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by atlasunshrugged 1239 days ago
Moe from the Simpsons? I thought the running bit was that he was considered ugly?
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No, "moe" in the Japanese sense. Typically, a petite face, large eyes dominated by enormous black pupils, etc.

The way it makes me feel is a little like the response evoked by the movie Coraline, which used dolls with big black button eyes and no noses to evoke a queasy kind of horror-lite response.

It doesn't have to be large features though, it can be exaggerated small ones too. For example, Art the Clown has a small black dot on the tip of his otherwise white nose. It's unsettling.