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In fiction, a '''Twitchy Eye''' is never merely a facial
The prevailing notion seems to be that an eye twitch denotes insanity, which can apply to a permanently mad person with a permanent tic, or an unstable character whose twitch manifests along with their madness. As such, it usually accompanies a [[Broken Smile]], and sometimes overlaps with [[Mad Eye]].
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* ''[[Portal 2]]'' gives us a robotic example in Wheatley the Personality Core. He gets damaged early in the game and, from that point until the showdown with the [[Disc One Final Boss]], he has a short circuit that randomly causes him to spasm and give off sparks. Since his body is intended to resemble a robotic eyeball inside a frame, the effect is strongly evocative of a twitchy eye in a human, and even works as [[Foreshadowing]] that Wheatley is not as sane as he appears to be.
▲== Web Original ==
* The main character of ''[[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'' has this as a [[Character Tic]]. It becomes very pronounced when he's nervous, almost to the point of being a [[Tourettes Syndrome]] tic. In particular, it tends to occur when he's discussing his [[Arch Enemy]] Captain Hammer and when his desire for his [[Love Interest]], Penny conflicts with his desire to be a [[Super Villain]]. In contrast with the typical use of the trope, the tic becomes noticeably less pronounced the stronger he grows in his Dr. Horrible persona.▼
* The OCD-suffering Hannelore of ''[[Questionable Content]]'' does this when Marten unthinkingly jokes about spreading garbage around her apartment.
* This is supposedly the "tell" in poker of the Patterner in ''[[Exterminatus Now]]''. To clarify: the Patterner is an [[Expy]] of Tzeentch, ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'''s god of [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent]], [[The Chessmaster|manipulative]] [[God Is Evil|bastardry]]. When he's shown preparing to deal, he has at least five decks of cards floating around him and held in all four hands. And ''he'' displays he's bluffing when his eye (which is not only all of his head, but floats around separate from his body) twitches.
* ''[[Drive (webcomic)|Drive]]'': Nosh does this when he learns that he has to go to Tesskil, whose inhabitants, the [[Exclusively Evil|Tesskans]], lost a war with his own species, the [[Gentle Giant|Veetans]].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had an Ob'enn admiral suddenly sporting a twitchy eye. For a good reason, considering that in the next panel he screamed "The A.I. has gone feral! Nobody said anything about the A.I. being feral!" and the ''next'' panel was a nuclear fireball enveloping his last known location.
== Web Original ==
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== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' has the character of Big Shot, a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of ''[[The Punisher]]''. He gets all eye-twitchy whenever he shoots, fights, or even says the word "gun". This is indicative of some pretty deep-seated mental trauma, as he is prone to collapsing into uncontrollable sobbing while screaming "Why didn't you love me, Mommy?!"
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' does this when Patrick meets him in his house. "I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU PATRICK!"
== Real Life ==
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