Scars Are Forever: Difference between revisions

** Inversion: Vash's species is capable of regeneration, meaning he keeps all those scars by ''choice'' (as mementos, apparently).

*** Or not. It took Knives several decades in some kind of tank to recover after July, and Vash doesn't have money or a home base or any research on how his body works. He doesn't even know how to do the energy-gun arm thing. Maybe if he talked to the plants more often they'd tell him how to fix himself.

* In ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'', Tsukune is shown in the shower {{spoiler|with all the scars he got from attempting to protect Moka.}}

* C.C. from ''[[Code Geass]]'' has a [[Healing Factor]] that undoes any damage in a matter of minutes; the only exception being a Geass sigil-shaped scar beneath and partly on her left breast, which never heals. Eventually Lelouch (and the viewer) learn that she got it when {{spoiler|the nun who raised her back in the Middle Ages forced the Code onto her, making her immortal.}}

* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''Curse of [[Chalion]]'', Cazaril carries the scars from when he was flogged; it's used once to positively identify him.

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The Phoenix on the Sword]]", Thoth-Amon, a once powerful sorcerer, is taunted with this by Ascalante, who enslaved him.

* In ''[[After Dark]]'', Takahashi has an "eye-catching" scar on his right cheek. It was from a bike accident when he was young. {{spoiler|Korogi, however, has several marks on her back that were made by a branding iron.}}

* [[The Archmage|Ged]] of [[The Earthsea Trilogy]] has disfiguring scars down one side of his face, inflicted by an evil [[Living Shadow]] he summoned as a boy. He seems to regard them as a reminder of the cost of arrogance and misuse of magic.

* {{spoiler|The ''real''}} Martok's scar and lost eye in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''.

** Even though Martok has the '''option''' to remove said scar he chooses not to, as this exchange indicates:

'''Martok''': "There are limits to how far I will indulge you." }}

** In real life, the producers of ''Deep Space Nine'' offered JG Hertzler (the actor playing Martok) the same choice for his character, to spare him the lengthy process of applying the scar makeup. Hertzler refused, feeling that his character would never remove a battle scar. The writers went ahead and put that refusal in the script!