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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
Not to be confused with [[Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises]].
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== Played straight ==
=== [[Comic Books]], [[Newspaper Comics]] and [[Web Comics]] ===
* [[Garfield]]
** Jim Davis
** Surprisingly, despite practically being a trademark of Jim Davis, the sphere eyes were
* 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 & Hobbes, but since the characters are not normally drawn with Sphere Eyes it looks a bit creepy.
* ''Adam@Home'' is another example.
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=== [[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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=== [[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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