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[[File:Steepled Fingers by evilengine9 691.png|link=String Theory (webcomic)|frame|Now that's a nose.]]


Almost anytime a character has a large nose, [[Obviously Evil|he's a bad guy]]. Villains have big noses. They might be long and pointy, or a giant hook down their face. But for whatever reason, bad guys rock the big noses. Maybe it's symbolic of how ugly they are on the inside? Maybe it's just to [[Only Six Faces|distinguish]] between the honest good guys and the [[Pinocchio Nose|less honest]] bad guys for the audience. No one knows.

[[Serious Business|It's one of the great mysteries of life.]]

This is also part of Antisemitism. In anti-Semitic propaganda, Jews are depicted with big noses, way beyond normal. This can lead to [[Unfortunate Implications]] if it is used in other contexts.

It's also sometimes done in Japanese Anime, but this is reference to [[Youkai|Tengu]], who are said to have large noses.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Dog Master Galf in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.

== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Iznogoud]]. Just look at him.
* Rastapopoulos in ''[[Tintin]]''.
* Crimson from the Belgian comic series ''Suske en Wiske.''
* Why else [[Batman|Penguin]] would be called such, aside from his short stature?

== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', The Wicked Witch of the West.
* The Child-Catcher of ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''.
* The title character from ''[[Ink]]''. Often, it's all you can see under his hood. His angst over his ugliness helps drive the plot. {{spoiler|Subverted by the end, when he pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] and decimates the "pretty" Incubi.}}
* The [[Typecasting|many villains]] played by [[Basil Rathbone]].
** [[Alan Rickman]]'s nose is emphasized in his villainous or morally-ambiguous roles.
** And [[Geoffrey Rush]].
* Gru of ''[[Despicable Me]]''. A subversion, that while he ''is'' a [[Villain Protagonist|villain]], he's actually a [[Affably Evil|good]] [[Anti-Villain|person]].
* Watto in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode I: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' has a huge nose, which contributed to the case of critics who called him an [[Space Jews|antisemitic stereotype]].
* In ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', one of the signs of a "witch" is having an extra-long nose. However, the nose is fake because the people put it on the woman in question. This IS a general characteristic of wicked witch characters in fiction, though.
* The main villain in ''[[Apocalypto]]'' was given a larger, prosthetic nose, which Mel Gibson points out in the commentary.

== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Harry Potter]]''
** Toyed with in Severus Snape.
** Averted with Voldemort, who has two slits in the middle of his face, like snake nostrils.
* Hotzenplotz and Zwackelmann from ''Robber Hotzenplotz''.
* [[Sherlock Holmes]] is a hero, but his nose is frequently described by Watson as hawk-like: large, aquiline, and pointy. Combined with his gangly physique, Holmes strikes a severe but not dashing figure. Doyle was always annoyed that illustrations made Holmes too traditionally handsome and heroic looking.

== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Fenella the kettle witch from ''[[Chorlton and The Wheelies]]''.
* This is taken [[Up To Eleven]] with [https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Nayzor#1 Nayzor], one of Master Org's commanders in ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]''. His ''entire face'' is a nose, with his eyes in the nostrils. [[Squick|Yuck.]]

== [[Music]] ==
* The Boogie Man from [[Gorillaz]] has an extremely long nose. It's the only facial feature visible. Murdoc also has a rather bulbous nose. He's not ''technically'' a "bad guy", though. YMMV.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|Gretchin]] of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' have ridiculously long noses that take up half their head. The same is also true for their ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' equivalents, the Goblins.
* The picture shown for the Imp (a minor devil-like creature) in the Monster Manual for 1st Edition [[Dungeons & Dragons|AD&D]] has a schnoz that would make Jimmy Durante jealous.

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'': {{spoiler|[http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-05/art/praa3-luke-atmey.jpg Luke Atmey]}}.
* Ganondorf of ''Zelda'' could open a can of Coke with his sniffer. Interestingly, it goes from straight and needle-like to hooked and bent. Averted when he turns into his pig-form, where he gets a snout.
** Ganondorf gets his long nose from his race: the Gerudo, a race almost entirely made of women who work as thieves. It's subverted in their case because the Gerudo are actually quite nice to Link once he proves himself.
* ''[[Warcraft]]'' goblins are more neutral than evil, but still have long noses.
** While the Steamwheedle goblins are just shrewd businessmen, the Bilgewater goblins added in ''Cataclysm'' are more like gangsters. Their mob boss, Gallywix, even built himself a pleasure palace in the middle of Azshara with its own mountaintop golf course.
** In Uldaman, the main villain for most of the quests is a Goblin tresure hunter and his mercenary army that are working for [[Big Bad|Deathwing]]. He's named Schnoz.
* Tengu in ''[[Dead or Alive]] 2''. But he ''is'' a [[wikipedia:Tengu|Tengu]], so that is given.
* Toujin the assassin from ''[[Battle Arena Toshinden]] 3''.
* Heiss in ''[[Radiant Historia]]''.
* Loghain of ''[[Dragon Age]]'', who looks rather like Alan Rickman in general.
* Patches of ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' and ''[[Dark Souls]]''.
*  Mordroc, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Dragon's Lair|Dragon's Lair II]]''. Not only does he have a huge nose, there's a ''branch'' growing out of it!

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Diego from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''.
* Schtein, the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[String Theory (webcomic)|String Theory]]'', provides this page's image.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Mr. Burns
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "[[The Dover Boys]] of Roquefort Hall" had such a villain in Dan Backslide.
* Dick Dastardly in both ''[[Wacky Races]]'' and ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]''
* Snidley Whiplash from ''[[Dudley Do-Right]]''.
* Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the [[Affably Evil]] villain from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', has an impressive one. It was even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] once:
{{quote|'''Doof''': Is my nose ''really'' that pointy?}}
* Quite a few villains in the [[Disney Animated Canon]], e.g. [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Frollo]], [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jafar]], and [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Captain Hook.]]
* [[An Ice Person|The Ice King]] and [[The Scream|Lemongrab]] from ''[[Adventure Time]]''.
* Corvax from ''[[Muzzy in Gondoland]]''.
* Starting with ''Batman'' The Animated Series, every single villain in the DCAU has a nose you could pop a balloon with. Every. Single. One.

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