Basic Trope: A character who exposes their tongue to show that they're strange or not bright, or a villain exposes their tongue in a squicky way to show they're crazy.
- Straight:
- A character spaces out and sticks their tongue out because of being a Cloud Cuckoo Lander.
- A villain right before torturing Bob for fun and profit, Alice licks her lips slowly, chewing the scenery. Bob knows he's in trouble.
- Exaggrated:
- Alice is an loony who is constantly out of it and always sticks her tongue out when talking or being a Talkative Loon
- The villainous Alice has a tongue of a chameleon and she licks her entire self clean before beginning the torture.
- Downplayed:
- Alice sometimes sticks her tongue out for her amusement.
- Bob thinks he's seen a glimpse of Alice's tongue touching her lips.
- Justified:
- Inverted: It's Bob (The Hero) who licks his lips in anticipation, because he's Too Kinky to Torture.
- Subverted: Alice licks her lips slowly to show she's crazy, but it turns out she's actually completely normal.
- Double-Subverted:
- ...but it turns out the first impression was right and she is Ax-Crazy maniac.
- Or it would then show how crazy or not so bright she is in comparison.
- …compared to her roommates.
- Parodied:
- There's something (imagined) on Alice's face and Bob watches with growing disbelief as she tries to lick it off, murmuring to herself. Finally, she gives up and goes to the bathroom, just leaving him in the torture room.
- There's something (imagined) on Alice's cross-eyed face and Bob watches with growing disbelief about her being normal as she tries to lick some food off she had after eating a lot, murmuring to herself a silly comment. Finally, she decides to leave the table and goes to her room, she starts goofing off and being playful when Bob checks on what she was doing when she left the dinner table.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice sticks her tongue out and sometimes she doesn't.
- Averted: Alice never shows her tongue.
- Enforced:
- People's tongues give the producers the creeps, so he makes a writer add that ticks to Alice in order to make her look scarier.
- People's tongues sticking out for a goofball character would make characters look charmingly silly.
- Lampshaded:
- "Bob, did she just... Did she just licked her..." "Yeees ... I'd rather not think about it, Charlie"
- "You gonna tell us why we're here, Alice, or you just wanna keep pretending you're Gene Simmons?"
- "Looking goofy as usual I see."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice had her tongue cut out.
- Discussed:
- "And I know she'll do it. You know, that thing with her tongue. Creep."
- "Yes, she's usually smiling with her tongue sticking out like that, that's just a part of her silly appearance."
- Conversed:"And then The Baroness started to lick her lips and oh my god, I just knew The Hero's in trouble!""When I see how Ally was doing some cartoony tricks when eating and some shticks with her tongue while looking all cross-eyed and goofy as always. It's pretty easy to tell she is a straight-A crackbrain in almost every episode she's involved in."
- Implied:
- Alice stands with her back to the audience (and Bob) but the audience (and Bob) can clearly hear the sound of licking.
- Alice stands and communicates with her surroundings like a goofball and she was smiling with her tongue sticking out while acting silly and naive to present the goofiness in her appearance.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice is actually a Womanchild with an... unusual definition of "fun", but that licking tick makes her look like a dangerous lunatic. She has no friends, people and mooks avoid her and in the end, her only friend is Emperor Evulz.
- Alice is actually a Kindhearted Simpleton who has some quirks of hers, she usually likes goofing off and acting very silly to make herself look like an airheaded and lovable goofball. She is paired with an comically serious character in every episode and usually shows that she likes being around Mark.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice doesn't want friends. She wants to torture people and Evulz lets her do this, so she doesn't care about anything else, as long as she can inflict pain upon various Bobs and Charlies.
- Alice isn't trying to get all the attention, she usually just likes to stick her tongue out when having fun
- Played For Laughs:
- When Alice is licking something, it sounds like she's licking something she shouldn't be doing, but she's just licking a lollipop while saying some silly if goofily suggestive dialog.
- Alice is the Plucky Comic Relief, her sticking her tongue out and goofing around shows how blissful she is with her silliness.
- Love Makes You Stupid with a High-Pressure Emotion shown in the comedy act.
(licking lollipop sounds and chortles) Ah, yes, I see you're enjoying your lollipop. Just go back to main page and WILL YOU CUT THAT OUT!
