Now That's Using Your Teeth: Difference between revisions

''[[Jimi Hendrix|And Hendrix played guitar with his teeth]]''</poem>|'''Billy and the Boingers''', ''[[Bloom County]]'', "I'm A Boinger"}}

 

 

In terms of story and narrative development, this is a fairly popular method of showing a character as being unbelievably strong- at any rate much better at what they do than pretty much any nameless [[Mook]]. In actual practice, this is a trope that usually falls strictly under the domain of [[Rule of Cool]]. Are there people in the world who can use their teeth to do practically anything? Maybe. Teeth are pretty strong, after all, and can exert more force than a hand. Still, one can't help but wonder how those teeth manage to continue to stay pearly white even after they've grabbed every filthy, dangerous, explosive object under the sun. Ah well. [[MST3K Mantra|Best not to dwell on it too much]].

 

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* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', it looks like an old man had committed suicide in his room; then Conan deduces that {{spoiler|the victim had his hands bound behind his back, and then the rope that was looped around his neck was also threaded through his teeth so that if he called for help or his jaw gave out he would hang himself}}.

* Ranma Saotome of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has on many an occasion blocked opponents' attacks with his teeth, most notably against Ryu Kumon.

* ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' catches a nail shot from a nailgun in his teeth. If that isn't bad enough, the nailgun actually had enough power to shoot the nails from halfway across a room with enough force to ''pull him out of the way of a falling scaffold and nail his jacket (with him still in it) to a wall several meters away''.

* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] has Jack Rakan, who {{spoiler|when confronted with knives surrounding his head in his fight with Negi, decides to bite them. The knives SWEAT!}}

** It's not his teeth that are so strong, it's his jaws, as Luffy comes to find out when he puts a set of Arlong's teeth into his mouth and his one bite attack isn't that strong.

** And recently, The New Fishmen Pirates captain Hody Jones, a Great White Shark fishman, has destroyed a whole pirate crew ''and'' their ship using only his jaws.

*** His crewmate Daruma is a Cookie-Cutter Shark Fishman that threatens to eat offenders. He regularly tunnels underground with them.

* The 7th from ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' blocked Yuno's knife with his teeth. Partially justified because he [[Scry vs. Scry|knew it was coming]].

* In the second ''[[Durarara!!]]'' OVA, Shizuo catches a knife (thrown at him by Izaya) with his teeth ''twice'', shattering it one of those times.

* In ''[[Rave Master]]'', Haru catches an arrow with his teeth that an enemy fired at ''point blank range''.

* In one ''Saiyuki'' Reload chapter, {{spoiler|Goku, in his Seiten Taisei form}} catches a bullet by his teeth.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Green Arrow]] has been shown using his teeth to draw back his bowstring when one of his arms is incapacitated.

 

 

== Film ==

* [[Ichi the Killer|Kakihara]] loves showing off his [[Glasgow Grin]]; in one street fight, he yanks the pins from his cheeks and catches a man's fist in his horribly wide maw. ''Chomp.''

* In ''[[You Don't Mess With The Zohan]]'', when fighting terrorists, Zohan catches two bullets with his hands before catching a third one with his teeth. He then [[Serial Escalation|catches a fourth one with his nose.]] This is all seen as pretty mundane to Zohan.

 

== Literature ==

** As an example, in ''The Ersatz Elevator'' she used them to scale a wall.

** In ''The Miserable Mill'' Sunny actually uses her teeth as pseudo-swords to fight off the villain in a 'swordfight,' and the most impressive thing about it is that they were pretty much equals in the fight, despite the fact that the villain had a longer reach, was using an actual sword, and was fighting a ''baby''.

* Lincoln Rhyme, in ''[[The Bone Collector]]'' and other novels in the series, is essentially quadriplegic throughout the series. In the first book, he's about to be killed by a psychotic madman, so he uses the only weapon he has left, his teeth. As noted below in [[Real Life]], that's more than enough to rip out a throat...

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Wild ARMs 5]]'', [[Psycho for Hire|Kartikeya]] is shown [[Bullet Catch|catching a bullet with his teeth]] when Greg attempts to wipe that smug bastard's grin with a point-blank range head shot. He smacks Greg for that one, saying that it hurt. A lot.

* [[Battle Butler|Winfield]] of ''[[Demonbane]]'' does boxing. This apparently grants him the power to catch a katana with his teeth (one wielded by a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|demonic samurai-sorcerer]], no less). It's OK, though: boxing explicitly makes you superhuman in that world. Because.

 

== Western Animation ==

* The first time Molotov appears in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Brock throws a knife at her and she catches it in her teeth. Then she licks the blade and tries to stab him.

* Ubiquitous to the point where the vast majority of its uses fall under [[Mundane Utility]] in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]. Completely justified since, as ponies, they have no hands with which to manipulate objects.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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