History Main / WingdingEyes

* ''Series/Becker'': When Becker is incredulous that his girlfriend Megan is more eccentric than he can tell himself, he introduced her to Regi and Jake. After a brief conversation with her, Jake remarks that although he couldn't see her due to his blindness he imagined her with "pinwheel eyes and a cuckoo coming out of her forehead".

* In ''Webcomic/AkiChansLife'' -the sequel to ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry''- we have [[http://jimmywolk.studenten-froendenberg.de/eng/aki.php?browse.4.126 this scene]] where [[TheHero Shinji]] and [[ParentalSubstitute Misato]] are blinded by a camera's flash and their eyes turn into tiny spirals.
* 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.

* ''Manga/{{Dropkick on My Devil}}'': Spiral eyes, blank eyes etc. appear very often. However, the spiral eyes could be used a lot.
* ''Anime/{{Onegai My Melody}}'': Spiral eyes (Also seen in both Sukkiri and Kuru Kuru Shuffle openings) mostly appear in the show along with the blank eyes.

* ''Manga / {{Dropkick on My Devil}}'': Spiral eyes, blank eyes etc. appear very often. However, the spiral eyes could be used a lot.
* ''Anime / {{Onegai My Melody}}'': Spiral eyes (Also seen in both Sukkiri and Kuru Kuru Shuffle openings) mostly appear in the show along with the blank eyes.

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* [[AmbiguouslyGay Maya]] from ''Anime/AceAttorney'' briefly gets excited star-eyes when looking at a naughty magazine.
* In ''Manga/AreaNoKishi'', the spiral type is sported by protagonist Kakeru after his HandsomeLech teammate Kouta puts him through several wrestling holds trying to find out more about Kakeru's childhood friend, [[SevenIsNana Seven]].
* Downplayed as the second chapter of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' is adapted as part of the first episode. When Ao gets overwhelmed by Mira's messages, exclamation marks are drawn over her eyes with a layer of transparency filter.
* A somewhat stealthy example in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Matsuri once ended up staring dumbfounded at Suzu's bare chest. While his pupils don't look blatantly out of the ordinary, closer examination shows they're drawn exactly like nipples.
* At the cliffhanger of episode 1 of ''Anime/TheBigO'', arcane symbols appear in [[RobotGirl Dorothy's]] eyes as she looks up at her HumongousMecha "sister" Dorothy One. It's possible the mecha was somehow taking control of her (since she's next seen wired into it), but it's not really clear.
* ''Manga/BlackClover'': Asta's eyes turn into sparkles when he gets excited about something. Julius Novachrono as well whenever he sees cool magic.
* In ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'', whenever a character is being affected by their "Otherself", their irises become gear-shaped.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The time skip leading to The Lost Agent Arc reveals that Orihime has practiced making face gags; Orihime can now make her eyes look like the number 3.
* In ''Manga/CellsAtWork'', bacteria and other infections get X eyes when they are killed.
* Misaki Shokuhou in ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' is known as the Queen of Tokiwadai and possesses mind control powers. Those under her powers usually (but not always) display small stars in their eyes. Her own eyes have massive stars in them and when Misaka finally calls her out on her appearance she says she was just born like that. For a while, fans speculated that the blonde girl we see was just another puppet of the real Misaki, but it seems not.
* ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'': In one episode, Ranpha's eyes turn into male units upon first meeting a male android. A ''[[NakedOnArrival nude]]'' male android.
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** When visiting Japan, America's eyes turned into spirals when he saw how small a large order of fries was.
** Germany's eyes once turned into stars when a ninja randomly appeared in a movie.
* ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' often uses spiral eyes to show confusion.
* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' manga some of the characters will get the X-eyes when they get knocked out. Especially we will see them most on more cartoony characters like Donald Duck, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, or Pete. But also the humans for example Sora, Roxas, Olette, or Aladdin will get those X-eyes when they get attacked by an enemy or get knocked out.
* Although it happens a few times, this also happens to Franchise/{{Kirby}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmBZjzyMaZs this]] episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' where, in one scene, Kirby tries to unsuccessfully jump over the rope, thus getting hit in the face, getting the + type in the process.
* ''Anime/LuckyStar'': Characters' eyes are known to display themselves as hashtags, vertical lines, or tiny rings around white. Sometimes, they can become a sideways X, too.
* Subaru of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' expresses her [[SweetTooth great appreciation for good ice cream]] by having her eyes turn into sparkly hearts. After Hayate first summons the Wolkenritter in a flashback in the sixth episode of A's and faints from the shock, her eyes turn into spirals by the time Vita approaches her.
* ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'': When Momo meets Nikaidou for the first time while mistaking him for one of her beloved cartoon characters, Bodoro, her irises are filled with flower symbols as she's introducing herself, reflecting her excitement.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Mei Hatsume's eyes look like reticles: probably a quirk of her Quirk (Zoom, which lets her focus on things in the distance).
* ''Manga/MysteriousJoker'' makes use of this trope. Whenever Hachi or Joker are particularly happy about something, usually a MacGuffin, their eyes take on this appearance.
* Negi Springfield in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' gets the Spirals version when he's knocked out by a flying door, as shown on [=YouTube=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSNVYgMA9Kc here]] at about 2:40.
* Similar to the comic example below, Mako from ''Anime/NerimaDaikonBrothers'' has heart-shaped reflections in her sunglasses.
* Episode 5 of ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'' features the heroine with the yen sign in her eyes.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Nami's eyes occasionally change to the symbol for [[GlobalCurrency Beri]] when there's a potential profit to be made, Sanji's [[PeekABangs eye]][[strike:s]] change to hearts whenever he's swooning over one of the girls, and in one chapter Luffy's eyes changed to takoyaki to show just how much he craved the food. And recently he seems to have expanded to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood meat]] eyes.
** Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper are also especially prone to starbursts when they see something sufficiently awesome. When Luffy heard of Chopper's seven transformation power, even his SpeechBubbles got sparkly.
** [[LampshadeHanging The characters even point this out sometimes!]]
** If a character shows angular spirals, it tends to mean the character is not of sound mind. Such as in Alabasta when Luffy ate something he shouldn't have and started angrily lashing out at everything he saw.
** The Reverie arc has a mild but cute example: when Vivi correctly guessed Luffy had saved Dressrosa, Rebecca teared up so much, her eyes turned into puddle shapes.
** When the Straw Hats entered Wano via Luffy grabbing onto two giant carps to climb a giant waterfall, Carrot was so excited that her eyes turned into stars.
* The ''Anime/PaRappaTheRapper'' anime has a ton of these. Also, since some of the characters have a few of those, the main character, known as the rapping dog who always believes, gets those a lot of times, [[OncePerEpisode once per episode]]. It can also be a [[RunningGag running gag]] also in some episodes.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** Spirals = KO. Otherwise, they're probably down but not out. Pokémon as well humans will often get those spiral eyes, especially in later seasons.
** Sometimes they'll get X-eyes when they get knocked out or shocked, although this was more used in the early seasons, before the spiral eyes are prominently shown for defeated Pokémon. For the humans, X-eyes are usually used when someone is comically beaten up; as such, they are commonly seen on James.
** Also, heart eyes are used in the anime, sometimes when a Pokemon is hit by Attract. There are also fire-eyes, star-eyes, you name them.
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'' introduced an open + symbol to denote the Sleep status.
** ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'' had one occasion as a reference; when Ash’s Rowlet gets the idea to find a replacement for Meltan’s stolen nut, its eyes turn into Game Freak logos (complete with a star as portrayed when the Game Freak logo appears in some of the Pokémon games), and while that occurs, [[IdeaBulb a Nintendo Game Boy also appears above Rowlet’s head.]]
** ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movies, on the other hand, tend to drop this after the first couple minutes in favor of more serious effects.
* Lilie from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' often gets [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lilie_Wingding_Pupils2.jpg hearts in her eyes]] when Ahiru does something she deems 'cute'.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has our main hero get swirly-eyed in the more lighthearted scenes.
* Happens in ''Manga/SailorMoon'' on many occasions, most noticeable with the Heart Eyes Usagi displays when meeting Tuxedo Mask and then again when seeing Rei for the first time.
* ''Manga/SakuraNoIchiban'': Asami has swirls in her eyes in the first chapter when she gets knocked out by the guys kidnapping her and Misao.
* One panel of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' featured Keroro with a yen symbol in one eye and an American dollar sign in the other. Giroro's eyes sometimes go up in ''actual flames''.
** In one episode of the anime, Momoka's eyes have little flames in them as she thinks of her determination to get close to Fuyuki on an upcoming trip, which then turn to little rainclouds when he mentions it might rain.
** On the merchandise side, a sticker book of Wingding Eyes for all the model kits has been released.
* One notable case from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': The last episode in ''Slayers Next'' when [[spoiler:Gourry and Lina reappear hugging after disappearing into the Sea of Chaos and]] Lina clocks Gourry, giving him the X-eyes.
* All the humanoid aliens in ''Anime/SpacePirateMito'' have starbursts for pupils. Aoi, who is half-alien, half-human, has one normal pupil and one starburst.
* ''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".
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** Extremely high levels of [[HotBlooded blood heat]] are indicated by spirals in the characters' pupils.
** One fairly unique example of this trope occurs late in the series when Kittan's eyes momentarily transform into stars upon seeing the giant stars on Yoko's latest outfit. [[MaleGaze Guess where they are.]]
** Simon demonstrates the "insanity/rage" eyes -- pupils with nothing but empty circles around them -- for a few episodes following [[spoiler:Kamina's death]].
** The "Spiral eyes" are, like a significant portion of Gurren Lagann, a reference to Getter Robo, where one of the signs of a human being supercharged by Getter Rays was their irises becoming spirals.
* In one chapter of the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, Yugi curses a TV producer to expose his greed on television, and the producer gets the ''kanji'' for "greed" in his eyes (the translated version by Viz Media uses yen signs).
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* [[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.
* VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} commonly uses these, because his eyes are the -only- facial feature on his computer screen-like face.
* ''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.
* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'', the protagonist gets X's in his eyes whenever he gets hurt...and with EverythingTryingToKillYou, this is quite often.
* ''VideoGame/ClawsOfFurry'': The rat {{Mook}}s' eyes will turn into Xs upon defeat. defeated hamster ball enemies will gain Xs in their eyes. Also, if you lose a level, your CatNinja will have Xs in their eyes in the level result screen.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/CookingMama'' gets stars in her eyes when you succeed at a task, and they become flame if you should miss one of her instructions. "Don't worry! Mama will fix 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.
* 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 and a flying bomb from his pupil (sometimes pink-colored and easy to parry).]]
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'': [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice Princess Sapphire]] has naturally star shaped pupils. [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Flonne]]'s eyes occasionally [[StealthPun change to flames]] whenever she gets [[HotBlooded fired up.]]
* ''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.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' has a series of glasses accessories that have this effect on your avatar. The track-invading YaoiFangirl from the '08 Olympics had a pair with swirlies, if I remember correctly.
** An equally absurd example comes from the later levels of ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]'' There your character is, at the bottom of the ocean looking for the BigBad's lair, when you notice a heap of apparent rocks has an ''eye'' in it. An eye bigger than your avatar. And it ''blinks''. And every time it blinks, ''its pupil changes shape''. And nobody on either the zOMG! forum or the GCD knows what it is, aside from ''weird''.
** The Hidden Ace evolving item has four pairs of eyes with pupils shaped after card suits -- diamond, heart, spade, and club.
* ''VideoGame/{{Glam}}'': Glam's eyes will turn into Xs upon death.
* From the opening of the UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame ''Go! Go! Mile Smile'':
-->'''Fairy:''' If you can [[SaveThePrincess rescue the young and beautiful princess]], you will get a great reward.\\
'''Mile:''' ''[dollar signs in eyes]'' Reward!!\\
'''Yard:''' ''[{{Heart Symbol}}s in eyes]'' A beautiful princess!!
** 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.]]
* In the video game version of ''Anime/GregoryHorrorShow'', when Roulette Boy's game starts, Gregory and The Guest (either male or female) will land, and after that, The Guest's eyes become X's while Gregory's eyes becomes dizzied without any wingding eyes.
** Also, when landing on the return space, The Guest will get the same X eyes like at the beginning of Roulette Boy's game.
** The Guest will also get the X eyes when they land on an Event space and get a harmful event.
* The spiral eyes show up quite often in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'' series, and Starly gets the heart eyes in the 4th game. Moe also gets heart eyes when interacting with Ruby.
* Some of the costume items in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' are like this, such as the Dizzy Eyes, which actually spin around while being swirly.
* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': Several characters tend to become heart-eyed when they're in love:
** When Joe and Amelia are having a romantic moment, they get hearts in their eyes.
** Yuka gets heart-eyed in her Date Dash Event whenever you receive a reward from her.
** Joe's brother Sam gets heart-eyed whenever he tries flirting with Amelia.
* 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.
* ''VideoGame/TheMaidOfFairewellHeights'': Marshmallow's eyes turn into hearts when in her car, saying:
--> Mmm! This wind feels great!
* In ''VideoGame/MegaMan11'', Bounce Man's eyes will turn into X's if he is hit by the Pile Driver.
* ''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.
* When you lose in ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'', the Yellowface's eyes become little X's.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The eyes on FunnyAnimal Morgana will turn into yellow, four-pointed stars whenever he starts plotting something.
* 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.
* 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.
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'': After Strong Bad gives Homestar a TapOnTheHead, Homestar's eyes become X's as he falls over.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'': When Mario dies or gets burned by fire/lava, his eyes become Xs.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'': In the game's intro, Mario gets hearts in his eyes when the advertisement in the plane shows a bounty of food.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': The Tostarenans have different-shaped glowing eyes depending on their mood, such as pink flowers when happy and yellow starbusts when hurt.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': 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 ''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.
** In ''[[VideoGame/MarioTennis Mario Power Tennis]]'', during a cut scene, Princess Peach blows a kiss to Mario and Luigi, and their eyes become heart-shaped.
* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'', predator mooks will have spirals for eyes when hit and defeated. The playable characters will also have spiral eyes in their [[ExpressiveHealthBar defeated portrait]] and on their overworld sprite when beaten.
** As of the 3.0 update, if Paprika KO's Tianhuo with her Level 3 Super, Tianhuo's pupils will turn into Xs for two frames, then her eyes become spirals.
* Dead units in ''VideoGame/TotallyAccurateBattleSimulator'' will have X eyes when they die. Otherwise, they walk around with googly eyes rolling in their heads.
* Cirno from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is occasionally depicted with [[AscendedMeme 9-balls]] in her eyes.
* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel'' normally has a realistic art style, but Millium's eyes change to > < when she gets excited, and to blank white circles when she is puzzled. Roselia gets the same treatment in the fourth game.
* The ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' 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.
* 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.
* In one of the ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes 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.]]
* 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]].]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'': Dolly gets heart eyes after her crush Hansel strokes her chin with his tail in the episode Snow Day.
* LampshadeHanging in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': "Why are your eyes shaped like hearts?" "Allergies..."
* 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]].
* 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 ''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.
* 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/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".
* 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.
* 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/EdEddNEddy'':
** Eddy frequently has dollar-sign eyes whenever he thinks about money. In "Virt-Ed-Go" his entire head transforms into a "1½ Penny" and later in the same episode his eyes turn into dollar signs, leading to Double D actually [[MetafictionalDevice peeling one off and examining it.]]
** The show in general features the "circles around pupils" variant near-constantly whenever a character is excited.
** Eddy gets the anime swirls from lack of sleep after Ed kept him up all night in "One Plus One Equals Ed".
* ''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.
* 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.
* 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.
* ''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!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' 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 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'': Whenever [[LoonyFan Harmony's]] craziness gets out of control, she gets spinning green and yellow spirals in her 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'':
** In "Be the Turtle" when Alia is reaching for the fountain foundation during her "Slow Walk" number, her pupils turn into mini foundations.
** Tony gets dollar sign eyes in "Community Garden" as he taste-tests a tomato during the titular song.
** Marcellus gets coin eyes in "Make a Fish" as he sees the Seasiders toss their coins into the fountain.
** Arlo has heart eyes in "Tony Baloney" as he gushes over Tony's makeover.
* 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).
* 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."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'''s ''Life with Loopy'' short "Larry's Girl", both Larry and Stacey get hearts in their eyes upon meeting each other.
* In "Sweet (Truck) Ride", from ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', Zoe gets the stars variation when she thinks about making a movie.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons did this countless times, with money signs and hearts.
** The 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.
** 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/{{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/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.
* ''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.
* ''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]].
* 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".
* ''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.
* 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/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.
* ''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!".
* ''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.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the "To Heck and Back" episode: "Heff, you've got Xs for eyes! What does that mean?"
** When Heffer goes out with the milking machine, his eyes show stars, before he falls over. Originally they were supposed to be hearts.
* 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.
* 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/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.
* 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/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", Squidward's eyes display the text "K-O" just before he faints.
** In "Texas", when Sandy begins to chase after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick - the latter of whom taunted Sandy more than was necessary - Patrick's eyes become giant X's as he screams, and both he and [=SpongeBob=] run faster to get away from her.
** In "Prehibernation Week", [=SpongeBob=] has skull-and-crossbone eyes when Sandy catches him out in the open.
** In "The Algae's Always Greener", when Plankton hears of [=SpongeBob=] ordering two deluxe krabby patties in the AlternateUniverse, his eye is replaced with an image of a Krabby Patty.
** In "Krabs vs. Plankton", Mr. Krabs discusses a lawsuit with his lawyer. After mentioning that the lawyer won't charge Krabs unless they win, Krabs' pupils change to dollar signs. After mentioning counter-suing, Krabs' eyes turn into ''massive gold bars that slam into the floor with the weight.'' Lampshaded, as the lawyer asks if that normally happens, and [=SpongeBob=] states that "They're usually silver."
** In "Squidtastic Voyage" when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick mess with Squidward's brain, it causes Squidward's eyes to spin uncontrollably like slot machines.
** [=SpongeBob=] gets stars in his eyes in "Squid's Day Off" when Squidward, who is acting as his boss while Mr. Krabs is away, tells him that he's getting a promotion and in "As Seen on TV" when he gets the idea to pursue a singing career. "Solo record..." He gets them again in "Model Sponge" as he imagines himself becoming popular after signing up for a kitchen sponge commercial.
** In "Just One Bite" [=SpongeBob=] gets hearts in his eyes when Squidward seems to enjoy tasting a Krabby Patty only for the hearts to explode when Squidward states [[BlatantLies it was terrible.]]
** In "Graveyard Shift", [=SpongeBob=]'s pupils briefly become screaming mouths when he freaks out from Squidward's scary story about the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
** In "Krusty Love", Mr. Krabs has little hearts in his eyes when he gives Mrs. Puff flowers and chocolates.
** In "All That Glitters", when Mr. Krabs suggests [=SpongeBob=] get a new spatula, his eyes are briefly filled with red spirals.
** In "Goo Goo Gas", [=SpongeBob=]'s eyes display "3, 2, 1, LAUNCH" as he prepares to blast Plankton back to the Chum Bucket.
** In "The Other Patty", Plankton's eye displays a countdown from 3 when he eats the Flabby Patty.
** In "Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation" when Mr. Krabs invites [=SpongeBob=] to come on vacation with him and Pearl, [=SpongeBob=]'s eyes turn into Magic 8 Balls which form the message "Yes, please."
** In "Demolition Doofus", the flattened Mrs. Puff is so angry at [=SpongeBob=] for insulting her injury that her pupils become images of [=SpongeBob=] laughing, which then explode into mushroom clouds.
** In "[=SpongeBob=] You're Fired", [=SpongeBob=] gets Krabby Patties in his eyes when he receives an order from Squidward.
** In "[=SpongeBob=]'s Bad Habit", [=SpongeBob=]'s eyes turn into spinning tapes when recording what Squidward's life is about.
* ''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.
* ''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.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** Montana Max and Plucky Duck are the most likely candidates for the dollar-sign version. Plucky also takes the stars version when he thinks there's a chance at getting some fame.
** The spiral version also happens a couple of times, most notably with Fifi [=LaFume=] at the end of "Out of Odor" and Calamity Coyote in "Love Stinks". The heart version also occurs with Fifi in "Love Stinks" and "Aroma Amore".
** In "The Weird Couple", when Dizzy is [[OddCouple rooming with Hampton]] after his cave is flooded out, in one scene he begins jumping on Hamton's bed. [[DeathGlare A very angry Hampton]] watches him, with his pupils having taken the form of Dizzy's silhouette bouncing up and down.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'':
** In "Baby Butch", after watching Tom put a ham into the fridge, the titular black cat's eyes balloon out into full refrigerators with open doors.
** In "[[WesternAnimation/QuietPlease1945 Quiet Please!]]" , 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".
* 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.
* 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).
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', the main characters Clover, Sam, Alex, and also a few of the other characters will get often spiral eyes when they are dizzy, mind-controlled, or get knocked out. In the episode "S.P.I.", Alex and Sam get X eyes when they crash down on some boxes. Clover instead gets spiral eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'':
** A OncePerEpisode occurrence for the titular caped canine 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.
** Anyone who entered Simon Bar Sinister's [[MindControlDevice Phoney Booths]] will display [[MassHypnosis 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.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
** In "The Egg", Wander's eyes turn into hearts as he mentions ThePowerOfLove.
** In "The Night", Wander's eyes become acorns as he sees one fall from a tree.
** In "The Gift" and its POVSequel "The Giftening", when the Watchdogs get a hold of the gifts Wander sends them, their pupils become hearts; when the gift is taken away, the heart morphs into a splat.
** In "The Hole... Lotta Nuthin'", Wander's eyes turn into apples as he tries to get one loose from a tree.
** In "My Fair Hatey", Wander's eyes turn into vacuum cleaners to suck up his TearsOfJoy.
** In "The End of the Galaxy", Peepers' eye [[AmbiguouslyGay turns into a heart]] when Lord Hater resolves to conquer the new galaxy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'': Dolly gets heart eyes after her crush Hansel strokes her chin with his tail in the episode Snow Day.

* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'':

* 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).]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when the four girls get the idea to make merchandise of Mei's panda form after seeing how popular it is at school, they all get green dollar signs for pupils.

** Yuka also gets heart-eyed in her Date Dash Event whenever you receive a reward from her.

** 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.

** 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.

** 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/LoveAndPies'': When Joe and Amelia are having a romantic moment, they get hearts in their eyes.

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

** Anyone who entered Simon Bar Sinister's [[MindControlDevice Phoney Booths]] display [[MassHypnosis 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.]]