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  • The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps: Sherman, as well as a few background characters, have black dot eyes.
  • The human characters as well as a few aliens from 3-2-1 Penguins! have black dot eyes.
  • Many characters in Adventure Time, especially human characters. They often change in order to show emotion, though most commonly to Sphere Eyes.
  • Carl Wheezer from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has dot eyes behind his glasses; which actually, is kind of... weird for a all-CGI cartoon show where every other character is designed with more realistic eyes with iris colors. In the pilot, however, Carl had green eyes.
  • Coconuts along with several minor characters in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog have black dot eyes.
  • Depending on the Artist, Simon in The Alvin Show may have these when his eyes aren't obstructed behind his glasses (in another case on the show he was shown to have normal eyes like his brothers.)
    • The same is also true for Leonardo at one point in "Clyde Crashcup Invents the Wife", though he was instead shown to have normal eyes at the end of "Clyde Crashcup Invents the Time Machine" when, after putting the still-working main component of the destroyed Reverse-Time Machine in his pocket, he turns into a baby.
  • Some of the characters in The Amazing World of Gumball, including Idaho, Penny, Masami, and Carmen, though given the varying degrees of anthropomorphism in facial structure it can be hard to tell which ones are Black Bead Eyes and which are Skintone Sclerae. Masami is an unusual example in that her eyes and mouth both appear to actually be flat-edged holes in her body. Penny, when she still has her shell, has a similar face as Masami, though it's unknown how she could move her eyes and mouth inside the shell.
  • Played with in American Dragon: Jake Long: With human characters: Asians have these eyes and other ethnicities have more detailed eyes.
  • Arthur: Arthur averted black dot eyes in the first season, but fell victim to it starting in the second. note 
  • The human and animal characters in the classic version of Bob the Builder has these.
  • Bobby's older brother, Derek in Bobby's World is the only one in the Generic family to have this eye style.
  • Used for Rosie, Gilbert, other animals, Clementine, Asian characters, and others in Caillou.
  • Winslow, Rancid Rabbit, and Shriek DuBois in CatDog have these as well. While Shriek mostly has her Eyes Always Shut, her eyes appear to be black dots when she looks surprised.
  • The human characters in ChalkZone has those types of eyes while the chalk characters have Monochromatic Eyes.
  • Clerks: The Animated Series: Dante Hicks has black dot eyes (when he isn't shocked by something)
  • Everyone in Clifford the Big Red Dog except Clifford himself has normal eyes. Although, Clifford does have black bead eyes only when he's a puppy. They are generally black, although a skunk that appeared once had blue eyes.
  • In Codename: Kids Next Door, most characters are have simplistic black dot eyes although there are a few exceptions.
  • Several characters from Craig of the Creek have this style, though most characters have regular looking eyes.
  • Much of the cast of The Crayon Box had black, beady eyes.
  • Cupcake in Cupcake & Dino: General Services has black bead eyes. The same can be said about a number of one-off characters on the show.
  • Curious George notably caused controversy for averting this, seeing as the books illustrate the characters with black dot eyes. Interestingly, when George dreams on the show, characters are shown in the "classic" style of the books.
  • DC Animated Universe:
    • Superman: The Animated Series played Superman with detailed dot eyes, possibly a subtle reminder of his alien origins (his father also had them).
    • Some of the background kid characters and some of the Dumb Muscle in Batman: The Animated Series have black dot eyes.
    • When Billy Batson showed up in Justice League Unlimited, he had these. While this makes him look like the way he was played in the comics, it does come off strangely odd when he's the only person in the show with that look.
  • Denis and Me: Denis, along with several other human characters in the show, have big black dots for eyes. This doesn't apply to all the characters, as Sir Meows-A-Lot had Black Dot Pupils.
  • Dexter's Laboratory:
    • Most of the supporting and minor characters, such as Major Glory, have these eyes.
    • Dexter would sometimes have black dot eyes when seen without his glasses, depending on the episode.
  • The animal characters in Dogs in Space has these.
  • Practically all of the human characters in Doug, such as the title character, except Skeeter, Mrs. Dink, Mrs. Bluff and Mayor White. Jim Jinkins also used this eye style in his other animated shows. PB&J Otter, Stanley, Jojo's Circus, and Pinky Dinky Doo; however, it was rather inconsistent—-some characters would have it, while others wouldn't. For example, on PB&J Otter, Peanut and Jelly have normal eyes, but their sister, Baby Butter, has dots for eyes. Stanley actually used this fairly consistently by giving most humans dots for eyes but animals (which the show taught kids about) normal ones.
  • Most non-anthropomorphic animals in DuckTales (2017) are drawn with black dot eyes. This extends to classic characters like Tootsie the Triceratops and the Tittertwill bird. Also, the Rescue Rangers have black eyes as normal animals, but gain Cartoony Eyes upon turning sapient.
  • In The Fantastic Four (1967), Doctor Doom's eyes look like this most of the time. In close up shots, they look blue with black pupils.
  • The Flintstones:
    • Some characters have black dot eyes, most notably Barney and Wilma. In the earlier episodes Barney even had no scelerae for eyes.
    • In the Flagstones pilot, Betty had dot eyes.
  • Everyone in George Shrinks has small black dots for eyes.
  • All characters except for some slugs and snails in Gordon The Garden Gnome have black dot eyes.
  • All of the characters in Henry's World have eyes of this kind.
  • Hey Arnold!: Phoebe and the title character's grandmother have black dot eyes over their glasses.
  • A few characters on Hey Duggee including Duggee, Norrie, and others have beady eyes. There are some exceptions, like Duggee only grows white sclera eyes when he's surprised, excited, scared, sad, or confused.
  • Hilda:
    • David, the elves and some other characters have these kind of eyes.
    • In distant shots, the characters' eyes become black dots as they are drawn to be more simplified.
  • Nearly everyone in the Il Était Une Fois... franchise, with the exception of Le Teigneux and Le Nabot.
  • Elroy in The Jetsons has black dot eyes which makes him stand out from the rest of the cast, who have normal eyes with scelerae.
  • All characters in Johnny Bravo. Johnny himself (who is almost always wearing shades) is shown to have black dot eyes when he accidentally puts on Velma Dinkley's glasses.
  • All of the characters of Kid Cosmic have those eyes. The exceptions are Stuck Chuck, Fantos the Ammassor and some aliens.
  • Rufus from Kim Possible, which is Truth in Television, guessing that naked mole rats don't have sclera.
  • Boomhauer and Cotton in King of the Hill have beady black eyes with no sclerae which contrasts with the other characters in the cast.
  • Looney Tunes:
    • Yoyo Dodo, as well as some background human characters have black dot eyes. Same thing with his son Gogo.
    • Granny, despite having white sclerae and blue eyes, has these when her glasses are taken off. (The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries in particular)
    • Francis X. Bushlad from Taz-Mania has dot eyes, but sometimes has sclerae (whether skintone or white) for zany expressions.
  • The Loud House:
    • Most of the characters who wear glasses have dot eyes with the glasses' lens standing in as the "sclera" part. Those who were seen without their glasses, as is the case of Lisa Loud and Clyde McBride, retain the dot eyes that way. Two notable exceptions to this rule are Zach Gurdle and Lisa's one-off counterpart Beatrice from "White Hare", who have the series' standard full eyes with Black Dot Pupils visible through their lens.
    • Rosa Casagrande, who doesn't wear glasses, also has these.
  • Used for many characters on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast except for The Beast, Hamilton, The Moo Sisters, and others. Examples of characters with black bead eyes include Maggie, Nedly the rabbit, Rudy the mouse, the Dream Sheep, and The Jellybean Team.
  • The Magic Key: The show’s human characters have these, although interestingly animals and any fantastical beings that show up have a good chance of having more detailed eyes.
  • Mamemo: The titular character has black dot eyes. With the character design of the cows, she's the only character on the show with them.
  • Everyone in Martin Morning, with the exception of the aliens that appear in some episodes, which makes sense because they are, well, aliens.
  • The pilot of Megas XLR had Coop, Jamie, and Kiva drawn with half-outlined eyes without any color to them or even whites. The part of their eyes that would have been white was the same color as their skin.
  • Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse zig-zagged between this and Pie-Eyed in their vintage cartoon designs, sometimes within the same short.
  • Molang: Virtually every member of the cast have beady little black eyes.
  • Monk Little Dog: While they might be too big to count as dots, Kimmy's eyes are all black.
  • Scooter and Skeeter in Muppet Babies (1984) have black bead eyes when they take off their Eye Glasses, presumably to indicate just how shortsighted they are. (Except in the episode "The Weirdo Zone", when Skeeter demonstrates her "inner weirdo" by taking off her glasses, and the pupils stay on the glasses.)
  • Depending on the Artist, Willy Zilla from My Dad the Rock Star sometimes has them when he takes his glasses off.
  • Most of the characters in My Life as a Teenage Robot avoid this, but their eyes become dots when their character designs become simpler and more indistinct in long-distance shots. A notable exception is Brit Crust, who always has black bead eyes.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Several non-sentient animals, and pony foals (except Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake, whose eyes are respectively colored brown and blue). Snips and Snails, owing to their Non-Standard Character Design, are the oldest characters to have such kind of eyes (they're presumably the same age as the Cutie Mark Crusaders).
  • Mostly all of the animals in Ni Hao, Kai-Lan have black dot eyes while humans like Kai-lan and her grandfather have normal eyes.
  • Olliver's Adventures: Of the main cast, Ollie and Beano are the only ones with big black dot eyes.
  • Any and all earlier inkblot characters such as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Bosko have black dot eyes to go with their simplistic black and white designs.
  • In PAW Patrol, Another series created by Keith Chapman, The Turbots and some animal characters (except for the Pups themselves and the kitties, etc) have these.
  • P.C. Pinkerton: Most of the cast of this show, including the title character, have little black dot eyes.
  • Squeak the mouse and Mole had black bead eyes in Peep and the Big Wide World.
  • All of the characters in Pepper Ann have black dot eyes except Milo, Trinket, Brenda and Gwen Mezzrow.
  • Pinga and the other baby penguins in Pingu have black dot eyes. Possibly to show that they are younger than the rest of the cast.
  • Pocoyo and most of the characters from his show have oval-shaped dot eyes.
  • The characters of Popeye have simplistic black dot eyes in the Fleischer Studios version.
  • All of the characters in Poppy Cat had black bead eyes except Owl.
  • Mitch Mitchellson and Princess Morbucks in The Powerpuff Girls have black dot eyes and no sclerae while everyone else has normal eyes.
  • The Raccoons:
    • Cedric Sneer has bead eyes whenever he takes off his glasses.
    • Schaeffer also has these. A matter of fact, a very brief blink-and-you-miss scene in The Raccoons On Ice is the only time we see his eyes.
  • Razzberry Jazzberry Jam plays this trope completely straight for every single character in the show; the most interesting thing to say about them is that some characters’ eyes aren’t actually attached to their bodies.
  • In Ready Jet Go!, the alien pets Sunspot and Moonbeam have black dots for eyes.
  • Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show was given one of these as an animation error (in the "Breakfast Tips" bumper). However, John K. thought it was funny so he left it in.
  • Filburt from Rocko's Modern Life has these, but only when he takes off his thick glasses.
  • Everyone in Rolie Polie Olie have black dot eyes except Pappy and Gloomius Maximus. Fitting, as most characters done in a cutesy, simplistic style.
  • Rugrats: Chuckie Finster and his father (when they're not wearing glasses) have small bead eyes. The same applies to Didi, Drew, and Grandpa Lou when they are shown without glasses. Grandpa Boris is initially featured with black bead eyes in the early seasons, but from the Channukah special onwards, he's depicted with visible sclera.
  • Fu-Fu and the Reader on Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat have black dot eyes and glasses. Also, any mouse characters and any other bat characters have bead eyes, aside from Master Wu-Fu.
  • Everyone in The Save-Ums! have black dot eyes except B.B. Jammies, Olena, the crabs, and the grubs.
  • An unusual CGI case is in many of the kid characters in the Scary Godmother film adaptations. It looks especially bizarre with the way they blink in some scenes.
  • Some few characters have those Black Bead Eyes on Schoolhouse Rock!.
  • Scooby-Doo: Due to the many different iterations of the franchise, this trope gets zig-zagged quite a bit, but the each of the main characters, aside from Scooby himself, are usually portrayed like this
  • The Secret World of Benjamin Bear: The vast majority of Teddy Bears in this world are drawn with these eyes.
  • While relevant main and secondary characters have fully drawn eyes in Steven Universe, this trope is used for the background characters.
  • Milhouse and his father in The Simpsons have black dot eyes due to wearing Eye Glasses.
  • Ike and every other Canadian person in South Park have beady black dot eyes.
  • Plenty of characters on Stick Girl had black bead eyes.
  • Stickin' Around does the bead eyes style, since its art style takes after the traditional Stick-Figure Comic, but depending on the expressions, they may also have white sclerae.
  • Most characters in Sushi Pack have those eyes with a few exceptions. They are generally black, although Titanium Chef has red eyes.
  • Certain characters in Top Cat have black dot eyes, such as Officer Dibble (although he had sclerae in later appearances).
  • Total Drama: Chris, DJ and his mother, and Rodney all have little black dot eyes. Harold and Beth also have them when shown without glasses.
  • The Triplets: Most of the characters in the show have their eyes like this. However, occasionally there's a character or two with Black Dot Pupils.
  • A Treasure In My Garden: The black bead eyes style is used in a few of the shorts, such as "Scuttlebutt, What A Nut" and "On The Tip Of My Tongue".
  • VeggieTales: The French Peas (including Jean-Claude and Phillipe Pea) and the Carrot Men have these.
  • In We Bare Bears, the bear trio, Grizzly, Panda, Ice Bear have black dot eyes due to being cute cartoon bears, though they do grow sclera whenever they widen their eyes when they are surprised, scared, or excited. Nom Nom also has black dot eyes, though only when he is being cute and not able to speak.
  • Many characters in Winnie the Pooh, which consisted of stuffed plush toys with actual black beads for eyes. Notable examples being Pooh himself, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo. Also, Christopher Robin himself in any of his pre-2011 appearances.
  • Everyone in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! has black dot eyes to go with the cutesy art style.
  • Omi in Xiaolin Showdown has black dots, although other characters don't have any more detailed eyes.

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