#MTG SPIKE DEFINITION FULL#

Head Hat: Wearing someone else's head as a hat.

Hanahaki Disease: Spitting out flowers from a flowering plant growing in your innards? Ouch!.

Fold-Spindle Mutilation: Fitting a person-shaped peg in a round hole.

Full-Conversion Cyborg: Proving that the body horror isn't lessened by a lack of meat.

Flower Mouth: Flower shapes look less pretty when lined with teeth.

Flesh Golem: MacGyvering meets Necromancy.

Facial Horror: You need makeup lessons.

Eye on a Stalk: One way of making it easier to see things.

Extra Eyes: Giving the term 'four-eyes' a whole new disturbing meaning.

Evil Hand: In body horror, transplant receives you!.

Demonic Head Shake: When a mere 'no' just won't get across.

Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Sometimes, cybernetics control you!.

Creepy Long Fingers: Permanent, personalized chopsticks.

Creepily Long Arms: Perfect for long-sighted reading.

Brain Monster: Just in case anyone questioned your intelligence.

Brain in a Jar: The ultimate beauty in a bottle.

Body of Bodies: When you can't decide on just one, wear them all.

The Blank: When someone takes being The Faceless a bit too literally.

Belly Mouth: When your stomach not only growls, it bites.

Beauty to Beast: Making Casual Friday look very smart indeed.

Abnormal Dental Growth: Growing another set of pearly whites to replace the lost ones.

Often the result of the wacky experiments of an Evilutionary Biologist. Using this trope can result in Our Monsters Are Weird of the most horrific kind. It can result in And I Must Scream if the victim is aware of their condition but totally helpless. If Body Horror is played for sympathy, it can be used to explore the issue of What Measure Is a Non-Human?. This is also paired with Psychosexual Horror.įor a character or Mook who has this as their back story, see Was Once a Man and Tragic Monster, and/or The Grotesque. Obviously, as a trope based on Primal Fear, body horror is Older Than Dirt. Slowly mutating in a sickeningly twisted and deformed manner after contracting The Virus, a close encounter of the squick kind leaving someone the incubator for a Chest Burster, a rotting zombie, an Eldritch Abomination resembling a tangle of organs, and a shapeshifter abandoning any attempt at aesthetics or imitation to become a writhing mass of random but recognizable parts are all examples of Body Horror. And nothing should ever look like this page's example image. Bodies should be roughly symmetrical and have logical proportions. Organs and bones belong on the inside, and parasites and circuit boards do not. The mind knows on a deep instinctive level that faces should have eyes and hands should not. This trope is difficult to pin down, as it has a wide range of potential applications and invocations, but what they all hinge upon is the Primal Fear of deformity, parasites, contamination, the ravages of disease, and the aftermath of bodily injury.

#MTG SPIKE DEFINITION FULL#

Having your chest tear open of its own free will, exposing your organs as your ribcage is repurposed as a gaping maw full of bony teeth? That is Body Horror. Turning into a monster is a Forced Transformation, but still not a body horror. Simply put, this is any form of Horror or squickiness involving body parts, parasitism, disfigurement, mutation, or unsettling bodily configuration, not induced by immediate violence.įor example: Being shot in the chest and having your organs exposed is Bloody Horror, not body horror. Welcome to the lovely land of Body Horror.

Mtg spike definition