Black Eyes of Evil: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[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.

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

** {{spoiler|Negi}} does it too, once his [[Black Magic]] kicks in.

* A variant of this trope: all of [[Mai-Otome (Manga)|Satou]] [[Seikon no Qwaser|Kenetsu]]'s villainous characters always have very black eyeliner. [http://valkyrieizaak.deviantart.com/art/Seikon-no-Qwaser-Aleksander-62366597 Example.]

* In ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|Naruto's inner darkness}} has a constant [[Slasher Smile]] and eyes that are completely black.

* [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]] in ''Oto x Maho'' have [[Black Eyes of Evil]].

* Jaki from ''[[Gamaran]]'' has [[Mismatched Eyes]]: one is normal, the other is black with a white iris.

** As are the eyes of Trymon, the villain of The Light Fantastic, after reading seven of the eight spells of the Octavo.

** And [[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Mr. Teatime's]] artificial eye, at least in the live action adaptation.

* Subverted by the Harshini in ''The Hythrun Chronicles''-- they have obviously inhuman, solid black eyes, but are pretty much the nicest people you could possibly meet and, with the exception of [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]], utterly incapable of so much as contemplating the thought of violence or malice. [[Humans Are Bastards|Hence why they're almost extinct at the start of the trilogy...]]

* 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...

== Live-Action TV ==

 

** 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.

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

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' - when Willow goes overboard with magic, she gets these, most notably in her Dark Willow phase, when not only her eyes but her hair changes..

* Demons in ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' sometimes sported these. The Source of All Evil adds licks of hellfire in them for effect.

** 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}}.

== Music ==

* "Blackest Eyes" by [[Porcupine Tree (Music)|Porcupine Tree]] is a song about serial killers with the lyrics "''Swim with me into your blackest eyes''".

 

 

 

* 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.

* 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.

** 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]].

* Mitsuo Kubo from ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'', a really creepy [[Loners Are Freaks|loner]] whose most prominent feature is his black fish eyes. {{spoiler|He eventually killed resident [[Sadist Teacher]] Mr. Morooka over a grudge and attempted to claim the murders currently taking place in Inaba.}}

** Much before Mitsuo, [[Persona 2|Takahisa Kandori]] used to wear [[Sinister Shades]]. Why? {{spoiler|He has ''[[Black Eyes of Evil|nothing]]'' behind them.}}

* Bloody Mary from ''[[Flipside (Webcomic)|Flipside]]'' has these, though she does still have visible pupils, allowing us to ''somewhat'' connect with her as she transforms into [[The Woobie]].

* All the titular characters in ''[[Goblins (Webcomic)|Goblins]]'' have this, whether hero or villain.

* 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.

== Real Life ==

* 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 On the Tin|exactly what you would expect]]--creepy kids with pure black eyes who are said to mean humans no good at all. The original BEK tale can be found [http://www.ufofreeparanormal.com/stories/viewstory.php?sid=210 here].

* [[media:BEK.jpg|The page image example]]: ''[[Eye Scream|a guy tattooed the whites of his eyes black]].''

* Urk. Well, on a non-[[Squick|squicky]] note, it's a matter of light, shadow, and positioning to appear to have [[Black Eyes of Evil]], if only for a moment, with both eyelids and eyebrows shadowing the eyes themselves. This can look creepy, especially in non-flash photographs.

* [[Jaws (Film)|Ever look at a shark's eyes?]]

** Or a falcon's. They're also [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Peregrine_Falcon_head_shot.jpg really huge].

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