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Floating Head Syndrome
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A term referring to the tendency for Film Posters and DVD cover art to have a black background with the faces of the lead actors above the name of the movie. A simple one or two heads staring at you with the setting superimposed in the background with set-piece-specific art in the foreground. It could also be the entire cast in various stages of intensity... and nothing else. When done with the villain, it is Evil Overlooker. Often overlaps with Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You. The style became ubiquitous once the age of photo editing software came about, since it meant studios no longer had to commission an artist tens of thousands of dollars to paint a carefully crafted poster for them, when they could just take stock photos of the lead actor and have interns superimpose them onto any background. The same basic principle can exist with more than just a floating head, as full body group pictures splashed across the poster in different sizes and scaling creates a similar style, while maybe more crowded with more to look at it can still evoke a sense of having a generic template. In many cases, the main film poster may be more creative because of the larger size it will be displayed at, but the VHD/DVD/Blu-Ray will have a more generic "main actor heads against a black background" design so that a potential consumer can see who is in the movie at a glance. Compare Framed Face Opening and Stacked Characters Poster. Not to be confused with Flying Face, when heads literally float as a magical side effect of Losing Your Head, or metaphorically as a Floating Advice Reminder, or Huge Holographic Head, or Sky Face. Or, for that matter, exploding head syndrome. |
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A good deal of posters and DVD covers for the Terminator series are simply pictures of the title cyborg's head. Many of these show off the "part man, part machine" aspect. | |
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Spoofed for Damage Control Vol. 3 No. 1. "How many times can we do the same floating heads cover?" | |
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K-19: The Widowmaker or Harrison Ford's head is judging you.◊ Also available with bonus Liam Neeson in some editions. | |
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Some posters for A Hard Day's Night, including the ones the various AHDN album covers use. | |
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It fell out of favor by the mid-00's, though the Star Trek: Typhon Pact novels revived it for a time. | |
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The movie poster of Gang Related. | |
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Angel: On the British DVD boxsets, the covers tend to be floating busts but every single disc has a floating Angel head. All doing the same "Am I brooding or did I leave the iron on?" face, but separate images. You'd guess the camera team got drunk and did a giant photoshoot of this one expression at different angles, then realized they had to do something with it. | |
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Countless movies from the Disney Animated Canon have at least one DVD or Blu-Ray case with this. The Lion King (1994) at least has an excuse with Mufasa, because he actually appeared as a floating head in-movie. | |
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The promotional posters for No Country for Old Men featured Llewelyn Moss as a tiny figure fleeing desperately from the looming visage of the inexorable Anton Chigurh, the composition of the image reflecting the story's contemplation of trying in vain to outrun fate. For the DVD cover? Floating Heads! | |
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Most of the covers for the NES Mega Man (Classic) games' Japanese versions had this, for the Robot Masters (from Mega Man 2 onwards). However, this is a positive case, as they are considered universally better than their overseas counterparts. When Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 came out as throwbacks to that era, this design philosophy was preserved for their covers. | |
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In the 1997 informative video The Kids Guide to the Internet the kids head float around in "cyberspace". | |
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Metroid: Other M has a cover with the heads of Samus and Adam, along with young Samus in almost full-body profile. | |
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The Doctor Who Novelisations often had the Doctor's floating head, especially on covers by Chris Achilleos who traditionally did the heads in monochrome and the rest of the picture in colour. See some examples here. | |
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Unforgiven's movie poster◊ shows the heads of the major characters stacked up in a column. | |
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DVD covers for Mulholland Dr. do this, up to and including The Criterion Collection release with heads hovering over Hollywood. Alongside their other releases for David Lynch films, such as for Eraserhead and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lynch seems to require that his films be illustrated in a simple fashion and closely to how their original posters looked for Blu-ray and DVD. | |
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This is pretty much the entirety of the logos for Five Nights at Freddy's 2; it's just Freddy's smiling face next to the title.note And, as a side note, the Steam banner does away with the title, instead opting to assume Freddy's head will be enough. It worked... and propelled the game to the #1 Best Selling Game spot. | |
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X-Men: First Class came under fire for its teaser posters featuring floating heads of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender floating (right near the respective crotches) of a silhouette of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen respectively. | |
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All three books of The Flight Engineer feature co-author James Doohan's head. Which is rather odd considering that the character who's most like Scotty isn't the hero. The third book adds the head of a Fibian. | |
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The cover of Tomb Raider: Legend consists entirely of Lara's head, most likely to show off her re-design. | |
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Kull the Conqueror: Kull and Akivasha's heads are seen in the sky on the poster. | |
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The original paperback cover for Return of the Living Dead had a giant disembodied zombie head and hands looming behind a woman in a black void, seemingly about to grab her. Overlaps with Evil Overlooker, what with the zombies being the villains and all. | |
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While not technically "floating heads" per se, the DVDs of the James Bond films dumped the distinctive posters for shots of Bond with a Pistol Pose in front of the most memorable set from the film. Calling them prosaic would be an understatement. One can just tell that the marketing executives wanted to hide the age of the films by redoing all the covers (since the posters are all pretty indicative of their eras). | |
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The most obvious examples are I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, and Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, and Scream's own sequels. So synonymous was this style with the franchise, that Scream4 even used it in 2011, despite it no longer being a trendy poster style at that point. | |
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The Dark Knight did this◊ (there was also an individual poster for each face), though it at least pulls it off with some style. | |
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Turkish Delight: Not on the poster picture as seen on the movies' TvTropes page, but on the DVD cover◊: the two main characters' heads are really floating and tacked-onto the background. | |
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Absolute Power (1997): Clint's giant disconcerted face adorns the poster. | |
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Analog: In the April 1940 issue, on page 101 for "Reincarnate", a skull floats in the centre of a full-page explosion, with lightning and particles radiating away from it. The cover of the April 1944 issue, advertising A.E. van Vogt's "The Changeling", has a central face/head with normal colouration for a caucasion, and six others heads that are monochrome imitations of the central face with slight changes, implying the ability to change shape. The cover of the June 1951 issue, advertising Eric Frank Russell's ". . .And Then There Were None", had seven floating heads and a floating bicycle above a landscape of a lake and mountains. The cover of the July 1951 issue, advertising James Schmitz's "The End Of The Line", has a male and female face floating in front of a vertical cigar-shaped silver rocket where people were in line to board. The cover of the August 1951 issue, advertising MC Pease's "City Of The Phoenix", has a disembodied head and two disembodied hands that overlook a spiral galaxy. The cover of the April 1952 issue, advertising Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s "Dumb Waiter", has the heads of a man and woman staring imperiously down at a boy on a bicycle. The cover of the September 1960 issue, advertising David Gordon's "By Proxy", shows a human face floating in front of a blue-skinned alien face, both above a horizontal cigar-shaped white and red rocket on stilts like a boat. The cover of the May 1970 issue, advertising John Dalmas's "But Mainly By Cunning", has the floating heads of a wolf and a woman in the background sky above a viking-inspired knight on horseback. The cover of the March 1974 issue, advertising Jerry Pournelle's "High Justice", had a female face with a blue-green tint in the background. |
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Posters for the Harry Potter films have followed◊ this◊ on occasion. | |
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Gangs of New York: In addition to the floating heads, the names are jumbled, so that Daniel Day-Lewis is a hot chick and Cameron Diaz has a cool moustache. | |
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Some of the Freedom Force loading screens (in game comic book covers) feature these as parodies of Silver Age comics. | |
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Halo 5: Guardians has a downplayed variant, with the box art showing Locke and Master Chief's heads and chests on opposite sides of the image, and in the center, a Guardian. | |
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This gets alluded to in the making-of features of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake. The creators said they wanted something simple, and wished to avoid the "roughly◊ five◊ kids◊ facing◊forward"◊ thing that seemed prevalent at the time. Which still got a floating head poster in the form of a floating head Leatherface (with a green tint). |
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One of the boxes of Smallville DVDs only has the faces of Clark, Lana and Lex on it. | |
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Used for the "Movie Poster" photo backdrop in Tomodachi Life. | |
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Most Star Trek movies feature this. An iconic Star Trek: The Motion Picture poster features the Enterprise beneath a pillar of rainbow light with Kirk, Ilia and Spock's head floating above it. Both Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek: First Contact feature similar "heads in a pillar of light," while one poster for Star Trek Beyond had a poster replicating TMP's almost exactly. Star Trek: Insurrection goes for the Evil Overlooker instead. | |
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Give My Regards to Broad Street, 2000s DVD release — taken to the minimalist extreme; the original posters also had a dash of this. | |
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With the Beatles has the four band members' faces half-lit in darkness, with Ringo just below the other three. | |
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The Secret (2007): The poster has David Duchovny's face over Olivia Thirlby's with a black background. | |
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The poster for The Patriot (2000) was a pretty big offender - as the image caption says, it looks like the soldiers are running for their lives from Mel Gibson's terrifyingly enormous face. The initial home video release also suffers from this◊, but the Extended Cut release is an aversion◊. | |
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Disney ignored the excellent Art Deco poster it made for The Rocketeer and cooked up a Floating Head Syndrome cover as part of their effort to make the Lamest Home Video Releases Ever. Disney also gave The Gnome-Mobile worse.◊ | |
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Scorpions: The original album cover of Taken by Force featured the band in a cemetery, but it was replaced by a black background with stock photos of the band. | |
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The Fifth Element, or — as the goons call it in our page image — Guy being chased by cops and three big heads. | |
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Tian Di features Andy Lau's giant floating head over the skyline of 1920s Shanghai. | |
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One of the covers for Resident Evil – Code: Veronica consists of nothing but Claire's face. The default cover just consists of Claire and Chris from the shoulders up, against a moody blue-hued background - and re-releases of the game add in a faint image of Wesker's floating head in between them. | |
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Planescape: Torment had one of these on its cover. | |
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A slipcase edition of Independence Day was simply a flaming Earth with Will Smith's head floating above it. Thankfully, the actual cover remains the same. | |
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Little Games by The Yardbirds shows the band members as floating heads on a psychedelic art work cover. | |
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A large number of of horror films released after Scream (1996). The most obvious examples are I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, and Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, and Scream's own sequels. So synonymous was this style with the franchise, that Scream4 even used it in 2011, despite it no longer being a trendy poster style at that point. This gets alluded to in the making-of features of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake. The creators said they wanted something simple, and wished to avoid the "roughly◊ five◊ kids◊ facing◊forward"◊ thing that seemed prevalent at the time. Which still got a floating head poster in the form of a floating head Leatherface (with a green tint). |
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The special edition DVD release of Superman: The Movie has this, along with the "deluxe editions" of the third and fourth movies. The second film's special edition DVD averted this by showing Superman flying instead of his floating head. | |
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The cover of Star Trek: Federation had Captains Kirk and Picard from the shoulders up and not much else. | |
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Peter Parker had his own version of this within the comic pages, which would appear whenever Peter was pensive or on the verge of death, showing the faces of his friends, his loved ones, and, one time, a casual friend named Josh. | |
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The theatrical poster for Saving Private Ryan features the heads of Tom Hanks and three other actors slightly faded into the clouds above a silhouetted soldier | |
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Justice League (2017) posters are primarily just the main characters staring straight at the viewer. Since the selling point of the movie is the characters gathered together, it ends up proving that Tropes Are Not Bad, as with some great lighting, colors and composition, the posters were praised for evoking both Rock Band covers (such as Queen) and the iconic superhero group paintings of Alex Ross. | |
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The first three Pirates of the Caribbean DVDs, especially when the cast grows. The fourth one averted with either only Jack Sparrow or half-body versions of the four main characters. | |
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After the distinctive use of logo without text for the 1989 film Batman, the marketing division apparently decided to embrace this trope. The primary posters and video covers for Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin all use this approach, with the first two using variants of the logo for their teaser posters. This got dumped when the series was rebooted. | |
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When serials from the classic Doctor Who series were released on VHS in the 1990s, most of them had beautiful paintings commissioned specially for them. After 1997, this stopped. The cover◊ of the Limited Edition of the Series 6 boxset consists of only a giant floating Silent head in a pitch black background. (For the sake of contrast, the regular edition's cover is a non-beheaded group shot.◊) |
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The Japanese poster of The Avengers features the team in civilian clothing, with pictures of them in crime-fighting garb from the torso up floating above them. | |
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The cover of the Silent Hill movie features the floating head of Sharon Da Silva. | |
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The F-Zero series has this, notably F-Zero X, which features Captain Falcon's angry face on the center of the cover. | |
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The cover of White Sand has floating heads of Praxton, Khriss and Baon overlooking the group of Sand Masters on the ground below them. | |
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Alien: Resurrection and the Aliens DVD (with the Alien's head!). | |
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One of the posters for Scorsese's The Aviator, which carried over to the DVD cover. It frankly looks like a plane being chased by a giant floating Leonardo DiCaprio head. | |
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All of the movies in the Vault Disney Collection of DVDs. The Pollyanna cover looks especially bad, with the protagonist's giant head appearing in the sky above a normal-sized Pollyanna. | |
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DVD/Posters of all three movies of The Lord of the Rings trilogy (theatrical editions only; the special editions had polished art.) | |
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When the Doctor Who New Adventures started, there was no requirement for the cover to literally depict a scene from the book, and the cover from the first book in the series, Timewyrm: Genesys, included the Seventh Doctor's head floating in midair. Years later, when the last book starring the Seventh Doctor, Lungbarrow, was being written, there was a thought that it should have a similar cover. Since it was now the convention that the cover should depict a scene from the book, the author added a sequence where the Doctor's Huge Holographic Head appeared over London. Then that scene wasn't used for the cover after all. | |
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One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation numbered novels, Imbalance, had Crusher and Riker's heads floating over the Jarada's city. | |
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