History Main / WipeThatSmileOffYourFace

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the episode [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E3TheWitch Witch,]] Lishanne, one of the cheerleaders, gets a spell inflicted upon her, causing her mouth to disappear, leaving her with inaudible screams and in a state of panic. After the witch was defeated, Lishanne's mouth was restored to normal.

%%* The episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' entitled "Witch". [[spoiler:Lishanne gets better.]]

* [[MeaningfulName Zippy]] from ''Series/{{Rainbow}}'' has a zipper for a mouth, so when he's being particularly obnoxious, other characters will zip it shut.

* In ''Violent Sky'', a KnifeNut agent "silences" the genius of the protagonist's side by stabbing her in the back of the head and cutting a nerve for expressing thoughts. The victim is later implanted with an A.I. who's meant to impose her until her body dies of old age. Her nerve self-healed by luck later.

* In the British comedy ''Series/MyHero'' there is a compound from ultron called lipweld which literally welds your lips together making your mouth disappear.

* In one episode of ''Series/BloodTies2007'', a voodoo witch does this to Coreen.

* The back cover of Music/{{Genesis}}' ConceptAlbum ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'' shows Rael, the story's protagonist, in this state.

* Happens in book 26 of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', when a captive Anya is loudly protesting whatever Fate is doing to Asuna, and Homura makes a swift gesture with a finger, resulting in Anya's mouth closing like a zipper.

* In an early issue of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', Elyon does this to Taranee when the captured Fire Guardian insists that her friends run from Cedric and his soldiers rather than rescue her.

->'''Neo:''' You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want [[OnePhoneCall my phone call]].\\

* ''Film/WarlockTheArmageddon'': The Warlock pays an unscheduled visit to an office building to retrieve a magical artifact. When the front desk receptionist challenges his right to enter, he puts an end to the conversation by [[RealityWarper causing flesh to grow over her mouth]]. Later he mentions the fate of the poor woman to her employer: "[[BondOneLiner She's looking for a new opening.]]"

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': "All the wizardry in the world has to pass through [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191083 one small and easily sealed door."]]
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* In the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' strip "The Piggybackers", the eponymous {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s have bonded with a SternTeacher and, under their influence, she's become a SadistTeacher and RealityWarper. One of the first things she does with this power is prevent her students (and subsequently the rest of the staff and Ryan) from ''ever'' answering back.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonPlanesofExistence'': [[spoiler:Imperators Fuoco and D'Artificio]] use this as the highest form of judicial punishment in their Micronation.
* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Smurfette's Genie", when Brainy pays Smurfette a visit to know about the genie that he hears she has in her house, Smurfette says she wishes that Brainy's mouth would be "smurfed shut" and that he wouldn't be able to say anything. Ghinelle, her genie, overhears this and grants this wish by sealing Brainy's mouth shut and removing his voice altogether.

* From ''Film/TheMatrix'', the first encounter between Agent Smith and Mr. Anderson. When Neo demands his {{one phone call}}, Agent Smith responds by erasing his mouth.
* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': In "It's a Good Life", Anthony took away his real sister Sarah's mouth so she would not be able to yell at him anymore.

* In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', Stryker finally finds a way to shut [[{{ComicBook/Deadpool}} Wade]] up by first [[MouthStitchedShut sewing]], and in the finished version, plastering his mouth shut (the result is pictured above). [[spoiler:TheStinger shows the decapitation/fall of the head somehow opened it again.]]
* A poster for the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie depicts the character Alessa, a little girl, as having no mouth.

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': An AlternateUniverse Reed Richards boasts to [[spoiler:Wanda Maximoff]] that Black Bolt can destroy her with a single whisper from his mouth. Probably not the wisest thing to say to a RealityWarper, since her response to simply say "What mouth?". [[spoiler:He then accidentally lets out a muffled SonicScream in panic, which causes [[CruelAndUnusalDeath his head to implode]].]]

* In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', there is an ex-con described who because he wouldn't rat on his associates, was "Remade" without a mouth. In order to eat, he cut a hole into his face.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'', episode "Je Souhaite", where a LiteralGenie is passed around. One man wishes another man would "shut up". You know what happens...
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. When Charlie X finally starts to go off the rails. "There will be no more laughing!" Soon they're all moaning as their faces become blank.
** In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', episode "Q2", q (Q's son, who has been told to stay on ''Voyager'') is approached by cheerful, talkative Neelix. Except he still has his RealityWarper powers. Whoops. Neelix doesn't just get his mouth removed, but also ''his vocal cords''.
* The episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' entitled "Witch". [[spoiler:Lishanne gets better.]]

* [[AWizardDidIt A wizard does this]] to Tommy early in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''. It's just a throwaway gag, though, and has no effect over the episode's plot.

* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': In the episode "Sketchy", this along with EyelessFace, happens to one of the victims.
* ''Series/TheFades'': Paul causes his sister Anna's lips to fuse together when she rudely interrupts a kiss between Paul and Jay.
* The zipper-over-the-mouth version is played for laugh in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiHPlXXl8GA a sketch]] of ''Series/TheBennyHillShow''.
* In a Creator/MontyPython animated spot, a smarmy announcer is talking until his mouth has enough and leaves his face - the announcer chases it around, catches it, and nails it back into place.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E20Nightmare Nightmare]]", the skin around Lt. Christopher Valentine's mouth fuses over after he is struck by an Ebonite weapon.

* The cover of Music/{{Asia}}'s album ''Silent Nation'' has people with no mouths.

* [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=370578&type=card The art]] for the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card Silence shows this.

* ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'': Tiring of her brother's smart-aleck comments, Bethany [[spoiler:chained up Aaron in a dungeon and ripped off his jaw before leaving him to be ''flensed alive by rats'', then hid it in her cottage! The [[PlayerCharacter PC]], while being repeatedly attacked by hoards of things sicced on him by the tormented Aaron, must find the jaw, [[ViolationOfCommonSense break into the dungeon Aaron is chained up in, and place it back on Aaron's corpse]]]].

* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal: Head-On'':
** The Outlaw ending features the Roberts siblings arguing over how to handle Calypso -- shoot him or arrest him? Finally one of them makes a fatal mistake: "I wish you would just shut up!" Now, yelling that in front of ''[[JackassGenie Calypso]]''... (It is an apparent ShoutOut to Neo's de-mouthing in ''Film/TheMatrix''.)

* The "motorcycle" ShockSite image, in which a man apparently blew off most of his face with a shotgun in a BungledSuicide.

* A common ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' gag is the "zipper over the mouth" variety of muffling a character. In ''Bugs and Thugs'', GiantMook Mugsy takes the expression "button your lip" [[LiteralMinded in the most literal way possible]].
* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' episode "Be Careful What You Wish For". The evil LiteralGenie does this to an NYC subway agent.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century'', Dodgers demands that Eager Young Space Cadet Porky perform the trope. He does so [[TheFaceless rather literally.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': An [[AlternateUniverse alternate]] version of Robin and {{Expy}} of Bat-Mite who acts like a crazed fanboy and has a magic finger, breaks reality, making the world look like, as Cyborg put it, "it came off my grandma's fridge." Beast Boy loses his mouth, and in order to talk, pulls Raven's off and puts it on his face. He then talks with her voice. Later, when trying to figure out how to fix it, Raven pulls off Cyborg's mouth and puts it on her face, then talks with his voice while Cyborg uses Starfire's mouth to talk with before they all get fed up with it and give everyone their proper mouth back. When BB finally recovers his mouth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he puts it on BACKWARDS, resulting in reversed speech!]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Nose Mouth" Cyborg once again loses his mouth to Raven.
* ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': Baboon's hand becomes magical and he makes wishes with his hand. Near the end, Weasel gets fed up with the wishes he makes, he wishes Baboon to shut up and, before Baboon can make another wish, his mouth disappears.
* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': "Congratulations, you would like to: Pay your bill."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'': In the episode "The Fate of Destiny!", Nebula has her mouth sealed by the [[PhysicalGod Infinity Gauntlet-wielding Thanos]]. Thanos grants Nebula's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wish]] to have a gag removed from her mouth by magically removing the mouth from her face. She escapes his clutches and, still sans mouth, returns in a later episode, "When Strikes the Surfer!" where she has her face restored to normality by Molecule Man.

* Ratty performs the zipper variant of this trope on Mole in the third act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode [[Recap/MrBogusS3E4KungFuCampout "Kung Fu Campout"]], after Mole said something stupid.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode, "The Joy", Gumball, according to Ms. Simian, is "infected" with "joy", a disease that makes Gumball unable to stop smiling and being cheerful. He attempts to stop smiling by literally ripping his mouth off of his face and slapping it back on, upside down. It then forcibly rotates right-side-up while still on his face.

* In ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'', Carmen does this to the Chief.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' episode "The Fantastic Megan Fox", Megan takes away Angelina Jolie's mouth and uses it for her own face.

->'''Neo:''' You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': An [[AlternateUniverse alternate]] version of Robin and {{Expy}} of Bat-Mite who acts like a crazed fanboy and has a magic finger, breaks reality, making the world look like, as Cyborg put it, "it came off my grandma's fridge." Beast Boy loses his mouth, and in order to talk, pulls Raven's off and puts it on his face. He then talks with her voice. Later, when trying to figure out how to fix it, Raven pulls off Cyborg's mouth and puts it on her face, then talks with his voice while Cyborg uses Starfire's mouth to talk with before they all get fed up with it and give everyone their proper mouth back. When BB finally recovers his mouth, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he puts it on BACKWARDS, resulting in reversed speech!]]

* In one episode of ''Series/BloodTies'', a voodoo witch does this to Coreen.

** And then corrected at the end of ''Film/Deadpool2'' when a [[spoiler:time-traveling Deadpool]] comes to [[spoiler:shoot Wade dead]] (over and over), notably ''not'' shutting up during the entire scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'': In the episode "The Fate of Destiny!", Nebula has her mouth sealed by the [[AGodAmI Infinity Gauntlet-wielding Thanos]]. Thanos grants Nebula's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wish]] to have a gag removed from her mouth by magically removing the mouth from her face. She escapes his clutches and, still sans mouth, returns in a later episode, "When Strikes the Surfer!" where she has her face restored to normality by Molecule Man.

* Happens in book 26 of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', when a captive Anya is loudly protesting whatever Fate is doing to Asuna, and Homura makes a swift gesture with a finger, resulting in Anya's mouth closing like a zipper.

* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen''

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness Act II'': During his combination NoHoldsBarredBeatdown[=/=]ExtremeMeleeRevenge against Miyabi for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping Mizore]], Dark punches him in the face with such force that Miyabi's jawbone snaps clean off.
* ''FanFic/PokemonMysteryDungeonPlanesofExistence'': [[spoiler:Imperators Fuoco and D'Artificio]] use this as the highest form of judicial punishment in their Micronation.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal: Head-On''

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* In [[https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2018/06/03 this]] ''Webcomic/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' strip, Marigold warns Phoebe of the consequences if she keeps "trifling in silence curses":

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Happens twice with the Genie. The first time, Genie zips up his mouth and the second time, Aladdin does it again to Genie.

** And then corrected at the end of ''{{Film/Deadpool2}}'' when a [[spoiler:time-traveling Deapool]] comes to [[spoiler:shoot Wade dead]] (over and over), notably ''not'' shutting up during the entire scene.

* An ad for Hardee's (and Carl's Jr.) depicts a robot unwrapping a sandwich from the sponsor, putting it to his face and recognizing that he has no mouth. Slogan: Machines can't eat them. They shouldn't make them. A [[TearJerker sad]] FamilyUnfriendlyAesop if ever there was one.