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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 [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|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]].
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== General ==▼
* 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 [[Zig Zagged Trope|zigzagged]] with Milhouse Van Houten on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|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.▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Many background or [[Ugly/gonk|gonk]] characters in anime will have this.
* Krillin in ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. Averted in the video games.
* Cilan in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|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 ''[[
* Nanami Kiryu of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', [[Early Installment Weirdness|although she occasionally has white sclerae during the first arc.]]
* Nearly everyone in ''[[Katanagatari]]''.
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* Tsubasa Yuuki from [[Mawaru Penguindrum]].
== Comic Books ==
== Comics ==▼
* The characters from ''[[Peanuts]]'', human and animal alike. Particularly noticeable when they made a "troubled" face.▼
* In ''Gaspard de la Nuit'', an obscure French comic book series, all characters are drawn like this.
* 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 [[Toy Story (franchise)||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 ''[[Non-Standard Character Design|only]]'' human in the ''Pokémon'' franchise to have them. Not even his brothers have it.
** This is appropriate, as he replaced [[Eyes Always Shut|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 [[Zig Zagged Trope|zigzagged]] with Milhouse Van Houten on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|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.
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* [[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 [[Does Not Like Men|man-hating]] divorced science teacher) had
* The characters in ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]''.
* Eileen from [[Regular Show]].
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[[Category:Graphical Tropes]]
[[Category:Eye Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Skintone Sclerae]]
[[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]
[[Category:Eye Color Tropes]]
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