Does Not Illustrate: Mismatched Eyes

Mismatched Eyes is for cases where a character has different colored eyes to indicate something special about them. It's not just any case of Heterochromia. So the current pic is actively misleading.

Tales of Graces would be a good illustration but it's a spoiler. Booo.

This guy?◊ His eyes are a sign of a Split Personality.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer

How does this not illustrate it? I thought the girl in that picture was smiling on the green side, and grim-looking on the red side?

If we do replace it, I would think a picture of Two Face would be good.

edited 11th Dec '12 11:08:15 AM by nman

? She definitely looks grim on both sides.

I think it's just a goofy smile...I'm not familar with that show so I could be wrong.

Also, just skimming the page, a ton of the examples need to be expanded to actually show relevance.

edited 11th Dec '12 1:11:39 PM by Willbyr

Her counterpart twin with inverse coloured eyes is also in the image. It's illustrating the trope, since in their case the heterochromia signifies how they belong together and contrast each other.

Keep.

Or switch with some other pic of those two. [1] [2]◊

edited 11th Dec '12 3:19:42 PM by AnotherDuck

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I vote keep.

Vote to remove.

There is no demonstration of the trope. Just somebody with mismatched eyes and a crooked smile.

Stop caring and embrace nullness.

Vote to keep, since, as argued by Another Duck, this really is a meaningful case of the trope.

Vote to switch with another image of the pair, preferably one like the suggestions in 6 that emphasizes their contrasting traits. Current is no good as you can barely see the guy in that pic.

edited 16th Dec '12 12:03:14 PM by tdgoodrich1

"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard Cohen

Which one in #6 emphasizes their contrasting traits? I'm not seeing it in either one.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

For me 6.1, 6.2 and current are so far-fetched that they almost certainly won't make people believe it's more than just heterochromia. Voting to pull unless someone can come up with an obvious qualifier beyond heterochromia.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Similar to something in 6, not either of those specifically. Not sure if something like that exists, however. I like the mirroring in 6.1 but it doesn't illustrate anything about the trope itself beyond a slight masculine vs. feminine contrast. If there is something that would illustrate the trope while keeping a similar visual motif, that would be ideal.

edited 16th Dec '12 12:48:09 PM by tdgoodrich1

"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard Cohen

There's also the dual nature inherent in twins.

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Wow, that is harsh.

However, whomever said that it's hard to identify two expressions on the same face is correct: The current image looks like she has a Slasher Smile.

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

It didn't look very slasher to me, personally.

Same here, it just looks like a weird smile to me.

It's a smile? It just looks like she's talking to me. It's pretty lopsided for a smile.

edited 19th Dec '12 11:51:12 PM by shimaspawn

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

I think a new image has to show that the mismatched eyes indicate something definitely abnormal. Wikus from District9 seemed like a decent example because it's obvious that he doesn't just have heterochromia.

Showing unmutated and mutated halves◊

Just the eyes.◊

Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.

^Both of these ought to show a bit more in the differences, and then it would work perfectly.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Found a better one (imho).

edited 20th Dec '12 12:50:41 AM by Scardoll

Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.

That or the first one in your previous post are good with me, unless they'd fit another trope better.

I prefer the old picture to the Wikus ones.

The old picture shows two characters that are physical mirror images of each other with the Mismatched Eyes being the clearest indicator of this. Obviously this aspect of their character design is done intentional and shows that something weird is going on. This is further punctuated with the duality of the two characters being shown by contrasting their clothing-styles (one feminine and the other masculine) and personalities (one up-front, sporting an Slasher Smile and the other in the back, looking reserved).

Apart from having a wonky eye the Wikus one shows nothing out of the ordinary going on. For all someone unfamiliar with Destrict9 would know he might only have an eye disease with no further significance. We rely on familiarity with the source to know that anything else is going on. Also it carries none of the duality subtext that is common with this trope (and the first picture shows).

That said the original picture is not ideal. The tomboy is pushed too far back and is only partly shown making her hard to notice. One of the pictures in #6 would be preferable, even if they don't show the contrasting personalities I still think they manage to show that the eyes are clearly that way for a specific reason.

edited 4th Jan '13 6:56:27 AM by painocus

Tsukiko (The Order of the Stick) has mismatched eyes, apparently signifying that she uses both divine and arcane magic. Would she work?

Only if we find an image that manages to show this connection.