History Main / ProphetEyes

** Feferi [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004894 gets in on this action too]]. That or a figment of Jades's imagination or her dead dream-self.

* Corneal opacity can indeed result from congenital/hereditary defects, some diseases (eg river blindness, trachoma), or injury (eg chemical burn), sometimes resembling this trope. This troper has seen a few people like this.

** This troper used to know a blind boy who looked like he had a thick white film over both eyes, but the irises were still visible. (One was brown and the other blue, and I used to wonder if that was connected to the blindness. Apparently it's not, but to my eleven-year-old self it looked ''really'' cool.)

*** No, he doesn't. His white eyes give him no powers of any kind; their color is strictly cosmetic.

* {{The Goon}}: For a comic about a hulking anti-hero fighting supernatural entities such as ghouls, ghosts, skunk apes obsessed with pie, aliens, demons and mad scientists, it's never made clear why his human sidekick, Franky, is drawn without pupils. He has no supernatural attributes or abilities, and he's certainly not blind (demonstrated by his signature "knife to the eye" technique).

** Not an unreasonable assumption, actually. The Byakugan conveys 360 degree vision for as far as they can see, plus a chi sense. Toph's DisabilitySuperpower is similar through the ground, but lets her hear stuff too.

*** Make that 359 degree ''[[XRayVision X-ray vision]]''.
*** Make that 359 degree X-ray ''telescopic'' vision.
*** Make that 359 degree X-ray telescopic ''x-ray'' vision.

*** Make that 359 degree ''infra-red vision''.
*** Make that 359 degree infra-red ''telescopic'' vision.
*** Make that 359 degree infra-red telescopic ''x-ray'' vision.

In fiction, people who are blind tend to have a particular kind of blindness: the [[HollywoodStyle Hollywood kind]]. It's depicted as severely cataracted eyes that affect not just the pupil but also the iris (the part that has the color). Usually it will make the iris turn a pale blue and the pupil only ''slightly'' darker blue, but otherwise the entire eye will turn a monochrome, sometimes swirling milky white. Very few real life diseases (let alone congenital defects) will cause someone to have completely milky white eyes. However, in fictionland this is the preferred method of demonstrating blindness above dark glasses, canes, dog guides and unusually unblinking and fixed stares. If you want to be kind, it's because writers want to get the message across quickly because of a heavily ingrained [[TheCoconutEffect viewer association.]] If you don't, it's because they think ViewersAreMorons and they DidNotDoTheResearch.

At any rate, characters with this specific type of MonochromaticEyes tend to be {{Blind Seer}}s or have a blindness related DisabilitySuperpower. This kind of blindness is "[[PsychicPowers extra psychic]]" or special, and is also associated with powers other than prescience. It's not uncommon for some characters in a trance to have their eyes turn milky white while concentrating (rather than roll back into the skull).

[[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]] and some other [[TheUndead undead]] or monsters also have milky white eyes, though in that case it's intended either as a "mutation" or decay from being dead. Don't expect this to stop them from actually [[TheDeadHaveEyes seeing/smelling their prey with unerring accuracy.]]

In fiction, people who are blind tend to have a particular kind of blindness: the [[HollywoodStyle Hollywood kind]]. It's depicted as severely cataracted eyes that affect not just the pupil but also the iris (the part that has the color). Usually it will make the iris turn a pale blue and the pupil only ''slightly'' darker blue, but otherwise the entire eye will turn a monochrome, sometimes swirling milky white. Very few real life diseases (let alone congenital defects) will cause someone to have completely milky white eyes. However, in fictionland this is the preferred method of demonstrating blindness above dark glasses, canes, seeing eye dogs and unusually unblinking and fixed stares. If you want to be kind, it's because writers want to get the message across quickly because of a heavily ingrained [[TheCoconutEffect viewer association.]] If you don't, it's because they think ViewersAreMorons and they DidNotDoTheResearch.

And sometimes, white eyes simply alert the audience that their owner is supernatural or [[RedRightHand pure evil]].

** Not to mention ''359 degree'' vision.

*** Actually it was shown that they have a 360 degree vision with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle solid angle]] blind spot.

This trope has nothing to do with BlankWhiteEyes except for the color. For other colors, see MonochromaticEyes.

* In WorldWarZ, a solider mentions that zombies have these sorts of eyes, but not for any magical reason: without a need to blink, dust and random debris in the air produce microscopic scratches in the eyes of the undead.

** Not to mention 359 degree vision.
*** Make that 359 degree infra-red vision.

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* The Goon: For a comic about a hulking anti-hero fighting supernatural entities such as ghouls, ghosts, skunk apes obsessed with pie, aliens, demons and mad scientists, it's never made clear why his human sidekick, Franky, is drawn without pupils. He has no supernatural attributes or abilities, and he's certainly not blind (demonstrated by his signature "knife to the eye" technique).

* The silver wolves in ''{{Hols Prince Of The Sun}}'' are the supernatural type, and are directly working for Grunwald, who ironically, is referred to throughout the film as 'The devil'. {{So Yeah}}.

* Whether or not {{Daredevil}} has these or is simply unfocused [[DependsOnTheWriter depends largely on the artist]].

* Whether or not Daredevil has these or simply unfocused depends largely on the artist.

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* Russell Hobbs of {{Gorillaz}} had blank white eyes as a result of being possessed.

* General Skarr from ''EvilConCarne'' is blind in one eye.
** And? Unless it gives him some special power or awareness or is an indicator of magic, powers or a unique nature, it's not this trope, just a funky-colored eye.

* The silver wolves in ''{{Hols Prince Of The Sun}}'' are the supernatrual type, and are directly working for Grunwald, who ironically, is refered to throught the film as 'The devil'. {{So Yeah}}.

* Jei-san in ''UsagiYojimbo'' has this due to being "divinely blessed" (more likely [[CursedWithAwesome demonically cursed or posessed]]), and he also has a small amount of psychic power: he kidnapped Jotaro because he felt there was some connection to Usagi, but didn't know what it was [[spoiler: It turns out Jotaro is actually Usagi's son; not even Usagi knew that]]. His current "host" Inazuma also gained the white eyes and demonic aura [[spoiler: as has his ''next'' host, a monk named Hama]]

* The Goon: For a comic about a hulking anti-hero fighting supernatural entities such as ghouls, ghosts, skunk apes obsessed with pie, aliens, demons and mad scientists, it's never made clear why his human sidekick, Franky, is drawn without pupils. He has no supernatural attributes or abilities, and he's certaintly not blind (demonstrated by his signature "knife to the eye" technique).

* The emerald seer in ''{{Krull}}'' (probably) had this, he rarely opened his eyes though, and his doppleganger had all black eyes.

* In the second series of [[BookOfAmber Amber]] books, Coral winds up with the Jewel of Judgement in place of her missing eye, allowing her to see the Primal Pattern directly.

* The guys in ''{{Testees}}'' after being temporaritly blinded by pineapple shampoo.

* A blind assasin on ''{{Angel}}'', as well as three children.
** Cordelia also has them while she's having a vision (or just using her new powers), after being changed into a half-demon. Before that, her eyes remained normal, but she felt [[BlessedWithSuck excrutiating pain]] until the vision ended.

* The Goon: For a comic about a hulking anti-hero fighting supernatural entities such as ghouls, ghosts, skunk apes obsessed with pie, aliens, demons and mad scientists, it's never made clear why his human sidekick, Franky, is drawn without pupils. It's made clear he has no supernatural attributes or abilities, and he's certaintly not blind (demonstrated by his signature "knife to the eye" technique).