History Main / EveryScarHasAStory

* {{Inkheart}} has a variation with Dustfinger. The story behind his facial scars is humiliating rather than awesome, and he mentions several times that it was [[TheDragon Basta]] who "decorated" his face, but it is someone else who explains what happened: Basta fancied Dustfinger's wife, so when Dustfinger tried to defend her some thugs held him down and Basta carved the characteristic lines into his face.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has Ibiki Morino, whose scars are the result of being tortured and interrogated by enemy shinobi.

* ''{{Jaws}}''. Quint and Hooper show off their scars and explain how they received them. This leads to Quint telling the story of the ''USS Indianapolis''.

* The ''{{Jaws}}'' example was spoofed in an episode of ''EekTheCat'', where everyone is grossed out by Eek's scar (a paper cut).

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* HarryPotter has his famous lightning bolt, naturally, courtesy of You-Know-Who. There's also Mad-Eye Moody's scars from his career spent fighting Death Eaters, and Lupin's facial scars, self-inflicted due to his transformations.

* A joke version occurs in GetSmart:

* In the IndianaJones films, Indy has a small scar on his chin. At the beginning of ''IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', we see a young Indy accidentally giving himself the scar the first time he uses a whip.

* In ''{{Thundercats 2011}}'', Panthro comments that there's "a lot of history" in the scars on his arms, [[spoiler: which is the part he misses the most after sacrificing them to trap Grune inside the collapsing Astral Plane.]]

* In ''Chinatown'', Jake's nose is slashed by a gangster. Similar to Jonah Hex above, his answer whenever someone asks is "Cut myself shaving."

* ''ThirtyRock'': Liz Lemon questions her ex-boyfriend how he got his hooks. He explains that he got one of them when he was in Africa working for Doctors Without Borders, by waving at his old high school football coach from a helicopter ("It looked just like a black version of him!"). The second story is unexplained, but involves explosives.

* In RockNRolla, [[ThoseTwoBAdGuys Those Two]] [[TheMafiya Russian]] [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Bad Guys]] are introduced talking about their various scars, which come from things like bullet wounds, [[StuffBlowingUp grenades]], barb wire, and even [[BeyondTheImpossible getting caught in tank tracks]]. One quickly gets the idea that they will be more than the misfit criminal protagonists have bargained for.

* Captain Ahab in MobyDick, who lost his leg while grappling with the Great White Whale.

Um Harry Potter? Both Harry's famous one PLUS Mad Eye Moody's scars from his fighting wiht D.Es? (could also count Lupin's scars of werewolf who was isloated too).

* In the live-action ''101 Dalmatians'', Jasper tells Horace that Skinner has a horrible scar on his neck from where a dog nearly tore his throat out, rendering him mute, and [[TemptingFate warns Horace not to ask him about it.]] [[IgnoreTheFanservice Horace immediately forgets this warning upon seeing the scar,]] and Jasper decks him.

* In the live-action ''101 Dalmatians'', Jasper tells Horace that Skinner has a horrible scar on his neck from where a dog nearly tore his throat out, rendering him mute, and [[TemptingFate warns Horace not to ask him about it.]] [[SammysGlassEye Horace immediately forgets this warning upon seeing the scar,]] and Jasper decks him.

* JonahHex is horribly scared. Typically, people tend to avoid asking how it happened but sometimes, there is the occasional person who is just too curious for his or her own good.