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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.
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=== [[Comic Books]], [[Newspaper Comics]] and [[Web Comics]] ===
* [[Garfield]] and most other characters in his strip have huge, oval-shaped eyes.
** Jim Davis frequently uses this trope, as seen in his other strips like ''[[U.S. Acres]]''. Surprisingly, despite practically being a trademark, the sphere eyes in ''Garfield''were a result of [[Art Evolution]], as the characters originally had normal circular eyes.
* Most characters in ''[[Heathcliff]]'' have these too.
* Mother Goose, Grimm and Attila in ''[[Mother Goose and Grimm]]''.
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* [[Cut the Rope|Omnom.]]
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* ''[[Simon's Cat]]''
===[[Web Original]]===
*Lampshaded in [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=873 an October 9th comic] of ''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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