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{{trope}}
[[File:biff-eyebrows.png|link=The Book of Biff|
{{quote|''[[Lampshade Hanging|Don't forget the eyebrows that hover mysteriously over my head!]]''
|'''Ruff Ruffman''', ''[[Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman]]''}}
In comics, webcomics and animation, eyebrows are very important to conveying expression, so it's important that they be seen. To this end, they sometimes actually ''float several inches above the character's head'', or are otherwise clearly unattached. This may be a feature of the art at all times, or it may signify that the character in question is just that surprised. A subtrope of [[Unusual Eyebrows]]
If they're on the face but showing through the hair, that's [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]].
{{examples
* Cap'n Crunch. They're ''on his hat''.▼
** ''[[Friends]]'' gives us this exchange:▼
{{quote|
'''Chandler:''' That's what's weird? Joey, the man's been captain of a ''cereal'' for the last forty years. }}▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Amuro's eyebrows even work as a shield to protect the wearer from the head-pulling thing Haruko does.
** They're not even fake, inked eyebrows. They are ''actual seaweed, scanned and inserted into the anime'', making the whole shebang look even ''more'' wrong.
▲== [[Comedy]] ==
* A Paul Merton routine had him explaining to a potential job applicant that interviews always measure a person by the height of their eyebrows on their hand, and thus the ideal candidate would have eyebrows floating five inches above their head (in true Paul Merton style, this escalated into a discussion of someone's eyebrows being so high they got attached to the front of a train passing over his head).▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Comic artist Phil Foglio is rather fond of these.
* ''[[
* Drawn in a similar style to Miskit from the ''Amulet'' example are the Bone cousins, from ''[[Bone]]''. Fone Bone in particular will sometimes be drawn with ''several'' sets of eyebrows; all of them disembodied.
▲* Cap'n Crunch. They're ''on his hat''.
▲** ''[[Friends]]'' gives us this exchange:
▲{{quote| '''Joey:''' Man, this is weird. Ever realize that Cap'n Crunch's eyebrows are actually on his hat? <br />
▲'''Chandler:''' That's what's weird? Joey, the man's been captain of a ''cereal'' for the last forty years. }}
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'' had its distinctive (-:333 (best approximation).
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* A Paul Merton routine had him explaining to a potential job applicant that interviews always measure a person by the height of their eyebrows on their hand, and thus the ideal candidate would have eyebrows floating five inches above their head (in true Paul Merton style, this escalated into a discussion of someone's eyebrows being so high they got attached to the front of a train passing over his head).
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Fuzzy from ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', even [http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=101 lampshaded] at one point.
** Mr. Sin embodies the trope - even [http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=767 forgetting to put his eyebrows on].
* ''[[
* The titular character of ''[[The Book of Biff]]''. He has a similarly disembodied mouth.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Bob himself, certainly (his rectangular eyebrows are sometimes visible above his head ''even when viewed from the rear),'' Princess Voluptua's [[Hair Antennae|antenna eyebrows]], and the other castmembers intermittently.
* Done in ''[[
* When visible, eyebrows in ''[[The Order of the Stick
* In ''[[Air Force Blues]]'', eyebrows float on the forehead, usually right ''on'' the hairline.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Yin Yang Yo
* ''[[Fetch!
* CGI example: Characters in ''[[Bionicle]]:The Legend Reborn'' have their eyebrows sitting on top of their helmets, rather than being attached to their faces.
* Ed from ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''.
** Sometimes he also has a disembodied ''eye'', though thats probably just a style thing.
*** Actually, if something large enough smacks him, it appears whatever eye was hanging off his head falls seperately of him.
* Cyborg from the ''[[Teen Titans (
* Done with Jenner in ''[[
* ''[[The Snorks]]''.
* Most of the characters from ''[[
* Many of the characters in ''[[
* One ''[[
* The main character of ''[[El Tigre]]'' has this happen to him from time to time.
** At one point he raised them so high that they fell off and floated to the ground.
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* Seen with several of the animal characters on ''[[Will and Dewitt]]''
* Al Alligator on the Playhouse Disney / Disney Junior short series ''Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?''
* ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]''. All of the characters. It's the most noticeable with Sigmund, whose eyebrows are pitch black and rather thick, while his complexion is pale and [[White
* ''[[Duckman]]'' sports a pair of these, along with eyes that are [[Eye Glasses|evidently attached to his glasses]] rather than his head.
* Trogdor from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.
* Angel the bunny from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* A number of Manny's tools have them on ''[[Handy Manny]]''.
* Several of the characters on [[Disney Channel|Disney Junior]]'s animated adaptation of ''[[Guess How Much I Love You]]'' exhibit disembodied whiskers, depending on what angle they're shown from.
* Seen on some of the animals on ''[[
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