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[[File:pinocchio_5787pinocchio 5787.jpg|link=Pinocchio (Disney film)|right|400px|thumb|He's also the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Pinocchio Nose]].]]
[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: A weird and funny-looking nose. May or may not be detachabledetachable—who --[[A whoWorldwide [[PunPunomenon|nose]]? Almost always symbolic of the [[Pinocchio Nose|character's personality.]] The most common shape for these noses is to either be extremely long and narrow, ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?|like a stick, mind you]]), big and round like a clown nose, or the more [[Reality Is Unrealistic|realistic]] right-triangle nose. It can also have a different color (Most commonly red and pink) than the face does.
 
Compare [[Sinister Schnoz]] for bad guys with this feature. If the person's oversized nose is ''useful'', compare [[The Nose Knows]].
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Little Caesar's mascot is a guy dressed like a Roman Emperor with a really big nose.
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Usopp from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]''.:
** Usopp, of course.
** Don't forget Buggy the Clown. [[Berserk Button|Or maybe you should]], [[Hair-Trigger Temper|not that is matters.]]
** Kaku even moreso. His nose is just as long as Usopp's, and it's ''square''.
*** Of course people quickly forgot about Kaku's nose and moved on to make fun of {{spoiler|his devil fruit}} once he got it. {{spoiler|It's a giraffe, with the same long square nose.}} At this point, the [[Gag Nose]] is turned [[Up to Eleven]] when he {{spoiler|uses it as a weapon. Instead of the [[Finger-Poke of Doom|finger pistol]] move "shigan", he pierces opponents with his nose and calls the move "bigan".}}
** [[Arc Villain]] Arlong of the Fishman Pirates has a long, jagged nose shaped like a saw (fitting since he himself is a sawfish Fishman) and can even be used as a weapon, meaning that he beat Kaku to the punch in that department! Naturally, Luffy [[Innocently Insensitive|unintentionally]] pokes fun at it, much to his exasperation.
* Various members of Osamu Tezuka's [[Reused Character Design]] have remarkably large noses.
* Tengu of the Hakushu Dinosaurs in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''. You might recognize him as the [[Dirty Coward|wimpy jerk]] that got beat up by Gaou for [[Berserk Button|making fun of Kurita.]]
** And don't forget Clifford, who Hiruma even refers to as "Fucking Nose".
* Fukumoto Nobuyuki draws some pretty out-there noses (see: ''[[Akagi]]'', ''[[Kaiji]]''). It never gets played lightheartedly in those series, but when a bunch of people see it, someone?s going to inevitably bring it up....
* Many people from [[Shotaro Ishinomori|Shotaro Ishinomori's]] works.
** Specially Jet/002 from ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. A kid actually ''bites on his nose'' in the 2001 adaptation!
* Racer from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has a somehow cone-shaped nose.
** Also Plue of this series and the author's previous main work, [[Rave Master]]. Nobody can really figure out what it is. Is it a drill? A carrot? Why does it droop over when Plue's feeling down? Erm...
* Jiraiya in {{spoiler|Sage Mode}}, Onoki, Akatsuchi and Kitsuchi in ''[[Naruto (Anime)|Naruto]]''
* Bishop Mozgus from ''[[Berserk]]''. It is square and flat, speculated by Serpico to be because he keeps banging his head against the floor repeatedly in ritualistic prayer.
* Russia from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Hetalia]]''. Fanworks either exaggerate it or [[Self Fanservice|ignore it]].
* Chihiro/Nicchi from ''[[Otaku no Musume San-san]]'' in the present timeline. Not at all in his childhood. {{spoiler|Chapter 62 reveals that it's fake and he's had a normal nose all along.}}
 
== [[ComicsComic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Sin City]]: Family Values'', one of the bartenders has a penis-shaped nose.
* Most members of the Jones family in ''[[Archie Comics]]'', most famously Forsythe "Jughead" Jones. However, Jellybean, the youngest member, is an exception.
* ''[[Achille Talon]]'': The title character's ridiculously oversize nose is a frequent source of gags.
 
== [[Card GamesFilm]] ==
* ''[[Pinocchio]]'', as you'd expect. Disney's version is even the page image!
* For disembodied noses, there's the Floating Nose in ''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Game)|Munchkin]]'' and [[Punny Name|The Shadow Nose]] in the ''Unnatural Axe'' expansion.
* Hane-Hane in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' is a nose with wings.
 
== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* ''[[Pinocchio]]''
* Used disturbingly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU here]
 
== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* ''[[Roxanne]]'', a [[Setting Update]] of ''Cyrano de Bergerac''.
* Princess Vespa from ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' has this in a picture.
* ''[[Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]'', in the [[Burn the Witch]] scene. "And this isn't my nose, it's a false one!" [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Said nose resembles a carrot and is tied on with a huge piece of twine.]]
* One of the villains in the western/comedy ''[[Cat Ballou]]'' has a metal prosthetic nose; the original was bitten off in a fight.
* [[Adam Sandler]]'s character Danny had one at the beginning of ''[[Just Go Withwith It]]''. It was the first thing to go when he decided to reinvent himself as a womanizing plastic surgeon.
 
== [[Franco Belgian Comics]] ==
* ''[[Achille Talon]]'': The title character's ridiculously oversize nose is a frequent source of gags.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]''
* Russian Author Nicolai Gogol's story ''Nose'' is about exactly this, a man's nose that escapes. He later finds it praying in a church.
* In ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'', Snape's large hooked nose is often mentioned, and is possibly the origin of his nickname "Snivellus" (he wasn't crying at the time the Marauders made it up, at least). The Marauders often center their insults around it, along with him supposedly being greasy.
* ''[[The Elenium]]'' has Sparhawk with his broken nose that is played with. In book 2 of the Tamuli it is [[Lampshaded]] when Berit wears Sparhawks face.
* At one point in [[Raymond Briggs]]' ''[[The Snowman]]'' the titular character, who has a tangerine for a nose, tries on several less dignified looking fruits before deciding to stick with the tangerine.
* Eva Luna from the eponymous novel by [[Isabel Allende]] worked as a maid for two retired middle-to-upper-class siblings, and the brother had a huge nose.
* Mr. Nosy from the ''[[Mr. Men]]'' books combines this trait with [[Not Hyperbole]].
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* Maxwell Q. Klinger from ''[[M*A*S*H (TVtelevision)|MashM*A*S*H]]'' has a large nose, the other characters frequently make jokes about it. In one episode, he half-jokingly says his family has large noses as a result of a [[Gypsy Curse]].
* [[The Muppet Show|The Great Gonzo]], especially on ''[[Muppet Babies]]''.
* Raymond Luxury Yacht of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. His name is [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"|not pronounced as written]], and it's not his real nose either. He wants to have it operated on anyway.
* The Muppet parody Cocknose in ''[[Bo Selecta]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqXdlRyJaw\]
* BBC children's show ''[[Jigsaw]]'' had the [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare-inducing]] character Noseybonk.
* Ernie removing Bert's nose was a [[Running Gag]] on early seasons of ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]''.
* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "[[Fugitive Alien|Star Force: Fugitive Alien II]]," the Mads invent long, rubbery "big noses." Joel takes [[Big Head Mode|a similar approach]] to the invention exchange.
* ''[[Frasier]]'': In the episode "Roz and the Schnoz," Frasier plays host to a couple with ridiculously large noses who are ''completely unaware of it''-- and—and neither is anyone else. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as Frasier's family tries to [[Ignore the Disability]] while the couple keeps unconsciously setting up [[A Worldwide Punomenon|nose-related puns]]: "Everyone who knows you knows you're the nosiest!"
 
== [[Music]] ==
* "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
* "[[George Clinton|Sir Nose D. Void of Funk]]", based on Cyrano.
* In the video for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsjggc5jHM "The Humpty Dance"] by [[Digital Underground]], vocalist "Humpty Hump" (Gregory "Shock G" Jacobs) is clearly wearing a pair of "groucho glasses" with an obvious fake nose attached.
 
== [[Mythology]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[PinocchioBloom County]]''
* There was a ''[[Bloom County]]'' strip where Opus is sitting at a bar, and a woman with an ''enormous'' nose (that keeps whacking Opus off his bar stool when she turns to talk to him) is babbling about finally getting cosmetic surgery. Opus inquires when she's getting her nose job and she says "Nose job? I'm getting eyeliner permanently tattooed on my eyelids!"
** Opus, the protagonist, has a huge nose which was the subject of many gags over the years, such as a badly done nose job, a worse liposuction job, sleeping on it wrong, cutting it while shaving (funnier than it sounds), and slicing it off by sneezing while flossing.
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' depicted two guys in a bar about to get in a fight, one of them has a nose so big it almost reaches the floor, and the other guy is saying "Hey watch it buddy, unless you want a fat ''lip'' as well!"
** There was a ''[[Bloom County]]''Sunday strip where Opus is sitting at a bar, and a woman with an ''enormous'' nose (that keeps whacking Opus off his bar stool when she turns to talk to him) is babbling about finally getting cosmetic surgery. Opus inquires when she's getting her nose job and she says "Nose job? I'm getting eyeliner permanently tattooed on my eyelids!"
* ''[[The Far Side]]''
** ''[[TheOne Far Side]]''comic depicted two guys in a bar about to get in a fight, one of them has a nose so big it almost reaches the floor, and the other guy is saying "Hey watch it buddy, unless you want a fat ''lip'' as well!"
** "Egad! It's the severed nose of Dr. Verlucci--returned from the grave on the anniversary of the night we all betrayed him!"
** In another, a man and a woman are in an art gallery looking at a painting of a man with a big nose; one of them says, "Gad, that's eerie. Wherever you go, the nose seems to follow."
* Sir Rodney from ''[[The Wizard of Id]]''.
** Yet another had a man with a nose about four times the size of his head angrily telling his wife - whose mouth was also exaggeratingly huge - "Is that so? Well, ''you've'' got a big ''mouth!''"
* Most regulars from ''[[The Wizard of Id]]'' have huge noses, including Sir Rodney, the King, the Duke, Bung the Jester, and Blanche.
* The title character of ''[[Ziggy]]'' has this as his most prominent feature.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''Pathfinder'', tengu [http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lddn?Advanced-Race-Guide-Preview-Wark-Wark-WarkTengu have access to a feat] that allows them to take on human semblance. [[Mythology Gag|Beaks don't completely translate]].
* For disembodied noses, there's the Floating Nose in ''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Gamegame)|Munchkin]]'' and [[Punny Name|The Shadow Nose]] in the ''Unnatural Axe'' expansion.
* Hane-Hane in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' is a nose with wings.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'', naturally.
* Traditional [[Commedia Dell'Arte|commedia dell'arte]] characters tend to come with their own masks, often sporting an oversized nose. As a general rule, the bigger a character's nose, the smaller their intelligence.
* Melvin the Superhero from the [[Jeff Dunham]] stable. He turns his face to profile when asked his "most distinguishing feature"...
{{quote| '''Melvin:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|My]] ''[[Sarcasm Mode|costume]]''.}}
 
 
== [[Toys]] ==
* Cavity Sam, the patient in the game ''[[Operation]]'', has a big red nose that lights up and buzzes when a player makes a mistake.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'': One of Wario's defining features is his large, pink nose. Waluigi has a long pink nose. Also Jimmy T. from ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]'' and his entire family have red noses for some reason.
* The joke pet Nostradamus from [[Insaniquarium]] Deluxe. Is a nose, with fins.
* Billy Burston, in ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]]''. The nose gets broken in his defeated sprite after your fights against him.
* Igor from the ''[[Persona (Videovideo Gamegame)|Persona]]'' series.
* Eggman in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series has a large pink nose.
* So does King of All Cosmos in ''[[Katamari]]'' series.
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* [[Ace Attorney|Luke Atmey and Quercus Alba]] have noses long and pointy enough to serve as a hazard to unsuspecting eyes everywhere. It's a wonder the former was able to {{spoiler|fit into that Mask☆Demasque mask at all!}}
** Victor Kudo has a bright red round nose. So does Moe, but his nose is part of his clown makeup.
* [[Street Fighter|Dan Hibiki's]] father Go Hibiki's enormous schnoze has been featured in Puzzle Fighter and will make an appearence as an alternate costume of Dan's in ''[[Street Fighter IV (Video Game)|Street Fighter IV]]''.
* The Mad Hatter of both ''[[American McGee's Alice (Video Game)|American McGee's Alice]]'' and its sequel ''[[Alice Madness Returns (Video Game)|Alice: Madness Returns]]'' sports a large and long nose.
* The Mr. Saturn species of ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|EarthboundEarthBound]]'' and ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''; their noses are quite literally a good third of their overall body.
* Alfendi Layton in ''[[Professor Layton|Layton Bros. Mystery Room]]'' has a very dramatic nose that's almost half the size of his face. Considering that his father's nose is almost nonexistent, it certainly raises questions concerning his parentage.
* The NPC Villagers in [[Minecraft]] are known for their Squidward-like hanging noses, enough so that many players simply refer to them as "Squidwards" and even Notch, the creator of the game, acknowledges that they look like "cavemen Squidwards".
* In ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, the appropriately named Nosepass, and it's evolved form, Probopass, are Pokémon who [[Eenie Meenie Miny Moai| look like Moai]] with big noses.
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cPR_ZK5k0 Hanamoski] brings this trope to the [[Exaggerated Trope|next level]].
* [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/956082222838067201/pOvGy8ra_400x400.jpg Psychicpebbles] tends to draw himself as a [[Memetic Mutation|funny little character]] with a huge schnoz, likely as a way to emphasize his ridiculously nasally voice. Fans of his like to take this trope and ramp it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYcAMIp7120 up] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhAxByCVf1w to] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILjhBdxTtw0 eleven] in fan art and fan animations.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Riff and Torg's [https://web.archive.org/web/20050221030718/http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010911 realtor] from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', in an [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010916 obvious Pinocchio reference].
* A good few men in ''[[I Was Kidnapped Byby Lesbian Pirates Fromfrom Outer Space]]''.
* Luther Levy from ''[[Bite Me! (Webcomicwebcomic)||Bite Me]]''! and ''[[Family Man]]''.
* Just about everyone in ''[[Newheimburg (Webcomic)|Newheimburg]]'' has a gag nose, if they're depicted with a nose at all.
* The title character in ''[[Nodwick]]''; this is even lampshaded in [http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2001-01-31 one early strip] where Artax notices that Nodwick's nose has gotten progressively bigger since the party first hired him. Given all the junk they make him haul back from their escapades, Nodwick thinks its for ballast support.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an early episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' Homer refers to Milhouse as a four eyed weiner with a big nose. Subverted in the fact that it hasn't really ever been the source of a joke.
* ''[[Hey Arnold|!]]'': Arnold's Grandpa]] has a big nose, and he used it as a gazoo to play Stars and Stripes forever in an episode involving a talent show.
** Sid? Stinky?
* Stimpson J. Cat from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy|Stimpson J. CatShow]]''.
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|]]'': Squidward's]] nose has been the subject of several gags on the show. Barnacle Boy's is just as big, leaving a gag for them calling each other [[Hypocritical Humor|"big nose".]]
** Spongebob's nose isn't exactly small either.
* Brendon from ''[[Home Movies]]'' has a caricatured long pointy nose, when no one else in the show does. [[The Noseless|Most don't even have a nose.]]
* [[Bob Clampett]] in his [[Looney Tunes]] shorts was well known for giving his characters long or weird shaped noses.
* Phineas from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has a nose that like a boxing promoter once said takes up most of his face, his head is shaped like a triangle.
* Billy and his Dad's from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]''.
* Jocamal, from a ''[[Saturday Night Live|Jocamal]], from a'' TV Funhouse sketch.
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack|]]'': Captain K'nuckles]], [[Depending Onon the Artist|depending on the storyboard artist]].
* Doug, from [[Doug|the show of the same name]].
* Nigel Thornberry from ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' has a massive honker that's half as tall and almost half as wide as his entire head.
* Snout Spout from ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power]]''; his [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin| snout was, uhm, a spout]]. And he was a firefighter. [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|No, seriously]]. He had been designed for ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', but the cartoon had been cancelled by then, so he appeared a few times in the [[Spin-Off]]
* In most ''[[Pink Panther (Animation)|Pink Panther]]'' shorts, the Panther's [[Foil]] is a short guy with a really big nose.
* Big Mouth's girlfriend [[Meaningful Name|Big Nose]] from ''[[The Smurfs]]''.
* Used disturbingly in the 1992 horror short ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU hereThe Sandman]''.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Richard Nixon]]. This feature is often played up on [[Nixon Mask|Nixon Masks]]s.
* Jimmy Durante and his Schnozzolaschnozzola.
* [[Michael Jackson]].
* [[W.C. FieldFields]]'s nose (already notably big and reddish) gets exaggerated in Cartooncartoon Caricaturescaricatures of him. Other Celebritiescelebrities during the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' golden age with a notable nose gets this treatment, just Field's is the shining example.
* Crispin Glover. Really, he's god's gift to caricature artists.
* Images of a Jewish stereotype often make the nose almost crooked or like an eagle's beak.
* [[Douglas Adams]] often made (mostly exaggerated) jokes about his big nose himself, lampshading this trope with saying that it would be "good for nothing but making bad jokes about it".
* J. P. Morgan, who was so self-conscious about his large, bulbous nose he insisted it be airbrushed in official photographs, and who plays a key role in one of the earliest [[Ignore the Disability]] jokes ever published.
* Deceased ex-Chilean president [[Useful Notes/Presidents of Chile|Eduardo Frei Montalva had a HUGE''huge'' nose]], which mad him the target of many jokes and caricatures. Not helped by how [[Strong Family Resemblance|several of his kids inherited it]]... including his son Eduardo, who ''[[Generation Xerox|also]]'' [[Generation Xerox|became President]] ''[[Generation Xerox|and]]'' [[Generation Xerox|also was the butt of jokes due to said nose.]]
* [[Australian Politics|Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard]] has a mild case of this, but political cartoons depicting her almost always exaggerate it to the point of being as large as the rest of her head.
* Elephants, of course, although their long trunks are undoubtedly the most ''useful'' noses in the animal kingdom, used like a limb, strong enough to uproot a tree, and yet sensitive enough to pick up a single coin.
* Another animal known for its big, funny nose is naturally the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscis_monkey proboscis monkey]. Males tend to have much bigger noses than females.
* Another example of a funny-but-useful nose, the [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Aardvark aardvark], an animal known for its long, pig-like snout.
 
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