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{{quote|''...the forehead can still be a powerful communication tool. For example, if your friend passes out at a party, writing obscenities next to the naughty drawings where his eyebrows used to be is a very effective way to tell the people on the bus that his friends are assholes.'' |'''Seanbaby'''}}
 
{{quote|''Never pass out when there's markers about.''|'''Rigby''', ''[[Regular Show (Animation)|Regular Show]]''}}
 
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.
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See also [[Humiliation Conga]], of which this is sometimes step one. [[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] [[Facial Markings]], which are even ''more'' permanent than a permanent marker. The resulting appearance may be similar, though.
 
As any regular, or friend of a regular to heavy drinking parties would know, this is a rather obvious case of [[Truth in Television|Truth In Television]]
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* In ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'', Yotsuba does this to her sleeping father.
** In her defense, she was just doing it because she thought daddy would look good with a mustache... and then it was so much fun she couldn't stop...
* Iwata does a rather extreme version of this to hospitalized Watanabe in ''[[Excel Saga (Mangamanga)|Excel Saga]]'' manga, drawing his face and lots of other exposed skin full of rather embarrasing doodles with a marker than doesn't wash off. In retaliation, Watanabe gives him a trashing with a baseball bat, while still recuperating - in result both end up back in hospital.
* This is almost synonymous with Jigglypuff from ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''; its reaction to [[Brown Note|having people fall asleep midsong]] is to vandalize their faces with a marker, which it also uses as an impromptu microphone.
** One Battle Frontier episode also had a Scizor that did this to defeated opponents. Yeah, a [[The Stoic|Scizor]].
* After Ranma knocks Mikado out on his feet in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]'', nobody is certain what happened for a moment... until Asuza, Mikado's rather childish partner, starts drawing on his face. Everyone Mikado has ever angered takes turns adding to it once it becomes clear.
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** When Mariko confesses her love for Kuno, she puckers up for a kiss. Kuno, [[Idiot Ball|having eyes only for Akane and The Pigtailed Girl]], doodles on her face instead. Mariko laughs it off, but every single bystander is outraged at Kuno for being so lucky and yet so stupid.
** The first real Ranma/Kuno duel ends as a sort of draw. Ranma has a nasty bruise from the air sliced by Kuno's sword, and Kuno has insults scribbled on his face. This provides for a nice gag, as it provides a chance for Nabiki to insult his spelling as he describes the incident.
* Faye Valentine of ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' lets her immaturity shine through when she draws eyebrows on the ''dog''. {{spoiler|(She does this when she realizes the dog reminds her of an ex-lover who double-crossed her.)}}
* Rukia Kuchiki does this to a magically immobilized Ichigo when he criticizes her drawing (and exposition) in the first episode of ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]''. After drawing a [[Gay Paree|Frenchy-looking]] mustache on him, she also calls him "Monsieur." Definitely not the best time to mock the teenage-looking girl's artwork...
* The children in ''[[Eureka Seven (Anime)|Eureka Seven]]'' do this to Renton to get a rise out of him.
* Genre-savvy Kyon in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Literature)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' worries that Haruhi might have drawn on him when he wakes to find her standing over him. She returns the favour later when she falls asleep to find Kyon standing over her.
* In a particularly nonsensical ''[[Saiyuki]] Reload'' [[Omake]], Sanzo, Gojyo and Hakkai discover that they are somehow stuck inside Goku's dream, and they will remain stuck until he wakes up. Since Goku sleeps like a log, Hakkai ends up just drawing open eyes on his face.
* At the end of the first episode of ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Nobue writes, "Ran away from home" on her little sister Chika's sleeping face. Of course, her little sister had just made a birthday card that said, "To my Big Sister, who's been putting on a little weight lately." Mi-chan sees it and doesn't let anyone tell Chika.
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* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' - Black Star autographs temporarily paralyzed Maka's face and doodles a Hitler 'stache on her.
* ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'' - Averted when [[Flamboyant Gay]] Masumi attempts to do this on Nodame who was pretending to sleep.
* In ''[[D Gray Man|D.Gray-Manman]]'' Lavi does this to Allen adding insult to injury as Allen is having a traumatic dream about General Cross at the time. Lavi even doodles on the bandage over Allen's damaged eye.
* Done to the loser of the penalty game on numerous occasions in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''.
** [[Batter Up|Tragically averted]] in the last episode of Onikakushi-hen.
* ''[[Battle Athletes Victory]]''
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* At one point in the [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Dark Tournament Arc]], Hiei uses an attack that leaves him "requiring hibernation". Kuwabara, upon being informed that almost nothing they do will wake him up, asks, "Can I draw a mustache on him?" He then holds up a felt-tipped marker to illustrate the point.
** He never ends up doing it, though, apparently, since we see Hiei mustache-free when he wakes up.
* A chapter of ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read Or Dream]]'' involves the Paper Sisters trying to come up with ways to make money - they do this to each other when they come up with unworkable ideas.
* Chapter 10 of ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'' revolves around a "mystery molester" who attacks girls, then [[Meganekko|doodles glasses on their faces]] and takes pictures. Much to everyone's surprise, the assailant turns out to be {{spoiler|[[Schoolgirl Lesbians|a girl herself]]}}.
* In ''[[Solanin]]'', Meiko draws on Taneda's face after he pisses her off. After she gets home from a rough day, they have a very tender moment together, which is only made funnier by his crazy face doodles.
* 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]].
* [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Izumi]] gets this treatment from the other two of the trio when she falls asleep just after arriving at [http://img-a.onemanga.com/mangas/00000057/000295822/08.jpg Mykonos].
* 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!]]'' [[OV As]], 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.
* Isidro does this to Schierke as part of their [[Ship Tease]] behavior in ''[[Berserk]]'' while the group is on board a ship to the island of Skellig. Boredom prevailed, apparently.
* In the live action of ''Lovelycomplex'' both Otani and Risa fall asleep on a bus during their school trip and are left behind. Risa wakes up normal and then turns to see Otani with what is probably the best face doodling ever. Near the end of the movie, Risa {{spoiler|uses the same picture when she goes on the Hello Girlfriend show.}}
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the JLA Watchtower universe, this was a common trick for the senior Titan boys to play on one another. It was used on-panel when Roy Harper passed out exhausted on the ride back from the Olympics. Dick found the peanut butter and jelly sandwich MRE and started doodling.
* In the [[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]] fanfic series, [[Black Crayons (Fanfic)|Black Crayons]], {{spoiler|Annabelle Lennox}} does this to the {{spoiler|twins, Mudflap and Skids}}, in "Summer Vacation." Glitter was also used.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* Done to Farva at the end of ''[[Super Troopers]]''.
* A variation in Peter Jackson's ''[[King Kong]]'': the pompous actor returns to his cabin to find that someone has vandalised his face on all of his movie posters. Then he stops for a bit to consider growing a [[Porn Stache]] like one of the doodles.
* Done in a scene of ''[[Friends Withwith Benefits]]''.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* 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.
* In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', a 16-year old assassin-in-training Havelock Vetinari sneaks up on and knocks out an inebriated older assassin boy (the later-day Lord Downey) and paints tiger stripes on Downey's face. Downey had previously made fun of Vetinari for reading a book about animals using colours and patterns for camouflage and how to make oneself invisible by hiding in plain sight. The lesson was entirely lost on Downey.
** 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.
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** In case you're wondering, she was writing "Spike loves Harmony" on his back. Spike's reaction when he wakes up? He's not pleased.
{{quote| '''Spike :''' I love ''Syphilis'' more than you.}}
* In the ''[[Lonely Girl 15Lonelygirl15]]'' episode "Hungover", Daniel wakes up after a night out drinking to discover that his face is now covered in doodles and the words "Jonas was here".
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' has it a few times, but with awake victims. In one episode, Kelso responds to JD that "he can do whatever he wants" and proceeds to draw a mustache on him. Cue Turk asking JD if he invited Kelso to "Mustache Sunday". In another episode, JD gets {{spoiler|PROM}} written on his forehead in a flashback mere weeks before prom, and needed surgery to get it off.
** Two more examples: When the Janitor is accidentally given a leaky pen by J.D. he thinks it was intentional and retaliates by using the spilled ink to give J.D. a mustache. And when Dr. Kelso is reading the last [[Harry Potter]] book, he doodles Harry's glasses and scar on anyone who thretens to ruin the ending for him.
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* An episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' had a brutal subversion. A bunch of people at a party find an unpopular girl passed out and start painting things on her face. As one of them moves the girl's head, she realizes that there is a blood on her fingers. The unconscious girl was hit on the back of the head, raped and then left lying on a bunch of coats.
* In the ''[[Modern Family]]'' episode "The Incident", Manny comes home from a sleepover with a Spock-style evil beard and moustache doodled on his face. He keeps the beard, takes to stroking it thoughtfully, and later sets the culprit's bike on fire.
* In ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'', any sleeping student is prone to be Sam Puckett's victim during a Ridgeway HS all-nighter. To the point that the principal warns the entire school about this.
* In [[Raising Hope]], Jimmy's mom forcibly writes the word "Dork" on his face in permanent marker to ensure that he will not want to spend too much time flirting with Sabrina (the girl at the grocery store). Apparently she's done this often in the past.
{{quote| '''Sabrina:''' You might wanna think about wearing make-up.<br />
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* In ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'', Phil does this to an old man, and is run off. He heads in the direction of the cliffs, which you have to descend to find him.
* A rare awake example in ''[[Bayonetta]]'', the titular character draws on Luka's face with her lipstick while he's delivering a ''[["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]'' to her. He can't see her while she does it, though.
* [[Butt Monkey|Komari]] can become a victim of this in ''[[Little Busters!]]'', provided that you, the main character, doesn't stop [[The Prankster|Haruka]].
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|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.
{{quote| "I eat you stinky roy!" [''sic'']}}
* In ''[[Narbonic]]'', Helen and Mell do this (a lot of this) to Dave while his mind is busy with [[Mental Time Travel]].
* Taken to a disturbing new level in [http://www.snafu-comics.com/comics.php?comic_id=279 this] ''[[Snafu]]'' comic (referencing ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]'').
* [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=645 This page] of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' gives a whole new meaning to the trope's name.
* Millie of ''[[Ozy and Millie (Webcomic)|Ozy and Millie]]'' apparently likes to do this to Ozy.
* This happens to Ichabod in one [http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1065768/page-119-that-escalated-quickly/ page] of ''[[Far Out There]]''... among other things.
* In ''[[PvP]]'', this was how Francis amused himself during a flight home from a convention. At Brent's expense, naturally.
* Subverted in ''[[Wizard School (Webcomic)|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]] ==
* Morgan of ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' will instantly wake up and stand at alert if anyone so much as ''uncaps'' a Sharpie within earshot of him due to this.
* In an episode of ''[[What the Fuck Is Wrong With You (Web Video)|What the Fuck Is Wrong With You]]'', Nash gets drunk and the Stick Man does it to him.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This pretty much forms the plot of the [[Looney Tunes]] short ''Daffy Doodles''.
* Someone draws a mustache on Harold's face in one episode of ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]].''
** And in a later episode LeShawna draws a smiley face on the back of {{spoiler|Heather's bald head}}.
* In one ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode, Quagmire passes out after a rather lopsided drinking game. When he awakens later his face has "penus" written on it.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': In 'Deep Space Homer' Bart wrote 'Insert brain here' on the back of Homer's head. And later [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|"Hero".]]
** Also, he once wrote 'Wide Load' on his ass.
** ''Tattooed'' 'Wide Load' on his ass.
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