Basic Trope: A skull with flexible features, similar to an actual head.
- Straight: Sammy the Skeleton's skull is very flexible and allows him to make a wide variety of facial expressions.
- Exaggerated: Sammy's skull might as well be an actual head; he even has actual eyelids!
- Downplayed: Sammy's eyeholes can widen and tighten slightly to make surprised or contemplative expressions.
- Justified:
- Sammy is a spirit that takes the form of a living skeleton, and therefore has some physics-breaking features.
- Sammy is actually a creature that heavily resembles a skeleton.
- Sammy is an animatronic who's missing his head-mask.
- Inverted: Sammy is a person whose head lacks any flexible features, leaving him with a skull-like visage.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- There aren't any living skeletons in the work.
- The only movement a skull can make is its lower jaw moving.
- Enforced: To let viewers be able to read Sammy's facial expressions more clearly.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Sammy decides to be The Stoic.
- Discussed: "Sammy, how can your skull make facial expressions?" "Well, I can move despite having no muscles, and talk despite having no vocal chords, so..."
- Conversed: ???
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