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Sometimes a grapheme will suck or chew on something as a course of characterization. These can range from toothpicks and blades of straw or grass to pencils, pens, cigarettes, lollipops, hard candy or chewing gum. Smoking Is Cool is an example, and it'due south possible that some of these are a way to capture the look while the No Smoking rule is in force. An Oral Fixation might also be a sign they are an ex-smoker, having substituted one habit for another. When food is used, this tin can overlap with Erotic Eating. Occasionally used in older works to indicate a character is particularly kittenish, though that usage is something of a Discredited Trope due to modernistic developments in developmental psychology.

In anime, having a piece of straw in one'south oral cavity is a common depiction of a banchou, or juvenile delinquent gang-leader grapheme. In the West, the closest equivalent is the Dead Horse Trope of the toothpick-chewing thug — a graphic symbol chewing a slice of straw merely signifies he's a State Mouse. Toothpicks are still oft used when a smoking character is transposed to a Lighter and Softer work. Withal, if a grapheme employs this trope while smoking is present, then you lot've got a Cigar Chomper.

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    Anime & Manga

• 7 Seeds has Akio from Team Autumn, who is rarely ever seen without his piping.
• Kurome in Akame ga Kill! is frequently seen snacking, even in the middle of a mission sometimes. Chelsea, one of the protagonists, is besides almost ever sucking on a lollipop.
• Assassination Classroom:
  • Gastro likes to lick guns and to drink ramen broth with the gun barrels.
  • Karma has a habit of chewing things (nails, paper, etc.) whenever he's seriously upset.
• In the manga version of Battle Royale, Sho (who has a bad smoking habit) is shown licking a cigarette several times, and boy is it detailed. Even referred to in-universe as an "oral fixation."
• In Beyond the Boundary, Mitsuki oft has a Chupa Chups in her oral fissure.
• In Black Butler II, much focus is given to Alois's oral cavity and natural language, and he's constantly licking things like his mouth, among other things.
• Spoofed in Bleach with Shunsui Kyoraku, who sticks a blade of harbinger in his rima oris because he thought information technology would look cool, but it turns out to exist toxic.
• Amaimon in Blue Exorcist about always has either a lollipop or 1 of his fingernails in his mouth.
• Hermann Kaltz from Captain Tsubasa oftentimes has a small-scale twig in his mouth. While Brilliant, but Lazy, him spitting it out means he finally gets serious.
• Decease Note:
  • Mello is perpetually chomping a chocolate bar. In the manga, he besides has a habit of suggestively licking the chocolate before biting into it.
  • His companion, Matt, is rarely seen without a cigarette in his mouth.
  • L chews his thumbnail when he'south thinking. Or excited. Or bored. Pretty much constantly, actually. When he'southward non eating sweets.
  • His Evil Twin Across Birthday from the Light Novel Another Note does the same. Justified, as he's trying to imitate L.
• Banchou Leomon from Digimon Data Squad chomps on a piece of straw.
• Youichi Hiruma of Eyeshield 21 oft chews and blows bubblegum, and has been seen with a cigarette once or twice. Rival quarterback the Child is nearly always seen with a blade of grass (or wheat, or something) in his oral fissure, likewise.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist, Jean Havoc is only seen without a cigarette in a few hospital scenes.
• In Get Backers, although non licking any other object per se, Psycho for Hire Takuma Fudou loves to constantly lick his lips. This can be seen equally a trait that makes him more agonizing, or... something for fetish appeal. Or both.
• Hajiotsu has Otogi by and large chewing or sucking on some kind of treat, similar a lollipop or chocolate stick.
• Hatsukoi Limited has Misaki Yamamoto and her habit of having a lollipop in her mouth. The guy who start stuck i in her oral fissure might take been her first trounce.
• Hellsing:
  • Integra is constantly smoking, to the signal where if anyone nearby has a lighter, they're expected to light her next cigar. Yes, even the Catholic Assassins.
  • Alucard is often depicted property a small cross between his fangs on covers.
• Naomasa in Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere keeps an Allen wrench in her oral cavity.
• Mako in Kill la Kill sports a reed when given the powers of a Two-Star uniform.
• Kio of Loveless is almost always eating a lollipop. And trying to get other people to eat them, also.
• Kaneda of the Lychee Lite Lodge is almost constantly hunched over chewing on his nails.
• Naruto:
  • Genma Shiranui, a modest Jonin, constantly chews on what looks similar a toothpick. Notably, when faced with the Sound 4, he spits it to deflect a kunai thrown at him, and it becomes credible that it was really a senbon.
  • Orochimaru has a creepy habit of licking his lips.
  • Asuma is always smoking unless it'due south serious.
  • Omoi is oft seen with a sucker in his mouth, fifty-fifty when talking.
• Kawayanagi from Ojojojo e'er has a twig sticking out of his oral fissure.
• I Slice:
  • Sanji is rarely seen without a cigarette. It was changed to a lollipop in the 4Kids Macekre, and removed entirely for the edited Funimation dub.
  • One of the Marines, Smoker, is self explanatory—but with cigars (ii at once) instead. 4Kids edited out the cigars while leaving the smoke (saying his body was making the fume as office of the ability) which as well required the addition gaps in his teeth, while Funimation is planning to do the opposite: leave the cigars, remove the smoke.
  • Crocodile tin can often be seen smoking a cigar.
• Kid Emperor from One-Punch Human being is frequently depicted licking a lollipop he's holding in his hand. When the situation calls for him to use both easily, he'll hold information technology in his mouth.
• Pokémon:
  • Ash's Treecko always had a tiny wood branch which makes him the most badass of all of Ash's Pokémon. (As badass as you lot tin get in Pokémon at least.) He continues the addiction when he evolves into Grovyle, but loses it temporarily when he evolved into Sceptile, equally consequence of a Heroic BSoD.
  • Pancham always has a leaf in its mouth. This is a type trait, and not unique to Serena'due south Pancham.
• Bunta Marui from The Prince of Lawn tennis loves to chew and accident on gum.
• Kyouko in Puella Magi Madoka Magica is e'er shown eating snack foods, and even fights with a slice of Pocky in her mouth.
• Reborn! (2004):
  • Spanner is always shown with a lollipop, and in one anime Omake is revealed to brand them himself (including natto flavor). Explained and lampshaded that the sugar boost is good for the brain.
  • Besides, Gokudera in the manga always had a cigarette in his mouth.
• Mizore Shirayuki from Rosario + Vampire provides the page epitome. She very often has a lollipop in her oral cavity, just this is justified; she's a yuki-onna and the pop is used to keep herself absurd. According to an Omake, it'due south got a super-chilly frost core. Other snow fairies are seen with similar coolant candies when outside of their homeland.
• Sagara Sanosuke from Rurouni Kenshin is near ever seen with a completely stripped fish skeleton in his rima oris, or a pocket-sized plant if he is traveling.
• In Samurai 7, Tessai, Ukyo'due south Beleaguered Banana (and Boxing Butler), ever has an unlit corncob pipe in his oral cavity.
• Jack, from Shanghai Youma Kikai, is literally never seen without a cigarette.
• In Sherlock Hound, Holmes keeps his pipe in his mouth almost all the fourth dimension, even when it isn't lit. In one episode, he seals it and so he can keep it on a not-smoking train.
• The resident samurai Mifune from Soul Eater e'er has a reed in his mouth.
• In Strawberry Marshmallow, when Nobue has (temporarily) stopped smoking, ane of the things she does is, when asked to write the answer on the chalkboard, stick the piece of chalk in her oral cavity as if information technology were a cigarette. She likewise picks up an amazing Pocky addiction — the resulting weight proceeds is what drives her back to cigarettes.
• Saku from Tantei Opera Milky Holmes always has a lollipop in her oral cavity.
• Fat kid Fuguo in Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku near always has an water ice cream bar in his mouth.
• Gascogne from Vandread. Interestingly becomes plot-important when the weird metallic thing turns out to transform into a key.
• The titular Violet in Violet Evergarden is prone to nibbling on things she is given, like the brooch Gilbert gifted her and the plush dog from Claudia. She too prefers to remove her gloves past belongings a finger to her teeth. It makes sense as Violet cannot feel anything with her metal arms so she uses her rima oris to actually get some awareness from things.
• Yami Bakura and Yami Marik of Yu-Gi-Oh! sometimes lick their lips.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Sora sucks on lollipops a lot, and given how strong he is tin knock someone out by throwing one. When aroused or upset, he tends to bite them rather than suck them.
• Koenma's pacifier in YuYu Hakusho: non then out of place in his toddler form, simply much more than noticeable in his older and more Bishounen guise. Apparently, several centuries of soaking in a inferior god's essence as well makes it a fairly potent magical object.
• In the anime of Medabots Motorbus Mount always has a toothpick in his oral cavity.

    Asian Animation

• Sugar from Nana Moon has such a Sweet Tooth that he is often seen with a lollipop in his mouth.

    Comic Books

• Batman:
  • Detective Harvey Bullock. In the comics he's generally chomping on a cigar; in the animated series, it'southward a toothpick.
  • And so at that place's Matches Malone.
  • Harley Quinn is often seen chewing bubble glue while out of costume.
  • The Penguin is never seen without his trademark cigarette holder.
• Herbie and his lollipops from the comic Herbie
• Lucky Luke originally smoked, until he traded his cigarette for a blade of grass.
  • Lampshaded in Marcel Dalton: "Cigar? -I stopped. -I forgot. Blade of grass? -No thanks, I'grand stopping."
• Dr. Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men, is hardly ever seen without a pipe in his oral fissure. During 52, he admits that he doesn't smoke, and that the pipe is "merely to chew on." Another character directly namedrops this as an oral fixation.
• Callie Evans from Robin is oftentimes chewing bubble gum or gnawing on straws or pencils if she'southward not playing basketball.
• In IDW's version of Transformers, Kup is given a cigar-like piece of metal that he chews on.
• Parodied in the comic Van Von Hunter: the title character (a vampire hunter) constantly chews a toothpick. His sidekick finally asks nigh it, just in time for him to dramatically reveal that it'southward really a miniature pale.

    Fan Works

• Kanril Eleya of Allurement and Switch has for her Trademark Favorite Nutrient the jumja stick, a Bajoran sweet made from tree sap that resembles a large lollypop. She's even been known to accept them in lieu of breakfast.
• The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Walk," Penny plucks a stalk of grass and puts it in her rima oris, chewing thoughtfully.
• Jun Shigeno in the Horseshoes and Mitt Grenades side story Calendar month of Sundays places lollipops in her mouth when she's depressed or in serious thinking mode.
• In some of the Kill la Kill AU comics, a and then eight-year sometime Ryuuko was seen with a cigarette in her mouth. This played for slight drama in i comic, where she opens her mouth in stupor and information technology falls out, to which she doesn't put it back in.
• The snake conman Benjamin Hares in Erstwhile W has a toothpick in his oral fissure when he first shows up to swindle his estranged wife Grace.
• Hornet of Pacific: World War Ii U.S. Navy Shipgirls has a craving for lollipops, so naturally she'south seen enjoying them, even when she's already hurt.
• In the Ane Slice fanfic 'Til You lot Experience Information technology All Around You, Sanji doesn't want to smoke around his deaged nakama. In its place, he unconsciously develops a habit of bitter his thumb, something he doesn't realize until Franky points it out to him.
• Emeth debuts in Warriors of the World chewing a leaf and information technology's occasionally lampshaded equally the sight of it moving equally he chews is distracting to his party members if they focus on it for a bit besides long. It's implied that the leaf is some sort of drug that helps him stay relaxed.

    Films — Blithe

• At that place are two of them in the Disney blithe flick Atlantis: The Lost Empire:
  • Vinny chomps on a matchstick.
  • Mrs. Packard is constantly smoking cigarettes.
• Duke Weaselton in Zootopia is seen chewing on a toothpick.

    Films — Live-Action

• In Back to the Hereafter, one of Biff Tannen's sidekicks e'er chews on a match. Thus his proper noun, "Match." Information technology'due south in the credits.
• Evan'due south female parent in The Butterfly Issue is seen anxiously chewing on her fingernails in one scene while Evan is being x-rayed. This is to foreshadow her chain-smoking equally some other oral response to the stress of Evan losing his arms in another timeline.
• Marion Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) in Cobra.
• The Joker in The Dark Knight is constantly licking his lips, adding to his creepiness. Though, this could be a Justified Trope, as the muscles that unremarkably collect excess saliva that is secreted throughout the 24-hour interval are severed, meaning that the joker would take to manually collect all of his saliva, or be constantly drooling all over himself.
• Dead in Tombstone: From ripping off and eating ane of Guerrero's fingernails to putting his finger in a stab wound and then sucking the claret off his finger similar a candy cane, Mickey Rourke's devil has a rather...weird relationship with his victims.
• Angel spends the start half of Deadpool (2016) with a match in her mouth. Wade escapes from the chamber he was locked in using 1 of her matches he stole when he headbutted her; Francis/Ajax somewhen seems to realize this, and is seen takin a match out of Angel's mmouth, presumably in an try to break the habit.
• In Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, Gruesome always has a toothpick or a cigarette in his rima oris.
• In Dobermann, Mosquito constantly has a mouthful of chewing glue: even when he is committing a Bank Robbery or having sex.
• General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove is a Cigar Chomper. The Freudian aspect is to some extent lampshaded (or at least fabricated all the more obvious) by his obsession with, um, precious bodily fluids.
• Oliver Platt'south "Cahill" in Executive Decision always chews a straw. It becomes important afterwards.
• In the Fast & Furious sequels Han is attempting to become his oral fix after quitting smoking. He spends most of Fast Five eating chips.
• David Warner'southward grapheme in Felony is ever chewing something (in add-on to the scenery).
• Penny Pingleton from Hairspray is constantly sucking on lollipops. Amanda Bynes was said to take eaten almost twoscore of them a day!
• Holes: Mr. Sir, having quit smoking before the start of the story, is frequently seen eating handfuls of sunflower seeds as a substitute, and goes completely nuts when the D-Tent boys steal them.
• Parodied in Hot Fuzz, as Sergeant Angel returns to town chewing on a toothpick.
• Every time the Devil appears in Hunk, he is eating something.
• Vanko in Fe Man 2 oft chews on a toothpick.
• Parodied in Godzilla (1998): when passing a command point, the French take bubble gum and chew emphatically because "It makes [them] await more American."
• Telly Savalas'southward character in Lisa and the Devil alternates betwixt lollipops and cigarettes — to comic effect, at get-go, but information technology gets creepier equally the film goes on. Since it'southward Telly i gathers that it's a Shout-Out all the fashion through.
• Megget in The Longest Yard (The Adam Sandler version) is seen chewing toothpicks for the entirety of the moving-picture show.
• Groucho Marx was a notorious cigar smoker - both in his acting roles and as a TV personality.
• In Midway, Dick Best spends virtually every scene in the cockpit chewing gum, and on numerous occasions is shown pulling a fresh stick from a pack and popping it in his mouth.
• Rusty of the Body of water's 11 trilogy is nearly always eating something during his scenes. Information technology may be a 2d to finish upward or he'll swallow through the whole scene. This helps constitute Rusty's very cool and casual personality.
• Dr. Block spends most of Planet Terror with a medical thermometer between his teeth. He claims it'southward to help him "Maintain [his] level of stress," But it'due south probably more about John Brolin looking totally badass while doing it.
• Predators: Hanzo have a close-up shot with him playing/chewing on a twig.
• Red Stone Westward: Deputy Bowman is constantly chewing on a long toothpick.
• Ring of Fear: In just near every scene he is in, Mickey Spillane is either eating or drinking, or has a cigarette, piece of straw or toothpick in his rima oris.
• In The Shape of Water, Strickland is constantly popping light-green candies into his oral fissure, and claims they are symbolic of his personality: manifestly and simple. About of the times he likes to brand them final, only when stressed, he crunches them. After he loses his fingers, he alternates sucking candies with popping pain pills.
• The Renegade Russian in The Soldier (1982) chews on a toothpick.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Raph has a toothpick in his mouth in several scenes.
• Tremors half-dozen: A Common cold Solar day in Hell: Geo-Tech Vargas is seen absently putting a paper clip in her mouth in several early scenes.
• The sketchy guy at the bowling alley ("That'south why they call me Pal.") hitting on fifteen-year-old Tia in Uncle Buck is playing with a toothpick. He ends up not looking sexy or badass when he gets stuck with it propping his mouth open.
• Dr. Furano in Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl has a addiction of bitter his fingernails. This eventually leads him to discover the total backdrop of vampire claret.
• Chow Yun-fat's characters can be seen chewing on toothpicks, matchsticks, and cigarettes in John Woo'south various movies.
  • A Amend Tomorrow two has Ken (Chow'due south character) enforcing this in the final showdown against The Dragon. Staring down each other in a one-on-one duel, Ken deliberately pops a toothpick in his mouth before both men grabs guns.

    Literature

• Da Chief Root from Artemis Fowl keeps a cigar in his mouth, but unlit, because actually lighting cigars is confronting regulations (good thing, too, equally it's apparently a "fungus cigar").
  • During especially stressful situations in The Eternity Code, Spiro often sticks a cigar in his mouth, which the narration notes will be chewed to a pulp but not lit. "His doctors had forbidden it. Politely."
• Ce'Nedra in The Belgariad habitually chews on her hair when nervous or thinking.
• In Bravelands information technology'southward mentioned that a small graphic symbol named Grass Middleleaf is always chewing on a stem of grass.
• In Charlie and the Chocolate Manufactory, Violet Beauregarde adores chewing gum and can make a unmarried stick of it last to record-setting levels. She only takes a break at mealtimes and bedtime, just that piece of gum is never far away. This becomes her undoing when she decides to sample a stick of experimental gum in the titular factory...
• Beaver, from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, is constantly chewing on toothpicks. It leads, indirectly, to his death.
• Mr. Sir from Holes constantly chewed sunflower seeds. He used to smoke, but chewed seeds after he quit.
• The character Mars Bar in the novel Maniac Magee gets his nickname from his beloved of candy bars. He habitually holds one in his teeth like a fat cigar. Most the terminate, another character begins calling him Snickers.
• Nero Wolfe: Constabulary Inspector Cramer has a cigar in his mouth almost all the fourth dimension — he hardly ever smokes it, he just chomps information technology. And this is not a bow to Politically Correct views of smoking, equally the character was doing this in stories published earlier World State of war II.
• In River of Teeth, Cal Hotchkiss is never seen without a toothpick in his mouth, occasionally ii. The intensity with which he chews on them varies with the emotional intensity of the scene. When Houndstooth, in the called-for down of whose ranch Cal was involved, mockingly inquieres whether Cal has quit smoking his tight-lipped respond amounts to having had gotten all the smoke he'd needed on that twenty-four hour period.
• Gwen, i of the two Kid Detectives in the Something Queer [is going on] series, taps her braces when she is thinking hard, a habit which tends to annoy the people around her.
• In the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, the character Pilate is described equally always chewing something: orange seeds, pino needles, a safety ring.
• That Hideous Strength, Major Hardcastle always has a cheroot in her mouth; she hardly ever lights information technology. When she does, lookout out!

    Alive-Action TV

• Jerry Espenson on Boston Legal chews a wooden cigarette due to his Aspergers. Alan Shore and Denny Crane prefer big cigars.
  • In one episode Denny is disgruntled by Shirley'due south conciliatory arroyo to a case and smokes a rather pathetic cigar.

  Shirley: Small cigar.

  Denny: Seems appropriate for our wimpy defense.

• Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer does this, ranging from sticking pens in his mouth to an entire feather duster to aggressively eating lollipops and bananas at his replacement in the third season.
• In Charmed Paige sucks on a lollipop for her commencement few episodes, merely stops after Piper warns her about cavities.
• The Colbert Report'southward field reports are non complete without an unlikely object getting licked. Stephen once licked a meteorite.
• Doctor Who:
  • The Fourth Doctor holds objects in his mouth whenever possible (for just one example, see "The Deadly Assassinator" when the first thing he does while assembling a hookah is pop the mouthpiece into his rima oris, even though he isn't going to fume it) and has a addiction of chewing on his fingers and wiping his mouth in idea. He as well has a addiction of licking his lips when he's excited about something - used at least one time for an odd bit of Fanservice in "The Leisure Hive" when his discovery of tachyonic free energy is revealed through a dramatically-shadowed extreme closeup of him licking his lips and maxim "fascinating" in a low, blatant vox.
  • The Tenth Doctor has a tendency to lick things or put things in his mouth unusually often. Apparently, he has special Time Lord senses in his natural language — but we remember it's just the Fanservice. One notable moment is in "Fearfulness Her", where he takes a jar of jam, sticks his fingers in it, so licks them off... Before noticing the homeowner and Rose staring at him disapprovingly. He then slowly takes his fingers out of his mouth as he puts the jar back.
  • The Eleventh Physician tries tasting some grass in one case to figure out what's going on. Amy asks him if he's e'er been that disgusting, and he tries to explain that it's a fairly recent evolution. He never does it once more.
    • In Dinosaurs on a Spaceship he sticks his tongue out a ridiculous altitude to taste the air and work out where they are, so information technology seems he hasn't completely lost the skill.
    • Spoofed in A Boondocks Called Mercy, when 11 walks into a saloon attempting to play the tough Cowboy. He walks upwards to the bar with a toothpick in his rima oris and a fake American accent, so fumbles with the toothpick and can't quite become it out of his oral fissure, utterly failing to wait cool.
• In one episode of Frasier, Bebe has a personal crisis when she tries to give up smoking. She tells the family that her reason for smoking is that she has an oral fixation, and then describes smoking in detail that clearly suggests another activity.
• The Fonz from Happy Days chews on a toothpick a lot of the time.
• Dr Hunt from House seems to exist constantly putting pens in his mouth, especially in the earlier seasons.
• In Inspector Rex, Davide Rivera has the habit of chewing liquorice sticks. More often than not he is with 1 of those in his mouth.
• Mac from It'southward Always Sunny in Philadelphia has a habit of chewing/sucking on pens (as a manifestation of his repressed homosexuality). It gets so bad that his roommate Dennis has to hide all the pens in their apartment.
• Kojak and his lollipops. The lollipops specifically replaced cigarettes.
• Monk:
  • In "Mr. Monk Goes to the Function", Monk constitute a chewed toothpick at the scene of the crime, and commented that it meant the murderer was trying to be a tough guy... at which bespeak he, and the viewer, first find that Captain Stottlemeyer is a perpetual toothpick-chewer.
  • In "Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation", Monk has to solve a murder at a hotel, and is helped past a member of the hotel security team. The security officer likes to pretend she'south a existent law officer, but all of her knowledge on police work (and officeholder stereotypes) are based on movies and TV shows. She chews toothpicks to complete the "constabulary officer" look. At one point she offers Monk 1, which he awkwardly accepts afterward she tells him they're individually wrapped.
• Spoofed in Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • During the movie The Matter That Couldn't Die, a cowboy with a ridiculously long and skinny cigar in his oral fissure prompts the quip "Cipher like smoking a Slim Jim."
  • In Laserblast Crow mocks the cigarette chomping deputy "What do you mean I have oral fixation?"
• In the "2 A-Holes..." sketch series from Sat Nighttime Live, the championship characters go effectually constantly chewing gum. In one sketch, they were told to accept their glue out. They did and then, just their mouth motions continued anyhow, plain out of habit.
• Managing director Leon Vance of NCIS is a toothpick chewer. At i point, he even tries to motivate McGee by giving him a freshly wrapped toothpick of his own. McGee promptly stabs himself inside the cheek with it. Toothpicks apparently accept some skill.
• Don Eppes from NUMB3RS is oft seen chewing glue during climactic moments—he seems to do information technology when he'due south keyed up, waiting for a suspect to appear.
• Doug Murphy from Scrubs is rarely shown without a lollipop in his mouth, starting in the 4th flavour. The strange thing is that he didn't pick this upwardly until he got a new job in the morgue. Apparently, all the pathologists at the hospital share the addiction.
• DJ from Sh15uya seems very fond of lollipops, too.
• A running gag in The Shadow Line is that the department used to be ane where Everybody Smokes, but the recently-implemented national smoking ban for workplaces has left several characters resorting to substitutes.
  • Sgt. Foley is always chewing gum.
  • Da Master finds a pencil to chew on if he'southward somewhere he can't smoke.
  • Bob Harris is in the process of giving up smoking, and substitutes with gum, nicotine inhalers and, er, hire boys.
• Geoffrey Tennant on Slings & Arrows chews razor blades. This is an homage to noted Shakespearean director John Barton, who plain did this in existent life.
• Ashur in Spartacus: Claret and Sand is nigh ever seen with a bag of basics and seeds to chew on.
• Stiles Stilinski from Teen Wolf has a trend to chew on stuff, including lacrosse gloves, overabundances of curly fries, and an underused highlighter cap, to proper name a few of the victims.
• Mulder of The X-Files tends to put things like newspaper clips in his mouth and he's a big fan of sunflower seeds.

    Music

• More a fixation on the mouth than on eating, simply a lot of the imagery effectually the band DOROTHY has a laser-focus on Dorothy Martin'due south bright ruby lips, including the encompass art for the EP and starting time album and the music video for "Get Up."

    Newspaper Comics

• In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin loves chewing mucilage. He'southward fifty-fifty subscribed to a magazine most chewing!
• Duke in the Doonesbury comic strip e'er has a lit cigarette in a cigarette holder hanging from his mouth. The character is based on Hunter S. Thompson, who made signature use of cigarette holders.
• One time in Peanuts Charlie Brown establish what he thought was the Little Red-Haired Daughter's dropped pencil and saw that she had chewed on it. "She's human!"

    Pinball

• The shooter in Eight Ball Deluxe has a cigarette dangling from his mouth.

    Professional Wrestling

• Professional wrestler Scott Hall usually chews a toothpick during promos.
• Joey Ryan has a thing for suckers and lollipops. He will suck on ane, give it to a fan, and so take information technology back after they have sucked on it. He volition suck on 1, wipe his hairy self down with information technology, and get back to sucking it. He doesn't care if they autumn on the floor either, few things will turn him off from one, especially if it is a blow pop.
• The easiest mode to go Sara Del Rey to loosen up is to make her retrieve gum is involved. As long as she'south not working in the band she'll always go for it.
• Ann Traxx chews gum for very long periods of time, sticking it on the ring post to chew later when she has a match. She once "accidentally" dropped her gum on the floor, only to option information technology up and continue chewing. Another time she jumped Lexie Fyfe, forced her mouth open up and took Fyfe's mucilage to add to her own wad of it. All this lead up to a Humiliating Wager where Ann Thraxx forced XJAM Commissioner Charlie to chew that very same wad of gum.
• Pete Dunne has a habit of posing with title belts past belongings them between his teeth.

    Tabletop Games

• The model for Horticulous Slimux from Warhammer: Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 is chewing on a human bone in the same manner that a stereotypical state farmer chews on a stalk of wheat or corn. This is intended to strengthen the agricultural theme of Nurgle'southward caput gardener.

    Video Games

• Ace Chaser:
  • Juan Corrida, ane of the victims in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney constantly has a piece of harbinger in his mouth- except in the photo of the crime scene, of course.
  • In Ace Attorney Investigations, Detective Badd appears at first to be your standard hardboiled cop, smoking a cigarette, but information technology'south actually a lollipop. (And equally he sucks on it... his speech pauses... dramatically...)
  • Simon Blackquill keeps one of his pet hawk's feathers in his mouth.
• In Bayonetta, the titular graphic symbol is frequently seen with a lollipop. Additionally, past pressing the push corresponding to the blazon of lollipop boost you want and holding it downward until the lollipop comes onscreen, you tin actually change the color of Bayonetta's lollipop and get a (usually) much-needed boost. The best office? This doesn't count as a used detail.
• Kokonoe from Blazblue has custom fabricated silvervine lollipops, and she'due south almost never seen without ane. The gag reels joke they're the source of her intelligence and she'south been eating them for and so long she can't eat anything else.
• Control & Conquer: Red Alert Series: Texas born General Carville can often exist seen chewing on a toothpick. Played for laughs in one scene where he absentmindedly grabs a pick, pulls out the 1 he already had in his mouth, realizes what he just did, stares at them for a second in confusion, then shrugs and puts the new 1 in.
• Cid from Last Fantasy Seven smokes cigarettes. Every tenth battle, information technology'due south a cigar instead. He can even use his cigarettes in battle, by using them to light dynamite.
  • Lighter and Softer'd into a toothpick in Kingdom Hearts.
• The Engineer in One-half-Life: Opposing Force ever had a lit cigarette in his oral cavity, which he uses to ignite his blowtorch when asked to break a door open.
• Halo: Captain Keyes from Halo: Combat Evolved chews his grandad'southward tobacco pipe. The novels explain that he's not immune to smoke it while onboard a spacecraft, considering of the independent atmosphere.
• Naturally, Juliet from Lollipop Chainsaw sucks on lollipops a lot, using them every bit Power-Upwardly Nutrient.
• Cassie Cage, a new character introduced in Mortal Kombat Ten, is always chewing and blowing bubble gum. She fifty-fifty uses it in one of her Fatalities.
• Munehisa Iwai from Persona 5 always has what appears to be a cigarette sticking out of his rima oris. Though it'south afterwards revealed to be a lollipop.
• The Pokémon Pancham and Pangoro. Pancham is ever seen chewing on a foliage, in an effort to look cool. Pangoro keeps a bamboo shoot in its mouth, fitting with its banchou motif, and allowing it to deduce enemy movement.
• Johnathan Ingram, lead grapheme of Policenauts, is ever depicted with a cigarette in his oral fissure. And he never lights it. Several characters point out that it is illegal to smoke on a space colony considering of air purification bug and/or the threat of the oxygen igniting. Though it's unsaid Johnathan doesn't smoke anyway.
• You tin equip a blade of grass just to invoke this trope in Ragnarok Online.
• Detective Magnotta, Christopher Walken's character in Ripper, can simply not keep a cigar out of his mouth for more than than five minutes. And he doesn't really even smoke them, simply chews them vigorously.
• Red and most other Caninu of Solatorobo tend to like chewing on bones, and fifty-fifty have a variety of seize with teeth styles to express different personalities. Apparently, girls are considered delinquents if they walk around chewing on them ◊.
• One of Mitsurugi's costumes in Soulcalibur 2 gives him a bract of grass/wheat.
• In the first Starcraft game, the paradigm avatar for the Firebat unit was depicted with a cigarette in his oral fissure.
• Repede from Tales of Vesperia carries his sometime principal's pipe around in his mouth whenever he'due south not in battle. He was even like this every bit a puppy, carrying around things similar sticks, small bones, and even a spoon.
• In the game Wing Commander, Captain Ian "Hunter" St. John constantly has a cigar in his mouth.
• In The World Ends with You, Koki Kariya's lollipop/bean paste is sort of his personal signature item to the indicate Trounce tends to refer to him has "Lollipop" - subverted, though, as he never actually has it in his mouth when he appears, instead holding it. Rather delicately.

    Webcomics

• Arsenic from Band vs. Band, with cigarettes as well as a variety of candy and popsicles and beverages with straws.
• The bounty hunter Sadick from Charby the Vampirate is ordinarily chewing on a toothpick, and when caught without one tends to end up gnawing on his lower lip.
• Carlita and Shanna from Elf Claret are rarely depicted without a cigarette in their mouths. Shanna fifty-fifty chain-smokes when she's stressed or particularly upset.
• Merlu of Juathuur - harbinger version.
• Brent, from Confuse, chews on toothpicks.
• Dave from Narbonic was about never seen without a cigarette in his oral fissure... until he went back in time and inverse the by so that he never started smoking. It became a Running Gag that he would mention how he used to smoke and no one else would call up it.
• Da Primary in Star Power is of a species that deals with stress by chewing on things, and is rarely seen without a "chewstick" in his mouth. In chapter eight he starts using thicker ones.
• Tower of God:
  • Nobic really should stop chewing his fingers.
  • Ha Jinsung. Went from cigarettes to Chupa Chup lollipops (thank you to Wangnan). Even Rak calls him the "candy turtle".

    Western Animation

• Jet from Avatar: The Final Airbender constantly chews on and holds a blade of grass in his rima oris, but he loses information technology along with much of his badassery when he gets brainwashed. Sokka even tries to run into if replacing information technology would aid. It doesn't.
• Det. Harvey Bullock on Batman: The Blithe Series constantly chewed a toothpick, in a way that made it rather clear he either used to smoke, or even so did when the camera and censors weren't around. One time used for Squick, when he flicked it at his officious landlord. It stuck.
  • In fact, in ane episode, where Batman suspects Bullock of having a police informant killed (the informant had previously accused Bullock of taking bribes) a toothpick at the crime scene is his biggest tip-off. Bullock is innocent; the toothpick was planted by the real culprit, Killer Croc.
• The DuckTales (1987) episode "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duck" features a parody of Sherlock Holmes who constantly keeps a pipe in his teeth, which he doesn't smoke, likely but to expect distinguished.
• Played for laughs in i episode of The Fairly OddParents with Cosmo and his wand, to show off his ditz status.
• Two in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero:
  • Breaker is literally always chewing gum and is willing to disobey a direct order to discard it.
  • Clutch, somewhat similarly, has been known to chew on the same toothpick for months.
• Rex of the Colina:
  • Dale Gribble is rarely seen without a cigarette in his rima oris.

  Dale: My oral fixation!

  • In one episode he switches to chewing tobacco, but his wife convinces him to switch dorsum when he won't stop spitting on the flooring.
• Western Animation/Looneytunes:
  • Bugs Bunny and his carrots, which were kind of a substitute for a cigar.
  • Yankee Doodle Daffy: Any fourth dimension Sleepy LaGoon is on screen, he's seen licking his lollipop, which is and then big it most conceals his face up.
• My Fiddling Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Newborn filly Pumpkin Cake has the odd habit of chewing on only about anything she can find — except food. Tableclothes, bath towels, stuffed toys, prophylactic chickens, etc. Equally she'south a month old when it really kicks in, it's possible she'due south teething (horses teeth at one month).
  • Applejack can ofttimes be seen with a slice of straw in her mouth, as can her brother Macintosh.
  • Pinkie'southward toothless alligator Gummy often vacantly latches onto objects or ponies.
• In the Rick and Morty episode "Promortyus", Summer decides to have a toothpick in her mouth for some reason. This ends up saving her every bit the Face Huggers poke their eyes on information technology when they jump at her.
• The Simpsons:
  • Maggie Simpson and her pacifier.
  • An Ogdenville farmer on The Simpsons has a piece of harbinger in his rima oris.
  • The Body of water Helm, Horatio McAllister, is always seen with a piping in his mouth, which he rarely actually smokes.
• In Star vs. the Forces of Evil the titular Star frequently chews on her wand.
• The creators of Star Wars: The Clone Wars originally intended to requite Bounty Hunter Cad Bane a habit of smoking cigars, just they had to scrap it, then instead he's well-nigh e'er seen chewing a toothpick, when not on job. In an episode from Season 4, he threatens to slit a pawnshop owner'south throat with 1 of his toothpicks.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003):
  • Slim, a one-shot character, unremarkably chewed a lucifer. Another one-shot graphic symbol, Spuds, would chew on a stick.
  • A minor villain in the "Turtles in Space" arc was Gruel, a sadistic and slovenly Triceraton slave commuter. One of his horns was replaced by a metal i, which he was constantly removing to use like a toothpick.

    Real Life

• Baseball game players in general chew gum or tobacco (as per personal preference). Supposedly, it relaxes them in what is unremarkably a stressful state of affairs, and in particular it also helps keep the mouth moist in the dry out baseball diamond.
• Winston Churchill kept a cigar in his mouth pretty much from dawn until bedtime. At home he would just kind of chew on them unlit, and even had special sticky-newspaper bands made upwards to assist hold them together.
• His pal Franklin D. Roosevelt was a cigarette-in-a-holder guy, and was depicted that way almost everywhere.
• Doug Walker. If in that location's a giving-a-blowjob joke to be made, so by God, he volition make it.
  • He's so fixated that information technology ofttimes seeps through to his characters; Ask That Guy with the Glasses is the well-nigh obvious with his pipe, only The Nostalgia Critic gets some fun likewise.
  • His Also Good for This Sinful World character Donnie DuPre in Demo Reel had at least 3 whole scenes in one episode making oral fissure-dear to a stick of pocky.
• Hayden Panettiere seems to have this weird coercion to lick things. Considering her physical advent, this tin can lead to some fetish entreatment.
• Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters is always seen chewing gum on stage, including whilst singing. He says information technology helps with all the shouting.
• Spanish lawn tennis player Rafael Nadal ever bites whatsoever bays he wins. Especially the grand slam trophies.
• Mixed Martial Arts fighter and UFC Lightweight champion Benson Henderson often fights with a toothpick subconscious in his mouth, in spite of the danger this presents. He produced it from his oral fissure immediately after the concluding bong of his successful title defence force against Nate Diaz, but denied it in the following interview. His coach admits that he has repeatedly told Henderson non to pull this stunt and fifty-fifty checks his oral cavity before fights, but Henderson still manages to sneak it in at that place sometimes.
• Although not every part that Brad Pitt plays has an oral fixation, more of his characters than is common are shown eating at some point. Pitt himself must be the 1 suggesting that his characters eat something in diverse scenes as "stage business concern."
• Similarily to Pitt, a lot of David Tennant's characters have a habit of sticking things in their mouths. The Dr. tastes things because he has special Fourth dimension Lord-senses in his tongue that he uses to option up vital info, Kilgrave licks Jessica'southward cheek to affirm potency, and Barty Crouch Jr. constantly licks his lips because he's bat-shit crazy.
  • Tennant himself also shows signs of this. On the commentary for Doctor Who's 2nd series episode "The Incommunicable Planet", he stops the chat dead when he says that he wants to chew on the Ood tentacles...and then describes what they would feel like in his oral fissure. In detail. In case at that place was any uncertainty, he also talks almost biting their ears in the Confidential for the same episode.
• Some people with ADHD or autism or other developmental abnormalities stimulate through this method. Nine times out of ten, this is to calm the person downwards.
• Of class, the trope is named afterwards Sigmund Freud'due south concept.
• Basketball game star Stephen Curry is always chewing on his oral fissure guard, to the point NBA 2K had to incorporate it.
• Soccer managing director Maurizio Sarri is a very heavy smoker. Because he is unable to fume on the pitch, he instead chews on cigarette butts on the sidelines during games.
• Many kittens suck on blankets or their owner'south peel, sometimes to an obsessive degree, as a substitution for nursing on their mother, especially if they were taken abroad from their mother at besides early an age.

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