Line #33 Main/ElementalEyeColors


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5	[[caption-width-right:349:[[CurtainsMatchTheWindow The curtains match the]] [[ColorCodedEyes windows to the soul.]]]]
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7	Eye color means many different things in fiction. Sometimes, they mean someone is [[ColorCodedEyes special]], or [[SupernaturalGoldEyes has powers]], or perhaps just {{innocent\| blue eyes}}. One of the common uses of eye color is to indicate a person's elemental affinity. The actual colour correspondence to elements varies depending on the work, as different colours align with the elements depending on the work. It's more important that the colour lines up InUniverse than to any out of universe list.
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9	This trope is frequently paired with its Sister Trope, ElementalHairColors.
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11	Subtrope of ColorCodedElements. Also, compare ColorCodedForYourConvenience, ColorCodedEyes, TechnicolorEyes, and ElementalPowers.
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14	!!Examples
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17	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
18	* Zelman Clock from ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'' has red eyes and is a pyrokinetic.
19	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Hitsugaya has blue eyes of the "piercing, icy" variety, which fit well with his ice powers.
20	* November 11 from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has very light blue eyes that can most definitely be described as "icy". This is appropriate, since he's a sociopath [[AnIcePerson with ice powers]].
21	* ''Anime/DayBreakIllusion'', another magical girl series, has [[ThePowerOfTheSun the red-eyed Akari use fire]], [[AnIcePerson the blue-eyed Seira use ice]], and [[GreenThumb the green-eyed Luna use plants]].
22	* Reinforce Zwei of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has the [[MonochromaticEyes bluest eyes of the series]], emphasizing the childlike innocence of the character, as well as her magical nature (the first [[ArtificialHuman Unison]] [[PureMagicBeing Device]] created since the days of Ancient Belka) and her [[AnIcePerson affinity to ice]].
23	* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' colors our heroines' eyes ([[ElementalHairColors and hair]]) after their elements. Hikaru's are red, Umi's are blue, and Fuu's are green. Fuu's hair may be yellow, but yellow has represented wind in other media, so no complaints there.
24	* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'':
25	** Elma has deep blue eyes. While she's never been seen using water magic, she is an aquatic dragon, and used her powers to ensure bountiful harvests for humans in the past.
26	** Tohru is a fire-breathing dragon and her eyes are bright red with yellow highlights, giving them the illusion of flames.
27	* Prince Chagum from ''Literature/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'' carries the egg of a [[spoiler:benevolent]] water spirit. He also has a [[InnocentBlueEyes noble, innocent personality typical of blue eyes]].
28	* Inverted in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' with Shoto Todoroki. He has both ice and fire powers and one of his eyes is grey while the other is blue. However, his blue eye is on his fire-side and is inherited from his father who is a fire elemental - whereas his ice side and his ice elemental mother have grey eyes.
29	* Several characters in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' have this:
30	** Evangeline uses [[AnIcePerson ice magic]], and has very cold blue eyes; however, the {{OVA}}s change it to s sky blue color.
31	** Chao uses [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]] and has red eyes in the OVA and reddish brown in the manga.
32	** [[FieryRedhead Anya]] is a [[PlayingWithFire fire user]] and gets [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow red eyes]] in the manga (however, she is a greeneyed redhead in the {{OVA}}s).
33	** Kotaro floats between black and purple eyes, but both colors correspond to his [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]].
34	* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
35	** Four of six girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' have them. [[PlayingWithFire Cure Rouge]] has red, [[LightEmUp Cure Lemonade]] has yellow, [[DishingOutDirt Cure Mint]] has green, and [[MakingASplash Cure Aqua]] has blue.
36	** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': Cure Peach has pink (HeartBeatDown) and Cure Pine has yellow (LightEmUp).
37	** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Cure Blossom has pink ([[PetalPower Cherry Blossom Petals]]), Cure Marine has blue (MakingASplash), Cure Sunshine has yellow (PowerOfTheSun). Cure Moonlight could count, too, if you associate her dark blue eyes with {{Lunacy}}.
38	** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Cure Happy has pink (HeartBeatDown[=/=]LightEmUp), Cure Sunny has red/orange (PlayingWithFire), Cure Peace has yellow (ShockAndAwe), Cure March has green (BlowYouAway), and Cure Beauty has blue (AnIcePerson).
39	** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': Cure Diamond has blue (AnIcePerson), and Cure Ace has red ([[PetalPower Rose Petals]]).
40	** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': Cure Mermaid has blue (MakingASplash[=/=]AnIcePerson), Cure Scarlet has red (PlayingWithFire).
41	** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Cure Gelato has blue (AnIcePerson).
42	** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'': Cure Grace had pink (PetalPower) and Cure Fontaine has blue (MakingASplash).
43	* Mizore, the Ice Woman of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', has ice powers and blue eyes. Interestingly, she can also control other people's water magic.
44	* At very least the Inner Senshi in the manga of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the Materials Collection makes note that when they transform their eyes (among other things) change. Mercury goes from deep blue to a light blue, Mars from purple to a bright red, Jupiter from (what seems to be) a hazel to green and lastly, Venus who changes from a blue that matches her uniform as Sailor V, to bright gold.
45	* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' gives Hyoga, AnIcePerson, IcyBlueEyes. Strangely averted in the Manga with Aquarius Camus who, despite being AnIcePerson as well, had red eyes.
46	** ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' has [[MakingASplash Ryuhou]] with blue-green eyes and [[DishingOutDirt Haruto]] with brown eyes.
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49	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
50	* In ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'', each of the eponymous character's second-tier elemental forms has eyes colored to match their respective element, such as [[DishingOutDirt BoBoiBoy Quake]] having golden-ish eyes to fit his outfit's yellow accents. In the first series, he also has a couple first-tier forms, Fire and Water, that have crimson and cyan eyes respectively.
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53	[[folder:FanFiction]]
54	* Like ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' example below, similar colors crop up frequently in the fanfic ''Fanfic/BookFiveLegends'', but particular mention needs to go to the albino Temuji, whose red eyes play this straighter than any previously seen firebender in either series.
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57	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
58	* Takanuva, Toa of Light has yellow eyes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}: Mask of Light'', representing [[CaptainObvious his light-based powers]]. His first toy also came with yellow eyes, though later incarnations changed them to lime green.
59	* ''Animation/MavkaTheForestSong'': Mavka has green eyes since she is the [[NatureSpirit soul of the forest]], [[OurNymphsAreDifferent Ondina]] has blue eyes matching her elements (bodies of water), etc.
60	* Nicholas St. North and Jack Frost from ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' have icy blue eyes with frost patterns in them to symbolize their associations with winter. Bunny has grass-green eyes with grass patterns in them to match his association with spring.
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63	[[folder:Literature]]
64	* In ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', several characters have eye colors corresponding to their abilities/godly parents.
65	** Percy Jackson is described several times as having sea-green eyes, which he inherited from his father [[LordOfTheOcean Poseidon]]. He has MakingASplash powers to match.
66	** Annabeth Chase is described as having stormy-gray eyes, a trademark trait for children of Athena, which makes sense since gray is often associated with age and wisdom.
67	** Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, is described as having sky-blue eyes to match his powers over the [[BlowYouAway winds]].
68	** Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto, is described as having gold/amber eyes, which correspond with her ability to sense and control precious metals/gems.
69	** Hazel's brother, Nico di Angelo is a son of Hades. He has been described as having dark brown, almost black eyes go with his [[DarkIsNotEvil death-related powers]]
70	** Piper [=McLean=], daughter of Aphrodite, is described as having "Kaleidoscope" eyes, which change color from brown to blue to green. In the series, Aphrodite's appearance varies depending on how people perceive beauty. It's fitting that her daughter inherits a similar trait.
71	* In ''Literature/TheChildrenOfMan'', a person's eye color indicates which of the six colors of magic he can access. Blue mages have blue eyes, green mages green eyes, etc. Those who can access multiple colors of magic have brown eyes, while Grays have reflective silver eyes as a RedRightHand to mark the fact that they are [[EldritchAbomination magically colorless]].
72	* In ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', the cryokinetic Miyuki has very pale blue eyes (DependingOnTheArtist). No one else in her family has eyes that shade, just as they don't have her ice magic.
73	* ''Literature/LongsummerNights'': River from "Seeds of Solace" is a PlantPerson with green eyes.
74	* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': Most of the inhabitants of the frigid North (including Isengrim and Hirsent) are depicted as having icy blue eyes.
75	* Shana from ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' has flaming red eyes when in full Flame Haze mode.
76	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
77	** Melisandre has red eyes, befitting her status as a Red Priest of (the fire-associated) R'hllor. And befitting her status as creepily ''wrong'' in subtle ways, since the shade of red is [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow the same as that of her hair]], which is not a natural colour for either hair or eyes.
78	** Some characters have noted that Cersei has "[[TechnicolorFire wildfire]] eyes", bright green and beautiful, yet dangerous and possibly unstable. She develops a liking for using wildfire after the Battle of the Blackwater and she has a knack for destruction, but can rarely control the damage.
79	* The ''Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm'' series by Fiona Patton combines this with a variant of FireballEyeballs. It focuses on a [[GodEmperor royal family]] who channels a fire god, the Living Flame, and has fiery eyes. When an opposing religion based loosely on Catholicism takes religious champions, they have white light in their eyes. Characters in one book are heretics to the Flame trying to give the other three ElementalPowers their own avatars, and their eyes swim with light as well -- gray for Wind, blue for Sea and green for Oaks.
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82	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
83	* ''Series/IceFantasy'': The Ice Tribe have blue eyes, the Fire Tribe have [[RedEyesTakeWarning copper red]], and the Ice Flame Tribe have [[YellowEyesOfSneakiness greenish amber]].
84	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel as a character is heavily associated with the concept of water (her Ring of Power is Nenya, the ring of water and she has a strong pull to the sea and water in general being half Teler) and her eyes are a clear, bright blue.
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87	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
88	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': {{Justified\|Trope}} as a MarkOfTheSupernatural caused by long exposure to a [[MagicAIsMagicA specific Wind of Magic]]. Some senior Wizards' eyes change colour to match their Wind -- fiery red for [[PlayingWithFire Bright Wizards]], {{occult blue\|Eyes}} for [[HeavenlyBlue Celestial Wizards]], [[ProphetEyes solid white]] or {{gold\|AndWhiteAreDivine}} for [[LightEmUp Light Wizards]], or murky grey for [[CastingAShadow Shadow Wizards]].
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91	[[folder:Toys]]
92	* Early on, ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' associated eye colours with specific elements (usually complentary to [[ColorCodedElements the colour of the elemental heroes themselves]]), but switched it around in 2004 and 2005 (where the colours became more contrasting on the whole) with only Earth remaining the same, and dropped it altogether in 2006-2007 when all characters were given green or orange (or later blue), eyes, usually [[GoodEyesEvilEyes depending on if they were a hero or villain]]. From 2001-2005, these were the elements and their associated eye colours:
93	** [[BlowYouAway Air]] was [[WindIsGreen Lime Green]], then Red.
94	** [[AnIcePerson Ice]] was [[IcyBlueEyes Pale Blue, then Cyan]] (the most subtle change)
95	** [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] was Pink, then Lime Green.
96	** [[MakingASplash Water]] was Yellow, then Orange. In the movies, it is [[WaterIsBlue Blue]].
97	** [[DishingOutDirt Earth]] is Green, which also represents the InnateNightVision of Earth characters, needed to see underground.
98	** [[DishingOutDirt Stone]] was Orange, then Blue.
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101	[[folder:Video Games]]
102	* Galuf and Krile in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', albeit DependingOnTheArtist. Galuf does consistently have brown eyes to match his representation of the Earth element. Krile's ingame appearance gives her InnocentBlueEyes, but her Amano outfit (and some spinoff games that use her ingame design) keep her eyes brown like her grandfather's.
103	* Dragon eye color in ''VideoGame/FlightRising'' is determined by the element of the lair they were born in. Because of this, "nest lending" is fairly common on the site in order for players to own a dragon with a desired eye color.
104	* Most [[ElementalPowers Adepts]] in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' follow this, but there are a few aversions.
105	* The Striation trio in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. Cilan, the Grass-type user, has green eyes; Chili, the Fire-type user, has red eyes; and Cress, the Water-type user, has blue eyes.
106	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'''s eponymous hero has [[WindIsGreen green eyes]], and many of his abilities involve wind manipulation, including (among others) [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Sonic Wind]], [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Blue Tornado]], and [[VideoGame/SonicChronicles Whirlwind]]. He's also often associated with the wind element, being described as being "free like the wind" in several character profiles, gaining the title "Knight of the Wind" in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'', and so on.
107	* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': Velvet the reindeer has light blue eyes and mainly uses ice-themed powers to fight. Tianhuo also had orange eyes that matched the fire making up her hair and wings. They changed to red later on, but that color works for this trope just as well, since the character is a fire-breathing [[OurDragonsAreDifferent longma]].
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110	[[folder:WebAnimation]]
111	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
112	** Ruby has silver eyes, an extremely rare trait that are possessed by so few people that there are very ancient myths about what people with silver eyes can do. [[spoiler:Silver-eyed warriors possess the ability to produce a blinding white light from their eyes that can destroy the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] by turning them to stone or blasting them to dust, depending on how strong the Grimm opponent is. Ruby's mentor, Maria, who was born with silver eyes but [[EyeScream lost them]] in battle with an assassin that was hunting down silver-eyed warriors, figures out that the power has a mysterious connection to the God of Light, who possessed silver eyes and the ability to vaporise the Grimm.]]
113	** The sisters Weiss and Winter are both aloof, cool and connected with ice and snow powers. They have the IcyBlueEyes to go with both their personality and their powers. While they can use other elements, they default to ice as their preferred ability. Both of them have independently been given the nickname "Ice Queen" by their peers. [[spoiler:When Winter becomes the Winter Maiden, she heavily favours ice magic, and the ice-tornado she uses for flight is exactly the same colour as her eyes.]]
114	** Cinder has golden eyes and a strong affinity for fire. Her eyes can glow like fire whenever she wants, especially when she's using her fire magic. While Cinder can use other elements, she almost always uses fire because she has an affinity for it.
115	** Vernal, the Spring Maiden, has light blue eyes the exact shade as a perfect spring sky. She tends to use lightning attacks, too, which are often associated with blue. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out she was never the Spring Maiden, just a decoy. The real Spring Maiden has eyes that don't match her preferred powers at all, being bright red]].
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118	[[folder:Webcomics]]
119	* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'':
120	** [[http://www.drowtales.com/wordpress/?p=3038 Sil'lice Val'Sharen]] is a blue-eyed Ice Sorceress and one of the few remaining untainted Nether Summoners.
121	--->You know, blood contains water. And water freezes so well.
122	** Nishi'kanta, her sister, was also an example before she was [[RedEyesTakeWarning tainted]], since she had [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4232 orange eyes]] and a fire affinity.
123	** The Val'Nal'sarkoth Clan also has this, since they tend to have [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5778 green eyes]] and are some of the only people in the Underworld who have an affinity with wood.
124	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' 's four main kids have their eye colors match their associate element. [[BlowYouAway John]]'s eyes are light blue, [[MakingASplash Rose]]'s eyes are purple [[note]] to match the deep sea and the grapes to make wine [[/note]], [[PlayingWithFire Dave]]'s eyes are red, and [[DishingOutDirt Jade]]'s eyes are light green.
125	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': When a {{magical girl}} awakens her powers, both her [[PowerDyesYourHair hair]] and [[CurtainsMatchTheWindows eye]] colors change to match the theme of her powers. While a girl's eyes may not always match her ElementalHairColors exactly, they do at least complement her powers and color scheme as a rule. If a magical girl's eye color instead forms a contrast against the rest of her theme, it's a sign that she has in some way [[BequeathedPower inherited her power]] from a girl with that eye color.
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128	[[folder:Web Original]]
129	* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'': Tagg has brown eyes, which makes sense because his Pokeform is a partial ground type.
130	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': The hydrokinetic Riptide has blue eyes.
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133	[[folder:Western Animation]]
134	* In ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', people from the elemental nations (and thus what element they can bend), for the most part, have their eye colors ColorCodedForYourConvenience. Blue for the Water Tribe, green or brown for the Earth Kingdom (Toph has ProphetEyes), gold/amber or gray for the Fire Nation, and gray for the Air Nomads.
135	** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' breaks from its predecessor's elemental eye color coding with the residents of Republic City, a mecca of multiculturalism and mixed marriages. The firebender on the pro-bending team the Rabbiroos has green eyes, for instance; and a [[ExtraOreDinary metalbending]] cop from the first episode has amber eyes. Asami looks like she's from the Fire Nation and her dad looks like UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt and Creator/HayaoMiyazaki had a baby and her names are Japanese (what the Fire Nation is based on) but her eyes are green. Most of the main characters still play this trope straight, though.
136	* Played with but mostly averted in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Linka, who possesses [[BlowYouAway the power of wind]], had blue eyes in seasons 1-3 (though they later got changed to green), and Kwame, who wields [[DishingOutDirt the power of earth]], has dark (presumably brown) eyes. However, Gi ([[MakingASplash water]]) and Ma-Ti ([[BizarroElements heart]]) also have dark eyes, and Wheeler ([[PlayingWithFire fire]]) has blue eyes.
137	* Stella, Flora, and Aisha from ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' have eye colors pertaining to their elements: Sun, Plants (or Earth, to some extent), and Water/Fluids, respectively. And also Icy, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin with control over ice]].
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