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The question mark is a common, handy visual representation of confusion, surprise, or just being plain weirded out. It can manifest as several question marks floating around the nonplussed character's head, a single such symbol hovering over the character, or pop up as the contents of a thought bubble (or a regular [[Speech Bubble]], in which case it seems to represent the "huh?" sound. Compare [[Visible Silence]].)
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See also [[My Name Is ???]], where it is used as a symbol of the unknown. Compare [[Alertness Blink]].
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* In the [[Classic Disney Short]] ''A Gentleman's Gentleman'', as [[Pluto the Pup]] wonders how to get a gumball from a gumball machine, one of his ears forms a question mark.
== [[Other Media]] ==
* Chess notation marks bad moves with one question mark, blunders (very bad moves) with two.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The 2023 discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope of [https://gizmodo.com/question-mark-spotted-in-deep-space-webb-telescope-1850693160 an astronomical feature resembling a galaxy-size question mark] has led many wags to suggest that it means the universe as a whole is fundamentally confused.
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