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{{trope}}
{{quote|''One of his teeth splashed into my Kilmagoon, fifteen feet away. I fished out the tooth to keep as proof, as otherwise no-one would ever believe me.''
|''[[Cloud Atlas]]''}}
It's like this: Two men are fighting, [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]. Now things get dirty. Then, one of them makes an attack to the mouth and hits. Cue the other one spitting out one tooth (or several).
This is often an [[Obligatory Joke]] with a work involving hockey players.
In funny works, this can take a humorous form: The guy who is hit will lose ALL his teeth - because they're dentures. Even if they were not hinted to be fake. Or if the work is in a setting where dentures aren't invented yet.▼
▲In funny works, this can take a humorous form: The guy who is hit will lose ALL his teeth - because they're dentures. Even if they were not hinted to be fake. Or if the work is in a setting where dentures aren't invented yet.
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Real Bout High School]]'', Ryoko knocks several teeth out of the head of gang leader Takasugi's [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. Hey, it's his fault he was talking when the fight had already started.
* Cleverly and artistically used as part of the title of ''[[Bleach]]'' chapter 426. Ichigo and Uryu both punch out the big boss of a gang who was after Ichigo, knocking out three of his incisors. The artistic part is where the chapter number appears on the teeth as they fly out. The reason why they were there? Ichigo previously had punched out
* Happens [[Battle Discretion Shot|off-screen]] in an early episode of the ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' dub. [[Bruiser
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]', during Kenshin and Saito's fight at one point Kenshin hits Saito in the mouth with the blunt end of his sword and he spits out a tooth.
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* One issue of ''[[Daredevil]]'' briefly but specifically mentions this; Daredevil lands a blow on Max the Ax that'll cost him a lot of money in dental work.
* In ''Super Pro K.O.'', Prince Swagger loses two teeth after a face-first collision with a corner post.
* [[
* Venom's teeth often go flying when ''[[Spider-Man]]'' gives him a beating. Not that it matters much, since they grow back in seconds.
** During his first fight with Tombstone he knocks out several of his teeth.
* A [[Running Gag]] in the [[Spy
* A regular event in ''[[Viz]]'' strips, especially ''Biffa Bacon''. Biffa often loses teeth to blows from his own parents.
{{quote|
Next panel, Father (with nine pints of beer in front of him and a tenth in his hand): Cheers son!
Biffa (toothless): Baftard! }}
* Very common in ''[[Mortadelo Y Filemon]]'' as a result of punches to the face or explosions. For example, there is one scene where Filemon gets hit by a boxer off screen, and Mortadelo asks him if he lost a tooth. Filemon comes back into view, counting a handful of loose teeth: "No, I think I got all of them... 22, 23, 24..."
* In the "[[Bodycount]]" arc of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' Johnny Woo Woo beats Raphael and slams him into the ground he just casually gets up and spits out a tooth.
* This happened a
* In a truly bizarre example, from Kevin
== [[Fan
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]/[[
== [[Film]] ==
* Will Danaher does this in ''[[The Quiet Man]]''.
* Happened to Centipede in the movie version of ''[[James and
* This is used as a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Undercover Blues]]'', in which small-time criminal "Muerte" loses a tooth when attempting to mug one of the titular spies. He stalks them, determined to exact revenge, and ends up losing more teeth in most of their encounters.
* [[Played for Drama]] in a scene from the director's cut of ''[[Watchmen (
* ''[[Troy]]'': Paris manages to knock a tooth loose from Menelaus; the only good jab he gets in the fight.
* In ''[[The Comebacks]]'', Coach Fields tries to intimidate George Johnson into stepping in line, and even invites him to attack him. After being knocked down by a savage headbutt, Coach's tooth is returned to him by another player.
* In ''[[Wanted]]'' when the main character snaps, quits his job and smacks his backstabbing "best friend" on the way out with his keyboard, we're treated to a [[Bullet Time]] shot of a tooth flying out, forming the second letter U to accompany the F, U, C, K and Y, O keys that flew off the keyboard. [[Refuge in Audacity|It's that kind of movie.]]
* In the climax of ''[[Feast]]'', the second Heroine uses a rifle butt to knock out every last one of a monster's [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|many, many teeth]]. Then tops this {{spoiler|by shoving her arm through its now-harmless jaws, and all the way down its throat, so it chokes to death!}}
* A couple examples in ''[[
* In ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', near the end, Phoebus punches one of Frollo's guards, sending most of his teeth flying from his mouth.
* In ''[[Madagascar Escape 2 Africa]] '', when Alex and the old lady are fist-fighting each other, Alex spits out his tooth and the old lady spits out her dentures.
* Optimus Prime spits out what looks like a ''metal'' tooth during a fight in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''. What a robot is doing with teeth is best left to the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] pages.
* One werewolf in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Literature relating to comic books; in ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
* The first blow of a bar fight in the Timothy Cavendish segment of ''[[Cloud Atlas]]'' knocks a tooth out of a villain's mouth and into the protagonist's drink.
* Happens to Roran in [[The Inheritance Cycle|Inheritance]], he casually puts his tooth back in and [[You Fail Biology Forever|somehow it stays there.]]
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Dance With Dragons]]'', {{spoiler|Tyrion taunts Jorah, who responds by punching Tyrion out. Tyrion spits out a tooth and thinks, [[The Grotesque|"Growing prettier every day."]]}}
== [[Live
* ''[[Dexter]]'' ends up killing the wrong man in self defense, resulting in a temporary crown getting knocked out during the struggle, which he has to look for the next day at the crime scene before the forensics team finds it.
* In the first episode of the Korean series ''[[Strong Girl Bong-soon]]'', the title character (who possesses divinely-gifted [[Super Strength]], slaps a gangster and very visibly sends several of his teeth flying. He reappears several times in the series, and the teeth remain missing.
== [[
* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', gags about General Halftrack losing his dentures [[If It Was Funny the First Time| never seem to get old.]]
* In [[The Ilias]], Achilles did this to the [[Dirty Coward]] Thersites.▼
* In a ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, Snoopy is on his doghouse with a hockey stick, when Linus comes by:
{{quote|'''Linus:''' I don't believe you're a real hockey player. Prove to me you're a real hockey player!
'''Snoopy:''' ''(Grins widely, showing several missing teeth.)''
'''Linus:''' You're a real hockey player!}}
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* In the legend of Dietrich of Bern, Heime does this to [[Evil Chancellor]] Sibich.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mortal Kombat 9
* ''[[Condemned]]'' has crazy hobos and homeless people. When you smack them upside the head with one of the various improvised weapons, teeth occasionally fly out and onto the ground.
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' counts teeth by bunches (upper left teeth, lower front teeth, and so on), and, if struck hard enough, they all go flying. As a result of this and the AI targeting system, old forts tend to have dozens of teeth scattered all over the surface.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In [[Nip and Tuck]], a mime chooses Tuck Todd to mock. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090404070822/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00151.html Tuck turns around...] [[Written Sound Effect|POW]]!
{{quote|
'''Tuck:''' Got a tissue? Ah got "Clown White" embedded between mah knuckles. }}
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* Bad guys' teeth go flying in the opening sequence to ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. And one episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was pretty much based on this trope - Buttercup learns the Tooth Fairy gives you money for teeth, and starts deliberately knocking villains' teeth out and collecting them to make a huge windfall.
* In the "Pecos Bill" segment of ''[[Melody Time]]'', Bill knocks out all the gold fillings off a gang of rustlers, which is why "there's gold in them thar hills".
* In the ''[[
* At the end of ''[[
** Happens to Morgana's pet tiger shark Undertow near the end of the sequel after accidentally hitting a wall and is presumably killed. Since sharks inevitably grow their teeth back immediately if they all were to fall out of their mouths, it's possible that Undertow may have actually survived.
* In ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'' during Batman and Joker's fight at one point Joker smashes a model building over Batman's back then attempts to stab him with the point, in response Batman kicks him in the face knocking out one of his teeth.
* In the ''[[
* A recurring gag in golden age cartoons like ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[
* Basically anytime there is a fight scene or when someone receives a blow to the face in ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' teeth usually fly from their mouths.
* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'' episode "Grandad's Fight" during Robert's fight with Stinkmeaner he knocks out all of his teeth.
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