History Main / ExpressiveShirt

* In ''{{Homestuck}}'', the picture of a record on Dave's shirt becomes broken after [[spoiler: he gets his ass kicked and his katana broken by Bro.]] However, it stays that way afterwards.
** In the very second page, when John goes >_< after the player tries to name him "Zoosmell Pooplord", his shirt does the same.

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!!Accessory Examples:

[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* The headbands on ''NininGaShinobuden''.
* Taking this concept to its logical extreme, it's not uncommon for HumongousMecha with humanoid faces to mirror their pilot's expression. ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''s mecha even ''lip sync'' to their pilots' dialogue. From the same series, Yoko's skull hairpin sometimes expresses her emotions, like when she realized that the men desperately needed a bath, the pin made a ">_<" expression while Yoko was holding her nose and pretty much doing the same.
** Also, note [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sans_titre.jpg this (NSFW) little incident]]...
* Chouhi from ''KoihimeMusou'' wears a tiger hairpin that always mimics her expression.
* In LuckyStar, Tsukasa has her bow droop when she's sad in episode 18 and the OVA, and spike up when she's shocked in other episodes.
* Princess Snow's snowman pendant in {{MAR}}. It's a magic pendant, though.
* [[GenkiGirl Yuki's]] cat-belt… thingie in ''{{Saki}}''.
* The skull on Kuromi's forehead in ''OnegaiMyMelody'' does this.
* [[BakaTest Minami Shimada's]] Hair ribbon.
* {{Pita-Ten}} had the toy bunnies in Misha's hair frequently mirroring her emotions. One fancomic played with this with Misha, after losing an important battle to Koboshi ([[ItMakesSenseInContext It Makes More Sense In Context]]), [[StepfordSmiler pretending to be as cheerful as ever...]]while her hairbunnies [[DeathGlare glare in a rather]] [[NightmareFuel unsettling manner.]]
* Heihachi from SamuraiSeven has a little doll attached to the hilt of his sword that sometimes changes to reflect the general mood Heihachi was in at the time.
* Kuromi in ''OnegaiMyMelody'' and sequels. Her black joker-hat has a skull logo that corresponds to her mood change.


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* {{Asterix}}'s winged helmet.
* AdamWarren has used this in several of his works. Considering that most of these involve high tech adventures, there are some allowances. Sometimes a tag on the shirt expressly says that it can do this.
** When he was illustrating for Gen13, the winged skull tattoo on Grunge's chest exhibited Expressive Shirt tendencies.
* There was a character in ''TheMask'' (the comic/graphic novel, not the movie) who was a huge fan of “Big Head” (that's what everyone calls whoever is wearing the mask at the time) and had a picture of Big Head on the back of his jacket. After he actually got the mask himself, the picture on the back of his jacket changed to his own face, and basically became this trope.

[[AC:{{Fanfiction}}]]
* In the AceAttorney fancomics on [[http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/tag/ace+attorney this blog]], the pin on Phoenix's hat tends to change its expression to match his. Same with [[spoiler:the face-like scar on Kristoph's hand.]]

[[AC:{{Real Life}}]]
* {{Truth in Television}}: [[{{TheSixties}} Mood Rings]]

[[AC:{{Web Comics}}]]
* ''The Devils Panties'': Jennie Breeden's (former) boyfriend Will in wears a T-shirt with a face on it that changes with the situation and his mood.
* Teenaged vampire Layla of EerieCuties has a skull hairpin that mirrors her expressions.
* Zeetha in ''GirlGenius'' wears a headband with a face on it that mirrors her facial expressions. For [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081013 example]]...
** More generally this is a quirk of PhilFoglio's style and can be found in other works as well, including ''{{XXXenophile}}''.
** Oddly, the otherwise identical faces on her harness don't do this, nor those on her swords.
* The hat of Eric in ''{{Loserz}}''. He himself is unaware of this, as it says only "StarWars" when he's not wearing it, although his friends occasionally notice it change.
* ''TheZombieHunters'' has Jenny's [[IconicItem signature]], [[NumberOneDime much-loved]] orange bear [[NiceHat hat]].

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* Wade the Duck on the ''USAcres'' segments ''GarfieldAndFriends'' wears an innertube with a ducky on it that mirrors his facial expressions. This trait carried over from the little-known ''U.S. Acres'' strip.
** Jim Davis must have liked this trope. In the Garfield Halloween special, Garfield wears a pirate hat with a skull and crossbones that mirrors Garfield's expression. At one point when the boat Garfield's in with Odie capsizes, the skull and crossbones jumps off the hat and swims away.
* In Disney's version of ''Little Toot'', the title character (an anthro tugboat) had a steam whistle that mirrored his expressions.
* The Chuck Jones cartoon ''The Bear That Wasn't'', based on a book by fellow ''LooneyTunes'' director Frank Tashlin, has a factory foreman whose photo ID has the same expression that he has.
* Unterbheit minion Catclops of ''TheVentureBros'' has a single cat on his forehead instead of an eye; the cat generally shares his expression.
* [[TheMagicSchoolBus Ms Frizzle's]] entire outfit changed depending on what aspect of science she was teaching to her class.

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* In ''PaperMario'', the clouds Lakilester and his girlfriend rode on matched their expessions.
* When Kouri of the VisualNovel ''BrassRestoration'' is in her plain clothes, her bear purse mirrors her expression.
* [[BlazBlue The Booby Lady]]'s hair pin is an animate (or possibly living) tiny panda. It occasionally moves on it's own, sometimes even leaping between her cleavage after a match (with her laughing about it).
* [[MonkeyIsland Meathook]]'s skull tattoo may be something of an edge case, since he does that on purpose.
* Occassionally, Suwako's hat in the ''{{Touhou}}'' series. Her defeat picture in the fighting games, for example, has its googly eyes crying in pain. Fanworks, naturally, take this to the extremes, to the point that her hat has gained its own FanNickname of Pyonta.

** This troper has seen parody fanart of how [[FanNickname The Magic Schooldress]] might look if Ms. Frizzle taught, well, sex ed. Let's just say there were many... toys.

* Wade the Duck on ''GarfieldAndFriends'' wears a swimming-pool-floaty-thing with a ducky on it that mirrors his facial expressions.

* Occassionally, Suwako's hat in the ''{{Touhou}}'' series. Her defeat picture in the fighting games, for example, has its googly eyes crying in pain. Fanworks, naturally, take this to the extremes, to the point that her has gained its own FanNickname of Pyonta.

* PitaTen had the toy bunnies in Misha's hair frequently mirroring her emotions. One fancomic played with this with Misha, after losing an important battle to Koboshi (it makes more sense in context), [[StepfordSmiler pretending to be as cheerful as ever...]]while her hairbunnies [[DeathGlare glare in a rather]] [[NightmareFuel unsettling manner.]]

* ''TheWotch:'' Jason the character has a shirt that has the letters CMX inside a little yellow starburst. ''Editor'' Jason, the avatar of one of the authors seen in filler strips, has it constantly in flux, often emoticons or [[LeetSpeak 'net slang]], but sometimes full (short) words (such as "OUCH" when he's getting bopped over the head by his assistant, Ani.)

* Teenaged vampire, Layla, of EerieCuties has a skull hairpin that mirror's her expressions.

* Wade the Duck on ''GarfieldAndFriends'' wears a swimming-pool-floaty-thing with a face on it that mirrors his facial expressions.

* ''TheZombieHunters,'' has Jenny's [[IconicItem signature]], [[NumberOneDime much-loved]] orange bear [[NiceHat hat]].

* The hat of Eric in ''{{Loserz}}''. He himself is unaware of this, as it says only "StarWars" when he's not wearing it, although his friends occasionally notice it change.
* Teenaged vampire, Layla, of EerieCuties has a skull hairpin that mirror's her expressions.
* ''The Devils Panties'': Jennie Breeden's (former) boyfriend Will in wears a T-shirt with a face on it that changes with the situation and his mood.

* Jenny's [[IconicItem signature]], [[NumberOneDime much-loved]] orange bear [[NiceHat hat]] in ''TheZombieHunters.''

* Jenny's orange bear hat in ''TheZombieHunters''

* PitaTen had an interesting example, with the toy bunnies in Misha's hair frequently mirroring her emotions. One fancomic played with this with Misha, after losing an important battle to Koboshi (it makes more sense in context), [[StepfordSmiler pretending to be as cheerful as ever...]]while her hairbunnies glare in a rather [[NightmareFuel nightmarish manner.]]
* Heihachi from SamuraiSeven has a little doll attached to the hilt of his sword that sometimes changes to reflect the general mood Heihachi was in at the time.
* Kuromi in ''OnegaiMyMelody'' and sequels. Her black joker-hat has a skull logo that corresponds to her mood change.

* During his secend series, the Jared Stevens version of DoctorFate wore a "Mood Shirt" whose slogan would comment on what was going on.

* Yoko's skull acessory on her head in GurrenLagann would change its facial expression to how Yoko is feeling at times. It's more noticeable in Episode 6.

* Taking this concept to its logical extreme, it's not uncommon for HumongousMecha with humanoid faces to mirror their pilot's expression. ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''s mecha even ''lip sync'' to their pilots' dialogue. Yoko's skull hairpin from TengenToppaGurrenLagann sometimes expresses Yoko's emotions. For example, when she realized that the men desperately needed a bath, the pin made a ">_<" expression while Yoko was holding her nose and pretty much doing the same.

* When Howard Taylor, the writer and artist of ''SchlockMercenary'', appears in one of the arcs as a sort of [[{{Psychopomps}} Psychopomp]] for the currently-dead Commander Andreyasn (HeGotBetter), he wears a Schlock T-Shirt with [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060901.html an ever-changing expression]]. It does not match Howard's own expression, however, but rather reacts to what's being said and done.

* Occassionally, Suwako's hat in the ''{{Touhou}}'' series. Her defeat picture in the fighting games, for example, has its googly eyes crying in pain. Fanworks, naturally, takes this to the extremes, to the point of making it a living entity.

* Occassionally, Suwako's hat in the ''{{Touhou}}'' series. Her defeat picture in the fighting games, for example, has its googly eyes crying in pain. The fandom, naturally, takes this to the extremes, to the point of making it a living entity.