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7	The tendency of artists to give humanlike teeth to birds and other animals that lack them in RealLife. '''NOTE''': This trope can apply to all animals that don't normally have teeth, not just birds.
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9	The trope namers are all the birds in traditional animation who often appear to lack teeth normally - but [[SuddenAnatomy will suddenly have them in order to form a human-based facial expression that requires them]]. A big toothy grin, clenched teeth of rage, and so on. This trope can also cover teeth appearing on other non-toothed animals (eg turtles), but birds are overwhelmingly the most common animals to be subjected to it.
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11	Sometimes, all the teeth in the animal's mouth (whether of a toothed species or of a toothless one) are drawn as incisors, whether a little wider than real incisors or not. In RealLife, no animal has a mouth with dentition made up entirely of incisors, not even humans.
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13	This is almost exclusively seen in traditional animation. In CGI, on the other hand, the transient teeth would be harder to implement, since all animation of a character is done from a fixed model.
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15	A somewhat rarer form of the trope is for the not-normally-toothed animal to have teeth at all times. This is somewhat more common in CGI, given the difference between traditional and computer animation.
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17	Similar to NoMouth, where a mouth appears only when the character is speaking. See also CartoonyEyes, MouthyBird, and FeatherFingers. For the record, actual toothed birds existed (once) and were once known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontornithes Odontolcae or Odontotormae]], depending on how their teeth are set, until it was realized that many of these birds were no more closely related to each other than to modern birds. And remember that birds came from dinosaurs, which had teeth, so there's that.
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20	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Advertising]]
25	* On the TV advertisement of Kinder Pingui, a family of animated penguins smiles widely showing teeth.
26	* Mammal variant: one Dentisticks dog-chew ad depicts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_DdmDrf-TM "doggy dentures"]] as a joke, with smiling dogs displaying brilliant white CGI teeth that are ''very'' obviously shaped like a human's, not a dog's. Yes, dogs are supposed to have teeth, but the incongruity of this trope still applies.
27	* Several promotional posters for ''Film/FoodOfTheGods2'' depict the movie's giant rats baring dog-like (if not saber-toothed tiger-like) fangs at the viewer. Rats and other rodents do not have canine teeth, just central incisors and molars.
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30	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
31	* In ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'', Eaglette/Washimi grinds her teeth in her sleep.
32	* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', justified when Birdramon. While her previous form, Biyomon, is a large bird with no teeth, Birdramon is a mixture of a bird and a dragon, allowing for sharp teeth.
33	* The humanoid birds from ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'' often display teeth. While they are evolved birds, it may be just one-off gags as they normally don't have teeth.
34	%% needs context * Chicken George from ''Manga/{{Fourteen}}''.
35	* Lampshaded in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' part 3, when Iggy (a dog) battles Pet Shop (a falcon). Pet Shop flashes an evil grin at one point (although he shows no teeth), which Iggy notes shouldn't be possible.
36	* There are some scenes in ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' showing King Dedede drawn with a mouth of them despite being a penguin-like creature, just like in the games. This even becomes a major plot point in "A Dental Dilemma", where he thinks his pearly whites are completely invincible to any cavities. He ends up proven wrong, and gets scared shitless when he learns he's due to have them drilled. He ultimately orders the dental monster Hardy to fix them, but he too gets scared of him and ultimately gets his teeth drilled by Yabui in the end anyway, much to his horror.
37	* Tokoyami from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has a bird head with human teeth. Justifiable in that he's otherwise a human physically, mutants like him are a regular occurrence in universe.
38	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
39	** Carue, who is a so-called Super Spot-Billed Duck, at first only gets teeth when he is making funny facial expressions. Later on, he always has teeth when he opens his beak. The same goes for other Super Spot-Billed Ducks. Later, the bird Chuchuun, a Super Sparrow, appears and it has teeth too. The author later states that all the bird species in the verse with a species name starting with "Super" have teeth, [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum because it's more "super" to have teeth than to lack them]].
40	** [[spoiler:While transformed into an [[{{Youkai}} Itsumade]], Saint Marcus Mars has a large set of fangs in his beak, making his animal form look more monstruous.]]
41	* Has been seen numerous times in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', but justified in that the creatures are purely fictional. It's often one-off gags. For example, Dawn's Piplup normally has no teeth, but at times he is shown with them (noticeably when he grates them).
42	* ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'': Torippi is often shown to have a nice set of pearly whites under his beak, he even needs to get them checked when the town dentist visits the preschool at regular intervals, so it's definitely not a one-off gag.
43	* The Japanese ''VideoGame/StarFox'' manga gave Falco teeth whenever he needed to look angry or cocky.
44	* ''Manga/YouAreBeingSummonedAzazel'': Beezlebub, a bird-like demon, is shown to have very sharp teeth whenever he's angry. However, it's subverted in which he's not a bird at all, but his true form is actually that of a ''fly''.
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47	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
48	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': The ants in Season 5 all have strips of teeth like the other characters to conform with the art style. While real-life ants do have teeth, they're outside of their body, attatched to their mandibles, rather than in their mouths.
49	* Kursat the vulture from ''Animation/KingShakir'' has two buck teeth in his beak.
50	* ''Animation/OurFriendXiongXiaoMi'': Zhi Peng the penguin has teeth.
51	* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' features Makkhi Makkhija, a fly with teeth mostly depicted in the same ToothStrip style as the other characters.
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54	[[folder:Comic Books]]
55	* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s ancestor Seafoam [=McDuck=] had a mouth full of gold teeth.
56	* ''ComicBook/{{Hilda}}'': The main character's raven friend has teeth.
57	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'': Shriek-yowls mostly resemble owls, but their beaks are lined with sharp teeth.
58	* {{Justified}} in ''Comicbook/OverTheGardenWall,'' where the toothy bird is noted as unusual. It's actually the most normal of three {{Animalistic Abomination}}s that appear in that issue.
59	* ''ComicBook/TheStarWars'': The Imperials ride ostrich mounts, and these birds have rows of sharp, jagged teeth like dinosaurs.
60	* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
61	** ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'' shows that one bird species which inhabited Krypton's Scarlet Jungle were big, purple, red-creasted avians who had tooth-like serrations on their long beaks.
62	** In ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', Martian Angarks are giant birds of prey with parrot-like, serrated beaks.
63	** In ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', the giant Kryptonian bird of prey which attacks [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] and Thara during her camping trip has a set of teeth.
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67	* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': Woodstock and other birds have large square teeth.
68	* All the bird characters in ''ComicStrip/{{Shoe}}'' seem to have teeth. The women have NonMammalMammaries, too
69	* The penguins in ''ComicStrip/{{If}}''
70	* Ugly Bird, from the children's magazine ''Cricket'', has fang-like projections on the inside edges of his beak.
71	* Taken a step further with Opus from ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': years of ArtEvolution have given him an actual mouth below his beak. What's more, his beak is often described as a fat, squishy nose, suggesting that at some point he ceased being a penguin and became a weird, penguin-shaped humanoid.
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75	* Iago from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', as pictured above, sports a [[http://www.aladdincentral.org/images/displayimage.php?album=59&pos=1 fine set of choppers.]] Supervising animator Will Finn stated that Iago was designed that way to [[InkSuitActor resemble his voice actor]], Gilbert Gottfried.
76	* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': Phido, the mistreated pet vulture of Zigzag, is a rather eerie example. [[spoiler:After Zigzag is defeated by the heroes, he steps on a thumb tack and falls into a dark pit full of alligators he previously promised to feed. As the alligators decide to feast on him instead, Phido shows up and suddenly grows a large mouth full of razor sharp teeth and joins in]].
77	* Birds in Aardman Animation's works will have [[http://www.impawards.com/2000/chicken_run_ver1.html humanlike teeth]] if and when they talk. Examples are ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' and ''WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts''.
78	* Vlad Vladikoff from ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008'' is an example of the "always has teeth" variant. That being said, the teeth he has are fairly realistic as far as what bird teeth looked like (see below).
79	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'':
80	** In [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIVJourneyThroughTheMists the fourth movie]], Ichy, a bird, has a set of teeth. The trope is justified in this case, since he is an ''Ichthyornis'', a prehistoric bird which did have teeth in real life.
81	** Guido, the ''Microraptor'' from [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeXIITheGreatDayOfTheFlyers the 12th movie]] is a sort of ''inversion''. He looks like your usual toothy bird, only having teeth in certain instances. He really should have had teeth the whole time. Sharp ones. He also lacked the big toe claw that microraptors had. The movie acted like he was just a weird-looking modern bird instead of the tiny deinonychosaur that he was.
82	** Turning to more regularly-occurring characters, there is Petrie the ''Pteranodon'' who has also been known to summon a set of pearly whites on occasion. While some pterosaurs had teeth, ''Pteranodon'' did not; in fact, the species' name translates to "toothless wing".
83	** Despite Ruby being correctly stated not to have teeth, due to being an ''Oviraptor'', she is occasionally shown having them in some shots.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': A well-known non-avian (though still a beaked dinosaur) example: All the ''Iguanodon'' characters in the movie have lips over their beaks, resulting in what looks like humanlike teeth. A magazine published around the time of the film's initial release said that the creators tried giving the ''Iguanodon'' characters realistic beaks, and found that they made it look like he was clopping coconuts together and that it just looked lazy.
85	* Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' has [[Creator/TimCurry the villainous Drake]], who could bite through a coconut with his ridiculous-looking chompers. Just look at his picture on the film's poster. The other penguins also have humanlike teeth as well.
86	* On the subject of Don Bluth, Jeremy from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' occasionally sports a mouth full of pearly whites in some scenes.
87	* Abby "Ugly Duckling" Mallard from ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' sports a huge pair of buck teeth at all times.
88	* Boris, the goose from ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'', has teeth most of the time. Toned down in the sequels, as the animation style is different.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': The rolling wooden duck the vampires make for Jack's Christmas is this trope.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'':
91	** Prince Naveen has teeth even as a frog, as his toothy grin is a big part of his character design. Tiana, however, does not retain her teeth as a frog. (In real life, frogs do have teeth, though not like human teeth.)
92	** Also, Ray the firefly and his family all have teeth (although they don't all have ''all'' their teeth).
93	* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'':
94	** The film features not only toothy sea turtles, but also toothy fish (not counting the sharks). Especially noticable is Kathy, one of Nemo's classmates (she is a blue and yellow fish with prominent buck teeth who screams, "Oh my gosh, Nemo's swimming out to sea!" after seeing Nemo touching the diver's boat).
95	** Bloat the pufferfish is shown having human-like molars in the film as well. While pufferfish ''do'' have teeth, they are actually formed into a sort of beak-like structure to help them crack open crusteceans and mollusks (their primary source of food).
96	* A flashback picture in ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' shows that Lani was this when she was a kid.
97	* ''Birds Like Us'' has Kondor the vulture with a prominent set of teeth in his beak. Unlike most examples, they're a more realistic depiction of human teeth.
98	* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', Rumplestiltskin's giant goose has teeth.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': Verne the Turtle has a full set of white teeth (possibly to [[InkSuitActor give more resemblance to his VA]] Garry Shandling).
100	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': All of the avian characters have large sets of straight, human-like teeth, with Junior occasionally mugging the screen with a big toothy smile.
101	* Fagin the evil buzzard from “War of the Birds” has fangs during his more menacing moments.*
102	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', when Scuttle asks Ariel "New seashells?" he sports a grin with a full set of teeth that are [[SuddenAnatomy otherwise never seen]].
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106	* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' portrays its ''Pteranodon'' with a beak filled with sharp teeth. While many pterosaurs did have teeth, ''Pteranodon'' was ''not'' one of them (with its name literally translating into "''toothless'' wing"). They also contradict the appearance of the ''Pteranodon'' in the films before and after it, which are accurately portrayed as being toothless. [[TerrorDactyl This isn't even close to the only error of their depiction either.]]
107	* In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', the Porgs are essentially puffins with toothed snouts ''instead of'' beaks. Which is actually the most realistic arrangement when it comes to toothed birds (see the Real Life section).
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111	* ''Literature/{{Evolution}}'': Some of the marine cormorants, having taken the niches of the dolphins that went extinct alongside humanity, have regrown the teeth of their ancient reptilian ancestors. This trait is retained into the future, and the flightless birds of New Pangea also sport sharp teeth in their beaks.
112	* In the Brazilian 1970s-era children's book series ''A Galinha Nanduca'' (''Nanduca, the Chicken'') The titular bird has teeth, and this is actually the major plot point of the stories: When people realize she has teeth, everyone tries to capture her to make money out of the poor animal, causing a [[ChaseScene huge havoc]] where ever she goes, eventually [[MonumentalBattle destroying the city]]. One of the books has even a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed famous brazilian entertainer]] to join the chase, eventually promising a good reward to anyone who catches her.
113	* Creator/PaulJennings' short story "Picked Bones" has literal Toothy Birds, which [[spoiler:tear apart the protagonist's pet cat after hypnotising it into feeding them enough to become adults in less than a day]].
114	* ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'': In ''Dealing with Dragons'', one of the [[EyeOfNewt ingredients for a spell]] Cimorene is trying to cast is hen's teeth and she has no idea how to find such a thing. She eventually acquires some through a genie wish, leaving it up in the air whether a species of toothy chickens exists somewhere in the world.
115	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Khvostov Count Dmitry Khvostov]], once synonymous with graphomania in Russian literary circles, did this likely as a blunder in a fable called "The Two Pigeons", where one of the pigeons, being caught in a trap, "bit through knots with his teeth and got his freedom". This led to Creator/AlexanderPushkin calling Khvostov "the father of toothy pigeons" in a poem.
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119	* The Gang makes one for Charlie as a birthday gift in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', going off a picture of a Toothy Bird he had drawn in his dream journal. Charlie, being a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} of the highest order, has to ask whether the bird is real.
120	* Once Johnny Lawrence loses the ''Series/CobraKai'' and is forced to [[StartMyOwn create his own dojo]], he decides to name it after something that can kill a snake. As soon as he reveals the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thekaratekid/images/8/80/Eagle_fang_karate_logo.svg/revision/latest?cb=20210102020422 Eagle Fang Karate shirts]], one of his students is quick to point out "Eagles don't have fangs..."
121	* Antubis from ''Series/KingdomHospital'' reveals he's anything but a normal (hence toothless) anteater by displaying an array of slim, sharp, ''folding'' teeth in his initial appearance.
122	* The ''Quetzalcoatlus'' in ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' has small teeth in the tip of its beak, while the real animal and all its close relatives were completely toothless. This error probably comes from the fact [[PaletteSwap its model is just slightly modified]] from the ''Ornithocheirus'', which did have teeth in real life.
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126	* Seven Macaw in the Quiche Maya creation myth of the Literature/PopolVuh has teeth made from precious stones.
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129	[[folder:Sports]]
130	* The University of Louisville Cardinal has teeth.
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133	[[folder:Video Games]]
134	* The birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have visible teeth occasionally.
135	* ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'': The penguins occasionally sport a full set of teeth in their 2D designs.
136	* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', Wally Warbles, his son and his songbird paramedics have teeth.
137	* The talking head animations for some of the Eldar characters in the ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' series show human-like teeth when they open their mouths, but according to the ''Xenology'' sourcebook Eldar are toothless, instead having serrated jawbones like some of the basal birds described in the RealLife section.
138	* Most of the characters in ''VideoGame/DonaldInMauiMallard'' are ducks, and most of them have teeth.
139	* ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
140	** [[BigEater Chica the Chicken]] from [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game]] has ''two'' sets of teeth. First ones are part of her suit and seconds ones are part of the inner machinery.
141	** In [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the sequel]], Chica's new version also has teeth in her beak, though she removes her beak when she starts to hunt the player, leaving only the teeth of the endoskeleton visible. Older Chica also has two sets of teeth, this time even better visible due to her suit and endoskeleton no longer being aligned.
142	** Chica's incarnation in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'' takes this trope [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily to its logical conclusion]], gaining a ''third'' row of teeth and all of them now being razor sharp.
143	* Richard in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'', a rooster mask, or a being with a rooster head, or [[MindScrew something]]... whatever he is, he has teeth in his beak in his talking sprites.
144	* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
145	** Despite being a penguin-like creature, King Dedede features teeth both in games and in the anime.
146	** Captain Vul from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' in some mugshots also features teeth.
147	* ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'':
148	** Senjoo are loaded with spikes which are patterned in such a way to make them look like teeth protruding from a beak.
149	** Skreek sprites are an unmistakable case of biting auk heads, though official art goes back and forth between depicting them with honest to goodness teeth and more "realistic" spiny beaks.
150	* VideoGame/NuclearThrone's Chicken, who is, uh... a chicken. Often seen gritting her teeth in anger before she chops someone down with her sword.
151	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Something}} Something Else]]'': Shows up as an obstacle in The Last Castle. They're clearly Rip Von Fish sprite-swaps as they share the same behaviors as Rip Van Fish.
152	* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/SongBirdSymphony'', [[spoiler:the Owl]], cracks a wicked SlasherSmile full of teeth at Birb after he reveals that [[spoiler:he committed '''''[[FinalSolution genocide]]''''' as part of his plan to weaponize MagicMusic and [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the forest with an iron fist]].]]
153	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
154	** Knuckles has a set of sharp teeth, despite real echidnas being toothless.
155	** The Babylon Rogues, who are anthropomorphic birds, sometimes have teeth.
156	* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Peacock's bird lackey Avery sports a set of beaky teeth (Peacock herself, despite the name, is not actually a bird). {{Justified\|Trope}} because Avery isn't a real bird but an artificial construct created by Peacock herself, just like the rest of her cartoon minions.
157	* Snowdrake and Chilldrake from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' appear to be penguin/drake hybrids with teeth that [[OurMonstersAreWeird move along their beaks in a similar manner to a chainsaw]].
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161	* Several of the gryphons in ''Webcomic/ThePrideOfLife'' have permanent teeth. Probably justified in that they have lion ancestry.
162	* The gryphons in ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' have teeth in their beaks, but WordOfGod says that their beaks are actually more similar to dinosaur jaws than to bird beaks.
163	* [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8OTib2O6Cp4/TjQlcaowmgI/AAAAAAAAAWs/zdGIY1WGdB0/s1600/lola48.jpg One strip]] of ''Lola The Swallow'' has Lola asking a fairy for teeth, then popcorn for using the teeth and a movie she can watch while eating the popcorn.
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167	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Sniffles is an anteater who, in "Spare Me", is shown to have ''two'' sets of teeth, one at the bottom of his snout, and another at the top of it.
168	* ''WebOriginal/JurassicImpact'': The pseudobirds, a clade of birds that are direct descendants of ''Archaeopteryx''-like theropods, retain teeth.
169	* ''Website/{{Serina}}'': The Vivas are a group of ovoviviparous birds that have developed tooth-like plates on their tongues and palates that allow them to grind up plants without the aid of gastroliths, it's established that they're descended from a group of goose-like birds (called aardgeese) and the plates are derived from the pecten that they possessed. Their carnivorous relatives, the Banshees, don't have teeth but they do have small barbs on their tongues much like cats.
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173	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
174	** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck shows off his Schroedinger's Teeth in every appearance. Most other ''Looney Tunes'' birds also do this at least occasionally.
175	** Despite retaining his teeth in ''[[SpinoffBabies Baby Looney Tunes]]'', Daffy somehow got upset that he didn't have any teeth because he wouldn't get any money from the tooth fairy. He still had teeth in that episode and nobody noticed them, not even himself.
176	** The Hitler duck, Mussolini goose, and Tojo duck in ''WesternAnimation/TheDucktators'' have teeth.
177	** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Daffy gets drastic beak reduction surgery, which left exposed his upper teeth.
178	** Oddly invoked in "The Prize Pest" (1951) where he bullies Porky by claiming he turns into a monster when [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry upset]]-- he messes up his headfeathers and ''wears false fangy teeth''.
179	* Picking up where ''Looney Tunes'' left off, Daffy's ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' JuniorCounterpart, Plucky Duck, occasionally sports teeth. As do fellow birds Shirley [=McLoon=], Fowlmouth, and Sweetie, among many other examples.
180	* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck has also been known to call pearly whites into existence, mainly to express anger. Or when he has a particularly mischievous smile.
181	** Daisy has also grown fangs to display insanity in ''WesternAnimation/DonaldsDilemma''.
182	* Not ''really'' a bird, but platypuses are often depicted with teeth in animated works. Coincidentally, fossils of prehistoric platypuses with actual teeth have been found (see Real Life).
183	** Perry the Platypus in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has a teethful beak, and it often shows when he makes a sound.
184	** Similarly, the Platypus in ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' shows some [[FangsAreEvil sharp teeth]] whenever it needs to be intimidating.
185	** Edward in ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' is a platypus with teeth.
186	* Ducks in general seem to make up a lot of these, although this may be an artifact of ducks being the most frequently featured birds in cartoons. Examples:
187	** ''"Lobo The Duck"'' and ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' both have permanent teeth, perhaps in order to give them a way to hold their cigars. (Probably justified with Howard since he's from an alternate universe and can't really fly (it's believed birds have no teeth to lighten their skulls).
188	** ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', said ducks would often show full sets of pearly-whites.
189	** ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'', by necessity, has teeth. OurVampiresAreDifferent, but not ''that'' different.
190	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' and his family.
191	** Lampshaded in a ''WesternAnimation/SittingDucks'' episode which involves Bill stealing a set of “ducky dentures” from Cecil, the dentist. Bill then becomes self-absorbed and arrogant, as far as having a whole nightmare sequence about it.
192	*** “Quack the Ripper," a riff on Jack the Ripper, is the boogeyman of “gatordom,” sporting sharp teeth and a demonic quack.
193	** Quackerjack from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' always has teeth. [[labelnote:note]] A gag in [[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E19JustUsJusticeDucks Just Us Justice Ducks pt. 2]] indicates that they are false teeth, however. [[/labelnote]] Negaduck has also been seen with them. Darkwing (Negaduck's not-so-evil twin) can display them for a shiny smile, or to pull something open with them. At one point, while hamming it up introducing a story, Gosalyn flashes some fangs.
194	** Dr. [=LeQuack=] from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''.
195	** Pooza the Wizard, from the ''extremely'' short-lived Adult Swim series ''WesternAnimation/KingStarKing'', has a mug full of pointy fangs. Justified, since he's a magical being of unknown origin with BizarreAlienBiology.
196	* ''Buzzy the Crow'' has teeth, and even a gold one.
197	* The ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins''
198	* Roy, Wade and Booker (and maybe Sheldon, but it's not visible due to wearing his {{eggshell\|Clothing}} all the time) from ''WesternAnimation/USAcres''
199	* A majority of the birds from ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''.
200	* Related Creator/JohnKricfalusi example: Stanley the elephant in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?" has his mouth (with teeth) ''at the end of his trunk''. Stanley was pretty inconsistent; he'd occasionally have his mouth in the normal location. So either he had two mouths or the animators weren't paying any attention to what they were doing.
201	* Similar to the above, Aardvark from ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' has teeth at the end of his snout, especially in ''WesternAnimation/PinkPantherAndPals''. Aardvarks do have teeth, but just molars.
202	* Averted with the penguins in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' (though it'd have to do with the CGI models), but interestingly enough, said penguins do tend to smile or frown in a variety of ways (from smiling to smirking to psychotically grinning; from frowning to scowling to glowering), mainly because their beaks easily conform into such shapes. Played straight in some storyboards; they're shown to have teeth [[RuleofFunny when it's funny]].
203	** Dave the Octopus has a mouth full of teeth, even though real octopi have beaks. Averted with his minions.
204	* WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup is a non-anthro dog with very human-like teeth (that are pretty creepy). Especially noticeable in "Canine Caddy", where the gopher and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse are drawn with species appropriate buck teeth, but Pluto still has a mouth full of teeth that all look like incisors or flat molars.
205	* The Goodfeather pigeons from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Particularly Squit, who's teeth are bigger than his eyes.
206	* Poe from ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'' has teeth at all times, even mentioning in one episode that he's had his wisdom teeth taken out.
207	* Justified in some depictions of the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', as their (toothless) turtle traits were altered by the addition of human ones. Can be a case of DependingOnTheWriter, as jokes are sometimes made regarding the turtles having beaks instead of mouths. Tokka, a villainous mutant alligator snapping turtle, had a distinct beak-like mouth which also sported sharp conical teeth.
208	* Chicken in ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' has teeth in his beak.
209	* The earliest WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoons show him with snaggle teeth. In a later cartoon (once his character [[ArtEvolution had evolved]]), Woody shows off his pearly whites, explaining that he cut his own teeth.
210	* Mordecai the blue jay from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', according to one of the storyboarders, has "beaka dentata". Margaret the cardinal also flashes some pearly whites on occasion.
211	* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/CrusaderRabbit'' featured Vernon the vulture, who not only had teeth but got them knocked out of his beak.
212	* Puffin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' often shows human-like teeth when he smiles.
213	* Duck from ''WesternAnimation/AlmostNakedAnimals''.
214	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
215	** Not birds per se, but Rocko's cantankerous neighbors, the Bigheads, should count since they're cane toads (unlike frogs, who have small teeth on their upper jaw, most toads do not have teeth). Most notable for Ed Bighead, who often bares human-like teeth when he's angry.
216	** Another non-bird example: Filburt is a turtle with a toothy mouth instead of a beak.
217	* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' when [[ItMakesSenseInContext a duck gets hold of Grandpa Lou's false teeth]].
218	* The birds in ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'' have not just teeth, but also faces that resemble a snout more than a beak.
219	* The birds in ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries'' have teeth at all times, not for comedy but to make them more frightening. It works.
220	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
221	** When grinning, Gilda the griffon gains not only teeth but also lips extending far beyond her beak. This applies to other griffon and hippogriff characters as well.
222	** For that matter the ponies themselves often sport full sets of teeth, which is notable because at other times (particularly that one wide-open smile that shows up at the end of the musical number "Smile, Smile, Smile") the show accurately depicts the gap that real horses have between their incisors and molars.
223	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': As a Sky Bison, Appa has teeth, but bizarrely all of them look like molars. Furthermore, ruminants don't have front teeth on the upper jaw, but a dental pad.
224	* In ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "New Mexico", the roadrunners Elise encounters have teeth.
225	%% * Scratch in ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', though it might be more justified than some other examples, since he's a robot that merely ''looks'' like a chicken.
226	* The penguins from ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'', although they are alien penguins.
227	* Spot the chicken from ''[[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''.
228	* Ernie the Giant Chicken in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. This is probably so he can have them punched out by Peter Griffin every time they fight.
229	** A human example -- Stewie often seems to have a mouth full of teeth when he talks, even though he is supposed to be a baby who has only gotten two. One episode revolves around him teething, despite the fact that he is illustrated with a full mouth of teeth within the same episode.
230	* The bird-people in ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}''.
231	* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': Chester the duck in "Psycho Duck" has sharp teeth.
232	* Olaf the penguin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' has visible teeth; depending on the episode, Quack Quack may have them as well.
233	* Gull from ''WesternAnimation/EndangeredSpecies2015'' has a set of chompers inside of his beak.
234	* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad:''
235	** Caruso's dinosaur form is a ''Stegosaurus'' with a mouth full of sharp teeth, instead of a toothless beak in front and flat grinding teeth in the back like a real ''Stegosaurus''.
236	** Buzz's ''Pteranodon'' form inconsistently has teeth in some scenes, but properly toothless in others.
237	* The Great Raven from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'' not only has teeth, but his beak resembles a snout at times.
238	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'':
239	** Most of the birds seen are depicted with beaks full of sharp teeth (and also tend to be [[GiantFlyer huge]] and [[FeatheredFiend vicious]]), adding to the vaguely prehistoric-like setting of the show.
240	** The frogs and toads have teeth that come and go at will (while most frogs do have teeth, they're usually small and only in the upper jaw). This is especially egregious with the toads, which are depicted with sharp teeth (to make them appear meaner), while real toads don't have teeth at all.
241	* ''WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords'': Even though most of Olivia Ostrich's screentime shows that she apparently doesn't have teeth, she still actually ''does'' have teeth, as revealed in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olivia_teeth.png this frame]] from when she gets spooked by King Tut the ghost.
242	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': Despite being eagles, [=JunJun=] and his family are each drawn with teeth.
243	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'': The penguins are sometimes shown with teeth in the earlier episodes.
244	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': Soar the Eagle and D. B. Platypus both sport beaks full of teeth, with the former having more pointed ones.
245	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': Humpback whales are drawn with cone-shaped teeth, rather than baleens.
246	* ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'': Downplayed. Slammu takes the form of a whale shark with a set of huge sharp teeth like the other sharks. Real whale sharks have teeth so small that they look toothless.
247	* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeDinosaurs'': Bullzeye is yet another ''Pteranodon'' with teeth. In fact, all of the main heroes sport sets of sharp teeth, even the herbivores like Stegz, Spike, and Hardrock.
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251	* Teeth loss was the last character to appear in the lineage leading to modern birds, with their closest relatives (hesperorns and ichthyornithids) having the full set of avian characters but the toothless beak. So, even if other bird and almost-bird lineages lost their teeth, toothy birds were the norm, rather than the exception, before the end Cretaceous extinction killed all bird lineages but modern birds.
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