History Main / ToothyBird

* Once Johnny Lawrence loses the ''Series/CobraKai'' and is forced to [[StartMyOwn create his own dojo]], he decides to name it after something that can kill a snake. As soon as he reveals the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thekaratekid/images/8/80/Eagle_fang_karate_logo.svg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/512?cb=20210102020422 Eagle Fang Karate shirts]], one of his students is quick to point out "Eagles don't have fangs..."

* VideoGame/NuclearThrone's Chicken, who is, uh... a chicken. Often seen gritting her teeth in anger before she chops someone down with her sword.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Peacock's bird lackey Avery sports a set of beaky teeth (Peacock herself, despite the name, is not actually a bird). {{Justified|Trope}} because Avery isn't a real bird but an artificial construct created by Peacock herself, just like the rest of her cartoon minions.
* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'':

* The talking head animations for some of the Eldar characters in the ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' series show human-like teeth when they open their mouths, but according to the ''Xenology'' sourcebook Eldar are toothless, instead having serrated jawbones like some of the basal birds described in the RealLife section.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Something}} Something Else]]'': Shows up as an obstacle in The Last Castle. They're clearly Rip Von Fish sprite-swaps as they share the same behaviors as Rip Van Fish.
* Most of the characters in ''VideoGame/DonaldInMauiMallard'' are ducks, and most of them have teeth.
* The birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have visible teeth occasionally.
* Richard in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'', a rooster mask, or a being with a rooster head, or [[MindScrew something]]... whatever he is, he has teeth in his beak in his talking sprites.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', Wally Warbles, his son and his songbird paramedics have teeth.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'':
** Senjoo are loaded with spikes which are patterned in such a way to make them look like teeth protruding from a beak.
** Skreek sprites are an unmistakable case of biting auk heads, though official art goes back and forth between depicting them with honest to goodness teeth and more "realistic" spiny beaks.

* Carue from ''Manga/OnePiece'', who is a so-called Super Spot-Billed Duck, at first only gets teeth when he is making funny facial expressions. Later on, he always has teeth when he opens his beak. The same goes for other Super Spot-Billed Ducks. Later, the bird Chuchuun, a Super Sparrow, appears and it has teeth too. [[WordOfGod The author later states]] that all the bird species in the verse with a species name starting with "Super" have teeth, because it's more "super" to have teeth than to lack them.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa-nalo Moa-nalo,]] extinct large ducks that lived on Hawaii till about 17th century CE. Related to mergansers, but a different subfamily. They filled the ecological niche of goats and deer and some of them evolved impressive "pseudoteeth".

* ''WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords'': Even though most of Olivia Ostrich's screentime shows that she apparently doesn't have teeth, she still actually ''does'' have teeth, as revealed in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olivia_teeth.png this frame]] from when she gets spooked by King Tut.

* In ''Animation/OurFriendXiongXiaoMi'', Zhi Peng the penguin has teeth.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Woodstock and other birds have large square teeth.

* Some of the birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have visible teeth occasionally.

* ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'': Torippi is often shown to have a nice set of pearly whites under his beak, he even needs to get them checked when the town dentist visit the preschool at intervals so it's definitely not a one-off gag.

* Antubis from ''Series/KingdomHospital'' reveals he's anything but a normal anteater by displaying an array of slim, sharp, ''folding'' teeth in his initial appearance.

* The humanoid birds from ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}: Nobita and the Winged Braves'' often display teeth. While they are evolved birds, it may be just one-off gags as they normally don't have teeth.

* Vlad Vladikoff from ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho''is an example of the "always has teeth" variant. That being said, the teeth he has are fairly realistic as far as what bird teeth looked like (see below).

* Iago from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', as pictured above, sports a [[http://www.aladdincentral.org/images/displayimage.php?album=59&pos=1 fine set of choppers.]] The animator stated that Iago was designed that way to [[InkSuitActor resemble his voice actor]], Gilbert Gottfried.

** Turning to more regularly-occurring characters, there is Petrie the ''Pteranodon'' who has also been known to summon a set of pearly whites on occasion. While some pterosaurs had teeth, ''Pteranodon'' did not and the name in fact literally translates to "wings without teeth".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': A well-known non-bird (though still a beaked dinosaur) example: All the ''Iguanodons'' in the movie have lips over their beaks, resulting in what looks like humanlike teeth. A magazine published around when the movie hit theaters said that the creators tried giving the ''Iguanodon'' realistic beaks, and found that they made it look like he was clopping coconuts together and that it just looked lazy.

* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' portrays its ''Pteranodon'' with a beak filled with sharp teeth. While many pterosaurs did have teeth, ''Pteranodon'' was ''not'' one of them (with its name literally translating into "wing ''without'' teeth"). They also contradict the appearance of the ''Pteranodon'' in the films before and after it, which are accurately portrayed as being toothless. [[PteroSoarer This isn't even close to the only error of their depiction either.]]

* In the Brazilian 1970s-era children's book series ''A Galinha Nanduca'' (Nanduca, the Chicken) The titular bird has teeth, and this is actually the major plot point of the stories: When people realize she has teeth, everyone tries to capture her to make money out of the poor animal, causing a [[ChaseScene huge havoc]] where ever she goes, eventually [[MonumentalBattle destroying the city]]. One of the books has even a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed famous brazilian entertainer]] to join the chase, eventually promising a good reward to anyone who catches her.

** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck shows off his Schroedinger's Teeth in every appearance. Most other WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes birds also do this at least occasionally.

* Not ''really'' a bird, but platypuses are often depicted with teeth in cartoons. Coincidentally, fossils of prehistoric platypuses with actual teeth have been found (see Real Life).

* Once Johnny Lawrence loses the ''Series/CobraKai'' and is forced to [[StartMyOwn create his own dojo]], he decides to name it after something that can kill a snake. As soon as he reveals the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/thekaratekid/images/8/80/Eagle_fang_karate_logo.svg/revision/latest?cb=20210102020422 Eagle Fang Karate shirts]], one of his students is quick to point out "Eagles don't have fangs..."

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'' shows that one bird species which inhabited Krypton's Scarlet Jungle were big, purple, red-creasted avians who had tooth-like serrations on their long beaks.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TheThiefAndTheCobbler}}'': Phido, the mistreated pet vulture of Zigzag, is a rather eerie example. [[spoiler:After Zigzag is defeated by the heroes, he steps on a thumb tack and falls into a dark pit full of alligators he previously promised to feed. As the alligators decide to feast on him instead, Phido shows up and suddenly grows a large mouth full of razor sharp teeth and joins in]].

* Birdramon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', but not her previous form, Biyomon.

* ''Manga/YondemasuYoAzazelSan'': Beezlebub, a bird-like demon, is shown to have very sharp teeth whenever he's angry. However, it's subverted in which he's not a bird at all, but his true form is actually that of a ''fly''.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Woodstock and other birds have done this.

* Dromaeosaurids such as ''Velociraptor'' were a far cry from their [[RaptorAttack scaly, reptilian depictions in film,]] and in real life would have resembled this trope, basically looking like a flightless, fully-feathered hawk with a long tail and and a toothed snout instead of a beak.