Gee, do you think she might be sad?*
"Look at that body language. Legs crossed towards each other — that's an unequivocal sex invite."
— Cher, Clueless
Because sometimes, actions speak louder than words.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Accidental Unfortunate Gesture: Someone accidentally makes an offensive gesture.
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head
- Adjusting Your Glasses
- Almost Holding Hands
- Angry Eyebrows
- Angry Fist-Shake: Shaking your fist at someone who's angered you.
- "Be Quiet!" Nudge: Hitting someone when they're about to say something that could get you in trouble to gesture that they should shut up right now.
- Berserker Tears
- Bicep Kiss
- Bicep-Polishing Gesture
- Blind Shoulder Toss
- Blowing a Raspberry
- Cape Swish
- Captain Morgan Pose
- Character Tics
- Conducting the Carnage
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Parents try to cover up their kids' eyes and ears whenever something inappropriate for children comes up.
- Dance of Despair
- Death Glare
- Deep Breath Reveals Tension
- Determined Expression
- Disney School of Acting and Mime
- Dissonant Serenity
- Dope Slap: Slapping someone for saying or doing something stupid.
- Dramatic Downstage Turn
- Dramatic Drop
- Dramatic Sit-Down
- Dull Surprise
- Evil Slinks
- Eye Am Watching You
- Eyebrow Waggle
- Eyelid Pull Taunt
- Face, Nod, Action
- Facepalm: Pressing the palm of your hand against your face after seeing someone do something stupid or embarrassing.
- Facial Dialogue
- Fainting
- Fascinating Eyebrow
- Fat Flex
- Film the Hand
- Finger-Forced Smile
- Finger Framing
- Finger-Lickin' Evil
- Finger Muzzle
- Finger on Lips
- Finger-Tenting
- Finger Wag
- Fist of Rage
- Fist Pump
- Flexing Those Non-Biceps
- Flipping the Bird: Extending your middle finger at someone to insult them.
- Frozen Face
- Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Pointing your index finger at someone.
- Glasses Pull
- Gloved Fist of Doom
- Glove Snap
- "Good Luck" Gesture
- Greeting Gesture Confusion
- Hair Flip
- Hand Behind Head
- Hand on Womb: A woman resting her hand on her stomach as an early sign that she is pregnant.
- Hand Rubbing
- Handshake Refusal
- Handshake Substitute
- Happy Dance
- Head-and-Hip Pose
- Headdesk
- Headlock of Dominance
- "Hell, Yes!" Moment
- High-Five Left Hanging
- Human Hummingbird
- "I Can't Look!" Gesture
- Ignored Raised Hand
- I Kiss Your Foot
- Italians Talk with Hands
- Kewpie Doll Surprise
- Knee Fold Fall of Defeat
- Leaning on the Furniture
- Lecherous Licking
- Licking the Blade
- Limp and Livid
- Looking Busy
- Loud Gulp
- Lying Finger Cross: Crossing your fingers while making a promise means that you weren't sincere when you made it.
- Magical Gesture
- Man Hug
- Maniac Tongue
- Marionette Motion
- Meaningful Look
- Death Glare: Staring angrily at a person to indicate that you're very pissed off at them.
- Disapproving Look
- Held Gaze
- Longing Look
- Traitor Shot
- Memetic Hand Gesture
- Mermaid Arc Emergence
- Milking the Giant Cow: Character makes a lot of movements that involve flailing their arms around.
- Miming the Cues
- Moe Stare
- Modeling Poses: Using body language as a form of marketing.
- Non-Verbal Miscommunication
- Nose Tapping
- Not-So-Innocent Whistle: Whistling to try and look innocent.
- Obligatory Earpiece Touch
- Oh, Crap!: A character reacts in shock to the realization that they are in big trouble right now.
- Palm-on-Cheek Pose
- Palm-Fist Tap
- Peaceful in Death
- Perpetual Expression
- Perverted Drooling
- Perverted Sniffing
- Possessive Wrist Grab
- Potty Dance: A character who has to go to the bathroom dances around frantically while trying to hold it in.
- Primal Chest-Pound
- Primal Stance
- Prompting Nudge
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance
- Putting On My Thinking Cap
- Quaking with Fear
- Quizzical Tilt
- Rapid-Fire Nail Biting
- Rebel Relaxation
- Revealing Hug
- Reverse Arm-Fold
- Running on All Fours
- Sarcastic Clapping: Mocking someone by pretending to applaud them.
- Secret Handshake
- Shy Finger-Twiddling
- "Silly Me" Gesture
- Something Else Also Rises: A visual gag implying that a character is sexually aroused.
- Slow Clap
- Strange Salute
- Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
- Team Hand-Stack
- Thinker Pose
- Thinking Tic
- Throw the Sheath Away
- Troubled Fetal Position: Someone curls up into a fetal position when they're overwhelmed by their problems.
- Twisted-Knee Collapse
- Twitchy Eye
- Wall Slump
- Warding Gestures
- White Flag
- Your Mime Makes It Real: Mimes turn out to be using real objects that just happen to be invisible rather than imaginary objects.
- Zombie Gait: Zombies move around slowly and awkwardly.
Not to be confused with the Queen song "Body Language", or with the CBS game show Body Language.
