Cheshire Cat Grin: Difference between revisions

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Strangely, it's usually done by heroes who have a [[Zany Scheme]] in mind, rather than by villains, who tend to prefer the [[Psychotic Smirk]] or the [[Slasher Smile]]. Heroes and heroines who are slightly eccentric -- [[Cloudcuckoolander|or slightly deranged]] -- favour the Cheshire Cat Grin. If it's an anime, expect a [[Cat Smile]] instead. If this smile is a permanent feature, it's a subtrope of [[Frozen Face]]; if it's ''cut into'' the character's face, it's a [[Glasgow Grin]].

If you ever see someone with the Cheshire Cat Grin in real life, vacate the premises before you can discover what they're smiling about. Or, for that matter, how their face manages to do that.

== Anime & Manga ==

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* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' plays this for comedy; if Haruna starts smiling, something embarrassing and/or unpleasant is about to happen. The other characters are rightfully scared of her.

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' has a few characters sport these. Most of the time it's either Mion or Satoko, and it usually involves getting Keiichi into a ridiculous outfit, or out of his clothes entirely.

* In ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'', [[Card Carrying Villain|Jason Beck]] sports one.

* In ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'', [[Card-Carrying Villain|Jason Beck]] sports one.

* Ed from ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' sports one perpetually, even her little avatar. Very appropriate, given her cat-like nature.

* Holo from ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' does this whenever she's sweet-talking someone (usually Lawrence) into doing what she wants.

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** The Kyuubi's face is eternally twisted into a Cheshire Cat Grin.

* Sumiko from ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' seems to have one of these as her defining trait, when she was [[The Faceless]] it's all we saw of her. {{spoiler|May actually be more malevolent, as we don't know much about her. [[Technically a Smile|The fact that now that she's not The Faceless reveals that the smile does NOT reach her eyes is a bad sign]]}}.

* [[Stepford Smiler|Xer]][[Sweet Tooth|xes]] [[White Haired Pretty Boy|Break]] from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has a very typical one. And his doll has exactly the same smile. And, oddly enough, the character ''called'' the Cheshire Cat does not.

* [[Stepford Smiler|Xer]][[Sweet Tooth|xes]] [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Break]] from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has a very typical one. And his doll has exactly the same smile. And, oddly enough, the character ''called'' the Cheshire Cat does not.

* Roronoa Zoro from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', whenever he's not sleeping or eating. Also, Urouge.

* [[Trickster Archetype|Irabu]] from ''[[Trapeze]]'' gets a disconcerting grin on his face whenever he give some kind of devious advice [[Stealth Mentor|in order to help his patients somehow.]]

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** Kaworu often wears one himself, particularly in the manga or any of the other alternate universes where he pops up. It fits in well with his cryptic nature.

* Milly Ashford of ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'' pulls these a lot when she's teasing her friends or getting an idea for a [[School Festival]].

* ''[[Hellsing]]'': [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep|The Major]] is noted as having "a detestable grin which would split his cheeks". Combined with his {{spoiler|[[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|artificial origin,]]}} [[Eyes of Gold]] and his desire to [[Blood Knight|spark the world to eternal war]] it plants him firmly in [[Nightmare Fuel]] territory. It will occasionally flicker into [[Slasher Smile]] territory, especially towards the end of the series.

* ''[[Hellsing]]'': [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Major]] is noted as having "a detestable grin which would split his cheeks". Combined with his {{spoiler|[[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|artificial origin,]]}} [[Eyes of Gold]] and his desire to [[Blood Knight|spark the world to eternal war]] it plants him firmly in [[Nightmare Fuel]] territory. It will occasionally flicker into [[Slasher Smile]] territory, especially towards the end of the series.

* This is [[Bleach (Manga)|Ichimaru Gin's]] [[Perpetual Smiler|near permanent experession]].

* Captain Gotoh in the ''[[Patlabor]]'' manga specializes in these wonderfully awful toothy grins.

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* TJ from ''[[Luann]]''. Other than the permanent grin, he's actually a pretty regular guy.

* When ''[[FoxTrot]]'' parodied ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Literature)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', Andy as "Mrs. Grinch" had a very accurate recreation of the Grinch's "wonderful, awful idea" face mentioned below.

* Marunde in ''[[Someone ~~Elses~~ War (Literature)|Someone Elses War]]'' wears one of these, though the narrator calls it a "crocodile grin."

* Marunde in ''[[Someone Else's War (Literature)|Someone Elses War]]'' wears one of these, though the narrator calls it a "crocodile grin."

* Trolls in the Franco-Belgian comic ''[[Lanfeust]]'' often make those, usually when they are about to brutally slaughter people or cause heavy property damage (which is most of the time).

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* ''[[The Machinist]]'': Ivan does a particularly disturbing rendition of this trope.

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]:'' Right before taking vicious or manipulative action, Captain Jack Sparrow often sports an evil, toothy smile. In the screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, a "Cheshire grin" is mentioned in Jack's direction during a particularly loathsome act of betrayal.

* The allegedly-catatonic Cameron, just pulled up from the bottom of a pool after keeling over into it face first, broke into one of these in ''[[Ferris ~~Buellers~~ Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' when Ferris and Sloane realize he saw Sloane stark naked while she was changing into her swimsuit, and enjoyed every minute of it. Cameron's ensuing hysterical laughter led to further dunkings by Ferris.

* The allegedly-catatonic Cameron, just pulled up from the bottom of a pool after keeling over into it face first, broke into one of these in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film)|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' when Ferris and Sloane realize he saw Sloane stark naked while she was changing into her swimsuit, and enjoyed every minute of it. Cameron's ensuing hysterical laughter led to further dunkings by Ferris.

* ''RRRrrr!!!'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6NL9m_bS2Y At 9:11.]. Unless we count this as [[Slasher Smile]].

** Thank you very much for the [[Nightmare Fuel]]...

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* A favorite expression of [[Enfante Terrible|Heloise]] on ''[[Jimmy Two Shoes (Animation)|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'', whenever she's not using a full on [[Slasher Smile]].

* 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 ''[[Ka Blam (Animation)|Ka Blam]]!''

* Henry and June (the latter more often) do this in ''[[Ka Blam! (Animation)|Ka Blam]]!''

* Twilight Sparkle of ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' pulls one off in "Lesson Zero" when she prepares to create an argument amongst the Cutie Mark Crusaders in a bid to solve the said problem and have a friendship report to write to Princess Celestia.

* Twilight Sparkle of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' pulls one off in "Lesson Zero" when she prepares to create an argument amongst the Cutie Mark Crusaders in a bid to solve the said problem and have a friendship report to write to Princess Celestia.

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