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Open the Iris
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Normally, the eye filters light by widening or closing the hole in the center of the iris, called the pupil. Emotional reactions can achieve this as well: shock might narrow the pupil, while relaxing could widen it considerably. However, in animated fare or Comic Books, this can be very hard if not impossible to show, since a typical human pupil, at its widest, is 3-4 millimeters.note For the metric-impaired, that's 0.12-0.16 inches. This trope is a way to sidestep that difficulty. Instead of just changing the size of the pupil, you change the size of the iris (the colored ring surrounding the pupil) as well. Your iris is no more capable of growing than your bones are of stretching like Gumby, but since they are by far the largest feature of an eye other than the whites, it's easy for artists to "expand" them to get the desired emotional reaction across. Emotions this is meant to convey usually include love, (pleasant) surprise, desire, or awe. Animated characters experiencing the Mushroom Samba almost always get a close-up of their eyes showing this, just before reality goes sideways for them. Those effected by a Glamour, Love Potion, or Love Is in the Air effect may also get this, though those may be indicated with Mind-Control Eyes instead. The opposite, when the irises are drawn in a shrunken state to indicate fear, pain, shock, or anger is Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises. Compare Expressive Mask. Not to be confused with Iris Out. When the pupils are drawn abnormally large, the eyes generally appear pleading or wistful. That trope is Puppy-Dog Eyes. |
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Happens to Bruce in Finding Nemo as a result of him suddenly reverting back into "a mindless eating machine" after accidentally sniffing Dory's blood. | |
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The Simpsons: This is one of Homer's reactions as he chows down on Krusty Burger's barbecue sandwiches, repeated along with the action itself and fat and suchlike flooding into his system (a Shout-Out to Requiem for a Dream). In another episode, it happens when he licks hallucinogenic toads. "The Springfield Files" has a glowing alien with huge eyes spotted in Springfield. It's actually Mr. Burns whacked out of his gourd on painkillers. |
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Dominic Deegan features irises getting huge and limpid when someone is feeling touched or romantic toward someone else. | |
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In Miraculous Ladybug, Marinette's irises vary a lot in size whenever she's flustered, which happens often. For instance, they will grow to saucer-like proportions when she's talking about Adrien, and reduce to pinhead size when she finds herself unexpectedly in front of him. It also happens for the other characters, but far less frequently. | |
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In Justice League Unlimited episode "Task Force X," Plastique’s iris narrows every time she has a Oh, Crap! moment. | |
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In Naruto, this is what the 9-Tailed Fox looks like when it's being controlled by someone with the Sharingan. | |
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The animation style of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha usually shows an all-black pupil/iris with the anime-standard lens flare and a crescent of color near the bottom of the eye. When a character is shocked, scared, or incredibly pissed off, you can see the iris all the way around. Their eyes kind of shrink, too. | |
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In the pilot of Sense8, when Riley inhales from the drug pipe, we get a close-up on her iris widening. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: Zeke's irises tend to enlarge when he's really excited about something, like when Malik lets him play with a rubber band in "Brother Day". In "Gift for a Fish", Mr. E expands his irises and gets shines in his eyes after Ellie dries him off. |
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Homestuck: In the end-of-Act-5 flash, Rose comes to a sudden realization about the nature of The Tumor. Her eyes widen as the camera zooms in on them for dramatic effect, and then everything goes wrong. | |
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In Littlest Pet Shop (2012) this happens to many of the characters at times, but for the most part everyone's eyes are already so huge that this trope is almost unnecessary. | |
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Similarly used in Ghost Hound, by the same director. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei in panda form, Stacy and another classmate pose for a photo like this in order to look extra cute. | |
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In Rusty and Co., even in miniature, we can see how white Madeline's eyes get what she sees what Cube is doing. | |
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In Blip, Hester's irises are massive by default, larger than any other characters' (it's even lampshaded early on); a visual indication that she's the most emotional of the bunch. | |
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In the Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, Kim's iris and pupil go bigger, then smaller when she is shocked by her android boyfriend who works for Drakken and Shego. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Desert": "Lake Laogai": |
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People in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED who enter SEED Mode have much larger irises, though their emotional range typically doesn't change much. | |
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In J.R.Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood paranormal romance series, the vampire seer character Vishous has this happen to his left eye whenever he deliberately tries to look into someone's future or to bury their memories. | |
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Chi's Sweet Home: Chi's irises got HUGE when she saw a shopping bag filled with kitty toys. Of course, she went straight for the bag. | |
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Futurama uses this most memorably when Lrrr ("Ruler of the planet Omnicon Persei VIII!") eats a hippie and then addresses an audience. | |
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Common trope in The Fairly OddParents!. | |
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Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town: Kris gets these when he sees the Winter Warlock for the first time. | |
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Tweaked in 2004's Dawn of the Dead (2004). When the anonymous woman reanimated, we got a closeup shot of her eye turning from normal human green to that freaky occluded color. | |
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Since just about every main character in Peacemaker Kurogane spends a lot of time indulging in Angst over past and/or current traumatic events this happens often. (The most notable characters who do this are Tetsunosuke and Suzu.) | |
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In SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary gets this when Spongebob informs him that it's time for a bath... though in his case, his pupils growing bigger means he's scared. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic provides the page image. The animation uses eye tropes heavily to convey emotions, and Open the Iris is used to show, just for example, epiphany, wonder, greed, insanity, terror, emphasis of a key phrase, and the sensation of burping up a scroll. | |
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Concrete can actually do this with his eyes, dilating them until there's nothing but the black of the pupils visible in order to see in the dark. According to Under the Desert Stars his eyes "dilate enormously, adding light-gathering power to their high resolution". However, in a later story Maureen described his night-vision as being similar to that of a cat or dog (which doesn't explain at all why they turn black), so the original explanation of how they work may or may not have been retconned. | |
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Train from Black Cat does this a LOT. Though, even for anime standards, his irises were already not normal, looking a lot more like a cat's. Creed also does this sometimes. | |
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Bear Nuts makes heavy use of this. | |
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In the Dexter's Laboratory short "Chicken Scratch", Dee Dee sees Dexter with chicken pox and this happens to her. | |
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It happens occasionally to Sousuke from Full Metal Panic!, though not too often, considering how normally unphasable he is. He's shown doing this more often during TSR, and it's noticeable in the Sigma manga as well. | |
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Baby Steps: This technique is used to reflect Eiichirou's shock when Kageyama suggests he knows the reason E-chan got into tennis. | |
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