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* ComicBook/{{Storm}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is often portrayed with eyes that are Silver/Icy Blue -- either constantly or only when she is using her powers to control the weather.
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* ComicBook/{{Storm}} ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is often portrayed with eyes that are Silver/Icy Blue -- either constantly or only when she is using her powers to control the weather.
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* Djaq from the BBC's RobinHood had large brown eyes, was a wise and stabilizing force in the outlaw camp, and had a [[PuppyDogEyes wounded puppy-dog look]] that could tear your heart out. Notable mainly because almost everyone else in the cast had Blue Eyes.
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* Djaq from the BBC's RobinHood Series/RobinHood had large brown eyes, was a wise and stabilizing force in the outlaw camp, and had a [[PuppyDogEyes wounded puppy-dog look]] that could tear your heart out. Notable mainly because almost everyone else in the cast had Blue Eyes.
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* Oliver Queen, a.k.a. ComicBook/GreenArrow, a modern-day RobinHood, has green eyes, which he has passed on, somewhat improbably, to both of his sons. Including the adopted one.
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* Oliver Queen, a.k.a. ComicBook/GreenArrow, a modern-day RobinHood, Myth/RobinHood, has green eyes, which he has passed on, somewhat improbably, to both of his sons. Including the adopted one.
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* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] is often shown with green eyes, especially in recent years, though in the past they've been red. Bruce Banner, on the other hand, is more often shown with brown or blue eyes, the change to green being the signal that [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry running might be]] a good idea.
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* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk]] Hulk is often shown with green eyes, especially in recent years, though in the past they've been red. Bruce Banner, on the other hand, is more often shown with brown or blue eyes, the change to green being the signal that [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry running might be]] a good idea.
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** With respect to different artists, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is often portrayed with green eyes (the shade varies) when a close-up of them is shown. This is going more with the "untrustworthy" and "spitfire" aspects of his personality, since he doesn't technically have any superpowers [[PowerBornOfMadness besides insanity]] (or sometimes, "super-sanity"). It could also be to match his hair color or to tie him into his chemical bath-based origin...
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** With respect to different artists, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker ComicBook/TheJoker is often portrayed with green eyes (the shade varies) when a close-up of them is shown. This is going more with the "untrustworthy" and "spitfire" aspects of his personality, since he doesn't technically have any superpowers [[PowerBornOfMadness besides insanity]] (or sometimes, "super-sanity"). It could also be to match his hair color or to tie him into his chemical bath-based origin...
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* In ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'', the leader of TheWildHunt is aptly-titled as the Hunter. His green eyes are frequently referred to as "cat's eyes" or catlike, alluding to both his literal job as a hunter and how [[TheFairFolk he loves to yank humans around for amusement.]] In an [[{{Grimmification}} extremely dark twist]] on the "green eyes = nature" connotation, it's revealed that he's the Horned Hunter of Myth/CelticMythology and [[AnthropomorphicPersonification a literal force of nature.]] The force he represents? ''[[NatureIsNotNice Predators.]]''
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* Lisa, in ''TheSimpsons'', has gray eyes. She is probably closest to mentor, though does tend to think herself smarter than everyone else. No one would ever know it from the pupil-less animation; we only know because Milhouse says her eyes match his gray safety belt.
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* Lisa, in ''TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', has gray eyes. She is probably closest to mentor, though does tend to think herself smarter than everyone else. No one would ever know it from the pupil-less animation; we only know because Milhouse says her eyes match his gray safety belt.
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* Esméralda from the Disney adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' possesses the positive, exotic qualities, and her name even means emerald.
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* Esméralda from the Disney adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' possesses the positive, exotic qualities, and her name even means emerald.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when the Beast is restored to his original human form, Belle does not recognize him until she looks into his deep blue eyes, the exact same shade they were while he was the Beast, and then recognizes him immediately. WordOfGod confirms that his eyes are specifically designed to tell viewers that there really is a fundamentally good man trapped inside his monstrous form.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when the Beast is restored to his original human form, Belle does not recognize him until she looks into his deep blue eyes, the exact same shade they were while he was the Beast, and then recognizes him immediately. WordOfGod confirms that his eyes are specifically designed to tell viewers that there really is a fundamentally good man trapped inside his monstrous form.
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* Scar from ''Disney/TheLionKing'', who was jealous of his brother's power, particularly after Simba was born, which ensured that he would never take the throne by reasonable means, had vivid green eyes to show his jealousy.
* Esméralda from the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' possesses the positive, exotic qualities, and her name even means emerald.
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* Scar from ''Disney/TheLionKing'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', who was jealous of his brother's power, particularly after Simba was born, which ensured that he would never take the throne by reasonable means, had vivid green eyes to show his jealousy.
* Esméralda from the Disney adaptation of''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' possesses the positive, exotic qualities, and her name even means emerald.
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* According to ''Disney/TheJungleBook2'', Shanti (the girl who led Mowgli back to the Man-village with her singing) has "big, brown eyes." This is possibly to show that she is the one who returns Mowgli to his roots, grounding him in the fact that he is human, and nothing can change that. Granted, none of the human characters in either movie appeared to have any color other than brown, so it was possibly just because of their race.
* Mother Gothel from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' was cold, manipulative and filled with steely determination to keep her youth and eternal life no matter what, and was given gray eyes to show this. Rapunzel, an earthy young woman who becomes a bit wild (at least for the time, and compared to what she was before) with her first taste of freedom, has green eyes, and also runs around barefoot.
* Mother Gothel from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' was cold, manipulative and filled with steely determination to keep her youth and eternal life no matter what, and was given gray eyes to show this. Rapunzel, an earthy young woman who becomes a bit wild (at least for the time, and compared to what she was before) with her first taste of freedom, has green eyes, and also runs around barefoot.
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* According to ''Disney/TheJungleBook2'', ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook2'', Shanti (the girl who led Mowgli back to the Man-village with her singing) has "big, brown eyes." This is possibly to show that she is the one who returns Mowgli to his roots, grounding him in the fact that he is human, and nothing can change that. Granted, none of the human characters in either movie appeared to have any color other than brown, so it was possibly just because of their race.
* Mother Gothel from''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' was cold, manipulative and filled with steely determination to keep her youth and eternal life no matter what, and was given gray eyes to show this. Rapunzel, an earthy young woman who becomes a bit wild (at least for the time, and compared to what she was before) with her first taste of freedom, has green eyes, and also runs around barefoot.
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** Draco and [[IncrediblyLamePun Luscious]] Malfoy both have gray eyes of the cold, steely variety.
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** Draco and [[IncrediblyLamePun Luscious]] Lucius Malfoy both have gray eyes of the cold, steely variety.
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* The protagonist of the children's novel ''The Girl With The Silver Eyes'' is telekinetic, and she and other children who received strange powers because of a medical experiment performed on their mothers all have this eye color.
* SherlockHolmes possesses Gray ( or 'steely') eyes of the piercing variety. His brother Mycroft's are of a "peculiarly light, watery gray".
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* The protagonist of the children's novel ''The Girl With The Silver Eyes'' ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheSilverEyes'' is telekinetic, and she and other children who received strange powers because of a medical experiment performed on their mothers all have this eye color.
*SherlockHolmes ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': The titular character possesses Gray ( or 'steely') eyes of the piercing variety. His brother Mycroft's are of a "peculiarly light, watery gray".
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* Among the many [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead green-eyed redheads]] from the Marvel universe, Mary Jane Watson from SpiderMan is given these to make her not only more attractive, but giving her a safely exotic yet still familiar girl-next-door flair.
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* Among the many [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead green-eyed redheads]] from the Marvel universe, Mary Jane Watson from SpiderMan ComicBook/SpiderMan is given these to make her not only more attractive, but giving her a safely exotic yet still familiar girl-next-door flair.
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* Since stoicism is the norm for heroes in the [[LordOfTheRings Tolkien]] universe, gray eyes (said to be a racial trait of, among others, the Noldor elves and the Númenóreans) take up a very large chunk of the Lord of the Rings good guy population. The fact that Tolkien's beloved wife Edith was gray-eyed is probably also pertinent.
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* Since stoicism is the norm for heroes in the [[LordOfTheRings [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Tolkien]] universe, gray eyes (said to be a racial trait of, among others, the Noldor elves and the Númenóreans) take up a very large chunk of the Lord of the Rings good guy population. The fact that Tolkien's beloved wife Edith was gray-eyed is probably also pertinent.
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* Loki, from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' was given artificially bright, almost glowing GreenEyes for the promotional posters, both to highlight his unpredictable mischievousness and to lampshade his [[GreenEyedMonster envy]] of Thor. In the actual film his eyes are blue.
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* Loki, from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' was given artificially bright, almost glowing GreenEyes green eyes for the promotional posters, both to highlight his unpredictable mischievousness and to lampshade his [[GreenEyedMonster envy]] of Thor. In the actual film his eyes are blue.
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* In a setting that is filled to the brim with blue, green and yellow eyes, the only two original characters that have brown eyes in the ''KingdomHearts'' series are Hayner and Pence, who are, fittingly, a pair of Ordinary High School Students.
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* In a setting that is filled to the brim with blue, green and yellow eyes, the only two original characters that have brown eyes in the ''KingdomHearts'' ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series are Hayner and Pence, who are, fittingly, a pair of Ordinary High School Students.
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* Train from ''Manga/BlackCat'' has yellow/gold eyes. In the anime, both [[DisposableWoman Saya]] and [[StalkerWithACrush Creed]] tell him repeatedly that his eyes are so beautiful. And they both [[EvenTheGuysWantHim fell for him]].
* Honey-senpai from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has light brown eyes, which not only helps him look even more innocent and childlike, but gives him heartbreakingly adorable [[PuppyEyes puppy-dog eyes]] when he chooses to wield them. However, don't make him mad, because those typically adorable eyes can also be TERRIFYING.
** Kyouya has gray eyes and considering he's the "Cool" type, it's fitting.
** And Tamaki, the Host King, has ''purple'' eyes. It's also very fitting for his personality.
* The gray-eyed, pupil-less Hyuuga family from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fit the seer — they can see a lot more than normal, including through matter or behind their backs. They have the unapproachable, "ideas above people" mentality of the second gray eye type. Neji Hyuuga, who was a hardened fatalist before his Warrior Therapist session with Naruto certainly fits. Hinata Hyuuga though, has the eyes but her personality is the absolute opposite.
* All Manga/{{Claymore}}s have silvery-gray eyes. In fact, their eye color is what most commonly gives them away when they go undercover. Needless to say they are mostly very stoic (except for [[PsychopathicManChild Psychopathic Woman Children]]).
* Both L and Near of Manga/DeathNote have gray eyes, though L is arguably a more apt example of this trope.
** However, it should be noted that L's eyes are only gray in the anime; they are black in the manga.
* Fakir from Princess Tutu has green eyes to match his hair. He definitely fits the "exotic and sexy" implication of the trope...[[spoiler:and he inherited Drosselmeyer's Rewriting Reality powers, so he fits the magical implications as well.]]
* Rina of ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' has these eyes while in mermaid form or her MagicalGirl form. In normal human form, she has Gray Eyes.
** By extension, all Green mermaids like her have these eyes, but they are just a racial trait, as mermaids are ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* Edward, Alphonse (when he's human), and Hohenheim of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' all have gold eyes. [[spoiler:This is an ethnic trait of the Xerxesian race, of which Hohenheim is the last full-blooded member; his sons, though only half-Xerxesian, inherited their coloring from him.]]
* Fai from Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle has blue eyes that are on the lighter side. He is early on shown to be a wind-type and his whistle is also a kind of wind-magic. He can also be associated with ice as he comes from a very, ''very'' cold, [[PhenotypeStereotype scandinavian looking]] world.
** Kurogane is a complete subversion of this trope as his eyes are red but he is neither evil nor associated with fire. He's actually the only one [[spoiler:[[OnlySaneMan completely there]] of the main cast ''and'' the only human member of the initial party who's not a spy]] and his element is ice.
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* ComicBook/{{Storm}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is often portrayed with eyes that are Silver/Icy Blue -- either constantly or only when she is using her powers to control the weather.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange from Creator/MarvelComics officially has gray eyes. They're often depicted as [[OccultBlueEyes blue]] or even green, however.
* Among the many [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead green-eyed redheads]] from the Marvel universe, Mary Jane Watson from SpiderMan is given these to make her not only more attractive, but giving her a safely exotic yet still familiar girl-next-door flair.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:
** ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has always had green eyes canonically, though she has been played by non-green-eyed actresses; she fits the concept, being mysterious as she is, and associated with cats, who sometimes have vivid green eyes.
** Poison Ivy usually boasts the typical green-eyed redhead combo, showing not only her exotic, mysterious beauty, but also her association with plants.
** With respect to different artists, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is often portrayed with green eyes (the shade varies) when a close-up of them is shown. This is going more with the "untrustworthy" and "spitfire" aspects of his personality, since he doesn't technically have any superpowers [[PowerBornOfMadness besides insanity]] (or sometimes, "super-sanity"). It could also be to match his hair color or to tie him into his chemical bath-based origin...
* Leetah from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' has green eyes. Also quite a few other elves, including the plant-shapers Redlance, Goodtree and Kaslen, fitting the "natural magic" bit.
* Oliver Queen, a.k.a. ComicBook/GreenArrow, a modern-day RobinHood, has green eyes, which he has passed on, somewhat improbably, to both of his sons. Including the adopted one.
* In the comics, it's revealed that Demona from Gargoyles has green eyes, reflecting her mysterious and exotic nature. (It was hard to tell in the animated series).
* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] is often shown with green eyes, especially in recent years, though in the past they've been red. Bruce Banner, on the other hand, is more often shown with brown or blue eyes, the change to green being the signal that [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry running might be]] a good idea.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when the Beast is restored to his original human form, Belle does not recognize him until she looks into his deep blue eyes, the exact same shade they were while he was the Beast, and then recognizes him immediately. WordOfGod confirms that his eyes are specifically designed to tell viewers that there really is a fundamentally good man trapped inside his monstrous form.
* [[MeanCharacterNiceActor Doctor Calico]], the villain of the ShowWithinAShow from Bolt has green, catlike eyes, and is often referred to as "The Green-Eyed Man".
* Scar from ''Disney/TheLionKing'', who was jealous of his brother's power, particularly after Simba was born, which ensured that he would never take the throne by reasonable means, had vivid green eyes to show his jealousy.
* Esméralda from the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' possesses the positive, exotic qualities, and her name even means emerald.
** She, despite being the film's heroine was actually also modeled after several female villains from earlier Disney films, who all have green eyes, so that she will actually be portrayed as being evil by Frollo, the film's real BigBad, while to the viewers, she's actually on the side of good. This is actually done to show the fact that she is hated by the villain because he thinks that she is evil even though she really isn't.
* According to ''Disney/TheJungleBook2'', Shanti (the girl who led Mowgli back to the Man-village with her singing) has "big, brown eyes." This is possibly to show that she is the one who returns Mowgli to his roots, grounding him in the fact that he is human, and nothing can change that. Granted, none of the human characters in either movie appeared to have any color other than brown, so it was possibly just because of their race.
* Mother Gothel from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' was cold, manipulative and filled with steely determination to keep her youth and eternal life no matter what, and was given gray eyes to show this. Rapunzel, an earthy young woman who becomes a bit wild (at least for the time, and compared to what she was before) with her first taste of freedom, has green eyes, and also runs around barefoot.
* Megamind, an alien from another world who is decidedly different, has bright green eyes to show how unique and unusual he is, though [[MyBrainIsBig it's hardly necessary]]. It also becomes a way of telling it's him when he's sometimes disguised.
* Aisling from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretofKells'' has green eyes, which fits the "magical" aspect of this trope since she's one of TheFairFolk. She's also something of a NatureSpirit, being fiercely protective of the forest outside Kells.
* The Mad Hatter, in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', has extremely bright green eyes, though they turn a disturbing reddish-gold when he's agitated. The Cheshire Cat also has unnervingly huge green eyes, both showing how wild the characters are.
* Loki, from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' was given artificially bright, almost glowing GreenEyes for the promotional posters, both to highlight his unpredictable mischievousness and to lampshade his [[GreenEyedMonster envy]] of Thor. In the actual film his eyes are blue.
* The eyes of a Sith from the Franchise/StarWars franchise turn yellow when closest to the dark side.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': The fact that Harry Potter and his red-haired mother Lily both have vivid green eyes is emphasized repeatedly. With [[ChekhovsGun good reason]].
** Albus Severus Potter, Harry's middle son, is described as the only one of his children to have inherited their grandmother's green eyes, completing a triple-GenerationXerox.
** Hermione Granger has brown eyes, showing that she is one of, if not ''the'' most down-to-earth character in the series, grounding the rest of her group and often being the mediator between Ron and Harry's scuffles.
** Ginny, Ron's little sister and Harry's LoveInterest. She is the only romantic interest Harry has had who has been a solid, consistent and lasting presence in his life.
** Luna Lovegood has protruding silver eyes, probably meant to be reminiscent of a full moon (hence lunacy), although Fanon often makes them silvery blue.
** Draco and [[IncrediblyLamePun Luscious]] Malfoy both have gray eyes of the cold, steely variety.
* Discworld's Tiffany Aching and Agnes Nitt are both sensible and brown-eyed.
** Something of a subversion in that sensible, down-to-earth people often make for talented witches such as Agnes and Tiffany.
*** In one of the early books, Pratchett states that Lancrastrians, emigres often becoming very successful witches and wizards among other things, are very down to earth, saying that only those who are firmly grounded can build castles in the sky. One could say this reflects magical power, until you realize that Granny Weatherwax has blue eyes. Though this could have something to do with the fact that she tends to ignore expectations.
* Since stoicism is the norm for heroes in the [[LordOfTheRings Tolkien]] universe, gray eyes (said to be a racial trait of, among others, the Noldor elves and the Númenóreans) take up a very large chunk of the Lord of the Rings good guy population. The fact that Tolkien's beloved wife Edith was gray-eyed is probably also pertinent.
* The protagonist of the children's novel ''The Girl With The Silver Eyes'' is telekinetic, and she and other children who received strange powers because of a medical experiment performed on their mothers all have this eye color.
* SherlockHolmes possesses Gray ( or 'steely') eyes of the piercing variety. His brother Mycroft's are of a "peculiarly light, watery gray".
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Gray eyes are a genetic trait of the Stark family line, reflecting their stoic nature and the [[GrimUpNorth harder life]] up in the North. Ned Stark and his [[HeroicBastard illegitimate]] son Jon's eyes are frequently focused on. Jon and Arya are the only two kids out of the six Stark children to have inherited the Stark look -- including the eyes -- and Arya is the only one of Catelyn's children not to inherit the blue-eyed Tully look, as Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon have.
** Purple eyes were common in Valyria, and characters that have them (particularly the Targaryen dynasty) can usually trace their lineage back to Valyrian ancestry. They are associated with the dragon-affinity and occasional prophetic powers of the Targaryens.
* Gregori from the Dark series is a healer with an unapproachable personality and the ideas-above-people mentality. A great deal is made about his silvery eyes.
** Incidentally, Xavier, the main villain of the series, shares the eye color. It is implied that silver eyes are a consequence of experimenting with darker or forbidden forms of magic.
* The elves in the ''Literature/{{Bordertown}}'' Shared Universe all have silver eyes, and nearly all of them are relatively cold and intellectual.
* The Herons (Geoffrey, Christopher, and Cecily) have gray eyes and "tawny-yellow" hair in Elizabeth Marie Pope's ''Literature/ThePerilousGard''. Geoffrey's are described as "level and rather forbidding", and he is described several times as resembling granite and steel in character. Christopher eventually reveals himself to possess a warmer, rather impulsive, nature, but he too is cold and remote when the protagonist Kate first meets him.
* The Haldane kings in the Deryni novels all have gray eyes.
** Not just the kings. Prince Nigel (Heir Presumptive and frequent Regent), his sons, even cousin (and Queen by marriage) Araxie. In Conall's case, the cold and strong-willed aspects of his character could be signaled by this.
*** Also, Alaric Morgan has gray eyes and blond hair. He does serve as a mentor for Kelson, and he's actually innocent of the evil motives (and most of the deeds) ascribed to him. Danger and ruthlessness also factor into it, however, since he actively cultivates a dangerous reputation, and he has plenty of martial and magical skills to back it up. To top it all off, he's a devoted servant of the House of Haldane, so having the same colour eyes serves to point up that association.
* Senna Wales of the Everworld series. Solidly type 2 eyes, "the color of rainclouds" and a personality to match. Her mother, who briefly appears in the ninth book, also has gray eyes, but doesn't really fit any of the personalities associated with it.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan has gray eyes, of the storm/sea variety, foreshadowing her soon to be infamous temper. In her later years, she becomes renowned for her strength and calm, not to mention her marriage to a man named for a sea (Aral Vorkosigan).
-->'''"Look at her eyes. A man could drown in those sea-gray eyes."''' (Aral, in Barrayar)
* Polgara of ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' books tends to have gray eyes (that can change to blue with her mood). She certainly fits the first example of someone wise beyond their years (though she's 3000 years old), and when they're "steel gray", it usually means she's determined enough to fit the second type...not to mention royally pissed off.
* In Creator/PeterSBeagle's novel ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', Schmendrick the Magician is often mentioned as having green eyes, covering the magical aspect of his character.
* Percy from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has sea-green eyes, because he is the son of the sea god Poseidon.
** In similar fashion, Annabeth has the same storm grey eyes as her mother, Athena.
* In Creator/DevonMonk's ''Literature/DeadIron'', Wil's eyes are still copper even in wolf form. The precise color is not so significant as what it shows about Wil's ability to keep his human mind in wolf form.
* In ''Literature/TheChildrenOfMan'', a person's eye color indicates which of the six color magics he can access. Yellow mages have gold eyes, purple mages purple eyes, green mages have green eyes, etc. The most powerful mages, those who can use multiple colors, have brown eyes. And then there are Grays, whose magic has been stripped of its color by making a HeelFaceTurn, and who are forever marked by their reflective silver eyes.
* This is the basis for [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual Oculary]] in the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries''. The eyes are the windows to the soul, so Lenses either affect what's going in (Things like Truthfinder's Lenses, Tracker's Lenses, or the mythic Translator's Lenses) or what's coming out (Firebringer's Lenses, Bestower's Lenses, Windstormer's Lenses, etc).
* After swearing the Third Ideal in ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', Kaladin discovers that his eyes turn from dark brown to sky-blue (the color of the Windrunners), whenever he uses his Surgebindings or summons his Shardblade. At the level of the Third Ideal, his eyes turn back to their original color after a few hours, but it's implied that by the time you swear the Fifth Ideal, the change has become permanent (it's speculated that the lighteyes rule humanity because they're descended from the Lost Radiants).
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* In a subversion, River Tam of Firefly has brown eyes, which typically display stability, when River is anything ''but'' stable -- mentally or emotionally.
* Djaq from the BBC's RobinHood had large brown eyes, was a wise and stabilizing force in the outlaw camp, and had a [[PuppyDogEyes wounded puppy-dog look]] that could tear your heart out. Notable mainly because almost everyone else in the cast had Blue Eyes.
* Glitch of [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]]'s Tin Man has big brown eyes. They're a sign of his trustworthiness and bravery, since he's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} anything]] [[MeaningfulName but]] [[GeniusDitz stable]].
* Lucas Wolenczak of Series/SeaQuestDSV is an oceanography and computer genius who has a connection to dolphins and has lived most of his life at sea. Naturally, they went to great length to show off his shocking sea-blue eyes.
* Neil and Mike of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' both have brown eyes. Out of the four flatmates, their personalities are the most low-key and down-to-earth — well, as down-to-earth as you can get on the show — and contrast wildly with those of the noticeably younger, HotBlooded Rick and Vyvyan (who both have blue eyes).
* Hurley of Lost has brown eyes and is one of the most stable of the Losties. Jack, the physician and leader, also has brown eyes.
* Niles Crane on Frasier in contrast to his brother's Blue Eyes — while he is more rigid, neurotic, and fussy than Frasier, he is more down-to-earth and practical, (not to mention Woobieish), and often plays StraightMan to his brother's overblown, self-deluding shenanigans.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the two Winchester brothers, who are humans and represent earth, have green eyes and brown eyes, while Castiel and many other angels have blue eyes. Demons can have black, red, or yellow eyes, depending on their roles.
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* Athena, the [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek goddess of wisdom]], has gray eyes. A frequent epithet in Homer's The Odyssey even refers to her as the "gray-eyed goddess".
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', Commander Miranda Keyes from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Halo 3}} 3]]'' has gray eyes as well, and is portrayed as being extremely calm and controlled.
* In a setting that is filled to the brim with blue, green and yellow eyes, the only two original characters that have brown eyes in the ''KingdomHearts'' series are Hayner and Pence, who are, fittingly, a pair of Ordinary High School Students.
* Silver from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' has gray eyes as of the remakes. It both makes him have a MeaningfulName and alludes to his cold personality.
* Most of the cast of the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' games have relatively small, dark eyes. Flora, however, has ''huge'' saucer-like deep brown eyes, which just serve to further remind the player that she's the resident personification of sweetness and innocence.
* Cream the Rabbit from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has big brown eyes, most likely to show how innocent she is amongst her admittedly violent surroundings.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': In one of many, ''many'' associations with the water-element, Tidus has deep blue eyes. Yuna has a green eye and a blue one, and suffers quite the identity crisis half-way through the game. The most [[TheStoic mentally stable]] and [[OnlySaneMan down to earth]] party members -- Auron and Lulu -- have deep brown eyes.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'':
** Members of the Val'Beldrobbaen clan often have gray eyes. They have a goth-like attitude.
** The "to the soul" part is literally true of [[RedEyesTakeWarning tainted]] characters, since it shows that they've merged their aura with a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent nether being]], willingly or unwillingly.
* The Regional Fairies who become humans in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' have gray eyes as a sign of their origin. They're strong-willed, but hardly cold or unapproachable (and certainly not stoic), varying in their personalities between smiling tricksters and borderline-psychotic Tsunderes.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Caliborn states that after he curses [[CreepyDoll the puppet Lil' Cal]], gazing into its eyes will allow those he deems worthy to see into his soul.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Apollo, Artemis, and Athena in ''Literature/ThaliasMusings'' all have silver eyes. Apollo is a prophecy god, his twin sister Artemis is a deadly huntress and a sworn virgin, and Athena, also a virgin, is the Goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': When UsefulNotes/JosefStalin raps against UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}}, who has the reputation of hypnotizing people and seeing their souls through the eyes, Stalin challenges him to do so:
-->''Look into my eyes you perverted witch.''
-->''See the soul of the man who made Mother Russia his bitch.''
* In ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'', the leader of TheWildHunt is aptly-titled as the Hunter. His green eyes are frequently referred to as "cat's eyes" or catlike, alluding to both his literal job as a hunter and how [[TheFairFolk he loves to yank humans around for amusement.]] In an [[{{Grimmification}} extremely dark twist]] on the "green eyes = nature" connotation, it's revealed that he's the Horned Hunter of Myth/CelticMythology and [[AnthropomorphicPersonification a literal force of nature.]] The force he represents? ''[[NatureIsNotNice Predators.]]''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', there are numerous examples:
** Katara and most other Waterbenders or members of the Water Tribe have deep blue eyes.
** Most Earthbenders or members of the Earth Nation have either green or brown eyes.
** Firebenders or members of the Fire Nation usually have gold eyes.
** Though we didn't see many airbenders in the series (what with them all being dead) they appear to have typically had gray or light blue eyes, as Aang had gray eyes.
* Lisa, in ''TheSimpsons'', has gray eyes. She is probably closest to mentor, though does tend to think herself smarter than everyone else. No one would ever know it from the pupil-less animation; we only know because Milhouse says her eyes match his gray safety belt.
** Marge's eyes are revealed to be hazel; a lot of episodes focused on her revolve around some sort of identity crisis stemming from feeling unfulfilled or unappreciated. She also borrows cues associated with both brown and green eyes; she's (usually) the most [[OnlySaneMan emotionally grounded in the family]], but she has moments when she veers into exotic and wild behaviors (generally during one of the aforementioned identity crises).
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] has soft blue-green eyes, probably indicating her connection with nature and healing, as well as her innocence and gentleness, while Twilight and the Great and Powerful Trixie have purple eyes, Twilight being the embodiment of the Element of Magic itself, Trixie's sole talents appearing to be magical in nature, the color thus showing their far more magical nature among all the other ponies.
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* Train from ''Manga/BlackCat'' has yellow/gold eyes. In the anime, both [[DisposableWoman Saya]] and [[StalkerWithACrush Creed]] tell him repeatedly that his eyes are so beautiful. And they both [[EvenTheGuysWantHim fell for him]].
* Honey-senpai from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has light brown eyes, which not only helps him look even more innocent and childlike, but gives him heartbreakingly adorable [[PuppyEyes puppy-dog eyes]] when he chooses to wield them. However, don't make him mad, because those typically adorable eyes can also be TERRIFYING.
** Kyouya has gray eyes and considering he's the "Cool" type, it's fitting.
** And Tamaki, the Host King, has ''purple'' eyes. It's also very fitting for his personality.
* The gray-eyed, pupil-less Hyuuga family from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fit the seer — they can see a lot more than normal, including through matter or behind their backs. They have the unapproachable, "ideas above people" mentality of the second gray eye type. Neji Hyuuga, who was a hardened fatalist before his Warrior Therapist session with Naruto certainly fits. Hinata Hyuuga though, has the eyes but her personality is the absolute opposite.
* All Manga/{{Claymore}}s have silvery-gray eyes. In fact, their eye color is what most commonly gives them away when they go undercover. Needless to say they are mostly very stoic (except for [[PsychopathicManChild Psychopathic Woman Children]]).
* Both L and Near of Manga/DeathNote have gray eyes, though L is arguably a more apt example of this trope.
** However, it should be noted that L's eyes are only gray in the anime; they are black in the manga.
* Fakir from Princess Tutu has green eyes to match his hair. He definitely fits the "exotic and sexy" implication of the trope...[[spoiler:and he inherited Drosselmeyer's Rewriting Reality powers, so he fits the magical implications as well.]]
* Rina of ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' has these eyes while in mermaid form or her MagicalGirl form. In normal human form, she has Gray Eyes.
** By extension, all Green mermaids like her have these eyes, but they are just a racial trait, as mermaids are ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* Edward, Alphonse (when he's human), and Hohenheim of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' all have gold eyes. [[spoiler:This is an ethnic trait of the Xerxesian race, of which Hohenheim is the last full-blooded member; his sons, though only half-Xerxesian, inherited their coloring from him.]]
* Fai from Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle has blue eyes that are on the lighter side. He is early on shown to be a wind-type and his whistle is also a kind of wind-magic. He can also be associated with ice as he comes from a very, ''very'' cold, [[PhenotypeStereotype scandinavian looking]] world.
** Kurogane is a complete subversion of this trope as his eyes are red but he is neither evil nor associated with fire. He's actually the only one [[spoiler:[[OnlySaneMan completely there]] of the main cast ''and'' the only human member of the initial party who's not a spy]] and his element is ice.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ComicBook/{{Storm}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is often portrayed with eyes that are Silver/Icy Blue -- either constantly or only when she is using her powers to control the weather.
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange from Creator/MarvelComics officially has gray eyes. They're often depicted as [[OccultBlueEyes blue]] or even green, however.
* Among the many [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead green-eyed redheads]] from the Marvel universe, Mary Jane Watson from SpiderMan is given these to make her not only more attractive, but giving her a safely exotic yet still familiar girl-next-door flair.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}:
** ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has always had green eyes canonically, though she has been played by non-green-eyed actresses; she fits the concept, being mysterious as she is, and associated with cats, who sometimes have vivid green eyes.
** Poison Ivy usually boasts the typical green-eyed redhead combo, showing not only her exotic, mysterious beauty, but also her association with plants.
** With respect to different artists, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker is often portrayed with green eyes (the shade varies) when a close-up of them is shown. This is going more with the "untrustworthy" and "spitfire" aspects of his personality, since he doesn't technically have any superpowers [[PowerBornOfMadness besides insanity]] (or sometimes, "super-sanity"). It could also be to match his hair color or to tie him into his chemical bath-based origin...
* Leetah from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' has green eyes. Also quite a few other elves, including the plant-shapers Redlance, Goodtree and Kaslen, fitting the "natural magic" bit.
* Oliver Queen, a.k.a. ComicBook/GreenArrow, a modern-day RobinHood, has green eyes, which he has passed on, somewhat improbably, to both of his sons. Including the adopted one.
* In the comics, it's revealed that Demona from Gargoyles has green eyes, reflecting her mysterious and exotic nature. (It was hard to tell in the animated series).
* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] is often shown with green eyes, especially in recent years, though in the past they've been red. Bruce Banner, on the other hand, is more often shown with brown or blue eyes, the change to green being the signal that [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry running might be]] a good idea.
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[[folder:Film]]
* In Disney's ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when the Beast is restored to his original human form, Belle does not recognize him until she looks into his deep blue eyes, the exact same shade they were while he was the Beast, and then recognizes him immediately. WordOfGod confirms that his eyes are specifically designed to tell viewers that there really is a fundamentally good man trapped inside his monstrous form.
* [[MeanCharacterNiceActor Doctor Calico]], the villain of the ShowWithinAShow from Bolt has green, catlike eyes, and is often referred to as "The Green-Eyed Man".
* Scar from ''Disney/TheLionKing'', who was jealous of his brother's power, particularly after Simba was born, which ensured that he would never take the throne by reasonable means, had vivid green eyes to show his jealousy.
* Esméralda from the Disney adaptation of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' possesses the positive, exotic qualities, and her name even means emerald.
** She, despite being the film's heroine was actually also modeled after several female villains from earlier Disney films, who all have green eyes, so that she will actually be portrayed as being evil by Frollo, the film's real BigBad, while to the viewers, she's actually on the side of good. This is actually done to show the fact that she is hated by the villain because he thinks that she is evil even though she really isn't.
* According to ''Disney/TheJungleBook2'', Shanti (the girl who led Mowgli back to the Man-village with her singing) has "big, brown eyes." This is possibly to show that she is the one who returns Mowgli to his roots, grounding him in the fact that he is human, and nothing can change that. Granted, none of the human characters in either movie appeared to have any color other than brown, so it was possibly just because of their race.
* Mother Gothel from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' was cold, manipulative and filled with steely determination to keep her youth and eternal life no matter what, and was given gray eyes to show this. Rapunzel, an earthy young woman who becomes a bit wild (at least for the time, and compared to what she was before) with her first taste of freedom, has green eyes, and also runs around barefoot.
* Megamind, an alien from another world who is decidedly different, has bright green eyes to show how unique and unusual he is, though [[MyBrainIsBig it's hardly necessary]]. It also becomes a way of telling it's him when he's sometimes disguised.
* Aisling from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretofKells'' has green eyes, which fits the "magical" aspect of this trope since she's one of TheFairFolk. She's also something of a NatureSpirit, being fiercely protective of the forest outside Kells.
* The Mad Hatter, in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', has extremely bright green eyes, though they turn a disturbing reddish-gold when he's agitated. The Cheshire Cat also has unnervingly huge green eyes, both showing how wild the characters are.
* Loki, from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' was given artificially bright, almost glowing GreenEyes for the promotional posters, both to highlight his unpredictable mischievousness and to lampshade his [[GreenEyedMonster envy]] of Thor. In the actual film his eyes are blue.
* The eyes of a Sith from the Franchise/StarWars franchise turn yellow when closest to the dark side.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': The fact that Harry Potter and his red-haired mother Lily both have vivid green eyes is emphasized repeatedly. With [[ChekhovsGun good reason]].
** Albus Severus Potter, Harry's middle son, is described as the only one of his children to have inherited their grandmother's green eyes, completing a triple-GenerationXerox.
** Hermione Granger has brown eyes, showing that she is one of, if not ''the'' most down-to-earth character in the series, grounding the rest of her group and often being the mediator between Ron and Harry's scuffles.
** Ginny, Ron's little sister and Harry's LoveInterest. She is the only romantic interest Harry has had who has been a solid, consistent and lasting presence in his life.
** Luna Lovegood has protruding silver eyes, probably meant to be reminiscent of a full moon (hence lunacy), although Fanon often makes them silvery blue.
** Draco and [[IncrediblyLamePun Luscious]] Malfoy both have gray eyes of the cold, steely variety.
* Discworld's Tiffany Aching and Agnes Nitt are both sensible and brown-eyed.
** Something of a subversion in that sensible, down-to-earth people often make for talented witches such as Agnes and Tiffany.
*** In one of the early books, Pratchett states that Lancrastrians, emigres often becoming very successful witches and wizards among other things, are very down to earth, saying that only those who are firmly grounded can build castles in the sky. One could say this reflects magical power, until you realize that Granny Weatherwax has blue eyes. Though this could have something to do with the fact that she tends to ignore expectations.
* Since stoicism is the norm for heroes in the [[LordOfTheRings Tolkien]] universe, gray eyes (said to be a racial trait of, among others, the Noldor elves and the Númenóreans) take up a very large chunk of the Lord of the Rings good guy population. The fact that Tolkien's beloved wife Edith was gray-eyed is probably also pertinent.
* The protagonist of the children's novel ''The Girl With The Silver Eyes'' is telekinetic, and she and other children who received strange powers because of a medical experiment performed on their mothers all have this eye color.
* SherlockHolmes possesses Gray ( or 'steely') eyes of the piercing variety. His brother Mycroft's are of a "peculiarly light, watery gray".
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Gray eyes are a genetic trait of the Stark family line, reflecting their stoic nature and the [[GrimUpNorth harder life]] up in the North. Ned Stark and his [[HeroicBastard illegitimate]] son Jon's eyes are frequently focused on. Jon and Arya are the only two kids out of the six Stark children to have inherited the Stark look -- including the eyes -- and Arya is the only one of Catelyn's children not to inherit the blue-eyed Tully look, as Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon have.
** Purple eyes were common in Valyria, and characters that have them (particularly the Targaryen dynasty) can usually trace their lineage back to Valyrian ancestry. They are associated with the dragon-affinity and occasional prophetic powers of the Targaryens.
* Gregori from the Dark series is a healer with an unapproachable personality and the ideas-above-people mentality. A great deal is made about his silvery eyes.
** Incidentally, Xavier, the main villain of the series, shares the eye color. It is implied that silver eyes are a consequence of experimenting with darker or forbidden forms of magic.
* The elves in the ''Literature/{{Bordertown}}'' Shared Universe all have silver eyes, and nearly all of them are relatively cold and intellectual.
* The Herons (Geoffrey, Christopher, and Cecily) have gray eyes and "tawny-yellow" hair in Elizabeth Marie Pope's ''Literature/ThePerilousGard''. Geoffrey's are described as "level and rather forbidding", and he is described several times as resembling granite and steel in character. Christopher eventually reveals himself to possess a warmer, rather impulsive, nature, but he too is cold and remote when the protagonist Kate first meets him.
* The Haldane kings in the Deryni novels all have gray eyes.
** Not just the kings. Prince Nigel (Heir Presumptive and frequent Regent), his sons, even cousin (and Queen by marriage) Araxie. In Conall's case, the cold and strong-willed aspects of his character could be signaled by this.
*** Also, Alaric Morgan has gray eyes and blond hair. He does serve as a mentor for Kelson, and he's actually innocent of the evil motives (and most of the deeds) ascribed to him. Danger and ruthlessness also factor into it, however, since he actively cultivates a dangerous reputation, and he has plenty of martial and magical skills to back it up. To top it all off, he's a devoted servant of the House of Haldane, so having the same colour eyes serves to point up that association.
* Senna Wales of the Everworld series. Solidly type 2 eyes, "the color of rainclouds" and a personality to match. Her mother, who briefly appears in the ninth book, also has gray eyes, but doesn't really fit any of the personalities associated with it.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan has gray eyes, of the storm/sea variety, foreshadowing her soon to be infamous temper. In her later years, she becomes renowned for her strength and calm, not to mention her marriage to a man named for a sea (Aral Vorkosigan).
-->'''"Look at her eyes. A man could drown in those sea-gray eyes."''' (Aral, in Barrayar)
* Polgara of ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' books tends to have gray eyes (that can change to blue with her mood). She certainly fits the first example of someone wise beyond their years (though she's 3000 years old), and when they're "steel gray", it usually means she's determined enough to fit the second type...not to mention royally pissed off.
* In Creator/PeterSBeagle's novel ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', Schmendrick the Magician is often mentioned as having green eyes, covering the magical aspect of his character.
* Percy from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has sea-green eyes, because he is the son of the sea god Poseidon.
** In similar fashion, Annabeth has the same storm grey eyes as her mother, Athena.
* In Creator/DevonMonk's ''Literature/DeadIron'', Wil's eyes are still copper even in wolf form. The precise color is not so significant as what it shows about Wil's ability to keep his human mind in wolf form.
* In ''Literature/TheChildrenOfMan'', a person's eye color indicates which of the six color magics he can access. Yellow mages have gold eyes, purple mages purple eyes, green mages have green eyes, etc. The most powerful mages, those who can use multiple colors, have brown eyes. And then there are Grays, whose magic has been stripped of its color by making a HeelFaceTurn, and who are forever marked by their reflective silver eyes.
* This is the basis for [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual Oculary]] in the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries''. The eyes are the windows to the soul, so Lenses either affect what's going in (Things like Truthfinder's Lenses, Tracker's Lenses, or the mythic Translator's Lenses) or what's coming out (Firebringer's Lenses, Bestower's Lenses, Windstormer's Lenses, etc).
* After swearing the Third Ideal in ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', Kaladin discovers that his eyes turn from dark brown to sky-blue (the color of the Windrunners), whenever he uses his Surgebindings or summons his Shardblade. At the level of the Third Ideal, his eyes turn back to their original color after a few hours, but it's implied that by the time you swear the Fifth Ideal, the change has become permanent (it's speculated that the lighteyes rule humanity because they're descended from the Lost Radiants).
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In a subversion, River Tam of Firefly has brown eyes, which typically display stability, when River is anything ''but'' stable -- mentally or emotionally.
* Djaq from the BBC's RobinHood had large brown eyes, was a wise and stabilizing force in the outlaw camp, and had a [[PuppyDogEyes wounded puppy-dog look]] that could tear your heart out. Notable mainly because almost everyone else in the cast had Blue Eyes.
* Glitch of [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]]'s Tin Man has big brown eyes. They're a sign of his trustworthiness and bravery, since he's [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} anything]] [[MeaningfulName but]] [[GeniusDitz stable]].
* Lucas Wolenczak of Series/SeaQuestDSV is an oceanography and computer genius who has a connection to dolphins and has lived most of his life at sea. Naturally, they went to great length to show off his shocking sea-blue eyes.
* Neil and Mike of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' both have brown eyes. Out of the four flatmates, their personalities are the most low-key and down-to-earth — well, as down-to-earth as you can get on the show — and contrast wildly with those of the noticeably younger, HotBlooded Rick and Vyvyan (who both have blue eyes).
* Hurley of Lost has brown eyes and is one of the most stable of the Losties. Jack, the physician and leader, also has brown eyes.
* Niles Crane on Frasier in contrast to his brother's Blue Eyes — while he is more rigid, neurotic, and fussy than Frasier, he is more down-to-earth and practical, (not to mention Woobieish), and often plays StraightMan to his brother's overblown, self-deluding shenanigans.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the two Winchester brothers, who are humans and represent earth, have green eyes and brown eyes, while Castiel and many other angels have blue eyes. Demons can have black, red, or yellow eyes, depending on their roles.
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* Athena, the [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek goddess of wisdom]], has gray eyes. A frequent epithet in Homer's The Odyssey even refers to her as the "gray-eyed goddess".
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', Commander Miranda Keyes from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Halo 3}} 3]]'' has gray eyes as well, and is portrayed as being extremely calm and controlled.
* In a setting that is filled to the brim with blue, green and yellow eyes, the only two original characters that have brown eyes in the ''KingdomHearts'' series are Hayner and Pence, who are, fittingly, a pair of Ordinary High School Students.
* Silver from ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' has gray eyes as of the remakes. It both makes him have a MeaningfulName and alludes to his cold personality.
* Most of the cast of the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' games have relatively small, dark eyes. Flora, however, has ''huge'' saucer-like deep brown eyes, which just serve to further remind the player that she's the resident personification of sweetness and innocence.
* Cream the Rabbit from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has big brown eyes, most likely to show how innocent she is amongst her admittedly violent surroundings.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': In one of many, ''many'' associations with the water-element, Tidus has deep blue eyes. Yuna has a green eye and a blue one, and suffers quite the identity crisis half-way through the game. The most [[TheStoic mentally stable]] and [[OnlySaneMan down to earth]] party members -- Auron and Lulu -- have deep brown eyes.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'':
** Members of the Val'Beldrobbaen clan often have gray eyes. They have a goth-like attitude.
** The "to the soul" part is literally true of [[RedEyesTakeWarning tainted]] characters, since it shows that they've merged their aura with a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent nether being]], willingly or unwillingly.
* The Regional Fairies who become humans in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' have gray eyes as a sign of their origin. They're strong-willed, but hardly cold or unapproachable (and certainly not stoic), varying in their personalities between smiling tricksters and borderline-psychotic Tsunderes.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Caliborn states that after he curses [[CreepyDoll the puppet Lil' Cal]], gazing into its eyes will allow those he deems worthy to see into his soul.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Apollo, Artemis, and Athena in ''Literature/ThaliasMusings'' all have silver eyes. Apollo is a prophecy god, his twin sister Artemis is a deadly huntress and a sworn virgin, and Athena, also a virgin, is the Goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': When UsefulNotes/JosefStalin raps against UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}}, who has the reputation of hypnotizing people and seeing their souls through the eyes, Stalin challenges him to do so:
-->''Look into my eyes you perverted witch.''
-->''See the soul of the man who made Mother Russia his bitch.''
* In ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'', the leader of TheWildHunt is aptly-titled as the Hunter. His green eyes are frequently referred to as "cat's eyes" or catlike, alluding to both his literal job as a hunter and how [[TheFairFolk he loves to yank humans around for amusement.]] In an [[{{Grimmification}} extremely dark twist]] on the "green eyes = nature" connotation, it's revealed that he's the Horned Hunter of Myth/CelticMythology and [[AnthropomorphicPersonification a literal force of nature.]] The force he represents? ''[[NatureIsNotNice Predators.]]''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', there are numerous examples:
** Katara and most other Waterbenders or members of the Water Tribe have deep blue eyes.
** Most Earthbenders or members of the Earth Nation have either green or brown eyes.
** Firebenders or members of the Fire Nation usually have gold eyes.
** Though we didn't see many airbenders in the series (what with them all being dead) they appear to have typically had gray or light blue eyes, as Aang had gray eyes.
* Lisa, in ''TheSimpsons'', has gray eyes. She is probably closest to mentor, though does tend to think herself smarter than everyone else. No one would ever know it from the pupil-less animation; we only know because Milhouse says her eyes match his gray safety belt.
** Marge's eyes are revealed to be hazel; a lot of episodes focused on her revolve around some sort of identity crisis stemming from feeling unfulfilled or unappreciated. She also borrows cues associated with both brown and green eyes; she's (usually) the most [[OnlySaneMan emotionally grounded in the family]], but she has moments when she veers into exotic and wild behaviors (generally during one of the aforementioned identity crises).
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] has soft blue-green eyes, probably indicating her connection with nature and healing, as well as her innocence and gentleness, while Twilight and the Great and Powerful Trixie have purple eyes, Twilight being the embodiment of the Element of Magic itself, Trixie's sole talents appearing to be magical in nature, the color thus showing their far more magical nature among all the other ponies.
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