If you ever see someone with the Cheshire Cat Grin in real life, vacate the premises before you can discover what they're smiling about. If this smile is a permanent feature, it's a subtrope of Frozen Face if it's cut into the character's face, it's a Glasgow Grin. Common trait for The Gadfly, and serves as a warning that they're going to pull their antics on someone. If it's an anime, expect a Cat Smile instead. Heroes and heroines who are slightly eccentric - or slightly deranged - favour the Cheshire Cat Grin. Strangely, it's usually done by heroes who have a Zany Scheme in mind, rather than by villains, who tend to prefer the Psychotic Smirk or the Slasher Smile a rough villainous equivalent would be to start laughing ominously, which is not a good thing for the hero to hear when cornering them. It occasionally has sexual connotations, particularly when there's a predatory quality about the grin. For example, the mouth may be a broad grin, but the eyes definitely have a wicked gleam in them. Generally, this is drawn as a smile with far too many teeth on display, where the mouth doesn't match up with the eyes, going practically from ear to ear. Gilligan Cut to character A dressed in a bikini swimming across a river full of piranhas to placate the pride of man-eating lions with the power of dance so he can steal the sacred ruby out from under Lord Evil's nose. Character A: Wait, we need someone to dress in a bikini, swim across a river full of piranhas, placate the pride of man-eating lions with the power of dance and steal the sacred ruby out from under Lord Evil's nose? Who's the poor fool who's gotta do all that?
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