History Main / SlasherSmile

''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'': The graduating medical student's hallucination/anthropomorphic representation of [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u2khPZvmOjc intern year]] has one. For context, intern year (a.k.a. the first year of medical residency) is universally regarded as the most difficult and demanding part of medical education.

* La Camilla from Army of Lovers displays a rather frightening one in the video for "Obsession" as she's rolling her fellow band mate down the hall in a wheelchair. And later, while cutting his head open.

* Wrestling/MadisonRayne, even when giving a genuinely friendly smile looks really unnerving.
* So far in NXT, a slasher smile seems to be Asuka's trademark. During her NXT contract signing, she was interrupted and teased by Emma and Dana Brooke, and just before she walked backstage she turned around and smiled so creepily it scared them both into silence. She followed up by getting a bit of an ass kicking from Billie Kay in her debut match -- then after Billie mocked her, she smiled and proceeded to ''hurt'' her.

* ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty'' has several. [[spoiler:There's possessed Ayumi, Kizami, Sachiko, and the shadowy creature at the end of Chapter One (if it catches you)... who turns out to be Sachiko's mother.]]
* Quite a few characters from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'' are prone of pull these kinds of smiles. [[BloodKnight Wilhelm]], [[TortureTechnician Rusalka]] and [[AxCrazy Schreiber]] are among those that pull these the most.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau#/media/File:Cartoon_of_Charles_Guiteau_by_Miriam_Leslie_d_1914.jpg This one terrifying 1881 cartoon]] from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper featuring Charles Guiteau, assassin of then United States president [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield James Garfield]] (no relation to that [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Garfield Garfield]]).

* Averted with wolves, which is one of the reasons our two species get along fairly well. Granted, the phrase "wolf grin" exists for a reason, their smiles don't always look ''happy'', but anything resembling a smile from a wolf can at least be read as non-aggression.
* Played straight and inverted with chimpanzees. Any facial gesture from a chimp that shows teeth is at best a warning a sign, whether it's a smile or otherwise, even if it is a happy looking smile.

* Italian actor Creator/GeorgeEastman (no not [[Creator/EastmanKodak that one]]) is a master at the slasher smile from his numerous villain and exploitation film roles throughout his career.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide:'' A hiker encounters a bunch of little happy forest animals, but notices that they are all looking a bit ''too happy...''

* [[SlasherSmile/AnimatedFilms Films -- Animation]]
* [[SlasherSmile/LiveActionFilms Films -- Live-Action]]

-->To protect ''my son'' in the military. "That's" why we have these treaties.

* [[SlasherSmile/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
* [[SlasherSmile/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]

-->To protect ''my son'' in the military. That's why we sign these treaties.

* Literature/TheSmilingMan and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYGUn6Q7tQ The Smiling Woman]].

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': [[TheDreaded Alastor]] has one of these all the time because he sees smiling as a show of power and dominance, meaning anyone who frowns in his field of vision he will consider weak regardless of their objective strength. His NightmareFace makes it even more hellaciously creepy than it usually is.

* Actor John Astin often sports one of these in his various roles. For example, take a look at the unnerving grin he's wearing during his credit close-up in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' theme song.

* Pinkie Pie from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVVtaWd8Pw video]] ''WebAnimation/{{Smile}}''.
** Pinkie Pie again in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUBuVdkskA this]] video by Viva "IMMATOONLINK" Reverie.

* WebOriginal/TheSmilingMan and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYGUn6Q7tQ The Smiling Woman]].

** In Japan, legends abound of the ''kuchisake-onna'' (口裂け女), a female onryou with a surgical mask to conceal it and who is hellbent on returning the favor to every male she accosts around sundown

* Siobhan Fahey frequently has this expression on her face throughout the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9ROv7o_mQ Shakespears Sister's "Stay"]] - It's a ConceptVideo where she's meant to portray a sinister (if unconventionally glamorous) version of TheGrimReaper.