History Main / CartoonyEyes

* Most of the male Baikins from ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'', to heighten their alien origins. Baikinman's are pink, Aoikinman's are light blue, Akakinman's are orange-red, and Mushibaikinman's are light yellow. Also from the show is Kurayamiman, to show off his supernatural side. He has pink scleras with large red pupils.

* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the GiantSpider Mora, while BrainwashedAndCrazy, appears to have typical arthropod eyes, albeit with a SicklyGreenGlow, but after being freed from TheCorruption, they become [[UncannyValley uncannily mammal-like]], complete with blinkable eyelids.

Firstly, it makes it easier to animate the animal(ish) character's eyes and facial expressions, and to [[RuleOfPerception convey]] their actual mood. The real-world facial expressions of horses, for instance, mostly involve subtle positioning of their ears and nostrils, with their eyes basically having various levels of "open" and "closed". To the uninitiated, this results in "angry" looking nearly identical to "happy", "scared", and "sees attractive lady horse". In many classical battlefield paintings, for instance, the freakishly exaggerated rolling eyes [[SuddenAnatomy and furrowed eyebrows]] seen on horses are an intentional effort to avert the (seeming) DissonantSerenity in the slightly widened eyes of a panicking or enraged warhorse.

Secondly, it also helps avert a certain amount of the UncannyValley effect which can result from putting exaggerated expressions on the faces of many animals, particularly when seen from straight-on. Not employing this trope in such cases via things like {{Cheated Angle}}s and adding eyebrow ridges to animals without them [[note]]such as kangaroos, some dog breeds, deer, rabbits and horses[[/note]] can look, to put it in technical terms, "[[AccidentalNightmareFuel damned freaky]]". [[note]]See also: victorian taxidermist's ill-advised attempts to [[TaxidermyTerror give whimsical expressions and large anthropomorphic eyes to taxidermied animals]].[[/note]]

*** Flounder from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1'', WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}, Misterjaw from the 90-minute ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther Pink Panther]]'' show and Cleo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' have 'em, too.

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* Squid-form Inklings in ''VideoGame/Splatoon''.

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

* Pascal the chameleon from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' has the typical cartoony eyes that show sclerae, unlike a real chameleon.

* Lucifer from ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' has green irides and yellow scleras.

* ''Disney/RobinHood''

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

* Lucky and Tripod of ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' have blue scleras, though the rest of the puppies have white. Spot, Lt. Pug, Sgt. Tibbs, and Mooch have yellow scleras.

* Kaa in ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' goes through some sort of AnthropomorphicShift between his first and second appearance. First he has sideway-facing eyes, appropriately for a snake, but in his second appearance he gets cartoony, forward-facing eyes.
* The deer and rabbits in ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' have cartoony eyes, but those that are placed on either side of their head, appropriately for deer and rabbits.

* Jose Carioca of ''Disney/SaludosAmigos'' and ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'' has cartoony eyes, but has them placed on either side of his head, appropriately for a parrot.
* Hei Hei from ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' has huge, cartoony eyes, but like a real chicken, they're placed on either side of his head.

*** Flounder from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}, Misterjaw from the 90-minute ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther Pink Panther]]'' show and Cleo from ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' have 'em, too.

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 ([[TropesAreTools within reason]]) eyes, as many animal eyes simply [[RuleOfCool look beautiful and cool]].

* Stitch and all the other [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments experiments]] in the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise have eyes with no visible sclera or even ''pupils'' (those white spots in their eyes are usually just light reflections that are used as a substitute that tricks viewers into thinking they are pupils). The same goes for Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, but given that they're all ''aliens'', this design may be an allusion to ''[[TheGreys another]]'' type of familiar extraterrestrial.

* Stitch and all the other [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments experiments]] in the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise have eyes with no visible sclera or even
''pupils'' (those white spots in their eyes are usually just light reflections that are used as a substitute that tricks viewers into thinking they are pupils). The same goes for Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, but given that they're all ''aliens'', this design may be an allusion to ''[[TheGreys another]]'' type of familiar extraterrestrial.

* Stitch and all the other [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments experiments]] in the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise have eyes with no visible sclera. The same goes for Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, but given that they're all ''aliens'', this design may be an allusion to ''[[TheGreys another]]'' type of familiar extraterrestrial.

** In the ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime, experiments brainwashed by Hämsterviel (who have an 'H' marking somewhere on their bodies) have their irises rendered visible, but still don't have visible sclera. There's also Twang/Flute and Witch, who were introduced in this series and did not follow the standard design for experiment eyes, but they were under Hämsterviel control with H's somewhere on their bodies the whole time, so we don't know what their eyes may normally look like.

* ''WesternAnimation/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.

** Prince John the maneless lion, Sir Hiss the snake, the Sheriff of Nottingham (a wolf), and the owls have yellow sclerae. The former three, especially the wolf, have them to emphasize their sneakiness.

* Dug (the dog) in ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* Slappy and Skippy Squirrel, the mice Pinky (whose eyes are placed right next to each other) and the Brain, Flavio and Marita the Hip Hippos, Chicken Boo, and the pigeons Bobby, Pesto, and Squit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' are examples of this trope as their species’ real world counterparts would have laterally places eyes (or high on the head in the case of the mice and on the top of the head in the case of the hippos).

* Played with and averted depending on the incarnation of the ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' series, but played straightest in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', where the ponies eyes are placed more forward than in the earlier incarnations.

* Franchise/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 WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse have, and since studios liked to FollowTheLeader even back then...

* Cream the Rabbit and the Babylon Rogues in ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''

* Ruber from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' has light yellow scleras alongside his small green irises.

* Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks and the Chippetes are usually portrayed with forward-facing eyes. Averted with the earliest incarnations of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore in which they look like real chipmunks, laterally-placed eyes and all.* Averted with a lot of, but not all, cartoon fish.

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* Disney/MickeyMouse, Disney/MinnieMouse, Daisy Duck, Disney/DonaldDuck, and WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale from WesternAnimation/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.

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* [[Webcomic/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.

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* Dug in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' has CartoonyEyes with distinct scleras-- but the other dogs' eyes are much closer to the look of actual dog eyes (with far less white).

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* 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 WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse have, and since studios liked to FollowTheLeader even back then...

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* Renamon from Anime/DigimonTamers has blue irises and black scleras.

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* Cartoon lemurs often have yellow or orange sclerae.

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

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* Dug (the dog) in ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

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* Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks and the Chippetes are usually portrayed with forward-facing eyes. Averted with the earliest incarnations of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore in which they look like real chipmunks, laterally-placed eyes and all.

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* Averted with a lot of, but not all, cartoon fish.

* Played with and averted depending on the incarnation of the ''MyLittlePony'' series, but played straightest in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', where the ponies eyes are placed more forward than in the earlier incarnations.

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* Inverted with the extinct koala lemur. Whereas other primates have very frontally placed eyes, and most simian ones have them placed extremely close to each other (human eye placement is one of the less extreme in terms of closeness among simians), koala lemurs’ has eyes that, although they were not placed so laterally on the head like rabbits’ eyes are, were placed somewhat laterally.

* Stitch and all the other [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments experiments]] in the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise have eyes with no visible sclera. Same with Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel.

* Inverted with the extinct koala lemur. Whereas other primates have very frontally placed eyes, and most simian ones have them placed extremely close to each other, koala lemurs’ has eyes that, although they were not placed so laterally on the head like rabbits’ eyes are, were placed somewhat laterally.

Kinyonga the chameleon from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' has eyes that are accurate for a chameleon. In fact, her eyes are more accurate to her species than that of any of the other animals in the show.

* Slappy and Skippy Squirrel, the mice Pinky (whose eyes are placed right next to each other) and the Brain, Chicken Boo, and the pigeons Bobby, Pesto, and Squit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' are examples of this trope as their species’ real world counterparts would have laterally places eyes.

** Prince John the maneless lion has yellow sclerae.
** Lady Kluck the hen has light yellow sclerae.

* The lions from ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' franchise all have yellow scleras. Also, Pumbaa the warthog has light yellow scleras.

** That one white rabbit from "Of Nice and Men" with a black spot on its back has blue scleras, while the all-white rabbits from the same cartoon have red scleras.

* Donkey from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''

* Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks and the Chippetes

* Cream and the Babylon Rogues in ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''

* The ''MyLittlePony'' series.

** The two exceptions for the experiments are Mr. Stenchy and Snafu, who play the CartoonyEyes trope straight.

** In the ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime, experiments brainwashed by Hämsterviel (who have an 'H' marking somewhere on their bodies) have their irises rendered visible, but still don't have visible sclera.

Not to be confused with SphereEyes or ConjoinedEyes.