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** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' introduces Einhart Stratos, a descendant of another emperor from the Belkan Age, the Supreme King Claus G.S. Ingvalt. She also has heterochromia, albeit blue and violet eyes.

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** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' introduces Einhart Einhard Stratos, a descendant of another emperor from the Belkan Age, the Supreme King Claus G.S. Ingvalt. She also has heterochromia, albeit blue and violet eyes.



* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', all Saiyans are born with black hair and eyes. This was one of the reasons why Vegeta didn't believe Trunks was of Saiyan blood since he had blue eyes and purple hair.

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* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', all Saiyans are born with black hair and eyes. This was one of the reasons why Vegeta didn't believe Trunks was of Saiyan blood since he had blue eyes and purple hair. Although, Earthlings with black hair and black eyes are also very common, which is why Gokū blended in so well with the Earthlings...if it wasn't for his monkey tail, an unusual trait that ''is'' exclusive to Saiyans (from Universe 7). Before revealing his identity to Gokū, revealing his tail to Gokū was the first proof that Raditz, his older brother, is connected to him. Raditz recognizes Gohan as Gokū's easily because he also has a tail like them.
** In regards to another unusual trait, the fact that Saiyans' hair and eyes turn golden/blond and green (accompanied with a golden aura) upon turning into Super Saiyans is also a distinct trait they have. When Trunks was introduced, Freeza was able to identify him as one because of that phenomenon, which by the time of the story was exclusive to Gokū. The actual color combination, however, isn't so unique with Earthlings who are born with those traits naturally, and Lunch just happened to be an Earthling whose hair and eye color change to blond and green.
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* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Reiner, Bertolt and Annie each have their own, distinct nose-shape, but that also ends up having them stand out compared to most of the other 104th squad. Bertolt also has tall, elongated features that make him stand out among others, too. All three of them come from the same village [[spoiler:that is actually a different country entirely, and they infiltrated the Walls as undercover Titan Shifters]].
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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not obvious that there's even a familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, is PrematurelyGreyHaired]].

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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], syndrome,]] but it manifests in different ways so it's not obvious that there's even a familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, is PrematurelyGreyHaired]].
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', one of Zagreus's more unusual physical characteristics are his searing, red-hot feet, a trait which he inherited from his father, Hades. It's also occasionally implied that the reason why Zagreus bleeds red like a human instead of gold like a god (and why Hades views this "weak blood" of his so derisively) is because [[spoiler:he inherited it from Hades's ex-wife, the half-human Persephone, who is such a sore spot for him that discussion of her is banned across the Underworld]].

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* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', at one point Hollyleaf notes that Cinderheart always flicks her paw a certain way when grooming herself. She notices Leafpool staring at Cinderheart, and Leafpool comments that Cinderpelt used to flick her paw like that. Cinderheart is a reincarnation of Cinderpelt, and while the reader already knows this, it's one of the first times the characters see the resemblance between the two.

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one point Hollyleaf notes that Cinderheart always flicks her paw a certain way when grooming herself. She notices Leafpool staring at Cinderheart, and Leafpool comments that Cinderpelt used to flick her paw like that. Cinderheart is a reincarnation of Cinderpelt, and while the reader already knows this, it's one of the first times the characters see the resemblance between the two.two.
** One white paw runs in Jake's family, though Jake himself didn't have one. His daughter Princess, son Scourge, and granddaughter Squirrelflight all have it.


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* Taiyang in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has two idiot hairs. His daughters Ruby and Yang both inherited an idiot hair each.
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* Two of the characters, a Granddaughter and Great-granddaughter of two of the protagonists - Lucy and Sarah Edmontons, in ''Fanfic/BringingMeToLife'' share heterochromia. One eye is dark-gray, while the other is dark-brown.

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* Two of the characters, a Granddaughter and Great-granddaughter of two of the protagonists - Lucy and Sarah Edmontons, in ''Fanfic/BringingMeToLife'' ''Bringing Me To Life'' share heterochromia. One eye is dark-gray, while the other is dark-brown.
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* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': In chapter ten, Heartful Punch reveals to Undine that, when they first met, she thought they might have something in common because of their shared trait of odd eyes. Typically CurtainsMatchTheWindow with Magical Girls, but HP has bright cyan eyes in contrast to her otherwise pink color-scheme, while Undine has pink pupils where everything else is blue. The exact reasons for their situations are different, but the circumstances ''do'' have similarities as both were the result of one magical girl's power transferring to someone else. In Heartful Punch's case, she was born while her mother was still an active magical girl, whose color was cyan. Undine, meanwhile, got her pupils after her pink-themed friend Tessa sacrificed her powers to save Undine's life.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3'', the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Voluntary Shapeshifer]] Dudu is missing an eye, and as a result every form he takes is also has a closed eye with a scar over it.

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* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3'', the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Voluntary Shapeshifer]] Dudu is missing an eye, and as a result every form he takes is also has a closed eye with a scar over it.


* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': The [[PettingZooPeople jakkai]] Rhea and [[spoiler:her [[ArchnemesisDad evil father]]]] Moonshade both have an abnormally long PrehensileTail which indicates they are both [[spoiler:descended from [[PhysicalGod Moku the snake guardian.]]]]

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* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': The [[PettingZooPeople [[BeastMan jakkai]] Rhea and [[spoiler:her [[ArchnemesisDad evil father]]]] Moonshade both have an abnormally long PrehensileTail which indicates they are both [[spoiler:descended from [[PhysicalGod Moku the snake guardian.]]]]
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* In the first ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, Dong Dong and Cha Cha, the bacteria brothers, both have miscolored eyes (two red eyes and one blue eye) because [[spoiler:they were both born from the same parents, who were from opposing factions and had to move to a remote mountain to be able to live with each other. The members of one faction have red eyes while the members of the other faction have blue eyes]].
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* Several characters in ''Manga/EnenNoShoubotai'' have white pupils, including the main character, Shira. Curiously, none of them were born like this and their eyes changed later in life. [[spoiler:It is implied to be because they are connected to the Adolla realm.]]

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* Several characters in ''Manga/EnenNoShoubotai'' ''Manga/FireForce'' have white pupils, including the main character, Shira.Shinra. Curiously, none of them were born like this and their eyes changed later in life. [[spoiler:It is implied to be because they are connected to the Adolla realm.]]
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An unusual physical trait that ties two characters together. The physical trait can be heterochromia, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unusual hair colours]], deformities or other odd traits. It could also be something that's passed down from one generation to the next. These traits can be used to identify twins, [[MarkOfTheBeast possessed people]], clones, or a once-unknown connection between two people that indicates they are related.

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An unusual physical trait that ties two characters together. The physical trait can be heterochromia, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unusual hair colours]], deformities or other odd traits. It could also be something that's passed down from one generation to the next. These traits can be used to identify twins, [[MarkOfTheBeast possessed people]], [[ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait reincarnations]], clones, or a once-unknown connection between two people that indicates they are related.
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* Several characters in ''Manga/EnenNoShoubotai'' have white pupils, including the main character, Shira. Curiously, none of them were born like this and their eyes changed later in life. [[spoiler:It is implied to be because they are connected to the Adolla realm.]]
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* Heterochromia is the mark of a ''Literature/{{Graceling}}''. Katsa's eyes are green and blue, Po's are gold and silver, [[spoiler: and before he lost one, Leck's were red and grey.]]
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Actually, Ed's the only one who really keeps his hair color close to the manga's in the first anime.


* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', the fact that Ed, his brother Al, and their father Hohenheim all have gold eyes and gold hair (not blond, ''gold'') is an important plot point, as it [[spoiler:marks them as ethnically members of the lost Xerxes civilization. Hohenheim is an immortal survivor of the apocalypse]]. The first anime missed the memo and gave Al blue eyes, but it still mostly works.

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* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' (specifically the manga and ''Brotherhood''), the fact that Ed, his brother Al, and their father Van Hohenheim all have gold eyes and gold hair (not blond, ''gold'') is an important plot point, as it [[spoiler:marks them as ethnically members descendants of the lost Xerxes civilization. civilization, with Hohenheim is being an immortal survivor of the apocalypse]]. The first anime missed the memo and gave Al blue eyes, but it still mostly works.its destruction]].
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* In Creator/ABertramChandler's ''John Grimes'' novels the title character has an illegitimate son that inherited his very large ears. The mother had them surgically altered to hide his paternity from her planet's nobility.
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* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': The [[PettingZooPeople jakkai]] Rhea and [[spoiler:her [[ArchnemesisDad evil father]]]] Moonshade both have an abnormally long PrehensileTail which indicates they are both [[spoiler:descended from [[PhysicalGod Moku the snake guardian.]]]]
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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's a familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has PrematurelyGreyHaired]].

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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's even a familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has is PrematurelyGreyHaired]].
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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's a familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has PrematurelyGrayHair]].

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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's a familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has PrematurelyGrayHair]].PrematurelyGreyHaired]].
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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's a familiar connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has PrematurelyGreyHair]].

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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's a familiar familial connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has PrematurelyGreyHair]].PrematurelyGrayHair]].
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* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', three related characters all have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waardenburg_syndrome Waardenburg syndrome]], but it manifests in different ways so it's not immediately obvious that there's a familiar connection. [[spoiler:Amelia and Zadie respectively have differently colored eyes and a SkunkStripe, and their biological father, Jeremy, has PrematurelyGreyHair]].
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* In DragonBallZ all Saiyans are born with black hair and eyes. This was one of the reasons why Vegeta didn't believe Trunks was of Saiyan blood since he had blue eyes and purple hair.

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* In DragonBallZ ''Manga/DragonBall'', all Saiyans are born with black hair and eyes. This was one of the reasons why Vegeta didn't believe Trunks was of Saiyan blood since he had blue eyes and purple hair.
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* One episode of ''Series/{{Forever}}'' used this as a major plot point: [[spoiler: a diver that had died in the expedition to find a sunken ship had heterochromia - one green eye, one blue. This tipped off Henry to the fact that the bartender who served drinks to the victim the night of his death was the sister of the dead diver, as she had the same eyes, revealing that she had killed the man she felt was responsible for her brother's death.]]
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* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', certain members of House Targaryen have a physical tolerance to high temperatures and fire; also, they all share a characteristic light-silver hair and violet eyes, a trait of the peoples of Old Valyria.

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* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', certain members of House Targaryen have a physical tolerance to high temperatures and fire; also, they all share a characteristic light-silver hair and violet eyes, a trait of the peoples of Old Valyria.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3'', the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Voluntary Shapeshifer]] Dudu is missing an eye, and as a result every form he takes is also has a closed eye with a scar over it.
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* In ''Anime/GurrenLagann'', some character's pupils (specifically: [[spoiler:Lord Genome, Kittan, and Simon]]) take on spiral form to indicate their mastery of the Spiral Energy.

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* In ''Anime/GurrenLagann'', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', some character's pupils (specifically: [[spoiler:Lord Genome, Kittan, and Simon]]) take on spiral form to indicate their mastery of the Spiral Energy.
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* ''Film/ThePact'': Annie Barlow has one green eye and one blue eye. So does Charles Barlow, implying Annie's basement-dwelling serial-killer uncle is also her creepy incest-dad.
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* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', all the princesses can be easily identified by the "royal red hair". There is also [[spoiler: the Porter family, some of whom have eleven toes. The fact that Kij (who doesn't have the trait) has a daughter who has eleven toes is proof that the daughter was fathered by Kij's brother, Keifer Porter, who has the trait, and not, as Kij claims, by some anonymous man she had a one-time sexual encounter with.]]
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', there is a certain shade of blue eyes that is exclusive to members of the Hurog family. Ward, who doesn't have them, nevertheless immediately concludes that Oreg, the local FriendlyGhost and the GeniusLoci of [[PoweredByAForsakenChild castle Hurog]] must be somehow related to the family, as Oreg has the Hurog-blue eyes.
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*In DragonBallZ all Saiyans are born with black hair and eyes. This was one of the reasons why Vegeta didn't believe Trunks was of Saiyan blood since he had blue eyes and purple hair.
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** Vivio from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' has red and green eyes because [[spoiler:the person from whom she was cloned]] also possesses those features.
** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid'' introduces Einhart Stratos, a descendant of another [[spoiler:Emperor from the Belkan Age (just like the one from whom Vivio was cloned)]]. She also has heterochromia, albeit blue and violet eyes.

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** Vivio from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' has red and green eyes because [[spoiler:the person Sankt Kaiser Olivie Sägebrecht from whom she was cloned]] cloned also possesses those features.
** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid'' ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' introduces Einhart Stratos, a descendant of another [[spoiler:Emperor emperor from the Belkan Age (just like Age, the one from whom Vivio was cloned)]].Supreme King Claus G.S. Ingvalt. She also has heterochromia, albeit blue and violet eyes.



** Kakashi and the BigBad both have mismatched eyes, with one of them being a sharingan- [[spoiler: turns out the BigBad is Obito Uchiha, whose left eye was transplanted to Kakashi when they were children! Side-effects include shared vision when they're near each other and having the same Mangekyou, [[PortalCut Kamui]]. Due to Mangekyou's power it is safe to say Obito would not have been beaten without Kakashi's presence. Good thing Obito gave him that eye all those years ago!]]

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** Kakashi and the BigBad Tobi both have mismatched eyes, with one of them being a sharingan- [[spoiler: turns Sharingan - [[spoiler:turns out the BigBad is Obito Uchiha, whose left eye was transplanted to Kakashi when they were children! Side-effects include shared vision when they're near each other and having the same Mangekyou, Mangekyou Sharingan, [[PortalCut Kamui]]. Due to Mangekyou's power it is safe to say Obito would not have been beaten without Kakashi's presence. Good thing Obito gave him that eye all those years ago!]]

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