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[[File:facepalm6 1787.jpg|link=Star Trek: The Next Generation|frame|[[Surrounded by Idiots|I can't take my eyes off you people for five minutes...]]]]
{{quote|''"Why's your forehead all red?"''
|'''Katara''', ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''}}
So you're the [[Only Sane Man]], and the lunatics around you are ''once again'' doing [[What an Idiot!|something]] to make you question your faith in humanity. ''*sigh*'' It may not solve anything, but applying a hand to your forehead will have the dual benefit of temporarily obscuring your vision of the idiocy as well as cradling the on-coming headache.
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== Anime
* There are giant montages available on certain image boards consisting of nothing but anime characters facepalming. There are montages of facepalm pictures that, once zoomed out enough, look like ''Picard facepalming''. Such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615005322/http://ohinternet.com/File:Epic_Ultimate_Facepalm_of_Epicness.jpg this.]
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': Yomi [[media:facepalm.jpg|shows us how it's done]]
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* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'': Sheriff Root frequently does this in reaction to his son Arseface.
* Taskmaster has done this towards [[Deadpool]], such as when Wade pays him via ATM.
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* An issue of SWORD, an X-Men spin-off, featured a group of giant rock aliens seeking to avenge the deaths of four noble creatures whom humans had decapitated and put on display. At Mount Rushmore. Once they learn the nature of the error, this trope occurs.
* Papa Smurf does this a few times in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' comic book story "Bathing Smurfs".
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', at the end of a [[Horrible Camping Trip]] where it rained all week, Calvin's dad has just packed everything up when the rain stops. Cue ''wap''.▼
* [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] apparently does this a lot.▼
** [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=525 This strip] from ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' demonstrates.▼
** There's a strip where Garfield is facepalming for no reason. Jon asks him what he's doing, and Garfield replies, "Practicing being exasperated." Jon notices he's not wearing pants, and Garfield puts his practice to good use.▼
* [[Mallard Fillmore]] Face-Wings a lot.▼
* ''[[The Optimist]]'' has an occasional [http://the-opt.com/?p=30 facepalm].▼
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* In the [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-6-River-62111743 let's] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-13-Flush-66111403 just] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-17-Hospital-68397225 say] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-53-More-Awkward-93659264 that] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-54-Up-and-Down-94397769 it] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-67-Staff-Lounge-104382342 happens] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-102-Boy-Player-156480419 a] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-145-The-M-Word-194726509 lot]... Even a [[Up to Eleven|triple]] [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-112-Beneficiary-166305258 one] isn't an imposibility.
* In ''[[The Blue Blur of Termina]]'', Tatl does this in response to Sonic's hesitation during his first use of the Deku Flower.
* In the [[Spice Girls]]
== Films -- Animation ==
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* Some editors in [[This Wiki]] tend to use this at times as a reaction... and [[Pothole]] it to this very page.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', at the end of a [[Horrible Camping Trip]] where it rained all week, Calvin's dad has just packed everything up when the rain stops. Cue ''wap''.
▲* [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] apparently does this a lot.
▲** [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=525 This strip] from ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' demonstrates.
▲** There's a strip where Garfield is facepalming for no reason. Jon asks him what he's doing, and Garfield replies, "Practicing being exasperated." Jon notices he's not wearing pants, and Garfield puts his practice to good use.
▲* [[Mallard Fillmore]] Face-Wings a lot.
▲* ''[[The Optimist]]'' has an occasional [http://the-opt.com/?p=30 facepalm].
== Print Media ==
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