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* Similarly, in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Snoopy's ears rise when he is startled or receives good news. In one strip from the 1950s, Schroeder was listening to music on the radio, and Snoopy made a square with his ears.

* All Catians in ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' have this as well as expressive tails. They do things like perk up when excited and droop down when sad or disappointed.

* Dumbo Octopi don't have ears, but they are named for fins that ''look'' like the famous elephant's ears, and not only do they use these fins for locomotion to express state of mind.

* Horton in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' Sour Kangaroo displays this as well, when the animals of Nool isolated her.

* Creator/LaurelAndHardy: In ''Film/AChumpAtOxford'', Stan Laurel is able to wiggle his ears whenever he gets mad. It's still a pretty convincing effect, by the way.

* Holo from ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'', whose ears twitch when she hears something interesting and sag when she is feeling sad.

* Elves and other long-eared folk, or even folk with anything approximating long ears, in anime often have expressive ears. It's rare for a long-eared character ''not'' to have Expressive Ears.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'', the people have expressive tails as well as expressive ears.

* Culumon on ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' has rather large ears that somehow retract when he's sad, scared, or lonely. In contrast, they pop out when he's happy.
* Aisha Clan-Clan in ''Anime/OutlawStar'' has large ears that twitch when she hears something interesting or gets excited and droop when she's sad, as appropriate for a CatGirl.
* All Catians in ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' have this as well as expressive tails. They do things like perk up when excited and droop down when sad or disappointed.

* Creator/LaurelAndHardy: In "A Chump in Oxford", Stan Laurel is able to wiggle his ears whenever he gets mad. It's still a pretty convincing effect, by the way.

* ''Literature/TheNightmareStacks''. 'Cassie' decides to [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself drop her glamor]] when going to meet the parents of Alex Schwartz (she's worried they might be powerful sorcerers who see past it). Fortunately the parents are quite mundane and far too distracted by Alex's sister marrying a transgender boy/girlfriend to pay much attention to Alex's quirky cosplaying girlfriend, but Alex's sister wants to know if her cosplay ears are a Japanese invention that responds to brainwaves, because they keep moving according to her mood. Alex on the other hand finally tumbles to what should have been obvious all along, glamor or no.

* Expressive ears were found on Deedlit in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar.'' Being [[TropeCodifier the first]] of those foot-long eared elf varieties helped.

* Culumon on ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' has rather large ears that somehow retract when he's sad, scared or lonely.

* When Queen Eilnor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is turned into a bear, she gains a lovely pair of ExpressiveEars. Which is rather helpful, as she can no longer speak intelligibly, instead making various bear noises when she tries.
* In ''Literature/FireEngineByMistake'', a factory foreman Mr Billings can wiggle his ears, but does not like anyone seeing him doing it at work.

* ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'': Glottis' small ears wiggle sometimes when he's excited or scared.

* Beast Boy from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has pointy ears that flip downward when he's upset.
* Seen on the characters, all anthropomorphic cats, of [=TOTO=] (''This One and That One''), a short-form series presented on-demand on Kabillion on some U.S. cable/satellite providers. The series can also be watched officially and for free on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KTj08WBYd-E YouTube.]]

* All of the characters in ''Bluey'' has these.

* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' has a variation. The head leaves Totobory uses as taste receptors also move around in different ways depending on his emotions, such as drooping down when he is sad and sticking straight up to indicate surprise.

* ''Series/SweetTooth'': Being half deer, Gus' ears rarely stop moving. In one episode, he had stop twitching and swiveling them in order to fool people into thinking they're an AnimalEaredHeadband. It doesn't work very well.

* The plot of one episode of ''Series/SweetTooth'' requires Gus to stop doing this so his ears will seem like costume pieces. Being half deer, getting them to stop moving proves extremely difficult.

* The plot of one episode of ''Series/SweetTooth'' requires Gus to stop doing this so his ears will seem like costume pieces. It...doesn't work very well.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': The Child, an infant from the same species as [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]], has wide ears that communicate his mood. They're upright when he's happy and droop if he gets sad or scared