Puppy Dog Eyes / Webcomics

• 8-Bit Theater: Fighter supposedly used them on one occasion, but because of the art style of the comic, we don't actually see them. As he tried to use them on Black Mage, they didn't work.
• Alien Dice gives us Swiftpaw, who has clearly mastered the trope. It helps that he's based on a fox.
• Beyond the End: End has a tendency to break out the puppy dog eyes, just by his nature.
• Carry On: Kathy can do these, but as Scooter puts it, "Somehow, "big Bambi eyes" just don't look authentic on a hyena."
• The Chapel Chronicles: Chapel uses them in the strip, Chapel Guevara, to try to guilt her parents into getting, well, a puppy.
• College Roomies from Hell!!!: Satirized with Marsha Hart's 'anime eyes, which is almost superhumanly persuasive to the opposite gender.
• Code Name: Hunter: Prince Matthew can pull this trope off convincingly despite being a mouse.
• Curtailed: Fox attempts this on Seley in this strip. Too bad Seley's immune.
• The Cyantian Chronicles: Used effectively by Tae and Kea, the Akaelae Twins and ineffectively by Khaelis. Ironically, that's both literal and figurative Puppy Dog Eyes in both examples. Tae and Kea are wolves and Khaelis is a fox.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: Jyrras Gianna generally employs these, helped in part by being the same age yet half the size of most of the cast. Lampshaded twice, in one strip where the other character is immune and in another where they are used on him (prompting a bemused "That's my gimmick!" when he recovers).

• El Goonish Shive:
  • In this strip the rest of the main cast uses it for enhanced peer pressure. That is, to get Susan to sing karaoke.
  • In this one to get the principal to help cover up Elliot's being turned female.
  • In this one, in which Sarah, intentionally or unintentionally, uses puppy dog eyes to make the principal allow her to wear a beret. In this one, Sarah does it to show off her general cuteness... err... that is, distract Susan... Yes.
  • In this one, where Catalina Bobcat used them to get out of trouble. And just because.
  • Even the ads make use of it.
  • Susan has finally used them too...inadvertently, when she learns that Justin doesn't have a version of her on his bridge crew in the Star Trek Online game. She's so surprised when told she's doing it that she feels her face to confirm it.
  • Grace managed to "convince" Ellen and Nanase to agree on a double date with her and Tedd.
  • Tedd, shocked by his own bout of badassery and in need of a hug.
  • In this early non-canonical NewsPaper strip, Grace has a dream about being a goddess in the Black & White Video Game. When she meets her opponent ( a version of Tedd), she convinces him to be her friend instead by using this technique.

• Faux Pas:
  • Randy can make it impossible to talk to him about sex with this.
  • Deliberately "turned on" to get help in searching for a missing rabbit.

• Forestdale: Being an actual dalmatian puppy, albeit an anthropomorphic one, Dallas Burnside can pull this off quite easily.
• Freefall:
  • In a subversion, Florence replies to an enormous terraforming robot's use of puppy dog eyes by saying, "Sorry. Puppy dog eyes only work when the eyes aren't bigger than my head."
  • Inevitably, Florence is ordered to use them at weapons-grade intensity. Being a canine, they work as designed.
• Furry Experience: Used by Cat and Dawn to get Ronnie's father to take them to a nice restaurant they both want to go to.
• Girl Genius side story has an accident where a Mad Scientist overdid it:
  For the next year or so all the herring they pulled up said "You were mean to poor Othar." It was an unstable mutation, what's the big deal?
  Okay, yes, so a lot of people almost starved to death due to "ethical conflicts". How was I to know that herring have such big sad eyes?
• Grrl Power:
  • Halo does this to reduce Maxima's anger at her, thereby proving herself a Tomboy with a Girly Streak. (The cartoonist says it's about 50% effective.)
  • Anvil later uses her own set to convince Maxima to wear a thong on her not-date with Deus, though Maxima calls it creepy for an adult woman to pull it off.
• Gunnerkrigg Court: It's not sure whether she's aware of it or not, but this page really accentuate Annie's eyes when she's apologizing.

• L's Empire: Parodied. Carnation uses her eyes to hypnotize her brother Void (she uses her voice to hypnotize everyone else).
• Misfile: Despite being a boy turned into a girl and refusing to act even slightly girly, Ash has a nice line in puppy dog eyes. Of course, s/he is vulnerable to them, too.
• Monsters Can Be Heroes Too!: In "Jiggle", that's how Lime the Slime convinces Coal that she's a friend, when her previously dark eyes start sparkling and we get a zoomed in panel of them.
• The Order of the Stick: Both Elan and Sunny use this trick simultaneously on Lien after asking her if now they're all friends. Apparently, even a paladin cannot resist eleven puppy-dog eyes at the same time. Yes, Sunny is a beholder with eight eyestalks. With the central eye and Elan's pair, that's eleven.
  O-Chul: There may be those that would shame you for failing to resist eleven puppy dog eyes, but I stand not among them.
• The Other Grey Meat: Both Beth and Sylene have tried this tactic on John. (It didn't work.)
• Penny Arcade used this in "The Unhorse", although as an expression of sadness instead of persuasion.
• Pixie Trix Comix: New character Zadie demonstrates the tactic here.
• Planescape Survival Guide: Milny's puppy dog eyes convinced three demons to help her save her friends in this strip.
• Platinum Grit: Jeremy MacConnor doesn't even know he has these, but they're his default expression.
  Kate: Oh, God, can you try not to look so young?
• Precocious: This is Yvette's reaction to the prospect of being water-ballooned.
• Questionable Content:
  • Dora pulls this on Marten to get him to take her side in a dispute. Immediately Lampshaded.
    Marten: Cute, pouty girl... in close proximity... brain... melted...
  • The AI "Spookybot" pulls one on Roko, complete with broad smile, while discussing becoming friends with Roko. Spookybot's red eyes, slitted pupils, and incomprehensible personal power undermine the effect.
    Spookybot: Because we're so immensely charming!
    Roko: No, that's definitely not it.
• Sandra on the Rocks: Puppy-Dog Eyes have an unfortunate effect on Lavali in this strip, rendering her incapable of telling Aaina that Sandra isn't gay.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Defied in "Cute", where a scientist doesn't want puppies to do this all the time regardless of their mental state and invents a way to make them look more like how they're actually feeling.
• Schlock Mercenary:
  • For being a carbosilicate amorph, Sergeant Schlock is distressingly good at doing these. It even works when he has more than two eyes.
  • Para Ventura does this too, though it doesn't always help.
• Sequential Art:
  • Kat uses this, albeit sparingly, when she needs some help from her house-mate.
  • Kat herself is resistant but not immune to this effect.
• The Silver Eye: This sort of pleading, pitiful look is described as the "orphan face".
• Skin Horse: The cloying critters of the Whimsy Corporation pull this on Sweetheart — who is herself a dog.
• Sleepless Domain: In a guest comic, Sally deploys these when asking Undine to give her and the others a ride with her Making a Splash powers. Undine, reluctantly, agrees.

• Wapsi Square: This strip has Monica using puppy dog eyes to convince Darren to watch her dog while she's on vacation.

• The Story of Anima: Just one look at Penelope's is enough to make Dante spill his backstory to her.
• Tales of the Questor: Quentyn does it to get info from an elder. Apparently a pretty common technique among Racconan kits.
• Two Guys and Guy: Played with when Guy's "puppy eyes" turn out to be a glare sufficient to intimidate the cop who just pulled her over for speeding.
  "Lord Jesus! What breed of puppy is that? Hell-hound?"

• Welcome to the Convenience Store: In this chapter, when a daughter is asking her dad to buy her a snack (when he only has enough money for said snack or his cigarettes). STA—ARE
• Yokoka's Quest: Raya sports these together with blush stickers to maximize her cuteness, when convincing Kagi and Yfa to let her go and look for a mushroom with Yfa. Grace also develops these in reaction to seeing Raya for the first time.

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