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10	->''"AAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!"''
11	-->-- '''Pretty much anyone who does this'''
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13	One of TheTwelvePrinciplesOfAnimation is exaggeration of movements and facial expression, and the Wild Take is the prime example of this principle, bringing TheTake to anatomically impossible levels.
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15	If a mouse ran across the kitchen floor, a take would be to jump back, startled. A SpitTake would be to shoot out your coffee dramatically out of your mouth and start shouting. A wild take would be to scream at the top of your lungs with your eyes popped out and duplicated many times and with a giant mouth and jump high enough to leave a [[ImpactSilhouette you-shaped hole]] in the roof.
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17	Most characters who engage in this behavior tend to be high-strung at the best of times. Don't ask about the worst of times.
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19	Mostly an {{Animation Trope\|s}}, though it can be [=CGI'd=] into live-action shows (most often, but ''not'' exclusively, those intended for a younger demographic and "live-action cartoons"). See also EyePop and JawDrop.
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21	Compare with SuperDeformed.
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24	!!Examples:
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29	* A few Cheetos commercials animated by the creator of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' has Chester wild taking upon seeing the new products.
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* Beauty from ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' often does this because she's the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] in a {{Cloudcuckooland}}, though the other characters do this occasionally.
34	* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', despite its somber tone with all the demon slaying the series does not shy away from many comedic moments, the characters pull the most extreme face reactions imaginable, one of the male leads, Zenitsu, is the undisputed king of it as he is the resident overreacting wreck of the bunch.
35	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has the occasional Wild Take in comedic moments, especially in regards to Al and Winry's interactions.
36	* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'':
37	** Happens often but Yukko's reaction to stabbing herself with a pen results in a Galactic piercing scream.
38	** Also Yukko again and Mio as well after being bit by Mai's dogs.
39	** The Professor actually installed this onto Nano '''as a feature'''.
40	* ''Franchise/OnePiece:''
41	** This trope is so prevalent in ''One Piece'' that you'd be hard-pressed to find a chapter that doesn't have one. Bonus points to Usopp for doing this so much it might as well be his regular face. This is true even when he puts on a mask as part of his Sogeking persona. The mask completely averts the ExpressiveMask, but Usopp's jaw sticks out from below the bottom of the mask so you can still see his wide take. [[spoiler: And no one can forget his example in the Dressrosa Arc, which was so scary that it ''knocked out'' Doflamingo important crew member, Sugar, undoing her [[RetGone toy power]], returning the toys to human form and giving memories of them back to Dressrosa citizens, which was the beginning of Doflamingo's downfall.]]
42	** Best examples? Falls. Especially [[https://youtu.be/6cMTtFgTRoc?t=78 in Skypiea]], when Luffy half-seriously suggested the coming InevitableWaterfall only for the others to dismiss the idea. Later, at the end of that arc, when falling back down to the Blue Sea, even the ''[[RuleOfFunny ship]]'' does a Wild Take. [[spoiler:[[HouseFey This actually foreshadows the fact that it has a will of its own]]]].
43	** Nico Robin:
44	*** Robin averted this for the longest time. For nearly six hundred chapters of the manga, starting from her introduction in Chapter 114, ''she never had a single wild take''. When she and her crewmates see something surprising, they'll have their eyes popping and jaws dropping (Zoro and Nami sometimes have more composed expressions, but they've had their fair share of wild takes), all while Robin has an unexaggerated shocked expression... or even better, [[TheComicallySerious she'll keep her composure]]. Even after Luffy says he picked a fight with Big Mom, one of the ''Four Emperors''. Everyone reasonably freaks out, but what does Robin do? ''She calmly smiles'', most likely because she expected nothing less from Luffy.
45	*** It's not until chapter 711 that [[NotSoAboveItAll Robin]] ''[[NotSoAboveItAll finally]]'' [[NotSoAboveItAll performed one]] in reaction to over-trusting nature of Tontatta. Getting one to release her with promises that she intends no harm and won't reveal them to anyone else is one thing. ''All'' of them believing that, based on nothing but the first one vouching for her, ''that'' is what finally makes the overly serious Robin wild take for her first time in the series.
46	*** She pulls some wild takes again in chapters 728, along with Usopp and Franky, again due to the Tontatta, who blindly trust falsified news of [[spoiler:Doflamingo stepping down as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea]], because the Straw Hats were partly responsible for bringing about that false news. In chapter 928, during the Wano arc, she has a wild take alongside everyone else in the crew upon learning that Luffy, who she hasn't seen in weeks and is supposed to be in hiding, has [[spoiler:been captured by Kaido after a failed ambush attempt]].
47	** Tony Tony Chopper, a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter reindeer who ate the Human-Human Fruit]] and the crew's doctor, occasionally has a Wild Take where his hat pops off of his head... along with his antlers. Of course, [[OhCrap it's always for good reason]].
48	** [[TheStoic Dracule Mihawk]] averts this trope. He takes surprising news in stride, such as Sengoku revealing the identity of Luffy's father. Most of the people around him are dumbfounded by the news. Mihawk's reaction?
49	---> '''Mihawk:''' It's hardly surprising at this point.
50	** In fact, most of the Shichibukai were relatively unfazed. As some of the strongest pirates in existence, they need to be able to keep a clear head... though most likely due to Luffy's influence, Jimbei proves in the Fish-Man Island Arc that he's NotSoAboveItAll.
51	** The Z's Ambition Arc, a filler at the start of the New World Saga, [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this trope to the point where it can be lampshaded by giving it to a SizeShifter.
52	** While Usopp is the Wild Take king in ''One Piece'', Camie the mermaid is definitely the queen. Her expression whenever she's surprised about something... let's just say that if ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had Wild Takes, the characters from said show would definitely have [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/1/11/Keimi%27s_Face_Fault.png Camie's expression]]. Which finally reaches its obvious end [[http://i.imgur.com/Kgi3bLI.gif here.]]
53	** [[spoiler:This trope is even made a ''plot point'' in this series, when Usopp's [[FireBreathingDiner agonized expression]] after eating a [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce Tatabasco ball]] is terrifying enough to knockout Sugar just by seeing it. ''And then he '''[[Awesome/OnePiece weaponizes]]''' it, sending an image of his wild take to the same target later!'']]
54	** When Eneru realizes that Luffy is immune to his powers, the resulting OhCrap face [[https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/onepiecejawdrop.jpg takes up an entire page in the manga.]]
55	** Oda even listed in Volume 81, just for laughs, how many times the Straw Hats (plus [[LaughablyEvil Buggy]] and [[GuestStarPartyMember Vivi]]) had performed a wild take or other shocked expressions up until that point. in descending order, they are:
56	*** Usopp: 428 times
57	*** Nami: 295 times
58	*** Zoro: 263 times
59	*** Sanji: 246 times
60	*** Chopper: 129 times
61	*** Luffy: 112 times
62	*** Franky: 92 times
63	*** Buggy: 57 times
64	*** Vivi: 40 times
65	*** Robin: 16 times
66	*** Brook: 15 times
67	* In one episode of ''Manga/OutlawStar'', when Gilliam sees hordes of MechaMooks charging up his gantry, he does a proper one.
68	* Brief does one at the end of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' when he discovers [[spoiler:Panty's chopped-up remains]].
69	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', while they've done these before then (albeit rarely), began indulging in these more often in the DenserAndWackier ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', and they are done OnceAnEpisode. The official ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' website even made [[https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/going-wild-on-pokemon-the-series/ a list of their personal favorites]] (they even used the term)!
70	* Almost constantly in the comedy scenes in ''Anime/SailorMoon''.
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73	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
74	* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has some wild takes from the title characters, particularly in one SundayStrip where Calvin manages to sneak up on Hobbes from behind when he comes home (only to get mauled by tiger anyway).
75	* Scott Adams sometimes illustrates wild takes in ''{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}}''. One particular 1996 strip had the PointyHairedBoss informing the main characters that the company had just been bought out by their rival. When he mentions that the new company already has engineers who are doing the same jobs as their department for less pay (which he thinks is supposed to reassure them that they won't get laid-off), the panicked reactions of the cast to that news include Alice's hair jumping off her head, Wally's skull flying out of his mouth, and Dilbert's head [[Film/TheExorcist spinning in circles]].
76	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', the RunningGag of Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown usually involves him launching himself into the air as his legs kick at nothing before landing on his back.
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80	* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'':
81	** Killer springing in mid-air, his eyes bulging in and out, and screaming, after he retrieves and puts back on his glasses, when he sees Charlie and Itchy are out of prison clearly enough the second time.
82	** Carface gets two. The first is when Charlie is freed from the anchor. The second is when he sees King Gator swimming towards him.
83	* An elephant does one in the ending of "I Just Can't Wait to be King" in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' when it [[PainToTheAss falls buttocks-first on an antelope's horns]], with a loud scream and pink and white circles forming in its eyes.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Héctor's eyes drop out of his eye sockets and into his mouth when Miguel tells him that he is the great-great grandson of Ernesto de la Cruz.
85	* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterMash2000'': Mrs. Tinklemeister's first scene has her eyes bug out in shock at seeing that a fly is tracking dirty footprints all over her window.
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89	* Holli Would does one of these towards the end of ''Film/CoolWorld''. After seeing [[spoiler:Jack return the Spike of Power to the Cool World]], she reacts with a physically exaggerated scream followed by [[EyePop her eyeballs bulging to the size of her entire body]]. It's a little contrasting due to Holli being, by comparison, one of the more [[MsFanservice realistic looking]] [[{{Toon}} Doodles]] in the movie.
90	* ''Film/TheMask'', being a live-action cartoon, gets off several, the most extreme probably coming when he exits a city park and turns to find himself confronted with the entire Edge City police department, which involves his ''entire skull'' popping out of his mouth.
91	* The "Large Marge" scene in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' features one done in Claymation.
92	* A rare live-action example in ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles''. Del and Neal end up driving on the wrong side of a freeway at night, completely unaware of it until two huge trucks come barrelling towards them. Their car scrapes between the two semis and the pair scream. There is a series of fast cuts between the outside and inside of the car, and at one point we see that both Del and Neal have been replaced by google-eyed skeletons just to elevate the sheer cartoonish shock. This is followed by Neal looking over at Del and seeing him dressed as the devil himself, laughing maniacally. The two end up on the other side, hit the brakes and their suitcases fly off the back of the car and land on the road. Neil's fingertips are embedded in the dashboard and Del has bent the steering wheel.
93	* Zero Mostel made a career of this, especially in ''Film/TheProducers''. The opening credits even freeze frame on one of them.
94	* Ben Turpin made a living playing a cross-eyed doofus. He even had insurance on his eyes in case they ever ''un''crossed!
95	* The title character in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is prone to wild takes. Other Toon characters get at least one, including the weasels, Jessica and [[spoiler:Judge Doom]].
96	* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the French Knight does an incredible take after seeing the Trojan rabbit King Arthur and his knights built.
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99	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
100	* A common reaction to Wrestling/TheUndertaker appearing behind someone is for the shocked wrestler to fall on their butt and scoot backwards in sheer terror.
101	* [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] had a RunningGag with Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin of giving over-the-top sells of Austin's stunner. He would later reveal these were attempts to make Austin [[Main/{{Corpsing}} break character and laugh]].
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104	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
105	* The RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}'' includes these as part of playing its characters. A character who is "Boggled" (stunned for a round or two) by a shocking event will pull one of these off.
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109	* ''Series/SisterSister'' once had a character do this as a one-off visual gag utilising CGI effects. When Tamera first sees her romantic interest in the opening of the episode "Boy From The Hood", [[EyePop her eyeballs cartoonishly bug out of their sockets]]. [[RubberOrifice She also contorts her mouth into the shape of a stretched out Klaxon horn]] to produce the archetypal "aooga" noise that typically accompanies Wild Takes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVKT-vLnVyw&feature=youtu.be It can be viewed here.]]
110	* An episode of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' featured a game of Unlikely Superheroes, where Colin was Horribly Frightened Of Everything Man. Priceless.
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115	* In the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games, witnesses will do a Wild Take if you manage to put a particularly large hole in their testimony; these are generally known as "damage" animations. [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/8/81/Phoenix-ohshit.gif/revision/latest?cb=20130111111439 Some]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/e/e1/AA_Miles_Edgeworth_Court_Shocked.gif/revision/latest?cb=20140624152235 notable]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/0/05/Von_Karma_Breakdown_1.gif/revision/latest?cb=20100321210542 ones]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/5/5a/Redd-breaks.gif/revision/latest?cb=20071119125349 from]] [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/1/14/Jake_Breakdown.gif/revision/latest?cb=20100319022931 the]] [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/6/6e/Meekins_Shocked.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120824204714 first]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/0/01/Gant_Breakdown_1.gif/revision/latest?cb=20140629114844 game]].
116	* In ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'', the titular 'toads do a Wild Take when they encounter a boss, also losing whatever weapon they may have been holding. Even the [[VideoGame/DoubleDragon Lee Brothers]] do this in their crossover game with the Toads!
117	** This is the same case for ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest''.
118	* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' and [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair its sequel]] are pretty light on the {{Wild Take}}s outside of {{Gonk}} characters like Hifumi and Teruteru, but Kazuichi in the second game manages one when he hears [[GenkiGirl Ibuki]] sing for the first time, and discovers that her music of choice is death metal, resulting in a shocked face in a ''[[ArtShift completely different art style]]''.
119	* In the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' series, human {{mooks}} freak out and scream whenever a player character respawns.
120	** In ''VideoGame/MetalSlugDefense,'' your army is represented by a single Rebel Soldier on the mission select screen, who does this when encountering a boss.
121	* In ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'', Pepino will bug out if he comes into contact with a bomb, then start panicking and running with it. He also has his share of takes for encountering bosses, and in the TV display related to his current situation; he's a ''very'' expressive man. On the other hand, just about every {{Mook}} in the game will have one of their own paralyzing them in place when Peppino comes barreling at them at full Mach 3.
122	* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, Ringo has a specific shocked expression (round white eyes, mouth wide open, body is drawn more rigidly) she uses often... even if the situation wouldn't cause ''that'' much of a reaction, such as merely running into someone she's never seen before.
123	* One dream in ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' features the dreaming Mii reacting by having his/her face pop off (including the outline of his/her nose) and fly into space.
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127	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When Maxim walks up having earned "Old Man Death"'s hat [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100614 Oggie has an exaggerated response that includes his eyes bugging out and his mouth dropped comically open.]]
128	* Jean, being rather temperamental (often with reason), does a lot of these in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' such as [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/64/ here,]] [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/196/ here,]] [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/185/ here,]] [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/317 here,]] and [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/335 here.]]
129	** And [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/428 here!]]
130	* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has a lot of exaggerated facial expressions, including a fair share of wild takes.
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134	* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
135	** During the ''Film/SonOfTheMask'' review, Critic's reaction to the [[{{Balloonacy}} Balloon-head baby]] is incoherent screaming terror, complete with bugged-out eyes.
136	** His reaction to the Arnold Baby from ''Film/{{Junior}}'' is much the same, except he charges off to the bathroom, arms a-flailing and vomits for 24 hours straight.
137	* One Website/YouTube channel, under [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheWildtake the same name]], has set out to collect media examples of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wild takes]]. It's even made a music video collage of them.
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141	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' tended to do this at least OnceAnEpisode, almost always from Robotnik or his bots when they realize they're about to be on the receiving end of something painful. Sonic and Tails occasionally had some of their own though.
142	** [=AoSTH=] having wild takes is no shock, considering that some of its lead animators were veterans of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''.
143	* Used frequently in WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball. Not a lot in [[Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Season 1,]] a little more in Season 2, and almost Main/OnceAnEpisode from Season 3 onwards. Some of the more realistic ones could count as NightmareFuel.
144	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Slappy Squirrel was fond of pointing these out while watching her old cartoons; "Ah, wild take no. 32, regular as clockwork. [[{{Toilet Humour}} Wish everything was as regular as clockwork around here]]."
145	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', being {{Animesque}} series, [[http://dvdscreenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/atla/113/617.jpg occasionally indulge]] [[https://trippingbooks.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/screen-shot-2012-06-04-at-10-44-16-pm.png in this]].
146	* Creator/TexAvery largely [[TropeCodifier codified this trope]]. The ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'' short ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' is the likely codifier, but WesternAnimation/NorthwestHoundedPolice is more imaginative, [[http://www.toontube.com/video/342/Droopy-Dog-Northwest-Hounded-Police as seen here]].
147	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'', with Nick making an outrageous wild take when he falls in love with Tallulah Levine. Unfortunately, his eyes and tongue don't go back in and just lay on the floor, much to his distress.
148	* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' cartoons is non-ghost's exaggerated reactions to seeing Casper.
149	* The titular dog of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. He does these whenever he's scared, i.e. every thirty seconds. These are often cut too quickly and make the occasional surreal things on the show even scarier.
150	** Early in the episode "Night of the Weremole", when he sees a snarling Muriel raiding the refrigerator, he starts screaming, then clutches his chest with a yelp, and collapses. Then it cuts to an ambulance racing across Nowhere, followed by Courage recovering in Dr. Vindaloo's office. Of all the insane things he would go through during the series, that is the one thing that literally gave Courage a heart attack.
151	** This trope was done to the point that it became a ChekhovsSkill in one of the last episodes - [[spoiler: Courage wound up defeating an alliance of his most notorious villains by screaming so powerfully that it caused the ground beneath them to split from the force.]]
152	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' did this at times, which is actually extremely unusual for a Disney cartoon. Also, whenever a Disney series was animated by Glen Kennedy's team, they would give the characters blink-it-or-miss-it wild takes which were quite extreme compared to how quick they went by.
153	* The Urpneys engaged in these frequently in ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' (Urpgor in particular would often pull multiple elaborate ones in a single casual sentence). The heroes were usually animated ''far'' more tamely, [[NotSoAboveItAll though weren't void of them completely]] (eg. their MassOhCrap in "The Dream Beam Invasion" or Amberley's in "Wildit's Whistle").
154	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' does this constantly with almost all the characters at some point.
155	* The titular character from ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' does these whenever he's scared.
156	* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Mr. Crocker would frequently do wild takes when ranting to himself about Timmy's ''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis FAIRY-GOD-PARENTS]]!"''
157	* Wade, the paranoid duck on the "U.S. Acres" segments of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', had this as his primary character trait. ''Everything'' elicited a Wild Take from him.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' characters are quite prone to doing this, as WordOfGod says that the series was heavily inspired by Tex Avery's cartoons. Kaeloo and Stumpy in particular often have their eyes pop out of their heads when they look at something shocking.
159	* Happens to the titular character in ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' during one of the Halloween episodes. In a very rare instance he's frightened in a haunted house and his skeleton practically tears through his skin and leaps out.
160	* A very common trope in "WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes", [[Main/FearTropes especially when the characters get scared.]]
161	** One of the most famous examples in Western animation is from ''WesternAnimation/BookRevue'', where at the sight of the Big Bad Wolf, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck temporarily [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bLHX_7BeA6E/UYn_y6UcgKI/AAAAAAAAkvQ/cl62aMZuoso/s1600/BOOK+REVUE+13.png transforms into a giant eyeball]].
162	** In one ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, Plucky Duck tries to replicate this trick, which Daffy refers to as the "[[Creator/BobClampett Clampett]] Corneal Catastrophe". Unfortunately Plucky gets stuck in it, leaving him as a giant eyeball with legs for the bulk of the cartoon, and on PictureDay no less.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': The Mask pulls this any time he gets scared, horrified and shocked which gets to the point that he sometimes comment on it at times.
164	* Happens to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks'' episode "Locksmiths".
165	* In ''Once Upon a Girl'' Jack does this upon seeing the large breasted gypsy he was given in exchange for his cow.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/MyPetMonster'' has every human react this way.
167	* The titular characters from ''WesternAnimation/PibAndPog'' does these whenever they scared.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' had some wonderful examples, usually as the gang's reaction to the MonsterOfTheWeek.
169	* The two scientists', the street crowd's, and the girl scout's reaction to Dr. Crocker's abstract art-styled head and face transformation in the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode, "Pardon My Molecules".
170	* Ren often did this in ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''; such examples include after making fun of their drill sergeant only to realize he's standing right next to him when he sees this he screams, his eyeballs pop out of their sockets, his brain pops out of his skull, his skin melts off his head, and his bones connecting to his neck pop off, and when he is under the influence of Stimpy's happy helmet he makes a different and wackier expression after each word as he says "I MUST GO DO NICE THINGS!".
171	** Most of Creator/JohnKricfalusi's works are pretty much built around this trope. Judging by the many, many styles of animation he's trashed and badmouthed over the years solely for ''not'' employing exaggerated reactions, the WildTake is evidently one of the only animation tricks that Kricfalusi has any respect for.
172	** Heck, if the page image is to be believed, Ren is the reigning king of this trope.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Rocko often did the impressive brain-pops-out-of-the-skull ones, and was surpassed only by ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' at the time in terms of creative and somewhat gory wild takes.
174	** When Rocko went to get his driver's license, the eye test doctor actually ''[[InvokedTrope invoked]]'' the Wild Take ''[[ExploitedTrope intentionally]]'' (by leaving a terrorizing message) so Rocko's eyes would be big enough to examine easily. He then forced Rocko to hold the take pose until the test was complete. ([[http://www.teennick.com/videos/clip/rockos-modern-life-eye-doctor-clip.html Link to clip]])
175	* Characters on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' have these in [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror episodes]] such as Bart and Lisa when they see Itchy and Scratchy about to fire weapons at them or Homer when he sees the hole in the third dimension.
176	** Wild Takes were also common in the original ''[[Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow Tracey Ullman Show]]'' shorts.
177	** According to Dr. Hibbert, the medical term for this is called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPe8XFo9Zg Tex Avery Syndrome]]."
178	** Parodied in an episode regarding a film adaptation of Radioactive Man, when Principal Skinner announces that the film will be made in Springfield and that they will cast kids from the city to star in the movie as Fall Out Boy. The kids' hats fly from their heads, then Skinner says that they will fix the AC.
179	** "Homer's Triple Bypass" not only has Homer giving multiple wild takes while having a heart attack, but the scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsxERk3D7mY also has a cutaway of Homer's heart]] having its ''own'' wild take.
180	** "Krusty Gets Busted" gives Krusty [[https://imgur.com/gallery/EThb70I his own heart attack-induced wild take]] as well.
181	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Happens occasionally, especially past Season 9 when the animation would become more expressive and zany.
182	* ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'': Larry 'Cheatsy' Koopa carries out a particularly dramatic wild take in the episode "[[Recap/SuperMarioWorldEpisode9GopherBash Gopher Bash]]" after Mario, Luigi and Yoshi defeat his Monty Moles, thus foiling his plans to steal the vegetables.
183	** Lemmy also does one in "[[Recap/SuperMarioWorldEpisode12ALittleLearning A Little Learning]]" when he notices the volcano starting to erupt.
184	** Mario's reaction during a {{flashback\|cut}} in "[[Recap/SuperMarioWorldEpisode10RockTV Rock TV]]" after he and Luigi receive a {{shockingly expensive\|bill}} phone bill, followed by {{Fainting}} [[FaintInShock in shock]]:
185	--->'''Luigi:''' Remember the trouble we got into with that 'Speak to Santa' Hotline back in Brooklyn?\
186	''(Luigi gives Mario the phone bill)''\
187	'''Mario:''' Phone bill-- amount due: $1,295.31! Ooooh!
188	* ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'':
189	** Jerry does one in ''Little School Mouse'' when he tells Nibbles to retrieve a whisker from Tom, only to discover that Nibbles dragged Tom over to the mousehole ''by'' his whisker.
190	** Tom does one in ''Mouse Cleaning'' after inadvertently creating a mess of blue ink on the wall after trying to clean up a tomato-related mess.
191	* Animator Creator/JimTyer came up with his own variation, the "shrink take", where the character gets smaller in anticipation to the big take. He first used it on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Too Weak to Work".
192	* Happens a few times in the ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' cartoon "A Fine Feathered Frenzy".
193	** When Woody Woodpecker hears Gorgeous Gal's sexy voice on the phone and she invites him to come over to possibly marry him his eyes bulge out of his head and he jumps up and down all over the place with joy. His feelings change once he meets her and realizes she's an overweight and elderly bird. She in turn falls in love with him but her reaction intensifies once she holds him down and kisses him on the lips several times. After this Gorgeous Gal looks at the Woodpecker with a wild eyed expression, becomes ecstatic and her entire body flies at him with her giant red lips puckered like cupid's love arrow when he tries to escape. The cartoon is also filled with several other wild takes, but mostly Woody's horrified reaction to Gorgeous Gal's flirting and sexual advances. With his most extreme reactions occurring when he gets locked in a dungeon room and spots Gorgeous in a wedding dress with a priest ready to become Mrs. Woodpecker.
194	* In the ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' episode "Dream Stalker", upon first crossing paths with [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giant jellyfish monster]], Omi’s ''entire head'' turns into an eyeball.
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