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The mouth is like a cave. It's a breeding ground for bacteria, it's dark, and damp, too. Teeth are like the stalagmites and stalactites. Sometimes authors can't resist the [[Visual Pun]] of a literal cave mouth. In some variations, the cave [[That's No Moon|is actually the mouth of some large living creature]].
This can either be pure [[Eye Candy]] or relevant to the story.
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== [[Card Games]] ==▼
* The card Howling Mine from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' looks like this most of the time, [[Depending on the Artist]].▼
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', the Cave Of Wonders' opening is a big tiger's mouth with sharp teeth. It also talks ("Who disturbs my slumber?").
** ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves'' had a huge turtle too whose mouth was like a cave.
* In Disney's ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', the front door of Ursula's lair is the mouth of a sea-dragon skeleton.
* ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' had the crew of the
* Monstro's mouth in ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''.
* In ''[[The Goonies]]'', there is a skull-shaped cave entrance.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
** Discworld Trolls do this as they get older and, since they grow all their lives and are pretty much indestructible, bigger. Once a troll
* In ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'' cavernmouths look like regular caves... except for gleaming red dots. These are tonsils, and if you stray too close to the "entrance"... the jaws come out.
* The gate to the Colony in the ''[[Tunnels]]'' books is called the Skull Gate, because it rests below an enormous stone skull.
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, the cats call a certain cave "Mothermouth" because it resembles a mouth.
== [[Live
* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', the cave entrance is not just shaped like a dragon's head, it's an actual dragon's head. A dead, fossilized dragon (hence the name "Dragon Mountain"). This introduces a bit of Squick when the cast must take mining sleds down along the spine and ribs toward the actual mine and get tossed out the other end.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "The Apple", you've got the mouth of Vaal, a cave mouth shaped like a dragon's head, complete with glowing eyes.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]''. In ''The Face of Evil'' a giant face of the Doctor has been carved into the cliff by the mad computer. The Doctor indignantly rejects the idea that they enter the cave by climbing up 'his' nostrils. "It's up over the tongue and down the throat."
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* One comic of [[Conan the Barbarian]] had a rather literal example of this. In his efforts to steal two strangely eye-like (yet angled) gems from a greedy merchant, Conan and the merchant both go chasing after the gems when they start flying through the air, leading them through a strangely mouth-like cave (with irregular sets of "teeth" set the whole way through) to a large central chamber that is covered with deep piles of gemstones. The merchant immediately dives into the mixed array of rubies, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and other gems, noting that it's extremely strange to see so many different types of gem in the same place, but too blinded by greed to care. Conan is more cautious, and thusly he survives when it turns out they're in the stomach/throat of some kind of mountainous earth elemental. The merchant is devoured.
* [[The Phantom]] lives in [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Skull Cave]], which is an obvious example of this trope.
* A ''[[Dilbert]]'' comic had a cave with an entrance [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-03-17/ that resembled a somewhat different orifice]. The previous comic did say that Asok had to travel to "the bowels of the bureaucracy"...
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▲=== [[Card Games]] ===
▲* The card Howling Mine from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' looks like this most of the time, [[Depending on the Artist]].
=== [[Tabletop RPG]] ===
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement Fragments of Fear, adventure "Valley of the Four Shrines". The entrance to the cave that leads to the valley has been carved in the likeness of Cthulhu's head.
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* Done in "In Search of the Dungeon Master", an episode of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''.
* In a ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short called "The Mouse That Jack Built", a cat disguises itself as "The Kit-Kat Club," a night club with a cat-shaped entrance. Its tongue provides the red carpet.
* The entrance to Hell seen in ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Dragon Tales]]'' had a giant cave turn out to be the mouth of a giant rhinoceros (who also had a [[Ribcage Stomach]]).
* Chase Young's lair from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]''.
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