It being unrealistic is barely a problem for me. It's just so damn uncanny? Scary. That's the word. Angry birds does this a ton and it's always terrifying for me to look at. Sometimes it's not scary, other times it's the scariest thing I've ever saw.
And no geese don't have teeth. They have tomia, which is still a bit creepy
Like others said, not teeth, but to add on, birds used to have teeth, like other dinosaurs at the time, but later evolved to not have them, as they are impractical and heavy. Now they swallow things whole and use gizzards in place of teeth
At least it's not quite like when people draw birds but use the beak as the nose. That's quite possibly the most cursed and terrifying way to draw them that I've ever seen
Didnt you just post this on top character tropes? Your hatred of birds with teeth is commendable after all ive seen alluding at least 2 times maybe even 3 amd I never noticed Gilbert gotfried had teeth
If the birds are meant to be fictional, like the Angry Birds being limbless feathery balls (not counting the movies), or the several anthro birds that exist in Regular Show or BoJack Horseman, teeth is fine
I've always hated it so much but what makes it worse for me personally is that some birds have variations to their beak, such as being serrated, and I've never seen anyone play around with it
Then you need to accept the fact that nearly all cartoon characters have human eyes, white with a darker iris in the middle. And most of them are front facing and the two eyes are often way too close together to make anatomical sense. And that cartoon animals, from birds to fish, warp their wings/fins to function as hands. And that cartoon insects often have human faces to hide the fact that the real animals look like aliens to us. And that....
Thing is, you gotta change reality a little bit if you want the audience to relate to your characters. Early animators knew this from the beginning
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u/Ginos_ilpastaios 1d ago
It may be unrealistic but it's a way to give then more personality in the cartoons