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Monster Mouth

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A standard way to make monstrous figures appear alien is to mess around with their anatomy in ways that are "atypical" (to put it mildly) of human beings or, more broadly, most real-life animals.note Emphasis on "most", because unlike what many people would think, real-life biology can be as bizarre as fiction, if not moreso at times. One such trait that always looks menacing and foreboding is the mouth, whether by giving it a irregular or distorted shape, making the teeth within it look hideous or terrifyingly deadly, putting it somewhere where it logically should not be, having there be more than one, or a number of other methods.
Super-Trope to:

Cthulhumanoid
Flower Mouth
Lamprey Mouth
Monstrous Mandibles
Scary Teeth
Jagged Mouth
More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Tombstone Teeth
Too Many Mouths
Nested Mouths
Belly Mouth
Vagina Dentata

Can be a Sub-Trope to either Bizarre Alien Biology or Body Horror, depending on whether the mouth in question is "supposed" to look like that. Frequently occurs in conjunction with Nightmare Face. No connection to Facial Horror, as that trope deals with injury and disfigurement. See also Good Lips, Evil Jaws.
NOTE: Please only list examples that do not fit neatly into one of the Sub-Tropes.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent: the Grunt's Mouths are split open down the length of one cheek and their jaws are allowed to hang freely.
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The Cabal species in Destiny all have natural, teeth-baring lip clefts◊ under their helmets, making their default expression a snarl or sneer.
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Dead Space: Among the many changes they undergo, the most striking characteristic of Necromorphs are the protruded jaw lines.
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Star Trek
The Nausicaans, a race of brutish mercenary thugs, are easily recognizable for their wide, upside-down "V"-shaped jaws with exterior teeth.
The Kradin, who resemble Nausicaans with even more teeth.
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Alien Biospheres, being a youtube series dedicated to the speculative evolution of a planet of Starfish Aliens, features all sorts of wacky chompers.
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In The Scar, the Anophelii are a species of humanoid "mosquito people" whose females' jaw hides a thick, foot-long, blood-draining spike. Their all-consuming Horror Hunger and the atrocities of their short-lived "Malarial Queendom" make them infamous even in the Crapsack World of Bas-Lag. The males, however, have toothless, sphincter-like mouths, and are rather silly-looking to a human visitor.
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Godzilla vs. Kong: Mechagodzilla has intimidating-looking jagged jaws, which themselves contain rows of buzzsaws designed to violently tear through the hide of any Titan that Mechagodzilla bites down on (although we never see the Mecha using them in combat).
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In Minecraft, Endermen have mouths that raise their entire upper head when opened, making their mouths see-through.
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Mass Effect
The Elcor have mouths consisting of a series of vertical slits reminiscent of shark gills that wiggle up and down as they speak.
The mouth of a Thresher Maw seems to consist of four long tendrils surrounding a tentacle-like, un-retractile tongue.
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El Goonish Shive: Sirleck. Dear squirrely goodness, Sirleck. Case in point.
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The Reapers from the second instalment of the Blade Trilogy have type 3 Monstrous Mandibles that hide a protrusile Flower Mouth via Nested Mouths.
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In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Raziel has no lower jaw.
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In Halo, the Elites, or "Sangheili" as they call themselves, have a relatively-ordinary upper jaw, but what they have in place of a lower jaw varies by franchise installment: sometimes it's a double set of type 2 Monstrous Mandibles, sometimes it's one half of a Flower Mouth, sometimes it's somewhere in between.
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