Elastic Girl: Is Batman...smiling?
Robin: It happens.
Elastic Girl: And you accuse us of looking spooky.
Robin: It happens.
Elastic Girl: And you accuse us of looking spooky.
Sui-Feng had started to open up to her class even if not much. Dani could only smile at (Sui-Feng)'s attempt to smile in the first week. It looked more creepy and evil then anything she had ever seen. Her classmates still shivered in fright as they remembered her smile.
His uncle George, by contrast, was smiling. Uncle George. Good old George... who was always smiling. The quintessence of a reasonable man; forever pointing out the obvious. Good old Uncle George...
Whose bright smiles never quite seemed to reach the icy depths of his startling blue eyes.
Whose bright smiles never quite seemed to reach the icy depths of his startling blue eyes.
Her bandages now mostly off, Rei approaches the three with a huge grin on her face, but it looked like she didn’t know how to smile properly, and instead it came off as some sort of psychotic killer grin.
"And your... title? Hunter? What did you hunt?" Vermut's question made the Hunter stiffen.
And then he... he smiled. There was nothing good in that smile. Lucian felt her hands moisten and the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.
"Beasts. I hunt beasts no matter what skin they choose to wear."
And then he... he smiled. There was nothing good in that smile. Lucian felt her hands moisten and the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.
"Beasts. I hunt beasts no matter what skin they choose to wear."
Elan: You're awake! And you're... why are you making that face?
Norea: It's called a smile, you ass.
Elan: Is that what that is? How alarming.
Norea: It's called a smile, you ass.
Elan: Is that what that is? How alarming.
Byleth showed her teeth. It couldn’t reasonably be called a smile by any metric, but to call it a grimace would ascribe emotion that just wasn’t there.
Mrs. Slocombe: Is this expression alright?
Captain Peacock: The authorities don't like you smiling. [Beat] I must say I agree with them.
Captain Peacock: The authorities don't like you smiling. [Beat] I must say I agree with them.
Drax: What are you doing?
Mantis: Smiling. I hear it is the thing to do to make people like you.
Drax: Not if you do it like that.
Mantis: Smiling. I hear it is the thing to do to make people like you.
Drax: Not if you do it like that.
Literature
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz smiled very slowly. This was done not so much for effect as because he was trying to remember the sequence of muscle movements.
[The Scribe] smiled. There was no warmth in it, or anything else. It was just flesh being moved by muscles.
Leebig's mouth widened slowly. Baley took it for a snarl at first and then, with considerable surprise, decided that it was the most unsuccessful attempt at a smile that he had ever seen.
Madeline's lips pulled up at the corners in a terrible parody of good humor, her mouth stretching painfully wide, her jaw dropped so far that it almost looked like a scream. Above that awful grin, her eyes were as flat and dead as stones.
I do not delude myself that I have seen every way the human mind can fail, though I have seen a hundred ways that soldiers and civilians can break in war. But I had never seen a smile like that.
I do not delude myself that I have seen every way the human mind can fail, though I have seen a hundred ways that soldiers and civilians can break in war. But I had never seen a smile like that.
"I'm sorry, Colonel Brendig," Ce'Nedra apologized, affectionately patting his hand. "For some reason you bring out the worst in me. Don't you ever smile?"
He looked at her with an absolutely straight face. "I am smiling, your Majesty," he said.
He looked at her with an absolutely straight face. "I am smiling, your Majesty," he said.
The smile was almost on her face, but it was if she had forgotten it was there. He realized then what was wrong with her expression: it was like an imitation of things she had seen others do, without any real understanding of what it meant.
— Books of the Raksura: The Cloud Roads
Live-Action TV
Arthur (to Léodagan) You really need to stop smiling, it's getting real uncomfortable.
Video Games
Sniper: [Gripping Medic's throat] You were smilin'. The last thing I saw 'fore I bled out and died was your smug, evil grin!
Medic: I was happy to see you! That's just how I look when I smile! Smug and evil! [grins] See?
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Medic: I was happy to see you! That's just how I look when I smile! Smug and evil! [grins] See?
◊Kimahri: If we worry, she tries harder. Do not frown.
Tidus: Don't worry, be happy?
Kimahri: Kimahri try too.
Tidus: Smile! Let me see. [Kimahri grimaces] Sad.
Tidus: Don't worry, be happy?
Kimahri: Kimahri try too.
Tidus: Smile! Let me see. [Kimahri grimaces] Sad.
"You clearly have rigor mortis on your face, or wait...is that an expression? Are you trying to make an expression with that face? Why?"
— Your mirror, Disco Elysium
Visual Novels
"Her smile was wrong—horribly wrong. Her face looked like a mask made from stretched human skin. The smile that parted her lips did not extend to her eyes. They were dead and empty. The girl in front of him was no longer the Clover he had known. Perhaps she was not even human..."
— Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Axe ending
Webcomics
"I know that face. That's your "screaming internally" face."
— Clinton, Questionable Content, "Hmmmmmm"
Web Original
He laughed again, like it was a chore; like he was taking out the garbage.
It's strange that Mariah really can't play Mariah all that well. Her attempts at "acting" are terrible. She has this strange modest look she has all the time where she will tilt her head down, look up with puppy dog eyes, and clamp her lips together in a smile that looks like she is covering up for the fact she has braces. We get it, you are trying to act modest about your success. Now stop it, it is creeping me out.
Dakota Johnson's face is the face I make when I'm about to gobble down a Triple Steak Stack and a Cinnabon iced coffee from Taco Bell.
Jamie Dornan's face is the face I make an hour later when all that Taco Bell has attacked my bowels in a bad way and I'm a fart away from letting it all go and there's not one available toilet nearby.
Jamie Dornan's face is the face I make an hour later when all that Taco Bell has attacked my bowels in a bad way and I'm a fart away from letting it all go and there's not one available toilet nearby.
— Michael K., "Jamie Dornan's 'Why Me?' Face On Glamour"
, "Jamie Dornan's 'Why Me?' Face On Glamour"