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7	[[caption-width-right:320:"[[YearsTooEarly You couldn't catch me in a hundred years!]] Bleah!"]]
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9	This is the act of pulling down one lower eyelid and sticking out the tongue and saying Bleah!
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11	In Japan, this is referred to as ''akanbe'' (a corruption of ''akai me'', "red eye"), and it's called ''mon œil'' ("my eye") in France and Quebec.
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13	Close cousin to TongueOutInsult.
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20	* Ryunosuke and Yoshimi give the Red Eye to Arisa and Kyoko at the end of the BeachEpisode of ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku''.
21	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
22	** Happens twice in anime episode 11.
23	*** While the students are facing school discipline, Tatsuki does it to Ichigo after he resents her attempt to get out of being suspended.
24	*** While the students are checking their academic rankings, Keigo does it to Ichigo after discovering Ichigo's high standing and calling him a nerd.
25	** In anime episode 337, a cartoon image of Captain Mayuri appears on the screen and does this to Kisuke Urahara each time Urahara fails to guess the Squad 12 computer system's password.
26	** Mashiro does this to Kensei to mock him for forgetting that she can maintain her MaskOfPower for 15 hours.
27	* In ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', Nene Romanova uses her powered-armor's laser to scrawl a picture of someone giving a red-eye on a sidewalk, as a gesture to the military who are tracking her by spy satellite, just before ducking under a bridge to drop off her armor in a truck and walk off as a perfectly normal girl. (This must have shamed said military a great deal, because we never see them again attempt to discover the Knight Sabers' identities this way, despite them not being very subtle about heading to and from their base.)
28	* Happens in ''Literature/DirtyPair'' occasionally (both in the anime and in the comics by Adam Warren).
29	* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Mimi and Palmon do this after giving the slip to [[AbhorrentAdmirer Sukamon and Chuumon]], then do it again at the end of the episode as a parting insult.
30	* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': In "Noby, the Great Illusionist", Sneech taunts Noby by doing this when the latter asks for his Cardosaur trading card back.
31	* ''Anime/DoraemonGreatAdventureInTheAntarcticKachiKochi'' have Yamitem, the shapeshifting robot psychopath, transforming into Doraemon after capturing the real Doraemon alive, and taunting everyone's favourite robot cat by pulling down his eyelids (both of them).
32	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise:
33	** Goku does this a lot as a child in ''Manga/DragonBall'', as does present Trunks later on.
34	** After Goku beats Piccolo Jr. in the 23rd Budokai, Kami offers him the position of God of the planet. Goku shoots him down with this gesture before leaving with his soon-to-be-wife Chi-Chi.
35	** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Jimmy Firecracker/the Cell Games reporter does this to Perfect Cell]] combined with FlippingTheBird. Kid Buu does the ''akanbe'' too.
36	** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'''s Universal Survival[[labelnote:*]]a.k.a The Tournament of Power[[/labelnote]] Arc, while reintroducing Universe 6's [[ProfessionalKiller Hit]], [[DestroyerDeity Champa]] quickly [[FunnyBackgroundEvent sneaks this taunt behind him]] towards Goku's Universe 7 team.
37	** A rare instance of the trope in a tragic use when [[spoiler:[[DestroyerDeity Champa]] is about to be erased by Zeno; he does this a final gesture and goodbye to his brother, Beerus]].
38	* In the anime of ''Literature/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife'', Momo gives Ashuna one of these after she dupes her into falling for a trap filled with monsters.
39	* In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', Kaname does this to Sōsuke when she ditches him (temporarily) at the train station.
40	* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', after [[JerkAss Erika]] is walking away from taunting the Oarai team, Saori does this to her.
41	* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Vérité'' episode 7. Yashima Sanae has been insulted by Ryuuka, who insinuates that she's giving up on the expedition. As Mariel and Yashima Sanae walk off hand in hand, Yashima gives this to Ryuuka.
42	* Happens at the end of the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' episode "Someday in the Rain" by Haruhi. She also does it on the cover of the sixth novel, and the back of the [=DVDs=] in a chibi form.
43	* Viola does this in episode 7 of ''Anime/KiddyGrade''.
44	* In ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'', Kairi does this to Axel when she escapes with Pluto into the Dark Realm, leading them both to Twilight Town.
45	* In a flashback in Episode 1 of ''Anime/KotouraSan'', one female classmate does this to Haruka. It's PlayedForDrama.
46	* In ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'', after Akko manages to dodge some attacks from a bunch of snakes, she does this to them while in her mouse form.
47	* Mylene gives Basara the Red Eye as she drives away with Basara's TransformingMecha to have it repaired in an episode of ''Anime/Macross7''.
48	* Agito does this to Reinforce Zwei in the ending sequence of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS''.
49	* ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' sees Kanta occasionally making this gesture at Satsuki.
50	* Princess Mashiro does this to a trio of castle guards in the first episode of ''Anime/MyOtome'', as seen in the image above. She then does it in the next episode when talking down to Arika.
51	* Urabe does this in ''Manga/MysteriousGirlfriendX'' when Tsubaki wants to take her picture, and when she reveals she lied about having a crush on another boy when she was younger.
52	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Ino shoots this gesture at Sakura while claiming Sasuke for herself at the Chuunin Exams.
53	* In the manga version of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Asuka does this to Shinji after her initial strike against the Angel Israfel (seemingly) killed it.
54	* ''Anime/{{Ojarumaru}}'' does this to the Kooni Trio in 1st series episodes 2 and 14 to express his refusal to return King Enma's scepter. He then does it to Iwashimizu in episode 16.
55	* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'': This is one of Kuromi's tactics against My Melody.
56	* A couple times in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' Hikaru and Kaoru do this at the same time (in opposite eyes, no less).
57	* Kaitou in ''Anime/PhiBrainPuzzleOfGod'' tends to perform the act whenever declaring "It's Puzzle Time". See the anime's entry image for the exact gesture.
58	* Happens in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' occasionally. [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] inconsistently edited this out of the dub.
59	** An Aerodactyl does this to Ash's Charmeleon. It pisses him off so much that he promptly evolves into Charizard.
60	** One of the Pichu Brothers does this to Pikachu (and spanks his own butt) in the short ''Pikachu and Pichu''.
61	** A Phione does this to Jessie in season 12.
62	** Team Rocket did this on multiple occasions in season 1.
63	** At the end of "Clefairy and the Moon Stone," when Ash reads the sign pointing ahead to Cerulean City, he spots a message left for him by [[TheRival Gary]]. As he reads the message, an image of Gary giving this gesture briefly appears on screen. 4Kids took the image out of the dub, though.
64	** After Ash got banned from the Celadon Gym for [[DisproportionateRetribution badmouthing the Gym Leader's perfume shop]] without knowing that she was the owner, one member responds to Ash's pleas to get inside by simply giving him this gesture.
65	** May does this to Max in "Tree's a Crowd".
66	** The first ending of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'' has a montage of Dawn making several faces, including this gesture.
67	** Jessie does it to Ash in the last ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite Best Wishes!]]'' episode.
68	* In ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'', after Fuutarou not-so-subtly tells Ituski that she's an idiot who needs academic help, she agrees... and goes up to the teacher to ask for said help instead of him, who's supposed to be tutoring her and her sisters, shooting him this gesture afterward. She would later do this to [[spoiler:Mudou, after rejecting his too-little-too-late attempts to act as her father despite abandoning their late mother the moment he learned that she was having quintuplets.]]
69	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
70	** Ranma and Akane give each other the Red Eye fairly frequently.
71	** Ranma once the Red Eye to Principal Kuno with his big toe, as his arms were tied up.
72	* In ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', Myne, after [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accusing Naofumi of raping her]], does this at him as a cruel taunt. She also does this to Motoyasu after abandoning him for Ren.
73	* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
74	** Usagi and Rei's relationship in ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is largely giving each other red-eye.
75	** Shingo also does this to Usagi in his first appearance.
76	* Spotted in ''Manga/ShamanKing''.
77	* Averted with the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Akanbes]] in ''Anime/SmilePrecure'' who have nothing to do with this trope. Some of them stick out their tongue but they don't pull down their lower eyelid.
78	* In ''Anime/SonicX'', Sonic does this while standing on the arm of one of Eggman's mechs to goad it into hitting itself. Amy also does this at one point after getting irritated by civilians watching them.
79	* In ''Manga/SquidGirl'', Ika does this when Goro tells her and Takeru they're not supposed to be sitting in his lifeguard chair.
80	* Lum sometimes does this to Ataru in ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' after he has upset her. Sugar, Pepper, and Ginger of the Girl Trio Gang are also fond of doing this to Benten after getting the upper hand in their confrontations.
81	* Dita gives Jura the Red Eye in an episode of ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''.
82	* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
83	** Jounouchi does this to Yami Malik after he reduces the latter's LP to 0 in the Battle City semifinal match up determining duel.
84	** [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Rebecca]] does this to [[AnimeChineseGirl Vivian Wong]] after beating her and claiming Yugi (who they both have a crush on) for herself.
85	** ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'': Tristan makes Joey do this to an enemy monster in order to draw its attacks.
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89	* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'' episode 4, as Wolffy is writing a letter to his son Wilie, he is stung by a mosquito who then taunts him by pulling his eyelid and sticking his tongue out at him.
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93	* ''Fanfic/DateAReLive'': In the middle of the fight between herself and a replica of her inverse form, Tohka does it to the replica in order to blind the latter with a sandstorm.
94	* ''Fanfic/MegamiNoHanabira:'' Sara does this to [[spoiler: [[BigBadFriend Colette]]]] near the end.
95	* Pizzazz does this to Kimber in the third chapter of ''Fanfic/ASongOfGrumblingAndCottonCandy'' after teasing her about her sex life with Stormer.
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99	* Apone does this to Hudson in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' "Look into my eye." He adds [[FlippingTheBird a USCM bonus]] while he's at it.
100	* Achilles does this to Alexander in the live-action {{Mecha}} movie ''Film/RobotJox''
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104	* ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': [[EnfantTerrible Heure]] pulls down his eyelid and stick out the tip of his tongue [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall at the viewer]] in the series' opening.
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108	* Shown on the album cover for Creator/YukoMiyamura's first album, ''Kenka Banchō''.
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112	* While missing the visible tongue, [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling NJPW]] wrestler Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito is known for a similar gesture to this, widening his left eye with both his thumb and index finger (below and above, respectively). It's so synonymous with him that it even crops up in his fictionalised appearance in ''Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life''.
113	-->'''Naito:''' Tranquilo... assen na yo!! [[note]]"Just calm down!", complete with gratuitous Spanish[[/note]]
114	** It's worth noting that Naito began making this gesture while on excursion to Wrestling/{{CMLL}} in Mexico, where racist fans would mock his Japanese features by shouting at him to "open his eyes." So while he's not sticking his tongue out or making a noise, there's definitely disdain and defiance inherent in his use.
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118	* Anna does this in ''[[VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy Epic Battle Fantasy 5]]'' when she's particularly angry at whoever she's talking to. [=NoLegs=] merely snarls (the name explains why) while the other humans resort to [[FlippingTheBird a different gesture]].
119	* In ''VideoGame/FreddiFish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds'', Freddi does this at the end of the DummiedOut "Eddie Eats Luther" scene.
120	* In ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', Mona's Elemental Skill creates a projected image of her doing this that [[DrawAggro Draws Aggro]] from nearby enemies.
121	** The Wanderer, [[ReformedButNotTamed previously]] [[spoiler:Scaramouche the Balladeer]], does this as a taunt [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou towards the player]] after threatening to attack them in his idle animation.
122	--->''Relax....''
123	* The pirate Briggs in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge'', while making off with a nice ship, is chided by his wife into doing what he apparently talked about all the time while in jail -- give your party the Red Eye. He was apparently on the verge of chickening out. He's stolen the ship and is well on his way out to sea, and he's ''almost'' too scared of Felix for a parting gesture.
124	* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIII'', if [[AnIcePerson Kula Diamond]] (a 14-year-old girl who's also ''very'' childish for her age) gets upset during the pre-fight dialogues, she's shown doing this to the person she's talking to. In both ''XIV'' and ''XV'', she also does it both when taunting and right before her LimitBreak.
125	* [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'s taunt in any [[VideoGame/CapcomVs crossover]] game he's featured in, except ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.
126	* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', resident prankster kid Russo does this taunt in his album portrait by pulling down his right eyelid and sticking out his tongue.
127	* There's an emote for this for TheVoiceless cast of the second ''VideoGame/SnowboardKids'' game.
128	* One of the toad children in the Mushroom Kingdom in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' wants to marry Mario and tells him that she will do this to Bowser in the Japanese version of the game; in English, it's changed to her asking Mario to wait a few years so she can grow into her mother's wedding dress (in the SNES version) or to become Mario's sidekick (in the Switch remake). Strangely, both games preserve the child's reaction if Bowser is in your party (her shouting a taunting sound and running inside a nearby house), which [[DubInducedPlotHole seems to make no sense in the translated script.]]
129	* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', Shadow Mario does this to Mario, revealing an OverlyLongTongue, as he takes off to Pinna Park with Peach in tow.
130	* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Tekken 7]]'', Eddie's ending has Lucky Chloe do this to him and running away after he defeats her.
131	* In ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', Angela does this after she [[DistractedByTheSexy tricks a prison guard]] and traps him in her cell.
132	* In ''VideoGame/UminekoGoldenFantasia'' [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Lucifer]] does this as her taunt.
133	* [[FunnyBackgroundEvent An NPC does this to another NPC]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' during one of the non-combat scenes, and it's easy to miss if you're mostly paying attention to the storyline.
134	* ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'': in ''Kiwami 2'', this is Koyuki's favored way of seeing off unwanted guests at the club. it meshes very well with her HotBlooded and somewhat immature nature.
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138	* ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': Kuromi's go-to insult when she's mad at someone.
139	* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XaacjsOyE My sister took my husband away from me when I was pregnant →years later she was punished]]'', Kota pulls this on his aunt Yuri when she brought up her cheating to mock Ram.
140	* ''WebAnimation/PortByTheSea'': Port does this while confronting the sea monster [[spoiler:after he realizes it's Bonnie.]]
141	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Neon Katt does this as part of her [[IShallTauntYou taunting strategy]] against Yang to keep her angry during the Vytal Festival.
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145	* Ariel does it in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=6187 as she leaves her "room"]] (really a cell that was formerly used to hold disobedient slaves). The author is French-Canadian.
146	* In their introduction in ''Webcomic/IgnitionZero'', Neve does this to show that they're immature.
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150	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[NotSoAboveItAll Lilith]] does this to [[spoiler:Eda in her Owlbeast form]] even after stating she won't react to the latter's raspberry taunt.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E35BigSulkyTheFunnyFaceCompetition The Funny Face Competition]]," Midge practices making funny faces for the competition, and pulls her eyelid in one instance.
152	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Limestone Pie does this in the season 5 episode "Hearthbreakers".
153	* When meeting ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' for the first time, the Scotsman does a tiny bit of this ("worm-eyed") near the end of his [[FloweryInsult twenty-second long insult]].
154	* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E18FriendShip Friend Ship]]" has Steven do it towards Peridot while the two are arguing. Peridot returns the favor as she [[VillainExitStageLeft makes her escape]].
155	* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', when Control Freak has been bested by the Titans East, he cries foul, zaps himself into the TV and departs with this gesture, leaving the Titans East to try and figure out what the hell just happened.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Appeared in the Music/TheyMightBeGiants "Istanbul (not Constantinople)" video of the music video episode. Considering how the episode was sourced to Creator/TMSEntertainment, it may have been thrown in by the animators and kept.
157	* Clover from ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' has done this a couple of times.
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