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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Victim''': Uh... about your eyes, sir, did you injure them?
'''Jei''': ''They merely reflect [[Demonic Possession|one whose soul has been touched by the Gods]].''
|''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'', [[The Farmer and the Viper|"The Nature of the Viper"]]}}
In [[Real Life]], some people have [[Mismatched Eyes|different colored irises]], but what they can't have is a pupil, iris and sclera be the same color. In fiction, however, this isn't an issue, and you can get characters with eyes that have only one color.
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Specific subtropes include [[Black Eyes of Evil]] (pure black eyes indicating that serious evil is present) and [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] (pure red eyes means something really bad is going to happen).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', performing a [[Fusion Dance|Unison]] with either [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Reinforce]] gives you solid [[Blue Eyes]]. [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Reinforce Zwei]] herself also has solid blue eyes.
* Cheza the Flower Maiden from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' has wholly red eyes. You can see the different parts, because there are darker areas, but no other colours. One creator interview explains that they first considered just red irises, but that had been done before, and they wanted her to look not-so-human.
* Several ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' characters have this, including Japan, Norway, and Liechtenstein.
** Also, Turkey's eyes are white with his mask.
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* A couple characters in ''[[Naruto]]'' are drawn this way (not counting ones that may just have black iris which don't stick out from their pupils), including Gaara, Kakuzu, Karin, and Kurotuchi.
** The Byakugan of the Hyuuga clan comes pretty close to monochromatic.
* This is used for characters in the future of ''[[Now and Then, Here and There]].'' No explanation was offered about why they all have it, except for Abelia.
* Due to the art style, many characters from [[Dragon Ball]] have this trait, though not all of them. The characters who do have colored irises often look odd. For instance, it sends the [[Artificial Human]] characters straight into the [[Uncanny Valley]].
* Although he always wears a mask, Meta Knight from ''[[Kirby:
* In earlier adaptations of ''[[Cyborg 009]]'', Albert Heinrich (Cyborg 004) has white eyes with no irises or pupils. In the 2001 anime series, his eyes have light blue sclera and dark blue irises with no pupils.
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* In ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]'', everybody has blank white eyes.
* Johnny Alpha of ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' has pure white eyes, because he's a mutant.
* In ''Hellboy'', both Hellboy and Roger the Homunculus have solid yellow eyes, while Abe Sapien has solid blue eyes.
* [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]] has white eyes with no visible pupils.
== [[
* In ''[[Life Is Worth Living]]'' it is explained why the future people from ''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]'' have monochromatic eyes: Over the years a genetic mutation arose where this showed up and regular-eyed people were driven out of the gene pool. The reason that Abelia has regular eyes is because {{spoiler|she was brought into the future from the past.}}
* Some of [[The Fair Folk]] have these in the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' like [[The Erl King|The Erlkönig, his daughter]] ([[Midnight Blue Eyes|dark blue]] and [[Purple Eyes|purple]]), {{spoiler|[[Super-Powered Evil Side|Dark!]][[Labyrinth|Jareth]] ([[Midnight Blue Eyes|dark blue]]) and also the Shadow!Cast from ''Such Stuff Dreams are Made on'' (probably Fae magic empowered versions of normally non-magic characters in the series)}}.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Mirror Mask]]'', the queen of the city of shadows and {{spoiler|Helena, once she is hypnotized and made to be the princess as a replacement for the queen's runaway daughter, who has now taken over Helena's life,}} have monochromatic black eyes. {{spoiler|Helena's eyes turn back to normal once Valentine helps her remember who she really is.}} The one servant who {{spoiler|sees Helena after she has her normal eyes back}} doesn't seem to notice. Granted, he was far away and the room was dark.
* [[Godzilla]] in ''Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack'' has pure-white eyes to indicate that he's the [[Big Bad]] of the film. That, and he's also [[Our Ghosts Are Different|the ''original'' Godzilla resurrected/controlled/fueled by the vengeful spirits of the forgotten soldiers who died in WWII]].
* In ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', when Bruce the shark is overwhelmed by the urge to eat fish, his pupils dilate until his eyes appear completely black. It's really unnerving.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[David Eddings]]'s ''Malloreon'', the protagonists keep running into ambushes set by one particular villain. They know it's always the same guy because witnesses and captured enemies always described the same way; his eyes are pure white, without any color or pupil.
* A rule of magic on [[Discworld]] is that the eyes are the one thing no-one can magically disguise. Most [[Discworld]] gods have some sort of monochromatic eyes, depending on the nature of the deity in question; The Lady has blank emerald green, and Fate has a starfield. Illustrations show the others as having blank golden-white glowing eyes.
** Vorbis, the villain of ''[[
** Kaos has all-black eyes that turn silver when he's angry.
** Death has possibly the most expressive eyes of any Discworld character: they're little blue stars in his dark skull sockets, and he can make them flicker when he's trying to wink. They turn red when he's really furious.
** Ymper Trymon, when possessed by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Things from the Dungeon Dimensions]] trying to enter reality through his head, had eyes that were holes into blankness.
** Coin the [[Sourcery|Sourceror]] had many-faceted eyes of solid gold colour.
* The Fremen in ''[[Dune]]'' have all-blue eyes. It's a sign of long-term Melange consumption.
* When the Elimist from ''[[Animorphs]]'' takes on a humanoid form to speak to the teens, he is described as having eyes that look like a starfield - black with myriad little white dots in the distance.
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* Jorenians, from the ''[[Stardoc]]'' universe, have solid white eyes. In ''Blade Dancer'', Jory—a [[Planet Terra|Terran]]/Jorenian hybrid—has solid ''green'' eyes. [[Rule of Cool|No reason is given for this]].
== [[Live
* Data (Brent Spiner) from ''[[Star Trek:
** A better example is Geordi (while still wearing the VISOR), whose eyes were entirely white due to a birth defect.
* [[Sinister Minister|Brother Justin Crowe]] from ''[[Carnivale]]'', whose eyes go completely black {{spoiler|when he's feeling especially demonic}}.
** {{spoiler|As do Sofie's.}}
* Meg and Ruby {{spoiler|and Sam, as of Season 4's finale}} have black eyes in ''[[Supernatural]]''; Lilith's eyes are white. Oddly enough, the Yellow-Eyed Demon—Azazel—only gets yellow irises.
** To indicate different ranks, maybe? All of the [[Mook|lower level demons]] have [[Black Eyes of Evil|black eyes]], but of the demons with different eye colours - Azazel (yellow), Alastair and Lilith (white), the Crossroads demon (red) - Azazel, Alastair and Lilith are all much more powerful than than your standard Mook. The Crossroads demon wasn't particularly hard to kill, but has a special job and therefore a different 'paygrade'?
* John Locke had one black eye and one white eye in a dream sequence in ''[[Lost]]''.
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** Drow eyes have been described as solid red, but in many pictures they're solid white.
** "The Broken Sword" by [[Poul Anderson]]. His elves had eyes that glowed a dim blue and pupils that were there but "hard to see."
** The elves in ''[[
** The ''Pathfinder'' elves have shiny solidly colored eyes, due to their alien nature.
** Blood Elves have [[Glowing Eyes|solid green eyes]], but there is a distinction between iris and white if you zoom in enough.
* Among [[Dungeons
** Red dragons do gain glowing red-orange, pupilless eyes when they get old enough. They are the only chromatic type to develop monochrome eyes.
* Goliath, Deva and Tiefling from 4th edition are shown as having single colour eyes.
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* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Asari]] eyes turn solid black when they're mind-melding.
* ''World of Warcraft'' has this with the Draenei and Night Elf races, both known for their supernatural awareness, and, more recently, Death Knight characters, who're simply infused with raw magic, albeit a nasty variety.
** Draenei, a very holy race, have blue glowing eyes. Night elves normally have silver or bluish glowing eyes. Night elves with druidic potential have glowing eyes have "amber" eyes... which are more like yellow or gold glowing eyes. High elves have light blue glowing eyes and blood elves, an off-shoot of high elves, are basically the exact same as high elves except they have green eyes, which reflects their addiction to demonic or arcane magic.
** [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Worgen]] have monochromatic glowing eyes in a variety of colors. (Or [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|the boys do, at any rate]].)
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'''s zombies have all white eyes. This is partly because it's creepy, but mostly because it takes less computing power to render all white eyes than actual eyes.
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* Nue Houjuu and, if you peer closely at her portraits, Patchouli Knowledge from ''[[Touhou]]''.
** Due to Alphes' drawing style, most of the girls in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' had these. It seems to have been averted for ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', though.
* [[Complete Monster|Relius]] [[Mad Scientist|Clover]] of ''[[
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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* A few characters from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. The Regional Fairies start off with [[Milky White Eyes]]; upon [[Metamorphosis|becoming human]], they get pupil-less grey eyes. Ysengrin has beady green eyes, and Reynardine, when assuming wolf-form, has beady yellow eyes.
* Dimo from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has entirely yellow-green eyes. Which apparently glow in the dark. Then again, he ''is'' a Jägermonster.
* In ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'', the quickest way to tell the difference between normal vampires and the elite vampires is that the elite vampires have monochromatic eyes while regular vampires have normal eyes.
* Magic in ''[[Magical Misfits]]'' causes magic users to have Monochromatic Eyes.
* The comics set in the Rhymes With Bitch universe in ''[[The KAMics]]'' have white "Little Orphan Annie" type eyes. Zog & Sten from Drunk Aliens also have one color eyes.
* Both the Varn and their Galapados soldiers in ''[[Terinu]]'' have solid golden eyes.
* In ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' Drow have Monochromatic Eyes (red in coloured panels), true to their ''[[Dungeons
* Richard in [[Looking for Group]] has all-yellow eyes.
* The [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=138013 masked-with-white-eyes look] is popular with both heroes and villains in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]''.
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* From ''[[Invader Zim]]'', the Irken race, along with some other alien species.
* Russel of the [[Gorillaz]] always has circular blank white eyes, and 2D's are entirely black.
* In ''[[
* Dick Knubbler invoked this in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', when he got robotic eyes to replace the ones he lost in a submarine accident, which are completely green ([[Red Eyes, Take Warning|unless he gets mad]]).
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The actress Meg Foster has very pale gray eyes that made her look almost like she had no irises. They are [https://web.archive.org/web/20110201143225/http://infiniteleagues.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/m-foster2.jpg indeed] [http://www.lesliehouk.com/meg_foster/images/evil-lyn01.jpg natural]. She's said she's sometimes had it hard to find parts, because her eyes are so unusual and too creepy for a lot of people. She's wound up playing quite a few blind women.
* People with severe cataracts sometimes have totally white eyes. If the cataracts are that severe, the person is also blind.
** There's a congenital Birth Defect that can cause this too, but considering said defect ([[Nightmare Fuel|Anencephaly]]) tends to kill people it isn't exactly common.
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