History Main / FlyingFace

* Zelda from the old TV HorrorHost Svengoolie, and Tombstone from his successor Son of Svengoolie (which is now just called Svengoolie).

* CatFace is essentially a giant floating cat head. He has a body but it is extremely small and atrophied and just hangs underneath limply

* Several games from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series have flying skulls as enemies.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series, recurring villainess [[TheVamp Carmilla]]'s OneWingedAngel form is that of a gigantic, [[BarbieDollAnatomy naked]] woman riding an equally oversized skull that cries [[TearsOfBlood bloody tears]] (as a VisualPun for her theme, "Bloody Tears"). Other examples periodically show up in this series, such as [[TheGrimReaper Death]]'s [[OneWingedAngel OWA]] in [[CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse the third game]].

* [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Lokar]]/[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Dai]] {{Satan}}.

* The ever-annoying flying heads in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia 2: The Shadow and the Flame''.

* Skull or Core with a less real body: Such as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] or [[BlobMonster slime]] with an ectoplasmic body and a bony skull or a robot with a core and a bunch of wires.

* [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Lokar]]/[[KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Dai]] {{Satan}}.

* In ''BlackRockShooter'', Dead Master fights using flying skulls.

* ''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.

* ''Face Raiders'', an augmented reality game built into the 3DS involves being attacked by a number of flying heads with the faces of anyone you've photographed.

* Zelda from the old TV Horror Host Svengoolie, and Tombstone from his successor Son of Svengoolie (which is now just called Svengoolie).

* [[DemBones Flying skull]] or [[RobotBuddy Robot]]: usually some form of AttackDrone but occasionally more powerful than a similar character with a full body.

Sometimes these {{Flying Face}}s are nice, sometimes noisy {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, often [[ShorterMeansSmarter intelligent]], and sometimes they don't talk.

* MazingerZ villain Count Broken is a flying head with a headless android body... that just follows it around. He never attaches the head to his body; in fact sometimes he carries the head under his arm.
* HellTeacherNube - One of the {{Obake}} the titular Nube runs into is a human head with bat wings.

* The Bowler, In ''MysteryMen'', has her father's skull embedded in her weapon, a bowling ball. She talks to it, and it, apparently, to her. It saves the day.
* ''{{Zardoz}}'': The title character [[spoiler:which is actually a vehicle]]

* ''{{Dinotopia}}'': Fritz the robot.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'':

* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Skull probes.
* One of the monsters in the ''{{Munchkin}}'' card game has a ''Mortal Kom Bat'': a flaming skull with bat wings.

* Morte from ''PlanescapeTorment'' and the mimirs.

* Ghosts in ''SepterraCore'' are huge, ghostly floating skulls. Their damage reduction and magic attacks make them DemonicSpiders
* The Sargassoes of ''DevilMayCry'', appearing in the first two games as recurring enemies.
* In the ''{{Castlevania}}'' series, recurring villainess [[TheVamp Carmilla]]'s OneWingedAngel form is that of a gigantic, [[BarbieDollAnatomy naked]] woman riding an equally oversized skull that cries [[TearsOfBlood bloody tears]] (as a VisualPun for her theme, "Bloody Tears"). Other examples periodically show up in this series, such as [[TheGrimReaper Death]]'s [[OneWingedAngel OWA]] in [[CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse the third game]].

* The ever-annoying flying heads in ''PrinceOfPersia 2: The Shadow and the Flame''.

* ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': One episode had the smuggling of [[IncrediblyLamePun Warhead]] {{Attack Drone}}s.
* ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'': Somewhere between this and FloatingMask is a Flying Pizza monster.
* ''PhineasAndFerb'': The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Giant Floating Baby Head]], which is more of a recurring phenomenon than a character.
* Megatron spends most of the second season of ''BeastMachines'' as an absolutely ''enormous'' airborne head-fortress.

* Some ''{{Pokemon}}'', like Glalie (which is even classified as the "Face Pokémon") and Cryogonal.

A fictional character or creature that is just a head (as opposed to a WaddlingHead or someone who's recently [[LosingYourHead lost their head]]) that can also fly, hover, or just get around under its own power.

Comes in a few artistically styles
* [[DemBones Flying skull]] or [[RobotBuddy Robot]]: usually some form of AttackDrone but occasionally more powerful than a similar character with a full body.
* FloatingMask: sometimes causes DemonicPossession.

Sometimes these {{Flying Face}}s are nice, sometimes noisy {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, often [[ShorterMeansSmarter intelligent]], and sometimes they don't talk.

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!!Examples:

[[AC: {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Yuurei Shoujo of ''Anime/{{Gate Keepers 21}}'' with her "pretty" skull-in-a-ball.

[[AC: {{Film}}]]

[[AC: LiveActionTelevision]]
* Zelda from the old TV Horror Host Svengoolie, and Tombstone from his successor Son of Svengoolie (which is now just called Svengoolie).

[[AC: TabletopGames]]
* ''DungeonsAndDragons'':

** The ''ForgottenRealms'' setting has Skullport, an underground city ruled by flying, spellcasting skulls that order the inhabitants to perform bizarre actions (and punish them if they don't).
* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': Skull probes.
* One of the monsters in the ''{{Munchkin}}'' card game has a ''Mortal Kom Bat'': a flaming skull with bat wings.

[[AC: VideoGames]]
* Morte from ''PlanescapeTorment'' and the mimirs.
* Several games from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series have flying skulls as enemies.

* There's a floating ghostly skull available as a non-combat pet in ''WorldOfWarcraft''. Floating ghostly skulls also appear during the fight against Yog-Saron. Looking at them makes you lose sanity.
* ''{{Doom}}'' has Lost Souls (flying flaming skulls which home in on you like missiles), Cacodemons (big red faces that belch ball-lightning), and Pain Elementals (giant brown faces with stubby arms that would cough up a potentially endless crowd of the aforementioned Lost Souls).

* In the ''{{Castlevania}}'' series, recurring villainess [[TheVamp Carmilla]]'s OneWingedAngel form is that of a gigantic, [[BarbieDollAnatomy naked]] woman riding an equally oversized skull that cries [[TearsOfBlood bloody tears]] (as a VisualPun for her theme, "Bloody Tears"). Other examples periodically show up in this series, such as [[TheGrimReaper Death]]'s [[OneWingedAngel OWA]] in [[CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse the third game]].

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Ennesby the robot.

[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* ''Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers'' the pirate skull(and crossbones) with OffScreenTeleportation.
* ''{{Metalocalypse}}'': Dethklok's mascot, Facebones.
* ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': One episode had the smuggling of [[IncrediblyLamePun Warhead]] {{Attack Drone}}s.

* Several games from ''The LegendOfZelda series'' have flying skulls as enemies.
** ''OracleOfSeasons'', the second part of the next-to-last's dungeone's boss is against his giant flying skull, which spits fireballs at you.

* Skelly, one of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many]] optional party members in ''ChronoCross'', starts out as this. You have to find and assemble the rest of him to recruit him.

* Skull or Core with a less real body: Such as a {{ghost}} or [[BlobMonster slime]] with an ectoplasmic body and a bony skull or a robot with a core and a bunch of wires.

* ''PhineasAndFerb'': The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Giant Floating Baby Head]], which is more of a recurring phenomenon than a character.

* In the ''{{Castlevania}}'' series, recurring villainess [[TheVamp Carmilla]]'s OneWingedAngel form is that of a gigantic, [[AnimeAnatomy naked]] woman riding an equally oversized skull that cries [[TearsOfBlood bloody tears]] (as a VisualPun for her theme, "Bloody Tears"). Other examples periodically show up in this series, such as [[TheGrimReaper Death]]'s [[OneWingedAngel OWA]] in [[CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse the third game]].

* Yuurei Shoujo of ''{{Gate Keepers 21}}'' with her "pretty" skull-in-a-ball.

* Murray the talking skull from the ''MonkeyIsland'' series
** Who's NOT this trope seeing as he can't fly or move out of his own accord, really.

* {{Zardoz}}

* {{Zardos}}

* The Bowler, In ''MysteryMen'', has her father's skull embedded in her weapon, a bowling ball. She talks to it, and it, apparently, to her. It saves the day.