Ambiguous Name: Kaleidoscope Eyes

Deadlock Clock: Sep 23rd 2018 at 11:59:00 PM

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#1: Apr 14th 2017 at 12:21:42 PM

The name does not fit the idea that eye colors change from emotions, unlike its redirect, Mood Ring Eyes does, as said on Kaleidoscope Eyes v. Eye Color Change

The page picture says:

Hi Serenity! Welcome to Sparklypoo!

Weren’t your eyes violet?

They change color.

Neat! So do mine! Mine too!

The Laconic says "Character's eye color changes according to mood."

When it was a YKTTW, it was actually nuked, at some point.

I propose a change to Mood Ring Eyes.

It currently has 300 wicks.

~50/~ 130 entries are wrong

Airosian eyes in The Peace Keeper Force are limited to shades of blue, but they do shift from almost-white blue to almost-black blue, sometimes in the span of a single panel, and with all the shades inbetween.
One of the first signs of a mutant manifesting in the Whateley Universe is their eye color changing to something unusual, like amber, red or violet — but only the one time, then it becomes permanent. Being a Superhero series, however, there's also other variants of this trope in effect with some of the characters.
Cherry, one of the Renfields in Bloody Urban has eyes that can be blue, brown, one of each, or both at the same time at any given time.
Magnus's remaining eye is a different color every time it's mentioned in A Thousand Sons.
Somewhere between Golden Sun's character concept art and the game sprites, someone forgot what color Sheba's eyes are supposed to be—they're green in the art but purple in-game.
I-No from Guilty Gear is said to have eyes that change their color depending on the angle you're looking at them, but it's never been fully implemented until Xrd. (Prior artwork depicted her with green eyes or, less commonly, blue.)
Lightning of Final Fantasy XIII has eyes that, as mentioned at the bottom of the trope description, don't actually change colour but appear either pale blue or green depending on the lighting conditions. Some players have even spotted her appearing to have heterochromia, and inconsistent official artwork certainly doesn't help the matter.
In StarCraft II, the various Adjutants have color-changing eyes, but they are usually blue. Confederate Adjutant 23-46 changes its eye colors to reflect different individuals during its playback — Edmond Duke, Sarah Kerrigan, Jim Raynor, and Arcturus Mengsk.
Pottersues, a LiveJournal community dedicated to snarking the Mary Sues of Harry Potter fandom, uses animated GIFs of Kaleidoscope Eyes in place of stars for its rating system.
Loki the Trickster god in Norse Mythology is occasionally described as having these. Kaleidoscope eyes seem unique to Loki; despite being able to change his form, his eyes result in at least one Glamour Failure (eye-related glamour failure is common in Norse myth; Odin's shapeshifted forms were always one-eyed). This attribute possibly relates to his mental instability, rather than simply adding mysticism.
The Trope Namer is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (LSD) by The Beatles. John describes Lucy as having "kaleidoscope eyes"; that's how he knows her. Unlike most of the other examples here, he does not elaborate. Given the overall character of the song (plasticine porters with looking-glass ties? Marmalade skies?) it's implied that the eyes are actually perfectly normal—the kaleidoscope bit is probably acid-induced Mushroom Samba.
The Panic! at the Disco song of the same name.
Wynne in Beansidhe's Wail is said to have eyes that change from "pale grey, to sky blue, to sea green, to violet to silver." The author says the same thing about her own eyes, saying, "A Clear Crystalline Grey That Shifts In Colour From Grey To Blue, To Green, To Violet And Sometimes Almost Silver, Depending On My Mood And My Clothes. I Have A Darker Grey Ring Around My Irises {Said To Be The Mark Of One With Faerie Blood And A Natural Witch} And Unusual *Lightning Bolt* Markings In Both Irises. My Eyes Are Quite Cat~Like, Almond Shaped. People Are Always Telling Me That I Have *Faerie Eyes* And Saying That My Eyes Are *Ancient*, *Ageless* *Endless*, And *Full Of Wisdom*"
In Roger Zelazny's Divlish the Damned, some witches have eyes that wax and wane with the moon.
In Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian story "The Gods Of The North", the woman (with obvious magic) also has eyes that change.
Her eyes were likewise neither wholly blue nor wholly grey, but of shifting colors and dancing lights and clouds of colors he could not define.
Eighth Doctor Adventures:
- The Doctor apparently has eyes like this, although they really are usually blue (and the descriptions aren't usually this overwrought).
[...]his eyes were something else again. As he strode towards her, they glittered, seeming to change colour from moment to moment – first an honest brown of earth and nature, then a peaceful green of inner strength and eternal hope, then finally a piercing electric blue.
- Also, Fitz's eyes are almost always grey, but are inexplicably described as blue shortly after he's introduced. To be fair, grey and blue are a lot alike. Sabbath's eyes can be brown, green, or black.
- The Seventh Doctors eyes are also sometimes described like this in the Doctor Who New Adventures, especially if he's very slightly hypnotising someone.
Piper's eyes in The Heroes Of Olympus were described like this. It should be noted that she turns out the be a daughter of Aphrodite.
Door of Neverwhere has "fire-opal" eyes of ever-changing/unclassifiable colour.
Older Than Television: Wolf Larsen from The Sea Wolf.
The Shang Dragon in Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness has a severe case of Mood-Ring eyes.
So does Briar from Pierce's Circle of Magic books, although they're mentioned so inconsistently that it seems like a Retcon half the time.
Usually downplayed in the Pretty Cure franchise.
- Most of the girls just get brighter eye colors. The only one who invokes the trope is Ako Shirabe when she transforms into Cure Muse. Her eyes changes from orange to a reddish pink.
In Tokyo Mew Mew, the Mew Mews all have fairly normal eye colors when not transformed, but when they are their eyes are the same colors as their hair and outfits (Ichigo's are pink, Minto's are blue, Retasu's are green, Bu Ling's are yellow, and Zakuro's are purple). In the manga, their eyes are always color coded even when they are not transformed.
The amateur film from Haruhi Suzumiya has one of Mikuru's eyesconstantly changing color. The second novel explains this as Haruhi putting her in a different contact lens every day they shoot the film. 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.

Strip "The King" Weathers from Cars normally has brown eyes, but when Chick Hicks crashes him at the end of the film, they somehow turn blue. They revert back to brown after he is helped by Lightning McQueen into reaching the finish line.
Doki's eyes, like her twin sister's, changes in accordance to what she wears or at will
Max's iris in Dark Angel shortened and her pupil grew(At least in the first season) when she used her zoomy-vision powers to look at things far away.
In the first episode to introduce Reverend Jim in Taxi, Jim asks the other people around him what color his eyes are. It takes a few minutes of looking to decide on a consensus. (Brown.)
Furious Tide of Light, a sorceress from the Garrett, P.I. series, has eyes that've changed color practically every time Garrett looks at her.
Indra Ingridsdotter, the protagonist of "Röd måne" by Elisabet Nemert, has this.
Inverted in Discworld, where not even gods can change their eye color, which always have to show their true nature in any form they take.
In Devon Monk's Allie Beckstrom novel Magic to the Bone, Zayvion has brown eyes with flecks of gold — until he leaves the magic grid, whereupon they are brown. When he drives back, his eyes turn pure gold with only flecks of brown.
In the Inheritance Cycle, Solembum has these (and potentially the elves, if you count that they can use their magic to change their forms when they feel like it). In the first novel, he is stated to have red eyes. In the second, he has golden eyes. In the third, he has green eyes. In the fourth, he has blue eyes. This is even lampshaded by Eragon, who quips, "Weren't your eyes red?" which prompts Solembum to change his eyes back to red.

edited 16th Apr '17 6:02:33 PM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

shimaspawn MOD from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk

#2: Apr 16th 2017 at 1:09:43 PM

Opening now that check has been done to prove misuse.

edited 18th Apr '17 1:06:49 AM by shimaspawn

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

GirlofMassDeconstruction Since: Apr, 2017 Relationship Status: Betrayed by Delilah

#3: May 3rd 2017 at 7:10:51 AM

I support the change.

Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season

Zzzzzzzzzz

#4: May 3rd 2017 at 7:30:52 AM

As do I. I'd also like to suggest that the definition be tweaked to clarify that this is a change from one color to another, distinctly different color in response to emotion, rather than changing from soft blue to bright blue or other similar minor changes.

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

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu

No, the other one.

#5: May 3rd 2017 at 8:30:40 AM

Sounds like a good change.

Examples where characters change eye colours for other reasons would go under Eye Colour Change, right?

Check out my fanfiction!

Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season

Zzzzzzzzzz

#6: May 3rd 2017 at 8:41:07 AM

You mean like to indicate that they've gone into superpowered mode, or been possessed by some other entity, or like that? Yes, that's where I'd put those.

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

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk

#7: May 4th 2017 at 12:18:15 PM

Yes, eye colour changes for other plot reasons, and there are a lot of them, go on the suppertrope.

edited 4th May '17 12:18:37 PM by shimaspawn

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

eroock Since: Sep, 2012

#8: May 4th 2017 at 8:36:33 PM

for rename

Karxrida The Unknown from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!

The Unknown

#9: May 4th 2017 at 11:48:04 PM

Do the things.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

GirlofMassDeconstruction Since: Apr, 2017 Relationship Status: Betrayed by Delilah

#10: May 15th 2017 at 4:09:20 PM

At appears we are at an agreement. What comes next?

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#11: May 15th 2017 at 5:05:27 PM

I'd assume, get a better image, or if you're gonna do this now, remove the image when you copy KE over to MRE, make KE a redirect to MRE, instead of the other way around, and run through the KE wicks and swap them for MRE.

Possibly cut KE, 'cause its an Ambiguous Name redirect instead of one that makes sense? *Goes to learn from their previous AN TRS*

'Cause with not cutting Weather Report Narration, it mskes sense 'cause it sorta fits the trope, while KE is all wrong.

Make KE into a redirect for Eye Color Change?

edited 15th May '17 5:34:38 PM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

GirlofMassDeconstruction Since: Apr, 2017 Relationship Status: Betrayed by Delilah

#12: May 20th 2017 at 8:05:37 PM

This thread has seen five days without discussion, so I think it's good if someone carries the above post out (I would, but I'm inexperienced and would probably screw it up).

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#13: May 21st 2017 at 9:01:21 AM

^ Okay, did my talked about mods to the pages. Don't have time to run a wick check.

Commented out the quote as well, 'cause its not talking about Mood Ring Eyes.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Berrenta MOD How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love

How sweet it is

#14: Jul 21st 2017 at 11:42:05 AM

Clock is ticking.

she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope Report

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#15: Jul 21st 2017 at 1:22:19 PM

—- Kaleidoscope Eyes is different from Eye Color Change, because the former needs no trigger, while the latter does? —-

Kaleidoscope Eyes is currently pointing to Eye Color Change, and I've gone through all the wicks, I think, and sorted them out...

So, is Kaleidoscope Eyes as defined by its PlayingWith, a trope?

"A character's eyes change color, for no apparent reason."

I made a TLP for the remake, just in case it is a trope.

And the sticking point there, is if Series Continuity Errors or Off Models, or whatever you call the following, count as part of KE:

Characters.Yu Gi Oh Main Characters:

Kaleidoscope Eyes: Not as prevalent as Bakura, but his eye colour also varies between art. In the Toei anime the colour was red, which changed to purple in the second series. They've also been green◊, but it seems red◊ is◊ his◊ most◊ standard◊ color◊ in his official arts.
Kaleidoscope Eyes: His eye color (and hair color) is never consistent across adaptations. They're blue or turquoise in the manga, green in the Toei anime, blue, purple or silver in the video games, brown in the second-series anime, and magenta red in The Darkside of Dimensions.
Kaleidoscope Eyes: His eye color changes across adaptations, from purple in the manga and Toei anime to brown in the second-series anime. They've also been turquoise in cover art, varying shades of purple and pink in the video games, and are blood-red in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links.

edited 8th Aug '17 9:23:04 AM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.

Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph

#16: Aug 8th 2017 at 8:32:37 AM

I'm currently changing wicks for Kaleidoscope Eyes.

Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#17: Aug 8th 2017 at 9:52:03 AM

~Lymantria

I have a Kaleidosope Eyes draft to replace the current Kaleidosope Eyes, because with the current description, Eye Color Change doesn't encompass the trigger-less nature of KE.

Unless ECC is "Eye color changes for any reason and no reason", and triggered changes have their own trope / tropes, like Mood Ring Eyes for when it's mood / personality / thing based.

Although, most of your changes are apparently ones I missed, so that's good.

Mary Sues are sorta the primary instances of KE...

I'm just not sure about Glowing Eyelights of Undeath - Film.Innocent Blood should wick to KE, or ECC 'cause I don't know if they're triggered or not... Or if it's a mix of both...

'Cause vampirism turns eyes red, but

The film's page itself says, under KE:

"Vampires' eyes glow in a variety of colors, including green, yellow, white, blue, and red"

and if there's no reason for those other colors, then it fits KE.

edited 8th Aug '17 10:12:33 AM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.

Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph

#18: Aug 8th 2017 at 10:39:27 AM

I didn't change any wicks to your version of Kaleidoscope Eyes since it's not launched yet.

Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#19: Aug 8th 2017 at 10:59:39 AM

- Yeah, I'm just bringing up the draft again, and giving reasons to not just change all K Es to ECC.

And then it got into a tangent of "What is this, and does it fit", etc.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Berrenta MOD How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love

How sweet it is

#20: Nov 8th 2017 at 6:44:21 PM

Clock is ticking.

she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope Report

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#21: Nov 9th 2017 at 9:55:54 AM

So, the main issue, is if production inconsistencies count as Kaleidoscope Eyes, Eye Color Change, or Off-Model, or is something else entirely?

... And what do intentional changes in eye color, without any stated nor implied reason, go in.

Edit: Inconsistent Coloring TLP... I need this so much.

edited 10th Nov '17 5:32:30 PM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#22: Nov 24th 2017 at 8:06:27 PM

Okay, since Inconsistent Coloring launched, we can move Kaleidoscope Eyes and any other reason-less eye color changes to that.

And maybe change Kaleidoscope Eyes to redirect to Inconsistent Coloring ... Yeah...

edited 4th Dec '17 4:01:57 PM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001

...

#23: Dec 4th 2017 at 3:44:20 PM

I moved a few examples to Inconsistent Coloring.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu

#24: Mar 11th 2018 at 3:05:09 AM

~MaLady, are you still working on this?

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

Malady (Not-So-Newbie)

#25: Mar 11th 2018 at 4:53:59 AM

Yeah, I guess. Just forgot about it. Gonna work on it today then.

I guess just checking that all the wicks are right?

But still, we should link directly to the trope, instead of through a redirect.

Is there any meaningful difference in KE and any other In-Universe Inconsistent Coloring?

EDIT: I've decided on Yes, with KE needing actual eye color change, while Inconsistent Coloring is just environmental lighting effects or something, and retooling my TLP to fit.

edited 12th Mar '18 7:09:49 PM by Malady

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576

Back Top

Total posts: 31