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{{trope}}
[[File:TVTJawdrop.png|link=Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|frame|Now don't just stand there all slack-jawed and buggy-eyed...]]
{{quote|'''''"All right!!! 'Jaw-dropping'!!"'''''|'''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''', reacting to Jon Arbuckle doing this, after seeing Garfield had torn up his furniture}}
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On occasion, another character will reach over and close the dropping character's jaw.
{{examples}}
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' has Kimura, a teacher with a permanently dropped jaw.{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' has Kimura, a teacher with a permanently dropped jaw.
* Ash from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' does this when he realizes that he's won against Sabrina in their gym match when Haunter gets her to laugh, which, due to a telepathic bond with her Kadabra, makes it laugh, too.
* ''[[One Piece]]''
** God Eneru is always calm and composed... until he realizes his powers don't work on Luffy. [[media:onepiecejawdrop.jpg|Cue FULL PAGE Jaw Drop]].
** Although it wasn't on a full page, Perona pretty much had a very similar expression as Eneru [http://i27.mangareader.net/one-piece/461/one-piece-63990.jpg when she realized her powers (which makes people feel extremely negative about themselves) can't work on Usopp]{{Dead link}}.
** Every single member of Buggy's crew after Luffy's miraculous rescue.
** It's actually easier to list the number of characters that ''DON'T'' drop their jaw in the series.
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** Alex and Olivier Armstrong also do this after witnessing {{spoiler|Izumi toss Sloth around very easily}}.
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'': It happens to Krillin after being dumped by his ex-girlfriend (in one of the anime fillers).
* In ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'', Araragi takes a moment to really look at the [[Catgirl|Bakeneko]] (who is possessing Hanekawa). As he takes in all the
* [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v06/c050/9.html Chamo the ermine] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' does this when he sees Negi run out of magic, the Giant Oni is standing in front of him, and the powerhouse mage behind him gets out of his bind.
* Dedede and Escargon from ''[[Kirby:
* Occasionally done in ''[[Naruto]]'' when Kishimoto briefly uses the "comedic" wacky art style instead of his more realistic one.
* Hideki of ''[[Chobits]]'' drops his jaw in four stages, each time making a sound like a squeaky hinge, when Chi points at a want ad for a dominatrix and asks whether it's a job she could do.
* Both Kaneda and Colonel Shikishima get one while watching Tetsuo's transformation during the climax of ''[[Akira]]''. It's probably the most realistic and justified jaw drop in Anime history.▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* In response to the above quote, Jon did this in [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1993/12/04/ this strip] of ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''.▼
* ''[[Candorville (Comic Strip)|Candorville]]'' has an unusual variant in which characters' jaws unroll like carpets, lying flat across surfaces. [http://candorville.com/2010/10/08/something-good-5/ This is a good example] of the phenomenon.▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Koizumi in the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' fanfic ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' after Kyon commented he (that is, Kyon) was set in an [[Arranged Marriage]] with Tsuruya.
* Despite her usually refined composure, Lady Silvermane does this in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic [https://web.archive.org/web/20130813213433/http://www.fimfiction.net/story/16112/
== [[Film]] ==
== Films -- Animation ==▼
* In Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Genie does this. Twice:
** After Aladdin tricks him into granting a free wish by getting Aladdin and Abu out of the cave.
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** He also does it briefly (complete with eyes bulging out) during his song "Friend Like Me", but it is just a part of his act. It's even literally in the lyrics.
{{quote|'''Genie:''' ''(singing)'' So doncha sit there slack jawed, buggy eyed...}}
* Sebastian is the jaw-dropper in ''[[The_Little_Mermaid_(1989_film)|The Little Mermaid]]'', when he sees Ariel with Eric during the reprise of "Part of Your World". Scuttle does the jaw-closing honors.
* In ''[[Robots]]'', one character's jaw drops on another character's head.
* Parodied in ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', in the final scene, when it's revealed who killed the Bride, one of the members of the wedding's audience drops his jaw. ''Literally''. The jawbone falls to the floor in shock. Justified, as he's a skeleton.
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* ''[[Brother Bear]]'' has Denahi reacting like this {{spoiler|after seeing Sitka in his spirit form}}. {{spoiler|He closes his mouth anyway}}.
* ''[[An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'': There's a collective Jaw Drop at the beginning of [[Everythings Funkier With Disco|the Disco scene]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7Ledwpdw8 (at the 2:36 mark on this video)].
* ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'': Crane's
* Happens to a boy in the dentist's waiting room (he is reading an ''[[The Incredibles|Incredibles]]'' [[Early-Bird Cameo|comic]]) near the end of ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', when he see the brief scuffle between Nigel the pelican and the dentist through the fish tank's glass (it's located inside a large rectangular hole in the wall separating the dentist's office from the waiting room).
▲* Both Kaneda and Colonel Shikishima get one while watching Tetsuo's transformation during the climax of ''[[Akira]]''. It's probably the most realistic and justified jaw drop in Anime history.
* In ''[[The Lion King]]'', when Simba realizes the lioness he's fighting is childhood friend Nala, they stop fighting and start laughing, prompting a jaw drop from Timon.
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* Rare live-action example in Disney's ''[[Mary Poppins]]'': After witnessing their new nanny slide ''up'' the bannister, Michael is left this way. Mary sees this and gives the memorable line: "Close your mouth please, Michael. We are not a codfish."
* ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'', whose jaw hits the floor and his tongue unrolls like a carpet on seeing Tina, and completed with an [[Eye Pop]].
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* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', [[Private Detective|Eddie]] drops his jaw when he first sees [[The Vamp|Jessica Rabbit]] (he had assumed she was a [[Species Surname|Rabbit like Roger]]); a rather miffed [[Betty Boop]] closes his mouth shut.
* In ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', Nien Nunb does this when he sees that they are about to hit a low ceiling. They just barely manage to tip the surface.
* Both versions of ''[[The Producers]]'' feature an
* Voldemort gets a minor one in ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]'' when he sees {{spoiler|Harry willingly surrendering himself to Voldemort.}}
* Dr. Sattler does this in ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' when she sees the Brachiosaurus.
* Happened near the end of the season 4 episode of ''[[Blackadder]]'', "Corporal Punishment", when {{spoiler|Blackadder returned to the dugout when George and Baldrick thought he was dead, whereupon Blackadder took the opportunity to make use of his trademark snarkery: "Still the striking resemblance to guppy fish at feeding time."}}
* Early on in Mike's tenure as host of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', he decides to call down to Deep 13 on his own initiative to complain about the movie (''Beginning of the End''). When Mike and The Bots learn what the Mads get up to when they think no-one is looking, it is so horrifying that Crow's jaw drops and Mike has to close it up for him.
▲* In response to the above quote, Jon did this in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113134827/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1993/12/04/ this strip] of ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''.
▲* ''[[
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* In ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'', this is Captain Smollet and Mr. Arrow's response to "Big Fat Ugly Bug Faced [[Eats Babies|Baby Eating]] O'Brien", a man so ugly he looks like an ''[[Dude Looks Like a Lady|attractive woman]]''.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl''
** Wario humorously does this after {{spoiler|seeing King Dedede being assisted by Luigi and Ness, both of whom Wario had previously turned into trophies}}.
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** King Dedede also gets one when Kirby suddenly appears on the trophy carrier he's driving.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', Link's jaw drops when he sees Armogohma's {{spoiler|wimpy second form.}}
** Also when he sees {{spoiler|Midna's [[Fetish
*** Speaking of Midna, she gets an at least somewhat serious one when she discovers that Zant has broken the Twilight Mirror.
** Actually, Link does that about every time he sees a Princess or somebody turning into one. Except the 2D games, where he has no visible mouth, duh.
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* This is comically exaggerated when the final boss of ''[[Rayman]] 3'' goes [[One-Winged Angel]]. Rayman's jaw literally hits the ground. Not entirely surprising, considering [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|how freaking huge]] the boss is.
* In ''Pocket Fighter'' this befell on anyone who gets hit with [[Street Fighter|Akuma or Dan Hibiki]]'s special throw command, which is either Akuma giving a speech or Dan's [[Dreadful Musician|horrid singing]]. As the context of the game is ''comedy'', it's always a good kick to see the usually [[Comically Serious]] Akuma get hit with it.
* In ''[[Battletoads]]'', the Toads do a combination of this and [[Eye Pop
* ''[[Catherine]]''
** Vincent does an impressive one when he first wakes up and [[Bedmate Reveal|sees Catherine in his bed]].
** In the {{spoiler|Bad Cheater}} ending, Vincent runs out of the Stray Sheep {{spoiler|hallucinating that Catherine is just waiting for him outside after rejecting his marriage proposal to her}}, and promptly gets run over by a car. Orlando pulls a wonderful
{{quote|'''Orlando:''' [[Oh Crap|Oh fuck.]]}}
** Happens again in {{spoiler|both Freedom Endings (seeing as the True one is the same as the Good one but with an additional scene after the credits)}} when Jonny confesses to {{spoiler|having asked Katherine out}}. Both Vince and Orlando pull a magnificent, in-tandem dual
** One of the stills during the credits of the {{spoiler|Freedom True}} ending also shows Boss completely astonished (and with a proper
* Nihlus in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' gets a very bizarre equivalent when he first sees [[Eldritch Abomination|Sovereign]]. His side mouth mandibles twitch in an utterly alien gesture, which, however, leaves very little room to interpretation.
▲* In ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'', this is Captain Smollet and Mr. Arrow's response to "Big Fat Ugly Bug Faced [[Eats Babies|Baby Eating]] O'Brien", a man so ugly he looks like an ''[[Dude Looks Like a Lady|attractive woman]]''.
▲== Web Comics ==
* Robin in ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' does this [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/18/ Here]
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''
** [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-06-21 There's the earliest] one in ''EGS'', complete with high-five.
** [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-09-21 This installment.]
** Also, [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-08-08 this strip].
** And [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-07 this one].
** [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=
** [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2014-02-07 Mass] jaw-drop, and Tedd's jaw needs manual reset (they discuss [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-12-24 this] little incident).
* Agatha in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' does it [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070427 here] upon first seeing {{spoiler|the fake Heterodyne}}, and Zeetha closes it with the comment that she should face the "new era" with some dignity.▼
** [https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2014-09-29 Tedd] causes another one.
** [https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-09-12 Mr. Verres]<sup>spoilers!</sup>, after Elliot caught a bad case of [[Skewed Priorities]] Syndrome.
▲* Agatha in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' does it [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070427 here] upon first seeing {{spoiler|the fake Heterodyne}}, and Zeetha closes it with the comment that she should face [[New Era Speech|the "new era"]] with some dignity.
** One of the Mechanicsburg councilors reacts this way to {{spoiler|Gil's}} rampage in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111024 this strip].
** Goomblast takes the cake [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120528 here]. When it comes to jaw-dropping that huge mouth of his blows the competition away.
* Occurs in some strips of ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]''.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]''
** Beholders have a pretty large jaw, so when Bob does it, [http://yafgc.net/
** Lewie the Lich, being mostly a [[Dem Bones|skeleton]], can literally [http://yafgc.net/
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Karkat, after witnessing {{spoiler|two of his comrades die at the hands of another}}, delivers the mother of all [[Mood Whiplash|whiplashes]] with [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005249 this face].
* Jin of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' looks like [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-do-i-start/ this] after encountering her mother alive and well.
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'''Gabe:''' Shut up and help me find my goddammed eyes. }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* This happens a lot to [[The Nostalgia Critic]].
** He jaw-drops during his ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|Neverending Story 3]]'' review, when the the Rockbiter starts singing ''Born to be Wild''. About a 1 feet drop. It's a simple special effect, but quite effective.
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** In an interview, Brad said that this was his reaction in real life. He paused the DVD and called Jillian in to watch the rest of it.
* A large number of ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts feature these.
* [[Tex Avery]] also favored them in his [[Tex Avery MGM Cartoons|MGM work]]. See the Droopy cartoons, for example.
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* Parodied in ''[[Family Guy]]''. In order for the others to believe that Peter's new friend is actually Jesus, he [[Breast Expansion|increases Lois' bust size several sizes]] and Brian's jaw literally drops to the table.
* Porkchop from ''[[Doug]]'' does one of these when he found out that Stinky the cat is a [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant|girl]] and had kittens.
* An episode of ''[[The Critic (animation)|The Critic]]'' features a costume party with the main character's father dressed as [[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]. After he sees a woman, his jaw drops. Jay tells him to control himself until he sees the dessert cart and his jaw drops.
* In an episode of ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'', the two are looking for treasure. During a fight, Timon places a dividing line and states that whatever one finds on their side of the line, they can keep for themselves. Pumbaa promptly unearths a gold nugget, to which a shocked Timon's jaw drops to the ground.
* Parodied in ''[[Chowder]]'', when Mung, Chowder and Gorgonzola wouldn't stop dropping their jaws several times to the floor.
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* ''[[Wakfu]]''
** Sadlygrove at the sight of his master, {{spoiler|Goultard}}, vanquishing Rubilax in one blow.
** [[media:
** Ruel, when learning that {{spoiler|Sadlygrove had seen Evangelyne naked, and not in a dream}}.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''
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