History Main / SurrealSymbolicHeads

* In the film ''Ink'' Bad Guys from the monochromatic dreamland carry the teleimage of [[StepfordSmiler smiling faces]] on shoulders.

* Tele-evangelists in Civilization: Call To Power are shown as a business suit topped by a television.

* While DC's "Prez" was not usually that surreal, beyond the notion of a teenager (whose mother named him "President") being elected president, he had a few run-ins with Boss Smiley, the physical embodiment of political corruption, who had a smiley-face for a head. While there have occasionally been attempts at retconning Prez Rickard into the mainstream DC universe (at one point he was an AI Lex Luthor came up with to run the country), no explanation has ever been given for Smiley. The closest being a ''Comicbook/{{Sandman}}'' story that suggested he was a supernatural being, possibly the [[GodIsEvil God]] of Prez's world. But that was a StoryWithinAStory, and explicitly took place in an AlternateUniverse anyway.

* While DC's "Prez" was not usually that surreal, beyond the notion of a teenager (whose mother named him "President") being elected president, he had a few run-ins with Boss Smiley, the physical embodiment of political corruption, who had a smiley-face for a head. While there have occasionally been attempts at retconning Prez Rickard into the mainstream DC universe (at one point he was an AI Lex Luthor came up with to run the country), no explanation has ever been given for Smiley. The closest being a ''Comicbook/{{Sandman}}'' story that suggested he was a supernatural being, possibly the God of Prez's world. But that was a StoryWithinAStory, and explicitly took place in an AlternateUniverse anyway.

* While DC's "Prez" was not usually that surreal, beyond the notion of a teenager (whose mother named him "President") being elected president, he had a few run-ins with Boss Smiley, the physical embodiment of political corruption, who had a smiley-face for a head. While there have occasionally been attempts at retconning Prez Rickard into the mainstream DC universe (at one point he was an AI Lex Luthor came up with to run the country), no explanation has ever been given for Smiley.

* The video for ''Surfing on a Rocket'' by Music/{{Air}} has several of the people [[RidingTheBomb riding the rocket]] being this, including people with smoke-spewing chimneys for heads, a man with a shark's head, a person who's head is a TV with tentacles coming out of it, and a man with a nuclear explosion for a head.

* The video for ''Surfing on a Rocket'' by Music/{{Air}} has several of the people [[RideTheBomb riding the rocket]] being this, including people with smoke-spewing chimneys for heads, a man with a shark's head, a person who's head is a TV with tentacles coming out of it, and a man with a nuclear explosion for a head.

* The video for ''Surfing on a Rocket'' by Music/{{Air}} has several of the people riding the rocket being this, including people with smoke-spewing chimneys for heads, a man with a shark's head, a person who's head is a TV with tentacles coming out of it, and a man with a nuclear explosion for a head.

* The video for ''Surfing on a Rocket'' by Music/{{Air}} has one of the people riding the rocket being a man with a nuclear explosion for a head.

* Chaosium's supplement ''All the World's Monsters''. The wind witch monster has a human body but the head of a crocodile.

* Tele-evangelists in Civilization:Call To Power are shown as a business suit topped by a television.

* In the film ''Film/Ink'' Bad Guys from the monochromatic dreamland carry the teleimage of smiling faces on shoulders.

* ''Film/Ink''. Bad Guys from the monochromatic dreamland carry the teleimage of [[StepfordSmiler smiling faces]] on shoulders.

* The cover of MinorThreat's ''Bottled Violence'' single depicts a man with the top of a beer bottle for a head, who is clad in a leather jacket and SexPistols shirt and is holding a beer in one hand and making a raised fist with the other. It MakesSenseInContext because the title song is an OdeToSobriety dealing with those who get drunk as an excuse to pick fights.

A recurring motif in SurrealHorror, SurrealHumour, and, really, surreality in general, is an apparently human being whose head is something else entirely. In some cases, it's simply been replaced with the head of some species of animal; in others, it's actually an inanimate object walking about on an human body; in still others, it's neither a human with a strange head nor an object piloting a human body, but rather some other entity (perhaps a HumanoidAbomination) that looks ''mostly'' human. Whatever the reason, the result is often referred to as an "object head".

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* Subverted in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAdH7RhqNMk this Pepsi Max advert]]; towards the end, the boss sees one of the office workers with a horse's head and assumes that he's hallucinating. But that's just what the workers want him to think; the horse's head is fake and the workers are looking for an excuse to goof off.

A recurring motif in SurrealHorror, SurrealHumour, and, really, surreality in general, is an apparently human being whose head is something else entirely. In some cases, it's simply been replaced with the head of some species of animal; in others, it's actually an inanimate object walking about on an human body; in still others, it's neither a human with a strange head nor an object piloting a human body, but rather some other entity choosing to look ''mostly'' human. Whatever the reason, the result is often referred to as an "object head".

A recurring motif in SurrealHorror, SurrealHumour, and, really, surreality in general, is an apparently human being whose head is something else entirely. In some cases, it's simply been replaced with the head of some species of animal; in others, it's actually an inanimate object walking about on an human body. This is often referred to as an "object head".

A recurring motif in SurrealHorror, SurrealHumour, and, really, surreality in general, is an apparently human being whose head is something else entirely. In some cases, it's simply been replaced with the head of some species of animal; in others, it's actually an inanimate object walking about on an human body.