There are thousands of weird and wonderful characters in comic books and they generally come in two forms when it comes to their physical appearance - they're either ridiculously stereotyped attractive individuals (chiselled men with prominent jawlines, or slim women with big breasts) or they are scary and weird looking. One of the ways in which the latter are made to look so scary and weird is through physical disfigurement - and not just through intimidating costumes or by virtue of the fact that they might be aliens, demons or monsters. Both comic book heroes and villains alike have suffered injuries or traumas that have left them looking quite terrifying and intimidating and it's those characters we'll be taking a look at here. Whether it's through exposure to fire or an explosion, being the victim of a physical assault, exposure to an agent or a process that triggers a transformation or through disease, there are loads of comic book characters who have been facially disfigured to varying degrees. Scars, burns, tumours or complete transformations - oh yes, the complete range of facial disfigurements can be found in comic books. On that note, here are ten terribly disfigured comic book characters...