Mismatched Eyes: Difference between revisions

Sometimes referred to as "boat lights", a reference to the red and green lights that mark port and starboard on boats and aircraft. Note that for proper boat lights the red eye would be the left eye. Souseiseki's eyes<ref>the one in the background [[Rozen Maiden|desu]]</ref> are proper boat lights, while Suiseiseki's are reverse boat lights.

 

 

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* In ''[[11eyes]]'', Kakeru has a [[Eyes of Gold|blind right eye]], covered by an [[Eyepatch of Power|an overly large eyepatch]] and a completely normal blue left eye.

* Jio Freed from ''[[666 Satan]]'' has one blue and one red eye, as well as half-and-half hair. This is mainly to symbolize the fact that he [[Super-Powered Evil Side|is a host to Demon 1i, Satan]].

* In ''[[Another]]'', {{spoiler|there's the reverse-boatlights variant, when we find out that under Misaki's [[Eyepatch of Power]], hides a green clairvoyant glass eye ([[Creepy Doll|from a doll]]), in contrast to her right normal red.}}

 

* Delirium of The Endless, from ''[[The Sandman]]''. It's part of her overall chaotic look. This disappears when she pulls herself together to be serious. She hates doing this as it is hinted it actually causes her physical pain.

** Both lampshaded and subverted, as one line specifically states she can't remember which eye is supposed to be green and which one blue with sparkles. If you watch carefully, they do reverse from time to time.

* Nicodemus West in ''[[Doctor Strange]]: The Oath'' has one brown eye and one blue.

 

 

* Hiroyuki Morita's ''[[The Cat Returns]]''—Both the Cat King and the Cat Prince have different colored eyes. The King takes it further by being crosseyed and [[Cloudcuckoolander|crazy]].

* A nonhuman/humanlike appearance example: in Shane Acker's ''[[9|Nine]]'', the rims of [[Mad Oracle|6's]] lense eyes are mismatched in color (one is more gold-ish, while the other is a gray color.) [[Mad Eye|They're also different sizes.]]

* Brother Aidan's cat Pangur Ban from ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'', who has one blue eye and one green eye. The viewer may be interested to know that Aisling of [[The Fair Folk]] has green eyes, and human Brendan has blue.

* Tank from ''[[Surf's Up]]'', although it's very difficult to see (one blue, one brown).

* In ''[[28 Weeks Later]]'', the mother and her son have heterochromia. When she becomes a vector for [[The Virus]], it serves as a clue to her and her son's shared biological resistance to the [[Zombie Apocalypse|virus]], and an indicator of when they become exposed but remain unturned: one eye becomes bloodshot like a normal <s> zombie's</s> [[Not Using the Z Word|infected]] would, the other remains clear.

* ''[[X2: X-Men United]]'': Jason Stryker has differently-colored eyes, as does the illusory little girl he creates.

* In ''[[Don't Look Back (film)|Don't Look Back]]'', the characters' appearances slowly change over the course of the movie. Characters who are midway through their transformations often have mismatched eyes.

 

* Chip, the hero of Ira Levin's novel ''[[This Perfect Day]]'', has one brown and one green eye. This causes him some embarrassment, since he lives in a world where genetic engineering and restrictions on who may reproduce have produced a world of near-identical people, all of whom have brown eyes. He eventually has the green eye replaced by a brown one, as part of a scheme to lull the [[Big Bad]] into thinking he was finally accepting his role in society.

* Tyrion Lannister in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has, in addition to several other congenital defects, either heterochromia or partial aniridia, with one green eye and one black one.

** Also, the minor character Shiera Seastar had one green and one blue eye, from the Dunk & Egg novels set in the same 'verse.

** Just so you realize how [[Ax Crazy]] Teatime really is, in a world where magic <s> has costs and often goes haywire</s> ''is the equivalent of nuclear weapons'', he ''stuck a magical eyeball into his own head''.

** Nanny Ogg's cat, Greebo, also has mismatched eyes, one's a normal yellow cat's eye, and the other is pearly white and blind, presumably due to one of the many fights he's had with animals much bigger than him.

* Hnick from Dmitri Yemets's book series ''Methodius Buslaev'' has one blue eye and one black eye according to book 3. Romasjusik is also described as having one golden eye and one orange eye. Both cases aren't natural, since the latter has artificial body, while former's body [[Nightmare Fuel|is stitched from at last two different corpses.]]

 

* Chief Inspector Derek Conway in ''[[The Bill]]'' had this condition, mainly because the actor who played him did as well (and they didn't want to bother mucking about with contact lenses trying to make his eyes the same colour).

* In one chapter of ''[[Goosebumps]]'' TV adaptation, there is a girl, best friend of the protagonist of that episode who has different coloured eyes, one blue and one in a darker greenish tone. That's because {{spoiler|she is in fact a huskie dog, and all the kids in town, protagonist included, were puppies genetically modified to become human}}.

* Lieutenant Aiden Ford of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has one eye turn completely black due to an accident during a Wraith attack on the city. This same accident also got him hopped up on and addicted to [[Psycho Serum|Wraith enzyme]], causing him to go AWOL and hunt down the Wraith on his own.

* From ''[[CSI]]'', {{spoiler|Lady Heather's daughter has one brown and one blue eye. This becomes a horrific plot point when the daughter becomes a victim of an insane Mengele wannabe who prefers his women with two blue eyes.}}

* ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'', episode 43, features this and [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] with Fuwa Juzo, the half-monster semi-villain. Can be seen at 6:24 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDeNEHtftrQ here.]

* The Chief in ''[[Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left]]'' has these, as well as a mechanical monacle.

* Agent Kensi Blye on ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'' has one dark brown eye and one hazel eye.

 

* Murdoc Niccals of the virtual band [[Gorillaz]] has two different colored eyes, one black and one red.

** 2D temporarily had this during his coma year, as one eye was normal and the other fully black due to a fracture.

** [[Vocaloid|Utatane Piko]] has one blue eye and one green eye.

 

** Actually, the original implication wasn't that the fire caused Kane's eye to become miscolored, but that it was a ''false'' eye altogether, implying that not only had Kane lost ''sight'' in that eye, he physically lost the ''eye'' as well. This was ignored as the years went on, and now the mismatched eyes aren't even commented on at all, but because it's such a well known feature of the character, it has remained despite no longer even seeming to matter in [[Continuity Snarl|the character's admittedly screwed up history.]]

 

* In the world of Marus, as depicted in ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'''s ''Passages'' tie-in episode, different-colored eyes are recognized as a sign of prophecy. Interworldly interloper Alice physically goes from having brown eyes to blue and green, then loses them again when her time as [[God|The Unseen One]]'s messenger is up.

 

* Shelyn, the Goddess of love and beauty in ''[[Pathfinder]]'' sometimes appears with one blue eye and one silver eye.

 

* The play ''Redwood Curtain'' is centered on a young Vietnamese girl who was adopted by an American family. She has "eyes like a husky dog" (one blue, one dark). When she meets a homeless Vietnam vet who has similar eyes, she starts wondering if he could be her biological father. {{spoiler|He's not, but he knows who is.}}

 

* In ''[[Quintessence]]: The Blighted Venom'', Kardian (Alden) performs an operation on Lunair using Reivier's eye to cause her right eye to turn green whenever Shanti takes control, as a warning.

* An updated artwork of Louis Cyphre from ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'' shows that he has a red pupil on the right, and blue on the left to indicate that he's no he.

* Ironhead from ''[[Swim Ikachan]]'' has a right red eye and a blue left eye, although you couldn't tell the latter's colour in his [[The Cameo|cameo appearance]] in ''[[Vieo Game/Cave Story|Cave Story]]'', since it can only be seen when he's facing left.

* Johnny Powell in ''[[The Darkness (video game)|The Darkness]] 2''. They're both blue, but his left eye's abnormal.

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==

* Mary's normally blue eye right turned to gold six months before the story started in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]''. The golden eye is somewhat magical and a macguffin throughout the story. {{spoiler|Near the end, Charlotte's left eye also turns gold, but it changes back eventually.}}

 

* Mannick from ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' has a red right eye, and grey (blue in some comics) left eye. It doesn't appear to mean anything in particular.

* Sifris from ''[[Pink Black]]'' has a blue eye and a pink eye. This is never really noted or explained, so it is possibly normal.

*** [http://www.missmab.com/Demo/Leader14.php Apparently] heterochromia (as well as wings that are both feathered and bat-like) are traits of an old and reclusive clan, though they occasionally appear in members of other clans and it's usually considered a good omen when they do.

* Most of the Val'Sullisin'rune family in ''[[Drowtales]]'' have mismatched eyes, a fact that is commonly known in the setting and referred to as "devil eyes" in the case of the Ill'haress Ash'waren. It is not clear that they have any sort of "dual nature".

* Kade from ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has a yellow/gold left eye and a blue right eye. Of course, he ''is'' a [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|Werecat]]...

* The chimera boy [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-01-05 Archie] from Ellen's second life dreams in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', although he hasn't been drawn in colour yet, appears to have heterochromia, given that one of his eyes is filled, and the other has a pupil and a gap between the pupil and the outline of the iris.

* Vladic from ''[[Emergency Exit]]''. This could be normal for his species for all we know...we've never seen both eyes of the only other Merf character.

* Prism from ''[[Flaky Pastry]]'' has one violet eye and one cyan eye.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': Sollux has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003971 one eye that's completely red and one that's completely blue], thus making him an example of both Mismatched Eyes and [[Monochromatic Eyes]]. However, this wasn't immediately obvious because he wears a pair of [[Cool Shades|red-and-blue 3D glasses]] almost all the time. This duality is symbolic of his bipolar disorder. {{spoiler|It continues after he [[Only Mostly Dead|"half-dies"]] (he's got two dreamselves): he gets one [[Blank White Eyes|white eye]] (from his dead self in the dream bubbles) and [[Black Eyes of Evil|one black eye]] for his blinded realself. The "half-alive" Sollux with Aradia has the same eyes but reversed.}}

* Wally in ''[[Zebra Girl]]''. One reason for this may be pragmatic—it makes him much easier to tell from the other wolves when shifted.

* Charlie of ''[[The Zombie Hunters]],'' a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] ''[[The Undead|Zombie]].'' has one normal, pale blue right eye, while the [[A Sinister Clue|left]] eye has a [[Black Eyes of Crazy|black sclera]] and a [[Glowing Eyelights of Undeath|glowing white]] iris, like those of [[Our Zombies Are Different|most other Zombies]]. He easily conceals it with a special contact lens.

* Feral from [[Strays]]. His green eye is natural,the red one was caused by something else. Feral, being mute, can't tell us what.

* Berri in ''[[Fiyora Nya]]'' has one red eye and one green eye. Though they apparently change colors due to her other souls.

* In ''[[Doomsday, My Dear]]'' the main character has one blue and one green eye {{spoiler|because this is a trait of a carrier of [[The Plague|the Blood Plague]]. Several other characters turn out to have this undesirable trait as the comic progresses }}

* Chev from ''[[Papi Nyang]]'' has one blue/green and one yellow eye.

* ''[[Patchwork and Lace]]'' features Sheol, who not only has different eye colours, but [[Flesh Golem|different-shaped eye slits]].

 

* Chaz Villette from ''[[Shadow Unit]]'' has one brown eye and one greenish-hazel.

* Achmed the Snake from the ''Rhapsody Chronicles'' has eyes that are not only mismatched in color, but also in size, shape, and quite probably, species. Also, a face that looks like scar tissue, apparently.

* In ''[[The Masked Girl]]'', Griffin has one brown-red eye and one blue eye.

* Several characters from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' such as Marzipan (one of her eyes is larger than the other), Bubs (one blue eye and one black eye), the Poopsmith (one black eye and one white eye), and Hyperactive Strong Sad.

 

* Mr. Lee from ''[[Alpha Teens On Machines|A.T.O.M.]]'' spend most of the first season as blue-eyed... then suddenly he appears with different-colored eyes. No one (except viewers) seemed to notice. {{spoiler|And the next thing we know, he's revealed as [[Evil All Along]]. He turns out to be a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. and an [[Evilutionary Biologist]] to boot.}}

* ''[[The Batman]]'s'' version of Tony Zucco (the guy that killed Dick Grayson's parents) actually has a blue right eye, and a brown left eye.

* Harry the tomcat from ''[[The Garfield Show]]'' has the red/green combination.

* In ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', Nutty has one black eye and one green lazy eye.

* Max the cat from ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' has one green eye and one blue.

* Not official, but some fan art depicts Odd of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' with mismatched eyes (usually a purple one).

* Ned from ''[[Doug]]'' has one [[Black Bead Eyes|black bead eye]] and one round white eye with a black iris.

 

=== Famous People ===

* [[Alexander the Great]] had heterochromia; one eye was very light blue, the other very dark brown, according to Plutarch.

* ''Too Big To Fail'' author [[wikipedia:Andrew Ross Sorkin|Andrew Ross Sorkin]] has one normal hazel eye and one golden-brown cat-like eye (which looks [[Evil Eye|really unnerving]] on a big HD screen).

* [[Catherine Tate]] has central heterochromia [http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5360/tateeyes.png as seen in "Turn Left"].

* [[Gracie Allen]] had different colored irises. When TV shifted to color, she retired (leaving [[George Burns]] as a solo act); she felt that it was too distracting/embarrassing to work in color.

 

* Twins tend to be born with heterochromia.

* An episode of "Medical incredible" had an episode that included this. While one could not tell by looking at the boy, if you looked in photographs, he had Mismatched Eyes. His mother thought this was ''very'' strange because it kept showing up in every single photograph, and ''only'' in photographs. Everyone else thought it was just a trick of the light or a camera flaw, but she knew something was up, so she finally insisted that doctors check his eye in case there was something wrong. Turns out, [[Oh Crap|this was because of a rare eye cancer]]. You can rest easily - because they caught it early, they could cure it, and the boy is alive.

 

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[[Category:Eye Color Tropes]]

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