Status bar face

In the middle of the status bar, a player may see his character's face. It reacts to the environment in the game, as follows:

First, and most obviously, the player's face bleeds as his health diminishes. In certain ports, whenever the player experiences what would be a gibbing death, the head explodes, rather than going face down and still.

Secondly, the player turns to look in the direction from which a damaging hit originates.

Thirdly, if the player picks up a new weapon, the face displays a semi-evil grin momentarily.

Fourthly, should the player keep firing a weapon repeatedly, or if he is in damaging slime, the face displays an expression of annoyance.

Fifthly, under certain conditions, a rarely displayed ouch face expression is shown (originally intended for when the player suffered massive damage).