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Some common eye symbols:

* Currency signs, usually dollar ($), yen (¥), pound (£), or euro (€): Greedy. [[Stock Sound Effects|Often accompanied with a cash register sound]].

* [[Heart Symbol|Hearts]]: [[Love Makes You Crazy|Lovesick]]

* No Sale: Used in western animation after a blow to the head ("No Sale" is a command that opens a cash register's drawer without, um, making a sale. The eyes are based on the tabs that would display on an old mechanical register.) Somewhat of a [[Forgotten Trope]] now thanks to the near-extinction of mechanical cash registers. Though the concept itself still remains usable as the term 'no sale' is still used in the retail business. TILT can be used if the character's a robot.

* Stars: Excitement, determination and dreaming of fame and fortune

** Alternately, it can mean [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness|despair.]]

** Spinning swirls often convey a similar effect.

 

This trope is named for Wingdings, a "dingbat" typeface created by Microsoft which comes pre-installed on most modern personal computers, consisting of assorted symbols.

 

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== Advertising ==

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Negi Springfield in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' gets the Spirals version when he's knocked out by a flying door, as shown on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSNVYgMA9Kc here] at about 2:40.

* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'' often uses spiral eyes to show confusion.

** One fairly unique example of this trope occurs late in the series, when Kittan's eyes momentarily transform into stars upon seeing the giant stars on Yoko's latest outfit. [[Male Gaze|Guess where they are.]]

** The "Spiral eyes" are, like a significant portion of Gurren Lagann, a reference to Getter Robo, where one of the signs of a human being supercharged by Getter Rays was their irises becoming spirals.

* ''[[One Piece]]'': Nami's eyes occasionally change to the symbol for [[Global Currency|Beri]] when there's a potential profit to be made, Sanji's [[Peek-a-Bangs|eye]]<s>s</s> change to hearts whenever he's swooning over one of the girls, and in one chapter Luffy's eyes changed to takoyaki to show just how much he craved the food.

* One panel of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' featured Keroro with a yen symbol in one eye and an American dollar sign in the other. Giroro's eyes sometimes go up in ''actual flames''.

** In one episode of the anime, Momoka's eyes have little flames in them as she thinks of her determination to get close to Fuyuki on an upcoming trip, which then turn to little rainclouds when he mentions it might rain.

* All the humanoid aliens in ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'' have starbursts for pupils. Aoi, who is half-alien, half-human, has one normal pupil and one starburst.

* One notable case from ''[[The Slayers]]'': The last episode in ''Slayers Next'' when {{spoiler|Gourry and Lina reappear hugging after disappearing into the Sea of Chaos and}} Lina clocks Gourry, giving him the X-eyes.

* Tobimaro and Asuka Mizunokoji from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', and their mother, have star-eyes. (Tobimaro and Asuka's father has a [[Henohenomoheji]] face.)

* Nono in ''[[Diebuster]]'' has star-eyes.

* [[Rurouni Kenshin]] gets swirly-eyed in the more lighthearted scenes.

* Although it happens a few times, this also happens to Kirby in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmBZjzyMaZs this] episode of ''[[Kirby Right Back At Ya]]'' where, in one scene, Kirby tries to unsuccessfully jump over the rope, thus getting hit in the face, getting the + type in the process.

* [[Heartcatch Precure|Cure Blossom and Cure Marine]] suffers the dizzy eyes variant after a failed attempt to make a monster dizzy by running around it very fast!

* Episode 5 of ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi]]'' features the heroine with the yen sign in her eyes.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Condorito and related comics use swirly eyes for lunatics, whether they are in a mad house or whether the punchline that reveals them as loonies has just been delivered...

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Anchorman]]'', [[Will Ferrell]]'s eyes burst into flame when his hair is insulted.

* In ''Muppet [[Treasure Island]]'', upon discovering Billy Bones' treasure map, Gonzo gets dollar signs in his eyes as he says "We're gonna be rich!" Meanwhile, the nervous Rizzo has X-eyes as he says "We're gonna be dead."

** Not get daggers IN them mind, [[Nightmare Fuel|they actually extend from his skull and get pointy]].

** Earlier, when Danny's offered the chance to be in a film with the above-mentioned Dimple, he gets stars in his eyes ([[Accidental Pun|pun not intended]]).

* In ''[[A Christmas Story]]'', when Ralphie fantasizes about defeding his family from a band of [[Institutional Apparel|clearly delineated]] bad guys with his [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle]], said villains end up with X's drawn over their eyes after they're dispatched.

* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Hot Rod]]'', where the titular pseudo-daredevil will "summon" the essence of some animal, followed by an image of said animal appearing in each iris.

* In [[Shrek|''Shrek 2'']], if you look very closely during the scene where Puss in Boots shows Shrek and Donkey his [[Puppy Dog Eyes]], you can actually see two little Re/Max hot-air balloons reflected onto his pupils.

 

== Literature ==

* In the [[Dragonlance]] book, Raistlin's pupils are hourglass-shaped.

 

* "No Sale" eyes were used in the "boxing" episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]''

* ''[[The Basil Brush Show]]'': Dave gets pound-sign pupils in one episode when Anil mentions he'll give anything to have his plumbing fixed.

 

== Music ==

* The oddly titled [[It Makes Sense in Context|"Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..."]] by the Arctic Monkeys, advocating art for art's sake:

It might be a surprise but it's true }}

* Lupe Fiasco's character "The Streets" constantly has glowing green dollar signs in her eyes. "The Game" has glowing red dice.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Jason from ''[[FoxTrot]]'' has had money signs in his glasses.

** Parodied in one strip where we see Jason with a number of odd symbols, before going to harass his sister Paige ("Your ugliness...it's mesmerizing!" he says with spirals in his eyes). Paige yells at him to stop drawing on his glasses.

 

== New Media ==

** Actually it looks a lot more like Kermit The Frog's eyes. Maybe that's what they were shooting for?

 

== Video Games ==

* ''Bomberman'' commonly uses these, because his eyes are the -only- facial feature on his computer screen-like face.

* ''[[Cooking Mama]]'' gets stars in her eyes when you succeed at a task, and they becomes flames if you should <s>[[Epic Fail|mess up spectacularly]]</s> miss one of her instructions. "Don't worry! Mama will fix it!"

** Except for ''[[Wario Ware]]: Snapped'' in which coins are in Wario's eyes rather than the dollar signs, and [[Wario Ware]] Smooth Moves, in which the dollar signs did not appear at all.

* Lemina in ''[[Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete|Lunar 2: Eternal Blue]]'' has the dollar sign version any time she makes money off something, or is thinking of a way to do so.

* ''[[Gaia Online]]'' has a series of glasses accessories that have this effect on your avatar. The track-invading [[Yaoi Fangirl]] from the '08 Olympics had a pair with swirlies, if I remember correctly.

** An equally absurd example comes from the later levels of ''[[Gaia Online|zOMG!]]'' There your character is, at the bottom of the ocean looking for the [[Big Bad]]'s lair, when you notice a heap of apparent rocks has an ''eye'' in it. An eye bigger than your avatar. And it ''blinks''. And every time it blinks, ''its pupil changes shape''. And nobody on either the zOMG! forum or the GCD knows what it is, aside from ''weird''.

** In one part of the game, Conker has to drink a large amount of beer so [[Urine Trouble|he will be able to urinate on fire-covered demons that are trying to kill him]]. After he drinks the beer, a fuel gauge appears on his eyes, with the pointer going from empty to full.

** Except Espio, that is.

* When attacked with Sonic special move Dizzy Spin in ''[[Sonic the Fighters]]'', characters will become just that; Dizzy. Cue the spiral eyes and falling on their backs.

* In one of the ''World Heroes Arcade'' endings, Janne gets heart-eyed. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGkqFCUt5s&feature=related Use this link, and go to 1:40 of the video to view it.]

* The spiral eyes show up quite often in the ''[[The Legendary Starfy|Starfy]]'' series, and Starly gets the heart eyes in the 4th game.

* When you lose in ''[[Minesweeper]]'', the Yellowface's eyes become little X's.

 

== Web Animation ==

* In [[Happy Tree Friends]]:

** In "We're Scrooged!", Lumpy gets the dollar sign version. The annotated version says he should really see a doctor about that.

* Doki gets several over the course of [[There She Is]]

 

** The discerning reader soon learns that any particular person is dead when they see the Xs in the person's eyes.

** And later, Celia [[Invoked Trope|draws X's over Belkar's and Haley's eyes to pass them for dead]].

** The swirly eyes variant is [[Lampshaded]] in another, earlier strip.

'''Roy''': "Well, the dragon's got swirly eyes." }}

* In [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0901.html this strip] of ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', while George is negotiating a business deal with Steve Lops, his eyes are dollar signs. Then, Steve's assistant Zerda arrives, and George's eyes very suddenly become hearts. The [[Lampshade Hanging|punchline]] is about eyestrain.

'''Otra''': "Well... They were swirly, last I checked... Wait. They're stars now." }}

* A new variation in ''[[Penny and Aggie]]''. The principal announces that Calvin Machrie will coach the theater team. The reactions of three students are... [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=684 see for yourself].

* A spiral-and-star combo express pain and disorientation in [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=106598 this] ''[[Everyday Heroes]]" episode. The same effect was used by old [[Mad Magazine]] artist Jack Davis.

** Blank ovals to represent shock are used [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=203137 here.]

* [[Discussed Trope|Mentioned]] in ''[[Questionable Content]]'', Faye says she has dollar signs dancing in her eyes now that she only has to pay a third of the rent. Dora tells her her medical doesn't cover "cashtigmatism".

** Dora mentions it herself when the shop gets a good review in the local paper. Marten jokes he thought it was due to novelty contact lenses.

** Karkat's pupils become spades (in-universe, the hate-based equivalent of the <3 symbol) the first time he sees John, indicating his [[Love At First Sight|Hate At First Sight]].

** Then you get Vriska's eight pupils about {{spoiler|Nicholas Cage}}...

** Later, for reasons that [[It Makes Sense in Context|make perfect sense]], Karkat gets [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006268 buckets] in his eyes.

* Mentioned, but [[Cut and Paste Comic|not shown]], in several ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' strips, such as [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=707 here], [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=961 here] and [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1551 here] (in the [[Alt Text]]).

* Frequent in ''[[Persona 4 TW]]'', especially with spirals and X's.

* ''[[Bobwhite]]'': [http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/?webcomic_post=20110531 "I'm... networking."] *stars*

 

== Western Animation ==

* Lampshaded in ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'': in an episode that sent up ''[[King Kong]]'', Carl expresses worry that the giant gorilla they captured might get aggravated and go on a rampage. Pops, who has dollar-sign pupils as he thinks about how much money this will make him, says "Sorry Carl, I can't hear you, I have huge dollar signs in my eyes."

** In one episode, Double D actually peeled one off and examined it.

** The show in general features the "circles around pupils" variant near-constantly whenever a character is excited.

** Eddy gets the anime swirls from lack of sleep after Ed kept him up all night in ''One Plus One Equals Ed''.

* In ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', Harold gets heart ones when he reminesces about [[Le Shawna]]. Later gets the circles around his pupils after Courtney threatens to post the poems he gave to her online (which, thanks to Chef, we can assume were steamy).

* Spoofed on ''[[Drawn Together]]'': When Ling Ling sees a money-making opportunity, his pupils become yen signs. When Foxxy sees one, her ''nipples'' become dollar signs.

** When Heffer goes out with the milking machine, his eyes show stars, before he falls over. Originally they were supposed to be hearts.

** Parodied in the [[Treehouse of Horror]] XV segment "The Ned Zone": When Homer hears about Flanders's ablitiy to predict peoples' deaths, his eyes turn into skulls, then dollar signs, then American flags and finally a dog chasing a cat before his normal pupils return.

** One notable example is in "You Were Never Duckier" - [[Daffy Duck]] enters a poultry judging contest disguised as a rooster, confident he's a shoo-in for the $5000 prize, waiting with "dollar" signs in his eyes. When he loses, and the $5 prize for best duck is announced, he shrugs "Who am I to sneer at a fast fiver?", doffs the disguise and waits with "cent'' signs in eyes.

** The spiral version also happens a couple of times, most notably with Fifi LaFume at the end of "Out of Odor" and Calamity Coyote in "Love Stinks". The heart version also occurs with Fifi in "Love Stinks" and "Aroma Amore".

* ''[[Mission Hill]]'' did a variation of this: When someone was staring at something (like somebody's butt), dotted lines would come out of their eyes, ending at what they're looking at. These lines would turn into daggers when one character was mad at another.

* Occurs on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', usually with [[Enfant Terrible|Heloise]] using fire when she gets angry.

** In "Quiet, Please!" , Tom gives Spike sleeping pills to keep him from waking up. He lifts one of his eyelids, and the eye has text reading "out cold". Later, Jerry looks into Spike's eye, which now reads "''still'' out cold".

* A disturbing example - ''[[Popeye]]'' buys a parrot for Olive - a jealous Bluto leans in toward the cage, and in close-up, his pupils become images of his hand strangling the bird!

** In "Putting Your Hoof Down", this happens to one-time character Iron Will, whose eyes turn into 'bits' (currency used in Equestria) when he succeeds in making Fluttershy assertive.

 

== Real Life ==

* As always, nature proves that it can be weirder than fiction: Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils (because of their craving for W's?).

* Some Octopodes and frogs have pupils shaped like the number 8.

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