Elemental Eye Colors



Eye color means many different things in fiction. Sometimes, they mean someone is special, or has powers, or perhaps just Innocent Blue Eyes. One of the common uses of eye color is to indicate a person's elemental affinity.


 * Black Eyes
 * Casting a Shadow
 * Blue Eyes
 * An Ice Person, Blow You Away (Icy Blue Eyes or Midnight Blue Eyes), Making a Splash, Shock and Awe (most likely Midnight Blue Eyes)
 * Brown Eyes
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Gold or Yellow Eyes
 * Light Em Up, Shock and Awe, sometimes Playing With Fire
 * Green Eyes
 * Green Thumb, Petal Power, Blow You Away, in some cases, Dishing Out Dirt
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * Playing With Fire
 * Gray Eyes
 * Blow You Away
 * Purple Eyes
 * Casting a Shadow, Shock and Awe, Blow You Away

This trope is frequently paired with its Sister Trope, Elemental Hair.

Also, compare Color Coded for Your Convenience, Color Coded Elements, Technicolor Eyes, and Elemental Powers.

Anime and Manga

 * Mizore, the Ice Woman of Rosario to Vampire, has ice powers and blue eyes. Interestingly, she can also control other people's water magic.
 * Magic Knight Rayearth colors our heroines' eyes (and hair) after their elements. Hikaru's are red, Umi's are blue, and Fuu's are green. Fuu's hair may be yellow, but yellow has represented wind in other media, so no complaints there.
 * Zelman Clock from Black Blood Brothers has red eyes and is a pyrokinetic.
 * Shana from Shakugan no Shana has flaming red eyes when in full Flame Haze mode.
 * Guardian of the Sacred Spirit has Prince Chagum, who . He also has a noble, innocent personality typical of blue eyes.
 * Several characters in Mahou Sensei Negima have this:
 * Evangeline uses ice magic, and has very cold blue eyes; however, the OVAs change it to s sky blue color.
 * Chao uses fire magic and has red eyes in the OVA and reddish brown in the manga.
 * Anya is a fire user and gets red eyes in the manga (however, she is a Green Eyed Red Head in the OVAs).
 * Kotaro floats between black and purple eyes, but both colors correspond to his shadow magic.
 * Saint Seiya gives Hyoga, An Ice Person, blue eyes. Strangely averted in the Manga with Aquarius Camus who, despite being An Ice Person as well, had red eyes.
 * In Bleach, Hitsugaya has blue eyes of the "piercing, icy" variety, which fit well with his ice powers.
 * Reinforce Zwei of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha has the bluest eyes of the series, emphasizing the childlike innocence of the character, as well as her magical nature (the first Unison Device created since the days of Ancient Belka) and her affinity to ice.
 * November 11 from Darker Than Black has very light blue eyes that can most definitely be described as "icy". This is appropriate, since he's a sociopath with ice powers.

Toys

 * Bionicle certainly attempted to do this by associating eye colours with specific elements, but failed mainly in its inconsistency - the eye colour arrangement was changed in 2004 with only Ice (ice-blue) remaining the same, and again in 2006-2007 when all characters were given green or orange (or later blue) eyes regardless.

Video Games

 * Most Adepts in Golden Sun follow this, but there are a few aversions.

Webcomics
"You know, blood contains water. And water freezes so well."
 * Sil'lice Val'Sharen from Drow Tales is both an Ice Sorceress and one of the few remaining untainted Nether Summoners.


 * Nishi'kanta, her sister, was also an example before she was tainted, since she had orange eyes and a fire affinity.
 * The Val'Nal'sarkoth Clan also has this, since they tend to have green eyes and are some of the only people in the Underworld who have an affinity with wood.

Western Animation

 * In Avatar: The Last Airbender, people from the elemental nations (and thus what element they can bend), for the most part, have their eye colors Color Coded for Your Convenience. Blue for the Water Tribe, green or brown for the Earth Kingdom (except Toph, who has Prophet Eyes), gold or amber for the Fire Nation (at least, their royal family: Ty Lee has grey eyes, but isn't a bender), and grey for the Air Nomads.
 * The Legend of Korra breaks from its predecessor's elemental eye color coding with the residents of Republic City, a mecca of multiculturalism and mixed marriages. The firebender on the pro-bending team the Rabbiroos has green eyes, for instance; and a metalbending cop from the first episode has amber eyes.
 * The three main characters still play this trope straight, though.
 * Linka on Captain Planet and The Planeteers, who possesses the power of wind, has blue eyes.
 * Stella, Flora, and Layla/Aisha from Winx Club have eye colors pertaining to their elements, Sun, Plants (or Earth, to some extent), and Water/Fluids, respectively.
 * And also Icy, with control over ice.