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[[File:durpewhvi_5988.jpg|link=Mega Man (Animation)|right|[[Memetic Mutation|Mega Man's eye replacement didn't work out as well as he'd hoped]].]]
{{quote|''"I can't stop looking into those entracing eyes... Can she see all around her? Maybe she can see through the very fabric of time and space!"''|'''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Phoenix Wright]]''' on [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Derpy]] [[Memetic Bystander|Hooves]], ''[[Turnabout Storm (Fanfic)|Turnabout Storm]]''}}
How do you make a blank stare even blanker? Have the character's eyes face slightly (or even more than slightly) ''away'' from each other -- reverse cross-eyes, if you will. It's usually used to make the character look unintelligent or dumbfounded, causing it to become known as "derp eyes" in some Internet circles.
A particularly common form of [[Off
This is not to be confused with [[Mismatched Eyes]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Ed the hyena in ''[[The Lion King]]''.
* Maruti from ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'' does this sometimes, either to show he's crazy or that it's [[Off
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In [[Spongebob SquarePants]], this is done a few times. Most notably in the episode 'Selling Out', done by the new manager, Carl. The only time he doesn't do this is when he narrows his eyes at Mr. Krabs, but he's back to his glasgow-style smile and literal fish eyes afterwards.
* Luigi briefly wears this expression at the end of the ''[[Super Mario Bros (Animation)|Super Mario World]]'' episode "The Yoshi Shuffle".
* Seen a few times in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', often as a [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]:
** Derpy Hooves is an interesting case. Her [[Fan Nickname]] (which was adopted to be her [[Ascended Fanon|canon name]]) comes from this, yet she usually [[Inverted Trope|inverts]] the actual trope: Her eyes are seen facing ''inward'' more often than outward (but they ''do'' face outward on a few occasions, so she still counts).
** One background pony in "Griffon the Brush-Off" can be seen making a crazy "shocked" face, complete with fish-eyes, when Fluttershy is scared off by Gilda.
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