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1	Ah, faces. The very thing that makes our heads look special, and one of the most important things in showing emotion, or even communicating. The eyes, cheeks, mouth, nose, etc. all help make us all unique. So naturally, there will be many tropes about faces.
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3	Sub Index of AnatomyTropes.
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5	!!There are so ''many'' trope faces:
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7	Categories:
8	+ EyeTropes
9	+ MouthfulOfIndex
10	+ NoseTropes
11	+ TeethTropes
12	]
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14	Related indexes:
15	+ CosmeticsTropes
16	+ StayAheadOfThisIndex
17	+ WhoWasThatMaskedIndex
18	]
19	[[index]]
20	* AshFace: Someone's face gets covered in ash for comedic effect.
21	* BandagedFace: A character's face is covered in bandages.
22	* BeastWithAHumanFace: A monster has a human face, despite their body.
23	* TheBlank: Lack of a face.
24	* {{Blackface}}: A racist performance done by having Caucasians wear make-up to look like stereotypical depictions of black people.
25	** {{Brownface}}: The same thing as above, but replace black people with Native Americans or Hispanics.
26	** {{Yellowface}}: The same thing as above, but replace black people with Asians.
27	* ButterFace: A character's appearance ticks all the right boxes...but their face.
28	* EyelessFace: A face that lacks eyes and eye sockets.
29	* EyepatchOfPower: A character who has an eye patch on his/her face to show how tough or evil he/she is.
30	* EyesAlwaysShut: A character always has closed eyes.
31	* FaceDesignShield: A shield with a design that is or resembles a face.
32	* TheFaceless: The face of a character is never shown.
33	* TheFaceOfTheSun: The Sun is depicted with a face.
34	* FaceOfAThug: A normally good-aligned character has a naturally intimidating face.
35	* FaceOnTheCover: The cover art prominently features a portrait of the creator(s).
36	* {{Facepalm}}: A character puts a hand on their own face to express exasperation or humiliation.
37	* FacepalmOfDoom: Grabbing a character by the face and blasting/crushing them at point-blank range.
38	* FaceRevealingTurn: A character's true nature is seen by them turning their face and showing how distorted it is.
39	* {{Faceship}}: A ship resembles someone's face.
40	* FacialHorror: BodyHorror focusing in the face.
41	* FacialMarkings: Powerful beings have marks on their faces.
42	* FacialProfiling: In which characters of different ethnicities are drawn with more exaggerated facial features to tell them apart.
43	* FloatingHeadSyndrome: The cover art features portraits of the ensemble cast, who are reduced to disembodied heads floating against a blank background.
44	* FlyingFace: A disembodied flying head.
45	* FrozenFace: A character cannot move their face, let alone emote. At all.
46	* GameFace: A supernatural entity reveals their true form through showing their horrifying face.
47	* GhostlyGape: Hollow eye sockets, and a gaping, hollow mouth.
48	* GlasgowGrin: A character's face is mutilated in such a way that it seems like they always have a wide smile.
49	* TheGraceFacePose: A girl puts the backside of her hand under her chin, either elegantly, nervously, or simply out of habit.
50	* ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace: An object unintentionally resembles someone's face.
51	* LasciviousBeautyMark: A facial beauty mark is used to characterize someone as flirtatious, seductive, generally sexually forward, and/or highly desired InUniverse.
52	* ManyFacedDivinity: Multiple masks or faces as divine symbolism.
53	* MusicalSquares: Cover art is a collage of individual portraits, typically four and typically arranged in a grid.
54	* NightmareFace: An extremely terrifying face.
55	* NoFaceUnderTheMask: A character's face under a mask is actually horribly deformed, and doesn't qualify as a face by most people's standards.
56	* NoPokerFace: A character is completely unable to conceal the emotions on their face.
57	* NotAMask: A character's face is so unusual it's thought to be a mask, and someone tries to pull it off, only to find out the truth.
58	* NotInTheFace: A character begs not to be struck in the face.
59	* OnlySixFaces: There is little variation in the faces of characters.
60	* ScaryStitches: A character's face is covered in stitches as a way to scare or unnerve the audience.
61	* ShadowedFaceGlowingEyes: A character's face is obscured (or is) shadow, but has glowing eyes in contrast.
62	* SkyFace: The face of someone being remembered by a character is shown in the sky.
63	* SymbolFace: A character has a symbol for a face.
64	* TearOffYourFace: A character has their face ripped off.
65	* ThereWillBeToiletPaper: A character, usually male, deals with shaving cuts on their face by putting toilet paper on them.
66	* TheTreesHaveFaces: Trees have structures that resemble faces, usually scary ones.
67	* TribalFacePaint: When a native tribe, group, anything similar is shown, they always have face paint.
68	* TwoFaced: A character's face has two halves. A normal, even good-looking side, and an abnormal, scary side.
69	* VillainousFaceHold: A villain grabs or holds a character's face while said character is incapacitated, usually while gloating at or threatening them.
70	* YoungFaceOldEyes: A character's eyes and face are dissonant with what age they appear to be.
71	[[/index]]

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