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During times of emotional stress, a character's eyes, or just the reflected highlights in them, will shake perceptibly. The aim is usually to show someone on the verge of tears; as in, their eyes are pricking, or tears are welling, or something difficult to show otherwise. This is not usually a comedy trope, and can in fact mean that things have turned very serious. It may presage a [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]] if the situation gets worse. It can also indicate extreme happiness or love. Pretty hard (but not impossible) to replicate in [[Real Life]]. [[Schmuck Bait|Best not to try, really]].
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Compare with [[Puppy Dog Eyes]], with which it can combine for devastating effect.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In [[Berserk]], this almost always happens anytime Griffith gives his trademark beast-stare to anyone, or looks them in the eyes at all.
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* Happens plenty of times in ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', sometimes ending with the character breaking down.
* God knows how many times this happens in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', considering that nearly every female character has been [[Break the Cutie|broken]] at one point or another.
* Akane Tendo in ''[[Ranma
* Happens to Lelouch of ''[[Code Geass]]'' when {{spoiler|Suzaku springs on him that Nunally will be the next Governor of Area 11.}}
* All of the girls in ''[[Candy Boy]]'' are prone to this, but Yukino really takes the cake.
* Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' does this, most noticeably in ''TSR'', when {{spoiler|Gauron}} tells him that he had Kaname killed.
** Gauron himself does this during the time when he hijacks the Tuatha de Dannan, when he realizes that {{spoiler|Kaname managed to regain control of the submarine}}. And in another instance, he ends up doing this in {{spoiler|''The Second Raid'', on his death bed, while he's taunting Sousuke and yelling for Sousuke to hate him, in the hopes of Sousuke killing him}}.
* Done regularly in ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de|Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou]]'', but a specific mention should probably go to the end of episode 22, where this happens to the [[The Stoic|normally emotionless]] [[Artificial Human|Yasuaki]] once he starts to consider himself useless.
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