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If a blue-eyed character has a magic talent or "element", it's most likely [[Making a Splash|water-related]], except [[Midnight Blue Eyes]], who are capable of using wind or lightning (much like a storm), though blue (or gray) is the eye color of choice for many wizards who are eerie or sophisticated instead of mysterious.
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{{color|blue| '''Blue'''}}-{{color|green|'''green'''}} sometimes marks a dreamy personality, but is nonetheless also a good "default" shade of blue eyes for the hero/heroine. The blue then indicates the heroic qualities and the green the independent personality associated with [[Green Eyes]].
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In some cultures, blue eyes, along with green eyes, are seen as a witch's eyes and are supposedly capable of [[Hypnotic Eyes|controlling people]] and [[Evil Eye|cursing them]]. However, this is a rare superstition and considered little more than a cultural quirk even in the places where it originated, so it usually doesn't come up in fiction.
[[Gray Eyes]] as a characterization tool have a lot in common with
It should be noted that these eye color tropes are not just for characters who have eyes of this color, but when the color actually stands for something significant to that character, like blue for water, green for earth, red for evil, ect. Please do not add characters who just happen to have eyes of this color without a substantial reason behind it.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* While this can happen in many forms of media,
* Belldandy of ''[[Ah! My Goddess|Oh My Goddess!]]'' fits the first variation of
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', Fay's magic is explicitly tied with the blue COLOR in his eyes, which is weird.
* Touga and Nanami from ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' have eyes that are such a dark blue that they can look [[Purple Eyes]]. In Nanami's case, they were once described as "being the type where when you look into them you don't know what she's thinking". Utena herself has sky blue eyes, and they fall under the innocence type, as do the Kaoru twins, Miki and Kozue, though Kozue's seem intended to invoke [[Icy Blue Eyes|ice]].
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* A lot of characters from ''[[Trigun]]'': both Vash and Knives (being twins), with Vash having a softer, kinder turquoise and Knives having a lighter, icy (almost beau) blue. This difference may represent their different personalities. Also, Milly sports a bright pair of blue-green eyes, that matches her kind and happy-go-lucky character, while Wolfwood's eyes are a very dark, almost gray blue, again, reminding us of his morally gray, ambiguous personality.
* Seto Kaiba of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has cold, blue eyes. And then there's, of course, his "Blue Eyes White Dragon". Other blue-eyed characters are Kisara, Isis, and Anzu.
** Often, the [[Portmanteau Couple Name
** Also, Weevil/Haga has blue eyes. They may be of the piercing variety as they are somewhat unsettling, but they're more likely just blue because he [[Curtains Match the Window|has]] [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|light blue hair]].
* Every [[Blond Guys Are Evil|Char Clone]] from the [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] franchise. At best they tend to be cold and icy, at worst, [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. Oddly they tend to switch between the cold version of the eyes, and a rather tortured-looking version of the innocent one.
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** [[Jerkass|Asuka]]'s light blue eyes are definitely of the "piercing, icy" variant, though they could also be blamed on the common [[Phenotype Stereotype]] for Germans.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', all three of the Sky Arcobaleno, Luche, Uni, and Aria, have deep blue eyes that are always resolute, according to Genkishi, who was unable to fight Tsuna with full force because Tsuna's eyes looked so much like Uni's. According to Gamma, Tsuna, and many of the other characters, their eyes tend to look as if they expect an event would happen. {{spoiler|Actually, it's really true, since the Sky Arcobaleno have the ability to see the future.}}
* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has a couple of different examples. Siblings Rosette and Joshua Christopher both have blue eyes with [[Hair of Gold]]
* Yusei Fudou of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' has incredible, bright, piercing blue eyes.
* Renamon from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' has the "piercing and icy" variant. The effect is magnified ten-fold by the ''black'' whites.
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* Kamijou Touma of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' has type 1, being the main hero. He's not pure or innocent though, just idealistic.
* The pregnant woman in the first ''[[Mononoke]]'' story has huge, innocent blue eyes, plus [[Hair of Gold]]. She looks like a stereotype of an American, but no one comments on her appearance, just like how [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|no one notices the medicine peddler's weird clothes, facepaint, or pointy ears]].
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* In Kate Griffin's ''[[Matthew Swift|A Madness of Angels]]'', much is made of Matthew's formerly dark eyes having changed to a bright, unsettling blue.
* In ''[[Mara Daughter of the Nile]]'', the titular character has blue eyes, which are extremely rare in [[Ancient Egypt]]. Most characters, including her love interest, see them as exotically beautiful, making them a type 1, but a few of the characters find them creepy or demonic.
* [[Warhammer 40000|Variel the Flayer]] stands out from his [[Night Lords|brothers in arms]] not only because he isn't a native born/genebred [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|Nostraman]], but because he trades their [[Black Eyes of Evil]] for type two Blue Eyes. He's one of the [[The Stoic|emotionally coldest]] members of a company made of [[The Dreaded|Dreaded]], [[Ax Crazy]] [[Torture Technician
* In [[Dune]], anyone exposed to the spice for long gains blue eyes with no scleras.
* Granny Weatherwax and Susan Sto Helit from ''[[Discworld]]'' have the piercing kind. Susan may have inherited them from [[The Grim Reaper|her grandfather]], although, in his case, they're a [[Glowing Eyelights of Undeath|blue glow within hollow eye sockets]]. Jonathan Teatime in ''Hogfather'' has ''one'' blue eye. With a pinpoint pupil. And he's completely [[Ax Crazy]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', Bahamut is depicted as having blue eyes. Often times, they are of the intimidating kind like that of a raging storm. Justified, since he is the deity of good dragons.
* Keeping with the [[Warhammer 40000]] tradition of canon flipflops and [[Retcon
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** ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': Tidus has cheerful, innocent, ocean-blue eyes.
** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' gives these eyes to Penelo (pure, sweet, innocent child), Basch (good and noble knight, mixed well with [[Hair of Gold]]), and Ashe. Interestingly, despite Ashe's personality best fitting the "piercing and icy" variant, her blue eyes are the warmest and richest of all the cast's.
** And, in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', Snow is a subversion of the "icy blue"
* In the [[Disgaea]] series, Adell, Yukimaru, and Almaz are depicted as having blue eyes in the art work. All three of them have dark piercing eyes. Justified, as Adell and Almaz are front line fighters. Yukimaru also covers the elemental trait, which is a clan trait.
** Flonne, too, who also has [[Hair of Gold]].
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== Visual Novels ==
* In the [[Type Moon|Nasuverse]], [[Evil Eye|the eyes that can see the death of all things]] are bright blue.
* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'',
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'': John Egbert, initially according to [[Word of God]] and later confirmed in-comic through a dramatic zoom-in on his eyes in response to {{spoiler|seeing his dead father}}. They match his text colour. Similarly, in accordance with their [[Alien Blood|blood colours]], Vriska and Equius would have developed blue eyes had they reached adulthood {{spoiler|and not been [[Killed Off for Real]]}}; their ancestors, Mindfang and Darkleer, had them.
* Ashton from ''[[Winters in Lavelle]]'' has piercing, almost glowing blue eyes. This has caused much grief for him, since the most definitive trait of the universally hated "Blue Princes" is their "cold, dead" blue eyes.
* Having
* Klaus Wulfenbach from ''[[Girl Genius]]'', of the piercing variety.
** Othar Tryggvassen, [[Gentleman Adventurer]]!, has a pair of stunning baby blues. You don't get to [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080125 see them] often, however.
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