hulks-heart/ a mangled Hulk getting his heart ripped out]].
* There is virtually nothing left of Ted Sallis's mind in ComicBook/ManThing; Man-Thing doesn't need to cope, because most of the time, he's not even sapient. The fact that all those who know fear are horrifically burned more than makes up for that in terms of Body Horror.
* Hulkling of the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' was once [[spoiler:vivisected]]. And guess what? [[spoiler:His organs move while he's unconscious to protect themselves.]]
** Then there was the time Hulkling was captured by the cosmic parasite Mother. The next time we see Mother, she's sitting on a bizarre chair made of frozen green tentacles. Then you notice the chair has Hulkling's face...
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'':
** There is an '80s issue of Captain America vs. Batroc, in which the U.S. Agent side-story in the latter part features the Power Broker, who goes through the same superpower-granting process that he provides for others only for it to go wrong, leaving him paralyzed due to his muscles expanding too much to allow movement.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull The Red Skull]]'s... well, "red skull" used to be a mask, but after his [[DeadlyGas Dust of Death]] backfired, [[FacialHorror he doesn't]] [[SkullForAHead need to wear a mask anymore]].
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
** Explored in the ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story "What If the Fantastic Four All Had the Power of the Thing?"
** Reed Richards' [[RubberMan stretching]] can cause mild body horror sometimes, especially considering what stretching like that might feel like (RequiredSecondaryPowers notwithstanding, of course). Reed doesn't seem to mind -- [[MundaneUtility he thinks it's useful]].
** Something like this happened to Johnny Storm while he was held captive by Annihilus. He is repeatedly killed, only to be brought back to life, often times stitched back by worms. It's not very lovely.
* A particularly chilling example from the ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' storyline "[[ComicBook/CaptainBritainACrookedWorld A Crooked World]]": a fellow named Sid manages to survive an encounter with the techno-organic monstrosity known as the Fury, getting away with only a scratch. Unfortunately, the Fury's scratch is infectious, and the results are ''not'' pretty. Not by a long shot.
* There is ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, whose skin appears to be horrifically burned or surgically removed. It's actually cancer. All of it. He had a healing factor installed in an attempt to cure his cancer, only to have the cancer ''become'' his healing factor. Dude is a walking tumor. At least he has a holographic projector to alter his appearance.
* [[BeeBeeGun Swarm the Nazi-Made-Of-Bees]] was a Nazi scientist studying bees who [[ILoveNuclearPower exposed them to radiation]], only for them to mutate and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath devour him down to his bones]]. These bees apparently had a HiveMind, which he became, and lived on as a man made of bees, sometimes wrapped around his human skeleton, sometimes not. This has never really been explored, perhaps because of the absurdity of a colony of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies but being devoured and becoming a colony of bees sounds like it would be pretty damn traumatic.
** Venom eventually ate the skeleton, but because you can't keep a good Bee-Nazi down, Swarm can now create new bodies by possessing a queen bee and using her hive. He's gone from horrific to pure ParanoiaFuel, a rather impressive feat for a fairly lame villain.
* ''ComicBook/{{Royals}}:'' The Commander-class [[AbusivePrecursors Progenitor]] from the final issue. [[spoiler:It's what was once Medusa and Black Bolt, with their heads stitched onto another body, with Black Bolt's head forming the torso. And there's still something of them in there.]]

!Franchise/MarvelUniverse

!!Comic Books

** The ''X-Men'' comics in general feature many cases of BodyHorror. For every two mutants, one of the two is deformed in some shape or form due to their powers. Making things worse was the notion of when these deformities manifest themselves; while some mutants are born deformed, others are born normal-looking until they reach their teenage years, at which point their mutant powers kick in and they find their bodies warping, turning them from being handsome/beautiful to being hideously disfigured freaks. Even then, it's a crapshoot towards the extent of one's body horror: Angel and Wolverine, for instance, only suffered minor deformities, whereas mutants like Marrow (bones growing out of her body, which had to be broken off at regular intervals like one might cut one's hair), Husk (ability to develop and shed layers of skin of various biological compositions), or Mercury (body turning into a liquid metal substance) manifest far more grotesque variations. This led to Chris Claremont conceiving "The Morlocks": an underground community of homeless mutants, most of which were mutants that were too deformed to fit in with normal society.
** Yet another example would be a nameless and hideous mutant who was shot down by the police before he could "transform" into his "final" form, one which was implied to be of incredible beauty and power. Oh and he was a child too. Crying shame, heavy emphasis on crying.
** This is how the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] alien Brood reproduce. They were pretty obviously, ah, ''inspired'' by ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Oddly enough, the Brood had a HiveMind ''first''.
** Masque, a disfigured flesh-warping mutant who got his kicks warping the flesh of anyone who had the misfortune of coming into contact with him. When he took over the Morlocks, following the ''Mutant Massacre'', Masque forced the surviving Morlocks to be his playthings, changing their faces and bodies into such horrific abominations that the bulk of the community were driven irreversibly insane. Part of this motive was based upon the fact that Masque (originally) was immune to his own powers, which drove him mad because he could alter anyone's face except his own disfigured face. Thought killed off in the early 1990s, Masque returned in ''Xtreme X-Men'' #36-39, where he was given upgraded powers: he could now use his powers on himself, which he used to render himself genderless as far as showing the ability to warp his own flesh to go from male to female. However, he was still insane in the head and then some: he used his powers to turn Callisto (ex-Morlock leader who Masque hated) into a tentacle-limbed freak and (with help from his fellow Morlocks) assaulted a subway train full of innocent people and used his powers to disfigure each and every person on said train as an act of mutant terrorism.
** Chamber is another X-Man with quite a unique form of mutation; he has a psychic furnace where everything between his upper jaw and diaphragm would normally be. That's no lungs, ribcage, digestive system, etc. Granted, eventually he gets better, but when he loses his power to contain the energy, boom - everything south of his jaw is quite graphically vaporised. He still lives!
** Kenji Uedo, full stop. Think of what happened to Tetsuo at the end of ''{{Manga/Akira}}'', now give him '''[[https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/f/fc/Kenji_Uedo_%28Earth-616%29_from_Generation_Hope_Vol_1_1_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170611002437 full control over it]]'''. Yeah. Due to his technopathic abilities, he can also force other machines to shapeshift as well, send one way messages through screens similar to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Hermit Purple]], and let him survive extreme damage due to him lacking organs. He also made burgers for a whole group using his own body to make the patties, cook them, and serve them. Thankfully he didn't make the condiments... maybe.
** Many times if a character is drawn super muscular, it's usually just dismissed as the art style. Not so with frequent ''ComicBook/XFactor'' member Strong Guy's top-heaviness: that is how he looks ''in-universe'' thanks to the nature of his powers (absorbing kinetic energy).

** Spider-Man himself. All the mutations he's undergone, from gaining more arms, to transforming into a giant spider (with a description of his feelings in the process) and what happened to him when he was killed.
* In the two-parter ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'', Creator/WarrenEllis writes about a Franchise/MarvelUniverse where everything goes wrong. Gamma radiation turns [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] into a green pile of tumors, Peter Parker develops a deadly viral rash from his spider bite, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is allergic to adamantium, and the ComicBook/FantasticFour end up becoming grotesquely misshapen corpses.
** Warren Ellis seems to love this. Remember ''Extremis''? The cyborg virus that enters the brain? And then causes the immune system to reinterpret the entire body as an open wound? ''And then rebuild it, resulting in a cocoon of scab tissue''?
* Marvel's ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' series [[OnceAnEpisode could have this as a tagline.]] [[NightmareFuel/ImmortalHulk Specific examples can be found on the work's Nightmare Fuel entry,]] including [[https://media.comicbook.com/2018/10/immortal-hulk-1138402.jpeg Hulk being vivisected,]] [[https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Hulk-Please.jpg Hulk reassembling himself]] ''around'' the person who did it to him, [[https://media.comicbook.com/2019/05/immortal-hulk-abomination-1173020.jpeg the new Abomination]] and [[https://comicnewbies.com/2019/06/13/the-harpy-takes-out-the-hulks-heart/ a mangled Hulk getting his heart ripped out.]]
* In Marvel's ''ComicBook/DistrictX'', the mutant Gregor Smerdyakov can't sit anywhere for too long because his feet grow roots that break through his shoes and lash him to the ground. After being [[{{Foreshadowing}} cut away from the pavement]] in an early issue, he later [[spoiler:grows into the wall of a sewer channel and essentially becomes an underground tree]].
* In Marvel's ''Mutopia X'', Agent Popova (after a failed assassination attempt on Daniel Kaufman) was blackmailed into performing favors for Kaufman by having her surgically altered into what many might consider a hideous (or beautiful) mutant appearance.
* Swamp Thing's Marvel (sort of) equivalent Comicbook/ManThing. There is virtually nothing left of Ted Sallis's mind in Man-Thing; Man-Thing doesn't need to cope, because most of the time, he's not even sapient. The fact that all those who know fear are horrifically burned more than makes up for that in terms of BodyHorror.
* Oftentimes characters who are effectively immortal or have "healing factors" will venture into this territory. The ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' version of Wolverine has been subjected to such horrors as regrowing his entire body after being decapitated and having the flesh stripped entirely off his bones but still being alive. Orson Scott Card's "Ultimate Iron Man" gives Tony Stark similar powers (for some reason) and has many creepy scenes of him regrowing his various severed limbs (which he loses so often, it becomes a running joke).
* Hulkling of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers was once [[spoiler: vivisected]]. And guess what? [[spoiler:His organs move while he's unconscious to protect themselves.]]

* There is an 80s issue of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica vs Batroc, where the U.S. Agent side-story in the latter part featured a guy who appeared to be undergoing extreme steroid enhancement(to the point that he was paralyzed due to his muscles expanding too much to allow movement).
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''
** Explored in "What If The ComicBook/FantasticFour All Had The Power Of The Thing?"
** Reed Richards' stretching can cause mild body horror sometimes. Especially if you think about what stretching like that would feel like. Reed doesn't seem to mind. [[CursedWithAwesome He thinks it's useful.]]

* A particularly chilling example from ''Comicbook/CaptainBritain'': a fellow named Sid managed to survive an encounter with the omnicidal AttackAnimal known as the Fury, getting away with only a scratch. Unfortunately, the Fury's scratch was infectious, and the results were ''not'' pretty. Not by a long shot.
* There is ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, whose skin appears to be horrifically burned or surgically removed. At least he has a holographic projector to alter his appearance. It's cancer. All of it. He had a healing factor installed in an attempt to cure his cancer, only to have the cancer ''become'' his healing factor. Dude is a walking tumor.
** While fans hated him mostly for his completely different character, the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of Deadpool isn't any better; his face is ''gone'', leaving his head a naked skull, with eyeballs and an exposed brain, wrapped in translucent plastic.
* Ultimate Universe ComicBook/RedSkull: not liking the fact that he looked like his father (Captain America), the Red Skull removed his entire face and scalp.
** Main Universe Red Skull counts. His "red skull" used to be a mask, but after [[BreathWeapon his Dust of Death]] backfired, [[FacialHorror he doesn't]] [[SkullForAHead need to wear a mask anymore.]]

** Reed Richards' transformation removed most, if not all, of his internal organs.

* [[BeeBeeGun Swarm the Nazi-Made-Of-Bees]] was a Nazi scientist studying bees who [[ILoveNuclearPower exposed them to radiation]], only for them to mutate and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath devour him down to his bones.]] These bees apparently had a HiveMind, which he became, and lived on as a man made of bees, sometimes wrapped around his human skeleton, sometimes not. This has never really been explored, perhaps because of the absurdity of a colony of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies, but being devoured and becoming a colony of bees sounds like it would be pretty damn traumatic.
** Venom eventually ate the skeleton, but because you can't keep a good Bee-Nazi down, Swarm can now create new bodies by possessing a queen bee and using her hive. He's gone from horrific to pure ParanoiaFuel, a rather impressive feat for a fairly lame villain.
* ''ComicBook/{{Royals}}:'' The Commander-class [[AbusivePrecursors Progenitor]] from the final issue. [[spoiler:It's what was once Medusa and Black Bolt, with their heads stitched onto another body, with Black Bolt's head forming the torso. And there's still something of them in there.]]

** Many times if a character is drawn super muscular, it's usually just dismissed as the art style. Not so with frequent ''ComicBook/XFactor'' member Strong Guy's top-heaviness: that is how he looks ''in-universe''.

!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse

* ''ComicBook/{{Royals}}:'' The Commander-class [[AbusivePrecursors Progenitor]] from the final issue. [[spoiler:It's what was once Medusa and Black Bolt, with their heads stitched onto another body, with Black Bolt's head forming the torso. And there's still something of them in there.]]