History Main / MonaLisaSmile

* In ''WesternAnimation/Madeline'' the girls visit the Louvre, they naturally go see the painting and Chloe and Nicole argue about if she's smiling or not. Later, when Madeline is searching the Louvre for her own painting she brought with her and lost, she seems to wordlessly also ask the pieces of art if they've seen it, to which the Mona Lisa comes to life and shrugs.

Because the ''Art/TheMonaLisa'' is such a [[ArtImitatesArt famous piece of art]] (SmallReferencePools at work again), the painting in its entirety--or the lady-in-the-painting's enigmatic, not-quite-reaching-the-eyes coy smirk--show up quite a bit in {{Homage}}s, {{Shout Out}}s, and outright parodies.

* In ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', Lampwick lights a match against a painting of the Mona Lisa.

* In the Part 4 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', ''Diamond is not Crash[=/=]Diamond is Unbreakable'', the main villain's unhealthy fascination with (severed) hands starts after seeing a Mona Lisa painting.

* Marcel Duchamp's "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marcel_Duchamp_Mona_Lisa_LHOOQ.jpg L.H.O.O.Q]]" is the Mona Lisa with a goatee and a mustache drawn on, and the letters L.H.O.O.Q., a [[FunWithAcronyms faux acronym]] which sounds like "Elle a chaud au cul"[[note]]"She has a hot ass."[[/note]].

** In the Pepe Le Pew cartoon "Louvre Come Back To Me", Pepe pursues his hapless female victim through the Louvre, finally chasing her through the museum air-vents. His distinctive aroma drifts through the museum, driving assorted masterpieces to {{Wild Take}}s. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjiNsZpr5g The last shot is the Mona Lisa.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' - Taiga, after torturing Ami by forcing her to do multiple impersonations, uses threats of impersonations to come in order to control her. The best of the bunch? "Mona Lisa taking a corner at 250 miles per hour." Just picture it for a minute and TRY not to laugh.

* Parodied outright in ''[[Film/AsterixAndCleopatra Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra]]''. To their credit, Monica Bellucci makes a hot Mona Lisa.

* In the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'', the title thief starts stealing various facial features from famous works of art. When she's got everything but the mouth, Zack asks: "who has the most famous smile in all the world?" The answer is of course, this trope (and not "Tom Cruise" as Ivy dreamily suggests).

* In ''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'', you have to coax the smile out of Leonardo's surly model in order to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.

** In the Pepe Le Pew cartoon "Louvre Come Back To Me", Pepe pursues his hapless female victim through the Louvre, finally chasing her through the museum air-vents. His distinctive aroma drifts through the museum, driving assorted masterpieces to {{Wild Take}}s. The last shot is the Mona Lisa.

-->'''Mona Lisa:''' I can tell you chaps one thing: it's not always easy to hold this smile.

** In the Pepe Le Pew cartoon "Louvre Come Back To Me", Pepe pursues his hapless female victim through the Louvre, finally chasing her through the museum air-vents. His distinctive aroma drifts through the museum, driving assorted masterpieces to {{Wild Take}}s. The last shot is the Mona Lisa, who quips to the audience "I can tell you chaps one thing, it's not always easy to hold a smile."

** This is the cover of ''[[http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/images/artofdisc.jpg The Art of Discworld]]''. The model has an enormous grin. Nanny Ogg being Nanny Ogg, this was probably because she was about to tell a dirty joke.

Because the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_lisa Mona Lisa]]'' is such a [[ArtImitatesArt famous piece of art]] (SmallReferencePools at work again), the painting in its entirety--or the lady-in-the-painting's enigmatic, not-quite-reaching-the-eyes coy smirk--show up quite a bit in {{Homage}}s, {{Shout Out}}s, and outright parodies.

** Mona Ogg, painted by Leonard of Quirm, and implied to be of the witch Nanny Ogg in her younger days. The ''teeth'' follow you around the room.
** This is the cover of ''[[http://www.colinsmythe.co.uk/images/artofdisc.jpg The Art of Discworld]]''. The model has an enormous grin.

* Seen in the art collection of Atlantis in one ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' movie, with a squid.

* Parodied outright in ''Asterix & Obelix & Cleopatra.'' To their credit, Monica Bellucci makes a hot Mona Lisa.

* One of the bosses in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' is a '''fire-breathing''' Mona Lisa painting with the face of the dancing guide.

* In October 2011, Marvel did a series of vampire variant covers to tie in with ''ComicBook/XMen: Curse of the Mutants''. The cover for ''S.H.I.E.L.D.'' #4 (in which Leonardo is a main character) was a [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111204074202/marveldatabase/images/thumb/0/0b/S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_1_4_Vampire_Variant.jpg/386px-S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_1_4_Vampire_Variant.jpg vampire Mona Lisa]].

** In the former ''World of Motion'', one scene was of the lady posing for the painting and rapidly losing her patience due to Leonardo getting distracted by other projects.