The Un-Smile: Difference between revisions

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* During [[Kurt Busiek]]'s run on ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', they become a UN organization, and have to get new photo IDs to go with the change of status. [[The Stoic|Vision's]] attempt to smile for his photo at Wasp's urging is ''priceless''.

* The Smiler from ''[[Transmetropolitan]]''. He spends most of the series showing his teeth, but The Unsmile really comes to a point of fracture in the finale where at one point his face is split in two separate panels, one showing a perfect smile and one a pair of eyes clearly set on murder.

* Not from a character known for never smiling, but a scary-as-hell fake smile nonetheless: Seth from ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'', suddenly caught discussing sex around a group of children, responds with an "innocent smile" that [http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2010-12-10/ looks like it was copypasted from SMILEDOG].

* Not from a character known for never smiling, but a scary-as-hell fake smile nonetheless: Seth from ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'', suddenly caught discussing sex around a group of children, responds with an "innocent smile" that [https://web.archive.org/web/20110402032836/http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2010-12-10/ looks like it was copypasted from SMILEDOG].

** Pretty much ''every'' character in this strip looks like some sort of horrifying deep-sea fish when they smile.

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** Like the canonical Holmes, however, Brett ''is'' capable of a genuine smile. Except when he does, it usually [[Cheshire Cat Grin|bodes badly]] for somebody.

* In one episode near the beginning of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', Teal'c tries to smile under duress. You will either wet yourself laughing or be very afraid.

* Whenever Data tries to smile on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', he [http://www.notentirelystable.com/resources/_wsb_322x214_data+dancing.JPG really shouldn't.]

* Whenever Data tries to smile on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', he [https://web.archive.org/web/20150910222553/http://www.notentirelystable.com/resources/_wsb_322x214_data+dancing.JPG really shouldn't.]

* Same goes for Seven of Nine of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.

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** Played straight after Operation Mi'hen. "Kimari practice smiling."

* [[Deadly Premonition|Agent Francis York Morgan]] is a nice enough guy, if [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|extremely]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|weird]], but his smile is permanently caught somewhere between "electrocution victim" and "serial rapist."

* [[Mass Effect|Commander Shepard]] seems to have this effect during [http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg15/scaled.php?tn=0&server=15&filename=lolwhutsheperd.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640 an infamous scene] from Tali's romance.

* [[Mass Effect|Commander Shepard]] seems to have this effect during [http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg15/scaled.php?tn=0&server=15&filename=lolwhutsheperd.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640 an infamous scene]{{Dead link}} from Tali's romance.

* ''[[Suikoden V]]'' has Sagiri, who was {{spoiler|abducted by the assassin group Nether Gate as a child and trained to smile disarmingly all the time. Their logic was that a pleasantly-smiling girl would put their victims off-guard. [[Gone Horribly Right|It worked so well]] that, until the end of the game, she's incapable of doing anything ''but'' smiling.}}

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** It's not even necessary to know how a "natural" smile works. It's enough to think of something that elicits a smiling response from you. It should be enough to fake a smile, because our facial expressions are a (relatively) simple response. In other words: if you have to pretend to smile, just pretend to have something to smile about. Amazingly, your brain will believe you.

* Seems to be standard for official pictures of the female members of the United States House and Senate.

** Examples:[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Nancy_Pelosi%2C_official_photo_portrait%2C_111th_Congress.jpg Speaker Pelosi] [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Kosmas.png Representive Kosmas].

** Examples:[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Nancy_Pelosi%2C_official_photo_portrait%2C_111th_Congress.jpg Speaker Pelosi] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131222065658/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Kosmas.png Representive Kosmas].

* [[H.P. Lovecraft]]

* [[Gordon Brown]]... he had a perfectly respectable "dour Scot" thing going on, but then his PR people must have decided he wasn't warm enough, because he suddenly started doing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPqAo3UasA&feature=related THIS all the time.] *Shudder*

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** This trope is ubiquitous among pageant girls. Disturbingly so.

*** Especially the children.

* There is something sincerely disturbing about Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff's [~~http~~://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ignatieff0122.jpg smile]. The Liberals were really out of options when they settle on the guy with Canada's most prominent rape face.

* There is something sincerely disturbing about Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff's [https://web.archive.org/web/20160920115256/https://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ignatieff0122.jpg smile]. The Liberals were really out of options when they settle on the guy with Canada's most prominent rape face.

* [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] [[Propaganda Machine|Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment]] Joseph Goebbels. [http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk1dy5YD9J1qigifbo1_500.jpg Eep.]

** Of course, knowing who he is adds to the creepiness, but still...