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"Have a Nice Day" Smile

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The yellow smiling face with the message "Have a Nice Day". Gained popularity as a Fun T-Shirt, and now has some parodies.
Originally designed to stop postal employees from, well, Going Postal. The smiley face is also commonly used as a sort of ironic symbol of psychopaths, typically those who are also mentally ill.
A company called Smileyworld Ltd. owns the trademark on yellow smiley faces.
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Watchmen has one, but trademark issues caused problems in the Watchmen fan community when Smileyworld refused to let Warner Bros. release memorabilia involving the series' famous bloodstained smiley logo. Smileyworld's trademark can been seen at the end of the movie's trailers and on its posters. This smiley face, with a streak of blood, was probably the first use of the "ironic symbol" of the smiley face. Originally the Comedian's symbol, it acquired a streak of his blood from his murder. Alan Moore, the writer, himself noted how the meaning of the smiley face changed so much from such a small change. Additionally, the smiley face is the first use of the recurring "five minutes to midnight" symbol, with the streak of blood acting as a minute hand pointed at 11.
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Evil Ernie: Ernie's sidekick Smiley the Psychotic Button is a smiley face button that's gained sentience and a Slasher Smile.
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Comet Busters! has cronies, little smiley faces that burst out when you shoot an as— er, "rock", and Zerg Rush the nearest ship.
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Pictured above is one of the levels from Happy Game, in which the land is full of yellow smiley faces. However, the game also twists this trope by having similar faces plastered on the murderous enemies, making them Slasher Smiles instead.
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In Misfile, Rumisiel often wears a T-shirt with a straight line for a mouth and a slogan which simply reads "Have a Day".
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In Minesweeper, the players' actions are punctuated by a Smiley face. It "shouts" once the player clicks on any square, wears Cool Shades if he wins, and becomes a frown with X eyes if he loses. (clicking the Smiley ends the game and starts another)
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The Simpsons: In "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly", Lisa is put on anti-depression medication and sees everyone as a smiley face.
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Used in the poster for Smiley Face, naturally.
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The poster for Evolution (2001) has one with three eyes.
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 Evolution (2001)
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Captain Tylor wears a smiley face button pinned to his baggy UPSF coat as a sign of his cheerful nature and casual disregard of military formality.
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Bloodshot (2020): The man whom Ray Garrison intends to kill is inside a bullet-resistant SUV covered in flour (because Garrison rammed it with a flour truck). Garrison brushes away a couple of eyeholes to peer inside at him, then draws a smiling mouth underneath them, just before he walks off to get a means of blasting his way in.
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In Turning Red, Mei has a pin button on her bag of a variation of this with a stuck-out tongue.
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Quest for Glory I has a smiley face in Yorick's room. When you look at it, Yorick will say "Have a nice day!"
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In Sam & Max Hit the Road, the office next to the duo's (belonging to Flint Paper) is shot through the wall as they prepare to leave for the day; the bullet holes left behind are in the form of a smiley.
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The poster for Dazed and Confused features a stoned Smiley Face.
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Battlefield: Bad Company features the smiley prominently in its box art as well as in game grenades.
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Mick Foley used the smiley sometimes in his Mankind character; he also used "Have a nice day" as his catchphrase.
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Smiley uses this as a nightmarish Serial Killer motif◊.
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Everybody Edits has the players represented as smileys.
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The Stand introduces Randall Flagg, the Walkin' Dude, who, among other interesting buttons, wears one with a smiley face with a bullet wound in its forehead. Carried over to The Dark Tower, in which he sometimes signs his messages to the ka'tet with one of these.
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In the Red Dwarf Smegazine Superhero Episode comic Super-Ace, Lister's counterpart is an Expy of The Punisher with a smiley Chest Insignia instead of a skull.
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Forrest Gump spoofs the origin of this.
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Berzerk turns smiley faces scary — one's the symbol for the unkillable Evil Otto.
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 Berzerk (Video Game)
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In Blazing Saddles, Hedley Lamarr's "army" of evildoers includes among its ranks a pair of Ku Klux Klansmen with smiley faces and the phrase "have a nice day!" written on the back of their robes. This is either hilarious or terrifying, depending on how you look at it (or both!).
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Last Action Hero: One of Benedict's glass eyes has this in place of the pupil, which he pulls down his glasses to reveal when he meets with Jack for the first time. He even punctuates it with a "Have a nice day" to see them off.
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A smiley face pops up just before the Allied Time Bomb goes off in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, along with the caption "Have a Nice Day".
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In Infinite Jest, recovering alcoholic Big Don Gately uses the smiley face as a symbol for relapse.
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Electric Wonderland displays eight in the menu for the character biographies, each bearing the same hat or hairstyle as one of the comic's stars. Some of them also have different color schemes.
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In Doomsday Clock, Rorshach II's moving ink blot face forms a smiley face when seeing Batman's pancakes, referencing Watchmen (which the miniseries is a sequel to).
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Transmetropolitan has one with three eyes. This is to signify that Transhuman or not, people are still shallow and stupid.
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Unreal Tournament has the secondary fire of the flak cannon, which launches an explosive shell with a smiley face painted in the front. This means that you can only see the smiley face when being shot at with the flak cannon.
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Toonstruck: King Hugh, the benevolent ruler of Cutopia, has a yellow smiley face for a head.
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Smile Tropes
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