Love-bites and battle-scars

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:03:49 GMT

Harry Potter

Description: Lightning shaped scar on forehead.

How: The scar is from a killing curse that somehow didn't work, backfired, and "killed" the creator of said spell, the villain of the entire series, Voldemort.

The Dark Knight

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:15:42 GMT

The Joker

Location: Both sides of his mouth...in the terrifying position that you can imagine exactly what had to happen to create them.

How: We never really discover that for certain. The Joker has some serious reality issues and so he tells different tales on different occasions. The official story is that he fell in a vat of chemicals. His own stories in this particular film are that his father did it to him, and that he did it to himself to make hiw wife feel better.

Inglourious Basterds

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:06:39 GMT

Aldo Raine

Location: across the throat

How: Perhaps only Tarantino can tell you that one, as it was his intention to leave it as a mystery.

Random Nazis

Location: the forehead of any Nazi or German soldier with the misfortune of running into the Basterds.

How: A big ugly knife weilded by one of the Basterds. they mark all of the Nazies they allow to live to be able to humiliate them and recognize them for life.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:07:32 GMT

Freddy Krueger

Location: We're just going to go ahead and assume that he's scarred like that all over.

How: Freddy was a child abductor and murderer who was lynched by a mob of angry parents, trapped in a building, and burned alive.

The Princess Bride

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:04:51 GMT

Iñigo Montoya

Location: Two slash marks. One on each cheek.

How: He lost a duel with the six-fingered man who killed his father. Montoya was left alive, but given the scars as a reminder.

The Man Without a Face

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:09:23 GMT

Justin McLeod

Location: The entire right (that's his right) side of his face

How: He was involved in a car accident which resulted in a fire. A young boy was also killed in the fire.

Road to Perdition

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:37:12 GMT

Harlen Maguire

Location: Several small scars across the left side of his face.

How: From glass shrapnel when he tried to escape a bullet by hiding behind glass.

Hannibal

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:14:09 GMT

Mason Verger

Location: His face...yeah, all of it.

How: Completely justified, in my humble opinion. High on a cocktail of PCP crystal meth and LSD, Mason (a particularly terrible child molester) is convinced by Hannibal Lector to cut of his own face with a piece of glass, feed the majoirty of it to the dogs, and eat his own nose.

Scarface

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:14:51 GMT

Tony Montana

Location: around left (his left) eye and cheek

How: He claims that he got it in an accident as a child.

Casino Royale

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:11:16 GMT

Le Chiffre

Location: vertical slash across left eye

How: Le Chiffre has the weeping blood disease, a disease that causes random bleeds. The scar is from a burst blood vessel near his eye.

Gangs of New York

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:04:31 GMT

Amsterdam Vallon

Location: triangular brand on right cheek

How: The Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis) brands Amsterdam on the cheek with a white hot knife after Vallon fails at an attempt to kill him.

Frankenstein

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:08:55 GMT

Frankenstein

Location: he's pieces of corpses. Everywhere...and we mean everywhere!

How: A lot of people died. A lot of people were dug up. A lot of pieces were sewn together. I believe there was lightning involved at some point.

GoldenEye

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:13:03 GMT

Alec Trevelyan

Location: Across right cheek.

How: Burned while serving as a member of the British Secret service when James Bond shortens the explosive timers to complete a mission.

Slumdog Millionaire

Tue, 11 May 2010 00:51:17 GMT

Latika

Location: Down her left cheekbone.

How: She is slashed with a knife by Javed's men as he recaptures her. Jamal kisses it away.

Jaws

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:37:49 GMT

Quint

Location: missing a tooth, scar on forehead, scar on right calf, and one on the left forearm.

How: no explanation for the tooth. The forehead is from a fight on St. Patrick's Day. Scar on leg is from a thresher shark. The one on his arm is a tatoo that he had removed.

Hooper

Location: scar on left forearm and on right leg.

How: scar on arm is from a Moray eel that bit through his wetsuit. Scar on leg is from a bull shark that scraped him while he was taking samples.

True Romance

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:53:51 GMT

Drexl Spivey

Location: Below left eye and extending into left eye.

How: Not quite sure. Haven't seen this one. Any ideas?

Platoon

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:12:22 GMT

Sgt. Barnes

Location: Prominent all over face, but more centered around the chin.

How: We never get the back story to this one, but judging by the fact that he is a VERY angry war worn sargeant in the middle of the Vietnam war, I'm going to guess that it had something to do with warfare.

The Lion King

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:16:09 GMT

Scar

Location: Vertically across left eye.

How: Another one without explanation, but they are lions! It's pretty safe to assume that paws and teeth...and perhaps sibling rivalry...were involved.

I, Robot

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:11:34 GMT

Del Spooner

Location: Line running all around his left arm and shoulder indicating a total replacement of that limb.

How: He was involved in a car accident in which his car and another ended up in the river. A robot pulled him out and saved his life, leaving a little girl to die in the other car, feuling his hatred of robots. His entire left arm was replaced with a cybernetic one.

Girl, Interrupted

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:54:09 GMT

Polly "Torch" Clark

Location: her entire face and a good portion of the rest of her body.

How: She set herself on fire.

Ichi the Killer

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:45:53 GMT

Kakihara

Location: All across his face and across both cheeks, slitting them open and having to be held shut by piercings. Also...the tongue is pretty much gone.

How: The bastard did it to himself!

Eastern Promises

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:10:07 GMT

Nicolai

Location: Several scars all over his body, the most noticable of which is a scar on just below his left eye, and the largest of which are on his back and arms.

How: A quite strange assassination attempt involving bilhooks, and a lot of nude fighting.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:14:31 GMT

The Sheriff of Nottingham

Location: Slash mark across left cheek bone.

How: Slashed in a play of swords with Robin Hood.

Pay It Forward

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:09:32 GMT

Eugene Simonet

Location: All over his face and extending down his neck.

How: His father poured gas over him when he was 16 and lit a match.

Avatar

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:16:33 GMT

Colonel Miles Quaritch

Location: Three slash marks running from his right cheek to the back of his head.

How: A "gift" given to him by the natives on his first day on the planet Pandora. He had the options of having it removed, but chose to keep it as a reminder of what can happen at any time.

300

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:10:26 GMT

King Leonidas

Location: Running vertically over his left eye.

How: Given the minor flaw of the couple of arrows that are sticking out of vitals organs as well, we're going to call this one a random war wound.

Shutter Island

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:06:06 GMT

Andrew Laeddis

Location: Running diagonally down his face from his right temple, across the bridge of the nose, to his left jaw line.

How: Considering the fact that Laeddis is only a figment of Teddy's imagination, we'll leave it up to the imagination as to how he got the scar.

You Only Live Twice

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:13:34 GMT

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Location: Vertically down right cheek, distorting features including the right eye.

How: Please correct me if I'm wrong here because I personally despise all James Bond films, but as far as I can tell, it is only classified as a dueling scar, possibly from Mensur fencing.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Sun, 02 May 2010 12:57:56 GMT

Dr. Evil and Mini-me

Location: Vertically from right eye down to right jaw line.

How: Again not known, though it could have occured during the car accident that separated him from his brother, Austin Powers, or when he was "placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds."

Glory

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:07:57 GMT

Private Trip

Location:Several severe slashes across his back.

How: A lifetime of being punished and whipped as a slave.

Walking Tall

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:05:43 GMT

Chris Vaughn

Location: Large scars extending vertically down the front of his chest.

How: Carved into his chest by casino henchmen when he and his friends demanded fair treatment in the town casino.

Bad Girls

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:10:53 GMT

Cody Zamora

Location: Several horizontal scars across her back.

How: Years of serving as personal whore to the outlaw, Kid Jarrett.

The Craft

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:07:05 GMT

Bonnie

Location: What appear to be burns all across her back.

How: All we know is that they are burns.