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[[File:missspider.jpg|link=Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends|frame|[[Uncanny Valley|AUUUGH!!!]]]]
Look at the eyes of your typical [[Talking Animal|cartoon animal]]. More often than not they will not resemble those of the animal they are based upon. Instead, they have generic bright cartoony eyes placed forward on the head. These are vaguely humanlike with scleras, pupils, and ''sometimes'' colorful (often blue) irises. Sometimes the scleras will be a different colour, like yellow or green, (possibly to suggest 'wildness',) but since few animals other than humans have easily visible sclera ''at all'', it's no more natural.
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=== [[Film]] ===
* Averted, naturally, in the ''[[Watership Down]]'' film where the rabbits have realistic red eyes with oval-shaped pupils. And then played with in Efrafa where every rabbit has blue, almost-cartoony eyes, lending them a semi-[[Uncanny Valley]] look.
=== Literature ===
* [[media:rtam.jpg|One cover illustration]] of ''[[Redwall|Rakkety Tam]]'' depicts Tam, an anthropomorphic squirrel, with a fairly realistic face shape and eyes. It's actually far creepier than the slightly more cartoony illustrations in the chapter-headings and on most of the other cover art, which show the animals with human-style eyes.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* [[The Muppets|Kermit the Frog]] has obviously cartoony eyes, but he has pupils more appropriate for an actual frog. Many other Muppet characters have eyes appropriate for their species—a few even use taxidermy eyes!
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* [[Better Days|Jay Naylor]] used to avert this with some dedication. His works have consciously leaned towards this trope recently. It used to be that his cat's eyes had their sclera (the "whites" of the eyes) be a solid color like blue or yellow, but now he does them with white sclera and more human-like eyes. The reason he gave for this was that it allowed him to show expression better, and that drawing them the other way was starting to creep him out.
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=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron]]'' features otherwise natural-looking horses with distractingly humanlike ''eyebrows'' in addition to their cartoony eyes.
** Also seen on the horses in ''[[Road to El Dorado]]'' and ''[[Tangled]]'' to allow for [[Animal Reaction Shot]]s.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* The illustration of an umber hulk in the 1st Edition D&D ''Monster Manual'' shows it with one pair of large, wide-set insectile eyes, along with a smaller, close-set pair of cartoony eyes in between the bug-eyes. This actually turns out to be a clever effect, as attempting to "meet the gaze" of this sketch leaves your brain confused about which eyes are the "real" ones, much like in an optical illusion (vase or faces? bunny or duck?). Justified, in that the umber hulk's gaze ''in-game'' causes people to become confused.
=== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ===
* In ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (Webcomic)|Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'', animals have irises and eyeshine, while the human characters have the standard [[Black Eyes]].
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends]]'' let us find out what happens when you give characters realistic insect-like eyes ''and'' cute cartoony eyes '''at the same time'''. [[Nightmare Fuel]]? Oh, you betcha.
* Dug in ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'' has Cartoony Eyes with distinct scleras—but the other dogs' eyes are much closer to the look of actual dog eyes (with far less white).
* Squidward in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has dark red pupils that are shaped like vertical bars.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* [[wikipedia:Heidi (opossum)|Heidi the cross-eyed opossum]] had prominent sclerae from fat deposits in her eyes, as a result of being malnourished as a juvenile. While many find opossums to be the world's ugliest marsupial, she was considered adorable.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===▼
▲== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]] enemy Mr Mind used to be [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nJVS-KTlru0/ReWtPKqa3vI/AAAAAAAAAko/orrW7-fvvMI/s400/Mr%2BMind.gif a straight example]; a Venusian "worm" with Cartoony Eyes, who wore ''glasses''. [[Post-Crisis]] he looked [http://www.marvelfamily.com/images/MindCode/MisterMind.gif more like a realistic caterpillar] and the "whites" of his eyes could be explained as a caterpillar's false "eyespots". The current Mr Mind (that version's [[Legacy Character|offspring]]) [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B50sW8kbxfA/TGA7F2o7MJI/AAAAAAAAAZs/sIW6ZEs4jUA/s1600/001.jpg attempts to maintain continuity with past versions, while giving him insectile compound eyes], with a result that lies somewhere between [[Ugly Cute]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]].
=== Film ===
* Stitch and all the other experiments in [[Lilo and Stitch]] except Mr. Stenchy (He plays the Cartoony Eyes trope straight.) have eyes with no visible sclera. Same with Captain Gantu and Dr. Jacques von Hamsterviel
=== Video Games ===
* [[Kirby]] has eyes shaped like black ovals with white highlights and dark blue irises, but no visible sclera.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] has one giant wrap-around eye split into two lobes, and his pupils are shaded three-dimensional objects. this is a throwback to the kind of cartoony eye that was almost standard back in the olden day of animation. They are the kind of eyes that [[Felix the Cat]] and [[Mickey Mouse]] have, and since studios liked to [[Follow the Leader]] even back then...
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner from ''[[Animaniacs]]'' have eyes shaped like black ovals with white highlights, but no discernible sclera.
▲== Anime ==
* Renamon from [[Digimon Tamers]] has blue irises and black scleras.
=== Film ===
* Lucifer from [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] has green irides and yellow scleras.
* The lions from [[The Lion King]] all have yellow scleras.
* The Grand Councilwoman from [[Lilo and Stitch]] has ''black'' scleras!
=== Western Animation ===
* [[Donald Duck]] and almost all the other ducks in [[Classic Disney Shorts]] have blue scleras. Possibly to distinguish them from the white feautures skin that surround them.
* Fifi La Fume and Shirly The Loon from [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] have blue scleras.
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* Tom from [[Tom and Jerry]] has green irises and yellow scleras.
=== Film ===
▲== Film ==
* Roger Rabbit from ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''
* Donkey from ''[[Shrek]]''
* Marty, Melman, and Gloria from ''[[Madagascar]]''
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* [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] and the Chippetes▼
* Cream and the Babylon Rogues in [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]
=== Western Animation ===
▲* [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] and the Chippetes
* Averted with a lot of, but not all, cartoon fish.
** Huge exceptions: ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', and the fish in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' (One of the characters in the show has both of his eyes placed on one side of his head.)
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