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== Comic Books ==

* [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America's]] has a few enemies that qualify:

* Sin, the daughter of ~~[[Captain America (comics)|Captain America's]]~~ [[Arch Enemy]] the [[Red Skull]], received horrible facial scars in an explosion when she tried to put her father's mind into Steve Rogers' body. She is now her father's daughter in every way.

** Sin, the daughter of [[Arch Enemy]] the [[Red Skull]], received horrible facial scars in an explosion when she tried to put her father's mind into Steve Rogers' body. She is now her father's daughter in every way.

** The Skull himself literally took on his infamous moniker after getting hit with his [[Hoist by His Own Petard|own Dust of Death]] after one skirmish with the Captain.<ref>or in this case, The Captain ''and'' Captain America, as Steve was currently operating under the identity of "The Captain" and John Walker was Cap at the time of the incident</ref>

** Early in the current (and present) Baron Zemo's career, during a fight between him and Cap, he fell into a cauldron of a caustic chemical called Adhesive-X and was left for dead by the hero. Zemo actually survived, due to the protective properties of his costume, but because he had lost his mask previously in the fight, his face was hideously marred, giving it the appearance of molten wax. Of course, in recent years, Zemo has changed from outright villain to Knight Templar now, but evil still made him ugly.

* [[Zig Zagged Trope|Zig-zagged]] in ''[[Thor|Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers]]''. Loki is withered, nearly toothless, and looks decades older than his biological mother. Then the evidence starts stacking that, in this [[Alternate Continuity|continuity]] at least, Odin intentionally warped and molded Loki into both ugliness and evil so that arrogant, brutish Thor would look better by comparison.

* [[Batman]] also has a few:

** Warren White, aka the Great White Shark. Originally a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] arrested for embezzling millions, he thought he could get off easy if he plead insanity; [[Wrong Genre Savvy| a mistake few criminals in Gotham are dumb enough make.]] The horrors of Arkham quickly ''drove'' him insane, and an assault by another inmate resulted in him locked in a freezer. By the time anyone found him, the advanced frostbite and injuries cost him his nose, lips, hair, and several fingers, giving him the hideous appearance of a shark and driving him irrevocably mad. He proceeded to embrace his condition by filing his teeth into points, calling himself the Great White Shark, and started to use his business connections as a liaison and fence for inmates, becoming one of Arkham's most dangerous residents without even having to leave.

** With Two-Face it's either a case of this Trope of Being Ugly Makes You Evil, [[Depending on the Writer]]; some versions claim Harvey Dent was originally was an honest lawyer and a trusted ally of Batman, others say he had a darker personality bottled up inside that made him corrupt and dangerous. In the latter case, the scarring of his body and soul brought that corruption to the surface, creating Two-Face.

* [[Doctor Doom]]: After an accident caused by his own pride and hubris left his face scarred, he fashioned himself a mask to conceal what was, in his eyes, no longer unblemished. Sadly, in his hast to don the mask, he didn't wait for it to cool from the forge that was used to make it, destroying his once handsome features forever.

* [[Iron Man]]'s enemy and [[Dating Catwoman| former lover Whitney Frost]], aka Madame Masque is a terrorist leader with an origin similar to Doom's; a plane crash horribly disfigured her face, forcing her to wear a golden mask (provided by the gold-obsessed criminal leader Mordecai Midas) to conceal it. The scars have since been healed via surgery, but she still wears the mask to continue using her ''nom de plume''.

** When Calvin Zabo, Marvel's version of Mister Hyde, transforms into his villain identity, his face twists and convulses into a horrid, angry scowl that matches his uncontrollable temper.

== Film ==