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The Death Glare is a "calm", murderous look often coupled with a tensed and menacing posture, others with a deadly stillness, but always, always served with deathly silence. The Death Glare is hard to pull off, but when done right can convey a depth of anger and potential violence that no [[Badass Boast]] or [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] can hope to top.

 

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* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has Sweden, whose facial expression is thought as a death glare by the other countries. However, he's not angry at anyone -- [[Face of a Thug|that's just how he always looks.]]

* Anak from ''[[Tower of God]]'' who sports this when she realizes she is facing her parent's murderer. Who just took her keepsake out of his mouth.

* Kanda's death glare in ''[[D.Gray-man]]''. Complete with [[Slasher Smile]], no less.

* Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', as well as any diclonius in [[Kill All Humans]] mode.

** Though he is nothing compared to his sister, [[Four-Star Badass|General]] [[Action Girl|Olivia]] [[Mama Bear|Armstrong]]. Her normal look has shades of this. When she gets angry, well... let's just say that she doesn't need her sword to kill you.

** If you harm one of Roy Mustang's subordinates, or worse, friends ([[True Companions|though they are often the same]]), prepare for the death glare to end all death glares... if you can even see it while burning alive. {{spoiler|Envy}} learned this the hard way.

* ''[[Gash Bell]]'': Gash uses a Death Glare that inexplicably stops the far stronger Vincent Bari in his tracks. Other characters have also exhibited death glares, but not to the extent that Gash does.

* Chikane Himemiya of ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' will gladly Death Glare anyone who tries to bully Himeko Kurusugawa behind her back.

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''

** Tsuna whenever he's in Hyper Dying Will Mode.

* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': Kyon is in fact a [[Deadpan Snarker]], receiving the Death Glare by Haruhi. Subverted in that Haruhi's intention was actually to give him a ''[[Care Bear Stare]]''.

* ''[[Naruto]]''

** Boa Hancock gave Jinbe one when he started looking hungrily at a buffet Hancock [[Through His Stomach|made for Luffy.]] He was only allowed a few bites. She is also presumed to have the Conqueror's Haki.

** Dracule [[Badass Nickname|"Hawk eyes"]] Mihawk. It has been said that the one thing that all his victims remember are his eyes.

* Every character in ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'' has done this at least once.

* It's the ''default expression'' of the main lead of ''[[Angel Densetsu]]''. You do not want to see him [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|actually glaring]].

* ''[[Toradora!]]''

** Ryuuji himself, due to having the [[Face of a Thug]], tends to deliver these ''by accident.'' At one point he looked at Taiga while trying on some makeup for the role of a villain in a play and frightened her so badly she ''hit him.'' It gets even worse on the few occasions that Ryuji is actually ''trying'' to look scary. The school festival race stands out in this regard.

* Corporal Randel Oland from ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'' gets this whenever he goes into his equivalent of "berserk mode".

* Vita of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's'' is usually glaring angrily during combat. Those are all trumped by the genuinely ''murderous'' look she gives Nanoha (who's frozen in terror) during a surprise hospital visit to Hayate...

* ''[[Bleach]]'':

** Ichigo has proven capable of pulling off some really nasty ones.

* Tohsaka Rin of ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. Do NOT, just do NOT get her angry. Be prepared to be killed, er, I mean, amazed.

* Seto Kaiba of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', according to [[Fanon]], uses this all the time. In reality, he doesn't use it so much... unless your name is something other than [[Morality Pet|Mokuba]]. Unsurprisingly, [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|Kaiser Ryo]] has a very potent one of his own.

* ''[[Berserk]]''

** Griffith. Just about all of the characters who have met with his [[Implied Death Threat|cryptic death glare]] have met with some [[Make It Look Like an Accident|unfortunate]] [[I Have Your Wife|events]].

* ''[[Dragonball Z]]''

** A Super Saiyan is prone to give quite the death glare when pushed too far. Especially [[The Messiah|Goku]] and his eldest son [[Beware the Nice Ones|Gohan]]. Actually, their expression seems ''locked'' into this when they use it during a fight. The only time when a Super Saiyan is seen using other expressions while in its mode is while Goku and Gohan are living in their Super Saiyan forms to increase their power.

*** Pikachu gave Meowth a particularly hate-filled one {{spoiler|when Meowth revealed himself to be a [[Heel Face Mole]]}} in ''Best Wishes!''.

**** Meowth himself gave a one-off villain a ''hilariously'' furious one before [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|slashing the crap out of him,]] to the point of ''[[Clothing Damage|shredding the guy's clothes off]].''

* From ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'':

** [[The Devil|Hild]] can cow even first class goddesses with one meaningful look. Seemingly hereditary as her half-goddess/half-demon daughter Urd seems to be able to do it as well.

* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', Sebastian gives the servants one of these after they laughed when Elizabeth placed a frilly pink bonnet on his head.

* Kenta Usui of ''[[Chibi Vampire]]'' [[Face of a Thug|has a face that scares people even when he's not trying to]], similar to the Sweden example above. When he gets angry, though...

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Sesshoumaru is good at this. He can scare away a ravening pack of [[Youkai]]-wolves with a glare and once used it to terrify Kagome and Shippou into silence when he overheard them discussing healing his wounds.

* In ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', {{spoiler|1=ShineGreymon gives [[Complete Monster|Kurata]] one after assuming Burst Mode. It's filled with so much hate that you can practically hear ShineGreymon saying "I'm going to kill you". The [[Unflinching Walk]] as he delivers the Death Glare combined with Kurata's [[Oh Crap]] reaction to this only adds to it.}}

* [[Oda Nobunaga]] in the ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' anime. He paralyses Masamune to the spot by staring at him.

'''Tenchi:''' ''(retreating back behind the rock)'' Never mind. }}

* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', Kumagawa, {{spoiler|when he was a villain}}, had a ''really'' [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/medaka_box/v09/c071/15.html twisted look on his face] when he got pissed off about {{spoiler|Zenkichi retrieving his vision.}}

* In ''[[Zetman]]'', Jin gives Akemi's pimp ex-boyfriend the [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/zetman/v01/c010/14.html definitive death glare.] It's so scarily furious it borders on [[Nightmare Fuel]].

* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', you ''certainly'' don't want to be a servant of someone who can deliver a glare like [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/umineko_no_naku_koro_ni_episode_1_legend_of_the_golden_witch/v01/c003/27.html this],at the end of the page.

* Parodied in ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' in which Kiyotaka's sister does this because she lost her contacts and was squinting real hard [[Blind Without'Em|in an attempt to see]].

 

* Comics and strips would often indicate a Death Glare with daggers.

* [[Batman]] is one of the undisputed masters of these in comic book fandom, despite being very much a [[Technical Pacifist]].

* In the ''[[Asterix]]'' album ''Asterix in Corsica'', this is a talent shared by every Corsican male, and they're not shy about using it on pesky foreigners.

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''. The Saint of Killers' glare goes right past scary and into [[Bring My Brown Pants]] territory:

** "And the preacher's faith came back in a rush of piss."

* ''[[The Punisher]] Max'' #19. A group of mobsters have just [[Too Dumb to Live|dug up the remains of Frank Castle's family and filmed themselves pissing on the bones]] in an attempt to get the Punisher angry. Cut to a shot of him watching it on TV in a diner that shows it definitely got him mad.

* Dwight caught a death glare from Miho in ''[[Sin City|Sin City: The Big Fat Kill]]''. He was trying to stop her from torturing an abusive boyfriend to death (to give a good idea as to how brutal she was being). Once she gave him the look, he took a step back. Scaring a guy like Dwight is no easy task.

* [[The Sandman]] is also very good at Death Glare. It probably helps that a) he can look like anything he wants, and b) his eyes usually look like bottomless holes of night. Which turn red when he's angry.

* [[Ghost Rider|The Penance Stare]]. Backed up by being forced to feel every sin you've ever committed all at once.

 

== Fan Works ==

* Shows up occasionally in ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'', most of the time when [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix]] says something stupid for [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing the research]]. Using them it's also one of [[The Stoic|Sonata's]] main traits.

 

* "Glaring daggers" was, of course, taken to a twistedly literal degree in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.

* ''[[Treasure Planet]]'':

'''Ben:''' ... Unless he looks at me like that. Bye Jim! }}

** The sparks jumping between the cables Jim was holding at the time really helped accent the glare.

* Astrid gives one to Hiccup in ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' when he wins out in dragon training over her.

 

* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s iconic [[Clint Squint]] usually takes the form of a Death Glare. There's a reason he's been referred to as "Father of the murder eyes".

* [[Lee Van Cleef]] usually wears a perpetual sneer while playing villains that is enhanced by his narrow eyes and hawkish face.

* The one obsessive/traumatized Scottish soldier in ''Joyeux Noël'' who had his brother killed earlier. He looked very much about to kill a German soldier who was offering him champagne, before the German wisely walked away.

* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', Edward scares off four thugs with lecherous intents with nothing more than a death glare... and a healthy dose of [[Drives Like Crazy]]. And an almost animal-like snarl. And, given the fact that he IS a vampire, perhaps a bit of Magic as well.

** Todd, Envy, and Julie all simultaneously give Knives one when she speaks, complete with "GLARE" written over their heads.

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''

** Davy Jones can also do a killer stare. When he snarls "Do ya fear death?", ''everybody'' takes him seriously.

* Played literally straight in the ''Puppetmaster'' movies, as Blade, the apparent "leader" of the puppets, has daggers set in his eye sockets which are only able to be clearly seen when someone is guaranteed to die.

* Blind Mag gives two of these to Rotti Largo in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'': Once, when he jokingly tells her that she 'belongs to [[Gene Co]]', and the second is less subtle during ''Chromaggia'', where she sings the line, {{spoiler|"I would rather be... blind!"}} and then she {{spoiler|rips out her eyes in a final act of defiance, rather than have her eyes repossessed by Nathan}}.

* Matsu, the protagonist of the ''[[Joshuu Sasori]]'' series, is largely silent, but has a superb line in Death Glares, producing fear, anger and insecurity in whoever they're directed at. Particularly when [[Extreme Melee Revenge|repeatedly stabbing people]], but most effectively when bound hand and foot, lying in a puddle, in solitary, having just been covered with a sopping wet blanket; her abuser laughs in her face...until she sees Matsu stare back - and grin.

* Every single [[Bruce Lee]] film is famous for this. The scary part about it is even when he is not pissed at anyone he still stares like that. Its more frequent in [[Enter the Dragon]], when he confronts Ohara and Han.

 

== Literature ==

** Lord Havelock Vetinari. This is somewhat subverted, because just him looking at you may count as a Death Glare. Not to mention when he ''raises his eyebrow''. Ooh, you don't wanna be in the same room when he does that...

** And Sam Vimes ''freezes''.

'''Vetinari:''' To be sure. }}

** Mr. Slant, a zombie lawyer, also manages to pull one these off on opposing lawyers. Knowing 200 years worth of law and precedent because you were there to make it can be quite intimidating.

** A favourite weapon of Keldas to keep the Nac Mac Feegle in line, to the point where the mere thought of it can terrify them.

** Molly Weasley has been described as a short, plump, motherly woman, and generally doesn't look very threatening, but if you piss her off, ''you will know about it''. Her glare is capable of terrifying even her twin sons Fred and George (both of whom have otherwise never shown any signs of cowardice), and even scares innocent bystanders (such as Harry himself in book 2). Even her own husband, also a brave and courageous individual, is reduced to nervous mumbling under her glare.

** Professor Minerva McGonagall is also capable of giving students "the sort of look that scorches."

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]''

** In Book 12, Harry meets Agent Tilly. One word and a look from Tilly is able to send [[Smug Snake]] Rudolph running from the room. Quite impressive, as the only other things that have been able to accomplish this were a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|loup-garou]] and [[Our Vampires Are Different|a scourge of Red Court Vamps.]]

* ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''. This, along with the occasional [[Psychotic Smirk]], has various characters outright terrified of him.

* Atticus Finch from ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', in true [[The So-Called Coward|So-Called Coward]] fashion, deploys a death glare now and then.

* Stephanie Plum manages one in ''To The Nines'' as she's repeatedly being pulled aside for random security checks at an airport, calmly imagining murdering every annoying person around her in a particularly violent way. She doesn't let on what she's thinking, but Lula comments on how creepy Stephanie's suddenly gotten.

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' graphic novel ''After the Flood'', Leafstar proves herself very capable of giving death glares. One of them is enough to make her mate drop the prey he's carrying.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

*** Special props to Dr. Cottle, the only character in the series to withstand an Adama Glare without side effects. Dr. Cottle is just THAT awesome. In the words of the BSG wiki: "''So far, the only Colonial immune to the Adama Glare is Doctor Cottle, who is able to scowl intensely himself while making important medical decisions. Helena Cain resisted a Glare once, but the strain resulted in permanent back problems, exacerbated psychotic tendencies, and future vulnerability to the Adama Growled Ultimatum, a much weaker psychological weapon that fails to affect even D'Anna Biers on a later occasion.''"

*** Notably, in the mutiny episodes, Gaeta proves to be, if not completely resistant to the Adama Death Glare, then at least able to stonewall it for a good while. Adama ''really'' should have respected Gaeta a bit more...

** Helo kills Athena, his wife, because as an [[Artificial Human]] who gets better if killed, she will resurrect near their kidnapped daughter to rescue her. President Roslin berates Helo for compromising the fleets security, at which he just stands up... and being much taller than her, and given she had faked their child's death earlier leading to her kidnapping, he looks like he might very well double his homicide count for the day. Roslin wisely pipes down and berates him from behind Adama.

* Done in ''[[Serenity]]'' when [[Token Evil Teammate|Jayne]] is ripping Mal's leadership abilities by talking about how Mal got all the men in his unit killed back in the war. Zoe, the second in command and only other survivor of Serenity Valley, just gives Jayne a calm look and says "You wanna leave this room." Jayne, who is usually a muscle bound oaf without a clue, mutters, "Damn right I do," and does just that.

** Done earlier in the series as well, in the episode "Out of Gas", where Mal slams Wash into the wall and gives him a vicious glare while ordering him back onto the bridge. The sheer force of personality in this scene is so powerful that it makes Jayne recoil defensively.

** Simon can do this when he thinks River is threatened. In "Safe" he does this to his father, in "Ariel" he does this to Jayne in the "back off" scene. And a few times he and Mal have a mutual glare. Simon's glares don't exactly look death-like because of his fragile appearance. However they certainly look awesome.

** River delivers one of these, coupled with a [[Kubrick Stare]], at Jayne in "Trash." Later in ''Serenity'', River gives these to {{spoiler|the wall of Alliance commandos as she prepares to do to them what she just did to the Reavers}}.

** David Palmer is the ''master'' of the Death Glare. He's scarier than Jack at times, and that's hard to pull off.

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''

** Teal'c is the master. In one episode, even though a suspect ''knew'' that Teal'c was only present to intimidate him, he was babbling everything he knew within a minute without a word of questioning being uttered. The scene goes like this: the prisonner is sitting in an interrogation room, handcuffed. Teal'c sits at the table across from him and simply begins glaring at him without ever saying a word. The prisoner immediately catches on that they think Teal'c will intimidate/bully him into talking, saying it won't work. A few more minutes of silent staring later and the guy snaps. (Entering the room whilst subtly reminding his victim that he is probably the strongest person on base simply by flexing his jaw muscles also helps.)

** In another episode, Daniel has been {{spoiler|turned into a Prior}}, and is understandably considered very dangerous. Woolsey informs SG-1 that he's recommended to the President that they kill him. Mitchell stands up and gives him a look, and Woolsey steps behind Landry and stays there for the rest of the scene.

* Aeryn Sun off ''[[Farscape]]'' is very prone to these. Often followed by lots of gratuitous violence.

* Captain Kirk shoots off a pretty good one at Dr. McCoy in the original ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". Doubly impressive in that he's buried up to his chest in dead tribbles at the time. (It probably helps that they had to drop those tribbles on Shatner something like 38 times.)

* A blooper scene in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' showed Jolene Blalock (playing [[The Spock|T'Pol]]) forgetting her line and breaking down in nervous giggles when Scott Bakula (playing an evil [[Mirror Universe]] Captain Archer) moves menacingly towards her with his glare on Full Power.

* Hilariously played out, parodied, subverted or whatever in ''[[Scrubs]]'', with the Janitor giving J.D. the Death Glare with the song "[[Koyaanisqatsi]]" by Phillip Glass played. He later organizes a "group-glare" aimed at Carla, and rebukes Ted because the best Ted can manage is a sad glare. See both examples [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqtnU2faTc here].

* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' episode "Dungeons & Dragons", Charley has a talk with [[Robot Girl|Cameron]], and compares her to Vick, a deactivated Terminator who [[Nightmare Fuel|she has been casually skinning and bagging]]. Once he calls her a "very scary robot," the normally emotionless and stoic Cameron gives him a sudden Death Glare, sets Vick's "corpse" on fire, and tells him "It's not safe for you here." Charley, understandably, runs the hell away.

** Leon Vance is one of the few people immune to the Gibbs Glare, mainly due to having one of his own. When the two of them get into a Glare Down, the backscatter literally has other characters fleeing the room.

* In ''[[Noah's Arc]]'' Malik taunts Wade at the wedding about {{spoiler|Noah cheating on Wade with him. Wade delivers several death glares before giving him a solid punch to the face}}.

** E.G. (from 4x03, "Minimal Loss"):

'''Hotch:''' I'm Aaron Hotchner, Unit Chief. I'm the guy who's going to tell the attorney general of the United States whether to charge you with obstructing a federal investigation or negligent homicide. ''(pause)'' Get off my crime scene. ''(DEATH GLARE)'' }}

* DCS Foyle from ''[[Foyle's War]]'' is a master of the cutting remark, especially against those who garner his contempt rather than his sympathy. But his most effective riposte was to a British pro-fascist politician in "The White Feather". Annoyed that this upstart detective is refusing to let him leave merely because a murder has been committed, the politician asks Foyle if he's Jewish. Foyle just stares coldly at him for a long moment, then walks out without bothering to reply.

** G'Kar gives Vir ''the mother'' of all death glares before delivering his deathly chilling "dead...dead...dead..." monologue. It was chilling, at least in part, because G'Kar also sliced open his own hand, and was intoning "dead...dead...dead..." as each drop of blood fell to the floor.

** In one episode Sheridan manages to piss of Kosh so much, that he manages to give him a death glare with just the single camera eye of his robot suit.

* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' Season 1, [[Magnificent Bastard|Nathan Petrelli]] often deployed a priceless Death Glare against [[Idiot Hero|his little brother Peter]] when the latter was saying or proposing to do something especially dumb.

** The Death Glare is back in "Shades of Gray", {{spoiler|after Danko defenestrates Nathan from the n~th floor of a high rise building. Nathan glares a whole catalogue of insults at him before booming off.}}

** John Simm's evil Master squint is ''legendary''.

** The Ninth Doctor was fond of doing this to badly misbehaving Companions. (Adam in "The Long Game", Rose in "Father's Day", and Jack in "The Doctor Dances") He also managed to stare down some villains this way, at least temporarily. Usually it was just a bluff, though, done when he really had no weapons or way out.

** Back in the old series, the Fourth Doctor would occasionally break out the Death Glare if circumstances warranted. In "Genesis of the Daleks", the look he gives the Time Lord who stole his TARDIS and dropped him on Skaro should have had the guy needing to regenerate on the spot.

* Michael from ''[[The Office]]'' busts out the glare from time to time, for example when Dwight went to Jan saying that he should be Regional Manager and then lied, saying he was at the dentist. Michael is usually a complete buffoon, but when he does that glare...he is pretty creepy looking.

* Charlie Harper from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' is really good at giving these to his brother Alan.

* Reba Hart from ''[[Reba]]'' is also good at this.

* This exchange from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':

'''Angel:''' --that's a good point. }}

* ''[[Deadwood]]'': [[Timothy Olyphant]] is a ''master'' of these. One of his stares can leave a smoking hole in you.

** The Greta agent in "Chuck Versus the Fear of Death" has a few of these, accompanied by her waving around a [[Knife Nut|wickedly sharp knife.]] She and Casey even trade glares in a face-off at the end of the episode.

* Beckett has one of these on permanent standby for whenever [[Castle]] gets snarky about their relationship... or when his theories go too far off the wall.... or when he tries her patience.... or pretty much whenever he's talking.

* ''[[Press Gang]]'''s Lynda Day has a Death Glare as her ''default expression''.

* Both the male leads in ''Chinese Paladin 3'' break out the glare when they're ''seriously'' pissed off. It's not actually easy to get them them, considering that one of them is a [[Guile Hero]] and the other is [[The Stoic]]...but sometimes people do. Common reasons include [[Knight Templar Big Brother|harming Jing Tian's nakama]], trying to make Changqing break his [[Heroic Vow]], or bringing about the end of the world.

* Katsumi Daidou does this in the prequel movie [[Kamen Rider W]] Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal. The villain of the movie tries to mentally break Katsumi by killing someone whom he cared about. After the kill, Katsumi delivers one hell of a death glare, signifying the audience its ass-kicking time.

* Abed pulls off a particularly awesome one in the ''[[Community]]'' episode ''A Fistful of Paintballs''. In fact, it's so awesome it's accompanied by an eagle's scream and hellfire vfx. The recipient drops his gun and runs in terror.

 

== Music ==

* The singing group Heart had one implied for a cheating lover in an appropriately named song called "[[Meaningful Name|If Looks Could Kill]]".

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The game ''Adventure!'' has this as a Heroic Knack, Steely Gaze, which allows you to win all staredowns against non-Inspired characters and offers a bonus against Inspired characters, though the second-level Psychic knack, Cloak of Dread, might be a combo of this and a general aura of terror.

* Similarly, ''[[Deadlands]]'' has an edge called The Stare that gives a bonus to intimidation rolls.

** The Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels, Mephiston, has one of these. He's known as the Lord of Death. Bad enough, but when you consider just how much death is involved in 40K...

** Also the Nightbringer, whose glare can also function as an attack.

** Also for the imperium Commissar Yarrick, same deal. Currently it is an [[Eye Beam]] attack but he used to just be rumored to kill orks at a glance. That's the point: when he heard the rumor, he ''[[Eye Scream|instantly plucked out his eyeball]] [[Crazy Awesome|and replaced it with a laser]]'' to live up to his reputation.

** Also, in older pieces of fluff, Guardsman Pius, whom Horus killed with a mere flance for attempting to stand between him and the Emperor.

 

== Theater ==

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has this as a superpower called "Fearsome Stare", which strikes paralyzing terror into the foes before you.

* Lampshaded in the PS2 ''Punisher'' video game.

'''Bullseye:''' Or what? You'll ''scowl'' me to death? }}

* Damon Gant's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTgOhzVddw Epic Stare of Death] from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' is the embodiment of this trope.

** Miles Edgeworth from the same games is legendary for this.

** Morgan Fey throws off some particularly vicious glares when provoked, as does Dahlia Hawthorne. {{spoiler|Like mother, like daughter.}}

** Cyrus gives you, the player, a death glare during the opening credits of ''Platinum Version''.

** Cobalion, a [[Pokémon Black and White|Generation V]] [[Olympus Mons|Legendary Pokémon]], can command other Pokémon to do its will simply by glaring at them.

* Shinja from ''[[Battle Realms]]'', whose death glare is an activated ability that intimidates all nearby enemies into dealing less damage. A popular folk tale claims that his glare can even block incoming magic (in-game, Shinja is near-immune to magic attacks).

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'': During her [[Mama Bear]] moment, Amy gives Silver a look that essentially says "take one step foward and I'll kill you right here and now." This becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when you realize that she (a mere [[Badass Normal]]) made a powerful psyker back off with that look.

*** [[Narm|Well...]]

** Shepard's no slouch at delivering such glares him/herself, and at one point is even able to outstare a freaking Krogan in Afterlife, leading to one of the funniest scenes of the game.

* ''[[Mario Is Missing]]'': After the internet got to him, Weegee began to do this frequently.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' example: Most of Organization XIII practices this frequently. A few (most notably Xemnas, Zexion and Saïx) have this as their default expression.

* The portrait for Jaheira from ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' could be interpreted as giving a Death Glare; at any rate, knowing her character, it's easy to imagine her dealing them out to everyone. ([http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Jaheira The second portrait on this page, if you're wondering.])

* After beating the final boss in ''[[Mega Man Star Force]] 3'', it gets up for more. After a short cutscene, the hero goes [[One-Winged Angel]]... stands there for a few seconds... and then glances over his shoulder at the boss. Cue unloseable boss fight.

* In ''[[F.E.A.R.]] 3'', the Point Man delivers a truly [http://guides.gamepressure.com/fear3/gfx/word/685223250.jpg terrifying example] of this in the intro when he realizes one of the Armacham soldiers is possessed by Paxton Fettel, and expresses his feelings toward him by slicing his throat.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'', Link pulls off an epic one pretty much all the time {{spoiler|Demise}} is on-screen. {{spoiler|Demise is actually intrigued by this: Link is the first human he's ever seen who looks at him with anger and hatred, rather than fear and terror.}}

* This and [[Hulk Speak]] make up the entirety of [[Final Fantasy X|Kimahri Ronso's]] interpersonal skills. (Although he's actually quite the [[Gentle Giant]] when he warms up to you.)

 

== Visual Novels ==

 

== Web Comics ==

*** Turns out, it has a slight justification. Miranda Deegan is a Circle Archmage, capable of banishing people into unknown dimensions, manipulating time and space, and packing more magical firepower than most countries. An Archmage glaring at you is a very good cause for alarm. Fortunately, Miranda has a great deal of self-control, so she saves all that for the ''actual'' bad guys.

* In ''[[The Optimist]]'', a retail worker can do nothing but [http://the-opt.com/?p=40 glare].

* ''[[Lackadaisy Cats]]''

** Examples of [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=86 both]. Poor, poor Freckle.

* ''[[Angel Moxie]]''

** And Miya doesn't let looking like a cute cat stop her from [http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/2/7/279.html death-glaring a bulldog into a whimpering mess.]

* The Captain from ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]'' uses one {{spoiler|that literally explodes one of the heads of the aliens it's directed at.}}

* In ''[[Questionable Content]]'', the characters know better than get between Cosette and her date. [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1547 For good reason.].

'''Marten:''' Jesus, I thought she was gonna go all ''Temple of Doom'' on you and [[Beat Still My Heart|pull your heart out through your chest]]! }}

* Combining cuteness with internal fury, [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c20/p1.html Lucy's stare] comes close to this in ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]''.

** And Tedd unintentionally provokes a ''dual''-Death Glare [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-05 here.]

** Noah, [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-31 here.] '''''Holy shit!'''''

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', Haley giving Sabine in disguise a [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0378.html "petrifying gaze attack"] is what clue Nale that Haley might have feelings for his brother Elan.

* Art from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', while usually a rather genial guy, gives quite a good [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=693 one].

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|Piro]] from [[Megatokyo]] has a [http://megatokyo.com/strip/867 surprisingly] [http://megatokyo.com/strip/706 good] [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1085 one].

* When the [[Freak Angels]] [[Hive Mind|link together]], [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=67&page=4 they can give a pretty spooky one], and the victim doesn't even have to be there.

* ''[[Sabrina Online]]:'' Amy the Squirrel lets Thomas '''''KNOW'''' [http://rigby-jones.net/es/sabrina/art/SabOnline118.gif right on the bat] that natural delivery is not for her at all.

* Bun-bun from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is a simply drawn rabbit, which means that most of the time he only wears one of three expressions: round eyes, bored eyes or angry eyes. When the last appears (which is not seldom), you should be very afraid. Many creatures multiple times his size are.

* [[The Captain]] in ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]'' gives an impressive (although unseen by the readers) Death Glare to {{spoiler|an alien - a literal one, as it causes the [[Your Head Asplode|alien's head to]] '''''[[Your Head Asplode|explode]]'''''}}.

 

== Web Original ==

* Lily, the [[Fantastic Racism|human-hating]] fairy of ''Felarya'' has a [http://karbo.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3gz9ik truly frightening stare] (mildly NSFW) with a generous helping of [[Ax Crazy]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'': Gwen Stacy doesn't quite have one of these, but she does have "the look" which has roughly the same effect on her (male) friends Peter and Harry. It also apparently works on her dad (though he may have been joking), which is pretty impressive considering he's voiced by ''[[Clancy Brown]]''.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Raven has a Death Glare that will make you [[Bowel-Breaking Bricks|sh*t bricks]]. Ask Doctor Light. Beast Boy is apparently immune to it (probably through repeated exposure), as when she gave him one in the episode "Fear Itself", he was unfazed. Occasionally he does back off, it's just that it's not a death glare to him.

* ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'': You do '''''NOT''''' want Nova glaring at you. EVER. Likewise, while this occurs less often, Antauri has quite the death glare when it chooses to come out.

** He shows everyone in the [[Justice League]] why you listen to his orders and keep your mouth shut about it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EENaoUiLfV0 here.]

* Many years later, Bruce Wayne still has it in ''[[Batman Beyond]]''.

** Twilight uses one to convince Applejack to help out in "Luna Eclipsed".

* On ''[[Mission Hill]]'', death glares are often accompanied by daggers coming out of the person's eyes.

''[Dot and Enzo glare at the viewers]'' }}

* ''[[The Simpsons]]''

** In episode "Lady Bouvier's Lover" (#1F21), Abe Simpson had his dance-party date (Marge's mom) usurped by a rival. Abe angrily declared "I'm gonna give him the frowning of a lifetime!" and proceeded to do so. Unfortunately, the rival was the pathologically ego-centric Mr. Burns, so Abe's efforts were completely ignored.

** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Mr. Burns]] is no slouch in the Glaring department either.

* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'': Piss off Captain Foxx and you'll get one of these. Even [[Super Soldier|Gooseman]] backs off when the stare comes out. You will not get a second warning before the [[Arm Cannon]] warms up.

* ''[[Transformers Prime]]''. Despite [[The Blank|not having a face]], Soundwave manages to pull this off. {{spoiler|Right before giving Airachnid an epic beatdown.}}

* In the ''[[Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]'' episode "Honesty", Plato does one to Socrates in response to his [[Incredibly Lame Pun]].

* In the ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' episode "Berbils" gruff [[Old Soldier]] Panthro delivers one when he's caught openly hugging his new friend Ro-Bear Bill:

'''Wilykat:''' It's cool. }}

 

== Real Life ==

* Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gave one to Representative Joe Wilson when he interrupted Obama's healthcare speech by shouting "you lie". Hilariously pointed out by ''[[The Daily Show]]'' [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-14-2009/apothecary-now of course.]

* Even animals can give the Death Glare, as indicated by this famous quote by Robert Ruark on the Cape Buffalo:

** [[Lightning Bruiser|The Cape Buffalo is perhaps the deadliest animal in Africa.]] Just do '''not''' mess with it.

** The Hippopotamus kills more people than the Cape Buffalo on a yearly basis so it might just be a tad more dangerous. Mostly because the hippo is a [[Killer Rabbit]]; nobody approaches a Cape buffalo thinking it is harmless.

* Jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman would often glare at other band-members while playing a song, and would continue staring for minutes on end while they played the rest of the tune. It was infamously known as "The Ray".

* Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott recently spent a good minute of a one-on-one interview silently death staring the reporter after being asked a question. Most awkward thing ever.

* What happens when you drop your daughter to catch a foul ball in front of her mother? [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Video-Next-time-he-8217-ll-keep-a-better-grip-?urn=mlb-wp21111 You get this.]

* The Transformer Owl, at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFwgblszf6s 1:15].

 

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