What Do Dark Blue Lines On Face In Anime Mean

If something truly traumatic occurs to an anime graphic symbol, or they are mortified or embarrassed beyond all reckoning, the upper half of their face, or fifty-fifty all of information technology, may plow blue — at least until they recover.

A variation on the effect takes the course of a fix of wavy blue lines that radiate upward from the character's head and shoulders in a way reminiscent of a Battle Aura. Darker-blueish lines streaming downwards their eyes like very straight tears optional.

Information technology's usually used for comedic effect, and serious situations.

The implication is that one is so surprised that you tin can't exhale, and therefore, subsequently turn blue from lack of oxygen (the technical term for this is cyanosis). The lines, when present, are a reference to horror manga art styles.

This trope is largely confined to Manga and Anime (likely because "turning blueish" is the equivalent of "turning stake" in Japanese). Tin be combined with Blank White Eyes for actress impact. Compare Color Failure.

Despite having the discussion "stupor" in its name, this Trope has naught to do with blue-colored lightning. That is Yellowish Lightning, Blue Lightning instead.

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Examples:

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    Anime and Manga

• It's institute several times in the final few seasons of Ranma ½, although nigh non at all in its first half.
• Momo in My Hero Academia goes blue while on her internship with a pro hero, she was made to work on a commercial, while still wearing her hero costume.
• Roy Mustang in Fullmetal Alchemist admonishes his adjutant Hawkeye for pulling him away from a fight. She calmly explains that he would certainly have been killed, his alchemic powers don't work in the rain, and he failed to notice it was raining. Mustang gets the blue face up and Blank White Optics.
  • Al's version of shock can vary from just his head to most of his torso. Continue in mind that he'south an empty suit of armor with the soul of a sensitive ten yr-old.
• Pokémon
  • Afterward the Orange Islands arc, Brock would curl up into a ball and radiate Blue with Shock several feet away whenever Professor Ivy was mentioned.
  • In the first episode where Brock does this, Ash does it as well at the mention of his rival Gary (no doubt to many slash fanficcers' please).
  • Also happened in "Attack of the Prehistoric Pokemon", when Pikachu, out of panic, shocks the dynamite. This results in a mix of this and Oh, Crap!.
  • In "A Shocking Grocery Run!", Meowth goes full-on with this trope when he finds Mimikyu right behind him, out of its Poké Ball.
  • It also happens to Meowth in the Pikachu short Gotta Dance!!, when a Loudred goes mad after the Pokébaton breaks, and starts nifty up the new nether-construction Team Rocket base.

• Azumanga Daioh also uses this several times, mostly when Sakaki'due south having a mental paradigm of something impossibly cute. Anyone riding in the Yukari-mobile (such as poor Chiyo-Chan) tends to turn white instead.
  • Yukari herself did the white with shock variant in the very showtime episode. Considering the things she said before information technology was pointed out she was in the incorrect classroom, it'southward entirely understandable. If Azumanga Daioh was live action, she still would have gone white with shock.
  • Osaka combines this with Bare White Eyes when Tomo starts pestering her on her first day.
  • Osaka causes this in the rest of the girls when she makes a proffer for the schoolhouse festival while attempting to combine the concepts of a café, a brandish for blimp animals, and a haunted firm. Sakaki is so profoundly affected ends up going into Bare White Eyes territory also.
• Kagami and Konata in Lucky Star delight in squicking the hell out of each other, to this issue.

• In CLANNAD, Kotomi and Tomoya go blue with shock after receiving a bad fortune. Nagisa and her mother also do this separately in theatrical fashion, with identical lightning strikes in the background.
• Many situations in Cromartie High Schoolhouse conclude with this, with one or more than of the master characters expressing distress over the punchline of the situation at hand. The situations are beyond explanation, because, well, it'southward Cromartie High.
• One episode of Rozen Maiden when Shinku doesn't wake up, Suiseiseki tries to see if hurting Jun volition wake her upwardly. By property a huge knife over his caput with Jun lying on the floor. The knife drops, embedding into the floor, an inch from his confront. Cue Blue with Stupor Jun.
• Ahiru from Princess Tutu pulls this off a few times, and in one case as a duck when she realises that Fakir (who looks like he kicks puppies as a favourite pastime) simply plant her hiding place. Information technology turns into a Luminescent Blush when she discovers he actually pets them... when nobody's watching.
• Tsuna from Reborn! (2004) does this quite oft, especially when his Unwanted Harem does something not and so normal...
• D.Gray-Human being has its moments when Allen realizes that the load of empty wine bottles Devit and Jasdero show to him are the ones that Cantankerous had fabricated Allen buy for him when he was still training... well...not so corking results...
• Everyone does this constantly in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, complete with black lines going down the whole confront.
• Happens to the nearly unlikely of characters in Hayate the Combat Butler. In 1 episode (25, I recollect), fifty-fifty happens to Number viii, who is a Ridiculously Human Robot.
• Rurouni Kenshin did the "emanating waves of depression" version when he remembered the kind of training his Sink-or-Swim Mentor put him through.
• In Soul Eater, Death the Kid usually has this look when he sees or thinks something is out of symmetry. Liz whenever ghosts are effectually.
• Germany in Hetalia: Centrality Powers has many moments similar this, complete with black lines, whenever he is surprised. He also emanates bluish lines after Italia reveals his fetishes to the allies during questioning.
  • Italy turns Blue with Shock after sampling some of England's nutrient, which goes to show how much of a Lethal Chef England is. He turns blue once again in the same episode, afterward the Allies indicate a gun at him while trying to get him to spill some secrets.
  • In season 5, Germany has an specially hilarious case of this at the stop of episode ten when Turkey reveals Italy was a badass dorsum in the twenty-four hours.
• The "night blue lines like tears" part of this trope occurs often in Ouran High School Host Club similar in episode 9 for example.
• FLCL:
  • Episode i. Later Haruko runs into Naota he'south knocked unconscious and his brow turns blueish.
  • Kitsurubami, after she unconsciously takes a sip from Amarao'due south practise bottle.
• Information technology's almost a in one case-a-page occurrence in Beelzebub, especially when Furuichi is around.
• THE iDOLM@STER - Yukiho had several of these at the beggining of the series. Haruka, Makoto and Iori besides had one in at least one occasion.
• Gai Kurasawa of Darker Than Black sometimes does this.
• Yuko does this in episode 7 of The Pet Daughter of Sakurasou when she visits Sorata.
• Expectedly, Hiro, Nori and Nazuna has that response when they visited the Haunted House made by Yuno'south class in the School Festival, in Hidamari Sketch.
• Kotoura-san:
  • In episode 2, when Haruka and Manabe enters the ESP clubroom.
  • In episode 4, when Haruka found the ESP club members had came to "grab" her, with Glowing Optics of Doom.
  • In episode four, when Haruka read Manabe's mind and institute him wanted to spank.
• Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite Episode 7. This happens to Yashima Sanae in the undercover expanse when she thinks a monster is approaching.
• Uzuki of THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls has this reaction in the first episode, when the large and imposing producer walks enters the room when she'southward alone.
• A 100% serious version occurs in Dragon Ball Z when Frieza gores Krillin on 1 of his horns, causing both Krillin and Gohan to become blueish in the face up.
  • Mr Satan besides goes blue when he first sees Super Buu's gigantic free energy sphere.
  • In a flashback to Rex Vegeta's death, all of his men are shown with blue faces every bit they cower backside him when he confronts Frieza. The dub even has Frieza lampshade it by saying that they're "actually turning bluish in the face up".
• Ane Slice: Chopper gets stuck with this combined with Blank White Eyes and Jaw Drop for a while when he finally gets his first pirate bounty... of but 50 Berries (due to beingness mistaken for the Squad Pet). Sanji goes Blue With Stupor in the same scene (augmented with floating flames) when he sees his ugly composite sketch.

• Shimoneta: Played for laughs in chapter 4, when Ayame walks in on Anna grinding atop Tanukichi, while they're both naked. The sudden intrusion causes Anna to become flustered and exit, which gives Ayame a clear view of Tanukichi'south erection. Ayame goes blue in the face and screams before bolting out of the room.
• ViVid Strike!: This happens to Fuka in episode 10 when Nove tells her to recall her training during the next episode preview. She's still freaking out at the end of episode 11.
• The unabridged Grade 1-2 goes this in the first episode of Wasteful Days of High School Girls later on the course teacher—on the first twenty-four hours of school—effective admits he secretly likes high schoolhouse girls, only he tin can't go far public without ruining his career.
• Asteroid in Dear:
  • In a part of the twenty-seventh chapter non adopted into anime, Mai gets blue with shock when Sayuri gets the incorrect idea about why the Earth Science Order has to convene an emergency meeting.
  • Ao gets information technology twice in the xxx-ninth chapter: when she found Ayano bought books near torture and weapons from the bookstore, and so the latter give Mira and Ao some of her drafts and mentions information technology has some rather "overstimulating" content considering Sayuri likes it.
  • Ao gets it again in the xl-first chapter, when she (and the residual of the cast) overhears Moe's lustful squeeing every bit the latter stays alone in Ao's room.
• In episode 25a of Tamagotchi, Memetchi's face goes blue when she looks in daze at the picture slideshow her friends made for her farewell party, knowing that she's not really going anywhere and faked having to movement. It happens again subsequently in the same episode when Memetchi imagines how the others might react if they knew her claims of moving were a play tricks.

    Fan Works

• In this mail service from "Ask the WVBA", Narcis Prince goes blue with shock when someone asks how he can be so pretty despite being British, which he takes keen criminal offence to.
• Rocketship Voyager. I of the Maquis is shown to have a face up blue with cyanosis when his infinite armor is punctured. Too counts as a Mythology Gag as his name is Chell, who in Star Trek: Voyager is a blue-skinned alien.

    Moving-picture show

• Wreck-It Ralph: When Ralph expresses his want to not be a bad guy whatever more, the entire Bad-Anon meeting gasps in shock, and Pac-Human ghost Clyde turns bluish, complete with the sound effect that occurs after picking up a power pellet in the game.

    Alive Action TV

• Total Frontal. A parody of Braveheart had this equally the reason why the Scottish warriors all had blue faces. That and the fact they were all cold from having to wear skirts instead of trousers.

    Music

• "Dominicus Papers" from Joe Jackson's first LP Look Sharp!:
• "Don't Option It Up" by The Offspring:

  I saw a trivial kid

  Every bit he walked around

  He picked a processed bar up

  Off the ground

  He chowed about a one-half

  Then his face turned blue

    Video Games

• In Elite Beat Agents, this happens to Don and Jane when their date gets repeatedly interrupted by hungry/skateboarding/tired kids. Also, this happens to most other characters just before they starting time arm-waving.
• Pac-Human is technically an case since the ghosts plough blue whenever he eats an energizer/ability pellet. The same principle also applies to the TV evidence, fifty-fifty though they don't plow blue hither (instead, they turn "purple with panic").
• Levin's "surprised" animation in Soul Nomad & the World Eaters involves this.
• Mario/Luigi'south decease animation from Super Mario World.
• In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, this trope is played straight with nigh of the cast.
  • In the tertiary game Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Ultimate Inventor Miu Iruma gets this when she dies, hinting at her true cause of decease.
• In most of the Kingdom Hearts games, your graphic symbol'southward ^note (usually Sora's, but Riku gets information technology sometimes, too) portrait on the HP gauge will have this effect if you're low on HP.
• Hilariously done in Paper Mario: Color Splash when a grouping of Shy Guys plow from red to blue (by that we mean their cloaks) when they realize they are about to be crushed by the Cherry Route.
• In Scott Pilgrim, Knives Chau's ending features her jumping into Scott's artillery and kissing him, and all of a sudden the two of them are getting married in front end of all of Scott'due south friends. Scott is very confused... and so much so that his face has turned blueish and his eyes are very wide open up.
• Friday Night Funkin':
  • The Boyfriend goes blue whenever you miss a notation or press buttons when y'all're not supposed to, complete with a dumbfounded expression and black vertical lines over his caput. Pico, being a planned playable graphic symbol among a few others, also has similarly-styled miss sprites Dummied Out in the game's files.
  • During "Roses", The Senpai'south Chroma Sticker is replaced with blue over the height of his face up, showing his slipping façade and full general frustration over The Beau'southward ability to keep up.
  • The girls behind Senpai gain two small blue lines under their left eyes and dismayed facial expressions to emphasize their shock over Senpai's behavior.

    Web Original

    Western Animation

• In the The Legend of Korra episode "The Vocalism in the Dark" Tenzin goes blue in the confront at a high-society gala when his five-year-former son Meelo uses something every bit a toilet off-screen.
• The R.O.B. the Robot episode "Space Virus Blues" has a variation of this trope; the Blueish Infinite Virus turns its victims blueish, and it's an easy indication of which robots are sick and which are not.
• Kevin from Steven Universe gets this when Stevonnie breaks into an anarchistic dance to placate his advances on them (and also turns into two kids).

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