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* The iconic character [[DeadpanSnarker Wrench]] from VideoGame/WatchDogs2 has a full-face mask that animates his eyes on an LED matrix, matching the reactions of the character himself in real time.
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* The iconic character [[DeadpanSnarker Wrench]] from VideoGame/WatchDogs2 ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' has a full-face mask that animates his eyes on an LED matrix, matching the reactions of the character himself in real time.
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* The iconic character [[DeadpanSnarker Wrench]] from VideoGame/WatchDogs2 has a full-face mask that animates his eyes on an LED matrix, matching the reactions of the character himself in real time.
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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.
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* [[MagicalGirl Platinum the Trinity]] of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has naturally heart-shaped pupils. [[spoiler: They [[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.
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* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': Bone Fish when stunned, have swirls for eyes.
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* 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.
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* The ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' games have a [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs unique exaggerated]] 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.
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* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'': A few dead or stunned enemies such as Pizza Box Goblin display X-shaped eyes. Rideable zombies also display X-shaped eyes.
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* 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.
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* 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'' ''VideoGame/WarioWareSnapped'' in which coins are in Wario's eyes rather than the dollar signs, and ''[=WarioWare=]: Smooth Moves'', ''VideoGame/WarioWareSmoothMoves'', in which the dollar signs did not appear at all.
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* ''VideoGame/IslandSaver'':
** The bank machine and recycling machines both display heart eyes when the player deposits the respective items in them.
** The recycling machines will also do X-eyes if they are full.
** The bank machine and recycling machines both display heart eyes when the player deposits the respective items in them.
** The recycling machines will also do X-eyes if they are full.
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* ''VideoGame/BoundByBlades'' has a giant {{cyclops}} thing, Skullako, as a boss, and his single eye turns into an "X" if you damage him enough. None of the other bosses have this animation.
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* 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.
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* The spiral eyes show up quite often in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'' series, and Starly gets the heart eyes in the 4th game.[[VideoGame/DensetsuNoStafy4 fourth game]]. Moe also gets heart eyes when interacting with Ruby.
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* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': [[https://youtu.be/vtIwzRqq7bA?t=16 River City Girls Character Spotlight - Kyoko]] has a pan up on her face that shows her with HeartSymbol outlines for pupils.
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* 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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* 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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* ''VideoGame/VentureKid'': Whenever Andy loses a life, he kind of jumps off the screen upside-down with Xs in place of his eyes.
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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]].]]
* [[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]].]]
