History Main / ElementalEyeColors

Eye color means many different things in fiction. Sometimes, they mean someone is [[ColorCodedEyes special]], or [[SupernaturalGoldEyes has powers]], or perhaps just {{innocent| blue eyes}}. One of the common uses of eye color is to indicate a person's elemental affinity. The actual colour correspondence to elements varies depending on the work as different colours align with the elements depending on the work. It's more important that the colour lines up InUniverse than to any out of universe list.

* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
** Four of six girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' have them. [[PlayingWithFire Cure Rouge]] has red, [[LightEmUp Cure Lemonade]] has yellow, [[DishingOutDirt Cure Mint]] has green, and [[MakingASplash Cure Aqua]] has blue.
** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Cure Blossom has pink ([[PetalPower Cherry Blossom Petals]]), Cure Marine has blue (MakingASplash), Cure Sunshine has yellow (PowerOfTheSun). Cure Moonlight could count, too, if you associate her dark blue eyes with {{Lunacy}}.
** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Cure Happy has pink (HeartBeatDown[=/=]LightEmUp), Cure Sunny has red/orange (PlayingWithFire), Cure Peace has yellow (ShockAndAwe), Cure March has green (BlowYouAway), and Cure Beauty has blue (AnIcePerson).
** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': Cure Diamond has blue (AnIcePerson), and Cure Ace has red ([[PetalPower Rose Petals]]).
** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': Cure Mermaid has blue (MakingASplash[=/=]AnIcePerson), Cure Scarlet has red (PlayingWithFire).
* Mizore, the Ice Woman of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', has ice powers and blue eyes. Interestingly, she can also control other people's water magic.
* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' colors our heroines' eyes ([[ElementalHairColors and hair]]) after their elements. Hikaru's are red, Umi's are blue, and Fuu's are green. Fuu's hair may be yellow, but yellow has represented wind in other media, so no complaints there.

* Shana from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' has flaming red eyes when in full Flame Haze mode.

* Inverted in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' with Shoto Todoroki. He has both ice and fire powers and one of his eyes is grey while the other is blue. However, his blue eye is on his fire-side and is inherited from his father who is a fire elemental - whereas his ice side and his ice elemental mother have grey eyes.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Hitsugaya has blue eyes of the "piercing, icy" variety, which fit well with his ice powers.
* Reinforce Zwei of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has the [[MonochromaticEyes bluest eyes of the series]], emphasizing the childlike innocence of the character, as well as her magical nature (the first [[ArtificialHuman Unison]] [[PureMagicBeing Device]] created since the days of Ancient Belka) and her [[AnIcePerson affinity to ice]].
* November 11 from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has very light blue eyes that can most definitely be described as "icy". This is appropriate, since he's a sociopath [[AnIcePerson with ice powers]].
* At very least the Inner Senshi in the manga of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the Materials Collection makes note that when they transform their eyes (among other things) change. Mercury goes from deep blue to a light blue, Mars from purple to a bright red, Jupiter from (what seems to be) a hazel to green and lastly, Venus who changes from a blue that matches her uniform as Sailor V, to bright gold.
* ''Anime/DayBreakIllusion'', another magical girl series, has [[ThePowerOfTheSun the red-eyed Akari use fire]], [[AnIcePerson the blue-eyed Seira use ice]], and [[GreenThumb the green-eyed Luna use plants]].
* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'':
** Elma has deep blue eyes. While she's never been seen using water magic, she is an aquatic dragon, and used her powers to ensure bountiful harvests for humans in the past.
** Tohru is a fire-breathing dragon and her eyes are bright red with yellow highlights, giving them the illusion of flames.

* Like the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Legend of Korra]]'' example below, similar colors crop up frequently in the fanfic ''[[Fanfic/BookFiveLegends Book Five: Legends]]'', but particular mention needs to go to the albino Temuji, whose red eyes play this straighter than any previously seen firebender in either series.

* Takanuva, Toa of Light has yellow eyes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}: Mask of Light'', representing [[CaptainObvious his light-based powers]]. His first toy also came with yellow eyes, though later incarnations changed them to lime green.

* The ''Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm'' series by Fiona Patton combines this with a variant of FireballEyeballs. It focuses on a [[GodEmperor royal family]] who channels a fire god, the Living Flame, and has fiery eyes. When an opposing religion based loosely on Catholicism takes religious champions, they have white light in their eyes. Characters in one book are heretics to the Flame trying to give the other three ElementalPowers their own avatars, and their eyes swim with light as well -- gray for Wind, blue for Sea and green for Oaks.
* In ''Literature/TheChildrenOfMan'', a person's eye color indicates which of the six colors of magic he can access. Blue mages have blue eyes, green mages green eyes, etc. Those who can access multiple colors of magic have brown eyes, while Grays have reflective silver eyes as a RedRightHand to mark the fact that they are [[EldritchAbomination magically colorless]].

* In ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', the cryokinetic Miyuki has very pale blue eyes (DependingOnTheArtist). No one else in her family has eyes that shade, just as they don't have her ice magic.

* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'': Tagg has brown eyes, which makes sense because his Pokeform is a partial ground type.

* Linka on ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', who possesses the power of wind, had blue eyes in seasons 1-3. They later got changed to green.

** ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Cure Happy has pink (HeartBeatDown[=/=]LightEmUp), Cure Sunny has red/orange (PlayingWithFire), Cure Peace has yellow (ShockAndAwe), Cure March has green (BlowYouAway), and Cure Beauty has blue (AnIcePerson).
** ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'': Cure Diamond has blue (AnIcePerson), and Cure Ace has red ([[PetalPower Rose Petals]]).

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* Early on, ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' associated eye colours with specific elements (usually complentary to [[ColourCodedElements the colour of the elemental heroes themselves]]), but switched it around in 2004 and 2005 (where the colours became more contrasting on the whole) with only Earth remaining the same, and dropped it altogether in 2006-2007 when all characters were given green or orange (or later blue), eyes, usually [[GoodEyesEvilEyes depending on if they were a hero or villain]]. From 2001-2005, these were the elements and their associated eye colours:

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' colors our heroines' eyes ([[ElementalHairColoration and hair]]) after their elements. Hikaru's are red, Umi's are blue, and Fuu's are green. Fuu's hair may be yellow, but yellow has represented wind in other media, so no complaints there.

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' colors our heroines' eyes ([[YouGottaHaveBlueHair and hair]]) after their elements. Hikaru's are red, Umi's are blue, and Fuu's are green. Fuu's hair may be yellow, but yellow has represented wind in other media, so no complaints there.

* Pictured above, four of six girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' have them. [[PlayingWithFire Cure Rouge]] has red, [[LightEmUp Cure Lemonade]] has yellow, [[DishingOutDirt Cure Mint]] has green, and [[MakingASplash Cure Aqua]] has blue.

** Weiss is aloof, cool and connected with ice and snow powers. She has the IcyBlueEyes to go with both her personality and her powers. While Weiss can use other elements, she defaults to ice as her preferred ability.

** Ruby has silver eyes, an extremely rare trait that are possessed by so few people that there are very ancient myths about what people with silver eyes can do. [[spoiler:Silver-eyed warriors possess the ability to produce a blinding white light from their eyes that can destroy the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] by turning them to stone or blasting them to dust, depending on how strong the Grimm opponent is. Ruby's mentor, Maria, who was born with silver eyes but [[EyeScream lost them]] in battle with an assassin that was hunting down silver-eyed warriors, figures out that the Light has a mysterious connection to the God of Light, who possessed silver eyes and the ability to vaporise the Grimm.]]

** Fria, the Winter Maiden, has blue eyes that fit her use of ice magic. [[spoiler:This is averted with her successor Penny, whose eyes are bright green.]]

* ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'', another magical girl series, has [[ThePowerOfTheSun the red-eyed Akari use fire]], [[AnIcePerson the blue-eyed Seira use ice]], and [[GreenThumb the green-eyed Luna use plants]].

* Inverted in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' with Todoroki Shoto. He has both ice and fire powers and one of his eyes is grey while the other is blue. However, his blue eye is on his fire-side and is inherited from his father who is a fire elemental - whereas his ice side and his ice elemental mother have grey eyes.

** [[MakingASplash Water]] was Yellow, then Orange.

* Early on, ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' associated eye colours with specific elements (usually complentary to the colour of the elemental heroes themselves), but switched it around in 2004 and 2005 (where the colours became more contrasting on the whole) with only Earth remaining the same, and dropped it altogether in 2006-2007 when all characters were given green or orange (or later blue), eyes, usually [[GoodEyesEvilEyes depending on if they were a hero or villain]]. From 2001-2005, these were the elements and their associated eye colours:

** [[BlowYouAway Air]] was [[AirIsGreen Lime Green]], then Red.

* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' certainly attempted to do this by associating eye colours with specific elements, but failed mainly in its inconsistency -- the eye colour arrangement was changed in 2002 and 2004 with only Earth remaining the same, and again in 2006-2007 when all characters were given green or orange (or later blue) eyes regardless.
** For clarity:
*** Air are Lime Green, then Red.
*** Ice are Pale Blue, then Cyan.
*** Fire are Pink, then Lime Green.
*** Water are Yellow, then Orange.
*** Earth are Green.
*** Stone are Orange, then Blue.

* Mizore, the Ice Woman of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', has ice powers and blue eyes. Interestingly, she can also control other people's water magic.

* Pictured above, four of six girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' have them. [[PlayingWithFire Cure Rouge]] have red, [[LightEmUp Cure Lemonade]] has yellow, [[DishingOutDirt Cure Mint]] has green, and [[MakingASplash Cure Aqua]] has blue.

* Pictured above, four of six girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' has them. [[PlayingWithFire Cure Rouge]] have red, [[LightEmUp Cure Lemonade]] has yellow, [[DishingOutDirt Cure Mint]] has green, and [[MakingASplash Cure Aqua]] has blue.

* Pictured above, four of six girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' has them. [[PlayingWithFire Cure Rouge]] has red, [[LightEmUp Cure Lemonade]] has yellow, [[DishingOutDirt Cure Mint]] has green, and [[MakingASplash Cure Aqua]] has blue.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': {{Justified|Trope}} as a MarkOfTheSupernatural caused by long exposure to a [[MagicAIsMagicA specific Wind of Magic]]. Some senior Wizards' eyes change colour to match their Wind -- fiery red for [[PlayingWithFire Bright Wizards]], {{occult blue|Eyes}} for Celestial Wizards, [[ProphetEyes solid white]] or {{gold|AndWhiteAreDivine}} for [[LightEmUp Light Wizards]], or murky grey for [[CastingAShadow Shadow Wizards]].