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* ''ClassicalMythology'': In the original myths, the Minotaur only had the head of a bull, and the rest of its body was human.
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* Many of Ru Xiaofan's sculptures (his series ''[[http://www.ruxiaofan.com/sculptures/odedelameditation/ Ode de la méditation]]'', ''[[http://www.ruxiaofan.com/sculptures/songs-cups-normalized-ode/ Song’s cups normalized Ode]]'', and ''[[http://www.ruxiaofan.com/sculptures/odedelajeunesse/ Ode de la jeunesse]]'') are of human figures with elaborate bunches of flowers in place of their heads.
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A being, almost always a humanoid with at least human intelligence, with an inanimate object (or, more rarely, an animal) in place of a head. Depictions of these types of creatures go back at least to EgyptianMythology, where many deities were depicted with animal heads and human bodies to show their divine natures.
These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for these characters. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in a FantasyKitchenSink.
These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for these characters. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in a FantasyKitchenSink.
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A being, almost always a humanoid with at least human intelligence, with an inanimate object (or, more rarely, an animal) in place of a head. Depictions of these types of creatures go back at least to EgyptianMythology, Myth/EgyptianMythology, where many deities were depicted with animal heads and human bodies to show their divine natures.
natures.
These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for these characters. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in aFantasyKitchenSink.
FantasyKitchenSink.
These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for these characters. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in a
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* In the music video for {{Music/Kesha}}'s "Blow", everyone but James Van der Beek and Kesha herself has a unicorn head on a human body.
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* The title character of ''VideoGame/{{Gingiva}}'' was born a normal woman, but had her head chopped off and replaced with a turnkey.
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** [[http://pbfcomics.com/108 "Genius, Sir"]] shows a war between soldiers with dice for heads and dominoes for heads.
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* The protagonist in Spike Jonze's 2010 short film "I'm Here" has a desktop for a head.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Oda the mangaka occasionally portrays himself as a guy with a fish for a head.
** A RecurringExtra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head.
** A RecurringExtra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Oda the mangaka ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** The manga's author Creator/EiichiroOda occasionally portrays himself as a guy with a fish for a head.
** A RecurringExtra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head. Maybe it's a mask, [[NotAMask maybe it's not]].
** The manga's author Creator/EiichiroOda occasionally portrays himself as a guy with a fish for a head.
** A RecurringExtra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head. Maybe it's a mask, [[NotAMask maybe it's not]].
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* ''Webcomics/ThePerryBibleFellowship'':
** People with musical instruments for heads are the characters of "[[http://www.pbfcomics.com/263/ Harmony]]"; the bassoon's father is not pleased at her settling to marry a lowly whistle.
** People with rock, paper, or a pair of scissors for heads get into an argument over seating in [[http://pbfcomics.com/113 "Shotgun"]], which they decide can only be decided one way... [[SubvertedTrope gladiatorial combat]].
** [[http://pbfcomics.com/90 "Mrs. Hammer"]] is about a hammer-headed man discovering that his wife (a plank of wood) has a screw embedded in her.
** While at first the characters are angled so it isn't obvious, the twist in [[http://pbfcomics.com/116 "Sweet Deal"]] is that the people all have teeth for heads and can be murdered with excess sugar.
** [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/214 "Hard Read"]] is centered around two people with books for heads.
** [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/227 "Preserves"]] has a peanut butter-headed man marrying a jelly-headed woman, only to be disgusted when her 'will pop if seal is broken' doesn't pop when he takes her veil off.
** The characters in [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/203/ "Bad Apple"]] are gangs of fruit-headed people and rival vegetable-headed people.
** [[http://pbfcomics.com/108 "Genius, Sir"]] shows a war between soldiers with dice for heads and dominoes for heads.
** People with musical instruments for heads are the characters of "[[http://www.pbfcomics.com/263/ Harmony]]"; the bassoon's father is not pleased at her settling to marry a lowly whistle.
** People with rock, paper, or a pair of scissors for heads get into an argument over seating in [[http://pbfcomics.com/113 "Shotgun"]], which they decide can only be decided one way... [[SubvertedTrope gladiatorial combat]].
** [[http://pbfcomics.com/90 "Mrs. Hammer"]] is about a hammer-headed man discovering that his wife (a plank of wood) has a screw embedded in her.
** While at first the characters are angled so it isn't obvious, the twist in [[http://pbfcomics.com/116 "Sweet Deal"]] is that the people all have teeth for heads and can be murdered with excess sugar.
** [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/214 "Hard Read"]] is centered around two people with books for heads.
** [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/227 "Preserves"]] has a peanut butter-headed man marrying a jelly-headed woman, only to be disgusted when her 'will pop if seal is broken' doesn't pop when he takes her veil off.
** The characters in [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/203/ "Bad Apple"]] are gangs of fruit-headed people and rival vegetable-headed people.
** [[http://pbfcomics.com/108 "Genius, Sir"]] shows a war between soldiers with dice for heads and dominoes for heads.
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* Creator/DapperDeoxys's interpretation of the Phone Guy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' was a literal phone guy, as in a human with a telephone for a head.
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* Creator/DapperDeoxys's Creator/MxBones's interpretation of the Phone Guy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' was a literal phone guy, as in a human with a telephone for a head.
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* The painting "Engulfment and Abandonment" by [[http://www.marcscheff.com/paintings/ Marc Scheff]] shows a person with a large, frilled fish for a head.
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* The label for Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum Imperial IPA features a portrait of a figure in 18th-century clothing, with a hop cone for a head.
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* This is often seen on beer labels, especially for India Pale Ale.
** The label for Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum Imperial IPA features a portrait of a figure in 18th-century clothing, with a hop cone for ahead.head.
** The can for Revolution's Anti-Hero IPA shows a hop-headed figure in fictional military uniform, complete with CommissarCap and EyepatchOfPower.
** The label for Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum Imperial IPA features a portrait of a figure in 18th-century clothing, with a hop cone for a
** The can for Revolution's Anti-Hero IPA shows a hop-headed figure in fictional military uniform, complete with CommissarCap and EyepatchOfPower.
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* There has long been stories of people with cynocephaly, or dog/jackal headed, such as Anubis, the giant St. Christopher, or the dog-people Marco Polo allegedly met on his travels.
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* The British band The Shapes had the cover of their album ''Songs For Sensible People'' show the five members of the band with actual shapes (a square, a half-circle, a circle, a triangle, and a star) replacing their heads.
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* Gumball and Hotdog Guy have a run-in with a mall security that has a hand for a head.
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** Dr. Clef's head comes out like this in pictures, usually replaced with an animal's.
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* [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/53057633@N06/ Amy Judd]] often creates realistic pieces depicting women with flowers or wings for heads.
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SurrealSymbolicHeads is a subtrope, where they appear specifically to be odd and weird out the viewer; with that trope, the UncannyValley nature of a human body without a human head is often played up. Compare TheBlank for other types of creatures that lack facial features, and PettingZooPerson, a character which looks like someone slapped animal features on an otherwise human body. BeastWithAHumanFace is the inverse, where it's a non-human body with a human head.
Sometimes the subjects of {{Animorphism}} fall into this trope, if their transformation is only of their head; SkullForAHead can also sometimes overlap if the skull is not of the being's species.
Sometimes the subjects of {{Animorphism}} fall into this trope, if their transformation is only of their head; SkullForAHead can also sometimes overlap if the skull is not of the being's species.
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Compare TheBlank for other types of creatures that lack facial features, and PettingZooPerson, a character which looks like someone slapped animal features on an otherwise human body. BeastWithAHumanFace is the inverse, where it's a non-human body with a human
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* The album art of the Jaymes Young EP ''Habits Of My Heart'' is a greyscale picture of a man with a cloud for a head sitting in a car.
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They're often shown with their heads [[FloatingLimbs floating above their shoulders]] rather than having necks, in order to save the artist from trying to make the join between a human body and non-human head seem natural; having non-human characteristics other than their heads ([[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation odd skin colors]] or materials, powers thematically relating to their heads, ect.) is also common. They're also always able to talk without the use of a mouth.
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They're often shown with their heads [[FloatingLimbs floating above their shoulders]] rather than having necks, in order to save the artist from trying to make the join between a human body and non-human head seem natural; having non-human characteristics other than their heads ([[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation odd skin colors]] or materials, powers thematically relating to their heads, ect.etc.) is also common. They're also always able to talk without the use of a mouth.
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* The Music/FosterThePeople's album ''Torches'' features a person with a burning matchstick for a head on the forefront of the cover.
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* The Objectheads in ''Webcomic/{{Pilot}}'' all have various pieces of technology in place of heads. [=TVs=] are the most common, though radios and iPhones aren't unheard of.
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* Happy Birthday from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is a man with an enormous birthday cake for a head, and is possibly the personification of birthdays.
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** Pops has a giant lollipop for a head. His father Mr. Maellard has a head shaped like a cratered moon.
** Happy Birthdayfrom ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is a man with an enormous birthday cake for a head, and is possibly the personification of birthdays.
** Pops has a giant lollipop for a head. His father Mr. Maellard has a head shaped like a cratered moon.
** Happy Birthday
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These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for object heads. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in a FantasyKitchenSink.
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* Cassius, one of the main romanceable characters from ''VisualNovel/TheDuenkhy'', has a keyboard for a head; it's noted that even among for the discriminated-against non-human community that object heads in particular have WhatMeasureIsANonHuman applied to them, and aren't seen as people.
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* Cassius, one of the main romanceable characters from ''VisualNovel/TheDuenkhy'', has a keyboard for a head; it's noted that even among for the discriminated-against non-human community that object heads these types of beings in particular have WhatMeasureIsANonHuman applied to them, and aren't seen as people.
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* There's [[http://objectheads.tumblr.com/ an entire blog]] of art of these types of characters.
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* A majority of the characters from ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'' have things such as food, flowers, or musical instruments as their heads. Even the title character has a red bean paste bun for a head.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Juke is a humanoid with a boombox for a head who speaks in beatboxing noises, [[spoiler:though he could speak regularly if he could get someone to hit the switch on his back]]. His skin is the same shade of grey as the boombox.
** One [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] recurring character at Elmore Junior High has a bomb for a head on a humanoid body [[{{Retraux}} in the style and color of a 1920s cartoon character]]. If he's very mad, his head explodes and shrinks.
** Juke is a humanoid with a boombox for a head who speaks in beatboxing noises, [[spoiler:though he could speak regularly if he could get someone to hit the switch on his back]]. His skin is the same shade of grey as the boombox.
** One [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] recurring character at Elmore Junior High has a bomb for a head on a humanoid body [[{{Retraux}} in the style and color of a 1920s cartoon character]]. If he's very mad, his head explodes and shrinks.
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* Several ads for Sky México feature people with [=TVs=] for heads. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WOgVACn1o One]] is a couple arguing about their relationship (and his cable service), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqiPWJJc6a0 another]] is a group of TV-headed people at a pool party enjoying themselves.
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* Several ads for Sky México Mexico feature people with [=TVs=] for heads. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WOgVACn1o One]] is a couple arguing about their relationship (and his cable service), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqiPWJJc6a0 another]] is a group of TV-headed people at a pool party enjoying themselves.
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* There's an entire race of people with televisions for heads in ''ComicBook/Saga''.
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A being, almost always a humanoid with at least human intelligence, with an inanimate object (or, more rarely, an animal) in place of a head. Depictions of these types of creatures go back at least to EgyptianMythology, where many deities were depicted with animal heads and human bodies to show their divine natures.
These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for object heads. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in a FantasyKitchenSink.
They're often shown with their heads [[FloatingLimbs floating above their shoulders]] rather than having necks, in order to save the artist from trying to make the join between a human body and non-human head seem natural; having non-human characteristics other than their heads ([[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation odd skin colors]] or materials, powers thematically relating to their heads, ect.) is also common. They're also always able to talk without the use of a mouth.
SurrealSymbolicHeads is a subtrope, where they appear specifically to be odd and weird out the viewer; with that trope, the UncannyValley nature of a human body without a human head is often played up. Compare TheBlank for other types of creatures that lack facial features, and PettingZooPerson, a character which looks like someone slapped animal features on an otherwise human body. BeastWithAHumanFace is the inverse, where it's a non-human body with a human head.
Sometimes the subjects of {{Animorphism}} fall into this trope, if their transformation is only of their head; SkullForAHead can also sometimes overlap if the skull is not of the being's species.
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* One bicycle safety poster shows a human neck and torso topped by a head of cabbage. The poster reads, "You can't substitute a cabbage for your head. Don't be a cabbage-head: wear your helmet."
* Mac Tonight was a mascot of [=McDonalds=]; he was a singer/piano player with a crescent moon for a head and a pair of CoolShades.
* Several ads for Sky México feature people with [=TVs=] for heads. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WOgVACn1o One]] is a couple arguing about their relationship (and his cable service), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqiPWJJc6a0 another]] is a group of TV-headed people at a pool party enjoying themselves.
* The Pepsi ad [[https://vimeo.com/35259745 "Emoticons"]] is about a man getting kicked off an beach where only people with monitors for heads are allowed.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/PetitIdolmaster'': the Producer is depicted with having a yellow letter P for a head.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Oda the mangaka occasionally portrays himself as a guy with a fish for a head.
** A RecurringExtra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head.
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* Several angels in the ''[[https://www.patreon.com/angelarium?ty=h Angelarium]]'' series by Peter Mohrbacher (which often toe the line of looking like {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s) have various symbolic objects in place of heads. For starters, [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Sahaqiel-Angel-of-the-Sky-538551597 "Sahaquiel"]], [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Eistibus-Angel-of-Divination-531759718 "Eistibus"]], [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Uriel-Angel-of-Flame-534519215 "Uriel"]], and [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Matariel-Angel-of-Rain-541331168 "Matariel"]].
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* There's an entire race of people with televisions for heads in ''ComicBook/Saga''.
* In ''ComicBook/TopTen'', Officer Pete Luhan has a TV set for a head, which allows him to beam hypnotic images at other people. He uses this talent to get information out of uncooperative suspects.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' Wilkins likes to read comics featuring Supercaptaincoolman, a kind of African {{expy}} of Superman, whose nemesis is Doctor Horsehead, a MadScientist with the body of man in a nicely tailored suit and a horse's head that whinnies when he laughs maniacally. Doctor Horsehead routinely snares TheHero in situations where OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow, which go unresolved, because Curtis gets his comic books confiscated for reading them in class.
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* In ''The Bed Sitting Room'', a post-apocalyptic comedy in which radiation-induced mutations cause people to simply turn into things, there exists a character with a TV for a head. He speaks in the manner of a TV announcer.
* The protagonist in Spike Jonze's 2010 short film "I'm Here" has a desktop for a head.
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* Literature/{{Discworld}} gods are often noted as looking like humans wearing cheap Halloween masks. Offler the Crocodile-Headed God is the one seen most often, but in {{Discworld/Pyramids}} the equivalent of the entire ancient Egyptian pantheon shows up.
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* A ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' sketch showed a man seeing a doctor, who has been replaced by a video system, and has trouble with the silly instructions and system failures until he starts banging on the door demanding to see a real doctor... who may be this trope, as he enters the room speaking in the same manner as the video doctor, with the hollowed-out shell of a TV over his head.
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* In the music video for "Get Involved" by Raphael Saadiq and Q-Tip, everyone has a monitor for a head. At one point, a bird messes up the antenna of a man with a TV head, causing his face to be briefly replaced with footage from The PJs.
* Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy". The video includes cuts to a character with a TV head, with only static showing on the screen.
* The liner notes from Project 86's album ''Truthless Heroes'' includes a man with a television monitor for a head. The cover art is a close-up of his "face".
* The music video for Sumo Cyco's "Who Do You Want To Be" follows a woman with a TV for a head, which shows things like a yawning mouth, a blinking eye, or footage of the band at various points.
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* ''EgyptianMythology'':
** Horus, one of the main sun gods, has the head of a hawk; the sun and moon are his eyes.
** Bastet, a warrior goddess/goddess of cats, has the head of a lioness.
** Thoth, god of knowledge, has the head of an ibis (or sometimes a baboon when he's being A'an, the god of equilibrium).
** Anubis, one of the most famous gods of the underworld, has the head of a jackal, a known scavenger of the dead.
** Set, god of storms and violence, has the head of an unidentifiable (and possibly imaginary) creature usually just called a 'Set animal'.
* ''ClassicalMythology'': In the original myths, the Minotaur only had the head of a bull, and the rest of its body was human.
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* King TV Dinnah from ''VideoGame/LittleKingsStory'' looks like an ordinary man in a suit... except for his head, which is an old-fashioned television, with the screen displaying a large eye.
* Several of the [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', including the receptionist at the MTT lobby who has a giant hand for a head, and a few nameless [=NPCs=] with black and pink or yellow diamond-patterned squares for heads.
* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'': It's common in fandom to portray the Admiral (Teitoku in Japan) as having a T for a head.
* ''VideoGame/JustDance 3'': The dancer for "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a person with a television for a head, which alternates between showing footage of the older games and various cheerful expressions.
* ''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'' features numerous [=NPCs=] who, given the abstract and prototypical nature of many of the game's segments, have their heads replaced with brightly-colored squares. The squares have words on them, and they are sometimes able to rotate them when talking.
* In ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', Elsens, who are almost indistinguishable from humans, transform into [[{{Mooks}} Burnts]] when they become stressed; this causes their heads to transform into pillars of smoke, which further freaks them out. The higher leveled ones have more non-human characteristics, gaining smoky claws and/or fangs as well.
* The Televangelist units from ''VideoGame/CivilizationCallToPower'' have TV sets for heads.
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*Cassius, one of the main romanceable characters from ''VisualNovel/TheDuenkhy'', has a keyboard for a head; it's noted that even among for the discriminated-against non-human community that object heads in particular have WhatMeasureIsANonHuman applied to them, and aren't seen as people.
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* RGB from ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'' has a floating television for a head and no actual physical body otherwise; he animates a set of clothe that appear to be empty below the television.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of the solar system are all shown as humanoids with representations of what they actually are replacing their heads. Most of them do tend look more like {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s than actual humans, with Mars being an outright RockMonster and Sun being constantly WreathedInFlames.
* The characters of ''[[http://rosel-d.deviantart.com/gallery/53910007/IE-KUN My Senior, IE-kun]]'' are the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of various internet browsers, and are just as often shown with those browers' logos as they are with human heads.
* Doc Scratch from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a HumanoidAbomination with a large cue ball for a head; when he dies it cracks open, allowing something far, ''far'' worse to enter the universe through it.
* Creator/DapperDeoxys's interpretation of the Phone Guy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' was a literal phone guy, as in a human with a telephone for a head.
* T-O-E from ''Webcomic/RiceBoy'' is a robot with a circular screen for a head; it tends to show scenes from films and cartoons from the 1920s to the 1940s.
* In the web comic ''[[http://stevelovesinternet.com/ Steve Loves Internet]]'', the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the internet is a man with a computer monitor for a head.
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* 'Keyboard Strong Bad' is a version of Strong Bad from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' who has a... keyboard for a head. He appears in the ShowWithinAShow cartoon; music plays from the keyboard when he gets angry.
* "[[https://vimeo.com/2875674 Idiot Box]]" is a short film in a world where everyone has TV sets for heads, though they always display faces.
* From the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-527 SCP-527 ("Mr. Fish")]]. SCP-527 has a human body, except for his head which is that of a gold barb fish. Despite this, he can think and speak as well as a human being.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Chairface Chippendale, a reoccurring villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', has a wooden chair leaning on its back legs in place of a face. During a brief time when he swapped bodies with Chrome Dome (roll with it), he pointed out how logically horrifying it must be, and wonders how Chairface even talks.
* Happy Birthday from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is a man with an enormous birthday cake for a head, and is possibly the personification of birthdays.
** "Camping Can Be Cool" features an antagonistic character called Stag-man, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a partially naked man with a deer head]] (with one of his legs being deer's).
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' has The Jew Producer. He looks like a man in a suit, except with a speaker where his head should be; this is a reference the fact that prior to his first physical appearance, he was just TheVoice heard on the intercom, the speaker of which looks like his head.
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[[caption-width-right:323:Just a guy who's got a good head for music.]]
A being, almost always a humanoid with at least human intelligence, with an inanimate object (or, more rarely, an animal) in place of a head. Depictions of these types of creatures go back at least to EgyptianMythology, where many deities were depicted with animal heads and human bodies to show their divine natures.
These days, they sometimes appear in UrbanFantasy stories, either as 'living technology' or as explicitly magical beings; for some reason, electronics are particularly popular choices for object heads. ''What'' exactly they are varies by depiction- they can be human in all but appearance, MechanicalLifeforms built for specific functions, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s who outright embody what they're shown as having for heads, or simply as odd but normal people in a FantasyKitchenSink.
They're often shown with their heads [[FloatingLimbs floating above their shoulders]] rather than having necks, in order to save the artist from trying to make the join between a human body and non-human head seem natural; having non-human characteristics other than their heads ([[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation odd skin colors]] or materials, powers thematically relating to their heads, ect.) is also common. They're also always able to talk without the use of a mouth.
SurrealSymbolicHeads is a subtrope, where they appear specifically to be odd and weird out the viewer; with that trope, the UncannyValley nature of a human body without a human head is often played up. Compare TheBlank for other types of creatures that lack facial features, and PettingZooPerson, a character which looks like someone slapped animal features on an otherwise human body. BeastWithAHumanFace is the inverse, where it's a non-human body with a human head.
Sometimes the subjects of {{Animorphism}} fall into this trope, if their transformation is only of their head; SkullForAHead can also sometimes overlap if the skull is not of the being's species.
(Index on FantasticSapientSpeciesTropes, IndexOfFictionalCreatures.)
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* One bicycle safety poster shows a human neck and torso topped by a head of cabbage. The poster reads, "You can't substitute a cabbage for your head. Don't be a cabbage-head: wear your helmet."
* Mac Tonight was a mascot of [=McDonalds=]; he was a singer/piano player with a crescent moon for a head and a pair of CoolShades.
* Several ads for Sky México feature people with [=TVs=] for heads. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WOgVACn1o One]] is a couple arguing about their relationship (and his cable service), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqiPWJJc6a0 another]] is a group of TV-headed people at a pool party enjoying themselves.
* The Pepsi ad [[https://vimeo.com/35259745 "Emoticons"]] is about a man getting kicked off an beach where only people with monitors for heads are allowed.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/PetitIdolmaster'': the Producer is depicted with having a yellow letter P for a head.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Oda the mangaka occasionally portrays himself as a guy with a fish for a head.
** A RecurringExtra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head.
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[[folder:Art]]
* Several angels in the ''[[https://www.patreon.com/angelarium?ty=h Angelarium]]'' series by Peter Mohrbacher (which often toe the line of looking like {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s) have various symbolic objects in place of heads. For starters, [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Sahaqiel-Angel-of-the-Sky-538551597 "Sahaquiel"]], [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Eistibus-Angel-of-Divination-531759718 "Eistibus"]], [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Uriel-Angel-of-Flame-534519215 "Uriel"]], and [[http://petemohrbacher.deviantart.com/art/Matariel-Angel-of-Rain-541331168 "Matariel"]].
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[[folder:Comics]]
* There's an entire race of people with televisions for heads in ''ComicBook/Saga''.
* In ''ComicBook/TopTen'', Officer Pete Luhan has a TV set for a head, which allows him to beam hypnotic images at other people. He uses this talent to get information out of uncooperative suspects.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' Wilkins likes to read comics featuring Supercaptaincoolman, a kind of African {{expy}} of Superman, whose nemesis is Doctor Horsehead, a MadScientist with the body of man in a nicely tailored suit and a horse's head that whinnies when he laughs maniacally. Doctor Horsehead routinely snares TheHero in situations where OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow, which go unresolved, because Curtis gets his comic books confiscated for reading them in class.
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* In ''The Bed Sitting Room'', a post-apocalyptic comedy in which radiation-induced mutations cause people to simply turn into things, there exists a character with a TV for a head. He speaks in the manner of a TV announcer.
* The protagonist in Spike Jonze's 2010 short film "I'm Here" has a desktop for a head.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Literature/{{Discworld}} gods are often noted as looking like humans wearing cheap Halloween masks. Offler the Crocodile-Headed God is the one seen most often, but in {{Discworld/Pyramids}} the equivalent of the entire ancient Egyptian pantheon shows up.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* A ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' sketch showed a man seeing a doctor, who has been replaced by a video system, and has trouble with the silly instructions and system failures until he starts banging on the door demanding to see a real doctor... who may be this trope, as he enters the room speaking in the same manner as the video doctor, with the hollowed-out shell of a TV over his head.
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[[folder:Music]]
* In the music video for "Get Involved" by Raphael Saadiq and Q-Tip, everyone has a monitor for a head. At one point, a bird messes up the antenna of a man with a TV head, causing his face to be briefly replaced with footage from The PJs.
* Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy". The video includes cuts to a character with a TV head, with only static showing on the screen.
* The liner notes from Project 86's album ''Truthless Heroes'' includes a man with a television monitor for a head. The cover art is a close-up of his "face".
* The music video for Sumo Cyco's "Who Do You Want To Be" follows a woman with a TV for a head, which shows things like a yawning mouth, a blinking eye, or footage of the band at various points.
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[[folder:Mythology]]
* ''EgyptianMythology'':
** Horus, one of the main sun gods, has the head of a hawk; the sun and moon are his eyes.
** Bastet, a warrior goddess/goddess of cats, has the head of a lioness.
** Thoth, god of knowledge, has the head of an ibis (or sometimes a baboon when he's being A'an, the god of equilibrium).
** Anubis, one of the most famous gods of the underworld, has the head of a jackal, a known scavenger of the dead.
** Set, god of storms and violence, has the head of an unidentifiable (and possibly imaginary) creature usually just called a 'Set animal'.
* ''ClassicalMythology'': In the original myths, the Minotaur only had the head of a bull, and the rest of its body was human.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* King TV Dinnah from ''VideoGame/LittleKingsStory'' looks like an ordinary man in a suit... except for his head, which is an old-fashioned television, with the screen displaying a large eye.
* Several of the [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', including the receptionist at the MTT lobby who has a giant hand for a head, and a few nameless [=NPCs=] with black and pink or yellow diamond-patterned squares for heads.
* ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'': It's common in fandom to portray the Admiral (Teitoku in Japan) as having a T for a head.
* ''VideoGame/JustDance 3'': The dancer for "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a person with a television for a head, which alternates between showing footage of the older games and various cheerful expressions.
* ''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'' features numerous [=NPCs=] who, given the abstract and prototypical nature of many of the game's segments, have their heads replaced with brightly-colored squares. The squares have words on them, and they are sometimes able to rotate them when talking.
* In ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', Elsens, who are almost indistinguishable from humans, transform into [[{{Mooks}} Burnts]] when they become stressed; this causes their heads to transform into pillars of smoke, which further freaks them out. The higher leveled ones have more non-human characteristics, gaining smoky claws and/or fangs as well.
* The Televangelist units from ''VideoGame/CivilizationCallToPower'' have TV sets for heads.
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[[folder: Visual Novels]]
*Cassius, one of the main romanceable characters from ''VisualNovel/TheDuenkhy'', has a keyboard for a head; it's noted that even among for the discriminated-against non-human community that object heads in particular have WhatMeasureIsANonHuman applied to them, and aren't seen as people.
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[[folder: Webcomics]]
* RGB from ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'' has a floating television for a head and no actual physical body otherwise; he animates a set of clothe that appear to be empty below the television.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of the solar system are all shown as humanoids with representations of what they actually are replacing their heads. Most of them do tend look more like {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s than actual humans, with Mars being an outright RockMonster and Sun being constantly WreathedInFlames.
* The characters of ''[[http://rosel-d.deviantart.com/gallery/53910007/IE-KUN My Senior, IE-kun]]'' are the {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of various internet browsers, and are just as often shown with those browers' logos as they are with human heads.
* Doc Scratch from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a HumanoidAbomination with a large cue ball for a head; when he dies it cracks open, allowing something far, ''far'' worse to enter the universe through it.
* Creator/DapperDeoxys's interpretation of the Phone Guy from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' was a literal phone guy, as in a human with a telephone for a head.
* T-O-E from ''Webcomic/RiceBoy'' is a robot with a circular screen for a head; it tends to show scenes from films and cartoons from the 1920s to the 1940s.
* In the web comic ''[[http://stevelovesinternet.com/ Steve Loves Internet]]'', the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the internet is a man with a computer monitor for a head.
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[[folder: Web Original]]
* 'Keyboard Strong Bad' is a version of Strong Bad from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' who has a... keyboard for a head. He appears in the ShowWithinAShow cartoon; music plays from the keyboard when he gets angry.
* "[[https://vimeo.com/2875674 Idiot Box]]" is a short film in a world where everyone has TV sets for heads, though they always display faces.
* From the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-527 SCP-527 ("Mr. Fish")]]. SCP-527 has a human body, except for his head which is that of a gold barb fish. Despite this, he can think and speak as well as a human being.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Chairface Chippendale, a reoccurring villain of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', has a wooden chair leaning on its back legs in place of a face. During a brief time when he swapped bodies with Chrome Dome (roll with it), he pointed out how logically horrifying it must be, and wonders how Chairface even talks.
* Happy Birthday from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' is a man with an enormous birthday cake for a head, and is possibly the personification of birthdays.
** "Camping Can Be Cool" features an antagonistic character called Stag-man, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a partially naked man with a deer head]] (with one of his legs being deer's).
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' has The Jew Producer. He looks like a man in a suit, except with a speaker where his head should be; this is a reference the fact that prior to his first physical appearance, he was just TheVoice heard on the intercom, the speaker of which looks like his head.
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