History Main / OpenTheIris

* ''{{Fanboys}}'' in [[http://www.fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=193 this strip]]. [[strike:GIANT]] [[{{MemeticMutation}} SMALL ENEMY CRAB!!]]

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Normally, the eye filters light by widening or closing 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 ComicBooks, this can be very hard if not impossible to show, since a typical human pupil, at its widest, is 3-4 millimeters[[hottip:*:For the metric-impaired, that's 0.12-0.16 inches.]]. This trope is a way to sidestep that difficulty. Instead of changing the size of the ''pupil'' (the opening in the center of the eye), you change the size of the ''iris'' (the colored ring surrounding the pupil) instead.

Normally, the eye filters light by widening or closing 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 ComicBooks, this can be very hard if not impossible to show, since a typical human pupil, at its widest, is 3-4 millimeters. For the metric-impaired, that's 0.12-0.16 inches. This trope is a way to sidestep that difficulty. Instead of changing the size of the ''pupil'' (the opening in the center of the eye), you change the size of the ''iris'' (the colored ring surrounding the pupil) instead.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is possibly the SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample of both this and WindowsOfTheSoul, and provides the page image. The animation uses eye tropes heavily to convey emotions, and OpenTheIris 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.

* ''BabySteps'': This technique is used to reflect Eiichirou's shock when Kageyama suggests he knows the reason E-chan got into tennis.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is possibly the SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample of both this and WindowsOfTheSoul, and provides the page image. The animation uses eye tropes heavily to convey emotions, and OpenTheIris is used to show, just for example, epiphany, wonder, greed, insanity, and terror. (The first three are enlarging of the iris; the latter two, contraction.)

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is possibly the SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample of both this and WindowsOfTheSoul, and provides the page image. The animation uses eye tropes heavily to convey emotions, and OpenTheIris is used to show, just for example, epiphany, wonder, greed, insanity, and terror. (The first four are enlarging of the iris; the latter two, contraction.)

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is possibly the MostTriumphantExample of both this and WindowsOnTheSoul, and provides the page image. The animation uses eye tropes heavily to convey emotions, and OpenTheIris is used to show, just for example, epiphany, wonder, greed, insanity, and terror. (The first four are enlarging of the iris; the latter two, contraction.)

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is the trope ''picture''. Just ''look'' at everypony's gushers!

** Actually, it is her pupil that opens, not her iris, and as such, this trope is Averted.

** Wait, shouldn't rather the opposite happen?
*** Not really, the iris also expands when you are "absorbing" information, in the scene it probably meant she was depressed while reading.

---> '''Long Feng:''' [[ManchurianAgent The king has invited you to Lake Laogai.]]

* Vita, from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. The animation style of the series usually shows an all-black pupil/iris with the anime-standard lens flair and a cresent 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. [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises Their eyes kind of shrink, too.]]

* Pictured above: Vita, from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. The animation style of the series usually shows an all-black pupil/iris with the anime-standard lens flair and a cresent 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. [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises Their eyes kind of shrink, too.]]

** Also, when he licks hallucinogenic toads.

In case you were wondering, the trope name comes from a security feature on the [[CoolGate Stargate]] in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', "The Iris". It's like a camera shutter that can stop intruders from using the gate to get to Earth, essentially serving as the protective iris to the "eye" that is the gate. So if the eye is the window to the soul, then The Iris is the glass the [[strike:[[{{Mooks}} Jaffa]]]] birds smack against. Yes, it has nothing to do with the above. No, we don't care. Do you have a problem with that?

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* A prominent visual in [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga]]'s video "Bad Romance."