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* Character actor Tommy Flanagan (who was in ''{{Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', among other things) has what a healed Glasgow Smile ''really'' looks like, having received one after being jumped outside a bar.
** Actually that's what it looks like if you have a bad surgeon stitch you up. Plastic surgery's come a long way in the past decade....
** Also counts as a TruthInTelevision, since Tommy Flanagan is from Glasgow
* The body of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was found with a Glasgow Grin carved into her face.
* Their perpetual smile may be one of the reasons why people think [[DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere dolphins]] are nice. And they are most definitely ''not'' always nice.
** Basically, they're like people--some are [[RousseauWasRight nice and friendly]], and others are [[HumansAreBastards not]]. So it's dangerous to assume they're ''all'' friendly.
* David Faber, a holocaust survivor, once visited my school and told the entire auditorium of middle schoolers about how the nazis put a vice inside his brother Romek's mouth, and proceeded to slowly crank it open until Romek's jaw broke and his cheeks tore open, just so they could interrogate David, who didn't even have the information they were looking for.
* UFC featherweight champion José Aldo received a partial one in a childhood accident. Though healed, the scar is easily noticeable.

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* [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_The_Killer Jeff the Killer]], of CreepyPasta fame (and best known for the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel infamous]] "[[MemeticMutation Go to Sleep]]" picture), carved himself one.

* [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_The_Killer Jeff the Killer]], of CreepyPasta fame, carved himself one.

* [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_The_Killer Jeff the Killer]], of [[CreepyPasta]] fame, carved himself one.

* A ''{{Hellblazer}}'' story-line had Constantine encountering a version of the Chelsea Smilers.

* Croagunk and Scraggy from [[Pokémon]].

* Loki in NorseMythology, thanks to some vengeful dwarves.
** This is actually from the dwarves sewing his mouth shut, so he would shut up for once.
*** Which, unfortunately, didn't work; he found ways to pull his bullshit even while mute.

* Mr. Grin from ''[[AlexRider Stormbreaker]]'', a former circus performer who used to catch a knife between his teeth as the finale of his act, until the time he was distracted at the crucial moment. In addition to the scars on his cheeks, he [[TheUnintelligible has no tongue]].

Named, of course, after the Glasgow Smile, an [[ViolentGlaswegian act of violence]] where you hold someone's mouth open with a knife and cut a smile into the victim's face. Not all characters with a Glasgow Grin have been scarred; some of them were born with it. Generally, characters with Glasgow grins tend to be evil or insane. If it is a protagonistic character who is not a villain, it also just shows that they are somewhat of a [[DarkIsNotEvil dark]] character. It's sometimes known as a ChelseaSmile, in reference to [[BritishFootyTeams the London football team]], whose [[FootballHooligans more violent fans]] were reputed to inflict it on people as a FinishingMove.

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Named, of course, after the Glasgow Smile, an [[ViolentGlaswegian act of violence]] where you hold someone's mouth open with a knife and cut a smile into the victim's face. Not all characters with a Glasgow Grin have been scarred; some of them were born with it. Generally, characters with Glasgow grins tend to be evil or insane. It's sometimes known as a ChelseaSmile, in reference to [[BritishFootyTeams the London football team]], whose [[FootballHooligans more violent fans]] were reputed to inflict it on people as a FinishingMove.

** I think he's referring to [[ThroatSlash another trope]].

* David Faber, a holocaust survivor once visited my school and told the entire auditorium of middle schoolers about how the nazis put a vice inside his brother Romek's mouth, and proceeded to slowly crank it open until Romek's jaw broke and his cheeks tore open, just so they could interrogate David, who didn't even have the information they were looking for.

* Nightmare from {{Kirby of the Stars}} is apparently incapable of not smiling, even [[spoiler:while screaming in pain as he pseudo-dies.]]

* In ''{{Coraline}}'', the Other Wybie has a perpetual, blankly cheerful smile on his face. When it starts to falter, [[spoiler: the Other Mother attempts to keep it that way, permanently...[[NightmareFuel with a needle and thread]].]]

* This happens to Other Wybie briefly in ''{{Coraline}}''. Coraline fixes it shortly after, though.

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