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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'': Kaede displays this around episode 19 where her extreme depression and loneliness starts taking a toll on her sanity.
* Arumi of ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai|Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi]]'' usually does this, if only for a second, before attacking Sasshi with her [[Paper Fan of Doom]].
* Seen on Yurika in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' after her first taste of three new pilots, generally behaving even more strangely than the crew she's already gotten used to.
* Not really a [[Stepford Smiler]], but Zilba from ''[[Uninhabited Planet Survive!]]'' only stops smiling when her cheek is bruised.
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* Joo Dee in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', a regular old [[Brainwashed]] [[Stepford Smiler]], had one of these when Aang and co got off the leash.
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' did this, too, with Tahno. Normally a textbook [[Smug Snake]], [[Big Bad|Amon]] [[De-Power|takes away his bending]], putting him into a massive [[Villainous BSOD|BSOD]]. When he meets up with Korra again, he puts on a Broken Smile and, rather meekly, says "[[Call Back|See you around, Avatar]]."
* This is pretty much constantly the expression of Billy's Mom of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]''. At least from what I've seen.
** The only time she doesn't have it is when she goes stark raving.
*** Or there isn't any other character in the room to drive her mad.
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