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SCARY SMILE FULL

well, everyone but the band in the video for Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun". The worst, or possibly the best example, has got to be the music video for "Little Girls", wherein the slasher smile goes on for the entire video and makes Danny look like he's in searing pain.Overly obnoxious talk show hosts occasionally got the silent treatment from him, combined with a trademark psychotic grin. There's hardly any Oingo Boingo music video (or film, for that matter) in which he doesn't spend a few seconds scaring the living crap out of the audience. Danny Elfman practically made a living doing this in the '70s and '80s."The Guy," the mascot of the metal band Disturbed, is always depicted with this ( always.).The Monster Clowns in Blind Guardian's "Mr.One of the detective's other selves in the music video for Blind Guardian's "Another Stranger Me." The band's singer also has a Slasher Smile at one point.Parodied in the music video for the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Eat It".Michael Jackson turns to the camera with cat eyes and a creepy smile at the end of his " Thriller" music video.There's a brief shot of one right in the opening theme. Combined with his permanent death glare, he looks like he's rejoicing in the thought of committing genocide on entire societies of dust mites and mold colonies. As a Neat Freak, Ryuuji from Toradora! gets one whenever he cleans.Especially exemplified as he's sadistically torturing Valgaav in TRY and a highly amused smile never leaves Xellos' face, backed up by a truly psychotic giggle. It's less common to see him not smiling than to see him with a smile (or a convenient Psychotic Smirk) on his lips, but if he's smiling and his eyes are open, you're in serious trouble. Xellos from Slayers has this in spades.

The wider his smile, the bloodier things get. Jack Frost is the embodiment of this trope.

SCARY SMILE FULL

Gauron from Full Metal Panic! usually cracks one of these whenever he's not wearing his Psychotic Smirk.

Shizuo Heiwajima of Durarara!! is fond of sporting these right before he's about to hurt someone.

Not to say that Ladd ◊, Czeslaw ◊, and Graham ◊ don't get their fair share.

Being possibly the craziest bastard in the series, Baccano!'s Claire Stanfield has a warehouse ◊ full ◊ of ◊ psychotic ◊, blood-soaked ◊ grins ◊ and ◊ smirks ◊ to put to use.

May be part of the fear behind the Monster Clown. When the smile is merely creepy, it's The Un-Smile. Hopefully.Ĭontrast Dissonant Serenity for a calm mood which isn't the slightest bit more reassuring, and also contrast Grin of Audacity. Not to be confused with a Slashed Smile (although they sometimes overlap), and has nothing to do with the pleased smiles of Slash Fic fans upon the detection of impending Ho Yay. This can be especially tricky for a character with a Face of a Thug - even if the smile genuinely has no malice behind it, others will assume there is. For many, this has the added worry of making it harder to tell what they're thinking or feeling, because their face betrays no expression beyond the smile. Some characters with a Slasher Smile wear the grin all the time - in fact, it's physically impossible for them to move their face out of it.