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{{quote|''"Then one day Strangefolk arrived in the town.<br />
They came in camouflage, hidden behind dark glasses, but no one noticed them: they only saw shadows.<br />
You see, without the Truth of the Eyes, the Happyfolk were blind."''|'''[[
The suggestion that if you stare into someone's eyes deep enough, you can glimpse their true nature.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'': Replicants don't have human-normal eye reactions to emotion provoking situations. Rather than helping them lie, the lack of reaction is a vulnerability, marking them as a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|replicant]].
* ''[[The Negotiator]]'' -- Danny Roman ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]) delivers a lecture on facial cues, specifically touching on the tendency of the eyes to look toward the upper left when accessing memory and to the upper right when accessing imagination and making something up.
* In the 2005 film [[The Island]], after the duo escape from the cloning organ facility they once believed to be their sanctuary and home, while watching TV the heroine is somehow able to tell that the news reporter is lying about the events they just experienced due to the expression of her eyes.
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* In ''[[The Anubis Gates]]'', Beth Tichy recognizes a monster as her fiancé, transformed, by the expression in his eyes -- {{spoiler|just ''after'' she shoots it}}.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld
** A similar rule applies to the various transformed creatures in ''[[Discworld
** Experienced conman Moist Von Lipwig of ''[[Discworld
** ''[[Discworld
** Slightly more inexplicably, [[Discworld
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* All over the place in the ''[[
* ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' plays with the "wearing [[Sinister Shades]] to disguise his true nature" version of the trope, with a sinister character whose dark glasses prompt speculation about what horrors his eyes would reveal if they were visible. Ultimately, it's revealed that {{spoiler|not only are his eyes entirely normal, they proclaim his true -- kind and friendly -- disposition, so he had to hide them in order to appear sinister}}.
* ''[[The Moomins]]'': In one [[Nightmare Fuel]]-worthy scene, the characters find a magic hat that transforms things. Moomintroll tries it out of curiosity and is turned into a hideous monster. None of his family members recognize him, but in the end Moominmamma can still tell that it is him by staring into his eyes.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* An episode of ''[[
{{quote| "Giles, you turned into a demon and I knew it was you! I mean, can't you just look in my eyes and be all intuitive?"}}
* ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'': Dr. Cal Lightman and the rest of the Lightman Group use microexpressions (a minute form of facial movements) and body language to determine whether or not someone is telling the truth. [[Dr. Jerk|Cal]], [[Team Mom|Gillian]], and [[Handsome Lech|Loker]] studied for years to learn it. [[Naive Newcomer|Torres]] is a "natural", one of something like 5% of the population who has the ability to spot deception.
* On ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
* Stephen Foster's song "In The Eye Abides The Heart".
* "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" by [[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Disney's ''[[Beauty and
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' the characters can distinguish between their friends and their friend's evil counterparts from the [[Mirror Universe]] by looking into their eyes.
{{quote| '''Eizzil''': How did you know I wasn't really your stupid girlfriend?<br />
'''Nigel''': When I look into Lizzie's eyes, I can tell she's not a jerk. }}
* Subverted in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* In ''[[Rango]]'', Rattlesnake Jake says that Rango won't shoot him because he doesn't have a killer's eyes. {{spoiler|In round two, Jake gets an [[Oh Crap]] moment after Rango has had his act together and is willing to kill.}}
* Subverted in [[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Homer''': Look me in the eye boy, and tell me you didn't do it.<br />
'''Bart''': I didn't do it.<br />
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