• This Afrin Nasal Spray commercial features a man whose head is transformed into a giant nose. As the commercial puts it, his "nose took over."
• The Capri Sun "Disrespectoids" ads. These basically consist of a kid either stepping on a Capri Sun pouch, trading a Capri Sun for something, or even simply throwing away a Capri Sun pouch... and being transformed into something. Fortunately, the tie-in flash games and cartoons show the kids getting along pretty well. They even see their transformations as "freaky powers". They even had a Grand Finale game where the kids were turned back to normal. All’s well that ends well, eh?
• Some Fruit-by-the-Foot ads have involved switching things with it, such as skis. In at least once this included someone's DNA, you can guess how that went.
• One of the most well-known instances of this trope was in Fruit Gushers commercials from the mid-1990s to the 2000s, which typically involved children eating the snack and their heads turned into a random fruits or other objects to emphasize the taste of the fruit snacks.
  • Because of how they used this trope, Gushers commissioned director Mike Diva and Imagine Entertainment to produce a 9-minute sponsored horror short film called "FruitHead", based upon the original commercial from 1995. It follows a former child actor named Jacob (played by Chester Collins) who takes revenge on a commercial director (played by Bradley Whitford) years after his head turned into a strawberry after eating a Gusher that was enchanted with dark magic to actually turn someone's head into a fruit.
• This disturbing Honda commercial has a podiatrist's patient reveal that after he bought his Honda, his right foot stiffened into a solid lead foot. In addition to the unsettling sight of his leg transitioning from flesh to metal at his ankle, he requires both of his hands to lift up his heavy foot, and it emits a loud ping when the doctor taps it.
• This Brazilian MTV promo has a man growing an eyeball out of his mouth while his arms stretch and deform.
• Natural Born Smoker, a British PSA from The '80s, features an eerie Blade Runner-esque Cyberpunk world where a future evolution of humanity exists, one that has several adaptations for smoking. These include a bigger nose to filter out impurities, self-cleaning lungs, extra eyelids to protect against irritation, a natural resistance to cancer and heart disease, and smaller ears because they don't listen.
• Qrazy Chocolates: Anything that eats an Aroma Eater ends up with more of them growing inside and emerging from the host's body, which we get to see happening to an unlucky Vanilla Gazelle in the former's introduction video.
• Modern Skittles commercials just won't give up on the body horror.
  • In "Harvest the Rainbow", a boy has a skittles tree growing out of his abdomen.
  • In "Chocolate the Rainbow", a guy who looks like and may be a humanoid piñata has been assaulted by a colleague who wanted the skittles he presumed were inside him.
  • In "French the Rainbow", a boy has skittles as teeth. A girl open-mouth kisses him just to eat his skittle-teeth.
  • In "Warp the Rainbow", a guy ages rapidly over the course of a few seconds because his roommate takes skittles from his skittle-filled hourglass.
  • In "Touch the Rainbow, an office worker turns everything he touches into skittles, including people.
• This◊ horrifying picture advising tourists visiting Suriname to use protection. The picture is a woman with multiple holes in her back. 6 of those holes have an infant inside of it. Not for people with trypophobia. It seems to be intentionally based on the Surinam Toad, which carries its eggs on its back in a thin layer of skin used for that purpose.
• Will It Blend?: In the episode "Tom's Hand", Tom decides to blend his own hand at the request of several viewers, so he is seen pulling off his own hand! The blended mix is red with blood and crumbled up bones and he warns the viewers "Don't drink this!"
• This UK advert for X-Cite breathmints that help you "avoid dog breath". For those wondering, a man sleeping on a couch realizes his breath smells and proceeds to gag and vomit up a snarling, filthy dog. No wonder it was banned!

• Creepazoids: By series 55, Major Buzzkill has been mutated by radiation into an deformed insect hybrid.
• Francis Bacon's Screaming Popes paintings show the distorted faces of popes apparently screaming in their own horror.
• The central image of the panel Hell from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights shows a huge man turned into a tree, with parts of his body as a huge eggshell with people dining inside of it.
• Salvador Dalí's Soft Construction with Boiled Beans from Premonition of the Civil War shows a huge giant who has no rump, just a trapezium-shaped nothingness in the middle, while his hands and feet appear in odd places.
• The Judgment of Cambyses by Gerard David shows a man being flayed alive.
• Théodore Géricault made some studies of chopped up heads, arms, and legs in preparation for The Raft of the Medusa.
• Francisco de Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son and The Disasters Of War show a lot of Malevolent Mutilation. Other artworks also show his fascination with deformity.
• A lot of Gabriel Grün's paintings add something extra to the figures (like bat wings or superfluous genitals) as commentary on real-world issues.
• René Magritte's Le Viol (The Rape) shows a woman's face having been replaced with a woman's body, nipples and crotch resembling eyes and a mouth.
• The melted faces of the people in Pablo Picasso's cubist paintings are also a memorable example.
• Zuccari's frescoes of Capital Sins and Hell in the duomo of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Italy has a man in the centre who is half flayed and still sits upright. At one point these paintings were covered up because they were thought to be too horrific.

Sculptures

• Fucking Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman shows hundreds of tiny puppets all in a symbolic depiction of the worst crimes mankind has ever committed.
• Nue Couchée is a surrealist take on the Reclining Venus pose, exaggerating it to highlight how artworks that play that trope straight depict women in painful positions for the sake of Fanservice. As a result, it's a hairless, fleshy mass with too many legs replacing its arms, head, and shoulders. Noticeable ridges shape what would be its spinal column and rear end, as well as the skinny waist, evoke the traditional beauty standard used for most Odalisques.

Performance

• The "Transfiguration" artistic performances, by French painter and performer Olivier de Sagazan, are focused on an artist altering himself his face, several times. The results are something reminescent to Lovecraftian creatures, overlapping with Nightmare Face and including copious amount of Nightmare Fuel.

• At the end of the Lamput episode "Animal X", Lamput traps the docs, a gorilla, and a banana in the docs' creature-merging machine and bait-and-switches them into thinking he's going to press the button to merge them all together. Then the docs' winged cat falls on the button, creating a two-headed doc gorilla wearing a banana peel skirt. The docs and the gorilla are not pleased.

• Big Finish Doctor Who: One story has the Sixth Doctor go through a "Freaky Friday" Flip with Davros, intentionally on the Doctor's part. He explains that Davros' body is in constant, agonizing pain like he, a man who has gone through some horrific stuff in his several hundred years, has never felt, and if he could kill himself at that moment, he'd seriously take the chance. Davros, meanwhile, doesn't have as much of a problem. He finds it motivating.

• Bosun's Journal: The decoratians, a creation of the brat barons during the broken era, were made to be essentially human houseplants. They're entirely sessile, spending their lives rooted in their pots, and their bodies are extensively sculpted in vitro to create aesthetically interesting patterns from their elongated, curving necks, protruding bones, and external, hyperextended ribs that interlock and move in complex patterns as they breathe.
• Constable Frozen: Anna's cheeks in cheeks get stretched... through space and time.

• One Bizarro (Dan Piraro) strip depicts a couple sitting in lawn chairs. The woman has a lobster claw for a right hand and antennae growing out of her forehead.
  Man: Offhand, I'd say you haven't been using sunscreen.

• A member of the East Germany Womens' Gymnastics team goes to the doctor.
  "Doctor, about those pills you've been giving us..."
  "Yes? Have you noticed any side effects?"
  "Two of them, actually. The first is that I've been growing hair in strange places."
  "Hm. Not entirely unexpected, but where exactly?"
  "On my balls, which is the other side effect I wanted to talk about."

• An early example of this in music is the English traditional song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", first released in Originally a dark parody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", it is now known primarily as an anti-war song. The eponymous Johnny is a young soldier who comes home from Ceylon (Sri Lanka today), the song gradually detailing injuries he suffered from the war until the second-to-last stanza reveals him to be an "armless, boneless, chickenless egg".
• The video for "Rubber Johnny" by Aphex Twin is this trope distilled to its essence. It's all from a night vision camera viewpoint as these unseen characters watch as this freakish, vaguely human thing with bulbous eyes and a twitchy disposition slowly goes from content to a body spasmy berserk rage, interspersed with scenes of a dog that happens to share the same traits. And that's only the beginning.
• The Aquabats!:
  • "Amino Man" is about a bodybuilder who becomes so huge he "runs out of skin to strain".
  Where are his eyes? Where are his eyes?
  Something's got to give
  • "Radiation Song" has lyrics about growing all sorts of nasty mutations during the nuclear post-apocalypse.
• Comedian Claudio Bisio's only music album Patè d'animo's cover features a humanoid being with a weird anatomy in a silly pose: It has one leg, with the other, way shorter, ending with Bisio's face, has Bisio's head protruding from the side of the torso while the location where the head should be is empty, and there' a third face of Bisio on the biceps of the right arm.
• Daft Punk gives us "The Prime Time Of Your Life". A young woman in a world, judging by her photographs, inhabited by skeletons decides to become one...using a razor. Once she gets her skin off, she dies. Her parents rush in, and the camera pans over the pictures again - everyone's normal. She was anorexic.
• The infamous video for DyE's "Fantasy" starts as what seems like a poolside hentai but quickly goes south as some teenage kids getting graphically turned into abominations. One girl seemingly escapes through a Portal Pool, only to encounter the source of the mutations and Go Mad from the Revelation; the mere sight of it (it's MILES high) is enough of a Brown Note to make her eyeballs explode into streaking lines of flames.
• Jay Foreman's "Skin Sofa" is a Black Comedy song about a man attempting to sell on eBay a sofa that's not only made out of human skin, but appears to be alive. He doesn't provide an explanation of what exactly it is or where it came from, all he knows is that it behaves like how normal skin would — it grows hair that needs to be shaved (and exfoliated to prevent ingrown hairs), it gets sweaty if you sit for too long on it, it can get blisters, peel, get sunburn in sunlight and goosebumps when it's cold, and he really wants to get rid of it before he can find out what happens when it dies. It's also got a nipple.
• The Slippermen from the Genesis song "The Colony Of Slippermen". They are Body Horror combined with a very literal version of Sex Changes Everything. The album's protagonist Rael becomes one after copulating with and consuming The Lamia, with the only cure being the removal of the offending member.
• The music video for IC3PEAK's "Fairytale" features a weird old woman that twists everyone and everything into fleshy abominations. The creator of this video has a fixation on this trope.
• The music video for Billy Idol's "Shock to the System" features Idol getting beaten up by the LAPD and his camera smashed (in an obvious allegory for the LA riots) before, in an apparent Homage to Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Stop Motion merging with his camera to form a weird cyborg-looking thing (with effects courtesy of Stan Winston). It's kinda messed up.
• Michael Jackson's transformations into a werecat and zombie in his music video "Thriller". And his real life facial transformations even more!
  • And his robot transformation in Moonwalker.
  • There is no end to the mayhem in Michael Jackson's mini movie Ghosts. Michael (as "The Maestro") pulls a few funny faces and then pulls his face off as if it were a mask. Later on he pulls his entire skin off and does a song and dance number as a skeleton, and then he turns into a ghoul. He turns into water and possesses the mayor (by having the mayor drink him - um, Squick). Then his arm bursts out of the mayor's chest and causes the mayor to turn into a ghoul. He turns back to normal (for Michael) and crumbles into dust - then he appears as a giant ghoul face which scares the "Mayor" into leaping to his doom.
    • It just gets weird when his nose starts crumbling.
  • The Jacksons' Torture. Early on, one of the brothers accidentally pushes his hand into a giant eyeball, getting his hand stuck in eye goo. He pulls it out, only to discover there's an eyeball in his palm.
• The entire video of Bacterial Contamination by Kanimiso P. Even scarier when you realize the context of the song. (ZCE)
• Argentinean rock band Kapanga's music video for "Postal" (from 2004's Esta!) has its protagonist being slowly turned into a cardboard person, as a metaphor for the deep poverty the lower classes of the country were suffering during the early TOTM.
• In Kool Moe Dee's "Go See the Doctor", Moe is forced to visit the titular doctor after contracting gonorrhea, but balks when he learns the treatment has to be injected anally. He quickly changes his mind when the doctor proceeds to describe what will happen to Moe's manhood if he refuses the shot, glazed with a coating of Black Comedy:

  He turned and said, in a real deep voice,
  "Have it your way, if that's your choice,
  And I'll put it down if you want me to put it.
  But don't blame me when it turns into a foot extended from the middle of your body.
  And the next time you see your cute hottie,
  You won't be able to screw, the only thing you can do is just kick her, so go take Karate!"

• Lemon Demon's CryptoSanta references the trope directly:
  Body horror, tendons snapping / Ribbons and wrapping, stocking stuffing / Skin is sloughing, bones are bowing / Something is growing / Something. Ohhhh!
• The Living Tombstone's video for Drunk is a prime example of this. And considering that the guest animator is JaimeR this isn't a surprise. Such horrors include...
  • The main character's head imploding while materializing a beer bottle and behaving like a deflated balloon after drinking his 4th drink and achieving a drunken state.
  • Him squashing and stretching into a terrifying skeletal form as he rants about losing more money then he can afford on alcohol and wondering if it was out of boredom or if he's really insecure about his appearance or something else entirely.
  • After that his head detaches from his body as it becomes a corkscrew and his body only showing up to pull the cork from the wine as his head returns to it's normal shape before being taken in by the wine itself.
  • Then said head pukes out eyeless and noseless copies of it’s self to form a human nautilus swimming in the wine before transforming again into his inner ear.
  • After his second trip to the bar, the main character starts to hallucinate red blood shot eyes staring at him and then proceeds to literally puke his face off revealing his skull as he laments about getting hungover and losing his friends but is willing to do it again despite himself.
  • The main character turns into his own brain as two hands with red eyes grab it forms back to his normal head looking distraught before reattaching to his body and going in a free fall.
• Metallica's "One" is about a soldier who lost his limbs and senses to a land mine. On life support in a hospital, unable to communicate or interact with anyone, he feels completely isolated and wishes he would be allowed to die.
• The Music video for MGMT's Flash Delirum involves two guys coming back home, one has a bandage over a wound, halfway through the video he removes the bandage to reveal a singing slit in his throat, a guy reaches down into his throat and pulls out a long,disgusting fish, it's something you don't want to watch while eating.
• The music video for "Ready, Steady, Go" by Paul Oakenfold, which was originally featured in The Bourne Identity. While the track itself is rather good, but the special effects tend to look off. Specially when the main character's face morphs from a baby to an adult.
• The Animated Music Video for Boys Latin by Panda Bear of Animal Collective involves people touching a sea anemone, causing anemone-like growths to form on their bodies.
• The end of Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" certainly qualifies. Biggest problem, other than the cannibalism itself, is that she's still very much awake and attempting to squirm even as the knife goes in....
• Then there's the end of Radiohead's "There There" video, which gives us the image of lead singer Thom Yorke turning into a tree complete with a twisted screaming expression permanently grafted onto the front.
• The concept of Lou Reed's video for "No Money Down" involves an edition of Reed tearing off his own skin in a grotesque manner to reveal a robotic version of himself.
• The original Hipgnosis cover to Sad Café's Misplaced Ideals album, which depicts a man tearing off his melting face to reveal a second face underneath. Somehow made even worse by the fact that Sad Café are a soft rock band, not some kind of confrontational punk or avant-garde group. Attracted controversy from record stores, who didn't want to display such a horrifying cover, and record companies in other territories, who opted for different covers (the "lady with glass of wine" cover in North America and the "family on the beach" cover in continental Europe). In Japan they released the album with the entire cover blacked out save for one of the man's eyes, which somehow makes it almost as bad if you know what the original cover looks like.
• The Talking Heads' "Seen and Not Seen" is one of the subtlest examples of body horror on this list, especially since it is delivered in a near monotone. It tells the story of a man who tries to mold his own face into the ideal he sees in the media using the force of his own will. He imagines that other people have the same ability, and mold their faces to suit their personalities. But then he comes to wondering if some people might have chosen their ideal poorly, and arrived at a face completely different from them, or could be stuck in transition between two faces, neither of which they want. The song ends with David Byrne intoning, "He wonders if he too might have made a similar mistake."
• The music video for Torul's All, which contains a woman in a mirror applying makeup. Halfway through the video the mirror woman's eyes bleed. Near the end she is seen as an old woman...possibly.
• The song The Invasion From Within by Tsunami Bomb was all about this, via a Puppeteer Parasite. The song was used in the US release of the original Disgaea but had nothing to do with the plot.
• The music video for House of Gold by Twenty One Pilots has the duo performing while missing their lower bodies, complete with their intestines hanging out.
• The full version of the "Rock DJ" music video by Robbie Williams, which involves Robbie stripping to get the attention of a female DJ. When he gets down to bare skin, he decides that isn't enough, so he begins to peel all of his flesh off, layer by layer, until he's left as an animated dancing skeleton. Naturally, this gets the DJ's attention.
• A music video by "Weird Al" Yankovic titled "Fat" (a parody of "Bad") has Al becoming a fat man. It's much creepier than that description alone would indicate.
• Implied in Zager and Evans' In The Year 2525, where humanity loses the need for things like limbs, eyes, teeth, and classic reproduction thanks to machines.

• In Celtic Mythology, Cuchulainn's "warp-spasm" was said to cause his legs to twist backwards, one of his eyes to swell to an enormous size and the other to be sucked into its socket, his mouth to stretch open down to his ribcage, his muscles to bulge up, and the skin of his throat and mouth to peel back forming a Glasgow Grin. People were terrified of Cuchulainn, and for good reason.
• Classical Mythology:
  • Mors is the Roman goddess of death (equivalent to the Greek Thanatos) and quite a terrifying sight to see; she has a female face, legs and arms, but no torso; to cover that up, she wears a human ribcage and pelvis.
  • Not only do the Graeae sisters look horrifying with ghostly grey skin and hair (not to mention the fact they were born elderly), they also have a single eye and tooth, which they share among each other.
• The Curupira has feet that are turned to face backwards, flaming hair, and green teeth.
• The Imbunche is a deformed human with its head twisted backwards, along with having twisted arms, fingers, nose, mouth and ears. The creature walks on one foot or on three feet (actually one leg and two hands) because one of its legs is attached to the back of its neck.
• Japanese Mythology has Hiruko, the eldest son of creator gods Izanagi and Izanami, who was born without bones. Izanami had broken the mating ritual by greeting Izanagi first (women were supposed to greet after men), which resulted in their firstborn being cursed. For the next ritual, Izanagi greeted first, and the results were much more favorable. As for Hiruko, his parents decided to cast him to the sea, but he survived, and ended up becoming Ebisu, one of the Seven Lucky Gods.
• The Malaysian Penanggalan — a monster sometimes interpreted as a vampire, sometimes as a witch — is an ordinary human woman by day, but by night, she's a hideous fetus-eater whose true form is a disembodied head with all her entrails dragging behind her.
  • Similar to the Penanggalan, the also fetus-eating Manananggal (name meaning "separator") of the Philippines is named for its tendency to separate its torso from its legs as it flies. It also sucks out fetuses using a long, proboscis-like tongue.
• The abomination called the Nuckelavee from Scottish folklore. It can only be described as some sort of rider-fused-with-horse centaur with no skin that breathes disease. So even if you escape it, you've got the more common sort of Body Horror to contend with. Depending on the description, "rider's" arms reach down to the ground and its head can be as wide as three feet, rolling back and forth on it's too small neck. Alternately the "horse" head has a single burning eye that shines with a horrible light. Burning seaweed enrages it and it causes plagues, low rainfall, crop wilting, and other disasters and worst of all it kills horses with a deadly plague called Mortasheen.

• Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? has been known to indulge in this depending on the type of horror the episode aims for.
  • Victor Frankenstein is the most prominent example. His patchwork body is covered in perpetually-infected wounds that are constantly leaking pus and ichor, and easily split open if he overexerts himself. Even blushing causes goop to spill out of his cheeks. He has a Healing Factor, but it doesn't repair anything from before he came back.
  • The werewolf transformations are also pretty nasty, especially when Gwen comes face to face with an alpha werewolf which transforms by tearing itself out of it's human form's skin. When Gwen becomes an alpha herself, there are moments when she catches enemies by surprising by having her wolf fist punch through her mouth before splitting her human skin apart vertically.
• Bleeker Trails: In episode 6, Julius and Silas find Dr. Jane Hackett's "son" Ambrose in the prison, despite the other inmates trying to trick them into thinking they're Ambrose. The real Ambrose has been locked up in solitary confinement and eating himself, painting a mural of a giant spider-monster using blood and feces. In episode 7, Julius notices that the experiments on Ambrose have left him with metal bolts sticking out of his skull, with Jane revealing she may have been more complicit in the experiments than she previously suggested.
• In Dark Dice, party's first encounter with The Silent One involves the creature reaching out through a woman's mouth, pulling it open as far as possible, then climbing out of the woman, leaving her body laying aside like a discarded sock.
• When the party in The Fallen Gods investigates the wizard’s tower in Palanthis, they find the remains of previous adventurers being stitched together in terrifying mashups in the basement of the Tower in Palanthis.
• Less is Morgue has Riley's Shapeshifting, which is accompanied by horrifically fleshy noises. In Episode 9, they even transform into twenty people at once, after eating 20-people chilli. It does not sound pleasant.
• The Magnus Archives is fond of this trope. Just to name a few examples:
  • In "Skintight", Sarah peels the skin off her injured arm, then staples it back on. It's later revealed that this isn't Sarah at all, but a Monster Clown masquerading as her using her skin.
  • "The Man Upstairs" features an apartment room covered wall-to-ceiling in fresh and rotting meat. And the misshapen pile of flesh that used to be the former occupant, which reveals itself to still be alive when it blinks at the narrator.
  • In "Rotten Core", John Amherst infects an entire town with an illness that causes the skin and muscles to slough off their bodies, leaving the skeleton and organs exposed, then forms a throne from their rotting, still-living, bodies.
  • Most of the Avatars, particularly those of the Corruption, Flesh, and Spiral. Fitting, considering they're living manifestations of humanity's primal fears.
    • Jane Prentiss. A once-normal human who became The Worm That Walks, she has so many holes in her face that her eyes are no longer distinguishable in the mess.
    • Jared Hopworth, who can reshape his bones to grotesque proportions and pulls the protagonist's rib straight out of his chest.
    • "Michael", who is described as looking like all of its bones are in its hands. Its successor, Helen, is implied to meet the same fate.
  • And the others are no slouch either— Annabelle Cane's head is half smashed in with spiderwebs filling the gaps, Jude Perry is a literal wax person who can remold her body and supernaturally set things on fire, and Jonah Magnus is implied to hop between bodies by replacing their eyes with his own.
• On the Tropes has an episode in which Themmo has pustules grow and spread all over his body, before exploding.
• A common sight in Pretending to Be People:
  • Clark Bishop loses his heart, and is left with a cartilaginous cavity through his chest.
  • Keith Vigna not only gets implanted with cybernetic enhancements by the Glass crime syndicate, he gets them removed by a spell. The latter happens without anesthetic. Owie.
  • The silver balls seen in the series have the power to violently rip the nervous system out of their victims. They then burrow into the skulls of the newly-minted husks, taking over their bodies and implanting their consciousness into the dead bodies.
  • Numerous spells in the campaign involve the warping of their victim's bodies. Sometimes the intended victim is the caster themselves.
• Gemini from Sequinox looks like two people made of silly putty slammed together, and when she splits into Pollux and Castor she literally grabs the sides of her head and tears herself apart.
• Very common with saints, or victims of such, in The Silt Verses. Highlights: A man melted into a chair, the various crustacean saints of the Trawler Man, and a man halfway transformed into a skeletal deer.
• Happens a couple of times in Spirit Box Radio. Notable examples include Sam throwing up a chess piece, and a woman who gets what is heavily implied to be the One Who Walks Here and There’s black baccara tattooed onto her, and ends up having roses growing through her skin and around her.
• The Two Best Friends Play podcast, Super Best Friendcast:
  • They discussed how Woolie onetime had to go to the hospital after a violent allergic reaction, presumably caused by ant poison... the symptoms described are not pretty to say the least.
  • During their playthrough of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Pat tells a story about his father who, as a child, was attacked by a dog. It clawed one of his eyes out of the socket and it fell onto his cheek. With the nerves intact, he could still see with it.
• Welcome to Night Vale:
  • It's not unheard of for Night Vale residents to grow new eyes (at least one person has eight), or win "prizes" like surgically-applied, working gills.
  • The mayor is seen to be melting at one press conference, and is mentioned another time to have more than two arms.
  • One woman explodes into a fine white dust during a public poetry reading and then floats down and settles on the heads of the crowd. Cecil at least finds this beautiful and moving rather than repulsive.
  • At least two "Community Health Tips" instruct the listener in graphic detail how to 1.) skin yourself alive and 2.) remove, cook, and eat your own heart.
  • It's been mentioned at least twice that the hearts of Night Vale citizens are full of straw and insects.
  • Once the broadcast announced that following the news is the sound of someone chewing up glass shards.
  • The Whispering Forest lures hypnotized people into wanting to stay there and then slowly turns their bodies into a wood-like substance so they become part of the forest.
  • There is an outbreak of people's skin becoming covered with 15-inch-long spiraling horns.
  • A senior football player grows a second head and his mother has the original head removed because she likes the new one better.
  • A woman gives birth to a disembodied grown man's hand. The hand is alive and sentient and the loving parents decide that it's a daughter and name her Megan.
  • People influenced by the Well of Night have skin grow over their eyes, and all their hair retracts under their skin. Cecil comes under the effects of this, and describes it as enriching.
• In Season 1 of Within the Wires, the Second-Person Narration uses an autogenic exercise to reveal and explain hidden, standard-issue cybernetic implants to a research hospital patient. A hollow between the patient's lower left rib and left hip is occupied by a mechanical creature with "many legs" that collects their memories. Later, the Narrator explains replacement devices typically issued to patients of the Extensive Studies Lab, and elaborates on the surgical wounds incurred in gory, explicit detail. The "creature" was a black box that monitored the patient's vitals, now replaced with a transmitter used to track the patient should they try to escape.
• When Kepler from Wolf 359 pisses off the Dear Listeners, they burn his hand off, audibly, all the while he screams in pure agony. When Minkowski speaks again, she sounds like she's about to throw up, and later dialogue reveals that Eiffel had immediately hidden himself underneath a console.

• Nebulous features the main character of Harry Hayes, who was left hideously crippled and in constant agony after the destruction of the Isle of Wight due to Professor Nebulous making a mistake when trying to move the land mass in question. Exactly what Harry looks like has never been clearly disclosed, but he was once described as resembling “an overcooked Christmas pudding in a bath chair”, and to date the only body part he’s clearly said he still retains after the original accident is his inner ear (which is now an outer ear located on whatever’s left of his neck). Among his injuries, Harry has optical scanners in place of eyes, his brain was replaced by a chip that gives him headaches, he rents his current arse from some unidentified source, he relies on a hoverchair to get around as he has lost most of his limbs (he once stated that he still had at least one hand but more recently stated he only has a mechanical grabber), and his colleague Paula once said “How nice to see a familiar face-like thing” when he arrived to get her out of a cell.

• Many of the "powers" in Survival of the Fittest Mini spinoff SOTF: Evolution fall into this. Some are pretty "standard" as powers go, such as solar-powered Super-Strength and invisibility, "memory absorption", Telepathy, and control over electricity, while others are pretty pathetic. Others, however, include things such as mold growing from the mouth and a character developing cat-like claws that are poisonous. The most notable one, though, goes to Johnny Marsh's "power", in which his skin is invisible, but the rest of him (muscles, organs, etc.) aren't. This means that his muscles are completely visible like an anatomical model. This receives a Lampshade Hanging when the scientists puts a full-body scuba suit on him to avoid him scaring the other subjects and interfering with the research. And then there's Billy-Jay Clarke's death in which he suffers a power malfunction, causing his eyes to catch fire and melt out of their sockets...

• Fangirls: In "Disgusting", Jules and Brianna make some exaggerated and negative self-perceptions of their physical appearances, such as likening themselves to unappealing or grotesque imagery.

• BIONICLE has its fair share of body horror stemming from the fact that the characters are bio-mechanical beings, not robots.
  • The in-universe explanation for why the original toys came in canisters and have to be assembled is that the muscle tissue holding their bodies together rotted while they were asleep for thousands of years.
  • Makuta Teridax's abandoned lair is littered with his experiments, the strangest of dying or dead animal hybrids.
  • Makuta Icarax killed Botar by crushing his organs with his own armor using magnetism. Icarax later got a taste of his own medicine when Toa Ignika devolved him from an Energy Being in armor back into a bio-mechanical being. Since his armor wasn't designed with room for organs, this was agonizingly painful.
  • Karzahni was supposed to heal injured workers. However, he was incompetent at this task and instead mutilated their bodies into weaker, twisted forms.
• Legends of Chima have the Ice Hunter Tribes. Having been frozen for millennia and resurrected with CHI, their LEGO minifigures are absolutely littered with gruesome details. Almost all of them have rotted in some capacity, exposing muscle fibers turned purple by the cold, and many of them have entire body parts that are simply replaced by ice, ranging from limbs to exposed ribs. The Mammoth Tribe in particular have trunks that have rotted to the bone and simply hang there exposed, and one of the Vulture Tribe, Vornon, has quite literally bolted his skull back together. Ironically, despite being left in the ice the longest, the Ice Bear Tribe seem to be in relatively better shape than their fellow Ice Hunters.
• New Testament SD Gundam Gaiden Gundam King Story: Both Skeleton Knight Xeku Eins and Skeleton Fighter Xeku Zwei have exposed human hearts that squirt green blood.
• From The Real Ghostbusters action figures by Kenner, there was the Haunted Humans line. They look like common people, until you press a button in them. You can check all of them in this video.

• Fate Series:
  • Fate/stay night:
    • True Assassin enters the world by eating his way out of the fake Assassin. Who is still conscious and chatting with it. There's a little too much detail about said event, plus the implication that however inhuman True Assassin looks later he is much less so when he first shows up.
    • Shinji being attached to a faulty Grail and becoming a mutant lump of expanding flesh.
    • One of Shirou's abilities is to turn into swords. No, it is not nearly as cool as it sounds, that's why it's on this page. ...Well, okay, it's cool, but it's definitely not a good thing at all and if they had illustrated the final result it would have been rather creepy. Even worse, that reaction can be completely instinctive in response to extreme pressure or stress.
    • Zouken rebuilds his form each time his old body breaks down by infecting and fleshcrafting some new victim with his worms.
    • There's also Rider's Noble Phantasm, Blood Fort Andromeda, which slowly dissolves everyone inside its area of effect into blood. First their skin melts off, followed by the rest of their flesh, and the bodies are merged together while they are still alive until they are finally absorbed completely. People close enough to the origin of the effect will have all their blood instantly vaporized.
    • Happens to Shirou in a few Bad Ends, such as swords erupting from inside his chest and having all his limbs removed and his remaining body used as a wand by Caster.
  • In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Caren Ortensia's body reacts to the presence of evil spirits by having spikes erupt from her skin.
• In Kokoro Baka Monogatari, the alien parasites in Kuuru's story route have anorexic bodies with thin tentacles coming out of the sides and bottom of them, while their heads are oversized with giant, empty eye sockets and more tentacles coming out of their mouths.
• In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, all the participants of the Nonary Game have had bombs planted in their digestive tracts which will go off if they either tamper with the bracelets mounted on their wrists or fail to find the deactivator within 81 seconds after passing through a numbered door. For those that fail, the game provides detailed, absolutely visceral descriptions of their blasted bodies.
• Part Time Job has Lyra becoming a severed head in a jar, Twilight and Screw Loose being sewn together and given Lyra's body to boot, and Pinkie Pie getting her hind legs replaced with giant alligator legs. This isn't really anything outstanding compared to other examples on this page, but what makes it even more horrifying is that Fluttershy did this to make them "more interesting" so she could sell them to a circus.
• Slay the Princess:
  • The Stranger arises when you refuse to go to the cabin at all in Chapter 1, causing the Narrator to fill the world with identical cabins for you to refuse to go into. They consist of multiple copies of the Princess, gruesomely merged together; the sight is so horrifying that even the Voice of the Contrarian argues for helping her, dropping his trollish persona entirely. She's basically a miniature version of the Shifting Mound, and if this is the first Princess you encounter and you go to the Mound's heart, you meet them again - now stabilised and much happier, but still fundamentally made of five basically identical people fused together.
  • If you bring down the Tower or refuse to fight the Adversary, you get to meet the Fury - a mad, vengeful creature that resembles a demon and wears a dress made of her own skin. One of the first things she'll do is take her hand out of the shackle, which tears off the skin on that arm; she barely notices. And then she obliterates you into viscera, stretches you across miles, obliterates your cells by powers of two or otherwise makes a gruesome mess out of you to punish you for making her into this.
  • The Wounded Wild is merged into the environment. She lacks legs, and her chest has been torn open, revealing her ribcage and heart.
  • The Razor makes her true nature clear by having metal blades burst through her human body in various unpleasant ways. It's almost a relief when she takes on her final form as just an accumulation of blades around a still-beating heart.
  • The ultimate entity that all the Princesses are parts of, the Shifting Mound, is a giant entity made from countless merged Princesses - to the point where her hair is an endless chain of human bodies. It does help a little bit that this is her apparently natural appearance instead of, as with most of the other examples, a transformation or mutilation for which you are at least partially responsible.
• Spirit Hunter:
  • All of the spirits in both Spirit Hunter: Death Mark and Spirit Hunter: NG have been hideously warped from their previous humas forms — while most of them still look humanoid, they often have warped, disproportionate limbs and/or non-human traits like arm whips, animal teeth, etc.
  • The only way to describe Yakumo's corpse once Akira finds it in NG. Multiple arms are stitched onto his body, his jaw is torn nearly in two, and the whole thing is covered in rot and maggots, making the whole thing nearly impossible to register as a human body. The worst part is that the arms were stapled onto him by himself.
• Virtue's Last Reward:
  • Throughout the game, Sigma eventually learns that some part of his body is inhuman, with an appropriately horrified and startled reaction. It is later revealed that he lost both of his arms and his left eye during the Nevada test site incident... the results of which are seen in the game's epilogue. It's not pretty.
  • In Luna's ending, Luna reveals that she is a Ridiculously Human Robot whose appearance is constructed with an artificial tissue called ABT. Due to Clover injecting her with tubocurarine (a muscle relaxant) some time earlier, as she hugs Sigma her entire face begins to melt off...
• We Know the Devil: Whoever is possessed by the devil becomes a Humanoid Abomination displaying their particular Body Motif: Jupiter has countless arms, Venus is covered in feathers and eyes, and Neptune spews bile. Is present but downplayed in the True Ending.

• Kalia's One-Winged Angel form in Dreamscape where 8 long arms with golf club-shaped hands come out of her back, as well as two smaller legs come out of the sides of her knees!
• The Father Tucker short "Blessed Are the Meek" has a very disturbing scene where the titular Pedophile Priest discovers a baby composed of two conjoined lower halves while he's wandering the children's hospital in search of children to molest.
• Happy Tree Friends: In the episode "I Nub You", Handy and Petunia are crushed into pins by pinsetters at a bowling alley. Their remains are brought to the hospital, where Lumpy then operates on them. The end result is a single body that fuses Handy, Petunia, and Lumpy's arms (somehow).
• Homestar Runner:
  • An Easter Egg in one of the Halloween specials shows the character Stinkoman (a character who is a walking anime parody) dressed up as Speed Racer for Halloween, and he comes up to 'your house' to get candy. One of the treats you can give him is a can with the word "Akira" printed on it. Guess what happens when you give that "Treat" to Stinkoman?
  • The body-horror angle gets played for laughs on more than one occasion, such as the Strong Bad Email in which Strong Bad explores the possibilities of severing his head and body. "I think you're cute!"
• Jikuu Bouken Doctor Who: The mutilated organic remains of the people the Cybermen used to be are glimpsed inside their mechanical chasses, and it's not a pretty picture.
• Kaizo Trap
  • The many deaths that befall the heroine while she's trapped in the game can be pretty messy.
  • Later, we get the lovely image of the final boss slowly feeding off of her love interest's body using cables embedded into him. He eventually figures out that removing the cables weakens the system, but this comes at a great physical cost to him as well, bleeding profusely from each hole in his body.
• Knights of Guinevere: The teaser was ambiguous, but the pilot shows that Guinevere is (apparently) a complete robot (technically a "gynoid"). That being said, the damage this specific model takes is very disturbing.
• Rabbit Games: When baking the pizza in "Cooking Rabbit", Percy's face becomes covered in holes.
• SNARLED
  • Perhaps it wasn't a good thing that Oiwa survived the poison her husband gave it, as it caused her hair to fall out into clumps, her face to droop, and her eyes to fill with blood.
  • "The Noonwraith" has Sophie be burned from the inside out, as punishment by the Noonwraith for smoking in her field.
  • The school in "Whispers that Bite" has the ability to manifest hurt feelings in the form of bug bites. Meaning if someone says something hurtful to you, you're literally scarred for life.
  • Despite being a modern retelling, "The Red Death" is still as deadly and unpleasant as ever. Painful? Check. Blood seeping from orifices and every pore on the skin? Check.
  • "Critter Valley Black" has an especially gruesome Fate Worse than Death. When you play the cursed copy of "Critter Valley", the demon within it will steal any body part (usually bones) from within you. In the protagonist's place, it was the bone in his left shin. It doesn't help when he worries about the medical complications of losing one's bone inexplicably.
• The Sock Series takes this trope and runs with it, heavily contrasting its cute artstyle.
  • After Ceriazibus slices a giant plant that crushed them, they have a big hole in their belly and their organs are flailing around. Their big wound also appears to have teeths.
  • People affected by Sock's radiation powers become horrific masses of flesh.
  • When Sock's owner finds the receipt for his evil hamster, he starts to cry lava. Then, when Sock is turned into a cross by his cultists and seemingly brings the apocalypse to Earth, the owner's head turns into stone with a big hole spewing lava. It's like he became a fusion between a stick figure and a volcano.

• Amphiterra: The Inhabited Lorge is a large hippo-like animal (actually a frog descendant) with a large hump on its back that is full of holes. These holes are the nests of another frog descendant called the Colonial Gobolin, which resembles a worm. Despite looking horrifying, however, the two species happily live together in a symbiotic relationship.
• Gaia Online:
  • Timmy experienced this trope in an Ugly Cute way after his legal guardian sealed him in a barrel of toxic waste just to see what would happen.
  • It says something that even Timmy is grossed out by the Penanggalan from the Nightmare evolving item. "It even has a cute female companion— eeeeeugh never mind I think I have to go lie down..."
• From Killerbunnies, we have Io McMorrison◊ and the fact that some if not all of her teeth grew through the surrounding tissues of her mouth.
• Nobody Here: "Toes" is about a nightmare that Jogchem once had. It features photos of his toenails being mysteriously gone, then regrowing on his joints, and finally some more toes sprouting.
• There's an email on Snopes with a .jpg attached of human fingers with lamprey mouths Photoshopped onto the pads. It's meant to be a joke: too much typing and mousing will wear holes in your fingers, har har!
• The Wanderer's Library: In the story "Abundance", a stranger feeds a starving village by causing select villagers to grow new limbs and other meaty appendages, which they then cut off and eat.

• burialgoods gives us Owl reads the Necronomicon: "Owl has transcribed ten pages from the Necronomicon. His mind is gone. Several internal organs have already melted into a slurry and dripped out of various natural and unnatural holes." That's Owl from Winnie the Pooh, by the way.
• The Cartoon Man parodies typical Body Horror scenarios. Instead of some kind of horrific monster, Roy turns into a hyperactive cartoon character with giant eyes and White Gloves. It's still rather horrifying for everyone involved.
• Chubbyemu features a medical doctor who takes viewers through various medical case studies. The videos have clickbaity titles like "A Boy Ate 25 Laxative Brownies In 1 Hour. This Is What Happened To His Kidneys", often paired with gross medical images... except the titles are exactly what happened, and the images are medical illustrations/scans of the real thing. The videos themselves are coldly-presented narratives in which we are told in excruciating detail exactly how badly our bodies can go wrong and fall apart, often in ways we don't expect. Of course, the stories he tells are very rare edge cases and most of the time if you get ill you'll be fine...but if you're one of these unlucky (or Darwin Award-contending) souls, God help you.
• Daisy Brown:
  • Alan is a genetic monstrosity created by Daisy's father, and not a pretty sight to look at. He starts out as simply a gray limbless head and body with milky blind eyes and More Teeth than the Osmond Family. Then, he gets worse over time, with root-like growths coming out of his skin. Because he grows so fast, Daisy has to literally sew him together after a while. Oh, and he can see and talk now.
  • Lithop, though in contrast to Alan she's sweet and friendly.
• Danny Gonzalez: Played for Laughs in "how to be healthy". When talking about a meme that says that girls are very confusing, he decides to physically compare then to boys: he shows boys as completely normal, while girls have legs and mouths all over their bodies.
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared:
  • The strange creature that pops out of the egg in the third DHMIS is quickly smashed by Duck Guy, leaving the cracked egg full of gore.
  • Digital glitches in the fourth episode leave the main character's in horrible, distorted forms. Also, Colin's "Digital Mind" is some sort of squishy, red substance.
• Dreams of an Insomniac: Getting into physical contact with a Veldigun deforms and warps a victim's body, with the most significant side effects being discolored skin, extreme loss of weight, tightened skin, bones and flesh fusing, teeth growing where they shouldn't, and bleeding from all orifices.
• There is a well circulated picture called Lotus Boob. The image of a lotus superimposed over a human areola and its implications of burrowed parasites is more than enough horror. Thank God that it's fake.
• Midwest Angelica: Human beings and other non-plant life that come into contact with the alien become infected and gradually transformed into a monster, ranging from twisted limbs to melted organs. For example, "Azazel" shows Starkill Altars, flesh towers made from assimilated human bodies that are still alive, moving, and croaking. However, Admiral Nero takes the cake for being a gigantic Starkill mass of writhing tentacles with a massive, ominous screen as his face. "c o l i s e u m" implies that Nero Was Once a Man, being an unholy fusion of the comatose Dr. Robert Spencer, Starkill matter, and Akashic Plane connections.
• Played for Laughs in Monster Factory, where hosts Justin and Griffin McElroy abuse video game character-creation systems for fun and profit. Very basic examples include a character in The Sims 4 whose head is approximately 4 inches wide.
• Oxventure: Some of the Magic Misfire effects are extremely unpleasant, particularly those that happen to NPC characters. In the first episode, Johnny has one NPC messily transform into a hideous faceless monster while mouthing off about how magic was fine actually because when they say that magic is broken, they are not kidding.
• The Spider (2024): The premise is that instead of giving Peter Parker superpowers, the spider bite instead causes him to horrifically mutate into a spider-esque humanoid around the course of a day. By its end, his lopsided eight eyes and pincers where his teeth and tongue would be renders him almost unrecognizable.
• The Spider (Just Preston): While in containment, Peter grows taller and skinnier, four spider-legs start growing out of Peter's back, his organic webbing turns red (implying they come out of his veins), and his voice is inhumanly deep, all qualities that become more pronounced as the series goes on. After he escapes, his face, which was previously hidden in a mask of webbing, now resembles more of that of a spider than a person's.
• Stampy's Lovely World: A visual example. In Episode 708, "Where Is Your Face?", William's body glitches out due to issues with the RTX shading — first, he gains a second head, then his face disappears, his right arm goes straight through his torso, and he gains a second torso attached to the first. He's thankfully better by the end of the video.
• Discussed and played for laughs on Steam Train in Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Part 10. Ross speculates about how horrifying it would be to turn into an elephant... and suddenly remember everything.

• Flesh Dreams of The Garden: Aster's dreams frequently involve bodily destruction, mutation, and illness.
• The ITs in HELP_tale, an alternate universe of Undertale. In Undertale, it is explained that there are hundreds of different timelines that continually branch off of each other with each possible choice that the player is given. It is also explained that when these branches split too much, they stop and collapse into each other. This is exactly what happened in HELP_tale. The collapse inadvertently created grotesque beings (called ITs) that are the various characters from their respective alternate universes smooshed together into one entity. An extreme example is Sans: because of the number of AUs devoted to him, the timeline had to combine hundreds of thousands of separate people into one singular entity. This caused so much corruption that his IT isn't even humanoid. It's a circle.◊ Luckily, it's in black and white and pixelated, so it's not as bad as it could have been.
• The Interface Series: Tons of it. Segmentation, the phenomena where random body parts disappear, is about the least of it. It gets worse in the parts in the future where we get descriptions of people who lived in virtual reality so long their bodies atrophied and the machines to clean their body waste broke.
• The Creepypasta "I Wake Up with Zippers in my Skin" is, as the title directly states, about a young woman who slowly develops zippers on various parts of her body.
• From the twisted mind of Eyesglowyellow comes the "Metokur" chimera, who — in the first two stories it appears in — turns the main character's head into a penis and another character into duct tape.
• Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: Besides the titular Mystery Flesh Pit, the creatures that inhabit the Pit are often examples of this. A wildlife safety brochure reveals that surface animals (including people) pulled into the Pit are combined into "amalgamations", with "partial fusing of major body elements and relocation of internal organs to locations on the exterior of the body." The brochure states that these creatures usually don't live past a few days, but then again, the Abyssal Copepods have some very human-looking hands. Then... there's the small matter of The Circus Clown Chymus...
• plastek pet: One clip in "infected wings tutorial" is a pair of disembodied bird wings flapping on the ground while leaking what seems to be blood.
• "Shattered Glass" by Amoridere features an illness that causes (in addition to death) blood to turn to crystal and go through the skin. According to the story, albeit vaguely, it seemed to come in variation, but in the most extreme cases, the person is already dead and barely recognizable.
• Fifty Two Weeks Fifty Two Monsters:
  • The Mother of Spiders constantly regurgitates live tarantulas.
  • The Royal Court of Bagherria is dozens of people twisted together into one tortured mass.
  • Hachinoko-Chan has a beehive for a face.