History Main / FishEyes

* Lemmy Koopa from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' has a lazy eye that sometimes invokes this trope.

* Caster of ''LightNovel/FateZero'' has these, emphasizing that he's [[AxeCrazy not the world's most stable individual]]. He's also a walking reference to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, so it's only fitting that he has the "Innsmouth look" mentioned under Literature. In the Einzbern Consultation Room specials, it is revealed that he had these even when he was alive, and [[spoiler:Jeanne d'Arc]] would regularly poke his eyes back in. When he appears as a Saber in ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'', he begins with normal eyes, but as his sanity declines, his eyes morph into this shape.
* The Gold-Toothed Doctor from ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' has these behind his ScaryShinyGlasses. In his case they emphasize just how ''off' he is.

* When E. Honda stumbles into Balrog's chest in ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'', Balrog's got this look before winding up to clobber him.

* Luigi briefly wears this expression at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' episode "The Yoshi Shuffle".

A particularly common form of OffModel in both hand-drawn and computer-generated 2D animation, especially when depicting an aside glance. When done intentionally, it's an example of an [[AcceptableHardLuckTargets Acceptable Hard Luck Target]]. Compare ComicallyCrossEyed, which is also used to convey stupidity or insanity, but is almost always PlayedForLaughs.

* Nugget from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' and Margaret the lunch lady from ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'' both have these permanently, serving to emphasise their weirdness/{{Ambiguous Disorder}}s.

* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' has an enemy called Bad Rat whose eyes constantly look at the opposite direction.

* Mario and sometimes Peach in ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers''.

%%* Jeebs in ''Film/MenInBlack''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* As on glorious display above, the late Creator/MartyFeldman, a talented actor and great comedian. His were caused by Graves's disease.

* Used on a near-constant basis in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' to identify video game characters (and [[ThisLoserIsYou video gamers]]) as being stupid, either in [[ArtificialStupidity gameplay]] or [[IdiotPlot story]].

A particularly common form of OffModel in both hand-drawn and computer-generated 2D animation, especially when depicting an aside glance. Compare ComicallyCrossEyed, which is also used to convey stupidity or insanity, but is almost always PlayedForLaughs.

* Mario and sometimes Peach in ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'': Zoe Aves gets this expression twice when she nearly blows her secret identity in front of Manny and Frida. The first time, her BlindingBangs prevent the viewer from seeing her left eye, so it merely looks like she's watching Frida warily. The second time, her helmet exposes her other eye, so the viewer can now see how one eye tracks Frida and the other tracks Manny.

* [[TokenHeroicOrc Gooey]], a ([[DumbIsGood questionably]]) sapient offshoot of [[BigBad Dark Matter]] and best friend to ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'', has these.

* Ditzy Doo, Element of Kindness in ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', is stated to have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus strabismus]].

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* Ruby-Spears's ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' has had this photoshopped to the point of MemeticMutation.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP6 Knock It Off]]", this expression is seen on several of Dick Hardly's Powerpuff knock-offs.

* Megatron and Starscream [[{{Narm}} Narmfully]] don this expression several times in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.

** Derpy Hooves is an interesting case: her FanNickname (which was briefly adopted in part to be her [[AscendedFanon canon name]]) comes from this, yet she's just as often seen ComicallyCrossEyed. She inverts this as her eyes usually face inward.

** One background pony (called [[FanNickname Cloud Kicker]]) in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]" can be seen making a crazy "shocked" face, complete with fish-eyes, when Gilda scares off Fluttershy. The same background pony makes another fish-eyed face in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E22HurricaneFluttershy Hurricane Fluttershy]]".

Not to be confused with FishEyeLens.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'':

* Mike from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Revenge of the Island'' and ''All-Stars'' always has this expression while he takes a deep breath right before one of his alternate personalities activate.

* Creator/GrouchoMarx had a small but noticeable squint.

* Creator/JeanPaulSartre famously had a strong squint in his right eye, and was apparently teased and bullied because of it in his childhood.