Line #21 Main/NowThatsUsingYourTeeth


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:"You know, you talk too much... In battle, there's only one way you should be using your mouth!" ]]
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4	->''"I am sick of hearing these bullshit Superman stories about the legendary ''waza'' Bruce Leroy catchin’ bullets with his teeth. Catches bullets with his teeth?! Nigga, please."''
5	-->-- '''Sho’nuff''', ''Film/TheLastDragon''
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7	Hard as it may be to imagine, having two hands with opposable thumbs can actually be pretty restrictive. For one thing, everybody knows that you can do stuff with your hands. No one in their right mind is going to do something like point a gun at a person's arm, because you're pretty much just begging them to [[BulletCatch grab a bullet out of thin air]] and [[RightBackAtYa throw it at you]]. So once a character is sufficiently strong, he needs a new way to catch an opponent off guard, and that means giving him a third arm. And what better place to have a third arm than with those shiny white things in your mouth?
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9	In terms of story and narrative development, this is a fairly popular method of showing a character as being unbelievably strong--or, at any rate, much better at what they do than pretty much any nameless {{mook\|s}}. In actual practice, this is a trope that usually falls strictly under the domain of RuleOfCool. Are there people in the world who can use their teeth to do practically anything? Maybe. Teeth are pretty strong, after all, and can exert more force than a hand. Still, one can't help but wonder how those teeth manage to continue to stay pearly white even after they've grabbed every filthy, dangerous, explosive object under the sun. Ah well. [[MST3KMantra Best not to dwell on it too much]].
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11	CutlassBetweenTheTeeth is a subtrope, when someone uses their mouth to wield a weapon. Another subtrope is PinPullingTeeth, when someone uses their teeth to arm a grenade. Compare HandyMouth, where creatures without grasping limbs make do by using their mouths instead.
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13	See ManBitesMan for the ''other'' use of the teeth in battle.
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16	!!Examples:
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21	* In an Isuzu commercial, Joe Isuzu (actor David Leisure) demonstrates the car's speed by firing a bullet, then getting in the car and driving ahead of it. Once ahead, he gets out of the car, holds a target in front of his face and catches the bullet in his teeth.
22	* In a Rold-Gold pretzels commercial, a guy sitting in the crowd (played by Jason Alexander) is picked out to be the substitute goalie for a hockey game. Near the end, he blocks a shot by catching the puck in his teeth.
23	* According to the "Chain of Mystery" Tab Clear adverts, the Olga rock formations were created by a crashed Soviet cosmonaut who spent thirty-one years carving statues of his girlfriend Olga with his teeth. Now everything becomes clear...
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27	* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', it looks like an old man had committed suicide in his room; then Conan deduces that [[spoiler: the victim had his hands bound behind his back, and then the rope that was looped around his neck was also threaded through his teeth so that if he called for help or his jaw gave out he would hang himself]].
28	* Manga/{{Ranma\|OneHalf}} has on many an occasion blocked opponents' attacks with his teeth, most notably against Ryu Kumon.
29	* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', Krory stops Lavi's [[CarryABigStick Hammer Drop]] attack (which involves Lavi jumping above him and growing his hammer to roughly the size of a small building) with his teeth. Lavi is duly impressed.
30	-->'''Lavi''': Nice teeth.
31	** A later arc sees a Level 4 Akuma catch Allen's Crown Clown sword this way before wrenching it out of his hands. It would've won the fight then and there had Allen not had the ability to call the sword to him.
32	* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Alucard stops Rip van Winkle's bullet with his teeth (and half his face, but he gets better).
33	* In ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'', Michiko pulls up a rope with her teeth to save a man from falling to his death while her hands are tied on her back.
34	* [[BattleButler Roberta]] from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' makes use of this trope to catch one of Shenhua's kukris mid-swing. She then proceeds to ''[[https://i.imgur.com/KZQYWKk.gif shatter it with her teeth]]'' while giving a giant SlasherSmile, thoroughly freaking Shenhua out.
35	* In the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' anime, Sarutobi Sasuke catches a knife with his teeth when Kasuga throws it at his face.
36	* In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' has a complicated to explain example. During a Tournament the android Sechs has to face off against an opponent whose arms are designed to work as a rail gun to catapult objects into orbit, which means around mach 27. During the fight Sechs is bound up with super elastic belts designed to hold cargo together during said catapulting. His opponent then grabs Sechs and shoots him at a wall. However Sechs managed to not only cut free from the belts but also place them around his opponents head. He then holds the two ends of the belt between his legs and in his teeth. The result is Sechs being catapulted back at his opponent.
37	* Kagura from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' catches a bullet with each hand and the last one in her teeth when fighting Matako. Later, Gintoki breaks Oboro's first sword by biting it.
38	* Kuroki from ''Manga/BlazerDrive'' blocks a shadow spike from an enemy with his teeth. Said spike came from the enemy's tongue, leading to... unfortunate implications.
39	* ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor'' catches a nail shot from a nailgun in his teeth. If that isn't bad enough, the nailgun actually had enough power to shoot the nails from halfway across a room with enough force to ''pull him out of the way of a falling scaffold and nail his jacket (with him still in it) to a wall several meters away''.
40	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has Jack Rakan, who [[spoiler: when confronted with knives surrounding his head in his fight with Negi, decides to bite them. The knives SWEAT!]]
41	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
42	** Roronoa Zoro uses three swords in combat: one in each hand, and one gripped in his teeth.
43	** Arlong's jaws are so strong, he's able to catch a ''cannon ball'' in his mouth, which he subsequently ''shatters''. He later does the same thing to a stone column.
44	** The New Fishmen Pirates captain Hody Jones, a Great White Shark fishman, has destroyed a whole pirate crew ''and'' their ship using only his jaws. His crewmate Daruma is a Cookie-Cutter Shark Fishman that threatens to eat offenders. He regularly tunnels underground with them.
45	* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'': Saitama catches and breaks Sonic's sword with his teeth, so fast that Sonic doesn't even realize what happened at first. In the webcomic, he later does something similar to Flashy Flash.
46	* The 7th from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' blocked Yuno's knife with his teeth. Partially justified because he [[ScryVsScry knew it was coming]].
47	* In a bonus novel for ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Sogiita Gunha uses his teeth to stop [[ShockAndAwe Mikoto's]] [[MagneticWeapons Railgun]] (at 30% power).
48	* In the second ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' OVA, Shizuo catches a knife (thrown at him by Izaya) with his teeth ''twice'', shattering it one of those times.
49	* ''Manga/RaveMaster'':
50	** Demon Beryl at one point blocks Haru's Explosion sword with his canines and no collateral damage. Meaning that [[MadeOfIron he took an explosion in the mouth with no ill effect]].
51	** Haru catches an arrow with his teeth that an enemy fired at ''point blank range''.
52	** Towards the end of the series, Lucia does this to one of Elie's tonfa bullets, also fired at point blank range.
53	* In one ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' Reload chapter, [[spoiler:Goku, in his Seiten Taisei form]] catches a bullet by his teeth.
54	* In the finale of ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'', Nagasumi is able to catch a bullet between his teeth and proceeds to pound the shit out of his shooter.
55	* ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'': When [[JapaneseDelinquents Harry/Hallie Tribeca]] had her limbs bound in [[ClassRepresentative Els Tasmin's]] {{chain\|Pain}}s, she responds by using her teeth to grab one of the chains her opponent was holding on to and tugging at it with all her might, dragging poor Els towards her and right into the range of her fist.
56	* ''Anime/TekkenTheMotionPicture'' has a scene where this occurs; as described by [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] after seeing it…
57	-->'''Spoony''': laughing My god, I love it. Someone actually wrote in the script the words, "Julia[[note]]It's actually Michelle, despite what Spoony said.[[/note]] throws a Tomahawk at Heihachi, who catches it in his mouth, and eats it". See, what's funny is, I don't actually question that he ''can'' do this; just, when did he know that he ''could'' break metal with his teeth? I mean, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower did he practice or something]]?
58	* In the ''Anime/{{Grenadier}}'' manga, Namari Shirogane manages to catch one of Rushuna's bullets with her teeth. Rushuna wonders what kind of teeth could do something like that, and Namari comically insists they're so strong because she brushes ''every day''.
59	* In ''Manga/{{Isuca}}'', Shinichirou Asano manages to catch a cursed katana with his teeth. As a bonus, this is close enough to count as a kiss, allowing his MagicKiss ability to activate (the katana is sentient).
60	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Moonfish is a supervillain with the power to rapidly grow and control his teeth. He grows them into jagged, multi-pronged stilts to hoist himself above the battlefield, and extends them like spears to skewer people at wild angles.
61	** Chapter 410 has [[spoiler:Bakugo do this to the reverse-aging All For One's final desperation attack; a Rivet Stab spike from the mouth, leading him to blow it to pieces with his Quirk before All For One disappears from existence.]]
62	* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', Guts and Griffith's duel (with the stakes being that if Guts loses he'll join the Band of the Hawk) seems like it's come to a conclusion when Griffith has Guts at swordpoint. Guts interrupts his speech by ''biting'' the tip of the sword to move it away. Griffith is taken aback by Guts doing something so unconventional and dangerous just to keep fighting. Guts still loses the duel, but by the end of it Griffith is suitably impressed.
63	* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': When one of the Yagyo Atsuki gang tries to stab Ryuji with a razor blade (the break-off kind), he bites it off.
64	* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': A Mafia man tried to shoot Uvogin at point-blank range, only for the latter to catch the bullet with his teeth.
65	* ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'': Negishi/Krauser's signature move is playing the electric guitar (with metal strings) using his mouth. Off-stage Negishi worries it will damage his teeth in the long run.
66	* ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'': In Episode 8 of Dropkick on My Devil X (season 3), Yurine, Kyon-Kyon, and Lierre all storm a castle that Jashin-''chan'', Mei, and the fallen angels (Pekola, Poporon, and Pino) have proclaimed theirs. Near the end of the episode, Mei attempts to shoot a bullet at Kyon-Kyon (who is furious because Mei took her sister Ran-Ran), but the latter catches the bullet with her teeth.
67	* ''Manga/MashleMagicAndMuscles''": Mash attempt this against [[TheDragon Master Doom]]'s {{BFS}}. [[spoiler:Doom knows full well that Mash [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower can absolutely pull it off]], so at the last second he raises the sword to cut Mash's [[EyeScream eyes]]. Which leads to the even more absurd scenario of Mash catching the sword ''with his eyelids''.]]
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71	* ComicBook/GreenArrow has been shown using his teeth to draw back his bowstring when one of his arms is incapacitated, most notably in the final battle in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', where said arm ''doesn't exist'' any more.
72	* In the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' book "Fingers", the titular stage magician interferes when Joe Dalton is about to shoot an unarmed Luke, saying that it "wouldn't be nice". Joe, being Joe, pulls the trigger anyways, only for Fingers to [[BulletCatch catch the bullet]]. Joe, enraged, fires his gun point blank in Fingers' face - and Fingers catches the bullet with his teeth. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a subversion; Fingers had made sure Joe's revolver was loaded with blanks. The "catches" were all Fingers' trademark sleight of hand.]]
73	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
74	** ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': In #68 Diana bites through the chain holding her to a weight after being sent overboard.
75	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Diana uses her teeth in a lot of odd ways, though one of the most memorable was biting the top of a cage filled with US Navy men who'd been captured by Queen Clea and holding it so it didn't fall into the water Clea intended to drown them in while using the rest of her limbs to defend against Clea's attacks and keep hold of the chain that had been holding the cage.
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79	* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'': Penthesilea catches Neo's sword with her teeth. However, Neo then yanks the sword out, and it ends up cutting the inside of her cheek.
80	* In the crossover fic ''Fanfic/ThievesCanBeHeroes'', [[VideoGame/Persona5 Ann Takamaki]] has the [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Quirk]], "Razor Teeth", that gives her superhumanly strong teeth with a visible cutting edge, letting her bite through metal if she tries hard enough. It tends to be a hindrance in normal life(she's bitten through four forks and countless sets of chopsticks by accident), but has proven very useful as a Phantom Thief.
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84	* In ''WesternAnimation/SinbadLegendOfTheSevenSeas'', Kale grabs his enemy's sword in his teeth, then jerks his head to throw the opponent overboard. Quoth Sinbad, "And ''I'' was overworking it?"
85	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Abby catches a dodgeball with her teeth.
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89	* ''Film/AceVentura'': Ace catches a bullet in his teeth (while driving his car and leaning out the window, mind you).
90	* ''Manga/IchiTheKiller'': Kakihara loves showing off his GlasgowGrin; in one street fight, he yanks the pins from his cheeks and catches a man's fist in his horribly wide maw. ''Chomp.''
91	* ''Film/HandOfDeath'': Yun Fei, the hero gets captured alive and subjected to UnwillingSuspension via the ankles... only to untie himself by bending over and using his teeth on the ropes.
92	* ''Film/TheLongChase'': The main character at one point catches three darts flung at him, two with his hands and one with his teeth. And throws them back killing three mooks in the process.
93	* In ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan'', when fighting terrorists, Zohan catches two bullets with his hands before catching a third one with his teeth. He then [[SerialEscalation catches a fourth one with his nose.]] This is all seen as pretty mundane to Zohan.
94	* Parodied in ''Film/{{UHF}}'', where the bullet is not only caught with the teeth, but it is then crunched and shot back from the mouth.
95	* The Taiwanese martial arts flick, ''Film/TheSupremeSword'', has the heroine's mentor (a CoolOldGuy) using his teeth to catch an opponent's sword ''by the tip'' during a fight, and then break it by biting.
96	* In the Mamushka scene of ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', Uncle Fester catches a falling dagger in his throat, blocking it with his teeth.
97	* ''Film/{{Hulk}}''. Annoyed that his attempt to make his son start HulkingOut isn't working, David Banner decides to bring about his own transformation by biting through a thick power cable. Given his deluged ranting moments before, it's a literal case of ChewingTheScenery.
98	* At the end of ''Film/TheLastDragon'', Bruce Leroy achieves the final level of Kung Fu mastery and is able to catch a fired bullet in his teeth.
99	* ''Film/{{Body}}'': Although paralyzed from the neck down, Arthur managed to grab the tassel on a table runner with his teeth and pull on it, causing a tray of glasses to fall to the floor in an attempt to attract attention.
100	* An accidental version in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' when James Bond takes a shot at Jaws, only for the bullet to ricochet off his steel teeth. Jaws doesn't push his luck and instead ducks into a nearby doorway.
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104	* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Bakuda tries to break herself and two other criminals out of their transport to [[TheAlcatraz the Birdcage]] by getting Lung angry enough to heat up a piece of iron with his [[PlayingWithFire fire powers.]] She then uses her teeth to forge it into a screwdriver to help loosen their bonds. It hurts a great deal, but it actually works, to an extent.
105	* The two-headed Peirson's Puppeteers from the ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' series lack arms (or looked at another way, their heads are their arms, given their brains are near the point where the necks join into the trunk), but their mouths are well adapted to manipulating objects.
106	* In ''[[Literature/EarthsChildren Clan of the Cave Bear]]'', Creb used his mouth and teeth to hold and manipulate objects because he only had one arm. His teeth were worn down from doing that. Noteworthy for being one of the few characters to do this who is explicitly ''not'' super strong, as well as for showing what would happen to a real person's teeth if they did this all the time. (Well, OK, technically he's a Neanderthal, but that's neither here nor there.) TruthInTelevision, as the teeth of people from low-tech societies often exhibit wear-patterns from tasks such as chewing on animal sinew to soften it for use as twine.
107	* Sunny from ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''. She doesn't mostly use her teeth in combat even under a loose definition of that term, but the stories constantly imply that Sunny's teeth are as useful to her as those of a beaver; for instance, they have many [[PlotTailoredToTheParty plots tailored to the party]] and ordinarily Sunny's part involves using her teeth.
108	** As an example, in ''The Ersatz Elevator'' she used them to scale a wall.
109	** In ''The Miserable Mill'' Sunny actually uses her teeth as pseudo-swords to fight off the villain in a 'swordfight,' and the most impressive thing about it is that they were pretty much equals in the fight, despite the fact that the villain had a longer reach, was using an actual sword, and was fighting a ''baby''.
110	* In ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'', Vimes fires a shot at Wolfgang, who, currently shifting between human and werewolf, instinctively catches it in his teeth. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Wolfgang, [[YourHeadAsplode it was a shot from a flare gun]].]]
111	* Lincoln Rhyme, in ''Literature/TheBoneCollector'' and other novels in the series, is essentially quadriplegic throughout the series. In the first book, he's about to be killed by a psychotic madman, so he uses the only weapon he has left, his teeth. As noted below in RealLife, that's more than enough to rip out a throat...
112	* One viking in ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' is named Sven Swordeater, who has a matching pair of ugly scars on each of his cheeks. And he's the same age as the protagonists!
113	* According to one of his crew, {{Literature/Wulfrik}}'s fangs can bite through iron (and has sworn that someday he'll bite through steel).
114	* Frank Willis of ''Literature/OneHundredCupboards'' uses his teeth to bite Monmouth free of UnwillingSuspension in a woven sack, as his hands are tied behind his back. [[ManBitesMan He also bites Monmouth]], but that's an accident.
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118	* In an episode of ''Series/Batman1966'', the Riddler had captured Robin, tied him up and threw him off the ledge of a building. Batman saved him by throwing down the Bat-Rope and telling him to grab onto it with his teeth.
119	* ''Series/MythBusters'' tested the "catch a bullet with your teeth" myth. They used both human teeth and pig teeth (a pig's teeth are much tougher than a human's). They found that even if a human somehow had the reflexes to catch a bullet, the bullet would completely destroy the teeth and continue through the person's head, so they declared the myth busted.
120	* ''Series/OddSquad'':
121	** In the Season 3 finale "End of the Road", Orana, who is buried under sand, uses her teeth to grab her Boomerang-inator and use it as an improvised shovel to dig herself out, along with Oprah and Oliver.
122	** Freeze Ray Ray uses his teeth to grip a pencil and write with it in "The Perfect Score".
123	** The Season 2 finale "Odds and Ends" has Otis flying up to the Black-hole-inator sphere and yanking the #5 gadget out of it using his teeth, deactivating it.
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127	* Gangryong in ''Manhwa/{{Veritas}}'' often uses his teeth when fighting an opponent.
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131	* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "I've Got A Fang" opens with the lyric: "Glistening white triangular tooth / Open up a can of tomato juice." Reportedly, the song was inspired by John Linnell's memories of watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' (see below under Western Animation) as a kid. Fangface never actually used his fang to open up a can of tomato juice, but he did once open a can of red paint (in the episode "The Invisible Menace Mix-Up").
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135	* At ''War Of The Worlds'' Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger almost defeated Wrestling/{{R\|ingOfHonor}}OH World Champion Adam Cole with a [[MundaneMadeAwesome rocking horse]]. Cole only escaped by biting the bottom rope.
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139	* In ''VideoGame/WildArms5'', [[PsychoForHire Kartikeya]] is shown [[BulletCatch catching a bullet with his teeth]] when Greg attempts to wipe that smug bastard's grin with a point-blank range head shot. He smacks Greg for that one, saying that it hurt. A lot.
140	* [[BattleButler Winfield]] of ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' does boxing. This apparently grants him the power to catch a katana with his teeth (one wielded by a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot demonic samurai-sorcerer]], no less). It's OK, though: boxing explicitly makes you superhuman in that world. Because.
141	* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Tekken 6]]'''s story mode, Heihachi [[BulletCatch catches a bullet fired at him]] with his teeth and contemptuously spits it out. Possibly a ShoutOut to his similar feat in [[TheMovie the animated movie]].
142	* Goro Majima in ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' can learn a [[LimitBreak HEAT move]] in his [[DanceBattler "Breaker"]] style which allows him to catch swords (or wooden even wooden ones) with his teeth, kicking the opponent in the head and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard then sending it flying back to them and stabbing them]] (or knocking them over if it's wooden).
143	* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', Lady shoots Dante in the head, but his HealingFactor lets him survive. While he's complaining about how much that hurt, she tries to shoot him again, but this time, he catches the bullet with his teeth.
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147	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': In "[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] vs VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}", Dante catches one of Bayonetta's bullets with his teeth.
148	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "Truth Seekers", at the start of the fight sequence, one of the agents attempts to attack Blitzo with a sickle on a chain. Loona leaps in front of him and catches it with her teeth, then uses the sickle to slice another agent's throat.
149	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "haircut", Strong Bad doodles a guitar across a face-shot of Strong Mad, and it ends up going over Strong Mad's mouth.
150	-->'''Strong Mad:''' I DON'T WANNA EAT A GUITAR!\
151	'''Strong Bad:''' You're not eating it! You're shredding some hot licks... with your teeth.
152	* [[TheFightingNarcissist Tyrian Callows]] of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' once caught a crossbow bolt with his teeth, just for the hell of it after doing a regular ArrowCatch earlier in the fight. It backfired when the bolt [[TrickArrow exploded in his face]].
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156	* ''Webcomic/DemonFist'': Jaws routinely disarms enemies by biting their swords in half, among other things.
157	* ''Webcomic/JungleJuice'': Suchan's dragonfly powers include extremely sharp teeth, using it to chew his way through silk trapping one of his friends as well as to cut his own bindings on numerous occasions.
158	* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': When Sonic tries to kill Saitama with a sword strike that's too fast for normal people to see, Saitama demonstrates his overwhelming superiority by not only seeing it coming, but ''shattering'' the sword by ''biting it''.
159	* ''Webcomic/MonstersCanBeHeroesToo'': When Coal is fighting a skeleton who claims that he has the legendary blade Excalibur, Coal responds by biting down on his sword. Coal has the ability to eat metal so biting a sword isn't a problem for her.
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163	* [[Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG Mr. Welch]] has been forbidden from doing a few versions of this.
164	-->'''[[LongList #948]]:''' Even if the rules allow it, I can't catch dropped cannonballs with my teeth without drawbacks.
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168	* ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective'': One episode has Ace filling in for a Film/JamesBond-{{Expy}}. As he comes under fire while chasing the villain down in the requisite CoolCar, he notes his ability to catch bullets in his teeth, and prepares to do so. The villain launches a missile at Ace. He still catches it.
169	* ''Franchise/Ben10'' has Rath stop Seven Seven's [[LaserBlade laser sword]] with his teeth! He even destroys it.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' combines this with some pretty intense CartoonPhysics, routinely carving doors into rock walls, chewing tree trunks into usable ladders, and opening up paint cans with the comically large fang in the middle of his mouth.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' was once given the task of retrieving a scarf from around a pole with his teeth...''while on horseback.'' He succeeded, thanks to his "Gadget Teeth," a pair of flying, remote-controlled dentures. (Just so we're clear, the guy who challenged him was a MAD Agent, and the scarf had a bomb in it.)
172	* Ubiquitous to the point where the vast majority of its uses fall under MundaneUtility in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Completely justified since, as ponies, they have no hands with which to manipulate objects.
173	* When Splinter finally faces the Shredder in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', he manages to catch one of Shredder's blades with his teeth and break it. This isn't too far from what rats in real life can do, having been observed chewing through concrete or even lead pipes; in fact it's at this point Splinter turns the fight around by fighting like a rat instead of a man (including RunningOnAllFours).
174	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
175	** Once the crates are brought over to the cabins in "[[Recap/TotalDramaNotSoHappyCampersPartTwo Not So Happy Campers - Part 2]]", the next part of the challenge is for the contestants to open them using only their teeth. It's tough and painful, but all the crates do get opened.
176	** Leshawna provokes Beth during the badminton match in "[[Recap/TotalDramaMillionDollarBabies Million Dollar Babies]]" by insisting that she's lying about having a boyfriend. Beth shoves all her fury into the match with some incredible winning maneuvers, for one of which she holds the racquet in her teeth.
177	** In imitation of Music/JimiHendrix, Courtney plays with her teeth for a bit during the guitar play-along challenge in "[[Recap/TotalDramaRockNRule Rock 'n Rule]]".
178	** A segment on Eva in "[[Recap/TotalDramaCelebrityManhuntsTDAReunionShow Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show]]" reveals that she's upped her training regime. One form of training she's been doing is pulling a filled bus with her teeth by means of a rope.
179	** Part of the challenge in New York City in "[[Recap/TotalDramaBroadwayBaby Broadway, Baby!]]" is to bob for human-sized apples in a pond in Central Park. The three bobbers may not use their hands and Chris specifies only their teeth may be used. Of the three, only DJ actually uses his teeth to pull the apple by its stalk while the other two use their heads to move their apples.
180	** One part of the search for Jack the Ripper in "[[Recap/TotalDramaISeeLondon I See London...]]" requires the teams to undress a Beefeater to find a clue in his clothes. Team CIRRRRH nominates Tyler for the job, who is under the mistaken impression that he has to undress the Beefeater with his teeth only. Noah lets him stumble a bit before setting him straight.
181	** At the prospect of getting a kiss from Cody in "[[Recap/TotalDramaNiagaraBrawls Niagara Brawls]]", Sierra becomes hellbent on saving everyone from going over the Niagara Falls. She ties a rope around Owen, throws him over to the other paddle boat as grapnel, holds the rope between her teeth, and starts paddling the boat she's in forward with superhuman speed.
182	* The first time Molotov appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Brock throws a knife at her and she catches it in her teeth. Then she licks the blade and tries to stab him.
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186	* The human mouth is quite useful at acting [[MundaneUtility as a third hand]].
187	* TruthInTelevision: Music/JimiHendrix could play guitar with his teeth. If that doesn't count, nothing does.
188	** Buddy Guy will perform the same feat when covering Jimi's songs live. He can also play covers of Music/EricClapton with a handkerchief, or just play solos of his own making [[BeyondTheImpossible/MusicAndSoundEffects with his ass.]]
189	** The above TruthInTelevision is referenced in ''Manga/KOn'', in which the advisor of the titular club turns out to be able to perform the same feat.
190	** So can Krauser from ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'', though Souichi notes that it's not good for himself.
191	** Zack Wylde of HeavyMetal band Music/BlackLabelSociety shows off this ability as well during solos in live sets.
192	** Ryyuske from ''Manga/{{BECK\|1999}}'' as a homage.
193	* Humans have very impressive jaw strength compared to many animals, comparable to most attack dogs in terms of pounds per square inch exerted. And yet, only in the direct bite - human jaws are quite feeble otherwise. A German Shepherd died after attacking a slightly intoxicated man on a street in Ukraine. The cause? The man tore out the dog's throat. ''With his teeth!''
194	* Some Native Americans would carry an arrow in their mouth. This would make a faster draw than to draw from the quiver. It also allows them to use their hands to help ride their horse or to sneak around by crawling on all fours.
195	* It's common for paralyzed people to paint, write and control wheelchairs with their mouths/teeth.
196	* [[http://video.foxnews.com/v/1505117319001/paralympic-archer-fires-arrows-with-teeth/ Jeff Fabry]] is a U.S.Paralympic athlete born without arms who shoots his bow with his teeth.
197	* Paleolithic man would scrape hides by holding the hide with their non-dominant hand and their teeth, will scraping with their dominant hand. The resultant scratching pattern on recovered teeth has been used to demonstrate that humans have been predominantly right-handed since their earliest origins.
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