History Main / CrosspoppingVeins

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* ''Manga/{{Akumetsu}}'' has this show up from time to time as part of the MoodWhiplash.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' uses this frequently, especially with regards to Yukari-sensei and Tomo-chan.

* ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': Cross veins appear on Miki's forehead and all around her in the background when she gets angry at Love for laughing at her tissue whiskers.

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': Even robots get these, and they appear sometimes on the hair of human characters. Nagi gains a cross popping vein in the pool game episode and when leaving, it falls off her head. [[GagSeries ...?]]
* In ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure'', two appear on Kabaton's head when he insists to the Cures that he will eat the toxic mushrooms.
* Ritsuko is prone to this on the anime version of ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]''. Haruka gets one too on the OVA.
* Several characters in ''Manga/KotouraSan'' display these occasionally, usually Haruka or Yuriko.
* Trigger from ''Manga/KuroganeCommunication'' is the grandmaster of these, despite being a ''robot''.
* In ''Literature/LadiesVersusButlers''... You know you are screwed up if you see [[http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8491/dokiladiesversusbutlers.png this.]]

* ''Anime/SoulEater'': Shinigami-sama seems to get these a lot, despite being a skeleton, and therefore [[FridgeLogic lacking veins]].
* In ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', one appears on Lala's forehead when she gets fed up with Hikaru's nonsense.
* Creator/RumikoTakahashi uses them everywhere in her work, especially if its comedic (except in serious fare like ''The Manga/MermaidSaga'' or her horror-oriented ''Rumik World'' one-shots, naturally.) They're even visible through an animal's fur, scales, or feathers, and sometimes a character visibly brushes them off to represent him or her cooling off and taking things in stride.
** In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga, this was the only way to know that [[{{YamatoNadeshiko}} Kasumi]] was angry, which only happened once.

* Characters in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire 2'' have it. Look for it in Highfort... especially with the Princess of Highfort.

* In the ''Izuna'' games, an excite trap will cause this to appear above your head. Excite traps are actually beneficial, though: they raise your attack power by ''pissing you off''.

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' has this with the Arm Muscle minigame. When Bowser's muscle expands the second time, it gets a small Cross Popping Vein. When you max out the muscle (causing Bowser to suddenly heave the ball he was carrying [[spoiler:at Fawful Castle]], pull out the [[spoiler:Giga-Carrot]], etc.), it gets a huge one. The effect goes away after the minigame is over.

* It appears a couple of times in ''VideoGame/Mother3'', inside a red circle that appears above an enemy's head.
** It's also lampshaded at one point. At the beginning of Chapter 4, Wess complains about how Tazmily Village changed, and Fassad replies by saying, "You know, if you keep making the veins on your forehead pop out like that, happiness will only escape you."

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', when you reach the third phase of the fight with Bowser, his Koopa Clown Car has this expression while he attempts to flatten Mario with it.
* The "angry" heart has this in ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach''.

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* This trope appears routinely in ''Webcomic/AptitudeTest''.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' in episode 6 "Truth Seekers" has Millie get one on her arm when grabbing Loona and demanding she reopen the portal to Earth to try and rescue Blizto and Moxxie from D.H.O.R.K.S. agents.
** In the above episode D.H.O.R.K.S. Agent 1 gets one on his forehead in frustration for Blitzo and Moxxie refusing to cooperate in the interrogation.

* Some characters on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' get these occasionally.
** This trope continues on in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.
* Gwen on ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' gets these from time to time.
* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', with Ling Ling, a parody of Pikachu.

* Diana gets these a lot when her step brother Martin annoys her to no end on ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery''
* Birch Small on ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeMe'' gets one of these right in the intro.

* The Ninja on ''WesternAnimation/ShurikenSchool'' get these frequently.
* ''WesternAnimation/StressedEric'': In a rare [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] example, Eric gets these several times an episode.

* This is a common occurrence on ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''.
* Any one of the three spies on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' can get these.

-->-- '''Victor''', ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino''

* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Mimi's Cross Popping Vein actually makes a popping sound, it's funny.
* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' : Shizuo Heiwajima typically has one pop up on his forehead right before he [[HairTriggerTemper loses his temper]] and starts another [[UnstoppableRage rampage]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' uses these rather often, usually due to Luffy being exasperating, especially in the eyes of Zoro or Nami. Creator/FourKidsEntertainment would edit these out of their dub of the series for unknown reasons.
* In one particular scene in ''Manga/MaidSama'', Shizuko sits through a stressful situation looking out the window, completely ignoring everyone... and with a permanent cross popping vein stuck on top of her head.
* Ritsuko is prone to this on the anime version of ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]''. Haruka gets one too on the OVA.
* The Student Council Vice-President in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'' has a ''constant'' one, as part of his FaceOfAThug image.
* In ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'', Rei is the most prone to using them, despite being the meekest member of the cast. These show up sometimes on other characters as well. However, Umino restricts their usage to the more light-hearted and humorous moments; she lets the characters' facial expressions and body language convey their anger during dramatic scenes.
* Several characters in ''Manga/KotouraSan'' display these occasionally, usually Haruka or Yuriko.
* {{Subverted|trope}} by Touko of ''Manga/ServantXService''. She sports a permanent one below her right eye. Chapter 11 of the manga, however, clarifies that it's a stylized birthmark — Touko herself mentions that it's "like a mole".
* In Act 1 of ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', a thick red set show up on angry, temporarily nonverbal cat {{familiar}} Luna as she [[HumanHummingbird rapidly scratches]] her human Usagi's face in retaliation for her upsetting apology kiss.
* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Katsuki Bakugo does this often. To the point sometimes where he uses his explosions to get his point across.
* ''Anime/{{Ojarumaru}}'': These occur frequently during the 1st series. Episodes afterwards use them less frequently to the point of eventually becoming extremely rare.
* In ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', Il Palazzo gets a lot of them in episode 21 when he's jealous of Key's good looks and guitar skills.
* In ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', when Mira opens [[spoiler:Ao's]] packing boxes without the latter's permission during [[FeudEpisode the thirty-first chapter]], and finds an item adressed to her, the latter character yelled, "don't open my things without my permission!" with a few cross-popping veins on the speech bubble.
* ''Anime/MyHime'': Haruka sports them frequently, including during the opening song. Natsuki shows them from time to time, particularly when dealing with Nagi, or in Episode 7, when Mai pushes her head down to better observe Nao.

* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', it's not uncommon for characters to have cross-popping veins when they're upset or angry at another character.

* ''The Founder of Diabolism Q'': Unsurprising for a comedic spinoff of ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', cartoonish cross-shaped veins sometimes pop up to show the characters' irritation. One such example is when Jin Ling tries to solemnly send off a lantern for his deceased parents and suddenly overhears Wei Wuxian mocking the custom for not having any truth to it, triggering the veins and eliciting the teen's anger.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Germany was prone to this whenever Italy spoke Japanese because he ''hated'' it when his love interest spoke his rival's, language. [[spoiler:Until Italy chose them both.]]

* Using the [[BerserkButton provoking move]], Swagger, in all ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games starting from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', causes this animation to appear briefly on the target if it works. Ditto for Rage. And Frustration (at least in Gen III).
** It also occurs in the Safari Zone when the player throws a rock or mud at the Pokémon, angering it.
** The perpetually angry Pokémon Primeape is always depicted with one on its forehead. Its even angrier evolution, Annihilape, has multiple popped veins on its forehead, alongside having ones strong enough to break the bracelets on its arms.
** Mewtwo gains this whenever it launches most of its attacks in the ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium''[=/=]''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' games.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', when you reach the third phase of the fight with Bowser, his Koopa Clown Car has this expression while he attempts to flatten Mario with it.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' has this with the Arm Muscle minigame. When Bowser's muscle expands the second time, it gets a small Cross Popping Vein. When you max out the muscle (causing Bowser to suddenly heave the ball he was carrying [[spoiler:at Fawful Castle]], pull out the [[spoiler:Giga-Carrot]], etc.), it gets a huge one. The effect goes away after the minigame is over.
* In the ''Izuna'' games, an excite trap will cause this to appear above your head. Excite traps are actually beneficial, though: they raise your attack power by ''pissing you off''.

* In many of the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' titles, should you see one of these pop up in a speech bubble, it's an early indication that someone's pissed off.
* It appears a couple of times in ''VideoGame/Mother3'', inside a red circle that appears above an enemy's head.
** It's also lampshaded at one point. At the beginning of Chapter 4, Wess complains about how Tazmily Village changed, and Fassad replies by saying, "You know, if you keep making the veins on your forehead pop out like that, happiness will only escape you."

* In ''VideoGame/HatsuneMikuProjectDIVA F'', when interacting with the Vocaloids in their respective diva rooms, they will show this when they get angry after certain undesirable actions by the player.
* Happens to Moe whenever he is angry in ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'', sometimes even on his ''shell''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', Isaac gets one when he picks up the Roid Rage item.
* In ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy 4'' and ''5'', this trope provides the image for the berserk status effect.

* The ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series has them, to go with the anime-like art style. During cutscenes in some games, characters will often have a cross-popping vein appear on or near their head when they get angry or irritated. The "Fury" status in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoQuest'' is represented by this, which causes affected characters to miss 50% of the time and take double damage.
* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'', anger veins appear over 3D character models in dialogue scenes. Interestingly, they're used in dramatic moments as well and even villains get this.

* Peonie gets some in ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'', [[http://www.exiern.com/?p=1961 here]].
* Used in ''Webcomic/{{Monsterful}}'', mostly by characters that get angry pretty easily, like Lily Osiris or Josh Dinora.
* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'': Along with virtually every other {{animesque}} art device, these are absolutely loved by the strip.

* This trope appears routinely in ''Webcomic/AptitudeTest''.
%%* It's done on the first two "Bus Tour" pages of ''Flying Sparks'': [[http://flyingsparkscomic.com/archive/flying-sparks-the-bus-tour/ #1]] and [[http://flyingsparkscomic.com/archive/flying-sparks-bus-tour-2/ #2]].

* The effect is seen on Ruby of the manga-influenced ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' when she [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/oprah_never_lies finally gets really irritated by the aggravating Dillon]].
* This is often happens to characters in Webcomic/ShotgunShuffle, especially the protagonist.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' uses this to pull off depicting an angry sentient ''[[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-20 magic wand]]''.

* ''Webcomic/ThePrincesssJewels'': As part of the webcomics anime look, cross-popping veins of varying shapes, sizes, and colours appear on various characters in the comic to show their anger.

* Also used in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', where Raimundo uses it, and it extends to cover his entire head.
* This is a common occurrence on ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/StressedEric'': In a rare [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] example, Eric gets these several times an episode.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' season 5 premiere, the villain Starlight Glimmer gets one of these when she tells Twilight to shut up.

* Characters such as Tony from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez'' got one when angry from being treated as a little guy on the first episode.
* The Ninja on ''WesternAnimation/ShurikenSchool'' get these frequently.
* Some characters on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' get these occasionally.
** This trope continues on in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.
* Gwen on ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' gets these from time to time.
* Birch Small on ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeMe'' gets one of these right in the intro.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' has quite a few {{Animesque}} elements, including this one.

* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'': Parodied in the GagDub, in the episode "Happiness Bunny's Revenge", when the [[PunnyName Milfers']] stuffed bunny comes to life to exact revenge on them for punching him.
-->'''Happiness Bunny:''' You've caused me so much pain, it's made an anger-and-despair mark over my head! ''Look at it''!
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' uses this frequently, especially with regards to Yukari-sensei and Tomo-chan.
* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': When the obsessively neat Chiri sports one, it appears in the exact center of her forehead in an utterly symmetrical way.

* ''Anime/SoulEater'': Shinigami-sama seems to get these a lot, despite being a skeleton, and therefore [[FridgeLogic lacking veins]].
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': This appears regularly on the series' various {{Tsundere}}. Most notably, Asakura gets one when faced with Kurt Godel...and it is ''scary''.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': This was lampshaded in a particular episode where Jessie began to rapidly fill the screen with floating Cross Popping Veins, some not even touching her head.

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': It's rare, but does occur in the manga once or twice. This appears more frequently in the anime adaptation.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** [[TheNapoleon Ed Elric]] has no shortage of these. (AARGH WHO ARE YOU CALLING A [[RunningGag TINY LITTLE SHRIMP SO SMALL YOU CAN'T SEE HIM WITHOUT A MICROSCOPE?!!?!]])
** [[HairTriggerTemper Envy]] also gets them fairly often.

* ''Manga/{{Akumetsu}}'' has this show up from time to time as part of the MoodWhiplash.
* In ''LightNovel/LadiesVersusButlers''... You know you are screwed up if you see [[http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8491/dokiladiesversusbutlers.png this.]]
* Sebastian from ''Manga/BlackButler'' gets a few when dealing with the incompetent servants of the Phantomhive household.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' : Shizuo Heiwajima typically has one pop up on his forehead right before he [[HairTriggerTemper loses his temper]] and starts another [[UnstoppableRage rampage]].

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** The perpetually angry Pokémon Primeape is always depicted with one on its forehead.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': This was lampshaded in a particular episode where Jessie began to rapidly fill the screen with floating Cross Popping Veins, some not even touching her head.

* It appears a couple of times in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', inside a red circle that appears above an enemy's head.

* This is a common occurrence on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.