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Broken Smile
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Any Stepford Smiler worth her immaculately groomed Power Hair has a smile capable of withstanding a nuclear blast worth of shocking revelations with amazing Dissonant Serenity. Anything and everything could happen, the president is assassinated, the detective finds the basement graveyard, the in-laws visit unexpectedly, and still the smile stands. Then there are times when that perpetual and creepy smile... breaks. Maybe the cookies got burnt, a lock of her hair has fallen out of place, or her perfectly manicured family just did something dreadfully embarrassing in public. The point is, it's the last straw and her smile, like her composure, has been shattered into so many pieces archaeologists will be puzzling it out for millennia. Something snaps inside her head; she gets Hidden Eyes, and her smile suddenly becomes frozen and forced, with teeth grinding in a rictus of a Cheshire Cat Grin... or worse. The smile is only still there because the sheer shock has prevented any new expression from reaching her face. A deer in the headlights of an eighteen wheeler has a similar expression. She may develop a twitchy eye. Occasionally accompanied by the sound of shattering glass to help punctuate the situation. If a downer or Bittersweet Ending Ends with a Smile, it'll usually be this kind of smile. Cross-Popping Veins optional for comedic examples. Usually this is followed either by a Heroic BSoD or something to make those responsible forever Beware the Nice Ones. Often shown by Yandere. Compare with Technically a Smile and The Un-Smile. Not to be confused with the Stepford Smiler, which is for a smile meant to conceal unhappiness. |
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'Til You Feel It All Around You: While trying to reassure his de-aged and amnesiac crewmates, Sanji offers them a forced, false smile. Noticing this, Usopp tries to help him out by demonstrating just how he can "fix it" and offering a more convincing one, much to Sanji's concern. | |
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sayaka has one right before she becomes a witch. | |
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Happens to Kenzie on several occasions in Ward, when her Stepford Smiler facade and Think Happy Thoughts attitude fracture in the face of overwhelming trauma. When accompanied by Mirthless Laughter, it generally heralds the sort of breakdown that sends her into a Tinker Fugue. | |
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Sleepless Domain: Tessa sports one after seeing the 'comforting message' left for her by the Purple One on her window: "I'll be here whenever you're ready." | |
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Nashville: When something dramatic/inconvenient happens in Juliette's life you can bet her gleaming smile will slowly turn into a Oh, Crap! expression or look of horror. | |
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Tokyo Ghoul: Kaneki is a Nice Guy who has some serious psychological problems. He smiles often in a carefree manner, as a way to try to cover up his issues, even when things have gone to hell. Also, in Chapter 59 of the sequel he makes an incredibly sinister smile while talking to Eto's manager. It's especially jarring because it's become increasingly rare to see him smile, and that the way it's drawn and the context makes it increasingly apparent that poor Ken's sanity is going down the toilet. Mutsuki demonstrates they are going through major Sanity Slippage by sporting a few of these, most notably in chapter 123 when Kaneki refuses to go back to the CCG with Mutsuki. Kaneki also sports one while crying when he's telling his hallucination of his best friend Hide and his maternal figure Akira that he's lonely. Akira does the same when confirming to Kaneki and Amon that they're lonely. |
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In Bleach, Hinamori is visited by Hitsugaya and she has one when she starts ranting about how Aizen might merely be manipulated by Gin. | |
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Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi: Arumi usually does this, if only for a second, before attacking Sasshi with her Paper Fan of Doom. | |
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Trapped In Eternity: When Marco confronts Ace about his strange, secretive behavior, Ace offers him one of these before trying to kill himself. | |
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Naruto: Gaara tried to maintain one after discovering his uncle Yashamaru had attacked him, but it was soon wiped off his face by Yashamaru's faked confession of hatred. Naruto himself is a Stepford Smiler and does this at times. Sakura's had her fair share, namely after Sasuke betrays the village and lands Naruto in the hospital, and much later when Sasuke comes back, and she's happy and can trust him. Sai of all people calls the resulting "smile" a lie. |
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Karakuridouji Ultimo: Rune has this after his confession to Yamato and during his fight with him. | |
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Attack on Titan: Erwin Smith sports one of these, when it's revealed that the Titans once were humans. He also has a huge reason for that: his father had already guessed it and was executed for such reasons; basically, the recent discovery proved Erwin's dad right all along. Eren sported a brief one upon learning that Marco was dead. |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Wilt is almost always smiling, but if he gets pushed too far, it becomes a broken smile, complete with Twitchy Eye. | |
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One step backwards and Three forwards: During "Date-astrophe", Marinette endures harassment from her former friends during her date with Felix. Then Black Cat interrupts and takes her hostage, and she develops one of these right before she's akumatized. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shown above is Asuka at age 4 after she walks in on what should be the happiest day of her life so far, with what she believes to be proof she is a worthy daughter, only to find that her mother has committed "murder"-suicide, hanging herself with a doll of Asuka. | |
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Used with some frequency in Discworld, when the smiler realizes that events are not going the way they ought to be. Often with a description like "The smile remained, but the face pulled back, leaving it quite alone." | |
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PandoraHearts: Leo flashes a lot of these after Elliot's death. | |
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Joy (while on happy pills) in My Name Is Earl, when a neighbor's beer can came through her window & hit one of her kids in the head. Her neighbors won't be doing that again, to say the least. | |
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Undertale: Sans is a Stepford Smiler who literally never stops smiling, even if you choose to decapitate his little brother in cold blood. It's possible that he's sporting one of these during the entire battle with him, as there's almost nobody left alive that he cares about at that point, but he definitely reaches his breaking point when you deal the killing blow◊. If you get to the point where you can spare Toriel, the first boss of the game, then kill her anyway, she sports one of these as she dies. |
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Le Papillon Rising: Adrien is a Broken Ace who sports one of these after he breaks up with Marinette. | |
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Darkest Dungeon: The Caretaker is a broken man having gone through the Despair Event Horizon sporting a deranged, pained grin in most screens. Another example is the Rapturous Cultists in the titular Darkest Dungeon, who are so twisted (mentally and physically) in service to their god that their default expression is a demented grin as their arms constantly sway upward, ever giving tribute to the dark power they serve. |
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Azumanga Daioh: A more comical variant happens when Osaka manages to convince Chiyo that Sakaki somehow stole her height. Chiyo simply stares at Sakaki, repeatedly saying "You took it, didn't you?" with a big grin on her face. | |
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In A Moth to a Flame, Marcy has one of these as she desperately tries to convince Anne and Sasha that it was destiny that brought them to Amphibia, and that the three of them were meant to join King Andrias and become Multiversal Conquerors together. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had Marianne Smith. Her smile broke when the girls ruined her neighborly dinner, and when her husband got out of jail, (for threatening to blow-dry the professor to death), she had created a whole supervillain family, kids included. | |
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Michelle Pfeiffer's character Velma Von Tussle displayed a wonderful example of this in the 2007 remake of Hairspray, at the moment when her daughter failed to win the Miss Hairspray contest. | |
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Macross Frontier: Happens to Ranka when she runs to the deck thinking that Alto loves her... and stumbles into Alto hugging Sheryl, not knowing that it's because Sheryl's illness kicked in. "It can't be..." | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Joo Dee, a regular old brainwashed Stepford Smiler, had one of these when Aang and co got off the leash. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: Ren ends up with this smile as the Happy Helmet takes hold... | |
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ef - a fairy tale of the two. has Yuuko sport these, thanks to her tramatic past of being continually raped by her brother figure Akira. | |
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In Broken Blossoms, Lucy forces herself to smile like this several times, including while dying. | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya: Ryoko Asakura, if you look closely enough (in the anime, at least) during her fight with Yuki. When Yuki causes her knife to dissolve, she betrays shock and amazement, immediately followed by a leap 5 metres backward. You can see the brief look of shock again when Ryoko has got Yuki seriously injured with those weird tentacle-light thingies and Yuki announces the commencement of Ryoko going bye-bye. Of course, since this is Ryoko we're talking about, she recovers pretty quickly both times with her Stepford Smiler ways, even as she dissolves away the second time. | |
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In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Lucy has a subdued yet utterly heartbreaking one when she is on the moon hallucinating David. While she’s thankful to have reached the moon, her life’s goal is completely stained with the fact that her lover got killed in Arasaka Tower, a tragedy she may never recover from. | |
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At the very end of Midsommar, Dani smiles at the sight of the fire temple burning down. While the image is certainly meant to be open to interpretation, the script confirms that it is a smile of "surrendering to a joy known only to the insane". | |
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In My Hero Academia, after Izuku Midoriya found out that he was quirkless at four years old, the child spent the night on watching videos of heroes on the web, crying, and he tried to say that maybe he could still be like them while wearing this. That smile is actually the image for the tearjerker page of the anime. | |
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The 7D has Happy give one of these. The incident occurs when Little Red Riding Hood seeks help from the Seven D after allegedly being chased through the woods by three bears "for no reason at all." They allow her to stay and she quickly makes herself at home. She ravenously eats everything at the dinner table, acts reckless and deliberately breaks the things they own. Each time one of the men insists that she leave, its Happy who defends her and pleads with them to give her another chance. This continues until she breaks Happy's guitar. Cue this trope. Happy's smile remains intact as always but his body visibly shakes for a few seconds before deciding that she has to leave. For anyone familiar with the character, it can come off as pretty creepy. | |
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His and Her Circumstances: One day, Yukino's two younger sisters are walking home from school. One suggests to the other that they may be being followed. They both turn around at the same time to barely catch a silhouette stop and retreat behind a wall. Cut to the two of them nervously smiling at what they just saw. | |
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At the end of Joker (2019), as Arthur sees the angry mob he incited with his murders cheering for him, he realizes that his actions have finally given him the audience and admiration he craves as he gives them a deranged smile smeared with blood. | |
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In the 1999 film adaption of The Cider House Rules, this is Arthur's reaction when Homer asks him if he's been sleeping with his own daughter. | |
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Darkest Destiny: Catalina serves as Kiera's Living Emotional Crutch; upon realizing this, Catalina decides that it would likely be best for them both to part ways. She gives Kiera one of these as they do so. | |
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Uninhabited Planet Survive: Not really a Stepford Smiler, but Zilba only stops smiling when her cheek is bruised. | |
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Zenith revolves around Spike's desperate efforts to save Twilight from a terrible curse placed upon her by the Pillar of the Sun. After learning that Princess Celestia knowingly sent Twilight to said Pillar, he sports one of these while absorbing the implications. | |
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Disco Elysium has The Expression. One option you can take if you unveil it is that it is an expression of pain. The narration will step in and agree with The Detective if you do so. Successfully ridding yourself of The Expression with a difficult Electrochemistry check leaves The Detective a Perpetual Frowner instead. | |
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Fate/stay night has Sakura Matou. She is not a Stepford Smiler in that she only cares about preserving her Yamato Nadeshiko mask for Shirou rather than her peers in general, but through a combination of love and severe abuse she eventually snaps, learning how to put on that dangerous smile, among other things. | |
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Pearl ends with the title character delivering a very unnerving one, which she holds on as the credits roll. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has poor SpongeBob do this twice, at the same season, too: In "Pizza Delivery", SpongeBob gets one after a jerkass customer — which he and Squidward had spent the entire episode trying to get to — refused to accept his order because they forgot his drink. Even worse, they didn't forget his drink because he didn't order it. He insisted that they should have brought him a drink he didn't order because he would need something to wash his pizza down with. This was too much for even Squidward, who hates SpongeBob's guts, and he promptly settles the score with the ungrateful rude jerk. "Karate Choppers" has Mr. Krabs fire SpongeBob for engaging in karate with Sandy against his wishes (he wasn't, and was trying to get her to stop). Just before he breaks down crying, he meekly says "Fired?" with his mouth curled into a small smile. |
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Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day: Happens to Menma's mother Irene when Jin-Tan, Poppo, and Anaru go to talk about the plan to build a firework in Menma's memory, not knowing that Irene is still mentally broken even after years of Menma's death.. | |
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Drakengard: Caim is often seen sporting a Slasher Smile that, while disturbing, just looks... Well, have a look | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has at least two of these. First up is Pinkie's smile at her tea party of one, complete with eyes drifting in opposite directions and with shrinking pupils. In "Lesson Zero", Twilight goes equally crazy, with increasingly shorter periods of time between each new, insane smile. | |
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Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Lucy, along with Dissonant Laughter, after witnessing Mike's apparent death in an accident. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: Eddy wore this when he was savagely beaten up by his own brother in front of everybody else in the movie. | |
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Richard Hammond's expression of glee on Top Gear gradually morphs into one of these when the Reliant Robin Space Shuttle's external fuel tank fails to separate and the assemblage plummets to earth in a gigantic fireball. | |
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Usagi does this in Sailor Moon R when Mamoru is breaking up with her. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Tahno, normally a textbook Smug Snake, has his bending taken away by Amon, putting him into a massive BSOD. When he meets up with Korra again, he puts on a weak smile and, rather meekly, repeats his previous words "See you around, Avatar." | |
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In the final two routes, Tsukihime 's Kohaku starts to show her broken smile to the protagonist, and plays the Stepford Smiler straighter than the above example. | |
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Ace Attorney: The normally perky April May gets this along with a Twitchy Eye periodically during the first game's second trial, usually when confronted with a contradiction in her testimony. Her full breakdown causes her to lose the smile entirely. In one court section of Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, Kira laughs and smiles maniacally when she starts losing it knowing that Phoenix keeps getting closer and closer to exposing her murder tricks, aibiet without a concrete evidence. Her voice acting pins it home how broken she's become. And there's also young Athena Cykes, in one of the cases. Imagine a child putting her dead mom's corpse in a robot-repairing machine and casually saying that she was going to fix her. That's what Simon Blackquill had to witness.. |
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Go to Sleep (A Jeff the Killer Rewrite): Overlapping with Stepford Smiler; after Jeff succumbs to his insanity, he reveals his outstretched bloody smile to Liu, saying he carved it himself in a playful, yet sad voice. His words and pained behaviour as he proceeds to stab Liu suggest that he feels forced to kill his family. | |
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Sakuran: O-Rin sports one of these after she finishes crying upon finding out O-Some, the closest person she had to a friend, died, likely from suicide. | |
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Battle Royale: A young Shuya and Yoshitoki notice that the girl who won that year's Program is smiling, but she doesn't really look happy. She does look very creepy. Yoshimi's adorable smile at finding Yoji again quickly becomes very creepy when he's shot in the head. |
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Transmetropolitan: The aptly named Smiler devolves into this a few times over the course of the series, almost always at the hands of Spider Jerusalem. | |
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Martian Successor Nadesico: Seen on Yurika after her first taste of three new pilots, generally behaving even more strangely than the crew she's already gotten used to. | |
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Wander over Yonder: In "The Birthday Boy", Lord Hater cracks one of these after Wander evades every trap in Hater's Doom Arena and every attempt by Lord Hater to break his spirit, then launches into a cheerful birthday song. In "The Matchmaker", Sylvia cracks one of these when, after her constant attempts to stop Wander from delivering a love note from Lord Hater to Lord Dominator, Wander reveals he wasn't going to hand-deliver the love letter, but just put it in the nearest mailbox. |
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SHUFFLE!: Kaede displays this around episode 19 where her extreme depression and loneliness starts taking a toll on her sanity. | |
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Brainbent: Gamzee develops one when he thinks he's made Sollux hate him. He's a bit of a type-a Stepford Smiler overall, depressingly enough. | |
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The Games We Play (Friendship Is Magic): Pinkie Pie develops one of these after Rainbow Dash rejects her Love Confession. | |
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In Catherine, Katherine gives a small one when she breaks up with Vincent mid-way through the game. | |
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