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redirected from Main.TheSweatDrop

Confusion, exasperation, embarrassment and similar emotions manifest as an unusually large sweat drop that appears on the temple or the back of the head. Sometimes the "drop sweat" symbol can even apply to a group of people as well. Either a gigantic sweat drop appears somewhere in the middle of the crowd, or a few big drops are scattered around.

Usually limited to comedic anime, but even some serious ones indulge.

The Sweat Drop is also appearing in anime-influenced American animation. For example, characters in Totally Spies and Teen Titans evince both sweatdrops and Cross Popping Veins.

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Examples

Anime and Manga

• Occurs frequently in Fullmetal Alchemist, often without regard for which way a character is facing◊.
• In Pokemon this is also what the Cascade Badge looks like.
• Lampshaded in The Slayers. Lina smacks Gourry over the head with her own sweatdrop for endangering her life without warning her first.
• In Yotsuba&! all over. Usually to everyone else. A lot.
• Dragonball.

Video Games

• The Tonberry summon in Final Fantasy VIII goes like this:
  Tonberry slowly walks towards the enemy
  Enemy sweatdrops
  *DOINK!*
• In the fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 2 if you're using Tron Bonnes throw assist and she misses, a message bubble will appear with a sweat drop in it.
• Message bubbles with sweat drops inside them also appear in Mario And Luigi Superstar Saga.
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.

Webcomics

• Used almost constantly in early Misfile strips, and although its use has been toned down in recent strips even Rumi's T-shirt can develop one.
• Appears from time to time in The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob.
• Used here in Corner Alley 13.

Western Animation

• Even Avatar The Last Airbender has done this once or twice.

Other

• Characters established to be anime fans in Gap are sometimes given versions of these. Tom's somewhat fluid preferences regarding anime result in him having these only when discussing the subject.

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