History Main / SkintoneSclerae

* Tsubasa Yuuki from ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'', since unlike all the other characters she looks like she stepped straight out of a Shojo manga from the 80s.

* Tsubasa Yuuki from ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum''.

* When Steven [[spoiler:turned into a baby]] in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Steven's Birthday" his sclerae turns flesh-colored.

** Cilan. Made even weirder by Cilan being the ''only'' main character afflicted with the condition. Even weirder still, his two brothers have regular eye-whites.

** Cilan of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is the ''[[NonStandardCharacterDesign only]]'' human in the ''Pokémon'' franchise to have them, although his very pale skin in official art means it's not immediately apparent. Not even his brothers have it. This is appropriate, as he replaced [[EyesAlwaysShut Brock]] in the anime.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' in his earlier appearances in the ClassicDisneyShorts. Later depictions of him portray him as having normal-looking eyes.

* This was the norm in the earlier volumes of ''ComicBook/{{Valerian}}.

* You can make a [[Creator/{{Nintendo}} Mii]] with this quality.

* WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse in his earlier appearances in the ClassicDisneyShorts. Later depictions of him portray him as having normal-looking eyes.

** Several Scooby-Doo direct-to-DVD movies like ''Legend of the Phantosaur'' and ''Music of the Vampire'' followed the aforementioned show by giving the characters their original designs and giving them skintone sclerae.

* When Steven [[spoiler:turned into a baby]] in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Steven's Birthday" his eyes went from BlackBeadEyes to this.

* In ''Disney/TheRescuers'', the mouse characters have sclerae the same color as their fur, to give the illusion of having the black eyes of real mice without sacrificing the expressiveness of traditional CartoonyEyes. [[ArtEvolution Averted in the sequel]].
** Seeing this trope as laziness was ultimately what made Creator/DonBluth quit working at Disney.

** Recent Scooby-Doo direct-to-DVD movies like ''Legend of the Phantosaur'' and ''Music of the Vampire'' followed the aforementioned show by giving the characters their original designs and giving them skintone sclerae.

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* This was the norm in the earlier volumes of ''{{Valerian}}.

* Some characters in the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' have these, notably Bright Noa and Mirai Yashima. (Other characters are drawn with eye whites.) Mirai can start to look odd [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdQUJ2CqttE when she's placed next to characters drawn in other styles]].

** Hanna-Barbera continued this practice into the early 1980s. In the animated series of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'', only Buckwheat and Darla haven white sclerae.

!!Examples

* Cilan in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. Made even weirder by Cilan being the ''only'' main character afflicted with the condition. Even weirder still, his two brothers have regular eye-whites.

** Several ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' characters got changed to this design in the manga remake.

* More than one female character in ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' like Arisu, Princess Ixquic, and the Pu-Awak sisters.

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* The characters from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', human and animal alike. Particularly noticeable when they made a "troubled" face.

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* Inversion in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh The Rebel Flesh]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]]"--the Gangers' skin looks like the white of a human eye.

* Cilan of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is the ''[[NonStandardCharacterDesign only]]'' human in the ''Pokémon'' franchise to have them, although his very pale skin in official art means it's not immediately apparent. Not even his brothers have it.
** This is appropriate, as he replaced [[EyesAlwaysShut Brock]] in the anime.

* This is also one of the eye types you can have in ''AnimalCrossing''.
* A few characters in [[VideoGame/{{Persona3}} Persona 3]] have this quality.

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* On ''TheFundayPawpetShow'', while watching an episode of "The Dukes" Lisel mentioned that this practice freaked her out.

** Hanna-Barbera continued this practice into the early 1980s. In the animated series of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'', only Buckwheat and Darla had white sclerae.
* The characters in the Disney ''[[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' films have button eyes, occasionally drawn with eyelids but no sclerae for the sake of an expression. This is justified in the case of the stuffed characters, but the same style was used on Christopher Robin as well, perhaps to match the simple pen-and-ink illustrations of the original books.[[note]]However, he did have white sclerae in the 2011 movie, which turned him into a cute boy of sorts.[[/note]]
* This trope sees plenty of use in TheDCAU, most famously for Franchise/{{Superman}} (except in closeups and in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'') and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Billy Batson/Captain Marvel]] (this also applies to non-DCAU production ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''). It's also used just shy of consistently for Asian characters.

* Almost every character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. The most notable exceptions were Brittany, Stacy, Jodie, Mr. O'Neill, and Mr. [=DeMartino=].
** Ms. Barch, the [[DoesNotLikeMen man-hating]] divorced science teacher, had skintone sclerae from seasons 1 to 3. When the show's animation changed in seasons 4 and 5, she was redesigned to have whites around her eyes.

* Eileen from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''.
** Justified as she's a mole.

* Very noticeable in ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' with most of the human cast.

* The first MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Anime/BinanKoukouChikyuuBoueiBuLOVE!'', Chiku Kazutake, has those.

* Shichika in ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'', the only character to have them and considered not at all ugly.

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* For some reason, Asian characters in western animation tend to be drawn like this despite other (non-Asian) characters having normal eyes.
* Any character who wears EyeGlasses will have this kind of eye if his glasses are removed.
** This is [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagged]] with Milhouse Van Houten on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. There are some episodes in which Milhouse has dots for eyes when his glasses are removed (making him look like Akbar and/or Jeff from Matt Groening's comic strip series, "Life in Hell") and other episodes (such as season 7's "Radioactive Man" and season 9's ''LordOfTheFlies'' parody "Das Bus") where Milhouse has rounded cartoon eyes with whites around the sclerae.
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* Many background or ugly/{{gonk}} characters in anime will have this.

* [[Film/YellowSubmarine]] plays this straight with the Beatles themselves, except for John, who wears glasses.

* Both WebAnimation/HomestarRunner and Strong Sad have this type of eyes.

* In ''TheRescuers'', the mouse characters have sclerae the same color as their fur, to give the illusion of having the black eyes of real mice without sacrificing the expressiveness of traditional CartoonyEyes. [[ArtEvolution Averted in the sequel]].

* Very noticeable in ''MysteriousCitiesOfGold'' with most of the human cast.

See also BlackBeadEyes.

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