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== Card Games ==
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'': "All the wizardry in the world has to pass through [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191083 one small and easily sealed door."]
 
 
== Comicbooks ==
* The mutant Chamber in [[Marvel Comics]] blew off his entire lower face when his powers manifested. Technically, he can't even speak -- he talks telepathically, with a [[Funetik Aksent]].
* Arseface, from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', was a teenage boy who tried to kill himself, in imitation of Kurt Cobain, by shooting himself in the face with a shotgun. It didn't work. He was left with a giant gaping hole instead of a mouth. {{spoiler|He eventually goes on to become a world famous rock star.}} Based on the real-life botched suicide of James Vance, although that was allegedly due to hearing subliminal messages in [[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]] songs.
* In the ''[[Books of Magic]]'', one fey has his mouth magically removed when he wouldn't shut up.
* During the ''Infinity Gauntlet'' miniseries, Eros attempts to sway his evil (and now omnipotent) brother Thanos to surrender using his powers of emotional manipulation. Thanos's angry response (he knows what his brother is trying all too well) is to remove Eros's mouth, which stays gone until the [[Reset Button]] is hit near the series's end.
* During the "Emperor Joker" storyline in ''[[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]]'', Joker removes [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'s mouth. Batman then communicates by Morse code using his jaw. [[Crazy Prepared|Because he's Batman]].
* ''[[The Mighty Thor|Thor]]: First Thunder'' #2: Loki sets about working mischief by transforming the employees at [[Secret Identity|Donald Blake’s]] hospital into strange and terrible new forms. Jane Foster is one such victim. She ends up missing a mouth after Loki is done with her.
* ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League]]'' #23: Zatanna has her own powers turned against her by Amazo, who uses them to “EVOMER S’ANNATAZ HTUOM.” She restores herself to normality by writing out a spell with her own blood.
* ''[[New Mutants]]'' #21: Trista, a mutant who can control the behaviour of others just by [[Compelling Voice|speaking to them]], has her mouth magically sealed by an arcane device operated by Doug Ramsey.
* ''[[X -Men (Comic Book)|Uncanny X-men]]'' #191: Selene (who is [[Lie to Thethe Beholder|actually Magma]]) has her mouth erased by [[Evil Sorcerer|Kulan Gath]] so as to hinder her ability to cast spells.
* In an early issue of [[WITCH (Comic Book)W.I.T.C.H.|WITCH]], Elyon does this to Taranee when the captured Fire Guardian insists that her friends run from Cedric and his soldiers rather than rescue her.
* In [[X -Men]], Banshee briefly has his mouth removed by the flesh-warping Masque.
 
 
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* From ''[[The Matrix]]'', the first encounter between Agent Smith and <s>Neo</s> Mr. Anderson. When Neo keeps demanding the legal phone call, Agent Smith responds by erasing his mouth.
* ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]'': A [[Creepy Child|young]] [[Reality Warper]] does this to his sister when she snaps at him. It's a remake of the TV episode "It's a Good Life" -- the original did not feature the trope.
* Toward the end of ''[[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]]'', when Barbara tries speaking three time the name of the eponymous ghost to banish him back, Beetlejuice uses his [[Reality Warper]] powers to cover her lips with a zipper. However, she just opens it up and manages another "Beetlejuice". Now truly annoyed, Beetlejuice conjure a metal plate to completely shut her mouth.
* In ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine (Film)|X Men Origins Wolverine]]'', Striker {{spoiler|finally finds a way to shut Wade up}} by first sewing, and in the finished version, plastering his mouth shut. {{spoiler|[[The Stinger]] shows the decapitation/fall of the head somehow opened it again.}}
* Inverted, at least in trope title, in [[The Dark Knight]].
{{quote| '''The Joker''': Let's put a ''smile'' on that face!}}
* A poster for the ''[[Silent Hill (Filmfilm)|Silent Hill]]'' movie depicts the character Alessa, a little girl, as having no mouth.
* Mr. Nick wipes off the smiles of an entire temple full of monks in ''[[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]'' to prove a point to the good doctor. They get better.
* ''[[Warlock (Filmfilm)|Warlock]] the Armageddon'': The Warlock pays an unscheduled visit to an office building to retrieve a magical artifact. When the front desk receptionist challenges his right to enter, he puts an end to the conversation by [[Reality Warper|causing flesh to grow over her mouth]]. Later he mentions the fate of the poor woman to her employer: “[[Bond One-Liner|She’s looking for a new opening.]]”
 
 
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[CSI New York]]'': One of the more disturbing [[Victim of the Week|victims]] was a man who had his jaw blasted off by an exploding cigar.
* ''[[The X -Files]]'', episode "Je Souhaite", where a [[Literal Genie]] is passed around. One man wishes another man would "shut up". You know what happens...
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', episode "Q2", q (Q's son, who has been told to stay on ''Voyager'') is approached by cheerful, talkative Neelix. Except he still has his [[Reality Warper]] powers. Whoops. Neelix doesn't just get his mouth removed, but also ''his vocal cords''.
* The episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' entitled "Witch".
** {{spoiler|Lishanne gets better.}}
* In one episode of ''[[Blood Ties (TV)|Blood Ties]]'', a voodoo witch does this to Coreen.
* In the British comedy ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'' there is a compound from ultron called lipweld which literally welds your lips together making your mouth disappear.
* [[A Wizard Did It|A wizard does this]] to Tommy early in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''. It's just a throwaway gag, though, and has no effect over the episode's plot.
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'''Conner:''' Can he wait til after midterms? }}
* Haven: In the episode "Sketchy", this along with [[Eyeless Face]], happens to one of the victims.
* "[[The Fades (TV)|The Fades]]": Paul causes his sister Anna's lips to fuse together when she rudely interrupts a kiss between Paul and Jay.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game)|Unknown Armies]]'': A signature Epideromancer attack. One spell allows the caster to manipulate an area of flesh roughly the size of one's palm. Its most common use in canon is to seal a victim's mouth and nose shut. Have we mentioned it's a horror game? Have we mentioned that Epideromancy is freely available (beyond the craziness and sadism required to get magic power from self-mutilation) to player characters?
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Clive BarkersBarker's Undying]]'': Tiring of her brother's smart-aleck comments, Bethany {{spoiler|chained up Aaron in a dungeon and ripped off his jaw before leaving him to be ''flensed alive by rats'', then hid it in her cottage! The [[Player Character|PC]], while being repeatedly attacked by hoards of things sicced on him by the tormented Aaron, must find the jaw, [[Violation of Common Sense|break into the dungeon Aaron is chained up in, and place it back on Aaron's corpse]]}}.
* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: [[Soul Reaver]]'', Raziel's lower jaw is one of the many casualties of his time spent dissolving in the Abyss. [[Fridge Logic|Oddly enough, this in no way hinders his ability to speak]]. Given his status as a spectral ghoul capable of shifting between the worlds of the living and the dead, the superfluous nature of all his internal organs given his missing abdomen and the many reality-defying powers he has, his jaw-deficit Shakespearian elocution is a fairly minor facet of his abilities.
* The Outlaw ending in ''[[Twisted Metal]]: Head-On'' features the Roberts siblings arguing over how to handle Calypso -- shoot him or arrest him? Finally one of them makes a fatal mistake: "I wish you would just shut up!" Now, yelling that in front of ''[[Jackass Genie|Calypso]]''... (It is an apparent [[Shout -Out]] to Neo's de-mouthing in ''[[The Matrix]]''.)
** In Crazy 8/No-Face's backstory, in addition to his tongue and eyes being excised, his mouth was also sewn shut.
 
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* A common [[Looney Tunes]] gag is the "zipper over the mouth" variety of muffling a character. In ''Bugs and Thugs'', [[Giant Mook]] Mugsy takes the expression "button your lip" [[Literal Minded|in the most literal way possible]].
* In ''[[Duck Dodgers]] and the Return of the 24½th Century'', Dodgers demands that Eager Young Space Cadet Porky perform the [[Trope Namer]]. He does so [[The Faceless|rather literally.]]
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''
** Ed has a nightmare that his mother is... Johnny 2x4. At some point, Johnny tells Ed to "wipe that smile off of his face," which causes Ed's mouth to disappear. If that weren't horrifying enough, Johnny then sentences Ed to be tossed into a pit of shark-like versions of the Kanker sisters, which causes Ed to ''tear his face back open'' to get a new mouth to scream with.
** In another episode, the Eds [[All Just a Dream|stumble on an alternate universe]]. After discovering that the Eds have removed Jimmy's outline, Sarah starts to chew them out, until Eddy pulls her mouth off. However, she can still use it, and it bites his face.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'': An [[Alternate Universe|alternate]] version of Robin and [[Expy]] of Bat-Mite who acts like a crazed fanboy and has a magic finger, breaks reality, making the world look like, as Cyborg put it, "it came off my grandma's fridge." Beast Boy loses his mouth, and in order to talk, pulls Raven's off and puts it on his face. He then talks with her voice. Later, when trying to figure out how fix it, Raven pulls off Cyborg's mouth and puts it on her face, then talks with his voice while Cyborg uses Starfire's mouth to talk with before they all get fed up with it and give everyone their proper mouth back.
** When BB finally recovers his mouth,[[Crowning Moment of Funny|he puts it on BACKWARDS, resulting in reversed speech!]]
* ''[[I Am Weasel]]'': Baboon's hand becomes magical and he makes wishes with his hand. Near the end, Weasel gets fed up with the wishes he makes, he wishes Baboon to shut up and, before Baboon can make another wish, his mouth disappears.
* ''[[House of Mouse]]'': "Congratulations, you would like to: Pay your bill."
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' "Zip it, Mindy."
* ''[[The Super HeroSuperhero Squad Show]]'': In the episode “the Fate of Destiny!” Nebula has her mouth sealed by the [[A God Am I|Infinity Gauntlet-wielding Thanos]]. Thanos grants Nebula’s [[Be Careful What You Wish For|wish]] to have a gag removed from her mouth by magically removing the mouth from her face. She escapes his clutches and, still sans mouth, returns in a later episode, “When Strikes the Surfer!" where she has her face restored to normality by Molecule Man.
 
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