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* The title character from the 1-season series ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075532/ Lucan]]'' had eyes that glowed red when he was using his "wolf powers".

* In the ''Literature/DetectiveInspectorChen'' series, this is common in characters with supernatural origins.
** Demonic vice cop Zhu Irzh has gold eyes.

* The wizard Raistlin Majere from ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' had golden eyes with hourglass-shaped pupils as part of a curse put on him; he was forced to see time as it affected all things, so all living things would wither and die and turn to dust in his eyes, even rocks and buildings would slowly erode and crumble if he looked at them long enough. No wonder he became rather gloomy.
* Trava in ''Literature/DragonQueen'' has one gold eye and one brown eye, and apparently her [[MissingMom mother]] had two gold eyes.
* In the ''Literature/{{Drenai}}'' novel ''Legend'', Serbitar the albino has un-albino-like bright green eyes, a legacy of his mystical training; at one point in the novel, when he's at his lowest physical and spiritual ebb, they temporarily revert to their natural color.

* The "blue in blue" eyes of the Fremen of Arrakis in ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', though these are common to all Melange users who consume enough of the Spice.

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Authors seem to like giving characters funny-colored eyes. Hair too. Often the colors are pretty much never found in life. Common ones include [[SupernaturalGoldEyes gold]] (not to be confused with the Amber Brown eyes that are, in fact, naturally occurring), [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] (as would exist in albinism only), purple (rare even among albinos), [[ProphetEyes pale silver]], mixed, and various other brilliant shades you're unlikely to see on anyone not wearing colored contacts and in some cases not even then.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Mina has red eyes with black sclera as part of her mutation.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', it's extremely common.
* The protagonists Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado, have dark red and hot pink eyes respectively.
* With the exception of Gyomei who has solid white eyes to represent to his blindness, all the Hashira have oddly colored eyes.
Ruka Rengoku has deep crimson eyes, despite being a normal human, an addend to the series folklore explains women of the Rengoku household will stare into flames for hours without end, consistently during pregnancy, so their children will grow into strong Flame Breathing demon slayers.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Ruka Rengoku has deep crimson eyes, despite being a normal human, an addend to the series folklore explains women of the Rengoku household will stare into flames for hours without end, consistently during pregnancy, so their children will grow into strong Flame Breathing demon slayers.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':

* In ''Literature/{{Legend|1984}}'' by Creator/DavidGemmell, Serbitar the albino has un-albino-like bright green eyes, a legacy of his mystical training; at one point in the novel, when he's at his lowest physical and spiritual ebb, they temporarily revert to their natural color.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Oreg says that the dragon, whose skeleton is buried under castle Hurog, was beautiful and had silver eyes. [[spoiler: The Hurog family's unusually violet eyes are more likely than not a hint at their dragon ancestry.]]

* Willo Davis Roberts' ''[[Literature/TheGirlWithTheSilverEyes Girl With The Silver Eyes]]'' has PsychicPowers, due to a drug her mother was exposed to during the pregnancy.
* [[Literature/{{Gormenghast}} Titus, seventy-seventh Earl of Groan]], has violet eyes. Notably, this example predates the others on this page by at least two decades.

* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'':
** Vanyel has silver eyes.
** Firesong k'Treva, who also has silver eyes [[spoiler:and is Vanyel's descendant]].

** ComicBook/{{Superman}} is occasionally described as having eyes an [[InnocentBlueEyes unnaturally bright shade of blue]], resulting in him [[ClarkKenting wearing slightly tinted glasses to disguise this as Clark Kent]].

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Tohka Yatogami's eyes are purple with a small hint of gold. The novels call them "crystalline".

* Christopher Shouldered from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is a somewhat unusual example: his eyes a perfectly normal pale blue, but are also so severely and permanently bloodshot that everything apart from the iris seems [[RedEyesTakeWarning blood red]].

* ''LightNovel/BeingAbleToEditSkillsInAnotherWorldIGainedOpWaifus'': Kathrus normally has blue eyes, but they turn purple when her "Renny" personality takes control.

* The title character from the 1-season series [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075532/ Lucan]] had eyes that glowed red when he was using his "wolf powers".

* In ''Series/{{Helix}},'' Doctor [[spoiler:Hiroshi Hatake]] hides {{glowing|Eyes}} silver irises behind brown-tinted contacts, suggesting ProfessorGuineaPig hobbyism apart from the unregulated viral research Arctic Biosystems is conducting.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]", crew members Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner gain glowing silver eyes to indicate their increased telepathic powers.