History Main / FingerForcedSmile

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': After a certain event that has a good reason to make both of them sad, Tuuri decides to take things in stride, while Lalli settles for the "being constantly sullen option". While Lalli gets away with it with the other members of the crew, Tuuri won't let it happen on her watch, resulting in forcing him to smile with her fingers.

Compare and contrast HappinessIsMandatory when smiles are forced in an industrialized way with much darker intentions.

* An episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had Neelix try to make Tuvok smile in this way. Tuvok's response was to strangle him to death. Fortunately, it was all a holodeck simulation.

** An '''''extremely''''' dark variation of this occurs in the 2003 commercial for [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights. In the commercial, the icon of that year, The Director, forces a terrified jester to smile by ''impaling two hooks into each of his cheeks'' and then pulling said hooks upwards. The jester's real emotions are made very clear when a close-up shot shows a single tear coming out of his eye. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwol6OZfNas Here's]] the link to the commercial for anyone that's feeling up to watching it.

* Happens to the Mayor of Whoville in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' after his concerns of the microscopic society's safety are dismissed by the councilmen

* In ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'', poor sad little Lucy has to do this to appease her brutal, vicious, physically abusive father.

* In her on going effort to prove [[VillainDecay she's still a fearsome wrestler]], [[CloudCuckoolander space cadet]] Mickie Knuckles forces a smile on the largest opponent she could find at a PGWA event, Miss Rachel.

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** When the EmotionlessGirl companion of the main character wants to get emotions across [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/323/d/1/yin_attempting_to_smile_by_lilith_zer0-d336dxk.jpg she puts her fingers to the corners of her mouth to]] "[[FrozenFace make]]" herself smile. Because of the specific EmotionlessGirl trope appeal, this was considered [[MoeMoe adorable]].

* In ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', when the EmotionlessGirl companion of the main character wants to get emotions across [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/323/d/1/yin_attempting_to_smile_by_lilith_zer0-d336dxk.jpg she puts her fingers to the corners of her mouth to]] "[[FrozenFace make]]" herself smile. This differs from most of the examples because of the specific EmotionlessGirl trope appeal... this was considered [[MoeMoe adorable]] by fans instead. July makes himself smile this way too. It's [[UncannyValley not as cute]]. It is, however, ''hilarious''.

* A character uses their hands to force another character's mouth into a smile. In this case, it's usually done to a character that [[PerpetualFrowner does not smile much if at all]], by a character that desires to see them smile. Or by the Keet cast member to someone who's down.

* In her on going effort to prove [[VillainDecay she's still a fearsome wrestler,]] [[CloudCuckoolander space cadet]] Mickie Knuckles forces a smile on the largest opponent she could find at a PGWA event, Miss Rachel.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, Sylvester comes face to face with an angry bulldog. Sylvester pushes up the corners of his mouth ''and'' his eyebrows to make him happy, but the dog just pushes them back down.

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* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', the Lost Boys are poring over the adult Peter and trying to ascertain if he's really the Pan they once knew. Finally, one of them pushes his mouth into a smile.
--> "''There'' you are, Peter Pan."

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* The official Superman/Batman selfie on {{DC}}'s Instagram account. [[http://instagram.com/p/p9nRF5uUOi/?modal=true Supes is making the Bat smile]].

* A benign example occurs in ''Film/{{Hook}}'', when the Lost Boys are pouring over the adult Peter and trying to ascertain if he's really the Pan they once knew. Finally, one of them pushes his mouth into a smile.

* Inverted in one''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' strip, where Sandra, after smiling all day on a modelling gig, goes on a "smile-free dinner" with Pierre.

* An episode of ''StarTrekVoyager'' had Neelix try to make Tuvok smile in this way. Tuvok's response was to strangle him to death. Fortunately, it was all a holodeck simulation.
* In the opening sequence of ''PunkyBrewster'', Punky makes Henry smile like this.

* A variation occurs in an episode of ''EdEddNEddy'', when Ed puts a wire coat-hanger in his mouth in order to force his mouth into a giant smile.

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* In the second season of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', a flashback shows a young girl who's just become a full-body cyborg after a plane crash. A doctor tries to "help" her smile this way (presumably assuming she hasn't worked out how to smile), but she waves him off (which is the first hint [[spoiler: she's [[TheStoic The Major]] and an even more subtle clue that the boy she's being introduced to's [[FrozenFace Kuze]]]]).

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* The official Superman/Batman selfie on {{DC}}'s Instagram account. [[http://instagram.com/p/p9nRF5uUOi/?modal=true Supes is making the Bat smile]].

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* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': During the song "Gaston", [=LeFou=] tries to make Gaston smile with his fingers and gets PunchedAcrossTheRoom.
* A benign example occurs in ''Film/{{Hook}}'', when the Lost Boys are pouring over the adult Peter and trying to ascertain if he's really the Pan they once knew. Finally, one of them pushes his mouth into a smile.
--> "''There'' you are, Peter Pan."

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* In ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'', poor sad little Lucy has to do this to appease her brutal, vicious, physically abusive father.

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* An episode of ''StarTrekVoyager'' had Neelix try to make Tuvok smile in this way. Tuvok's response was to strangle him to death. Fortunately, it was all a holodeck simulation.
* In the opening sequence of ''PunkyBrewster'', Punky makes Henry smile like this.

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* A variant in one Creator/ShelSilverstein poem -- a giant "[grows] tired of his saggy frown" and hires the narrator and a friend to hold up the corners of his mouth.
-->It sure can be hard work, making someone smile.

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* In her on going effort to prove [[VillainDecay she's still a fearsome wrestler,]] [[CloudCuckoolander space cadet]] Mickie Knuckles forces a smile on the largest opponent she could find at a PGWA event, Miss Rachel.

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* Inverted in one''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' strip, where Sandra, after smiling all day on a modelling gig, goes on a "smile-free dinner" with Pierre.
* In ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'', a lady down the bar buys [[EmoTeen Ike Sanford]] a beer, but he's not allowed to drink it unless he smiles first. When Ike looks puzzled, she [[http://www.skindeepcomic.com/archive/hello-goodbye-7-smile-dammit/ demonstrates 'smiling']] this way.

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* A variation occurs in an episode of ''EdEddNEddy'', when Ed puts a wire coat-hanger in his mouth in order to force his mouth into a giant smile.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, Sylvester comes face to face with an angry bulldog. Sylvester pushes up the corners of his mouth ''and'' his eyebrows to make him happy, but the dog just pushes them back down.