Shall we take a bite into teeth-related tropes?
Sub Index of Face of the Index.
Tropes:
- Abnormal Dental Growth: A character's teeth grows faster than naturally possible.
- Asian Buck Teeth: Asians are stereotyped as having buck teeth.
- Bite of Affection: Showing affection by biting someone harmlessly.
- Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Someone wears braces that are big and unsightly.
- British Teeth: British people are stereotyped as having awful-looking teeth.
- Childish Tooth Gap: A character has a gap where their overbite should be to highlight their naivety and innocence.
- Cute Little Fangs: A non-human character has small fangs to make them more adorable.
- Cutlass Between the Teeth: Carrying a sword with your teeth.
- The Dentist Episode: An episode where someone has to go to the dentist.
- Depraved Dentist: A dentist who gets their kicks by hurting their patients, usually by inflicting painful procedures on their teeth.
- DIY Dentistry: A person with a toothache for some reason doesn't want to go to the dentist and attempts to extract the pain-suffering tooth themselves.
- Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: A character's teeth are always white and shiny.
- Fangs Are Evil: Having fangs means this character is a bad guy.
- Fang Thpeak: When one's fangs also impair their ability to speak.
- False Teeth Tomfoolery: A character is revealed to be wearing false teeth.
- Flower Mouth: A monster's mouth opens like a disturbing flower in bloom.
- Gold Tooth of Wealth: Gold teeth signifying wealth and/or being a status symbol.
- Good Lips, Evil Jaws: Good guys have lips over their teeth, bad guys have visible fangs.
- Goofy Buckteeth: A character with buckteeth is funny, nerdy, or not meant to be taken seriously.
- Identification by Dental Records: A murder victim's body is in such a damaged state that the only way to identify them is by dental records.
- Lamprey Mouth: A mouth with no jaw.
- Loose Tooth Episode: A character (usually a young child) loses a baby tooth.
- Man Bites Man: Biting your opponent.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Evil characters' mouths are full of countless sharp teeth.
- Mouthscreen: A scene where we're shown a close-up shot of someone's mouth.
- Now That's Using Your Teeth!: Catching a weapon or a projectile with one's teeth.
- Pin-Pulling Teeth: When throwing a grenade, the thrower removes the pin by biting it off.
- Pubescent Braces: Teenagers have braces.
- Scary Teeth: Characters have teeth that look creepy or disgusting.
- Teeth Flying: A person's teeth fly out when they get hit in the mouth.
- Tombstone Teeth: Teeth that are big, straight and rectangular.
- Tooth Fairy: A fairy said to visit children who have lost baby teeth in order to take the baby tooth and replace it with money.
- The Tooth Hurts: Someone suffers dental pain.
- Tooth Strip: A character's teeth are stylistically depicted as two white strips in their mouth rather than 32 individual teeth.
- Toothy Bird: Birds with teeth.
- Twinkle Smile: When a person smiles, a shine appears in their teeth.
- Vagina Dentata: Vaginas with teeth.
- Villainous Gold Tooth: Gold teeth signifying villainy and/or amorality.
