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== Real Life ==
=== Famous People ===
* This is actually a very common condition in real life. One can be born with it, or one iris may change color as a result of trauma to the eye. Though in the former case, it's more common for the "odd" iris to be only ''partially'' a different color.▼
* [[Alexander the Great]] had heterochromia; one eye was very light blue, the other very dark brown, according to Plutarch.
* Celebrities with heterochromia include [[Dan Aykroyd]], Jane Seymour, [[Mila Kunis]], Kate Bosworth, [[Christopher Walken]], and [[Lee Van Cleef]] (who wore coloured contacts).
* MLB pitcher Max Scherzer (currently{{when}} with the Detroit Tigers) has one blue eye and one brown eye.
* Silent film star Colleen Moore had one blue eye and one brown eye, though with the film stock available at the time, it wasn't very noticeable.
* Mixed Martial Artist Jens "Lil' Evil" Pulver has one blue eye and one green eye.▼
* [[Shaun of the Dead|Simon]] [[Hot Fuzz|Pegg]] has sectoral heterchromia, with one blue eye and one blue-and-brown eye.▼
** As does [http://flcenterlitarts.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/elizabeth-berkley.jpg
** [http://www.femalecelebritywallpapers.com/wallpapers/Virginia_Madsen/Virginia_MadsenfSht.jpg Virginia Madsen]{{Dead link}} as well, her eyes being green with a brown spot on the left eye.▼
* ''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"].▼
* [[David Bowie]] is often mistaken as having this. Actually, one eye is just permanently dilated, after he was punched in the face in a schoolyard fight.▼
* [[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.▼
=== Other Cases ===
▲* This is actually a very common condition in real life. One can be born with it, or one iris may change color as a result of trauma to the eye. Though in the former case, it's more common for the "odd" iris to be only ''partially'' a different color.
* Heterochromia [[wikipedia:Odd-eyed cat|is not particularly rare in domestic cats]].
* Heterochromia of both the one blue eye/one brown eye type and of the single eye with two colors type is actually very common in dogs with the [[wikipedia:Merle (coat colour in dogs)|merle]] color gene. (The two-eyed variety is also reasonably common in non-merles which have the blue-eyed gene, most notably Siberian Huskies and Border Collies.) Most famously, Mike the Dog, a Scottish border collie who stared in the film ''[[Down And Out In Beverly Hills]]'', was well known for having one blue eye and one brown eye.
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** "Odd-eyed" is the term used for this condition by many animal breeders.
** This is also called "Bi-eyed" for Siberian Huskies, which have been known to have [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227080919/http://siberianhuskypuppiesblog.com/files/Siberian_Husky_copper_bi_eye.jpg one blue eye and one brown eye].
▲* Mixed Martial Artist Jens "Lil' Evil" Pulver has one blue eye and one green eye.
* Artificial heterochromia can result from certain cancer treatments, though this effect is usually temporary.
** It can also result from an overly scarred cornea, causing the light to refract differently in the affected eye. If there is only one part of the eye that is scarred, that part is affected. If the whole cornea is scarred, the whole iris is a different color.
* Animals with chimerism often have [[wikipedia:File:ChimericMouseWithPups.jpg|differently colored eyes]].
* Twins tend to be born with heterochromia.
▲* [[Shaun of the Dead|Simon]] [[Hot Fuzz|Pegg]] has sectoral heterchromia, with one blue eye and one blue-and-brown eye.
▲** As does [http://flcenterlitarts.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/elizabeth-berkley.jpg ElizabethBerkley], her eyes being green with a brown spot on the right eye.
▲** [http://www.femalecelebritywallpapers.com/wallpapers/Virginia_Madsen/Virginia_MadsenfSht.jpg Virginia Madsen]{{Dead link}} as well, her eyes being green with a brown spot on the left eye.
▲* ''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"].
▲* [[David Bowie]] is often mistaken as having this. Actually, one eye is just permanently dilated, after he was punched in the face in a schoolyard fight.
* 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.
▲* [[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.
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