History BodyHorror / Webcomics

** Duane's condition as a walking corpse is somewhat stabilized by the time of the story, despite the bugs crawling through him, but we get lovely flashback shots of him suffocating on his own congealing blood and his skin sloughing away as maggots eat away at him.

** Toby is already dead when it happens but the First Silver Weapon digs into him with twisting thorny vines that pull him up and reanimate him, with tendrils forcing their way out of his eye sockets as the Silver puppets him to attack his friends.

** The Silver Eel is made up of spindly thorny silver, and the bad memories and mangled bodies of its human victims.

** Body horror is a possible random side effect triggered by the Shield of Wonder. Notable cases are the guard who was [[BalefulPolymorph balefully polymorphed]] into an ogre and cut down by his sergeant, and one who was painfully transformed into a swarm of snakes.

* Played in disturbingly realistic fashion in ''{{Webcomic/Sunstone}}'' when we're shown the dangers of careless rope work in self bondage. Marion uses the wrong sort of knots on her wrists combined with improper positioning of the ropes on the bed out of obsession with trying to prove Alan wrong about 24/7 submission (which Alan isn't into for a variety of reasons, chiefest among them being that it is highly stressful for the dom), and finds herself trapped and alone while the blood circulation to her hands is cut off. Her hands go lifeless and visibly dark grey in colour. It gets worse when we're told this had caused blood clots and Marion could have lost her hands.

* In ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'', [[spoiler:Trevor]] is a font of examples. To list a few:
** His skin appears to be the slowest part of him to shift shape, causing it to tear repeatedly when he’s on the move.
** He keeps forming extra limbs, that end in sharp, blade-like bones.
** When on the hunt, his body morphs almost constantly, seemingly of it’s own volition, into various inhuman shapes and body parts, as well as growing extra appendages.

* In ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'', [[spoiler: Trevor]] is a font of examples. To list a few:

** The finger horror spreads a disease called 'liquid rot' to any living thing it touches. The limbs of creatures affected by this disease will transform painfully, before falling off the body and turning into a liquid goop which the horror can feed upon.
*** And it won't even try to kill you quickly, either. It'll drag to its lair, infect you with the rot, and leave you to die a slow, agonizing death before feeding on the remains. As deaths by liquid rot go, [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/06072011/ this]] (spoilers) was relatively quick and clean. [[CrapsackWorld Says something about the setting]], no?

* ''{{Webcomic/GuildedAge}}'' has The Grove of Ur-Animals, which contains monsters that even the InHarmonyWithNature wood elves won't go near. The nicest-looking is a giant gorilla, with eight arms arranged like spider legs and eyes to match.

* ''Webcomic/{{Whomp}}'': [[http://www.whompcomic.com/2012/04/25/hair-today-bone-tomorrow/ This]] comic (25/4/2012) deals with what happens when your flesh falls off. Urgh.
* In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' the way [[TheVirus Rash]] victim's bodies transformed into trolls is... squicky. Especially after you realize that trolls and giants are made of people and suddenly you see body parts all over them...
%%* ''Webcomic/{{Skins}}'': The [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Skins-Page-6-341448456 occult plague]] seems to be like radiation sickness in fast forward with the infected growing tumorous lumps on their faces as well as extra bits and pieces.
* ''Webcomic/{{Gnoph}}'' has a ''lot'' of this. When it begins, Abbey is being slowly eaten alive from the inside by her [[BondCreatures Bond Creature]], Scut. Things get progressively ''worse'' from there.
* In the ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' prequel volume ''Start Of Darkness'', [[spoiler:Xykon rips away his own flesh as he is transformed into a lich]].
* [[TheVirus The Crax]] from ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' is basically magical cancer. With tentacles.
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' shows how hazardous chaos can be to [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-01-23 your body]].
* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'': The Legion, at least to unwilling targets (read: genocidal {{Knight Templar}}s).

* Used comedically in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' when a botched Firmware update causes [[RobotGirl Momo]] to [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1496 start sprouting extra fingers and feet.]] Later on, Pintsize [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1498 downloads the same update, with sickening results.]] Unfortunately for him, the rest of the cast [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1503 is unfazed.]]
* Vladia, (formerly Vlad) from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is a shape shifter whose form was a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mishmash]] of bats, birds, human, an alien race known as Uryuoms, and a freaking leopard, wouldn't change out of his/her animal form due it being excruciatingly painful, and potentially fatal to take on his/her human appearance. Even though we don't see the BodyHorror, it's very much implied, considering the above and that [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090926041306/elgoonishshive/images/0/0f/Vladia.gif this is her as a human]] and [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090926041417/elgoonishshive/images/8/89/Vlad.gif is her animal form]].
** Worth pointing out: Vlad chose to [[FirstLawOfGenderBending accept being forcibly transformed into a human girl at the end of the arc and remain that way forever]], simply because ''reverting would be too horrible''. [[HumanityEnsues A human body's a human body]]-- as far as Vlad/Vladia's concerned, s/he has never been a ''man''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', when each character enters the game the antagonists are "prototyped" with a new mutation. When [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jack Noir]] kills the Black Queen and takes her magic ring, he loses an eye and an arm, grows a jester's hat, a cat face, tentacles, and wings, and then grows a sword through his chest.]] And that's just with three players in the game, there's still one more to come!
** [[spoiler: Jade's Kernel ended up being prototyped with Bec through a series of unfortunate events. We get to watch Jack transform into an almighty godlike being with unfathomable cosmic power.]]
** [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004492 The Troll session's version of the Black King]] is [[EldritchAbomination even worse]]. Because of the Trolls' prototyping choices, he has two heads, two sets of wings, tentacles, multiple eyes, arms and mouths, horns, claws, a centaur-like lower half with an udder, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a mustache on each head]].
** There's also the fate of Sollux's ancestor The Ψiioniic, who was [[FateWorseThanDeath forced to become]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a living battery]] for [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Her Imperious Condescension]]'s starship. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005960 He doesn't look too comfortable.]]
** For more prototyping goodness, there's the prototyping of Jane's sprite with [[spoiler: Vriska and Tavros's]] corpses, resulting in a being that knows just how horrifically wrong it is, both physically and mentally. [[spoiler: So much that Tavrisprite blows itself up a couple pages later]].
*** This is also played straight with [[spoiler: Erisolsprite, the combination of two trolls that nearly killed each other when they were alive. They're just stable enough to not share Tavrissprite's fate, but they're still in a constant state of self-loathing.]] However, Dirk's sprite averts it completely. [[spoiler: Lil' Hal loves having a physical body, and Equius loves having a powerful robot brain.]] There's also Roxy's, who has so far been the speechless but seems to be quite fine with the combination of [[spoiler: Nepeta and Feferi]] - justified in that the two components were the friendliest and most peaceful of their peers. [[spoiler: Then Fefeta is literally torn apart from the conflicting emotions during an argument between Erisolsprite and Arquiusprite, playing the trope straight.]]

* In the comic ''WebComic/{{Wurr}}'', the hellhounds have been exposed to mutating Black Touch for generations, resulting in strange mutations such as extra limbs, eyes, too many teeth, strange skeletal structures, and countless other strange features. Some hellhounds, called Whispering Ones don't even have proper genetalia.
* In ''Webcomic/DemonEater'', every time a demon eats another demon, the eater's body changes to take in some characteristics of the eaten demon. Demons can also shapeshift at will, but that has happened less often.
* ''Webcomic/RavensDojo'' has lots of examples of this, the latest one being [[http://ravensdojo.com/2011/07/ravensdojo00352/ the Omega Dog]].

%%* [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00077.html One reason why]] OrganicTechnology is not more popular in ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger''.
* After [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=177 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/VGCats'', you will never look at ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' the same way ever again.

* Mrs. Cho of ''Webcomic/TheBongcheonDongGhost''. Her body is not necessarily strange looking and retains human qualities. It's the fact that she is the reanimated corpse of a mentally unstable woman who committed suicide from jumping from her apartment window that enforces the horror. When Mrs. Cho hit the ground, every bone in her body retained damage of various levels. Some had small fractures but many were split in two. In addition, her forehead most likely hit the pavement but caused no damage to the skull. If that had happened, her head would be destroyed. This injury causes her head to retain its shape while covering it in blood. So to reiterate, she is a walking corpse who broke every bone in her body whose face is covered in blood. The real frightening aspects of the comic are two jump scares when Mrs. Cho turns her head 180 degrees around and runs faster than a cheetah on crack ''directly at the screen'' while unsettling noises of bones cracking are heard. Also, Mrs. Cho '''was a real person who committed suicide'''.
* ''Webcomic/TheKingfisher'' features a moderate amount of body horror, especially when new vampires are born, or when a vampire assumes the form of their death.
* Played in disturbingly realistic fashion in ''{{Webcomic/Sunstone}}'' when we're shown the dangers of careless rope work in self bondage. Marion uses the wrong sort of knots on her wrists combined with improper positioning of the ropes on the bed out of obsession with trying to prove Alan wrong about 24/7 submission (which Alan isn't into for a variety of reasons, chiefest among them being that it is highly stressful for the dom), and finds herself trapped and alone while the blood circulation to her hands is cut off. Her hands go lifeless and visibly dark grey in colour. It gets worse when we're told this had caused blood clots and Marion could have lost her hands.
** And it gets even ''worse'' with the realization that [[spoiler:had Ally not known to keep the ropes on her despite Marion's desperate pleas to take them off, Marion could very well have ''died'' -- if those clots had been allowed to run loose in the rest of her bloodstream, the most probable result would have been a heart attack or a brain embolism, depending on which major organ the clots got to first]].
* [[http://falsepositivecomic.com/ False Positive]] played this painfully straight in its very first story arc.
* Zenith's Tagged goons in ''WebComic/CommanderKitty'' are stitched-together abominations made of kidnapped spacers. [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/06/12/the-tagged/ It's no wonder Nin Wah is scared stupid by the first sight of them]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' Riley, a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-wereshark]], tries to transform even though his mixed heritage should prevent him from doing so. As he transforms his body [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=954 rips open]].

* ''{{Webcomic/GuildedAge}}'' has The Grove of Ur-Animals, which contains monsters that even the InHarmonyWithNature wood elves won't go near. The nicest-looking is a giant gorilla, with eight arms arranged like spider legs and eyes to match.
* In ''Webcomic/DeepRise'' Surgery is a common skill among [[StarfishAlien Nobles]].
* ''Webcomic/CogaNito'': Potentially with Pieces. The user's body physically turns into the Piece, along with anything they're wearing and any objects they're holding. They can also potentially take horrendous damage, as long as the head is unharmed.
* ''Webcomic/BasketsOfGuts'' has some really gruesome scenes. Especially those involving magic.
* [[http://zarla.deviantart.com Zarla's]] [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/UNDERTALE-SPOILERS-Good-intentions-573418942 Undertale comic]] about an alternate universe where Sans and Papyrus become [[spoiler:an amalgamate is quite horrifying. The way Sans' and Papyrus' body's melt together is just as horrifying and saddening as the canon amalgamates]].

* A constant in ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'', especially once you see [[spoiler:the world beyond the Polyp]].
** It's later revealed that the Hospital is so alien that the ''very idea'' of a human is fundamentally incompatible with it, leading to [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/518.html their]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/jaymorph.html transformation]] into the creatures that Jay refers to as [[http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/youhorde.png 'Slobs']]. According to [[AmbiguouslyHuman Doctor]] [[HughMann Man]], Jay[[note]]pictured in both of the linked transformation sequences[[/note]] is even of exceptional stability among humans 'admitted' to the Hospital.
* ''Webcomic/MareInternum'': First, Mike gets a compound fracture to his femur. Then [[spoiler: said femur gets some weird parasitic growth that appears to have a mind of its own. Now there's [[FesteringFungus something]] on Mike's face... something that seems to be living, and ''stuck.'']]
* ''Webcomic/{{Avialae}}'' starts with OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Gannet finding out that he's suddenly begun growing wings from his back. It [[https://yaoi.biz/avialae/chapter-1/page-19 does NOT make for a pretty picture]] with copious bleeding and intense pain for him. This is thankfully limited to just the early stages, though; his wings keep growing, but they stop bleeding after the first day of growth unless they're improperly bound.
* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned''
** [[{{Hellhound}} Cerberus's]] [[MultipleHeadCase center head]] was [[OffWithHisHead sliced off]] by [[spoiler:the [[GodJob real]] Death [[YouHaveFailedMe for getting distracted]] by Darius]] and now there is a [[http://www.sdamned.com/comic/46 large partially stiched wound]] where the head used to be.
** There is also [[http://www.sdamned.com/comic/24 Seymour Sinclair]] who looks like that in hell due to dying in his [[NoodleIncident "flaming wagon of doom" act]]. It also mentioned later on that anyone who goes to hell [[WoundThatWillNotHeal retains any injuries]] from their death and those sent [[CirclesOfHell to hell proper]] still suffer pain from them.
* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies''
** Drath hosts mutate hideously when initially possessed. When the fusion dance aspect of possession comes into play, it gets even worse, and apparently corpses are 'really' icky when drath'd.
** The Drath themselves have their heads twisted backwards.
** Professor Margot after [[spoiler: she's hit in the face by acid from fighting Brody]], though after she heals, she's happy to show off the scars.
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': One of the supernatural creatures in Max's house is a floating left hand named Lefty. Max initially assumes he's just a hand-shaped spirit, as spirits are living creatures that are simply born InvisibleToNormals, [[OurMonstersAreWeird and tend to be pretty weird]]. Lefty proves he's an actual ghost (the remnant of a dead human) [[http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-2-page-8 by showing Max his severed wrist.]]
-->'''Max:''' Oh my. Them's tendons.

* ''Webcomic/BloodIsMine'' and its sequel ''Webcomic/MyDeliriumAlcazar'' basically run on this, from haphazard experiments with organ printers to world-eating meat gods and everything in between.

%%* ''{{Webcomic/Skins}}'': The [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Skins-Page-6-341448456 occult plague]] seems to be like radiation sickness in fast forward with the infected growing tumorous lumps on their faces as well as extra bits and pieces.

* ''Webcomic/StringTheory'': The last three panels of [[http://www.stringtheorycomic.com/comics/chapter-six/chp6-page-11/ this page]].

* Played in disturbingly realistic fashion in ''{{Webcomic/Sunstone}}'' when we're shown the dangers of careless rope work in self bondage. Marion uses the wrong sort of knots on her wrists combined with improper positioning of the ropes on the bed out of obsession with trying to prove Alan wrong about 24/7 submission (which Alan isn't into for a variety of reasons, chiefest among them being that it is highly stressful for the dom), and finds herself trapped and alone while the blood circulation to her hands is cut off. and finds herself trapped and alone while the blood circulation to her hands is cut off. Her hands go lifeless and visibly dark grey in colour. It gets worse when we're told this had caused blood clots and Marion could have lost her hands.

* ''Webcomic/{{Avialae}}'' starts with OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Gannet finding out that he's suddenly begun growing wings from his back. It [[http://avialae.smackjeeves.com/comics/1960299/ch-1-page-19/ does NOT make for a pretty picture]] with copious bleeding and intense pain for him. This is thankfully limited to just the early stages, though; his wings keep growing, but they stop bleeding after the first day of growth unless they're improperly bound.

* Vladia, (formerly Vlad) from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is a shape shifter whose form was a [[XMeetsY mishmash]] of bats, birds, human, an alien race known as Uryuoms, and a freaking leopard, wouldn't change out of his/her animal form due it being excruciatingly painful, and potentially fatal to take on his/her human appearance. Even though we don't see the BodyHorror, it's very much implied, considering the above and that [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090926041306/elgoonishshive/images/0/0f/Vladia.gif this is her as a human]] and [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090926041417/elgoonishshive/images/8/89/Vlad.gif is her animal form]].

* ''{{Webcomic/Skins}}'': The [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Skins-Page-6-341448456 occult plague]] seems to be like radiation sickness in fast forward with the infected growing tumorous lumps on their faces as well as extra bits and pieces.

** For more prototyping [[SarcasmMode goodness]], there's the prototyping of Jane's sprite with [[spoiler: Vriska and Tavros's]] corpses, resulting in a being that knows just how horrifically wrong it is, both physically and mentally. [[spoiler: So much that Tavrisprite blows itself up a couple pages later]].

* [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00077.html One reason why]] OrganicTechnology is not more popular in ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger''.

* [[http://www.whompcomic.com/ Whomp comic]]: [[http://www.whompcomic.com/2012/04/25/hair-today-bone-tomorrow/ This]] comic (25/4/2012) deals with what happens when your flesh falls off. Urgh.

* [[http://zarla.deviantart.com Zarla's]] [[http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/UNDERTALE-SPOILERS-Good-intentions-573418942 Undertale comic]] about an alternate universe where Sans and Papyrus become an [[spoiler: amalgamate is quite horrifying. The way Sans' and Papyrus' body's melt together is just as horrifying and saddening as the canon amalgamates]].

* After [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=177 this strip]] of ''VGCats'', you will never look at ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' the same way ever again.

*** However, Dirk's sprite averts it completely. [[spoiler: Lil' Hal loves having a physical body, and Equius loves having a powerful robot brain.]] There's also Roxy's, who has so far been the speechless but seems to be quite fine with the combination of [[spoiler: Nepeta and Feferi]] - justified in that the two components were the friendliest and most peaceful of their peers. [[spoiler: Then Fefeta is literally torn apart from the conflicting emotions during an argument between Erisolsprite and Arquiusprite, playing the trope straight]]