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* Johan Liebert from ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', and given the kind of man Johan is, they're ''very'' creepy.

* Also, Kamui from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', in the same vein as Gin, and his are combined with CreepyShadowedUndereyes.
* Griffith from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has pale blue eyes, and while he will sometimes deliberately [[InvokedTrope use]] the InnocentBlueEyes trope to his advantage, they can turn very creepy when he wants them to.
* Many Amestrians in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' have blue eyes and blonde hair to emphasize the whole Nazi-expy thing. Most obvious in Scar's flashbacks, where the glowing blue eyes of the Amestrian soldiers [[spoiler: and Winry's parents]] are [[SplashOfColor the only colored things in the whole sequence]].

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Mikasa. During Episode 24 of the anime, when she [[ArmourPiercingQuestion asks a series of piercing questions]], she is even chillier than normal (particularly considering it's Eren she's talking to), and her eyes - which are normally black/dark grey - [[http://www.entravity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shingeki-24-14-mikasa-ackerman.jpg look distinctly blue.]]

* In ''Fanfic/SaviorOfDemons'', we have [[MadScientist Ratsura]], a pale, [[CreepyBlueEyes blue-eyed,]] thoroughly deviant Arcosian scientist. His subordinates and colleagues are all [[{{Squick}} unsettled by him,]] and for [[TheyWouldCutYouUp good reason.]]
* ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'' has Sasanoyuki, whose eyes are described as "unnatural" and "cold". He is characterized as an EmotionlessBoy who speaks in CreepyMonotone and draws his sword every other second. [[spoiler:The creepiness of his eyes is then taken to a new level with a pair of ScaryShinyGlasses after he comes back from kiwame.]]
* ''Fanfic/OldWest'' has as one of the antagonists a [[SnakesAreSinister kingsnake]] mercenary named Henry. He has clear blue eyes and is based on [[Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest Frank]].
* In ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'' this is the first clue that [[spoiler: the Sansa who was resurrected is not a human but the Night's Queen, leader of the Others.]]

* Chucky from the Child's Play franchise. His eyes go from an intense, artificial blue as a doll, to an eerie pale blue as he gradually becomes more human. Also, his human form Charles Lee Ray as portrayed by Brad Dourif. * [[BigBad Thulsa Doom]] from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' has dark skin, straight black hair, and pale blue eyes, making him look strange and otherworldly. According to WordOfGod, Thulsa Doom is descended from the ancient people of Atlantis, where blue-eyed black people with flat hair weren't uncommon.
* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' constantly focuses on the famously blue eyes of Creator/HenryFonda, who is PlayingAgainstType as the villain Frank. His evil deeds are frequently juxtaposed with close-ups of Fonda's pale blue eyes.
* The BigBad from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' had the watery blue.
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'': Alex has very [[http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/may08/7ds7b.jpg pale blue eyes]] and is a complete psychopath. The film uses eyes as a motif, giving Alex false eyelashes on one eye and frequently focusing on his eyes. His eyes are famously forced open during the Ludivico Experiment.
* While he's a good guy in the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films, Creator/DonaldPleasence has eerily pale blue eyes, and some films where he plays villains or skeevy characters take advantage of this (''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', among others).
* The vampires and lycans in the ''Film/Underworld2003'' series.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Gollum has these, to contrast with Frodo's InnocentBlueEyes. (In the books, he has creepy ''green'' eyes.)
** Gríma Wormtongue as well, though only one of his eyes is blue. They are, however, both creepy.
* ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'': Mengele's experiments give blue eyes to people who shouldn't have them. His compound is filled with Paraguayans with unnatural blue eyes. His [[spoiler: clones of Hitler also have creepy blue eyes]].

* As depicted on the page image, in ''Film/WarmBodies'', R has eerie light blue eyes that highlight his zombie nature.
* The blind nun on the cover of ''Film/TheDevilInside'', who adorns our NunsAreSpooky page, has a major case of Creepy Blue Eyes. However, she's merely [[CoversAlwaysLie a background character with no plot significance]].
* The Headless Horseman from Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'' -- par for the course for a Creator/ChristopherWalken character.

* Dick Jones in ''Film/RoboCop1987''

* Jonathan Teatime in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' has ''one'' blue eye. With a pinpoint pupil. And he's completely AxCrazy.

* Kell Tainer in the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' is mentioned to have very pale blue eyes, very slightly too dark and narrow to make him look like a madman. If this actually meant anything, the author was fairly subtle about it, but it does seem odd. Hardly anyone in the series has eye colors mentioned.
* [[MadScientist Ter Borcht]] in ''Literature/MaximumRide'' has "pale, watery blue eyes"...and repeatedly states that the flock are overdue to be terminated.
* ProfessionalKiller Anton Chigurh from ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'' has eyes that are described as the color of Lapis and are supposedly very unsettling.
* Roose and Ramsay Bolton in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are described as having blue eyes so pale, they barely have any colour to make out. The more [[TheSociopath about them]] you learn, the more you understand other characters' creeped-out reactions to those Bolton blue-greys.
* Kennit of Robin Hobbs's ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'' has very pale blue eyes. He thinks they make him look weak; others find them unsettling.

* Felix's right eye in ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'' is a pale, cloudy blue. Even the people who don't think it's of the [[OccultBlueEyes occult]] variety think it's more than a little creepy. Though as it turns out, it's almost completely blind.

* Clairvoyant detective Mick has these in the short stories ''A Night in Electric Squidland'' and ''Impostors'', from the compilation ''Literature/SomewhereBeneathThoseWaves''.
* Mason Verger, the antagonist in the novel version of ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]]'', is described as having intense, piercing, creepy blue eyes (which he inherited from his equally malevolent father).

* The title character of the Beka Cooper trilogy is noticeable for her icy blue eyes. Beka, unlike many protagonists, is very aware of how uncomfortable her eyes make people, and will often use a long unblinking stare to break people down. It is briefly discussed that her eye color might have something to do with her ability to talk to ghosts, but it's never truly confirmed.
* In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Leah's eyes have this effect. Amplified by the fact that one is blue and the other is green, she has relatively short lashes and rarely blinks. The midwife who delivered her thought she was a demon child, and the men of her village dismiss her as a "freak." [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Because of this, Leah keeps her eyes downcast in public.]]
* The head of the titular Legion in ''Literature/CarrerasLegions'' has eyes that are described as an "eerie blue", and along with his ability to accurately predict what his Salafi Ikhwan enemies are going to do are part of why he's known to them as "[[RedBaron the Blue Djinn]]".
* The Daemon from ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' looks like a handsome man with lovely blue eyes, but since he's so aloof and uninterested in getting too friendly with humans, they just make him seem even more otherworldly and unnerving. Dee thinks the fact that he's so good looking makes him even creepier.
* In ''Literature/TheFifthSeason'', "icewhite" eyes are widely seen as an ill omen. Played straight with Schaffa, a MageKiller who's been hunting, enslaving, and often murdering magical children for [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss tens of thousands of]]]] years. Zig-zagged with Hoa, who's an off-putting but CreepyGood [[spoiler:Stone Eater trying to save humanity from extinction]].
* [[EvilSorcerer Adolican Rhand]], the ArcVillain from the second and third ''Literature/BrimstoneAngels'' novels, is described as having bright, chilling blue eyes that tend to profoundly unsettle anyone who meets his gaze, even if they're otherwise unaware of his [[AmbitionIsEvil various]] [[SerialKiller proclivities]].
* ''[[UsefulNotes/TELawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' features a ValuesDissonance-induced example. Western media tends to portray Lawrence's striking blue eyes as rather attractive, but an old Arab woman who hadn't seen many northern Europeans found them eerie and off-putting.

* Peril from ''Literature/WingsOfFire'''s eyes are described as an unnatural and unnerving shade of blue that are not anything like what you'd normally see in a SkyWing. Ruby is quite creeped out by them.

* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Castiel]] from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has the pretty-but-scary variety. Would you just fricking blink, already?
* In ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Damon Salvatore has startling blue eyes, which further adds to his creepiness.
* ''Series/TheMentalist'' has the blind Rosalind, whose pale, almost unblinking blue eyes definitely fall into the creepy category.
* John Barnett from ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Young at Heart". His blue eyes are glassy and glazed over, and they appear dead. Even the pupils are blueish.

* The Fourth Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' - one of the Doctor's most [[HumansThroughAlienEyes strange]] and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien]] incarnations - has very large and disturbingly intense bright blue eyes which rarely blink. Between the unusual colour and the Doctor's warmth, they can be very beautiful in an otherworldly, unsettling sort of way at times - Creator/TomBaker had a career of playing [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk charismatic]] [[Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad creeps]] with HypnoticEyes at the time, a tradition in which his take on the Doctor [[ActorAllusion follows]] - but not when he's [[EyePop boggling them out of his head]], which he does [[CharacterTic far too often]].
** Spoofed contemporarily in mostly forgotten 70s sketch show ''End of Part One'', which did a skit called "Doctor Eyes" in which the Fourth Doctor was represented by a cosplayer with two halves of a ping-pong ball glued to his face.
** It's not difficult to find contemporary interviews with Baker in which he freaks out interviewers - such as the one to promote Season 15 in Australia. The interview with Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen on ''Swap Shop'' (included as a special feature on "The Hand of Fear" DVD) shows the [[NervesOfSteel usually unflappable]] Noel Edmunds becoming visibly unnerved by Tom Baker's eyes.

* Creator/CillianMurphy's portrayal of ShellShockedVeteran mob boss Thomas Shelby on ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is enhanced greatly by his icy stare. You always get the sense that Thomas is just barely keeping it together - ''if'' he's keeping it together at all.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' introduces a PsychopathicManChild SerialKiller named Eddie Low as this. His eyes are a piercing blue and creepy.
* Alex Mercer from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has very pale, very creepy blue eyes. They're his most noticeable characteristic. Indeed, early teasers and concept art indicate that piercing, creepy blue eyes were part of Alex's design from the very beginning. A trailer depicts his irises glinting from beneath his hood's shadow and his shapeshift sequence changing every aspect of his body, leaving his eyes until last.

* Both [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saren_p_925.png Saren Arterius]] and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Illusive_Man_7842.bmp The Illusive Man]] of the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series have these. The Illusive Man's are ElectronicEyes he gained from a run-in with Reaper tech in his backstory. Saren's might be natural, [[spoiler: at least until he let Sovereign implant him. Both of them turn out to be indoctrinated Reaper agents convinced they're doing the right thing.]]

* Captain Martin Walker of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' starts with IcyBlueEyes, but they turn into this as the game progresses. Visually, they get creepy when he suffers a burn injury to a large portion of his face, coinciding with the situation getting even worse than it already was. Symbolically, [[spoiler: they get creepy after the horrors in Dubai cause him to lose it and start hallucinating]]. It's even mentioned in-game; [[spoiler:if Walker survives to the epilogue, one of the soldiers sent to pick him up comments, "[[ThousandYardStare Look at his eyes]]."]]
* The ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable'' games have Stern the Destructor, who possesses IcyBlueEyes with HellishPupils, making them seem unnaturally bright when she gives her seemingly emotionless stares.

* The titular Freddy Fazbear from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' has these. [[ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes Although you can't]] [[EyelessFace always see them...]]
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'', [[SpiderPeople Marguerite Baker]] and her son [[SouthernFriedGenius Lucas]] have blue eyes that appear almost luminously pale in closeups.
* Misogynistic [[SerialKiller serial killer]] Eddie Gluskin of ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' has them.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Enigmatis}}: The Mists of Ravenwood'', all that can be seen of the underground prisoner for most of the game are his bright, soft blue eyes. The creepy factor comes in when the player knows who the prisoner ''is.'' [[spoiler:It's the BigBad of the previous game - the detective is unwittingly working with the very man she's hunting.]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** While Big Boss is noted a couple of times for having [[WhatBeautifulEyes beautiful blue eyes]] (well, [[EyepatchOfPower eye]]) in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', Venom Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' gives his eye a blue glow in certain lighting that makes it look demonic. This applies especially if the player has killed enough people to make his face permanently covered in blood.
** Kaz's eyes are always hidden behind sunglasses in his earlier appearances due to his life-long sensitivity to light and, while their blue colour contributes to his complicated feelings about his race, they're considered fairly attractive in-universe. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', a combination of trauma and ''[[NoodleIncident something]]'' that might have happened during his torture has transformed them into terrifying, blank, white-blue eyes that look inhuman. They look so inhuman that fans argue over whether they're supposed to be diagetic or not - if Kaz's eyes are supposed to actually look like that, or if it was just to give the right cool effect behind his sunglasses.
* The ending of ''Videogame/{{Judgment}}'' reveals that [[spoiler:those killed by AD-9 will be left with unnatural blue pigmentation in their eyes, which explains why the supposed murder victims (actually failed test subjects) have their eyes gouged out]].

This may overlap with IcyBlueEyes, for certain types of creeps. Compare OccultBlueEyes, contrast InnocentBlueEyes.

* [[BigBad Thulsa Doom]] from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' has dark skin, straight black hair, and pale blue eyes, making him look strange and otherworldly. According to WordOfGod, Thulsa Doom is descended from the ancient people of Atlantis, where blue-eyed black people with flat hair weren't uncommon.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady [[AlterEgoActing character]] frequently mentions his blue eyes. Since Slim is a PsychopathicManchild, they make him look more [[InnocentBlueEyes innocent]], [[ComedicSociopathy making it funnier when he speaks in intricately-rhymed depraved filth]]. The blue eyes, along with the blond hair and the cheerful, nasally, white-Midwestern voice that Eminem uses for the character, also serve to exaggerate Slim's whiteness, letting him satirise white trailer park depravity while also giving him the sinister ability to sell to a white mainstream.

* When Music/{{Eminem}} first created his Slim Shady [[AlterEgoActing character]], he began wearing baby-blue coloured contact lenses. Since Slim is a PsychopathicManchild, they make him look more [[InnocentBlueEyes innocent]], [[ComedicSociopathy making it funnier when he speaks in intricately-rhymed depraved filth]]. The blue eyes, along with the blond hair and the cheerful, nasally, white-Midwestern voice that Eminem uses for the character, also serve to exaggerate Slim's whiteness, letting him satirise white trailer park depravity while also giving him the sinister ability to sell to a white mainstream.

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* The Caretaker of [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights has blue eyes that are rather scary. The Director and the Storyteller sport these as well.

* Mason Verger, the antagonist in the novel version of [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal]] is described as having intense, piercing, creepy blue eyes (which he inherited from his equally malevolent father).

* Creator/CillianMurphy's portrayal of ShellShockedVeteran mob boss Thomas Shelby on ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is enhanced greatly by his icy stare. You always get the sense that Thomas is just barely keeping it together if he's keeping it together at all.

* Alex Mercer from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has very pale, very creepy blue eyes. They're his most noticeable characteristic. Indeed, early teasers and concept art indicate that piercing, creepy blue eyes were part of Alex's design from the first iterations onward. A trailer depicts his irises glinting from beneath his hood's shadow and his shapeshift sequence changing every aspect of his body, leaving his eyes until last.

** Kaz's eyes are always hidden behind sunglasses in his earlier appearances due to his life-long sensitivity to light and, while their blue colour contributes to his complicated feelings about his race, they're considered fairly attractive in-universe. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', a combination of trauma and ''[[MysteryForTheAges something]]'' that might have happened during his torture has transformed them into terrifying, blank, white-blue eyes that look inhuman. They look so inhuman that fans argue over whether they're supposed to be diagetic or not - if Kaz's eyes are supposed to actually look like that, or if it was just to give the right cool effect behind his sunglasses.

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* Vic in the 1981 Creator/DanAykroyd/Creator/JohnBelushi vehicle ''Film/{{Neighbors}}'', courtesy of some very light blue contact lenses to cover up Aykroyd's brown/green heterochromia.

* Vic in the 1981 Dan Aykroyd/John Belushi vehicle ''Neighbors'', courtesy of some very light blue contact lenses to cover up Aykroyd's brown/green heterochromia.

* Creator/CillianMurphy exhibits these in some of his roles

* Also, Kamui from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', in the same vein as Gin, and his is combined with CreepyShadowedUndereyes.

* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[EnemyWithout Satan Girl]] and her son Berserker are blue-eyed, blood-thirsty, pshicopathic murderers whose eyes are described as completely bereft of conscience or compassion.

* [[BigBad Thulsa Doom]] from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' has dark skin, straight black hair and pale blue eyes, making him look strange and otherworldly. According to WordOfGod, Thulsa Doom is descended from the ancient people of Atlantis, where blue-eyed black people with flat hair weren't uncommon.

* In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Leah's eyes have this effect. Amplified by the fact that one is blue and the other is green, she has relatively short lashes, and rarely blinks. The midwife who delivered her thought she was a demon child, and the men of her village dismiss her as a "freak." [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Because of this, Leah keeps her eyes downcast in public.]]

* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': The Crypt Keeper sports a surprisingly pretty pair of ice blue eyes. Somewhat of a subversion, as they're arguably his least creepy, most human feature.

* Creator/CillianMurphy's portrayal of ShellShockedVeteran mob boss Thomas Shelby on ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' is enhanced greatly by his icy stare. You always get the sense that Thomas is just barely keeping it together, if he's keeping it together at all.

** Ser Otto Alrik has blue eyes so pale they're practically glowing, and embodies everything wrong with the Kirkwall Templars. He's a torturer and rapist who makes mages [[EmptyShell Tranquil]] on a whim, and his one scene consists of him threatening an (underage) mage girl with this fate.

* The ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable'' games has Stern the Destructor, who possesses IcyBlueEyes with HellishPupils, making them seem unnaturally bright when she gives her seemingly emotionless stares.

* There are several blue-eyed characters in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' who are completely off their rocker ([[AxCrazy Ladd]], [[MadLove Lua]], [[TalkativeLoon Graham]], [[PsychopathicManchild Christopher]]).

* Also, [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Kamui]], in the same vein as Gin, and his is combined with CreepyShadowedUndereyes.

* Jonathan Teatime in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' has ''one'' blue eye. With a pinpoint pupil. And he's completely AxCrazy.

* The Headless Horseman from Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/SleepyHollow'' -- par for the course for a Creator/ChristopherWalken character.

* In ''Fanfic/SaviorOfDemons'', we have [[MadScientist Ratsura]], a [[EvilAlbino pale,]] [[CreepyBlueEyes blue-eyed,]] thoroughly deviant Arcosian scientist. His subordinates and colleagues are all [[{{Squick}} unsettled by him,]] and for [[TheyWouldCutYouUp good reason.]]

In RealLife pale blue eyes can be a sign of Ocular Albinism (A form of albinism that only affects the pigmentation of the eyes) so there is a possibility of overlap with EvilAlbino whenever this trope is in play.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':

* [[AntiVillain Ben Linus]] from Series/{{Lost}}. His unblinking, almost bug-like bright blue eyes are his most iconic physical trait, and they're often commented on both in the show and by fans.

* [[AntiVillain Ben Linus]] from [[Series/Lost Lost]]. His unblinking, almost bug-like bright blue eyes are his most iconic physical trait, and they're often commented on both in the show and by fans.

* The Caretaker of Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights has blue eyes that are rather scary. The Director and the Storyteller sport these as well.

* The raub-condor from NBC's ''Series/{{Grimm}}''.