Mind Control Eyes: Difference between revisions

 

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* Ellis from ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'' has these—though it's more subtle than usual—whenever her powers manifest without her control. Inverted when she still gets Mind Control Eyes even after gaining full control. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Frequently awesome]].

* In ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'', the eyes of Baby's possessed minions glow completely red.

* Flat eyes are used several times in ''[[Ghost Hunt]]'' to denote possessed people.

* Subverted in episode 11 of ''[[Daughter of Twenty Faces|The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'' when Chiko ''notices'' the mind control eyes (which appear as concentric circles instead of flat).

* Shows up on occasion in the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' anime, but not in the manga. Usually, it's Ranma Saotome (particularly in male form) who gets them; one anime episode has him hypnotized by an evil sorceress's ghost, while another episode has him being controlled by his [[Enemy Without|evil side]] brought to [[Literal Split Personality|independent life]] as an [[Opposite Gender Clone]].

** The Ranma anime has also used them to signify supernatural nature. The [[Cute Ghost Girl]] Kogane and the psychic Miyo both have Mind Control Eyes, even though they're both totally under their own control and benevolent to boot.

* In ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'', when {{spoiler|Cruje Gapp}} gets mind-controlled, these eyes are shown.

* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', Nagi gets these when she is being hypnotized by the [[Code Geass|Lelouch]] [[Expy]].

 

== Films ==

** Also happens in ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', when Jeremy is mesmerized by Mrs. Brisby's "sparkly".

* When [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Kida]] is exposed to light coming from the Atlantean Crystal, her eyes actually become a much lighter shade of blue than usual.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]'', also written by [[Neil Gaiman]], involves sewing buttons onto people's eyes as a method of brainwashing. Both this and the ''Mirrormask'' equivalent are used by an [[Evil Matriarch]] clone of the regular mother, with these exact eyes herself.

* In ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' by [[Madeleine L'Engle]], {{spoiler|Charles Wallace}} is subjected to telepathic mind control by an oversized brain referred to as IT. As this occurs, his pupils shrink until they disappear, leaving blank blue eyes.

* The final book of ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'', Mockingjay, uses a mix between the unfocused and dilated pupils. {{spoiler|Peeta's}} eyes are even shown to rapidly dilate and contract in short order when he's [[Fighting From the Inside]].

* Book the Fourth of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', The Miserable Mill. On the cover, Klaus is shown with what appears to be these. It is even implied in the book, with his blank stare and wide-open eyes.

* [[Artemis Fowl]] has a variation: Someone who's been [[Mind Control]]led repeatedly has bloodshot eyes and jagged pupils, but no other symptoms.

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' used to love doing the "unfocused eyes" version.

* In the original season of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Tommy's eyes periodically glowed neon green when he was under Rita's control- usually at points when the spell was asserting itself over what he would do normally, although it also happened whenever it would look the most menacing and nobody was around to see.

* When Kahlan confesses people in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', both her and their eyes go totally black for a period. And it shows it every time she confesses someone.

* One of the sure signs that someone is possessed by a demon in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is a flash of completely-black eyes. Particularly powerful demons show other colors in the eyes they possess - Azazel shows yellow eyes, while Lilith and Alastair show white eyes.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' characters under Hylden mind control sport glowing green eyes, which can flicker back to indicate a [[Fighting From the Inside|battle for control]]

* [[Final Fantasy VI|Terra]] sports a pair of these while under [[Monster Clown|Kefka]]'s control in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012: Duodecim]]''.

 

== Web Comics ==

** Gamma, too, when she's passing out from exhaustion. This is actually the only time we get to see her eye color at all, which incidentally seems to be hazel.

* A stick-figure filler strip for ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' lampshades and plays with the swirly-eyed version: Torg gets hit on the head and thus has swirly eyes to represent his concussion, but then when a convenient coincidence leads to him wearing a top hat and having a moustache drawn on, he immediately becomes a mind-controlling hypnotist.

* {{spoiler|Stephen's}} eyes after being possessed in ''[[Fake News Rumble]]'' keeping in [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|theme]] with purple denoting the presence of evil.

* Reginald in ''[[Nedroid]]'' [http://nedroid.com/2010/05/agree/ knows a good trick].

 

== Web Original ==

* A red-write frame is used in ''Captain Gamer: OOC''. Slightly subverted in that it's actually noticeable for the characters, and would probably go unnoticed if the Captain hadn't [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/gamer/index.php?comic=68&num=1 called attention to it]{{Dead link}}.

* In ''[[The Impossible Man]]'', characters who were subjected to mind control, had their eyes described as being red and pupil-less.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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[[Category:Eye Tropes]]

[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]

[[Category:Uh-Oh Eyes]]

[[Category:Mind Manipulation Tropes]]