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{{quote|''Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed''
|Title of a '''[[Ray Bradbury]]''' story}}
It's said that eyes are the [[Windows of the Soul|window to the soul]], and in fiction, their color is often the first way to hint at a character's true nature. In particular, characters who have gold and yellow-colored eyes tend to have some form of supernatural origin or powers that place them above normal humans and very often have an animalistic side to them. In the real world, several creatures have this eye color—ducks (you read right), wolves, foxes, owls, cheetahs (though their eyes are most commonly copper or light brown), lions, domestic cats, bearded dragons, and quite a few others. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Martinbrowneyes.jpg Humans can also possess this eye color], though it is rare, or at least very uncommon.
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A subtrope of [[Technicolor Eyes]] and [[Common Eye Colors]]. If paired with [[Hair of Gold]], [[Blondes Are Evil]], [[Blond Guys Are Evil]], or [[Dumb Blonde]], it becomes a case of [[Curtains Match the Window]]. May overlap with [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]].
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,
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* [[The Flash|Bart Allen]] (Impulse/Kid Flash II) of the [[The DCU]] has naturally golden eyes; this, along with his [[Anime Hair|wild auburn hair]], serves as a character marker. He's a bit of a devil-may-care type (hence the codename), but his heart's undoubtedly in the right place. And he actually manages to make a normally sickly-evil eye color look really cute!
** Probably inherited from his psychotic ancestor, Professor Zoom, archnemesis of the Flash family. [http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1341/impulseeyescloseup.png Here's] [http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6513/professorzoomeyescloseu.png close-ups] of both of their eyes - drawn by the same artist, to boot, though roughly 10 years apart. The critical difference in depiction is their personalities (physically, they have the ''exact same eyes'', which is very unsettling, but that's it). Bart's joyful and friendly demeanor makes them bright like sunshine; Thawne is the exact opposite: his eyes burning like a raging wildfire - to the point where they sometimes turn [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|reddish-orange]]. Bart's eyes can also turn into that fiery-orange color as well, but only under extreme rage or stress - it's a signifier that he isn't [[Cloudcuckoolander|playing around]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|anymore]].
** And, for that matter, so do his mother, Meloni (sunshine glow, just like Bart, though hers are actually closer to amber) and his [[Evil Twin]], [[Cloning Blues|Inertia]]. Thad can pull off some ''stunning'' impressions of Bart's emotional body language (and that includes the famed [[Puppy Dog Eyes]] as well) when the situation calls for it, but his eyes usually default to a sinister glow, as seen [
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Doctor Finitevus]] has yellow-golden irises...and pupils. They really stand out because his eyeballs are entirely black otherwise.
* Timmorn Yellow-Eyes of ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has, obviously, yellow eyes, {{spoiler|which he got from his father, who was a wolf, his mother being an elfin shapechanger, making him basically a half-elf werewolf}}. Several other elves have yellow eyes as well, particularly Rayek and Nightfall. In Rayek's case, he's one of the few very magical Sun Folk. With Nightfall, it's likely just more to link her to Timmorn, the ancestor of all the Wolfriders, and emphasize her origins.
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== Visual Novels ==
* Emiya Shirou from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', for no clear reason. Nobody comments on it. It's probably for the same reason he has [[Redheaded Hero|red hair]] despite being completely Japanese. Also, in the "Heaven's Feel" route of the game, when {{spoiler|Saber}} is possessed by {{spoiler|Sakura}}, she gains these as part of her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].
* The vampire Arcueid in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' has [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]], but she's more of a ditsy good guy than anything else. When they turn ''gold'', however, it's time to run. When her irises turn gold and the scleras of her eyes turn red, you're already dead. {{spoiler|And, just for yet another level of [[Oh Crap]], there's when her eyes return to being merely gold, her hair grows out, and her attitude turns cold and haughty, to indicate that she's not really Arcueid at all, anymore; someone else has taken over.}}
** Kohaku from the same game has yellowish eyes (appropriately, her name translates as "amber"). She's not evil, per se, just kinda...[[Yandere|messed up]].
* Misha in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' has golden eyes, though it's not quite sure yet what that means.
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== Web Original ==
* Tennyo, in the [[Whateley Universe]], has the [[Tenchi Muyo!|Ryoko]] golden eyes. When she gets mad, she goes to [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]. It looks like her backstory matches this trope exactly.
* Blake Belladonna of ''[[RWBY]]'', which makes perfect sense because she's a [[Cat Girl|cat faunus]].
== Western Animation ==
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