Basic Trope: An evil or dangerous character with fangs.
- Straight:
- A villain has pointy fangs.
- A particularly violent character has larger than normal canine teeth.
- Exaggerated:
- Every villain we see has ridiculously gigantic fangs sticking out of their mouths.
- The Big Bad doesn't seem to have fangs so much as tusks.
- Downplayed: While not always evil fanged species are usually selfish and short tempered jerks at the very least.
- Justified:
- The character is a vampire, werewolf, or a similar creature, and the fangs are a species trait.
- The villain is so evil, their teeth have actually mutated!
- Inverted: The villain's teeth are actually less pointy than the hero's.
- Subverted: The villain with fangs undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
- Double Subverted: The character with fangs succumbs to their monster instincts and goes back to evil.
- Parodied:
- New recruits to the villain's side are cheerfully handed the proper equipment to sharpen their teeth into fangs.
- The Big Bad is killed by causing them to bite their tongue and die of blood loss.
- Zig Zagged: The character with pointy fangs is a Face–Heel Revolving Door.
- Averted:
- Nobody in the story has fangs.
- There is no correlation between the pointiness of one's teeth and the content of one's character.
- Enforced: The artist wanted to give it to everyone but Executive Meddling made them take the "satanic" fangs off of everyone except the villains.
- Lampshaded: "Eek, those fangs make them look scary!"
- Invoked: A character files their canine teeth to points to make themselves look more threatening.
- Exploited: The first thing the heroes do when meeting new characters is check their mouths for fangs to see if they're villains.
- Defied: The villain takes great pride in their teeth and makes sure they're all perfectly non-pointed and sparkling, to avoid looking too clearly evil.
- Discussed: "Uh oh, I can tell they're evil, just look at those fangs of theirs!"
- Conversed: "Hah, I wish real life worked like that. You can tell if a guy's evil just by their teeth - how stupid!"
- Deconstructed: Fangs are considered evil because of Fantastic Racism the protagonist's side encourages.
- Reconstructed: Those who have fangs are still (mostly) evil, though - that's why there is a prejudice against them in the first place.
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