Eyes of Gold: Difference between revisions

* The eyes of [[My Hero Zero|Type Zero cyborgs]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' turn gold when they're using their cyborg abilities. Including {{spoiler|Subaru Nakajima}}, at one point, just before she [[Unstoppable Rage|goes ballistic]].

** Likewise, their creator also has them, but he's just evil.

** ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force|Force]]'' has Cypha, who combines this with being a [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] [[Blondes Are Evil|Evil Blonde]] for [[Curtains Match the Window]].

* In the first episode of ''[[Mai-Otome 0~S.ifr~]]'', Bruce and Sifr's eyes briefly flash gold when the M-9 android is revealed.

* Ruri Hoshino in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' has these as part of her implied kinda-sorta [[Artificial Human]] background and general [[Mysterious Waif]]-iness.

** [[The Hero|Lucia]] has yellow eyes while in human form (as a mermaid or idol, her eyes are blue).

* Possibly subverted with Gilbert in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' since he's not exactly feline, lupine, or vulpine, nor has he been shown to be artfully crafty. He's a straight forward emotional mess. His brother, [[Blond Guys Are Evil|Vincent]], however, not only plays the trope straight (more than Gilbert, anyway), but also (through his [[Mismatched Eyes]]) combines it with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]].

* Mami from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has gold eyes, but in her case, it's more of a case of [[Curtains Match the Window|curtains matching the window]], since there are other magical girls who ''don't'' have gold eyes.

** {{spoiler|Following her ascension as a goddess in the final episode, Madoka herself has gotten a set of these}}.

* Ryoma (and his father) from ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' have gold eyes.

* Takatsuki from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' has Eyes of Gold in the anime. In the manga, she had simple [[Brown Eyes]], before [[Art Evolution]] kicked in and gave her [[Black Eyes]].

* Disney's animated film ''[[Mulan]]''. The [[Big Bad]] Shan-Yu has Eyes of Gold, surrounded by black scleras.

* In the film ''[[Wolf]]'', yellow eyes are a sign that a character is turning into a werewolf.

* ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'' features a golden-eyed alien that really is a shapeshifter.

* Barbossa from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' (the first one, anyway; his eyes look normal enough in the next two films, presumably since he's no longer under the curse).

** Also, when they fall in love. And it's dangerous to look in their eyes when they're gold, unless you have the ''kelar'' yourself. Kinda awkward for lovers without it.

* In ''[[The Perilous Gard]]'' by Elizabeth Marie Pope, the protagonist Kate's spoiled younger sister has eyes described as golden or honey-colored.

* According to ''[[Horus Heresy|Flight of the Eisenstein]]'', the Primarch Mortarion had amber eyes.

* Genghis Khan and his father in the ''[[Conqueror]]'' books are both stated to have gold eyes. Sure enough, their tribe is called the Wolves, and the first book is titled ''Wolf of the Plains''.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** (3.5 edition), or at least the [[Forgotten Realms]] campaign setting, mentions yellow eyes as a sign of celestial (angelic) descent, which usually corresponds to [[Character Alignment|good alignments]].

** 4E extends gold eyes (along with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] ones) to the Dragonborn and Tiefling player races, with no indication of their [[Character Alignment]] (although Tieflings are generally considered a "[[Dark Is Not Evil|dark]]" race)

*** The Drizzt Do'Urden novels had Dantrag Baenre, the weapons master of the First House of Menzoberranzan. He was noted for having unusual eyes for a drow (who normally have red) -- yellow, [[Kaleidoscope Eyes|changing to orangey-red]] when he's angry. Their Archmage, Gromph Baenre, has amber eyes, and his daughter, Liriel (''Starlight and Shadows'' trilogy), inherited this trait (along with his magical talent). At least this one is clearly [[In the Blood]].

* Some Vilani in the ''[[Traveller]]'' RPG have gold-coloured eyes.

* Harmonious Jade in ''[[Exalted]]'' picked up a set after taking the Second Breath as a Solar. (Before then, she had some absolutely gorgeous shining blue eyes.)

** Also, all Sidereal Exalted Chosen of Journeys get yellow eyes as a sign of their station.

* The character Slayer from ''[[Guilty Gear]] XX'' has golden eyes. This makes sense, since he is a vampire.

* Many [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] characters have these: the Chaotix team, Silver the Hedgehog, and Blaze the Cat, for example.

* In ''[[Quest for Glory]] IV'', all vampires have pupilless golden eyes.

* Salazar and Saddler in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' both have golden eyes. So does Ashley, for some reason.