History Main / WingdingEyes

** Anyone who entered Simon Bar Sinister's [[MindControlDevice Phoney]] [[MassHypnosis Booths]] display spiral eyes due to being under Simon's control, [[spoiler:including Underdog himself when he was called into action, but he was able to break free from Simon's control when he was ordered to attack Sweet Polly.]]

** Anyone who entered Simon Bar Sinister's Phoney Booths display spiral eyes due to being under Simon's control, [[spoiler:including Underdog himself, but he was able to break free from Simon's control when he was ordered to attack Sweet Polly.]]

* A OncePerEpisode occurrence for ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' when he takes his [[SuperSerum Super Energy]] [[PhlebotinumPills Vitamin Pills]] to power himself up again; each time Underdog takes one of his pills, stars flashing, the American flag waving, fireworks exploding and small letter "U's" will display in his eyes.
-->'''Underdog:''' The secret compartment of my ring I fill with an Underdog Super Energy Pill.

* A OncePerEpisode occurrence for ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' when he takes his [[SuperSerum Super Energy]] [[PhlebotinumPills Vitamin Pills]] to power himself up; each time Underdog takes one of his pills, stars flashing, the American flag waving, fireworks exploding and small letter "U's" will display in his eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'': A OncePerEpisode occurrence for when the titular caped canine takes his [[SuperSerum Super Energy]] [[PhlebotinumPills Vitamin Pills]] to power himself up; each time Underdog takes one of his pills, stars flashing, the American flag waving, fireworks exploding and small letter "U's" will display in his eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'': A OncePerEpisode occurrence for when the titular caped canine takes his [[SuperSerum Super Energy Vitamin Pills]] to power himself up; each time Underdog takes one of his pills, stars flashing, the American flag waving, fireworks exploding and small letter "U's" will display in his eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'': A OncePerEpisode occurrence for when the titular caped canine takes his Super Energy Vitamin Pills to power himself up; each time Underdog takes one of his pills, stars flashing, the American flag waving, fireworks exploding and small letter "U's" will display in his eyes.

* OncePerEpisode for ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' when he takes his Super Energy Vitamin Pills to power himself up; each time Underdog takes one of his pills, stars flashing, the American flag waving, fireworks exploding and small letter "U's" will display in his eyes.

* OncePerEpisode for ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' when he takes his Super Energy Pills to power himself up; stars and American flags, fireworks exploding, followed by small letter "U's" will appear in his eyes when he takes the pill.

* ''Machinima/MGTSchool'':

* [[AmbiguouslyGay Maya]] from ''Anime/AceAttorney'' briefly gets excited star-eyes when looking at a naughty magazine.

* Manga/RurouniKenshin has our main hero get swirly-eyed in the more lighthearted scenes.

* Anime/SuperMilkChan will often have yen signs appear in her eyes in slot-machine style whenever the topic of making money comes up; other, oddball symbols have been known to appear as well.

* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Nine times out of ten, Himespetchi's eyes will turn into red-colored hearts at the climax of her daydreams about her crush, Mametchi. It often concides with her saying her CatchPhrase "gigakyun".

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', a newspaper depicts the Girl of Steel after being curbstomped by [[PlanetEater Godship]] with "x"'s for eyes to show that she's knocked out.
* In the 111 issue of "[[ComicBook/{{WITCH}} W.I.T.C.H.]]" the characters Will Vandom and Martin Tubbs will both get the X-Eyes. Will gets hit by a soccer ball in her face and Martin will get kicked around by Uriah.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Super Sonic]] has Spiral eyes which make him look even more psychotic. (They're actually repeating circles, not spirals, but the effect is much the same.)
* Tangle the Lemur from the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'' comics often gets stars in her eyes when she is excited.
* The X-for-dead variation appears in ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'' short story "While You Were Sleeping", in which Luthor is dreaming of finally killing Superman.

* Stormer from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' got hearts in her eyes when she saw her girlfriend Kimber dressed up in a cute shark costume during a Halloween party.
* Mdga Man gets stars in his eyes in ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' when Hard Man punches him in the face.

* This is enforced by ExecutiveMeddling in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' comics. Too much violence is not allowed, so prey animals are depicted perfectly intact with "x"'s for eyes to show that they're dead.

* In some of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' graphic novels, such as ''Winds of Change'', dead prey animals occasionally have X's for eyes.
* ComicBook/EmilkaSza - Whenever titular character Emilka is fame-struck, her eyes turn into stars while she walks around smiling in almost a "sleepwalking like" trance.

* Both ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes and ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} use a rather western-centric technique of putting rings around their beady eyes as a shorthand for rage or insanity.
* Good old [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] had these too, of course.

* The women in the Norwegian comic "M" all have stars instead of eyes. The author says this is because it's harder to read the mood of women. Other explanations include mixing pills with alcohol.
* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': Though apparently just eyes is not enough.
** Spirals and such have been spotted.
** In one strip, the characters notice that a passed-out character's eyes really do turn into X's, even though they say that's supposed to only happen in comics.
** Chip Gizmo has once been spending too much time on the computer, as evidenced by his right eye having turned into a :), left eye into a @, and mouth into [=----=].
** Cosmo has Wingding ''Ears'', as seen in one strip -- fitting his personality, from close up, his ears contain a dollar sign (instead of the slightly similar squiggle usually drawn inside ears).

* Most ''Pokémon'' fanfictions are bound to have these, replicating the anime.
* Happens in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' fanfic [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11685145/1/Rocky-Road Rocky Road]], where Kid Cat ends up with spiral eyes after he tries (and fails) to break a rock that Suter was trying to smash with an elbow drop.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', All Might isn't sure if the stars in Izuku's eyes are showing up out of admiration or a side effect of his Kryptonian Super-Vision.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', if you look very closely during the scene where Puss in Boots shows Shrek and Donkey his PuppyDogEyes, you can actually see two little Re/Max hot-air balloons reflected onto his pupils.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', Edgar gets dollar signs in his eyes when plotting the cats' demise.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'', Scrat's pupils become acorns for a moment when he sees the giant acorn in his acorn heaven.
* In Creator/DingoPictures productions such as ''Wabuu, the Cheeky Raccoon'', characters sometimes "shut" their pupils to horizontal slits while their eyelids remain open.

* In ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'', when Brian Slade and his manager Jerry Devine discuss a collaboration project with Curt Wild and Curt responds not only favorably but flirtatiously, we zoom in on Brian's eyes to see pink hearts, then zoom in on Jerry's to see green dollar signs.

* Discussed [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastically]] by Saunders in ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', saying that while her eyes used to be "big blue question marks, now they're big green dollar marks."

* In the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}} book, Raistlin's pupils are hourglass-shaped.

* "No Sale" eyes were used in the "boxing" episode of ''Series/PoliceSquad''.

* In the ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' episode "Five Easy Pieces of Libby", both Hilda and Zelda show dollar signs in their eyes when they realize how profitable Zelda's cleaning formula is.
* Creator/PennAndTeller did a card trick on the Today Show and revealed the chosen card by having Teller open his eyes wearing scleral shells that appeared to replace his pupils with a 3 and a club. They repeated the trick on Hollywood Squares, [[http://youtu.be/iFMaPUtCi9o?t=8m26s during the infamous "You Fool!" episode.]]

* Referenced by Jack in ''Series/MidnightCaller'': "I've heard so much about money lately, I could puke. You know, multi-million dollar ballplayers, multi-million dollar business deals... What the hell is wrong with this country? It's like everybody's wearing contact lenses shaped like dollar bills or something."

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** When Mario dies or gets burned by fire/lava in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', his eyes become Xs.
** In ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2'' there is a 1-vs-3 minigame called "Look Away". When the characters lose this minigame, their heads will shrink, spin and disappear in the background. Also, their eyes will change to show their defeat. Mario for example will get the X-eyes, Donkey Kong will get spiral-eyes and Princess Peach will have black stars instead of pupils in her eyes.
** In the intro to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', Mario gets hearts in his eyes when the advertisement in the plane shows a bounty of food.
** In ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' some characters like Yoshi, Birdo, Koopa, and Paratroopa will get X-eyes when they get hit by an item or get their kart backflipped by a Blue Shell, Bob-Omb, or Bomb-Car.
** The Tostarenans in VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey have different-shaped glowing eyes depending on their mood, such as pink flowers when happy and yellow starbusts when hurt.
** In ''Mario Power Tennis,'' during a cut scene, Princess Peach blows a kiss to Mario and Luigi, and their eyes become heart-shaped.

* ''VideoGame/{{Glam}}'': Glam's eyes will turn into Xs upon death.
* Wario's eyes have dollar signs in the intro to most ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' games whenever he stumbles upon a new money-making scheme. Except for ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Snapped'' in which coins are in Wario's eyes rather than the dollar signs, and ''[=WarioWare=]: Smooth Moves'', in which the dollar signs did not appear at all.

* Lemina in ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' has the dollar sign version any time she makes money off something, or is thinking of a way to do so.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'', the protagonist gets X's in his eyes whenever he gets hurt...and with EverythingTryingToKillYou, this is quite often.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'':
** Whenever Conker gets one of the cash prizes, dollar signs scroll across his eyes like reels on a slot machine.
** In one part of the game, Conker has to drink a large amount of beer so [[UrineTrouble he will be able to urinate on fire-covered demons that are trying to kill him]]. After he drinks the beer, a fuel gauge appears in his eyes, with the pointer going from empty to full.
* [[MagicalGirl Platinum the Trinity]] of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has naturally heart-shaped pupils. [[spoiler: They go away whenever the Trinity personality takes over.]] Hilariously, her eyes can also turn into different things such as actual hearts when she's in love with something, as well as X's when she's lying on her back after being knocked down by certain attacks.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Team Chaotix in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' get the $ eyes since they care about money. Espio doesn't get this trope as he is suspicious about the payment promised.
** When attacked with Sonic special move Dizzy Spin in ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'', characters will become just that; Dizzy. Cue the spiral eyes and falling on their backs.
* In one of the [=FMVs=] for ''VideoGame/{{Worms}} 2'', a lone worm [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkl-bQAybI plays with a slot machine]] until three dynamite pictures line up. Thinking he won, dollar signs appear in his eyes [[spoiler:until he hears the sound of fuse burning and the dollar signs becomes question marks... at which point he realizes that [[OhCrap the slot machine is dropping out lit sticks of dynamite instead of money]]. Cue screaming and [[StuffBlowingUp a truly]] ''[[StuffBlowingUp massive]]'' [[StuffBlowingUp explosion]].]]
* In one of the ''World Heroes Arcade'' endings, Janne gets heart-eyed. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGkqFCUt5s&feature=related Use this link, and go to 1:40 of the video to view it.]]
* Ripper Roo from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' , depending on the game in the series, has the swirling spiral variety or circles around the pupils to show his mental instability and Ax-Craziness. Although as Dr. Roo, he has normal eyes hidden underneath his glasses.
* The spiral eyes show up quite often in the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy Starfy]]'' series, and Starly gets the heart eyes in the 4th game. Moe also gets heart eyes when interacting with Ruby.
* Spinda of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series naturally have spiral eyes, which are meant to tie in with their tottering, [[ConfusionFu confusing movements]]. Other examples include Chinchou's plus sign eyes, Wynaut's carets, and Whismur's plus sign. Many Pokémon have dot or line eyes too.
* The ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' games have a [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs unique exaggerated]] variant of + eyes: characters' eyes get crossed out by a literal black line. In ''Bubble Memories'', a sequel, dying player-characters end up with BlankWhiteEyes instead.
* When you lose in ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'', the Yellowface's eyes become little X's.
* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, some of the characters like Amitie or Arle Nadja will get the X-eyes when they lose a game while some get the spiral eyes.
* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' uses this in the final scene. Fritz gets so angry that he uses this as a slot machine to think of the many methods to kill Lance, including [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon a high-heeled shoe,]] until finally, the word "Jackpot" appears, in which Fritz unleashes '''ALL''' of the weapons he has at Lance.
* In the original ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'', when Kirby is dazed, he becomes swirly-eyed. This was dropped in later games. However, ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' does this to another character in the form of Pikachu; when Pikachu is dazed, it becomes swirly-eyed. In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'', the swirly-eyes got carried over, and with Pichu added to the mix, Pichu also gets swirly-eyes similar to Pikachu when it is dazed. Pichu also becomes swirly-eyed briefly when it does its third taunt where it charges electricity similar to Pikachu. Pichu also briefly becomes swirly-eyed during one of its victory animations, though it quickly recovers and winks.
* ''Franchise/{{Neptunia}}'':
** When a CPU or a CPU Candidate activates their [[SuperMode HDD mode]], their pupils are replaced with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_symbol power symbols]] during the transformation.
** Among other eyeball oddities, the character [=MarvelousAQL=] from the ''Rebirth'' remakes has musical note-shaped pupils.
* Some of the costume items in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' are like this, such as the Dizzy Eyes, which actually spin around while being swirly.

** Yard’s eyes also become hearts in the ending when he meets the princess that he and Mile just saved. [[spoiler: Too bad the princess doesn’t like men, as she knocks Yard away.]]
* Dead units in ''VideoGame/TotallyAccurateBattleSimulator'' will have X eyes when they die. Otherwise, they walk around with googly eyes rolling in their heads.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The eyes on FunnyAnimal Morgana will turn into yellow, four-pointed stars whenever he starts plotting something.
* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'': After Strong Bad gives Homestar a TapOnTheHead, Homestar's eyes become X's as he falls over.
* ''VideoGame/TheMaidOfFairewellHeights'': Marshmallow's eyes turn into hearts when in her car, saying:
--> Mmm! This wind feels great!
* ''VideoGame/{{Miitomo}}'': When speaking about love or moolah, the Mii's eyes are turned respectively into hearts and coins.
* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'': The Miis’ eyes turn into hearts upon their relationship level reaching Level 30 or higher, or if the Pop Star uses Love Song on them.
* Many characters use these in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}''. For example, at the beginning of the game, Cuphead's eyes show dollar signs when he plays the dice game against Mugman's warning, unaware that the dice turn out to be snake eyes. All of Hilda Berg's constellation forms have stars for pupils (this extends to her second-phase Game Over card). Djimmi the Great blows out some smoke that forms a teacup with X's for eyes and a frowning mouth at the beginning of the fight. And finally, [[spoiler:the Devil casts a DeathGlare on Cuphead and Mugman at the beginning of the final battle when his pupil turns into a cup getting cleaved into mincepottery; in the second phase, he weaponizes {{an axe|ToGrind}} and a flying bomb from his pupil (sometimes pink-colored and easy to parry).]]

* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'':
** The little icons on the UI bar gain Xs for eyes when their side of the bar nears the edge - the exceptions to this are The Girlfriend, The Father, and The Senpai, who don't have lose icons, and Monster, who instead has an X for one pupil and a circle around the other.
** The girls in the background of Week 6 have hearts for eyes to indicate how head over heels they are for The Senpai.
** The GameMod ''VideoGame/VsWhitty'' has Whitty absolutely ''snapping'' by song 3, with his eyes turning into crosses, X's, triangles, and circles in rapid sequence to demonstrate how he's out of his mind with pure rage.

* Cirno from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is occasionally depicted with [[AscendedMeme 9-balls]] in her eyes.

* The ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' parody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w "Saturday Morning Watchmen"]] shows the Comedian having the heart version... for [[{{Squick}} Silk Spectre II]].

* Vivi from ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' gets excited stars in her eyes when she sees that the mansion she just entered is unquestionably haunted.
* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episodes "The Shining Beacon (Part 1)" and "Players and Pieces", Ruby gets the spiral version.
* Doki gets several over the course of ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs''

* The ''WebAnimation/FatherTucker'' short "Death Do Us Part" has Father Tucker's pupils turn into Stars of David when he ogles at a Jewish boy.
* Yahtzee's avatar on ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' will get the inverted-U eyes on the rare occasion where he's actually enjoying some aspect of a game.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unfamiliar}}'' uses this a lot.

* ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'': From [[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/hit-dice "Hit Dice"]], a dead Wizard has X-es for eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/AHollywoodHoundsChristmas'': When Vic Vicious proposes he be the manager of the Hollywood Hounds, he gets dollar signs in his eyes when he says he'll make them stars.
* Lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Ape is Enough". Carl expresses worry that the giant gorilla they captured might get aggravated and go on a rampage. Pops, who has dollar-sign pupils as he thinks about how much money this will make him, says "Sorry Carl, I can't hear you, I have huge dollar signs in my eyes."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mamemo}}'': In one episode, a cow carrying a turkey dinner slips on a skateboard and falls on her back. She gets Xs in her eyes as a result.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Isabella pulls the hearts-for-eyes variation when she first greets Phineas in "Rollercoaster".
** In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", Phineas (in Isabella's daydream) has hearts in is eyes.
** Played for laughs in the episode "Act Your Age", where Baljeet states that the hearts were visible in-universe.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats Catillac Cats]]'' episode ''Search for a Star'', Wordsworth crashes his Stilt-Mobile, leaving him dizzy with spiral eyes. Immediately after, a greedy stalker/talent agent, upon seeing Cleo, gets ''gold coins'' in his eyes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', Harold gets heart ones when he reminisces about [=LeShawna=]. Later gets the circles around his pupils after Courtney threatens to post the poems he gave to her online (which, thanks to Chef, we can assume were steamy).
* Spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': When Ling Ling sees a money-making opportunity, his pupils become yen signs. When Foxxy sees one, her ''nipples'' become dollar signs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** [[HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight Krusty the Clown]] invokes the dollar signs version when he hears "What's an 'agent'?" from someone he'd shown interest in, but immediately afterward spoofs it, saying they were gag contact lenses marked with dollar signs; it was something he always wanted to try.
** Parodied in the WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XV segment "The Ned Zone": When Homer hears about Flanders' ability to predict peoples' deaths, his eyes turn into skulls, then dollar signs, then American flags, and finally a dog chasing a cat before his normal pupils return.
** One must pay close attention in the Treehouse of Horror XIX. After Krusty is flung off the swings at a daycare playground, he lands on the merry-go-round and his belly hits the handlebars a bit too hard. He gains spiral eyes for a split second upon this event.
** A clever use of the trope in Treehouse of Horror XX: after Homer is killed in the intro, his "x" eyes are used as the Roman numerals to make the episode title card.
** In the episode "Bart the General", we can see one dream sequence with Bart lying dead in a coffin after Nelson beats him up. In this scene, he had the X-eyes to show them in a cartoony way that he is dead.
** In "Some Enchanted Evening", as Marge is angrily waiting for Homer at the door, her pupils turn into flames.
** In "Opposites A-Frack", after seeing [[FanDisservice Patty and Selma's]] WetSariScene, Homer's pupils [[BrainBleach shatter like glass]] and are swept away by a janitor inside his eyes.
* Pokerface from ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks'' will lift his shades to reveal slot machine-like eyes that spin to reflect various emotions, usually excitement or greed.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons did this countless times, with money signs and hearts.
** One notable example is in "You Were Never Duckier" -- WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck enters a poultry judging contest disguised as a rooster, confident he's a shoo-in for the $5000 prize, waiting with "dollar" signs in his eyes. When he loses, and the $5 prize for best duck is announced, he shrugs "Who am I to sneer at a fast fiver?", doffs the disguise, and waits with "cent'' signs in eyes.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ClawsForAlarm,'' yellow star-shaped pupils are one of the outcomes of the blow Porky received when Sylvester [[PistolWhipping clobbered him with the butt of a shotgun.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' did a variation of this: When someone was staring at something (like somebody's butt), dotted lines would come out of their eyes, ending at what they're looking at. These lines would turn into daggers when one character was mad at another.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', the Music Meister combines this with ExpressiveMask: his wraparound shades have musical notes, but the connecting bar behaves like eyebrows and the note body placement corresponds to where he's looking.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
** In "Remy Rescue" when Cricket is entranced by Remy's mansion, his eyes have little stars in them.
** Tilly gets hearts in her eyes in "Valentine's Dance" when she falls in love with a punching bag man. Gloria also gets heart eyes when she flirts with a French dude in her ImagineSpot in "Critterball Crisis".
** Cricket gets little spirals in his eyes in "Sleepover Sisters" when he stops spinning after three straight hours of such.
** In "Green Christmas", Cricket's eyes turn into slot machines that stop on presents at a few points of the episode to show his selfishness over Christmas presents.
** Remy gets X eyes at the end of his planned future in "Time Crisis" as he predicts the time and date of his death.
** In "Chipocalypse Now" when Chip tries to murder the Greens out of anger, his eyes are filled with red and white spirals.
* When [[EnfantTerrible Heloise]] from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' gets angry, it's not uncommon to see fire in her eyes.
** A variation in the Season 1 episode "The Product Tester". When Lucius is trying to come up with ideas for new Misery Inc. products, his pupils spin like a slot machine until it lands on two light bulbs. [[IdeaBulb The bulbs then glow and Lucius smiles evilly.]]
** Samy tends to get the stars variant whenever his dreams of showbiz are brought up. Other characters get it too when discussing Samy's hopes and dreams (or crushing them, in Lucius' case).
* WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry:

* A disturbing example in ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'': Popeye buys a parrot for Olive; a jealous Bluto leans in toward the cage, and in close-up, his pupils become images of his hand strangling the bird!
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "A Bird in the Hoof", Princess Celestia's sickly pet bird gets ice cube pupils when she has the chills, and later gets "X" eyes when she seemingly keels over dead.
** In "Lesson Zero", ponies affected by Twilight's "Want it, Need it" spell get hearts in their eyes. (This also counts as MindControlEyes.) For bonus points, [[MemeticBystander Derpy Hooves]] remains ComicallyCrossEyed when the effect hits her.
** In "Putting Your Hoof Down", this happens to one-time character Iron Will, whose eyes turn into "bits" (currency used in Equestria) when he succeeds in making Fluttershy assertive.
** In "Magical Mystery Cure", when Twilight helps restore the true destinies of the other members of the Mane Six, memories of their original life [[{{Blipvert}} flash through their eyes]].
** In "The Ending of the End-Part 2" Pinkie briefly gains cupcake eyes when she [[spoiler: uses Discord's chaos magic]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' in the episode "[[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball]]": Ren gets dollar sign eyes every time he stamps one of Stimpy's hairballs On the conveyor belt. However, when he [[PainToTheAss stamps a furless Stimpy's butt,]][[note]]Stimpy, having been licked clean and worked half to death, had passed out and fallen on the conveyor belt[[/note]] he gets "No Sale" signs instead.
* In "Sweet (Truck) Ride", from ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', Zoe gets the stars variation when she thinks about making a movie.
* LampshadeHanging in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': "Why are your eyes shaped like hearts?" "Allergies..."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
** In "Prank Call of Cthulhu", Grim gets mad and his eyes fill with fire. When Billy tells him his eyes are on fire, he starts screaming and tells Billy to out them out. [[EscalatingPunchline He gives him coffee, hot sauce, acid, and rocket fuel]] until Grim puts them out in the toilet.
** A non-lampshaded example appears in the episode "Complete and Utter Chaos"; When Mandy holds the Apple of Discord and thinks about the powers that it can give her, her pupils transform into the apple.
** In the song sequence from "Keeper of the Reaper", Mandy's pupils become images of Grim's skull when she sings the lyric "Grim is the anger in my stare!"
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'': The first claymation short shown during the intro before the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E10MuseumMadness Museum Madness]]" had this happen to Bogus after finding a treasure map in a bottle in the attic, his eyes taking on the shape of numbers before forming the shape of dollar bills.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talkartoons}}'' short "The Robot", Bimbo is afraid to fight a round with One-Round Mike and, seeing that his opponent has a horseshoe in his boxing glove, his pupils turn into horseshoes that clang together.
* Most of the robots in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' are noted for having square pupils (or the ones with visible pupils anyway). Bender took this a step further in ''Bender's Big Score'', where when he was under mind control, his pupils turned into square spirals. The writers noted this ended up looking really creepy in the DVD commentaries.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** In "Star vs. Echo Creek", Star's eyes get blue spirals in them when she gets high from an overly sugary taco.
** In "Deep Dive" when Star is entranced by the Realm of Magic, her eyes have pink sparkles in them.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** The title character will get literal [[ArcSymbol stars]] in his eyes when he's particularly amazed or excited.
** Steven [[SharedFamilyQuirks got this from his mother]] [[PosthumousCharacter Rose Quartz]], who also got star-eyed when amazed.
** In "Back To The Barn", Pearl ends up with swirly eyes after the robot she is piloting is slammed back and forth [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Hulk-on-Loki style]] by Peridot's mech. Steven gets this variation in "Too Far" after jumping into a giant, out-of-control drill head to stop it and getting dizzy in the process.
** In "Log Date 7 15 2", Peridot gets star-eyes while ranting that she's [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn now one of the Crystal Gems]] after telling off Yellow Diamond and turning her back on the Homeworld]].
** Connie's eyes turn into diamonds when she's excited.
** In "Say Uncle", after freaking out when the other crystal gems heads detach from their bodies, spin around planet Earth and reattach to their bodies, Pearl goes into shock and becomes in-cohesive, and for a split second, her eyes form Xs right when she passes out on the ground.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/KaBlam Life with Loopy]]'' short "Larry's Girl", both Larry and Stacey get hearts in their eyes upon meeting each other.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "National Treasure 4: Baby Franny: She's Doing Well" when Roger's eyes turn into dollar signs, it causes him physical pain, [[OhNoNotAgain and judging from his reaction has happened before]].
* ''Super Secret WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'': The reflections on Morocco's ''shades'' often do this; the usual squiggle turning into an exclamation mark is a common one.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy'' cartoon "Good Mouse Keeping" centered on a mouse filching the cheese in the kitchen. In one instance he's sleepwalking. Doggie Daddy wonders if the mouse is really asleep, so Augie lifts one of his eyelids. The iris is replaced with the word "Shhh!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode, "[[Recap/SonicBoomS3E44VectorDetector Vector Detector]]", when Vector mentions he got into the TV business for the money, dollar signs appear in his eyes.
-->'''Tails:''' You should probably see an optometrist about that.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** The "stars" variant has occurred several times.
** In "Home Wrecker", when Timmy's parents announce that they won't be needing Vicky's 24-hour babysitting service and take away her huge payload, her eyes read "NO SALE".
** Anyone hit with Jorgan's memory-erasing device will have dizzy ripples for eyes. In "Fairy Idol", this effect strangely does not happen on Timmy when his memory is erased for real, however.
** In the original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short, Vicky gets hearts in her eyes when pretending to be nice in front of Timmy's parents. In another short, she gets them again when a disguised Cosmo flirts with her.
* Parodied in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GlennMartinDDS''. When the girls see a moneymaking scheme, American Courtney gets dollar-sign eyes while Korean Wendy gets won-sign eyes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'', characters display white hearts as eyes at some romantic moments.
** The eyes of Fynartz are shown to be spinning rainbow spirals after his shades drop in "Taxidermama". In "Murder Everywhere", every hallucinating person gets the same effect to their eyes.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: In ''Donald Duck and the Gorilla'', Donald tries to subdue an escaped gorilla by looking it right in the eye. As he does, the gorilla's pupil becomes a tombstone reading "HERE LIES A DEAD DUCK".
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'':
** Face 9000 gets heart eyes at the thought of pizza in "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?".
** Sean gets fireworks in his eyes when he sees Ellen in "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa".
** Jet gets stars in his eyes during the final song in "Lone Star 2 - Rocket Kids!".
* A pair of variations where a character's mouth forms the letters of the word they're saying:
** The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] cartoon "Half Fare Hare" has [[InkSuitActor cartoon renditions of]] [[Series/TheHoneymooners Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton]] see Bugs and say "FOOD!" with their mouths forming the letters.
** At the end of season two story arcs of ''WesternAnimation/TomTerrific'', Mighty Manfred tells Tom "I'd rather stay at home and watch ''you'' on the TV," with Manfred's mouth forming the letters "T" and "V" as he says them.
* Happens to XR the robot ranger from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' on occasion, like when he spots a get rich quick scheme his eyes become dollar signs, and when he altered the Tangean handbook so Mira didn't have to marry into royalty and could continue being a space ranger which caused her to kiss him out of joy, his eyes became hearts.
* A variation in the FiveEpisodePilot of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': The first time Chip and Dale meet Gadget, Gadget ''herself'' is reflected in their eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'': Dolly gets heart eyes after her crush Hansel strokes her chin with his tail in the episode Snow Day
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': one of the complaints of the series is that the main characters' eyes would do this way too often.
** Occured a time or two on the original series. In "Him Diddle Riddle," Blossom asks which of the two Ms. Keanes suspended over a vat of sharks is the real one. Their individual responses cause Bubbles and Buttercup to go "X"-eyed in befuddlement.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle'' cartoon "Blind Date," a ditzy playboy offers a reward for the return of his long-lost girlfriend. Heckle envisions Jeckle dressed as the girlfriend, then his eyes spin like slot machine windows stopping on "$" signs.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' debut episode "What a Night for a Knight," Velma and Scooby are looking for Shaggy in a museum when they are followed by the Black Knight. When Scooby turns and sees him, his pupils become images of knight.
* The ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short "The Feelers" has light bulbs appear in Mitzi Moth's eyes during the titular insect rock band's performance of "100 Watts of Love".

** Extremely high levels of [[HotBlooded blood heat]] are indicated by spirals in the characters' pupils. Not at all related with confusion, but spirals show up as a symbol of [[strike:determination many times throughout the series]] how everything's better with spinning.

** Extremely high levels of [[HotBlooded blood heat]] are indicated by spirals in the characters' pupils. Not at all related with confusion, but spirals show up as a symbol of [[strike:determination many times throughout the series]] how EverythingsBetterWithSpinning.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Team Chaotix in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' get the $ eyes since they care about money. Espio doesn’t get this trope as he is suspicious about the payment promised.

** In "WesternAnimation/QuietPlease!" , Tom gives Spike sleeping pills to keep him from waking up. He lifts one of his eyelids, and the eye has text reading "out cold". Later, Jerry looks into Spike's eye, which now reads "''still'' out cold".

* The dollar-sign variation is taken UpToEleven in [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1890/ this]] ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' comic.

* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': in an episode that sent up ''Film/KingKong'', Carl expresses worry that the giant gorilla they captured might get aggravated and go on a rampage. Pops, who has dollar-sign pupils as he thinks about how much money this will make him, says "Sorry Carl, I can't hear you, I have huge dollar signs in my eyes."

* In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' sketch [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDOFfoAcpQE Beginning, Middle, and End]], which is one of many sketches animated by Sally Cruikshank, when Seymour gets on a pterodactyl who acts like a taxicab, his neighbor Mrs. Bazini gets X's in her eyes from hitting the side of her head with a trash can lid due to complete and utter [[EyeTake shock]] of witnessing it right next to her backyard.

** Sometimes they'll get X-eyes when they get knocked out or shocked. For the humans, X-eyes are usually used when someone is comically beaten up; as such, they are commonly seen on James.

* Daggers[=/=]{{Fire|ballEyeballs}}: [[BurningWithAnger Extreme anger]] and/or intent to kill someone for [[RantInducingSlight something unforgivable]]. Fire could also be used for [[HotBlooded passion]].