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== Anime ==
* Hyouma and Gaia from the wolf arc of the ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' manga. And these are ''wolves'' we are talking about here.
* Kenshiro, the protagonist of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', of which nearly every related parody seems obligated to use his eyebrows.
* Ohta from ''[[Patlabor]]''.
* Played straight in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'' - Tetsu Ushio has thick eyebrows in a permanent arch to underline his status as the overdramatic comic relief.
** In Season 0 as well to make Ushio appear more threatining.
* Amarao from ''[[FLCL]]'' takes this to ridiculous extremes with his prosthetic [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]], which is visually made out of digitally-rendered ''nori'' seaweed sheets. The fact that they're fakes only serves to emphasize his immaturity. Believed that they also keep Haruko from channeling N.O. through his head like she does with Naota, but this is unconfirmed.
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*** When she asks Koiwai if she should trim them, he says she should leave them as they are, [[Ship Tease|as she looks cute with them.]]
* Played with ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'', where Satoshi Horio has a big ol ''unibrow''.
* England from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Sealand, India, and The Principality of Wy have them too. In Hong Kong's case, this is supposedly because England placed a curse on them. Sealand has the same last name as England (and is, for all legitimate purposes, ''part'' of the UK) and is considered England's little brother. Curiously, Australia's eyebrows seemed even ''bigger'' than England's, at least in his preliminary sketch. New Zealand shares the brows due to being another former British colony, while Wy is considered Australia's younger sister.
* Mugi from ''[[K-On!]]'' is an exceptional case of a ''girl'' with noticeable eyebrows, which apparently run in the family (although her eyebrows are more potato-wedge shaped than they are bushy...).
** When Azusa imagines a more determined Yui, she imagines her with thick black eyebrows fixed in an angry position. In the background of her fantasy, the other members of the band each sport a pair as well[[media:determined_eyebrows_305.png|.]]
** In the 'Final' episode they're pickled radishes. At least, in Yui's fever-dream.
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* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] gives us Kittan Bachika. Rossiu's are also more prominent than the rest of the cast.
* In ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', Keroro occasionally displays [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]] when he's being [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|overly dramatic]].
* Shinnosuke in ''[[Crayon Shin Chan-chan]]'' has some impressive eyebrows for his age (5 years.)
** And he manages to accidentally shave one of them off once in the manga. His mother's solution? Pick up a marker and draw the missing one!
* [[Tenjho Tenge]]'s [[Badass|Mitsuomi Takayanagi]] has some seriously impressive ones, with FORKED ENDS!
* Ranger in ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]'' has very big, bushy eyebrows.
* Damos in ''[[Pokémon: Arceus and Thethe Jewel of Life (Anime)|Pokémon Arceus and The Jewel of Life]]'' has these, but he's a very strong man with [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yami Yugi]]'s voice, so it's okay. However, his descendant Sheena has the same eyebrows on a very pale, narrow face with otherwise dainty features... it looks pretty strange.
* Yuki Yoshioka from ''[[Mitsudomoe]]'' has an extremely noticeable pair. Nobody really draws attention to them, but they draw more than enough attention to themselves.
* The Puchuus from ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'' develop these when hit as well as an over-the-top angry [[Gonk]] face.
** Those faces - and their eyebrows - are [[Golgo 13]]'s.
* While none of the characters you'd expect to see in such an [[World of Ham|over the top]] anime have big eyebrows, ''[[Code Geass]]'' gives us ''[http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/10/29371.jpg Kyoshiro Todoh], [[The Comically Serious|of all people]]'', who seems to be the spiritual success or to Treize and Dorothy of ''Wing'' when it comes to the forked variation. Given, they're both ''Sunrise'' series... Charles, meanwhile, does not have overly huge ones, but impressive, nonetheless.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Gozaburo Kaiba]] has some [http://photos-060.friendster.com/e1/photos/06/01/92921060/1_917095093l.jpg rather large brows], to go along with his chops and [[Badass Moustache|'stash]].
* Yuka Suzuki from [[Fairy Tail]] has eyebrows that could eat [[Fooly Cooly|Amarao's]] for breakfast.
* Many characters in [[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]] have large eyebrows.
* [[Bleach|Yamamoto]]'s are hanging of the side of his face.
* Some of the characters from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' have these, but the clearest examples are Randoll and Johji.
* ''[[Blue Exorcist (Manga)|Blue Exorcist]]'' has Kamiki Izumo, whose nickname in-series (and among the fandom) is "Eyebrows". Amaimon also has them.
* Soujirou (the triplets' father), Yuki and her father from ''[[Mitsudomoe]]''
* [[Miyamoto Musashi]] from ''[[Yaiba]]'', whose eyebrows aren't only extremely thick but also longer than his body (it helps that he's very small).
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* ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Yojimbo]]'' has Inspector Ishida (with his notable monobrow) and Koji.
* Used to comic effect in [[Asterix|Asterix the Legionary]] -- the Egyptian man, who speaks entirely in pictograms and hieroglyphics, describes both Asterix and the ship's captain with a symbol that the translator dictates as "old hairy eyebrows".
* [[Depending Onon the Artist]], [[Wolverine]] can qualify.
 
 
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* [[Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx.]] Actually created via greasepaint, as was his iconic mustache (which is why he's here and not down in [[Real Life]]).
* Thufir Hawat in Lynch's [[Dune]]. They're [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060716174630/dune/images/b/bc/Jones_as_hawat.jpeg pretty big.] It's possible this was supposed to be shared among mentats, at the other one, Piter DeVries, has some [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/PiterDeVries-Brad_Dourif.jpg big ones too], but they're still not quite as big.
* [[Mandy Patinkin]] wears ''ridiculously'' bushy eyebrows as a [[Villain]] in ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland]]''. One of his [[Muppet|fuzzy-bug]] [[Mooks]] [[Lampshade Hanging|comments]] "Those aren't his eyebrows; that's my aunt and uncle!"
* The aptly named White Eyebrows, in the film ''Clan of the White Lotus'', has spectacular, bushy, white eyebrows that extend off his face. They are quite a sight to behold.
* In ''[[Cloudy Withwith a Chance of Meatballs]]'', the eyes of Flint's dad Tim are almost always hidden under his eyebrows. Raising his eyebrows is used for great effects throughout the movie.
* Pei Mei (White Eyebrows) also appears in ''[[Kill Bill|Kill Bill: Volume II]]'', this time played by Gordon Liu (who defeated him in ''Clan of the White Lotus'') and sporting an even more magnificent set of eyebrows.
* Long Brows (Sammo Hung) in Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain, fights with his eyebrows.
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* Another female example is Lisa in ''[[The Room]]''.
* On ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', both Nicodemus and the Great Owl have long, white eyebrows that hang off their faces. Jenner also has an impressive set of black bushy eyebrows, though nowhere near as long.
* Ricky Caldwell, as played by Eric Freeman in ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]] Part 2''. His eyebrows overact as much as he does. They've even got their of Facebook group.
* [[Robert Pattinson]] as Edward Cullen in ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]''. They are so huge, on the verge of distracting, especially in ''New Moon'' when he says goodbye to Bella.
 
 
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{{quote| '' 'Good morning' said Bilbo, and he meant it. [...] But Gandalf looked at him from under [[Big Ol' Eyebrows|long bushy eyebrows]] that '''stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat'''.''}}
** The Rankin/Bass animated versions of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Return of the King]]'' took this maybe ''too'' literally, and gave Gandalf a titanic, impossibly bushy unibrow that, along with his similarly oversized beard, completely frames his (also huge) nose and eyes. His freaky appearance is used to great effect when he introduces himself with an extreme closeup shot.
* Ogier in ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'' are described to all have very large eyebrows.
* In [[PGP. G. Wodehouse (Creator)|PG Wodehouse]]'s ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' stories, nerve specialist Rodrick Glossop is described as being bald with enormous eyebrows.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* The Vulcans and ''especially'' the Romulans of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'' had some serious eyebrow action going on.
* The boys of ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' have eyebrows that are so distracting as to verge on the [[High School Musical|Efronesque]].
* Sylar and Nathan from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Sylar even does [[Angry Eyebrows|this thing with his eyebrows]] when he's really ticked.
* James Wilson on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Many a piece of fanart feature his eyebrows. Prominently.
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]: Spike. Made worse by the fact that they're a wildly different color than his platinum-blonde hair. Hell, just look at the picture up on the [[Badass Decay]] page.
* Manny Santos on ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' saw Jane Vaughn swoon over Declan Coyne and asked her, "Who's Johnny Eyebrows?"
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* There is a subset of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' fandom that is in love with Daniel Jackson's epic eyebrows.
* In ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', Ned has a set of expressive eyebrows--in fact, Olive and Chuck identify {{spoiler|his half-brothers}} in part because they also have [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].
* Robbie Rotten from ''[[Lazy TownLazyTown]]'' has thick, [[Evil Eyebrows|arched eyebrows]] to emphasize that he is, in fact, the villain.
* From ''[[Game of Thrones (TV)|Game of Thrones]]'', little Arya Stark's noticeable eyebrows have not gone unnoticed by the viewers.
* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'': Though he's an extremely minor character, just about every scene involving Walt's former boss Bogdan includes someone calling attention to [http://seriable.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/episode-6-walter-white-bogdan.jpg his absolutely massive eyebrows].
{{quote| '''Walt:''' I said, 'fuck you!' And your eyebrows!}}
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* ''[[Star Trek Elite Force]] II'' gave us [http://eliteforce2.filefront.com/screenshots/File/16118/1 Mr. Stemmons], the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] with truly outrageous eyebrows.
* Jill from the GBA ''[[Drill Dozer]]'', but hers are nothing compared to her dad's epic unibrow, WOW.
* Mafia boss Winfred "Big Wins" Kitaki in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'' couples this with [[Eyes Always Shut]], initially giving many players the impression that his eyebrows are [[Sinister Shades]] (as he's a mafia boss).
* The Japanese releases of ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' games gives Ratchet very thick, bushy eyebrows that many American fans refer to as "woolly bear caterpillars" - his eyebrows are fairly thick in the American version as well, but the Japanese release specifically stated he was given thicker eyebrows "so fanartists would have a place to start drawing from."
* This seems to run in the [[Tekken|Mishima Family]]. Jin's and Kazuya's are impressive, but somewhat less than [[Badass Grandpa|grandpa Heihachi's]]. [[The Spoony One]] spoofed this in his review of the anime and live-action ''Tekken'' movies by wearing [[Serial Escalation|progressively larger]] construction paper eyebrows.
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* Princess Suzushiro Shikikagura from ''[[Princess Waltz]]'' sports a pair prominent enough to earn an extra look and a nickname ("Eyebrows Girl") from Liliana.
* K.K. Slider from the ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' games has some powerful brows. Better yet, they're based on a real guy.
* Winfred "Big Wins" Kitaki from ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Apollo Justice Ace Attorney]]'' has his eyes covered by his insanely thick eyebrows until the end of the trial. His eyes are revealed to be tiny and insatiably cute. Kind of a subversion really, since before that, you're meant to think his eyebrows were his deeply-sunken eyes, making Winfred look insanely scary.
* Ganondorf of the ''Zelda'' series sports a particularly magnificent pair of eyebrows that are not only bushy, but actually extend back to join with his hair.
** Ralph in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Gamesof (VideoSeasons Game)and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]'' has forked eyebrows, though you don't really see them in-game. So does {{spoiler|Queen Ambi}}, though again, you have to look at character art to see them.
** And ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'s'' Oshus has one. {{spoiler|They're even kept in his Ocean King form.}}
* Maxi of ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' fame. So extraordinary are his eyebrows they received their very own jiggle physics.
* The [[Worms (Video Game)|Worms]] have rather prominent eyebrows. So much that a cross promotion item of one of their helmets has a sculpted in pair of them.
* Axel from ''[[Disgaea]]'' has two large eyebrows shaped like lightning bolts.
* Commander Sith from [[Ghost Trick]]. His eyebrows are so large they probably qualify as his hairstyle.
* [[Big Bad|Van]] from ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'' has pretty prominent eyebrows. According to Anise they can ''shoot lasers'' - [[Ping-Pong Naivete|Natalia believed it]].
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [[Dungeons of Dredmor (Video Game)|Dungeons of Dredmor]].
{{quote| '''Propaganda Poster''' "Fear the large eyebrowed man for he brings only suffering and strange disease. Fight him to the last."}}
** Even better is one of the random enemy taunts: "Your eyebrows will not protect you this time!"
* Thunder Bomber from [[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman Online]] and [[Bomberman Jetters (Anime)|Bomberman Jetters]] has very large eyebrows which are shaped like lightning bolts.
* Many of the [[Angry Birds]].
* All of the Mr Saturns in ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]]'' and ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'' sport the most magnificent eyebrows, each roughly as large as ''ten'' of their eyes.
* [[Strider]] Hiryu sports these as well. Take a look at his manga appearance!
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'''s [[The Lancer|Dave Strider]] - [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004808 seriously, look at those bad boys.]
* Andrew Smith from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=578 thick, expressive eyebrows] which can, in extreme cases, leave his face to float over his head.
* ''[[The Book of Biff]]'' is a major example of this trope. Though Biff's eyebrows aren't ''bushy'' per se, they are ''very, very'' big.
* ''[[Nothing Nice to Say]]'' has a minor [http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/28/ running] [http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/225/ gag] involving Fletcher's [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Rocko Sasquatch's eyebrows are so bushy that they completely obscure his eyes.
* Rocky of webcomic ''[[Lackadaisy]]'' has some crazy huge eyebrows. They go well with his typically crazy expressions.
* Art of ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', although [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=607 he doesn't seem very conscious of it.]
* The early strips of [[Narbonic]] include gravity defying curlicues as the characters' eyebrows. The author herself mentions them several times in the Director's Cut.
* [[Awesome McCoolname|Max Facepuncher]] of [[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon (Webcomic)|The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon]].
* Agatha's eyebrows in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' seem to wax and wane with her moods ... even within the [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071212 same page.]
* McCoy from ''[[Mushroom Go]]'' has bright orange eyebrows that have gotten larger over time, and sometimes narrow when he's surprised.
* Rittz of ''[[Boxer Hockey]]'' has 'em, especially when compared to the other characters.
* Guz in ''[[Fite]]'', though it depends somewhat on the current state of the [[Art Evolution|art]].
* Tubs of ''[[Waterworks (Webcomic)|Waterworks]]'', apart from being a [[Meaningful Name|tubby]] super-strong thug with a [[Badass Moustache]], also has bushy eyebrows which also serve a practical function, protecting his eyes from pepper spray.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Dex has ones [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-03-18 almost as tall as his eyes].
* Dwayne of ''[[The Jupiter Palladium]]'' has some pretty awesome brows.
* ''[[MS Paint Masterpieces]]'' sees Mega Man get them in [http://ferretcomic.com/1040 this strip] for a dramatic moment with Cut Man.
* The wizard at the Temple of Terror in ''[[The Fourth (Webcomic)|The Fourth]]'' has eyebrows that ''nearly double his height''.
 
 
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** One of Gino's dolls now comes with a "[[Ascended Meme|Twinkie Brows]]" pose. The [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Bad Moon]] evolving item also included outrageous eyebrows in a variety of colors, including blue, green, and oh-god-my-eyes pink.
* In ''Metal Gear Awesome'', Solid Snake's eyebrows bulge out at the slightest provocation. At one point they branch out and ''sprout oranges''.
* In a [[Rare Female Example]], [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]]. What's kind of amusing about this is that the Critic, her [[Spear Counterpart]], has smaller, thinner, blonder eyebrows; which are considered far girlier.
 
 
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** Makes sense considering [http://frederatorblogs.com/bronk_and_bongo/files/2008/04/butch-hartman.jpg his eyebrows].
* Aku in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has '''GREAT ''FLAMING'' EYEBROWS'''
* Hikita, [[The Obi-Wan]] in ''[[Tenko and Thethe Guardians of Thethe Magic]]'' has some big eybrows.
* Many of the [[Thunder CatsThundercats]], especially Jaga, have incredibly bushy eyebrows.
* Aisling from [[The Secret of Kells]] definitely counts. What's odd is how they're black when she has white hair.
* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' demonstrates that this can even happen to ''robots''. Check out Megatron and Starscream's eyebrows if you think otherwise.
* Esmeralda in Disney's ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has rather thick eyebrows for a Disney female, suggesting that the artists were going for an air of virility, or whatever you call it in women - it does work on some levels.
* [[Bionicle|Turaga Vakama]] didn't have eyebrows on his toy, but the animated movies gave him an absolutely ''massive'' monobrow wider than his mask that made his silhouette look as if he had horns. Sadly, neither of his prior forms shared this majestic feat in facial hair.
* Mandy of [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]].
* Sgt. Cosgrove of [[Freakazoid|Freakazoid!]] Then again, have you seen [[Ink Suit Actor|his voice actor, Ed Asner]]?
* ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' gives these to [[The Mentor]] Tenzin, [[Lovable Jock]] Bolin and grizzled old coach Toza.
 
 
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** Given his aptitudes and the length of his kill list in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', he's got quite enough qualifications for it to be a [[Badass Beard]].
* Peter Gallagher (Sandy Cohen from ''[[The OC]]'') has some truly impressive eyebrows.
** Peter Gallagher's eyebrows have their own [[Face BookFacebook]] profile.
** They are also said to have had their own trailer.
* [[Eli Roth]]. [http://fuckyeahelirothseyebrows.tumblr.com/ They have their own tumblr.]
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* Gashuin Tatsuya, a Japanese actor, has [http://homepage3.nifty.com/gashu-in/ an incredibly pronounced] unibrow.
* [http://www.disneysociety.com/files/2008/06/jonas-brothers-sushi-stop-01_nc.jpg Jonas Brothers.] And that's '''after''' manscaping!
* [http://images.tvrage.com/people/16/46573.jpg Stephen Frost] of the Comedy Store Players and [[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]].
* Ron Livingston's eyebrows are not only thick but are also [http://www.burdigala.org/zettau/media/1/ron_livingston.jpg oddly asymmetrical]. Lovely.
* [[Daniel Radcliffe]]. I'm sorry, he does.
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* Senator Sam Ervin, who chaired the Senate Watergate Committee, had a habit of emphasizing his comments with a lot of eyebrow movements.
* German footballer Phillip Lahm.
* [[Lady Gaga (Music)|Lady Gaga]] is another [[Rare Female Example]], actually thickening and darkening her eyebrows.
* [[Robert Pattinson]]
* [[The Who|Keith]] [http://gutfireblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/keith-moon.jpg Moon]
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* [http://www.rnw.nl/data/files/images/lead/Stipe%20Mesic_0.jpg Stjepan "Stipe" Mesic] the fromer president of Croatia.
* Former [[Marilyn Manson]] guitarist, Scott "Daisy Berkowitz" Putesky.
* [[Robert Sheehan]] from ''[[Misfits (TV)|Misfits]]'' sports a pair of thick, expressive caterpillars over his eyes.
* All the [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins|penguins]] belonging in the [[wikipedia:Eudyptes|Eudyptes]] genus have big, yellow eyebrows that ''extend beyond their faces''.
* [http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/ed_boon_mk_top.jpg Ed Boon], co-creator of the Mortal Kombat games, has these.
* [[Darren Criss]] has some really large, thick and slightly triangular eyebrows.
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