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Facial Composite Failure
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The facial composite is a standard technique in police investigations. It is a drawing created to try and identify a suspect whose appearance alone is known. While the quality and accuracy of these drawings can vary based on the quality and accuracy of the eyewitnesses, you can reasonably expect the sketch to resemble who the police are after. That is, of course, unless the Rule of Funny is in play. When this happens, the composite sketch will inevitably be a hideous caricature of the actual person. Of course, because it's the Rule of Funny we're talking about here, this will typically do absolutely nothing to prevent people from recognizing the person on the sketch anyway. A frequent inversion is for the composite sketch to be very accurate but the character himself, either out of obliviousness or vanity, insisting it looks nothing like him. Another variation will feature a character creating a face completely out of their imagination to blame something they did on a made-up individual, only for the person they described to actually exist and be arrested as a result of their lie. In a bout of Stylistic Self-Parody, animated or comic mediums will have the composite drawn in a realistic style instead of the art style of the series itself. Contrast Super Identikit. This can also sometimes happen because the Suspect Is Hatless. Examples |
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A variation happens in Disgaea Dimension 2. Laharl demands statues be made of him and at first they look fine. But then the camera swings around to show the face, which has very strange bug-eyed expression.◊ | |
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In the Adventure Time episode "Vamps About", Peppermint Butler can't draw the vampires described by Jake, thanks to Jake using weird and vague descriptions like "a wet uncle" or "a stop-sign sticking out of a loaf of bread". However, the stop-sign loaf drawing comes out surprisingly accurate, leading Marceline to recognize it, and knowing him means she knows who the others are too. | |
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In Bioshock Infinite, after Booker gets the entire city after him, you hear a PA announcement describe the 6'1", brown-haired, green-eyed, Caucasian and thoroughly American protagonist as "either a Mulatto dwarf or a Frenchman with a missing left eye, no more than four foot five inches." Since Columbia is so violently xenophobic, it makes sense they'd rather peg a minority than an American. Later, you find a woman describing Booker to a sketch artist, and the picture looks like Sander Cohen. | |
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In Loaded Weapon 1, one woman is describing a suspect, and the police guy fumbling at what looks a bit like a Mr. Potatohead. And later, we see two policemen arresting a guy who swears he is innocent — looking just like that. | |
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The Princess's Jewels: In episode 3, when Princess Ariana and Nell Phantom are discussing Ariana's next intended jewel, Prince Efrit Karsia, Nell talks about an incident where his mask was cracked on the battlefield, revealing his face. Rumours spread quickly, and Nell produces a composite sketch of Efrit's face... that makes him look like he's in his 40s or 50s. Princess Ariana finds it hilarious, and even Nell has to stifle a laugh. | |
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The Story of Saiunkoku plays with this a little; when Seiran and Ensei get wanted posters put up for them during the trip to and through Sa Province, Seiran's likeness is perfect, but Ensei — who would be bishounen if he hadn't grown out a coarse, shaggy beard to disguise his face — is drawn as a wild-haired, jagged-toothed monster not unlike a bear. Ensei finds this rather unfair. | |
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In Hitman: Blood Money, the newspaper article after each mission will have a different composite image of Mr. 47 depending on what your notoriety level is at the time.◊ At low notoriety, the image will be wildly different from 47's rather distinctive face. If 47 was a "Silent Assassin" during the mission (and therefore was not placed at the scene at all), the picture is one of the recently deceased target | |
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Used in Tales of Berseria. Descriptions of the party are usually wildly inaccurate and typically of the wrong species. Career pirate Eizen jovially notes he has fun returning to port after an absence and seeing how badly the description was screwed up this time. | |
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In World Conquest Zvezda Plot, because Zvezda has technology that scrambles their faces on recordings, their wanted posters feature hand-drawn illustrations instead. The illustrations are all terribly drawn and look nothing like them. | |
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News Biscuit: Man with 'Identikit-style' face arrested again. | |
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CSI: NY had an episode where the drawing failed because the boy who witnessed the crime was actually describing a character in his comic book. | |
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In the second The Naked Gun movie, a police sketch artist is tasked with drawing a suspect described by the glamorous Jane. It turns out that he spent the entire time drawing a portrait of her instead. | |
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Played for laughs in the pilot for Psych, Shawn "reads" the victim's hot sister to describe the "perp" to a composite artist. Of course it looks like her boyfriend in a picture of them skiing. | |
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During the end credits of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, a news report mentions that the titular characters are still wanted by the police. However, the provided police sketch depicts a stick figure in a turban and goatee, and another wearing a Chinese hat, squinty eyes, and big teeth. | |
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The Simpsons has played with this one quite a few times. In "The Great Money Caper", Bart was making it up (because there wasn't really a perp) but it ended up looking just like Groundskeeper Willie. In "Homer's Odyssey" while the Simpsons visit city hall, Chief Wiggum reports on the roving graffiti artist "El Barto" and distributes a sketch of him which looked like a mean, teenage version of Bart. Homer's response: "Wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley," completely oblivious to the fact that it's his son. In "Mother Simpson", there's a scene where Joe Friday and Bill Gannon were asking a cabbie about Mona Simpson using an old photo. When the cabbie couldn't recognize her, the agents showed him their computer telling him she would look 25 years older. The cabbie immediately remembers her, even though instead of an photo, sketch, or rendering, however, it was just a big number 25 on the computer screen. In The Simpsons Movie, Bart scribbles over a wanted poster in a convenience store with fake mustaches, eye patches, etc. in order to disguise his family being on the poster. As they sneak out, the owner of the store suddenly goes "Oh my God, it's them!"... and points at a family which looks exactly like the marked-up sketch, complete with an eyepatch-wearing Maggie. In the DVD commentary, Matt Groening comments that he wants to do an episode about that family. In "Brother's Little Helper" when Bart went missing, the police take Marge's description of him as being "towheaded, button nose, mischevous smile and possibly armed with a slingshot" and they came up with a picture of... Dennis the Menace. |
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Hunter. Hunter comes home to find the body of a beautiful woman in his house, which later vanishes. He has a sketch artist reproduce her features, but is later embarrassed when Hunter shows the sketch to someone who knew her in life, who says it's a good likeness but whoever made the sketch must have been in love with her because she wasn't that beautiful. | |
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Composite sketches of Beavis And Butthead showed up in a couple episodes. Naturally, they're too dense to realize it's them and nobody else seems to catch on either. In at least one case, the sketches are significantly pleasanter and less gonky than their real faces. | |
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Tales Series: Lloyd Irving experiences this early in Tales of Symphonia when the Desians put a price on his head. When the party gets a price on them in Tethe'alla, the wanted poster of Lloyd is much more accurate. The poster also reappears in the sequel Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, in which Lloyd himself uses it as a calling card for when he steals Lumen's core early in the game. Yuri Lowell also experiences this in Tales of Vesperia after The Empire goes after him, though he takes more offence at how low his bounty is. Jude and Milla both get subjected to this in Tales of Xillia as a result of their actions in Rashugal, though it's an optional scene. A variation shows up in Tales of Xillia 2, where Ivar draws and shows off wanted posters for Ludger and Julius to be used in case they decide to do anything foolish. He knows perfectly well what they look like, but they look as terrible as the previous examples. Used in Tales of Berseria. Descriptions of the party are usually wildly inaccurate and typically of the wrong species. Career pirate Eizen jovially notes he has fun returning to port after an absence and seeing how badly the description was screwed up this time. |
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After the Lab 5 incident in Fullmetal Alchemist, Ed draws up a report of what he saw, which includes a copy of the transmutation circle he found and drawings of the homunculus he met. The drawing of the circle is spot on, the drawing of Envy bears little resemblance. Justified by the fact that Ed learned technical drawing as part of becoming an alchemist (as precisely drawing out complex diagrams is a key part of the work), but he never studied portraiture. | |
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An episode of Medium had a witness describe, instead of the suspect whom she was terrified of, the man on the cover of a magazine nearby. The resulting sketch is a pretty good likeness of Matt Damon. | |
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Towards the end of the first season of RWBY, Team RWBY is in hot pursuit of a man named Sun. Weiss holds up an unflattering and simplistic drawing of the Faunus with sharp teeth and a scowl when asking for a lead on him. | |
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Discussed in The Day of the Jackal; a group of French counterespionage officials are discussing making an identity sketch based off of a hotel clerk's having briefly seen the Jackal two weeks earlier. One of the officials dismisses the idea, saying that such sketches based off of such a short encounter from such a long time ago are often inaccurate to the point that they could be of anybody, and at times even look like a completely different person. | |
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Yuri Lowell also experiences this in Tales of Vesperia after The Empire goes after him, though he takes more offence at how low his bounty is. | |
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Subverted in an episode of We Bare Bears when Panda helps a policeman to make an sketch of a suspect described in the police radio: Panda's drawing was really similar to the suspect, except for the Big Anime Eyes. Note that the suspect is a muscular, bald and bearded guy. | |
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On an episode Corner Gas, Karen takes an art class, saying she needs to get better at sketching suspects. Cue Flashback. | |
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Jaco himself draws one of these in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and its retelling in Dragon Ball Super. The one he portrayed? Freeza. | |
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Baten Kaitos Origins has the Power Trio find wanted posters of themselves in Sudal Suud. Perverse Puppet Golem Guillo is drawn with a beak and claimed to be a man in a mask (despite Guillo's female physical features being more prominent than Guillo's male ones). Milly wears way too much makeup and is reported as a kleptomaniac. Sagi appears to be much older than he is, and it says he's a marriage con. | |
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Australian comedy Fast Forward had a similar skit involving a romance novelist describing her assailant in Purple Prose. | |
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Elementary had a sketch of a criminal that aroused some suspicion from Joan, because she had the feeling she'd seen him before; Sherlock was already suspicious because the descriptions given by the various eyewitnesses were unusually similar, even when recalling their descriptions much later. The sketch was actually of Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate, and the witnesses who described him were colluding with each other to conceal their own involvement in the crimes under investigation. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: An early Limsa Lominsa quest has you giving a sketch of a dine and dasher to the local guards. While you don't see the sketch yourself, the person you give it to comments that the sketch looks more like the prow of a ship than a man's face. In the Stormblood Hildibrand quests, Nashu tries to put together a composite sketch of the Kugane Wolf Burglar. Turns out Nashu is a Terrible Artist and the resulting picture looks like a five-year-old drew it, and the Warrior of Light clearly thinks it's not going to be of any use. |
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Flower of Evil: Moo-jin the reporter deliberately engineers this in episode 4, giving an incorrect description of Hee-sung in order to delay the police. Moo-jin is working with Hee-sung to find the real killer and doesn't want him arrested. | |
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The Police of Vinigortonio mistake Platypus for a human with weird shaped head. | |
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Freakazoid! It is taken to extremes when Cosgrove drew stick figures for a composite sketch. This resulted in Scotland Yard arresting the Bic mascots. Then there was America's Most Hated, which provided a composite sketch of Freakazoid disguised as a Shetland pony. |
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Facial Composite Failure / int_4efd20ba | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_4f7dff22 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_4f7dff22 | comment |
In Relativity, Michael and Ravenswood are unable to accurately describe Vera Barracuda... probably because neither of them got a good look at her face. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_4f7dff22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_4f7dff22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Relativity | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_4f7dff22 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5080fa73 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5080fa73 | comment |
There's an instance in From Eroica with Love, when Eroica and the Major are reluctantly working together at the Vatican and end up getting the police on their tail. Unfortunately the sketches turn out a bit "artsy" — meaning that the gruff Major ends up looking something like a model posing on a magazine cover. The only one who ever recognizes him based on that sketch is the overeager Italian detective. (The Major is not amused, but Eroica wants to color the picture, preferably with lipstick.) | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5080fa73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5080fa73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| From Eroica with Love (Manga) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_5080fa73 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_513c73f3 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_513c73f3 | comment |
The poster also reappears in the sequel Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, in which Lloyd himself uses it as a calling card for when he steals Lumen's core early in the game. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_513c73f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_513c73f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_513c73f3 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_531b8f34 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_531b8f34 | comment |
Scrapped Princess: The fact that it seems the police sketch looks totally the same when one drawn by a person with zero artistic skill, or a "professional" street painter, makes it looks like the whole world suffered from the Bad Artist Hat. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_531b8f34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_531b8f34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Scrapped Princess | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_531b8f34 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_54d84ec4 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_54d84ec4 | comment |
Happened on one episode of Dear John. Kirk is robbed by the girl he's dating and gives the police an exaggerated description of a very tough guy. The sketch artist then congratulates him on being the first person on the block to be beaten up by Arnold Schwarzenegger. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_54d84ec4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_54d84ec4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dear John | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_54d84ec4 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_56a63131 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_56a63131 | comment |
In The Simpsons Movie, Bart scribbles over a wanted poster in a convenience store with fake mustaches, eye patches, etc. in order to disguise his family being on the poster. As they sneak out, the owner of the store suddenly goes "Oh my God, it's them!"... and points at a family which looks exactly like the marked-up sketch, complete with an eyepatch-wearing Maggie. In the DVD commentary, Matt Groening comments that he wants to do an episode about that family. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_56a63131 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_56a63131 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons Movie | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_56a63131 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5755b96a | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5755b96a | comment |
The Order of the Stick turns this joke on its head here, with a "facial reconstruction" that is a much more detailed drawing than the usual Stick-Figure Comic style. It's also a Take That! to Rich Burlew's critics who thought he used stick figures because of a lack of artistic skill. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5755b96a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5755b96a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_5755b96a | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5ada53ed | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5ada53ed | comment |
While the composite of Émile Leopold Locque that James Bond does with the help of Q in For Your Eyes Only is accurate (with cutting edge CGI rendition of the time no less), Q goofs up at one point and gives him a hilarious Pinocchio-like long nose ("A nose, not a banana, Q!") as well as a duckface. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5ada53ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5ada53ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| James Bond | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_5ada53ed | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5b33829b | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5b33829b | comment |
Nacho Libre has a variation in the form of a caricaturist whose drawing of Nacho's sidekick winds up looking like a (reasonably attractive) woman. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5b33829b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5b33829b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nacho Libre | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_5b33829b | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5c638d89 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5c638d89 | comment |
The Americans: Turns out, a Paper-Thin Disguise can be extremely effective as long as it's used on a stressed out, untrained target; when she explains every last ridiculous detail of their faces to the police, the sketches emphasize the parts that were clearly part of the disguise, but without a framework of details to wrap it around the sketches have nothing in common with the spies' actual faces. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5c638d89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_5c638d89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Americans | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_5c638d89 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6045c687 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6045c687 | comment |
In Wrongfully Accused, Ryan Harrison (played by Leslie Nielsen) finds a wanted poster of himself in a store flanked by three well-known TV personalities, including John Walsh of America's Most Wanted, and scribbles all over it. When one of the personalities recognizes someone, he draws his gun, causing Ryan to panic... and watch as the guy pulls away the guy who looks like the scribbled picture. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6045c687 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6045c687 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wrongfully Accused | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6045c687 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_60f02ddb | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_60f02ddb | comment |
An episode of American Dad! had a police sketch depict Hayley and Jeff as Velma and Shaggy. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_60f02ddb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_60f02ddb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| American Dad! | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_60f02ddb | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_610a694a | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_610a694a | comment |
Pokémon Adventures: Gold has to give a description of Silver to a police officer. He exaggerates all of Silver's facial features so much that it looks like a grotesque monster and nothing like Silver. This was however, done deliberately — he didn't want the police interfering with his vendetta. We do get to see Silver's reaction when he's walking through a town and sees his wanted poster on the wall. He looks at it, Face Faults, then stares at it for a moment while Sweat Dropping. It eventually turns into a Brick Joke of sorts: when Blue tries to arrest Silver for the things he did at the beginning of the Gold/Silver/Crystal arc, Gold pulls out the wanted poster and points out that it looks nothing like him. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_610a694a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_610a694a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pokémon Adventures (Manga) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_610a694a | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_61572f0f | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_61572f0f | comment |
Played to brilliant effect in a series of sketches on comedy supergroup Big Train; a lady describes her assailant using a barrage of adjectives that have nothing to do with visual appearance to an increasingly frustrated police officer. Australian comedy Fast Forward had a similar skit involving a romance novelist describing her assailant in Purple Prose. |
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| Facial Composite Failure / int_61572f0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_61572f0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Big Train | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_61572f0f | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_619cd71b | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_619cd71b | comment |
In Dragonar Academy, Avdocha the Executioner's wanted poster makes her look like a hot, grown up woman with huge breasts. The main characters are flabbergasted when they learn she is really a small girl who looks like she hasn't gone through puberty yet (she's really 20 years old). | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_619cd71b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_619cd71b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragonar Academy | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_619cd71b | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_62a4653b | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_62a4653b | comment |
In Incompetence, Harry checks out the news to find out if he's been identified by police. Due to the fact that Police Are Useless, not only does it look nothing like him, it strongly resembles Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_62a4653b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_62a4653b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Incompetence | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_62a4653b | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_638624c8 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_638624c8 | comment |
Slayers: When a bounty is put on Lina's, Gourry's, and Zelgadis's heads, their wanted posters turn out something like this. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_638624c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_638624c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Slayers | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_638624c8 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_656a52a9 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_656a52a9 | comment |
In Fahrenheit, the player gets to try making a composite image of the protagonist. You're ostensibly supposed to try your best, but it can be more fun to add ridiculous mustaches and hairstyles. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_656a52a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_656a52a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fahrenheit (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_656a52a9 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65920eed | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65920eed | comment |
Samurai Usagi: Suzume reacts to facial composites being handed out of her and her allies by wanting to hunt down the one who drew them. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65920eed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65920eed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Samurai Usagi (Manga) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_65920eed | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65aabcf0 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65aabcf0 | comment |
During the first arc of Buso Renkin, Kazuki creates a composite sketch of Papillion... that looks like it was taken out of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65aabcf0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_65aabcf0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buso Renkin (Manga) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_65aabcf0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_684610 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_684610 | comment |
In BlazBlue's story modes, the wanted poster of Ragna The Bloodedge is drawn with such absurd levels of Gonk that Taokaka insists "Good Guy" (Ragna) can't possibly be the same person as "Rawgrna" (Ragna's poster). Unfortunately for Ragna, other characters can identify him by this poster, Orie included. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_684610 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_684610 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BlazBlue (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_684610 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6a18044d | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6a18044d | comment |
Not exactly played for laughs in Atlantic City, but Lou is ecstatic when the police sketch over the news looks nothing like him—he knows that he's going to get away with a double murder. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6a18044d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6a18044d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Atlantic City | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6a18044d | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6b3cfe38 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6b3cfe38 | comment |
One strip of Bob and George comes during the BnG News arc, and shows a supposed drawing of the person who was eating babies of the last strip. It turns out to be a crude stick figure in red and yellow. It's then revealed Chadling was the artist, and his reaction was basically "yeah, I don't know why they hired me either." The next strip averts the trope, with a much better drawing of the perp, as drawn by forumite Megami. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6b3cfe38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6b3cfe38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bob and George (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6b3cfe38 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6ba673f9 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6ba673f9 | comment |
An episode of New Tricks had the team working from a realistic looking sketch that accurately fits the witness's description, but can't find anyone connected with the crime who remotely resembles it. It turns out that the witness had wanted to conceal the perp's identity, but needed to tell something to the police sketch artist, so just described Arnold Schwarzenegger instead. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6ba673f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6ba673f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| New Tricks | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6ba673f9 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6bbde1c8 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6bbde1c8 | comment |
Mako "Roadhog" Rutledge of Overwatch receives this in his wanted poster on the Dorado map. The sketch artist depicting him as an actual pig-man instead of man in a pig-shaped gas-mask. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6bbde1c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6bbde1c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Overwatch (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6bbde1c8 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6d2c2611 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6d2c2611 | comment |
In the Clarence episode "Nothing Ventured", Clarence and Sumo's police sketches on the news somewhat resemble Ralph Wiggum and Popeye. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6d2c2611 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6d2c2611 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Clarence | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6d2c2611 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6fa2c385 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6fa2c385 | comment |
Max Payne 3 uses this for a Mythology Gag Easter Egg. After a significant character's death, Max can watch a news report about their death and see a police sketch of himself that looks nothing like him In-Universe, but matches his appearance in the first game, complete with the infamous constipated squint and slightly-raised eyebrow from his 3D model. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6fa2c385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_6fa2c385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Max Payne 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_6fa2c385 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_704fe562 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_704fe562 | comment |
Danger: Diabolik has a bunch of criminals use a weird device to come up with a sketch of Diabolik's girlfriend. It doesn't work too well. ("No, she wasn't Hitler!") Said "weird device" is a regular old light box — the kind artists use for tracing — over which the criminals placed transparencies with various pre-drawn facial features, kind of like a low-tech version of computer compositing. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_704fe562 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_704fe562 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Danger: Diabolik | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_704fe562 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7832b74c | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7832b74c | comment |
One episode of Steven Universe had Steven describe an unknown Gem to Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Connie, with each one creating a sketch. Pearl and Connie at least tried, but went more artistic than they needed to. Amethyst admits her scribble was "trying to get a feeling" rather than be accurate. Garnet just drew herself. The sketches weren't even very necessary, considering how rare Gems are on Earth and how distinctive they are from humans. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7832b74c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7832b74c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Steven Universe | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_7832b74c | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_792239e5 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_792239e5 | comment |
Lloyd Irving experiences this early in Tales of Symphonia when the Desians put a price on his head. When the party gets a price on them in Tethe'alla, the wanted poster of Lloyd is much more accurate. The poster also reappears in the sequel Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, in which Lloyd himself uses it as a calling card for when he steals Lumen's core early in the game. |
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| Facial Composite Failure / int_792239e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_792239e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tales of Symphonia (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_792239e5 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7c942ba0 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7c942ba0 | comment |
Sket Dance: Bossun tries to sketch a profile of something with "a protruding head, an antennae, a face like a bat's and has spotted butterfly-like features". His drawing ends up looking like a disgusting alien monster and, according to Himeko, "Nothing would look like that crap". However such an object does exist, much to Bossun's own surprise, though obviously it turns out not to be the object Quecchon is looking for. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7c942ba0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7c942ba0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sket Dance (Manga) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_7c942ba0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7d5e43b0 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7d5e43b0 | comment |
The Goodies. After the Jolly Rock lighthouse goes missing, police produce two identikit pictures of high-up members of the Royal Family (as the QE2 sailed past it shortly before the lighthouse was launched into space). | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7d5e43b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_7d5e43b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Goodies | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_7d5e43b0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_82439e64 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_82439e64 | comment |
One episode of The Office has Pam drawing a composite of a suspect who flashed Phyllis in the parking lot. When Dwight takes it upon himself to find the offender, Pam draws Dwight's face and adds a small mustache. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_82439e64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_82439e64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Office (US) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_82439e64 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_852cd420 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_852cd420 | comment |
In the live-action Flintstones movie, Fred's "Wanted!" Poster is drawn in the style of cartoon Fred. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_852cd420 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_852cd420 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Flintstones | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_852cd420 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8bed22e | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8bed22e | comment |
Attempted to invoke on No Ordinary Family. Jim is a sketch artist, so when someone comes to describe the person they saw (him) to him, he tries to steer them in the wrong direction. They insist though on describing him accurately, except for giving Michael Chiklis long stringy hair. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8bed22e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8bed22e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| No Ordinary Family | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_8bed22e | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8d81bb26 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8d81bb26 | comment |
NCIS One of the team appears to be describing a suspect to Abby, who's making a composite on her computer. When the picture is shown to the audience, it looks exactly like Ducky. Subverted when it turns out that they already knew the identity of the suspect and were just playing around with the composite program. In another episode, Kate is doing a composite of one of the Victims of the Week from memory (the body having been burned beyond recognition by a bomb going off at the scene after they left), and Tony is "helping" her by doing a composite of his own based on her description. Tony completes his first and hands it to Kate, revealing it to be a stick figure with Xs for eyes... and then Gibbs walks in and berates Kate for the poor quality of "her" sketch. Palmer served as a witness in one episode and turned out to be terrible at it. The first description he gave Abby wound up with a composite with cartoon dimensions (nose set to minimum, ears to max, etc.), which he declared perfect, because it captured the suspect's "essence." They tried again with Palmer under hypnosis, and this time they wound up with a workable composite... of the barista Palmer frequents. For whatever reason, that was the image he had in his head. Third time might have been a charm, but they decided not to bother. |
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| Facial Composite Failure / int_8d81bb26 | featureApplicability |
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| Facial Composite Failure / int_8d81bb26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| NCIS | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_8d81bb26 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8ec33a87 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8ec33a87 | comment |
In Xenoblade Chronicles 2 the team arrive in Torigoth to find wanted posters of the members of Torna. Jin and Malos' posters are fairly accurate. Nia's, on the other hand, gets the hairstyle right, but replaces her face with Dromarch's. Nia (who switched sides as soon as Torna started killing off their hired help and is now traveling with the protagonists) is none too pleased. It becomes a Brick Joke later on when the local guard actually recognizes her because of the poster. Even further later on, one can take a look at the same billboard, with Rex and Nia's posters looking far more accurate. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8ec33a87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8ec33a87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_8ec33a87 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8f3aeb4b | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8f3aeb4b | comment |
In the 1964 Fantômas movie with Louis de Funès, this occurs in a process similar to the Diabolik one, but the criminal ends being recognised as police commissioner Juve (played by de Funès) — the actual criminal, Fantômas, used Latex Perfection to disguise as him. | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8f3aeb4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_8f3aeb4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fantômas | hasFeature |
Facial Composite Failure / int_8f3aeb4b | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_9992c8a8 | type |
Facial Composite Failure | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_9992c8a8 | comment |
An episode of British Dennis the Menace has Dennis and Gnasher's pictures appear on the news and they have their faces swapped over (the newsreader also notes that anyone who recognised them from those pictures would need their eyes testing). | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_9992c8a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facial Composite Failure / int_9992c8a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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A close variant in Wakfu episode 24. The sketch of Nox's two common minions (a Grouilleux and a Noxine) done by Renate is rather poorly drawn (and unfortunately using blue, despite insistence that the creatures were black). This results in the Crâ border guards, to which the poster was distributed to, to attack Yugo and Adamaï when they show up. | |
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One Piece: Sanji spent a great deal of time desiring to get a bounty put on his head (since a bounty translates directly into fighting power and awesomeness). When that finally happened, the cameraman that tried to get a picture of Sanji left the lens-cap on, so they had to make his poster based off second-hand descriptions. Sanji's wanted poster ended up as a terrible artist's rendition that looks only vaguely like him. However, the second part of this trope didn't kick in much since everyone but a zombie with Luffy's personality legitimately failed to recognize him from the sketch. The sketch's consequences come up in a different way when the crew encounters Duval, whose face is near-identical to the sketch. This did work in Sanji's favor, as this led to Sanji's father, Vinsmoke Judge being unable to find him. Luckily for Sanji, after the Time Skip, he gets an actual photo, albeit an incredibly embarrassing one. | |
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Toy Story 2: After Woody is stolen, the toys launch an investigation into the culprit, with the Etch-a-Sketch initially providing a composite sketch of the man with a really long beard (which he obviously didn't have). After some investigating of his own, Buzz has Etch draw the man in a chicken suit, and the toys recognize him as the owner of Al's Toy Barn, who wears such a suit in his TV commercials. | |
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In Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Kishirika's enemies are trying to hunt her down now that she's reincarnated and have spread wanted posters of her across the Magic Continent. She's managed to avoid them because the posters are all based on her previous incarnation's busty, adult appearance; in her current body she's still a prepubescent child. | |
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In an episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? the gang found themselves fugitives in Japan and their police sketches were drawn in an anime style. | |
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Life On Mars: "We're looking for a man with huge cheeks and a 6-inch forehead!" | |
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A Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live featured an interview with the guy who did the sketch of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, comparing the image with the eventual mug shot, and how the two look nothing alike. It then showed his sketches for the "Ten-Gallon Hat Bandit," and a criminal in a chef's hat, both with large hats and sunglasses, despite how neither criminal actually wore those items. The sketch artist notes he's not good with eyes or hair. Another earlier Weekend Update had anchor Norm Macdonald show the sketch and joke that police had sent out an APB for the arrest of "Weird Al" Yankovic. |
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Joe Dirt. With two pictures. They are funny. The joke is that his mom actually sort of looks like her picture. | |
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The Brave One references the Truth in Television phenomena below regarding a person thinking of a well-known face when they are unable to recall a face clearly. | |
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Super Mario Sunshine gives us a wanted poster showing "Shadow Mario". This is enough to condemn Mario to clean all of Isle Delfino, despite the fact that the real Mario had only been on the airstrip for literally two minutes. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Hall Monitor", the police show Patrick a sketch of the Open Window Maniac, which is clearly a stick figure of SpongeBob. Patrick screams in horror every time the picture is shown. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever: The police sketches of Greg and Rowley after vandalizing the school do not look anything like Greg and Rowley. | |
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Jaco the Galactic Patrolman: This is the primary Berserk Button of the title character after he gets in trouble with the police. It reaches the point that when the police stop trying to arrest him he demands another accurate one... That is just as bad, at which point he decides to go on TV. Jaco himself draws one of these in Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' and its retelling in Dragon Ball Super. The one he portrayed? Freeza. |
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The bounty posters of your group in Sands of Destruction are naturally exaggerated caricatures, and seemingly can't even decide on what they want to caricature. They're bad enough that the main way you view them is by walking up to a bounty hunter and talking to him. He claims he got a tip a huge mark is about to come through town, then shows you posters...of yourself. Repeat: a professional bounty hunter who is actively looking for you does not recognize you because the posters are so bad. They change as you fight more battles, too, but never seem to get any better at capturing your likenesses. | |
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In the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber, the Second Doctor's companion Jamie is turned into a faceless cardboard figure. In order to restore him the Doctor must reassemble his face from photographic segments, but he picks the wrong ones and Jamie is revived with a different face. This was actually a clever device to replace Jamie with another actor because actor Frazer Hines was off sick, and it works perfectly in the context of the story's Mind Screw plot. In the next episode the same thing happens, and of course this time the Doctor gets it right, restoring Jamie's original appearance. | |
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And then in Tangled Ever After, when he and Rapunzel are getting married he finds out they still can't get it right. During the hijinx that Maximums and Pascal get up to trying to recover their rings, the image gets folded in on itself, resulting in what looks like an even longer nose. | |
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In Person of Interest "Baby Blue," after Finch kidnaps a baby, an AMBER Alert is sent out with a sketch of Finch. It's a pretty bad caricature. | |
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Jude and Milla both get subjected to this in Tales of Xillia as a result of their actions in Rashugal, though it's an optional scene. A variation shows up in Tales of Xillia 2, where Ivar draws and shows off wanted posters for Ludger and Julius to be used in case they decide to do anything foolish. He knows perfectly well what they look like, but they look as terrible as the previous examples. |
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In Johnny English, the main character makes up a perp to cover up his own mistake. He describes an utterly ridiculous figure with orange hair, an eyepatch and identical banana-shaped scars on both cheeks. At the very end of the film, a guy fitting the description appears reading a newspaper. | |
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Played for drama in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Master hacker the Laughing Man is able to hack into anyone with a cyberbrain in real-time, replacing his face with what would become an iconic logo◊ to protect his identity. The police thought they caught a break when they found two unaugmented people who got a good look at his face, but quickly learned that the Laughing Man's hack was more insidious than they realized: every time the witnesses tried to describe the face they saw to the cops, the sketch artists could only draw the logo. He does the same thing to Togusa in episode 11. | |
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South Park An episode has a police sketch artist draw the boys in a very realistic manner, completely different from the animation style of the show itself. Kyle's mom says the sketches are a bit off. Another, weirder instance had Mr. Garrison trying to describe the escaped lab mouse that was used to grow his soon-to-be grafted new penis. Based on the description he gives, the police sketch artist ends drawing a cheerful Mickey Mouse, pitching a massive tent. Happens again when the boys play detective, and a little girl comes in to report her doll being stolen. When she describes what it looks like to Kenny, he proceeds to draw a stick figure with massive tits. |
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In the second episode of Lois & Clark, a Daily Planet artist is drawing Superman based on Lois's description ... but she keeps insisting he looked nothing like Clark Kent. | |
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Sort of used in the Homestar Runner toon "Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon". Bubs draws a sketch of The King of Town's description of Strong Bad ("Had a head like a big ol', round ol', red ol', nasty ol' egg and hands looked like biscuit dough!"), only for it to look nothing like him—in fact, it's a perfect match for someone Coach Z identifies as Biscuit Dough Hands Man who, in later cartoons, is revealed to actually exist. | |
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Family Guy Subverted and played straight when a news report releases an accurate sketch of a suspected serial killer, and then shows a sketch of a suspected accomplice, "believed to be his wife". This composite is also accurate — but since the killer's wife is imaginary, the screen is blank. Another episode had Peter and Lois on the lam, described as "a fat man inexplicably married to an attractive redhead"; the police sketch of them is Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Peter once lost a job as a police sketch artist for drawing racist caricatures (a crude smilie face with buck teeth, slanted eyes, and a conical hat). Subverted moments later when Chris is mugged by a man who looks identical to Peter's sketch. |
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In Liberty Meadows when the cow kidnapped a visiting wildlife show host Leslie tried to give a description to a police sketch artist who looked suspiciously like Frank Cho's Author Avatar, and ended up with a picture of Elsie. | |
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Max & the Midknights: The Tower of Time: When the Midknights get to the town of Peasoup, they find a "Wanted!" Poster of Max's twin sister, Mary. The picture has a different nose, and more realistic-looking eyes than the Black Bead Eyes that the girls have. | |
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In 1634: The Baltic War three fugitives hiding out in London are helped immensely by the fact that the only detail their wanted posters get right are their beards, which are a very common style in the city. The poster even actively hinders the up-timers trying to work out who they are. | |
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A variation shows up in Tales of Xillia 2, where Ivar draws and shows off wanted posters for Ludger and Julius to be used in case they decide to do anything foolish. He knows perfectly well what they look like, but they look as terrible as the previous examples. | |
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