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[[File:more_teethmore teeth.gif|link=Warhammer Fantasy Battle|frame|Squigs. 50% fungus, 50% flesh, [[Too Many Halves|150% teeth.]]]]
 
{{quote|''"Never tangle with anything that's got [[Trope Namer|more teeth than the entire Osmond family.]]"''|'''Arnold Rimmer''', ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', "Polymorph"}}
 
Monsters with a huge number of teeth.
 
This is a simple and common trope, playing on a natural fear of toothy predators. There are three common kinds of teeth you will see on a big scary thing: flat, triangular shark-teeth, conical teeth similar to those of crocodiles, or ridiculously pointy needle teeth like a deep-sea fish. The monster's mouth will often be so crammed with teeth that half of them should break off with every bite. The teeth are usually all of the same type.
 
Also see [[Phlegmings]] -- the—the lines of drool often seen between the teeth. ''Beware'' [[Vagina Dentata]]. Stop by [[Cheshire Cat Grin]] for a less toothy but still creepy variation.
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== Media in General ==
* Any story featuring [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]] or [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]] will have this.
 
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* Tokomon of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', in an unexpected way given it's coming from an otherwise [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]. Tokomon's teeth are a direct nod to the Digimon virtual pets that the show was based on. All the child Digimon from the virtual pet keychains were adorable little monsters that revealed incongruous amounts of pixelated teeth when they ate or got mad at their owners.
** The [[Tamagotchi]] virtual pets that preceded Digimon did the same thing with their young forms.
* The second form of the [[Enemy Without|berserked defense program]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'', which had two massive heads filled with massive, pointy teeth.
* ''[[Berserk]]'' is absolutely full of these. It's no wonder that ''Berserk'''s creator, Kentaro Miura, takes so long to release chapters when he has to draw each and every single tooth on pages full of literally ''dozens'' of creatures.
* 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 (Manga)|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—those short friendly people with shark teeth.
* The Misago from ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]'' has lots of sharp carnivorous teeth. She's good and kind-hearted and only uses them to eat fish, but most people freak out after seeing her scary denture.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'' the Kyuubi's mouth is set in a permanent snarl revealing a massive number of teeth larger than the titular character. At times, the only thing that can be seen of the demon are two red eyes and gleaming teeth. Finally, it appears to be common for Hidden Mist shinobi to file their teeth to resemble a shark's, though this may be restricted to Seven Swordsmen and their aspirants. Then again, given the [[Little Bit Beastly|other sharklike traits]] of some of those characters, it's possible that their teeth are naturally that way.
* ''[[Psyren]]'': Ash from the W.I.S.E. squad Scourge.
* Holo in ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' gets these in mid-transformation from human form to a giant wolf. It's pretty disturbing to see them on such a cute face.
* Ryuk from ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' has these, along with a permanent [[Slasher Smile]].
* Neko Musume of ''[[Ge Ge GeGeGeGe no Kitaro (Manga)|Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro]]'' may have inspired Kamineko above, because let's be honest, ''cat teeth are not like that''. Yikes.
* Viral from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', who is part shark and part feline.
* ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'' has Grell, who is [[Jack the Ripper|somewhat]] [[Yandere|chaotic]]. And [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Undertaker]].
* ''[[Hanako and The Terror of Allegory]]'' gives us the Slit-Mouth Woman. Although she has a fairly normal tooth-to-mouth ratio, she's got [[Nightmare Face|quite a bit of mouth]].
* Ratman of...well, ''[[Ratman (Manga)|Ratman]]'' does this when he gets angry or excited. Normally, he can function fine with his mouth closed, and it looks just like a helmet. But when he opens it for whatever reason, its enough to give one of his friends recurring nightmares.
* In ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'', one of Christopher Shoulder's most distinguishing features is that his mouth is filled with what appear to be shark teeth. Combined with his [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]] and [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel|archaic mode of dress]], most people assume that he's some sort of vampire.
* Hiruma in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' and his mouth full of fangs. It's part of his [[Spikes of Villainy]] look.
 
== Comic Books ==
* Parallax from the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' continuity has a few sets of these, forming the shape of the Sinestro Corps symbol with his throat as the hole. It's freakier looking than it sounds. Also a few Sinestro Corpsmen themselves, including Tri-Eye, who has three wide-ass mouths and teeth on the edges of all three faces, and Maash, who has three entire heads piled on top of each other.
* 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 -- aAzazel—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.
** ''[[XXXenophile]]'' is good for teeth. And [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]]s.
** The grins the Jaegermonsters (and occasionally some of the Sparks) have in ''[[Girl Genius]]''
* Elves from ''[[Amulet (Comic Book)|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 ==
* The titular Xenomorphs from the ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Alien]]'' series had enough teeth to outfit a ''second, smaller mouth''. Their appearance was all the more nightmarish for having a variety of different teeth, [[Uncanny Valley|looking almost like a fanged human.]]
* The Sarlaac in ''[[Star Wars]]''
* The Kraken in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''.
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* The reapers from ''[[Blade|Blade II]]'' don't necessarily have ''more'' teeth than a human being, but their odd placement sure makes it look that way.
* ''Vamp'' takes it [[Up to Eleven|to another level]].
* Played with in ''[[X -Men (Filmfilm)|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 [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20111122140307/http://legendsofhorror.org/images/critters/critters.jpg giant furballs with teeth].
* 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.}}
* One of the ''V. rex'' dinosaurs in Peter Jackson's ''[[King Kong]]'' remake had a distorted upper jaw that made room for still more gigantic teeth, probably due to some old facial injury.
* John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]''. Sometimes.
* The title vampire character ''[[Count Yorga]]'', though oddly when he bites his victims he only leaves the usual tiny pinprick bites.
* "Jeff", the 600 foot alien worm from ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men In Black II]]'' who lives in New York's subway stations and makes his first appearance by munching on one of the subway trains.
** Boris the Animal in ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]] 3''.
* The [http://materialisticboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/alice-in-wonderland-trailer.jpg Cheshire Cat] from [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Filmfilm)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* The anglerfish in ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. Also the sharks, although they're trying to [[Carnivore Confusion|go vegan]].
* Also the robotic shark from ''[[James and Thethe Giant Peach]]''.
* The aliens in ''[[Attack the Block (Film)|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 ==
* [[Sand Worm|Sandworms]] from ''[[Dune]]''
* The Chtorran worms in David Garrold's ''[[War Against the Chtorr]]'' novels may have been a homage to the sandworms of ''Dune''.
* [[William Sleator]]'s novel ''[[Singularity (Literaturenovel)|Singularity]]'' had a creature coming through a [[Portal Pool]] from another universe. It was visible from this universe long before it arrived, and the only part of it that was visible was its huge mouthful of teeth. The main character, in fact, spent a whole year waiting for the creature to arrive, knowing only its toothy appearance.
* The titular [[Clock Roaches]] in Stephen King's ''[[The Langoliers]]''. The TV version depicted them ([[Special Effects Failure|poorly]]) with three rows of alternately rotating teeth, like a cross between an excavation drill and [[PacmanPac-Man]].
* ''[[Rifters Trilogy]]'' contains deep-sea fish like this, but their teeth are so brittle that when one tries to bite a person's arm off, the teeth shatter.
* Agrajag in ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'' has a patchwork body and a vast array of teeth. [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]]d, in that Agrajag's excessive and deliberately unpleasant teeth don't all quite fit nicely into his mouth, resulting in them lacerating his lips and mouth. There are some sticky black plasters covering the nastier wounds.
* The Witches in the children's series '[[The Doomspell Trilogy]]' have four jaws each full of nasty sharp pointy teeth. (For an artist's impression, see the example in the New Media category.) They were also full of symbiotic spiders.
* ''S. Petersen's Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters'' is packed with teeth. Big, nasty teeth! Let's see who's the champ in the dental department, shall we?
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** And the winner is ... the Dhole! Not least, because it's probably eaten most of the other contestants by now.
* Phil Foglio's covers for the Donning-Starblaze illustrated editions of the ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' books depict 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.
* The Taxxons from ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' have, among other nasty features, a mouth like a lamprey.
 
== Live -Action TV ==▼
 
* The ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' example, a spoof of the [[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Xenomorphs]].▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
* 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 -- startingGnat—starting out with cute little vampiric fangs, then developing antennae and a row of razor sharp teeth like this.▼
▲* The ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' example, a spoof of the [[Alien (Film)|Xenomorphs]].
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ▼
▲* 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.
▲* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** Prisoner Zero had a lamprey-like mouth in its natural form. And these teeth are sometimes visible in its human mouths.
** The vampires in "Vampires in Venice".
** The new-series model of Cybermats. Yet they're adorable.
* [[The Langoliers]] (again).
* [[Eldritch Abomination|The Leviathans]] on ''[[Supernatural]]'', when they reveal their "true" face. Essentially their entire head is occupied by mouth.
 
 
== Myth And Legend ==
* 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 [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 (Roleplay)|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.
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''
** The Tyranids, partly inspired by the Xenomorphs from ''[[Alien]]'', have ridiculous numbers of teeth, somewhere between the dinosaur type and the needle type.
** Tyranid Rippers seem to be composed of ''nothing but teeth''. The basically unusable nature of the teeth is justified because they ''are'' nothing but weapons - Tyranid battle organisms do not have digestive systems, and are expected to simply throw themselves into pits of digestive juices after the battle. Assuming they survive, of course.
** Then you have the Squigs (pictured at the top of this page) of both 40K and ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' fantasy. Ironically, Squigs are not only edible, but described as delicious -- thedelicious—the taste of well-cured ham with the consistency of young chicken. The Monster Manual for ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]]'' mentions a merchant who makes quite a nice profit selling squig meat to roadside inns. Admittedly he doesn't tell them what they're buying, but that's because he's afraid they'll either stop buying due to it being [[Foreign Queasine]], report him to the Witch Hunters, or start getting it on their own.
*** One breed of Squig is actually known as the "facebiter squig". Particularly brave Orks are noted for trying to eat the squig before the squig eats them.
*** According to some sources, the Squigs are actually Tyranids created with Ork base genetic material. The Orks found the Squigs and adopted them into their culture sensing their inherent "Orky" nature.
** Then there are the Orcs/Orks, who in either setting use "teef" as money. Teef are acquired by either using your own, or ripping out someone else's. Don't worry, they grow back.
*** In the Gorkamorka Orky-centric gamespin-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: theThe 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 and& Dragons]]''
** The supplement ''Tome of Magic'' (3e) contains the Tooth Beast: is essentially a bear literally coated in teeth. Rather than skin, it has gums. [http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96076.jpg See it here.] It has teeth for ''eyes'', and is wrong.
** [http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96039.jpg Dahlver-Nar's Manifestation]. Again, gums for skin and teeth everywhere... ''except'' the mouth.
** The Gibbering Mouther is basically an ooze made out of goo, eyeballs, and mouths with sharp teeth. Lots and lots and lots of teeth.
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** The 3.5 Edition ''Monster Manual IV'' introduces the Fang Golem, a construct made entirely from teeth and fangs of various animals. It resembles a four-legged beast covered in ivory spikes, with a whirling tunnel of pointy death for a mouth.
* The Legion of Everblight from ''Hordes'' in the ''[[Iron Kingdoms]]'' setting. It has warbeasts with no eyes, ears or noses. Just mouths full of large, sharp teeth.
* One adventure for ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' had a table of descriptions for the various robots. For the Doberbot, the entry first lists the weapon, 16" long teeth, then under description: "You don't know, all you see are the teeth."
** Was a possible [[Shout-Out]] to [[Heavy Metal (Animation)|the monster in the Den segment of ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal.]]''.
* In the ''[[Scarred Lands]]'', one of the fallen titans was Gaurak the Glutton - an obese and monstrously ravenous deity who was said to have devoured everything on the once verdant moon. After his defeat by the titan's children, the gods, every one of his hundreds of teeth were pulled out and thrown across the destroyed world, taking on the form of mountains, obelisks, and trees which currenlty taint the surrounding land.
 
 
== Toys ==
* Gadunka from ''[[Bionicle]]''.
 
 
== Video Games ==
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* As if the entire concept of ''[[X-COM]]'''s [[Demonic Spiders|Chryssalids]] aren't nightmarish enough, someone decided to give their research entry images permanent, toothy smiles.
* Decarabia from ''[[Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow]]''. Imagine a starfish's hungry mouth staring straight at you. Imagine that mouth lined with razor-sharp teeth. Now, imagine said starfish hurtling at you at approximately 80 MPH. Needless to say, I went numb when Ifirst saw one
* The Rifle Demons in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series have mouths full of large, pointy, and perpetually visible teeth. They tend to get a lot of emphasis in [[Super Move Portrait Attack|their team attack portraits]].
* Baraka from ''[[Mortal Kombat 2 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 2]]'' has a mouth full of pointy teeth, as do others of his race. His teeth in his first appearance were [[Sassy Black Woman|acryllic nails]] glued to a cheap Nosferatu mask.
** From the [[Mortal Kombat|same series]], Mileena, a female ninja with a bombshell body [[Fan Disservice|ruined by a mouth with more teeth than a school of piranha.]] {{spoiler|This is because she's a deformed clone of Kitana fused with the essence of a member of Baraka's race.}}
* The Protopets from ''[[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando]]''. Give a [[Star Trek|tribble]] the jaws and personality of a Great White Shark, and you've got a pretty close approximation.
* One of two [[The Faceless|discernible facial features]] of Taokaka in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' is a mouth full of lots of very sharp, pointy teeth.
* A few mutants in ''[[Resident Evil]]'', particularly in the later stages of G-virus infection.
* The Gaets in ''[[Tales of Legendia]]'' are easily among the toothiest monsters in the ''[[Tales Series(series)]]'', all of their various species having a huge mouthful of large, perpetually visible teeth of either the shark-like triangular or pointy needle variety.
* [http://www.wowwiki.com/File:Yoggsaron.jpg Yogg-Saron], one of the Old Gods from ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.
* Just in case you didn't figure out Chancellor Cole was an [[Evil Chancellor]] before then in ''[[The Legend of Zelda|The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]'', the last you see of him before he explicitly outs himself as one is him flashing an evil grin full of pointed, shark-like teeth.
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** {{spoiler|The Shadow Broker.}}
* Fuzzles from ''[[Oddworld]]''. They start out looking tiny cute little furballs, until they go into attack mode where they become rabid and reveal their mouth filled to the brim with razor sharp teeth.
* The [[Eldritch Abomination|Dragon God]] from ''[[DemonsDemon's Souls]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dnEzkbdTa0I#t=129s needs a second mouth to contain all his teeth.]
** ''[[Dark Souls]]'', it's [[Spiritual Successor]], gives us this [http://i54.tinypic.com/21y15w.jpg lovely beast], which seems to be less "Monster with lots of teeth" and more "Teeth with a hint of monster."
* The Malboros from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series are giant plants with this many teeth, [[Extra Eyes|almost as many eyes]], and [[Combat Tentacles]].
* The Garmraid in ''[[Super Robot Wars MX]]'' can attach it's shoulder guards to it's fists, then tossing a ''[[Rocket Punch]]'' with teeth.
* The Ultimate Chimera in [[Video Game]]/Mother3 is a cute purple beast consisting almost entirely of teeth, enough to [[Total Party Kill|fell an entire party of four]] in one chomp. This is also true for its appearance as a stage hazard in [[Super Smash Bros Brawl]].
* The [[Sociopathic Hero|"protagonist"]] of the ''[[Rance (Franchise)|Rance]]'' series.
** Also, {{spoiler|Rance's daughter,}} Reset [[Our Elves Are Different|Kalar]]. It's absurdly [[Moe]].
* Night Of Wallachia from ''[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]'' has a lot of extremely sharp teeth.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]''
** The Jägermonsters have [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080512 far] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031103 too] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080618 many] long, sharp teeth to fit into their (sometimes) human-sized mouths.
** Krosp has teeth more suited to a shark than a cat.
** Consider the [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050404 horse monster beastie]. ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050413 Argh!]''
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
** The [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=349 yellow salamander] from Chapter 16 had double rows of sharp fangs. Nightmare fuel, literally: {{spoiler|it appeared in a character's nightmare, and it symbolized the house fire that ''killed his entire family''.}}
** Coyote's etherial form is a mishmash of teeth, eyes and night sky.
** Zimmy; she's nominally human, but her teeth resemble a shark more than a person.
** Ominous connotations are averted by the friendliest [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=987 badger spirit] you'll ever meet.
* Florence Ambrose of ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'' has these, but only sometimes. Example; [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01696.htm Snap!] All the time, but she struggles to keep them hidden, as long as she remembers, since humans tend to react badly to them. [[Truth in Television]] for real wolves, by the way.
* ''[[Looking for Group]]'' has a [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/389 subterranean worm] that has this in spades.
* Orcs in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' have tusks and fanged maws, which becomes more obvious when they are pissed. Unusually, orcs are vegetarians, and the hard, pointed teeth are for cracking open the extremely tough root vegetables of their homeland.
* The Mihrrgoots from ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' have very wide mouths completely filled with sharp teeth.
* Werewolves in [[Bloody Urban (Webcomic)|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 ==
* The aptly-named villain Megabyte from ''[[Re BootReBoot]]''. [http://starman-imaging.com/reboot/images111/megafrme1094a.jpg Hexadecimal, too.]
* Ripjaws in ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]''.
* The Plutarkians from ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]'' have teeth like this.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' once had a cutaway gag about this trope, featuring the Osmond family with buck teeth.
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* ''[[Chowder]]'', in an episode of the TV series, in a horror moment that would make [[Flap Jack]] proud.
* One of ''[[Looney Tunes|Sylvester the Cat]]'' shorts had him try to catch fish [[Too Dumb to Live|in piranha aquarium]]. After he gets out, he quips "nah, they're just skin and teeth", and the fish give him a [[Cheshire Cat Grin]].
* The Joker in all his cartoon incarnations (''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]'', ''[[Justice League]]'', ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' and ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]''), so much so that when [[Mark Hamill]] auditioned for the part in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'', he commented in a Making Of video that the Joker seemed to be "all teeth".
* [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Sky-byte's]] ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' [http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/4/47/Sky_Byte_by_BillForster.jpg version], as seen in the ''Transformers Animated Allspark Almanac''. Terrified yet?
** The different version of him shown in ''Decepti-Con Job'' is far less horiffying.
* [[Transformers Prime]] brings us the Scraplets. Two feet tall... with mouths that make up about a third of that height. They make a sound like a chainsaw revving when they open their jaws. According to Bulkhead, they bite their way into a mechanoid and then eat them alive from the inside out.
 
 
== Real Life ==
* 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 Is's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|sharks]]. Not only do they have a complete set of choppers, but they have multiple replacement sets growing right behind the first set. This is because when you eat like a shark, you go though teeth ''fast''. Their skin is actually made of millions of microscopic teeth called "dermal denticles", each one a tiny version of the ones in their mouths. Shark skin can be used as sandpaper. Evolutionarily speaking teeth, scales, feathers, hair, and bone<ref>which is odd, since shark skeletons aren't made of bone, just cartilage</ref> are all variants of the same process.<br /><br />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.]
** 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.
* Piranhas.
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* Several predatory dinosaurs, as well as some herbivores who had ''several thousand'' teeth in their mouths. Dental battery ''indeed.'' Say hello to [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/01/dinostory_2001-01-29.html Masiakasaurus.]
* While [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] might not've had a jaw ''that'' freaky, the tooth size more than makes up for it. Including the part firmly rooted inside a ''skull designed for crushing bone'', which had possibly the greatest bite force of anything on the continent at that time, the Rex's teeth could be a foot long.
** And it had ''50'' of them.
* Angler Fish, the evil [[Light Is Not Good|bastards.]] In fact just about every other abyssal fish (except for pelican eels) has enormous needle-like teeth too. Teeth like this are very bad for biting and chewing, but are excellent at skewering and thus trapping a fish on the first bite. <ref>Now pass that [[Brain Bleach]].</ref>
** One species, ''Neoceratias spinifer'', whom Tim Flannery nicknamed [[Meaningful Name|the "Pincushion Sea Devil"]], has lost her glowing lure probably because her teeth glow in the dark.
** 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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* Opossums have more teeth than any other land mammal; 50 teeth in something that size [http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/gallery/opossum021.jpg is really saying something].
* The [[Real Life]] kings of the trope though, are snails, who have several ''thousand'' [[wikipedia:Radula|pairs of teeth]]. Terrifying, no?
* For some of the biggest non-tusk teeth in the world, see [[wikipedia:Leviathan melvillei|Leviathan melvillei]] -- a—a whale with a mouthful of [http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/30/1277901299026/Artists-impression-of-gia-002.jpg very big teeth]
 
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