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* Shokuho Misaki from ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' has [[ExoticEyeDesigns permanent golden star designs]] in her eyes, and these show up in the eyes of the people she mind controls.

** ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' features a Nurse Joy under Mewtwo's mind control. The visual clue that something is off is her eyes, which are blank irises. When Mewtwo relieves her of the mind control, Joy's pupils return.

*** In ''Anime/PokemonArceusandTheJewelOfLife'', the vilified Damos sports blank eyes when he seemingly betrays Arceus over the Jewel of Life. This is the first indication that Damos is not himself and sure enough, [[spoiler:it's revealed he was under Bronzong's Hypnosis, sent by [[TheStarscream his underling Marcus]] who wants to keep the Jewel of Life rather than giving it back to Arceus.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', anyone under mind control would have their pupils disappear, leaving behind blank irises.
** Though the move Attract typically immobilizes a Pokémon, giving them [[WingdingEyes heart eyes]], an evil Togepi from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'' weaponizes Attract as a mind control method and thus the affected Pokémon have hypnotic, blank eyes.

** ''Anime/Pokemon3''. After Entei's cry of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "You... are... MAMA!"]], Ash's mother Delia gains the eyes and is brainwashed into becoming little Molly's "mother". She snaps out of it when she sees Ash on television, trying to climb up the side of the huge crystal tower.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}''. After Entei's cry of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "You... are... MAMA!"]], Ash's mother Delia gains the eyes and is brainwashed into becoming little Molly's "mother". She snaps out of it when she sees Ash on television, trying to climb up the side of the huge crystal tower.
%%** Also ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife''.
%%** And ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', with Nurse Joy.
%%** And twice in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' -- [[spoiler: Blue and Annabel]].
** And a few times in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]], for a variety of reasons. At one point Pikachu, Piplup, Croagunk, and Meowth are all hit with a Togepi's Attract, which causes their eyes to go like this and them to follow the Togepi's orders.

* ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'': Those who stare into the [[EldritchAbomination Eyes of the Universe]] gain big, teal eyes and are rendered at least partially catatonic, and encourage others to look as well. Oddly, Skid is unaffected despite being brought face-to-face with Eyes itself.

This also counts as NightmareFuel for some people. Not to be confused with HypnoticEyes, which is about people who can hypnotize others just by looking into their eyes. See also RedEyesTakeWarning, which may be a form of this. Can be a variant of WingdingEyes.

** In the same episode, [[spoiler: while under the influence of the Collector's NightmareSequence LotusEaterMachine Eda and King both have glowing red and yellow eyes.]]

** In the same episode, [[Spoiler: while under the influence of the Collector's NightmareSequence LotusEaterMachine Eda and King both have glowing red and yellow eyes.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'': When the villainous Kaede entrances protagonist Natsuru seeing an opportunity to have him go and break his [[UnwantedHarem unwanted-haremette]] Shizuku (who trusts him and is a nuisance to her), Natsuru's eyes become flat-colored until he snaps out of it.

** "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E3WatchingAndDreaming]]" [[spoiler:opens with Luz, Eda, and King trapped in their own respective nightmares by the Colletor, who takes control of ther captured friends and family to further torment them. Anyone being controlled has the highlights in their eyes notably absent. It briefly returns to Luz’s friends once they manage to resist the control.]]

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* Lina and Gourry in the last episodes of ''Slayers NEXT''. [[spoiler: Gourry gets them when he's captured and brainwashed by Phibrizzo. The same happens to Lina very briefly when she invokes the Lord of Nightmares through the Giga Slave and she takes over Lina's body to fight Phibrizzo in person.]]

* Both the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' film and TV series employ this. In the film, whenever Jafar uses his cobra-staff to entrance the Sultan, his eyes become spirals. In one episode of the TV series, when Mirage entrances the entire city of Agrabah into a sleeping spell save Aladdin himself everyone under its effects have their pupils completely vanish.

** In "Children of the Spore", Anne, Sprig and Polly get glowing purple eyes when being mind controlled by Apothecary Gary.

** In "Commander Anne", the wildlife of Amphibia have glowing violet eyes when under control of King Andrias' mind control collars.

** In "D.W.'s Name Game", Arthur gets the spiral variant in a fantasy sequence in which D.W. turns him into her "obedient hypno-brother."
** In the episode "What Is That Thing?", when Francine hypnotizes her cat, Nemo, he gets the spiral variant briefly before his pupils contract.

** Parodied in "[[ShowWithinAShow The Ember Island Players]]", where they represented it with ''googly eyes''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', everyone who is under the mind control effect of The Purple Man has purple pupils.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' episode "Hypno-a-Go-Go", those who are under hypnosis get black/gold spirals in their eyes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' when a mixture of Kryptonite dust and mind control spores are used on Comicbook/{{Superman}}, his eyes glow green.

** In "Blood Moon", the farm animals have [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]] when under the spell of the [[BadMoonRising Halloween blood moon.]]
** In "Green Mirror", the Greens minus Tilly have shrunken pencil point eyes with ExhaustedEyeBags after becoming flawless in Gwendolyn Zapp's ''Flawless You'' project.
** In "Sellouts", the eyes of Tilly's customer Angela turn pink with yellow sclerae when attempting to make a "personal connection" with her through eye contact.
** In "Squashed!", the Big Citygoers get glowing pink-purple eyes when possessed by the mutated pumpkin zombies.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' episode "Whalesong", Doc Terror hires frustrated composer Madame Arpeggio to create a phony whalesong that hypnotizes the peaceful creatures, then commands them to destroy all humans. The affected whales have bloodshot eyes that revert to normal when Terror's influence is broken.
* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' involved most of the Rangers getting mind-controlled. Those under its effects had their pupils go from being fully rounded to tiny little barely-there dots. However, thanks to some animation errors there's a couple of times in one of them where Gadget's eyes appear normal even though she's under mind control.
* Mind-controlled animals or humans in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' have an interesting variation: their pupils are replaced with the "Eye of XANA" symbol. The protagonists can see it, if they are looking for it. And sometimes the "Eye of XANA" flickers a little (which makes it look cooler). However, if XANA needs mind-controlled humans to look normal, their eyes will change back to normal temporarily. This doesn't always happen, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "Operation: D.A.T.E." the [[CreepyChild Delightful Children]] mind control a lot of kids causing them to get glowing blue eyes. [[spoiler: "Operation: Z.E.R.O." reveals that the Delightfuls' own eyes - icy blue with visible sclera - are this, a result of the [[MindRape delightfulization process]] that Father inflicted upon them. When briefly transformed into their true selves - [[FallenHero Sector Z of the Kids Next Door]] - they all have the same BlackBeadEyes as nearly every other character.]]
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Courage the Cowardly Dog}}'' had Le Quack hypnotize Eustace and Muriel through television to steal money and gold for him. Their mind-control is noticed by the purple spirals in their eyes, which are emitting from the screen.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', the color of the characters' eyes signal many things, including possessed characters having the same eye color as the ghost who possessed them. Usually, everyone seems unaware of this, [[spoiler: although when Danny Phantom splits himself into a ghost self and a human self in one episode and the ghost Danny overshadows the human Danny, the human Danny checked his eyes in a mirror as soon as he'd forced the ghost Danny out.]]
** In an example that crosses over with {{Red Eyes Take Warning}}, when Danny is hypnotized by Freakshow, his pupils turn red, and (as time goes on) he gains dark rings under his eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "The Muffin King", Dad pulls a JediMindTrick on Dexter to entice him into getting Mom's muffins, causing his eyes to be replaced with red ripples. It works until Dee Dee arrives to snap him out of it.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaucers}}'': In the episode "Trick or Cheat", Sarah's friends easily tell that she's hypnotized because her expression is of one under a trance.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "Look Into My Eds", whoever gets affected by the hypnosis pinwheel will get black and white spiral eyes like it, followed by BlankWhiteEyes once they receive an order.

** In "Song of the Sirenas", Elena gets glowing green eyes when under the spell of Marisa's siren song.
** In "Team Isa", anyone who is under Tito's MindControlMusic will have a blue glow in their eyes.

** In "Super Bike", Timmy has them when being manipulated by the epynomous bike into labandoning his family and friends to hang out woth him more. It stops working when Super Bike tries to convince him his father doesn't love him anymore.
** Cosmo and Wanda get them in "So Totally Spaced Out" when the Gigglepies enchant them with their "fluffy alien cuteness".
** In "Crocket Shocker", Mr. Crocker gets the spiral variant when his therapist is hypnotizing him into not believing in fairies.
** In "Turner & Pooch", Sparky gets two-tone purple spiral eyes when being mind controlled by Mr. Crocker.
** In "The Fair Bears", Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda and Chloe get swirling purple eyes when being mind controlled into a ForcedSleep by the Fair Bears. Timmy and Wanda later get heart-shaped pupils when under the bears' control.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** All glory to the Hypno-Toad!
** Also in the ''Futurama'' [[TheMovie movie]] ''Bender's Big Score'', [[spoiler:Bender gets ''squared'' spirals in his eyes to indicate mind control]].

** In "Boss Mabel", anyone seeing [[YourWorstNightmare their worst fears]] conjured by the Gremloblin will have glowing yellow eyes.
** In "Dreamscaperers", Stan gets [[MagicalEyeStreamers streaming blue eyes]] when Bill Cipher possesses his mind.
** In the episode "Sock Opera", [[DemonicPossession Bipper,]] Dipper Pines possessed by Bill Cipher, has Bill's [[EyeScream yellow-tinted, slit-pupiled eyes.]] It's unsettling at best, and downright creepy at worst, especially when Bipper ''slams his hand in a drawer'' whilst laughing insanely and saying;

** In "The Stanchurian Candidate", Bud Gleeful gets glowing BlankWhiteEyes when Gideon casts a mind control spell on him.

** In "Cheer Cheer Bang Bang", anyone who is under the spell of Coach Haggerty's mind controlling whistle will have rippling grey disks in their eyes.
** In "The Earworm", Hamster & Gretel have spinning blender-like eyes when they are being controlled by the Earworm.

* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' involved brainwashing. Those who were brainwashed had red eyes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' episode "The Goddess Must Be Crazy", Franchise/WonderWoman knows right away ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is being mind-controlled because her eyes glow purple.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' animated series, one episode has Queen La deposed by her leopard-men and Jane chosen as her replacement. While she's holding La's mystical staff, her eyes go blank white and she's compelled to hold it aloft and do nothing else.

* Used in more or less every ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short involving hypnosis, both the constricted pupil and spiral-eye versions.
* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh'': In "Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?", Draculaura gets glowing pink eyes when being bewitched by a love curse by Valentine.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': Goofy gets these in "Third Wheel" when he suffers extreme hunger issues.
* In the second season premiere of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "The Return Of Harmony", Discord puts the heroines (except Twilight) through a series of environments to reverse the part of their personality that keeps the friends and each one gets their own brainwashing to sweeten the deal, as shown by Kaa-esque rippling eyes.
** Earlier (even though it doesn't result in nor from any actual mind control) [[CloudCuckoolander Pinkie Pie]] gets the swirling spiral version every time she [[FantasticRacism sings about Zecora "putting people in trances"]].
** In the episode "Lesson Zero", ponies under the effects of the 'Want It, Need It' spell get [[WingdingEyes hearts for eyes]]. Humorously, Derpy Hooves remains ComicallyCrossEyed when she's affected.
** In the episode "[[YouMeanXMas Hearts and Hooves Day]]", Big Mac and Cheerilee get purple spiral eyes when under the influence of the LovePotion... which is actually a Love Poison, causing them to become SickeninglySweethearts.
** Also seen in the season two finale, where Twilight's brother Shining Armor is under a villainesses' control; His eyes turn from blue to sickly green.
** In part 2 of the Season 3 premiere, Twilight and Spike get King Sombra-like eyes with reptilian red irises and green scleras when they see their worst fears conjured by Sombra's dark magic.
** In "Keep Calm and Flutter On", Discord gets red and white swirling eyes as he pretends to succumb to Fluttershy's Stare.
** In the episode "Inspiration Manifestation", Rarity's eyes turn to a sickly green as she becomes more corrupted by [[ArtifactOfDoom the titular spellbook]].
** In "Every Little Thing She Does", when Starlight casts the Fiducia Compelus spell on the Mane Six minus Twilight, their eyes constrict and become faded in color.
** In the final season opener "The Beginning of the End", anypony who is under Sombra's influence will have a green glow in their eyes.
** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', the Canterlot High students have glowing monochromatic blue-green eyes while under the control of Devil!Sunset Shimmer.
** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Celestia and Luna have their eyes flash green when they are hypnotized by the sirens' MindControlMusic. The Canterlot High students' pupils shrink into pinpricks when being hypnotized by the sirens during the final battle.

** In "Hooty's Moving Hassle", Hooty's eyes get an eerie blue glow when under the spell of the Moonlight Conjuring.
** A variation occurs in "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS1E15UnderstandingWillow Understanding Willow]]". Willow's pupils dilate to the point of obscuring her eye color when the accidental damage done to her memories kicks in.

** In "Raging Bully", anyone affected by Doofenshmirtz's Slave-inator will have black spirals for eyes.
** In "Phineas and Ferb Interrupted", Baljeet and Buford get spinning vortex-like eyes when falling into a dullness-induced trance by Phineas' boring weather facts.
** In "Meapless in Seattle", Phineas gets giant and sparkly {{Animesque}} eyes when entranced by Mitch's cuteness.
** In "Mind Share", Morg and his friends get square-shaped pupils when hypnotized by the "quadrilateral voice commands" of the Danville Square Dance.
** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'', the citizens of Danville have dull grey disks for eyes when they are mind controlled by Mama.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' used the rare wall-eye version. When a triggering noise was heard by one of the titular characters, they would go into an uncontrollable dance ("I'm a little teapot" for Brain when he heard a tinkly bell, and a stereotypical Russian Squat-dance for Pinky when he heard a gong) with their dilated pupils swimming on the inside edges of their eyes.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'' episode "Rupert and the Great Mephisto", whoever is under the spell of the eponymous magician will have their eyes dilated and with a blank stare.

** The Ravers had [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]] while under the influence of the evil hypno music.
** The blue-furred children from the factory had the same eyes while being controlled by the Dominator.

** [[spoiler: In season 5, when someone is under the influence of one of Prime's MindControl chips, their eyes go green as well, and white circles appear where the pupils would be when Prime uses his VillainOverride on them or one of his clones]].
* In "The Ballad of Sweet Strings" on ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'', the characters get these when Johnny Strum's songs put them under his spell. Later, he briefly gets them after being overcome by Sheriff Callie.

** In "Mermaid Man vs. [=SpongeBob=]", Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy get red spiral eyes when Plankton uses mind control shampoo to brainwash them.
** In "Gary's New Toy", Gary's eyes turn a glowing infernal red as he stares at the squeeze ball on [=SpongeBob=]'s shelf.
** In "Bumper to Bumper" when Mrs. Puff's mantra gets to [=SpongeBob=]'s head, his eyes turn into blue spirals.
** [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick get the red spiral variant in "Whirly Brains" as they watch the Whirly Brains commercial, and in "Doodle Dimension" when mesmerized by Sandy's dimensional portal.
** In "Feral Friends", the Bikini Bottomites get sickly green monochromatic pupils when entranced by the sight of Neptune's Moon.
** In "[=SpongeBob=]'s Bad Habit", [=SpongeBob=]'s eyes become red and white concentric circles when Hans hypnotizes him during his hypnotherapy session to find out why he has a habit of biting his nails.
** Mrs. Puff gets the red spiral variant at the end of "Kooky Cooks" as she hungers [=SpongeBob=] again.

** Whoever is under the influence of Sugarby will get an [[GlowingEyesOfDoom eerie white glow in their eyes.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' has a funny subversion: in one episode the Rat King captures Irma and Vernon and begins exposing them to a chemical that will eventually brainwash them into his willing slaves. By the time the Turtles find them, Vernon's eyes are notably dilated and he starts mumbling incoherently, leaving everyone to think that he's succumbed to the chemical. It turns out he's actually just passed out into a daze from seeing one too many rats crawling around the area.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

** Also spiral eyes in the first "Mad Mod" episode, whenever Beast Boy gets whammied by the hypnoscreens.
** Green eyes are used in "Switched".
* When [[spoiler: Soundwave mind-controls the Autobots]] in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', their optics turn red. This is a callback to the G1 season 1 episode "Attack of the Autobots," in which the Decepticons do the same thing, signaled to the viewer in the same way.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' the humans' eyes dilate when they are under mind control. The 'Bot's optics turn green.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'': In "New Girl in Town", the girls minus Ruby get spirals in their eyes when being hypnotized by Simon's cookies. The eyes of their victims get the aforementioned effect in "When Good Girlz Go Bad" when they put Trollzopolis under their control. When the girls are fully evil in "Boys and Girls Together", the catchlights on their eyes vanish.
* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTrollstopia'': In "Smooth Operator", the trolls get pink/yellow rippling eyes when affected by Chaz's MindControlMusic.

** In the first episode, the rats get a SicklyGreenGlow in their eyes when under the control of the Kruger Rat.
** In "Dog Daze", Dudley gets the spiral variant when he is hypnotized by Snaptrap.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Iops gain exaggeratedly blank eyes as they are possessed by [[spoiler: ass kicking]].
* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'': The episode "Circus Daze" features a stone that the Great Bovini uses to hypnotize people into stealing for him. The stone shrinks the victims' eyes. Boot Hill Buzzard, whose eyes are already that small, isn't affected.

** In "Boy's Best Fiend", the zoo animals get red rippling eyes when mind controlled by Sasquatch.
** Parodied in the episode "Live and Let Diaper". Tuesday, as part of a series of pop psychology parenting experiments, attempts to hypnotize the baby the family's watching. Using the familiar "You are getting sleepy" intonation, she chants "Your eyes are becoming spinning spirals". She accidentally ends up hypnotizing herself, though this trope is still averted: her eyes simply roll around before she falls asleep.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy Morph from ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' has an odd variation. When he first comes BackFromTheDead, he's acquired an evil [[SplitPersonality alternate personality]] (which is enslaved by Mr. Sinister), which takes on a zombie-like form, complete with dark patches around his eyes. As he mentally shifts between personas, he physically shapeshifts between forms. Later in the season, it's averted, as he's more fully brainwashed and obeys Sinister/fights the X-Men in his "normal" form, making it unclear what side he's on at any given time.

* Kohaku in ''Anime/InuYasha'' is often shown in this situation.

* The inhabitants of Winia's hometown in ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' all fall under this when a powerful Mauser magician orders them to kill Pacifica.

* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' most normal Torches have MindControlEyes.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': They're used in "MushroomSamba" to indicate people under the influence.

* Mafuyu in ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' when Minatsu brainwashes her into deciding Ken is her enemy. Then they turn {{red|EyesTakeWarning}}.

* Happens to everyone who [[spoiler:got brainwashed by the Despair Anime]] in both sides of ''Anime/DanganRonpa3''.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', anyone using Saika at any given time will have bright red eyes that somewhat glow. In the series, Saika Children are identified by these eyes, however the uninformed- such as Vorona- can mistake the possession for some kind of virus or infection.

** Also applies to many of those hypnotised in the spin-off one-shots in ''Fanfic/TheTalesOfMilikan''.