Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: Difference between revisions

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* The Skull Knight from ''[[Berserk]].'' [[As You Know|As you might have already guessed]], he's a skeleton, soooo....

* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Sid, who is a zombie, has these.

== Comic Books ==

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* Most [[Blackest Night|Black Lanterns]] had glowing points of red or white light in otherwise seemingly empty eye sockets.

== Film ==

== Films -- Animation ==

* The Witch-King of Angmar, from the [[So Bad It's Good|Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[The Return of the King (animation)|The Return of the King]]''. He also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWjt6LGhHsI talks like Skeletor.] [[Adaptation Displacement|Ironically]], the Witch-King's Glowing Eyelights of Undeath are accurate to [[The Lord of the Rings|the book]]. They are the only thing visible except his crown.

* ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'' has a talking skull that's usually quite silly and playful... [[Mood Whiplash|until he]] [[By the Eyes of the Blind|recognizes]] [[One-Scene Wonder|a]] '''''"UUUUU-NICOOOOOOORN!"'''''

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* The vampires in the [[So Bad It's Good]] vampire movie ''Innocent Blood''. In [[Kaleidoscope Eyes|several different colors]], too.

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== Gamebooks ==

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* The Helghasts in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, as shown with the image above. Note that they are [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifters]], and thus their eyes don't glow while in human form, as it would give them away. (The glow may be a side effect of the psychic attack that a Helghast is trying to ''melt your brain'' with...)

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** Most other undeads in the series avert this. The skeletal Vordaks still have [[The Dead Have Eyes|human eyeballs]], while some zombies either have eyes or just rotting eye sockets.

== Literature ==

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* Ghost dogs with glowing eyes attack a gangster's former home every other night in the Nancy Drew novel ''Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake''.

* In the ''Goosebumps'' book ''The Ghost Next Door'', Danny's ghost in the Shadow World chases Hannah, red eyes glowing.

* ''[[Discworld]]'''s Death, only with blue lights. They turned red once in ''[[~~Discworld/Mort|~~Mort]]'' when he was enraged.

* ''[[Discworld]]''{{'}}s Death, only with blue lights. They turned red once in ''[[Mort]]'' when he was enraged.

* The Greater Dead in Garth Nix's ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' trilogy have fiery pits for eyes. Necromancers have a lesser version of this (physical eyes are still there, but they're described as burning), depending on how long they've been using Free Magic.

* The Ringwraiths in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' have ambiguously glowing eyelights of some sort, in some versions, apparently.

* Bob the Skull in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. More precisely, Bob ''is'' the glowing ~~eyelignts—he~~'s an air spirit that looks like a cloud of glimmering motes that happens to live in a skull, rather than an undead being.

* Bob the Skull in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. More precisely, Bob ''is'' the glowing eyelights — he's an air spirit that looks like a cloud of glimmering motes that happens to live in a skull, rather than an undead being.

* In ''[[The Laundry Series]]'' by [[Charles Stross]], infection by one of the gibbering extradimensional horrors the Laundry fights against is marked by eyes full of what appear to be glowing, seething worms.

* In [[Simon R. Green]] 's ''[[Nightside]]'' series, Merlin Satanspawn has empty eye sockets filled with flames. He's the Devil's son, and every time these eyes are mentioned it's commented that "he has his father's eyes". He's first met as an undead, but when his live version is encountered (while time traveling to the era of [[Arthurian Legend]] in ''Paths Not Taken'') he already has the freaky flaming eye-sockets.

* In [[Simon R. Green]]'s ''[[Nightside]]'' series, Merlin Satanspawn has empty eye sockets filled with flames. He's the Devil's son, and every time these eyes are mentioned it's commented that "he has his father's eyes". He's first met as an undead, but when his live version is encountered (while time traveling to the era of [[Arthurian Legend]] in ''Paths Not Taken'') he already has the freaky flaming eye-sockets.

* The Stalkers in Philip Reeve's ''[[Mortal Engines]]'', being [[Cyborg]]-[[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]] [[Super Soldiers]], have their eyes replaced with green lights.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', people killed by the Others have their eyes turned bright blue, which then glow when they're active in undeath. People resurrected by the magic of R'hllor, though not conventionally undead, have a red glow in their eyes at times.

== Music ==

* Eddie, the undead mascot of british heavy metal band [[Iron Maiden]], has semi-skeletal facial features and empty eye sockets with this trope in full display. Sometimes his eyelights are flames, sometimes lightning, occasionally something else, but they're present in almost every appearance of the charater from album art to merchandise to the huge animatronic stage puppets appearing on tour.

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=== Music Videos ===

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== Music Videos ==

* The zombie gorillas in the video for the [[Gorillaz]] song "Clint Eastwood" have glowing red eyelights and apparently no eyeballs (as can be seen when one of them disintegrates). They otherwise look just like living gorillas, except for having blue fur for some reason.

== New Media ==

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* Celes from ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]'' has eyes like these. She's not ''actually'' undead, despite looking like a corpse and having a skeleton arm as an arm.

== Myths & ~~Religion~~ ==

== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==

* The jikininki of Japanese folklore, who are said to be the ghosts of self-centered or impious people, have glowing eyes.

== ~~New~~ ~~Media~~ ==

== Tabletop Games ==

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=== Gamebooks ===

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* Celes from ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]'' has eyes like these. She's not ''actually'' undead, despite looking like a corpse and having a skeleton arm as an arm.

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* The Helghasts in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series, as shown with the image above. Note that they are [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifters]], and thus their eyes don't glow while in human form, as it would give them away. (The glow may be a side effect of the psychic attack that a Helghast is trying to ''melt your brain'' with...)

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** Most other undeads in the series avert this. The skeletal Vordaks still have [[The Dead Have Eyes|human eyeballs]], while some zombies either have eyes or just rotting eye sockets.

== Tabletop ~~Games~~ ==

=== Tabletop RPG ===

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** Liches have "pinpoints of light" in their empty eye sockets and archliches (non-evil variant lich) have twinkling lights. Alhoon (illithid liches), however, look much like in life, but with dried skin.

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** A subversion with ''Mystara'''s "dusanu": this monster looks like a typical rotting skeleton... but in fact it isn't undead but a ''fungal colony'' that had taken over a corpse. The haunting blue lights coming from its eyes sockets are in fact caused by the waste fumes of the fungus.

* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', one of the early powers vampires can gain in the Protean (shapeshifting) discipline allows them to see in the dark while making their eyes glow red.

=== War Games ===

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'': According to the associated literature (such as ''Nagash The Sorcerer''), animated skeletons have this.

** Normal skeletons don't, however. Nagash was just that awesome.

== Theme Parks ==

* Trauma Towers, a funhouse based at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in England, contains vampire children with glowing eyes.

== Video Games ==

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* All of the zombies in ''[[Call of Duty]]: Zombies'' have yellow-orange lights in their eye sockets. Zombie!George Romero eyes glow when he's in berserk mode.

* At least some ways of being turned into a husk in [[Mass Effect]] involve death, so they probably qualify.

== Web Comics ==

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** [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0275.html Again in the forest].

* The formerly human zeds of ''[[Zombie Ranch]]'' are distinguished by glowing red eyes. Animal zombies shown seem to lack this feature so far.

== Web Original ==

* All zombie-esques with intelligence in ''[http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/sonny?acomplete=sonny Sonny]'', the free online Flash RPG series.

== Western Animation ==

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