Eyedscreen: Difference between revisions

 

Seen often in [[Animesque]] shows or other animated programs. See also [[Super Move Portrait Attack]], [[Eye Take]], and [[Iris Out]]. Not to be confused with [[Eye Scream]]

 

== Anime ==

** And by "assaulted by this trope", we mean that ''most'' of the opening consists of this.

* The first episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' shows Dib's and Zim's eyes so as to express their confrontation.

* The newer ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series does this all the time, although not necessarily with eyes... it just has the zooming black bar effect during dramatic moments and virtually all commercial breaks.

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' is not exempt from this, either. The title card itself is an Eyedscreen. This was parodied in the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' episode "Samurai Quack". When this happens to Dodgers (playing Jack), he notices the effect and actually tries to push out the black bars.

** Ami employs this trope in the episode "In The Cards", while staring down Yumi in a card game, mixed with her [[Inner Monologue]].

** It is used again in "Spaced Out" to emphasize Yumi's intense stare.

* ''[[World of Quest]]'' does this a lot in relation to Quest. Normally when he's complaining about how much he hates something. And seeing that he hates just about everything (except for Albert)...

* Occasionally shows up in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.

* Done at least once in the animated version of ''[[Lucky Luke]]'', like every other [[The Western|western]] trope.

* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' "Ricardio the Heart Guy", This trick shows up when Finn says that Ricardio is "up to something."

* ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' Phantom Limb in "Victor Echo November".

* ''[[Storm Hawks (Animation)|Storm Hawks]]'' with Aerrow in "The Key".

* Brutally parodied in an episode of ''[[Yam Roll (Animation)|Yam Roll]]'' -- the letterbox effect gets smaller and smaller until you can hardly tell what it's focusing on.

** Chief Thunderhooves of the buffalo tribe uses the effect several times in "Over a Barrel".

* Parodied to hell and back in an episode of ''[[Yin Yang Yo]]'' where various characters do this when plotting something - then promptly note how cramped it is, take their hands out, and push the bars back to the ends of the screen. The bars get thinner and thinner to the point, by the end of the episode physically squishing Yin and Yang between them from the ''horizontal'' sides.