An index of tropes dealing with any part of the mouth.
Sub Index of Face of the Index.
Mouth Tropes:
- Aardvark Trunks: An anteater, aardvark, or other ant-eating mammal has a flexible snout like the trunk of an elephant.
- Abnormal Dental Growth: A character's teeth grows faster than naturally possible.
- Attack the Mouth: Hurting or killing somebody by attacking the target's mouth.
- Batty Lip Burbling: People who are crazy or confused bat their lips with their fingers.
- Belly Mouth: A mouth on someone's belly.
- Blood from the Mouth: Bleeding out of or around the mouth.
- Bound and Gagged: A character is tied up and their mouth is gagged so they can't speak.
- Cave Mouth: When a cave's entrance looks like — or is — a literal mouth.
- Cheeky Mouth: You're looking at somebody from the side but his mouth is on his cheek.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: A wide, mischievous smile.
- Clamshells as Mouths: Anthropomorphic bivalves depicted with their shells as mouths, usually with a tongue inside.
- Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth: An otherwise cute entity has a disturbing mouth.
- Drool Deluge: Excessive drooling big enough to fill a swimming pool.
- *Drool* Hello: The first hint you get of a monster's presence is when its drool drips on you from above.
- Eat the Camera: The lens zooms into someone's open mouth.
- Expressive Uvula: A character's uvula has a face on it.
- Filming for Easy Dub: It's easy to add dialogue when you don't see the speaker's lips.
- Flower Mouth: A monster mouth that resembles a blooming flower.
- Gag Lips: A character with oversized lips.
- Ghostly Gape: Supernatural creatures with staring wide eyes, mouths wide open and eyes and mouths dark.
- Glasgow Grin: Somebody's forced into being a Perpetual Smiler even when not happy.
- Hand Gagging: Somebody puts their hand over someone else's mouth to silence him.
- Handy Mouth: Using your mouth in place of your hands.
- Jagged Mouth: A monster whose mouth is a zigzag line.
- Jawbreaker: Getting your jaws ripped off.
- Jaw Drop: A surprised character's bottom jaw drops.
- Lamprey Mouth: Circular, jawless mouths ringed with pointy teeth.
- Lip Losses: A character suffers damage to their lips - sometimes to the point of losing them altogether.
- Looking a Miffed Animal in the Mouth: When a character is involved-with or irritates a predatory or big-mouthed animal, they may not be aware of the real danger until they see inside the mouth of the animal.
- Monstrous Mandibles: The use of mandibles in a jaw system.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Monsters with a lot of teeth.
- Motor Mouth: Someone speaks an awful lot and/or very fast.
- Mouth Cam: A shot that looks like it was taken from inside a mouth.
- Mouth Flaps: The way an animated character's mouth moves in correspondence to what they say.
- Mouth Full of Smokes: Why smoke just one cigarette at a time when you can put a whole bunch in your mouth at once?
- Mouthscreen: The mouth is the only thing onscreen.
- Mouth Stitched Shut: Brute-force means are used to seal a person's lips.
- Mouth Taped Shut: Shutting someone up by taping their mouth shut.
- Mouthy Bird: A bird's beak is designed to look more like a mouth.
- Nested Mouths: Someone has a creature in their mouth.
- No Mouth: Somebody with no visible mouth.
- Palate Propping: Jamming someone or something's mouth open with an object.
- Pelican Package Pouch: Pelicans who carry animals and things in their beaks.
- Phlegmings: Drool between someone's teeth is scary.
- Protection in Mouth: Holding someone smaller in your mouth for their sake.
- Tombstone Teeth: A character has unnervingly large, rectangular teeth.
- Too Many Mouths: A creature with extra mouths.
- Throat Light: Glowing mouths!
- Uvula Escape Route: When a character grabs onto a uvula or uses it as a punching bag to avoid being swallowed.
- Vacuum Mouth: Somebody can inhale large objects with their mouth.
- Vagina Dentata: A mouth where no mouth should ever be located.
- Volumetric Mouth: Someone shouts so loud their mouth takes up most of their face.
- Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: Somebody's mouth is removed.
Tongue Tropes
- Lecherous Licking
- Licking the Blade
- Maniac Tongue: Mean or weird people with their tongues hanging out.
- Multipurpose Tongue: Some people can use their tongues for more things than just moving food around inside the mouth.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Somebody's tongue is really long.
- Tongue on the Flagpole: Licking a frozen pole and causing your tongue to get stuck.
- Tongue-Out Insult: Sticking out your tongue to insult someone.
- Tongue Suicide: Someone deliberately hurts their own tongue to commit suicide.
- Tongue Trauma: Someone's tongue hurts.
