History Main / DeathGlare

** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012'', Thor gives one to Loki after the latter [[spoiler:kills Coulson.]]

* ''Film/{{Thor}}'': Loki stares menacingly at Sif in the throne room while he leans slightly forward in her direction. His eyes and body language seem to say, "I ''dare'' you to talk back to your king."

* Creator/LeeVanCleef usually wore a perpetual sneer while playing villains that was enhanced by his narrow eyes and hawkish face. He also employed it to great effect in his rare heroic roles, most notably ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', where he combined his usual glare with a look of grief and rage in the final duel that had the BigBad quickly go from cocky to terrified-- and [[ItsPersonal for damned good reason]].

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!!Examples:

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* In the first ''Series/BlueCollarComedy Tour'' film, Creator/BillEngvall recalls how he met Lucy, a goth friend of his daughter. He accidentally calls her "Lucy...fer", and was promptly given one of these.
-->'''Engvall:''' She looked at me like, "I will set you ablaze right now."
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* ''VisualNovel/{{Grisaia No Kajitsu}}'': Protagonist Yuuji tends to show off these involuntary when his thoughts revolve around darker subject matters, or when the situation gets serious. We only get to see it on Makina's route when [[spoiler:he gets fed up with Irisu Kiyoka's scheming and holds her at gunpoint, deliberatig wheter to kill her]].

-->Katherine: "[[YourCheatingHeart If you're going to make excuses]], [[SchmuckBait you could at least look me in the eye]]."
-->''*ScareChord*''

* Damon Gant's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTgOhzVddw Epic Stare of Death]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' is the embodiment of this trope.
** There was a flash parody which took Gant's sprite from the game, and used the audio from the above-mentioned Death Glare scene from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}.''
** Miles Edgeworth from the same games is legendary for this.
** And very proud, too. At one point, when he [[spoiler:breaks one of his first Psyche-Locks,]] he is wondering whether it was the power of his glare that broke it. Also he is capable of ''glaring back'' at the detention center ''camera''.
--->''Edgeworth:'' "If someone glares at you, it's only polite to return the favor," is what I was taught.
** And in case I-4, he accidentally glares at his reflection. [[MindScrew He wins]].

* Comicbook/GhostRider's Penance Stare is a ''literal'' death glare. Backed up by being forced to feel every sin you've ever committed all at once. Its effects can range from 'emotional devastation' to 'dead on the spot from agony,' with the one caveat that people without the ''emotional capacity'' to feel guilt for anything or anyone are unaffected.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': The look Dom gives Brian during the UndercoverCopReveal. Brian is clearly very nervous under the glare.

* In the ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' series, the witch Senna Wales often uses these, to good effect; no outburst ever intimidates the others the way a flat stare from her GrayEyes does. Her confrontations with her half-sister([[SiblingYinYang the two hate each other]]) often consist of April being passionately, furiously angry, and Senna staring back all cold and contemptuously. Christopher states that Senna's glare says, "I'll crush you in my own good time."

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** In the WhamEpisode "Mirror Gem", Garnet gives one of the most terrifying death glares to [[spoiler:Steven after he accidentally hits her face when she tried to take Lapis Lazuli's mirror.]]
** Pearl also gives one to Steven when he tries to chase after her in "Rose's Scabbard".

** "Now We're Only Falling Apart" has [[spoiler:Pink Diamond giving a chilling one as she transforms into Rose Quartz, after having her pleads to the other Diamonds to spare the Earth get brushed off one too many times.]]

-->'''Whirl:''' Word of advice, when my eye does ''this'', clear the area.

--->Asuka’s glare went from an intensity of ‘targeting radar on a modern destroyer’ to ‘capable of getting into a beam duel with Ramiel’ in about two seconds, and Shinji wisely decided that an exit strategy, namely running for all he was worth, was in order.

* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''

--> He'd perfected his wolf stare over the last few months - a look that said: ''However bad you think you are, I'm worse''.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

--->''"The chill radiated off him. The lines of his face locked like a statue."''
** In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'' after Vimes frightens the ambassador of a hostile state into pulling his/their armies back till they're practically in the next country:

** A favourite weapon of Keldas to keep the Nac Mac Feegle in line, to the point where the mere thought of it can terrify them.
** Dios of ''{{Discworld/Pyramids}}'' has one that's so effective people are honestly surprised that he doesn't have EyeBeams. When looking for an escaped prisoner, one finds oneself looking for lines of molten rock as he scans the room and walls.

-->For only last night, as they whispered, I brought
-->My own eyes to bear on her so, that I thought
-->Could I keep them one half minute fixed, she would fall
-->Shrivelled

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

[[folder:Theatre]]

--> ...but now mine eyes,
--> Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,
--> Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes
--> That can do hurt.

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* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'':
** Lydia looks at Lizzie this way when she learns that she did not invite her to accompany her outside and that she -- Lydia -- is not going to have dinner at Netherfield house.
** William Darcy death-glares at Lizzie [[spoiler:at the end when they got together]] when she keeps taking photographs of him at dinner with Lydia, Charlotte and Ricky Collins. It appeared on twitter accompanying the web series.

* [=Laina622=] does this in her stalking song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0AhrY9GjA&feature=channel&list=UL videos]]. Talk about {{Yandere}}.
* Mithiriel from ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' takes the Death Glare to Fluttershy levels. And she's more assertive in general, so Ithalond is something of a HenpeckedHusband.

'''TOMBSTONE''': THE BABY

** It's actually a plot element in "Stare Master". Fluttershy is somewhat renowned for this ability of hers, but she cannot control it. It may sound funny, but the Stare seems to possess nigh-hypnotic properties, able to break the will of any creature meeting it. This ranges from [[MundaneUtility rounding up some disobedient chickens]] to [[spoiler: staring down a cockatrice, [[TakenForGranite a creature with the power of turning living beings to stone with a glare]], until it folds and gives life back to its victims. That's right, Fluttershy's Death Glare reduced into submission a monster with an actual MagicalEye.]]

** ''Then'' there's the look Princess Celestia gives [[spoiler: [[BigBad Chrysalis]], [[VileVillainSaccharineShow the]] [[EmotionEater Changeling]] [[{{Shapeshifter}} Queen]]]] in "A Canterlot Wedding" shortly before [[spoiler: trying to ''fry her'' with [[FrickinLaserBeams a magical beam]].]] (Celestia is [[MamaBear like a mother]] to all her subjects.)
** In "Swarm of the Century" when the ponies have conveniently dealt with the problem at hand a solid [[SpoiledByTheFormat ten minutes earlier than usual]], only to learn [[FriendToAllLivingThings Fluttershy]] couldn't help but keep one of the ''rapidly multiplying Parasprites'' for herself. Cue epic death glares from Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, and Rarity.

** In "No Second Prances," Applejack gave Starlight Glimmer ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' death glares in a row after Starlight used her magic to turn Big Macintosh into a MotorMouth.
** The best one would probably be in the Season 6 finale, "To Where and Back Again", as [[spoiler: after Queen Chrysalis erupts from the ruins of her destroyed AntiMagic throne, ready to fight with her horn flaring and a murderous hiss in her throat, her anger [[OhCrap quickly changes to fear]] when she sees what awaited her: All of her cocooned victims, including the Royal Family, the Elements of Harmony, the Master of Chaos, and Trixie, are free of their prisons, their magic fully accessible again, and joined by her [[HeelRaceTurn reformed Swarm]] and their new King, Thorax, they all are giving her various looks of the utmost anger and fury over what she's put them through in the last few hours, if not days, just for her {{Revenge}} for the Royal Wedding defeat. Even [[BadassAdorable Baby Flurry Heart]] looks outright angry at Chrysalis for what she's done.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons:''

Yeah, you really ''should'' BewareTheNiceOnes (or [[BewareTheQuietOnes the quiet ones]]).

* Jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman would often glare at other band-members while playing a song, and would continue staring for minutes on end while they played the rest of the tune. It was infamously known as "The Ray".