History Main / ConfusedQuestionMark

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

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the Goo has a single question mark over one of its heads [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-11-18 here]].

* Variation: ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon "Penny Lane" has an exclamation mark over Paul's head when he and the boys discover that the crime they were trying to thwart wasn't at Penny Lane in Liverpool but with heiress Penelope Lane, which secret agent James Blond had already thwarted.

* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' has two characters with confused ''titles''; Agitha the "Insect... Princess?" and Tingle the "Reincarnated Fairy?"

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

* Very common in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. The page picture is from the end of ''The Secret of the [[CoolBoat Unicorn]]''.

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* Not sure if the scene from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' where Eko goes to the other hatch counts. There's a giant "?" on the ground.
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* All ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} comic strip artists have used this, but none so more than [[LongRunner Bud Sagendorf]], who downright littered his strips with question marks. A panel with question marks in four or five individual speech bubbles were hardly unusual.

* In ''StealthBastard'', question mark appears over to robots and cameras if they detect the presence of player but haven't gotten fully alert yet.

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* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai''

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' uses the "'?' in speech bubble" variety.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey''. General Halftrack sometimes has a question mark appear over his head when he comes upon members of his staff acting in a bizarre manner.
* All {ComicStrip/{Popeye}} comic strip artists have used this, but none so more than [[LongRunner Bud Sagendorf]], who downright littered his strips with question marks. A panel with question marks in four or five individual speech bubbles were hardly unusual.
* ThePhantom and ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' uses a lot of question marks in indvidual speech bubbles. It's probably no coincidence that both strips were created and written by Lee Falk.

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* [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=1&p=000060 This]] ''{{Jailbreak}}'' page (and several others like it.)

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* The trademark of the perpetually confused Blitz on ''TheFundayPawpetShow''. A question mark was put on a stick and floated above him.

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* FelixTheCat would often pick up the question marks that formed over his head and use them as tools. In at least one cartoon, his tail turned into a question mark.
* In the ClassicDisneyShort ''A Gentleman's Gentleman'', as PlutoThePup wonders how to get a gumball from a gumball machine, one of his ears forms a question mark.

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* Chess notation marks bad moves with one question mark, blunders (very bad moves) with two.

* ''{{Peanuts}}'' uses the "'?' in speech bubble" variety.
* ''BeetleBailey''. General Halftrack sometimes has a question mark appear over his head when he comes upon members of his staff acting in a bizarre manner.
* All {{Popeye}} comic strip artists have used this, but none so more than [[LongRunner Bud Sagendorf]], who downright littered his strips with question marks. A panel with question marks in four or five individual speech bubbles were hardly unusual.
* ThePhantom and MandrakeTheMagician uses a lot of question marks in indvidual speech bubbles. It's probably no coincidence that both strips were created and written by Lee Falk.

* If the Elite bosses from ''HeroCore'' try to use an ability CastFromHitpoints with only one point left, a question mark will appear above their heads.

* In [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Fighters]], right after Dr. Eggman zaps your character with a cloning ray (which produces a grayscale doppelganger).

* ''{{Disgaea}}'' has no confusion status effect, so it uses question marks to represent amnesia (the "silence" StandardStatusEffect) instead.

* In ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'', the Genie's ponytail forms a question mark as he wonders what riding animal to turn Abu into.
* In ''YellowSubmarine'' one of the cat-like Butterfly Stompers has a tail that momentaily goes question mark.

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