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--->'''Nagisa:''' (''offering him her bread'') Would you like a bite?\\

** One of the best face faults in DBZ history is when Trunks tells Goku his parentage... Vegeta is his father, and his mother... Bulma. Goku's reaction was not only this trope -- but flat out laughing in sheer disbelief! Meanwhile, far away from this private talk, [[TheStoic Piccolo]] with his acute hearing picks up on the entire conversation, and nearly [[TheComicallySerious face faults]] [[NotSoAboveItAll himself]] (episode 122).

* Used often in ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' usually as a result of Sōsuke's actions. Two notable ones:

* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has one of these in the first episode when Nanoha is trying to persuade her family to let her take care of a "ferret" - cough, cough - that she found injured in the woods. Her father asks what a ferret is, and Nanoha face faults...though at a much lesser extreme than expected from this trope.

--> '''Sabrina's father''': '''''JUST HOW DENSE CAN A PERSON BE?!'''''

* The second season of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' opens every episode with a brief "blurb" describing the premise, that ends with the entire Tendō family face faulting upon witnessing Ranma's transformation. Face faults are also common sight gags in both the manga and the anime. Rumiko Takahashi does it with the characters' hands usually extended, middle and ring (and index?) fingers folded while the pinkie/index and thumb stick out.
** The hand-sign is basically the familiar "horns", and is used in Japan to deflect evil eye.

(''Oyl family faults'')

(''Curly {{facepalm}}'')\\

(''the Stooges faint'')

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[[quoteright:298:[[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/face_fault8.jpg]]]]

* Happens to Mikan in ''Manga/AliceAcademy'' with an almost sadistic frequency.

''(Tomoya face faults in front of Nagisa)''\\
'''Nagisa:''' ''(drunk)'' Tomoya-kun, why are you panicking like that?

'''Tomoya:''' (''faking'') Yeah, I'd ''really'' like a bite of it!\\
'''Nagisa:''' (''cheerfully'') You do? ''(looks away)'' But I won't let you.\\
(''Tomoya face faults off the bench'')

** The page pic is a scene from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' showing Chisame face faulting to Chachamaru's AccidentalInnuendo.

* In the Rescue Team games and the Rescue Team DX remake in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', after you clear Mt Steel, you can choose to say your team doesn't need assistance and then "Two is plenty". Your partner asks if you have a special ability, in which you can choose between your body stretching and flying. Either way, your partner asks you to show your ability, but the options both consist of you saying you can't, either resulting in your partner and the two Magnemite face faulting in the originals or your partner face faulting in the DX remake.

* In the Rescue Team games and the Rescue Team DX remake in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', after you clear Mt Steel, you can choose to say your team doesn't need assistance and then "Two is plenty". Your partner asks if you have a special ability, in which you can choose between your body stretching and flying. Either way, your partner asks you to show your ability, but the options both consist of you saying you can't, resulting in your partner and the two Magnemite face faulting.

* In the Rescue Team games and the Rescue Team DX remake in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', after you clear Mt Steel, you can choose to say your team doesn't need assistance and then "Two is plenty". Your partner asks if you have a special ability, in which you can choose between your body stretching and flying. Either way, your partner asks you to show your ability, but the options both consist of you saying you can't, resulting in your partner and the twoMagnemite face faulting.

* In the Rescue Team games and the Rescue Team DX remake in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', after you clear Mt Steel, you can choose to say your team doesn't need assistance and then "Two is plenty". Your partner asks if you have a special ability, in which you can choose between your body stretching and flying. Either way, your partner asks you to demonstrate, but the options both say you can't, resulting in your partner and the Magnemite face faulting.

* In the Rescue Team games and the Rescue Team DX remake in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', after you clear Mt Steel, you can choose to say your team doesn't need assistance. Your partner asks if you have a special ability, in which you can choose between your body stretching and flying. Either way, your partner asks you to demonstrate, but the options both say you can't, resulting in your partner and the Magnemite face faulting.

* In the Rescue Team games and the Rescue Team DX remake in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', your partner asks where the world’s balance is. You can choose to escalate the wackiness by claiming that it’s in space, and if you say that your partner will know when they find it, your partner asks how, and choose the option of flying, your partner is quick to ask Pelipper to fly you and your partner to space, to which Pelipper declines and flies off. When you say that it’s impossible, your partner face faults (in the DX version, your partner face faults out of shock).

* In the Rescue Team games in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'', your partner asks where the world’s balance is. You can choose to escalate the wackiness by claiming that it’s in space, and if you say that your partner will know when they find it, your partner asks how, and choose the option of flying, your partner is quick to ask Pelipper to fly you and your partner to space, to which Pelipper declines and flies off. When you say that it’s impossible, your partner face faults.

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* The "flip-take" is mostly associated with NewspaperComics from the early 20th century. A character says or does something stupid, explains it in the final panel, causing a smart character to faint on the floor with a large thud. Always done by falling on their back with the feet high up in the air. To add effect the reader usually only sees their feet in the air, the rest of the body falls out of frame.

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* The "flip-take" is mostly associated with NewspaperComics from the early 20th century. A character says or does something stupid, explains it in the final panel, causing a smart character to faint on the floor with a large thud. Always done by falling on their back with the feet high up in the air. To add effect the reader usually only sees their feet in the air, the rest of the body falls out of frame.

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* ''Manga/DrStone'': Senku causes the entire village to have a face fault when he untimely realizes they their going to create another phone after months of collecting materials.

'''Moe:''' Did you ever see an apple with it's skin on the ''inside?''\\

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpQlp72GYk The first time]] is when Phoenix nitpicks Lotta Hart's testimony, trying to find a valid contradiction in her saying the gunshot went off on Christmas Eve, when it happened shortly after midnight and thus actually happened on Christmas ''Day''. Everyone, including Lotta and [[TheComicallySerious Edgeworth]] face fault at that.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW255QVcTVs The second]] happens when the boat rental man testifies that he saw Edgeworth on the night of the crime, "fluttering" by saying "I can't believe [Robert Hammond] is dead!" Edgeworth objects to this on the grounds that he never said that, and "Moreover... I don't flutter to that extent!" Cue the the entire courtroom face faulting.

* In ShominSample episode 3, when stoic super-genius Hakua expresses an interest in Kimito, the first time she'd shown a personal interest in anyone, her personal maid face-faults hard enough to shatter the tiles on the floor.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'':

* There are a lot more of these in ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' than in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]]. Fitting, as it follows the manga's art (and story) much more closely. There are a ''lot'' of face faults in the manga. The Australian official release even references it by name.

* In episode five of ''[[VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou]]'' Tenma has this reaction when Akane expresses concern over the possibility of Yorihisa commiting {{seppuku}} after she fell into a river because of him; although Tenma then comments that, [[{{Samurai}} this being Yorihisa]], such outcome ''is'' possible...

[[caption-width-right:298:...I meant ''{{Training|FromHell}}'' [[InnocentInnuendo Partner!]]]]

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** One of the best face faults in DBZ history is when Trunks tells Goku his parentage... Vegeta is his father, and his mother... Bulma. Goku's reaction was not only this trope -- but flat out [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments laughing in sheer disbelief]]! Meanwhile, far away from this private talk, [[TheStoic Piccolo]] with his acute hearing picks up on the entire conversation, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and nearly]] [[TheComicallySerious face faults]] [[NotSoAboveItAll himself]] (episode 122).

** Another one was during the Majin Buu saga (episode 251) when Goten and Trunks first tried to fuse seriously in front of everyone. The first attempt resulted in a very chubby Gotenks. As Gotenks tries to jog in his newly fused body he stops moving for a second... then starts heaving in exhaustion, giving up. ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Everyone]]'' face faults.

(''the Stooges [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments faint]]'')

* Wrestling/RicFlair's Flair Flop. His daughter Wrestling/{{Charlotte}} started doing it too.