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{{quote|'''Mark Chang:''' What's with the face? It is happy, yet at the same time, disturbing.|''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''}}
Any [[Stepford Smiler]] worth her immaculately groomed [[Power Hair]] has a smile capable of withstanding a nuclear blast worth of shocking [[The Reveal|revelations]] with amazing [[Dissonant Serenity]]. Anything and everything could happen, the president is assassinated, the detective finds the basement graveyard, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|the in-laws visit unexpectedly]], and still the smile stands. Then there are times when that perpetual and creepy smile... breaks. Maybe the cookies got burnt, or a lock of her hair has fallen out of place, or her perfectly manicured family just did something dreadfully embarrassing in public. The point is, it's [[Rant
Something snaps inside her head; she gets [[Hidden Eyes]], and her smile suddenly becomes frozen and forced, with teeth grinding in a rictus of a [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]... [[Slasher Smile|or worse]]. The smile is only still there because the sheer shock has prevented any new expression from reaching her face. A deer in the headlights of a sixteen wheel semi has a similar expression. She may develop a [[Twitchy Eye|twitching eyelid]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
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* Seen on Yurika in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' after her first taste of three new pilots, generally behaving even more strangely than the crew she's already gotten used to.
* Not really a [[Stepford Smiler]], but Zilba from ''[[Mujin Wakusei Survive|Uninhabited Planet Survive]]'' only stops smiling when her cheek is bruised.
* Shown above, it happens to Asuka in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' after {{spoiler|she walks in on what should be the happiest day of her life so far, with what she believes to be [["Well Done, Son" Guy|proof she is a worthy daughter.]] Only to find that her mother has committed "murder"-suicide, hanging herself with a doll of Asuka.}}
** It also occurs in [[End of Evangelion]] with {{spoiler|Shinji after Asuka is "killed"}}.
* In ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'', Hinamori is visited by Hitsugaya and she has one when {{spoiler|she starts ranting about how Aizen might merely be manipulated by Gin.}}
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== Comics ==
* The [[Slasher Smile|aptly named]] [[Transmetropolitan|Smiler]] devolves into this a few times over the course of the series, almost always at the hands of [[Anti
== Film ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Gorgas in ''The Belly Of The Bow'' by K. J. Parker: he is confronting his brother who has [[And Your Little Dog, Too|killed Geogas' son]] in an unspeakable way. Gorgas decides that there's no sense in crying over spilt milk and confronts his brother wearing a smile like the one the body of his dead son is wearing.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* Wilt off ''[[Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' is almost always smiling, but if he gets pushed too far, it becomes a broken smile, complete with [[Twitchy Eye]]
* [[Ed, Edd n Eddy|Eddy]] wore this when {{spoiler|he was savagely beaten up by his own brother in front of everybody else}} in the movie.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has at least two of these. First up is Pinkie's smile at her tea party of one, complete with eyes drifting in opposite directions and with shrinking pupils. In "Lesson Zero", Twilight goes equally crazy, with increasingly shorter periods of time between each new, insane smile.
* [[Spongebob SquarePants]] gets one after a [[Jerkass]] customer - which he and Squidward had spent ''the entire episode'' trying to get to - refused to accept his order [[What Do You Mean
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