Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Difference between revisions

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Villains and evil characters tend to wear excessive, dark colored makeup on and around their eyes. The key word here is ''"excessive"'', as in "singlehandedly keeps a cosmetics company in the black" (no pun intended). There's a few ways for the character to apply the Evil Eyeshadow: there's always some on the eyelid accompanied with mascara to darken and lengthen the eye lashes, and the "excessive" extra can be applied as upper or lower eyeshadow... or ''both'' to go the extra villainous mile. The color isn't restricted to just black, but just about any color as long as it's sufficiently dark.

 

Despite [[Winx Club|the Trix girls]] being the page pic, guys can wear Excessive Evil Eyeshadow, usually in the form of [[Guyliner]]. They also tend to be a lot... ''quirkier''... than other guy villains. It's also worth noting that this [[Sub-Trope|Sub-tope]] of [[Obviously Evil]] is so exclusively villainous it's rare to see even [[Anti-Hero|Anti Heroes]] use Excessive Evil Eyeshadow. If the character also wears a lot of makeup in addition to the excessive evil eyeshadow, expect him/her to be a [[Monster Clown]]. When the darkness is natural, rather than from cosmetics, it's [[Creepy Shadowed Undereyes]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Yuda from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.

* Orochimaru from ''[[Naruto]]''.

* Drocell Caines from ''[[Black Butler]]'' (anime only).

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', [[Filler Villain]] Muramasa has large fields of purple eyeshadow in a fancy shape. He is fairly reserved, but definitely bold, mysterious, and unsettling. Although being the spirit of a zanpakuto weapon, it could just be part of his anatomy.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Marvel Comics]]' villainess The Enchantress.

** Emma Frost is a dual example. She's the trope played straight during her White Queen of the Hellfire Club days, but she subverts it now that she's one of the ''[[X-Men]]'', but [[Costume Inertia|still wears]] the silver-white eyeshadow and lipstick.

 

== Film ==

** [http://images.wikia.com/villains/images/d/dd/Madame-medusa.png Madame Medusa] in ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]''

** [http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj42/DeivisGiannini/CruellaDevillepose_jpg.png Cruella de Vil] in ''[[101 Dalmatians]]''

** Ursula and Morgana from Disney's ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' and ''The Little Mermaid II:Return to the Sea'' were villains who wore heavy eyeshadow.

*** [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_obZu0g1cpoc/SPPhpPdN4YI/AAAAAAAABtA/3HsUs0siTFI/s400/cap078.jpg Marina del Rey] in the prequel.

*** Vanessa, Ursula's human disguise, also utilized this in some official still arts of her.

** Mother Gothel from ''[[Tangled]]''.

** Rare male example: Jafar from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. .

** Subverted with the witches from ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''. Although neither of them are actually evil, they are all still very nasty.

* The Red Queen from ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.

* Komodo from ''[[Warriors of Virtue]]'' wore pretty heavy eyeliner.

* Azkadellia from the [[Sci Fi]] miniseries [[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]].

* The [[Evil Overlord]] in ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]'' is quite fond of green eyeshadow.

 

== Literature ==

The guard looked at her occult bangles, her lined cloak, her trembling hands and her face. The face was particularly worrying. Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl. He found his fingers wanted to make a sign to ward off '''the evil eyeshadow.''' }}

 

* Angel when he becomes Angelus on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].''

** The [[Darker and Edgier]] Wishverse Buffy.

* Dr. Renfro / Madame X from ''[[Dark Angel]]''.

* Caroline from ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' gets this upon first becoming a vampire. Dropped after a few weeks when writers realized it was ridiculous, as Caroline isn't evil nor is she trying to look different, and other vampires don't have this effect.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* This distinguishes the more evil of the two consorts in ''[[Overlord]]''.

* [[Token Evil Teammate|Morrigan]] of ''[[Dragon Age]]'' wears tons of purple eyeshadow around her [[Eyes of Gold]].

 

== Web Original ==

* Prince Jazan subverts in the ''[[Neopets]]'' Ancient Egypt-themed "Lost Desert" plot. For most of the plot he's played as a villain, with heavy guyliner. (That is, heavier than other characters.) Later on he's revealed to have been controlled by the real [[Big Bad]], and makes a [[Heel Face Turn]]. He never stops wearing the guyliner.

* Dark Nella from [[The Nostalgia Chick]] reviews. It even gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].

'''The Chick:''' Where are your glasses? ''*[[GASP]]!*'' You're ''[[Evil Makeover|evil!]]'' }}

 

== Western Animation ==

* Ember from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''

* [[The Joker]] has this in [[Filmation]]'s version of ''[[Batman]]'', which was produced in 1968.

 

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[[Category:Evil Tropes]]

[[Category:Villainous Fashion Sense]]

[[Category:Obviously Evil]]

[[Category:Eye Tropes]]