Cool Scars

When a character gets a scar, it’s usually from a sword or knife fight (and the occasional fire) or a childhood accident. But just because they have a scar doesn’t mean that it can’t be freakin’ awesome looking. Mainly it has to have a cool shape or be in a very noticeable place or have a cool back story. Sometimes it may be a Mark of Shame or a Distinguishing Mark.

Compare and contrast with Scar Tropes and Rule of Cool.

Anime & Manga

 * Tigrerra from Bakugan has a scar over her left eye but it’s assumed that’s natural for Tigrerras to have.
 * While they’re not exactly scars the tracer marks from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds look pretty cool, specifically Yusei’s.

Films

 * Inigo Montoya has a pair on both sides of his face because he tried to fight the six-fingered man.
 * The colonel in Avatar has three on the right side of his face, their never explained but it’s assumed something scratched him.
 * In the Mask of Zorro, Diego Zorro cuts a Z into Raphael Montero’s neck, surprisingly twenty years later it still looks pretty fresh.
 * Also Alejandro Zorro cuts an M on Captain Love’s face.
 * Harry Potter’s lightning bolt shaped scar.

Animated Films

 * Cloud gets a scar in his face in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children when Loz shoots him in the face at point-blank range but Cloud’s goggles took most of the damage for him but still you can notice it several times later in the movie.
 * In Advent Children Complete Cloud gets cut in the face by Sephiroth during their Sword Fight scene, in several places including through the stomach.
 * Barret has two going down the side of his face.
 * Red XIII has one over his eye.

Video Games

 * Odette from Rune Factory Tides of Destiny has one on her face, supposedly she got it from playing kitchen by cutting a rock with a knife, the knife supposedly broke and hit her in the face.
 * Gerard has one right under his left eye.
 * Squall from Final Fantasy VIII receives one from Seifer during their Gunblade fight, Squall returns the favor.
 * Xigbar got his cool scars when.

Western Animation

 * Zuko’s scar from Avatar: The Last Airbender, even though he got it from his Jerk-ass dad and it looks like a rotting black eye and his eye can’t open all the way it’s still pretty cool.
 * Despite surviving an explosion and getting cut on some ice the cuts he receives from the Northern Water Tribe heal up completely.
 * A girl he meets has a scar on her leg from getting blasted as well.
 * And then there’s Aang’s scar on his back from getting shot with lightning.
 * Panthro in the 2011 version of Thundercats has a scar over his eye and many, many scars on the rest of his body.