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== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Lupin III|Lupin's]] smile, when not showing teeth, is more of a [[Cat Smile]], but when [http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwNo8FegFPxDi9NpxI3pP7n80FI8c1eXlpGLOfsGGfFE0eMZye&t=1 he shows teeth and does the raised eyebrow, it's pure Cheshire Cat Grin.]
* [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] does this quite a bit, particularly when sizing up Mikuru for a new outfit, or dragging Kyon into trouble.
* Gengar, from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', tends to have either this or a [[Slasher Smile]] depending on how it's drawn. Either way, it is constantly worn and only twice in the anime Gengar actually frowned.
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* Ichihara Yuko from ''[[xxxHolic]]'' has a grin that can roughly be summed up in words as: "Not only do I know something you don't know, but it's going to bite you in the ass in a ''very'' [[Hilarity Ensues|amusing fashion]]." Despite this, it's when she appears ''serious'' that should really scare Watanuki. This is because Yuko's Cheshire cat grin simply means she's going to make him do all the laundry, whereas the latter expression is usually a forecast of man-eating crow demons or similar.
* [[Trickster Archetype|Deviant genius]] Hiruma from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has this as one of his default expressions, to the point where those new to the series -- or complete non-fans -- can [[Loads and Loads of Characters|identify him]] as 'the one with the teeth.'
* Road Kamelot of ''[[D.Gray-man|D Gray Man]]'', several times. Along with some of the AKUMA. Hell, the Earl probably counts as well.
* Haruko of ''[[FLCL]]'', usually when she's about to be entertained, between the [[Cat Smile]] and [[Slasher Smile]] stages. [[It Got Worse|It's very, very much a bad thing]] for Haruko to be entertained.
* ''[[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]]'' 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]]'', [[Card-Carrying Villain|Jason Beck]] sports one.
* Ed from ''[[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.
** It's probably a [[Cat Smile]], despite the fact that she's a canine. She's usually teasing with it, not actually plotting things with bad consequences.
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* Bel from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' tends to have this as his default face, along with making one when he laughs his creepy "Ushishishishi~" laugh.
** Hmmmm... notice how his default outfit is actually a pink and purple striped shirt? And how in one Omake he's considered a house pet in the Varia family? Looks like the resemblance isn't just the smile...
* [[Naruto]] Uzumaki smiles like this a few times, usually when thinking of a prank. Some of those times (notably in the 101 episode) his Cheshire Cat Grin overlaps with [[Slasher Smile]].
** 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]]}}.
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* ''[[Dilbert]]'': Catbert gives two of these [http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-03-04/ in one strip], though his clueless victim doesn't quite get the message.
* TJ from ''[[Luann]]''. Other than the permanent grin, he's actually a pretty regular guy.
* When ''[[FoxTrot]]'' parodied ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|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 Else's War|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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** Thank you very much for the [[Nightmare Fuel]]...
* Dr. Frank-N-Furter walks on stage with this expression in the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'', and it's his default expression when he's not angry, jealous, megalomanical, or begging for sympathy. No real surprise really, as Cheshire Cat is actually a nickname for the actor [[Tim Curry]].
** Similarly in his role in ''Home Alone 2: Lost In New York''. They even segue quite unnervingly from his grin to a still from [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (animation)|the animated version of the Grinch]] -- the resemblance is uncanny.
* ''[[Equilibrium]]'''s [[The Dragon|Cleric Brandt]] has a smile which first inspires [[Fridge Logic]] when you realise that he's not supposed to have any emotion, then [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realise that he ''doesn't'' have any emotion; his huge smile has nothing to do with real happiness or real satisfaction. Knowing this makes it pretty creepy.
* [[Zero Mostel]] as Pseudolus delivers one of these to [[Jack Gilford]]'s Hysterium in ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]''. They've determined that the only way to get a visiting Captain to leave is to convince him that his intended bride is deceased. Hysterium intones, "But where are we going to get a body?" whereupon Pseudolus does a slow take at him with a grin that almost breaks his own face.
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* 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."
* Some girls have [[When She Smiles|wonderful smiles]]. Then there's Kouma of ''[[The Longing of Shiina Ryo]]''.
* In ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', the Grinch gets one when he thinks up his "wonderful, awful idea" to steal Christmas from the Whos.
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* Gengar from ''[[Pokémon]]'' is almost constantly making a Cheshire Cat Grin. In the handheld games from Red and Blue all the way to Platinum, ''every single one of his sprites'' is doing it.
** Not quite so in the first ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' [[Spinoff Series|games]]. A {{spoiler|formerly human}} Gengar shows not only a Cheshire Cat Grin and [[Slasher Smile]]; he frowns quite a bit as well, and even ''[[Tear Jerker|tears up]]'' {{spoiler|by the time Gardevoir's body is restored.}}
** We also have [http://archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Sableye_anime.jpg Sableye] from Gen III, but it's generally hard to smile pleasantly when you have a mouthful of sharp teeth.
* Tohsaka in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' is described as being scariest when she's smiling, because then you ''know'' she is going to get you. Nobody else is ever happy when she smiles.
** That's nothing. Sakura's can silence a room and ''extinguish candles''. {{spoiler|It makes sense. They are sisters, after all.}}
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* Taokaka of ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' typically makes this face whenever she wants to [[Unusual Euphemism|"play"]] or she's about to attack some poor fool. This being a game that centers on, y'know, ''fighting'', she keeps the expression some 90% of the time.
** Hazama/Terumi Yuuki sports several smiles that almost never leave his face, but simply tag each other. His default smile is a Cheshire smile with closed eyes, yet with no reassuring kindness in the expression. When his [[Psycho Smirk|smile]] shows his [[Eyes of Gold]] you better start running, 'cuz it might very well be your last chance at getting away with your life. If his [[Slasher Smile|smile]] shows teeth, [[Fist of the North Star|you're already dead]].
* Dee Jay from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' smiles because [[Fun Personified|he's an almost always happy dude]], but the type of smile he has is this one.
* In ''[[A Witch's Tale]]'', the Cheshire Cat almost always has one of these. [[Department of Redundancy Department|Cause he's the Cheshire Cat]].
* The [[Grimmification]] of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'', naturally stars the Cheshire Cat, albeit a ''much'' more insane and macabre version of him. His Cheshire Cat Grin also has bit of [[Slasher Smile]].
* Travis Touchdown of ''[[No More Heroes]]'', particularly whenever he enters a fight while in a good mood. The loading screen for [[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle|the second game]] even shows a small picture of him sporting one.
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== Web Comics ==
* Both Zimmy and Coyote in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. Oddly, the effect of each character's grin is heightened by the fact that they have the wrong sort of teeth: Zimmy has shark-like teeth and Coyote has uniform, flat teeth.
** Of course, both of them pale before the awesomeness of [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=458 Jack's smile.]
** Jack outdoes himself in [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=620 this] strip.
* Tedd from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has been seen with one of these from time to time, generally when there's a noteworthy bit of [[Author Appeal]].
* 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.]
* Smiling Man from ''[[User Friendly]]'' smiles all the time, but sometimes it gets [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20090415 even worse].
* 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.]
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', "wild" Jagers tend to wear this most of the time: there's so much ''funny'' things to happen -- like plowing through a crowd of monsters -- and they have pointed teeth. Gil grins like that when he is stuffed to the gills with combat stimulants and about to blow up something.
** [[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 ''[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]].
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== Western Animation ==
* 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]]''.
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'': "My name is Fred and I've been very...naughty".
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