Basic Trope: Someone with eyes facing in different directions (also known as wall-eyed or cross-eyed).
- Straight: Alice has eyes facing in different directions.
- Exaggerated: Alice's eyes are more like a chameleon's eyes!
- Downplayed: Alice's eyes are slightly cross-eyed, but it isn't noticeable unless one looks closely.
- Justified:
- Truth in Television: this condition is known by the proper name of strabismus and can be caused by a variety of factors, such as disability.
- Alice is a chameleon, potoo, or other animal that is known for having eyes that can do this.
- Inverted: Alice's eyes are always facing perfectly forward.
- Subverted: Alice was purposefully crossing her eyes as a prank.
- Double Subverted: Once everyone leaves, Alice returns her eyes to their real crosseyed state, and worries that her "just a prank" lie won't hold up.
- Parodied: Alice routinely walks into walls because her pupils are so far apart.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody has eyes facing in different directions.
- Enforced:
- Can sometimes be the result of an animation error.
- Sometimes can be used to make a character look funnier.
- Lampshaded: "Hey, you, with the wall-eyes!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides to get treatment for the condition.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice is never shown on-screen, but characters often mention that she has crossed eyes.
- Deconstructed: Alice has vision problems due to having this.
- Reconstructed: As a result, Alice decides to seek treatment for strabismus.
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