History Main / DreamWorksFace

** [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey Raiza]], [[SmugSnake who prides herself]] in being [[AlienPrince Prince]] [[EvilPrince Richter]]'s right hand, is prone to this trope. She makes an especially smug [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dreamworksface.png one]] when gleefully telling [[HandsomeLech Melvi]] that [[spoiler:Dr. Wallin]] was executed for treason against the Baam Empire.

* The Crazy Frog is doing it in [[https://annoyingthing.net/wiki/Crazy_Frog#/media/File:Crazy_Frog_Standing.png this image.]]

** The poster for ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' has the younger Sulley doing it--justified, as it's to show audiences that the college-age overconfident jock we see in this movie isn't the kind, gentle adult Sulley audiences know from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''. Mike, however, can't make it, having only one eye of course.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/xyy/images/3/35/Sparky0.png/revision/latest?cb=20190325081924 This artwork of Sparky]] shows him with the smirk and the crooked eyebrows that are characteristic of the [=DreamWorks=] face.

You know that face. The clever, [[TwinkleSmile asymmetrical smirk]]. The similarly [[FascinatingEyebrow crooked eyebrows]]. The [[DrearyHalfLiddedEyes half-closed eyes]]. The intense stare-down that comes at you from the promo posters. It's the expression that tells you the hero is going to be up to no good, and is much cooler than any of those classic, mainstream, conformist wimps those ''other'' studios produce... except the character him- or -herself never, or rarely, makes that face to begin with in the show! It's usually a way to get audiences to see a particular film over another, and promises a very different tone from what we are used to. It's the facial expression form of hip, sassy and snarky dialogue.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei makes the face during the epilogue when her friends show up.

* ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': Rhoda Stewart is a smug AcademicAlphaBitch who loves to rub her successes in Emily's face and pranks her on her first day of school with a live snake, Each time, she has this smug expression.

* VideoGame/MonsterRancher4's boxart and advertising material somehow manages to pull off [[https://cdn.mobygames.com/covers/4279392-monster-rancher-4-playstation-2-front-cover.jpg a one-eyed version of this]], featuring the monster Suezo.

* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': When Hiroyuki[[note]]Manga-exclusive character[[/note]]'s introduced, he makes a smug expression as he trolls Sonoko, his AlphaBitch cousin, where he smiles with half-lidded eyes.