History Main / MonsterMouth

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** The Nausicaans, a race of brutish mercenary thugs, are easily recognisable for their wide, upside-down 'V'-shaped jaws with exterior teeth.

** The mouth of a [[SandWorm Thresher Maw]] seems to consist of four long tendrils surrounding a tentacle-like, irretractible tongue.
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[[caption-width-right:230:Losing half your jaw really bites.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'', the Elites, or "Sangheili" (one of which serves as the page image) have one of these, having four mandibles that can split.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Give us a kiss!]]

* ''Videogame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'': the Grunt's Mouths are split apart at one side and their jaws are allowed to hang freely.

Can be a SubTrope to either BizarreAlienBiology or BodyHorror, depending on whether the mouth in question is "supposed" to look like that. Frequently occurs in conjunction with NightmareFace. No connection to FacialHorror, as that trope deals with disfigurement.

* The Elcor of ''Videogame/MassEffect'' have mouths consisting of a series of vertical slits reminiscent of shark gills that wiggle up and down as they speak.

Can be a SubTrope to either BizarreAlienBiology or BodyHorror, depending on whether the mouth in question is "supposed" to look like that. Frequently occurs in conjunction with NightmareFace.

* In ''Literature/TheScar'', the Anophelii are a species of humanoid "mosquito people" whose females' jaw hides a thick, foot-long, blood-draining spike. Their all-consuming HorrorHunger and the atrocities of their short-lived "Malarial Queendom" make them [[TheDreaded infamous]] even in the CrapsackWorld of Bas-Lag. The males, however, have toothless, sphincter-like mouths, and rather silly-looking to a human visitor.

A standard way to make monstrous figures appear alien is to mess around with their anatomy in ways that are "atypical" (to put it mildly) of human beings or, more broadly, most real-life animals[[note]]Emphasis on "most", because [[RealityIsUnrealistic unlike what many people would think]], real-life biology can be [[TruthInTelevision as bizarre as fiction]], if not moreso at times[[/note]]. One such trait that always looks menacing and foreboding is the mouth, whether by giving it a irregular or distorted shape, [[ScaryTeeth making the teeth within it look hideous or terrifyingly deadly]], [[BellyMouth putting it somewhere where it logically should '''not''' be]], [[TooManyMouths having there be more than one,]] or a number of other methods.

* In ''VideoGame/Halo'', the Elites, or "Sangheili" (one of which serves as the page image) have one of these, having four mandibles that can split.

A standard way to make monstrous figures appear alien is to mess around with their anatomy in ways that are "atypical" (to put it mildly) of human beings or, more broadly, most real-life animals[[note]]Emphasis on "most", because [[RealityIsUnrealistic unlike what many people would think]], real-life biology can be [[TruthInTelevision as bizarre as fiction]], if not moreso at times.[[/note]]. One such trait that always looks menacing and foreboding is the mouth, whether by giving it a irregular or distorted shape, [[ScaryTeeth making the teeth within it look hideous or terrifyingly deadly]], [[BellyMouth putting it somewhere where it logically should '''not''' be]], [[TooManyMouths having there be more than one,]] or a number of other methods.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'': The Covenants squad leader, the Elites/Sangheili (pictured above), have four toothy "fingers" in place of a lower jaw.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sangheili_mouth.jpg]]

'''NOTE''': Please only list examples that do not fit neatly into one of the SubTropes.

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