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Originally a Dueling Scar was a scar on the face, usually on the left cheek, resulting from being cut by a sword in a duel. They're part of the stock uniform for a sinister Nazi or obsessive, pickelhaube-wearing Prussian and have become a fairly common accessory for any sinister military man regardless of origin. To qualify for this trope, the scar needs to be on the face and used to make a character look more militarized and Badass. The scar need not necessarily be from a sword or an actual duel, although writers should get extra credit if they know the origin of the trope.

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  • Originally a Dueling Scar was a scar on the face, usually on the left cheek, resulting from being cut by a sword in a duel. They're part of the stock uniform for a sinister Nazi or obsessive, pickelhaube-wearing Prussian and have become a fairly common accessory for any sinister military man regardless of origin. To qualify for this trope, the scar needs to be on the face and used to make a character look more militarized and Badass. The scar need not necessarily be from a sword or an actual duel, although writers should get extra credit if they know the origin of the trope.
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  • Originally a Dueling Scar was a scar on the face, usually on the left cheek, resulting from being cut by a sword in a duel. They're part of the stock uniform for a sinister Nazi or obsessive, pickelhaube-wearing Prussian and have become a fairly common accessory for any sinister military man regardless of origin. These scars resulted from a peculiar tradition, euphemistically called Academic Fencing - which is still practiced - mostly in Germany, but also in Austria, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Flanders. In Germany the weapon is known as a schlaeger, also known as the "soup-plate of honour" due to large size of the hand guard. In one of these bouts (called a Mensur) two students stand a fixed distance from one another wearing armor that covers everything but their cheeks, forehead and lips and attempt to slash at the exposed skin of their opponent. There are no points, you lose by flinching or dodging and win by getting sliced in the face. The scar that results is the goal of this practice, the bigger the better! Students would even go so far as to badly sew the edges together or even sew horsehairs into the wound to ensure a big, visible scar. The resulting scar is a Schmiss or Dueling Scar. Until World War II this was seen locally as a Good Scar as it showed that the wearer was educated and brave. If that's all there was to it this wouldn't be a trope, it would be mentioned in Useful Notes - Germany and that would be the last of it. However, a number of Nazi officers had dueling scars and after the war no serious villainous movie Nazi would be seen without one. From there the dueling scar became a standard adornment any time casting wanted a quick way to tell the audience that this character was a military man and serious about it, even if the character was not from a country that practiced academic fencing, even if they weren't from Earth at all. To qualify for this trope, the scar needs to be on the face and used to make a character look more militarized and Badass. The scar need not necessarily be from a sword or an actual duel, although writers should get extra credit if they know the origin of the trope. Examples of Dueling Scar include:
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