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Enter the Gaping Maw of Animated Teeth
A collection of the form’s most striking onscreen dentition, from horrifically accurate to freakishly surreal.
Unlike the stiff action cartoons that dominated ’80s TV, the moving realism of the ’90s here is meticulous: Æon’s and Trevor’s teeth vary in size, sharpness, and curvature; each stands out thanks to individualized shading; and their tongues are unmistakably, erotically fleshy. Despite being introduced to the audience as a hulking, humanoid robot, Evangelion Unit 01 is very much alive — an otherworldly cyborg inspired by Japanese folklore’s oni demons and constructed, per their original designer Ikuto Yamashita’s description, as “a giant just barely under the control of mankind.” When the Eva goes berserk, it’s revealed to have gnashing white teeth, a jawline that its armor previously hid and muzzled. In the late ’40s, Disney began rolling out a Goofy Everyman series that strove to clean him up, erase his dental protrusions, relegate his teeth to rectangular boxes, and dress him in business clothes, but the redesign just didn’t stick and maybe even read as a little evil.
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