Basic Trope: Someone not only has perfect dental health, but also pearly-white teeth.
- Straight: Bob's teeth are white and look like an angel brushed them.
- Exaggerated: Bob's teeth are "Vantawhite"note and glow.
- Downplayed:
- Bob's teeth are light-grey and don't shine, but they're still unusually clean.
- Bob's teeth are white, but they're uneven, just not flat-out crooked.
- Justified:
- Bob knows how teeth should be brushed.
- Bob is Not Quite Human, and his teeth foreshadow this.
- Inverted:
- Bob's teeth are so black and unhealthy that it's a wonder how he hasn't lost them.
- Bob's teeth are naturally black for some reason.
- Subverted:
- Bob's teeth look good, but they're porcelain teeth.
- Bob photoshopped his teeth to look amazing on his selfies, but when you meet him in-person, he's average.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob's whole body is also made of porcelain, so those teeth are his natural teeth.
- Parodied:
- Bob looks hideous, but his teeth are beautiful.
- Bob's teeth are white because he paints them with pearls, or his teeth are literal pearls.
- Zig Zagged: Bob's teeth are like onions with layers of various colors: when he brushes his teeth, they regenerate layers and take on a random color.
- Averted: Bob's teeth are imperfect.
- Enforced:
- The writers wanted to make Bob look handsome by focusing on his teeth.
- It's a commercial for toothpaste/toothbrushes.
- Lampshaded: "How do your teeth look amazing?"
- Invoked:
- Bob brushes his teeth to perfection for weeks, and he did a great job.
- A spell made his teeth white.
- Exploited: Bob gains a lot of respect for his teeth.
- Defied: Bob is too lazy to brush his teeth properly.
- Discussed: "Who knows when toothpaste will make your teeth pearly-white?"
- Conversed: (the audience:) "Is this a Product Placement for toothpaste?"
- Implied: Bob's teeth only look white when viewed in a certain way that the audience doesn't, and characters compliment his teeth sometimes.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice, jealous of Bob's teeth, tries to brush her teeth like she thinks he did, only for her gums to bleed from excessive brushing.
- People harrass Bob with questions about how he brushed his teeth.
- Reconstruction:
- When everyone knows how Bob brushes his teeth, people have fun with their new teeth.
- Played For Laughs: Bob's teeth make Emperor Evulz go blind from how shiny they are.
- Played for Drama: Bob thought that having good teeth would make him attractive, but people treat him like an alien for his teeth being too good.
- Played for Horror:
- The way to make your teeth as perfect as Bob's is painful Body Horror, and he had to experience it too.
- Unusually white teeth are played as an in-universe case of Uncanny Valley.
- Bob is actually something just pretending to be human, the unusually white teeth is the result of Glamour Failure.
- Plotted a Good Waste: Bob is the only character with white teeth to show that he's The Protagonist.
- Plot Foundation: The story is about Bob being born with pearly-white teeth and how he's been living with them.
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