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{{trope}}
[[File:COH Banished Pantheon Spirit of Death.jpg|link=City of Heroes|frame]]
A fictional character or creature that is just a head (as opposed to a [[Waddling Head]] or someone who's recently [[Losing Your Head|lost their head]]) that can also fly, hover, or just get around under its own power.
Comes in a few artistically styles
* [[Dem Bones|Flying skull]] or [[Robot Buddy|Robot]]: usually some form of [[Attack Drone]] but occasionally more powerful than a similar character with a full body.
* [[Floating Mask]]: sometimes causes [[Demonic Possession]].
* Skull or Core with a less real body: Such as a [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]] or [[Blob Monster|slime]] with an ectoplasmic body and a bony skull or a robot with a core and a bunch of wires.
Sometimes these
See Also: [[Cephalothorax]], [[Oracular Head]], and [[Oculothorax]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Yuurei Shoujo of ''[[Gate Keepers 21]]'' with her "pretty" skull-in-a-ball.
* In ''[[
* [[Mazinger Z]] villain Count Broken is a flying head with a headless android body... that just follows it around. He never attaches the head to his body; in fact sometimes he carries the head under his arm.
* [[Hell Teacher Nube]] - One of the [[Obake]] the titular Nube runs into is a human head with bat wings.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Zelda from the old TV Horror Host Svengoolie, and Tombstone from his successor Son of Svengoolie (which is now just called Svengoolie).
* [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Lokar]]/[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|Dai]] [[Satan]].
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** Demiliches.
** ''Basic D&D'': the sacrol and druj monsters.
** ''[[Dungeons
** The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' setting has Skullport, an underground city ruled by flying, spellcasting skulls that order the inhabitants to perform bizarre actions (and punish them if they don't).
* ''[[Warhammer
* One of the monsters in the ''[[Munchkin]]'' card game has a ''Mortal Kom Bat'': a flaming skull with bat wings.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Morte from ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' and the mimirs.
* Several games from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series have flying skulls as enemies.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]'', the second part of ''Seasons''' next-to-last's dungeon boss is against his giant flying skull, which spits fireballs at you.
* There's a floating ghostly skull available as a non-combat pet in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Floating ghostly skulls also appear during the fight against Yog-Saron. Looking at them makes you lose sanity.
* ''[[Doom]]'' has Lost Souls (flying flaming skulls which home in on you like missiles), Cacodemons (big red faces that belch ball-lightning), and Pain Elementals (giant brown faces with stubby arms that would cough up a potentially endless crowd of the aforementioned Lost Souls).
* Skelly, one of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|many]] optional party members in ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', starts out as this. You have to find and assemble the rest of him to recruit him.
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* Ghosts in ''[[Septerra Core]]'' are huge, ghostly floating skulls. Their damage reduction and magic attacks make them [[Demonic Spiders]]
* The Sargassoes of ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', appearing in the first two games as recurring enemies.
* In the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series, recurring villainess [[The Vamp|Carmilla]]'s [[One-Winged Angel]] form is that of a gigantic, [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|naked]] woman riding an equally oversized skull that cries [[Tears of Blood|bloody tears]] (as a [[Visual Pun]] for her theme, "Bloody Tears"). Other examples periodically show up in this series, such as [[The Grim Reaper|Death]]'s [[One-Winged Angel|OWA]] in [[Castlevania III:
** Also the [[Goddamn Bats|Medusa Heads]].
* The ever-annoying flying heads in ''[[Prince of Persia]] 2: The Shadow and the Flame''.
* Some ''[[Pokémon]]'', like Glalie (which is even classified as the "Face Pokémon") and Cryogonal.
* ''Face Raiders'', an augmented reality game built into the 3DS involves being attacked by a number of flying heads with the faces of anyone you've photographed.
* ''[[Something|Something Else]]'': [[Touhou/Memes|Yukkuri Reimu]] is the main adversary of Yukkuri Take. Yukkuri Reimu is also a sprite-swap of the Angry Sun, so she can fly and mercilessly pursue Luigi.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has the Spirit Masks from the Banished Pantheon villain group. These are literally Flying Faces, being nothing but wooden masks animated by malign spiritual entities.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'': Ennesby the robot.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers'' the pirate skull(and crossbones) with [[Offscreen Teleportation]].
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'': Dethklok's mascot, Facebones.
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'': One episode had the smuggling of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Warhead]] [[Attack Drone
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'': Somewhere between this and [[Floating Mask]] is a Flying Pizza monster.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Giant Floating Baby Head]], which is more of a recurring phenomenon than a character.
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