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[[File:reflection-doesnt-kill01 8204.jpg|link=Percy Jackson & the Olympians|frame|Percy will never take [[Product Placement|his mp3 player]] [[Taken for Granite|for granite]].]]
{{quote|"You know how they say eyes are the windows of the soul? They're the ''doors''."|'''[[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]''', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E04 The Time of Angels|Time of the Angels]]"}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Kaname Tousen, being blind, is immune to {{spoiler|Aizen's Perfect Hypnosis}}, and when this is brought up, reveals {{spoiler|he's been working for Aizen the whole time}}.
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* Similarly, in ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'', anyone who wants to use a sunstone to produce light magic has to be able to see it- otherwise, they'll just be able to make it glow harmlessly. Consequently, blind people can't do light magic, and blindness is portrayed as a major phobia of [[The Magocracy|the Chosen]].
* Weird variant: In ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', anyone looking at a slake-moth's wings would fall into a hypnotic trance. Looking at a reflection of the wings was safe, because the image was inverted right-to-left, but looking at ''a reflection of the reflection'' was not, because the image seen would then be identical to the actual wings. Strange helmets and periscopes incorporating an odd number of mirrors were developed by slake-moth handlers to take advantage of this effect.
* In the last section of [[Ryk E. Spoor]]'s
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