1 | Or the use of teeth in fiction. |
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3 | Most of the time, you get Hollywood Teeth- everybody has [[EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth lovely straight pearly whites]], even where this is unlikely (more on the lack of orthodontics front than access to sweets). |
4 | * This is occasionally subverted for realism's sake: in the Broadway version of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the characters have horrible teeth, which makes sense since most of them are, well, poor. |
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6 | However, teeth can have other connotations. |
7 | * Missing teeth can be seen on roguish or villainous sort of characters, like [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin]]. |
8 | ** Or, conversely, on [[ChildishToothGap cute little kids who are losing their baby teeth]]. |
9 | ** Or as a comedic effect. |
10 | ** Similarly, a gap between the two front teeth can be seen in {{Loveable Rogue}}s. |
11 | ** Often, old people, when they are not subject to FalseTeethTomfoolery, have only a few teeth left, sometimes with at least one sticking out of the mouth for comic effect. |
12 | ** Hockey players may be missing teeth as a result of TeethFlying during a HockeyFight. |
13 | * [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampireth]] have [[FangThpeak fangth]]. |
14 | * Someone's teeth may shatter in a cartoon situation. |
15 | * BritishTeeth - Yellowing, busted piano keys may best describe the teeth of the British if this trope is to be believed. |
16 | * YellowPeril: Villainous Asians have crooked teeth. |
17 | ** Even some of the more heroic Asian characters [[AsianBuckTeeth can have buck teeth]]. |
18 | * CuteLittleFangs may express a character's hyperactivity. |
19 | * [[ToothyBird Birds]] (and other animals that don't have teeth in real life) are drawn with teeth so that their mouth looks more human-like when they talk. |
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21 | Toothy Tropes and Idioms: |
22 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily |
23 | * TheToothHurts (teeth suffering as a subtrope of AnatomyAgony) |
24 | * VaginaDentata (kind of... don't think about it too long.) |
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