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* Stitch and all the other experiments in ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' have eyes with no visible sclera. Same with Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel.

* Lucifer from Disney/{{Cinderella}} has green irides and yellow scleras.
* The lions from ''Disney/TheLionKing'' franchise all have yellow scleras. Also, Pumbaa the warthog has light yellow scleras.
* Jumba from ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' has light yellow sclerae.

* [[BetterDays Jay Naylor]] used to avert this with some dedication. His works have consciously leaned towards this trope recently. It used to be that his cat's eyes had their sclera (the "whites" of the eyes) be a solid color like blue or yellow, but now he does them with white sclera and more human-like eyes. The reason he gave for this was that it allowed him to show expression better, and that drawing them the other way was starting to creep him out.

* Buster Baxter and all the other animals on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', both the human-type animals and the animal-type animals.

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* Averted, naturally, in the ''WatershipDown'' film where the rabbits have realistic red eyes with oval-shaped pupils. And then played with in Efrafa where every rabbit has blue, almost-cartoony eyes, lending them a semi-UncannyValley look.

* Stitch and all the other experiments in ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' have eyes with no visible sclera. Same with Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel.

* DonaldDuck and almost all the other ducks in ClassicDisneyShorts have blue scleras. Possibly to distinguish them from the white feathers that surround them.

* Disney/MickeyMouse, Disney/MinnieMouse, Daisy Duck, Disney/DonaldDuck, and WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale from ClassicDisneyShorts, although Donald's eyes were always a little farther apart (more noticeable in his early designs). Daisy's and WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale's eyes were always a little farther apart than Mickey's or Minnie's eyes too.

*** Flounder from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', {{Jabberjaw}}, Misterjaw from the 90-minute ''PinkPanther'' show and Cleo from ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' have 'em, too.
*** TheIncredibleMrLimpet even wears pince-nez glasses. (Although they're not pince-nez when he's human.)
* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Lola Bunny, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, Tweety, Buzz Buzzard (iffy, because he is a predator), Foghorn Leghorn, Road Runner, and Egghead. Not so much Henery Hawk though.

* MickeyMouse, MinnieMouse, Daisy Duck, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, and WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale from ClassicDisneyShorts, although Donald's eyes were always a little farther apart (more noticeable in his early designs). Daisy's and WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale's eyes were always a little farther apart than Mickey's or Minnie's eyes too.

* SonicTheHedgehog has one giant wrap-around eye split into two lobes, and his pupils are shaded three-dimensional objects. this is a throwback to the kind of cartoony eye that was almost standard back in the olden day of animation. They are the kind of eyes that FelixTheCat and MickeyMouse have, and since studios liked to FollowTheLeader even back then...

* Buster, Babs and Binky Bunny (no relation), Plucky Duck, Hamton J. Pig, Fowlmouth, and Shirley the Loon from ''TinyToonAdventures'' are examples of this trope, but one animation style makes the characters look like they are averting the trope (e.g., the pilot episode, "A Looney Beginning").

* ''MissSpidersSunnyPatchFriends'' let us find out what happens when you give characters realistic insect-like eyes ''and'' cute cartoony eyes at the same time. Greatly dissettling? Oh, you betcha.

* The illustration of an umber hulk in the 1st Edition D&D ''Monster Manual'' shows it with one pair of large, wide-set insectile eyes, along with a smaller, close-set pair of cartoony eyes in between the bug-eyes. This actually turns out to be a clever effect, as attempting to "meet the gaze" of this sketch leaves your brain confused about which eyes are the "real" ones, much like in an optical illusion (vase or faces? bunny or duck?). Justified, in that the umber hulk's gaze ''in-game'' causes people to become confused.

As this is such a UniversalTrope, instead of listing every cartoon character ever, we will list the...

* Kerchak in ''Disney/{{Tarza}}'' has yellow sclerae, opposed to the other apes who have white sclerae. This makes him look a bit more savage than the other apes.

** Huge exceptions: ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', and the fish in ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' (One of the characters in the show has both of his eyes placed on one side of his head.)

* [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rtam.JPG One cover illustration]] of ''[[{{Redwall}} Rakkety Tam]]'' depicts Tam, an anthropomorphic squirrel, with a fairly realistic face shape and eyes. It's actually far creepier than the slightly more cartoony illustrations in the chapter-headings and on most of the other cover art, which show the animals with human-style eyes.

** Also seen on the horses in ''RoadToEldorado'' and ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' to allow for [[AnimalReactionShot Animal Reaction Shots]].

* [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] enemy Mr Mind used to be [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nJVS-KTlru0/ReWtPKqa3vI/AAAAAAAAAko/orrW7-fvvMI/s400/Mr%2BMind.gif a straight example]]; a Venusian "worm" with CartoonyEyes, who wore ''glasses''. PostCrisis he looked [[http://www.marvelfamily.com/images/MindCode/MisterMind.gif more like a realistic caterpillar]] and the "whites" of his eyes could be explained as a caterpillar's false "eyespots". The current Mr Mind (that version's [[LegacyCharacter offspring]]) [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B50sW8kbxfA/TGA7F2o7MJI/AAAAAAAAAZs/sIW6ZEs4jUA/s1600/001.jpg attempts to maintain continuity with past versions, while giving him insectile compound eyes]], with a result that lies somewhere between UglyCute and terrifying.

* Fifi La Fume and Shirly The Loon from TinyToonAdventures have blue scleras.
* PinkyAndTheBrain from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' have blue scleras and pink secleras respectively.

A variant of this trope is to draw animals which would have sideways-facing eyes in real life, with frontally placed eyes. This makes it easier to animate the otherwise laterally placed eyed character's eyes and facial expressions.

Most vertebrate animals' eyes (including rabbits' eyes) are placed on both sides of their heads. Predators tend to have forward-facing eyes, while the predated animals have their eyes sideways (for optimized 360-degree view). Most animals with forward-facing eyes, such as dogs, bears, hawks and eagles, have eyes somewhat more laterally placed than those of humans. Only owls, cats and primates (especially haplorrhine, or dry-nosed, primates) have eyes as forward facing as human eyes.

This seems to be related to ToothyBird and FeatherFingers, in that it is a ''relatively'' slight AnthropomorphicShift. The thing is, the vast majority of vertebrate animals in real-life have eyes that contain roughly the same anatomy as a human's. They just [[TechnicolorEyes look somewhat different]] due to different specializations. Some artists are of the opinion that their animal characters should have more realistic (within reason) eyes, as many animal eyes simply [[RuleOfCool look beautiful and cool]].

* [[TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] has obviously cartoony eyes, but he has pupils more appropriate for an actual frog. Many other Muppet characters have eyes appropriate for their species -- a few even use taxidermy eyes!

* {{Kirby}} has eyes shaped like black ovals with white highlights and dark blue irises, but no visible sclera.

* Cream and the Babylon Rogues in SonicTheHedgehog

* Buster, Babs and Binky Bunny (no relation), Plucky Duck, Hamton J. Pig, Fowlmouth, and Shirly the Loon from ''TinyToonAdventures'' are examples of this trope, but one animation style makes the characters look like they are averting the trope (e.g., the pilot episode, "A Looney Beginning").

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: BugsBunny, Lola Bunny, DaffyDuck, Tweety, Buzz Buzzard (iffy, because he is a predator), Foghorn Leghorn, Road Runner, and Egghead. Not so much Henery Hawk though.

* The cockroaches from ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches''. Marky's are reddish-pink, Dee Dee's are green, and Joey has one reddish-pink, one yellow. One that really stands out is Kustl, the main cockroaches' cousin, who has pink scleras paired with blue pupils.

* Dug (the dog) in {{Up}} is an extreme example - not only are his eyes facing forward, but they are also almost touching each other. The other dogs in the movie are more realistic looking, though their eyes face forward more than they should.