#trope examples

I am currently compiling a list of male characters who have gotten the ✨sexy cheekbone cut✨ that is used most commonly for female characters to avoid “tarnishing their beauty” (forehead cuts also accepted under the trope)

This could be from something somewhat reasonable like a knife fight, or totally absurd like the only damage from an explosion.

This is for the sillies and for science (a conversation with my friend)

As my examples I will provide Bucky Barnes in the first Captain America movie:

Even his hair is perfect. He was literally tortured and experimented on! But I get it. Sebastian Stan is too beautiful to tarnish.

Second example! Ianto Jones in season three of Torchwood (Children of Earth Spoilers!)

I’m so sorry for the picture, it was the clearest one I could find. (I finished episode four for the first time last week suffer with me) Again, I get the avoidance of tarnishing his face, but it’s especially noticeable considering that Jack literally exploded from the bomb. Granted, Jack had the bomb inside him, and Ianto had some distance, but still.