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== Media in General ==
* Any story featuring [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]] or [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]] will have this.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* Vampires in ''[[Hellsing]]'' (especially the OVA and Manga) generally have teeth like sharks...it is only when Alucard fully activates the Cromwell Initiative and {{spoiler|essentially becomes a ''[[Cosmic Horror]]''}} that this trope really starts getting fulfilled. A lot.
** And the HUMANS too. Please see any chapter where [[Badass Preacher|Father Anderson]] is [[Large Ham|doing what he does best]]. Or when the Major...talks.
* Kamineko in ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' looks sweet, until the point he rocks the top of his head back to reveal he has [http://www.svenax.net/files/images/Azumanga_Daioh_01_076_0001_0.jpg denture that makes bear traps look sick...]{{Dead link}}
* Shabranigdo from ''[[Slayers]]'' might not have that many teeth (perhaps fewer than I do, I didn't count), but they are huge. Huge and awesome.
* Some of the homunculi in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Gluttony, when in attack mode, [https://web.archive.org/web/20161127190028/http://images.wikia.com/fma/images/3/3c/Brotherhood24.jpg reveals a hippopotamus-like mouth with extra rows of teeth inside], Greed and manga!Sloth have sharklike teeth, and manga!Pride's true form consists entirely of eyes, teeth, and [[Living Shadow]].
* The titular warriors from ''[[Claymore]]'' gain these when they're dangerously close to liberating their powers enough to become demons.
* The Tsuyoshi family in [[Great Teacher Onizuka]]—those short friendly people with shark teeth.
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* The Corinthian in ''[[Sandman]]''. Though his eye-teeth are usually just straight, smaller copies of the teeth in his mouth, spinoffs and fanart tend to make them pointed. Also Azazel—a lord of hell who appears as a black void filled with eyes and disembodied teeth.
* Isz, especially black Isz, from ''[[The Maxx]]''.
* Some images of the [[The Joker]] show his (non-pointy) teeth as being so long, it looks as if the chemical he'd gotten dumped in must've given him ever-growing dentition like a rodent's, as well as weird coloration. This is noticeable in Tim Sale's art ([[The Long Halloween]] and Dark Victory in particular), though certain panels exagerate this more than others. [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/46/Tim_Sale_Joker_01.jpg Here's a noticeable example.]{{Dead link}}
* The alien symbiotes from ''[[Spider-Man]]''. Spidey himself didn't get this effect when he was wearing the black suit, but Venom, Carnage and basically anyone else "wearing" a symbiote is going to develop these.
* In ''The Orc's Treasure,'' by Kevin J Anderson, all Orcs are distinguished by the impossible overabundance of pointy teeth. Many of them have teeth protruding through parts of their lips or cheeks.
* ''[[The Darkness]]''{{context}}
* Phil Foglio is fond of this trope in his artwork .
** In the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' comics he depicts Aahz this way. Even in the novels, Aahz is described more than once as ''dropping'' his smile when he wants to put people at ease.
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** The grins the Jaegermonsters (and occasionally some of the Sparks) have in ''[[Girl Genius]]''
* Elves from ''[[Amulet]]''. When their mouth is closed it's no big deal, but when they open it to eat something, ''brrrrr!''
* Any time [[Rob Liefeld]] draws someone grimacing, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501011319/http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld3.html as seen here:] "How many teeth are in a mouth? Like a billion, right? I’ll just draw a billion, all the same size and shape."
** In the same article, example 27, Liefeld makes the opposite, but equally weird mistake: He somehow draws the Red Skull, a villain whose entire motif is that his head ''is a human skull'', with only 17 teeth in the entire mouth, all of them incisors.
* Max of [[Sam and Max]] stands out from other fictional rabbits by way of his pointy teeth.
* Evil Ernie{{context}}
* An unusual example: [[Frank Miller]] in his more recent{{when}} projects such as ''[[Sin City]]'' and ''Holy Terror'' have characters being punched the jaw, resulting in losing copious numbers of teeth. Which evidently grow back almost instantly; if someone gets punched more than once, he'll lose more teeth than he had in his mouth originally.
* The Dominators, a humanoid alien race from [[DC Comics]], are distinguished by an abundance of long, sharp teeth.
== Film ==
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* Played with in ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men 2]]'', whose version of Nightcrawler had a mouthful of fangs that were something between humanlike and sharklike, rather than merely pointed eyeteeth as in the comics. Fortunately Nighty's a pretty cool guy {{spoiler|when he's not under mind control}}.
* In the ''[[Coneheads]]'' movie, Beldar demonstrated how many teeth coneheads have when he went to the dentist to get them capped... ''all four rows of them''. And he can open his mouth ''reeeeeeally'' wide.
* The titular creatures in ''Critters'' are [
* Fizzgig from ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' is a little furball who looks innocent until he opens his mouth, and then he becomes mostly teeth.
* Shark teeth aplenty in the monsters from ''[[Feast]]''. {{spoiler|Particularly at the end of the first movie, where you can actually see how many of them Heroine #2 smashes out with a rifle butt.}}
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* The aliens in ''[[Attack the Block]]''.
* In ''[[Deep Rising]]'' the creatures have to open wide for this to be really noticeable, but when they do [http://www.dwmdesigns.com/DeepRisingPg1.html it's quite scary]. {{spoiler|1=The primary mouth is also [http://stephensommers.com/site/?p=198 completely littered with teeth].}}
== Literature ==
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* The Taxxons from ''[[Animorphs]]'' have, among other nasty features, a mouth like a lamprey.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' example, a spoof of the [[Alien (franchise)|Xenomorphs]].
* The ''[[Beetleborgs]]'' episode Buggin Out featured a gnat-like monster named Kombat Gnat who had several teeth like this and the power to shrink. This particular episode was a satire of David Cronenberg's remake of ''The Fly''. Flabber brings a drawing of a teleportation device to life and he tests it out. Kombat Gnat flies into the machine and their dna gets merged. This causes Flabber to slowly turn into Kombat Gnat—starting out with cute little vampiric fangs, then developing antennae and a row of razor sharp teeth like this.
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* [[Eldritch Abomination|The Leviathans]] on ''[[Supernatural]]'', when they reveal their "true" face. Essentially their entire head is occupied by mouth.
== New Media ==▼
* Fuel your nightmares with this [https://web.archive.org/web/20060517214857/http://pics.livejournal.com/wholesomedick/pic/0000dskg picture]. (The teeth are actually from [http://www.soularchive.jp/SC3/img/wp/aby1024.jpg Abyss] of [[Soul Series|Soul Calibur III]].)▼
* [http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o247/Arcalane/toothy-rocks.jpg These toothy fellas] are terrifying for some and [[Ugly Cute|adorable]] for others.▼
* Red from ''[[Ruby Quest]]'' looks quite normal... until he opens his mouth to laugh, and just keeps opening it ''wider'' and ''wider''...▼
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/60436 Smile.dog's] [[Slasher Smile|smile]] has this many teeth. And I apologize in advance for the nightmares that [[Schmuck Bait|clicking this link]] here will cause you.▼
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* Manticores. Those things have ''three rows'' of metal teeth. Fortunately they don't exist. [[Paranoia Fuel|What was that sound?]]
* In traditional Eastern European Vampire folklore, vampires tend to have double rows of razor-sharp, strong-as-iron teeth used for chewing through wood, soil, flesh, bone, and organs.
** Some just have hollow, sharp tongues, and few don't have anything sharp in their mouths, and take blood magically without even physically puncturing the victim's body.
* Some versions of the Japanese urban legend the Kuchisake-Onna have her [[Glasgow Grin]] full of lots and lots of sharp, pointy teeth.
▲== New Media ==
▲* Fuel your nightmares with this [http://pics.livejournal.com/wholesomedick/pic/0000dskg picture]. (The teeth are actually from [http://www.soularchive.jp/SC3/img/wp/aby1024.jpg Abyss] of [[Soul Series|Soul Calibur III]].)
▲* [http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o247/Arcalane/toothy-rocks.jpg These toothy fellas] are terrifying for some and [[Ugly Cute|adorable]] for others.
▲* Red from ''[[Ruby Quest]]'' looks quite normal... until he opens his mouth to laugh, and just keeps opening it ''wider'' and ''wider''...
▲* [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/60436 Smile.dog's] [[Slasher Smile|smile]] has this many teeth. And I apologize in advance for the nightmares that [[Schmuck Bait|clicking this link]] here will cause you.
== Tabletop Games ==
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*** In the Orky-centric spin-off ''Gorkamorka'', there are various "tribes" of Orks that have different genetic quirks (usable in game through several fan expansions). One of them is the Bad Moonz, who not only have more teeth than average but also regrow them at an increased rate. As such, they're they richest Orks around and always have the most snazz.
** Chaos' [[Legions of Hell]] just wouldn't be proper daemons if some of them didn't have more teeth than a dentition textbook, usually sticking out at odd and possibly noneuclidean angles.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has an entire creature type of toothy monsters called Atogs. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080103050555/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=31825 Here's one example].
** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=146010 Not that they're the only creatures that qualify.]
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
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== Toys ==
* Gadunka from ''[[Bionicle]]''.
== Video Games ==
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** Also, {{spoiler|Rance's daughter,}} Reset [[Our Elves Are Different|Kalar]]. It's absurdly [[Moe]].
* Night Of Wallachia from ''[[Melty Blood]]'' has a lot of extremely sharp teeth.
== Web Comics ==
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* Werewolves in [[Bloody Urban]] have these, even in human form.
* Most [[Fantastic Caste System|Highblood]] [[Our Trolls Are Different|Trolls]] in Homestuck have sharp and pointy teeth, but Feferi, having the highest blood type, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004322 Can be down right terrifying] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005227 When she shows all of them], and, even though she's one of the [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|nicest]] [[Genki Girl|trolls]].
== Western Animation ==
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* The actual Osmond family is one tooth short of qualifying for this trope and a paradox at the same time.
* Only some animals have a single tooth type like the majority of toothy fictional creatures: sharks are one example, with rows and rows of triangular teeth.
* In [[Real Life]], [[Everything
** Special mention goes to the extinct shark ''Helicoprion'' which did not lose the teeth in its lower jaw, instead keeping all of them in a deadly whorl of teeth. Too bad we're still not sure how it looked, [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GHnh3ILnSo4/S56ZZziaI6I/AAAAAAAACw4/lIxiatrA3BI/s400/helicoprion.jpg though we can make an educated guess]. Let's also give it up for ''C. Megalodon''. Imagine a large Great White Shark. Now triple its size. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Megalodon_jaws.jpg Or just look at this photo.]
* Crocodiles and alligators. Their teeth are not designed for cutting or grinding but are designed for grabbing and holding. So they're shaped more like dull rail road spikes that are driven into your limbs so they can rip chunks off of you when they spin their bodies.
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** According to ''[[Blue Planet|Blue Planet: Seas of Life]]'', another deep-water fish called the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|fang]][[Department of Redundancy Department|tooth]] has the biggest teeth ''in the entire animal kingdom'' in relation to its body. Its mouth is always at least partway open because its mouth is of insufficient size to contain them closed.
* Lampreys have a sucker that is full of sharp teeth. And they use it to latch on to a fish, so they can suck on its blood, until said fish dies.
* Moray eels have a second "Pharyngeal jaw" that is essentially a real-life Xenomorph inner mouth. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110903074914/http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/09/06/moray_jaws.gif
* While it's not the same structurally, the extinct lobopod [[wikipedia:Opabinia|''Opabinia regalis'']] has a mouth "under its chin" - and a tubular proboscis ''thing'' tipped with claws that extends from the front of its head and looks an awful lot like a pair of jaws on a trunk.
* Goblin Shark also have a Xenomorph jaw that extends out to grab hold of prey. They seem [[Ugly Cute]] and harmless, with their huge duck-billed nose, until -- ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_HUIJkRzU oh the horror!]'' Mostly found in the waters of [[Giant Enemy Crab|ancient Japan]].
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