History Main / GenuineHumanHide

* In ''Our Man in Havana'' the local police chief, Captain Segura, is rumored to carry a cigarette case made of human skin. [[spoiler:It's true, though to make it slightly justifiable, the skin came from the guy who murdered his father]].

** Aphra Marsh stops the bookstore owner she works for from buying a TomeOfEldritchLore bound in human skin as it's actually a fake, with this trope being used deliberately to give it a creepy air.
** ''Deep Roots'': The Outer Ones can pose as human using LatexPerfection, except theirs works a lot better because it's made of human skin grown in their laboratories.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had Roger going {{Yandere}} on Hayley and planned to cut off her skin and graft it onto his own so they can "become one". [[spoiler:He ended up doing it to Jeff instead.]] The villain of a later episode turns out to be a DistaffCounterpart of Buffalo Bill, abducting men and imprisoning them in a pit before skinning them for the purpose of creating a "man suit."
--> '''Music/IceT''': Sick old lady was gonna turn you into a skin suit. Was working on a whole skin suit wardrobe. Skin blouse, skin slacks, and a pair of skin sunglasses she couldn't even see out of. [[AwesomeButImpractical Fly as hell, though.]]
* A running gag for [[MadScientist Krieger]] on ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''.
-->'''Archer''': What is it with you serial killers and skin.
-->'''Krieger''': I'm not a... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "serial"]] killer.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the finale, when [[BigBad Bill]] revives [[BigGood Ford]], the latter ends up sitting on a couch that according to the former, is made of actual human skin, much to Ford's horror and disgust.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' had an episode where Dethklok creates their own line of S&M styled clothes (made of leather, of course). The fashion designer hints at this trope throughout the episode with several ominous references to his "special leather", but the end of the episode has the band discovering the truth, and after all the not-so-subtle hints, {{the reveal}} is so over-the-top that it arguably CrossesTheLineTwice. When the band actually find this out, [[EveryoneHasStandards rather than declaring it metal]], they're so horrified that they scream continuously with Nathan pausing momentarily to fire the designer in question.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' provides one example that doesn't involve murder, but is just as [[{{Squick}} unsettling]]. Because Randy wanted a prescription for medicinal marijuana, he deliberately contracted such an extreme case of testicular cancer that he [[BizarreAlienLocomotion got around by using his balls as a hippity-hop]]. He eventually got them removed and had a coat made from his scrotum.
* An Evil Teleshopping hostess in WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}} sold counterfeit fashion items made out of her husband’s skin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' actually pulls this off where one of the criminals turns humans into animals before skinning them and making fur coats "without a single stitch".
-->"It's genuine lawyer."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Perchance to Dean," a rejected, deformed Dean clone (D-19) is revealed to have been creating a suit of skin using the flesh of all the dead Dean clones over the years.

** Doedre's Skin lets players emulate the witch's fondness for creating cursed effigies. Doedre was burned at stake, but her spirit manifested physically multiple times after her original death.

** There's an obscure villain called Jane Doe who kills, skins her victims, and then wears their skin while assuming their identity. It needs to be specified that this isn't a [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]-style getup -- the skin is completely preserved, to the point that Jane [[MasterOfDisguise appears perfectly like the original person, down to the hair (including facial hair) and voice]].

* Leatherface from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' makes his namesake mask from human skin. And since dead skin goes bad over time, he's in constant need of new material.

* Ed Gein, a murderer and grave-robber who was eventually used as the basis for [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], and [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Buffalo Bill]], was actually more notorious for the fact that he skinned and dismembered corpses he dug up from his local cemetary and the fact that he made leather items out of those skins than he is for the two[[note]]Possibly three. He was suspected of murdering his brother, or at least leaving him to die in a fire, but this was never proven.[[/note]] actual murders he committed. Among the disturbing items police found furniture reupholstered with human skin, a belt made from nipples, vests and leggings made from the torso and legs of cadavers, a pair of lips on a window drawstring, skulls on the bed posts, the tops of skulls used as bowls, nine face masks (one of them made from the face of one of the women he was confirmed to have killed) and a nipple doorbell.