History Main / KaleidoscopeEyes

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s eyes are a particular light, reflective shade of hazel that causes them to appear drastically different colours depending on lighting and whatever colour Eminem's hair and clothing is at the time, ranging from icy blue, deep blue, green, brown, grey and even black and violet. Numerous artists (including Canibus and Az Izz) have written diss tracks against him mocking him for his creepy, colour-changing eyes, often to imply he's [[PretenderDiss an entertainment industry phony]] or make insinuations about [[ButNotTooBlack his race]] or possible [[EveryoneIsSatanInHell Satanic possession]].

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Along with her KaleidoscopeHair, Venus the Fairest had eyes that changed color, thanks to latent magic that had people see her as their personal ideal of beauty. As she got older she became more able to control the magic and often used her hair and eyes to show her mood. [[spoiler:For a year after she {{Mercy Kill}}ed her mother, her hair and eyes were black.]] Most artwork of her, both InUniverse and out, show her with rainbow eyes, barring three: one demonstrating what colors represent what mood she's in, one of her during her 'Black Venus' year, and [[spoiler:one where Venus looks at her (very young) daughter use magic to make a model universe, in which she has the dark blue hair and eyes symbolizing fear.]]

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Along with her KaleidoscopeHair, Venus the Fairest had eyes that changed color, thanks to latent magic that had people see her as their personal ideal of beauty. As she got older she became more able to control the magic and often used her hair and eyes to show her mood. [[spoiler:For a year after she {{Mercy Kill}}ed her mother, her hair and eyes were black.]] Most artwork of her, both InUniverse and out, show her with rainbow eyes, barring two: one demonstrating what colors represent what mood she's in, and [[spoiler:one where Venus looks at her (very young) daughter use magic to make a model universe, in which she has the dark blue hair and eyes symbolizing fear.]]

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Along with her KaleidoscopeHair, Venus the Fairest had eyes that changed color, thanks to latent magic that had people see her as their personal ideal of beauty. As she got older she became more able to control the magic and often used her hair and eyes to show her mood. [[spoiler:For a year after she {{Mercy Kill}}ed her mother, her hair and eyes were black.]] Most 'official' pictures of her show her with rainbow eyes.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The amateur film has this happen InUniverse to one of Mikuru's eyes. The second novel explains this as Haruhi putting in different contact lenses every day they shoot the film. [[spoiler:It turns out this ''actually'' causes Mikuru to fire something from her eyes depending on the color of the lens, from ultraviolet lasers to micro-black holes to rifle bullets.]]

* ''LightNovel/SamuraiGirls'': Yagyuu Jubei's eyes randomly turn into SupernaturalGoldEyes.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' ''Endless Nights'': With the Eternal who was previously Delight:

* ''Literature/TheWitches'': Among other RedRightHand features, the titular [[AlwaysChaoticEvil malevolent]] WitchSpecies has colour-changing pupils where a very careful viewer can see fire and ice dancing in the centre.

* ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'': Yagyuu Jubei's eyes randomly turn into SupernaturalGoldEyes.

* ''Literature/IllivaisX'': And MoodRingEyes. Iriana's eyes normally go through a literal kaleidoscope of color, but change to a set hue to represent emotions, and it's the only way she expresses herself unless her feelings are really strong.
* ''Literature/{{City of Bones|1995}}'' by Creator/MarthaWells: The Krismen, a {{Bio Augment|ation}}ed human offshoot, have eyes that continually shift through a range of colours. It overlaps with MoodRingEyes as physical distress and some strong emotional states can provoke specific reactions.

* ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'': Misa's eyes: Blue, brown, blue, brown, blue, brown... Then MoodRingEyes '''''{{RED|EyesTakeWarning}}!!!'''''

MoodRingEyes is for when the color changes based on their mood or if a different personality comes to the fore.

Sister Trope to EyeColourChange, and this trope may be subverted into that, if a reason for the changes are revealed. Not to be confused with TechnicolorEyes, where the eyes are just different from the humanly possible. A common trait of a MarySue.

* [[http://pottersues.livejournal.com/ Pottersues]], a Website/LiveJournal community dedicated to snarking the {{Mary Sue}}s of ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fandom, uses animated [=GIFs=] of this in place of stars for its rating system.

** In "Fanfiction" {{sidestory|BonusArt}} where a teenage girl is telling her younger siblings the stories of the Heterodynes and inserts her own MarySue. She embodies many Sue tropes including this one.

* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': Applies to Aphrodite due to her constant shifting to multiple people the viewer finds attractive.

* In the [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] series, the titular character has eyes that mildly change color depending on the clothes he wears.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/TheGodsOfTheNorth", the woman (who is obviously magical) also has eyes that change.

* Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures:

* Creator/RickRiordan:
** ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': Applies to Aphrodite due to her constant shifting to multiple people the viewer finds attractive.
* Yasmini, the FemmeFatale of Talbot Mundy's ''King of the Khyber Rifles'' has lovely blue eyes ...which can also turn brown, or green, or hazel, or yellow, or reflective, or {{glow|ingEyesOfDoom}}. It's notable that King, the hero, finds this to be extremely creepy, and not at all alluring.

* "Swan Steel", a song by Aquarium, mentions that "our eye colour is unstable like the ice in March". Being psychedelic rock, the song doesn't elaborate further on what is actually means.

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