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Grin of Audacity
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An athlete in a race, an adventurer on top of a train, a pirate boarding a ship, a cunning politician executing an amazing plan, a Lovable Rogue during a Swordfight, a warrior during a Last Stand, two friends sparring—anyone facing an interesting and fun challenge with a reasonable chance of failure will sport one of these smiles. It's usually a bit forced, showing the strain and stress the user is under, and sometimes there could be a certain edge of malice and aggressiveness to it, even insanity: a hint of bloodlust, to be precise. Alongside genuine heroes, it's also very common amongst AntiHeroes of the Unscrupulous and Nominal types as well, especially if they are young and/or adrenaline junkies. It is usually coupled with a steady gaze, even a frown of sorts. The heroic counterpart to the Slasher Smile and the Psychotic Smirk, which both are mostly about enjoying the anticipation of hurting others, especially when it's secret and they're unaware of the threat. In contrast, the Grin of Audacity is about relishing the anticipation of winning. It may overlap with Dying Smirk. |
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Worm: In Chapter 20.5, Skitter is cornered by five superheroes, two of whom are wearing Powered Armor, without her armor or weapons and with her superpower effectively neutralized. Then she realizes that her opponents are still leery of attacking in fear of her pulling an ace from her sleeve at the last minute. Cue grin. Tattletale wears a smile all the time. Her smiles become these whenever she's facing down near-impossible odds. |
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Traditionally associated with St. Trinian's, which is almost entirely populated by female Lovable Rogue types, ever since the time of the founder Fritton, who was a Lovable Rogue himself. He was also William Shakespeare. And, he was a woman. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Rodan's beak forms a grin at the idea of getting payback on Ghidorah for dominating him, in Chapter 13. Viv and San have a few such grins over the course of the story when it comes to the prospect of getting their own payback on Ghidorah or fighting generally. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Diana tosses a wild grin at Natasha after Diana fights Ectreba and knocks her out and has the prisoner Ectreba had been "questioning" taken to medical, and then informs everyone that she and Ectreba will be questioning the man together the next day. | |
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In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the king of the penguins can be seen smiling with furrowed brows as he orders his soldiers to attack the Koopas — even though his confidence is woefully misplaced, with the battle quickly ending with Bowser and the Koopas having barely taken damage from the penguins' snowballs and ice projectile. | |
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Ash of Misfile has one when they are about to show the drivers ahead of them why the title of King of the Mountain still belongs to Ash. | |
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Okko: In the Flash Back to his adolescence, when Okko is cornered during a fight against a Yojimbo, he give her a Slasher Smile before turning his back to the enemy with a confidant grin. She try to attack him, only to be defeated by his newly mastered technique. | |
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Among the X-Men while Wolverine has the Slasher Smile Gambit has this whenever he’s kicking ass. Beast, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Psylocke and X-23 often have these kind of grins too. | |
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Bleach: The Blood Knight protagonists will often sport this when a fight is beginning to get difficult - a challenge that tends to thrill them. As a result, Kenpachi, Ikkaku, Renji and even Ichigo tend to give one of these when they've acknowledged they have a Worthy Opponent and will therefore have earned the win they're aiming to achieve. | |
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Later in Obi-Wan Kenobi it’s revealed he has this expression under his mask as Darth Vader. Naturally this doubles as Slasher Smile. | |
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The Matrix: Pretty much default expression of Morpheus befitting his role as Badass Teacher. Laurence Fishburne in general is great at this, e.g Bowery King◊ in John Wick. | |
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While the trope description DID say that Batman doesn't engage in this trope, Justice League gives him two awesome instances where he does. First is when he pulls an Oh, Wait! on the Secret Society's ambush on him, and then after he gets one up on the Joker during the Injustice for All two-parter. If BATMAN pulls this, you know he's just outclassed you badly. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann delivers some particularly compelling examples. One good example comes from climax at the first episode. Simon, Kamina and Yoko are in Lagann and Simon has manifested drills on Lagann to defeat the Gunman. The Gunman is being used as an impromptu drill while the trio head to the surface. As Kamina proclaims they're heading to the surface, Simon manages to crack out a confident smile for the first time and giving the audience a glimpse at the true power the young man possesses. |
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The Flash is prone to these, at least the DCAU version. | |
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The Witcher (2019): Although mainly a Perpetual Frowner, Geralt is capable of this. | |
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Yang Xiao Long wears one often throughout the RWBY trailer featuring her, preceding the delivery of a Curb-Stomp Battle. This continues onto many of her fights in early volumes, but she stops it once things get more serious and she develops past her Blood Knight tendencies. Neopolitan has an arrogant smirk plastered on her face throughout her fight against Yang in Volume 2. It causes the easily agitated rookie Huntress to completely lose her cool and Neo exploits this for all its worth, leading Yang to a swift and easy defeat. Her uncle Qrow also does this in his battle with Winter, to show that he's not taking it too seriously and because the whole thing's a Batman Gambit to make her lose her temper in front of her boss. He later grins when he gets the upper hand on Tyrian during a fight, contrasting the villain's Slasher Smile. |
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The Boys (2019): Billy Butcher has a particularly badass grin overlapping with Slasher Smile, special mention goes to the one◊ he has while having a Brawler Lock with Arch-Enemy Homelander in Season 3. | |
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In Cowboy Bebop if Spike Spiegal is smiling like this, expect some serious ass to be kicked with Jeet Kune Do. Ed also memorably smiles like this in “Mushroom Samba� when chasing Domino Walker. | |
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Rogue One: General Antoc Merrick sports such a grin as he leads Blue Squadron in an attack run on the Imperial walkers harassing Rogue One's commandos on Scarif. | |
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Final Fantasy VII Cloud although better known for frowning/looking impassive has been known to smile◊ like this. Even in his concept art. He most likely got it from Zack who wore this expression nearly all the time. Barret, Yuffie and Cid smile like this, Barret occasionally having an outright◊ Slasher Smile in Final Fantasy VII Remake. |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, at the end of the Endwalker expansion, if you opt to not deny the claims of Zenos, the Warrior of Light gives off an unique expression of a knowing and confident smirk, showing that for all of their heroism and kindness, they are still an adventuring warrior deep in their heart and take pride in their battles much like Venat did. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Destroy Malevolence", Obi-Wan gets a little grin when he's ambushed and surrounded in the hyperdrive control room, right before he uses the droidekas' shields to protect himself and then uses the Force to knock them into their own allies like bowling balls and escapes unharmed. | |
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Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) frequently has this in expression while fighting or just witnessing violence. | |
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Captain Marvel (2019): Carol unlocking her binary state causes the power on Mar-Vell's ship to go haywire and cut out, including extinguishing the force field bars of the jail cell where the Skrulls are all being held. Cue Talos grinning as he prepares to fight their captors. | |
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In Persona 5, this is the protagonist's signature expression whenever he's in Phantom Thief mode, as befitting a defiant rebel seeking to change the hearts of the wicked and corrupt. Many of the other Phantom Thieves also sport daredevil grins when they summon their Personas for the first time, particularly Ryuji and Yusuke. | |
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In Undertale, when you enter combat with the single weakest monster in the game, this is their expression, even knowing how dangerous you are. It doesn't waver as he proceeds to kick your ass. | |
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In Turning Red, Abby wears this as she passes a note in class behind the teacher's back. | |
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Red Dwarf: Lister and Cat often have this expression◊ being absolute rapscallions compared to the more straight-laced Rimmer and Kryten. | |
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The Miracle of Sound song "Here We Go Again" references this. | |
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Leon (who helped inspire Dante above) in Resident Evil 4 cracks a dangerous smile and a chuckle after throwing his knife into Salazar’s hand◊. | |
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So are many Robin's and Batgirl's in the Batman family. Usually: in their case, it's youthful enthusiasm, insecure optimism, and a bit of a prankster spirit. Batman himself often had this expression during the 70s (especially during the Neal Adams era) before The Dark Knight slipped nigh-totally into Perpetual Frowner mode. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Being as wild as the day is long, Tony Stark in Iron Man Films often grins like this. Special mention to the little smile◊ he has when Thor unintentionally charges his suit up to 400% capacity during their fight in The Avengers (2012). The titular God of Thunder in Thor wears this expression while wrecking Ice Giants. In The Stinger of The Avengers (2012), when told that fighting the humans is to "court death", Thanos smiles. Natasha in Captain America: The Winter Soldier during the opening fight on the ship grins and cracks wise at a mook before taking him down. Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) frequently has this in expression while fighting or just witnessing violence. Captain Marvel (2019): Carol unlocking her binary state causes the power on Mar-Vell's ship to go haywire and cut out, including extinguishing the force field bars of the jail cell where the Skrulls are all being held. Cue Talos grinning as he prepares to fight their captors. |
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A tragic example: in Yakuza 0, the baddies are torturing Tachibana for the location of the owner of the Empty Lot, but the thug doing the torturing, Yoneda, is getting too rowdy with his giant sledgehammer; Lieutenant Kuze scolds him saying that their prisoner is of no value for them dead, and proceeds to stop the torture and loosen his wraps. This prompts Tachibana to give the two-bit yakuza a small grin... which unfortunately makes Yoneda lose his shit and smash Tachibana's head on with the hammer, killing him. | |
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Black Lagoon: In contrast to the bloodthirsty Slasher Smiles sported by many of the cast, Rock's badass smiles tend toward these. They primarily come out when Rock has some kind of crazy plan in mind, or when he proposes something that's just... incomprehensible by most villain standards (like asking mercy for their victims). Justified since he stated that he asked for it because he likes it, just like the bad dudes loves to blow themselves up. You first see one on him at the very beginning, when Revy challenges him, a Japanese salaryman to a drinking duel. As of El Baile De La Muerte, Rock's Grin Of Audacity has become pretty damn unnerving (and blurring the lines between this trope and the Slasher Smile), to the point where Revy seems uneasy. | |
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Yesterday Upon The Stair's Izuku forces himself to smile under stress. | |
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Berserk: Guts during the Golden Age has this expression, with Casca noting that when he smiles he like that he needs no help in a battle. Post Eclipse having lost nearly all sense of morality in the pursuit of vengeance, Guts has a Slasher Smile instead. | |
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Wonder Woman (2017): After Diana's Shockwave Clap incident in training, all the Amazons look on her with fearful awe. Her mother is horrified that her power is manifesting. Antiope? She smirks as she lays on the ground after getting Blown Across the Room by the shockwave; she finally succeeded in getting her niece's latent divine powers to manifest. | |
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If Sterling Archer even acknowledges what's going on in a firefight, he'll often have this expression. The best part of being a secret agent for him is being as over-the-top as possible, and turning things around from a hopeless position (and vice-versa) is second nature for him. | |
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Sora when he stabs himself in the chest with the dark Keyblade to release Kairi's heart in Kingdom Hearts. | |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Jail Scaglietti laughs when Fate finally captures him after years of pursuit. | |
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Steven Universe: Garnet gives a beautiful one for most of her fight against Jasper in the finale of Season 1, paired with her Badass Boast which she actually sings to Jasper while kicking her ass. Given her default personality, it was definitely that one moment which people will remember about her forever. In a Whole Episode Flashback, Rose Quartz faces down a Fusion Dance of three Rubies with a smirk... before taking the Fusion down with a few punches. |
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In Rebuild World, Akira often sports one of these when in the thick of a fight, especially when Alpha offers him any semblance of good news given his bad luck. People who see him doing this mistake him for a Blood Knight, when Akira is actually terrified. Eventually after establishing a Bash Brothers sort of bond with Carol, they both do this while fighting together on his flying motorcycle. |
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Similarly the titular heroine of Bayonetta does this a lot, often in a flirtatious manner. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Sported by Walter Denton, whenever conniving to pull an especially severe prank on Mr. Conklin. Being told off sometimes serves to encourage the grin (except by Mr. Conklin himself, of whom Denton is somewhat afraid). Noticeable in "Wild Goose", "Space, Who Needs It?", "Cure That Habit", "Marinated Hearing" and "Spare That Rod!". Walter is also proud of having a "dark secret". In "Citizen's League", Miss Brooks suffers from guilt for having accidentally stuck a pin in the seat of the church organist Mrs. Dunfy when fitting her dress for the governor's wedding. Miss Brooks asks Walter if he himself has a dark secret. Walter smirks, laughs, and says he does. However, after being chewed out by Miss Brooks, Walter admits it's far from terrible, and again in the nature of a teenage prank. In "Wake Up Plan", Mr. Conklin laughs at his having sent a letter to the board of education, reporting Miss Brooks for missing her morning classes. This is in spite of admitted to himself, out loud, that it was a terrible thing to do. In The Movie Grand Finale, Mrs. Davis suggests to Mr. Boynton that Lawrence Nolan had induced Miss Brooks to take a trip on his yacht so he might seduce her. Mr. Boynton is outraged, and begins frantically checking his address book. Meanwhile, Mrs. Davis smiles and stifles a giggles, overjoyed that her use of Operation: Jealousy was off to a fine start! |
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Isabel of Paranatural may enjoy fighting a little too much. But if she stops smiling, something is very wrong. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Bowser, Wario and Wuluigi have this expression, often overlapping with Slasher Smile. Donkey Kong is a more heroic example having a troubling grin on his face nearly all the time. Surprisingly enough, Luigi in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team just before fighting Giant Bowser. |
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Gandhi is good at this, although it's a cute little smile rather than a grin. (Truth In Television and Ben Kingsley does it perfectly.) He gives it to menacing British authorities when he knows he's right. It's extremely disarming, especially in response to "You're under arrest!" | |
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In Brave10, numerous members of the cast sport these whenever it comes time to fight, bordering on Slasher Smile sometimes when the more loose canon Braves get provoked. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality's fan art, Harry is often represented wearing this, as befits a Young Conqueror, as do his retainers in the Chaos Legion (don't ask). Then a certain Wham Episode happens, some illusions are shattered, and Harry's expressions become much more grim: it's instead Hermione and her group that take up most of the more optimistic kind of heroing. | |
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On Glee, this is the typical expression worn by characters during uplifting songs, especially Barbara Streisand-style songs about extremely ambitious and extremely insecure characters. | |
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The Lion King (1994): There's that scene with "I walk on the wild side... I laugh in the face of danger ha ha ha ha!" First it's young Simba, then Nala does it right before the big battle at the end. | |
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Anglerfish: Tim grins when the gangsters he's fighting all crowd him and talk like they've got the upper hand; they've only put themselves in better range for him to take them out. He's less amused when Jason shows up shooting at the mouth of the alley. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indy being a very dangerous man does this twice first when noticing that propeller of the Nazi plane is gonna mulch the Nazi huge engineer he’s being pummelled by and second◊ during the truck chase when ramming a Nazi bike and sidecar off the road. The former may count as a Slasher Smile. | |
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Being as wild as the day is long, Tony Stark in Iron Man Films often grins like this. Special mention to the little smile◊ he has when Thor unintentionally charges his suit up to 400% capacity during their fight in The Avengers (2012). | |
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Mulan is about to be cut down by the leader of the invading army, and stops him by smiling at what's behind him. | |
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Motherland: Fort Salem: The Marshal frequently sports one when No Selling the witches' Work. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Kirk being probably the archetypal adventuring space hero often wore a dangerous smile◊ while having a scrape. | |
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Jurassic Park (1993): Muldoon pulls a cool smirk when he outruns and outdrives the T-Rex in his Jeep. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, there is often a scene where Jaden is losing and takes a hard attack, and gets up off the ground looking downcast, seemingly holding back emotion... and then his Hidden Eyes are revealed, he's laughing in joy, and he's wearing one of these. He then proclaims that he's enjoying the duel and will continue to do so, especially because he's about to win. Given the typical state of the game at that point, his opponent is usually dismissive - but he usually proceeds to do just that. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: "Now bring me that horizon!" Captain Jack Sparrow is very excited he got his ship back. | |
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In most of the Devil May Cry series this is Dante’s (a Thrill Seeker Blood Knight) almost permanent expression. If anything be more concerned when Dante is not smiling because that means he’s taking things seriously. | |
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Unless you've seriously pissed him off, Luffy from One Piece has this as his default expression when fighting. Zoro blurs the line between this and Slasher Smile. Sanji is a mix, having a Grin of Audacity at the start of a battle and upgrading to a Slasher Smile when about unleash some real hurt, as seen in the Jabra fight. Franky does this a lot as well. | |
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The Comeback Path Of Princess From Mars has the main character Olga Perez sport this expression every time she's about to lay down a royal smackdown to whoever is antagonizing her, whether the smackdown is figurative or literal, usually literal. | |
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One of the clear differences between Plastic Man and Elongated Man without getting into motivations and backstories is that the former grins and smirks, while the later smiles kindly. | |
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Lelouch of Code Geass, constantly. Most poignantly in episode 4, as he is preparing for his first maneuver as Zero. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Halbrand has a confident smirk on his face every time he is up to something (and he is up to something all the time), befitting his roguish charm. | |
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The titular God of Thunder in Thor wears this expression while wrecking Ice Giants. | |
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The boxers of Star Impact often throw these around during fights, but bonus points go to Urchin here, as he winds up for a counter to knock down Aster. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most iconic thrill-seekers in gaming, it would make a lot of sense to show that. A lot of his art has him in his classic pose either with a smirk, or a cocky grin. Even when he could be kicked down to near-death, he doesn't let his grin fall. | |
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In The Princess Bride, Wesley has no problem cracking a grin in the most dire of circumstances. | |
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Morgan and Derry exchange wicked grins in Deryni Rising just before Morgan secretly uses his powers to give a Connaiti mercenary his comeuppance. | |
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Kobayashi of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid gives one right before she starts arguing with Tohru's father. It stands out immediately since she's normally The Stoic. | |
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Surprisingly enough, Luigi in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team just before fighting Giant Bowser. | |
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The Mask in his movie and cartoon version tends to wear a more overjoyed, confident version of this. The anticipation isn't of effort, but of immense fun. By the end of the film, Ipkiss wears it a couple of times to signify he Took a Level in Badass. | |
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Fire Force: Crossing over with The Un-Smile, Shinra Kasukabe has a tendency to grin like a madman whenever he is in a perilous situation, not so much because he's confident as much as it is a mental defense mechanism. This, unfortunately, made him something of a pariah as a child when his nervous grin was misconstrued as sociopathy when he was suspected of having started a fire that killed his family. | |
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El Goonish Shive: HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER, BITCH! | |
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A family trait of the Mccaffreys in Rapunzel Let Down. The father is a politician and his hot-blooded sons enjoy hazardous escapades. | |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Wonder Woman, in contrast to everyone else fighting Doomsday, sports a grin after being thrown across the battlefield that says she's enjoying this battle. | |
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Batman (1989): Michael Keaton's Dark Knight could pull this off, as seen facing off against Jack Napier in the chemical plant. In Batman Returns he infamously has a full on Slasher Smile while killing one mook with dynamite. In The Flash (2023) he marks his long anticipated return with another one of these. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls, Blossom tends to range between this and your average benevolent smile, while Buttercup, the most grumpy and short-tempered of the girls, usually ranges between this and a Psychotic Smirk, though genuine smiles will still appear on her face at certain moments. | |
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Doctor Who: The Third Doctor has a memorable sequence in "The Sea Devils" in which he pins the Master at sword-point, and then starts eating the Master's lunch in front of him while smirking enormously. The Fourth Doctor, an arrogant, reckless and Nightmare Fetishistic adrenaline-junkie and Lord President of the Cheshire Cat Grin, does this very frequently in his more action-orientated serials (like "The Seeds of Doom" where he flashes one while snapping a man's neck, pointing a gun at a room full of villains, and so on). He also does an amazingly big one at the end of "The Invasion of Time" to signify that he's returning to acting like himself, after being acting in a cold, humourless and smileless way for the entire story thus far as part of a Batman Gambit. One absolutely heartbreaking example is in "Logopolis", when the dying Doctor glances up at his concerned companions, and flashes his distinctive, terrifying, mad smile for a fraction of a second before mumbling his last words and regenerating. The Thirteenth Doctor carries on the proud tradition, sporting a wide cheeky grin as she does anything crazy, awesome, or crazy awesome. If she's about to thwart the Villain of the Week, her smile can become downright feral. |
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A regular feature of Kelsier from Mistborn: The Original Trilogy, usually as a deliberate form of defiance. | |
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Person of Interest: Reese often sports these as the series goes on. | |
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The Wire: in a series filled with "devious motherfuckers", this comes up often. Omar does a particularly easy, flippant grin, whether he be robbing a drug dealer at gun point or testifying against one in a courtroom. | |
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In Dragon Ball Goku gives a confident smile when he's prepared to face a strong opponent. Something Roshi Lampshades at least once, much to the irritation of Goku's wife. Vegeta and Piccolo do in battle as well, often overlapping with Slasher Smile with the former. | |
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Natasha in Captain America: The Winter Soldier during the opening fight on the ship grins and cracks wise at a mook before taking him down. | |
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Skull Island (2023): Before jumping into battle against the Killer Chameleons in "You're Not a King, You're Just a Stupid Animal", King Kong gives the island girl a sly smirk like he's about to exercise his muscles against the monsters and nothing more. | |
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This is the default expression for any protagonist in the Ace Attorney series once they start on their cleverer hunches, especially when they're onto something that turns a previously hopeless case upside-down. Then again, this can be said for just about anyone in these games pursuing the legal profession, as it's clear they all enjoy their jobs far too much. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: When, after everything Negi has thrown at him, Jack Rakan still gets up to fight, Negi isn't sad, or angry, he's 'awed all over again!' Also a little bit earlier during a fight with Kagetarou, when Negi realizes he's at a big disadvantage (though this one is with a bit of Bloodlust) |
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Eugene in Tangled wears this as he tries to speak an apology to Maximus before riding to Rapunzel's rescue. | |
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Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith, just as he, Obi-Wan, and Odd Ball's squadron of clone pilots prepare to slog their way through a swarm of Seperatist fighters between them and their target. Later in Obi-Wan Kenobi it’s revealed he has this expression under his mask as Darth Vader. Naturally this doubles as Slasher Smile. |
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Buffyverse: Buffy is known for this as well as Faith and Angel (especially in his own series where he lightens up). Spike alternates between this, the Psychotic Smirk and Slasher Smile. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac's various incarnations often wear this. | |
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In Katawa Shoujo, athlete Emi wears this expression when she's running, and the protagonist describes it in great length, as he finds that change from her standard, softer expressions fascinating. | |
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Lupin III's cocky smile is seen whenever he's mid-heist or is about to get the advantage. Seeing as this is Lupin we're talking about, this is often. Jigen sometimes gets his own grin when he is truly enjoying himself. It is not too far off from Lupin's own grin. |
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