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It doesn't matter if we can really do this. We do read emotions off people's faces, in such fantastically subtle and sensitive ways that we're often not consciously aware of them. So, wherever it really is that gives them away, we say and often believe it's in the eyes.
On occasion, the things that we're told can be seen in someone's eyes can get really subtle or really abstract - from [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness|sadness]] or [[Death Glare|murderous fury]] all the way to [[Uncanny Valley|humanity]] or [[Time Abyss|immense age]].
This is a trope of literature and dialogue. You need this sort of description only if you can't see the person's eyes for yourself. Live-action works generally let you interpret for yourself; drawn works will often [[Wingding Pupils|depict the emotions graphically]].
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Often a contributing factor to [[Uncanny Valley]] - viewers will say there's "something wrong with their eyes", and creators that they "can't get the eyes right". A good way to deliberately create an emotional disconnect is to [[Scary Shiny Glasses|hide a characters eyes entirely]].
[[Windows to the Soul|Windows '''''to''''' the Soul]] is when this happens with eye color.
Has no relation to [[Mac OS|Mac of the soul]].▼
▲Has no relation to [[Mac OS|Mac of the soul]] or [[Linux|Linux of the soul]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is the former [[Trope Namer]], for the infamous "glint of triumph" Harry sees in Dumbledore's eyes in Book 4, which tipped everyone off that it's a huge setup.
* ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' is only too guilty of this.
* Juliet Marillier's [[The Sevenwaters Trilogy|books]] do this all the time, sometimes with more than one emotion at once, thus: "She saw a mixture of triumph and dread in his eyes."
* The last line of Richard Matheson's "The Splendid Source": {{spoiler|the hero has just been invited to join the [[Ancient Tradition]] he's been tracking down throughout the story. He's all but speechless ... "But, already, the light of consecration was stealing into his eyes."}}
* ''[[Danny, the Champion of the World]]'' is one of ''many'' works to discuss the phenomenon of the "eye smile" - twisting the corners of your lips upwards looks [[Technically a Smile|nothing like a real smile]] unless the eyes are doing the right thing (which in real life is probably [[Doing
* A major theme of ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]'', where the [[The Fair Folk|Other Mother]] has button eyes and wants to [[Eye Scream|give Coraline the same.]]
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and the supplementary material, attention is often brought to Elves' bright eyes. From the descriptions they seem to invoke borderline [[Uncanny Valley]] in some characters, and especially evil-leaning characters are terrified from looking Elves' in the eyes, and even good-aligned mortals feel awe from them. The supplementary material explains explicitly that the fire of the Elvish spirit shines through their eyes much more strongly than mortal spirit.
* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, characters get a hint that someone is evil or deceptive because they have a smile that does not touch their eyes. In truth, a genuine smile does contort the eyes, and it is apparently impossible to fake this.
==[[Live Action TV]]==
*''[[Babylon 5]]'': In the first episode when Ivanova is telling Talia about what happened to her mother, she says "the light in her eyes went out, bit by bit".
== [[Music]] ==
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