Fangs Are Evil/Playing With

Basic Trope: An evil character with fangs.
 * Straight: The villain has pointy fangs.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Every villain we see has ridiculous gigantic fangs sticking out of their mouth.
 * The Big Bad doesn't seem to have fangs so much as tusks.
 * Justified:
 * The villains are vampires, werewolves, or similar inhuman creatures, and the fangs are a species trait.
 * The villain is so evil, his teeth have actually mutated!
 * Inverted: The villain's teeth are actually less pointy than the hero's.
 * Subverted: Cute Little Fangs
 * Double Subverted: The character with Cute Little Fangs succumbs to her monster instincts and goes 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 him to bite his tongue and die of blood loss.
 * Deconstructed: Fangs are considered evil because of Fantastic Racism hero'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.
 * Zig Zagged: The character with Cute Little 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 him take the "satanic" fangs off of everyone except the villains.
 * Lampshaded: "Eek, those fangs make him look scary!"
 * Invoked: The villain files his canine teeth to points to make himself look more threatening.
 * Defied: The villain takes great pride in his teeth, and makes sure they're all perfectly non-pointed and sparkling, to avoid looking too clearly evil.
 * Discussed: "Uh oh, I can tell he's evil, just look at those fangs of his!"
 * Conversed: "Hah, I wish real life worked like that. You can tell if a guy's evil just by his teeth- how silly!"

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