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Also, in Warhammer40000 a dark eldar leader is portrayed with a mask made of human skin. - This trope will probably contain a number of borderline examples - how about we expand it a bit? - Grisly Trophy?
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There has to be an example of this somewhere in A Song Of Ice And Fire. If we're expanding it to 'wearing bits of your enemies', Roose Bolton counts.
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I wrote the trope specifically for headgear, but sure, it can be upped to wearing any body part anywhere, perhaps as a subtrope if enough examples are found. Would require a different title though.
Doesn't Hannibal Lecter wear the skins of his victims? Or was it a different story, of which I can only remember "it rubs the lotion on its skin"?
Necron Flayed Ones wear the rotting skins of former enemies, as a very efficient morale breaker.
Lots of Warcraft and Warhammer characters wear skulls on their armor, that might be different trope though.
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Doesn't Hannibal Lecter wear the skins of his victims? Or was it a different story, of which I can only remember "it rubs the lotion on its skin"?
Same story, different character. It was Jame Gumb aka "Buffalo Bill," who was making a woman suit.
There was a YKTTW up recently (whose name escapes me) that I seem to recall being similar as the expanded version of this trope, with the examples of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Reavers from Firefly.
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Real Life: It used to be customary in Native American warfare to take the scalps of your enemies and wear them on your belt.
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Real Life: It used to be customary in Native American warfare to take the scalps of your enemies and wear them on your belt.
If we are going to include this, then we should also include the cutting off of ears (and sometimes noses) of the enemy and often wearing them as a necklace. This came to world attention in modern times during the Vietnam War when the Vietnamese did it (and taught some Americans to do it).
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I think it goes back to WWII, with Japanese and Americans doing the same. This started a scandal when a soldier's girlfriend was photographed on the cover of Time with a Japanese skull.
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To expound on that last example, Batman accuses Dr. Simon Hurt of being actor Mangrove Pierce, but wearing the face of John Mayhew, the man who framed him for murder.
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At least in the movie version of Silence Of The Lambs, in addition to random surfer's comment, IIRC Lecter does use the skin of a guard's face as a disguise during his escape from the prison, towards the end of the film.
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This is mentioned in The Fifth Elephant: it is said that one of the emperors nailed a man's head to his own for a laugh. This merely draws a comment from Vimes that they must be pretty desperate for laughs up there in Uberwald.
I recently learned from Cracked that Hannibal (and Norman Bates) were inspired by a Mr. Ed Gein, who killed women to wear their skins.
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oh Con Air "One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat."
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reply: Also, in Warhammer40000 a dark eldar leader is portrayed with a mask made of human skin. - This trope will probably contain a number of borderline examples - how about we expand it a bit? - Grisly Trophy?
reply: There has to be an example of this somewhere in A Song Of Ice And Fire. If we're expanding it to 'wearing bits of your enemies', Roose Bolton counts.
reply: I wrote the trope specifically for headgear, but sure, it can be upped to wearing any body part anywhere, perhaps as a subtrope if enough examples are found. Would require a different title though.
reply: Doesn't Hannibal Lecter wear the skins of his victims? Or was it a different story, of which I can only remember "it rubs the lotion on its skin"?
Same story, different character. It was Jame Gumb aka "Buffalo Bill," who was making a woman suit.
There was a YKTTW up recently (whose name escapes me) that I seem to recall being similar as the expanded version of this trope, with the examples of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Reavers from Firefly.
reply: Real Life: It used to be customary in Native American warfare to take the scalps of your enemies and wear them on your belt.
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That is known as "Scalping" and has been practiced by several other cultures as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping
If we are going to include this, then we should also include the cutting off of ears (and sometimes noses) of the enemy and often wearing them as a necklace. This came to world attention in modern times during the Vietnam War when the Vietnamese did it (and taught some Americans to do it).
reply: I think it goes back to WWII, with Japanese and Americans doing the same. This started a scandal when a soldier's girlfriend was photographed on the cover of Time with a Japanese skull.
reply: YKTTW Bump.
reply: To expound on that last example, Batman accuses Dr. Simon Hurt of being actor Mangrove Pierce, but wearing the face of John Mayhew, the man who framed him for murder.
reply: At least in the movie version of Silence Of The Lambs, in addition to random surfer's comment, IIRC Lecter does use the skin of a guard's face as a disguise during his escape from the prison, towards the end of the film.
reply: This is mentioned in The Fifth Elephant: it is said that one of the emperors nailed a man's head to his own for a laugh. This merely draws a comment from Vimes that they must be pretty desperate for laughs up there in Uberwald.
I recently learned from Cracked that Hannibal (and Norman Bates) were inspired by a Mr. Ed Gein, who killed women to wear their skins.
reply: oh Con Air "One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat."