It's-a face you can-a play with!
Tropes dealing with the heads on living things, or artificial life forms. Whether it's the entire head, the face, the brain, other parts, or things relating to the head, they are all covered here.
Compare Memory Tropes (as those are of course stored in the brain), Kissing Tropes.
Contrast These Tropes Are Made for Walking.
Not to be confused with Just a Face and a Caption, Face Heel Index, Face of the Index, or Chase Scene.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head
- Alas, Poor Yorick: Holding a dead person's skull or detached head while lamenting their passing.
- Big Head Mode
- Boom, Headshot!: Killing someone by shooting them in the head.
- Brain in a Jar: A person's disembodied brain is kept alive in a jar.
- Brain Monster
- Brain Theft
- Brain Transplant: Removing a person's brain and putting it into someone else's body.
- Butter Face: Their body looks great but there's something not right about their face.
- Can-Crushing Cranium: Someone crushes a can by pressing it against their forehead.
- Cephalothorax: A being who is essentially a head with arms and legs.
- Childhood Brain Damage: It's established that a dumb or eccentric character is the way they are because of suffering head trauma in the past.
- Coconut Meets Cranium: Someone gets hit in the head with a coconut.
- Cranial Plate Ability: When a character acquires new abilities thanks to a steel piece implanted (accidentally or via surgery) in their head.
- Cranial Processing Unit
- Cranium Chase: A character loses their head, resulting in the body groping around in an attempt to recover the head and reattach it.
- Cranium Compartment
- Cranium Ride
- Crown-Shaped Head
- Decapitation Presentation: Proving you killed a person by showing their severed head.
- Decapitation Required: Cutting off the head is the only way to kill them.
- Demanding Their Head: Unpleasant people putting a bounty on a severed head.
- Demon Head
- Exorcist Head
- Flaming Skulls
- Flying Face
- Forehead of Doom
- Forgot to Mind Their Head
- Frustrated Overhead Scribble
- Gotta Get Your Head Together
- Hard Head
- A Head at Each End: A four-legged creature has a head at both ends of its body.
- Headbutt of Love
- Headbutt Thermometer
- Head Crushing: Killing someone by squashing their head flat.
- Headdesk: A person reacts to something by slamming their head against the desk they are sitting at.
- Head Hat
- Head Smashes Screen: Damaging a screen with your head.
- Head Turned Backwards
- Holy Halo
- Human Head on the Wall: Someone mounts a human being's head on their wall as they would with an animal.
- Human Jack-O-Lantern: A "festive" version of Decapitation Presentation.
- Hypnotic Head
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Good guys who have huge chins.
- Leader Forms the Head
- Losing Your Head: Non-fatal decapitations.
- Mercury's Wings
- Multiple Head Case: A being with more than one head whose different heads don't get along well.
- My Brain Is Big: A character whose brain extends out their skull.
- My Skull Runneth Over: There is a limit to how much knowledge the human brain can contain, with bad things sure to happen should that limit be exceeded.
- No-Neck Chump: A character who has no neck.
- Non-Human Head: A being who has an inanimate object for a head.
- Nothing but Skulls
- Oculothorax: A creature who is basically a floating eyeball.
- Odd Organ Up Top: A being who has a different body part in place of a head.
- Off with His Head!: Decapitating someone.
- One Head Taller
- Oracular Head
- Ostrich Head Hiding: A scared ostrich hides their head underground.
- Pie in the Face: Someone gets hit in the face with a pie.
- Pretty Little Headshots
- Pumpkin Person: A being who has a pumpkin for a head.
- Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Something can only be killed by cutting of its head or destroying it's brain.
- Severed Head Sports
- Shrunken Head
- Skull for a Head
- Tap on the Head: A blow to the head is a harmless 'sleep' button.
- Thin Chin of Sin
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: A large, brutish creature has a comically small head.
- Unusual Halo
- Use Your Head
- Villainous Cheekbones
- Waddling Head
- Your Head Asplode
