Family Eye Resemblance

Unless Prophet Eyes are common in the gene pool, those two are probably related.

"You have your mother's/father's eyes."

— Many characters in many works

In media, characters frequently have a Strong Family Resemblance to other members of their family, often down to a Hereditary Hairstyle but sometimes creators go for a more subtle hint of relation. Since Eyes Never Lie, what better thing to do that than by giving the whole family very distinctive peepers?

Frequently, people who knew the parent in question will remark that the character has their parent's eyes. In some cases, people can figure out who the family is from their eyes alone! Oddly, this occurs as often (if not more so) with common eye colors as it does with Technicolor Eyes; this is usually justified by the eyes exhibiting some kind of expression or intensity that the parent shared.

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Examples:

Anime and Manga

• In Angel Crush, the female members of the Oak family all have closed eyes. This trait also gives them Magical Eyes with varying powers.
• Bakuten Shoot Beyblade has the Saint Shields, who are from a clan which members are solely shown to have bright green eyes. Zigzagged with the Bái Hǔ Zú, who in the third season all have Supernatural Gold Eyes, but not in any other medium.
• In Black Butler, Ciel has his mother Rachel's blue eyes. It's mentioned occasionally how much Ciel looks like his mother (even by his father).
• Cardcaptor Sakura:
  • Sakura has the same green eyes as her deceased mother, Nadeshiko.
  • Tomoyo has the same purple eyes as her mother, Sonomi.
• Sera Masumi from Case Closed has the same eye shape as her brother Shuichi Akai. The mysterious girl whom Sera lives with also have similar eyes, leading to many speculation about her identity, and how she relates to the Akai family. It turns out the mysterious girl is Sera and Shuichi's mother, Mary, who was shrunk with drugs like Shiho/Ai and Shinichi/Conan.
• In The Cat Returns, Prince Lune's heterochromia is the only clue that he's the son of the Cat King.
• The Dangers in My Heart: Kyōtarō and Kana Ichikawa, along with their mother, all have blue-shaded, concentric eyes.
• In Fate/Zero, when Illya is born, Irisviel comments to Kiritsugu that she has his eyes... which is not true to the viewers, because Illya is the spitting image of her mother and has no resemblance to her father.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Ed and Alphonse (when his soul's not stuck in an armor) have their father Hohenheim's eyes. It's eventually revealed that it is a mark of Hohenheim being ethnically Xerxian; i.e., belonging to a lost civilization.
  • When Armstrong is introducing his tiny little sister, who claims that she has the same eyes he does. It's the ONLY thing she has in common with him, appearance-wise.
• In Harukana Receive, cousins Haruka and Kanata's eyes are precisely the same colour despite their vastly different physical appearances.
• Hello! Sandybell: Sandybell and her mother Linda Edwards both have Icy Blue Eyes, alongside the exact same colour of hair.
• In Himouto! Umaru-chan, Tachibana Sylphinford and Alex are both drawn with flower shaped pupils when they get excited. They were later revealed to be siblings.
• Isabelle of Paris: Isabelle is the spitting image of her mother Marie, and they both have wide, dark eyes.
• In Jewelpet Kira☆Deco!, the Kira Deco 5 team mostly consists of characters whose Curtains Match the Window, except for Midori who has red eyes, that don't match his green hair, to show he's brother to Retsu, who has red hair and eyes.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, it is showcased that Vivio and Einhart have a Shared Unusual Trait with their respective ancestors, their heterochromia. While Einhart is one of many "reincarnations" of the Supreme King Claus G.S. Ingvalt, Vivio is the clone of Sankt Kaiser Olivie Sägebrecht.
  • In the DVD Commentary of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st, Teana mentions that old friends of her deceased parents told her that she resembles her mother, the eye color being one of the many resemblances.
• My Hero Academia: While it wasn't fully confirmed until Chapter 290, it was heavily foreshadowed that Dabi was related to the Todoroki family, one of the reasons being that his eyes had the same icy blue tone as those of his father, Endeavor. Lo and behold, it turns out that Dabi is Endeavor's eldest son Touya, who had been presumed dead by the family.
• Naruto:
  • The page image features Neji and Hinata, two prominent members of the Hyuga clan, who all have large pupil-less white eyes^note "Byakugan" literally means "white eye", which are depicted as pale lavender in the anime.
  • Boruto and Himawari, the son and daughter of Naruto and Hinata, have the same Innocent Blue Eyes as their father, although Himawari takes on her mother's eyes when her Byakugan is activated, and Boruto originally had his mother's eyes in the Canon movie The Last before it was changed to blue.
  • Shikadai, the son of Shikamaru and Temari, has the same teal eyes as his mother.
  • Inojin, the son of Sai and Ino, has the same blue-green eyes as his mother.
  • Chocho, the daughter of Choji and Karui, has the same yellow eyes as her mother.
  • All Uchiha have the same black eyes.
• Asuna Kagurazaka in Negima! Magister Negi Magi has heterochromia, a trait she shares with Negi's mother Arika. The series doesn't clarify how exactly they're related, but they are from the same bloodline.
• Remy: Nobody's Girl: One of the hints that Remy is Mrs Milligan's firstborn child is that she has her cold, blue eyes. Arthur also has Mrs. Milligan's eyes and hair.
• In Sailor Moon SuperS, Queen Nehelenia is terrified by Usagi/Sailor Moon's sad eyes because Queen Serenity had the same sad eyes when the latter sealed the evil queen.
• Dragon Ryuhou from Saint Seiya Omega was once said by Libra Genbu to have the same honest eyes as his father Shiryu.
• Sensual Phrase: Aine and Sakuya's son, Shion, inherits his dad's natural blue eyes, thanks to his dad's Caucasian ancestry.
• Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: Having stars in one's eyes is stated to be the mark of the royal family.
• There's the star-pupilled people in the world of Soul Eater. For the duration of the main franchise, there was only one group, the Star Clan, which were all wiped out for being murderers except for the then-newborn Black☆Star. Come Soul Eater Not! and it turns out the clan has related lineages. The one made explicit is the Hoshi Family, which the Star Clan is an off-shoot of.^note "Hoshi" is Japanese for "star". The other, the Hoshino Family, is only but heavily implied due to the name "Hoshino" and the presence of star-shaped pupils. Each branch has its own take on how the star pupils manifest (permanent or controllable, one eye or both eyes, pupils or only irises, etc.), but regardless, it's a sign of membership.
• Savvy viewers of Star Driver will notice how the main character Takuto and his grandfather are the only characters with an additional ring around their irises. Of course, the only other character with this trait turns out to be Takuto's father.
• In Toradora!, Ryuuji inherited his Yakuza father's scary-looking eyes, much to his chagrin.
• At least several members of the Agriche family in The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother have red eyes with vertical pupils. Their rivals, Pedelians, are also renowned for their golden eyes.
• Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku: Since Naoya dyed his hair blonde, his resemblance to his brother Hirotaka is largely in their similarly-drawn blue eyes.
• In YuYu Hakusho Hiei and Yukina both have crimson (blood red) eyes and their mother, Hina, doesn't.

Comic Books

• Batwoman has a Long-Lost Relative Reveal heralded by the words "You have our father's eyes". Said by the villain Alice, who is actually Batwoman's twin sister.
• In the New 52 book Worlds' Finest #6, Damian Wayne meets his half-sister Helena Wayne, daughter of Earth-2 Batman. They start suspecting they're related upon noticing both of them have their father's eyes.
  Helena: You have his eyes though...
  Damian: Strange... So do you...
• Robin: Tim inherited his blue eyes from his mother, which only Jack really takes note of and is part of his excuse for locking himself away from his son while he's grieving his dead wife.
• X-23's eyes were made green to establish her Strong Family Resemblance to her creator/mother, Sarah Kinney, even though Laura doesn't actually possess any of Sarah's genetic material.
  • In Generations #3, Logan remarks that Laura, his daughter/Opposite-Sex Clone, has his mother's eyes. Played with in that Laura's eyes are green, while Elizabeth Howlett's are blue, making it something in Laura's eyes that reminds him of his mother.^note Never mind that at the time the story is set, Logan wouldn't have had the memory of his mother.

Fan Works

Animorphs

• All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if Tom was infested by a member of the Yeerk Peace Movement?", Aftran doesn't recognise Tom as Jake's brother until she sees "the weary defiance in his eyes."

Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra

• In The Blood of the Covenant, Iroh firmly believes that Kallik is his long-lost nephew because he bears the same bright gold eyes as Iroh's father Azulon. As the reader already knows, he's right.
• In Field of Innocence, Iroh mentions that Lu Ten has the golden eyes of his Missing Mom, Kei Rin.

Crossover

• Child of the Storm:
  • Harry who, as per canon, has his mother's eyes. These become more significant when it is revealed that Jean Grey is his second cousin and she shares the famous eyes. Then, a third person turns up, also with those eyes... Maddie Pryor, a.k.a. Rachel Grey, Jean's stolen at birth twin sister. Sinister implies that pretty much every psychic or mage of notable strength in the Grey family has had them.
  • Ironically, just about the only feature Hermione didn't get from her mother, Wanda, was her eyes.
  • In a retroactively observed case, Carol Danvers is noted to have her great-grandpa Steve's cornflower blue eyes once the relationship is revealed, along with his hair and build. This isn't entirely surprising, since blue eyes aren't that uncommon (while it's implied to be quite a specific shade of blue, the commonality of blue eyes means that no one's looking).
• A Dovahkiin Spreads His Wings hints at Jon Whitewolf inheriting the dark indigo eyes of his biological father Rhaegar Targaryen, which is potentially bad since he's trying to keep his lineage a secret. Fortunately, his dark hair helps the colour to pass as bog-standard black.

Disney Animated Canon

• The Pride That Never Was:
  • Chaka has Nala's eyes while his sister Shani has their father Simba's eyes.
  • Kovu shares Scar's green eyes.
  • It's mentioned that Shetani gets her blue eyes from her maternal grandmother.

Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire

• In Safe Anchorage, Jeyne and her son share the same brown eyes. Jeyne's eye colour was how Theon initially recognized her back in Winterfell, and seeing Vayon's eyes helps Theon accept him.

Godzilla

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In the final chapter, San observes from reading Vivienne's memories that her late biological father had the same hazel-green eyes as her.

Harry Potter

• In The Ollivander Children, every member of the Ollivander family has silvery gray eyes.

Harvest Moon

• Cassandra from Frostbitten Flower has her deceased father Jack's brown eyes. It's a mixed-blessing to Celia. On one hand, it reminds her of Jack, but it also reminds her of the pain of losing Jack only a few months into their marriage.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• The Ultimate Evil:
  • Shendu first suspects that Valerie Payne is a descendant of Lo Pei because she has the crystal blue eyes of Pei's daughter Lo Mei. This is all but confirmed later, though otherwise Valerie looks nothing like Mei. The Living Statue of Lo Pei also believes Valerie to be a magically disguised Mei due to having his beloved daughter's eyes.
  • The sequel called The Stronger Evil provides a rare example that doesn't include eye color: Shendu states that his future son Drago's eyes are shaped exactly like those of his mother Valerie.

Kantai Collection

• In Blizzard of the Red Castle, Fubuki is mentioned at numerous points to have her father's eyes.

The Legend of Zelda

• In Offspring, Mira has Mipha's hazel eyes while her sister Neolani has Link's blue eyes (albeit more clouded due to being blind).

Pokémon

• In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, a number of characters are shown to have red eyes, inherited from their shared father. Said father is none other than a criminal from Orre, who fathered hundreds of bastard children, including none other than Ash Ketchum, who doesn't have red eyes, but shares many other traits with several of them.
  • A sidestory has Red encountering Kalos Elite Four member Siebold, who is noted to have very similar eyes to the Sensational Sisters. The main story had previously established that Siebold is their cousin in this continuity.

Rango

• In Old West, the glossy snake Grace Glossy's son Teddy looks nearly identical to his gopher snake father, except that he has his mother's brown eyes.

Total Drama

• Total Drama Legacy: Several of the characters are described as having the same eye color as one of their parents. Emilia's eyes are green like Alejandro's, Marlin's are hazel like Bridgette's, Marissa's are blue like Geoff's, Wayne's are blue like Lindsay's, Katherine's are gray like Ezekiel's, Barbara's are brown like Zoey's, Storm's are brown like Lightning's, Skave's are brown like Dave's, Keith's are black like Sky's, and Tophella's are green like Topher's.

Warrior Cats

• The Wham Line at the end of Fire and Shadow reveals that Firefang and Mistyfoot had a son named Bluepaw, who has his dad's eyes.

Dormant/Dead/Unsorted

• In the Blueswap AU, Steven has blue eyes that signify him as Blue Diamond's son.
• Bringing Me To Life has Max Jameson, who shares his dark-brown eyes with his mom, Annie.
• In The Death God Alliance, demigod children inherit their divine parent's eyes - such as Athena's having grey eyes, Poseidon's green eyes, etc.
• In the Deliver Us from Evil Series, Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes inherited their gray eyes from their mother.
• Flame's Shade is a RWBY fic where Ruby and Yang become the guardians of their half-sister after Yang's estranged biological mother dies. The baby, Ace, has red eyes like her mother Raven.
• The Heart Trilogy:
  • The only physical trait the attractive witch Andraya shares with her demure daughter Freyja is the ice blue eye color.
  • When Kathryn first meets Aragorn, she has a vision of Isildur's descendants passing a crown down their bloodline. They all share the blue-green eyes of Isildur and Aragorn.
• Morgan is told this in The Return after he is transformed into a Succubus: Her new body has her mother's eyes.
• TRON: Endgame Scenario: Mercury asks Lora-Ma3a how she knew Jet would be willing to fight for the Programs instead of trying to take over like the other invading Users, Lora-Ma3a takes off her mask. Mercury puts it together quickly, given the Strong Family Resemblance, remarking that Jet's "male render" obscures it somewhat, but the eyes were the strongest giveaway.
• The Palaververse: In Treasures, Daring's noted as having a Strong Family Resemblance to her mother, except for the eyes:
  “My word, you really are growing up.” Ivory sighed. “You’ve got your dad’s eyes, but otherwise you’re the spitting image of—”
• In Warriors: The Power of Three (Rewrite/AU), Jayfeather gets his blue eyes from Mothwing. When Mothwing meets him for the first time, she notices they both have the same eyes, though Jayfeather himself doesn't know that Mothwing is anything other than an aunt he's never met.
• In Zelda and the Manacle of Cahla, a big hint that Zelda and Link are siblings is the distinct turquoise colour^note aqua blue or asagi-iro in the original Japanese of their eyes. Zelda scolds herself for not realizing until after the ghost of their father tells them the truth.

Films — Animated

• Anastasia: When Dimitri and Vladimir first notice Anya's "resemblance" to Anastasia, they note that her blue eyes are "the Romanov eyes."
• Arlo the Alligator Boy: The eyes of the characters have pie-stylized pupils and most are the traditional sphere shape; Arlo Beauregard and his birth father Ansel use an oval shape for their eyes, which are exactly the same height and width as well, though Arlo's are larger. This is actually invoked upon during the "Something's Missing" number when Arlo is asking Ansel to look into his eyes and recognize him as his son, whom he had forsaken.
• Frozen: The Queen of Arendelle has the same eyes as Elsa as she appears now.
• Ice Age: Collision Course: According to Gavin, his son Roger has his mother's eyes (and that it's the only thing keeping him from being completely useless).
• At the beginning of Robots parodies this, acknowledging that Rodney was created with some leftover parts.
  "He's got your mother's eyes and my dad's nose."
• Tangled: Both Rapunzel and her birth mother have the exact, same eye design and color.

Films — Live-Action

• Subverted in Addams Family Values.
  Gomez: He has my father's eyes.
  Morticia: Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
• In Fright Night (2011), the vampire tells a certain character, "You have your mother's eyes... and your father's aim." That's not a compliment.
• Hot Shots!. People often tell Topper Harley that he has his father's eyes. Actually, he does. Literally. He keeps them in a little velvet case and all.
• In House of Cards (1993), it's noted that Sally has her dead father's eyes.
• In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when Indy meets Dr. Elsa Schneider:
  Elsa: Dr. Jones?
  Indy: Yes?
  Elsa: I knew it was you. You have your father's eyes.
  Indy: And my mother's ears. But the rest belong to you.
  Elsa: (smiling) Looks like the best parts have already been spoken for...
• No Time to Die: Madeleine Swann's daughter Mathilde inherited her father, James Bond's, blue eyes.
• Repo! The Genetic Opera. Blind Mag tells Shilo that she has her mother's eyes.
• Rosemary's Baby. One character says of the title spawn of the Devil that "He has his father's eyes".
• In Super Mario Bros. (1993), Lena notes that Princess Daisy has her mother's eyes when she needs to detect which kidnapped girl is the princess.
• In What a Girl Wants, it's mentioned in dialogue that Daphne has Henry's eyes. The actors have different eye colors and no one bothered to give one of them contact lenses or something.

Literature

• In A Brother's Price, all the princesses whose eye colour we are told have green eyes. (There are ten of them). Likewise, the Whistler family tends to have blue eyes.
• The Camp Half-Blood Series:
  • Children of Athena are noted for almost always having gray eyes, like she does.
  • Percy resembles Poseidon in general, though the symbolism of "sea-green eyes" means they get more focus.
• In the Deryni works by Katherine Kurtz, the Haldanes (legitimate and otherwise) are depicted with gray eyes. In cases of illegitimate relatives, the eyes visibly establish kinship.
• Discworld: Parodied with the Igors, who are known for grafting still-usable body parts from dead relatives into their bodies; when an Igor is said to have his uncle's eyes, it's meant to be taken literally.
• In Divergent, Marcus and his son Four/Tobias have the same eyes.
• In one of Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters novels, one character is able to identify the hero as the long lost son of her friend because his eyes looked so much like hers.
• In Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, Marquis Bruno Riefenstahl recognizes Fiene as the child of his late brother August partly because both of them have sky-blue eyes.
• Harry Potter:
  • Harry is often told he has his mother's eyes, so often that he can finish the phrase himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 even uses this for Snape's last words: "You have your mother's eyes..."
  • Harry's second son is mentioned in the epilogue as the only one of his three children to have inherited the green eyes of Harry and his mother.
  • In the last book Harry catches a glimpse of a familiar pair of blue eyes in the shards of Sirius's mirror. He thinks it's Dumbledore somehow talking to him from the afterlife and asks for help but he finds out later that they were actually his brother Aberforth's.
• A Hole in the Fence, Delphine notes that Grisón looks like Prune because they have the same grey eyes. Later, Grisón has to see his missing mother's picture, and notes she has Prune's same grey eyes. Shortly later, it is revealed that both kids are siblings.
• The Hunger Games: Katniss' and Peeta's daughter has his eyes while their son has her eyes.
• In the Hurog duology, members of the family often have a distinct, blue-violet colour Ward refers to as "Hurog-blue". Both of his siblings, as well as his cousins and Oreg, the family ghost, and distant relative, have them. Ward's own eyes are brown, but apparently the blue eyes go back to the ancestor who built the castle. And who was half-dragon. That's likely the reason for the unusual colour.
• Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World: Isabelle Nieto arrives at her late sister Lorena's estate to find her severely neglected daughter Karen, who has been living as a Wild Child. Lorena's staff don't even know Karen is hers - they think she's just a stray Lorena allowed to live on the property. Isabelle becomes convinced that Karen is her niece when she sees that she and Karen have the same light green eyes.
• Played for Drama in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!. Catarina's adoptive brother Keith has nearly identical eyes to their father since he's actually a distant relative. This led their mother (who wasn't aware of Keith's parentage) to mistake him for being her husband's bastard child, and led to both the deterioration of their marriage and her verbally abusing Keith alongside Catarina in the original timeline, with the duke not even bothering to clean up the misunderstanding. Fortunately in the series' timeline, that misunderstanding has been cleared up.
• In The Princes of the Air, members of the royal family have a distinctive eye color.
• In Red Dragon, the killer, in addition to a cleft palate that had a bad effect on his life, happens to be in possession of yellow eyes. When he briefly runs into his mother at a funeral, the narration briefly alludes to her eyes being yellow as well.
• In the 13th century Saga of the Volsungs, all the Volsungs have unusually bright, piercing eyes.
• In The Secret Garden, Colin has the same agate gray eyes as his Missing Mom Lilias. This is why his father, who still deeply mourns his dead wife, can only bear to look at him when he's asleep.
• It is often pointed out that all members of the Heap family in Septimus Heap share green eyes.
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles:
  • Clary inherited her mother's green eyes. Her biological brother, Jonathan/Sebastian, has black eyes like their father, but this is because of the demonic blood in him. After he is cleansed by Heosphoros, his eyes turn green. Sebastian's son, Ash, has green eyes since his birth.
  • The Lightwoods all have blue eyes, except for the brown-eyed Isabelle, for some reason. This actually came from a Herondale ancestor, Cecily, who inherited her mundane mother's blue eyes. Cecily's brother, Will, had the same beautiful blue eyes as well, something that Tessa Gray appreciated. Magnus Bane's attraction to Alec may or may not be related to his previous lusting of Will.
  • The Blackthorn siblings all share the same shade of blue-green eyes, except for Tiberius, who has gray eyes. There are records of Blackthorns being born with the gray eyes, though, so Ty isn't really regarded as a Black Sheep (even disregarding his high-functioning autism).
• In the Sherlock Holmes Canon, both Holmes brothers are said to have keen gray eyes (the only resemblance Watson can see between the two).
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Along with hair color, eye color is one of the major ways a character's heritage manifests.
  • One of the distinctive traits held by House Targaryen is their violet eyes. This is a proof of their Valyrian ancestry; other families from Valyria, such as House Velaryon, have it too, as do the people of Lys and the nobility of Volantis.
  • House Lannister is characterized by their green eyes, though the shade is different for each one. Tyrion has a mismatch of green and black eyes, which may be related to his dwarf condition. Meanwhile, his beautiful siblings Jamie and Cersei have emerald green eyes.
  • The other ruling family of King's Landing, House Baratheon, is characterized by their blue eyes. Robert has them, as do his brothers, as well as his bastards. His children with Cersei inherited her green eyes, which is a Foreshadowing to the fact that they aren't really his.
  • Gray eyes are part of the Stark look. Of the living Starks at the beginning, only Ned, Benjen, Arya, and the bastard Jon Snow have them. This is a point of frustration to Ned's wife, Catelyn, because her children (barring Arya) all inherited the Tully auburn hair and blue eyes, despite them being legitimate compared to Jon.
  • Littlefinger tells Sansa that she has the Innocent Blue Eyes of her mom Catelyn, whom he was in love with.
  • Roose Bolton and his bastard, Ramsay, share the same icy pale blue eyes. This further enhances their reputation as a sadistic family.
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet chronicles a certain family over hundreds of years. Some members have Psychic Powers, which are always accompanied by Occult Blue Eyes. This is even true of the branch whose Welsh ancestor married into a Native American tribe, where you'd expect a recessive trait like that to disappear pretty quickly.
• Thora: In the first book, Dottie Greenberg remarks that Thora's eyes are the same shade of green as her Disappeared Dad's.
• Inverted in The Thorn Birds, when Father Ralph immediately knows that Paddy Clearly isn't Frank Cleary's father—Frank has black eyes while Paddy's are blue and his mother Fee's are gray, something impossible according to Mendel's law.
• At the conclusion of the Colleen McCullough novel The Touch, Nell Kinross notices that even though her niece Dolly adores both of her infant twin aunt and uncle (see Tangled Family Tree for clarification), she's especially fond of the boy, because he and her real mother (the mentally retarded Anna, who couldn't care for her) have the same eyes and despite her young age, something in her recalls that.
• The Twilight Saga: One of the things that attracts Bella towards the Cullens is that they all have the same gold eyes, despite being otherwise dissimilar in appearance. It's later revealed that they are not biologically related, and the gold eyes are not a familiar trait, but a sign of vampires who feed on animals, as vampires who feed on humans have dark red eyes.
  • It is noted that Bella herself has her father's brown eyes. These are in turn inhereted by her own daughter, Renesmee
• All Mesopotamia Blues in Varjak Paw have green eyes. Varjak is All of the Other Reindeer because he has brown eyes. It turns out that Jalal, the original Mesopotamia Blue, also had brown eyes.
• In Wuthering Heights, the only resemblance Catherine Linton has to her mother (Catherine Earnshaw) is her dark brown eyes. Her cousin and eventual husband Hareton has the same eyes too.
• In Warrior Cats, some characters have the same eyes as their parents. For instance, in the A Vision of Shadows arc, Violetshine and Twigbranch have their parents' eyes: Twigbranch has their mother's eyes, while Violetshine has their father's.

Live-Action TV

• Batwoman (2019). After Batwoman saves Alice from drowning, Alice leaves a message for her twin sister Kate Kane; a baby bat with a card saying; "You have our father's eyes" to let Kate know she's worked out her Secret Identity.
• A Blackout Sketch on The Benny Hill Show: A vicar is looking at a couple's new baby.
  Vicar: He has your husband's nose.
  Wife: Yes. But he has his father's eyes.
• Game of Thrones: As in the books, both Roose and Ramsay have noticeably pale blue eyes that enhance the menacing stares they put on whenever they start to physically or psychologically torment people. Hell, they even do the same creepy half-closed eyelids blinking.
• On General Hospital, Luke bluntly tells his niece Carly that the only reason he isn't going to kill her for her despicable behavior—seducing her stepfather—is because she has her mother's eyes.
• An interesting version in Kamen Rider Double's movie that also works as Foreshadowing. Daidou Katsumi has the same eyes as his mother but only when they're transformed into Kamen Rider Eternal and the Cyclone Dopant.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • Emma, her son Henry, and her mother Snow White all have hazel eyes.
  • Red Riding Hood, her mother, and grandmother all have green eyes.
• In the The Phantom of the Opera (1990) miniseries, Erik tells Gerard that he's known he's his father all along, as they have the same eyes.
• On Sisters, after the women learn that they have a half-sister, one of the first things they notice is that she has their father's eyes (she's the result of his affair). Their mother notices too and is rattled.
• Sliders: In the Christmas Episode, Wade encounters doubles of her father (Don) and sister (Kelly), but they don't know who she is; on this world, her mother (Liz) died in child birth and Wade's double died along with her. Wade ends up spending time with Don, anyway, and he at one point comments on the qualities that Kelly shares with Liz.
  Don: Even you remind me of her.
  Wade: It's my eyes. People always tell me that my eyes look just like—I can see the resemblance in the picture.
• In Smallville, General Zod comments that Clark Kent has Jor-El's eyes.
• In the Supernatural episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep22), Jake's eyes flash a golden color like the Yellow-Eyed Demon, indicating Jake is now under the demon's control and is one of his children.
• Played With in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Ezri is the current host for the Dax symbiont and not a blood relative of her predecessor Jadzia at all, but Bashir (in his clumsy way) comments that the eyes are strangely similar.

Music

• The Queen song 39 has the line: "Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me."
• Static in Stereo's "Ariana Incomplete":
  Her daddy's habits and her mama's eyes
  But she never feels beautiful until she's high
• The Bavarian patriotic folk song "Weiß-Blau" ("White-Blue", i.e. the colours of the Bavarian flag) describes King Ludwig II ("unser Ludwig") as having "proud sky-blue eyes" and claims that such eyes are hereditary to all members of the House of Wittelsbach.

Tabletop RPG

• Call of Cthulhu supplement Cthulhu Companion, adventure "The Secret of Castronegro". The Cthulhu Mythos-worshipping de Diaz and Vilheila-Pereiras families have vivid green eyes.

Theatre

• In Die Walküre, Hunding notices the resemblance of his wife Sieglinde's eyes to Siegmund's. This observation, and the Leitmotif quietly underscoring it, is the first clue they're related to each other and to Wotan.
• This is the subject of the song "Lily's Eyes" in the theatrical version of The Secret Garden, where Archibald and Neville Craven notice that Mary, the niece of their mutual Lost Lenore Lily, has the same hazel eyes as her aunt. This is a change from the novel, where Lilias's eyes were gray and her son Colin is the one who has them.

Video Games

• Another Code: Ashley got her eyes from her mom. Jessica remarks on it in the opening to the first game.
• Brütal Legend. If you fail the stage battle against the Tainted Coil at the end:
  Doviculous: You have your mother's eyes. And soon, so shall I. On a necklace, I think.
• In Dark Cloud the chief of Muska Lacka tells Toan that he is the son of Aga. The character's shocked reaction lets the player know that this is true and that he wonders how she knows. She goes on to say that Aga had those same beautiful green eyes.
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Lady and Arkham both have heterochromia, which allows an observant player to guess that they're related. He's her father. Seeing as Lady despises him for killing her mother, her appearances after 3 see her wearing sunglasses.
• In Final Fantasy V, Lenna's green eyes are a visual clue to her and Faris' blood-sibling relation.
• Final Fantasy VII Remake: When Mireille Dudley reveals to the heroes that she is Kyrie Caanan's grandmother, she comments that they have the same eyes (they're brown).
• Fire Emblem:
  • In Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Wallace decides to believe Lyn's claim of being his lord Hausen's granddaughter because he can tell from her eyes. Eliwood also notes that her eyes resemble Hausen's.
  • In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, it turns out that Soren's eyes are the same color as his mother's (Almedha), uncles' (Rajaion and Kurthnaga), and maternal grandfather's (King Deghinsea).
  • In Fire Emblem: Awakening, if Inigo is Chrom's son, he proves his heroic lineage by showing him that he has the Mark of Naga in his eye... like his older sister Lucina, who has it there by default.
• In Gears of War, according to the Expanded Universe novels, the entire Fenix family is said to have Icy Blue Eyes. Adam had to take down all the portraits of his ancestors hanging in the Fenix mansion because they were too creepy even for him.
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: Briggs recognizes Matthew because he "has Jenna's eyes", when Matthew clearly has his father's eyes.
• Hades: If Zagreus gains enough affection with Thanatos, he will comment during a conversation that Zagreus shares one of his differently colored eyes with his mother.
• Hades II's reveal trailer shows that Melinoë shares her brother Zagreus's distinctive heterochromia (one red eye inherited from Hades, and one green eye).
• In Injustice 2, Superman notes that his cousin Supergirl has his same blue eyes.
• In Love & Pies, everyone in Amelia's family has blue eyes (save for her great-aunt Esme, who has Black Bead Eyes instead), even Sebastian and Edwina, her business rivals.
• Off: A more depressing example.
  The Queen: Look... He has your eyes...
  The Batter: They are full of fear.
• In Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, Katia looks almost identical to her grandmother Sophia, except for having her grandfather Anton's eyes. It's significant since getting a good look at her eyes helps Anton realize she's not actually Sophia.
• In Rune Factory 3, Zaid's silver eyes are his pride and joy because the people of his clan were well known for having silver eyes.
• In Star Stealing Prince, Snowe's told he has his mother's eyes (although this is not considered a positive thing by the people who notice).
• Story of Seasons:
  • Brothers Rick and Popuri share the same brown eyes in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town.
  • Harris mentions that his child with Maria has his eyes.
• In Summon Night: Swordcraft Story one of the Craftlords claims he can recognize Pratty (or Cleru for the strange people that play for something OTHER than lesbians) has the same eyes as her father Shintetsu, though this is after he notices Shintetsu's Guardian Beast is with her.
• Tales of Xillia 2:
  • Ludger Kresnik shares the same green eyes with a ring of yellow as Elle Mel Marta, who's the daughter of one of Ludger's Fractured counterparts. According to Julius, Ludger himself inherited those eyes from his mother, Claudia.
  • Julius Kresnik, Ludger's half-brother, shares the same grey-blue eyes as their father, Bisley Bakur, the CEO of the company Julius and Ludger work for.
  • A different Fractured version of Elle, who travelled with Ludger's Fractured counterpart, Victor, has her mother Lara Mel Marta's purple eyes. However, when her counterpart is born in Victor's dimension, she inherits Victor's green eyes instead.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: An Ambiguously Related example. Mio is generally assumed to be Nia's daughter, in no small part due to the fact that they look almost identical—except for the eyes. Rather than Nia's amber eyes, Mio has Rex's golden eyes. If Mio is Nia's daughter, then Rex would be her father.

Visual Novels

• Morgan from Heart of the Woods has bright green eyes like Evelyn, and combined with them both being redheads, Maddie is able to tell they're mother and daughter the moment she sees Evelyn. In addition to this, when Morgan first gets a good look at Abigail, she notes in a brief line that her green eyes reminds her of Morgan's. Sure enough, Abigail turns out to be Morgan's distant ancestor.

Webcomics

• It's not commented on in the narration, but in Drowtales it eventually becomes obvious that while purple eyes run in the Sarghress family Ariel's particular type come from her father, Zhor, which becomes even more apparent after he gets restored to a humanoid body, as shown here.
  • Also runs in the Sullisin'rune clan, with the heterochromia of Ash'waren's line being particularly well known in-universe, something Faen comments on when she meets Pup Ariel's younger half-brother whose father was a Sullisin'rune. Ariel's older sister Laele'aelle was said to have had these as well before her "accident" as a mark of her father being another, unknown member of the clan.
• Gunnerkrigg Court: One astute reader realized that Anthony was Annie's father when they noticed that she had his eyes.
• In The Order of the Stick, Durkon claims he can tell that Julia is Roy's sister because they have similar eyes. This is odd as Roy has the semi-unique feature (his Palette Swap Thog, every member of the identical Azure City Army and a few nameless characters share it) that the eye farther from the camera is the bigger one, which Julia lacks.
• In Schlock Mercenary, both Tagon and his father both have Conjoined Eyes. A flashback shows that his brothers, sisters, and paternal grandfather all shared the same eyes.
• In Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, Freya and Yuuki are the only ones with their exact shade of blue eyes. On its own, probably not worth mentioning, but combined with Yuuki noticing that he's "seen those eyes before" (in the mirror) and his Missing Mom, it's widely believed Freya is his mother.

Web Original

• In the final episode of Season 10 of Red vs. Blue, we find out that the Director's eyes are green, just like his daughter Carolina.
• RWBY: In the pilot episode, when Ruby first meets Professor Ozpin, the first thing he does is lean in to look closely at her face and say "you... have silver eyes", a comment she doesn't know what to make of. In Volume 3, her uncle Qrow is discussing his academy days at Professor Ozpin's school with her and her half-sister, Yang; he pulls out a photograph of the team he was in, which includes Raven (his twin sister and Yang's mother), Summer (Ruby's mother), and Taiyang (the father of both Ruby and Yang). In the picture, half of Summer's face is hidden by a white hood, but the one eye that is visible reveals that her eyes were identical to Ruby's. At the end of Volume 3, Ruby learns that silver eyes are an incredibly rare trait; any person born with silver eyes is born with a talent for fighting the Creatures of Grimm that threaten humanity's existence, and a magical power that allows them to strike the Grimm dead with a single look. Ruby finds out that she inherited these abilities from her silver-eyed mother and that Professor Ozpin is one of the very few people in the world who knows the secret of the silver eyes.

Western Animation

• Ben Tennyson inherited his bright green eyes from his mother, Sandra
  • Subverted with his cousin Gwen. Though she also has green eyes, they are a different shade - hers are bright green, while Ben's are murky and brownish.
    • The sequel series changed this so that the trope is now played straight; Ben's eye color was altered to match Gwen's.
  • Gwen is herself a subversion of this trope - neither of her parents have green eyes, nor do either of the two grandparents that she shares with Ben. While it is not technically impossible for the child of one brown-eyed and one blue-eyed parent to have green eyes, it is extemely unlikely. Her eye color is likely a recessive trait from her maternal grandparents.
  • This in turn makes the fact that the two cousins share an eye color yet another subversion of this trope, as it is a complete coincidence that their brown-eyed fathers (who are brothers) both happened to marry women carrying the gene for green eyes.
• Phantom Girl from Legion of Super Heroes (2006) has gray eyes just like her mother's.
• Ninjago: The Hands of Time are twin brothers who have hazel eyes unlike the standard black. When Krux is disguises himself, his eyes become black.
• The Owl House:
  • A flashback to Eda's childhood in Season 2 shows that her gold eyes come from her father Dell.
  • Amity Blight got the same eye design from her mother Odalia, though her gold eye color came from her father Alador. Amity’s older twin siblings, Edric and Emira, also inherited their eye colors from their father.
• Skull Island (2023): Annie has the same light brown eyes as her mother, Irene, which is one of many foreshadowings of their connection from early on.
• Averted in Star Wars Rebels. Jacen's eye color doesn't come from either of his parents, but somehow, he has the same eye color as Dume (Kanan's Force-ghost-wolf-thing form). Apparently, this was an animation error, as he's supposed to have Kanan's eye color, which makes sense given what happened to Kanan's eyes.
• What tipped off Tangled: The Series fans that Eugene is King Edmund's son was this trope.
• During the X-Men: The Animated Series adaptation of The Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean Grey learns that Corsair is Cyclops' father, though she keeps this to herself. In a later scene, Corsair talks to Cyclops about being from Earth and what he left behind.
  Corsair: Do you have any children?
  Cyclops: No.
  Corsair: I wouldn't know mine now if I saw them, except I remember my oldest boy. He had his mother's eyes.

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