History Main / SuperNaturalGoldEyes

** Cinder naturally possesses golden eyes. However, whenever she uses her power, her eyes begin to glow like golden fire, and it's often a sign she's about to do something extremely evil with her abilities, or intimidate people into doing her bidding. To emphasise this, the camera often zooms in on her eyes just before they begin to glow. Her affinity lies with fire because her Semblance gives her the ability to superheat anything. [[spoiler:Her eyes gain this ability after stealing just half of the Fall Maiden's legendary magical power, making it a sign she's using magic. Although Maidens can use all ElementalPowers, they often gravitate to one element in particular; Cinder heavily favours fire magic.]]

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Golden eyes are a sign that one possesses 'grace', a sort of ambiguous divine patronage and guidance under the Golden Order. It's pretty common, given the Golden Order previously dominated the whole continent. The Tarnished are notable in that their grace was revoked long ago, so their eyes are no longer golden (although you can still make them such in the character creator). For some reason, even avowed heretics such as Rykard and the Godskin Cultists still have gold eyes.

** Amity, Edrica, and Emria Blight all have gold eyes and are considred prodigies in their repective magic schools. They inherited it from their father Alador, said to be the greatest Abomination maker of the era.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Eda has them, fitting for a witch. Amity, Edric and Emira also possess these having inherited them from their father, Alador.

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* Morgan Le Fay, the shape shifting fairy from the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' movie, is shown with golden eyes.
** In the manga Hild and Lind can both manifest these as part of their GameFace. It indicates that they are drawing on their full power rather than holding back as they usually do.

* Brandon Heat of ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'', while, during his mortal life, he had light brown eyes and black hair, after being murdered and later resurrected as the necrolizer called Grave, he has yellow eyes and silver hair.

* Yuuichi Komura from ''VisualNovel/HiiroNoKakera'' has them. Not surprising considering he is descended from a [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]].

* Okabe's gold eyes in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' seem to have something to do with his "Reading Steiner," the unique ability to retain his original memories when the past gets rewritten. All other strange events in the show are science-based, but this one thing is left unexplained and is apparently magical.

* Lilith in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has golden irises which glow when she triggers her Siren powers. It's not clear if the golden eyes are precisely due to being a Siren, though, as Maya, Commandant Steele, and [[spoiler: Angel]] all have blue eyes.

* Caster, Tamamo-no-Mae from ''VideoGame/FateEXTRA'', ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' and ''[[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar Fate/Extella]] [[VideoGame/FateExtellaLink series]]'' has her trademark golden eyes. This is because she is a Kitsune, [[spoiler:precisely the one from the famous legend of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae Nine-Tailed Fox]] from [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Japanese Mythology]]]]. [[spoiler:She is also revealed to be [[PhysicalGod divine incarnation]] and the aspect of the Sun Goddess, [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Amaterasu]], herself]], which made her eyes even more of symbolic representation of what she is.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':

* [[spoiler: Avalon]], the BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia Legaia II: Duel Saga]]'', has these. Originally known as simply "Gold Eyes" in his first appearance, you later learn that he is a [[spoiler:Star Shaper, a being who can manipulate the Source Forge, the beacon of creation.]] He is also a Mystic, and wields the Origin [[spoiler:Igohl, the Supreme Origin said to be of (nearly) infinite power.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', ArtificialHuman Emeralda Kasim has green hair and gold eyes. Kind of a dead giveaway that she's not normal..

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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
** In the "Heaven's Feel" route of the game, when [[spoiler:Saber]] is possessed by [[spoiler:Sakura]], she gains these as part of her SuperpoweredEvilSide.
** In the ''Literature/FateZero'' novels, she gains similar golden eyes after her extreme despair and duress defeating Berserker[[spoiler:/Lancelot]] and being meters away from her goal (seen in the last image [[http://img1.gamersky.com/image2014/09/20140925lj_13/gamersky_33origin_65_20149251558A11.jpg here]]). It is implied to be a result of her dragon side flaring up due to stress.
* Nageki from ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' has bright yellow eyes in his human portrait, unlike his actual form as a dark-eyed mourning dove. [[spoiler: He turns out to be a ghost.]]
* Mackenzie Hunt in ''VisualNovel/HavenfallIsForLovers'' has green eyes which turn bright gold when her true nature as a werewolf is showing.
* Graves from ''VisualNovel/HustleCat'' has heterochromia, with his left eye being gold. He wasn't born with it; his eye changed colour from blue to gold when he first transformed into a facsimile of his cat, who had heterochromia.
* ''VisualNovel/JunipersKnot'': The girl has golden eyes and green hair to signify her nature as a powerful demon, in contrast to the human boy who is rather plain and has hair and eyes found in ordinary humans.
* Poet from ''VideoGame/PopNMusic'' has bright yellow eyes (golden orange in her alternate colors). This is rather unusual, as her, ah, supernatural origin would be pretty obvious without it.
* All the full blooded elves in ''VisualNovel/SablesGrimoire'' have golden eyes, with a variety of eye colours being one of the differences between them and the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-elves]] that appear.
* The vampire Arcueid in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has {{red eyes| take warning}}, but she's more of a ditzy good girl than anything else. When they turn ''gold'', however, it's time to run. When her irises turn gold and the scleras of her eyes turn red, you're already dead. [[spoiler:If her eyes returns to being red, but her hair grows out and her attitude becomes cold and haughty, that's a ''very'' bad news: her SuperpoweredEvilSide, Archetype Earth, has taken over, and she possesses the same power Arcueid had before she started losing her strength.]]
* Dlanor A. Knox from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has these. She's the High Inquisitor of the Eiserne Jungfrau, the 7th District Repentance Agency of the Great Court of Heaven, whose job it is to hunt down "heretics". She uses two swords, the Red Key and the Blue Key, which allows her to use [[LanguageOfTruth Red and Blue truths]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'' Sulfus and Kabale have these and are notorious trickster devils.

* Timber Wolf from the ''[[WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006 Legion of Super Heroes]]'' cartoon series has these eyes (gold sclera, red pupils) as a result of his father's experiments on him that turned him into a werewolf-like being. They turn red when he's using his enhanced senses [[SuperPoweredEvilSide but start running when they become bloodshot]]. His eye colour when he was human remains unknown.

** When Cú Chulainn [[spoiler:goes off the deep end]], the Servant's red irises have turned to a dull and lifeless yellow. This makes him look dead.

* The Celtic Púca/Pooka stands out as a notable example. A shapeshifting hobgoblin, one of TheFairFolk, Pookas can take on any number of animal forms, but their eyes are always a telltale colour, typically goat-yellow. Far less commonly, they are said to have otherworldly red, green, or blue eyes instead of yellow.

** Due to his extensive delving into the darkness, every incarnation of [[BigBad Xehanort]] has them, as do his CoDragons Saïx and Xigbar. [[spoiler:In their case, the eyes are a sign that they've been infected with Xehanort's darkness, turning them into yet more hosts. This happens to several others in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.]]

* Yuki Nagato from ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has golden-brown eyes, which lends into her being a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Humanoid Data User Interface]], though the other two, Ryoko Asakura and Emiri Kimidori are CurtainsMatchTheWindow with blue and green hair and eyes respectively.

** The eyes of the {{Magitek}} [[SuperPrototype Type Zero cyborgs]] turn gold when they're using their cyborg abilities. Including [[spoiler:Subaru Nakajima]], at one point, just before she [[UnstoppableRage goes ballistic]].

* Main/CreepyChild Aura from ''Fanfic/DaughterOfTheSun'', who possesses a lot of knowledge and has the ability to see the future, is described as having pale gold eyes.

* Timber Wolf from the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes'' cartoon series has these eyes (gold sclera, red pupils) as a result of his father's experiments on him that turned him into a werewolf-like being. They turn red when he's using his enhanced senses [[SuperPoweredEvilSide but start running when they become bloodshot]]. His eye colour when he was human remains unknown.

* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' The aptly named Amber. Her remuneration is getting younger, and she has a limited ability to see the future.

** Zarbon, Frieza's {{bishonen}} right-hand man, has gold-colored eyes. He was able to shapeshift into a single second form, which resembled a large, wrinkly, reptilian ogre.

** His EvilTwin, [[CloningBlues Inertia]]. Thad can pull off some ''stunning'' impressions of Bart's emotional body language (and that includes the famed PuppyDogEyes as well) when the situation calls for it, but his eyes usually default to a sinister glow, as seen [[http://pics.livejournal.com/ladystarscream2/pic/00007yda here]].

* ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'': The first thing Pythe notices about [[EvilSorcerer Mandragora-257]] in his debut in the story ''The Resurrection of the Wellsians'' is the strange golden glow of his eyes, presumably a side-effect of Mandragora's alchemical pursuits. The glowing golden eyes remain a [[RedRightHand tell-tale sign]] of Mandragora's identity after he starts [[BodySurf body-hopping]] following the destruction of his original body.

* Shapeshifter Characters/{{Mystique}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' series is often shown with yellow eyes. So is her son Nightcrawler. [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] is sometimes drawn with them as well.

* In the film ''Film/{{Wolf}}'', yellow eyes are a sign that [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SIUL8EbikTs/SwstN9_U8bI/AAAAAAAAAgw/Om7clqoIPmo/s1600/werewolf-wolf.jpg a character is turning into a werewolf]].

* In ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', golden eyes ([[CurtainsMatchTheWindow and hair]]) are the trademark of Hypnos and his children, the Dream Gods ([[BlackSheep except for Oneiros]]). They're all pretty much supernatural -- and evil, with Hypnos serving as one of the primary antagonists of the manga's first half (arguably the BigBad for good part of it).

* ''Film/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': Whenever someone is possessed by the devil, their eyes are always glowing bright yellow.

* In the live-action ''Manga/DeathNote'' movies, characters with Shinigami eyes have their eyes show up yellow when they use this power.
* ''Film/DogSoldiers'': : In the initial stages of their transformation, humans turning into werewolves have bright yellow eyes.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, the massive, radioactive, mutant King of the Monsters, has orange-golden eyes in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''. It also provides some distinct ColorContrast against his charcoal grey hide.

* Abby from ''Film/LetMeIn'' has yellow eyes when she shows her creepy, true [[GameFace vampire face]]. Depending on the lighting conditions, her eyes can also look bluish-white. Her voice will then also sound much more demonic. This is how Owen realized [[NonHumanLoverReveal that his girlfriend is a vampire]].
** In some scenes Owen looks through a telescope or peeplock, and the light that is reflected back on his eyes makes them look yellow, as yellow as Abby's vampire eyes. This is a possible [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowing]] that Owen's future fate could be to be turned into a vampire by Abby.
* ''Film/TheHobbit'': [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmIndependentVillains Smaug]]'s eyes are changed from the [[Literature/TheHobbit book]]'s RedEyesTakeWarning to a fiery-looking gold color, reflecting his magical (and pyromaniacal) nature.

A subtrope of TechnicolorEyes and MarkOfTheSupernatural. Compare YellowEyesOfSneakiness

-->-- Title of a '''Creator/RayBradbury''' story

* In Creator/RobinMcKinley's ''Literature/TheBlueSword'' and its prequels, the eyes of people with ''kelar'' turn gold when they get angry or use their magic (the two occasions are often related). Also, when they fall in love. And it's dangerous to look in their eyes when they're gold, unless you have the ''kelar'' yourself. Kinda awkward for lovers without it.

* In ''Literature/CoyoteBlue'' by Creator/ChristopherMoore, Coyote, Anubis, and their 'children' (Sam and Minty Fresh, respectively) all have golden eyes to denote their supernaturality.
* The first thing Pythe notices about [[EvilSorcerer Mandragora-257]] in his debut in the ''[[Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' story ''The Resurrection of the Wellsians'' is the strange golden glow of his eyes, presumably a side-effect of Mandragora's alchemical pursuits. The glowing golden eyes remain a [[RedRightHand tell-tale sign]] of Mandragora's identity after he starts [[BodySurf body-hopping]] following the destruction of his original body.
* Within the ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' novels, golden eyes are used almost universally to hint that someone is Korean (almost always narrated with a note that Koreans are the only Asian race with golden eyes), usually right before it's revealed they have some connection to the mystic art of Sinanju.

* On the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the all-powerful {{Tykebomb}} in the novel ''Sourcery'' had gold eyes. They even started turning brown when he began a HeelFaceTurn.

* Lizzy of the web-novel ''Literature/{{Domina}}'' has this. In this book, it's not an impossible eye color, but it is noted as odd, and no one is quite sure if it comes from the [[BioAugmentation toy maker]]. Although she does have supernatural powers (though it hasn't been revealed exactly ''what'' powers), she does subvert the "predatory" aspect.

* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DrawOneInTheDark'', the yellow eyes show that the [[spoiler:police officer]] is the same as the shape-shifting lions that aided their escape.

* [[spoiler:Subverted in]] Literature/TheHaunting: the protagonist, suspected of being a wizard, has golden eyes, just like his magical uncle. It turns out [[spoiler:to be the not golden eyed sister]] who has magic.

* In Creator/DevonMonk's ''Literature/MagicToTheBone'', Zayvion has brown eyes with flecks of gold -- [[EyeColorChange until he leaves the magic grid]], whereupon they are brown. When he drives back, his eyes turn pure gold with only flecks of brown.

* In ''Literature/MasterOfTheFiveMagics'', the "sorcerer's eye" is a mysterious magical item in the form of a crystal sphere, in which a single closed eye is seen to float unsupported. When in use, the eye within the sphere opens, revealing its golden iris.
* In Patricia Briggs' ''Literature/MercyThompson'' universe, when a werewolf starts to change from human to wolf, the eyes are one of the first body parts to change. Watching their eyes is one way to tell who's in control in there. Since most wolves have yellow eyes, most of the werewolves' eyes will brighten to gold. One character has blue eyes in wolf form, and her eyes turn from brown to blue when her wolf starts to come out.
* The alien children in ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'' by Creator/JohnWyndham.

* In ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'', Ned Song is cursed into the form of a white wolf. Most humans mistake him for a wolfdog because [[WeirdnessCensor the Hunter's curse is so powerful,]] and are constantly unnerved by his yellow eyes. The Lady of Scales, a Chinese spirit who helps Ned out later on, has a face veil that obscures everything but her [[BodyPaint red face-paint]] and her golden eyes.

* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'':
** [[spoiler:Luke]]'s irises turn gold after his body is possessed by Kronos.
** [[LightIsNotGood Hyperion]], Titan of Light and the East, also has golden eyes, but his burn bright "like miniature suns".
** In SequelSeries ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Hazel has gold eyes to reflect the fact she represents the "power of wealth and riches" side of her father Pluto's powers.
** Jason's eyes temporarily turn gold when he almost dies from observing Hera's true form.
** And [[spoiler:Percy's, Jason's, and Leo's]] eyes turn gold when being [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the eidolons.

* Naturally enough, possessed by Gold-Eye from Creator/GarthNix's ''Literature/ShadesChildren''. In his case, they only indicate his supernatural ability -- precognitive power -- rather than any sinister nature.
* Werewolves in ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' sometimes have blue eyes when they transform into their wolfish form. However, this is not always the case. Most werewolves in their transformed form have yellow, yellow-green, orange or gold eyes.

* In Lois [=McMaster=] Bujold's ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', the Lakewalkers have metallic eye colors running the gamut between silver and gold. [[spoiler:This is a marker of their magical heritage, their descent from the sorcerer-kings who first loosed [[EldritchAbomination malices]] on the world.]]

* The Fool from Robin Hobb's ''Literature/TawnyMan'' trilogy starts out as an albino, but gradually turns gold. Not just his eyes, his hair and skin as well.

** In ''Breaking Dawn'', it is said that 'true' werewolves (called Children of the Moon) are distinguishable from the shape-shifters by having "yellow" eyes.

* Played with in the manga version of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' and its direct adaptation Brotherhood. Van Hohenheim and his sons Edward and Alphonse Elric have golden eyes. This isn’t supernatural in and of itself, however, it is an ethnic trait related to their heritage, and when you consider [[spoiler: this ethnicity has been [[LastOfHisKind supposedly extinct]] for [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld hundreds of years]]]] it serves as a clue to [[spoiler: Van Hohenheim’s immortality and Ed and Al’s true origins.]]
** Downplayed in the [[GeckoEnding loose]] 2003 [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist anime adaptation]]. Ed and Al’s eyes are still gold, but these are no longer mysterious ethnic traits. [[spoiler: They are, however, inherited traits from [[GrandTheftMe Hohenheim’s current vessel.]]]]

* ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'': the known [[CanisMajor dog]]-{{Youkai}} of the show all have golden eyes: [[HalfHumanHybrid Inuyasha]], [[AloofBigBrother Sesshoumaru]], and [[AlmightyMom Sesshoumaru's mother]].

* Grings Kodai, the villain from the 13th movie ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', has huge golden-yellow eyes, which serve to hint at his PsychicPowers which enable him to see into the future.

* Fuuma's eyes in ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' are gold colored, and it's only after the WhamEpisode that we realize what this was hinting at. In the anime series, they're red, because the SpoilerOpening gave away the ''wham'' of the WhamEpisode right in the first episode.

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* The [[spoiler: Punch Monkeys]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' flicker their eyes a supernatural gold before [[spoiler:kidnapping Grug, Guy, And Phil.]]

* The Coachman from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', who works to turn boys into donkeys, apparently has large, bulging yellow eyes. They're most noticeable during the scene where he says "They'll never come back [[NightmareFace ...as BOYS!!!"]]

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