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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Anime subversion: In ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' when Jeanne Valois is publicly branded as a criminal, she faints with her eyes wide open—a fact that creeps out many of the spectators who had come to gawk at her.
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' has one episode where Osaka pulls off Chiyo-chan's pigtails... only to have her keel over dead with her eyes wide open. Don't worry though; it's [[All Just a Dream]].
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* The first victim of the mysterious and highly lethal [[The Plague|plague]] shown in ''[[Emerging]]'' was found dead with his eyes still open... made more gruesome by the fact that they were almost completely blackened from all the blood vessels having burst, and ''partially liquefied'' from the extremely high fever he suffered prior to his death.
* In ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'', Gilbert dies this way.
* The first ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', during TSR, Gauron dies in this manner. Which makes him all the more unnerving, considering he also died with a [[Slasher Smile]], looking maniacally happy at Sousuke.
* In later works by [[Akira Toriyama]], especially ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]'', people who die with their eyes open will have no pupils. (examples: everywhere!) Grayish or rough pupils mean critical injury/dying but not yet dead. (example: Yamucha after being impaled by Dr. Gero in the Android saga)
* Zancrow becomes one of the few deaths in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' this way. His killer is nice enough to shut his eyes for him afterward.
* A lot of characters in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' die this way, due to the fact that they're usually in mid-action when killed. Along with the fact that they're being killed by something they can't see, and that about half of the people killed don't even know exists.
** Averted with the deaths of {{spoiler|Kurama and Mariko}}; since they know what's about to happen to them, they close their eyes tightly and brace themselves.
* Averted in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' - as the resident [[Nigh Invulnerable|brick]], Inuyasha has a tendency to get the tar beaten out of him whenever a sufficiently powerful [[Monster of the Week]] appears - to show he's been seriously injured, he'll often be knocked out with his eyes open and unreflective, but never dead.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* People killed by the Joker, especially by his Joker Venom (which is justified in that it pulls back the muscles of the face), often die with their eyes open to enhance the creepy effects of his methods. As noted above, this extends to points in the DCAU where he was allowed to kill, usually the animated movies.
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', this is Sophie's last panel.
* In one story from the ''Mellon Chronicles'' series of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfiction, a wounded Legolas rests with his eyes closed for a time, and when Aragorn notices, he freaks out for a moment, believing the elf to be dead - as far as he understands it, elves rest with eyes open.▼
▲== Fan Fic ==
▲* In one story from the ''Mellon Chronicles'' series of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfiction, a wounded Legolas rests with his eyes closed for a time, and when Aragorn notices, he freaks out for a moment, believing the elf to be dead - as far as he understands it, elves rest with eyes open.
** The idea of elves not sleeping in the same way as humans comes from the one example given through Legolas in the LotR. It is debated whether this can be taken as the general style of sleeping for elves, another form of resting distinct from sleep, or due to the circumstances.
* Averted in Chapter 16 of ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', where a GDI soldier finds himself staring at the face of a dead female soldier, whose eyes are half-lidded in death.
* ''[[Stars Above]]'': {{spoiler|[[Lucky Star|Tsukasa]] and [[Puella Magi Kazumi Magica|Kazumi]] die this way in the 2012 timeline.}}
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* The French soldier that Baumer stabs dies like this in ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]''.
* ''[[Psycho]]''. Poor Marion.
* ''[[Frenzy]]''. Poor Brenda.
* All the bad guys in ''[[Die Another Day]]'' (except Zao who died offscreen) died with open eyes.
* Almost every character killed on screen in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' saga died with his eyes open. Justified in those characters killed by the Avada Kedavra curse, since they were dead before they hit the floor. [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/6/63/Cedricdead.jpg Poor Cedric].
* ''[[Pod People]]'' was especially ridiculous with this idea. Even a girl who had been comatose for a couple of days, with her eyes firmly shut, died with her eyes open.
* Subversion: The film ''[[Charlie's Angels
* A similar subversion occurs near the end of the first ''[[Back to The Future]]'' film, when Doc is shot by the Libyans while, unbeknownst to Marty (and the audience), he is wearing a bulletproof vest.
* Ratso Rizzo's death on the bus in ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''
* Used in ''[[Waking Ned Divine]]''. Ned dies of shock with his eyes open after winning the lottery, and people try to disguise the lottery win as part of a clever plan. They drew the sides of his mouth down, so he'd look sad, but his eyes showed his happiness so they were forced to close them.
* Ray Brower the [[MacGuffin]] dead body in ''[[Stand
* ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]'', when the medium dies.
* Shimi Skywalker in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' dies with her eyes open and Anakin tenderly closes them before his [[Unstoppable Rage]] kicks in.
* The Colonel in ''Valkyrie'', [[Eyepatch of Power|sort of]].
* An odd variation in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''—Two-Face pulls this, but only because he has no eyelid.
* Everyone who dies in ''[[9
* In the original ending to ''[[Clerks]]'', Dante dies with his eyes open.
* ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'': Matthew Poncelet's eyes fall shut when the anesthetic kicks in, then flick open when he expires.
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* Both Hugo and David in ''[[Shallow Grave]]''. When the flatmates go to bury Hugo's corpse, the eyes appear to be staring up at David even as he's about to smash the face in. Later David also dies with his eyes open, and they remain open even as he's taken to the mortuary.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* Subverted creepily in [[J. R. R.
▲== Literature ==
▲* Subverted creepily in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers]]'': Pippin sneaks over to have a go on Gandalf's new palantir. He gets a fright when he sees Gandalf looking at him, but no, Gandalf's just asleep. Earlier in the same volume, Legolas is sleeping - with his eyes open.
** In the case of Legolas, he's not actually sleeping. Elves don't sleep, at least not the way mortals do.
* In ''[[X Wing Series|Iron Fist]]'', Ton Phanan finally dies with his eyes open and a look of wonder on his face. Granted, one is a prosthetic and ''can't'' close. Face closes his organic eye after he dies, before immolating the corpse with his TIE Interceptor.
* In ''[[
{{quote|''As I lay dying, [[Due to the Dead|the woman with the dog's eyes would not]] close my eyes as I descended into Hades.''}}
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Blood Angels]]'' novel ''Deus Sanguinius'', a woman is mortally wounded striving to be one of Arkio's chosen soldiers. Sachiel assures her that her children are [[So Proud of You|proud of her]], mercy-kills her with a weapon meant for Space Marines, and closes her eyes when she dies.
** Later Sachiel himself is lying in the [[Battle in the Rain|battlefield]], with rain falling in his open eyes.
* In ''[[Lonesome Dove]]'', Deets dies like this after getting mistaken by the Native Americans as about to kidnap a blind child, but he was [[Just Trying to Help]] in the [[Tear Jerker|most heart-wrenching way]].
* Dobby in ''[[Harry Potter and
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The main villain of ''[[Sherlock]]'', Jim Moriarty, not only shot himself through the mouth in front of Sherlock Holmes, but did it as part of a game of [[Xanatos Roulette]]. His body is shown to be smiling as well as wide-eyed.
* Subverted in episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]''. Alex Cabot is thought to be killed, but turns up alive at the end of the episode.
* ''[[Law
* ''[[Lost]]'' uses a motif of characters dying with their eyes open, and other characters closing them as a sign of finality or respect for the dead.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had Buffy find Joyce Summers lying on a couch after her sudden death with wide-open eyes. The episode makes a point of
* On ''[[In Plain Sight]]'', Mary goes to the crime scene and finds one of her victims dead. When she goes to shut his eyes a woman who we can assume is a detective or from forensics says "Hey don't touch that." Mary asks if they can close his eyes and she replies only if she has a needle and thread.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
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* {{spoiler|Lexie}} on ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]''; {{spoiler|Mark}} does the traditional closing-by-hand.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Little Susie" mentions the titular girl's blind stare, as well as someone coming to close her eyes for her.
* This happens to {{spoiler|Mikey}} in the music video for "The Ghost of You" by [[My Chemical Romance]].
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* In ''[[Metroid
▲== Video Games ==
▲* In ''[[Metroid]] Prime 2: Echoes,'' when you find the GFS Tyr's landing site, Captain Exeter is leaning against a communications console with his visor broken and his eyes wide open. After watching the Marines' final, fatal Ing encounter in cutscene, Samus shakes her head at the futility of their deaths before kneeling next to Exeter's corpse, closing his eyes through the broken glass.
* Lumine dies like this in ''[[Mega Man X]] 8''. Subverted in ''Maverick Hunter X'' where X's eyes remain open when he's unconscious, with varying reactions from observers.
* Happens with Trevor in ''Phantasmagoria2''.
* Richard L. Jenkins in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' actually averts this, as a CGI character they could give him half-closed eyes. Kaidan still comes along and closes them.
** Played straight with one unfortunate ''Normandy'' [[Red Shirt]] in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
** Also applies to anyone who bites it during the suicide mission in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* Both
* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'', Morgan LeFlay falls in a slump after whispering to Guybrush about LeChuck and [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|dies with her eyes half open]]; Guybrush becomes grieved at her loss, then pulls the sword from her [[Bloodless Carnage|not-bleeding body]] and has her hands enclose its hilt, tilts her head in a proper death pose and closes her eyes before getting up and walking away.
** Averted at the end of the same chapter, when the mortally wounded Guybrush's eyes open wide in a blank stare at a saddened Elaine, but then gently close as he collapses and [[Big Sleep|"falls asleep"]] with his mouth open.
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* Emma Emmerich in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Sivo's eyes remain open in death. Their color changes from blue to a pupil-less gray.
* The wide open eyes of Paul after his death in ''[
* ''[[The
** Also when Haley and Belkar are sneaking out of occupied Azure City; Celia uses an illusion to appear as a demon, while the two mortals draw X's over their eyelids and lie very still on the cart so they appear to be corpses.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Midway through Act 5 Act 2, the [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls]] start dying; most of the dead trolls die with their eyes open, as a result of being actively fighting when they were murdered. The exceptions are [[Team Mom|Kanaya]], who [[Our Vampires Are Different|got better]], and [[The Heart|Nepeta]], whose death was not actually seen, possibly as part of a [[
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* Penny in ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]].''
* [[Kill the Cutie|Red]] in ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer's mother, Mona, dies like this.
* ''[[Batman: The Brave
* Death in western animation may be rare, dead bodies more so, eyes wide open even more so, but ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' does its very best to make up for it.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': In the two-parter when Stewie is killed by Peter, his eyes are wide open and Peter wipes his hand over and closes them.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* When [[Western Terrorists|terrorist]] Timothy McVeigh (of Oklahoma City infamy) was executed, he expired eyes wide open, staring at the viewers.
* There's a photo of [[Serial Killer]] Ted Bundy out there that shows his eyes like this.
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