Line #22 PlayingWith/SlasherSmile

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character's malicious smile is unsettling and often indicates [[AxCrazy insanity and violence]].
2	* '''Straight''': Before stabbing Alice, Bob smiles with his teeth exposed and his eyes wide.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** An EldritchAbomination has a smile so disturbing [[BrownNote that just looking at it causes illness.]]
5	** Alice encounters "Bob", a body-snatching SerialKiller ghost, who always makes clear is possessing someone by making them do a gigantic grin a split second before he starts a rampage.
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** PsychoticSmirk
8	** {{Jerkass}} Alice gets in trouble BIG TIME. As she's being sent to the boss, the last thing she sees is Bob giving her a [[GrinOfAudacity shit eating grin]].
9	* '''Justified''': Bob is going to enjoy what he's about to do VERY MUCH.
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** Before stabbing Alice, Bob bares his teeth in a vicious, disturbing growl - a Slasher Scowl.
12	** Bob frowns, angries, glooms or is shown absolutely calm and serious, but this indicates and evokes calmness, peace and bliss.
13	** DissonantSerenity
14	** WhenSheSmiles
15	* '''Subverted''': TheUnSmile
16	* '''Double Subverted''': Bob tries harder, it just gets worse.
17	* '''Parodied''':
18	** Bob flashes one of these while doing something good.
19	** Bob does this so often that his jaw starts to hurt.
20	* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's smile looks fine until you shoot him from the angle that achieves the KubrickStare
21	* '''Averted''': Bob [[PerpetualFrowner doesn't smile]] [[TheStoic at all]].
22	* '''Enforced''': "Let's show how much he enjoys it, by making him smile."
23	* '''Lampshaded''':
24	** "Bob's smile is so creepy....and why is he holding a knife?"
25	** "The baring of teeth is a threat display in many species...including humans, apparently."
26	* '''Invoked''': [[TechnicalPacifist Bob]] doesn't want to hurt Alice. He puts on a slasher smile and wields a knife to try to scare her away without hurting her.
27	* '''Exploited''': Alice notices Bob's smile is not a happy smile at all and gets the hell away from him!
28	* '''Defied''': Bob stays stone-faced and stoic while still plotting something malicious against Alice.
29	* '''Discussed''': "I do believe you can analyze murderous intent in smiles by the following factors...
30	* '''Conversed''': "He's smiling like THAT? This will not end well for our heroes...."
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32	Back to SlasherSmile. And wipe that grin off your face, it's scary!
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35	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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37	%%* '''Implied:''': ???
38	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
39	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
40	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
41	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / SlasherSmile