History Main / PurpleEyes

* Michiru from ''UtaKata'' has purple eyes, which [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow match her hair color]], adding to her mysterious aura.

** After she [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass enters the magical world]]]] Nodoka makes it clear she belongs in this trope as of chapter 280. [[spoiler:[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c280/03/ '"I am Nodoka Miyazaki, and from here I begin my counter attack."']]]] Bad ass.

** After she [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass enters the magical world]]]] Nodoka makes it clear she belongs in this trope as of chapter 280. [[spoiler:[[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/280/03/ '"I am Nodoka Miyazaki, and from here I begin my counter attack."']]]] Bad ass.

* Elizabeth Taylor, actress, activist. It has been suggested that they are "only dark blue" or some variation thereof, but people who have seen her attest quite firmly to their purple status.

* In ''Series/TinMan,'' the Queen's lavender eyes are her best-known feature. So much to the point that when the mystic man mentioned that [[spoiler: DG's mother]] had "lavender eyes," both Cain and Glitch are left with their jaws on the floor.

* Purple eyes in the GoldenSun series seem to be unique to [[BlowYouAway Jupiter]] [[ShockAndAwe adepts]]. Ivan, his sister Hama, and Karis all have them. Sheba consistantly has them in game, but they're consistantly [[GreenEyes green]] in official artwork. Their true color is a bit of an InternetBackdraft, especially now that Karis' parentage is being debated.

[[color:purple: '''Purple eyes''']], also known as "violet", "lavender" or "amethyst" are very, very rare in real life and in fiction generally mean that a character is very special and mysteriously {{Badass}}. Thus they are also a classic MarySue color but, you guessed it, not every purple eyed character is one.

* Jondalar in [[EarthsChildren Earth's Children]] has [[MarySue blue]] [[MarySue eyes]] [[MarySue that]] [[MarySue turn]] [[MarySue purple]] [[MarySue in]] [[MarySue firelight]].

Her ''{{Anne of Green Gables}}'' books have an in-universe example: Anne writes a story in which one of the [[MarySue ridiculously beautiful heroines]] has purple eyes; she says she never heard of anyone actually having them but wanted something out-of-the ordinary.

* Yugi from ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', as well as Malik Ishtar.
** And Yugi's Grandpa, ''and'' Mai Kujaku/Valentine. There are more purple-eyed people than brown-eyed in YuGiOh.

* How can anyone forget [[SailorMoon Sailor Mars]]?
** Which begs the question of how anyone can also forget Sailor ''Saturn''.

* Emily Starr by [[AnneOfGreenGables L.M. Montgomery]])in the cycle of ''Emily'' books has purplish-grey eyes and she's more than a little odd.

* Aurelia Cotta, mother of Caesar, is described in the MastersOfRome series as having not dark blue eyes but ''purple'' making her a 'living, breathing omen'. Like maybe the woman destined to be the mother of the greatest Roman of all time?

* ''{{Drowtales}}'' treats purple as common, if not the most common, natural drow eye color, and the 'tainted' have [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].

* [[{{Webcomic/Seekers}} Seekers]]' main character has vibrant purple eyes and [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]].
* Anyone evil has purple eyes in FakeNewsRumble.

* Gaz from InvaderZim has purple eyes. This counts as a BadAss example.

** Oddley enough, the toys of her had eyes of BLUE.

* In ''TransformersAnimated,'' Autobots tend to have blue eyes and Decepticons red. Neutrals tend to have yellow eyes, but Swindle, nominally a Decepticon, is willing to sell arms to the highest bidder, and both sides of the war have lined his pockets well. As such, he has purple eyes, perhaps to say that though he's involved in the war (unlike yellow-eyed characters) he has as much real loyalty to one side as the other - namely, none.
** Wasp(inator) from the same series started out with blue eyes, but they turned purple at some point after he was framed as a traitor. For the record, Derrick Wyatt mentioned on his formspring that he considers purple eyes the result of a 'programming change' of some kind. We may be missing something about Swindle...

** [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Klondike Kate]] had either violet or blue eyes, depending on who's describing her.
** Laura Ingalls Wilder is described in the Little House books as having purple eyes.
*** But the books were ''fictionalized'' accounts of her life - it's extremely likely that the purple eyes were just a product of wishful thinking.
*** They're usually described as more blue, like her father's. Almanzo seems to be the only one who thinks she's got violet eyes, but he also married her so he's a bit biased. (In any case, actual violets tend to be much more blue than the color Crayola calls violet.)

** Which begs the question of how anyone can also forget Sailor [["Saturn"]].

** Which begs the question of how anyone can also forget Sailor "Saturn".