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6	->''"They could whip up some bad Photoshop poster in an afternoon. They do it all the time. Two big heads."''
7	-->-- '''David Drayton''', ''Film/TheMist''
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9	A term referring to the tendency for FilmPosters and UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} cover art to have a black background with the faces of the lead actors above the name of the movie. A simple one or two heads staring at you with the setting superimposed in the background with set-piece-specific art in the foreground. It could also be the entire cast in various stages of intensity... and nothing else. When done with the villain, it is EvilOverlooker. Often overlaps with SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou.
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11	The style became ubiquitous once the age of photo editing software came about, since it meant studios no longer had to commission an artist tens of thousands of dollars to paint a carefully crafted poster for them, when they could just take stock photos of the lead actor and have interns superimpose them onto any background. The same basic principle can exist with more than just a floating head, as full body group pictures splashed across the poster in different sizes and scaling creates a similar style, while maybe more crowded with more to look at it can still evoke a sense of having a generic template.
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13	In many cases, the main film poster may be more creative because of the larger size it will be displayed at, but the VHD/DVD/Blu-Ray will have a more generic "main actor heads against a black background" design so that a potential consumer can see who is in the movie at a glance.
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15	Compare FramedFaceOpening and StackedCharactersPoster.
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17	Not to be confused with FlyingFace, when heads literally float as a magical side effect of LosingYourHead, or metaphorically as a FloatingAdviceReminder, or HugeHolographicHead, or SkyFace. Or, for that matter, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome exploding head syndrome.]]
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20	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Comic Books]]
24	* It's quite common in comic books, particularly back in the 60s and 70s in team books, where they'd have one character doing something interesting in the middle and every other member of the team as just a floating head watching the action.
25	* '30s and '40s pulp comics tended to have a DramatisPersonae on the side of the cover, usually in the form of a strip of mug shots depicting characters from multiple stories that would appear in the books.
26	* Spoofed for ''ComicBook/DamageControl'' Vol. 3 No. 1. "''How'' many times can we do the same floating heads cover?"
27	* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jurassic_park_issue_2.png This rather cheesy cover art]] for a ''Film/JurassicPark'' comic book adaptation is -- excluding the raptor -- comprised of ''nothing'' but floating heads on a blue background. The raptor seems comprehensibly ''scared''.
28	* A not-so-uncommon appearance in Creator/RobLiefeld comic covers.
29	* [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] had his own version of this within the comic pages, which would appear whenever Peter was pensive or on the verge of death, showing the faces of his friends, his loved ones, and, one time, [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome a casual friend named Josh]].
30	* The cover of ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'' has floating heads of Praxton, Khriss and Baon overlooking the group of Sand Masters on the ground below them.
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33	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
34	* Countless movies from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon have at least one DVD or Blu-Ray case with this. ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' at least has an excuse with Mufasa, because he actually appeared as a floating head in-movie.
35	* Movies from UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation sometimes get covers with this to [[AllAnimationIsDisney follow Disney's suit]].
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38	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
39	* ''Film/AbsolutePower1997'': Clint's giant disconcerted face adorns the poster.
40	* ''Film/AlienResurrection'' and the ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' DVD ([[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2876545280/tt0090605 with the Alien's head!]]).
41	* The Japanese poster of ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'' features the team in civilian clothing, with pictures of them in crime-fighting garb from the torso up floating above them.
42	* One of the posters for Scorsese's ''Film/TheAviator'', which carried over to the DVD cover. It frankly looks like a plane being chased by a giant floating Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio head.
43	* After the distinctive use of logo without text for the 1989 film ''Film/{{Batman\|1989}}'', the marketing division apparently decided to embrace this trope. The primary posters and video covers for ''Film/BatmanReturns'', ''Film/BatmanForever'', and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' all use this approach, with the first two using variants of the logo for their teaser posters. This got dumped when the series was rebooted.
44	* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' [[http://pacejmiller.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the_dark_knight_quad_poster1.jpg did this]] (there was also an individual poster for each face), though it at least pulls it off with some style.
45	* The DVD version of ''Deadfall'' features the floating heads of Michael Biehn, Creator/NicolasCage, and Sarah Trigger. There's a minor case of CoversAlwaysLie to boot: Presumably for the sake of keeping him recognizable, the Cage head is a more recent, clean-shaven photo. However, in the film itself, Cage has a mustache and spends most of the time wearing sunglasses.
46	* ''Film/TheFifthElement'', or -- as [[Website/SomethingAwful the goons]] call it in our page image -- ''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/misinterpreted-movie-titles.php?page=3 Guy being chased by cops and three big heads]]''.
47	* The movie poster of ''Film/GangRelated''.
48	* ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'': In addition to the floating heads, [[MisplacedNamesPoster the names are jumbled]], so that Daniel Day-Lewis is a hot chick and Cameron Diaz has a cool moustache.
49	* ''Film/GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet'', 2000s DVD release -- taken to the minimalist extreme; the original posters also had a dash of this.
50	* Some posters for ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', including the ones the various AHDN album covers use.
51	* Posters for the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films have [[http://www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies/2001/images/HarryPotter_poster.jpg followed]] [[http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY4NTIwODg0N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTc0MjEzMw@@._V1__SX1303_SY591_.jpg this]] on occasion.
52	* A slipcase edition of ''Film/IndependenceDay'' was simply a flaming Earth with Creator/WillSmith's head floating above it. Thankfully, the ''actual'' cover remains the same.
53	* The [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1544850432/tt0371746 most common poster]] for ''Film/IronMan1'' did it too. This carried over to the VanillaEdition DVD cover, and the two-disc edition has [[http://c0181321.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/PHJFSPKR65RSOJ_1_m.jpg packaging exclusive to Target stores that is literally a plastic Iron Man face.]] ''Film/IronMan2'' had [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1059163136/tt1228705 two]] [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3367996416/tt1228705?ref_=ttmi_mi_typ_pos_6 guilty]] posters ([[Film/IronMan3 the third one]] averted it as most characters are full-bodied).
54	* While not technically "floating heads" per se, the [=DVD=]s of the ''Film/JamesBond'' films dumped the distinctive posters for shots of Bond with a PistolPose in front of the most memorable set from the film. Calling them prosaic would be an understatement. One can just tell that the marketing executives wanted to hide the age of the films by redoing all the covers (since the posters are all pretty indicative of their eras).
55	* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' posters are primarily just the main characters staring straight at the viewer. Since the selling point of the movie is the characters gathered together, it ends up proving that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as with some great lighting, colors and composition, the posters were praised for evoking both Rock Band covers (such as Music/{{Queen}}) and the iconic superhero group paintings of Creator/AlexRoss.
56	* ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'' or [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/K_nineteen_the_widowmaker_ver2.jpg Harrison Ford's head is judging you.]] Also available with bonus Liam Neeson in some editions.
57	* In the 1997 informative video ''Film/TheKidsGuideToTheInternet'' the kids head float around in "cyberspace".
58	* ''Film/KullTheConqueror'': Kull and Akivasha's heads are seen in the sky on the poster.
59	* [[http://www.impawards.com/2010/last_song.html One of the posters]] for the Music/MileyCyrus romance movie ''Literature/TheLastSong'' might just contain the most ''literal'' example ever of Floating Head Syndrome. Liam's Hemsworth's face is shown in profile, framed against the sun, with his neck cut off at the base of his jaw and skull, making it absolutely nothing but a floating decapitated head.
60	* DVD/Posters of all three movies of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy (theatrical editions only; the special editions had polished art.)
61	* Utilized in [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:36734398.jpg the original poster]] of ''Film/MaryPoppins'', which in contrast to later home video covers, emphasizes the flashy musical aspects over the fantasy aspects. This Syndrome was also utilized on DVD covers from [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mary_poppins_masterpiece_dvd.jpg 1998]] and [[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:MaryPoppins_45thAnniversary_DVD.jpg 2009.]]
62	* We wonder what cracked-up alternate universe Creator/MichaelMoore film was viewed by the Japanese person paid to design [[http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BCSQdlNPL._SS500_.jpg the Floating Head to end them all.]]
63	* Lampshaded in ''Film/TheMist'': after a thunderstorm demolishes the main character's studio, destroying the (amazing) movie artwork he had been painting, he laments that instead of extending his deadline, the studio "could whip up some bad Photoshop poster in an afternoon. They do it all the time. Two big heads."
64	* DVD covers for ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' do this, up to and including Creator/TheCriterionCollection [[https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr release]] with heads hovering over Hollywood. Alongside their other releases for David Lynch films, such as for ''[[https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead Eraserhead]]'' and ''[[https://www.criterion.com/films/29237-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,]]'' Lynch seems to require that his films be illustrated in a simple fashion and closely to how their original posters looked for Blu-ray and DVD.
65	* The promotional posters for ''Film/{{No Country for Old Men}}'' featured Llewelyn Moss as a tiny figure fleeing desperately from [[EvilOverlooker the looming visage of the inexorable Anton Chigurh]], the composition of [[http://www.amazon.com/Country-Old-Men-Vintage-International/dp/0307387135 the image]] reflecting the story's contemplation of trying in vain to outrun fate. For [[http://www.amazon.com/Country-Old-Men-Javier-Bardem/dp/B00118T63C the DVD cover]]? Floating Heads!
66	* The poster for ''Film/ThePatriot2000'' was a pretty big offender - as the image caption says, it looks like the soldiers are running for their lives from Creator/MelGibson's terrifyingly enormous face. The initial home video release [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NDFXHAW9L.jpg also suffers from this]], but the [[ReCut Extended Cut]] release [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TiXRZCo7L.jpg is an aversion]].
67	* The first three ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' [=DVD=]s, especially when the cast grows. The [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides fourth one]] averted with either only Jack Sparrow or half-body versions of the four main characters.
68	* All of the movies in the Vault Disney Collection of [=DVDs=]. The ''Film/{{Pollyanna\|1960}}'' cover looks especially bad, with the protagonist's giant head appearing in the sky above a normal-sized Pollyanna.
69	* [[https://www.amazon.com/Rivers-Edge/dp/B000053VAX The DVD cover for]] ''Film/RiversEdge''. Averted with the film's [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Rivers-edge-poster.jpg actual poster]].
70	* Disney ignored the excellent Art Deco poster it made for ''Film/TheRocketeer'' and cooked up a FloatingHeadSyndrome cover as part of their effort to make the Lamest Home Video Releases Ever. Disney also gave ''The Gnome-Mobile'' [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5162DKVF6NL._SS500_.jpg worse.]]
71	* The theatrical poster for ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' features the heads of Tom Hanks and three other actors slightly faded into the clouds above a silhouetted soldier
72	* A large number of of horror films released after ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}''.
73	** The most obvious examples are ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', ''Film/UrbanLegend'', and ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', and ''Scream'''s own sequels. So synonymous was this style with the franchise, that ''Film/{{Scream4}}'' even used it in 2011, despite it no longer being a trendy poster style at that point.
74	** This gets alluded to in the making-of features of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake. The creators said they wanted something simple, and wished to avoid the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Scream_2.jpg "roughly]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/I_Know_What_You_Did_Last_Summer.jpg five]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Urban_Legend_film.jpg kids]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Final_Destination_movie.jpg facing]][[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/HalloweenH20poster.jpg forward"]] thing that seemed prevalent at the time.
75	*** Which still got a floating head poster in the form of a floating head Leatherface (with a green tint).
76	* ''Film/TheSecret2007'': The poster has Creator/DavidDuchovny's face over Creator/OliviaThirlby's with a black background.
77	* The cover of the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie features the floating head of Sharon Da Silva.
78	* Most ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movies feature this. An iconic ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' poster features the [[CoolStarship Enterprise]] beneath a pillar of rainbow light with Kirk, Ilia and Spock's head floating above it. Both ''Film/StarTrekViTheUndiscoveredCountry'' and ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' feature similar "heads in a pillar of light," while one poster for ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' had a poster replicating TMP's almost exactly. ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'' goes for the EvilOverlooker instead.
79	* ''Franchise/StarWars''
80	** The [[https://vhscollector.com/artwork-advsearch?search=yes&format=7&country=9&ryear=85&op_orig_title1=AND&op_orig_title2=AND&rtitle1=star%20wars&rtitle2=the%20empire%20strikes%20back&rtitle3=return%20of%20the%20jedi&re_orig_title1=OR&re_orig_title2=OR&pdistc1=AND&pdistc2=AND&coverc1=AND&coverc2=AND&keywordc1=AND&keywordc2=AND&keywordc3=AND&keywordc4=AND&addc1=AND&addc2=AND&runc1=AND&runc2=AND covers]] for the 1995 VHS and Laserdisc releases of the Original Trilogy[[note]]the last time Fox and Lucasfilm would release the original versions on VHS and Laserdisc[[/note]] show the disembodied heads of Darth Vader, a Stormtrooper, and Yoda cut vertically in half, and looming over scenes from the movies.
81	** All the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}s released during the 2000s suffer from this.
82	** This also applies to some of the movies' March 2020 4K Ultimate Collector's Editions, and any releases that recycle their cover art.
83	* The special edition DVD release of ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' has this, along with the "deluxe editions" of the third and fourth movies. The second film's special edition DVD averted this by showing Superman flying instead of his floating head.
84	* A good deal of posters and DVD covers for the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series are simply pictures of the title cyborg's head. Many of these show off the "part man, part machine" aspect.
85	* ''Film/TianDi'' features Creator/AndyLau's giant floating head over the skyline of 1920s Shanghai.
86	* ''Film/TurkishDelight'': Not on the poster picture as seen on the movies' [=TvTropes=] page, but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Delight_(1973_film)#/media/File:Turkish_Delight_(film).jpg on the DVD cover]]: the two main characters' heads are really floating and tacked-onto the background.
87	* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'''s movie [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unforgiven.png poster]] shows the heads of the major characters stacked up in a column.
88	* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' came under fire for its teaser posters featuring floating heads of James [=McAvoy=] and Michael Fassbender floating (right near the respective crotches) of a silhouette of Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/IanMcKellen respectively.
89	* The DVD cover of ''Yellowbeard'' features full body shots of most of the main cast together, but it's mostly dominated by the giant floating heads of Creator/CheechAndChong, who incidentally [[CoversAlwaysLie really only show up towards the end of the movie]].
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92	[[folder:Literature]]
93	* When the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' started, there was no requirement for the cover to literally depict a scene from the book, and the cover from the first book in the series, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTimewyrmGenesys Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', included the Seventh Doctor's head floating in midair. Years later, when the last book starring the Seventh Doctor, ''Lungbarrow'', was being written, there was a thought that it should have [[BookEnds a similar cover]]. Since it was now the convention that the cover ''should'' depict a scene from the book, the author added a sequence where the Doctor's HugeHolographicHead appeared over London. Then that scene wasn't used for the cover after all.
94	* The Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations often had the Doctor's floating head, especially on covers by Chris Achilleos who traditionally did the heads in monochrome and the rest of the picture in colour. [[http://chrisachilleos.co.uk/book-covers/dr-who-original-target.html See some examples here.]]
95	* All three books of ''Literature/TheFlightEngineer'' feature co-author Creator/JamesDoohan's head. Which is rather odd considering that the character who's most like Scotty isn't the hero. The third book adds the head of a [[InsectoidAliens Fibian]].
96	* No live actors represented, but the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:GhostoftheJediCover.jpg cover]] to ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Ghost of the Jedi'' has floating heads of Darth Vader and Aiden Bok in the background. Bok might be understandable, as he's the eponymous ghost, but Vader?
97	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheRestOfTheRobots'':
98	** The 1968 {{Creator/Panther}} cover has a pink/red robot head in the centre of the cover and eight translucent duplicates around it, all on a black background.
99	** The 2018 Creator/HarperCollins cover has a yellow robot head in the centre of the cover and six duplicates around it, all on a dynamic purple background.
100	* The original paperback cover for ''Literature/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' had a giant disembodied zombie head and hands looming behind a woman in a black void, seemingly about to grab her. Overlaps with EvilOverlooker, what with the zombies being the villains and all.
101	* This was a common cover design for almost all of the ''Star Trek'' novels of the nineties.
102	** The cover of ''Literature/StarTrekFederation'' had Captains [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]] and [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]] from the shoulders up and not much else.
103	** It fell out of favor by the mid-00's, though the ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact'' novels revived it for a time.
104	** One of the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' numbered novels, ''Imbalance'', had Crusher and Riker's heads floating over the Jarada's city.
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108	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': On the British DVD boxsets, the covers tend to be floating busts but ''every single disc has a floating Angel head.'' All doing the same "Am I brooding or did I leave the iron on?" face, but ''separate images.'' You'd guess the camera team got drunk and did a giant photoshoot of this one expression at different angles, then realized they had to do ''something'' with it.
109	* The Creator/{{Sony}} ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' [=DVDs=] had covers that each showed large versions of Samantha, Darrin, and Endora (and in later seasons, Sam's and Darrin's children as well) looming above a cartoonish city, usually cut off from either the torso up, or the shoulders up. The box for Sony's DVD of the complete series instead had a full-body shot of Sam's AnimatedCreditsOpening self as its focal image, but did have little bordered pictures of actors' heads on the bottom.
110	* When serials from the classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' series were released on VHS in the 1990s, most of them had beautiful paintings commissioned specially for them. After 1997, this stopped.
111	** [[http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt32/doctorwhonews/Products/DVD/DWS6-Complete-DVD-LE.jpg The cover]] of the Limited Edition of the Series 6 boxset consists of ''only'' a giant floating Silent head in a pitch black background. (For the sake of contrast, the regular edition's cover is [[http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt32/doctorwhonews/Products/DVD/DWS6-Complete-DVD.jpg a non-beheaded group shot.]])
112	* One of the boxes of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' [=DVDs=] only has the faces of Clark, Lana and Lex on it.
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115	[[folder:Magazine]]
116	* ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'':
117	** In the [[Recap/Analog1940 April 1940]] issue, on page 101 for "{{Literature/Reincarnate}}", a skull floats in the centre of a full-page explosion, with lightning and particles radiating away from it.
118	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1944 April 1944 issue]], advertising Creator/AEVanVogt's "Literature/{{The Changeling\|1944}}", has a central face/head with normal colouration for a caucasion, and six others heads that are monochrome imitations of the central face with slight changes, implying the ability to change shape.
119	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1951 June 1951 issue]], advertising Creator/EricFrankRussell's ". . .And Then There Were None", had seven floating heads and a floating bicycle above a landscape of a lake and mountains.
120	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1951 July 1951 issue]], advertising Creator/JamesSchmitz's "Literature/TheEndOfTheLine", has a male and female face floating in front of a vertical [[RetroRocket cigar-shaped silver rocket]] where people were in line to board.
121	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1951 August 1951 issue]], advertising Creator/MCPease's "Literature/CityOfThePhoenix", has a disembodied head and two disembodied hands that overlook a spiral galaxy.
122	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1952 April 1952 issue]], advertising [[Creator/WalterMiller Walter M. Miller, Jr.]]'s "Literature/DumbWaiter", has the heads of a man and woman staring imperiously down at a boy on a bicycle.
123	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1960 September 1960 issue]], advertising Creator/DavidGordon's "Literature/ByProxy", shows a human face floating in front of a [[RubberForeheadAliens blue-skinned alien]] face, both above a horizontal [[RetroRocket cigar-shaped white and red rocket]] on stilts like a boat.
124	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1970 May 1970 issue]], advertising Creator/JohnDalmas's "Literature/ButMainlyByCunning", has the floating heads of a wolf and a woman in the background sky above a viking-inspired knight on horseback.
125	** The cover of the [[Recap/Analog1974 March 1974 issue]], advertising Creator/JerryPournelle's "Literature/HighJustice", had a female face with a blue-green tint in the background.
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128	[[folder:Music]]
129	* A few Music/{{Kraftwerk}} albums have this, namely ''Music/ComputerWorld'' and ''Electric Cafe''.
130	* ''Music/LittleGames'' by Music/TheYardbirds shows the band members as floating heads on a psychedelic art work cover.
131	* Music/PhilCollins has his head in the red light on his ''No Jacket Required'' Album. Also appears in the music video for his greatest hit "In the Air Tonight" to intercut with Phil wandering down the corridor full of doors.
132	* ''Music/{{Scorpions\|Band}}'': The original album cover of ''Taken by Force'' featured the band in a cemetery, but it was replaced by a [[MinimalisticCoverArt black background]] with stock photos of the band.
133	* More than one of Music/MichaelBolton's albums qualifies, including ''Time, Love, and Tenderness''.
134	* ''Music/WithTheBeatles'' has the four band members' faces half-lit in darkness, with Ringo just below the other three.
135	* ''Real Life'' by Music/{{Magazine}} had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Life_%28Magazine_album%29#/media/File:Magazine_-_Real_Life.jpg a disturbingly different sort of Floating Heads cover.]]
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138	[[folder:Pinball]]
139	* Creator/{{Stern}}'s ''Pinball/{{Ali}}'' has UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli's head floating on both the backglass and playfield art.
140	* Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' does this with Spidey's supporting characters, who are shown on the playfield as a set of floating heads before a set of clouds.
141	* The playfield for ''Pinball/{{Seawitch}}'' has the disembodied head of a Seawitch glaring at the player.
142	* The [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition "Vengeance Premium" edition]] of Creator/SternPinball's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekStern Star Trek]]'' features the heads of various characters floating above and around the ''Narada'' and the ''Vengeance''.
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145	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
146	* Much of the promotional material for ''Ride/SkullIslandReignOfKong'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] shows Kong's head floating above Skull Island.
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149	[[folder:Video Games]]
150	* This is pretty much the entirety of the logos for ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2;'' it's just Freddy's [[SmugSmiler smiling face]] next to the title.[[note]]And, as a side note, the Platform/{{Steam}} banner [[RefugeInAudacity does away with the title, instead opting to assume Freddy's head will be enough.]] ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome It worked... and propelled the game to the #1 Best Selling Game spot.]]''[[/note]]
151	* Some of the ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' loading screens (in game comic book covers) feature these as parodies of Silver Age comics.
152	* The ''VideoGame/FZero'' series has this, notably ''VideoGame/FZeroX'', which features Captain Falcon's angry face on the center of the cover.
153	* ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' has a downplayed variant, with the box art showing Locke and Master Chief's heads and chests on opposite sides of the image, and in the center, a Guardian.
154	* Yahtzee writes on the subject on [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8631-Extra-Punctuation-American-Box-Art-Sucks this]] Extra Punctuation, touching on ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'', ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'' and others, as part of a column bemoaning how American cover art is almost invariably of poorer quality than its international equivalents.
155	* Most of the covers for the NES ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' games' Japanese versions had this, for the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Robot Masters]] (from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' onwards). However, this is a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools positive case]], as they are considered universally better than their [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore overseas]] [[SoBadItsGood counterparts]]. When ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' came out as [[{{Retraux}} throwbacks to that era]], this design philosophy [[GrandfatherClause was preserved]] for their covers.
156	* ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' has a cover with the heads of Samus and Adam, along with young Samus in almost full-body profile.
157	* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' had one of these on its cover.
158	* One of the covers for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' consists of nothing but Claire's face. The default cover just consists of Claire and Chris from the shoulders up, against a moody blue-hued background - and re-releases of the game add in a faint image of Wesker's floating head in between them.
159	* The cover of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'' consists entirely of Lara's head, most likely to show off her re-design.
160	* Used for the "Movie Poster" photo backdrop in ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife''.
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164	* A number of these get lambasted in [[http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-does-dvd-cover-art-suck-so-much.html Why Do Great Movies Get Awful DVD Cover Art?]]
165	* Also, see [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/47d8df4123/movie-poster-floating-heads-from-fod-team this awesome video]] for a look at the process of making the floating head poster.
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