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Alternately, it may indicate a [[Half-Human Hybrid|dual nature or origin]]. Given the prevalence of [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|odd hair colors]] and albinism in animation, just being pale with red eyes isn't symbolic enough anymore. Sometimes this is the budget version of [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]], but in any case it's some easily remembered [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] that doesn't aggravate the artists much (unless they have trouble remembering which eye is which color).

** Spike's [[Mismatched Eyes]] serve something of a plot function as well. Besides reminding us what he's gone through prior to his bounty hunting career, that cybernetic eye might explain why he's such an excellent shot with a handgun, at least when he's standing still.

** This feature was brought up rather explicitly in the climax of episode 20, "Pierrot le Fou", where it is revealed that {{spoiler|the cat that was present during the title character's horrific experiments (and was responsible for his [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|ailurophobia]]), had heterochromia, leading to him freezing up at a crucial moment during the final showdown with Spike due to the light making his cyber-eye glow in a similar fashion to the cat's, allowing Spike to defeat him}}.

* A minor [[Differently-Powered Individual|Contractor]] from ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' has red and green eyes.

* Luki and Noki from ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]'' have very weird eyes (gold with a black iris, black with a gold iris, with the actual which-eye-is-which swapped between twins). They're [[Enfant Terrible|enfants terribles]].

* The Count from ''[[Gankutsuou]]''. This symbolizes not only his moral ambiguity and inner conflicts, but also the fact that he is {{spoiler|[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|part-human, part-monster, part-alive, part-undead and part-earthling, part-alien]] through his symbiosis with Gankutsuou}}. The duality symbolism is also present in some representations of his crest, a stylized heart divided into two clear compartments with different colours to represent {{spoiler|his remaining human feelings and the fact that he is gradually turning into a cold-hearted monster}}.

* Urumi Kanzaki from ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' is heterochromatic and {{spoiler|was conceived via artificial insemination}}.

* Allelujah Haptism from ''[[Gundam 00]]'' has a [[Gray Eyes]] and a [[Eyes of Gold|gold]] one. His hair always obscures one of the two, cluing any viewers into whether it is he or his evil [[Split Personality]] Hallelujah that is currently in control. {{spoiler|In the end, he ends up pulling his hair back to reveal both eyes, allowing both [[Split Personality Merge|personalities to simultaneously control his body, giving him the reflexes of two people]].}}

** {{spoiler|As of chapter 514, [[Big Bad|Tobi]] has been confirmed to have implanted a Rinnegan in his left eye, while his right remains a Sharingan.}}

* The eponymous [[Hell Hound]] of ''[[Nora]]''; when in human guise, his right eye is red and his left is yellow.

* The Count D from ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' has heterochromia, one eye being purple and the other, whom he hides under his hair, is golden. In the manga, it's explained that {{spoiler|this is meant to be representative not only for his non-human nature, but also for his inheritance: his father and grandfather have golden and purple eyes, respectively. Since each one has a very different personality, and D has personality traits from ''both'', his heterochromia symbolizes this dual nature}}.

* Ramses from ''[[Red River]]'' has one brown eye and one golden eye.

** 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.

** Gaeriel's daughter, Malizna, inherits the eye colors. Whether this has to do with genetics, [[The Force]], or simple [[Rule of Cool|coolness]] isn't really clear.

* The titular cat in ''Jon, Flora and the Odd-eyed Cat'' (pink and blue).

* 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.}}

** "Ian Moone", a recent villain on the series, has one blue and one brown eye. In this case, it's presumably done to make him recognizable to the audience, as he wears a skin-tight bodysuit and full-face mask.

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

* ''[[Luther]]''. Alice Morgan puts in a single colored contact lens when carrying out her [[Sickbed Slaying]], presumably so the police officer she speaks face-to-face with will remember this unusual detail rather than her actual features.

* 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.

* [[Marilyn Manson]] sometimes wears non-matching contact lenses to ''look'' as if his eyes don't match.

* Tim Mc'Ilrath, vocalist of [[Rise Against]], has those too. [http://www.tkbbblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tim_mcilrath.jpg One brown, and one blue.]

** It also serves as a visual hint that {{spoiler|Arkham is Jester}}.

* Katina Tarask in ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''. As of yet, no significance has been attributed to her character, but the fact that she was the winning design of a fan-submission contest may be explanation enough.

* Bitores Mendez, the village chief from ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', sports one blue eye and one red. The red eye is a falsie, though.

* In ''[[Fallout]]'', Dogmeat has one blue eye and one brown.

* ''[[Puyo Puyo]]'' has Sig, who has one red eye and one blue eye.

* There's a few examples in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]''. The Voermen sisters have blue and green, Mister Ox has grey and amber, and the Malkavian and Nosferatu PCs have blue and brown.

* Vanessa of ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' has one grey/purple eye and one red one, but this doesn't seem to indicate anything beyond being just as loud and noticeable as the rest of her.

* GLaDOS from ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'' is almost always given [[Mismatched Eyes]] of various colours when she's [[Moe Anthropomorphism|drawn as a human]], to reflect how her personality cores all have different eye colours.

** Oddly enough, though, these clearly mismatched eyes weren't present in her appearances prior to that guest comic. Possible case of [[Ascended Fanon]]?

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

* Kimiko of ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' has one brown natural eye and one blue mechanical eye as of the "Dark Science" arc, though originally her natural eye color was blue and thus the synthetic one matched when it originally showed up. Aaron Diaz retconned it so the synthetic one would stand out more.

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

* 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.

* And [[Trope-tan]].

* [http://mylifeinblue.comicgenesis.com/d/20021004.html Simon] from ''[[My Life in Blue]]''.

* MLB pitcher Max Scherzer (currently 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.

** [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/GodofPH/PNutty.jpg Or this puppy.]

** Horses are also sometimes possessed of one blue eye and one brown one. This is known as "glass eye" in the horse world and is most often seen with Paint and Appaloosa horses. The trait is also not uncommon among mustangs.

* 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.

* 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] as well, her eyes being green with a brown spot on the left eye.

* [[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.

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