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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': [[Bishounen]] Duke Devlin gets a twitchy eye when he's losing to Yami at a game of Dungeon Dice Monsters (Which ''he'' invented). Ouch.
* Kagami does this occasionally in ''[[Lucky Star]]'', when she's trying to deal with Konata.
* Kaname gets this a ''lot'' in the high school parts of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]!''. Mostly due to Sousuke.
* The otherwise unflappable Xellos got an eye-twitch in ''[[Slayers]] TRY'' after Filia called him "raw garbage".
* Natasha Zabikov gets one on ''[[G Gundam]]'' when a boy calls her "Old Lady."
* Miyabi in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]''.
* Nenene in [[ROD the TV]], multiple times in furious frustration with her new roommates.
* In ''[[Sonic X]]'', Knuckles' eye has been seen twitching when he was extremely angry on a few occasions.
* {{spoiler|Hiro-chan}} in [[Naru TaruNarutaru]] has this shortly before she snaps.
* [[Naruto|Sasuke]] does this a few times in part one.
 
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== Film ==
* Done dramatically by [[Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]] whenever the Ring speaks in [[The Movie]].
* The [[Watchmen (Filmfilm)|film version]] of ''Watchmen'' does this with Rorschach, though sparingly.
* Sir Ruber of the movie ''[[Quest for Camelot]],'' one of the characters with a permanent tic, starts out with a slight [[Twitchy Eye]] that gets worse and worse throughout the film, until his whole face is practically quivering.
* Chief Inspector Charles La Rousse Dreyfus in the ''[[Pink Panther]]'' movies.
* Ed the hyena from ''The [[Lion King]]''.
* The anchorwoman in the film version of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' was said to blink involuntarily when she reported a story she knew was a lie.
* Several characters played by Kitano Takeshi have a twitchy eye, most memorably Nishi in ''[[Hana Bi-bi]]'', whose eye twitch announces an imminent outburst of sudden violence.
* [[The Obi-Wan|Master Shifu]] of ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' seems to have developed one of these, particularly after Po gets selected as the [[The Chosen One|Dragon Warrior]]--a trait which [[Character Exaggeration|appears to afflict him much more in FanFiction]].
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'': after Kari has been putting up with Jack-Jack throughout the whole of the movie, she manages to freak out the new 'babysitter' with one of these.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' featured Jack, a genetically-engineered super-genius who was unstable and borderline paranoid, in two episodes. He was very twitchy.
* Data's [[Evil Twin]] Lore in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' had a facial tic when first discovered and activated.
* Captain Darling from the fourth season of [[Black AdderBlackadder]]! Actor Tim McInnerny had a hard time getting rid of this tic after filming ended.
* On ''[[MacGyver]]'', Jack Dalton's left eye always twitches when he lies. It's so well known at the Phoenix Foundation there's a notice in the ladies' room warning about it.
* In ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', Ned's eye twitches when he lies.
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== Video Games ==
* Fred Bonaparte in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'' has eye twitches... even after he's cured by Raz.
** Boyd seems to have a twitchy eye as well. It's most noticeable when Raz first meets him outside the asylum ruins.
* Happens frequently throughout the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series.
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* Count Veger in [[Jak and Daxter]] gets one when he finds out {{spoiler|the Precursors are ottsels}}.
* A twitchy eye is one of the first signs you get that there's something that's not right about {{spoiler|Lisa}} in ''[[Silent Hill 1]]''.
* ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|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.
 
 
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* 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 40000]]'''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 (Webcomicwebcomic)|Drive]]'': Nosh does this when he learns that he has to go to Tesskil, whose inhabitants, the [[Always Chaotic Evil|Tesskans]], lost a war with his own species, the [[Gentle Giant|Veetans]].
 
 
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTduxJxuGak&context=C3614c72ADOEgsToPDskKCXMd2kGu5hBkXdHMj2zHh Observe.]
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' has [[Cephalothorax|Magnanimous]] get one after being sucked through a portable black hole. And he lampshades it.
* Guess how Kevin can tell that his friend [[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben]] is lying? It even becomes a minor plot point in one episode.
* Happens often in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''; one example was when Timmy's mom showed him that her old bikini still fit.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Heloise does this after [[Call a Smeerp Aa Rabbit|Cerbee]] and [[The Slacker|Beezy]] ruin her private picnic with Jimmy. She then is paralyzed with rage, breathing deeply and heavily in one spot for hours.
* ''[[Atomic Betty]]'': [[Big Bad|Maximus IQ]] does this after {{spoiler|Galactic Guardian HQ is destroyed}}, because Noah and Minimus accidentally do it before he can.
* The lunch lady in the ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'' episode ''Little Glop of Horrors'' does this when Fanboy insults her glop.
** Not to mention Lenny, who even has an anti-stress twitch cream.
* Miss Achmetha from ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' has this as a character trait, and comes up pretty much every time she's used.
** A subtle one in ''Duke and the Great Pie War'' done by Duke (played by Larry):
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* Shifu of [[Kung Fu Panda]] does this when Oogway chooses Po as the Dragon Warrior. This only serves as an early warning signal for the horror that he unleashes on Po.
** [[Big Bad|Lord Shen]] of [[Kung Fu Panda 2]] also has a tendency to develop an eye twitch during his particularly unstable moments.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]:''
** In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E10 Swarm of the Century|Swarm of the Century]]" Twilight Sparkle audibly snaps and develops a twitchy eye when she sees the Parasprites eating Ponyville because of a spell ''she'' cast. In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E15 Feeling Pinkie Keen|Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", she develops a [[Twitchy Eye]] and [[Burning Withwith Anger|evolves]] [[Memetic Mutation|into]] [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Rapidash]] when Pinkie tells her that the Hydra ''wasn't'' the doozy she predicted.
** "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E14 Suited for Success|Suited for Success]]": Rarity earns one of these when she learns the famous fashion designer Hoity Toity is going to be attending her fashion show, and seeing the (tacky and overdone) dresses she made for her friends. She does it again at the end, when {{spoiler|Hoity Toity agrees to sell her fashions at his shop, and proceeds to place a ''big'' order.}}
** Twilight briefly does this while worrying about whether Princess Celestia will approve of her friends in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E22 A Bird in The Hoof|A Bird In The Hoof]]".
** Spike's eye also twitches in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E24 Owls Well That Ends Well|Owl's Well That Ends Well]]". ''Friendship Is Magic'' gets a ''lot'' of this.
** In "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E25 Party of One|Party of One]]", Pinkie Pie [[Break the Cutie|goes crazy]] when none of the other ponies want to come to her party, and holds a tea party with [[Companion Cube|inanimate objects]] complete with [[Creepy Circus Music|creepy circus music]] and eye twitches.
** At the [[Season Finale|Grand Galloping Gala]] in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E26 The Best Night Ever|The Best Night Ever]]", {{spoiler|Fluttershy}} develops a [[Twitchy Eye]], [[Evil Laughter]], and [[Dramatic Thunder]] when {{spoiler|none of Canterlot's creatures want to be her friends.}}
** Twilight does this ''repeatedly'' after [[Sanity Slippage|going nuts]] in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3 Lesson Zero|Lesson Zero]]".
* ''[[The Tick]]'' 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?!"
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' does this when Patrick meets him in his house. "I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU PATRICK!"
 
 
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