Scars on characters

Scars are often portrayed as pivotal part of a characters trait, often the character is silent mysterious type who says little to nothing keeping the character as vague as possible and all the more interesting leaving more to the imagination. The scar ads an element of tension to the character implying that they’ve had experience in combat.

In the film The Lion King the antagonist not only bares a scar on his face but he also identifies himself with by being named Scar.

John Connor, a soldier from the year 2029 who’s leading the human resistance in a war against the machines. He’s only mentioned is the first Terminator film.

 He appears briefly in the second film Terminator 2 judgment day baring a scar on his face, an obvious injury he sustained from the war.

John Connor appears briefly in the third film Terminator 3 Rise of the machines.

The events of how John Connor receives his scar are portrayed in the film Terminator Salvation.

Harry Potter, a popular fantasy book series follow the young protagonist Harry Potter, a boy wizard who received a lightening shaped scar on his forehead as a baby from a spell cast on him by the antagonist Voldermort.

In the film The Dark Knight the antagonist the Joker has scars across his mouth, he has two stories as to how he got them.

In the film Avatar the antagonist Quaritch has three scars across his head from an encounter with an alien life from out on the battlefield.