Face Doodling: Difference between revisions

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So you've come across a sleeping or unconscious person, and you feel a bit playful. Maybe you've knocked them out in battle and want to lower their ego a few notches without further physical damage. Or maybe your friend pulled a prank on you earlier and you want retribution.

 

As any regular, or friend of a regular to heavy drinking parties would know, this is a rather obvious case of [[Truth in Television]]

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* In one of those anti-drug PSAs, a girl passed out on the couch gets drawn on and used as a puppet by her "friends" to mock how dumb she is, and then said friends ditch her to go back to the party.

 

* One of the murder victims in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' paints a small butterfly on her lover's face with nail polish while he's asleep. It's revealed that this was a habit of hers during get-togethers with friends, became her secret signature in her magazine illustrations, and ends up becoming a vital clue in proving [[Reverse Whodunnit|that her lover really did kill her.]]

* This is one of many funny moments in ''[[Slam Dunk]]''. During the study night at Akagi's house, as the host takes a nap, Hanamichi picks up a marker that conveniently fell to his reach and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|strikes]].

* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Italy {{spoiler|saves the world (and the other countries) from permanently being [[The Blank|faceless]] Noppera by drawing on the faces of all of the aliens.}}

* In the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' [[OVAs]], it was revealed that Tenchi's own mother, Kiyone, did this to him as a child. Turns out she wasn't the sweet and kind lady Tenchi remembered her to be.

* In both the book and the film versions of ''[[Narnia|The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'', Edmund rather tackily scribbles a mustache and glasses on a lion that's been turned to stone.

* This not only happens to the heroine in L. M. Montgomery's ''Emily Climbs'', but she has reason to suspect her best friend of the deed.

** Vetinari had the printer's plates for the book destroyed and the existing copies hidden away to ensure that ''nobody else'' would learn the lesson either.

* In ''Deep Secret'' by [[Diana Wynne Jones]] there's a scene at a party at an SF convention where several people are drawing on a handsome, almost naked guy who's drunkenly fallen asleep on the stairs. One of the artists is a magic user whose doodles constitute a spell designed to lead the guy to her bed later.

* In a [[Kate Daniels]] novella, Andrea's love interest Raphael knowingly overexerts his [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|magic]] and passes out, when he could have stayed in his [[Beast Man|warrior form]] and answered her questions. Annoyed that he's avoiding her (and irritatedly wondering if he expects her to admire his naked body) she gets a Sharpie out and doodles on his face. Instead of being annoyed, though, Raphael thinks it's funny and takes her teasing as a sign that she returns his romantic interest.

 

* ''[[Cheers]]''. Sam does this to a dead drunk Rebecca, doodling a Mexican mustache and beard on her, then putting a pancho and a sombrero on her head as she dozes.

* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One In Vegas, Part Two", Ross does this to a sleeping Rachel. Then it turns out it won't come off, and Rachel refuses to leave her hotel room. After they've both drunk a lot, Ross agrees to have his face drawn on too, so they can look ridiculous together. Of course, in "The One After Vegas", it's gone by the next morning.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', after [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0038.html Roy gets crippled by poison], Elan and Belkar scribble on both Roy and the wall he's leaning against. Unusual, in that Roy is still conscious (and, naturally, really annoyed) while they're doing this.

* In ''[[Narbonic]]'', Helen and Mell do this (a lot of this) to Dave while his mind is busy with [[Mental Time Travel]].

* Millie of ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' apparently likes to do this to Ozy.

* In ''[[PvP]]'', this was how Francis amused himself during a flight home from a convention. At Brent's expense, naturally.

* Subverted in ''[[Wizard School]]'', where our 'hero' winds up with a [[Power Tattoo]] after a little [[Alcohol-Induced Idiocy]]. When he wakes up to find three pretty blue stars on his face, he assumes the two children with him have done this—and berates them for drawing stars instead of a penis or two.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

** ''Tattooed'' 'Wide Load' on his ass.

** In 'I am Furious Yellow', Ralph doodles on his own face. "I'm called Ralph!".

* Reef does it to Ripper and No-Pants Lance in an episode of ''[[Stoked]]!''. Vengeance is swift and brutal.

* In the opening of the ''[[Pink Panther]]'' series, the inspector does this with a brute, mistaking him for a poster. When the brute knocks the inspector out, the Pink Panther does the same to the inspector.

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Truth in Television]]

[[Category:Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes]]