Basic Trope: A bird's beak looks more like a mouth.
- Straight: Bob the bird has a rather flexible beak that looks more like a mouth.
- Exaggerated: Due to the design of his "beak", Bob doesn't even look anything like a bird anymore.
- Downplayed: Bob's beak is realistically drawn, but still notably more flexible than a real beak.
- Justified:
- Bob is a Funny Animal bird, and he gained the ability to make facial expressions through evolution.
- Bob is a potoo, or other bird with a beak directly connected to the rest of its face.
- Inverted: Bob is a human whose mouth is drawn like a beak.
- Subverted: It turns out Bob was wearing a mask.
- Double Subverted: He takes it off to reveal his beak still doesn't look like a beak.
- Parodied: The other birds use their beaks to peck for their food, but Bob with his "lips" finds it impossible.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob's beak changes between looking like a mouth and a normal beak, depending on what expressions he makes.
- Averted: Birds' beaks look nothing like mouths and they emote mostly with their eyes.
- Enforced: As a way to give bird characters more varied facial expressions.
- Lampshaded: "You're supposed to be a bird? What happened to your beak?"
- Invoked: Bob gets plastic surgery to turn his beak into a mouth.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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