Skintone Sclerae

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Minus Scooby himself, of course.

You may notice that some cartoon characters don't have to have whites to their eyes. Well, they're certainly not white.

Skintone Sclerae are just that: As opposed to the irises being surrounded by white space, a character's skin will apparently go on into the eyeball.

See also Black Bead Eyes.

Examples of Skintone Sclerae include:

Anime and Manga

• Many background or gonk characters in anime will have this.
• Krillin in Dragon Ball. Averted in the video games.
• Cilan in Pokémon. Made even weirder by being the only main character afflicted with the condition.
  • Lenora's husband, Stephan, and a few other background characters in the Black and White season also have this.
• The title character of Yotsuba&!, her father, and possibly the other characters are examples of this.
• Nanami Kiryu of Revolutionary Girl Utena, although she occasionally has white sclerae during the first arc.
• Nearly everyone in Katanagatari.
• Some characters in the original Mobile Suit Gundam, notably Bright Noa and Mirai Yashima. (Other characters are drawn with eye-whites.) Mirai can start to look odd when she's placed next to characters drawn in other styles.
• More than one female character in Cyborg 009 like Arisu, Princess Ixquic, and the Pu-Awak sisters.
  • Subverted with Cain and Von Bogoot, since they seem to have this but they're actually shades.
• Tsubasa Yuuki from Mawaru Penguindrum.

Comic Books

• In Gaspard de la Nuit, an obscure French comic book series, all characters are drawn like this.

Film

• In The Rescuers, the mice characters have sclerae the same color as their fur, to give the illusion of having the black eyes of real mice without sacrificing the expressiveness of traditional Cartoony Eyes.
• The automobile version of |Hamm the piggy bank seen at the end of Cars, his windshield is colored pink like his paint instead of white like everyone elses.

Newspaper Comics

• The characters from Peanuts, human and animal alike. Particularly noticeable when they made a "troubled" face.

Video Games

• Cilan of Pokémon Black and White is the only human in the Pokémon franchise to have them. Not even his brothers have it.
  • This is appropriate, as he replaced Brock in the anime.
  • Togepi is born with sclerae that matches its skin. Its evolved forms just have beady black eyes.

Western Animation

• For some reason, Asian characters in western animation tend to be drawn like this despite other (non-Asian) characters having normal eyes.
• Any character that wears Eye Glasses will have this kind of eye if their glasses were removed.
  • This is zigzagged with Milhouse Van Houten on The Simpsons. There are some episodes in which Milhouse has dots for eyes when his glasses are removed (making him look like Akbar and/or Jeff from Matt Groening's comic strip series, "Life in Hell") and other episodes (such as season seven's "Radioactive Man" and season nine's Lord of the Flies parody "Das Bus") where Milhouse has rounded cartoon eyes with whites around the sclerae.
• This was common on Hanna-Barbera shows of the 1960s and '70s. Most of the human characters in the various Scooby Doo shows, for instance. No doubt this was motivated by the low budgets of the shows, as not having to paint the eyes saved a bundle on paint.
  • Despite having a higher budget, and coming after several series that did feature white sclerae, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated returns to the skintone look to make the cast look more like their 1960s selves.
• The characters in the Disney Winnie the Pooh films have button eyes, occasionally drawn with eyelids but no sclerae for the sake of an expression. This is justified in the case of the stuffed characters, but the same style was used on Christopher Robin as well, perhaps to match the simple pen-and-ink illustrations of the original books.
• Billy Batson/Captain Marvel in both Justice League and Batman: The Brave And The Bold.
• Mickey Mouse in his earlier appearances in the Classic Disney Shorts. Later depictions of him portray him as having normal-looking eyes.
• Superman in The DCAU is usually drawn this way.
• Almost every character in Daria. The most notable exceptions were Brittany, Stacy, Jodie, Mr. O'Neill, and Mr. DeMartino.
  • Ms. Barch (the man-hating divorced science teacher) had Skintone Sclerae from seasons one to three. When the show's animation changed in seasons four and five, she was redesigned to have whites around her eyes.
• The characters in Xiaolin Showdown.
• Eileen from Regular Show.
  • Justified as she's a mole.
• Miss Finster from Recess
• Both Homestar Runner and Strong Sad have these type of eyes.
• Star Trek: The Animated Series. Most noticeable with Uhura, of course.