History Main / NowThatsUsingYourTeeth

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* Jim Carrey catches a bullet in his teeth (while driving his car and leaning out the window, mind you) in one of the ''AceVentura'' movies.
* [[IchiTheKiller Kakihara]] loves showing off his GlasgowGrin; in one street fight, he yanks the pins from his cheeks and catches a man's fist in his horribly wide maw. ''Chomp.''
* In ''[=~You Don't Mess With The Zohan~=]'', when fighting terrorists, Zohan catches two bullets with his hands before catching a third one with his teeth. He then [[BeyondTheImpossible catches a fourth one with his nose.]] This is all seen as pretty mundane to Zohan.

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* In ''[[EarthsChildren Clan of the Cave Bear]]'', Creb used his mouth and teeth to hold and manipulate objects because he only had one arm. His teeth were worn down from doing that. Noteworthy for being one of the few characters to do this who is explicitly ''not'' super strong, as well as for showing what would happen to a real person's teeth if they did this all the time. (Well, OK, technically he's a Neanderthal, but that's neither here nor there.)
** TruthInTelevision, as the teeth of people from low-tech societies often exhibit wear-patterns from tasks such as chewing on animal sinew to soften it for use as twine.
* Sunny from ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''. She doesn't mostly use her teeth in combat even under a loose definition of that term, but the stories constantly imply that Sunny's teeth are as useful to her as those of a beaver; for instance, they have many {{Eigen Plot}}s and ordinarily Sunny's part involves using her teeth.
** As an example, in ''The Ersatz Elevator'' she used them to scale a wall.
** In ''The Miserable Mill'' Sunny actually uses her teeth as pseudo-swords to fight off the villain in a 'swordfight,' and the most impressive thing about it is that they were pretty much equals in the fight, despite the fact that the villain had a longer reach, was using an actual sword, and was fighting a ''baby''.
* In ''[[{{Discworld/TheFifthElephant}} The Fifth Elephant]]'', Vimes fires a shot at Wolfgang and Wolfgang catches it in his teeth. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Wolfgang, [[YourHeadAsplode it was a shot from a flare gun]].]]
* Lincoln Rhyme, in ''The Bone Collector'' and other novels in the series, is essentially quadriplegic throughout the series. In the first book, he's about to be killed by a psychotic madman, so he uses the only weapon he has left, his teeth. As noted below in RealLife, that's more than rip out a throat...

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* In ''[=~Don't Mess With The Zohan~=]'', when fighting terrorists, Zohan catches two bullets with his hands before catching a third one with his teeth. He then [[BeyondTheImpossible catches a fourth one with his nose.]] This is all seen as pretty mundane to Zohan.

* This troper is shocked that Sunny from ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' hasn't been mentioned yet. She doesn't mostly use her teeth in combat even under a loose definition of that term, but the stories constantly imply that Sunny's teeth are as useful to her as those of a beaver; for instance, they have many {{Eigen Plot}}s and ordinarily Sunny's part involves using her teeth.

* The 7th from ''{{Mirai Nikki}}'' blocked Yuno's knife with his teeth. Partially justified because he [[ScryVsScry knew it was coming]]

* In ''Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas'', Kale grabs his enemy's sword in his teeth, then jerks his head to throw the opponent overboard. Quoth Sinbad "And ''I'' was overworking it?"
* In ''DetectiveConan'', it looks like an old man had committed suicide in his room; then Conan deduces that [[spoiler: the victim had his hands bound behind his back, and then the rope that was looped around his neck was also threaded through his teeth so that if he called for help or his jaw gave out he would hang himself]].
* [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] has on many an occasion blocked opponents' attacks with his teeth, most notably against Ryu Kumon.
* In ''DGrayMan'', Krory stops Lavi's [[DropTheHammer Hammer Drop]] attack (which involves Lavi jumping above him and growing his hammer to roughly the size of a small building) with his teeth. Lavi is duly impressed.
-->''Lavi'': Nice teeth.
** I think anything with Krory's use of teeth apply to this trope, actually.
* [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] stops Rip van Winkle's bullet with his teeth (and half his face, but he gets better).
** In Seras's fight with Zorin Blintz, Seras has Zorin pinned on the ground. Zorin works her right arm free and starts punching Seras in the head with that arm until Seras (looking more irritated than anything else) destroys her hand with a single bite.

* TruthInTelevision: JimiHendrix could play guitar with his teeth. If that doesn't count, nothing does.
** The above TruthInTelevision is referenced in ''[[{{ptitlei5gydjrz}} K-On!]]'', in which the advisor of the titular club turns out to be able to perform the same feat.
** So can Krauser from ''DetroitMetalCity'', though Souichi notes that it's not good for himself.
** Zack Wylde of HeavyMetal band BlackLabelSociety shows off this ability as well during solos in live sets.
** Ryyuske from ''[[BeckMongolianChopSquad BECK]]'' as a homage.
* Quoted almost word for word by Guts in ''{{Berserk}}'', when he uses his teeth to catch the tip of Griffith's sword, seen in the page image. It's a tactic he makes use of quite often in fact.
* Jim Carrey catches a bullet in his teeth (while driving his car and leaning out the window, mind you) in one of the ''AceVentura'' movies.
* In ''MichikoToHatchin'', Michiko pulls up a rope with her teeth to save a man from falling to his death while her hands are tied on her back. If that isn't a {{crowning moment of awesome}}, I don't know what is.
* [[BattleButler Roberta]] from ''BlackLagoon'' makes use of this trope to catch a thrown knife in mid air with her teeth. She then proceeds to ''shatter it with her teeth'' while giving a giant SlasherSmile. ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]]''!
** Heihachi Mishima does much the same thing with a thrown axe in the OAV of {{Tekken}}.
* In the ''SengokuBasara'' anime, Sarutobi Sasuke catches a knife with his teeth when Kasuga throws it at his face.
* Gangryong in ''{{Veritas}}'' often uses his teeth when fighting an opponent.
* In ''WildArms5'', [[PsychoForHire Kartikeya]] is shown [[BulletCatch catching a bullet with his teeth]] when Greg attempts to wipe that smug bastard's grin with a point-blank range head shot. He smacks Greg for that one, saying that it hurt. A lot.
* Kagura from ''{{Gintama}}'' catches a bullet with each hand and the last one in her teeth.

* [[IchiTheKiller Kakihara]] loves showing off his GlasgowGrin; in one street fight, he yanks the pins from his cheeks and catches a man's fist in his horribly wide maw. ''Chomp.''
* Kuroki from {{Blazer Drive}} blocks a shadow spike from an enemy with his teeth. Said spike came from the enemy's tongue, leading to... unfourtante implications.

* In ''[=~Don't Mess With The Zohan~=]'', when fighting terrorists, Zohan catches two bullets with his hands before catching a third one with his teeth. He then [[BeyondTheImpossible catches a fourth one with his nose.]] This is all seen as pretty mundane to Zohan.
* IrresponsibleCaptainTylor catches a nail shot from a nailgun in his teeth. If that isn't bad enough, the nailgun actually had enough power to shoot the nails from halfway across a room with enough force to ''pull him out of the way of a falling scaffold and nail his jacket (with him still in it) to a wall several meters away''.
* In [[{{Discworld/TheFifthElephant}} The Fifth Elephant]], Vimes fires a shot at Wolfgang and Wolfgang catches it in his teeth. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Wolfgang, [[YourHeadAsplode it was a shot from a flare gun]].]]

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** In ''The Miserable Mill'' Sunny actually uses her teeth as pseudo-swords to fight off the villain in a 'swordfight,' and the most impressive thing about it is that they were pretty much equals in the fight, despite the fact that the villain was older, had a longer reach, and was using an actual sword.

* Raiden, the cyborg BadAss of ''MetalGearSolid4'', gets both his arms cut off, but that doesn't stop him from holding off a squad of [[AmazonBrigade FROGs]] with his katana held between his teeth.

* Kuroki from {{Blazer Drive}} blocks a shadow spike from an enemy with his teeth. Said spike came from the enemy's tounge, leading to... unfourtante implications.

** TruthInTelevision, as the teeth of people from low-tech societies, Stone Age or otherwise, often exhibit wear-patterns from tasks such as chewing on animal sinew to soften it for use as twine.

[[{{Berserk}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/usingyourmouth_1916.jpg]]
[[caption-width:287:"You know, you talk too much... In battle, there's only one way you should be using your mouth!"]]

* Raiden, the cyborg BadAss of ''MetalGearSolid 4'', gets both his arms cut off, but that doesn't stop him from holding off a squad of [[AmazonBrigade FROGs]] with his katana held between his teeth.

* This troper is shocked that Sunny from ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents hasn't been mentioned yet. She doesn't mostly use her teeth in combat even under a loose definition of that term, but the stories constantly imply that Sunny's teeth are as useful to her as those of a beaver; for instance, they have many EigenPlot s and ordinarily Sunny's part involves using her teeth.

* In DontMessWithTheZohan, when fighting terrorists, Zohan catches two bullets with his hands before catching a third one with his teeth. He then [[BeyondTheImpossible catches a fourth one with his nose.]] This is all seen as pretty mundane to Zohan.