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{{quote|''He had the blackest eyes - the devil's eyes.''
Traditionally, a cheap and easy way to show that a character is evil is the use of coloured contact lenses in live action, or coloured or [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|glowing eyes]] in animation. Since the 1990s, however, a new trend has emerged - the '''Black Eyes of Evil'''.▼
▲{{quote|''He had the blackest eyes - the devil's eyes.''|'''Dr Loomis''' in John Carpenter's ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'', about [[Complete Monster|Michael Myers]].}}
▲Traditionally, a cheap and easy way to show that a character is evil is the use of coloured contact lenses in live action, or coloured or [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|glowing eyes]] in animation. Since the 1990s, however, a new trend has emerged - the Black Eyes of Evil.
These days, when someone is [[Demonic Possession|possessed by demons]], [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|dabbling in the dark arts]], psychically dominated by evil aliens, or gone evil in some other way, their eyes will go perfectly black with no whites at all.
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This can be surprisingly hard to tell apart from normal eyes in photos, because if a person has normal-colored eyes that happen to be deep-set or narrow to the point of looking squinty, then there won't be that much light hitting their sclera from most angles. It's easier to pick up on when the actor is in motion, and a lot more obvious in drawn art.
This is a subtrope of [[Uh
[[Truth in Television]], though without the evil connotations, as scleral lenses worn by persons with light sensitivity will render a person's eyes completely black.
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Contrast with the less-creepy [[Black Eyes]], where just the irises are black. Compare [[Black Eyes of Crazy]], where black sclera plus [[Technicolor Eyes|technicolor irises]] equals [[Ax Crazy]]. Compare also [[Excessive Evil Eyeshadow]].
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* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Ken Akamatsu]], rare in most anime and manga, which opt for [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]], prefers black eyes to make his characters in ''[[
▲* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'' for the (former) page image, of course. The eyes change depending on the media, though. The anime goes for cat eyes, as do the sound novels. The manga artists change between this trope and cat eyes.
▲* [[Ken Akamatsu]], rare in most anime and manga, which opt for [[Red Eyes Take Warning]], prefers black eyes to make his characters in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' look scary. He's also quite fond of [[Black Eyes of Crazy]], too.
** Evangeline, in particular, does this whenever she wants to scare people.
** {{spoiler|Negi}} does it too, once his [[Black Magic]] kicks in.
** And [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsukuyomi]] fits both tropes at once.
* Risotto Nero, the leader of the rogue Squadra Esecuzioni of the Passione gang in Part 5 of ''[[
* {{spoiler|Lilith (a.k.a. [[Fan Nickname|Giant Naked Rei]])}} develops this in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion
* Combining Dou (anger) and Sei (calmness) ki in ''[[Kenichi:
* In the manga version of ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** Anyone with an inner hollow will gain black sclera with [[Eyes of Gold|yellow irises]] when their hollow powers are being brought out (Visored, Ichigo, {{spoiler|Ginjou}}).
** {{spoiler|Aizen's chrysalis stage of his [[One
** {{spoiler|Tsukishima}} has very black eyes, although the anime changes them to brown.
* A variant of this trope: all of [[Mai-Otome (
* In ''[[
* The ''[[
* [[Evil Twin
* Jaki from ''[[Gamaran]]'' has [[Mismatched Eyes]]: one is normal, the other is black with a white iris.
* All of the vampires in ''[[Shiki]]'' have black sclera and red eyes when their [[Horror Hunger]] takes over. The older vampires, namely Shizuru and Sunako, take this further and have solid black eyes. They still have pupils and what not, you just can't see them unless they glow.
* Alluka Zoldyck from [[
* The Dark Signers from the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
** Kiryu from the 5D's manga.
==
* [[X Wing Series
** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Paltr_Carvin General Carvin], who, in a B-plot in those comics, is part of the Imperial Tribune, which briefly ruled the Empire after ousting Sate Pestage, and served to command and obstruct [[Manipulative Bastard|Ysanne Isard]] until she dealt with them, was always, ''[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1229/swrsmr212.jpg always]'' shown with shadowed eyes...until Isard's plans culminated, the other two tribune members were killed, and he was [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Isards_plaything.jpg brought before her], beaten and bloody, but [[Defiant to
▲* [[X Wing Series|Baron Soontir Fel]] was, after Vader's death, the best Imperial pilot. He's not evil, though, and the solid black eyes only show up in [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/367889.html one panel], when his eyes are in shadow. But it's a panel where he looks ''very'' sinister.
▲** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Paltr_Carvin General Carvin], who, in a B-plot in those comics, is part of the Imperial Tribune, which briefly ruled the Empire after ousting Sate Pestage, and served to command and obstruct [[Manipulative Bastard|Ysanne Isard]] until she dealt with them, was always, ''[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1229/swrsmr212.jpg always]'' shown with shadowed eyes...until Isard's plans culminated, the other two tribune members were killed, and he was [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Isards_plaything.jpg brought before her], beaten and bloody, but [[Defiant to The End|defiant]] enough to tell her he wouldn't be her plaything, and she smiled and told him he might become all manner of things once he reached the Lusankya facility.
* Dream, a.k.a. Morpheus, eponymous protagonist of the Neil Gaiman comic ''[[The Sandman|Sandman]]'', also has completely black eyes, in which, at times, pinpricks of light like distant stars can be seen, as it is said that, by staring into his eyes, you can see the vast emptiness of eternity. He isn't evil, however, or not a typical villain at least, but he can be uncaring (to the point of cruelty) and takes very long to forgive a perceived slight.
* Marvel Comics Sentry as [[Super
== Film ==▼
* The vampires from ''[[30 Days of Night]]''.
* During the first exploration of Carl Stargher's mind in ''[[The Cell]],'' he manifests as a pale king with gaping black voids in place of eyes.
* In ''[[The Covenant]]
* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', when Bruce the shark gets the taste of blood, his pupils grow to the point where his eyeballs become completly black, like that of a real shark. Up until this point, he lacks irises, but the pupils are surrounded by white, like a common animated character.
* Pinhead and the rest of the cenobites from ''[[
* Possibly one of the earliest examples in film was in ''[[The
* In ''[[Krull]]'', when the Seer is killed and replaced with a doppelganger, his duplicate has pure black eyes (not as much of a giveaway as you might think, since he usually keeps his eyes closed).
** Another creature from the same film, this one a female shapeshifter, is a subversion of sorts, as she finds herself unwilling to go through with her mission of killing the main character and gets quite a sympathetic speech before the [[Big Bad]] eliminates her for her betrayal.
* In ''Push'', whenever the evil pusher uses his powers, his pupils stretch so his eyes turn entirely black. The good pusher, by comparison, will only stretch her pupils so the irises are barely visible.
* Though technically literature at one time, the script of [[Stephen King]]'s ''Storm of the Century''
* In ''[[X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes]]'', as the main character continues using the x-ray eyedrops, his eyes begin changing colour: at first, they're only silver irises on black, but by the end of the film, they're entirely black.
* The Dark Queen in ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' sports pitch-black eyes, as does her daughter. When Helena is used as a replacement for the Princess and given an appropriate makeover, her eyes turn black as well.
* Although it seems to take a while after the onset of zombification, the titular [[Zombie Strippers]] eventually develop pure-black eyes. Their flesh also begins to rot and their fingers turn black and sharpen into claws. Because the virus in the film affects men and women differently, this only seems to happen to female zombies.
* ''[[Jaws (
* In the 2009 ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* In ''[[Ink]]'' (2009), the Key Master Incubus has eyes that are pure black and they occasionally flare white with interest.
* In Oliver Stone's ''[[Nixon]]'', CIA director Richard Helms' eyes appear to turn completely black for a second due to a coincidentally-timed light reflection, right after Nixon muses that there are things worse than death, and right before Nixon continues that there's such a thing as evil. Needless to say, Helms' real-life relatives had some issues with that scene. Although Helms definitely was a ruthless bastard in real life, implying he was a soulless force of pure evil may have been pushing it.
** To be fair, the scene was removed for the theatrical release and [[
* In ''[[From Hell]]'', when Sir William Gull realizes {{spoiler|he has been found out as Jack the Ripper by Inspector Abberline}}, his eyes turn black as he goes berserk and attacks {{spoiler|the Inspector}}. Seeing as Sir Gull is a normal (if deranged) human being, this seems to be just for shock value. Possibly a reference to the comic, when during {{spoiler|his death}} Sir Gull has a long out-of-body-experience that carries him all over the world and across time.
* The first ''[[Halloween (
* Shivers the Clown from the ''Fear of Clowns'' duology has a disorder that causes his eyes to appear almost completely black.
* ''[[The Thing (
** This is commonly used in fannon and fan art involving Jed.
* Katherine Ross' doppelganger in ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'' (they're supposed to be empty eye sockets, but there was a minor [[Special Effects Failure]]).
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Coraline (
▲== Literature ==
▲* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Coraline (Literature)|Coraline]]'' has the Other Mother, who has Black ''Button'' Eyes of Evil, along with all of her minions. They can actually be any color in the film, but apparently, black is "traditional."
▲* The Ra'zac and Lethrblaka from the ''[[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Inheritance Cycle]]''.
* ''Prophet's House'' has the incestuous, theocratic Rassianus family who sport black eyes when exercising their prophetic powers.
* The [[Big Bad]] of Terry Goodkind's [[Sword of Truth]] books has these as part of being a Dream Walker. If that wasn't creepy enough, everyone knows when he's looking at them, even though his eyes are effectively black spheres. It's never explained.
* In [[Garth Nix]]'s early novel ''[[The Ragwitch]]'', the eponymous villain is described as having "black, black pupils." The horror.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls Novels]]'', Sul describes {{spoiler|Umbra as having eyes "like holes into nothing."}} However, Vuhon's eyes are pure white, instead.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Vorbis, the villain of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** As are the eyes of Trymon, the villain of ''[[The Light Fantastic]]'', after reading seven of the eight spells of the Octavo.
** And
* A sign of possession by some kind of alien superweapon in the ''[[
* Subverted by the Harshini in ''The Hythrun Chronicles''
* Infected people transforming into the monstrous {{spoiler|vampires}} in Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro's novel ''[[The Strain]]'' gain "dead black" eyes, among other things. In the case of a Goth-Metal singer, people didn't even notice at first, they thought he still wore his pale make-up and black contact lenses...
* Though the most prominent character with black eyes in the [[Modern Faerie Tales
* The villain of [[Joe Hill]]'s ''Heart Shaped Box'' has eyes that look like they were scribbled out with a black Sharpie; another character refers to the black blotches as "sunglasses of the living dead".
* Used in the short story [http://www.creepypasta.com/that-night-in-the-mirror/ "That Night in the Mirror"].
* Eyes of the Red Court vampires in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' turn black when they are hungry.
* In Lawrence Watt-Evans' ''Lords of Dus'' series, the eyes of the King in Yellow are always hidden in shadow by the hood of his robe, although, occasionally, a brief glint is seen.
* In ''[[The
* The nameless [[The Power In The Void|unmagic mage]] in ''[[Circle of Magic|Magic Steps]]''. Unlike the people who removed his legs and got him hooked on some powerful drug in order to make him help them with their crimes, he's not ''evil'', but he's certainly no longer sane and become very inhuman.
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==
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' was one of the first to use this trope. When telepath Lyta Alexander makes psychic contact with the [[Big Bad]] Shadows, her eyes turn pure black. Naturally, they return to normal when contact is broken.
** After prolonged contact, she also began to weep black tears.
** They also momentarily turn black when Lyta needs to intimidate a Mars Resistance leader.
** It always seemed clear to me that the black eyes were a signal that she was channeling her Vorlon programming rather than anything to do with the Shadows specifically. Obviously contact with the Shadows would require her to use her Vorlon-enhanced skills rather than her natural human ones, but the black eyes also turn up when she is controlling telepaths aboard the earth ships in orbit around Mars in "Endgame" (over half a season after the Shadows and Vorlons had both departed the galaxy).
** It is also an interesting use of Black Eyes of Evil, since they come from the Vorlons, who were portrayed as the good guys through the first half of the show and were never actually evil, just misguided. Much like the Shadows.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Being Human (
* ''[[
** In Season Seven, she gets these when she invokes powerful magic. They fade when the spell in question ends. Interestingly, she also becomes a [[Jerkass]] while she is using such magic. In one scene, while using a powerful barrier spell to stop a demon, she tells the woman she is protecting to stop whining. After the demon leaves, she apologizes.
** Catherine Madison, the first witch actually seen on the show, got these as she cast a powerful spell. {{spoiler|Later, we find it's [[In the Blood|like-mother-like-daughter]], as Amy can get them too.}}
** This seems to be one of the standard side effects of using powerful [[Black Magic]], as primal energy fills up the body of the caster and then is released through the spell. When the black eyes don't fade after the spell is done, [[Super
** Oz's eyes turn solid black as part of his transformation into a werewolf and are usually one of the first things to change. Black eyes are not a standard werewolf trait per se, though, as Veruca's turn [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|bright blue]].
* ''[[Carnivale]]'': Brother Justin, Henry Scudder, and {{spoiler|Sofie}} all have obsidian orbs when they tap into their innate evil.
* Demons in ''[[
** Beings possessed by the Nexus or the Hollow also sport black eyes, though these powers are technically neutral (in the same way that an [[Eldritch Abomination]] doesn't care about the struggles of morality).
* ''[[
** In "Tooth and Claw", the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf virus' host body]] had completely black eyes when human.
** In the 2008 Christmas special, the [[Femme Fatale]] gains pure black eyes when {{spoiler|the Cybermen forcibly "upgrade" her to be their new Cyberking (noun/gender agreement notwithstanding)}}. As befits the trope, her eyes return to their normal colour when The Doctor {{spoiler|talks her into looking as a human at what she has become, leading her to suicide explosively and take the Cybermen with her}}.
* In ''[[
* On an episode of ''A Haunting'', a devil or demon is shown to look like a regular man, except for the black eyes...which made the actor look [bleep]ing scary.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Maya's eyes turn pure black with tar-like tears running down her face when her powers activate. While she's not really evil, her
* ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]''. When protagonist, Yuusuke Godai, first receives visions of his Ultimate Form, Ultimate Kuuga, the coloring of his eyes are pitch-black, symbolizing the risk of his becoming evil should he transform into Ultimate Kuuga. {{spoiler|In the penultimate episode, Yuusuke does, in fact, transform to Ultimate Kuuga, but due to his self-control, manages to retain the red-eye coloring of his normal Mighty Form. The risk of slipping into 'Black-Eyed Ultimate Kuuga' is not entirely eliminated, however, and Yuusuke, in fact, tells his partner, Ichijou, to shoot him should it happen.}}
** In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]],'' we got to meet black-eyed ''Rising'' Ultimate Kuuga. You can say [[Oh Crap]] now.
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* In ''[[Sanctuary]]'', when Nikola Tesla's plans to rebuild the vampire species go awry, all of his former patients who have been killed turn into vampires way before schedule and exhibit completely black eyes.
* The obscure (but apparently cult-ish) 1988 SF-horror miniseries ''Something Is Out There'', starring ex-[[Bond Girl]] Maryam D'Abo. Those who are being controlled by the evil alien cannibal parasite are shown to have pure black eyes.
* Most of the lower-ranking demons from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', although demons with yellow, red, or white eyes have also been seen.
* Not quite the same thing, but a body modification-centric episode of ''Taboo'' featured a man [[Eye Scream|injecting black tattoo ink into the whites of his eyes]].
* Shortly after his {{spoiler|resurrection}}, Owen Harper of ''[[
* In ''[[True Blood]]'', people under {{spoiler|Maryann}}'s control have totally black eyeballs.
* Windom Earle gets this for a brief moment in ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.
* In one of the most effective applications of this trope, ''[[The X
** It was also used with the surprisingly sympathetic [[Monster of the Week]] in the episode "Hunger".
* Averted with Henry Fitzroy in ''[[
* The BBC's [[Jekyll]] uses this as one of the warning signs that Hyde is about to show up, and they're one of the few cosmetic changes made to show the difference between the main character's two personalities.
== [[Music]] ==
* "Blackest Eyes" by [[
* 2D from [[
* Dark Fantasy and Modern Horror roleplaying games from the 1990s onwards love this trope, from ''[[
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* The Excrucians of ''[[
▲* Dark Fantasy and Modern Horror roleplaying games from the 1990s onwards love this trope, from ''[[Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|Old World of Darkness]]'' to the German game ''Arcane Codex'' (where this is actually a trait buyable at character creation called "Eyes of Hell" that indicates the character is a half-breed who has demonic blood).
* This was a symptom (along with greasy black tears) of the [[Magic:
▲* The Excrucians of ''[[Nobilis (Tabletop Game)|Nobilis]]'' have a variant on this. Falling stars drift through their otherwise-black eyes.
* Used with the [[Night Lords]] of the ''[[Warhammer
▲* This was a symptom (along with greasy black tears) of the [[Magic the Gathering|Phyrexian oil]] in ''Time Spiral''. Naturally, the people living in black-aligned places got the worst of it.
▲* Used with the [[Night Lords]] of the ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' 'verse. Each original member of the Legion has enormous pupils, along with irises and scleræ that are totally black. It gives them nearly perfect night vision: bright lights can cause tissue damage to their eyes along the lines of [[Tears of Blood]]. [[Justified]], since the Legion recruited all of its members from its homeworld of [[Wretched Hive|Nostramo]], where the human population lived in thousands of years of isolation and adapted to Nostamo's state of [[Always Night|perpetual darkness]] <ref>Almost the entire population were also [[Eerie Pale Skinned Brunette|Eerie Pale Skinned Brunettes]], for the same reason</ref>. Within canon, the trope was [[Zig Zagged]], since they were collectively somewhere between type IV and type V on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti Heroes]] (being the only army in the Imperium who [[Cold Blooded Torture|extensively utilized]] [[The Dreaded|terror tactics]]), but played straight after their Primarch declared "[[Then Let Me Be Evil]]".
** Generally averted in the tabletop game, where they all wear helmets, and [[Fridge Logic|probably need them in most conditions]].
* In ''[[Magic:
== Toys ==▼
* Karzahni from [[Bionicle]] was first described as having empty, black eyes. Later, a book illustration gave him brightly glowing yellow eyes (and took other liberties with his colors), and his eventual figure sported red eyes. The change is somewhat justified in the figure's case, as it represented his mutated form, which didn't look anything like what his original description suggested. There's also the fact that Karzahni constantly rebuilds himself, so he may have possibly changed his eyes...
==
* Artwork of the [[American Kirby Is Hardcore|American/European style]] of [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Dr. Robotnik]] usually depicts him with [https://web.archive.org/web/20071111063038/http://eggmanempire.sonicworld.net/downloads/images/official/soa/chaosartwork.png no eyes at all, with two pitch black eye-sockets instead.]▼
* In ''[[
▲* Artwork of the [[American Kirby Is Hardcore|American/European style]] of [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Dr. Robotnik]] usually depicts him with [http://eggmanempire.sonicworld.net/downloads/images/official/soa/chaosartwork.png no eyes at all, with two pitch black eye-sockets instead.]
* A few of the character designs for the mutant enemies in ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' feature black eyes.▼
▲* In ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'', the boss "Hell Orcha" has black eyes with [[Red Eyes Take Warning|red pupils]].
▲* A few of the character designs for the mutant enemies in ''[[Destroy All Humans]]'' feature black eyes.
* When {{spoiler|Kreia unveils herself as a Sith Lord}} in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'', her eyes turn from [[Milky White Eyes|milky white]] to pitch black.
** [[Star
* Inverted with the [[Green
** If you look closely, they aren't solid black, but have faint star-like lights in them.
** Played straight when Morinth does it - that an Asari's eyes turn black just before sex has a whole new effect when the Asari in question is an [[Sex Equals Death|Ardat-Yakshi]].
* [[Mega Man ZX|Master Albert]] combines this with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]. No, really.
* Mitsuo Kubo from ''[[
** Much before Mitsuo, [[Persona 2|Takahisa Kandori]] used to wear [[Sinister Shades]]. Why? {{spoiler|He has ''
* In ''[[The Suffering]]: Ties That Bind,'' the Creeper has black, doll-like eyes.
* [[Jak and Daxter|Jak's]] [[Super
* {{spoiler|Chaos Havan}} in ''[[
* The character creator in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' gives a few faces with black eyes as an option.
* ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]''. A seemingly human housewife has these in the E3 2010 trailer.
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* In ''[[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]]'', this afflicts all those who {{spoiler|drink the demonic scotch.}} It also afflicts {{spoiler|Ecinacea, due to her having been replaced by an [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
* If you are trying to reach the happy ending in ''[[Afraid of Monsters]]'', you have to fight {{spoiler|your Doppelgänger}}, who has completly black eyes.
* The [http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/esprade/chara/alice.html Alice Clones] from ''[[
* [[Okami]] subverts this. Ammy is the hero, but has pitch black eyes.
** Can become [[Nightmare Fuel]] if you look at her face when using the "Realistic Wolf" [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|karmic transformer]].
* Celesto Morgan from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' has a case of this whenever he uses his dark Seer powers.
* Found on Captain Vole of ''[[
* Bloody Mary from ''[[
* All the titular characters in ''[[
* Zimmy from ''[[
* Despite being a benevolent entity, Caprice from ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'' gets totally black eyes and the [[Voice of the Legion]] when [[Hive Mind|Mars]] is talking.
* Babi Rusa, a cannibal hag, has all black eyes, in ''[[Witchprickers]]''. Interestingly, the comic's hero, Ilemauzer the bat, also has black eyes at first.
* In [http://pumpkinflower.comicgenesis.com Pumpkin Flower], all [[Witch Species|Mancers]] have black eyes, including the [[The Woobie|main character]].
* Subverted in ''[[
* This was used in ''[[
* [[A Tale of Fiction]]: Sneaky's eyes are always black, no matter how much shapeshifting he does. Subverted, though, because he's a nice guy and the protagonist. While shapeshifted into human form, he usually wears sunglasses to blend in.
* In ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', the heavy metal band Noosehead (which has 15 members) has several members with monochromatic
* [[SSDD]]: [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20100406.html Robert]. While not evil, he admits his eyes make people feel ill and scare children.
* In ''[[Last
* ''[[
* In ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'', [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0270.html kobolds would be cute if their eyes weren't large, black, soulless eye sockets.]
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* The Lovercraftian [http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2008/12/zalgo-comic-chronicles.html ZALGO edits], which originated on [[Something Awful]].
* The Dark Queen's true form in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]''.
* The [[
** But they also avert the trope with [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-134 SCP-134]: a harmless young girl whose black eyes happen to be vistas into an uncharted region of space. SCP personnel have actually been reprimanded for getting too attached to "Stella".
* [[Big Bad|Malachite]] from ''[[Suburban Knights]]''.
▲== Western Animation ==
* Feathers McGraw, the sinister penguin in [[Wallace and Gromit|The Wrong Trousers]], has solid black eyes. Interestingly, his eyes are entirely natural.
* During a hallucination sequence in the ''[[Watchmen (
* This is likely one of the things that makes the pink elephants in ''[[
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' had this cat...yeah.
* Subverted in ''[[Teen Titans (
* Subverted with Stitch from ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]''. While he isn't evil, he is pretty nasty.
* Subverted with Jake in ''[[
==
* Not so much "real" life, but a popular urban legend/modern day campfire tale: people have reported encounters with "black-eyed kids" (also known as "black-eyed beings" and "black-eyed children", or just BEK), which are pretty much [[Exactly What It Says
* [
* [
* [[media:BEK.jpg|The page image example]]: ''[[Eye Scream|a guy tattooed the whites of his eyes black]].''
* Urk. Well, on a non-[[
* [[
* [[Jaws (
** Or a falcon's. They're also [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Peregrine_Falcon_head_shot.jpg really huge].
** Or, apparently, a [
** [http://www.cracked.com/article_19282_5-advanced-technologies-still-catching-up-to-invertebrates_p2.html Moths]: pitch black and ''[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071126115318.htm the least reflective surface on earth]''.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20061114034152/http://www.bocn.org/images/factfile/files/BarnOwl+habitatBOCN(2).jpg Barn] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130219023059/http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/aq/barred-owl-www-lg.jpg Barred] [[Owl Be Damned|owls]].
** Quite a few animals, actually.
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