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->''"... and here's little Katty Vance in her first year here. Doesn't that oil-derrick in her mouth make her look adorable?"''
-->-- '''Hilary Locke''', ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''

If some character has teeth in need of orthodontic correction, it's pretty unlikely you're going to see them in regular, boring old braces. After all, we see those all the time in RealLife -- how dull and boring! Instead, poor crooked-teethed Alice or Bob is going to be saddled with this [[NightmareFuel monstrous orthodontic device]] that sticks out of their mouth, takes up half their face, and brands them as a nerd/dork/geek for the rest of their formative years. Yes, be prepared for the be-headgeared character to be a StereotypicalNerd, or at least take on a few nerdy mannerisms, and get [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer endlessly picked on for it]]. No popular or cool kid ever has to wear one of these ridiculous things.

Due to the rather blatant character attributes the headgear usually implies and orthodontic technology [[TechnologyMarchesOn having improved significantly since the nineties]],[[note]]For example, headgear is much less commonplace. And where it ''is'' still used, it's often used only at night, meaning that the kid won't have to wear it to school. Headgear does work better when worn continuously, but because of this trope, kids will refuse to wear it in public. Plus, invisible braces and even clear plastic trays that don't even have to be procured from an orthodontist are a thing.[[/note]] this is now more or less a DiscreditedTrope - possibly also due to the fact that so many kids spend at least some of their adolescence wearing some kind of brace these days. It's rare to see such headgear now except for the sake of a one-off gag. Curiously, regular braces are still somewhat rare on TV. Guess they must all have the invisible kind.

Compare and contrast PubescentBraces and BritishTeeth.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* [[http://www.adspast.com/store/skin1/images/pics11/altoids98brace.jpg This]] Altoids ad.
* [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/tRhZ/amerisave-mortgage-sarah-is-turning-her-life-around-bundle In this commercial,]] a woman named Sarah chooses to refinance her house with the Amerisave Mortgage Corporation. The narrator assures us that she will not regret this decision the way she regrets purchasing a "do-it-yourself orthodontics kit," the elaborate contraption of wires and rubber bands she wears throughout the commercial that renders her unable to speak or eat properly.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Aversion: ComicBook/{{Stargirl}}, of the ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'', got braces in the second issue of her solo series. She still has them to this day, though they're typically only drawn in during close-up panels.
* ''ComicBook/SmileRainaTelgemeier'', the graphic autobiography by Raina Telgemeier, talks about the various dental and orthodontic procedures she went through when she seriously damaged her teeth in an accident. As such, the procedures are realistic such as she has to wear an external frame at one point, but only when she was in bed. She did have to wear a variant brace at one point that included a rubber band inside her mouth that was diagonally positioned from one side of her upper jaw, to the other side of her lower one. However, most of her braces were reasonably subtle in appearance and once she finally dropped her false friends who continually teased her about them, the real friends she later gained didn't notice anything after a while.
* The [[FrancoBelgianComics French comic]] ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'' has Jean-Claude, a boy with a brace so invasive he is incapable of normal speech (and is reduced to sputtering saliva).
* Averted in the comic version of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', in which Hay Lin gets regular braces, and even gets to customize them!
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Jason from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' once tried out braces, and actually tried to build them up into a working radio. ''While still wearing them''.
-->'''Marcus:''' Where should I solder on the volume knob?\\
'''Jason:''' In series with the amplifier, silly.
:: He also went around dressed as the Terminator, on grounds that he's now technically a cyborg.
* ''Monroe'': In the episode ''Monroe and Tinsel Teeth'', Monroe's family gets him braces for Christmas, and those become the source of his issues for that episode, culminating in Dylan using him for some kind of experiment involving them.
* Inverted by body-modification fan Pierce from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', who gets disheartened when his orthodontist (the main character's father) tells him he can't have ''more'' metal added to his teeth/face.
-->'''Walt:''' ''[{{facepalm}}]'' Pierce, as your doctor I prefer that you don't perform freelance orthodontia on yourself.\\
'''Pierce:''' Even if it's just decorative and not structural?
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''FanFic/{{Starbound}}'': Inverted or averted in the original[[note]]Retconned altogether months later, as the author was told that not only was this a form of cheap AuthorAppeal, but as the answer to said riddle, it should have been easily avoided since there is no way to formulate something in which it could have been anything else.[[/note]] version of chapter 6, where Miyuki got a set of (regular) braces magically form onto her teeth as CoolAndUnusualPunishment for answering a riddle wrong, as Konata commented that they enhance her {{moe}} factor. Rokuna was also said then, rather than when she debuted, to already wear them, which would avert this trope even further, as would the fact that teeth themselves are rarely shown canonically. (Still excruciatingly painful for Miyuki, though, seeing how little tolerance she already has canonically for dentistry in general.)
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', one of the skeletons going to cross the marigold bridge to the Land of the Living is wearing rather enormous braces that fit his huge jaw. It's mentioned that his photo is on the ''ofrenda'' of his dentist.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', the character of Darla has braces that wrap around her face. Somewhat justified in that her uncle's a fairly incompetent dentist.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', a AlphaBitch at summer camp wears these, but only at night.
* Early in ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', we see Ron and his dog Baxter both sleeping with headgear on (excessive in that he's way older than most headgear-wearers, and dogs don't usually get [[http://www.syzedental.com/orthodontics.html orthodontics]].
* Lane's fix-up date in ''Film/BetterOffDead'' is with a girl wearing hideous orthodontia. Fortunately, she doesn't want to go out with him, either, so she just gets him to pay her what he would've spent on the date.
* Shirley in ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' has a comically oversized dental contraption.
* In the second ''Film/TheBradyBunch'' movie, Jan had the braces ''and'' the headgear.
* Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka from ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has them in {{flashback}}s. His father was a very strict dentist, and the constant denial of candy was a major development point in his newly made up backstory. "Present" Willy has aggressively perfect teeth, though, so they did the job.
* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle'': Teenage Natalie had outside-the-face braces. Even after the FlashBack, which showed that despite this she grew up to be a super-hottie, she still had the klutzy geekiness and was an unpopular girl at heart.
* The Harry Potter-cosplayer-with-a-traffic-cone-for-a-wizard-hat underage drinker in ''Film/HotFuzz'' certainly qualifies. Although his bracers look pretty standard on a surface level, the gleam of metal when he opens his mouth is [[AudibleGleam so bright it makes a sound]] and blinds an unprepared Sgt. Angel.
* The live-action musical film of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has a kid in headgear so complex ''she cannot talk''. It looks like the Reverse Bear Trap from ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''. Amusingly, those braces were fitted by doing something to ''[[Funny/LittleShopOfHorrors remove the jaw]]''.
* Robbie's braces in ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'' are relatively normal... until they try to electrocute him.
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* ''Film/SixteenCandles'': Joan Cusack's character wears a monstrous orthodontic appliance throughout the film that comically interferes with her attempts to drink from a water fountain and a can of beer.
* The main character of Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary wears quite prominent braces in the teenaged prologue [[spoiler:though it turns out that Mary was quite attracted to guys with braces at the time]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In one ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' book, Greg gets one of these. Not because actually he needs them, but rather because his dentist wanted to publicly humiliate him for accidentally biting his finger. Greg later vows never to use them after Manny tries them out, to not let his already unpopular social life go down the toilet.
* Played with in ''Literature/HowToRockBracesAndGlasses.'' The braces the main character gets are pretty standard metal ones, but because she's a superficial teenaged AlphaBitch, she ''acts'' like they're this Trope. [[{{Wangst}} Because now her life is over]].
* ''Literature/{{Nerds}}'': After getting ''thirty-two'' extra teeth removed, Jackson receives a set of braces and headgear that attracts metal objects, prevents him from wearing a football helmet (getting him kicked off the team) and worst of all turns him from Mr. Popular to a social outcast.
* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Smile|2010}}''. The main character goes through a mound of trouble with her teeth and gets braces to make a new batch of two front teeth.

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* When Marcia Brady needed (regular) braces, an episode of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' was devoted to her overcoming the angst and insecurity of wearing them. Three seasons later, Jan was seen wearing them without any explanation as to how they got there. Same with Bobby and Cindy the following season.
* ''Series/EerieIndiana'': In "The Retainer", Marshall's friend Steve Konkalewski is required to wear one for a while. It allows him to read the minds of dogs, who are revealed to be plotting the eventual overthrow of the human race.
* Averted for the most on ''Series/EvenStevens''. Ren wears braces, but this fact is hardly ever brought up (the unobservant likely wouldn't even have known). However, in the episode where she gets her braces removed, the kid after her at the orthodontist's office has one of these monstrosities on.
* One episode of ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' had Renee needing braces. After spending an episode angsting, [[SnapBack she got an invisible set]].
* In "The Paper Route", a third-season episode of ''Series/TheMiddle'', Sue is expecting to get her braces off. Instead, since they've overcorrected her teeth, she's forced to wear headgear full-time.
* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': Lydia is frequently seen wearing a wire teeth-straightener that wraps around the sides of her face when at home.
* In the first episode of ''Series/PoliceSquad'', Detective Drebin goes to shake down a nefarious orthodontist. The patients in his waiting room are actually sitting in order of the ridiculousness of their appliances: from the first patient with simple braces, to the last patient wearing a giant vice clamp on her head.
* In ''Series/PushingDaisies'', Chuck apparently wore these as a kid, which is why she's so good at understanding mumbled speech.
-->'''Chuck:''' My aunts told me it was a form of birth control.\\
'''Dead Man:''' (''mumbling'') Dat rucks.\\
'''Chuck:''' It ''did'' suck.
* Miranda wore braces in one episode of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'', after learning she was a tongue thruster. She had her braces removed by the end of the episode once she decided that being a tongue thruster was the lesser of two evils. Although the braces she wore looked normal, it's worth mentioning because she was in her mid-thirties, making her older than the usual children/teenagers you normally see wearing braces on TV.
* Bailey Pickett of ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life on Deck]]'' wears an old-fashioned head-mounted retainer to bed.
* The title character of ''Series/UglyBetty'', which gets pretty bizarre as she keeps them during the show's entire run. You really have to wonder if her dentist is just a con artist.
* Grace on ''Series/WillAndGrace'' mentioned that between her braces and scoliosis brace, she looked like scaffolding growing up.
* A recurring character in ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' was a dentist who put kids in these. Subverted in one case, since the braces weren't meant for Orthodontic correction, but to prevent her from kissing boys.
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* In the music video of "Last Friday Night" by Music/KatyPerry, her character ([[TheDanza Kathy Beth Terry)]] has this most of the time. SheCleansUpNicely, though.
* The music video for "Every Morning" by Music/SugarRay features a girl with headgear (and a neck brace). Could be justified since the video is set up like a period piece -- a roller rink in the late 1970's -- so clunky old braces would be the norm.
* The video "Hobo humpin' slobo babe" by Swedish group Whale. Singer Cia Berg wore regular braces, but looked somewhat unusual since she wore them on both upper and lower jaw, and she was 30 at the time. A rumour stated that the braces was a forfeit for some kind of bet between her and her then husband (also a member of the group), allegedly about oral sex. Weird rumors like these were par for the course for Whale, and was their standard way of doing cheap promotion.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/Reverse1999'' has Tooth Fairy, a magical dentist who has a large orthodontic brace that's partially mounted on her head, has visible supports on her chin, and makes her teeth resemble steel fangs. This was given to her as a young child after she ate a tooth fairy alive, curing her perpetual dental problems, upon which all the other tooth fairies swore to steal all her teeth, so her parents decided to make it as difficult as possible for that to happen.
* ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' introduces Megalodontia, a [[{{Kaiju}} massive salmonid even by King Salmonid standards]] whose sole real attack is to lunge up from underground and eat ''everything'' in the area of effect. Its teeth are rigged with braces, and one has to wonder what the rest of the school dredged up to outfit those monstrosities.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* [[SweetTooth Nutty]] from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' gets a pair of these in the episode "Chew Said a Mouthful", though in his case it's to keep his jaw in place after he breaks it trying to chew a jawbreaker.
* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': Judith Dinsmore wears these all the time. They consist of a ring around her mouth.
* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsDigitalSeries'': In the webisode "Tip Toppings", the cashier at a frozen yogurt shop has braces with a ring going all around her head, making her talk with a pronounced lisp and spluttering a lot.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
%%* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030914 This strip.]] Also notice that Kent is ''strapped to'' the dentist's chair.
* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'': Kat had them in grade school. Art describes an old yearbook photo as looking like "a bear trap with whiskers."
* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': a flashback panel to Norman's teen years showed him wearing one. Considering he's a huge rabbit with buck teeth that stab him in the chest whenever he sneezes they apparently didn't help. This scene later gets a bit of a CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler:They weren't routine orthodontics, but likely part of the reconstructive surgery he had to go through after the car accident that killed both his parents.]]
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* In the ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' sketch "Super Virgin Squad", among the eponymous trio of SuperZeroes is Paulie, who has braces with headgear, giving him the power of a super-strong bite... and making him TheUnintelligible.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', Oblina ended up with these once, because her teeth were ''straight'' (due to her youthful indiscretion of brushing her teeth once). This actually caught the attention of the RomanticFalseLead, who admired his reflection in the massive things.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', Chuckie wears regular braces, though he's still socially awkward.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Stan having to wear braces again from constant teeth-grinding and also suffered from acne. He gets picked on by his coworkers (not after getting acne, but getting braces).
** He also wore the same type of braces as a bullied teenager.
* Aversion: Frylock of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' wears unobtrusive, traintrack-type braces. He's also the closest thing [[SadistShow that show]] has to a cool guy.
* Darren wore these in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''. Since that show didn't do the NotAllowedToGrowUp thing typical to most cartoons, he gets them removed at the beginning of Season 2, becoming a hottie overnight.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'':
** Also averted with Butt-Head, in which the fact that he wears braces is only pointed out in TheMovie, where he meets Chelsea Clinton just before she defenestrates him from her room.
--->'''Butt-Head:''' I noticed you wear braces. I wear braces, too."
** The movie, though, also shows that Butt-Head used to wear a larger set of braces when he was younger.
* Played with in, of all places, ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}''. The series revolves around this whole trope: although her braces ''look'' as physically normal as those in reality, the title character gets into bizarre and awkward situations when the braces tend to magnetize various objects.
* Chelsea Keezheekoni and her brother has to wear those in ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
** The dentistry-obsessed villain Knightbrace uses his orthodontic headgear as a PrecisionGuidedBoomerang. In his debut episode "Operation: T.E.E.T.H.", he also completely fills Numbuh Four's mouth with braces by force, essentially attaching a metal brick to his teeth.
** One of the Delightful Children (Lenny) wears gigantic orthodontic headgear under his football helmet.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' had everyone (even Earl, who already had regular braces, and an old man with no teeth) being terrorized by the "Orthodontic Police" (Red Guy in disguise) and forced to wear various orthodontic devices, all of which were obtrusive and exaggerated-looking. Some of them even came with ''belt harnesses.'' At the end, Supercow beats the crap out of Red Guy and straps him into an even bigger brace rig, which doubled as a ''satellite tracking dish''. The episode provides the page image.
* Jimmy's retainer in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', which is apparently of the non-removable sort. It's at least simpler than most cartoon orthodontia; It's merely a ring hovering around his head. It's revealed in a flashback that it's the result of his teeth being damaged after he bit into a bowling ball disguised as an ice cream cone during a scam.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** Timmy's friend, Chester, wears what look like regular braces. However, in an episode set in the skate park they kept getting damaged and replaced with ones that did unusual things on occasion, such as sprouting swingsets. Given that the replacements [[ChildProdigy were crafted by AJ]], it's somewhat justified.
** Also Vicky's little sister, Tootie.
** In one episode, [[DepravedDentist Dr. Bender's]] AngryGuardDog is shown wearing a pair.
* Leela from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is shown to be wearing normal braces in a flashback to her childhood, but she still had a very nerdy and awkward appearance. Judging from the general squalor of the Orphanarium she grew up in, they must have funneled all their funds into the dental plan. This is a thousand years in the future... maybe then, braces like that are considered to fall under this trope.
* Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' in which, while Yumi is forced to wear clunky, impractical headgear connected to her mouth (and gets caught in all kinds of jinx thanks to it), they do not serve an orthodontical purpose; instead, their utility is to force her face into a CheshireCatGrin because of the doctor diagnosing her with "scowl-itis".
* Gretchen on ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' has very noticeable braces, but oddly, they're fairly normal -- the main problem is ''her teeth'' are so large and stick out even when her mouth is closed. She's a geeky background character (though a ''bit'' more popular in the fandom since she has a [[PuppyLove crush on Dib]]).
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. Kim had regular braces in her tween years, not orthodontic headgear. (Creator/{{Disney}} tries to be enlightened about such things.) Funny enough, the same goes for [[Series/EvenStevens Ren Stevens]], portrayed by Creator/ChristyCarlsonRomano, the voice of Kim Possible.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Littlest Pet Shop|2012}}'': In the episode "Lotsa Luck", Pepper Clark sported a pair of these during her adolescence.
* In an odd inversion, ''WesternAnimation/LittleShop'', the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Little Shop of Horrors'', features a BarbaricBully wearing orthodontic headgear (probably a reference to the equivalent character in the film being a sociopathic dentist). He's the kind of guy you do not want to cross in a dark alley.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': {{Downplayed|Trope}}, Luan was 14 years old and started wearing braces. In "Hand-Me-Downer", she was wearing braces when she was younger.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'': Junior, the leader of the gang Momma's Boys, has a set of these.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' had this as a villain's plot. The [[DepravedDentist Evil Dentista]] [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]] plans to conquer the world by burdening the best masked wrestlers with oversized, unneeded braces.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'', where school bully Bull Sharkowski has to wear headgear that's essentially reverse-SCUBA ''ear (gill) muffs''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 1", one of the unicorns attending Twilight's conference sports braces with an external frame. She was seen in the earlier episode "Three's a Crowd", being wary of going through a metal detector.
** In "Parental Glideance", one of the wall pictures of Rainbow Dash as a filly shows her wearing braces that extend from her mouth to her ears.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' has Huey get the faceguard-braces... only it turns out that he went to the wrong orthodontist and the braces were actually a mind-control transmitter, which he promptly uses on THE WORLD for the rest of the episode. A robotic agent burned the transmitter's circuit, but it was kinda funny.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield Last Exit to Springfield]]", the family discovers that Lisa needs braces. After she's initially offered practically invisible ones, the dentist finds out the Simpsons don't have a dental plan anymore (thanks to Mr. Burns) and heads straight for the type of obtrusive orthodontic headgear known only to cartoon nerds complete with the admonition, "These predate stainless steel, so you can't get them wet." The storyline [[ButtMonkey played Lisa's humiliation for all it was worth]], from Bart calling her a "freak" to Lisa herself reenacting Jack Napier's discovery that he has become the Joker ("The mirror!...THE MIRROR!") in ''Film/Batman1989'' - as if you didn't feel sorry enough for her already. Strangely, in this episode, Lisa's braces get less and less obtrusive in every scene in which she appears. At first, she can't even conceal them by closing her mouth, but later she can, and eventually, they're only slightly more noticeable than ordinary braces.
** The big-ass orthodontic headgear made another appearance in a Simpsons comic Halloween special, as an attempt to become unappetizing to monsters.
** In another episode where a school dance is held at Springfield Elementary, Milhouse's date to this dance wears orthodontic headgear. Yes, she's on the awkward and ugly-looking side.
** In the episode "Bye Bye Nerdie", the clunky headgear is seen on a character on the bus who is wearing a "Frankie Says relax" shirt (who, in a bit of HypocriticalHumor, tells a nerdy new girl she'll never fit in.) A quick flashback scene later in the episode shows Smithers used to wear clunky braces back in grade school.
** One episode revolves around Homer and Marge being framed for a murder committed by a man wearing a giant set of braces, and ending up on death row. [[spoiler:It turns out it was a new reality show from Fox.]]
* Stan's sister, Shelly Marsh, from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. People making fun of her headgear is a BerserkButton for her even though no one ever really makes fun of or mentions her headgear, she just assumes everyone does.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': In the episode "Super Nerd Much?", Alex gets a retainer similar to [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Jimmy]] after being nerdified. It actually gets stuck on something at one point. It disappears when everyone is returned to normal.
* A flashback in the camping episode of ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' revealed that Snaptrap wore huge braces as a child.
* In ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'', during the credits for the episode Demon Baby we see Callie wearing a Reverse Beartrap from ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films for braces.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Braces", Panda gets a pair of these that give him electromagnetism powers. Soon enough, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity he goes overboard with them]] and becomes a parody of ComicBook/{{Magneto}}.
* Shannon from ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'', in a partial aversion. That is, she appears to be relatively well-adjusted socially and there is a pseudo-80s feel to the show as a whole. Her braces are the least of her problems: she's also ''missing a leg'' and has a rather odd-looking metal prosthetic. This is implied to be the reason Robot Jones is attracted to her.
* Played with in the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''. Hay Lin's new braces become a plot point for the episode "T is for Trauma": Nerissa is able to convince Hay Lin that her normal-looking braces are ugly, leading to a HeroicBSOD for Hay Lin. Hay Lin's boyfriend Eric tells her that the braces don't detract from her looks at all, and implies they look cute on her ("They're so shiny!"). [[spoiler:Then Hay Lin happily glomps him.]]
* Tuesday X of ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' is supposed to get braces. She gets a pamphlet and becomes excited at the prospect of braces that are clear so that they won't be easily noticeable. Her TooDumbToLive father, however, thinks that those kinds of braces are spy gear, and says that she has to wear the "approved" set, which is one of these. This goes horribly wrong when Truman, the little brother, discovers that he can control Tuesday's actions through them, causing him to nearly ruin a date she was on. Fortunately, her date's EvilUncle ended up trying to do this too, and the date turned out all right.
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