Icy Blue Eyes: Difference between revisions

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Piercing and icy, pale blue eyes, and sometimes gray eyes, that seem to look right through you. As a reflection of character, this variety of blue eyes indicates the coolness (as in [[Rule of Cool]]) or even coldness (as in cold and calculating) of the person who has them. Tends to overlap with [[Elemental Eye Colours]] if the character is [[An Ice Person]].

Compare [[Midnight Blue Eyes]]. Contrast [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]. If this is supposed to be scary, it may overlap with [[Creepy Blue Eyes]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', Shiki's eyes are a piercing icy blue when he's not wearing his glasses.

* Eclair from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has piercing blue eyes. They're so bright and in contrast with the darker colored eyes of, well, everyone else, they seem really [[Uncanny Valley|unnatural]].

* Mikado from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is a subverted bait-and-switch of [[Innocent Blue Eyes]]. Early in the series, the audience thinks he's your average [[Naive Newcomer]], trusting and uncorrupted by Ikebukuro city, but later, we find out he's actually {{spoiler|been the cold and calculating [[The Chessmaster|chessmaster]] and leader of the dollars this whole time, has been [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], and is the type of person you don't want to cross. On one occasion, he actually shivved a guy with a pen}}. It's at this point that you realize they were actually Icy Blue Eyes all along.

* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', after Joshua [[Comes Great Insanity|goes insane]] after being [[Blond Guys Are Evil|recruited by the villains]], his eyes are ''definitely'' "icy".

* Knives form ''[[Trigun]]'' has light, icy blue eyes in contrast to his brother's more innocent turquoise eyes. This difference may represent their different personalities.

* [[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'s [[Complete Monster|Deep Blue]] has icy blue eyes to match his cold and cruel personality.

 

* Noel, one of the main characters of ''[[Titan Legends]]'', has eyes that have been described as ice-blue and piercing. His intellectual and somewhat overly-serious personality supports this.

 

== Film ==

* Steve McQueen also had piercing blue eyes, which makes one wonder if the "blue-eyed, pretty-boy [[Badass]]" could be considered its own character type.

* ''[[Escape from New York]]'': Snake Plissken may have but one eye, but that eye is of the "piercing, icy" variety and ends up creating quite a striking effect, even leading other characters (notably, the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills in ''[[Escape From L.A.]]'') to [[What Beautiful Eyes!|comment]] upon it.

* In ''[[Batman Begins]]'', Dr. Crane has the icy, piercing, creepy variety. Tends to be a given with most characters that [[Cillian Murphy]] plays.

* A big reason [[Steven Spielberg]] hired Paul Freeman to play Belloq in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' was because he had "striking (blue) eyes that could see right through Indiana Jones".

** The opening titles to ''[[Casino Royale]]'' end with a desaturated closeup of Daniel Craig's face—desaturated except for those piercing blue eyes...

* [[Star Wars|Anakin Skywalker]]'s blue eyes, which were inherited by his son and the grandson named after him, tend to be in icy mode more often than innocent mode by the time of the Clone Wars.

* Gaston, the villain of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' has pale blue eyes, which appropriately fits his personality as being completely opposite of that of the Beast's, who also has blue eyes, but being the hero, his is darker.

 

== Literature ==

* Coira and Arpazia in ''[[White as Snow]]'' both have what the narrator describes as eyes like cold water, which is neither quite blue nor gray.

* In the novel ''Psycho'', the private eye Arbogast is described as having eyes that are "ice-blue and ice-cold".

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'' has Detroit mob lieutenant Robert Quarles (played by Neal McDonough), who has piercing, light blue eyes. In "Measures," an old woman said that Quarles had eyes like a husky.

* ''[[Life]]'': Detective Charlie Crews' piercing blue eyes look almost ''electric'' blue in certain types of lighting.

 

== Video Games ==

* Eifer from ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' has these to match her seemingly emotionless personality, even though her emotions and mood actually violently fluctuate.

 

* A definitive trait of the hated part-dragon Blue Princes (and Ashton, unfortunately for him) in ''Winters in Lavelle''.

{{quote|'''Kari:''' I just don't ''get'' it. ''Lots'' of people have blue eyes. Why make such a big deal out of ''his'' [Ashton's]?

'''Rio:''' ''Many'' have blue eyes, yes. None but the Royal Family have the cold, dead eyes of a ''Dragon''. }}

 

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[[Category:Eye Color Tropes]]

[[Category:Blue Tropes]]