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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'': Replicants don't have human-normal eye reactions to emotion -provoking situations. Rather than helping them lie, the lack of reaction is a vulnerability, marking them as a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|replicant]].
* In ''[[The Negotiator]]''—Danny, Danny Roman ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]) delivers a lecture on facial cues, specifically touching on the tendency of the eyes to look toward the upper left when accessing memory and to the upper right when accessing imagination and making something up.
* In the 2005 film [[The Island]], after the duo escape from the cloning organ facility they once believed to be their sanctuary and home, while watching TV the heroine is somehow able to tell that the news reporter is lying about the events they just experienced due to the expression of her eyes.
 
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* In ''[[The Anubis Gates]]'', Beth Tichy recognizes a monster as her fiancé, transformed, by the expression in his eyes -- {{spoiler|just ''after'' she shoots it}}.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' it's stated that gods, no matter how else they may transform themselves, are unable to disguise the true nature of their eyes.
** A similar rule applies to the various transformed creatures in ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]''. For example Greebo, a witch's [[Cats Are Mean|evil-minded cat]], is transformed into a human. As a human he still has the glowing, slitted eyes befitting a cat.
** Experienced conman Moist Von Lipwig of ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' notes that he likes the sort of person who looks in one's eye to see their true self, and has a whole gallery of true selves to show them.
** ''[[Discworld/Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' plays with the trope: it's noted that unwavering eye contact [[Revealing Coverup|can make a confident liar stick out]].
** Slightly more inexplicably, [[Discworld/Snuff|Snuff]] proves that Vimes can also identify a ''murderer'' by eye contact. Because he recognises in their eyes [[Not So Different|the same thing]] he sees in [[Shoot the Dog|his own reflection]].
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Wizards can read the intimate details of any person's soul just by looking into their eyes, which is called a soulgaze. It has its limitations, though-- [[It Only Works Once]], and the target gets to see the exact same things about the wizard. Also it's stressful at best, and can cause a person to [[Go Mad from the Revelation]] at worst, especially since one can never ''ever'' forget what they see. Wizards tend to avoid making eye contact unless they have a damn good reason to do otherwise.
* In ''[[Good Omens]]'', the demon-in-human form Crowley adopts a stylish persona, including [[Cool Shades]] that he wears all the time (and gets mocked for by another character). Near the climax, he loses the shades, and it's revealed that at least part of the reason he wore them was that even in human form he still has his real eyes.
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