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* After Kuzco fires Yzma in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', he dismisses the stunned, stuttering woman from his mind and instead contemplates his fingernails.
* In ''[[Thor: Ragnarok]]'', when the Einherjar confront Hela, she studies her nails with a bored look before even deigning to address them.
* Inverted in ''[[Legally Blonde (film)|Legally Blonde]]'' where Elle's sorority sisters take her to the nail salon after
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Used as part of a character-defining moment during the first-episode setup of the 2009-2014 [[Lifetime]] series ''[[Drop Dead Diva]]'': ditzy blonde Deb goes off to her audition to be a model on ''[[The Price Is Right]]'', while talking to a friend on her cellphone and filing her nails
* In ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' [[Brainless Beauty]] Hilary Banks starts a fire when she drops her oven mitts on the range top so she can file her nails. When she notices the fire, she makes a token effort to beat it out with a frying pan before returning to filing her nails ''while smoke continues to rise''. When Geoffrey enters the kitchen she tells him [[Understatement|that something might be wrong with the stove]] before going back to her nails ''again''.
* Santana from ''[[Glee]]'' was frequently seen filing her nails when she apparently felt events (or the people around her) were beneath her notice,
* One of the defining characteristics of Miss Nance of the Humanidyne Institute, secretary to the titular team from [[NBC]]'s short-lived series ''[[Misfits of Science]]'', although in her case it's misleading
== [[Music]] ==
* In the video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s 1985 song "Like a Surgeon" (parodying [[Madonna]]'s hit "Like a Virgin") a nurse dressed like the very early Madonna sits in one corner of the operating room unconcerned with the medical procedures taking place, blowing bubblegum and filing her nails.
* Makes an appearance in the song [https://members.tripod.com/~bardic_circle/di.htm "Divine Irregularity"] by [[Filk Song|filk singer]] [[Tom Smith]]:
{{quote|''They heard a roar and a terrible crash, and they all turned 'round to see''
''The dragon right behind them cleaning its nails on a tree.''}}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'':
** In ''[[Mortal Kombat X]]'', Tanya's brutality ends with her checking her nails and making a dismissive comment about her opponent.{{verify|reason=There is no writeup for a character named Tanya on Mortal Kombat X/Characters}}
** ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]'':
*** For one of her taunts, Jade leans on her staff and studies her nails while insulting her opponent.{{verify|reason=There is no writeup for a character named Jade on Mortal Kombat 11/Characters}}
*** Mileena gets two: In one of her attacks she pauses to inspect her nails ''in the middle of stabbing her opponent in the face''. In another, as a salvo of sais turn her opponent into a pincushion, she turns her back on them and checks out her nails.{{verify|reason=There is no writeup for a character named Mileena on Mortal Kombat 11/Characters}}
* Loki can be seen checking his nails as he tells Black Panther he's accomplished his goals in Wakanda, just before he vanishes from the Marvel Battlegrounds playset in ''[[Disney Infinity]]''.
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