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[[File:IsaacEyes.jpg|link=Heroes (TV series)|frame|Isaac Mendez sees [[A Worldwide Punomenon|more than meets the eye.]]]]

 

 

Characters with cataracted eyes. Sometimes it's just that - cataracted eyes.

 

This trope has nothing to do with [[Blank White Eyes]] except for the color. For other colors, see [[Monochromatic Eyes]]. See also [[Third Eye]] for a related mystic eye trope.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The Hyuuga clan of ''[[Naruto]]'' [[Inverted Trope|inverts this trope]], as the power of their Byakugan allows them to [[X-Ray Vision|see pressure and chakra points on their opponent]], theoretically allowing them to inflict maximum damage with every strike.

** Not to mention ''359 degree [[X-Ray Vision|X-ray]] telescopic night vision'' with a [[wikipedia:Solid angle|solid angle]] blind spot..

** In Seishirou's and Subaru's case, it's because their eyes are made of ''glass''.

* Red Capes in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'' have eyes like this, and they're sunken-in, too.

* The silver wolves in ''[[Hols: Prince of the Sun]]'' are the supernatural type, and are directly working for Grunwald, who ironically, is referred to throughout the film as 'The devil'.

* {{spoiler|Galatea}} from ''[[Claymore]]'', after the timeskip. And yes, hers come with a [[Disability Superpower]].

* Masane in ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' temporarily gets these when an X-Con or Cloneblade user is near.

* ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' features zombies with the classic "undead eyes" version; they make up for it by hearing unbelievably well, but having other senses dulled (i.e. dumbly walking into a wall, easily being pushed out of the way by someone walking quietly and carrying a wooden sword, walking right past someone who's just staying out of the way, etc.)

* ''[[Junji Ito]]'' depicts his fiancee "A-ko" with blank eyes and [[Stepford Smiler|a wide smile]] in ''Ito Junji's Cat Diary''.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[The Goon]]'': For a comic about a hulking anti-hero fighting supernatural entities such as ghouls, ghosts, skunk apes obsessed with pie, aliens, demons and mad scientists, it's never made clear why his human sidekick, Franky, is drawn without pupils. He has no supernatural attributes or abilities, and he's certainly not blind (demonstrated by his signature "knife to the eye" technique).

** Appears to be an artistic preference. Franky's eyes are not so much Prophet Eyes as they are "Blunked Out"—an old-time comic book style (''[[Little Orphan Annie]]'' is a prominent example of "Blunked Out" eyes).

 

== [[Film]] - Animated ==

* The incredibly aged rat Nicodemus and The Great Owl in ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]''.

* [[Leonard Nimoy|Kashekim Nedakh]], the King of Atlantis from Disney's ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' as opposed to having brown eyes like all of the other Atlanteans (except, oddly enough, his blue-eyed daughter). At the very beginning of the film, his eyes are drawn normally, meaning that he was blinded shortly after Atlantis ended up underwater.

 

== Film - Live-Action ==

'''Danko''': Then I'll settle for your eyes.

'''Elijah''': You don't scare me, white boy. ''(takes off sunglasses to reveal his milky white eyes)'' }}

* In The [[Chronicles of Riddick]], the eponymous character has silver/white eyes.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** Greebo, Nanny Ogg's cat, has [[Boat Lights|one eye like this]].

* In Robert Newman's Young Adult novel ''The Case of the Baker Street Irregular'', [[Sherlock Holmes]] impersonates a blind man, and uses gutta-percha contacts to make his eyes appear this way.

* A particularly irritating [[Blind Seer]] has this quality in the ''[[Belgariad]]''. Eddings uses it to good effect—when Polgara destroys her foresight by restoring her vision, he describes it as looking like the milkiness drains out the bottom of her eyes.

** In the sequel series, the ''Malloreon'', [[The Dragon]] Naradas has these eyes. It's specified that he ''isn't'' blind; they're more of a [[Red Right Hand]].

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, [[Blind Seer]] Jayfeather is often drawn this way in fanart and he appears like this on at least one foreign edition cover, even though in the books he's described as having rather normal eyes. Rock, on the other hand, has "sightless eyes" mentioned in his physical description, so we can assume the only way a cat could tell by sight that another is blind is because the blind cat has eyes that look like this.

 

* As the picture suggests, Isaac Mendez, along with Usutu and {{spoiler|Matt}}, in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.

* Cassandra Carver, the [[Blind Seer]] in ''[[Smallville]]''.

* Geordi from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]].'' Then in the movies he gets bionic eyes that look more ([[Wingding Eyes|or less]]) like regular ones. Before this, he used a VISOR which gave him a [[Disability Superpower|variety of visual abilities]] ranging from Infra red to seeing the "auras" of electromagnetic machines - but not the ability to see things such as sunsets, in any form except on their composite level. Apparently seeing a sunset as a series of infrared and ultraviolet rays really sucks the beauty out of it. The implants have the same visual range, but are more advanced and allow Geordi to control which parts of the electromagnetic spectrum he sees at any given time.

** Justified (though the writers probably didn't know it), inasmuch as perceived colors have relatively little to do with actual physical properties. There any many different ways a given color can be made with light, and Geordi might have trouble associating combinations of measured frequencies with colors. Also, the VISOR would not be able to duplicate the opponent process of human color vision and still convey all the information Geordi can apparently see.

** The psychic in ''Supernatural'' got a pair of plastic eyes that look like this [[Invoked Trope|on purpose]]. It makes her "look extra psychic".

* The guys in ''[[Testees]]'' after being temporarily blinded by pineapple shampoo.

** In the miniseries these were replaced with eyes that were probably bionic, which removed any prophetic abilities but gave her X-ray vision.

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', after becoming the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Touched by Vorlons]], Lyta's eyes had a tendency to do this when demonstrating her powers.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* {{spoiler|Saxon}} in ''[[Candorville]]'' can make his eyes look like this at will. It's uncertain whether they have any special powers, but {{spoiler|they're clearly different from the [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]] demonstrated by other vampires. This may be because he's a [[Dhampyr]], or because he's a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]].}}

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Raiden, Fujin, and a few others from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''. The bio in the manual lists Raiden's eyes as "None".

* Video game example: Agatha in ''Fahrenheit'' / ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]''.

* Fubuki in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' has these, though it's a bit hard to tell.

** The Fist Fighter class in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has them, as well. He brings them up if you bug him in the classroom.

** Not just Dhalsim, not by a long shot. Bison, the evil dictator, has them and when combined with his blindingly white teeth and creepy grin, it makes him [[Nightmare Fuel|scary]]. Then there's Sagat,<ref>Sagat did have normal eyes in the [[Street Fighter (video game)|first game]] and early versions of ''II''; starting with ''Super Street Fighter II'' his remaining eye has been monochromatic in all his appearances, including the ''[[Street Fighter Alpha|Alpha]]'' games</ref> King of Muay Thai Boxing, who has lost one eye, but they were likely both just as white as the one he has left (no pun intended). Gen, the sickly old Chinese assassin has them as well. As well as some guy from the Alpha series. Come to think of it, Dhalsim is the only good guy with them.

** ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' adds [[Final Fight|Rolento]] to the group of villains with these. He had regular eyes in ''Final Fight'' and older ''Street Fighter'' titles, though...

* [[Blind Seer|Onin]] from the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series has these.

* The Grey Warden in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' ''Origins'' briefly gets these during the Joining. They come with a vision of the [[Big Bad]].

* ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'': They are a side effect of [[Demonic Possession|possession]], in a [[Deconstruction]] of [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]. Not all characters with eyes like that are known to have gotten them this way, though.

* Meta Knight from ''[[Kirby]]'' actually has white eyes when he takes off the mask. When the mask is on he has [[Eyes of Gold]].

* Something strange happens to {{spoiler|Romeo Guildenstein's}} eyes in [[Vagrant Story]] after his body absorbs the power of [[The Dark Side]].

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* The Regional Fairies from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''.

* Mokurei in ''[[Kurenai Mashin]]'' (title character btw) is an elven assassin who is blind. Of course, while he can't see physical things, he can see spells the other characters cast. http://km.comicgenesis.com/

* Dead people in ''[[Homestuck]]'' all have blank white eyes, whether as ghosts manifesting in the real world, or in the afterlife.

** Played straight when Sydney buys white [[Naruto]]-style contact lenses from Luthor's store to [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=63 temporarily] [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=64 blind] herself in order to relate to Mia better.

** And later for Sydney's Toph [http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=84 cosplay].

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has the blind Earthbending master Toph Bei Fong.

 

* Corneal opacity can indeed result from congenital/hereditary defects, some diseases (eg river blindness, trachoma), or injury (eg chemical burn), sometimes resembling this trope.

** Some blind people have their eyes more or less permanently rolled up, which can give an impression of whiteness. Usually the eyes are half-closed, though, and/or there's a bit of iris showing at the top.

 

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[[Category:Disability Tropes]]

[[Category:Uh-Oh Eyes]]