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A close up of something disgusting. For some reason, these pop up most in comedy and horror, though in practice, it's more [[Nausea Fuel]] than anything else. If done in an animated series, the close-up is usually much drawn in a [[Art Shift|much more detailed style]] than the rest of the show.

 

 

Essentially the opposite of a [[Discretion Shot]]. Compare [[Nightmare Face]], a trope that gets a lot of these kind of close-ups. Frequently recurring in many [[Gross-Out Show]]s. Also a staple of [[Eye Rape]].

 

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* An early example of one of there can be found in the famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MaCXVSwec4 "Yuck Mouth" PSA], in which Yuck Mouth discovers a new cavity in his mouth and the camera zooms in on the rotting, holey tooth.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Junji Ito ''loves'' these. There are many reasons ''[[Uzumaki]]'', ''[[The Enigma of Amigara Fault]]'', and ''[[Gyo]]'' are infamous for nightmarish images, and [[Nausea Fuel|this is one of them]].

* In the ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' anime, there was a brief scene after the [[Locked Room Mystery]] with Koizumi observing a disgusting mole on Kyon's head, while Kyon was talking.. ''The mole had hairs''.

 

== Film ==

** Not to mention the close ups of {{spoiler|people who ''survived'' on Miranda, before venturing out for a spot of [[Literal Metaphor|raping and pillaging]].}}

* The mole scene in the third ''[[Austin Powers]] movie''. Moley moley moley moley moley!

** ...MOLE. MOLEYMOLEYMOLEYMOLEY.

*** MOLE! BLOODY MOLE! WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THE BLOODY MOLE BUT THERE IS A BLOODY MOLE AND IT'S WINKING ME IN THE FACE! I WANNA CUT IT OFF AND CHOP IT UP AND MAKE IT INTO GUACA'''MOLÉ''!

* The closeup of Lt. Aldo Raine carving a swastika into {{spoiler|Landa's}} forehead in ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.

** There's plenty in the original series as well. For example, in ''Halloween 2'' (which is where the gorier trend of the series began), Micheal kills a nurse by repeatedly dunking her head into scalding water. Every time he pulls her out, we get an up close look at the effect this has on her skin. Suffice it to say, it's horrifying. ''Halloween 4'' shows a close-up of Michael tearing a man's throat out ''with his bare hands''. Or ''Halloween 6'', which finds Jamie being impaled on a corn thresher.

* The toilet in ''[[Mystery Team]]'' as Duncan put it:

 

== Literature ==

 

* Graphic closeups of dead body parts are common on ''[[CSI]]''. [[Television Without Pity]] calls it "[[Too Much Information|TMI]] Cam."

** ''[[Bones]]'' also seems to like "TMI Cam".

** 'Resignation', where when the patient was having an MRI, she started saying that her head hurt. The camera zoomed in on her head... her scalp and skull were split open, showing her brain!

** 'Big Baby', where they were testing the patient by ''attaching electrodes to her brain, first by cutting the top of her skull off''.

** Let's not forget (though anyone who watched it wishes they could) the eyeball popping out in 'No Reason.'

* ''[[Dexter]]'''s morning routine, shown in extreme close-up and shot to be reminiscent with his hack-n-slash murders.

* The contents of pretty much any gross stunt on ''[[Fear Factor]]'' will get zoomed in on.

 

== Music Videos ==

* While not exactly disgusting, several of the closeups in [[Nine Inch Nails]]' video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgggIMK7Ic "Into The Void"] are pretty... disturbing, to say the least...

* [[Aphex Twin]]'s "Rubber Johnny" does this.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Played for horrors in ''[[Snatcher]]'' when Gillian and Metal discover the Snatchers' morgue. They go down... and then the player sees the digitised but otherwise photorealistic face of a rotting corpse, dripping with wriggling maggots, and its [[Eye Scream|eye drops out]]. [[Squick]].

* Also used for horror in ''[[Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem'', with the infamous "bathtub scare" that features a vision of Alexandra Roivas's mutilated corpse in a bathtub of blood.

 

** Know what else? [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1956/ Moar extreme closeups!]

** Its counterpart, HDW (Highly Detailed Waluigi), used to be shown above.

* [http://nedroid.com/2010/09/guest-comic-emmy-cicierega/ This] [[Nedroid]] strip.

* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/5/18/ This Penny Arcade Strip], "The Maw."

** See also: [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/02 "Perhaps Too Real."]

 

== Web Original ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]''

* ''[[Invader Zim]]''

** "Is this how you get your sick kicks?!" "What, it's just an ordinary Krabby- OH MY GOODNESS! ''SQUIDWARD!!!''

** [http://i50.tinypic.com/kcnn1c.jpg Click here,] [[Nightmare Fuel|if you dare]].

** There's also the episode where "Wormy" turns into a butterfly, and upon seeing the closeup, Patrick and Spongebob are so terrified they think it's a monster.

** Mermaid Man's mouth and lips close-up. Gyuuhh.

* A lot of ''[[Rugrats]]'' episodes start with a weird closeup of something in this manner.

* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' uses this trope frequently. Often accompanied by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daOzSGWIWRA "AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH."]

** So does ''[[Chowder]]''.

** Another episode had Dexter trying to improve his eyesight by giving himself laser eye surgery. Everything goes [[Gone Horribly Right]] when he finds out his vision is TOO clear, his family's smallest physical flaws and imperfections are magnified a thousand fold by his vision. Through his eyes, his mother, father, and sister look like disgusting, malformed mutants.

* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' plays this trope quite a few times. The third episode, ''Gay Bash'', has an especially [[Nausea Fuel|effective]] one when Xandir retrieves his ring.

* The cartoon short Tales Of Worm Paranoia from ''[[What a Cartoon Show]]''.

* Dr. Satan in his huge, monstrous form in ''[[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]]'' provides a lot of these.

* Also used in ''Dirdy Birdy''.

* One episode in [[Time Squad]] has the trio appear in the American Revolution to help Betsy Ross, who was going to make the US flag. Instead, the troops and Betsy were all acting like hippies. One of the guys says he's "made his own soap". Cue the camera closing in on his "soap" to show it's actually done from dirt among... [[Nausea Fuel|other things]].

** In "Secret of My Excess", Spike claims that he wouldn't wash the cheek on which Rarity kissed him. When it cuts to one week later, it turns out he ''meant it''.

* Used in the 90's ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" when the Daffy clone is talking to Bugs at one point it cuts to a close up of his face showing that he has a live action human's mouth on his beak.

** Also done a couple of times in the spin-off cartoon the Emperor's New School, including one episode where Kuzco wishes that he wasn't emperor anymore, in that particular episode Kronk is the school principal and there's a close up shot of his runny nose.

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Disgust Tropes]]

[[Category:Horror Tropes]]