History Main / ConfusedQuestionMark

[[{{Tintin}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tintinconfused_2869.jpg]]

* Commonly used in French comics like ''{{Asterix}}'' and ''LuckyLuke''.
* Very common in ''{{Tintin}}''. The page picture is from the end of ''The Secret of the [[CoolBoat Unicorn]]''.

* When a soldier in ''MetalGearSolid'' sees something unusual a question mark appears above their head (followed by an exclamation mark if they see you).

* In the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' episode where Joey is [[WagerSlave forced to wear a dog suit]], he actually [[TalkingWithSigns holds a sign with a question mark on it]] when he's confused about Dungeon Dice Monster's rules.

** In the ''PokemonStadium'' games, question marks appeared above a confused Pokemon's head. In other games, it is usually portrayed by birds flying around its head.
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the confusion status effect was indicated by two question marks appearing above the Pokemon's head, each accompanied by a sound effect suggesting the "huh?" sound.

** Also, [[SonicAdventure the Chao]] sometimes turn the floating balls atop their heads into question-marks.

* In the ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon ''Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Life'', Jerry ends up walking off a construction beam and a question mark appears above his head just before he falls. In a NinjaProp moment, he grabs the question mark and uses it as a hook to latch onto a ledge. Tom later attempts the same thing, but before falling he becomes ''shocked'' rather than ''surprised'', getting an uselessly straight exclamation mark instead.

** Also, question marks appear above a {{Pokemon}}'s head when it uses [[StatusBuff Nasty Plot.]]

* ''OnePiece'': Used by the Gorgon sisters and [[IdiotHero Luffy]] when they find out the latter is immune to [[DefrostingIceQueen Hancock]]'s [[TakenForGranite petrification powers]].

* Very common in ''{{Tintin}}''.

* Done in TheColourOfMagic to represent that the tourist Twoflower doesn't understand what the Ankh-Morporkeans are saying.

* Not sure if the scene from ''{{Lost}}'' where Eko goes to the other hatch counts. There's a giant "?" on the ground.

* A question mark appears above DM's head at least once in ''DangerMouse''.

* All {{Popeye}} comic strip artists have used this, but none so more than [[LongRunner Bud Sagendorf]], who downright littered his strips with question marks.

* Nospikes from ''CommanderKeen 6'' like to charge at you, but if they run off a ledge, they stand in mid-air for a while and a question mark appears above their head before they fall.

* In ''{{Psychonauts}}'', the icon for the "confusion" power depicts a perplexed head surrounded by question marks, and the confusion projectile itself looks like a giant question mark that the protagonist throws at the enemy, after pulling off the dot like a grenade pin.

* Done in {{Discworld}}/TheColourOfMagic to represent that the tourist Twoflower doesn't understand what the Ankh-Morporkeans are saying.

* In ''{{Okamiden}}'', since Chibiterasu relies on his partners for exposition, any time you try to examine something without your partner, all you get is a whimper and a ? above Chibi's head.

** The protagonists of ''{{Persona 3}}'' and ''{{Persona 4}}'' do this to indicate confusion.

* In the ''Manga/{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' episode where Joey is [[WagerSlave forced to wear a dog suit]], he actually [[TalkingWithSigns holds a sign with a question mark on it]] when he's confused about Dungeon Dice Monster's rules.

* In the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' episode where Joey is [[WagerSlave forced to wear a dog suit]], he actually [[TalkingWithSigns holds a sign with a question mark on it]] when he's confused about Dungeon Dice Monster's rules.

** In ''PokemonRedAndBlue'', the confusion status effect was indicated by two question marks appearing above the Pokemon's head, each accompanied by a sound effect suggesting the "huh?" sound.

* In ''CaveStory'', trying to examine an object without something to examine will cause a questionmark to pop up.

* Chess notation marks bad moves with one or two question marks.

* ''HanaukyoMaidTai''

* In the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' episode where Joey is [[WagerSlave forced to wear a dog suit]], he actually [[SignLanguage holds a sign with a question mark on it]] when he's confused about Dungeon Dice Monster's rules.