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* ''ComicBook/YorickAndBones'': The characters' eyes, while usually BlackBeasdEyes, become this when they get scared from seeing [[DemBones Yorick]].
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': While eyes are usually animesque here, Dan is fond of using this trope for [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-099 amusing reactions.]]
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* ''Series/GroundlingMarsh'': The whole cast have their eyes done in this fashion.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', the Wattersons started off with large pill-shaped eyes for the male characters and ovular eyes for the female characters, each with huge black pupils matching their eye shape. In Season 2, the ArtEvolution led to all their eyes becoming ovular, though they sometimes alternated to the more traditional circular eyes with smaller dot pupils, usually when the characters were surprised. From Season 3 onwards, the circular eyes were adopted full-time as the Watterson family's finalised designs. [[LotsAndLotsOfCharacters Other characters]] follow or avert this trope depending on [[MediumBlending their respective designs]].
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* ''VideoGame/JoumeeTheHedgehog'': [[PlayerCharacter Joumee]] sports a pair on the title screen.
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* {{Lampshaded}} on one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where Marge is angry at Homer for not remembering what color her eyes are, despite the fact that, like all characters in the show, her eyes are just black pinpoint dots. When the camera finally zooms in on her eyes, her irises are just a thin [[spoiler:hazel]] ring around the pupil, invisible from a distance. Simpsons characters in general seem to have eye colors in-universe; Homer's driver's license in "Duffless" lists his eye color as blue, and Lisa is also established as having blue eyes in "Bart Carny." ''Very'' occasionally, a guest character is drawn with colored eyes: Lurleen in "Colonel Homer" has brown eyes, while Paul and Linda McCartney have brown and blue eyes, respectively, in "Lisa the Vegetarian."
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A basic building block of cartoon character design, one of the most common ways of drawing characters' pupils in {{Comic Strips}} and WesternAnimation is to make them little black dots, completely black and iris-free, with no discernible eye color or often no gloss. Left on their own, they're BlackBeadEyes; put them in a couple of white circles and you get SphereEyes; add some eyelids and brows without the whites and you have SkintoneSclerae. Take a slice out of the side of any of the above and the character becomes PieEyed.
It has its roots in a simple shortcut for ease of animation and cranking out multiple panels of a comic day after day, yet having become so entrenched in cartoon art, it shows up even now in long-form works and on occasion it even crosses dimensions into {{CGI}}.
Contrast this with the more realistic eyes of most {{Superhero}} ComicBooks, or the [[BigAnimeEyes huge, shining eyes]] of {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}. Extreme close-ups could result in a temporary SuddenEyeColor; ArtEvolution and a move into 3D could make it permanent.
Not to be confused with BlackEyesOfEvil or BlackEyesOfCrazy.
'''As this is an OmnipresentTrope in certain styles of art/animation, this page only lists cases where [[PlayingWithATrope the trope is somehow played with]].'''
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* On the ''WebAnimation/BrainDump'' episode about ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', Max G. likes how the characters are given these as opposed to the usual extra-detailed eyes seen in most AllCGICartoon movies.
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* A CGI example would be ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'', where all the vehicle characters' eyes are black, with the only exception being the eponymous monster truck whose are blue.
* ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' is a rare TechnicolorEyes example; while some characters' eyes are colored, characters like Mikey and Amanda have standard black eyes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', all animal characters and anyone who has SphereEyes are given black eyes with no pupils. Most human characters have colored eyes with no irises, but they're usually a color close to black, like brown.
* In a CGI example, Every character on ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'': has standard black eyes. Janitor Poopatine averts this, having SupernaturalGoldEyes, and Man-Arctica has BlankWhiteEyes.
* Most of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' have these, with exceptions being the some of the creatures, such as members of Sev'ral Timez and the cursed wax figures.
* Most characters of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' have black ovals for eyes. The sole exceptions would be Granny and Tweety, whose are blue.
* Snips, Snails and Featherweight on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' have black eyes, while all the other pony characters' eyes are colored.
* {{Lampshaded}} on one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where Marge is angry at Homer for not remembering what color her eyes are, despite the fact that, like all characters in the show, her eyes are just black pinpoint dots. When the camera finally zooms in on her eyes, her irises are just a thin [[spoiler:hazel]] ring around the pupil, invisible from a distance.
* Some characters on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', such as Patrick, Sandy, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, as well as other minor fish characters. [=SpongeBob=], Squidward and Gary are exceptions, and Mr. Krabs has a variant of these with pale green sclerae. Patrick also often has a SuddenEyeColor in certain events (they turn blue, for example, when cleaned off in "The Battle of Bikini Bottom").
* Wander and Sylvia in ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', have regular black eyes, with the former's sometimes changing color depending on the scene (they turn green when hypnotized by Little Bits, for example). Peepers and the Watchdogs avert this with red [[FacelessEye faceless eyes]], and Lord Hater has a variant with sickly green sockets.
A basic building block of cartoon character design, one of the most common ways of drawing characters' pupils in {{Comic Strips}} and WesternAnimation is to make them little black dots, completely black and iris-free, with no discernible eye color or often no gloss. Left on their own, they're BlackBeadEyes; put them in a couple of white circles and you get SphereEyes; add some eyelids and brows without the whites and you have SkintoneSclerae. Take a slice out of the side of any of the above and the character becomes PieEyed.
It has its roots in a simple shortcut for ease of animation and cranking out multiple panels of a comic day after day, yet having become so entrenched in cartoon art, it shows up even now in long-form works and on occasion it even crosses dimensions into {{CGI}}.
Contrast this with the more realistic eyes of most {{Superhero}} ComicBooks, or the [[BigAnimeEyes huge, shining eyes]] of {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}. Extreme close-ups could result in a temporary SuddenEyeColor; ArtEvolution and a move into 3D could make it permanent.
Not to be confused with BlackEyesOfEvil or BlackEyesOfCrazy.
'''As this is an OmnipresentTrope in certain styles of art/animation, this page only lists cases where [[PlayingWithATrope the trope is somehow played with]].'''
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* On the ''WebAnimation/BrainDump'' episode about ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', Max G. likes how the characters are given these as opposed to the usual extra-detailed eyes seen in most AllCGICartoon movies.
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* A CGI example would be ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'', where all the vehicle characters' eyes are black, with the only exception being the eponymous monster truck whose are blue.
* ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' is a rare TechnicolorEyes example; while some characters' eyes are colored, characters like Mikey and Amanda have standard black eyes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', all animal characters and anyone who has SphereEyes are given black eyes with no pupils. Most human characters have colored eyes with no irises, but they're usually a color close to black, like brown.
* In a CGI example, Every character on ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'': has standard black eyes. Janitor Poopatine averts this, having SupernaturalGoldEyes, and Man-Arctica has BlankWhiteEyes.
* Most of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' have these, with exceptions being the some of the creatures, such as members of Sev'ral Timez and the cursed wax figures.
* Most characters of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' have black ovals for eyes. The sole exceptions would be Granny and Tweety, whose are blue.
* Snips, Snails and Featherweight on ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' have black eyes, while all the other pony characters' eyes are colored.
* {{Lampshaded}} on one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where Marge is angry at Homer for not remembering what color her eyes are, despite the fact that, like all characters in the show, her eyes are just black pinpoint dots. When the camera finally zooms in on her eyes, her irises are just a thin [[spoiler:hazel]] ring around the pupil, invisible from a distance.
* Some characters on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', such as Patrick, Sandy, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, as well as other minor fish characters. [=SpongeBob=], Squidward and Gary are exceptions, and Mr. Krabs has a variant of these with pale green sclerae. Patrick also often has a SuddenEyeColor in certain events (they turn blue, for example, when cleaned off in "The Battle of Bikini Bottom").
* Wander and Sylvia in ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', have regular black eyes, with the former's sometimes changing color depending on the scene (they turn green when hypnotized by Little Bits, for example). Peepers and the Watchdogs avert this with red [[FacelessEye faceless eyes]], and Lord Hater has a variant with sickly green sockets.
