History Main / MagicalEye

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Lelouch possesses a "Geass" in one eye that allows him to compel absolute obedience to his commands. Requires direct eye contact (can be blocked by visors or bounced off mirrors) and can only be used once per person. Eventually, he ends up with the Geass in both eyes[[spoiler: and [[PowerIncontinence can no longer turn it off]]]], which is the standard evolution of a Geass. Other characters in the series have magical eyes that let them read minds, paralyze people, see the future, [[spoiler:rewrite memories, steal bodies, etc.]] Later on, [[spoiler:Jeremiah Gottwald gets an "anti-Geass" that allows him to cancel the effects of ANY Geass in a certain radius. It even looks like an inverted version of the standard Magic Eye. Given that he was given this eye during his second {{cyborg}} upgrade, Jeremiah's Geass Canceller can probably be most accurately described as a {{Magitek}} Eye.]]

* ''Fanfic/SoulEaterTroubledSouls'': The Enchanted Eyes. In Chapter 17, Stein gives a brief overview about them. It’s a dangerous bloodline skill that grants the owner a Demonic Wavelength upon activation. It is said a person with it loses a small part of his or her humanity in exchange for power. The eyes are normally dormant and requires a person to be in a [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening state of extreme duress in order to first awaken it.]] Features include HellishPupils, BlackEyesOfCrazy, and GlowingEyesOfDoom. The subplot of the Chicago Gang Arc focuses on the Eyes in more depth and explains the lore behind them. Presently, four characters are revealed to have them -- [[CynicalMentor Noel]], [[TheArcher Tsuji]], [[BattleBaton Shannon]], and [[HypercompetentSidekick Left]].

.* Ryner Lute of ''Literature/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'' possesses the Alpha Stigma, strange eyes that give him incredible magic skill.

%% * The red, lidless Eye of Sauron in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. (Sauron's eye is strongly suggested to be [[http://tolkien.slimy.com/faq/Creatures.html#SauronForm a metaphor for his will]]. The movies establish him as nothing more than a disembodied eye. Either way, the Eye is not a source of power.)

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', General Blue has evil eyes which [[TheParalyzer paralyze]] anyone who looks into them, glowing blue in the process. Like Medusa, but without the petrification.
** Blue's powers are more akin to PsychicPowers, given that at one point he was able to tie Goku and his friends by manipulating several ropes with psychokinesis. On the other hand, he apparently needs to focus said powers thru his eyes; something which Goku took advantage of with his [[EyeScream "JanKenPon" technique]].

** Fay D. Fluorite's blue eyes are the source of his magical powers; he gives the color up after [[spoiler:becoming a vampire]] and gaining an EyepatchOfPower.
** Earlier, [[spoiler:Syaoran eats]] Fay's left eye in order to gain the magic inside it.

Some ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' attacks, such as Mean Look and Miracle Eye, qualify.

* You don't see it in the course of normal gameplay, but it turns out that [[spoiler:Sans the skeleton]] of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has one of these, a [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing blue and yellow eye that rapidly switches between the two colors,]] to be specific. You only see it at the end of the very worst possible route, where it signifies that one of several devastatingly powerful abilities is going to ruin your day. At that point though, [[WhatTheHellPlayer you deserve what happens]].

* ''Manga/YuGiOh'':
** Pegasus J. Crawford was given the Millennium Eye, previously owned 3,000 years ago by the TurnCoat Akunadin. It granted him the power to read minds, steal souls and (like the other Millennium Items) probably possessed other sinister powers if one knew how to tap into them.
** Dartz, the BigBad of Season 4, had an eye that turned green from the power of the Orichalcos.
* [[AwesomeAussie Jim "Crocodile" Cook]] from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' had the Eye of Orichalcum covered by a bandage.
* Each member of [[BadassBiker Team Ragnarok]] from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' has a magical eye that connects him with his Aesir card.
* In ''[[Anime/YuGiOhZexal Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL]]'', beings from the Astral and Barian worlds and Duel Spirits [[spoiler: as well as Tron and Yuma has this in his Zexal II and Zexal III forms thanks to Astral]] have heterochromia, bypassing the need for a Duel Gazer, though their eyes light up instead. Barians in their human forms have their eyes turn red, and some humans have magic tattoos around their eyes.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has an immortal werewolf named Free (original name long since forgotten) who stole the Witch Queen Mabaa's eye and replaced one of his own with it, granting him the ability to use spatial magic.
* Hiei from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' had a "Jagan" (lit. "evil eye") eye in the middle of his forehead, which bestows vaguely-defined psychic powers and a huge power boost when activated. The trauma of this implantation actually made him vastly weaker at first, but over the next few arcs he recovers all of his old power and can use the jagan on top of it. His EyepatchOfPower came in headband form.
** In what might be a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as it only happened once near the start of the series and in a movie of questionable canonicality, he can also turn green and sprout more Jagan-lookalikes [[EyesDoNotBelongThere all over his body (except his back)]] to amplify its power.

* Mido Ban of ''Manga/GetBackers'' inherited ''his'' jagan (see above) from his grandmother. If he makes direct eye contact with someone, he can induce a hallucination (most often in the form of MindRape) that lasts for exactly one minute of real-world time. Limited by the fact that he can only use it three times a day, once per person per day.
* Lucia in ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' inherited a golden left eye from her demonic father but hides it under an EyepatchOfPower. She has a special "vision" to see Viruses, which are [[WeirdnessCensor usually invisible to humans]], that is very strong. She had trouble living a normal life until getting the eyepatch. Without the eyepatch she sees darkness in her left eye but it is a different type of darkness from not being able to see.

* Lord Darcia in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' is cursed with a yellow wolf's eye (his left) which can render people unconscious. Usually covered by a mask. [[spoiler:After he attempts to enter paradise and is destroyed, his yellow eye is all that's left of him. While the world's ecology is regenerated by the lunar flowers, his eye turns some of them black, tainting the world with its evil.]]
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': Fay D. Fluorite's blue eyes are the source of his magical powers; he gives the color up after [[spoiler:becoming a vampire]] and gaining an EyepatchOfPower.

* In ''Manga/ProjectARMS'', Kei Kuruma's [[{{Nanomachines}} nanomachine implant]] "Queen of Hearts" is a sensor array in her eyes that allows her to see in BulletTime.
* Sven Vollfied's Vision Eye in ''Manga/BlackCat'' has the power to see a few seconds in the future, although this is apparently severely fatiguing. It later upgrades into the less energy consuming "Grasper Eye" that slows down what he looks at, enabling him feats like avoiding bullets fired at him (though from the point of vue of the others, he seems to be the one whose movements are being accelerated).
* Rokudo Mukuro from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has a [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]] with [[HellishPupils kanji as the pupil]], ranging from one to six. Each kanji represents a different "state" in the Buddhist Samsara cycle of {{reincarnation}}, and gives him a different power. His spirit medium/possessed girl/MoralityPet/etc., Chrome Dokuro, wears an EyepatchOfPower on the same eye Mukuro does, and when it's removed, it's implied that he materializes through the power of illusions and takes over for her.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', General Blue has evil eyes which [[TheParalyzer paralyze]] anyone who looks into them, glowing blue in the process. Like Medusa, but without the petrification.
** Blue's powers are more akin to PsychicPowers, given that at one point he was able to tie Goku and his friends by manipulating several ropes with psychokinesis. On the other hand, he apparently needs to focus said powers thru his eyes; something which Goku took advantage of with his [[EyeScream "JanKenPon" technique]].
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'', after Gyro Zeppeli gains the Saint [[spoiler:AKA Jesus]] corpse's right eye, he gains X-Ray vision and the ability to see with his steel ball weapons.
** And Diego gets the corpse's left eye and gains the ability to transform into a were-raptor.
* Mihoko's blue eye in ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', which allows her to perfectly analyze a game to the point of clairvoyance and seems to have a side-effect of disrupting [[PowerNullifier other people's abilities]], as [[CombatClairvoyance Jun]] found out.
* In ''[[Anime/TsukuyomiMoonPhase Moon Phase]]'', vampires can "charm" (read: enslave) people with their eyes.
* Contractors in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' have their eyes glow red when activating their abilities. One of the Contractors can [[DeadlyGaze violently kill a person when looking at them]].
* ''Manga/BlackButler'' has Ciel whose right eye has a pentagram on it. The design makes his eye lighter and more of a purple color than his normal blue eye. He wears an EyepatchOfPower to cover his eye unless its power is needed. The pentagram is proof of his [[MagicallyBindingContract contract]] with Sebastian, his [[DealWithTheDevil demon]] butler. Putting the mark in your eye isn't actually a ''requirement'' in the deal, but it ''is'' the rule that, the more visible the spot you place the mark, the more power you are granted - and Ciel asked for as much power as he could possibly have.
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'':
** Wisely, one of the Noahs has ''three'' evil eyes in his forehead. In his first appearance, he makes [[YourHeadAsplode heads explode]].
** The hero, whose left eye can see the souls powering Akuma due to his eye being cut by an Akuma. The eye can also regenerate if it is damaged. After the eye evolves into a new form it can also make Akuma souls visible to other people. This ability is both a blessing and a curse because it allows him to detect Akumas that are in disguise, and the eye activates automatically when one is near, but it also isn't a pleasant ability to have because he can see the suffering that Akuma souls are in, the sight of an Akuma soul being destroy makes his eye bleed and the sight of a Level 4 Akuma soul causes him to vomit.
* Unsurprisingly, Kakeru, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes'', has a golden eye that gives him precognition.
* In ''Manga/OPartsHunter'', the Cyclops who have a birthmark in the middle of their forehead. This is, in fact, a closed third eye which grants them the ability to "program" movement into inanimate objects. [[spoiler:They can make, for example, projectiles miss the Cyclops, have lying debris suddenly hurl itself at an opponent, turn about any sharp objects into deadly projectiles, etc. Shown Cyclops using this ability are: Kirin, Mei, Tsubame and Kirin's father.]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** The Raijin Tribe/Thunder Legion all have this ability. Evergreen can turn you into [[TakenForGranite stone]], Bixlow has the ability to take people souls and put them into dolls, and Fried's ability hasn't been explained but it's presumably tied to his [[WordsCanBreakMyBones magic]] because his eyes change color when he's casting particular spells.
** Erza is another example. Her artificial eye lets hrt weaken or outright negate the effects of any ability that attacks through visual contact. This includes weakening Evergreen's [[TakenForGranite stone eyes]] (and would likely do the same to Bixlow and Fried), see through and ignore illusions, [[spoiler:and even weaken the effects of a MindRape.]]
** [[spoiler:Hades has one hidden under his EyepatchOfPower that amplifies his magic to terrifying levels and allows him to create demons from rubble.]]
* ''Anime/FantasticDetectiveLabyrinth'' has the Shingan. It is what allows one to obtain the Knowledge of the Gods, [[spoiler:and proof of who inherits the powerful Hyuuga clan]].
* ''Manga/IrisZero'''s titular Irises are powers that [[EveryoneIsASuper 99% of kids are born with]] that allow kids to see things others don't. For example, Asahi [[LivingLieDetector sees devil tails grow out of people when they are lying]], and [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Hijiri/Hiziri]] sees [[spoiler:black butterflies gathering around people/animals that will soon die.]]
* The hero and heroine of ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' both have magic eye abilities, hence the MarketBasedTitle of the series. The hero, Gennosuke, can turn the murderous impulses of others against them, filling them with pain and fear and driving them to suicide. The heroine, Oboro, has eyes that give her an AntiMagic ability that disables the powers of anyone she looks at.
* In ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', Mio's right eye allows her to see the core of a Neuroi. She covers it with an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]] when not in battle.
* A rather mundane example by comparison appears in ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'': [[spoiler:According to [[TheDragon Toujo Shungaku]], both Gama and his father [[BigBad Jinsuke]] have the "Eyes of Divine Sight". As he puts it, said eyes are far more keen and perceptive than those of other warriors, allowing them to "read" the opponent's body language and anticipate their moves.]]
* Tsubame Akifuji of ''Manga/CatParadise'' has the "Eyes of the Symbol", which allow him see every detail of anything he observes, even the ones that normal humans couldn't see, whether he wants to or not. [[spoiler:They also allow him to remain aware of his surroundings even while he's possessed.]]

* The titular ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}s''' magic comes from their eyes, called Jewel Eyes.
* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'' (the anime-adaptation of the ''Franchise/KagerouProject'') is about a group of teenagers with abilities related to their eyes, dubbed 'Eye-Powers'. This includes the ability to become invisible, read minds, change others' perception of oneself, freeze people in place (or go the full gamut and [[TakenForGranite turn them to stone]]), attract other peoples' attention (or, their eyes), immortality, clairvoyance, remaking one's body, [[spoiler: photographic memory]] and, perhaps most importantly, [[spoiler: the ability to 'combine-eyes', used to attract other ability holders to the [[HiveQueen 'Queen']]]].
* In ''Anime/StarDriver'' [[spoiler:Ryousuke]] has one that grants him XRayVision in conjunction with his First Phase. [[spoiler:It makes him see his fiancée's love affair with his friend Tokio (aka Head) and he [[EyeScream takes his own eye out]].]]
* In ''Manga/Brave10'', behind his EyepatchOfPower, Rokuro hides a magical eye that is somehow passed down through his family, the Water Crest eye. [[IngestingKnowledge It strips out memories and records information]]. [[spoiler:And then after it's [[EyeScream destroyed]] by TheMole, he replaces it with the [[PowerCrystal God's Jewel]] which becomes yet ''another'' magical eye.]]
* In ''Manga/EdensZero'', the guildmaster of Shooting Starlight, Noah Glenfield, has the Ether Gear "Eye of God" which allows him to observe the exact position of anyone in the universe via his left eye. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway He initially viewed this as a pointless power]] since technology in this universe has already advanced to a similar level, but then he realized it doesn't just refer to a person's "physical" position [[spoiler:but also their ''temporal'' one, which is how he discovered that Rebecca Bluegarden has MentalTimeTravel powers years before she ever did and how many times it's activated.]]

* Shota Aizawa from ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' is known as Eraserhead for his quirk “Erasure” that lets him cancel other people’s quirks when it’s active. It only works on quirks that require activation and ends if he has to blink. He often gets severe dry eye from it and it’s quite shaky after he [[EyeScream loses an eye late in the series]]
* Two Negators from Manga/UndeadUnluck have abilities primarily activated based on line of sight are Shen with Untruth and Chikara with Unmove. [[OppositeDay Untruth negates any conscious thought his target has, causing them to do the opposite of what they are trying to do. His power only works if he's subconsciously fond of his target and he can see them.]] and Unmove [[CantMoveWhileBeingWatched negates the movement of anything he looks at as long as he stays still.]] Chiakara can however be moved by anything while using his ability.

* The Emerald Empress & the Emerald Eye of Ekron, in ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes. In one memorable scene, she grows to giant size, tears out her own eye, and sticks the Emerald Eye in the socket.
* The ComicBook/JusticeLeague villain Despero gets vast PsychicPowers from a third eye. It was even removed once by surgery, but [[HealingFactor it grew back]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Wildguard}}: Casting Call'' featured the literally evil eye Wandering Eye, who attempted to use his hypnosis powers to force his will onto the team. Failing that, he hypnotized other rejected applicants and forced them to serve his agenda of enslaving the entire world to his will, allowing him to finally be somewhat accepted by society. He was accidentally killed when Exploding Girl went critical.

* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'''s Penance Stare is an eye ''socket'' variant.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MovieMagic'', Twilight Sparkle gets TrueSight and super-vision in her right eye after a FreakLabAccident involving a rainbow-powered rocket and a {{magitek}} movie camera.

%%What work is this from?* The One-Eyed Black Cat's "missing" eye is actually the focus of his power, and the [[RedEyesTakeWarning gleaming red pupil]] in the middle of the cavity can actually ''shoot multi-purpose EyeBeams that can hurt even ghosts''.

* Nu-13 in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'' receives a mythical right eye after the events of Chapter 70. More specifically than that, her new eye is a [[spoiler:silver eye capable of freezing Grimm solid and incapacitating the Black Beast...and it used to belong to ''Ruby Rose'']].

* In ''Shinobi Heart Under Blade'', Oboro has a technique called Hagen no Do--literally "pupil of annihilation", and also translated as "Piercing Eyes". She only uses it once. It basically let her do something to the effect of causing her foe's nervous and circulatory systems to break down and explosively hemmhorage, leaving him bloody and helpless on the ground, by just ''looking'' at him.
* In the "Eye" segment of ''Film/BodyBags'', Brent, a star baseball player, gets a new right eye after he loses his original one in a car accident. He subsequently becomes plagued by nightmarish visions of murder and rape and finds out that it belonged to an executed serial killer named John Randall, whose personality is starting to overtake his own.
* ''Film/TheEye'' centers around a blind woman who receives a cornea transplant to restore her sight. Unfortunately, she also starts seeing ghosts and other visions. [[spoiler: Turns out the "donor" was a girl who could see the future, especially people's deaths, and was murdered because of it. The power came along with the eyes.]]

* The Gerard witches from ''Literature/MagicalAnnals'' have Magic Eyes passed down genetically. Their eyes are black with white slits. Theirs allows them immunity from illusions and a deciphering ability; they can read languages they do not know. The second ability takes time and concentration and it only applies to written languages.

* In the Literature/{{Deryni}} works, these are attributed to Barrett de Laney by a panicky human priest. After Barrett surrenders himself in exchange for twenty-three children, the priest hisses, "His eyes! Evil! Evil! Beware his eyes my lord!" The gathered crowd takes up the cry and his captors take the hint; they blind Barrett with a hot iron as a precaution, despite their intention to kill him anyway.
* Mr. Teatime of Creator/TerryPratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} has a grey glass eye--which some of his associates claim is in fact [[CrystalBall a scrying crystal]]--that seems to give him the ability to perform such feats as moving faster than the normal human eye can see and doing backflips on thin air, and may also be how he can see what's really there (an unusual ability on the Disc), although being a PsychopathicManchild could also explain that, since children "lack filters". Also interesting is that the other characters refer to his remaining eye as the scary one. His pinprick pupil is said to see into one's soul. If the crystal rumor is true, the fact that he has some of the Discworld's notoriously chaotic and unreliable magic implanted in his head might explain why he is so deranged.
* Boris Dragonasi, the big bad in Brian Lumley's ''Literature/{{Necroscope}}'' gains the power of the evil eye in the second half of the story. Earlier there was a legend told of the evil eye and how it can backfire on the user with gruesome results if it is used on someone who is already dead. [[spoiler:Guess what happens to Dragonasi at the end of the book.]]
* Ryner Lute of ''Literature/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'' possesses the Alpha Stigma, strange eyes that give him incredible magic skill.

* Jagang, the main antagonist of most of the Literature/SwordOfTruth series, has eyes which have been describes as "twin windows into nightmare". It is not surprising that his powers are essentially mind reading and possession.

* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars The Chessmen of Mars]]'', the kuldane's mind control depends on it; Tara learns if she looks away, she can not be controlled.
* Creator/MichaelMoorcock's Eternal Champion series includes [[Literature/{{Corum}} Corum Jhaelen Irsei]], who for the first portion of his career wields the eye and hand of a god in place of his own. By lifting the eyepatch he wears over this eye, he can see into a spectral place, where a creature dwells. He can then draw it out, where it will fight for him. Then the next time he lifts the eyepatch, whatever was killed by the creature has taken its place, and now IT can be summoned to fight, apparantly at a greater power level than it possessed before.

* The Pythia, in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresCatsCradleTimesCrucible Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', steals the eye from a decapitated sphinx and substitutes it for one of her own, in an attempt to regain her waning prophetic powers.
%% * Not surprisingly, the title character of ''Literature/{{Dragoneyes}}''.

* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': ''Evil Eye'' is a spiritual technique that can paralyze the target through eye contact. Unlike magic it cannot be taught, only be developed through periods of intense fear, hatred, and/or sorrow. [[spoiler: When Eric sees that Tahart has restrained and is about to rape Annala, he develops this ability.]]
* In Myke Cole's ''Literature/TheSacredThrone'' trilogy, [[TheWitchHunter the Order]] claims to be able to find wizards by looking at a person's left eye for a [[{{Hellgate}} portal to hell]] - the sign of the wizard's compact with devils. This isn't exactly true, a wizard is a person who knows how to manipulate supernatural forces in the world and are indistinguishable from normal people plus there's no compact with Hell. But if they use [[SuperpowerMeltdown too much magic]], it causes a portal to open in their left eye and let's through a devil. Of course, the wizard doesn't survive this experience.
* In the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} several characters possess Mystic Eyes, with abilities ranging from [[CharmPerson Suggestion]], to [[MindOverMatter Distortion]], to [[TakenForGranite Petrification]], to the famous Eyes of Death Perception, which are shown in both ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. These allow the user to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin perceive the death of whatever they're looking at]] and cut it to cause [[OneHitKill instant, irrevocable death]].[[note]]Even inanimate objects have a "death" that can be perceived, but there are two major limitations. If a creature or object's death is beyond human comprehension, trying to cut it (or even look at it) can be detrimental, and the eyes are limited to seeing the death of things of Earthly origin. In the latter case, the infamous [[EldritchAbomination ORT/Type Mercury]] is explicitly immune.[[/note]] By extension, this also includes HellishPupils. Most are [[GlowingEyesOfDoom quite colorful when activated]]. Also, Mystic Eyes feature in the spin off series ''Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' where there is even an auction where mages can buy and sell them. Depending on the type of Mystic Eyes, each set is given a rank such as Gold, Jewel or the most rare and/or powerful Rainbow Mystic Eyes.
* Early in the ''Literature/OthersidePicnic'' series, Sorawo's right eye is left permanently altered after an encounter with the kunekune. It grants her the ability to perceive the various aspects of the different phenomena in the Otherside. If used on humans it has the chance to affect their mental state, which is why she's reluctant to use her abilities on other people... [[spoiler: until Volume 3, where she uses that aspect deliberately when she has to escape from Runa's cult. Sorawo uses her eye to drive one captor insane, and upon getting into an extended firefight with the cultists, her eye once again proves useful in distracting a few of them long enough for Migawa to shoot them.]]

* In ''Literature/QualiaThePurple'':

* In ''Literature/{{A Wrinkle in Time}}'', when Charles Wallace stares into the eyes of The Man With Red Eyes, he goes under the telepathic mind control of IT. To make things creepier, Charles Wallace's own eyes change so that his pupils are swallowed up by the iris, giving him disturbing [[MindControlEyes all-iris eyes]].
* In ''Literature/MermaidMoon'', the witch Thyrla's right eye has two irises and two pupils. One can see the past, and the other the future. Discomfort in the eye can also warn her of things to come. She keeps it covered with an eyepatch so the townspeople don't know there's anything special about it.

* The [[PlayByPostGames play-by-post forum]] ''Roleplay/FateNuovoGuerra'', which is basically an ''AlternateUniverse'' of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', has quite a good number of Mystic Eyes users.

* Urza's powerstone eyes, from TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering.
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' has the Cheiron Corporation and it's [[BodyHorror thaumatechnology.]] It involves [[OrganTheft taking]] bits and pieces of supernatural creatures and implanting them into humans. Among other things, there is a pair of eyes stolen from some sort of [[EldritchAbomination otherworldly creature]]. The're [[MonochromaticEyes yellow]], faceted, and provide the owner with AuraVision.

* Some ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' attacks, such as Mean Look and Miracle Eye, qualify.
** Generation V introduces a move ''actually called'' Evil Eye (which was translated as Hex in the English version).
* The main character in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', being a regenerating immortal, can equip magical eyes in place of one of his original eyes. There is also [[spoiler:a bar, at which the barkeep is holding for you an eye removed by one of your past incarnations that you don't remember-replacing one of your eyes with that one gives you an experience bonus and lets you remember part of his life.]]
* Reisen Udongein Inaba of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series is a [[LittleBitBeastly moon rabbit]] whose eyes can cause lunacy.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Meteos}}'', the planet Meteo is basically a giant yellow space eye. Now, guess where all the planet-destroying meteors that you fend off in the game are coming from.
* Jubei Akane Yagyu and her uncle Munonori from ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' both have the Oni-eyes, complete with the EyePatchOfPower. When activated, allows extremely hightened reflexes (to the extent that time feels slowed down), illusion control (the ability to both use and see through illusions) and lethal counter-techinques (especially useful with heightened reflexes).
* Lieselotte of ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' has her [[RedEyesTakeWarning Crimson Gaze]] move, where she looks straight into the eyes of her opponent to smack them with a confusion status that [[InterfaceScrew switches up their controls]].
* In the first ''[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Knight]]'' game, dark Jedi can learn a force power called Force Deadly Sight. With it activated, anyone the player sees in his vision takes damage and dies.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Seymour's aeon, Anima, has an attack where she gives an enemy an ''instantly fatal'' dose of this trope.
* [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' are unique in Hydaelyn because their innate aether builds up over time, making dragons StrongerWithAge. The aether is stored in their eyes, making them the source of their vast power and longevity. If removed from a dragon, others can use the vast stores of aether for all matter of magic purposes.
* While 99% of its moves just scream ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', the Apotheosized form of Ialdabaoth from ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Original Generation}}s'' has one move that starts with this, leaving even the most [[HumongousMecha humongous of mecha]] ''frozen in terror'' before being pummeled into dust. (Even zanier: this is its weakest attack.)
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', there are special "Eye Orbs" used to invade other players and engage in [=PvP=]. The Red Eye Orb allows players to invade and kill others, while the Eyes of Death let players curse others' worlds and generate stronger versions of typical enemies. The Ring of the Evil Eye is also said to contain a demon of the name. It lets you heal by killing people.
* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' V and VI, the Cyclops units can be upgraded with Evil Eyes that grant them ranged attacks. Worse, unlike most ranged units, upgraded Cyclops don't suffer a melee penalty -- on the contrary, they deal even more damage in melee. In the fifth game, their Evil Eyes also reduce their targets' luck.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'''s Blacksky Eye gives your character the power to fire Optic Blasts of StarPower that deal arcane damage. It's not implanted, but rather held and rubbed as an arcane tool.

* Mary's golden eye in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'' gives her the ability to detect lies and see the truth, no matter how it is being hidden. It also gives her amazing intuition.

* In ''VisualNovel/DraKoi'' a dragon's eyes are called enchanting and the protagonist slowly seems to fall under the dragon's control. [[spoiler:Not really. He's just falling in love with her.]]

** In "Don't Look", Finn inherits a set of magical eyes from a dead hermit living atop Dead Mountain. The eyes turn whoever he looks at into what he perceives them as; for example, older-brother figure Jake turns into a BigManOnCampus, Shelby the worm (who's a bit of a know-it-all) turns into a nerd stereotype, and Starchy the gravedigger turns into a BlatantBurglar when he takes Finn's shades and Finn calls him a thief. When Finn accidentally turns NEPTR into a non-living microwave, Finn [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is overcome with guilt]] and [[IAmAMonster turns himself into a monster]] when he looks at his own reflection.

* Whenever the sorceress Mara from ''WesternAnimation/{{Blackstar}}'' used her magic powers, her eyes glowed, as did her hands.

See also EyeBeams for a more directly offensive use of eyes. A ThirdEye is usually magical as part of its symbolism. If the magical eye can cause hypnosis, it's a [[HypnoticEyes Hypnotic Eye]]. Do not confuse with FacelessEye or the more mundane DeathGlare. Compare ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow. Compare DeadlyGaze for a lethal version. The [[MagicVersusTechnology technological equivalent]] is ElectronicEyes.b [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to Magic Eye]], that autostereogram thing where if you look at it ''just right'', you can see a cat or a dolphin or whatever.

See also EyeBeams for a more directly offensive use of eyes. A ThirdEye is usually magical as part of its symbolism. If the magical eye can cause hypnosis, it's a [[HypnoticEyes Hypnotic Eye]]. Do not confuse with FacelessEye or the more mundane DeathGlare. Compare ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow. The [[MagicVersusTechnology technological equivalent]] is ElectronicEyes. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to Magic Eye]], that autostereogram thing where if you look at it ''just right'', you can see a cat or a dolphin or whatever.

[[caption-width-right:345:''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Your small frame belies your immense greed.]] Well then! [[DealWithTheDevil The mark]] shall reside on that great big eye of yours, which reflects [[CrapsackWorld a hopeless world!]]'']]

* Richard B. Riddick, the AntiHero of ''Film/PitchBlack'' and ''Film/{{The Chronicles of Riddick}}'' has surgically-enhanced hypersensitive eyes which require him to wear special goggles during daytime. They allow him to see in the dark, and when he takes off his goggles his eyes are shown to glow.
** The video game suggests his special eye powers may actually be a result of being [[spoiler:the last surviving [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Furyan]].]]
* In the 2009 film ''Film/{{Push}}'', mind-influencing telepaths need to make eye contact with their targets. The so-called "pusher's" pupils dilate drastically when they use their powers

* In the anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'' in the "Eye" segment, Brent, a star baseball player, gets a new right eye after he loses his original one in a car accident. He subsequently becomes plagued by nightmarish visions of murder and rape and finds out that it belonged to an executed serial killer named John Randall, whose personality is starting to overtake his own.

* ''Manga/BlackButler'' has Ciel whose right eye has a pentagram on it. The design makes his eye lighter and more of a purple color than his normal blue eye. He wears an EyepatchOfPower to cover his eye unless its power is needed. The pentagram is proof of his [[MagicallyBindingContract contract]] with Sebastian, his [[DealWithTheDevil demon]] butler.

** In addition, most Eldar tabletop psychic powers require line of sight. Mind War comes to [[IncrediblyLamePun mind]]; it's essentially a Farseer staring down an opponent with such intensity that it can literally wound and even ''kill'' them. On the tabletop this is translated as the opponent taking unsaveable wounds.

* Euron "[[RedBaron Crow's Eye]]" Greyjoy of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is strongly hinted to have one. Exactly what's under his EyepatchOfPower hasn't been revealed yet, but just the prospect of seeing it unnerves his fellow Ironborn. (Who, lest we forget, are RatedMForManly Viking expies.) Given that he's been known to consort with [[BlackMagic warlocks]] and that he flies a personal standard that shows a [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]], it all works together to imply that something very unusual is hiding beneath the eyepatch.

* In Susan Dexter's ''The Prince of Ill-Luck'', the protagonist has mismatched eyes; his left eye is magical, and allows him to see through spells. Unfortunately, the fact that his eyes show him different things also creates a magical imbalance that turns him into TheJinx.

* In Myke Cole's ''The Sacred Throne'' trilogy, [[TheWitchHunter the Order]] claims to be able to find wizards by looking at a person's left eye for a [[{{Hellgate}} portal to hell]] - the sign of the wizard's compact with devils. This isn't exactly true, a wizard is a person who knows how to manipulate supernatural forces in the world and are indistinguishable from normal people plus there's no compact with Hell. But if they use [[SuperpowerMeltdown too much magic]], it causes a portal to open in their left eye and let's through a devil. Of course, the wizard doesn't survive this experience.

* In the ''Psalms of Isaak'', the ancient wizard-king Ahm Y'Zir had one of his eyes replaced by a magical one that (supposedly) allowed him to see into the underworld, and thereby aided him in making [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] for his BloodMagic. He was known to history as the "One-Eyed Wizard King" and [[spoiler: Vlad Li Tam is able to identify the monstrous magitek cyborg that has projected itself into his dreams as Ahm via this feature]].

** As demonstrated in the page quote, Shiki Tohno has these in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. They enable him to see the lines that represent a person's or object's lifespan, and he can cut along those lines to make that thing "die". Ciel has eyes that can make you accept whatever she's saying unless you know it isn't true. Arcueid and Satsuki have hypnotic eyes. Sidestories introduce more eyes, such as ones that see the past or future.

** Servant Rider of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has the Mystic Eyes of [[spoiler: [[TakenForGranite Petrification]]]], as her true identity is [[spoiler:{{Medusa}}]]. They are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what they sound like]], though enemies with high magic resistance can temporarily resist the effect.

If only one eye has magical abilities, an EyepatchOfPower is very likely, especially if this eye possesses a distinct look, like color or shape (which might only appear during active use). The Magical Eye is often used as an excuse to apply certain patterns or symbols to a particular power, therefore making it Cool and Symbolic. Even more symbolic, the eye possessing the power is almost always the character's left eye (the left eye is considered the "sinister" eye, as "sinister" was once a word for "left"). Furthermore, the "uniqueness" of the Magical Eye compared to its more mundane non-magical counterpart can serve as a DualityMotif, symbolically highlighting a contrast in its bearer's own character. Closely related to the RedRightHand.

* Nu-13 in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'' receives a mythical right eye after the events of Chapter 70. More specifically than that, her new eye is a [[spoiler:silver eye...and it used to belong to ''Ruby Rose'']].

** The eponymous protagonist of ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' has a mysterious magical right eye which so far allows him to see various things invisible to the naked eye, like chakra pathways and inter-dimensional barriers. [[spoiler:If this sounds similar to the Byakugan, that's because Boruto's mother is a Hyuga (though it's been emphasized that Boruto's eye is ''not'' quite the same thing as the Byakugan and it's distinct from the Tenseigan as well).]] WordOfGod has named this eye the Jōgan ("Pure Eye").