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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[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]]'' look scary. He's also quite fond of [[Black Eyes of Crazy]], too.

** Evangeline, in particular, does this whenever she wants to scare people.

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* Combining Dou (anger) and Sei (calmness) ki in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' causes severe damage to the body, which notably causes a temporary blackening of the eyes. {{spoiler|One of Ryuto's eyes is now permanently black and he is also wheelchair bound because of this technique. Shou Kanou's right eye also turned black and he implied that the damage wouldn't be as severe in his case. It's unknown if this is actually true or not.}}

* In the manga version of ''[[The Big O]]'', Beck gets this after attacking Roger with the Gigadeus and getting blown away by a Chrome Buster. It's especially creepy as the chapter is structured in such a way that it's hard to tell if it's [[All Just a Dream]] or not (the imagery is ''trippy'' for the series), and {{spoiler|the part with Beck's eyes turning black is just a line and a full shot of Beck's head taking up a whole page. The last page. Which you have to ''turn the page for''. And comes out of nowhere, but was hinted at as Beck kept asking Roger what Big O was showing him.}}

* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', when Gemini takes the form of a human, sometimes, one or both of its eyes transform back into Gemini's original solid black eye. Although not particularly disturbing on Gemini itself, when the eye is on a human...man, it's scary! In the anime, in the scene when Gemini is posing as Gray cackling evilly and transforming into Lucy, Gray's transformation face could qualify as a [[Nightmare Face]].

* ''[[Bleach]]''

** 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}}).

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* 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 [[~~Re Cut~~|only viewable in the Director's Cut.]]

** To be fair, the scene was removed for the theatrical release and [[Recut|only viewable in the Director's Cut.]]

* 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 (film)|Halloween]]'' has a quote that directly details the antagonist's eyes - and this is before Michael Myers dons ''that'' mask, which has nothing more than the two black, gaping, deathly holes for eyes.

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** 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 Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' has this occur in a deleted scene of the episode "The Farm". Starbuck has a nightmare where she sees {{spoiler|Anders}} with black eyes. Consdiering [[Artificial Human|what]] he is revealed to be, it is interesting.

* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' has the vampires using all-black eyes as a [[Game Face]].

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* The Excrucians of ''[[Nobilis]]'' have a variant on this. Falling stars drift through their otherwise-black eyes.

* 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~~]]'' '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]]".

* Used with the [[Night Lords]] of the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' '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: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' The vampires of Innistrad - most notably, Sorin Markov has [http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/daily/ftl/ftl78_sorin.jpg black sclera and golden irises.]

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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 ''[[ESP Ra.De]]'' and the ''[[~~Esp Galuda~~]]'' series

* The [http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/esprade/chara/alice.html Alice Clones] from ''[[ESP Ra.De]]'' and the ''[[Espgaluda]]'' series

* [[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]].

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