Cool Scars

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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.

Examples of Cool Scars include:

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! 5D's' look pretty cool, specifically Yusei’s.
• Fullmetal Alchemist has Scar, who has an "X"-shape scar on his face.
• Himura Kenshin, titular character of Rurouni Kenshin, has a scar on his cheek.
• Both Kakashi and Iruka Umino from Naruto and Naruto Shippuden, but there's too many characters to make the list.
• Nanaya has both this trope and cool eyepatch.

Comic Books

• Batman's rogue gallery has Two-Face, who has half a scar running down one-half of his face.
  • Another Batman villain, Victor Zsasz, immortalizes each kill he makes by carving tally marks into his skin.

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.
• In The Dark Knight, the Joker relates where he got those scars.

Myths and Legends

• Kuchisake-onna's scar spreads across her whole mouth.

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 during his fight with Terra, the latter blasted his face out with a spell.
  • Saïx also has an "X"-shape scar on his face.
• Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake.
• Baiken has a scar over her left eye.

Western Animation

• Zuko’s burn scar from Avatar: The Last Airbender, even though he got it from his Jerkass 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.
  • Song, 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.