50 Famous TV and Cartoon Characters With Large Noses

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It’s fascinating what a big nose can indicate about a character. You may notice three fascinating archetypes as you peruse the roster of all-time greatest schnozes: the thin nose on the evil villain, the round nose on the goofy comedic relief, and the distorted nose of the unlucky rube. Along with this long list of TV, movie, and cartoon characters with big noses, we’ll also discuss why so few of those characters are women, as well as some of the nasty stereotypes surrounding big noses.

Popular Characters with Big Noses

In media, big noses are a common signal that a character is crazy, goofy, silly, or evil. Some of the most popular big-nosed characters include Gru, Mr. Burns, Squidward, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Captain Usopp, and Nigel Thornberry.

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Gru (Despicable Me)

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  1. Gru’s character is a classic riff on the “evil villain with a pointy nose.” The whole joke is that he’s not really evil. Still, you’d never know it looking at that honker; it’s long and thin enough to cook a skewer on it.
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Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)

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  1. Old Burns is a classic example of the “pointy nose villain” trope. There are actually a few Simpsons characters with notable noses, but Mr. Burns might be one of the most iconic of all time.
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Squidward (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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  1. Squidward has a large tentacle-like nose that actually inflates and deflates every time he laughs. It’s hilarious. Like…just look at this schnoz vibrate and elongate when he’s laughing his butt off!
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Dr. Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

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  1. The mad scientist is a popular archetype for a giant nose, and Dr. Doofenshmirtz has a nose just as long as his name. His character design is really fun in general—the big jutting jaw and the wild tufts of hair really let you know what kind of energy he’s bringing to the table.
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Captain Usopp (One Piece)

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  1. One Piece is an anime known for its chaotic character designs, and the Sniper King isn’t any different. His distinctly weird nose could impale someone. We’re also fond of his ridiculous, flowy mullet.
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Nigel Thornberry (The Wild Thornberrys)

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  1. Nigel also cracked our list of the most iconic characters with buck teeth, and he’s earning another accolade here for his glorious schnoz. Framed on either side by thick patches of orange moustached hair, Nigel’s nose really rounds out the hilarity of his character design.
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Cyril Sneer (The Raccoons)

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  1. Also known as Snag, Cyril is a pink aardvark with a nose that swings in the air like a wacky inflatable tube man. A lot of people aren’t familiar with The Raccoons. It was a Canadian children’s cartoon from the 1980s. It’s worth checking out if you like really esoteric children’s shows about woodland critters.
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Walugi (Mario)

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  1. Wario could have also made our list, but Waluigi has the better moustache. It’s a spectacular nose that is big enough to convey his villainous nature, but not so big that it overwhelms his other character traits.
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Gonzo (The Muppet Show)

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  1. One of the most lovable and passionate critters from the Muppets, Gonzo’s nose is just as glorious as his heart. There’s a running gag in the Muppets universe that nobody knows what kind of animal Gonzo is, but with the close resemblance to Cyril Sneer, we’re thinking he might be an aardvark.
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Zeniba (Spirited Away)

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  1. The first female character on our list is basically an old witch, and she won’t be the last one. The “witchy nose” archetype is an unfortunate byproduct of misogyny and anti-Semitism. There’s a centuries-old stereotype that Jewish people have big, hooked noses, and the “witch” is deeply rooted in Christian fears surrounding heretics and magic. The two ugly elements combined over time, which is why many “evil witch” characters have large noses.[1]
    • So is Zeniba an anti-semitic character? No. At this point in history, the hook-nosed witch trope has been around so long that many people don’t even make the connection anymore. There’s nothing in Zeniba’s character or behavior to suggest any nasty stereotyping is going on. She just happens to be a witch with a big schnoz.[2]
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Billy (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy)

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  1. Billy is a classic example of the “round-nosed goofy kid” archetype. He’s fun-loving, silly, generally round, and his bulbous snout just really rounds the whole character out.
    • Where does this trope come from? We don’t know! The popular theory is that it makes characters look like they have a baby face, and baby faces are associated with childlike whimsy, but there’s not a huge, deep, documented history on this one.
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Pinocchio (Pinocchio)

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  1. Pinocchio feels like the most obvious inclusion and also sort of like cheating at the same time. His nose only gets bigger when he lies, and it turns out he tends to do a lot of that, so he’s got a pretty large honker for most of the movie.
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Phineas (Phineas and Ferb)

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  1. Phineas is a fun one because he sort of doesn’t line up with any of the popular character designs or nose-related archetypes. He’s got this giant, triangular snout that doesn’t even appear to have nostrils anywhere. It’s just a fun, expressive character design.
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Big Nose (The Pink Panther)

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  1. How does a character literally named “Big Nose” not make the big nose list?! Appearing in the original Pink Panther cartoon, Big Nose is the main villain of the show. What’s weird is that we’re not actually confident he has a big nose. His body is basically just an egg and it looks like teeth protrude from underneath his “nose,” so it’s kind of more of a snout? We don’t know.
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Charlie (Smiling Friends)

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  1. Charlie is another one of those “we’re not sure that’s actually a nose” big nose characters, but if that huge, bulbous mound on his face is indeed a nose, he deserves all the accolades he earns in the schnoz department.
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The Ice King (Adventure Time)

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  1. Here’s another fun “villain with a pointy nose” character. The Ice King is one of the core antagonists of Adventure Time. We really like his goofy voice and penchant for yelling. He’s a fun character.
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Schnoz (Berserk)

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  1. It doesn’t appear for many episodes, and it’s not a huge character, but the “chimimoryo” (evil spirit) named “Schnoz” is literally just a big nose. We’d be remiss if we didn’t include this guy on the list.
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Dr. Eggman (Sonic)

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  1. Another thin-nosed mad scientist villain, Eggman is the core antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. He’s also going to get some props from us for having a hilarious moustache that’s bigger than his head.
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Yoshi (Mario)

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  1. It’s sort of cheating because Yoshi is a dinosaur and dinosaurs had snouts, not noses, but he’s anthropomorphic enough that he’s going to get a pass from us. Shout out to Yoshi’s tongue, too—that’s also doing some work in the hilarious physical trait department.
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Probopass (Pokémon)

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  1. One day, the designers at Pokémon woke up and thought to themselves, “What if we just made a Pokémon that was a big nose?” Thus, Probopass came to be.
    • Donphan, Shiftry, Heracross, and Drowzee also could have made our list, but Probopass really feels like the elite nose-Pokémon. Like…his pre-evolution is literally named Nosepass.
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The Swedish Chef (The Muppets)

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  1. He’s Swedish. He’s a chef. He has eyebrows where his eyes should be. He has a wonderfully symmetrical bulb of a nose. What isn’t there to love?
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Ichabod Crane (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

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  1. The protagonist of the short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Crane is often depicted as a thin, nervous type with a long, thin nose. The most popular and iconic nose-based depiction of Ichabod comes from the 1949 animated film, but there are other popular depictions out there that make the same flourish.
    • The character in Washington Irving’s short story is originally described to have the iconic nose, so it’s not a modern invention. The narrator writes, “His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.”[3]
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Jafar (Aladdin)

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  1. It’s certainly not his biggest or most immediately obvious feature given his strange, long face and the ridiculous beard, but Jafar does have a weirdly elongated nose. Mark it down in the column labelled “another bad guy with a weird nose.”
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Quagmire (Family Guy)

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  1. Quagmire’s character design is pretty silly all around. He’s got the big (enormous, really) jaw and a funny overbite. Accenting it all is a long, curved nose. If you look at him, it actually makes a lot of sense; the character would look very weird with that massive jaw and a tiny nose.
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The Mayor (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

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  1. Perhaps the most triangular character on our list, the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas, is funny for a lot of reasons. We like his downright hilarious hat. His nose is big, although its not the defining feature when you’re literally built like a Christmas tree.
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Igor (Persona)

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  1. Igor is a quirky character from the Persona video games. He’s always hanging out in the Velvet Room, which sits between the realms of consciousness and unconsciousness. To add to the dreamlike quality of the location, he is given odd, pointy ears and a long, protruding nose.
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Olimar (Pikmin)

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  1. He’s a pretty thinly written character, but the main character from the first Pikmin game does have an adorable little button nose that almost takes up 50% of his face. It’s a good contrast with the Pikmin themselves, who barely had noses in the first place.
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The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz)

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  1. The classic “witch with a big nose” example, the Wicked Witch is perhaps one of the most iconic villains in all of history. From her iconic dialogue (“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!”) to her classic black gown and hat, the Witch is the witch of Western Media.
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Anton (Ratatouille)

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  1. Anton is one of the antagonists in Ratatouille. He’s the food critic who just can’t seem to give the main character’s restaurant any love. He’s got a great, angular nose that really meshes well with his character’s tall, sharp features.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano de Bergerac)

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  1. The oldest character on our list is the titular character in the1897 French play Cyrano de Bergerac. The character is in love, but he’s worried that he’s not attractive enough to make a move on his crush. In fact, he’s especially worried that his nose is too big. It’s a semi-comedic element throughout the play.
    • Fun fact: The play, written by Edmond Rostand, is based on the real life of the writer Cyrano de Bergerac. So, the play is about a character named Cyrano de Bergerac, it’s titled Cyrano de Bergerac, and it’s based on a guy named Cyrano de Bergerac. As a bonus fun fact, the real-life Cyrano actually had a huge nose.[4]
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The Penguin (Batman)

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  1. Designed to reference the beak of the bird he’s named after, The Penguin’s nose is as notorious as his scheming. The character’s pointy schnoz almost looks knife-like in the animated series, which only adds more ominous vibes to the character’s presence on the screen.
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Bert and Ernie (Sesame Street)

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  1. This duo have adorable matching button noses. They add to the overall aesthetic of the two puppets as lovable friends who have a snarky back-and-forth thing going on.
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Mr. Bean (Mr. Bean)

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  1. Played by Rowan Atkinson, Mr. Bean’s slightly big nose is played up as a comedic element that makes all of Atkinson’s facial expressions even more vibrant. In fact, there are even some popular Mr. Bean skits that specifically focus on his gigantic snoot.
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The Professor (Futurama)

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  1. He’s old, he’s ornery, and he’s highly accusational. He’s also got the beak of a man who may have considered rhinoplasty at some point. The Professor’s nose doesn’t really ever come up in the show, but it’s a great bit of character design to reference the big-nosed mad scientist trope.
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Pearl Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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  1. If you really think about it, the entire front half of her head is a nose, right? We’re not sure if Pearl fully qualifies, but if she does, she’d probably deserve a top spot in the giant schnoz competition.
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Barnacle Boy (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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  1. Mermaid Man’s elderly sidekick, Barnacle Boy actually has basically the same exact nose as Squidward. He doesn’t have the hilarious honking laugh that causes his nose to contract, though, so to the bottom of the list you go, Barnacle Boy.
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Gargamel (The Smurfs)

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  1. The villain of the Smurfs universe, Gargamel, is a lonely wizard who wants dearly to steal the Smurfs and use them to manufacture gold. It’s actually pretty silly when you say it out loud; that’s a very weird motivation for a villain. Still, he’s got a big, bulbous nose.
    • Why is Gargamel kind of notorious? There’s a lot of debate over whether Gargamel is an anti-semitic character since he fills so many Jewish stereotypes. He’s greedy, got a big nose, and wants to use the smurfs to further his gains, which is comparable to the disgusting and very bigoted “blood libel” conspiracy theories. The creator has always claimed its just a good-hearted show and denies the claims, though.[5]
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Doug (Doug)

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  1. Doug, from Doug, has a huge, round nose. It really adds to his character’s goofy design, and he’s in good company when it comes to radical noses: Skeeter and Roger both had ridiculous noses, too.
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Sid (Hey Arnold!)

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  1. Sid has a really fun nose because it appears to start around his hairline. The honker goes up so high on his face that it actually tucks underneath his baseball cap. It’s incredible stuff. If he were a real person, scientists would study his anatomy.
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The Joker (Batman)

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  1. Many of the most popular depictions of the Joker do not show him with a distinct nose of any kind, but the artists in many of the comics do draw him with an intimidating, pointy nose. The Joker in the beloved Batman: The Animated Series show also had a very sharp nose.
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Flint (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)

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  1. Flint’s big, round nose helps contribute to the early sense in the film that Flint really needs to grow up. It’s a classic example of the baby face goofball, but it all works out in the end for him.
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Watto (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace)

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  1. Watto is a big-nosed character from the Star Wars universe. He may have seemed like a pretty fun, goofy character when you first saw him on the big screen, but between the Jamaican-coded Jar Jar Binks and Watto’s anti-semitic character design, it’s a dark mark on George Lucas’s legacy.[6]
    • Why do people say Watto was an anti-semitic character? Unlike Gargamel in The Smurfs, this one is pretty cut and dry. Watto is even given a Yiddish accent. It’s considered one of the more racist depictions in popular media from recent memory. Lucas still denies the allegations, but even if he didn’t intend to, it’s pretty clear the Yiddish-accented slave driver who is cheap and has a huge nose is a nasty stereotype.[7]
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Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

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  1. Quasimodo’s unique body is a huge central element of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The film tackles all kinds of difficult questions about what beauty means, who determines what kind of bodies deserve to be seen in public, and what it means to be shunned by society for something you can’t control.
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Ernie (Hey Arnold!)

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  1. He’s a minor character in Hey Arnold!, but he’s got a nose so big you could use it to jump into the deep end of a pool if the life for the diving board is too long.
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Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

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  1. Another big-nosed villain, Frollo is the antagonist in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He’s ultimately revealed to be the true monster of the story, and while his nose is big, it’s not a particularly core part of his character design.
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John du Pont (Foxcatcher)

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  1. It feels a little inappropriate to include a character based on a living person, but John du Pont did murder a guy so we aren’t too shaken up about it. Played by Steve Carell in the film Foxcatcher, Carell (already a big-nosed fella) had to wear a prosthetic nose to resemble du Pont. It’s a fascinating story and a powerful performance, which is good because if the film were bad, all we’d remember is Carell’s huge honker.
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Hugh (Jimmy Neutron)

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  1. Jimmy Neutron may have a whacky hairstyle for the ages and challenges in the height department, but at least he didn’t inherit his dad’s colossal honker.
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Ganondorf (Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom)

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  1. It’s pretty rare to see an otherworldly creature/boss with a distinctively large nose, so it’s worth giving Ganondorf a shout out. His honker is especially notable in Tears of the Kingdom, but he does appear as the villain in most of the major games.
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SpongeBob (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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  1. It’s easy to miss the fact that SpongeBob has a giant nose, considering how many other hilarious features he has. Giant eyes, buck teeth, and a square-shaped body full of holes. But he does have a wonderful nose!
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Victor Perkins (Despicable Me)

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  1. Gru gets all the love in the “giant nose” department, but Victor, the main villain of the series, also has a pretty impressive honker. It’s a nice riff on the traditional “thin-nosed villain” trope, as he actually has more of a baby face thing going on.

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  2. ↑ https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/46536/1/witch-beauty-wizard-of-oz-the-witches-sabrina-craft-film-tv
  3. ↑ https://www.coreknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CC_TheLegendOfSleepyHollow_Reader_W1.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Savinien-Cyrano-de-Bergerac
  5. ↑ https://www.heyalma.com/is-smurfs-antisemitic/
  6. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-26-ca-40965-story.html
  7. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/sep/17/8

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