Cheshire Cat Grin: Difference between revisions

 

== Literature ==

** There are several possible explanations, but very little info to support any of them. On another note, the novel might be also a [[Trope Maker]], because most of its incarnations stem from the Sir John Tenniel's [https://web.archive.org/web/20121115121810/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Cheshire_Cat_Tenniel.jpg/250px-Cheshire_Cat_Tenniel.jpg.png iconic illustrations of the Cheshire Cat].

* From the nonfiction desktop book ''Murphy's Law for Lawyers'': "A man who can smile in a crisis is a man who has thought of someone to blame it on."

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** "It was a smile like the one you find on black and orange striped creatures prowling through the jungle looking for someone to smile at."

* Ford Prefect from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' is said in the first book to smile in this way, "a little too broadly, giving people the unnerving impression he was about to go for their neck."

* The [[Mad Scientist]] in ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' tends to smile like this when he is up to something, and whether it will work or not he always tries to be up to something.

* Rocky, from ''[[Lackadaisy Cats]]'' seems to have this as his default expression. His cousin wears a combination of this and [[Slasher Smile]]. [http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d154crs Like so.]

* Shadowchild from ''[[Digger]]'' has smiled like this twice. Both times it went badly for the other guy.

* George from ''[[Johnny Wander]]'' is always depicted with one of these. Except one time when he grimaced and it was basically the same thing but upside down. [http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/128 Even his tombstone has that grin.]

** [[Mad Scientist|Sparks]] tend to wear a huge grin when they've got an idea. Considering the stuff they usually invent, this is seldom good news for anyone in town.

* Joey Von Krause from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140218141836/http://mortifer.smackjeeves.com/ Mortifer]'' is almost always smiling like this, even when [http://mortifer.smackjeeves.com/comics/318885/chap18page12/ you've succeeded in pushing his Berserk Button] ({{spoiler|Looking under his eyepatch, in case you were wondering}}). It's later stated that he smiles whenever he's in control of the situation, [[Magnificent Bastard|which is all the damn time]].

* The Grinch in [[Chuck Jones]]' screen adaptation of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (animation)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'' when he gets the wonderful, awful idea to... well, steal Christmas.

** This could be arguably [[Chuck Jones]]' [[Signature Style]], when he directed ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'', both characters would smile in the exact same manner when they hit upon a new scheme. As well as the poor schmuck in ''[[One Froggy Evening]]''.

* In the penultimate episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', a character named Cheshire appears, wearing a large mask with a permanent Cheshire Cat Grin on it. One of her powers was to turn invisible except for the eyes and the grin, much like the cat in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.

** She's in [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comics]], too, minus that power. For the record, her name is Jade Nguyen, and she has done things justifying that grin (like nuking [[Qurac]]).

* Snoopy in ''[[The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show]]'' does this once, complete with the ability to vanish.

** He has this in the original ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic as well; he calls it his "Cheshire Beagle" trick. He does it a handful of times over the course of the strip.

* The animated [[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]] often grins broadly when scheming. Bonus points for the unsettlingness of [[British Teeth|his gross green teeth]], complete with half-chewed bug bits.

* Henry and June (the latter more often) do this in ''[[KaBlam!]]!''

* T-Bone from [[Swat Kats]] donned this grin occasionally, almost uniquely amongst the characters of that series.

 

* Chimpanzees "smile" by baring their teeth as a way of warning potential challengers that this chimp is not to be messed with. This has led to more than a few people getting mauled, because, hey, the monkey is smiling at 'em! And ain't he just like a little person? Maybe he wants a hug! No. When a chimp smiles at you, he's telling you to fuck off. By the way, those teeth? They go for the face. And chimps are ''strong''. [[Fluffy the Terrible|Mister Peanutpants]] does not want to be your friend, kids.

* Former Australian Treasurer Peter Costello was famous for his Parliamentary savaging of his opponents in debate, of which his Cheshire Cat grin would be a prime indicator to get out of the way of his victims.

* The [http://www.troublemakerstudios.com/ logo] of Troublemaker Studios.