Jaw Drop: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''''"All right!!! 'Jaw-dropping'!!"'''''|'''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''', reacting to Jon Arbuckle doing this, after seeing Garfield had torn up his furniture}}

 

On occasion, another character will reach over and close the dropping character's jaw.

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* 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]].

** 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.

* 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.

 

* 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.

 

* 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.

** 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...}}

* 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.

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'': Crane's Jaw Drop when Tigress hugs Po. [[Running Gag|The exact same jaw drop is repeated again]] when Po hugs Tigress.

* 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).

* 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.

* 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]].

* 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.

* 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.

 

 

* ''[[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}}.

** 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.}}

*** 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.

* 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.

 

* Robin in ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' does this [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/18/ Here]

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''

** 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=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).

** 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.

'''Gabe:''' Shut up and help me find my goddammed eyes. }}

 

* 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.

** 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.