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{{quote|''"See these eyes so green

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, etc. Please do not add characters who just happen to have eyes of this color without a substantial reason behind it.

 

 

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* ''[[Spirited Away]]'''s [[Mysterious Protector|Haku]] has beautiful, striking green eyes, especially compared to the rest of the cast. At the same time, they are very cold and emotionless until {{spoiler|Chihiro helps him remember his name}}. It also helps that {{spoiler|he is a river spirit that can take the form of a dragon.}}

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Shippou is a young fox [[Youkai]] with red hair and green eyes. He's loyal, but he's also a trickster. Despite his young age, he has immense magical talent for his species, lampshaded when he's accidentally dragged into a kitsune examination session he didn't even know existed. Despite having no time to prepare for his exams and being the youngest examinee present, he wipes the floor with his fellow examinees, earning their absolute awe as he breaks records in the speed at which he climbs the Kitsune rankings. It's confirmed in-universe that one day he'll grow up to be a [[Up to Eleven|dai]][[Youkai]].

 

== Comic Books ==

** Pepper Potts, [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]]'s personal assistant and on again/off again love interest.

** Jean Grey of the [[X-Men]] fits this description, as does her alternate reality daughter, Rachel Summers.

** [[Wolverine]] seems to have a thing for women with this, his longtime love for Jean was later revealed to be just the latest in a long line of red headed, green-eyed girls.

*** And then there's his [[Opposite Gender Clone|female clone]]/daughter figure, [[X-23]], who also has green eyes.

* [[The Hulk]] is often shown with green eyes, especially in recent years, though, in the past, they've been red. Bruce Banner, on the other hand, is more often shown with brown or blue eyes, the change to green being the signal that [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry|running might be a good idea]].

 

* Tony Toponi from ''[[An American Tail]]'' is shown to have these as he stares at Bridget in a love-struck daze.

* In ''Persepolis'', Marjane Satrapi mentions a university classmate who was considered especially beautiful because of her green eyes; most Iranians, she says, have [[Black Eyes]].

* [[Megamind]]. Which also becomes a way of {{spoiler|telling it's him when he's sometimes disguised.}}

* Aisling from ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'' has green eyes, which fits the "magical" aspect of this trope since she's one of [[The Fair Folk]]. She's also something of a [[Nature Spirit]], being fiercely protective of the forest outside Kells.

* In ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'', David Lo Pan, the Big Bad, has to sacrifice a woman with green eyes in order to undo a curse that keeps his true form immaterial. Un/Fortunately {{spoiler|the love interests of both the main protagonist and his kung fu buddy have green eyes, so they have to go defeat Lo Pan's crew in a wire-fight to the death.}}

* The Mad Hatter, in [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', has extremely bright green eyes, though they turn a disturbing reddish-gold when he's agitated. The Cheshire Cat also has unnervingly huge green eyes.

* DS Barbara Havers of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]''. True to type, she's both redheaded and a spitfire.

* In the film version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Pippin has green eyes.

 

== Literature ==

* In a very famous Turkish novel called "Calikusu (lit. The Wren)" by Resat Nuri Guntekin, the heroine's unfaithful fiancé has alluring green eyes, which become a symbol for both his charm and his betrayal, as a foil to the ostensibly frivolous but deep down painfully loyal personality of his fiancée, who has [[Hazel Eyes]].

* [[Jane Eyre]] had green eyes. The morning after they first became engaged, Mr. Rochester paid her extravagant compliments, including that her eyes were "[[Hazel Eyes]]", which was followed in the exposition with "I had green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for him they were new-dyed, I suppose."

* The fact that [[Harry Potter]] and his mother, Lily, who had red hair, both have green eyes is emphasized repeatedly. [[Chekhov's Gun|With good reason]].

** In [[Harry Potter (film)|the movies]], they're blue instead - Daniel Radcliffe couldn't stand the green lenses. Luckily, Lily's portrayer Geraldine Somerville has the same color.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121006075138/http://thelastmuggle.com/2011/07/18/you-have-your-mothers-eyes-kinda-sorta-but-not-really/ Young Lily,] [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|on the other hand]]...</ref>

* Matteo and Kalid in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]'' both have green eyes, which signifies their North African ancestry.

* Akhor the Silver King of the [[Our Dragons Are Different|Kantri]] in [[Tales of Kolmar]] is green-eyed with a matching soulgem. His birth was seen as an omen, though none knew of what - admittedly this was because he was silver, for green eyes aren't rare for his kind. Still, the [[Our Gods Are Greater|Winds]] gave him {{spoiler|a human body}} when he was dying. Even then he had the same eyes, and "the eyes of a dragon are perilous deep".

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* DS Barbara Havers of ''[[The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'' has a lovely and expressive pair of sage green eyes. Yes, she is a spitfire, and yes, she is a [[Fiery Redhead|redhead]].

* In [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the classic ''Battlestar Galactica'']], Apollo is the only character in the main cast to have green eyes.

 

== Music ==

* "Jolene" by Dolly Parton has the lyrics: "With flamin' locks of auburn hair/With ivory skin and eyes of [[Significant Green-Eyed Redhead|emerald green]]".

* "Green Eyes" by Husker Du.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', Rikku is the only Guardian in Yuna's pilgrimage to have green eyes. One of Yuna's heterochromatic eyes is green as well.

 

* Penny from ''[http://www.out-at-home.com Out at Home]'' has the red-hair-green-eyes combo and is noted for having some magic-ish mental abilities.

* Kestrel from ''[[Queen of Wands]]'' and, later, ''[[Something*Positive]]'', where she's notably the only character to have colored eyes.

* Jade Harley of ''[[Homestuck]]'' has green eyes, matching—like the other three main kids—her chat text. Fitting in with the trope, she is a gardener and her game title is the "'''Witch''' of Space".

* Agatha Heterodyne of [[Girl Genius]] has these. They're one of the [[Splash of Color]] bits at the beginning.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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[[Category:Eye Color Tropes]]

[[Category:Green Tropes]]