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They can mean a character possesses an innate, natural magic, more witchlike than wizardly. Green eyes were also thought to be a sign that one has the [[Evil Eye]] power, though [[Blue Eyes]] were more commonly associated with the power. Nature spirits often have green eyes.

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.

 

 

* Klaus von dem Eberbach of ''[[From Eroica with Love]]'' has green eyes. Dorian Red Gloria compares them to Mosel wine bottles, which are green.

* Ginko from ''[[Mushishi]]'' has almost disturbingly vivid green eyes, especially in a world that doesn't make use of [[Mukokuseki]]. It's the first sign, [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|apart from his hair]], that he's not quite normal.

* Fakir from ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has green eyes to [[Curtains Match the Window|match his hair]]. He definitely fits the "exotic and sexy" implication of the trope...{{spoiler|and he inherited Drosselmeyer's [[Rewriting Reality]] powers, so he fits the magical implications as well.}}

* Maes Hughes; his wife, Gracia; and his daughter, Elysia, from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' all have green eyes. It seems to run in the family.

* James from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' has emerald green eyes, but they aren't mentioned in the series.

** As well as [[Curtains Match the Window|green-haired]] Cilan in ''Best Wishes'', although he's more noticeable for being one of only two characters in the show with [[Skintone Sclerae]]. He's one of Ash's most trustworthy friends in the series and just a bit [[Large Ham|hammy]] at times, but he has his [[Beware the Nice Ones]] moments.

** Isamu and his Clefairy from ''[[Pocket Monsters (manga)|Pocket Monsters]]'' have green eyes. Their Pikachu had it too, but he's since evolved into the typical [[Brown Eyes]] of the game.

* Cain's eyes in ''[[Godchild]]'' are described as emerald with gold in them and are seen as beautiful and mysterious.

* ''[[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]].

 

* Green Eyes [[Significant Green-Eyed Redhead|paired with]] [[Heroes Want Redheads|red hair]] seems to be a thing in the [[Marvel Universe]].

** Mary Jane Watson from ''[[Spider-Man]]'' being the ur-example, of course.

** 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.

* Catwoman has always had green eyes canonically, though she has been played by non-green-eyed actresses; she fits the concept to a "T", being mysterious and associated with cats. [[Batman|Poison Ivy]] does, too, but that's mostly because she's part plant.

** They aren't the only Batman characters with green eyes, either. With [[Depending on the Artist|respect to different artists]], [[The Joker]] is often portrayed with green eyes (the shade varies) when a close-up of them is shown. This is, of course, going more with the "untrustworthy" and "spitfire" aspects of his personality, since [[Badass Normal|he doesn't technically have any superpowers]] [[Power Born of Madness|besides insanity]] (or, sometimes, "super-sanity"). It could also be to match his [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|hair color]] or to tie him to his [[Technicolor Science|chemical bath-based origin]]...

* [[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]].

** {{spoiler|Albus Severus Potter, Harry's middle son, is described as the only one of his children to have inherited their grandmother's eyes, completing a rare triple-[[Generation Xerox]].}}

* In [[Peter S. Beagle]]'s novel ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'', Schmendrick the Magician is often mentioned to have green eyes.

* Tavi of the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' has green eyes, although he is neither magical nor catlike. {{spoiler|By the end of ''Furies of Calderon'', so does Kitai, who is both.}}

* Percy from ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' has sea-green eyes, because he is the son of Poseidon. In fact, it seems to be fairly common in the series with a good portion of named characters having green eyes.

* Jasmine of ''[[Deltora Quest]]'' is described as having "almond-shaped green eyes", definitely fitting with her [[Raised by Wolves|wild girl]] backstory.

* The green eyes of Scarlett O'Hara (a classic vixen) in ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' are mentioned repeatedly in the narrative, rather charmingly when Rhett describes them as "twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green water." Margaret Mitchell later admitted it was her favorite color.

** Note that "green water" generally means you've got a dirty fish tank or your ship is in heavy seas. Probably counts as [[Did Not Do the Research]] on the author's part.

** The Lannisters aren't the only morally ambiguous people to have green eyes. Resident [[Magnificent Bastard]] Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish is frequently described as having "laughing grey-green eyes", which fits considering that {{spoiler|he cause an entire continent to go to war out of jealousy towards the man who married his childhood crush and his insatiable greed for wealth and power.}}

* Most of Firestar's family (and at least one other major bloodline) in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' fit this description, although the trait seems rarer outside of ThunderClan. When someone's green eyes are brought up repeatedly, it usually signals a bold or strong character. And the eyes are usually described as emerald-green or leaf-green, even though brilliant green eyes are usually a purebred trait. [[Real Life]] cats tend to have the duller yellow-green kind, especially in populations that have been feral for many generations.

* Briar (a plant mage) from the ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' series has green eyes. His student, Evvy (a stone mage), described him once as the "jade-eyed boy".

* [[Roger Zelazny]] loved putting green-eyed characters in his works. How much? It shows up in one fan's Roger Zelazny [http://where-there-had-been-darkness.blogspot.com/p/roger-zelazny-drinking-game.html drinking game].

* Finny from ''[[A Separate Peace]]'' possesses a pair, empathising his free-spirited nature. [[Ho Yay|Gene is fond of]] [[What Beautiful Eyes!|pointing them out]].

* 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 ==

* Alex Krycek from ''[[The X-Files]]'' has green eyes. Fanficcers are fond of pointing this out. He's also a [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]], thus fulfilling the "untrustworthy" requirement.

* Stella Bonasera from ''[[CSI: NY]]'' has green eyes that are sometimes mistaken for [[Blue Eyes]].

* In the new series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the main cast of the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams all have green eyes.

* Dean Winchester from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has green eyes and certainly fits the 'spitfire' characteristic to the letter.

* 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]].

 

== 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 ==

* While it's not easy to see in the original ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', due to the style of his character model, the OVA reveals that {{spoiler|[[Rebel Leader]] and [[Defector From Decadence]]}} Yuan has strikingly bright green eyes. He's not only a grumpy [[Deadpan Snarker]] {{spoiler|who suffers from [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]}}, but a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] to boot.

* A very different use of green eyes happens in ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'': since the [[Sickly Green Glow]] is firmly associated with [[Drugs Are Bad|the drug Valkyr]] in it, the color green is always bad news. In that one instance, right after [[The Reveal]], Max utters: "[[Private Eye Monologue|You complete the jigsaw puzzle to discover it is a picture of yourself, finishing that same puzzle]]. [[Paranoia Fuel|A mad, green-eyed killer behind you]]."

* Parsee Mizuhashi has, by far, the most defined eye colour of any ''[[Touhou]]'' character, because she ''is'' the [[Green-Eyed Monster]].

* In ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', '''everything''' about Jade is green, including her eyes. They're definitely "mysterious, powerful and attractive." Her sidekick Double H also has much darker green eyes of stability...[[Screaming Warrior|sort]] [[Space Marine|of]].

* 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.

* ''[[Wooden Rose]]''

** [http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter1/19.html Mr. Thorne. With close ups to make it noticeable].

** The child. Once they stop being [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] and we have some hints that [[Children Are Innocent]], even ones like gnarled roots.

** Beatrice from ''[[The Dreamer]]'' has green eyes and brown/auburn hair.

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

 

== Western Animation ==

* [[Jana of the Jungle]] has green eyes, unlike [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s other blond heroines.

* [[Kim Possible]], a redhead, and her arch-nemesis, Shego, who also has green ''skin''.

'''Kim:''' [[Completely Missing the Point|What?]] I've always had green eyes. }}

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. His eyes turn green whenever he transforms into his ghost form and sometimes flash green when he's still in human form, usually when he's angry.

 

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