What Beautiful Eyes


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This is where a character has very unique, "beautiful" eyes. These eyes are one of their main defining characteristics, and many people become enamored with them because of it. Maybe their eyes are an unusual color, or perhaps it's a very piercing, striking hue of a color. Or possibly, their eyes have very pure, untainted emotion inside that other people can clearly see. Whatever the reason, these eyes will be known for being gorgeous and special. In fact, characters will many times come out and tell them that their eyes are beautiful. Occasionally, the character themselves will hate their own eyes because it makes them "different."

Examples:

Anime and Manga
  • Train from Black Cat has yellow, cat-like eyes. In the anime, both Saya and Creed tell him repeatedly that his eyes are so beautiful. And they both fell for him. So Yeah.
  • Sousuke from Full Metal Panic. Although he doesn't particularly have a special eye color, he does have huge, pretty ones. Gauron became enamored with him initially because of those eyes. Emotionless, cold eyes that had no worry or care. To quote Gauron: "Anyone would say they're beautiful."
  • Tsuzuki from Yami No Matsuei has Purple Eyes. Muraki constantly reminds him of how much he loves those beautiful eyes, telling him that he fell in love with him at first sight when he saw his eyes in a photo. Tsuzuki, on the other hand, hates them.
  • In Samurai Deeper Kyo, if this troper remembers correctly, some of Kyo's opponents thought that "Demon Eyes Kyo"'s red eyes were beautiful.
  • Prince Diamond about Sailor Moon.
    Prince Diamond: Her eyes...*So beautiful*...Sailor Moon...exquisite.
  • Naruto's big blue and expressive eyes have been milked for all it's worth in loads of Fanfic's. Or So I Heard.
  • From Monster, Roberto raises the Ho Yay level when he tells someone:
    Roberto: You have beautiful eyes. Just like Johan's...
  • Ouran High School Host Club has Tamaki say something along the lines of, "You have such wonderful eyes. I bet your heart is just as beautiful as your eyes." Then, he proceeds to say that to another girl.
  • This is why Nanoha decided to Befriend Fate in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. She was fascinated by her "beautiful sad eyes" and wanted to help her. But Fate being the bad guy meant she wasn't going to open up and start chatting, so Nanoha decided she would get powerful enough to beat her so that she would tell her why she's sad so Nanoha could fix it.
  • Yuki Nagato in Suzumiya Haruhi. If this troper recalls correctly, Kyon does mention her eyes at times. In the anime, no other character has so many close ups of their eyes as Yuki. Yeah, she got pretty eyes. Don't ask why Kyon reflects in it, though.
  • This troper thinks Rocket from Ginga Densetsu Weed has very pretty amber-ish eyes although some may find them a bit creepy.
  • Nia from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, whose Technicolor Eyes is a huge defining trait of hers. Might just be because she's a Mary Sue (albeit a good one).
  • In Kohaku's route of Tsukihime when Akiha goes yandere, Shiki has to fight her to save Kohaku and uses his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception on her. Her reaction? "What beautiful... blue eyes."

Literature
  • Besides the lightning shaped scar, Harry Potter's most notable and frequently commented on physical trait is his green eyes, which he got from his mother, Lily. Pretty much everyone remarks about it.
    • To add to the Harry Potter example, in the epilogue Harry's youngest child, Albus Severus Potter, is the only one who inherits Lily's eyes.
  • Bella makes much of Edward Cullen's eyes in Twilight. They're an especially good example because they change color (gold to black) according to how HUNGRY he is...and since his vampire thirst for blood is conflated with his lust for Bella, it sometimes has to do with how turned on he is too.
    • Bella's actress actually did that same thing in Zathura, when their house flying in space picks up a stranded astronaut, and she spends a moment or so gazing into his eyes. Then she finds out later it's her kid brother grown-up from the future. Absolute Squickapalooza.
  • One of the two eugenically-created breeding lines in the Lensman series (run by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens to breed the perfect human) is distinguished by their auburn hair and "gold-flecked, tawny eyes."
  • Darryl in the Young Wizards series has eyes so innocent that it hurts the first time you see them. Granted, he IS an abdal, and being a direct channel for The One would do that to you.

Film
  • Beauty And The Beast: The first thing Belle notices about Beast is his blue eyes. This is brought up again about two times later on in the movie.
  • Jokingly told to Manfred by Sid in the first Ice Age movie.
    Sid: You have beautiful eyes.//
    Manfred: Get off my face!
  • Parodied in Short Circuit 2. Benjamin attempts to use this line (on the advice of his self appointed business partner) but gets it wrong since she has brown eyes and he uses a stock line which specifically mentions blue.
  • Bambi's big, innocent eyes. In fact, it managed to spur the creation of the phrase "Bambi Eyes," which describes someone's eyes as being huge and innocent.

Video Games
  • Cloud from Final Fantasy 7. He's well known for having vivid blue eyes (which can glow aqua-green because of his being injected with Mako). This is milked for all it's worth in Advent Children, where there's countless closeups of his gorgeous eyes. Oh, and Crisis Core continues to show closeups of his emotional eyes.
  • Big Boss (Naked Snake) from Metal Gear Solid 3, who has intense, aqua eyes. Brought up in-game by Volgin, who angrily orders The Boss to blind him. "Cut out his eyes! I don't like those blue eyes of his. There is nothing more important to a soldier than his eyes." The fact that Volgin notices that Big Boss' eyes are such an asset (to the point that he knows it would be the ultimate torture to take it away) says something. As are everyone else's horrified reactions to it.

Live Action TV
  • Craig Olejnik, playing Toby Logan,'s eyes in CTV/NBC series The Listener. Both fan comments and reviews commented on his bright blue eyes, which are played up due to the blue cast of the series. The title credits even include extreme close-up shots of his eyes. Oddly enough, characters on the show don't comment on his eyes at all.
  • Parodied in The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody when Cody is dating a French girl, with Mr. Moseby as his translator. They're at a loud club, and Cody tells Mr. Moseby to tell his date that her eyes are beautiful. He can't hear, so Cody says it again. Mr. Moseby still can't hear, so Cody says, with the entire club watching, "YOUR EYES ARE BEAUTIFUL!!" Being the Deadpan Snarker he is, Mr. Moseby reacts as so...
    Mr. Moseby: Why, thank you. I like your sweater!

Real Life
  • One of the popular reasons why numerous fangirls love Cillian Murphy.
  • One of the striking parts of the famous photo "Afghan Girl".
  • Hugh Laurie. Ask anyone.
  • Alexis Beldel, Her eyes are one of the few things in colour in Sin City because the director liked them and insisted.
  • Many fans asked WETA how they digitally enhanced Elijah Wood's eyes in Lord Of The Rings. They responded, "We didn't". Fangirl squeeing ensued.

Music
  • Taylor Swift's song "Beautiful Eyes." The narrator never actually says what makes the eyes beautiful. However, she does repeatedly call them beautiful, and says she'll dream about them.
  • The song Your Eyes by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.

Other
  • I just saw a post on Scans_Daily that said basically "Bullseye has so pretty eyes... There's something wrong with that."
  • This Trigun drabble.
  • Subverted in this Eyepatch-tan strip. The eyes are actually ignored!
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