History Main / WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises

* WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants

-->'''Mr. Krabs''': ''(irises narrow to pinpricks)'' "Day...'''[[SkywardScream OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFF?!?!?]]''' I DON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF THEM HORRIBLE WORDS!"

* [[{{Comicbook/CaptainAmerica}} Captain America]] villain Zaran showed an UpToEleven version of this once, i.e., [[http://i.imgur.com/B8Xlccd.jpg with no irises]]

** Starting with the 3D remake of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' and carrying over to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', the Gorons do this when startled or shocked. It's notable because they otherwise have completely black eyes.

* Mr. Potato Head in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' does this right before RC slams into him. Other characters in the movie do this (notable being Woody)

* ''Webcomic/EveryoneIsHome'': The end result of [[Series/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Young Link, and Zelda]] encountering [[VideoGame/EldenRing Godrick the Grafted]]: they respawn at a sight of grace, clearly traumatized by their off-screen deaths at his ([[MultiArmedAndDangerous many, many]]) hands.

** Gary does this when SpongeBob tells him [[HatesBaths he's going to take a bath]].

** Mr. Krabs does this in ''Imitation Krabs'' after Spongebob tells him that he supposedly gave Squidward the day off.

* Gary does this when WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants tells him [[HatesBaths he's going to take a bath]].
** Anchovies.. **ANCHOVIES**!
** ''(irises narrow to pinpricks)'' "Day...'''[[SkywardScream OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFF?!?!?]]'''"

* It occurs in ''Film/ThreeAmigos!'' during the duel between Ned Nederlander and that German guy.

* Mr. Potato Head in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' does this right before RC slams into him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the title character is a wide-eyed individual. Even when frightened or scared, Hercules eyes grow wide or bulge out.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the title character is a wide-eyed individual. Even when frightened or scared, Hercules eyes grow wide or bulge out.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'': Mowgli when Kaa tries to get the boy to look at him, and when Shere Khan first tries to attack him.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Facilier during the reprise of "Are You Ready?". Also the leader of the frog hunters after Ray flies up his nose and when he gets the crotch of his pants blasted off.

* [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yksuR4ZRu38/maxresdefault.jpg An understandable reaction]] from [[SuperSpeed "Speed O' Sound" Sonic]] running [[GroinAttack junk-first]] into the fist of the titular ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' in the anime. Yes, it's Sonic's fault because he's the [[BloodKnight belligerent loony]] while Saitama comes off as sharp as [[BaldOfAwesome his head]].

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' where Roger [[ItMakesSenseInContext tricks Steve into joining a drug manufacturing operation by telling him it's Hogwarts,]] towards the end of the episode Roger gets knocked face first into a pile of some unspecified drug. When he pulls his face out, his pupils first dilated rather large, and he proceeded to disarm and kill every thug attacking him, and shoot a bunch of rounds into the ceiling because we was wired. Then, with one thug left, Roger realizes he has run out of ammo to use against the last armed thug, which causes his eyes to shrink to a pinpoint, and him to touch the TV in the room and call [[RefugeInAudacity "Ah, TV is base!"]]

* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon ''Donald's Tire Trouble'', after all four of his car tires go flat, Donald's eyes briefly shrink before [[WingdingEyes spinning wildly into spirals]] -- and then, as he is wont to do, he goes berserk and simply drives off with flat tires.

* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', [[HotBlooded Ryuko Matoi]] has this reaction when [[spoiler: [[Nui Harime]], whom she literally just met, reveals that she owns the other half of Ryuko's [[ShearMenace Scissor Blade]], and is by proxy [[YouKilledMyFather the one who murdered Ryuko's father]], Isshin Matoi.]] She also gets the absolutely ''pissed'' version of this, [[spoiler: coupled with a furious scream of '''''"YOU BITCH!!!"''''', when she flies into an UnstoppableRage towards Nui in response to this revelation. And it is ''terrifying'' to behold.]]

* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', [[HotBlooded Ryuko Matoi]] has this reaction when [[spoiler:[[Nui Harime]], whom she literally just met, reveals that she owns the other half of Ryuko's [[ShearMenace Scissor Blade]], and is by proxy [[YouKilledMyFather the one who murdered Ryuko's father]], Isshin Matoi. She also gets the absolutely ''pissed'' version of this coupled with a furious scream of '''''"YOU BITCH!!!"''''' when she flies into an UnstoppableRage towards Nui in response to this revelation. And it is ''terrifying'' to behold.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'': Mowgli when Kaa tries to get the boy to look at him, and when Shere Khan first tries to attack him.

** When everyone notices the avalanche in ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'', Eeyore and ''[[BlackBeadEyes Tigger]]'' do this.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish Help, I'm A Fish!]],'' Fly's eyes do this just as [[spoiler: a crab slashes one of its claws at him and slices his side open.]]

* Numerous animated films (both hand-drawn and CGI) uses this trope for a character's reaction. Some of them can be found below.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', Mowgli when Kaa tries getting Mowgli to look at him, and when Shere Khan first tries to attack him.

* MickeyMouse does this in ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'' during the DisasterDominoes sequence of Pluto wrecking his decorations.

* The intro cinematic for [[VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit Jazz Jackrabbit 2]] shows the titular Jazz [[MookHorrorShow wreaking havoc on a few helpless mooks]]... before coming face to face with [[GiantMook one three times his size]]. Cue the Oh Crap Face, before little brother Spaz bails him out.