History Main / DeathGlare

* The singing group Music/{{Heart}} had one implied for a cheating lover in an appropriately named song called "[[MeaningfulName If Looks Could Kill]]".

-->[-[[UpToEleven Suppose two characters Death Glare each other?]] Best you get out of there quick!-]

** Also, in older pieces of fluff, Guardsman Ollanius Pius, whom Horus killed with a mere glance for attempting to stand between him and the Emperor. Later editions {{Ret Con}}ned it to a Space Marine Terminator and then an Adeptus Custodes which are progressively [[EliteMooks Eliter Mooks]] to enhance the Death intensity implied by the Glare. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Many fans were upset]] at the changes' subsequent reduction of [[MoralEventHorizon Horus' sheer inhumanity of easily killing a mere human being]] and removal of Pius' understated bravery to [[UnderequippedCharge go and stand before what is essentially a demigod about to kill another demigod]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': During her clash with Neo in "No Brakes", Yang's expression is locked into this. Quite uncharacteristic of her considering how she's HotBlooded.

-->'''Bruce:''' They're dead! You killed them...you killed my mother and father...\\

** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl vol. 5]] # 58'', a security guard is ogling to Cat Grant's butt. Then Supergirl leans over and ''glares''. He starts and falls backwards.
** Minutes later she's interrogating villain Toyman about several missing children, but he claims that he has done nothing wrong and tries to balk at answering her questions. [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JZipsOI/AAAAAAAABbc/aYbRRe9hoz4/s400/Supergirl-58-05.jpg Kara glares at him]] and a second later she [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg slams him into the wall and urges him to cooperate as her eyes glow red]].

** Scrooge [=McDuck=] has the most terrifying [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] scowl, memorably seen when he tore a steamboat apart. The glare is shown on pictures hung around walls in his employees' offices, as a reminder he's not to be trifled with. His nephew Donald has also used this ability.

* In the Website/QuestDen adventure ''Shards'', protagonist Chi [[https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1009742+50.html#1017945 gives an epic one]] to the fake diplomat in response to a racial-based insult. It makes everyone around her flinch.

* [=Laina622=] does this in her stalking song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0AhrY9GjA&feature=channel&list=UL videos]]. Talk about {{Yandere}}.

* WebVideo/DeckerShado's review of ''Film/GameraVsGyaos'' sees Creator/ThatLongHairedCreepyGuy, an LGBT man, give one after Decker comments that the version they're reviewing spells the latter titular monster's name as [[UnfortunateNames "Gaes"]].

-->'''Don Bluth:''' Hey, do I need to do a DeathGlare again?\\

** Domestic dogs also do this sometimes to their owners, especially when they're upset over something said owners have done (forgetting to feed them, taking them to the vet, etc). Huskies in particular have been known to give out ''epic'' {{Death Glare}}s.

** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she does this constantly because she is constantly angry because of her Red Lantern Ring. At the beginning of the story [[http://abload.de/img/supergirl28-2lvkbh.jpg she glares at Lobo as she tells she's done with users]]... and with him, and ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'' -- an inter-galactic bounty hunter and mass murderer -- gets scared and tries to calm her down.

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->[[UpToEleven Suppose two characters Death Glare each other?]] Best you get out of there quick!

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', our Man of Steel visits Lex Luthor in prison and implores him to put "that mind of [his]" to the good use of mankind, rather than insane schemes to kill Superman. What does Luthor do? Walks up the glass wall separating the two of them and hocks the mother of all lugies on it and just ''stares'' at Superman. [[BadassBoast Yikes]].
** Hell, once Superman was able to make [[RealityWarper Mxyzptlk]] go back to his own dimension just by giving him the look.
** Often, Superman uses this look in concert with his heat vision, giving him [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' is just as good-natured as her cousin, but being a teenager, she is more fierce and more short-tempered than Superman. If she is giving you one of these -often accompanied with glowing red eyes-, then you have pissed her off for real, and your last resort is ''praying''.
** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Supergirl vol. 5]] # 58'', a security guard is ogling to Cat Grant's butt. Then Supergirl leans over and ''glares''. He starts and falls backwards.
** Minutes later she's interrogating villain Toyman about several missing children, but he claims that he has done nothing wrong and tries to balk at answering her questions. [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JZipsOI/AAAAAAAABbc/aYbRRe9hoz4/s400/Supergirl-58-05.jpg Kara glares at him]] and a second later she [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0ELZ9b065w8/TOL0JnqNpWI/AAAAAAAABbk/OyOnrRfJ0Ts/s400/Supergirl-58-06.jpg slams him into the wall and urges him to cooperate as her eyes glow red]].
** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she does this constantly because she is constantly angry because of her Red Lantern Ring. At the beginning of the story [[http://abload.de/img/supergirl28-2lvkbh.jpg she glares at Lobo as she tells she's done with users]]... and with him, and ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'' -an inter-galactic bounty hunter and mass murderer- gets scared and tries to calm her down.
** ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Kara's glare after finding out that [[spoiler:Lex Luthor murdered her cousin]] is... scary.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': The same applies to Miyamoto Usagi.
** Apparantly, Tomoe Ame is good at giving out death glares too.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' album ''Asterix in Corsica'', this is a talent shared by every Corsican male, and they're not shy about using it on pesky foreigners.
-->'''Corsican:''' You can't tell the difference between a wild pig and a Corsican clan leader?\\
'''Obelix:''' I don't know, I've never eaten Corsican leader and please stop looking at me like that, it's giving me a headache.
* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. The Saint of Killers' glare goes right past scary and into BringMyBrownPants territory:
-->'''Cassidy:''' ''(re: Jessie)'' If that were me, I'd be turning them white jeans brown.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' #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.
** Hell, it's easier to point out when Frank Castle is NOT giving one of these. He's really not that big on talking to lowlife scum...

* Dwight [=McCarthy=] caught a death glare from Miho in ''[[ComicBook/SinCity Sin City: The Big Fat Kill]]''. He was trying to stop her from torturing Jackie Boy to death (to give a good idea as to how brutal she was being). Once she gave him the look, he took a step back. Scaring a guy like Dwight is no easy task.
* ComicBook/TheSandman is also very good at the Death Glare. It probably helps that a) he can look like anything he wants, and b) his eyes usually look like bottomless holes of night. [[RedEyesTakeWarning Which turn red when he's angry]].

* This is ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s default setting.

* Talia from ''ComicBook/BrodysGhost'' is particularly skilled at making these. [[spoiler:played for drama when Brody confronts her over all her lies, and she gives him an especially intense death glare while admitting to everything.]] Brody also tends to make this kind of face if someone really crosses a line with him.
* Dani Moonstar of the ComicBook/NewMutants acquires a literal Death Glare when she is adopted as a Valkyrie. She manages to terrify a hall full of Asgardian warriors, who recognize the Valkyries as harbingers of death, by staring and telling them to mind their own business.

* ''ComicBook/EnemyAce'': In the backup story in ''Men of War'' #1, Von Hammer is confronted by a shell-shocked pilot wielding a pistol who blames him for the deaths of the other men in his squad. Unarmed, Von Hammer just stands there staring at him, unmoving. His gaze is so intense that the pilot's aim wavers and then he breaks: the pistol going going off and missing Von Hammer and shattering the goggles he is holding in his hand.
* Maria in ''ComicBook/{{Barracuda}}'' possesses an extremely intense one. When she strips off her gown at the SlaveMarket and stands naked on the auction block before the crowd, she manages--without saying a word--to cow the audience so much that they fall silent and make none of the catcalls or lewd comments they made when her mother suffered her ShamefulStrip.

* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', kindred with Presence learn this at level 2. Higher level versions are even more potent. Then again, all vampires come off as the predators they are to mortals, making this sometimes unintentional.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has the Fearsome Stare perk that lets you make Intimidation checks without saying a word.
* In Aye, Dark Overlord any player who fails to convince the Dark Overlord that he/she is not responsible for the failed mission ([[BlameGame by shifting the blame to another player]]) receives a Withering Look. Three Withering Looks and [[YouHaveFailedMe you are out of the game]].
* In the 1951 French board game ''Long Cours'', the first two combat cards, by ascending order of power,[[note]]which is the same order they must be played during a battle[[/note]] are respectively "a mean look" and "a terrible look". Fittingly, the next two involve giving the offender black eyes.

* As the title character in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Creator/DavidTennant delivers the Death Glare to Claudius several times, and at least once to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

* In the filmed version of ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', the Witch delivers a quite hilarious and ''frightening'' one to the Baker.
* A particularly terrifying one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqG7iDCxgqc this version of]] ''Theatre/TheMikado'', especially since it appears to be [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou directed at the audience.]]
* In the 2012 arena tour version of ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'', Annas shoots a truly murderous one at Judas after he strikes Caiaphas and makes him bleed.

** In TheSeventies, this TV theatre made a number of political docu-dramas on behalf of ongoing activism in Norway - and the trope was used in full by [[MamaBear five mothers with carriages]], guarding a threatened turf in Oslo from "development interests". A man trying to park his car is calmly stared down by the five women for almost sixty seconds, and decides to leave without discussion. CMOA if ever there was one.
* An amusing one happens in ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'', when Gomez and Morticia discuss Wednesday's new boyfriend and Morticia isn't sure if Wednesday is ready for a serious relationship.
-->'''Gomez:''' Wednesday is turning into a lovely young woman, just like you were.\\
''[Morticia sharply glares at him]''\\
'''Gomez:''' ''Are!'' Like you ''are''.\\
''[proceeds to fawn over her while she gives a "That's what I thought" nod]''

* In ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'', Tomoya gives one to a couple of creeps trying to hit on Nagisa that Mei has attracted to the bakery.
* Tohsaka Rin of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Do NOT, just do NOT get her angry. Be prepared to be killed, er, I mean, amazed.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Tohno Shiki is usually quite gentle, doesn't particularly enjoy fighting and absolutely despises killing. However, if something truly angers him, TheGlassesComeOff, and his glare has more often than not completely terrified his foes. Of course, his {{Magical Eye}}s help. In the ''Melty Blood'' manga, the majority of his expressions can be summed up into three categories: Exasperation, shock and [[http://www.onemanga.com/Melty_Blood/12/23/ tranquil]] [[http://www.onemanga.com/Melty_Blood/11/21/ fury]]. It should be noted that he hasn't gone Nanaya at all since the first game, so his terrifying glare is limited mostly to his [[BewareTheNiceOnes normal persona]].

* Miyako from the ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' series may have '''''the''''' most [[http://i.imgur.com/vQyLTzj.png terrifying glare]] in all of fiction.
* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': 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, deliberating whether to kill her]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': During her clash with Neo in "No Brakes", Yang's expression is locked into this. Quite uncharacteristic of her considering how she's HotBlooded.
* Gilda the chicken in ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfAllRealms'' has a glare so intense she was able to light a barrel on fire with it.
* In ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'', Baseball gives a downright ''[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/inanimateinsanity/images/4/40/S2_e12_glare.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180729183325 evil]]'' one at Suitcase in the episode "Alternate Reality Show", due to the fact that [[spoiler: she destroyed his alliance with him, her, and Nickel via voting Nickel, his best friend no less, off last episode.]]
* Early in ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'', when Huey utterly fails at his job of keeping Kitty's pumpkin patch free of birds and weeds, Kitty gives Huey a look of such fury that he bolts immediately.

* [=Laina622=] does this in her stalking song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0AhrY9GjA&feature=channel&list=UL videos]]. Talk about {{Yandere}}.

* ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'': In one episode of Show of the Weekend on the ''Xtra'' side channel, Luke Westaway has to justify the AnachronismStew nature of ''VideoGame/ForHonor'' while suffering under this kind of look from Andy Farrant, who gets ''really upset'' at historical inaccuracy.

** Scrooge [=McDuck=] has the most terrifying [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] scowl, memorably seen when he tore a steamboat apart. The glare is shown on pictures hung around walls in his employees' offices, as a reminder he's not to be trifled with. His [[DonaldDuck nephew]] has also used this ability.

* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' is just as good-natured as her cousin, but being a teenager, she is more fierce and more short-tempered than Superman. If she is giving you one of these -often accompanied with glowing red eyes-, then you have pissed her off for real, and your last resort is ''praying''.

** In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' she does this constantly because she is constantly angry because of her Red Lantern Ring. At the beginning of the story [[http://abload.de/img/supergirl28-2lvkbh.jpg she glares at Lobo as she tells she's done with users]]... and with him, and ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'' -an inter-galactic bounty hunter and mass murderer- gets scared and tries to calm her down.

* Miyako from the ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai!'' series may have '''''the''''' most [[http://i.imgur.com/vQyLTzj.png terrifying glare]] in all of fiction.

* The Transformer Owl, at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-GFZ4bdSiQ Here's]].

* ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaNoKajitsu'': 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, deliberating whether to kill her]].

* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' is just as good-natured as her cousin, but being a teenager, she is more fierce and more short-tempered than Superman. If she is giving you one of these -often accompanied with glowing red eyes-, then you have pissed her off for real, and you last resort is ''praying''.

* 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.