History Main / DeathGlare

** As mentioned above [[TheNthDoctor The Tenth Doctor]] also gave a few of these when he went into TranquilFury mode.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-Looks can kill, especially if you are a subversive or a traitor.-] ]]

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[[caption-width:365:Looks can kill, especially if you are a subversive or a traitor.]]

->"She stopped, because she saw, for the first time in her life, by what sort of look one learns that a man is capable of killing."

* This trope + ScaryShinyGlasses = [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendou Ikari]]. Since his wife's death, he appears to be stuck into a '''permanent death glare''' he only lets up when [[HikaruGenjiPlan he's looking at Rei]].

* SchoolRumble. Eri did this to Harima when he bought her the wrong brand of tea.

* Theresia, a girl of about 12 years old, gives one of [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/berserk-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+03&page=164 the scariest death glares]] of all time to [[{{Berserk}} Guts]]. He is [[{{Badass}} unaffected]].

* A [[{{Dragonball}} Super Saiyan]] is prone to give quite the death glare when pushed too far. Especially [[TheMessiah Goku]] and his eldest son [[BewareTheNiceOnes Gohan]].

* Lawrence, from ''{{SpiceAndWolf}}'', in episode 4 of the second season. While he probably didn´t intend to kill the stranger he rudely bumped into, he gave him a glare that made the much taller and tougher looking guy back off instantly.
* Kenshirou and Raoh from HokutoNoKen, period!

* ThePunisher Max #19. A group of mobsters have just [[TooDumbToLive dug up the remains of Frank Castle's family and filmed themselves pissing on the bones]] in an attempt to get the Punisher angry. Cut to a shot of him watching it on TV in a diner that shows it definitely got him mad.

* The Death Glare is the WeaponOfChoice for the Antichrist in ''TheOmen'', capable of brainwashing or downright scaring people to death. It can also be used by proxy via animal familiars like crows or dogs.

* One story about [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Tywin Lannister]] from ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' is that when one lord repeated a joke about how Tywin was so rich he "must shit gold" at the King's feast, Tywin simply looked at him until the laughter stopped. The lord in question tried to brush it off, but the death glare just kept going until he eventually left rather than deal with it any longer.

* In LordOfLight, Yama's eyes can cause attacking men to drop their weapons and run. Being a MasterSwordsman and the god of death could have something to do with it, though.

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* In ''{{NCIS}}'', Gibbs does this in almost every interrogation.
** His is so powerful you can [[RightBehindMe feel it aimed at the back of your head]].
** Ziva also does a fantastic one near the end of the season five episode "Stakeout."

* With a healthy dose of PapaWolf, Ed Lane of {{Flashpoint}} gave one to a cop who was trying to stop him from reaching Parker and subsequently warn him about the investigator [[spoiler: who appeared to targeting Parker with her questions and trying to pin the blame of the mission on him.]]

* In MassEffect2, after [[WrenchWench Ta]][[IllGirl li]] expounds at length that she's joining back up for [[TheHero Shepard]] and not [[HumansAreBastards Cerberus]], [[TokenMinority Jacob]] tells Tali to go introduce herself to EDI, the ship's onboard AI. Considering AIs are the reason why her people are {{Roma}} [[RecycledInSpace IIIIIN SPAAAAAACE]], she understandably gives Jacob a DeathGlare through the [[LatexSpacesuit helmet]].
* After the internet got to him, [[MarioIsMissing Weegee]] began to do this frequently.

* [[HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna]] does this whenever anyone questions his [[OlderThanTheyLook age]].

* ''TeenTitans'': Raven has a Death Glare that will make you [[BowelBreakingBricks sh* t bricks]].

*** on the other hand... the Hippopotamus kills more people than the Cape Buffalo on a yearly basis so it might just be a tad more dangerous.

** In the animal world, over-exerting one's self often means death. As such, the death glare has become a prominent form of saying "you've overstepped your boundaries" or "back off or die" without the user having to expend the energy to bluff, charge, fight, and/or kill the offender.

* There are a lot of different names for this look. "Death Glare" is just the best-known. My uncle once called it "[[{{Narm}} the hairy eyeball]]".

* I'm not sure if cats have any other way of looking but the death glare. Sure, they might hesitate while you're awake and have access to weapons, but they'll give you the look anyway and bide their time. Then one night, you wake up to her staring at your neck, stalking at your artery, and you can't be sure that if you hadn't woken up she wouldn't have torn your neck apart like the exceptionally expensive furniture you bought because you thought the toys would distract her enough so she wouldn't scratch the furniture. You were wrong in the latter case, how can you be sure about this one? Once she realises you've woken up, she'll give you the ''look'' again. Perpetually. Until she finally succeeds. Evil bastard.
** I suppose this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, because otherwise you appear to be not only paranoid as hell but also afraid of animals that are genuinely harmless (assuming your cat isn't psychotically agressive). The reason cats appear to give humans Death Glares is because ''[[StarfishLanguage that is the way they always look at things]]'' - including you. If they're also opening and closing their eyes slowly when they look at you like that they are actually telling you '''they love you'''.

* This troper's brother has a middle school teacher who is immortal for his death glares. If a student misbehaves, he spends the remainder of the class staring murderously, probably unblinkingly, at him or her, even at the expense of writing on the board turned away from it.

** I suppose this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, because otherwise you appear to be not only paranoid as hell but also afraid of animals that are genuinely harmless (assuming your cat isn't psychotically agressive). The reason cats appear to give humans Death Glares is because ''[[StarfishLanguage that is the way they always look at things]]'' - including you. If they're also opening and closing their eyes slowly when they look at you like that are actually telling you '''they love you'''.

** You seem to be not only paranoid as hell but also afraid of animals that are genuinely harmless (assuming your cat isn't psychotically agressive). The reason cats appear to give humans DeathGlares is because ''[[StarfishLanguage that is the way they always look at things]]'' - including you. If they happen to also be slowly opening and closing their eyes when they look at they like that are actually telling you '''they love you'''.

** You seem to be not only paranoid as hell but also afraid of animals that are genuinely harmless (assuming your cat isn't psychotically agressive). The reason cats appear to give Death Glares to humans because ''[[StarfishLanguage that is the way they always look at things]]''. If they happen to also be slowly opening and closing their eyes when they look at they like that are actually telling you '''they love you'''.

* [[HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna]] does this whenever anyone questions his [[OlderThanTheyLook age]].

** Granny Weatherwax is fond of these, and may use magic to augment them. At one point she and another witch get into a duel that consists of them both performing a Death Glare on the ''sun''. And when someone came close, he got instantly sunburned.

** Apparently the person who posted this example never watched Tennant's run as [[DoctorWho the Doctor]] since Tennant's incarnation gave MANY of these. Perhaps the most frightening of them are in "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" and "Waters of Mars".

->"Fear my >:("
-->--The Captain, RomanticallyApocalyptic

* Clint Eastwood is so famous for his Death Glare that it has its own [[ClintSquint goddamn page.]]

* Meryl Streep in ''Doubt'', about seventy-three times, all terrifying.

* In ''The Optimist'', a retail worker can do nothing but [[http://the-opt.com/?p=40 glare]].