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Compare [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]], [[Knuckle Tattoos]]. See also [[Scars Are Forever]], [[Mark of Shame]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Zaraki Kenpachi from ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' has a scar straight down the left side of his face, going from his hairline down to his jaw. Hisagi Shuuhei has three vertical parallel scars on one side of his face (from a Hollow attack fifty years before), apart from a tattooed horizontal line across nose and cheeks and a number 69.
** One character who has scars purely for the cool factor is Tsubaki, one of Orihime's Shun Shun Rikka. He springs into existence with a cool-looking facial scar down the side of his face, despite never having fought before.
** [[Badass Grandpa]] Yamamoto is also covered in scars, which is expected considering that he has been alive and in battle for thousands of years. While he isn't evil, [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|he isn't exactly what you would call good either]].
** [[Mad Scientist]] Mayuri Kurotsuchi is shown to have what appear to be surgical scars criss-crossing his entire body in the brief scene he is shown without his [[Evil Makeover|creepy make-up]] on.
** Nel has a scar on her forehead from when {{spoiler|Nnoitra broke her mask and kicked her out of Las Noches.}}
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* Himura Kenshin, the hero of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin (Anime)|Rurouni Kenshin]]'', has a single X-shaped scar on one cheek (hence the alternate title for some North American versions of the show, ''Samurai X''). By contrast, one of the series' chief antagonists, Makoto Shishio, is so heavily scarred that his body is kept wrapped and bandaged at all times, save for his eyes and mouth.
** Specifically, Shishio is burned, not mechanically scarred.
* Naraku (bad guy) from ''[[Inu Yasha (Anime)|Inu Yasha]]'' has a large spider-shaped scar on his back. This dates back to his days as a human (despite Naraku technically being a [[Hive Mind]]...) and extends to all his "incarnations", parts of his body given will and intelligence. (The picture above shows Kagura, one of the incarnations. Though Kagura herself evolves more into an [[Anti -Hero]] than a proper villain, she is still forced to reluctantly serve Naraku out of self-preservation).
* Luffy (good guy) from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' has a small scar under his eye; the manga originally began with him cutting his face to prove himself to be a man, but this was cut out of the anime. His {{spoiler|grandfather (good guy but reluctant villain) has a similar scar over his eye}}. Also, Coby, another good guy, received an X-shaped scar. X-shaped scars tend to pop out in the series, possibly as a tribute to ''[[Rurouni Kenshin (Anime)|Rurouni Kenshin]]'', on which Eiichiro Oda (the author) worked as an assistant.
** Roronoa Zoro possesses a huge scar across his chest from his first bout with Mihawk (which he tried to poorly patch up by himself at first). Later on, he gains scars on his ankles from his attempt to cut his feet off to escape a villain's trap.
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** In a later [[Backstory]] arc we see that Sanzo's body's been covered in scars since his teenage years. Thankfully they're all below his neckline and covered up by his abundant robes, so his handsome face can resume charming fangirls like before.
** Gojyo has two small scars under one of his eyes, from when his stepmother tried to kill him. His hair is usually long enough to hide them if he tilts his head a certain way, but he doesn't always.
* Tsume in ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain (Manga)|Wolfs Rain]]'' has a large cross-shaped scar on his chest, which is seen in both his true wolf form and his human disguise. The younger wolf Toboe says it looks cool, but it is not until near the end of the series (in episode 29, one of the OVA bonus episodes) that we learn the reason he carries it. {{spoiler|After Toboe dies, Tsume spends some time alone with his friend's body, and confesses to it (and the audience) that the other wolves of his pack scarred him for cowardice when he tried to run away instead of saving his companions from hunters.}}
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' {{spoiler|Sensui's scars are multiple, as you'd expect of a villain; however, they are entirely covered by his shirt, as you'd expect of a good guy (because he ''used'' to be one). Itsuki becomes scarred over his eye from taking Kuwabara's Rei-ken: a simple heroic scar. Mukuro's scars are also "bad guy" scars that cover half of her body; however, seeing as how she got them (by [[Broken Bird|pouring acid over herself to prevent her "father" from raping her as a child]]), as well as her usual hiding of them, makes them "good guy" markings}}. Kurama temporarily gets a heroic X on his cheek as well (giving him a strong resemblance to Kenshin).
* In ''[[Black Jack (Manga)|Black Jack]]'' Dr. Kuroo Hazama aka Black Jack is a good guy who sometimes [[Jerkass Facade|poses as a bad guy to keep his reputation...]] and is ''massively'' scarred all over his body and face, to the point his skin has some different colored spots. {{spoiler|He actually got these scars as a child, when a bomb exploded and almost killed him and his mother; he decided to become a doctor after finishing his rehab.}}
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* Good guy Mugen receives a scar (well, three parallel ones) on his cheek from an enemy with knuckle claws in the three-part finale of ''[[Samurai Champloo (Anime)|Samurai Champloo]]''.
** Bad guy Umanosuke, leader of the three brothers antagonizing Mugen, however, has a lidless left eye, apparently the inadvertent result of his encounter with Mugen. When his eyepatch comes off, revealing it, he becomes even more unbalanced than before.
* Kakoyin from ''[[Jo JosJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' gets vertical scars from an attack by Geb, the water based Stand used by N'Dour, the blind assassin. Kakoyin, in a realistic moment not often seen in manga has to wear sunglasses to cope with the non-permanent damage to his eyes.
** Okuyasu has a X-scar on his face, but while he is strong and can erase things with a swing of his right hand, he also is rather... lacking in the thinking department.
** And in ''Steel Ball Run'' (Part 7), [[President Evil]] Valentine has an American Flag scar on his back. Probably the main reason for him being a [[Villain With Good Publicity]] despite being an evil lunatic who (among many other things) forced himself onto a 14 year-old girl.
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* C.C. from ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'' has a scar of the Geass sigil placed beneath and partially on her left breast and completely covered if she wears even a midriff-baring top. Particularly relevant as she's got a [[Healing Factor]] that lets her come back from the dead, yet this one scar never fades, {{spoiler|probably because it was inflicted just before she was tricked into becoming an immortal, and appropriately enough seems to heal when she loses her powers most of the way through the series.}}
* ''[[Glass Mask (Manga)|Glass Mask]]'' plays with the trope. Maya's mentor Chigusa Tsukikage has half her face horribly scarred after the accident that ended her brilliant acting career (bad scar), but aside of looking creepy with her hair covering the burned half of her face and being the acting version of a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]], isn't actually a bad person per se.
* Shiro Takamachi of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has numerous scars all over his body from his [[Triangle Heart 3 Sweet Songs Forever|bodyguard days]] which we only catch a glimpse of when he takes a bath. He's also the kind and [[Open -Minded Parent|open minded father]] of Nanoha, a very [[Happily Married]] man, and definitely a good guy.
* Subverted somewhat in ''[[Gundam 00]]'' by Sergei Smirnov, a Russian lieutenant colonel with a facial scar fit for a Bond villain...who turns out to be one of the most sensible, intelligent, and humane characters in the show.
** Also, {{spoiler|[[Worthy Opponent]] Graham "Mr. Bushido" Aker gets ''several'' burn scars on the left side of his face and body during the first season finale, which is why he uses a [[Mask Power]]. [[media:Gundam_00_Second_Season_-_21_-_Large_38.jpg|We see them clearly in episode 21]].}}
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* Not ''entirely'' sure if this is a proper example or not, but here goes. Hinako Aikawa, female lead of ''[[Bitter Virgin]]'' has a scar on her stomach which is the result of a C-section. Hinako was a victim of [[Abusive Parents|sexual abuse]] to the extent that she got pregnant ''twice'' before the age of 16. We see it only twice in the course of the series.
* Mello (bad guy... [[Black and Grey Morality|well]], [[Evil Versus Evil|sort of]]) from ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' gets a particularly nasty burn scar over half of his face from blowing up his own hideout to escape capture by the police.
* Wei in ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Than Black]]'' is something of a [[Psycho for Hire]] and has a nasty burn over half of his face (and likely the rest of his body) following an encounter with electric-powered [[Anti -Hero]] Hei. Also, Wei's power is a form of [[Bloody Murder]] and so his arms are covered with scars from his constant cutting of himself, although those scars are usually hidden under clothing.
** Amagiri, a morally ambiguous [[Anti -Villain]] generally kept one eye [[Eyes Always Shut|shut]], suggesting some kind of injury there (although he did open it occasionally]], and at the end of the first season, was seemingly killed in a fire. When he reappears in the interquels, he wears a large [[Eyepatch of Power|patch]] over that eye/general area and has lost all of the hair on his head, and has visible scars on his head and face.
** And if you were paying attention during Hei's [[Shirtless Scene]] in the second season ([[Even the Guys Want Him|And don't even try to pretend]] [[Memetic Sex God|you weren't]]), he has quite a few scars on his back. Definitely falls into the category of [[Anti -Hero]] scars.
** Mr. Smith, a villainous CIA agent in the second season generally wears sunglasses which cover the fact that while one his eyes is normal, and is blue, the other is milky white and probably nonfunctional, and has a nasty-looking scar running across it.
* Domon Kasshu from ''[[G Gundam]]'' has a cross-shaped scar on his face. Jerk in several shades that go from [[Jerkass]] to [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]], but mostly good.
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** China has a single but very large scar on his back, {{spoiler|apparently given to him by Japan}}.
* Tsukune of ''[[Rosario to Vampire (Manga)|Rosario to Vampire]]'' has scars all over his body from several ''very'' close brushes with death. His clothes cover all of them, making him a good guy.
* In ''[[Franken Fran (Manga)|Franken Fran]]'', Fran Madaraki has a number of scars across her body, the most notable being a [[Glasgow Grin|Glasgow smile]]; they're actually still stitched, because she's a [[FrankensteinsFrankenstein's Monster]]. Despite certain [[Literal Genie]] tendencies, she is committed to saving lives like a good doctor should. It's best not to ask what [[Body Horror|kind of life]] - what matters to her is that you're alive.
** Both [[Blade Below the Shoulder|Vero]][[Action Girl|nica]] and [[Ax Crazy|Gav]][[Blood Knight|rill]] have similar scars.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', Xanxus has scars all over his body that appear when his anger reaches its apex. He's the [[Big Bad]] for the second arc, and somewhat of a {{spoiler|[[Wild Card]] / [[Aloof Ally]] in the new arc}}.
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* Eureka, from ''[[Eureka Seven (Anime)|Eureka Seven]]'', suffers "vein" scars which cover half of her left body (including her face) after an incident in episode 19 and remains that way until the final episode whereby her scars are no longer visible on her.
* The main hero Tetsunosuke in ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane (Manga)|Peacemaker Kurogane]]'' received a scar under his right eye following his battle with Yoshida.
* In ''[[Until Death Do Us Part (Manga)|Until Death Do Us Part]]'', the [[Anti -Hero]] protagonist has a scar (technically multiple small scars) covering half his face from the {{spoiler|explosion}} that blinded him.
* Yasuri Shichika, protagonist of ''[[Katanagatari (Literature)|Katanagatari]]'', had his body scarred horribly in the last episode; though he covers most of them up, the one on his face is very prominent. He's virtually the only character in the series to receive such wounds.
* ''[[Claymore (Manga)|Claymores]]'' are all hideously disfigured with scars beneath their armor, presumably as a result of becoming half-yokai. Regardless of their character, they all have potential evil under their skins, and evil was certainly done to ''them''.
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** Usagi's rival Gennosuke, a rhinoceros, is missing most of his horn after an encounter with the blind pig swordsman Zato-Ino.
** Zato-Ino himself had his snout cut off in his first appearance, and has used a [[Red Right Hand|carved wood substitute]] since.
* John Gaunt, titular character of the series ''Grim Jack'', who had a classic villain scar to highlight his role as an [[Anti -Hero]].
** Not to mention that when he [[Back From the Dead|leaves Heaven to inhabit a clone someone else made of him]], an explosion later on creates the scar again.
** Or when he [[Back From the Dead|is reincarnated as Jim Twilly]], he takes a broken glass bottle and scars his own eye, commenting that his face didn't look right.
* John Hartigan from ''[[Sin City]]'' has a distinctive good-guy scar in his forehead... yep, also in the shape of an "X", whereas the villainous Manute has a horrible glass eye {{spoiler|to replace the one that Marv ripped out of him in "A Dame to Kill For".}}
** Marv has plenty of his own scars, but he is a [[Anti -Hero|bad good guy]].
* Perhaps the most famous comic book "evil" example is [[Doctor Doom|Victor Von Doom]]. Accounts tend to vary, but the generally accepted story is that the experiment that blew up in his handsome face in his youth only caused a small scar. However, he was so vain that he [[Minor Injury Overreaction|chose to cover it up forever in a steel mask]]. The ironic thing is that he put the mask on while it was still hot from the forge, which ''really'' messed his face up, and made wearing the mask necessary.
* In issue 200 of ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'', protagonist John Constantine received a single 'good scar' vertically upward on his left cheek.
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* [[Deadpool]]: After an infusion of Wolverine's [[Healing Factor]], the cancer that was killing Deadpool was cured... until it came back full force and left his entire body scarred. As a result of his body fighting the cancer off and the cancer coming back, Deadpool's scarred from head to toe--and because his cancer effectively ''is'' his healing factor, his exact scars and disfigurements shift and warp. The extent [[Depending On the Artist|depends on the artist]], ranging from light scratches to discolored patches to full-on tumors (onlookers who don't know what to expect often vomit at the sight of him unmasked). Plus, they work as both since he's somewhere between anti-hero and bad good guy.
** Speaking of Deadpool, there's DC's Deathstroke (Slade Wilson, inspiration for the aforementioned DP), missing his right eye which puts him in [[Red Right Hand]] territory. On the other hand, he does keep the socket covered 100% of the time, which could be why no one can seem to agree if he's a villain or a good guy (though no one would stretch to call him a hero).
* [[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher's Herr Starr]] is, by the end of the series, lacking one eye, one ear, one leg, his genitals, and has a scar on his bald head that makes him a walking penis joke. The eye scar is particularly ominous.
** And the title character loses an eye partway through the comics.
* Early in the early-2000s Image run of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage]]'' comic, Raphael has half his face shot off by the Foot Clan and spends the rest of the run resembling [[Batman|Two-Face]].
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* [[Hawkman|Fel Andar]], the [[Continuity Snarl|fake Hawkman]], has a generic evil slash scar over one of his eyes.
* Flynn "Flyin'" Ryan from ''[[Steelgrip Starkey and The All Purpose Power Tool]]'' is a Vietnam War veteran with a scarred "R" in his forehead. It was done out of defiance when he and his fellow prisoners were ordered to make an anti-American propaganda video.
* In ''[[Three Hundred300 (Film)|Three Hundred]]'', Leonidas ends up with a scar from his brow to his cheek, but the eye remains intact. Delios isn't quite so lucky.
* The New52 incarnation of Black Manta has three equidistant diagonal scars on his face -- implicitly from his archenemy [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]]'s trident.
 
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* When Dr. Weir comes back for the final showdown in the gravity chamber in ''[[Event Horizon]]'', he's [[Bald of Evil|completely bald]], [[Full Frontal Assault|completely naked]], and has nasty scars all over him.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' sports a scar down half his face, {{spoiler|received during the Cossack assault on the protest early in the film, and the book.}}
* [[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr.]] Tolian Soran, the main baddie of ''[[Star Trek Generations (Film)|Star Trek Generations]]'' has a long windy scar down the middle of his face.
** Nero, the villain from the ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'' reboot, has some pretty evil scars on his head, including two rows of tooth marks and a missing chuck of ear. Many more Romulans were going to feature scars, but [[JJ Abrams]] vetoed their character designs out of fear of invoking this trope.
* Rare female example: Latika, the love interest in Danny Boyle's ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'', is {{spoiler|attacked with knives by vengeful gangsters who, presumably, intend to disfigure her as punishment for running away from her crime-lord boyfriend}} - and receives a perfect slim, elegant slash down the side of her face that actually manages to ''accentuate'' her high cheekbones.
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** He was born deformed and that's what he's covering up, not scarring...
** In some of the movies it's actually an acid burn, so it counts.
* The [[Anti -Hero]] Dustfinger from ''[[Inkheart (Literature)|Inkheart]]'' had his face "decorated" by the villain's sadistic [[Knife Nut|henchman]]. He has three light, curved lines across his face. The narrator describes this as giving the impression of something glass that had been cracked and then stuck back together. While these do count as "Good Scars", they do cause most people to automatically distrust him ([[Wild Card|not that their instincts would be wrong]]).
* In P.C. Hodgell's ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'', heroine Jame picks up a classic Good Scar in book 3 (vertical below the left eye).
* Subverted with Carnival of Alan Campbell's ''[[Deepgate Codex]]'' series. Her entire body is covered in knife scars {{spoiler|most of which are self-inflicted}}, and she also has a thick rope burn around her neck {{spoiler|which is the sole physical remnant of [[Abusive Parents|her father's abuse]]}}. Characters who are close to her often remark that she is beautiful in spite of (and even because of) these scars, and that they show {{spoiler|that she really is a kindhearted person despite her horrible reputation}}.
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* Played with in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]''. Michael takes the blame for a rather petty incident in the first book to spare a near stranger the punishment and gets flogged as a result, leaving rather graphic scars all over his back. This is no big deal until {{spoiler|he's rather unfairly tattooed as an unredeemable criminal}} at which point everyone sees his scars and assumes they must have been legal punishment for some unspeakbly horrid crime.
* Subverted in ''[[The First Law]]'' in which more or less ''every'' major character has at least one ugly scar, whether they're good or bad. Logen in particular is more or less one big walking scar and is described as horrendously ugly by many other characters {{spoiler|though his status as a good guy is ''very'' questionable.}}
* A young Vlad the Impaler in ''[[Count and Countess (Literature)|Count and Countess]]'' sustains heavy wounds on his throat and loses part of his ear. It's not long after these events that he makes the jump to [[Anti -Villain]].
 
 
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** However, in the original series of ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', the (evil) Lieutenant Sulu of the [[Mirror Universe]] has a scar running down the side of his face.
** [[Mirror Universe]] [[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Tucker]] had scars/burns from delta radiation due to that universe's less-that-safe warp technology. The scars were an [[Shout Out|homage]] to "The Menagerie", where Captain Pike was crippled and badly disfigured by the same type of radiation.
* Alternate-future Peter of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' has a pretty evil-looking scar that runs the length of his face between his eyes (despite being able to completely heal any wound instantly). But he's an [[Anti -Hero]] in that timeline, so he can get away with it.
** It's also possible that Alternate!Peter never met Claire and therefore can't heal, or that he got the scar before meeting her.
** Or he may have deliberately not healed it, since (at least at the beginning of the episode) he is deeply embittered and apathetic about the possibility of changing anything by using powers.
* General Burkhalter (one of the more competent officers) in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' has a long scar running down from just above his ear to his jawline<ref> The (Jewish) actor actually received the scar when beaten up by Nazi thugs.</ref>. Klink also has a dueling scar ''somewhere'', but given that this is Klink it's probably on his back.
* Exception: in ''[[Highlander (TV)|Highlander: The Series]]'', Kronos, probably the most megalomaniacal [[Card -Carrying Villain]] immortal out there (and leader of the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Four Horsemen]]), has a classic good guy scar: a single line, clean, starting above his eye and ending below it without damaging the eye itself.
* John Locke of ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' has a scar over his right eye that he received during the plane crash.
** It's a very evil-looking scar, but he isn't actually evil himself. The scar might serve to mark him as Jack's antagonist for much of the series, or it might be {{spoiler|foreshadowing, as he ends up dying and being possessed later by the Man In Black.}}
* In the alternate universe of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' seen in "The Wish", Doppel Buffy has a classic evil scar, extending from above her mouth, through both her lips, and down to her chin. This serves to remind us that without [[The Power of Friendship]], the Slayer is no fun at all.
** Spike has a very hard-to-see scar on his left eyebrow. This is because [[James Marsters]] has it in real life and [[Throw It In|they decided to keep it in]] because it made the character look cooler. They had to work his vampire makeup around it and ended up accentuating it whenever he puts on his gameface. Explained in a comic book limited series as being tagged with a magical weapon so even being a vampire wouldn't heal it up right.
** Wes also has a scar, this one of the [[Anti -Hero]] variety, a thin red line on his neck, from when {{spoiler|Justine cut his throat after he gave Conner to her in order to save him}}. It's not always noticeable, though
* In ''[[Dollhouse (TV)|Dollhouse]]'', Dr. Saunders has numerous thin scars across her face as a result of an attack by Alpha. They seem to be getting less noticeable each episode, and really don't do much to detract from her beauty.
** In reason episodes, this was revealed to be {{spoiler|the MO of the person Alpha was before he became an Active; he inflicted this on a kidnapping victim he didn't manage to kill}}. Later on, {{spoiler|he did it to Victor, too}}.
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** We haven't seen it in a while, though, and it wasn't there in that dream sequence with Lisa towards the beginning of S6. Possibly we're meant to think it faded eventually, or [[Shrug of God|they just plumb forgot]]...or it's there and just didn't count in a dream, and we've just somehow not seen it for two and a half season. [[Yaoi Fangirl|Some of us]] [[Fetish Fuel|would like it to come back]].
** If it's still there which it might not be, maybe we aren't shown it because the makeup crew can't be bothered to apply it properly on a regular basis. If there were a scene centering around the hand print or Dean showing his bare arm it would be worth it, but for a pointless cameo every now and then, probably not.
* The title character of ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' missing a massive chunk of his right thigh. To compliment his [[Anti -Hero]] character, the injury is disfiguring and unpleasant to see (bad), but it's hidden by his clothes (good). He had the choice to lose the leg and get a [[Artificial Limbs|prosthetic]], a "bad" scar, but refused. Ultimately, the disfiguring surgery was chosen against his will, causing him [[Scars Are Forever|lifelong]] [[Achey Scars|pain and suffering]], a heroic trait, but he uses it as an excuse to be an [[Doctor Jerk|amoral misfit]], like a villain.
** He also has a noticeable scar {{spoiler|on his neck after getting shot in the finale of season 2}}.
* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' has two examples. In the first season episode ''Eyes'' we have Col. Ari Ben-zayn, an [[Evil Brit]] with a wicked scar starting below his eye, and continuing down the cheek past his mouth. It's such a long and deep scar that it obviously affects his facial movements on that side. In ''Ceremonies of Light and Dark'', a third season episode, there's Boggs, a bad guy with a similar scar to Ben-zayn's. However, this one wasn't put on the character on purpose, it's a real scar ([[Big Damn Heroes|the actor got knifed in the face in real life when he dove into a crowd to prevent a rape]]).
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* Averted in ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'': the player can create a character with scars that range anywhere from tiny and stylish to monstrous gashes.
** Interestingly, no matter what background you select for Shepard, the manner in which you got that scar is never addressed.
** The sequel has a great deal of fun with this. First Mordin has a classic [[X Marks the Hero|X-shaped]] scar and is missing the tip of one of his cranial horns, then Garrus gets some facial injuries that become evil-looking scars during your initial encounter with him, although he's a good guy. Even Commander Shepard himself falls to this: you get small facial scars at the start of the game, and you actions determine what happens. Doing [[Neutral Good|Para]][[The Messiah|gon]] actions will make the scars look a lot softer to the point where they'll [[Beauty Equals Goodness|disappear completely]]. Doing [[Chaotic Neutral|Rene]][[Anti -Hero|gade]] actions will cause some [[Red Right Hand|gnarly looking evil scars, eventually becoming massive burns]] and your [[Red Eyes Take Warning|eyes will turn red]]!
** Jack also has some scars mixed in along with the [[Tattooed Crook|tattoos]]. From the [http://i46.tinypic.com/2q3usqr.jpg precision and locations], they appear to be surgical scars from her time at the Teltin facility.
** [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Wrex]] has a series of scars on the right side of his face that make him look evil, though he's a good guy, especially in the sequels.
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** Also in ''Apollo Justice'': {{spoiler|Kristoph is revealed to have a ''Skull'' shaped scar on the back of his hand.}}
*** {{spoiler|Actually, only the 'mouth' of the 'skull' is a scar. The rest is him stretching his hand.}}
* Adell from ''[[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories (Video Game)|Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]]'' has a pair of straight lines, one on each cheek, in a textbook example of good scars. They're also the reason why he [[He -Man Woman Hater|does not like girls]].
* Baiken, of the ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'' series, lost her right arm and an eye when she was a little girl, leaving her a good character with Evil Scars.
* Gato, a morally conflicted but typically antagonistic character of ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' series, has three large, parallel scars on his back, apparently the result of a bear attack. The scars are typically covered up by his shirt.
** Geese Howard, following the events of the original ''[[Fatal Fury]]'', has a nasty scar on his back, received when he was thrown off the top of Geese Tower. He shows it off in his intro pose.
* Averted in ''[[Planescape Torment]]'', in which the protagonist, known only as The Nameless One, is scarred horribly all over his body -- his skin is almost literally ''made'' of scar tissue from all the wounds he's taken over his millennia-long existence. Of course, you can [[Complete Monster|play him as a villainous monster]], but the possibility exists for him to be the [[The Cape|capiest cape that ever put on a (metaphorical) cape]].
** However, conversation options reveal that [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"|at least one part of him]] is (against all odds) completely intact.
* Vaida, the [[Broken Bird]] from ''[[Fire Emblem (Video Game)|Fire Emblem]]'', has a huge scar over the left side of her face. She starts out as a villain, but your Lord can [[Heel Face Turn|make her join their side]], and her supports reveal that she's no softie but ''does'' have feelings, as well as a fierce loyalty to those she cares for.
** Also, there's Hector's brother, Uther, with a scar across his forehead and another one across his nose. Black Fang's Legault has a double scar across his left eye, and Brendan Reed has dozens of them on his face alone. In contrast, the [[Big Bad]], Nergal, has {{spoiler|a bunch of really nasty burns all around his eye, which he hides with a turban}}
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** Played Straight: Arikos's scarred and blinded eye, earned just after his arrest when [[Hoist By His Own Petard|one of his children scars him up to prevent him from using any powers gained from running the cult he engineered as a ploy to have said children]]. Apparently charisma is a big component of Celeste magic.
* Vaelia, a female gladiator from ''[[Drow Tales]]'' has a three-clawed, down-from-the-eye scar.
* Kharisma Valetti of ''[[Something Positive (Webcomic)|Something Positive]]'' has burn scars that left her face with large darkened patches. Not so much good or evil as [[Laser -Guided Karma]].
* Nimmel in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', who lost his right eye and a good part of his face during an infernomancer attack. It's subverted here, because the scar is very nasty to look at.
* In ''[[Misfile (Webcomic)|Misfile]]'' Xaphrael has a large scar up the side of his face and crossing his eye. This type of scar can be good or bad, so let's check the tropes: [[Large Ham|Hammy entrance]], [[Cryptic Conversation|Cryptic and vaguely threatening conversation]], [[Manipulative Bastard|concealment of a crime that he has the main characters bang to rights on]], [[Hidden Agenda Villain|evasion of direct questions]], [[Kick the Dog|threatening to choke to death]] the resident [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] using his [[A Sinister Clue|left hand]]. Yep, those would be [[Big Bad|evil scars]].
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest (Roleplay)|Survival of the Fittest]]'' character Viktor Kurchatov is horribly scarred more or less all over his body from being burned. He's both depraved and bonkers. [[Anti -Villain|Bobby Jacks]] may be a subversion in that he possessed a scar of the 'straight across the cheek' variety before the game.
** Blood Boy could also count as an extreme example, as well. He covers a heavily mutilated face with a mask. And he's also fairly [[Ax Crazy]].
* Oran of ''[[Broken Saints]]'' fame has the common vertical eye (or "tear") scar, made in his youth during an attack from American bombers in the first Gulf War. Early on in the series, he gives his childhood friend Hassan one to match whilst suffering from cabin fever and copious amounts of guilt.
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* ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' good guy Hudson has a long scar down his face. His is particularly striking in that gargoyles wouldn't normally scar, as they heal each night when they enter stone sleep. {{spoiler|Hudson's scar was given to him by the Archmage, making it magical damage, thus likely why it did not heal--though it could also be that if such maiming damage "settles" it might not heal properly.}}
** On the other hand, the original (and villainous) Hunter, Gillecomgain, had three scars across his face, and while most Hunters of future generations are not so badly scarred, the masks they wear pay homage to their progenitor.
* Enzo/Matrix from ''[[Re Boot]]'' gets a scar across his left eye in his final Game cube as a kid. When the next season starts up, he and his companions have aged up via localized timeskip-the eye has been replaced with a bitchin' gold-colored cybernetic replacement, but the across-the-eye scar still remains. Matrix is very much an [[Anti -Hero]].
* Dr. Blight from ''[[Captain Planet and The Planeteers (Animation)|Captain Planet and The Planeteers]]'' looks perfectly normal ([[Evil Is Sexy|and in fact hot]])... until she moves the fringe covering the side of her face, revealing a severely scarred face.
* Given that Transformers can be repaired perfectly even if they're missing large parts of their body, scars are pretty unnecessary. However, ''[[Transformers Armada (Anime)|Transformers Armada]]'' Wheeljack retains the long scar across his Autobot symbol from the accident that led to his [[Face Heel Turn]]. However, it's also possible he made the scar himself ''after'' the accident, so it might not count.
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