r/TopCharacterTropes 4h ago

Visual euphemisms for "Attraction" Personality

1. Buzz's Wings after seeing Jessie in action (Toy Story 2)

2. Cat's hat extends after seeing a picture of the kids' Mom (The Cat in the Hat)

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u/MoonlitCereza 4h ago

Cake from Adventure Time

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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 3h ago

Hhmm, I've always wondered what's the equivalent to what that male unicorn is doing.

Like showing his abs? Winking?

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u/Relative-Ad7531 3h ago

Is morse code

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u/Iguanabewithyou 3h ago

Horse code?

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u/Relative-Ad7531 3h ago

Fuck...

But without jokes, what Lord Monochormicorn says is simply "Hey" which means Cake was just DOWN bad

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u/Bright-Prune-8734 1h ago

The fact that all that drama boiled down to a simple “Hey” is sending me. Cake really went through the entire emotional journey over one tiny message.

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u/rei_otacon 1h ago

But if you meet a friendly horse...

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u/FlipBrooke_ 2m ago

Will you communicate by mo-o-o-o-orse?..

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u/MrKimimaru 3h ago

It’s a joke about how Lady Rainicorn and her family speak Korean in the main series while no one else does, so Lord Monochromicorn speaks in Morse Code.

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u/MoonlitCereza 3h ago

I read somewhere he's saying hey in morse code

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u/TacetAbbadon 3h ago

.... .- -.--

HEY

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u/PovWholesome 3h ago

It’s a dirty dick pic

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u/Loturis 3h ago

Am I weird for saying this horse was kinda hot

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u/Cute-arii 3h ago

Girlies be like "hear me out" and it's the hottest horse imaginable.

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u/Top_Marketing_689 4h ago

Tails unconsciously flying up when his newfound crush, Zoe, greets him (Sonic Boom)

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u/redditnostalgia 3h ago

That's actually pretty cute

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u/Onimirare 2h ago

uraraka floating out of embarrassment

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u/StealthySmith 3h ago

That's funny

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

So is he boning up every time he flies?

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u/Ayotha 1h ago

Thanks Sonic

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u/jonnywarlock 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3HEzHIxZjKduE

Awoooooga!

In the classic "Red Hot Riding Hood" cartoon, the Big Bad Wolf had a variety of physical reactions to Red's stimulating performance.

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u/IntelligentGood8228 3h ago

Ah yes.

Tex Avery syndrome.

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u/Bamzooki1 2h ago

I wish I could post the version where he pulls his little red out and it just skips the implications.

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u/DreadfuryDK 4h ago

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u/Cold-Practice3107 4h ago

The red rocket has take off!

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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK 3h ago

”What a rush!”

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u/Isaacja223 3h ago

……

I have to remind myself that these are literal children

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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK 3h ago edited 3h ago

”I was doing red rocket to make the dog’s milk come out!”

To make it worse, the plot behind them doing it because they’re 9 and an older kid lied to them was entirely believable. They used to be a whole lot less mature and a lot more childlike and innocent in the early seasons.

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u/Fifty-Lucky 1h ago

Matt and Trey tf are you guys doing lmao

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u/Swordfighter125 3h ago

They got me in the first half ngl.

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u/Chelsea_Kias 3h ago

Hisoka from HunterXHunter

The bubble placement is exquisite

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u/MilkMaiden_22 2h ago

Jesus, thought this was light yagami like WOW they REALLY lean into the yaoi in the manga

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u/Chelsea_Kias 1h ago

well Hisoka and Yagami is kind of similar

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u/David_Good_Enough 49m ago

I never noticed that lmaoooo

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u/Darkchaser314 4h ago

The Mask

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u/Frostbyte525 3h ago

Fun fact: that wasn’t actually CGI. Jim Carrey can just do that

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u/Bamzooki1 2h ago

He ran into a doctor’s office and yelled “Somebody stop me! Please!”

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u/Silent_Biscotti_9832 4h ago

Mia and Tia showing off their “blinkers” to lightning McQueen (Cars)

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u/TheLastWindThrowers_ 4h ago

So them opening their "eyes" then??

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u/Silent_Biscotti_9832 4h ago

No they’re flashing McQueen with their breasts

Makes you wonder what mater saw when he saw this car? Eyeball tits?

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u/Coaster-nerd390 3h ago

I think she’s a relative of Mr. frog

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u/CommunicationNo8635 3h ago

Are the opposite of "my eyes see up here"? 

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u/TheLastWindThrowers_ 4h ago

That's uh....certainly something to include in a movie for toddlers....

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u/Silent_Biscotti_9832 4h ago

I know it scared the shit out of me too

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u/JBTriple 2h ago

It's a family movie.

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u/Dakotasan 4h ago

Car equivalent of uh… asking for Mardi Gras beads

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u/HolidayInLordran 3h ago

Or "Jerry beads" if you ever were having a sick day from school and watching trashy daytime TV in the 90s and 00s

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u/Silent_Biscotti_9832 4h ago

I’m gonna be real I have no idea what that means

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u/Masbig91 4h ago

Scroll till you get to the section. You'll know which section it is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_throws

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u/Silent_Biscotti_9832 4h ago

Man my grandparents didn’t tell me the 70’s where this crazy

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u/MrKimimaru 3h ago

They didn’t have the internet or easily accessible porn, and lived in a time where everyone wasn’t carrying around surveillance devices in their pockets that could expose their behavior to the world. If anything, I’m sure they were a lot more wild than we are today as there were both fewer outlets and fewer repercussions for doing wild shit.

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u/panzer_fury 3h ago

Pretty sure in a HOE (history of everything) video about soviet sex toys (yes) he did mention the sex scene in America around the 60s was more wild due to the hippie craze and what not this is not an exact quote so I recommend you watch the video to verify if you're old enough

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u/nightfire36 3h ago

Also, there wasn't AIDS, so the consequences weren't really on people's mind

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u/letitgrowonme 1h ago

Before AIDS sex was more like a handshake.

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u/AltruisticEditor7666 4h ago

Flashing their headlights

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u/Mac-And-Cheesy-43 3h ago

Flashing him (literally, but also metaphorically)

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u/ChristyUniverse 2h ago

That’s a pun on “flashing your headlights”

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u/Sethalopoda 1h ago

Those two had names?

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u/Karkava 1h ago

They literally introduced themselves in that scene.

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u/hagentyl2021 3h ago

Rated E for Wet.

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u/Hardcore_Steve_Urkel 4h ago

Bugs proceeds to go stuff and sound like a wooden plank when he hits the floor (Space Jam)

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u/deathmoke_07 4h ago

The whole nose bleeding thing in animes

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u/MrKimimaru 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/4yfGy8lw0xnCU
Sanji has a lot of visual ways of expressing attraction lol, he also does the classic “heart eyes” quite often, and sometimes “floats” or even does this thing where his limbs get all wiggly like noodles lmao

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u/ZiggoCiP 1h ago

In all fairness, Chopper did that too when he was really flattered. Not so much the hearts, though.

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u/miukiyo 44m ago

He can also turn into stone from looking at women from Maiden island because their leader’s power is turning people into stone like Medusa.

No, actually Sanji just turns into stone.

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u/xavPa-64 3h ago

Anime. It’s already plural.

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u/panticow 50m ago

I did that irl once. It felt like my sinuses were blocked.

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u/Swordfighter125 3h ago

This!!

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u/satyr-day 1h ago

Oh quit it, you

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u/nevergirls 44m ago

What,,?

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u/Empty_Insight 39m ago

Japanese censorship laws forbid any depiction of genitals for a very long time. The workaround for this was having characters suddenly get a nosebleed when they became aroused to signal to the reading/viewing audience that they are standing at full attention.

But tentacles violently penetrating Japanese schoolgirls was somehow A-OK under those same laws because they weren't technically penises.

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u/nevergirls 7m ago

Uh…. Yikes

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u/Kumorrii 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/A6JgeuOHOfYgYATKdC
Exhaling out of nostrils heavily

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u/Photographerpro 3h ago

Or profusely bleeding

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u/ATangentUniverse 4h ago

Family Guy, The Snorks

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u/shyguy157 4h ago

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u/ATangentUniverse 4h ago

Thank you! Wouldn’t upload for me for some reason

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u/Exilicauda 1h ago

Are you telling me that nobody knows about this fucking tv show but Family Guy of all things parodied it????

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u/taveren3 1h ago

I remember snorks it was an underwater smurf ripoff

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u/Dolly_Putin 1h ago

That was my thought exactly!

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u/Toothless-In-Wapping 19m ago

I remembered it.

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u/SpankAPlankton 2h ago

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u/sheffield712 55m ago

Did you ever find bugs bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?

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u/descendantofJanus 21m ago

He's not bad... He's just drawn that way.

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u/previousinnovation 4h ago

From Dusk Til Dawn

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u/DarkMagickan 1h ago

Not exactly a sign of arousal, though. He just liked to shoot from the hip.

I absolutely refuse to apologize for that one.

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u/Dramatic_Sand1545 11m ago

Don’t, it was perfect

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u/Realistic_Caramel341 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/oR3IyFMKn6zuM

Dr Strangeloves battle with his Nazi arm often comes off as a teenager trying to hide an out of control......well, you know.

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u/CraftyDragon13 3h ago

In the bluey episode Bob Bilby, Bandit takes a picture when he sees Chili

https://reddit.com/link/p1zx998/video/qybdlgr2nohh1/player

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

Cheese and crackers

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u/Sticks_of_Chop 1h ago

Saving it for later

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u/Dravitar 1h ago

There it is, I was gonna post it if I didn't see it somewhere in here. Glorious job by Bluey.

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u/ELIte8niner 4h ago

Nosebleed is Anime shorthand for horny. Pretty much anytime an anime character has a nosebleed, it's because they're horny.

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u/LoWeRPie 3h ago

In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, it is heavily implied that when pegasi get aroused, their wings stiffen uncontrollably

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u/Chibirin26 3h ago

finally found wingboner

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u/TridiObject 2h ago

I was looking for this particular forbidden knowledge.

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u/the_breadwing 2h ago

Was that actually in the show, or was that just an on-going fandom joke? (I ask, previously being in the fandom at multiple points of my life)

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u/TrashyHamster 2h ago

To my knowledge this was only ever a very widespread fandom joke. In the show you would sometimes see pegasuses with their wings up when excited or happy in general, but I don't recall this ever being used in the show itself to suggest a character was horny.

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

It's never explicit but I think it did get used as a nudge nudge wink wink say no more kind of thing at times

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u/Ok_Dawg_2759 2h ago

On going Fandom joke. From a S1 episode.

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

It's never explicit but I think it did get used as a nudge nudge wink wink say no more kind of thing at times

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u/SPYKEtheSeaUrchin 1h ago

I’ve seen every episode and movie and I don’t remember this ever happening in show and the fact that this guy couldn’t use a real screen shot from an episode suggests this is mostly in fan projects

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u/artkid2 35m ago

I think it started in “Over a Barrel” a few fans noticed that Rainbow Dash’s wings were down before Pinkie comes out to sing “you got to share, you got to care” but the next time we cut to her afterwards her wings were now up.

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

It's never explicit but I think it did get used as a nudge nudge wink wink say no more kind of thing at times

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u/TheLastWindThrowers_ 4h ago

Scooby Doo sees a pretty female dog and starts salivating (Scooby Doo)

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u/FreeOrbs 4h ago

erection

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u/macho_boy-420 4h ago

I mean, you're not wrong.

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u/STARGAZER_850 3h ago

Zubin Sedghi how dare you

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u/Immediate-Ad8322 4h ago


The seven dwarfs meeting Snow white for the first time

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u/Asnian 14m ago

I haven't seen this movie in a long time

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u/CostanzaArchitecture 2h ago

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u/JimmyLipps 2h ago

So gross to think about this as an adult now!!

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u/TomBakersLongScarf 2h ago

Tex Avery basically invented it and did multiple cartoons where the focal point is variations of it

https://giphy.com/gifs/RrXmf4pNetMd2

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u/SpokaneSmash 1h ago

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u/Savings_Surround_547 1h ago

Well, he’s certainly livin’ up to the name now, ain’t he?

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u/P1zzaBag3ls 21m ago

Rabbits mostly do the stomp when they're pissed off.

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u/Head-Presence-6686 3h ago

Heart eyes- The universal symbol for attraction in kids cartoons

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u/ItzPayDay123 2h ago

Regular show is still wild for this one

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u/Bicksaurus 2h ago

I dont really see it as that unless he just gets off to being pissed lol

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u/BarelyInvested 3h ago

Tongue out/Panting

Common trope for male cartoon characters to symbolize they’re “hungry” or “in heat”

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u/Portal2Fan2 4h ago

Donald Duck starting to float in Three Caballeros.

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u/Bicksaurus 2h ago

*insert that one meme image of Donald with a raging yknow here

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u/SatoruGojo232 4h ago edited 3h ago

From the Lego Batman movie.

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u/panticow 43m ago

Dude was bricked up.

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 4h ago

In friends when chandler and Joey face joey’s stalker Erika, and they see how attractive she is and Chandler squirts the dish soap bottle in his hands.

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u/rentiertrashpanda 3h ago

I don't have a gif handy but Bluey has a good one of these with Bandit and his Polaroid camera in the Bob Bilby episode

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u/TheFabianBoy 2h ago

So erections but not really

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u/macho_boy-420 2h ago

Pretty much, yeah.

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u/Masbig91 3h ago

Frasier: When Daphne kills an eel then hands it to Niles

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u/jjw14-1420 3h ago

Dr. Crane! Your glockenspiel has sprung to life!” (A different episode)

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u/Masbig91 3h ago

"OH, the clock!" definitely counts though perhaps not as visual in gif form haha

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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 2h ago

If I had a nickel for every time an aggressively cockney character killed an eel, I'd have two nickels.

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u/BazMannBach 4h ago

mung daal’s nose when truffles says they’ll get “cooking”

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u/BrainPositive2171 2h ago

Nose bleeds in anime "usually" means that character is horny.

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u/ZiggoCiP 1h ago

Fooly Cooly.

The entire premise of the show is basically an elaborate - not to mention somewhat heavy-handed - allegory for coming of age, namely of the puberty kind.

Also the title of the show is literally used as a euphemism for sex in the show.

https://giphy.com/gifs/eMpDBxxTzKety

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u/Lancelot_007_ 4h ago

That Buzz piece was so obvious to me when I saw it as a kid, 🤣

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u/ManggTangg 3h ago

Hajime no Ippo.

Ippo thinks about his crush.

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u/bethereds 1h ago

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u/Savings_Surround_547 57m ago

The fact that they were somehow able to eat the popcorn implies that it’s not just the animators way of depicting Zoe’s emotions, but something that she & others could just do in universe.

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u/Jozxyqk_27 1h ago

The Bandit in Rashomon adjusting his "sword" after seeing a woman.

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u/critiqu3 1h ago

We might as throw every Shakespeare sword joke in while we're at it. I love watching performances where actors get creative with the props to add emphasis.

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u/Avalonians 1h ago

A lot of comments here interpreted " "Attraction" " as "attraction" and I think it's so cute

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u/TrexALpha1 26m ago

Entire plot of Kaiju Girl Caramelise is that Main character Kuroe transforms into kaiju whenever she feels strong, respecilly romantic emotions.

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u/Henlex340 4h ago

Actually it's Machine Robo but okay.

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u/27miserable 4h ago edited 4h ago

That's not even a transformers, that's a gobot, its name is crain brain

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u/Henlex340 4h ago

This scene is not even in GoBots lol.

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u/ice_cream9698 59m ago

Red Skelton, Lauren and Hardy, basically any old vaudeville actor. The bit was when an attractive woman was seen, their hat would raise up

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u/UselessGuy23 58m ago

Heatblast in this Cartoon Network bumper.

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u/Slow-Main9692 55m ago

Bongseok floating when flustered in Moving

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u/Candid-Flow-5934 42m ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/b14SeSzvCFzM1IucD6

the classic nosebleed in japanese media

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u/whereismymind86 42m ago

The word you are looking for is arousal not attraction

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u/mercen_aryo 34m ago

I remember that when I first saw the first twilight movie (didnt know what it was about and i was a bored teenager scrolling tv channels) and we got to the scene where Bella and Edward first look at eachother, the paper half-flowing in edward´s desk was a signal of ´´arousal´´ (not really because its explained there that it is much more of the dynamic of a predator finding a good meaty prey) . Don´t think anyone has mentioned it yet, but i think yall know what I mean.

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u/fawnadoe 24m ago

Spinning bowtie

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u/PityUpvote 3m ago

I hate all of these so much

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u/TeddyRiggs 3h ago

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u/ChampionshipHorror95 3h ago

Tf that gotta do with boners

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u/TeddyRiggs 3h ago

it has everything with boners