History Main / CrossPoppingVeins

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' uses these rather often, usually due to Luffy being exasperating, especially in the eyes of Zoro or Nami.

* The ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series has them, to go with the anime-like art style. During cutscenes in some games, characters will often have a cross-popping vein appear on or near their head when they get angry or irritated.

* Yoko gets these a lot when annoyed with other people on ''WesternAnimation/TeamGalaxy''

** Primeape has this on its forehead.

* The perpetually angry Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Primeape is always depicted with one.

* Using the [[BerserkButton provoking move]], Swagger, in all ''Pokémon'' games starting from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', causes this animation to appear briefly on the target if it works. Ditto for Rage. And Frustration (at least in Gen III).

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' takes a more realistic approach, depicting the veins as more branchy and bound to the characters' foreheads rather than the cartoony cross- or Y-shaped variants on hair.

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* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': The Nerd has this in his logo.

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This has its own emoji: 💢

** Also used ''nearly'' straight in regards to Ritsu. Poor Ritsu, trying to be nice, brings a couple [[FridgeLogic fruit magazines]] to the Sohma house, which makes Shigure a tad frustrated. When Ritsu asks if something's wrong, Shigure turns to Ritsu and says "No, it's nothing," in a perfectly calm voice, with a nice genial smile. However, there's a Cross Popping Vein the size of his fist on his forehead. In the 2001 anime version, a giant red arrow is featured, pointing to the vein. Ritsu starts running for dear life... [[TheWoobie as always.]]

* In ''Webcomic/WelcomeToThePharmacy'', when one of the clients finds out he will have to wait at least ten minutes, he stomps away angrily, with his elongated, mutated neck sporting several visible veins.

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* "[[https://emojipedia.org/anger-symbol/ ANGER SYMBOL]]" is now an official Unicode emoji.[[/folder]]

* In ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'', Rei is the most prone to using them, despite being the meekest member of the cast. These show up sometimes on other characters as well. However, Umino restricts their usage to the more light-hearted and humorous moments; she lets the characters' facial expressions and body language convey their anger during dramatic scenes.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': [[{{Tsundere}} Germany]] was prone to this whenever [[{{Keet}} Italy]] spoke Japanese because he ''hated'' it when his [[LoveInterest love interest]] spoke [[YamatoNadeshiko Japan's]], [[TheRival his rival's]], language. [[spoiler:[[{{Polyamory}} Until Italy chose them both]].]]

* ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'': This appears regularly on the series' various {{Tsundere}}. Most notably, Asakura gets one when faced with Kurt Godel...and it is ''scary''.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'': It's rare, but does occur in the manga once or twice. This appears more frequently in the anime adaptation.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': [[{{Tsundere}} Germany]] was prone to this whenever [[{{Keet}} Italy]] spoke Japanese because he ''hated'' it when his [[LoveInterest love interest]] spoke [[YamatoNadeshiko Japan's]], [[TheRival his rival's]], language. [[spoiler:[[{{Polyamory}} Until Italy chose them both]].]]

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** What about [[RuleOfFunny the time a plant got one of these?]] Sure the robot isn't living, but plants tend to be less animate.