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Unflattering ID Photo
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A character's identity card has an ugly, badly shot, misframed, mistimed, or otherwise unflattering picture of them. This is a popular sight gag, most commonly associated with passports, school IDs, or driver's licenses — although even a library card can count, as long as there's a photo on it. If they've had the card long enough, it tends to become an Embarrassing Old Photo; an occasional twist on the joke is to have the photo seeming to show somebody completely different, implying that either the character's appearance has changed a lot or the picture is just that bad. In some cases, the actual taking of the bad photo is part of the story. Perhaps the new photographer was still learning to use the equipment. Perhaps the person was hungover and looked terrible. This can extend to school picture days as well, if the day in question is actually shown. The photo may be messed up as the result of a Last-Second Photo Failure that happened to be the person's only shot at the picture. Truth in Television to some extent, people may radically change their hairstyle, shave off their beard, or have funky glasses that they once thought looked cool, but upon reflection was a bad style choice. This trope is actually enforced to some extent as most ID offices (like a passport office) have rules for getting your picture taken, meaning you're not allowed to smile, the person taking the photo is an office worker, not a professional photographer, and the lighting is just fluorescent overhead lights, which can lead to eerie, untrustworthy-looking mugshots of someone. Compare File Photo Gag. Examples: |
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