History Main / CheekyMouth

* Most depictions of ''SonicTheHedgehog'' do this. Especially with Knuckles, who is almost never seen any ''other'' way.
** The first 3D Sonic games averted this by placing all the characters mouths dead center. Not surprisingly, it looked unnatural on Sonic characters, and SonicUnleashed actually has Sonic's mouth move to whichever side is facing the camera.
*** They've been doing that since ''Sonic Adventure 2'', although in later games they forgot that it's an awful idea when the camera is dead in front of the character, or when it rotates around the character's head, in which case the mouth awkwardly slides across the face from one cheek to the other.
**** This gets really ridiculous with the "Night of The Werehog" animated short they did. Sonic walks past a mirror, mouth facing camera, but on the mirror, he looks as if he has no mouth at all!

** As a great example of ShownTheirWork, Classic Sonic in SonicGenerations will have the exact same kind of cheek mouth he had since the first game. Modern Sonic will keep the same cheek mouth he had in SonicUnleashed's HD daytime stages.

* Taken UpToEleven sometimes in PennyArcade, where characters' mouths reach past the edge of the face when they shout ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/11/ like, here for instance]]).

* Done on ''TotalDramaIsland''.

** [[ManBitesMan He does often open it all the way,]] giving us two interesting extremes in terms of the [[strike:[[IncrediblyLamePun amouth]]]] amount shown.

* A common occurrence in ''[[Anime/{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokémon]]''.

** ''SonicHeroes'' and the Wii-version of SonicUnleashed averted this by simply not drawing mouths on the character models, though the cutscenes still had them. But the Werehog had one.

This is understandable for animation, as it's a budget saver and makes production go faster. This trope becomes a problem when it spreads to other media, however, specifically comics. Despite the fact this trick is really necessary only in a moving picture medium, a fair number of amateur artists do this, either due to inexperience or [[LazyArtist laziness]] with drawing profiles properly. This tends to be automatically associated with poor artists who are learning by imitating television rather than actual artwork, although that can be [[HandsInPockets hidden badly by simply always doing 3/4 points of view]].

** ''SonicHeroes'' and the Wii-version of SonicUnleashed averted this by simply not drawing mouths on the character models, though the cutscenes still had them.
*** Correction, Day-time Sonic had no mouth. Werehog had one, though it only opened when he, A), lands from nowhere, and lets out a howl at the beginning of the stage, or B), activates Unleashed mode, and acts like he's howling. In the 360-version, he does howl when Unleashed is activated.

* Appears a couple times in both the ''{{Hellsing}}'' OVA and [[Anime/{{Hellsing}} TV series]].

* Referred to as "Flounderface Disorder" in this [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333 Lackadaisy Expressions Tutorial]].

* Referred to as "Flounderface Disorder" [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333 here]].

* Referred to as "flounderface disorder" [[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333 here]], and mocked as it rightly should be.

**** This gets really ridicolous with the "Night of The Werehog" animated short they did. Sonic walks past a mirror, mouth facing camera, but on the mirror, he looks as if he has no mouth at all!

** ''[[UnderStatement "reasonably high animation"]]''?! Episode 15 alone contained over '''''22,000 frames''''' of animation. I can't really understand how this series could hit both ends of the animation production spectrum of quality.

** ''[[UnderStatement "reasonably high animation"]]''?! Episode 15 alone contained over 22,000 frames of animation. I can't really understand how this series could hit both ends of the animation production spectrum of quality.

** ''[[Understatement "reasonably high animation"]]''?! Episode 15 alone contained over 22,000 frames of animation. I can't really understand how this series could hit both ends of the animation production spectrum of quality.

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