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7	->'''Sahjhan:''' You'll get your money.\
8	'''Arnie:''' I've heard that one before. You know, I've got mouths to feed. Plus a family. Some of them have mouths, too.
9	-->-- ''Series/{{Angel}}''
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11	In the same way that having {{extra eyes}} [[EyesDoNotBelongThere in unusual places]] can be unnerving, a creature with extra mouths can also be horrific, in a different way. The mouth is the organ of consumption, so a creature can be given extra mouths to show that it is a ravenous, [[HorrorHunger hungry]] monstrosity. A massive paunch and lack of other sensory organs will create the image of an organism with no intelligence or purpose other than to eat.
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13	To enhance the effect of the mouths, they may be equipped with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, or alternatively, might be gross and wide orifices with a thick tongue and smacking lips.
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15	But there are many other ways to add mouths, and many places. They can be obvious or discreet, even hidden. They may even have special properties or powers. Their owner can be an EldritchAbomination or a seemingly-normal human, or anything in between.
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17	Sometimes the extra mouths will be able to speak separately, which probably isn't very useful for communicating, but allow {{Magical Incantation}}s to be performed several at once.
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19	A SuperTrope to BellyMouth, VaginaDentata, NestedMouths. SubTrope to both MonsterMouth and SpareBodyParts. Compare TwoFaced and MultipleHeadCase, contrast NoMouth.
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22	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Alternate Reality Games]]
27	* Several flowers in ''ARG/OmegaMart'''s floral department have mouths in the center of their blossoms if they don't have eyes where they don't belong.
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	* Deidara in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has mouths on his palms. They appear to be the result of the Stone Village's kinjutsu, which allows him to infuse chakra into molding clay. By combining this with his Explosion release, he can make explosive clay sculptures of various shapes and sizes. He also has a massive sealed mouth on his ''chest''; feeding clay to that turns his own body into a powerful explosive.
32	* In ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'', Copy Rezo has two extra mouths, which is explained in the novels as being a result of also being a chimera (he's a hybrid of Rezo-clone and Mazoku). These mouths are used to utter incantations, though, not to eat or bite. The location of them differs.
33	* ''Literature/VampireHunterD'': The title character has some sort of parasite that manifests as a face in the palm of his left hand, which has strange, undefined magical powers, most notably the ability to suck in large amounts of material or magical energy at will, which can be used to nullify spells and revive D if he gets killed. It has a mind of its own and can talk to D.
34	* In the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga, the true forms of Father and Pride are shadow tentacle monsters made up of eyes and mouths. Gluttony can also go OneWingedAngel, opening his fake GateOfTruth in the form of one large mouth down the middle that spits a beam that teleports anything into his "stomach".
35	* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Noro and Eto both have kagune with mouths growing out of them. Eto's kagune mouths are capable of ''speech'', and tend to engage in random chatter while she's terrorizing her victims. [[spoiler: After devouring Eto's kakuja, Kaneki develops kagune with the same properties]].
36	* As you might expect, some of the monsters in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' are designed in this direction.
37	* [[spoiler:Zygarde Complete Forme]] from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has a functioning mouth at the end of each of its four wings, tail ''and'' body (think BellyMouth, only slightly higher).
38	* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'':
39	** [[GreaterScopeVillain Ryomen Sukuna]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the King of Curses]], incarnates into Yuji when Yuji eats one of [[SealedEvilInACan his cursed fingers containing a fragment of his power]]. He often manifests as a mouth on Yuji's hand or face to either taunt him or eat [[SealedEvilInASixpack a finger]].
40	** Kenjaku {{Body Surf}}s via BrainTransplant into new bodies. The brain itself has a lipless set of teeth--which isn't shown doing anything, as even when exposing this he emotes through his host's face.
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43	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
44	* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 70, Paddi comes back from his work with no grass and makes up the excuse that it was eaten by a mountain ghost with, among other features, two mouths. Sure enough, the mountain ghost the goats encounter later on does have two mouths - one on the front of its head and one on the back.
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47	[[folder:Card Games]]
48	* The All-Devouring Oni in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s Kamigawa storyline was this taken to its logical extreme: a swarming cloud of mouths with dagger-like teeth.
49	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
50	** [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Slifer_the_Sky_Dragon Slifer the Sky Dragon]], from both the card game and the anime, has two mouths.
51	** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Jawsman Jawsman]] has mouths all over its body, with both hands and one of its feet also being mouths. One of those hands is a hammerhead shark-like head, with the only eyes on its body.
52	* One of the ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'', [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey Mouths]], has mouths all over his body.
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55	[[folder:Comic Books]]
56	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'':
57	** The [[EyeScream Corinthian]] has mouths where his eyes should be.
58	** There's also Azazel, a demon who looks like a black hole in space with many mouths and eyes, and Choronzon, who has two mouths stacked on top of each other.
59	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Morlun has glowing suckers on his palms, comparable to ones ComicBook/{{Morbius}} was given in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.
60	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Choir, an obscure student at the Xavier School, has a ring of mouths around her neck that enable her to throw her voice.
61	* ''ComicBook/ZatannaEverydayMagic'': Constantine grows a mouth in his palm, thanks to EvilSorceress Nimue cursing him, which actually involved her biting into his palm during sex (he just thought she was kinky at first). It marks him as a HumanSacrifice to a demon,and he has to seek Zatanna's help in removing it.
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64	[[folder:Fanfiction]]
65	* Many creatures from the Homestuck fan adventure ''Webcomic/AlabasterTheDoomedSession'', and most notably the nightmarish [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=236&p=2055 Octolon]].
66	* The antagonist of ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'' Chapter 31 takes on a form that looks like a [[EnfanteTerrible little girl]] with a mouth full of MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily in the normal place, ''multiple'' small {{Lamprey Mouth}}s on each hand, and fanged mouths ''replacing its eyes''.
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69	[[folder:Film — Animation]]
70	* In ''WesternAnimation/WendellAndWild'', hellmaidens such as Kat are women marked by a demonic teddy bear to have the image of a skeletal mouth and nostrils on their hands. These mouths might talk under certain situations, such as the hellmaiden swearing allegiance to their personal demons.
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73	[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
74	* In ''Franchise/StarWars'' continuity, Ithorians were a benign example, an alien race where two mouths (with two throats per mouth) was the norm; [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Jedi Master Roron Corobb]] was able to ''use'' them, [[MakeMeWannaShout letting out a Force-enhanced roar]] that bowled over General Greivous' assassin droid's and nearly knocked over Grievous himself.
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78	* ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'': The Slime Eater, as illustrated on the original cover for ''Kharé — Cityport of Traps'', is a {{Cephalothorax}} monster with a huge maw, and smaller mouths on the tip of each finger.
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81	[[folder:Literature]]
82	* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': In Ramsay Campbell's stories, when the Great Old One Y'golonac possesses a human body, the body has mouths in its palms.
83	* ''Literature/{{Deeplight}}'': The [[spoiler:tranformed Jelt]] has an extra LampreyMouth on its back.
84	* ''Literature/TheDemonata'' has Artery, one of Lord Loss's familiar demons, who has mouths in his palms, with very sharp teeth in them.
85	* ''Literature/{{Expedition}}'': The gigantic creatures called sea striders have mouths in the bottoms of their feet, allowing them to gulp down mouthfuls of the Amoebic Sea just by walking about.
86	* ''Literature/GreatShip'': The harum-sacrum have two mouths, one on top of the other. One is connected to their lungs and is used for breathing and talking, while the other links to the digestive system. They aren't particularly evil, but do have a reputation for believing in [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership might makes right]].
87	* ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'': Claire Densmore has a backmouth -- a second mouth on the back of her head. It's armed with teeth sharper than those in her normal mouth.
88	* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': The maw-mouth BlobMonster is covered with the stolen [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes]] and mouths of everyone it's absorbed. Worse, the victims might still [[AndIMustScream be self-aware]]; when El fights it, she gets the feeling that the mouths are trying to speak to her.
89	* ''Literature/ShortAndShivery'': The [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-hyena]] antagonist of "Brother and Sister" has a second mouth on the back of his head in his human form, as the brother of the title discovers while watching him.
90	* ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'': Betelgeusians have two mouths; a beak-like one for speaking with, and a toothy one for eating with. As might be apparent from the description, they're not intended to be frightening or disgusting, just alien.
91	* ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'': [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Stalker the Soulsnatcher]] has a mouth on his palm that he uses to [[YourSoulIsMine extract the souls of his victims]].
92	* ''Literature/TheTripods'': The alien Masters have two mouths, one above the other. The upper mouth is used for breathing and speaking, while the lower one is for drinking and eating.
93	* ''Literature/TurnCoat'': The horde of demonic entities conjured up by Binder appear roughly human-like, but have mouths in both palms that drool disgusting, caustic saliva.
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96	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
97	* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'': In the PilotMovie, there's a female singing group whose members each have four eyes and two mouths (and apparently they can each sing two different notes).
98	* Rassets/Mandilok, of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger''/''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', literally embodies this trope.
99	* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint" deals with a [[spoiler:Futaguchi Onna in the person of the prostitute]] in medieval Japan. is implied to be consequence of inbreeding.
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102	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
103	* In Myth/AztecMythology, the primordial EldritchAbomination Cipactli had mouths at ''every joint''.
104	* The {{Youkai}} Futaguchi Onna (two-mouthed woman) appears as a normal woman with a huge, constantly hungry mouth on the back of her head. Usually, the normal mouth rarely eats, while the other one often gorges itself on anything in sight and can use the hair as tentacles.
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107	[[folder:Podcasts]]
108	* In ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'', the dark god beneath the garden most closely resembles a pile of corpses with numerous mouths in random places, which sing and speak in unison (although Mord points out the true appearance is a lot more horrible than that description allows).
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111	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
112	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
113	** The Gibbering Mouther is an amorphous aberration covered in mouths [[ExtraEyes and eyeballs]], capable of spewing streams of acid, turning the ground around it to a fluid morass, draining blood with its bite attack, and hitting everyone nearby with a ''confusion'' effect thanks to its constant insane gibbering.
114	** Dalmosh is a unique evil outsider that looks like a gargantuan humanoid with one gaping maw and a lumpen body covered in spiked scars. Every time an attack deals at least twenty points of damage, the injury tears into a new mouth that can immediately bite back at his attacker.
115	* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'':
116	** ''Dreamlands''. The Maws of Pandemonium spell causes the victim's body to sprout a red-lipped mouth that gibbers and moans as it drains the victim's magic points. When the victim loses consciousness, the mouth falls silent, but starts howling again two to 12 hours later.
117	** When the Great Old One Y'golonac possesses a human body, the body has mouths in its palms the same as in the original Ramsay Campbell stories.
118	** Aku-Shin Kage, one of the masks of Nyarlathotep. Dressed in the traditional armor of a samurai, where its face should be is covered in mouths instead.
119	* A common mutation among the daemons and followers of Chaos in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. A classic variant of the Great Unclean One, Greater Daemon of Nurgle, has a giant mouth in its stomach as well as the regular one on its face (and quite often one on the end of its tongue, or of each of its tongues, too. Occasionally on the tips of its fingers, or elsewhere). Flamers of Tzeentch have many gibbering mouths about their bizarre fungoid anatomy, all of them leaking warpfire.
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122	[[folder:Video Games]]
123	* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'': The creature creator allows many mouths to be affixed to a given creature. The abilities provided by mouths don't stack so the main reason for this trope is aesthetics. There is one practical application for multiple mouths with omnivores. They have one mouth with the highest Bite rating and one mouth with the highest Sing rating. Placing both types on the creature gives them both abilities at max level. An example is seen here with [[http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Creature:Bellylegs this creation]]. This creature has mouths and faces all over its body ([[AHeadatEachEnd tail]], belly, legs, feet, etc...). Strangely, its main head is on one of its feet. As the creature evolves, some heads die, [[LosingYourHead including]] its original [[TinyHeadedBehemoth small human head]] (which was killed by ''[[OrganAutonomy its own feet]]''), but more form, including its torso’s head, which is actually located on what was once the belly ({{Cephalothorax}}). Mouths can also [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody detach]] and form their own creatures.
124	* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'': Chaos Dragons have fang-lined mouths on their shoulders.
125	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Yogg-Saron, "The Beast with a Thousand Maws", has mouths in place of his nostrils, eyes, and other places where you wouldn't expect an orifice (this creature even provides the image of this page). Those are just the ones you can see.
126	* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'': The monsters, appropriately called Gluttons and appearing in the circle of Gluttony, have mouths for hands. The boss of Gluttony, Cerberus, is a giant toad-like creature with three worm-like tongues, all decorated with extra mouths.
127	* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'':
128	** Belial has two mouths, one on each side of its head.
129	** Ghom has four; one on his face, one on each of his shoulders, and an enormous one across his belly.
130	** [[spoiler:Diablo, once resurrected,]] has an extra mouth in each of its shoulders.
131	* ''VideoGame/DreadTemplar'' has a GiantSpider boss, the Spider Queen, who has mouths on her face, thorax, abdomen, and extra mouths on the shoulders of ''all her eight appendages''.
132	* In [[http://www.matazone.co.uk/animpages/feed-the-nine-mouthed-baby-game.html Feed The Nine Mouthed Baby]], the titular baby [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has nine mouths]].
133	* Several of the bosses in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyLegendIII'' have extra mouths, with the most excessive example being Guha who's nothing but mouths.
134	* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'':
135	** Mawile is based on the Futakuchi-Onna (see above) and has an extra giant mouth as one of its horns. [[SuperMode Mega Mawile]] gets ''two'' of these.
136	** Hydreigon has a mouth where it normally would have one, with heads at the ends of each arm which have their own mouths too. They each apparently have the appetites of a normal Pokémon.
137	** Guzzlord has a mouth at the back of its throat. It seems to either be a portal to another realm or a case of AlienGeometries, as this second mouth is on the inside back of the creature but it has no hole in its back.
138	* Futakuchi-onna herself appears in ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji\|2016}}''
139	* Triface in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has two large mouth-like appendages on its shoulders. They can bite and spit poison as though they were actual mouths, though only the central mouth can digest food.
140	* One of the many possible forms of the Void Walker from ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' is a human figure covered head to toe in fanged, whispering mouths. Worse when one considers that the Void Walker can't possibly have enough ''jawbones'' for them all.
141	* Chattur'gha in ''Videogame/EternalDarkness'' refers to its "many mouths" when it talks about how it will destroy Ulyaoth.
142	* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'': Some of the demon forms have multiple mouths, like [[PlayingWithFire Agni's]] two heads, or [[DishingOutDirt Prithvi's]] breast-mouths.
143	* ''VideoGame/StarControl'': The [[ThePrankster Umgah]] are gelatinous pink blobs with mouths, eyes, and tentacles randomly scattered around. What's more, they [[BioAugmentation did this]] to [[NightmareFetishist themselves]]; there's no way of knowing what they look like naturally.
144	* In early versions of ''VideoGame/TheSapling'', it was common for animals to evolve multiple different mouth types in sandbox mode so they could eat everything. While this can still be done, the Fight and Flight update rendered it AwesomeButImpractical due to the introduction of body part based pregnancy times.
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148	* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', what marks a person as a participant in Kakuya's game are the extra mouths that appear on their body. Because of his heightened spiritual prowess, Akira is able to hear the jumbled words that the mouths spew. It's because of this distinctive mark that Akira is clued in on two other victims of Kakuya.
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152	* ''Webcomic/DemonEater'' has the titular character join the Human Club, those creatures of his world who for one reason or another wish to emulate humans, but none does it well. The one named Venus has extra eyes and mouths so that she has faces on her left and right profiles.
153	* The {{expy}} of Y'golonac (see Literature) in ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom'' loves to prank other gods by shaking their hands and biting them off.
154	* The Omega Goo from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-09 several mouths]].
155	* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Nepeta's lusus, Pounce de Leon, is [[http://cdn.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/02158_1.gif a cat with two mouths.]]
156	* The demon Garlathax in ''Webcomic/CornerTheMaze'' has mouths [[http://cornerthemaze.net/index.php?page=104 all over its body]].
157	* Webcomic/{{Goblins}}:
158	** Wherever the [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/08282016-2 Flea Demon]] steps, mouths appear on the ground.
159	** [[spoiler:This seems to be under [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/page-12-2019 Kore's helmet.]]]]
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162	[[folder:Web Original]]
163	* ''Website/GoodbyeStrangers'': The [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/red/s_cenderexy.html cenderexy]] has multiple mouths stacked on top of each other. Cutting it open reveals it has extra mouths under its skin that have teeth, which the regular mouths don't have. The [[https://strangers.atrocityland.com/enter/site/module/red/s_calidrinx.html calidrinx]] has the same trait, though only has one external mouth.
164	* [[http://my.opera.com/omershaikh/albums/showpic.dml?album=3932062&picture=58091272 This]] photoshopped face, combined with ExtraEyes.
165	* ''Literature/HeroesSaveTheWorld'': One of the characters, Simon Martin, is able to see how someone is able to die by touching them. His first attempt at this gives him a vision of what he later refers to as "Giger trees," some of which are suffering from this.
166	* In ''Literature/DayOfTheChoosing'', "All the Rest" has millions of tiny mouths inside of its fleshy, cavernous body.
167	* ''WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}}'' is described as a being with seven mouths. While six of them speak in differing languages, the seventh one is destined to eventually open [[BrownNote and sing a song that will cause]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
168	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' has the Laughing Hand, an undead abomination that, when slashed, grows a new mouth complete with teeth wherever it is injured.
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171	[[folder:Western Animation]]
172	* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': The president of the galaxy has two mouths, one atop the other. Her whole race has this trait, but she's the most frequently seen.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/GalaxyHigh'': Gilda Gossip, a gossipy alien, had multiple mouths growing out of antennae on her head.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': There are several monsters that have more than one head. One of which is the Hydra, which appears in the movie. The three heads even have a conversation at one point.
175	-->'''Hercules:''' Phil, I need a sword! Find me a sword!\
176	'''Phil:''' Kid, the last thing you used to defeat the Hydra is a sword. You got enough mouths to feed already!
177	* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Daolon Wong gains round, {{Lamprey Mouth}}s on his palms whenever he starts chanting to absorb Chi.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]", a recurring trait among the nightmare monsters is the presence of multiple mouths -- the living cakes have one on every tier, while the living houses possess mouths scattered around their bodies where they previously had doors or windows.
179	* One of the many {{Recurring Extra}}s in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a purple Illusion Track student with an extra mouth on top of their head whose tongue hangs down in front of their face in place of bangs.
180	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
181	** Garnet, Pearl and Amethyst's [[FusionDance fused form]] Alexandrite has a second mouth that opens at the base of her chin.
182	** Another fusion, [[spoiler:Obsidian, the fusion of ''all'' the Crystal Gems]], has a second mouth atop her head full of ''lava''.
183	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': In "Fear, Itself", the monster [[spoiler:that Raven created with her mind]] has mouths ''all over its body.''
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186	[[folder:Real Life]]
187	* Mistaken for played straight in one case: The Cambrian sea creature ''[[http://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess/hallucigenia.html Hallucigenia]]'' was first reconstructed with seven tentacles on its back, each bearing a small, beak-like mouth. But as ScienceMarchesOn, it turned out that said tentacles were actually paired legs and the beaks their claws. Up to date, there was still no ''Hallucigenia'' fossil found that shows where the creature's mouth was really located.
188	** …until 2015, when new fossils showed that ''Hallucigenia'' actually [[http://dro.dur.ac.uk/20476/1/20476.pdf had radial and pharyngeal teeth]] much like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalidophora scalidophoran worms]].
189	* Coral colonies can either be regarded as ConjoinedTwins, or a single vast, gestalt organism with Too Many Mouths.
190	* A hunter killed a deformed cougar with teeth growing out of the top of its head. This went viral.
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