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Lipstick Mark

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31 feature instances
32 referencing feature instances

Lipstick Mark	type	FeatureClass
Lipstick Mark	label	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark	page	LipstickMark
Lipstick Mark	comment	Lipstick on the collar, a telltale giveaway that he is cheating. This old trope has its roots in the days when most men wore shirts with collars and women wore lipstick that marked easily. The wife, doing her husband's laundry, finds a pink mark on her husbands collar and immediately concludes that he has a mistress. When the husband returns from work, he finds that he has been Exiled to the Couch or his belongings thrown outside. Most of the time in comedies it's Not What It Looks Like. The stain is ketchup, or the lipstick is from his grandmother pecking him on the cheek. See also Affair Hair and Affair Letters for other types of evidence of affairs. For the variations not related to infidelity, see Covered in Kisses and Signed with a Kiss. In a case of Reality Is Unrealistic, the lipstick marks are generally shown in visual media as a clear impression of a woman's lips on one of the points of the collar. In real life, the mark is more likely to be a smear or smudge near or along the top edge, unless she was deliberately marking his shirt as a challenge to the wife. Examples
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Lipstick Mark	isPartOf	DBTropes
Lipstick Mark / int_1b386512	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma ½: Ranma, trying to get Ukyō to dump him, attempts this by making lipstick marks with his girl-body,◊ but gets caught by Ukyō and scolded. Konatsu, a kunoichi that is actually a boy, uses this as an attack.
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Ranma ½ (Manga)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_1b386512
Lipstick Mark / int_1d764558	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_1d764558	comment	Subverted in The Body (2012). In one of the flashbacks, Mayka stops Álex as she notices something on his neck. Turns out it was a freckle she never noticed before. She might have been lying at this point though.
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The Body (2012)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_1d764558
Lipstick Mark / int_222c2051	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_222c2051	comment	On Chuck, Alex sees Carina's lipstick on Morgan's collar and thinks he is cheating on her (in reality, Carina was the one hitting on Morgan and Morgan was rejecting her advances out of faithfulness to relationship with Alex).
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Chuck	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_222c2051
Lipstick Mark / int_29b1425d	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_29b1425d	comment	Detention has a variant, where Ray realizes her father is cheating because he smells of powdered make-up.
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Detention (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_29b1425d
Lipstick Mark / int_37434b90	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_37434b90	comment	Referenced in What Women Want when the main character is trying to think of ways to advertise lipstick to women.
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Lipstick Mark / int_3defe34c	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_3defe34c	comment	A Discussed Trope in The Seven Year Itch. Richard tells The Girl note And no, we never actually learn her name. that if his wife ever found lipstick on his collar, she'd assume it was cranberry sauce. At the end, she intentionally leaves lipstick on his collar.
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Lipstick Mark / int_42f1f652	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_42f1f652	comment	The Judds' "Have Mercy": "The lipstick on your collar gives your game away / It's strawberry red and mine's pink rosè."
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The Judds (Music)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_42f1f652
Lipstick Mark / int_4957a2b7	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_4957a2b7	comment	In Being the Ricardos, Lucille confronts Desi because she found his handkerchief smeared with lipstick. Desi brushes it off by reminding her that Lucille herself smeared his hankie but no, that was a different handkerchief with a different shade of lipstick, which she's already found.
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Lipstick Mark / int_54d437e2	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_54d437e2	comment	Spiderman The Animated Series: Black Cat lifts up an unconscious Spiderman's mask to give him a kiss. Peter Parker doesn't notice it until after a co-worker at the Bugle points it out to him. Hilarity Ensues.
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Spider-Man: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_54d437e2
Lipstick Mark / int_5d354f8	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: "That's not lipstick. It's a computer rash."
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Lipstick Mark / int_60e46926	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_60e46926	comment	Invoked in a MAD article offering ways of ending a relationship without outright dumping your significant other: one of them involved becoming so jealous that they get sick of you.
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Lipstick Mark / int_7c038c18	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_7c038c18	comment	Parodied in Phineas and Ferb: In the episode "It's About Time", Perry notices that Dr. Doofenshmirtz has a pawprint on his cheek, left by his new nemesis.
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Lipstick Mark / int_7f273d7b	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_7f273d7b	comment	The Cramp Twins: In "Cramp vs Cramp", Wayne is trying to make his parents get a divorce so he can go on vacations due to the belief that children with divorced parents have a better life. After his previous attempts fail, he tries to make his parents look like they're cheating on each other. Mr Cramp's encounter with Miss Hissy (who did try to make out with him, much to his horror) set by Wayne leaves the former with a lipstick mark on his collar, so naturally, Mrs Cramp (who is also accused of cheating on her husband at that moment) accuses him of an affair.
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Lipstick Mark / int_8182d4fd	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_8182d4fd	comment	Fatale: Both Hank's best friend and his wife notice that he's been having an affair because of Josephine's lipstick left on his collar.
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Fatale	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_8182d4fd
Lipstick Mark / int_880cfa15	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes had an episode where a woman from the Underground drew lipstick on her hand, then touched it to a German officer's face and collar to make it look like they had been fooling around, enraging the officer's fiancé, Frau Linkmeyer (General Burkhalter's sister).
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Lipstick Mark / int_8b2d4580	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_8b2d4580	comment	In one of The Prince of Tennis chibi-fillers with the TeniPuri Family, Ryoma is trying on Shuuko's makeup, and when he hears her coming, hastily wipes it off on Sadaharu's dirty laundry, leading her to conclude the "obvious".
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The Prince of Tennis (Manga)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_8b2d4580
Lipstick Mark / int_8f3b1f15	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_8f3b1f15	comment	Invoked in Fantozzi: rather than confess to his wife that he's staying out late to take billiard lessons (It Makes Sense in Context) after saying he wouldn't, Fantozzi pretends to have an affair and, among various tricks, smears his own collars with lipstick. When his wife finally confronts him and asks if he's cheating on her, he claims he is... only to reveal the billiard gown under his jacket, blowing his cover.
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Lipstick Mark / int_936e99ce	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_936e99ce	comment	Dirty Sympathy, discussed when Daryan compares the smells of Klavier's usual, expensive cologne and the cheap drugstore cologne he came back smelling like after he spent the night supposedly mourning over his brother's sentencing.
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Lipstick Mark / int_974f7efb	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_974f7efb	comment	The Drew Carey Show: In one episode, Drew discovers that there is a club of Winfred-Lauder employees who hate him. One of them hates him because on the night he was going to propose to his girlfriend, Drew turned up the collar on his shirt. Drew left a red stain on his collar from the jelly doughnut he was eating. His girlfriend thought it was lipstick and broke up with him.
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Lipstick Mark / int_99055407	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_99055407	comment	This happens in one episode of Family Matters, after Eddie tries to sneak back to his room, after a date with a girl, only to be spotted by Carl.
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Lipstick Mark / int_9b530c26	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics Betty and Veronica notice a lipstick mark on his clothes, and when they realize it isn't theirs, they walk out right then and there. Turns out, the mark was his mom's. They did this with a Jughead story as well. He walks around school with what looks like a lipstick mark on the corner of his mouth. Archie and the others spend the whole story trying to figure out whose it was. In the end it turns out the mark was from ice cream pops he hid in the school freezer.
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Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_9b530c26
Lipstick Mark / int_a37a8978	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_a37a8978	comment	In Six: The Musical, Catherine of Aragon states that she began to suspect her husband, Henry VIII, was cheating on her after discovering lipstick stains on his ruff.
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Six: The Musical (Theatre)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_a37a8978
Lipstick Mark / int_a812c87	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_a812c87	comment	In Naked Came the Stranger, Gillian notices fresh lipstick marks on her husband's collar, left by The Mistress. She wonders if he was careless or stupid, or if he left the marks on purpose out of guilt.
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Lipstick Mark / int_b149f4d2	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_b149f4d2	comment	On The Partridge Family
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Lipstick Mark / int_b2c6817c	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_b2c6817c	comment	In the long-running Sazae-san anime, the lipstick mark on the husband's shirt is actually caused by the preteen daughter playing with Sazae's makeup, then wiping it off on the nearest cloth object.
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Lipstick Mark / int_b9ebee9d	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_b9ebee9d	comment	On The X Factor, Simon Cowell had a lipstick mark on his cheek—one of Hope had kissed him earlier.
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The X Factor	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_b9ebee9d
Lipstick Mark / int_c7f59f7d	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_c7f59f7d	comment	In an issue of Teen Titans, Beast Boy asked Superboy what he was doing on the roof with Wondergirl. When he said "nothing", rather quickly, Robin pointed out that he had lipstick smudged on his face. That was some "nothing" you were doing, Superboy.
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Teen Titans (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_c7f59f7d
Lipstick Mark / int_d7c9f170	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_d7c9f170	comment	The Matrix Reloaded. Persephone knows about the Merovingian's philandering by the lipstick a woman left. This despite, in her words, "She wasn't kissing your face, my love."
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The Matrix Reloaded	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_d7c9f170
Lipstick Mark / int_df07d96e	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_df07d96e	comment	Happens in Lois & Clark when a woman Superman rescues kisses him in gratitude.
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LoisAndClark	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_df07d96e
Lipstick Mark / int_ea4f62db	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Stewie, trying to prevent Lois and Peter from conceiving his brother, attempts this by making lipstick marks on Peter's shirt, but gets caught by Lois and scolded.
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Family Guy	hasFeature	Lipstick Mark / int_ea4f62db
Lipstick Mark / int_f90e7d5f	type	Lipstick Mark
Lipstick Mark / int_f90e7d5f	comment	Addicted to Love. Critic Roger Ebert said this about the film:
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Lipstick Mark	processingCategory2	Cosmetics Tropes
Carnival Phantasm / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Fatale (2012) (Comic Book) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
She's Not So Famous (Fanfic) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Beyond Re-Animator / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Big Trouble in Little China / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Death Becomes Her / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Doctor in Love / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Psycho Wedding Crasher / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
The Body (2012) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
The Seven Year Itch / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Puberty Blues / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Crayon Shin-chan (Manga) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Sazae-san (Manga) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Cry Baby (Album) (Music) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Cry-Baby (Music) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
evermore (2020) (Music) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Sia (Music) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Waking Up with the House on Fire (Music) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Xscape (Music) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Chuck / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Malcolm in the Middle / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
The Drew Carey Show / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
The Goldbergs / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Six: The Musical (Theatre) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Let's CATCH (Video Game) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
ACTUALLY HAPPENED (Web Animation) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Cheating Men Must Die (Webcomic) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Red Hot Riding Hood / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark
Penny and Aggie (Webcomic) / int_b2d848af	type	Lipstick Mark

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