"Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!"
— Lion-O, ThunderCats (1985)
This is a list of tropes dealing with the ability (or inability) to see.
Sub- and related indexes:
- Animal Eye Spy: Someone who has the ability to look at the world through an animal's eyes.
- Anti-True Sight: There's some things that even the True Sight can't pierce through. Contrast True Sight.
- Aura Vision: The ability to see auras.
- Bloody Hallucinations of Guilt: Feeling guilt over another's death has one seeing blood where there isn't any.
- Blind and the Beast: Someone with a freakish appearance befriends a blind person.
- Blind Bats: Bats depicted as being poorly-sighted, blind, or entirely eyeless.
- Blind Black Guy: A black man who is blind.
- Blinded by the Light: Bright light used to blind an enemy in a fight.
- Blinded by the Sun: A character's eyes are hurt after looking at the sun.
- Blindfolded Trip: A character is made so they cannot know where they are being taken.
- Blindfolded Vision: A sighted character who has blindfolded vision can see just as well, if not better than if that character wasn't blindfolded.
- Blinding Camera Flash: Temporarily blindness via flash photography.
- Blind Mistake: Someone makes a mistake because they can't see.
- Blind Musician: A professional musician who is blind.
- Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Sunglasses used as visual shorthand for blindness.
- Blind Seer: Someone is physically blind but "sees" with other means, often better than the unimpaired.
- Blind Weaponmaster: A blind person who can still do well in a fight.
- Blind Without 'Em: Someone loses their glasses and can't see anything.
- By the Eyes of the Blind: A character or creature who can only be seen by certain individuals.
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: Characters' eyes glow in the dark just so viewers can see their eyes.
- Can't Move While Being Watched: An enemy that can only move while unseen.
- Can't See a Damn Thing: Someone who's effectively blind because of environmental conditions, lost glasses, or being physically blinded by light or dirt.
- Colorblind Confusion: Colorblindness gets brought up in an important situation.
- Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: The sunlight hurts your eyes if you've been in the darkness long enough.
- Dropped Glasses: Somebody with poor eyesight loses their glasses; they may or may not get stepped on.
- Eye Am Watching You: A hand gesture used to warn someone that they've got their eye on them.
- Eye Spy: An out-of-body eye that transmits what it sees back to its owner.
- Glasses Curiosity: Needing or wanting to try on the glasses of others.
- Hallucinations: Seeing real-seeming yet fictitious things due to madness, hunger, etc.
- I See Dead People: A special ability to see ghosts.
- I See Them, Too: Someone begins to see something that only one person was able to see originally.
- Innate Night Vision: Someone can naturally see better in the dark than other humans can.
- Living Motion Detector: A person, monster, or robot can only see things when they're moving.
- Meat-O-Vision: Hallucinations induced by hunger or starvation make anyone and anything look like food.
- Mentally Unwell, Special Senses: People with mental problems can see or sense things that others cannot.
- Mistaken for Bad Vision: When someone who has clear eyesight thinks they have a bad vision after seeing something ridiculous or absurd.
- Night-Vision Goggles: Goggles that allow the user to see in the darkness.
- No Eye in Magic: Magic requires eye contact.
- Reflectionless Useless Eyes: Eyes that don't reflect light used as visual shorthand for limited sight or blindness.
- Robo Cam: See the world through the eyes of a robot.
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Seeing what another person is seeing.
- See the Invisible: The invisible are turned visible somehow, one way or another.
- See-Thru Specs: An object (most commonly a pair of glasses) that reveals what can't be normally seen by human eyes.
- Single Malt Vision: Consuming alcohol causes you to see more of one thing.
- Stat-O-Vision: Someone is able to look at the exact stats of an opponent.
- Step into the Blinding Fight: The tactical use of blinding your enemy to shroud one's attacks.
- Temporary Blindness: Losing the ability to see for a short time period.
- True Sight: The ability to see through illusions that can't be normally perceived by the naked eye. Contrast Anti-True Sight.
- Universal Eyeglasses: Any pair of glasses can correct any vision problem.
- Vein-o-Vision: A character is able to see others' circulatory systems.
- X-Ray Vision: The ability to see through solid objects.
- You Can See Me?: Someone who thinks they're invisible or otherwise beyond normal detection gets noticed by someone who can see them, and they're taken aback by this.
- You Can See That, Right?: Seeing something weird, then turning to someone and asking if they can see it too.
