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{{quote|'''Bertha''': "[[Lampshade Hanging|Your eyes look like hard-boiled eggs.]]"
'''[[Garfield|Jon]]''': "You don't say!"
'''Bertha''': "No! Really!"
|No. 873 (2011-10-09), ''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]''}}
The nature of drawing and animation lends itself to exaggerated and unrealistic depictions of living creatures, due to the freedom that the artistic form affords. '''Sphere eyes''', as well as oval-shaped ones, are often employed in certain cartoon and art styles - or else for specific moments or gags - as a means to allow for the widest or, rather, most exaggerated forms of expression possible. Often cartoon characters are given large (or small), round/bulging eyes shaped like a geometric sphere or oval, which are connected to each other and often use tiny little dots for pupils. Alternatively, if a character with separate eyes has excited or scared expressions, their eyes can then change into this style.
▲Note that these eyes are '''connected''' to each other. If you want to add examples that include separate eyes, then do so on the inversions list. Otherwise, they're [[People Sit on Chairs]].
Not to be confused with [[Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises]].
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== Played straight ==
=== [[Fan Art]] ===
=== [[Comic Books]], [[Newspaper Comics]] and [[Web Comics]] ===▼
* When chibi (aka [[Super-Deformed]]) artwork is commissioned of more ordinarily drawn art, this type of eyes is a common choice because it fits the character design well and emphasizes the animation of the simplified face.
* [[Garfield]] is an example, since he (and most other characters in the strip) has huge eyes.▼
** Surprisingly, despite practically being a trademark of Jim Davis, the sphere eyes were gained through [[Art Evolution]], as the characters originally had normal circle eyes.▼
▲* [[Garfield]]
▲** Jim Davis frequently uses this trope, as seen in his other strips like ''[[U.S. Acres]]''. Surprisingly, despite practically being a trademark
* Most characters in ''[[Heathcliff]]'' have these too.
* Mother Goose, Grimm and Attila in ''[[Mother Goose and Grimm]]''.
* Opus and Bill the Cat from ''[[Bloom County]]''.
* Most of the characters in ''[[Buckles]]'', such as the title character.
* ''[[Sherman's Lagoon]]'' is also an example of this.
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** Exactly the same happens in ''[[Calvin
* ''Adam@Home'' is another example.
* ''[[Citizen Dog (comic strip)|Citizen Dog]]'' also
* Plus, it was used for characters in [[Matt Groening]]'s comic strip ''[[Life in Hell]]''.
* The Groening-inspired character designs of [[Isaac Baranoff]]'s ''[[Horndog]]'' and ''[[Here Wolf]]''.▼
* Sergeant Schlock from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. [[Justified]] as he's a [[Blob Monster]], and the eyes are both discontiguous with the rest of his body, and interchangable.▼
* Bob from ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''▼
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* [[Rayman]] and other characters in the game have sphere eyes.
* Present in pretty much any [[Rareware]]-made game you could care to name, such as ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''.
** And by extension, [[Donkey Kong]] and his pals in Nintendo's post-Rare games.
* Human Peasants (as well as Sheep) in ''[[Warcraft]] 3'' are rather conspicuous for this, in contrast to most other units whom are modeled with regular eyes.
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* [[Cut the Rope|Omnom.]]
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* ''[[Simon's Cat]]''
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
▲* The Groening-inspired character designs of [[Isaac Baranoff]]'s ''[[Horndog]]'' and ''[[Here Wolf]]''.
▲* Sergeant Schlock from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. [[Justified]] as he's a [[Blob Monster]], and the eyes are both discontiguous with the rest of his body, and
▲* Bob from ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''
* Lampshaded in [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=873 an October 9th comic] of ''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* [[Matt Groening]] uses this trope
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]
* Most characters in ''[[South Park]]''.
* In the [[Disney Animated Canon]], some of the comic relief/cartoony characters, most notably Sebastian in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' and Mushu in ''[[Mulan]]'', have sphere eyes.
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* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' (however, it is inverted with the title character)
* ''[[Catscratch]]''
* Buddy from ''[[Animaniacs]]''
* Norbert from ''[[The Angry Beavers]]''.
* ''[[Regular Show]]''
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== Inversions ==
=== Western Animation ===
* Pokey the horse from ''[[Gumby]]''.
* Many of Seth McFarlane's works like ''[[Family Guy]]'', ''[[American Dad]]'', and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]''.
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