The series continues with Judy Hopps making the face in this poster ◊ of Zootopia.

And perhaps because of backlash, it's noticeable that the promotional posters for Frozen II make a point of keeping Elsa away from the DreamWorks face. While she does it in the movie itself a few times, it's not often.

Several promotional pictures for Frozen have Elsa making that face.

Disney was associated with a Bollywood animated musical called Roadside Romeo, and pretty much all the posters featured this.

It's equally as unnecessary as the rest of the movie's Totally Radical style ad campaigns. Those who see the film know that Rapunzel is usually polite and cheery at heart and only rarely gets devious.

The minimalist poster for Tangled had Rapunzel and Flynn side by side, looking at the audience deviously behind a sea of hair.

In The Lion King, Simba makes the DreamWorks face in advertisements, on toys and in the actual movie, where it signifies him as a mischief-maker.

The dot-eyed Chicken Little even managed to do this sometimes.

Ads for Bolt, Meet the Robinsons, and Home on the Range all included this.

Disney's been doing this more often since the early 2000's (not coincidentally around the time Shrek came out).

Coco: Miguel makes this expression both on the movie's posters, and in the movie proper where he raises his eyebrow and smirks goofily when trying to imitate Ernesto's facial expression captured on a record cover.Mike, however, can't make it, having only one eye of course. The poster for Monsters University has the younger Sulley doing it-justified, as it's to show audiences that the college-age overconfident jock we see in this movie isn't the kind, gentle adult Sulley audiences know from Monsters, Inc.The poster for Cars 2 included all four main characters doing it now!.The poster for Cars had Lightning McQueen covered in a vehicle hood with only the corner lifted to reveal the smile.On the poster for Toy Story 3, Woody and Mr. At least the face is pretty much in-character for him, and he makes it in the actual film - it's the expression he was molded with, in fact, and wears whenever he's inanimate. Buzz Lightyear does it in the posters for all ◊ of ◊ the Toy Story films.Megamind: Do you feel the taunting power of my eyebrow? See also Mascot with Attitude, American Kirby Is Hardcore, Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You. For instance, you may have also seen the 'everyone is smiling, bright eyes and maybe waving at you'. So the DreamWorks Face is one of numerous stock attractive faces. The stuff that comes first is normally dominated by faces staring at you because that's the only thing finalized at that point.

Otherwise, it would be a No Fourth Wall or an Aside Glance.įilms produce advertising and posters as various stages of production and all of these are meant to be teasers. This trope pertains to faces seen outside of the body of the film or TV show and only in marketing material. It's the facial expression form of hip, sassy and snarky dialogue. except the character him- or -herself never, or rarely, makes that face to begin with in the show! It's usually a way to get audiences to see a particular film over another, and promises a very different tone from what we are used to. It's the expression that tells you the hero is going to be up to no good, and is much cooler than any of those classic, mainstream, conformist wimps those other studios produce. The intense stare-down that comes at you from the promo posters. DreamWorks representative, short ◊ webcomic

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