Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,612
edits
Genuine Human Hide: Difference between revisions
image markup, added example
m (remove unneccessary quote box template) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (image markup, added example) |
||
| (19 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
▲[[File:Leatherface_1129.jpg|link=The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|right]]
{{quote|''I made dress from a choir girl's skin.
''I wore it to church, [[Captain Obvious|the preacher said I sinned]].
''Father forgive me for my fashion crime.
''Your skin is so nice I'll use yours next time.
|[[One-Eyed Doll]]|Be My Friend}}
Some people are [[Serial Killer|a bit bent in the head]]. These people are often living incarnation of [[Nightmare Fuel]] in any case, but the best... well... if best is the word to use here... perhaps "most effective" methods of making them even [[Squick
The possibilities are horrific to contemplate, but include masks, clothing, lampshades, and so on.
See also [[Flaying Alive]]. Related to [[Skeletons in
---- ▼
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Akuma from ''[[D
* [[Anatolia Story|Zuwa]] from the Kaska/[[Spell My Name
* Youaltepuztli Nahualpilli from the anecdotes of ''[[Saint Seiya:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There's an obscure ''[[
** At one point in [[Grant
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[The Sandman]]'' featured a one-issue story called "Collectors" that was about a [[Serial Killer]] convention. One of the killers who attends (he's been dubbed "Flay by Night" by the press) is a nationally famous doctor who has treated presidents and congressmen. The fact that he likes to wear "handmade leather ties" was once commented upon during one of his many talk-show appearances. He makes the ties himself, out of the skin of his victims. And he's got over a hundred of them.
* Carrick in ''[[No Hero]]'' was shown in a chair made with human skin with faces.
== [[Fan
* ''[[
* The ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'' has Buffalo Bill (so named because he likes to "skin his humps") trying to make a "woman suit" out of the skin of his victims in a strange attempt at transformation. Hannibal Lecter also wore a policeman's faceskin in one scene.
* ''[[Repo!
* Leatherface from ''[[
* In the first ''[[Men in Black (
* The ''Necronomicon'' as seen in the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' movies is bound in human skin, with the face forming the front cover.
* In ''[[Terrifier]]'', Vicky arrives to take Tara and Dawn home but is lured into the basement by Art. There, she discovers what she believes is an injured Tara, but it is actually Art, who had severely mutilated the Cat Lady and is wearing her scalp and breasts.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The Eelfinn in the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series wear a lot of decorative leather. It is strongly implied that they obtain this from people who forget to negotiate the price for their services.
* As part of the Voigt-Kampff psychological battery in ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'', Deckard directs a subject's attention to his briefcase, then declares it to be "100% genuine babyhide" [[Invoked Trope|to gauge her reaction]].
* The Canim from the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' series often wear human skin. They also use it to write letters on, including supposedly-friendly diplomatic messages to humans.
* In [[Cornelia Funke]]'s ''[[Reckless]]'', Jacob fights the Tailor, a blade-fingered monster who wears the skin of his victims.
* House Bolton in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' is associated with this. Their sigil is a flayed man and older lords of the Dreadfort would wear cloaks of human skin.
** {{spoiler|Ramsay Snow (aka the Bastard of Bolton) seems to have taken up the tradition, sending Asha Greyjoy a patch of her brother's skin and claiming to have made Mance Rayder a cloak from the skin of his six spearwife companions.}}
* In Gregory Maguire's ''Son Of A Witch'', sequel to ''[[Wicked (
* 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}}.
== [[Live
* The Slitheen from ''[[
* The third part of the Reaver M.O. in ''[[Firefly]]'' (the first two being raping people to death and eating their flesh, and if you're lucky it's in that order) is sewing their victims' skins to their clothing.
* In the fifth season of ''[[
** Don't forget the season one episode where a demon was taking human skins as disguises. But they kept failing on him and he'd leave behind a blob of human skin.
* The Skins in ''[[Roswell]]''.
* The Visitors in ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' appear to be doing this.
* ''[[Sherlock]]'' villain Jim Moriarty informs the person who was [[Kinda Busy Here|so inconsiderate as to phone him during his climactic showdown with Sherlock]] that he will have the caller skinned and made into shoes.
== [[Music]] ==
* The singer of "Be My Friend" by [[One-Eyed Doll]] makes a dress out of a girl's skin.
* The final verse of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX8KJJh86YU "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"] by [[Rolf Harris]]:
{{quote|''"Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred.
''Tan me hide when I'm dead.
''So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
''And that's it hangin' on the shed!}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** Similarly the Flayed Ones of the Necrons get their names because they strip the flesh from their enemies and drape themselves in the strips.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* There was a mad tanner in the video game ''[[
* Done in ''[[Echo Bazaar]]'' with the duelist gloves...maybe. The description is your character doubting that its REALLY human skin.
* Sakahagi in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'' wears an outfit made from the skins of Manikins he's killed.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
Line 71 ⟶ 81:
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Roman emperor Valerian I was captured at the Battle of Edessa by the Persian King Shapur I. At first, Shapur merely used Valerian as a human footstool. However, when Shapur grew tired of this game, he had Valerian flayed alive, then stuffed his skin with dung and straw and had it put on display in one of the larger temples in his capital.
* Ed Gein, a murderer and grave-robber who was eventually used as the basis for
* [[Complete Monster|Ilse Koch]], the wife of a Nazi concentration camp commander, had gloves and lampshades made out of inmates' skin.
* Priests of the Aztec fertility deity Xipe Totec would completely flay sacrificial victims and dress in their skins. On the plus side, before they were killed, the victims got several days of feasting and sex before the sacrifice.
Line 77 ⟶ 87:
** YMMV
* One of the plastinated figures in the "Body Worlds" museum exhibit is of a peeled human body holding its own skin.
* Gaius Flaminius wore a gallic scalp attached to his helmet. Unsurprisingly, when the Gauls had the chance to kill him in the Battle of Lake Trasimene, they took it.
* The [[Yakuza]] are well known for their full-body tattoos, an expensive and painful way they show their affiliation to their leaders. What isn't as widely known is, when a such a Yakuza is killed by a rival gang (or occasionally, [[You Have Failed Me|his own gang]]) the victim is often skinned, his skin preserved in some way, and the tattooed skin [[Dead Guy on Display|displayed in some private museum]], often after being sold on the black market.
{{reflist}}
Line 82 ⟶ 94:
[[Category:Obviously Evil]]
[[Category:Costume Tropes]]
[[Category:
| |||