Broken Smile: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Mark Chang:''' What's with the face? It is happy, yet at the same time, disturbing.|''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''}}

 

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* ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'': Kaede displays this around episode 19 where her extreme depression and loneliness starts taking a toll on her sanity.

* 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.

** It also occurs in [[End of Evangelion]] with {{spoiler|Shinji after Asuka is "killed"}}.

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Hinamori is visited by Hitsugaya and she has one when {{spoiler|she starts ranting about how Aizen might merely be manipulated by Gin.}}

* Gaara of ''[[Naruto]]'' tried to maintain one after discovering his uncle Yashimaru had attacked him, but it was soon wiped off his face by Yashimaru's {{spoiler|faked}} confession of hatred.

** Naruto himself is a [[Stepford Smiler]] and does this at times.

* Leo of ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' flashes a lot of these after {{spoiler|Elliot's death}}.

 

 

== Film ==

* Richard Hammond's expression of glee on ''[[Top Gear]]'' gradually morphs into one of these {{spoiler|when the Reliant Robin Space Shuttle's external fuel tank fails to separate and the assemblage plummets to earth in a gigantic fireball.}}

 

* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' has {{spoiler|Sakura Matou}}. She is not a [[Stepford Smiler]] in that she only cares about {{spoiler|preserving her [[Purity Sue]] mask for Shirou rather than her peers in general}}, but through a combination of [[Love Makes You Evil|love]] and [[Break the Cutie|severe abuse]] she eventually [[Beware the Nice Ones|snaps]], learning how to put on that dangerous smile, [[Evil Makeover|among other things]].

* In final two routes, ''[[Tsukihime]]'' 's {{spoiler|Kohaku}} starts to show her broken smile to the protagonist, and plays the [[Stepford Smiler]] straighter than the above example.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* 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 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.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Madness Tropes]]

[[Category:Smile Tropes]]