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A fictional character or creature that is just a head (as opposed to a Waddling Head or someone who's recently lost their head) that can also fly, hover, or just get around under its own power.

Comes in a few artistically styles

• Flying skull or 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 ghost or slime with an ectoplasmic body and a bony skull or a robot with a core and a bunch of wires.

Sometimes these Flying Faces are nice, sometimes noisy Cloudcuckoolanders, often intelligent, and sometimes they don't talk.

See Also: Cephalothorax, Oracular Head, and Oculothorax.

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Examples of Flying Face include:

Anime and Manga

• Yuurei Shoujo of Gate Keepers 21 with her "pretty" skull-in-a-ball.
• In Black★Rock Shooter, Dead Master fights using flying skulls.
• 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.

Film

• The Bowler, In Mystery Men, has her father's skull embedded in her weapon, a bowling ball. She talks to it, and it, apparently, to her. It saves the day.
• Zardoz: The title character which is actually a vehicle

Literature

• Dinotopia: Fritz the robot.

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).
• Lokar/Dai Satan.

Music

• Overkill's winged skull mascot Chaly
• Avenged Sevenfold's mascot, the Deathbat, is a skull with bat wings.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Demiliches.
  • Basic D&D: the sacrol and druj monsters.
  • Dungeons & Dragons adventure OA6 Ronin Challenge. The last manifestation of General Goyat is a 50 foot tall floating head. Once the PCs do enough damage to it the flesh flakes away, leaving a giant flying skull.
  • 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 40,000: Skull probes.
• 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 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 many optional party members in Chrono Cross, starts out as this. You have to find and assemble the rest of him to recruit him.
• Great Dungeon in the Sky has Loads and Loads of Characters to choose from, including several varieties of floating skull.
• 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 Carmilla's One-Winged Angel form is that of a gigantic, naked woman riding an equally oversized skull that cries bloody tears (as a Visual Pun for her theme, "Bloody Tears"). Other examples periodically show up in this series, such as Death's OWA in the third game.
  • Also the 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 Else: 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.

Web Comics

• Schlock Mercenary: Ennesby the robot.

Web Original

• Cat Face is essentially a giant floating cat head. He has a body but it is extremely small and atrophied and just hangs underneath limply

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 Warhead Attack Drones.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Somewhere between this and Floating Mask is a Flying Pizza monster.
• Phineas and Ferb: The Giant Floating Baby Head, which is more of a recurring phenomenon than a character.
• Megatron spends most of the second season of Beast Machines as an absolutely enormous airborne head-fortress.