The Un-Smile/Playing With

Basic Trope: A usually stoic character tries to smile, but it ends up being creepy.

• Straight: Bob, who has never been seen smiling, finally does, but it heads straight into the Uncanny Valley.
• Exaggerated: Bob, who has never been seen smiling, finally does, but his smile is High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
• Downplayed: Bob, who has never been seen smiling, finally does, but it looks somewhat creepy until he gets it under control.
• Justified: Bob, while attractive in real life, is just not very photogenic.
  • Bob can smile just fine when he has something to smile about. Faking a smile, on the other hand...
• Inverted: When She Smiles.
• Subverted: Bob slowly smiles, and it seems to be heading into the uncanny valley, but becomes cute smile.
• Double Subverted: ...Then it keeps going into Nightmare Fuel.
• Parodied: Bob's Smile is so horrible to look at, everyone around him loses bladder control.
• Deconstructed: Bob was in a horrible accident years ago, and the facial nerves and muscles didn't heal right.
• Reconstructed: There is nothing that Bob wants to smile about anyway.
• Zig Zagged: Bob's smiles can either be this or When She Smiles, often without rhyme or reason.
• Averted: Bob's smile is in no way creepy.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Is that a smile or did you lose a fight with a weed whacker?"
• Invoked: "We want to use Stoic Bob in a joke. I wonder how..."
• Exploited: The Five-Man Band uses Bob's creepy smile to distract a guard so they can sneak in somewhere.
• Defied: Bob just smiles.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laughs: Almost always.

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Go back to The Un-Smile, and seriously, stop smiling. You're creeping everyone out.