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The Unblinking
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A character who never blinks or ceases blinking for a particular extended period. A relatively subtle way of enhancing a character's creepy, inhuman or evil nature. May be used as a "tell" that a character is a vampire, a robot, or otherwise not human, but unblinking characters may just be very creepy humans. Examples |
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The T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a robotic yet ultimately heroic example. The T-1000, ever the foil to the T-800, also never once blinks. Not even when firing his gun. | |
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Breaking Dawn: Referenced after Bella becomes a vampire and has to learn how to act human again; one of the tips she gets is to remember to blink at least three times per minute. | |
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In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, Miaya Gekkogahara never blinks, which along with her never speaking a word adds to her uncanny aura. We find out in episode 4 that this is because she's actually a robot controlled by Monaka. | |
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Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace of the villainous variety. He only blinks once: after Obi-Wan bisects him. | |
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"Ninja" Brian Wecht from Ninja Sex Party and Game Grumps is known for this. For example, he once ate a hot pepper and stared at the camera for more than 3 minutes without blinking once! ("Ninja Brian only blinks when you do.") | |
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Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion doesn't blink, as another hint to her disturbing and mysterious nature. | |
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David in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. This aspect of the character was suggested to Steven Spielberg by Haley Joel Osment to add to his character's robotic nature. | |
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While Judge Doom of Who Framed Roger Rabbit wears dark glasses nearly all the time, Christopher Lloyd decided to not blink in shots where his eyes are visible. This is a clue to his true nature as a Toon in disguise. His eyes in his human form are props, which pop out when he reveals his true Toon self; notably, the first thing he does after he reveals his real eyes is to blink. | |
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In The Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer Hannibal Lecter almost never blinks. Anthony Hopkins picked up the idea from watching tapes of Charles Manson and noticing that he also seldom blinked. | |
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In Ghost in the Shell (1995), the Major never blinks, since she is a full body cyborg. This is especially noticeable in one long, unbroken shot of her head on that lasts well over a minute. | |
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The Wolf from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish never blinks naturally for the entire film, and only closes his eyes once or twice as part of different expressions. | |
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: The animators made Sephiroth never blink, in order to convey that he had become a Humanoid Abomination that merely looked human but very much was not. | |
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In Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins never blinks, which makes sense since he's a vampire. All instances of Johnny Depp's blinking were removed digitally to add an Uncanny Valley factor to the character. | |
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Lloyd, the ghostly bartender who magically appears before Jack in The Shining, never blinks as a hint toward his corporeally-challenged state. Jack himself starts blinking less after his encounter with Lloyd, showing that the supernatural elements of the hotel are slowly manifesting within him. | |
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L from Death Note never blinks, to emphasize his off-putting appearance and highly observant nature. The one time in the series his eyes noticeably close is when he dies. | |
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The Curse of M has Doctor von Rached, who blinks so rarely that it creeps out his patient-prisoners and even some of the staff. His children inherit the trait, which is one reason some people suspect he's actually their father. | |
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Kaa from The Jungle Book (2016). While it's justified in that snakes can't blink anyway, the way the scene is framed and the emphasis on her eyes makes the whole thing that much more noticeable and off. | |
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Wraith: The Oblivion: Characters who use the Lifeweb ability never blink or close their eyes. This lead to their guild being named the Monitors, since they're always keeping an eye on the world around them. Since the Monitors caused a fair amount of problems for Stygia, especially during the Guild Revolt, by destroying or manipulating the Fetters of others for a fee, they're one of the lowest ranked among the Criminal Guilds, and considered to be completely untrustworthy. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: In the rap battle between two serial killers, Jack the Ripper and Hannibal Lecter, neither one of them is seen blinking. The latter's case is a nod to his film. The portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg says that he doesn't blink, which adds to the rap battle's depiction of him as somewhat uncanny and robotic (something his opponent, Elon Musk, openly mocks him for). True to his word, the closest he's seen to blinking is when he's mock-sleeping to tell Elon to rest more. Robert Oppenheimer doesn't blink in his battle with Thanos - it adds to the Thousand-Yard Stare. |
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Doctor Who. In "The Invasion", the Doctor notices something odd about Corrupt Corporate Executive Tobias Vaughn. He's been given a cybernetic body by the Cybermen, whom he's in league with. | |
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In NOS4A2, Wayne realizes at one point that he has never seen Charlie Manx blink. | |
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Daniel from Camp Camp never blinks, which adds to his creepy cult leader vibe. | |
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The titular characters of Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure are a more benign example; the trope here is used to highlight the fact that the characters are dolls. | |
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Jinx from League of Legends apparently doesn't blink much, if at all, based on supplementary dialogue from CCG adaptation Legends of Runeterra. She's not really evil, or even very sinister (she's quite endearing, in a psychotically hyperactive way) but still quite disconcerting due to being completely out of her gourd and proud of it. | |
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In Wednesday the titular character almost never blinks. This is done to unnerve the audience and make Wednesday seem creepier. | |
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In The Dropout the series about the Theranos scandal, Elizabeth Holmes is shown to avoid blinking as much as possible when talking to people. Combined with her artificial contralto (both traits present in her real-life counterpart) it makes her come across as robotic. | |
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The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy: One of the few external signs that Ford Prefect is an alien is that he doesn't blink very much, though he does it if he's surprised enough. | |
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In Bear With Me, unlike the other characters The Red Man has no blinking animation. | |
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Large Marge in Pee-wee's Big Adventure never blinks for the entirety of the scene she appears in, which flourishes her status as a creepy undead truck driver. | |
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In the first episode of Gravity Falls, Dipper claimed that Mabel's new boyfriend Norman "never blinks". He eventually comes to the conclusion that he is a zombie only to be proven wrong when he was revealed to be a bunch of gnomes instead. | |
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