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Glasgow Grin

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When a character suddenly breaks into an ear-to-ear grin, it's a Cheshire Cat Grin. When this is permanently part of their facial structure, whether they're happy or not, it's a Glasgow Grin. It may have curlicues or stitches at the ends. This also happens a lot with puppets, intentionally or not.
Named, of course, after the Glasgow Smile, an act of violence (supposedly popular with Violent Glaswegians) in which a person's cheeks are sliced open starting at the edges of the mouth. Not all characters with a Glasgow Grin have been scarred; some of them were born with it. Generally, characters with Glasgow Grins tend to be evil, insane, or both. If it is a protagonist character who is not a villain, it also just shows that they are a somewhat dark character. It's sometimes known as a Chelsea Smile, in reference to the London football team, whose more violent fans were reputed to inflict it on people as a Finishing Move, or as a Traveller's Smile, also called "sourire de l'ange" (the angel's smile) in French.
Compare with Cheshire Cat Grin and Slasher Smile. Contrast Perpetual Frowner. An inversion is Mouth Stitched Shut. Sub-Trope of Facial Horror. Not to be confused with the "Glasgow Kiss".
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Big Prick, Big Problems
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There's an infamous ad for Durex condoms that shows a woman with bandages at the edges of her mouth (the implication apparently being that her recent partner's endowment was a little too big).
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Invisible Jerkass
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Absalom's mouth may be even worse since thanks Hogback he has entirely different mouth (a Lion's) stitched on to his face.
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Artificial Human
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The eponymous character has stitches going ear to ear. In her case, it's because she's an Artificial Human (the similarity of her name to Frankenstein's Monster is deliberate), so presumably her head and jaw come from different "donors".
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Perverse Puppet
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The Perverse Puppet Chachazero of Negima! Magister Negi Magi smiles while saying the most twisted or acidic of things, if only for the fact that she was carved that way.
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Doctor Hogback has stitches that extend beyond his permanent smile to encircle his whole face. It fits right in with his expertise of Frankensteinian assembly of corpses via stitching. Despite this smile, Hogback can express a full range of emotions via body language.
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Scary Teeth
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Katakuri's mouth aside from his massive fangs has two asymmetrical stitches on his cheeks. Katakuri ''really'' doesn't take kindly to his mouth being seen or talked about. As he kills the three chefs who see his face.
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Holders of the Armored and Jaw titans receive scars resembling Glasgow grins when they stay in their Titan form for an extended period. The Armored Titan has one in its Titan form too, but it's a downplayed case as it's formed by his bony exoskeleton and is not a scar to begin with.
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The Female Titan opens her mouth so wide it splits so she can devour/capture Eren after defeating his Titan form. She pretty much redefines Body Horror.
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In the prequel Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, Ogre, a pure Titan has a significant case of this, which defies all logic as Pure Titans are usually pretty scarless.
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A common myth among Portuguese school students is the existence of a gang called "Clown Face". If they catch you, they give you a choice: death, rape, or clown-face. The first two are Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and you can guess what the last one is.
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Monster Clown from AAA has one, with his forcibly exposed teeth being yellow.
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The Tragic Villain of Home Sweet Home (2005), a deformed woman who became insane after losing her family. She had half a grin like this after her son's death, when attempting to pry open a can of meat while in a confused trance. She couldn't find a can opener, tries to use her teeth instead, and there are sharp edges on the side of the tin...
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In Alex Grecian's The Black Country, the "gray-eyed American" has a huge gash in his face from his lip up through the cheek, courtesy of Calvin Campbell.
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Depraved Dentist
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In GHOST and Crusher-P's song "Novocaine", the Depraved Dentist singer is shown to have these scars. It's implied to be due to the dentist ripping off the jaw of the previous song's singer and replacing their own with it.
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