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{{trope}}
{{quote|"Man the helms! Dive, dive!"|'''Ed''', ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''}}
A visual effect where a shot is ended by having the camera zoom into a character's wide open mouth, usually while the character in question is screaming or singing. Usually done in animation, since, among other things, it's likely to be a [[Gross Up Close-Up]] in live action. Frequently done during songs.
Sometimes, it is done to represent something literally entering a character's mouth; usually, however, it is solely a visual effect.
▲A visual effect where a shot is ended by having the camera zoom into a character's wide open mouth, usually while the character in question is screaming or singing. Usually done in animation, since, among other things, it's likely to be a [[Gross Up Close-Up]] in live action. Frequently done during songs.
▲Sometimes, it is done to represent something literally entering a character's mouth; usually, however, it is solely a visual effect.
▲Not to be confused with [[Mouth Cam]], which is technically its opposite.
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* ''[[The Matrix]]''. While Morpheus and his crew are searching for Neo's body in the real world, Neo touches a mirror. The mirror spreads over him like quicksilver and flows down his throat with the camera following. The scene changes and Neo wakes up in his real body. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_O3k-RpV2c here].
* One early short film depicts a man jabbering in front of a camera, getting closer and closer. The shot looks as if the camera ends up the man's mouth, then the camera pulls back out.
* The [[Animated Credits Opening]] to ''[[George of the Jungle (
* The 1970s version of ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[The Day Today]]'s'' "War" episode, the broadcast features precision-guided missiles "with nose-mounted cameras" which provide a POV perspective of the missles' path. One such missile is so precise that its camera shows the missile entering a soldier's mouth and going down his throat before the camera's transmission cuts to static, signifying an explosion in the soldier's stomach.
* ''[[Tales
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* The ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In a French commercial for the first ''[[Rayman]]'' game, the camera zooms into Rayman's mouth, and then it cuts to gameplay footage.
* Happens in ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach]]'' during one of the Security Office segments. {{spoiler|Gregory hacks into one of the S.T.A.F.F bots while Glamrock Chica is trying to break into the office, using the robot to make a pizza for luring Chica away. This entire segment takes place from its POV - once it's finished, the player is treated to a neat little scene of Chica standing near the robot in a zombie-like gait, then suddenly rushing the robot, screaming "PIZZA?!", and lunging towards the camera with her beak wide open.}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Done with a cheerfully singing [[Zero Wing|CATS the cyborg]] in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6emvdmg-M Zero Wing Rhapsody] Flash (at 3:05).
* British vlogger [[Charlieissocoollike]] does this at the end of the 2009 [[YouTube]] video "My Mum Makes Me Munch Marshmallows".
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* The [[Wile E
* The [[Roger Rabbit Short]] "Tummy Trouble" has a shot of Roger swallowing a rattle from the rattle's point of view.
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* "[[The Skeleton Dance]]" has the first skeleton jump towards the camera, which goes through its mouth and out the ribcage.
* The scene in ''[[The Thief and
* Done literally in an episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8VIAVkj6Do Ed swallows the video camera] that Double D and Eddy were using to film their movie, providing the page quote.
* Done in some episodes of ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. For example, in the first episode, when Nathan yells "WHAAAAAAAA?" after Toki tells him that they left the food back at the grocery store, the camera zooms into his mouth and down his esophagus, then transitions to the next scene.
* Parodied ([[Affectionate Parody|of course]]) in the ''[[
* ''[[Rock
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* Hopper's death at the end of ''[[A Bug's
* Done at the end of Bart's nightmare on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Treehouse of Horror II
* Taken literally in one episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'', where half the members (including one
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[[Category:Animation Tropes]]
[[Category:Camera Tricks]]
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