Basic Trope: A usually stoic character tries to smile, but it ends up being creepy.
- Straight: Bob, who has never been seen smiling, finally does, but it heads straight into the Uncanny Valley.
- Exaggerated: Bob, who has never been seen smiling, finally does, but his smile twists and stretches his facial features in ways that people normally insist are physically impossible.
- Downplayed: Bob, who has never been seen smiling, finally does, but it looks somewhat creepy until he gets it under control.
- Justified:
- Bob, while attractive in real life, is just not very photogenic.
- Bob can smile just fine when he has something to smile about. Faking a smile, on the other hand, gives Bob a Centipede's Dilemma which makes him screw it up.
- Inverted: When She Smiles.
- Subverted: Bob slowly smiles, and it seems to be heading into the uncanny valley, but becomes cute smile.
- Double Subverted: ...Then it keeps going into creepiness.
- Parodied: Bob's smile is so horrible to look at that every adult around him loses bladder control, while all infants and children in the nearby area start to cry.
- Zig Zagged:
- Bob's smiles can either be this or When She Smiles, often without rhyme or reason.
- Bob's smile is Creepy Cute.
- Averted: Bob's smile is in no way creepy.
- Enforced: When the actor playing Bob smiles, it really does look creepy, and he'd need a plastic surgeon, an orthodontist, and a specialized facial expression coach to change that. So instead, Bob's creepy smile is just thrown in as a genuine character trait.
- Lampshaded: "Is that a smile or did you lose a fight with a weed whacker?"
- Invoked: "We want to use Stoic Bob in a joke. I wonder how..."
- Exploited:
- Bob's creepy smile is used to distract a guard so they can sneak in somewhere.
- Bob uses his creepy smile to intimidate someone.
- Defied: Bob refuses to even try to smile.
- Discussed: "So why did we ask Bob to smile again?" "Who knows? I really wish we hadn't. It's creepy."
- Conversed: "Bob really looks better when he doesn't smile. It's actually quite unsettling."
- Deconstructed: Bob was in a horrible accident years ago, and the facial nerves and muscles didn't heal right.
- Reconstructed: There is nothing that Bob wants to smile about anyway.
- Implied: The audience never sees Bob's smile, but Alice seems quite unnerved by it.
Go back to The Unsmile, and seriously, stop smiling. You're creeping everyone out.
