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** When Trafalgar Law switches people's minds around, their eyes change as well. Except for Nami.

* The master in ''Literature/{{Krabat}}'' has the magic to take on a different appearance, but he'll always be missing the one eye he lacks in real life. Also applies to animals he creates. (When Krabat tries to run away, he repeatedly meets black animals with one eye -- it's not sure whether they're the shapeshifted master or created by him.)

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "A New Man" Giles is transformed into a Fyarl demon. None of the Scoobies realize this and instead want to know what the demon has done with Giles. Buffy recognizes Giles when she looks into his eyes (while she has him pinned down and is beating the shit out of him) because apparently there is no-one else in the world who can look that annoyed with her.

** Earlier on, in the episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E13TradingFaces Trading Faces]]", an accident switches minds between Darkwing and Gosalyn and between Launchpad and Honker. They not only [[VoicesAreMental switch their voices]], but also their eyes (Darkwing gets Gosalyn's green eyes, Gosalyn gets Darkwing's BlackDotPupils and Honker's near-sightedness moves to Launchpad)

** An odd example: when [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Bill Cipher]] [[DemonicPossession possesses someone]], their [[HellishPupils pupils become slits like Bill's]], but their eyes also become yellow, even though Bill's [[{{Cyclops}} eye]] is white. (Though the ''rest'' of Bill is yellow.) [[spoiler:Ford]] is apparently aware of this, since he checked Stan's eyes to make sure he wasn't possessed in [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans one episode]], and took off his ScaryShinyGlasses to prove he himself wasn't possessed in [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E15TheLastMabelcorn another]]. A few episodes after that, [[spoiler:a Bill-possessed Blendin wears goggles to hide them]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Get Out of My Head!", whenever one of the characters possesses someone else, the one they’re possessing gets their eyes as a result. For example, when Grim possesses Billy’s cat Milkshakes as a demonstration, she has Grim’s eye sockets, and when Billy possesses Mandy, she gets his BlackBeadEyes.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode Recap/TeenTitansS3E5Haunted: Raven once entered into Robin's head, when the later was having visions of Slade attacking him. Raven had hoped that by looking through her eyes, Robin would see that Slade wasn't real, something that was conveyed visually by Robin's eyes, normally blank and white due to his mask, being replaced by Raven's eyes.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', anything Mario captures will have his blue eyes along with his hat and moustache(assuming the captured thing ''has'' eyes, of course).

** Den Den Mushi gets not only the voices but also the eyes of the person on the other side. When Doflamingo is the speaker, the snail imitates ''his sunglasses''.

* In ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'', Alice Quinn cannot change her dead eyes. [[spoiler: Jigsaw, after absorbing her shapeshifting, can.]]

* Mystique from the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' movies usually has a perfect disguise, but her reptilian-like eyes will occasionally flash while in another form. That's mostly just to show the audience that it's her, though.

A specific type of MorphicResonance. Much like VoicesAreMental, some examples may be visible to other characters, others are merely StylizedForTheViewer.

* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'', when a copy of the Oracle possesses Central his avatar has the Old Man's [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20070201.html blue triangle eyes]].

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2750 SCP-2750 ("Navajo Skinwalkers")]]. Regardless of what form SCP-2750 changes into, it will always have the eyes of its favourite animal shape.

* In ComicBook/TheSandman we occasionally view Dream of the Endless through the eyes of other creatures, who see him as a member of their own race or species, (whether their perception differs or he shapeshifts based on their expectations is never made clear). One way the reader always knows it's him is his eyes, which are black and seem to contain stars no matter what the rest of him looks like.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2750 SCP-2750 ("Navajo Skinwalkers")]]. Regardless of what form SCP-2750 changes into, it will always have the eyes of its favourite animal shape.

* ''[[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast]]'': In the first book of this series, Creator/RobinMcKinley writes that the [[UncannyValley most unsettling thing about the Beast's appearance]] is that while the rest of him is completely monstrous, his eyes are human.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', Link retains his blue eyes and a similar-looking gaze while in wolf form.

* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Also by Creator/TerryPratchett here with Creator/NeilGaiman, angels and demons can more or less choose their size and shape, but [[HellishPupils there's a reason Crowley the serpent-demon doesn't like to take his sunglasses off]].

* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Also by Creator/TerryPratchett here with Creator/NeilGaiman, angels and demons can more or less choose their size and shape, but there's a reason Crowley the serpent-demon doesn't like to take his sunglasses off.

* Inverted in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' #6 The Capture. [[spoiler: After the group has realized that Jake is being controlled by a Yeerk, one of them looks in his eyes and comments that "all {they} can see is Jake".]] However, it was the brief look of intense hatred in his eyes that tipped off Ax in the first place.
* In Creator/RobinMcKinley's first Beauty and the Beast book, ''[[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast Beauty]]'', the [[UncannyValley most unsettling thing about the Beast's appearance]] is that while the rest of him is completely monstrous, his eyes are human.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Harry is disguised through a Polyjuice Potion for the wedding and looks nothing like himself. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna Lovegood]] promptly greets him by his actual name, not realising that he is disguised for a good reason. Harry wonders how she could tell, and she just shrugs and says it was something about his eyes.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': At the end of the first book [[spoiler:the monsters have the same eyes as the dead tributes, and their fur is the same colour as the corresponding tribute's hair]].
* ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'': Although never explicitly stated, the mage Yoru Sulfur is a shapechanger with one blue eye and one green eye. No matter what he looks like, his mismatched eye colours always stay the same. This is invariably the way the reader is alerted to the fact that a particular character is actually Yoru in disguise.

* ''ComicBook/TheGirlFromTheSea'': People note that Keltie's eyes are very weird so it seems that selkies can't change the seal eyes they're born with. [[spoiler: Earl, Keltie's predecessor as the Bay's Selkie has the same issue, and [[InhumanEyeConcealers his own solution.]]]]