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You know that character who isn't The Blank, but has an odd feature, known as a nose, missing? This is that. It is is more common in Anime, but it can happen in any style.
This is a subtrope of The Blank.
Examples
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Anime & Manga
Comics
- The titular character of Cathy. At one point she looked into getting a nose job.
- In the Canadian newspaper comic Ben
 , the children have no nose.
- Only when viewed from the front.
- The title character of Ted Naifeh's Courtney Crumrin comics also lacks this appendage.
- Loki goes noseless in Universe X. Curiously, in the scene that lampshades this, the same description (black-and-white costume, no nose) could also apply to the nearby Tao, though Tao's just weaing a featureless mask.
- The eponymous character from Yoko Tsuno is mostly drawn with two dots instead of a nose for most of the later albums, which also happens a lot to other, mostly female, characters.
Films — Live Action
- Voldemort◊ from the film adaptations of Harry Potter.
- The books too-that's actually not a bad approximation of how it was described when he was revivified in the fourth book.
- The Nemoidians in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Literature
- There is a short story by Nikolai Gogol called The Nose, about a man who ends up noseless and finds out that his nose has taken a life of its own and ran away, wearing a nice uniform.
- In Tad Williams' Shadowmarch and Shadowplay, Gyir the Storm Lantern is one of a group known as the Encauled. This type of faerie have no nose or mouth, but they can detect and influence others around them telepathically.
- Wheel of Time: Fan nickname for Myrdraal, who should have a nose, but are frequently descibed as having a smooth space where their eyes should be. Since most people's noses would make a big lump there...
- Sister Bessie in Tobacco Road was born without a nose.
Toys
- Any and all LEGO minifigures◊.
- There are a few exceptions, like Timmy from Time Cruisers and the Indians.
Video Games
- Akihiko Yoshida's character portraits in Final Fantasy Tactics are lacking in the nasal area.
- The animated scenes in the PSP remake reveal that the characters actually do have noses, only that they're very small and can only be seen when looking at the face at a profile.
- This is actually a recurring feature of Yoshida's artwork. Characters in Final Fantasy III DS also do not have noses, except for the detailed FMV at the beginning of the game. His "cartoony" style typically has very limited noses which are all but invisible straight-on. You can see this in the Japan-only Final Fantasy Gaiden: Four Warriors of Light and some artwork for Final Fantasy XII (this picture is a good example).
- Likewise, Tetsuya Nomura's characters in Brave Fencer Musashi. (An odd thing for sure, since the entire style of the game is a sharp departure from his usual one of generous Pleather.)
- BFM came before his Belt and Zipper days, when he was trying to find his style regarding human characters.
- Some Robot Master characters in the Mega Man games are noseless, such as Cut Man, Flash Man, and Gemini Man.
- Several of the campers in Psychonauts are without a nose, including Clem & Crystal, Elka, Chops, Phoebe, and most notably Lili. One might later wonder how this works, given that the kids' brains are apparently removed via a potent sneezing powder.
Web Comics
- Every human in The Whiteboard.
- About every character in Angel Moxie.
- Every character in The in Joke.
- The Guardians in Homestuck can be identified because each possesses only one facial feature. Bro, pictured at the top of the page, has eyes (or at least Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann shades); Rose's mom has a mouth; John's dad has a nose (and constantly smokes a pipe despite his lack of a mouth); Becquerel has ears. Most other characters also lack noses, but have the usual complement of other facial features.
- Diana from College Roomies From Hell used to have a nose, but it disappeared sometime around 2006.
Web Original
Western Animation
- Mandy in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
- Billy even noticed it when they were toddlers. He put an ice cream cone on her face to "fix it".
- This troper recalls an episode where Billy's nose was stolen and he tells Mandy she wouldn't understand as she didn't even have a nose.
- Many of the characters in SpongeBob SquarePants, particularly Patrick and Plankton. Lampshaded on numerous occasions.
- The Power Puff Girls
- The main child characters of South Park, although most of the adult characters do have noses.
- In Futurama, episode "Spanish Fry", Fry gets his nose stolen by an alien black market, which are propelled by the myth that "Human Horn" is a natural aphrodisiac for them.
- Bender, on the other hand, is typically noseless.
- Does this count? Robots don't need noses.
- Well he does have one, he just doesn't wear the thing.
- In Wakfu, Sadlygrove and other Iops.
- All humans in Oban Star Racers. A good number of aliens, also.
- Everybody in The Oblongs.
- Fanboy and Chum Chum: Lampshaded by the class teacher, whose nose is just a bulge with two holes on it. When he smashed his "nose" into a wall, he whimpers in pain: "My breathing holes,"
Real Life
- A very sad Truth In Television: one of the main punishments in Imperial China was cutting off the nose. (The others, for the record, were tattooing of the face, cutting off the feet, castration, and death).
- Some people had their nose shot off in combat. One of the more famous examples is mathematician Gaston Julia, the one with the fractals. He had to wear a piece of leather covering the place where his nose had been for the rest of his life. There are photos. Happy googling.
- The astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel and replaced it with a series of prosthetic noses, most famously a golden one.
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