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* ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' features The Face as its DiscOneFinalBoss, along with other floating variants like Shy Boy and [[NestedMouths I.M. Phace]]. His other variants don't play this straight, however; Leggsy [[WaddlingHead runs on normal human legs]] connected to its lower jaw, while [[OptionalBoss Hannya and Black Okame]] simply drag themselves along the ground.

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* ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' features The Face Face, a floating head, as its DiscOneFinalBoss, WarmUpBoss, along with other floating variants like Shy Boy and [[NestedMouths I.M. Phace]]. His other variants don't play this straight, however; Leggsy Dashing Face and Dead Donny Dash [[WaddlingHead runs run on normal human legs]] connected to its their lower jaw, jaws, while [[OptionalBoss Hannya and Black Okame]] simply drag themselves along the ground.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Inkulinati}}'': In contrast to their more complete counterparts, Head Exploders are simplistic floating heads, while Trumpet-Playing Skeletons are nothing more than a floating skull and hand. They're counted as flying units as a result.
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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015'': Talon becomes this in some scenes of the episode ''What Is... [[Film/TheMatrix The MADtrix]]?''

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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015'': Talon becomes this in some scenes of the episode ''What ''[[Film/TheMatrix What Is... [[Film/TheMatrix The MADtrix]]?''MADtrix?]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015'': Talon becomes this in some scenes of the episode ''What Is... [[Film/TheMatrix The MADtrix]]?''

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* ''Manhwa/JackFrost'' features Arvid, the Blood Pirate, a vampire that sprouted leathery wings from his EyepatchOfPower and flew away when all that was left from him was his head.


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* ''Manhwa/JackFrost'' features Arvid, the Blood Pirate, a vampire that sprouted leathery wings from his EyepatchOfPower and flew away when all that was left from him was his head.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Ghostlore}}'', being based on South-East Asian mythology, naturally features the Indonesian ''penanggalan'' cryptid as a recurring enemy, dangling entrails included.
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* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Chenya's unnamed unique magic allows him to render himself partially invisible, which he uses to appear as a floating head.
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* In ''Literature/TheArtOfArrowCutting'', Mage is attacked by a Japanese ''bakemono'', which consists of a disembodied head and set of hands. He defeats it by pinning the head to the floor through its ears with a knife.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': Andross, the BigBad of most games, usually appears as a flying [[ManiacMonkeys primate]] head paired with disembodied hands. In ''[[VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures Adventures]]'', his natural face is fused with the face of a Krazoa Statue, meaning that both sides of his body (front and back) have a face each.

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* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': ''Franchise/StarFox'': Andross, the BigBad of most games, usually appears as a flying [[ManiacMonkeys primate]] head paired with disembodied hands. In ''[[VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures Adventures]]'', his natural face is fused with the face of a Krazoa Statue, meaning that both sides of his body (front and back) have a face each.
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* ''VideoGame/SeventySevenPEggwife'' have the giant yellow faces that flies everywhere, popular enough to show up on most of the game's promotional materials.

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** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' has Skull Balls that take multiple hits to kill, but are worth such good experience that people would spend hours grinding on them.

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*** Bubbles are flying skulls that
that take multiple hits to kill, but are worth such good experience that people would spend hours grinding on them.them.
*** Maus are wolf and dragon heads that fly around without the rest of the body attached.
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* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' has an ability called ''Summon Raging Spirits'' which are ghostly skulls that attack your enemies until they expire after a short time.
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* ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' features The Face as its DiscOneFinalBoss, along with other floating variants like Shy Boy and [[NestedMouths I.M. Phace]]. His other variants don't play this straight, however; Leggsy [[WaddlingHead runs on normal human legs]] connected to its lower jaw, while [[BonusBoss Hannya and Black Okame]] simply drag themselves along the ground.

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* ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' features The Face as its DiscOneFinalBoss, along with other floating variants like Shy Boy and [[NestedMouths I.M. Phace]]. His other variants don't play this straight, however; Leggsy [[WaddlingHead runs on normal human legs]] connected to its lower jaw, while [[BonusBoss [[OptionalBoss Hannya and Black Okame]] simply drag themselves along the ground.
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* ''VideoGame/NightOfThePenanggalan'' is a horror game set in Indonesia where you're a reporter investigating a ''penanggalan'' - an Indonesian cryptid resembling a flying decapitated head (see the Myth folder) - allegedly haunting a Jakarta apartment. After spending most of the game interviewing residents and searching for clues only to come up empty-handed, you're ready to dismiss the ''penanggalan'' as a hoax [[spoiler:until it suddenly reveals itself at you near the end in a JumpScare]].

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* ''VideoGame/NightOfThePenanggalan'' ''VideoGame/TheNightOfThePenanggalan'' is a horror game set in Indonesia where you're a reporter investigating a ''penanggalan'' - an Indonesian cryptid resembling a flying decapitated head (see the Myth folder) - allegedly haunting a Jakarta apartment. After spending most of the game interviewing residents and searching for clues only to come up empty-handed, you're ready to dismiss the ''penanggalan'' as a hoax [[spoiler:until it suddenly reveals itself at you near the end in a JumpScare]].
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* ''videoGame/RedAlert3''' Giga-Fortress starts as a superheavy naval unit, but can transform into a demonic-looking flying robot head with a BreathWeapon that outranges any and all siege weapons.
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* ''VideoGame/NightOfThePenanggalan'' is a horror game set in Indonesia where you're a reporter investigating a ''penanggalan'' - an Indonesian cryptid resembling a flying decapitated head (see the Myth folder) - allegedly haunting a Jakarta apartment. After spending most of the game interviewing residents and searching for clues only to come up empty-handed, you're ready to dismiss the ''penanggalan'' as a hoax [[spoiler:until it suddenly reveals itself at you near the end in a JumpScare]].
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* ''videoGame/RedAlert3''' Giga-Fortress starts as a superheavy naval unit, but can transform into a demonic-looking flying robot head with a BreathWeapon that outranges any and all siege weapons.
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* ''Literature/MaxAndTheMidknightsBattleOfTheBodkins'': Late in the book, Mumblin' the Wizard appears to Max as just his floating head. He has Max toss a pill into his mouth to get the rest of his body to appear.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The season 2 premiere has [[NumberTwo Commander Ransom]] get hit with "strange energies" and [[AGodAmI declares himself a god]]; he eventually gets so pissed off at Mariner and Captain Freeman he turns into a giant floating head and attacks the ''Cerritos'' in orbit, even biting it! He's only thwarted when Mariner repeatedly subjects him to a GroinAttack and Dr. T'ana squashes his body under a large boulder.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The season 2 premiere premiere, "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E01StrangeEnergies Strange Energies]]", has [[NumberTwo Commander Ransom]] get hit with "strange energies" and [[AGodAmI declares himself a god]]; he eventually gets so pissed off at Mariner and Captain Freeman he turns into a giant floating head and attacks the ''Cerritos'' in orbit, even biting it! He's only thwarted when Mariner repeatedly subjects him to a GroinAttack and Dr. T'ana squashes his body under a large boulder.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Khert fires cause all kinds of temporary anomalies, including at one point a bunch of flying/floating haunted skulls ringed in the cold blue fire.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Khert fires cause all kinds of temporary anomalies, including at one point a bunch of flying/floating [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch14/ch14_96.html flying haunted skulls ringed wreathed in the cold blue fire. fire.]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Khert fires cause all kinds of temporary anomalies, including at one point a bunch of flying/floating haunted skulls ringed in the cold blue fire.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The season 2 premiere has [[NumberTwo Commander Ransom]] get hit with "strange energies" and [[AGodAmI declares himself a god]]; he eventually gets so pissed off at Mariner and Captain Freeman he turns into a giant floating head and attacks the ''Cerritos'' in orbit, even biting it! He's only thwarted when Mariner repeatedly subjects him to a GroinAttack and Dr. T'ana squashes his body under a large boulder.
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* ''VideoGame/AmidEvil'' has two of these. Fire Visages are fire-breathing statue heads that fly around the [[TempleOfDoom Sacred Path]]. Umbers are skull-faced spheres that float around in [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon the Void]] and bombard you with MagicMissileStorm attacks.
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* ''VideoGame/YokaiHunterShintaro'' have a Sōgenbi, a Yokai resembling a floating, gigantic severed head surrounded by flames as one of it's bosses.
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* ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'': Possessed samurai heads are a recurring enemy, who attacks the players with a supernaturally-charged [[UseYourHead headbutt]] owing to the sharp ornament on their helms.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' has the floating gorgon heads that haunt Asphodel. There is also a MiniBoss variant, and a friendly variant in Dusa, the maid of the House of Hades (she uses the snakes in her hair to operate objects). Speaking to Dusa implies she may be ''the'' Medusa and thus the MonsterProgenitor of all the floating gorgon heads, but either way they're a touchy subject to her.

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