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** Masquerain has a pair of antennas with eyelike patterns.

** Cradily has large yellow spots on its head that trick a lot of people into thinking they're its eyes, and its ''actual'' eyes sitting below them are just goofy-looking teeth.

*** Mantyke has the same thing but also has a mouth-like marking below them that curves upward, resulting in the markings on Mantyke's back resembling a cute smiley face.

** The pure Poison-type Pokémon Arbok has large marks on its wide torso that resemble a menacing face.
** The Bug/Poison-type Pokémon Spinarak has a face with a blank expression on its back that resembles a face. In some episodes of the anime, the face can change to a happy or angry expression.
** The pure Psychic-type Pokémon Wobbuffet's true face and head is actually its tail, and the entire rest of its body is purely a disguise.
** The Water/Flying-type Pokémon Mantine has two large black markings on its back that resemble eyes.
*** Its pre-evolution Mantyke has the same thing but also has a mouth-like marking below them that curves upward, resulting in the markings on Mantyke's back resembling a cute smiley face.
** The Bug/Flying-type Pokémon Masquerain has a pair of antennas with eyelike patterns.
** The Rock/Grass-type Fossil Pokémon Cradily has large yellow spots on its head that trick a lot of people into thinking they're its eyes, and its ''actual'' eyes sitting below them are just goofy-looking teeth.
** The Ghost-type Pokémon Dusknoir has markings on its chest and back that resemble eyes and a mouth. Oddly, while its real eye is located on its head, the front of its chest opens and acts like a functional mouth that it uses to carry spirits to the afterlife. The back mouth remains purely decorative.
** The Ghost/Fairy-type Pokémon Mimikyu is famous for this trope. Envying the popularity of the franchise's mascot Pikachu, it crafted a costume resembling it, with scribbled-on eyes and a mouth. It is said that nobody who ever saw under Mimikyu's costume lived to tell the tale.
** The pure Electric-type Pokémon Bellibolt has two large, bulbous white growths on either side of its forehead that look a lot like eyes. However, its eyes are actually two small white dots in between them.
** Providing the page image, the outside of the Poison/Ghost-type Mythical Pokémon Pecharunt's shell has two white dots that make it seem like it's making your average DeadpanSnarker face, but its true face (and head) are inside the shell.

* ''VideoGame/PlatypusEvolution'': One platypus evolution stage, the Triplat, looks like your average three-headed long-necked platypus. However, the Platypedia states that only one of the three heads is intelligent and the other two are just mindless reservoirs of water.

* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'': Implied with No-Face, who nominally has a white mask for a face. Given his name however (and the fact his mouth is located elsewhere) it is heavily implied the mask is just a rouse to lure in victims, and he is actually TheBlank.

* Bridge Worms from the ''Blog/{{Slimyswampghost}}'' blog where Trevor Henderson posts his work have a fake face that cover their real, uglier face. The creature uses the false face to lure in any potential prey it finds.

* ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch'': The animals surrounding the [[ManyFacedDivinity Mother Of Faces]] home all have face like patterns on their body due to her influence.

* ''Literature/TheFoundingOfValdemar'': The Dolls are Vrondi—air spirits drawn to truth—trapped in constructed bodies and made to serve the EvilEmpire. To make them identifiable, people often decorate Dolls' bodies in various ways, including by making them artificial faces. The Dolls like this, seeing it as a token of affection, and this tradition continues until the end of ''Beyond'', when the heroes find a way to free the Vrondi from the Doll bodies.

* ''VideoGame/FlightRising'': The [[https://www1.flightrising.com/game-database/item/53719 Wicked Smile]] and [[https://www1.flightrising.com/game-database/item/53718 Vile Grin]] familiars -- first released during the 2023 Night of the Nocturne event -- resemble large moths with eye spots on their wings, in reference to some real life variations of the trope. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the tooltip for the Vile Grin:

*** Its pre-evolution Mantyke has the same thing, but also has a mouth-like marking below them that curves upward, resulting in the markings on Mantyke's back resembling a cute smiley face.

** The Rock/Grass-type Fossil Pokémon Cradily has large yellow spots on its head that trick a lot of people into thinking they're its eyes, and its ''actual'' eyes sitting below them are just goofy looking teeth.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': The final boss Void Termina homages Zero Two's fake smiley face in its core form by having it's expression change to laughter whenever it uses it's needle attack. Its face also alternates between an eyeball akin to the Dark Matter or a face resembling Kirby's. Likewise for its stronger variants Void Soul and [[TrueFinalBoss Void]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In the episode [[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS2E5ButterflyAndTheBogBeast The Magic School Bus Butterfly and the Bog Beast]], in order to scare off Janet, the students generate fearsome face-like markings on the bus's wings.

* ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'': In the first few books, Skulduggery Pleasant will make it a point to hide his skeletal face when dealing with mortals. After that, he arranges to have runes placed on his body that allows him to use a facade that creates a randomized face, allowing him to interact with mortals without them freaking out over him being a living skeleton.
* ''Literature/TheFoundingOfValdemar'': The Dolls are Vrondi, air spirits drawn to truth, trapped in constructed bodies and made to serve the EvilEmpire. To make them identifiable, people often decorate Dolls' bodies in various ways, including by making them artificial faces. The Dolls like this, seeing it as a token of affection, and this tradition continues until the end of ''Beyond'', when the heroes find a way to free the Vrondi from the Doll bodies.

* ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'': The fight with [[AngelicAbomination Zero Two]] begins with it showing a fake happy face before it fades away, revealing it's eyeball.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': The final boss Void Termina in it's core form homages Zero Two's fake smiley face by having it's expression change to laughter whenever it uses it's needle attack. It's face also alternates between an eyeball akin to the Dark Matter or a face resembling Kirby's. This trait is also retained by it's stronger variants Void Soul and [[TrueFinalBoss Void]].

** The outside of the Poison/Ghost-type Mythical Pokémon Pecharunt's shell has two white dots that make it seem like it's making your average DeadpanSnarker face, but in reality, its true face (and head) is on the inside of the shell.

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** The Poison/Ghost-type Mythical Pokémon Pecharunt provides this trope's page image. The outside of its shell has two white dots that make it seem like it's making your average DeadpanSnarker face, but in reality, its true face (and head) is on the inside of the shell.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies: The final boss Void Termina in it's core form homages Zero Two's fake smiley face by having it's expression change to laughter whenever it uses it's needle attack. It's face also alternates between an eyeball akin to the Dark Matter or a face resembling Kirby's. This trait is also retained by it's stronger variants Void Soul and [[TrueFinalBoss Void]].