History Main / BlackEyesOfEvil

* Downplayed with Stitch from the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise. While he isn't evil, he is pretty nasty. Same goes for many of [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments his "cousins"]], too, though Experiment 627 and Leroy both play it fully straight.

* Downplayed with Stitch from ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''. While he isn't evil, he is pretty nasty.

** While Apocalypse didn't change too much, his redesign mostly gave him this (with red irises) and pronounced canines.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' sees its design with the Red Skull sport black sclerae with white irises.

* Music/LimpBizkit guitarist Wes Borland regularly wore contact lenses onstage that made his eyes look like this.
* "Blackest Eyes" by Music/PorcupineTree is a song about serial killers with the lyrics "''Swim with me into your blackest eyes''".

* "Spectrum" by Zedd features a music video that shows a woman (presumably from outer space) with pitch black eyes who falls in love with a man from Earth. They have a romantic relationship and wear sunglasses in order to hide the [[UncannyValley uncannily human]] alien woman's black eyes from the public. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsuVMdnF8A0 Here, watch it for yourself.]]''
* The "Mother Maiden" Character from the eponymous music video by Dutch rock/metal band Music/WithinTemptation is revealed to have eyes just like this.
* The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXc-GxKrDE "Ov Fire and the Void"]] from Polish DeathMetal band Music/{{Behemoth}} has one in the main female character.
* The woman on the cover of Diary of Dreams' ''Elegies in Darkness''.
* Music/{{Tenacious D}}'s "Tribute" has the band making a CD about a demon in a shopping mall karoke studio. While the band are dragged away by security a little old lady takes the CD, her eyes glow read and she laughs manically.

* In the video for Music/PoetsOfTheFall's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompevuR1644&list=PLjACqN5i5sDWjx8wkdUyCl4MjctV4SE6o "Lift,"]] MadDreamer and implicitly AxCrazy jail inmate Mark manifests matte black eyes briefly during his psych screening when the female psychologist evaluating him confronts him with an evidence bag containing a red ball-head straight pin. Though his mouth is out of frame, his expression implies that he's ''smiling'' at the sight of it.
* The music video of Music/{{Muse}}'s "Dead Inside" shows a woman with black eyes and a man dancing in a field of chalk dust, effortlessly managing to combine [[MatingDance seduction]] and [[DanceBattler contention]] in their moves. In the end, the man's eyes turn black like the woman's.

* ''Literature/TheJonah'': The homicidal [[spoiler: ghost of the hero's twin sister]], has near-totally black eyes.

** ||[[SerialKiller William Afton]]|| (the true identity of [[RoboticUndead Springtrap]]/The Purple Guy) has also been seen with similarly colored eyes in minigame cutscenes.

** But they also avert the trope with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-134 SCP-134]]: a harmless young girl whose black eyes happen to be vistas into an uncharted region of space. SCP personnel have actually been reprimanded for getting too attached to "Stella". Notably, her unusual eyes have a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome - they're useless for actually ''seeing'', so she's completely blind.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Artwork of the [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore American/European style]] of Dr. Robotnik usually depicts him with no eyes at all, with two pitch black eye-sockets instead (original Japanese artwork clearly shows him to wearing [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071212045720if_/http://eggmanempire.sonicworld.net/downloads/images/official/classic/poses.gif black, tea shade-like goggles]]). In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', the Boom Boos from the [[BigBoosHaunt haunted stages]] have a pair of black eyes which blinks every few seconds. When you hit them once, however, they will turn into the creepy, yellow-eyed, {{slasher smil|e}}ing Attack Boos.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Artwork of the [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore American/European style]] of Dr. Robotnik usually depicts him with no eyes at all, with two pitch black eye-sockets instead. In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', the Boom Boos from the [[BigBoosHaunt haunted stages]] have a pair of black eyes which blinks every few seconds. When you hit them once, however, they will turn into the creepy, yellow-eyed, {{slasher smil|e}}ing Attack Boos.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': [[Characters/MCUNebula Nebula]], [[CainAndAbel the antagonistic sister of Gamora]], has black eyes as a result of cybernetic disfigurement by her father Thanos. However, she makes a HeelFaceTurn in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the sequel]] and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the team.

* This was used in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' as part of the effects to show a particularly intense DeathGlare. It's also present on both [[EvilOverlord Lord Tedd]] and {{Te|enGenius}}dd when he activates his gauntlet.

** Anakin Skywalker briefly does this when he attacks Yoda inside Darth Vader's mindscape in ''Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back.''

* Marvel Comics Characters/TheSentry as [[SuperpoweredEvilSide The Void]].

* Robot 23 from ''ComicBook/MegaRoboBros'' has these.

Presumably this perfect blackness indicates the purity of the evil within them and their total lack of humanity. Even if a person's eyes are weirdly colored, there is still a possibility of human connection, but if his/her eyes are gaping wells of nothingness...

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': several antagonistic species have Black eyes including [[PredatorPastiche the Hirogen]] and the [modern depiction] of [[TheReptilians the Gorn]], however the most notable enemy are the Borg, including their [[MonsterMonarch Borg Queen]].

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Nebula, [[CainAndAbel the antagonistic sister of Gamora]], has black eyes as a result of cybernetic disfigurement by her father Thanos. However, she makes a HeelFaceTurn in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the sequel]] and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the team.

* In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'', Dahlia has these, foreshadowing she's evil. It's part of her {{Animal Motif|s}}.

* A few of the character designs for the mutant enemies in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' feature black eyes.

* The Outsider, the resident EldritchAbomination of ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' has completely black eyes. However, he's not so much evil as simply a disinterested entity who enjoys observing humanity and the chaos they can create, occasionally granting powers to rare individuals that gain his interest.
* The killer 'bots in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' and its sequel usually have animatronic eyeballs, but sometimes just empty black space with tiny pinpricks of light to make it clear that [[HauntedTechnology they can still see you.]]
* In ''VideoGame/EmbricOfWulfhammersCastle'', this afflicts all those who [[spoiler: drink the demonic scotch]]. It also afflicts [[spoiler: Ecinacea, due to her having been replaced by an EldritchAbomination]].
* [[ForestRanger Kerillian]] from ''VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide'' has pitch-black eyes, like a shark. Subverted because she isn't evil or crazy, she's just [[{{Jerkass}} kind of a bitch]].

* In ''Haunted Legends 5: The Stone Guest'' anyone who's under one of the curses cast on various [[CreepyDoll voodoo dolls]] by the villain has a chalk-white face with dead black eyes that have cracks radiating out from them.

* When [[spoiler: Kreia unveils herself as a Sith Lord]] in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', her eyes turn from [[ProphetEyes milky white]] to pitch black.
** [[VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic The Sith Emperor]] has pitch-black eyes from birth. It is a sign of his great evil and power. Vector Hyllus and all other Killik Joiners also has completely black eyes, though, while he is part of the Imperial Agent's entourage, he's not evil so much as following BlueAndOrangeMorality and is actually the nicest person in their party.

** Inverted with the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]], Liara. If you choose to have her as your romance partner, her eyes will turn black while you're having a roll in the sack with her. Her eyes also turn black when activating telepathic linking powers - something observed in another asari, [[spoiler: Shiala, an asari Commando, who links with your character during the Feros mission]]. If you look closely, they aren't solid black, but have faint star-like lights in them.

* [[MirrorMonster The Shade]], the demon behind the events of ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: The Countess]]'', appears as a black version of lady Gloria Codington with pitch-black eyes with glowing white irises.
* Mitsuo Kubo from ''VideoGame/Persona4'', a really creepy {{loner|sAreFreaks}} whose most prominent feature is his black fish eyes. [[spoiler: He eventually killed resident SadistTeacher Mr. Morooka over a grudge and attempted to claim the murders currently taking place in Inaba.]]
** Much before Mitsuo, [[VideoGame/Persona2 Takahisa Kandori]] used to wear SinisterShades. Why? [[spoiler: He has ''nothing'' behind them.]]

* [[spoiler:Chaos Havan]] in ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction''.

* [[BigBad M. Bison]] from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has all black eyes, except for the irises (normally black), which are white. That was in his early designs. {{Averted|Trope}} afterwards, when his eyes were changed to be completely white.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Nebula, [[CainAndAbel the antagonistic sister of Gamora]], has black eyes as a result of cybernetic disfigurement by her father Thanos. However, she makes a HeelFaceTurn in [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the sequel]] and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the team.