Glowing Eyes of Doom

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"Whatever it is... it's got glowing evil eyes of evil!"

— Fidget, Dust: An Elysian Tail

Whether a permanent indication of malevolence, the emergence of the Superpowered Evil Side, or perhaps the result of a Berserk Button or Rage Breaking Point, these eyes are clearly not a good sign. However, they aren't necessarily the province of villains — particularly powerful heroes often manifest this trope when it's time for the gloves to come off. Unlike Red Eyes, Take Warning, these always mean immediate trouble and thus are near the top of the hierarchy of "Uh-Oh" Eyes. Thanks to the description of Pallas Athena in Homer's The Iliad, this trope is Older Than Feudalism.

Very good for giving the Death Glare. A Slasher Smile or other happily murderous expression doesn't hurt, either.

You can usually tell the trouble is over when the eye lights go out. Unless they come back.

Unsurprisingly, a Sub-Trope of Glowing Eyes. Compare The Darkness Gazes Back.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• When Chika finds a photograph of Tina and Kaoru In Ai Yori Aoshi, Tina gets perfectly round Glowing Eyes Of Doom combined with Hidden Eyes-style shadowing. After the cutaway for various spooky imagery, Tina's bright and cheery, while Chika's petrified.
• Near the climax of the Assassination Island arc in Assassination Classroom, Nagisa's eyes glow menacing green when Takaoka blows up the antidote used to cure the students.
• Attack on Titan: A pack of Titans briefly demonstrate this after receiving orders from Eren to kill Reiner and Bertolt. Results in an Oh, Crap! moment for the latter.
• Aura Battler Dunbine: Whenever a Battler's eyes start glowing it always means trouble as it's the first sign that their Aura is going "Hyper". A transformation that gives them god like power...at the cost of their own life.
• Azumanga Daioh's Yukari-sensei, after Tomo accidentally hits her in the face with a tray.
• Rail Tracer in Baccano! enjoys this trope almost as much as it enjoys dragging people under moving trains and grating their limbs and faces against the rails, which is a lot.
• In a Bakugan episode, Drago's eyes began to glow. And then the stadium exploded.
• In Berserk, the houndlike "Beast" that sometimes appears in Guts's dreams and that represents his darker side post-Eclipse has two really evil-looking red glowing eyes, and when Guts is under its sway, his good eye will often glow red like the hound, best illustrated in the PS2 game which focuses on the Millennium Falcon arc.
• Creed from Black Cat did this when his precious time with Train was constantly interrupted by others. And no, it wasn't played for humor.
• Black Lagoon managed to pull this off in a late episode when Rock upset Balalaika - she stood over him at an angle at which light reflected off her glass eye, evoking the trope.
• Bleach has a few examples.
  • Ichigo's eye sockets were completely empty for one fight until one brief moment when and for a moment all that's visible through the smoke are his glowing Supernatural Gold Eyes.This becomes a major Oh, Crap! moment for Ulquiorra due to Ichigo's unusual and uncontrollable Superpowered Evil Side upgrade. His eyes changed to Red Eyes, Take Warning when the fight was re-animated for the fourth film.
  • Ikkaku's eyes glow when he activates bankai against Edorad. It does not end well for Edorad.
  • Episode 217 of the anime when Cuulhorne has Yumichika at his mercy and unleashes his final technique. Yumichika simply thanks him for doing that as his eyes begin to glow with hidden power. Curb-Stomp Battle is the only description for what happens next.
  • In Episode 303, several highly seated officers engage in a Men-versus-Women card competition. The final card to be competed over is a picture of Yoruichi. The surviving competitors charge for the card only to stop at the build-up of power behind them. They find themselves staring down the barrel of Soi Fon's bankai as her eyes glow wildly with her determination to obtain Yoruichi's card.
• In Blue Drop, Hagino Senkouji's eyes glow a brilliant blue right before she tries to strangle another character. It also happens when she summons her space ship.
• Compared to most of the other entries on this page, the settings and characters in Case Closed are realistic. However, during one case set at a hotel's onsen, Conan inadvertently mortifies Ai several times while delivering the case's resolution. Ai not only gains this trope, but also a malevolent aura on top of that.
• Casshern's cyan eyes in Casshern Sins glow during combat.
• In the Chrono Crusade anime, the demons tend to have Glowing Eyes Of Doom when they're unleashing their full powers. Chrono in particular seems to get these when he's being overcome with Unstoppable Rage.
• In CLANNAD, Kyou's eyes glow red as she strangles Tomoya and Sunohara after they pull a prank on her sister.
  • In the game, though, anytime she's mad (which is quite often), Kyou will pull this off.
• The eponymous Claymores get this when they activate their Yoma powers.
• Lelouch in Code Geass (and everyone else with Geass) does this every time the Geass is used.
• When the Archdemon ravaged the kids eight years before the current Daily Lives of High School Boys plot, she has red, glowing eyes.
• In Darker than Black, Contractors' eyes glow red when they use their powers. It's almost the only way of identifying them.
• One of the shinigami in Death Note gains these eyes at one point while going for some dramatic kills. Light tends to do this, as well, to reflect his Kira persona. Mikami and Misa, too.
  • Near the end of the manga, Ryuk sports a pair of these while laying out for Light how absolutely fucked he is after writing his name in the Death Note, showing us that for all of his goofiness, Ryuk is still a Shinigami to the core.
    Ryuk: Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. You more than anybody else here should know that. Goodbye, Light Yagami.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the anime adaptation added more fanfare to Zenitsu’s absolute body stress to initiate the steps to augment the power of his Thunderclap Flash attack, in the manga it showed white eyes, the anime made it go white and then added glowing effects of light and thunder.
• Dragon Ball:
  • Happens often in the first half of Dragon Ball Z, most often pertaining to Gohan, who would occasionally fall into a superpowered psychotic rage, during which his eyes would lack pupils and become more pronounced, at least during the loss of control.
  • Goku also does this during his first Super Saiyan transformation.
  • Happens later in Dragon Ball GT with any characters possessed by Baby.
  • When Future Trunks powers up to Ultra Super Saiyan against Perfect Cell, his eyes briefly flash and glow white, similar to Broly in his Legendary Super Saiyan form.
  • In Dragon Ball Online and Dragon Ball Xenoverse, when the Time Breakers interfere with time and give another character a power boost, the victim's eyes glow an ominous shade of red.
• Vincent's eyes start to glow when he becomes Ergo Proxy. This generally does not bode well, considering what he is. Similarly, the other Proxies also exhibit this trope when initiating aggressive action.
• Towards the end of the Tower of Heaven arc in Fairy Tail, Natsu eats some of the Etherion Initially his eyes glow ice blue, the same color as the Etherion; then he starts choking, and his eyes blaze up into flames. Much ass kickery ensues.
• Fist of the North Star: Kenshiro has a seriously evil-looking pair of red Glowing Eyes Of Doom whenever you get him seriously angry. The original anime also gives him a set of white glowing eyes when his Battle Aura kicks in and his shirt comes off.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Although it still isn't common, a lot of characters exhibit this trait — including both Elrics, Izumi, Winry, most (if not all) homunculi and some others.
  • On a more humorous note, Ed's eyes occasionally do it too when someone insinuates that he's short.
  • Roy did it (hilariously) when Barry the Chopper was hitting on Hawkeye. He pulls a much less hilarious and much more terrifying version of this when completely curbstomping Envy, especially when the latter tried to kill Riza.
  • In Brotherhood, Kimblee once does this while giving Ed a Breaking Speech and then proceeds to blow him up with a hidden Philosopher's stone.
    • Hilariously in "Brotherhood", during Mustang's siege of Central, when Captain Buccaneer's platoon of Briggs troops are revealed with Izumi Curtis being the only one that does it further proving she is the champion badass of the series as each Briggs soldier is able to defeat a bear in unarmed combat.
  • Averted with Al's eyes which appear as small pools of light, that disappear when he is unconscious.
• Played for Laughs in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu after Sagara trains the rugby team this is what happens to the peaceful rugby team from Kaname and Sagara school.
• One of Fushigi Yuugi's later villains, Tenkou, makes his first appearance as just a pair of glowing white eyes amidst flames. And a creepy disembodied voice.
• The Count in Gankutsuou does this a few times.
• Genshiken: When informed of the fact that she could turn Genshiken into a cosplay research club as president, Ohno gets Glowing Eyes Of Doom. In fact she gets Glowing Eyes Of Doom whenever she gets sufficiently obsessed about something, mainly cosplay-related.
• Girls Bravo: Humorously done by Lisa, Kosame, Fukuyama when they're pursuing Yukinari, Kirie, and Koyomi respectively, as well as Kirie at one point.
• Goblin Slayer: Whenever Goblin Slayer's Killing Intent and utter hatred for the goblins he wants to murder on the spot peaks, a single red, glowing and undefined eye is clearly visible shining out from within his helmet, sometimes even leaving a trail when he's at his most murderous. In many depictions, it is his left eye that glows like this, the same eye through which he saw his sister get raped and murdered by the goblins when they attacked his village.
• In the hilarious Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou OAV episode "Omoi no Arika", Kotengu manages to induce these in, of all people, Yasuaki.
• The title character of Hayate the Combat Butler resorts to this after being hit by a car. The occupants instantly surrender. It gets used a little more in the manga than the anime, but mostly by Hayate such as coming back from a Curb-Stomp Battle against Machina because the latter tried to take the Stone of Bonds or funny moment such as when Hayate actually does something nice for Kotetsu and promptly takes him out with a vicious elbow to the chest when he tries to propose again.
• Hellsing:
  • Both Alucard and Anderson invoke this trope whenever they stop screwing around and are about to curbstomp someone into the ground.
  • Seras Victoria gets it later on when she becomes a true vampire and regenerates her eyes. The effect is enough to terrify a horde of Nazi vampires. They're right to be frightened, considering what she does to them next.
• High School D×D: Try and Hurt Issei's Harem when he's around. God have mercy on soul if you do. Shalba found this out the hard way.
• Most of the cast of Higurashi: When They Cry do this both humorously and seriously. Not being able to tell which is which amps up the creep factor.
• Even Humongous Mecha do this at times:
  • Mazinger Z: When the eyes of the titular Humongous Mecha glowed, you knew you had to run for cover. Often it happened when Kouji was really, REALLY fired up or even panicked and somehow his state of mood affected his mecha (which suggests Mazinger was sentient, a point plot later versions have explored). A memorable example happened in Shin Mazinger Zero. Mazinger was chained by a Robeast and unable to get free as another Mechanical Beast was disintegrating Sayaka's Humongous Mecha. Then Kouji got REAL MAD, and Mazinger's eyes glowed right before he shattered the chains binding it and delivered a Curb-Stomp Battle to both Robeasts.
  • Zeon mecha from Mobile Suit Gundam in particular are notable for a single mono-eye that seems to have no purpose other than to swivel towards the camera and glow menacingly.
  • Gundam Wing took it a step further, with the image of a Gundam or other mobile suit appearing in front of an enemy bridge, eyes glowing, before the bridge explodes (usually due to a beam saber strike) becoming so visually impressive that every series since has copied it.
  • Also in Gundam Wing, characters unable to control the ZERO System enter an Unstoppable Rage, marked by glowing golden eyes.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, when the innovators use quantum brainwaves to send messages to each other. Or, alternatively, when "fucking Ribbons" uses said quantum brainwaves to hijack their minds.
  • Also, the Evas' eyes in Neon Genesis Evangelion glow white when they enter 'Berserk Mode', which generally means their opponent is doomed. Rebuild of Evangelion takes this a step further at the end of the second movie when Shinji, his EVA out of power and the 14th angel beating the hell out of him, finally snaps. We are treated to an absolutely terrifying scene of his eyes glowing Blood Red before, in an explosion of pure rage, he re-activates EVA-01 through sheer force of will and begins one of the most awesome beat-downs in the franchise's history. If there is any possibility for his Eva to look even scarier than it normally is while berserk, this is it.
    • When Mari switched Unit-02 into Beast mode, her eyes turned into an almost white hue of green. Asuka later gets glowing blue eyes when she puts Unit-02 into Beast mode, even her left eye (under the eye-patch) glows.
    • In conclusion, it seems that taking the Entry Plug to unsafe depths causes this trope as a side effect. It may have something to do with all those warnings that a pilot who does this risks losing their humanity.
    • Additionally, some of the Angels indicate the charging of their energy attacks with glowing eyes.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's title mech, the Gurren Lagann, does it as well, usually combining it with something lighting on fire as the heroes become even more resolved. The one time this is used against them is phenomenally awesome, as the main bad guy of the first part of the series gets out of his Ganmen, walks over it, on foot, with his head on fire, with glowing eyes of doom raging, and PUNCHES THE SHIT OUT OF LAGANN BARE-HANDED. Lordgenome is a force to be feared.
• The most powerful fighters in Ikki Tousen get these when they summon their inner dragons.
• If you see this in Day Break Illusion it's guaranteed that that person is possessed by a daemonia.
• Inuyasha: A sign of Youkai malevolence and/or power-activation. In particular, it happens whenever Inuyasha's Superpowered Evil Side starts taking over or when Sesshoumaru begins to transform into his true form. Neither event is a good thing.
• Kazuma's eyes in Kaze no Stigma glow blue when he taps into his full powers, and red when he's reverted to his Superpowered Evil Side.
• In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple pretty much every single master in Ryozanpaku shows Glowing Eyes Of Doom periodically, and not even when fighting other masters, but rather during the training sessions with their own disciple.
• Played for Laughs in episode 4 of Kotoura-san, when the rest of the ESP Club did this to Haruka so that they could "catch" her.
• Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS:
  • Subaru invokes this trope when the Numbers abduct her sister and she activates her Combat Cyborg nature in response before going completely berserk on them.
  • Fate did this in the first season of the show during her second appearance, appearing as a black silhouette with Alucard-style glowing yellow circles.
• Momoyo in Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!, whenever she's about to get serious. It helps that her eyes are red.
• Patchouli gets these in Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day's Dream after getting hit in the face with one of her own books during an argument by Marisa and Aya. The next shot is Patchy busting out her Royal Flare spell card.
• Two characters from My-HiME get these — Mikoto (gold) and Nao (red). Also Shizuru, when she arrives to help Natsuki against Nao, knocking her and her Child off a cliff (although she still appears to be sane at the time).
• Nagasarete Airantou: Humorously, as the women close in on their "prey" like zombies.
• Naruto: The main character's eyes start glowing red when he lets his emotions get the better of him. However, upon reaching the 4-tailed state, his eyes turn completely white, and his eyes and mouth glow like a Jack-O-Lantern.
• The eyes of Tohno Shiki and Ryougi Shiki from the Nasuverse glow a bright blue; it is the result of their Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Ryougi's eyes only do this when she activates them but Tohno's eyes are always activated. They become more apparent when he takes off his glasses, though, a sign that he is in his "killing mode." When either Shiki has the Eyes on, it's generally a sign that whoever or whatever is opposing them is going to die, and not even would-be immortals are safe.
• Yato in Noragami gains those in the final episode of the anime.
• Used occasionally in One Piece. One notable scene is during the battle with Oz.
• Used for dramatic effect in PandoraHearts Retrace LXI on Vincent's red eye right when he uses Demios to behead Duke Nightray.
• Pokémon: The Series: If Mewtwo does this and he's looking at you, kiss your ass goodbye. Same goes for Psyduck.
• Himeno of Prétear occasionally gets these when she is angry.
• Parodied in Pretty Sammy Magical Project S when Ginji Kawai (Sasami's father) gets a little over-enthusiastic while flying Washu's rocket.
• Though he... she... they normally just have a pair of creepy red eyes Kyubey of Puella Magi Madoka Magica pulls the glowing eyes of doom off rather well◊ after getting shot by Homura and coming back
• Ranma ½: Ryoga's eyes go entirely pink-red and glow with similar-coloured energy to his attack & aura when he's channelling a particularly powerful (or Perfected) Shi Shi Hokodan.
• While not particularly malevolent, the Bus Driver and school Chairman both have glowing, white eyes in Rosario + Vampire.
• Rurouni Kenshin:
  • Kenshin does this when he goes into Battousai mode.
  • Makoto Shishio from Rurouni Kenshin, after being shot through a wall, looks menacingly at the main characters with Glowing Eyes Of Doom.
• Lime in Saber Marionette J has these when first activated, and again when Hanagata pisses her off.
• In Act 1 of Sailor Moon Crystal, the jewelry store customers under the thrall of the Monster of the Week Morga's Hypno Trinkets have glowing Red Mind-Control Eyes when she summons them as a Brainwashed and Crazy army to attack Sailor Moon.
• Powerful characters in Saint Seiya sport these as a visual cue that either anger and rage is surfacing, or that an ungodly amount of power is going to be unleashed and that some ass kicking is in order.
  • Anger examples would include Dragon Shiryu vs Cancer Deathmask, Gemini Saga in the Abel Non-Serial Movie (just a second to hint at his repressed anger against Abel killing Athena)
  • Power examples include : Silver Saint Spartan using his psychokinesis to bring down a plane, Phoenix Ikki vs Cerberus Dante, Poseidon unleashing his godly power to destroy the Bronze Saints' Cloths, Abel in his own movie also does this quite often.
• The Shin Red Eyes in Samurai Deeper Kyo is the Glowing Eyes Of Doom upgrade of the Mibu clan's regular Red Eyes.
• Takeda Shingen from Sengoku Basara whenever an epic beatdown is in order. Young Blood Knight Date Masamune also does this whenever he's really enjoying a fight.
• Zelgadis in Slayers gets these when Rezo takes control over him when he needs to stall for time. A few scenes later and Rezo manages to summon Shabranigdo — only to learn that Shabranigdo was actually sealed inside his own eyes. Naturally, this leads to more glowing eyes to signify that Shabranigdo is taking over Rezo's body.
• Soul Eater: Multiple:
  • Medusa is fond of this.
  • Death the Kid also starts glowing toward the end of the anime.
  • Might be the intended look of how Noah's eyes are occasionally drawn in the manga.
  • Members of the Star Clan gain golden star pupils.
  • Maka only has flat green eyes normally, without any pupils, but when she is angry, scared, or in a fight, her eyes glow yellowish-green and pupils appear. Interestingly, if she is shocked they glow red for a moment, but only in the anime.
• In the Strider manga, whenever Hiryu is pissed off enough and just about to deliver a massive curb-stomp, his eyes start glowing a creepy white. Those about to be brutally maimed then freak out, or call him a monster.
• Tenchi Muyo!: Ryoko does this sometimes. It's not too big a deal if they're glowing yellow — that just means she's a bit narked — but when they glow red, she's ready to kick booty at the planetary level. If they turn green, well, let's just say she's not being herself.
• Quant and Yuri from Tower of God sometimes sport red glowing eyes in the dark. They stem from a technique that enables them to see in the dark. Which coincidentally is when they are mist willing to grievously injure people.
• Vash The Stampede of Trigun is usually an easy-going harmless goofball, but when you force his hand, he will put on the Scary Shiny Glasses and start fighting you for real, though you won't be in any danger of actually dying. However, when you do something bad enough to actually make him angry, he will jump straight into this trope and proceed to utterly trounce you. When this happened in the episode "Diablo", it was the closest he ever got to deliberately killing a person. Until Legato.
• Uta∽Kata: Ichika gets glowing eyes when she gets afflicted by her powers, leading one very spooky scene when she approaches Manatsu while she sleeps.
• Venus Versus Virus: Lucia is not an antagonist but when her golden eye starts glowing nothing good occurs. There's a reason it's usually under a special eyepatch.
• Yuya in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. After pushed into a corner during a duel and seemingly accesses Yuto inside him, he's overtaken by a Superpowered Evil Side, complete with glowing eyes. (Said glow is red, but his eyes are normally red regardless.) The glowing eyes and dark disposition notably freak out both his opponent, and the audience, as Yuya finishes the match in an OTK.
  • This later is shown to be something a lot worse than previously assumed, getting scarier the more glowy and doomy the eyes get.
• YuYu Hakusho:
  • Yusuke gets these several times; once during his fight with Suzaku when he's about to use up all his life energy to win, once while glaring at Younger Toguro from the stands of the Dark Tournament, and occasionally thereafter while powering up or in the middle of a particularly intense fight - especially when, at the end of the Chapter Black saga, he is taken over by his ancestor, Raizen, shortly after being killed and returning to life as a demon. Where before Yusuke's Glowing Eyes Of Doom have always been blue, these are red, possibly to signify either his new demonic nature or the foreign presence in his body.
  • Also Sensui when he releases his sacred energy does it in an eerie and gradual way, followed by a powerful laugh that literally stresses the planet as he powers up.

Asian Animation

• Played With in BoBoiBoy; BoBoiBoy's eyes glow white when he loses control of his powers, but his eyes show visible fear instead of murderous intent like the usual instances of this trope.

Comic Books

• All-New Ultimates: And in an Eyedscreen to boot, when Bombshell finally had Diamondback at her mercy. But then, she decides that she's Not Worth Killing.
• Batman: The entire Bat-family seems to have glow-in-the-dark lenses in their masks. Rule of Cool excuses this for the most part.
• Black Moon Chronicles: When they use their magic Wismerhill and Haazheel Thorn's eyes are burning red and green respectively. Because they're both half-demons.
• ClanDestine: Depending on the Artist, Walter, when transformed, may or may not have Red Eyes, Take Warning in addition to this trope.
• Doctor Strange sometimes gets these when spellcasting. Considering that he has a lot of dangerous spells which don't make his eyes glow, these are a good cue that he's really getting serious.
• Sistah Spooky from Empowered seems to get these under extreme emotional stress. How extreme? Picture watching the love of your life die as you are literally seconds from saving her, then having your worst enemy (in your own mind) show up to gloat. If things get that bad, running is not even an option. Said 'enemy' breaking down because she chose to save her over herself, is.
• Due to their connection with the Speed Force, Flashes and other speedsters sometimes get glowing eyes (or, as Bart likes to put it, "lightning eyes"). This is mostly involuntary, but it usually does happen at moments clearly meant to be significant, so it all works out.
• Green Lantern:
  • Green Lanterns and the members of the various other Corps are sometimes depicted with eyes that glow the same color that they are wielding. When feeling their Corps emotion especially strongly, the respective Corps symbol may also appear in their eyes.
  • If any character in a Lantern book's eyes start glowing a different color from their Corps, it's a good sign that they're being overtaken by another emotion, usually against their will.
• The Incredible Hulk: The Devil Hulk and Guilt Hulk, the darkest parts of Bruce's psyche, have glowing eyes - red for Devil, and gold for Guilt. Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk have glowing golden eyes. In the physical world, the Devil Hulk's eyes permanently glow green, and while he's not completely evil, he's not nice.
• In Mega Man (Archie Comics), the end of issue 3 had the Robot Masters standing behind Dr. Wily with their eyes glowing.
• The dangerous users of Strader Pharmaceuticals' untested Psycho Serum in Robin (1993) have eyes that start glowing red-orange as they get angry, and as a side effect of the serum they are very quick to anger and doling out lethal repercussions to those who accidentally irritated them.
• Secret Warriors: When Phobos, the "little boy god of fear", is using his fear power, his eyes glow purple. Sometimes, notably seen in Secret Invasion (2008), the power coming from his eyes actually escapes, and he has trails of purple energy around his eyes. This occasionally scares people before he starts using his power, such as when he uses them on Norman Osborn.
• Silver Surfer: The titular character sometimes takes this Up to Eleven when he's in a particularly bad mood, as his eyes emanate trails of energy complete with Kirby Dots.
• In the Star Fox comic from Nintendo Power, Fox McCloud gets these on two occasions. One is right at the beginning, where Falco hits Fox's Berserk Button by suggesting raiding commercial freighters instead of the Imperial ships the team usually targeted in the beginning ("Feathers for brains! For the last time, we are NOT THIEVES!"). The other is right at the end when Fox goes into Unstoppable Rage mode after learning the truth about what happened to his mother and father.
• Superman:
  • When Superman wants to be intimidating, he likes to appear in shadow with his eyes glowing a fierce red◊ as if ready to fire his heat vision.
  • For the Man Who Has Everything:
    Superman: Burn.◊
  • When Supergirl's eyes glow or -God forbids- flare it's a very scary sign that she's getting really pissed off, and someone is about to be pummelled and/or blasted.
  • In the Red Daughter of Krypton storyline they glowed red when she fought Lobo and beat him up brutally, when she accepted the Red Ring of Rage, before smashing down a whole alien invader force...
  • In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, Supergirl's eyes glow red when she decides that she is going to kill Lex Luthor.
  • In Many Happy Returns one-time villain Rebel taunts Kara, and she proceeds to describe what she will do if he is dumb enough to attack her when she is upset. And her eyes glow golden all along◊.
  • It happens many times in The Supergirl from Krypton (2004). Kara's eyes shine crimson after Batman pisses her off. Superman's eyes glow when Darkseid appears to have disintegrated Kara.
  • In 2010 storyline Day of the Dollmaker story arc her eyes glow red◊ as she faces Toyman and suggests that he answers her questions... or else.
  • In Bizarrogirl, the titular character's eyes give off a red glow when Jimmy calls her "Bizarro Supergirl" loudly. Later, Supergirl's eyes give off an ominous glow when she faces up to a godship's spawn.
  • Last Daughter of Krypton: After discovering her family is gone, Kara has a breakdown during which she starts tearing Argo City down until she stumbled upon Reign. Believing the unknown woman responsible for her father's death, Kara's eyes glow red before she charges Reign.
  • In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Kara's irises give off an eerie crimson glow right before she utterly crushes Krem's goon like he was a bug.
  • The Hunt for Reactron: When the titular villain is about to kill her best friend, her boyfriend and her mother's boyfriend, Thara Ak-Var's pupils disappear and her eyes go electric golden right before her rage triggers her transformation into Flamebird, which lets Thara crush Reactron mercilessly.
  • Death & the Family: Supergirl's eyes give off a menacing, eerie red glow while she shatters her crystalline prison, blasts one giant critter attacking Gangbuster, and demands answers.
• Ultimate X-Men (2001): Subverted. Storm's eyes get electric blue when she's about to attack Sabertooth, but he easily dispatches her.
• X-Men:
  • When a villain is really getting on Cyclops' nerves, a glow can be seen through/around his shades or visor. As his Eye Beams are always on, this probably indicates that their blast is becoming far more intense.
  • Storm's eyes become solid white and glowing when she uses her powers. This carries into almost all adaptations.
  • Magneto: When the titular character gets angry, his eyes glow as well, independent of power usage.
  • Gambit's eyes have been known to give off red energy when he's intended to look particularly badass.
  • Cable and his alternate-universe half-brother, Nate Grey, both have glowing left eyes - though in Nate's case, both will glow when he's particularly mad, once veering into Red Eyes, Take Warning during his Anti-Villain period (after Apocalypse had done something that particularly annoyed him. In this case, speaking).
  • Being related to Cyclops will do that. His other brother Vulcan has them, and his alt-reality daughter Rachel Summers does as well.
  • Sometimes Nightcrawler is shown with Glowy-eyes when he's lurking in the shadows.
  • Jean Grey and anyone else possessed by the Phoenix Force tends to have solid glowing gold eyes when they use the Phoenix powers.
  • Her daughter, Rachel Summers, (who actually was the Phoenix host for far longer Jean) has a glowing left eye, just like her male siblings; see above), except that in addition to the glow it's surrounded by a glowing Phoenix emblem. Normally it's yellow, but an upgrade turned it blue. These days, the emblem's gone, but both eyes have known to glow, like her younger brother Nate.
  • X-23's eyes normally just turn red when she's under the effects of the trigger scent, an indication that she's about to turn anyone who gets in her way into meat confetti. However, in one arc of her solo series, they actually started glowing.
  • When she is in someone else's form, Mystique's eyes glow yellow when she is about to resume her "default" form, or whenever she is angry, tired, stressed, excited, or whatever...
• Young Avengers: Wiccan has these when using his spellcasting/reality warping abilities, but the most memorable examples are when he put everyone in Central Park into a magical coma, and later when he knocked all of the Avengers senseless and teleported his team halfway around the world within the span of about half a second.

Fan Works

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
  • Monster X's eyes glow with red light when one or both of its minds are sufficiently enraged or agitated.
  • The Artificial Zombies made from experiments with San's Ghidorah head exhibit creepy eyeshine in the darkness.
• Child of the Storm: From chapter 44 onwards, you do not want to be in the way when Harry's eyes start glowing gold. If he starts doing the double voice thing, then you'd better start running. It's usually the cue for something being violently immolated.
  • If they start glowing white, you're beyond screwed. It means that the Phoenix is in control. Or worse, he's gone Dark Phoenix.
  • In a case of like father, like son, you know that you're in trouble when Thor's eyes go entirely electric blue, usually accompanied by the build up of a massive storm. And it usually happens because someone has threatened/tried to hurt Harry, as both Gravemoss and Hera found out.
  • The Iron Man and War Machine armours have this, and you do not want to upset their owners...
    Steve: Last time someone kidnapped Pepper, a domestic terrorist organisation and three blocks of flats got wiped off the map.
  • The wielder of the Green Lantern Ring gets glowing green eyes.
  • Doctor Strange also tends to make his eyes glow white when he's doing something serious - though he mostly seems to do it for dramatic effect and/or to screw with people, because he's The Gadfly. However, it's still generally a sign of trouble.
  • Magneto displays a proclivity for this in chapter 77 and on his appearances in the sequel. Like auroras and geomagnetic storms, it's a sign that he's really flexing his muscles. And unlike most of the above, he's got an extensive sadistic streak.
  • On the dark side, if someone's eyes are glowing crimson, it means that Chthon is possessing them and that their troubles are only just beginning.
• Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns:
  • The dwarven noble protagonist, being a Spirit Warrior of sorts, suffers from this effect whenever he calls on the energies of the Fade. The glow is pure white and can extend to his whole body and even become something like a shroud of mist-like gossamer strands around him, depending on how much power he pumps out.
  • Alim Surana has a true sight spell that makes his own eyes glow blue. His irises can shine crimson too, when he uses blood magic.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami: Peoples' eyes glow when they're connected to a large amount of magical energy, or for certain styles of magic. In any case, it means something:
  • The local type of Evil Overlord, a Dungeon Keeper, have eyes that glow red, getting brighter the longer they've been a Dungeon Keeper, eventually hitting a baseline glow, which still intensifies when angry.
  • When the Light Gods are speaking through their Avatar, his eyes glow white.
  • As said in "The Duel", when Jadeite casts his magic, he gets a "soft, blue-white glow" in his eyes.
• In Frozen Fractals, Elsa's eyes start glowing a faint blue when she starts going berserk due to hearing Anna being tortured.
• In Game Theory: The automatons in the Garden of Time acquire these when they have to protect something. A.k.a, when the Jewel Seed tied into the defense system activates.
  Vesta: ... I'm fairly sure evil glowiness is bad, mistress.
• Hellsister Trilogy: When Darkseid's eyes glow red, someone is about to suffer untold pain. And Kryptonian nigh-invulnerability will not protect them.
  Dev-Em: If we'd have been any better, maybe we could have attacked him when it started letting up. But we didn't have that kind of time, or maybe that kind of strength. All I knew was what I saw. I saw that beggar's eyes glowing red. Then I felt like I was being taken apart."
• Holo-Chronicles:
  • When Ina gets hijacked by the Ancient Ones, her face becomes covered in shadow with atleast one glowing white eye.
  • After Gura's Superpowered Evil Side kicks in after a speed-blitz by Anya and she gets up to keep fighting, she is briefly obscured by dust with only a pair of shining red eyes peering through.
• In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, some Bloodliners have their eyes glow orange-brown when they use their powers.
• RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse:
  • Corona's eyes glow entirely white (except on very rare occasions). It's deliberate on her part, as a show of her raw power, but also happens to make her look even more threatening and insane than she already is.
  • On at least two occasions in Nightmares Yet to Come, glowing golden eyes are a sign that Mind Rape is about to happen (and possibly someone acting as the Mouth of Sauron).
• Thousand Shinji: After discovering what SEELE had done to his and his family’s mothers, Shinji was so incredibly furious that "his eyes were actually crackling with blue lambent light" due to the massive amount of energy that he was channelling.
• What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?: Chapter 12 depicts Tanjiro as a silhouette with a glowing eye as Muzan talks to Kokushibo and Akaza about how he's slain Doma, Hantengu, Gyokko, and Nakime.

Films — Animation

• Aladdin: Jafar in his genie form has glowing yellow eyes, visible for about two seconds before he gets stuffed in a lamp.
• Allegro non Troppo also has a segment with such a villain; an evil ape.
• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: Joker's eyes glow red in the shadows. So do his teeth.
• Brave: Human!Mor'du.
• Fantasia: Chernobog, the Slavic dark god, in the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment.
• Fantasia 2000 features the Firebird, whose glowing eyes will give you the fright of your life.
• In The Hobbit, Smaug the dragon's eyes actually shine like headlights, and illuminate what he is looking at.
• In The Iron Giant, the title character's eyes glow red whenever he sees a weapon or is fired upon. If his rage becomes too great, he transforms into a nigh-unstoppable killing machine capable of taking out tanks (and possibly battleships).
• Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch: Stitch's eyes glow green whenever he glitches, during which he temporarily reverts to his original destructive programming.
• Megamind: Titan's eyes tend to glow when he gets really pissed off.
• In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, Human!Twilight Sparkle's "Midnight Sparkle" form has glowing electric-blue eyes with magenta Hellish Pupils.
• The Secret of NIMH has a more benign application of this. Both Nicodemus and the Great Owl have glowing eyes to indicate that they are beings of mystical wisdom. And if you've never read the book, you'd be forgiven if you assumed that implied they were the same being (what with the glowing eyes and wispy grey fu manchus...)
• The Snow Queen (1995) and its sequel end with the Snow Queen glaring at the camera to show she's still alive.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: When Bowser beats up Mario near the end of the film, his usual red eyes start glowing, signifying that he's angry that his plan is going wrong.
• Zurg's eyes glow yellow in Toy Story 2 via lightpiping, explained in the Defictionalization of Show Within a Show Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as being related to heat vision.
• In Shrek 4D at Universal Studios, the stone dragon's eyes glow red as Lord Farquaad's ghost brings it to life.
• In Turning Red, Ming's eyes glow red after transforming into her panda form.

Films — Live-Action

• Subverted in Attack the Block. We see an alien in the dark with what looks like glowing eyes—the glowing bits turn out to be teeth, and the aliens don't have eyes.
• In Color Out of Space (2020), both humans and animals who have succumbed to the Color's mental influence occasionally light up in the same sickly magenta color as the Color itself.
• Played with in The Crazies (1973). A boy's father has gone literally Ax-Crazy. When he enters his son's room, he's a shadowy figure with glowing points of light over his eyes. His son shines a flashlight in his eyes to blind him, and it's revealed to be moonlight reflecting off his glasses.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman has glowing white eyes due to his Powered Armor while trying to kill Superman, while Clark has glowing red eyes due to his heat vision a few times, most notably when he discovers that Lex Luthor has kidnapped Martha Kent.
  • In Suicide Squad (2016), Enchantress has glowing eyes. It's most pronounced during the Final Battle, where she appears as little more than a black shadow with glowing white eyes.
  • In Zack Snyder's Justice League, Darkseid has glowing eyes when he's seen among his court on Apokolips in present-day.
• In Dracula Untold, after becoming a vampire Vlad has glowing red eyes while using his Vein-o-Vision.
• In Dune (1984), the entire Freman race has glowing blue eyes, as a side-effect of their addiction to the Spice. In the original novels, however, it was simply altered pigmentation, and their eyes were just a weird kind of blue.
• When Mephisto the demon is summoned by Faust, his eyes are bright shining lights.
• Ghostbusters:
  • Louis Tully in Ghostbusters (1984) gets red glowy eyes after being possessed by Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer.
  • Dr. Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II gets them when possessed by Vigo the Carpathian; his actually shine out like headlights.
• The Gillymuck: The titular monster's eyes start glowing bright white when it gets upset. So do the eyes of the only girl remaining in the tent.
• The Jurassic Dead: One of the symptoms of zombification is glowing green eyes.
• Lights Out (2016): Diana's irises and pupils glow white.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man: The eyes in Tony's Iron Man armor glow. But the trope is really invoked when, in the darkness, the Iron Monger suit's eyes switch on.
  • The Incredible Hulk (2008): Emil Blonsky sports these after he transforms into the Abomination.
  • Iron Man 3: People injected with the Extremis virus exhibit glowing eyes and veins.
  • If a character gained powers courtesy of an Infinity Stone, and their eyes start to glow, it's a sign that they are tapping into their full power and things about to go very badly for whoever they're fighting.
    • Captain Marvel (2019): Carol Danvers got her powers from blowing up a lightspeed drive powered by the Space Stone. When she fully accesses her power after taking off the inhibitor the Kree placed her, and she enters Binary Mode, her eyes and her whole body start glowing golden.
    • Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch got her existing magic enhanced by the Mind Stone. Her eyes turn red when she uses her magic. Notably the glow is focused more on when she's a bad guy than when she's good. It's re-emphasized during Avengers: Endgame, after she is resurrected. Her eyes are glowing as she beats the crap out of Thanos. During WandaVision, her eyes begin glowing when she expands the Hex to save Vision's life, and at several points during her fight with Agatha Harkness.
  • Thor: Ragnarok:
    • The zombie warriors that make up Hela's undead army all have sickly green glowing eye sockets.
    • Starting in this movie, as Thor realizes that he doesn't need Mjolnir to harness his storm powers, his eyes crackle with the same color of his lightning. Initially just his left eye for the climax (since Hela took his right one), but this extends back to both eyes when he gets an Electronic Eye from Rocket during Avengers: Infinity War.
• MonsterVerse: Godzilla's eyes glow blue from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) onwards along with his dorsal spines' Power Glows when charging up his Atomic Breath. King Ghidorah's red eyes tend to glint brightly and ominously in dark settings. The Mutos from Godzilla (2014) have red glowing slits for eyes, which lack any kind of pupils and may be heat sensors or compound eyes. Mechagodzilla in Godzilla vs. Kong has red-glowing optics.
• In Platoon, Barnes' eyes glow in red in Chris' hallucinogenic experience of the final battle.
• The creature's mask's eyes in Predator occasionally flash a yellow glow. This trick is brought back in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, as well as in Predators.
• Star Wars:
  • In Revenge of the Sith, Darth Vader's eyes glow a bright yellow when he goes off to kill all the Separatists. He covers his head with a hood, but you can tell that they glow in the shadow. Also, he is wearing eyeliner. That's what happens when you go Dark Side.
  • Yellow eyes seems in fact to be a side effect of being a Sith. Darth Maul and the Emperor have them as well.
• In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Todd (a.k.a. ex-boyfriend #3) has eyes that glow whenever he uses his vegan superpowers.
• The army of robot children from Spy Kids, including Carmen and Juni's clones, have eyes which flash like this, accompanied by an electronic sound effect.
• Ra in Stargate has eyes that glow, especially when he is angry. This was adopted by the TV series adaptation.
• If you're in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and "God"'s eyes are glowing in response to your query to why he needs a starship, let's just say you're not going to get an honest answer.
• In Tai Chi Zero, once, when Lu Chan is hit on his horn and his powers manifest, his eyes glow white.
• Scott Howard, the titular werewolf from Teen Wolf uses this to hilarious effect along with a demonic voice to procure beer from a curmudgeonly old liquor store keeper without having to show ID.
• Shows up in Tower of Terror as a trick by the ghosts.
• Village of the Damned (1995): The creepy children have eyes that glow bright blue or orange whenever they use their Psychic Powers.
• The Wolfman (2010): When Lawrence begins his first transformation, his father moves into the shadows, with his eyes creepily glowing in the darkness (albeit only for a moment).
• In The World's End, the dopplegangers' eyes and mouths glow with a blinding white light when they attack.
• X-Men Film Series:
  • Storm's eyes glow when she's using her Weather Manipulation powers.
  • The Sentinels from X-Men: Days of Future Past have glowing yellow eyes.

Gamebooks

• An interesting variation occurs in the Lone Wolf Gamebook The Kingdoms of Terror. Lone Wolf is being attacked by a very fast monster with glowing eyes in a pitch-black castle. If you choose to fire an arrow at its eyes you actually get a bonus to your success roll since, because they're glowing, they're an easier target.

Literature

• Beyond the Impossible: Noriko’s silver eyes shine when she’s using her super-intelligence, especially in the early issues. They become especially bright whenever she’s angry. If they turn completely black, run.
• The vampires in Black Dagger Brotherhood reverse this: their eyes glow like lighthouses when they see their mates. When they actually battle the bad guys, no glow.
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:
  • Drool Rockworm's permanently red-glowing eyes are a typical example of this. On the other hand, Caerroil Wildwood with his silver-glowing eyes is not, being neutral to the good guys and doom for the bad guys.
  • Lord Foul's eyes are definitely this, especially since they're the only things that are in focus; his default form is a roughly humanoid Living Shadow whose glowing yellow eyes are its only clear feature.
• The Darkest Dark: The "aliens" who invade Chris' room after dark have little glowing balls of light for eyes.
• Discworld:
  • Subverted with Death, who has glowing blue eyelights (unless he's angry) and is a lovable example of The Spock. It should be pointed out that the blue eyes in question are stars and that in moments of "emotional" stress (Death can't really do emotions; no glands), they go supernova. Yes, his eyes explode when he's angry.
  • Also subverted, and inverted, with the golems. They all have red glowing eyes as a byproduct of the magic that keeps them alive, but are innately harmless, and indeed most of them are prohibited from acts of violence even in their own self-defense. However, because of their implacable work ethic, near-human appearance, and glowing eyes, people tend to be creeped out by them, and unprovoked attacks of humans on golems are not uncommon.
  • In Moving Pictures, an actual golden star appears in the pupils of Victor, Ginger and Dibbler when they come under the influence of Holy Wood. While the spirit of Holy Wood itself doesn't seem evil, its emergence attracts doom in the form of the Dungeon Things, so it's played straight in a sense.
• In the Doctor Who tie-in novel Forever Autumn, the aliens attack the Doctor and co. using possessed cats, and later, children whose eyes glow green.
• The Dresden Files:
  • White Court Vampires have this as a gauge of how far into their "super vamp" mode they've gone. If they're normal, you're looking at a dangerous predator. If they're all white, back away slowly and then get out of dodge. If they're silver, make your time.
  • Denarians also exhibit glowing eyes — specifically, the Fallen themselves will manifest eyes (usually green) when they are startled, angry, or in combat. They're not required to be in the same places as their hosts' eyes (which, due to Voluntary Shapeshifting, can be whatever shape, color, or number the host wants), and are usually on the forehead. As for the "of Doom" part, well, start with a Fallen Angel and go from there.
  • When Bob is awake, his skull sanctum's orbital sockets develop glowing orange sparks for "eyes". Normally they're not this trope, but when they turn blue in Dead Beat, it means his very scary hidden evil side has taken control. In Ghost Story, his Evil Bob side has become an independent entity with creepy blue eye-sparks.
• JC Chance of the Ghost Finders novels acquires brilliantly-shining eyes from the mysterious Light after his near-death experience in the London Underground. Unlike most heroic examples, it's not temporary or limited to battle, so he has to wear heavy dark sunglasses to go out in public.
• Precision, does this a lot in Hell's Children by Andrew Boland.
• In The Island of Doctor Moreau, the first definite sign Prendick sees that M'ling isn't just an ugly human is when he sees the beastman's eyes flash in the darkness, reflecting light like an animal's.
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • The Nazgul are often depicted in art as having glowing red eyes. As they are normally invisible, this is their only visible feature.
  • The colour of the light shining from Gollum's eyes indicates which personality is in control.
• The ghost of Madeline Stanhope exhibits these after bonding to the Venebretti necklace in The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth.
• In A Night in the Lonesome October, a "funny light" comes into Jack's eyes when he's in the grip of the curse that makes him Jack the Ripper.
• This is a characteristic of the most powerful Dead in The Old Kingdom, particularly the Greater Dead, who are usually described as having eyes that look like fiery pits. Also counts as Glowing Eyelights of Undeath.
• The One Who Eats Monsters: Ryn has eyes with matte black sclera and rings of blue fire for irises. They are an immutable and unmistakable sign of her divinity, so she wears dark sunglasses most of the time and claims they're prescription. As it turns out, she's hunted humans long enough that any human who sees her eyes is instinctively terrified. No, humans aren't scared of the eyes of her species, but of hers specifically.
• Is an reccuring theme in Phenomena, Tarkan has red glowing ones, Ezau has white glowing ones, and Azur has them, although he's not one of the antagonists.
• Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In Episode 2, in combination with Red Eyes, Take Warning when Princess Rosalind is enraged:
  Princess Rosalind's eyes glowed brightest, in a deep bloody scarlet.
• Sorcerers in Second Apocalypse have very bright glowing eyes (and mouth) when they sing their spells. In cases where extreme power is invoked this extends to a whole-body glow.
• The Silmarillion:
  • The eyes of the Valar shone (likely constantly) with the power of their spirit that the physical forms they wore could barely contain.
  • Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor during the First Age. After a particularly disastrous battle, he went berserk and rode alone to the gates of Angband, where he challenged Morgoth himself, the most powerful being on Arda, to single combat (he got killed due to the vast power difference, but he did manage to fairly seriously wound Morgoth — the only non-Ainu to ever do so). Those who saw him pass said his eyes glowed then like the eyes of the Valar do.
• In A Song of Ice and Fire the wights, corpses on the control of The Others, are described to have piercingly blue eyes, in this vein.
• In The Spirit Thief, when a demonseed goes into God Mode, their eyes start to glow yellow. This is your last warning to turn tail and run before everything goes to hell.
• Star Wars Legends:
  • The yellow glowing eyes is common to all Dark Side practitioners in the Star Wars universe, and usually comes as a result of deep immersion in the Dark Side of the Force. Golden-yellow irises with a bloodshot rim, they are often referred to as "Sith Eyes" due to their obvious association with the most illustrious of Dark Side sects. Some Sith are even in this state permanently (Darth Maul, Darth Sidious after revealing himself.)
  • Grand Admiral Thrawn from Timothy Zahn's novels is a Chiss, a race of aliens closely related to humans but with blue skin and featureless glowing red eyes. He's a gentleman military commander of a villain, rather than someone who will flip out and burn you with laser beams from his eyes, and while he's definitely a bad guy he's complex and not strictly evil. The glow is nonetheless unsettling, and goes out when he dies.
  • Other Chiss show up elsewhere in the EU. While the most antagonistic any of the named ones has been was around the level of an Obstructive Bureaucrat, they all have eyes like that, and they all tend to have a little of Thrawn's inscrutability.
  • Flim simulates the glow with "self-powered surface inserts".
• Both the good and bad guys of The Stormlight Archive have them. Justified in the case of the heroic Knights Radiant, whose eyes glow when they've inhaled a bunch of Stormlight and are about to annihilate some evil. On the bad side, Words of Radiance reveals that Parshendi eyes glow red when they become Voidbringers.
• In Fiona Patton's Tales of the Branion Realm novels, royals have literally flaming eyes. In one book a four-year-old sovereign stares so hard at one of her vassals as she argues with him that her eyes grow hot and a "red-hot nimbus of flame" rises up between them. The man, old enough to be her grandfather, hastily submits to her will.
• Tortall Universe: Beka Cooper doesn't have any evil side or Demonic Possession, just Icy Blue Eyes that get really intense when she's angry. People who see her like this assume she's a mage laying a curse, a fear she uses to her advantage on a couple of occasions.
• In Void City, vampires have the power to make their eyes glow bright red. Though they can choose to do it consciously, it also tends to happen subconsciously when they are extremely angry.
• Ba'alzamon from The Wheel of Time has eyes that occasionally appear to be pits of fire. After he's defeated, his body has its eye sockets burned out.
• When the Storm Came: The story ends with "the Storm", the otherwise indescribable entity laying waste to the town, looming over the protagonist with glowing eyes.

Live-Action TV

• Robbie Reyes on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets these whenever the Rider’s about to come out, as a prelude to the Rider’s Fireball Eyeballs.
• Lyta on Babylon 5 has both a Glowing Eyes Of Doom mode when under Vorlon influence and a glossy black eyes mode when resisting (or influenced by) the Shadows.
• Battlestar Galactica (1978)'s robotic Cylons have one glowing red eye that slide back and forth with a scary metallic noise. Also, in some posters/still images for the reimagined series, the humanoid Cylons sport glowing red eyes as well, though this isn't in the actual show.
• Most werewolves on Big Wolf on Campus have eyes like this. Tommy being the most obvious example.
• In The Boys, the Homelander and Starlight do this, but Homelander's Red Eyes, Take Warning are either used to threaten or just before he unleashes his Eye Beams to deadly effect. Meanwhile, Starlight may occasionally use her golden glowing eyes as a Good Is Not Soft warning, it's usually to prevent violence, and her eyes also glow when she orgasms.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • When Willow does some serious white magic in the last episode, she gets a pair of completely white glowing eyes.
  • Buffy gets a pair in "Primeval" as a result of the enjoining spell.
• Carnivàle: Ben Hawkins sometimes has glowing white eyes when doing something seriously holy.
• This trope was also a regular standby of Charmed. For example, Cole's eyes glowing with fire after a You Kill It, You Bought It turns him into the Big Bad in season four.
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: When Deet harnesses the Darkening, her eyes have a purple glow to them.
• Doctor Who:
  • Sutekh from "Pyramids of Mars" has glowing green eyes whenever he uses his powers to Mind Rape the Doctor.
  • In "The Awakening", the Malus has glowing green eyes.
  • The Master in the TV Movie has constantly glowing green, cat-like eyes which he conceals behind sunglasses and uses to instantly hypnotise Lee. The eyes are a continuity nod to the final story of the original series, "Survival", in which the Master was infected and under the influence of the Cheetah Planet that gave his last incarnation Supernatural Gold Eyes.
  • Rose when she absorbs the Time Vortex energies in "The Parting of the Ways". When the Doctor takes it out of her, his eyes glow too.
  • Actually justified in "Smith and Jones", as the villain's eyes are glowing because they're reflecting the discharges coming from the MRI scanner.
  • In "42", those who become possessed by the sentient sun — including the Doctor — have burning orange eyes.
  • Donna in "Journey's End" when her Time Lord metacrisis brain kicks in.
  • Idris/the TARDIS' eyes briefly glow in "The Doctor's Wife" when she gives power to a cobbled-together TARDIS.
• The Flash (2014) has the Reverse-Flash combine this with Glowing Eyes of Doom and vibrating his face and vocal cords to disguise his identity.
• Heroes: Isaac and Peter along with Sylar — once he steals Isaac's power — and later Matt, for no apparent reason, get glowy eyes when their in their precognitive trances. Ted, the Radioactive Man, gets glowy eyes when he's about to explode.
• House of Anubis, the Sinners combine this with Red Eyes, Take Warning, gaining glowing red eyes for a second or two when they get angry or feel particularly "evil".
• In an episode of How I Met Your Mother entitled "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap", we see Lily's "you're dead to me" look, which is kind of an overly dramatic Death Glare. The camera zooms in on her face, her hair starts swirling around, she starts breathing intensely, and her eyes light up with a fiery glowing.
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers:
  • When Tommy Oliver is Brainwashed and Crazy, his eyes would occasionally glow neon green.
  • The original Megazord, the Mega Dragonzord, and the Thunder Megazord would have their eyes flash while performing their Finishing Moves.
• Johnny B. of Misfits of Science developed glowing eyes when his electricity-based powers were fully charged up.
• Nowhere Boys: The dogs under Demonic Possession. People the demon possesses also show this, but only at first, for a couple of seconds.
• Red Dwarf: Victims of the holo-virus shown in "Quarantine" gain red versions of these when they are about to fire off their hex vision. This winds up happening to Dr.Hildegard Lanstrom and Rimmer in said episode.
• In Scrubs, when The Janitor makes the grave mistake of saying a new attractive Latina nurse looks like a "young Carla", Carla gets glowy eyes and conjures up a powerful wind that blows all throughout the hospital (in an obvious Shout-Out to Storm) and emits a high-pitched scream that breaks Dr. Kelso's glasses and shatters Turk into a million pieces. ("So that's why they call him Glassman!") This all happens in an Imagine Spot by the way.
• Search:
  • The murderer has glowing red eyes.
  • The first warning the soldiers have of the wild dogs' attack is when they see the dogs' glowing eyes.
• Stargate SG-1:
  • The Goa'uld do this for intimidation, as well as involuntarily when taking on a new host or dying. Slightly subverted in the fact that the Tok'ra, the good alien cousins of the Goa'uld, also show off their glowing eyes. But they usually nod before, and that's an indication that the symbiont is going to talk, not the host. The glowing is usually accompanied by a characteristic sound.
  • The Doci in seasons 9-10 does this when possessed by the Ori, as does Adria on her own, both before and after ascending.
• In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before ", Gary Mitchell is zapped by the galactic barrier, his eyes start to glow, and his psi powers grow exponentially. He goes power-mad and murders a crewmate. In the end, Kirk is forced to kill him.
• Angels from Supernatural would occasionally have glowing eyes especially when using their power. The big example would be Sam whose eyes would glow whenever Gadreel would take over.
  • Jack, who recently lost his soul but regained his arkangel powers, displays his terrifying eyes as he emerges from the concrete dust from having blasted his way out of a warded box trap. Dean, Sam, and Cass collectively shit themselves
• The Thundermans:
  • In the crossover episode called "Haunted Thundermans" when the Green Ghoul possesses Chad and then Phoebe, their eyes glow green.
  • Nora's eyes will also glow as she prepares to use her superpower.
  • In "Happy Heroween", the second ghost story that Dr Colosso tells had Chloe as a zombie who comes to her family's rescue, have glowing eyes and a demonic voice to scare and threaten Mrs Wong.
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: played for laughs in the B'ougar sketch about a life-size bear that sounds like a cougar to place in your bedroom so that when you wake in fear at night, you can have a justification for being afraid.
• Keylla from Ultraman is a weaponized example; its giant, insectoid compound eyes can flash brightly, blinding its opponents and causing explosions.
• Brocken from Ultraman Ace is a parasitic monster that possesses an innocent astronaut; prior to revealing itself, it's human host's eyes suddenly glows orange before transforming kaiju-sized seconds later.
• The Wheel of Time (2021):
  • In nightmares Ba'alzamon appears in a mask with glowing eyes, nose and mouth. Like in the books, all four of the ta'veren protagonists see those dreams.
  • In Perrin's dream Laila's eyes start to glow.

Music

• Some of the kids in the video for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. They're vampires. The song was originally written for an unproduced vampire musical and was later reused for Tanz Der Vampire.
• Disturbed's Mascot, "The Guy".
• Michael Jackson in the infamous Twist Ending of his music video Thriller.
• Peter Gabriel has them on the innersleeve◊ of his first solo album, whose cover art was by Hipgnosis
• Twenty One Pilots has a song called “Glowing Eyes”, which uses the term as a metaphor for anxiety.
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's eyes begin to glow when he becomes an evil reindeer overlord in Within Temptation's "A Gothic Christmas".

Myths & Religion

• The Iliad: From Book 1 when Athena has to come down from the heavens to stop Achilles from killing Agamemnon.
  Pallas Athena! the terrible blazing of those eyes,
• The West Virginia crypid Mothman's eyes are legendarily red, and often the only thing the witness will see (and sometimes be hypnotized by).

Pinball

• Skull the Bone Head in No Fear: Dangerous Sports has these.
• The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera has these, thanks to two well-placed lamps.
• The Evil Sorceress in Ruiner Pinball has glowing neon green eyes.
• In Williams Electronics' Sorcerer pinball, the Sorcerer's eyes on the backglass glow and flash during the game.

Puppet Shows

• The main villain on Thunderbirds, known as The Hood, has eyes that glow yellow when he uses his mesmeric powers.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Tieflings in the 4th Edition. Technically, they don't actually glow, but the fact that they're always a solid, often metallic, color seems to create a similar effect. For bonus points, they're often gold or red.
  • In 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, psionic characters gain glowing eyes whenever they use many of their powers.
  • Certain spells such as "Arcane Sight" make a person's eyes glow blue, and Darkvision can make a character's eyes flash or glow red.
  • First Edition's Oriental Adventures has the "Fiery Eyes" spell, which makes the caster's eyes glow with an unnatural fire.
  • When a swamp landwyrm is angry, its eyes glow like yellow lanterns.
• In Magic: The Gathering, the nigh-immortal, dimension-hopping godlike wizards known as "Planeswalkers" have these eyes while using their stronger powers, as well as anyone affected by said powers (if the magic in question CAN effect other beings, such as necromancy or mind magics).
• In Palladium Fantasy, a character could be "cursed" with glowing red eyes, which actually give him increased stats for the purposes of intimidation.
• You can give yourself custom cybereyes in Shadowrun with this effect.
• In Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution some espers are depicted with these when using their powers.
• Warcraft: At least in the first one, night elves (and perhaps high elves also; don't have now the sourcebook) are described to have no pupils and glowing eyes, especially under the moonlight.
• Seemingly everyone in Warhammer 40,000 has these. It can only be assumed that any face-concealing helmet will have LEDs in the eyepieces. That said, the Salamanders chapter of the Adeptus Astartes actually DO have them: glowing red orbs that emit heat, with no pupil or iris.
• Happens in Werewolf: The Forsaken, among the adherents of the Temple of Apollo. When on their Sacred Hunt, if the target has trespassed in one of their holy places and once the adherent uses enough abilities towards their prey, Apollo's power pours through the werewolf. Light spills from their mouth and eyes, granting them a number extra advantages and lighting up the area.
• In the original Vampire: The Masquerade, the single-dot Protean power was "Eyes of the Beast" or "Gleam of Red Eyes" depending on the edition. Aside from making the vampire in question's eyes glow red, which was great for intimidating some characters, a vampire using it could see in deepest night as though it was a clear day at noon.

Theatre

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: In the 2017 Broadway retool, the squirrels' eyes glow yellow at first, but then glow red as they tear Veruca apart.

Video Games

• In Arcana Heart, the Perverse Puppet that Lieselotte carries around has these as a side-effect of her dead sister possessing it.
• In the ending of Alpha Prime, Arnold appears to come back from the dead with glowing green eyes. This is not a good sign for the people he's on the ship with.
• Asura from Asura's Wrath after climbing out of Naraka has eyes permanently in this state, and they glow their former red color on occasion. His master Augus has these naturally, but they are white holes because Augus is blind. They only return to normal once Asura destroys Chakravartin and frees Mithra.
• Baldur's Gate: Sarevok's eyes glow yellow/golden, at least sometimes. Even in his portrait in Throne of Bhaal when he's no longer a Bhaalspawn.
• In Bayonetta, Rodin and Bayonetta are talking in the Gates of Hell Bar, and Rodin is using bottles to describe the relationship between Paradiso, Inferno, and the Human world. When he says that heaven and hell are going "straight for each others' throats," his eyes glow red behind his sunglasses.
• The Little Sisters in BioShock have glowing eyes until they're rescued.
  • In addition, the Big Daddies that protect the Little Sisters also have these eyes (or at least it looks so, given the portholes in their diving helmets glow). The Little Sisters can't harm you. If you hit a Big Daddy with a stray shot, though, they won't stop chasing you until you or they are dead.
  • BioShock 2 has the combination of both in the Big Sister, a grown Little Sister in a Big Daddy-esque suit, with very visible glowing red eyes and the ability to quickly wreck anyone in sight.
• Some of the characters in The Black Heart have these; Animus' single eye glows yellow, so do Hashi's eyes. Final has two huge glowing yellow eyes, and their glow amplifies whenever he casts powerful magic. In a particularly sinister variation, Janos is always portrayed as a dark silhouette, and generally with a single red eye glowing.
• BlazBlue:
  • The Kaka clan have glowing eyes. All. The. Time. They're descended from a living weapon, but are largely comical and harmless. Even the playable member, Taokaka, is a comic relief Cloudcuckoolander.
  • Hazama/Terumi has Glowing Eyes Of Doom in the Continuum Shift trailers, and when revealed as the The Man Behind the Man in Calamity Trigger
• All zombies in Call of Duty: Zombies are characterized by distinct glowing eyes, with varying colors to indicate who is controlling them (orange for Samantha/Maxis, blue for Richtofen, red for Apothicons).
• Dracula of Castlevania fame has glowing red eyes - as if it weren't already obvious that he's not someone you want to mess with...
  • Joachim of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence and Walter of the same game display this, too, when they're showing the hell off with magic - Walter in a cutscene notably creepier than most of the others.
• City of Heroes:
  • Several different forms of these are costume options. These range from a face-type (which predates costume auras) with solid-color eyes, to Electric Eyes, Fiery Eyes, Smoky Eyes, Sparkly Eyes, and more.
  • Also, human-form Kheldians' eyes glow when using their powers as an indication that they're channelling power from their alien halves.
• Dark Souls uses this in a rare combination with Red Eyes, Take Warning to denote amped-up versions of regular baddies you encounter throughout the game (not that the "regular" baddies are any walk in the park either). Here, the eyes are both red and glowing and you'd best look lively. Generally you can expect red-eyed enemies to move faster, hit harder, have more health and be more resistant to stun-lock than their generic counterparts. And then there are the bosses whose eyes start to glow midway through the fight...
• The Raincoat Killer in Deadly Premonition has what appear to be red-tinted headlights where his eyes should be.
• Devil May Cry:
  • Subverted with Sparda. He's a demon with distinct glowing eyes in his true form, but had a Heel–Face Turn long before the games' events to become a sort of savior figure to parts of the human race.
  • Dante has these towards the end of the first game when he stops fooling around with Mundus and gets really pissed off.
    Dante: SILENCE!
  • In Devil May Cry 2, Tateobesu uses its eyes' glow to temporarily blind Lucia before their fight, though the flashing lights have no effect on her during gameplay.
  • Beowulf, whose single glowing red eye becomes more evident as he Turns Red in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.
  • Nero's eyes glow red in Devil May Cry 4 once Agnus manages to piss him off enough, unlocking a spectral Devil Trigger.
  • In DmC: Devil May Cry, Mundus has glowing eyes when in combat, and Vergil gains these after absorbing Hollow Vergil towards the end of Vergil's Downfall.
  • In Devil May Cry 5, Urizen is a powerful demon with eyes that glow bright blue. Likewise, the playable characters' eyes permanently glow red if their Super Costumes are equipped.
• The three core characters in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness have these. Laharl and Etna show them when they're angry, whereas Flonne also sports them when she's overly excited. Bonus points for her eyes lighting on fire either way. In Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, Raspberyl also gets these when she's mad.
• In Devil Survivor 2, team member Io Nitta has them when she channels the spirit of Lugh, an Irish sun god, as a (temporary) enemy. Toxic green eyes, to be precise.
• Doom: The Protagonist's eyes on the status bar become glowing and golden when an invulnerability power-up is taken (or God Mode is enabled). Combine with a Berserk Pack, and you too can have fun with puns!
• Hero of Sparta have Hades in the first game, as a Tin Tyrant clad in armor whose face is covered in shadows, save for a pair of glowing eyes sticking out.
• Similarly, the protagonist in Wolfenstein 3-D — but only on enabling of God Mode (no invincibility powerups in that game).
• In the arcade version of Double Dragon II, the boss Abore has glowing red eyes and Terminator style sunglasses; is he supposed to be a cyborg?
• Dragon Age II:
  • Meredith has these when you fight her as the Final Boss thanks to the Artifact of Doom. That is, the Lyrium Idol found in the Primeval Thaig.
  • Anders also gets these when he goes into Vengeance mode at various points throughout the game (or, when you manually activate Vengeance to increase his damage in combat). How doom-y the eyes are is somewhat open to interpretation.
• Whenever a villain is possessed by Towa in Dragon Ball Online and Dragon Ball Xenoverse.
• The vendor in Dust: An Elysian Tail has, as Fidget puts it, "glowing evil eyes of evil". As it turns out, he's not evil at all and quite eager to do business with you.
• In The Elder Scrolls, glowing golden eyes are a trait of Vampires, as revealed in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC. It's implied that this is a trait which is Invisible to Normals, and can only be seen by certain other supernatural beings (such as the Dragonborn, who has a draconic Aedric soul). Given that most in-universe consider vampires to be Always Chaotic Evil, the "of Doom" part easily applies, though there are individual exceptions.
• In Fable being fully evil causes your eyes to glow red. By this point, you also have demonic horns, insects buzzing around you, a red mist emanating from your footsteps, and townspeople flee at the sight of you.
• The Heartless of the Kingdom Hearts series, at least those with visible eyes, do this constantly. So does Sora in his Anti Form.
• In the Steam game Finding Bigfoot, Bigfoot's eyes glow green. This is also one of his more monstrous portrayals, being a violent man eater.
• The four fiends of Final Fantasy IV seem to have this, whether or not it's due to graphical limitation is debatable.
• Five Nights at Freddy's has Freddy himself. His blue eyes glow when the power is out, and his endoskeleton's eyes glow white when he's moving around on later nights. The sequel has Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy (mysterious beings that have glowing white eyes) and a purple guy in one of the mini games (you can see that his eyes look very similar to Freddy's eyes).
• In Freelancer, Nomad-infected people in cut-scenes make their eyes glow blue when they really mean business.
• FreeSpace's Shivans have seven Glowing Eyes Of Doom. In a V shape.◊ All of them are red.
• Gacha World: The characters that become infected by Final Boss all start to antagonize The Protagonist putting them through difficult boss fights after their eyes start glowing. Eyes glowing is a very accurate tell-tale signs of being corrupted and having to be fought to return back to normal in Gacha World. The Final Boss when defeated returns to normal which is nothing different from before as he was in character the entire time anyways so he doesn't change and just straight up corrupts your friend Ellie before fading away.
• Even Gears of War has this; sometimes played straight, sometimes averted. The Locust Horde (the main antagonists of the series) outfits many of their war beasts with helmets that have multiple glowing eye-pieces to fool human on-lookers that they're fighting multi-eyed, alien beast. The truth is, few Locust creatures actually have more than two eyes, let alone glowing ones. The exceptions being the Kryll, who have two eyes, and the Corpsers, who have four.
  • A perhaps even greater example of this are the Lambent. Once something is exposed to Imulsion, the series' fictional fuel, it starts mutating into a horrible beast, twisting, shifting or even mummifying... but every single Lambent to date (that has eyes, mind you) has had glowing eyes. Seeing how the Lambent want to consume everything and every time you kill them, they explode, this trope is pretty justified.
• In Geneforge, people who use many canisters frequently develop glowing eyes. They're not necessarily evil, but they are powerful and frequently unstable. It may be intentional, rather than a random side effect — a character in the first game says glowing eyes are "designed to engender respect."
• In God Hand the mooks will gain glowing eyes when there's a demon about.
• The Doctor Who adventure game The Gunpowder Plot features a shapeshifting Rutan called Lady Winters, who when in human and cat form has bright green glowing eyes.
• Halo: Guilty Spark 343 is basically a floating mechanical eyeball. His eye goes from blue to red when he's enraged beyond rationality.
• In Jak 3: Wastelander, Jak's Light form has glowing white eyes—a stark contrast to his Dark form's Black Eyes of Evil. While he might look rather angelic with those massive, radiant wings, he can also freeze time and then blast the hell out of you with the Supernova.
• In Katamari Damacy and all ascending games, when you fail, the King's eyes will glow and make a speech on how much you fail.
• In Killzone, the Helghast combine their gas masks with these.
• In Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, your character gets these eyes, complete with small flames of power seeping through, when he casts spell or enter Reckoning Mode.
• The King of Fighters: For some no doubt insane reason, Kim Kaphwan's eyes have been known to become sparkling white spotlights when he decides to start kicking evil in the ass.
• In King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, you can recognize a shapeshifting genie, trying to lure you to your death, by his flashing golden eyes.
• In the Legacy of Kain franchise, the Hylden and those possessed by them have glowing green eyes. The Hylden seen at the time are Always Chaotic Evil. Being in the local idea of Hell for untold millenia does that. Oh, and they try to take over the world and kill everyone. And most humans have no idea.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Ganondorf's eyes start glowing hellishly just before he goes into One-Winged Angel mode.
  • In the HD remake of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker a new graphical effect added to the game is that enemies' eyes have a noticeable glow to them.
• Loch Ness: Nessie's eyes glow in the darkness, and she'll attack you if she finds you.
• Lost Soul Aside: The stone figure boss in the 2017 gameplay trailer has eyes glowing bright blue.
• Morrighan's eyes in Mabinogi, when they aren't shut, are this trope combined with Death Glare. Needless to say, if you ever see them like this, chances are some serious shit is about to go down.
• Although the Hummer robots of Marathon are pretty much a joke, their eyes glow in the dark and may cause pants-crapping. Oh yeah, and what's worse is when you see the juggernaut's eyes... The only difference is that the juggernaut is DAMN FAR FROM A JOKE.
• Waluigi exhibited these whenever he scored a point in Mario Tennis for Nintendo 64.
• Mass Effect:
  • In the first game, Saren had these, as well, due to his Reaper implants. Exactly the same. They're an early hint that he's a Reaper thrall.
  • Mass Effect 2:
    • If Shepard moves toward the Renegade side of the Karma Meter, their eyes begin to glow red as their more violent, aggressive, and ruthless nature exacerbates the cybernetic implants in their body.
    • Also invoked when Harbinger takes control of a Collector soldier.
• Metroid:
  • Ridley has a pair of yellow-orange ones; his Space Pirate lackeys share this trait in the original Metroid Prime.
  • The main villain of Prime, Metroid Prime itself, has glowing eyes, but in deep crimson.
  • Phazon-corrupted characters in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption sport glowing blue eyes, including Rundas, Ghor, Gandrayda, and Samus herself - the last being visibly reflected in her visor, and growing worse throughout the game.
• Minecraft
  • The Spiders have glowing red eyes, which fits as they are fully hostile at night while they'll only attack you if you bother them during the day.
  • The Endermen have glowing violet eyes and if you make eye contact with them, they'll go attack you.
• Monster Hunter:
  • A lot of monsters exhibit this themselves, though usually when enraged. All of the aquatic monsters have it when fighting them underwater, which works as a gameplay element to help you see where they are more easily as it is very hard to see underwater, and also to inspire terror as you may not see the monster behind you until it rears its head and shows you the glowing eyes.
  • Monster Hunter Freedom Unite: Nargacuga, who is usually fought at night and whose eyes glow bright red. They glow more intensely when the monster is enraged, leaving trails as it moves around. This is mitigated somewhat if you break its face, which has the result of a scar where one eye used to be, though the other eye still glows. This also applies to the subspecies Green Nargacuga in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, only its eyes glow orange.
  • Monster Hunter 3 (Tri):
    • A hunter can forge the Helios/Selene armor set, in which the "eye slots" glow a sort of light blue. It doesn't really inspire doom (in fact you'd probably get some praise from fellow hunters) except for the monster you hunted to make it, an Elder Dragon named Ceadus. Who is nearly 60 meters long and causes earthquakes to an entire island whenever he rams it with his horns.
    • Lucent Nargacuga in 3 Ultimate takes this a step further when compared to its black and green cousins: though its eyes still glow, it is capable of turning completely invisible, so its eyes (when in rage mode) are the only means by which you can effectively track its motion.
• Those infected by the Unstoppable Rage in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe have this.
• Neverwinter Nights: A character reaching twentieth level as a monk will get glowing eyes, presumably reflecting their becoming more than mere mortals as per the 20th-level class property.
• Night Trap features these with Sarah (if you're fast enough to see her in the bedroom at the start of the game) and Tony. All of the other vampires have them as well, but only when they show their fangs.
• Odin Sphere: When in his Shadow Form, one of Oswald's eyes disappears and the other glows red.
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Kuro sports these. During a flashback to her Start of Darkness, you can see what sparked the pure hatred that made them start glowing like that.
• In Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Kwolok and Mora both have glowing eyes while under the control of The Corruption; silver-white for the former, and a Sickly Green Glow for the latter. The Big Bad, Shriek, who was corrupted from birth, has glowing blue-white eyes until her death.
• In Overlord, YOU have these.
• Monsters' eyes glow a sickly greenish shade when they're subjected to Mind Control in Parasite.
• Killian in Perfect Dark Zero has glowing red eyes, likely due to cybernetic augmentation.
• All of Persona 4's shadows have glowing golden eyes when in human form and if a person denies their shadow as being a part of them, then they'll get attacked and killed by them.
• The Pentagram of Protection in Quake makes the Ranger's eyes glow.
• Recettear: When Arma is possessed by Terme Finance President, Avall, and made to fight, her eyes glow yellow.
• Resident Evil:
  • Albert Wesker from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica to Resident Evil 5 has this in addition to red eyes with slitted pupils. Strangely enough, they visibly glow through his trademarked sunglasses, but not when he takes them off, so it's probably more for dramatic effect than anything.
  • The zombified members of Wesker's private army have glowing red night-vision goggles. Wesker's eyes flashing red through his shades may be a Shout-Out to Terminator.
• Continuing from the Mobile Suit Gundam example in the anime section, in a number of games, most mobile suits will have their eyes momentarily glow before some of the more dramatic attacks. By SD Gundam G Generation Spirits, pretty much every single Mobile Suit in the game will have a freeze frame where nothing moves except the background and the glowing eyes of the attacking unit. Occasionally matching certain suits with certain pilots will give even more dramatic glowing eye shots. The best is whenever Char Aznable pilots his Sazabi, which provides a particularly menacing image. Of course, it IS a Zeon MS....
• In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, "Red Eyes" is a condition that makes the user go into a form of Berserker Rage, becoming stronger and more resilient. The downside is they become much more vulnerable to fire. Several Ashina clan soldiers take on Red Eyes during the Central Force invasion, but even with it they're hopelessly outmatched, especially since they brought fire. It can be induced on yourself by consuming a "Red Lump", which are hard to come by. It also disables resurrection on you while it's active.
• Shadow Man: Michael Le Roi in his role as Shadow Man has them, to the point where the glow grows to resemble the Mask of Shadows. Surprisingly, none of the villains have them...
• All of the colossi in Shadow of the Colossus have these. When they're simply moving around, their eyes are blue, but when they're attacking or being attacked, they turn orange.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey: All demons. It's a callback to the earliest days of the series.
• The last stage of 1985 coin-op Son of Phoenix (aka '99: The Last War) is set in a place which has the Parthenon, the Pyramids and the Easter Island Statues (presumably replicas of these things). At some points of the battle, one or more of the statues' eyes glow red.
• Sam Fisher of Splinter Cell is nearly always pictured wearing his night-vision goggles, with the glowing green eyepieces as a visual reference to this trope. He's not superpowered, but he's certainly not someone you'd ever want to anger.
• In Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion Knights of the Fallen Empire, the scion Heskal's eyes glow brightly while he questions the Outlander as to what the Outlander intends to do to Arcann shortly before attacking them.
• Common in fighting games, especially with possessed or boss characters. Akuma and Evil Ryu from the Street Fighter series always have their eyes glowing red to show they're under the influence of Satsui no Hadou. M. Bison has glowing white eyes in every game he's appeared in outside of Street Fighter II.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
  • Fighters put their eyes all glowy and get a fiery Battle Aura when they grab a Smash Ball, which gives them a somewhat diabolic look. Check out yourself◊.
  • However, Captain Falcon and Meta Knight already have these to begin with, and Mr. Game & Watch averts this by having no eyes to speak of...
  • Speaking of Brawl, Link and Toon Link both have "dark" alternate costumes featuring ebony skin, white hair and, yes, glowing red eyes.
• Sword of the Stars: The Zuul are depicted with glowing eyes in the artwork.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • Standard for anyone on the receiving end of an Ubercharge.
  • The Demoman can get them (well, one) by taking heads with the Eyelander.
  • A Professional Killstreak weapon will add a variety of special eye effects to a player once they've amassed a sufficiently high killstreak.
• Tekken: Kazuya Mishima's left eye glows red as of the 4th game, either because of the Mishima bloodline's Devil Gene, or his resurrection by G Corporation. Mokujin, as well, though his aren't really evil as much as an indicator of evil.
• Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE: In the E3 2015 trailer, Chrom from Fire Emblem: Awakening is depicted with these. He's still a heroic character, though.
• A Total War Saga: TROY: Cerberus' eyes glow red with the fires of the underworld.
• Touhou Project: The Moon Rabbit Reisen Udongein Inaba can drive people insane by using her eyes to screw around with wave lengths, which also allows her to make illusions and such. When you fight her, a pair of seriously giant red eyes appear in the background to signal that she's screwing with you. All the more fun, considering that her last spellcard turns her bullets invisible.
• Titan Quest:
  • In the opening cutscene, it is shown that the Gorgons' tendency to turn people into stone with their gaze is voluntary; you can tell when one is about to use this power because her eyes will glow. they never try doing this to player characters.
  • The 1.69 patch gave the Valsharess glowing eyes, which made her look a lot less realistic.
• Mortal Kombat: Quan-Chi offers a variation of this in later installments. The whites of his eyes are always pure bright white regardless of the surrounding lighting, making Shinnok's dragon look suitably creepy and inhuman◊.
• Tsioque: The evil Wizard's eyes are always glowing to be seen, since his whole figure is pitch black.
• Uncle Albert's Magical Album:
  • The sarcophagus' eyes glow when you put the scorpions into the pit.
  • Once the statuettes are placed in the treasure room, their eyes glow for a bit.
• In Undertale, a single Glowing Eye of Doom is possessed by Sans, the game's hardest boss, if the player has satisfied the necessary conditions for fighting him.
  • Despite what fanart would lead you to believe however, you only ever get to see it twice, during his opening attack and his final attack.
  • Undyne The Undying (the second hardest boss in the game) has a single glowing eye in her left eye socket (Right from Frisk's POV). As to be expected, it is in the shape of a spear.
• In Unleash the Light, Lapis's eyes glow white whenever she successfully charges Focus or uses her Limit Break, staring down her enemies while at it.
• Vermintide II: In the Chaos Wastes, Cultists of the Daemon Prince Be'lakor are distinguished from normal units by their glowing purple eyes and enhanced stats.
• In Warcraft III, Grom Hellscream had glowing red eyes, caused by his embracing demon rage with open arms. The glow dies away a moment before his death because he killed the demon who caused the rage. In the expansion Frozen Throne, Arthas gets glowing blue eyes after fusing with the Lich King Ner'Zhul.
• Mara, the undead nun antagonist of Wick (2020), has these, combined with Red Eyes, Take Warning, though they aren't always visible due to her upper face being partly hidden by her wimple.
• World of Warcraft (see also Glowing Eyes for less sinister examples):
  • The Warlock class's demon summons have glowing eyes (except the Felhunter, whose eyes are so tiny as to be practically invisible).
  • The demonic eredar have glowing yellow eyes (although that differs from their non-demonic draenei counterparts only in colour).
  • Fel Orcs, who achieved their state by drinking a demon's blood, have glowing red eyes.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 1:
  • Many mechon, most notably the Face units, have mechanical light-up eyes.
  • The Mechonis sports a pair of glowing eyes when it awakens, as does the Bionis.
• Zombie Claus: The titular undead Santa has brightly glowing eyes.

Visual Novels

• The dragon's eyes and the dragonslayer's eyes in Dra+Koi glow blue and red respectively when using their abilities. Or at least, the armor's eyes glow. Comes to the same thing.
• Rider in Fate/stay night when she actually shows her eyes... Probably because they aren't really eyes so much as (apparently) crystallized magical energy that happen to be what she sees with. Oh, and she's Medusa. Figure out the 'of doom' part.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: Dahlia Hawthorne does this in the first case after she is revealed to be the murderer of Doug Swallow. Also, her mother Morgan Fey tends to do this when she gets angry.

Web Animation

• Haiku Melon from Banana-nana-Ninja! has eyes that glow orange when he's about to unleash Psychic Watermelon Powers.
• Chicken And Moose: The titular Chicken sometimes has these, usually coupled with bursts of frightening lucidity.* Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures: Kuromi sports a pair when Piano and a frog girl find the figure she's been hunting for all episode. Downplayed as Kuromi then politely, if a bit desperately, asks them to trade the dozens of Empress figures she's acquired for the "Wandering Servant " they have, to which they agree
• Helluva Boss: In "Exes and Oohs", Millie's eyes glow yellow as she crashes Moxxie's Arranged Marriage and prepares to fight her way through the entire mafia to rescue him.
  Millie: You want my husband? You're gonna have to fucking kill me!
• In hololive ERROR (specifically the animated manga version), Shino Misora's Occult/Innocent Blue Eyes are occasionally depicted as glowing, and, well... While Shino isn't exactly a bad person, being around her is not a good idea due to her Yandere-esque, "won't take no for an answer" mentality after her death. The intensity becomes rather understandable when it's revealed that her and the transfer student are one and the same, and she wants nothing more than for her counterpart to ditch the Lotus-Eater Machine she had trapped herself in. Notably, the less-outwardly-dangerous third Shino is never shown with her eyes glowing.
• Red vs. Blue: Epsilon Church, embodied by a Monitor (basically a floating eyeball) from Halo. When the eye shifts from blue to red, it indicates that the Monitor is about to fire a laser beam.
  Epsilon: You will fear my laserface!!
• RWBY: Cinder Fall manifests these when she starts throwing fire around. Amber the Fall Maiden (whom Cinder stole her power from) also had glowing eyes when using her Elemental Powers. The creatures of Grimm also often feature glowing red eyes. But all those pale to Ruby's mysterious Silver Eye Power, which creates a blinding wave of light and energy strong enough to petrify a Grimm the size of a building.
• Squimpus McGrimpus, a Youtube channel that specializes in found-footage Fnaf content, has a couple of examples: The Puppet in The Bonnie Movement Test video, Circus Baby in sad_girl.mp4 and Funtime Freddy in birthday_boy.mp4 being the most prominent.

Webcomics

• 8-Bit Theater: Black Mage. Complete with the hellish aura that was last seen when Black Mage confronted the personification of his sins (himself), and before that, seen on Black Mage when he took over hell. Not surprisingly, Black Mage was using the power he gained from killing the personification of his sins.
• Spoofed in these two Adventurers! comics.
  Tesla: I can't believe you would do something like that! We lost people on the force to glowy-eye-soul-stealing-related complications!
• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Dr. McNinja's eyes glow yellow when he goes into the mode where he can fight ghosts.
• In The Adventures of Shan Shan, Karmavore.
• In Alice and the Nightmare:
  • When Alice's Superpowered Evil Side starts to emerge, her eyes glow fierce red.
  • Always Chaotic Evil Nightmares have glowing white eyes.
• Aurora (2019): Chimeras, animals mutated into monsters by life magic, have glowing green eyes.
• Average Joe: Fatale normally has her eyes glowing red behind her mask. It seems to only occur when she's angry, but she spends a lot of time angry.
• In Axe Cop, after his gaining superpowers including eye beams, Fwinky Dog's eyes can emit a fierce green radiance when stuff gets real, as here.
  "I think those dogs might be bad guys trying to steal my Fwinkys. I'm gonna fight them."
  • The Water Queen's eyes light up for some major uses of her water powers, such as stabbing an evil alien to death with the entire ocean.
• The Boxer: Invoked when indicating a character's using their full potential. Yu's eyes glow and leave a trail when he's not holding back.
  • Yuto's eyes glow as he stands back up and unlocks "the freedom all geniuses share."
• In College Roomies from Hell!!!, Dave's eyes glow when he's about to unleash his laser beams.
• Ctrl+Alt+Del: Lilah likes playing Sims 3... for a very particular reason.
• Dogfight: This is a common trademark during fight scenes, which only serves to make them more epic and to highlight that the fighters are getting more serious in their performances.
• Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire: Magic users have their eyes glow when particularly focused.
• In a DragonFable fan-fic, Dan's eyes glow red when doom takes over him.
• In Endstone, rocking the Banestone, or the Artifact of Doom, gives Jon glowing eyes.
• FreakAngels: The title characters have this when they use their powers.
• In The Glass Scientists, werewolf's eyes glow pale white when it's rampaging through the city. Subverted in that Jasper proves to have good intentions, only bad execution of them.
• The title race of Tarol Hunt's Goblins sport something close when angered. It's not quite glow — it's their widened pupils. Big Ears on the other hand did receive these when he acquired his enchanted paladin gear.
• Characters who go into Berserk mode in Gold Coin Comics.
• Gunnerkrigg Court:
  • Reynardine does this occasionally.
  • His cousin Coyote's eyes (and he has many) glow when he's showing off his awesome power, which, if he wanted to use it that way, could mean certain doom for just about anyone.
• Homestuck:
  • After Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, Rose's eyes glow white. Inverted with Kanaya, however; after coming back from the dead, everything glows except her eyes.
  • More literally, Sollux has glowing red/blue eyes — and is a "Mage of Doom".
• I'm the Grim Reaper: When one of Scarlet’s eyes glow red, it’s a sign she’s about to reap a sinner.
• As the resident Sealed Evil in a Can of Iron Crown, Shard is introduced with these - the relative brightness is an excellent barometer of how particularly murderous he is at the moment.
  • Most notable on on this page when our protagonist pisses him off unwittingly. Oops.
• Jack: The Seven Deadly Sins have glowing eyes, including the titular character, whose eyes grow black and become pin pricks of light when he's ticked off. The Devil subverts the trope by having completely dark black eyes.
• In The KAMics, the ex-valkyries, Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki's, eyes glow when they are angry. Oddly enough they usually glow the same color as their hair color.
• Lackadaisy: While not literally glowing, Viktor's eye is often noticeably shaded lighter than his surroundings would logically cause it to be, giving it a "glowing" look (aka The Glare Beam). This is especially noticeable during the firefight with the pig farmers, which takes place in a darkened garage. During this scene, everything is shaded so as to give an impression of pitch blackness... except for Viktor's scary, glare-y eye. The fact that he's a cat doesn't hurt either.
• leveL's main character combines this with some glowing goo oozing from his wrists. Sure, he's always been a pretty timid guy, but when you see a kid that glows that much, and advances towards you with a creepy smile, you have to admit that something ain't right.
• Looking for Group:
  • Richard has glowing yellow eyes. One could say he fits the trope. (But then, he is undead.)
  • And Maikos too.
• Losing Is Fun: When Bembul removes his goggles his eyes glow revealing that he is possessed.
• Kill Six Billion Demons: Anyone in the universe with a sufficiently powerful Battle Aura (mainly angels, powerful devils and Demiurges) get glowy eyes of doom when sufficiently riled. Jagganoth's eyes are a permanent, monocoloured red, and were stuck that way even before he became a Demiurge.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Celia's eyes glow blue when she's angry, or possibly when she shoots lightning, as these tend to happen at the same time. She also likes to use them against her mother, apparently.
  • This is common with enraged spellcasters. Samantha the Sorceress and later Vaarsuvius both glow with an awesome power.
• Precocious:
  • Bud and Tiff during Autumn's paranoid delusion about their museum trip. Tiffany again after consuming an entire pot of coffee.
  • The attic minis do this. They're white at first but turn red when their creepiness gets to higher levels.
• Ciro and Kareems eyes glow when they "go dark" in Project 0. Played with in that it doubles as a cartoonish trick.
• Played pretty straight in The Senkari, whenever Freija's eyes start glowing, it usually means that something bad is about to happen to someone.
• Slightly Damned: Played straight and subverted. If a demon's eyes are glowing, it could be enraged and about to rip you apart... or it could just be trying to improve its night vision.
• Sluggy Freelance:
  • Lord Horribus's eyes glow so fiercely when he's mad that flames start to creep out of them (which almost always goes along with a fiery Battle Aura).
  • Also Gwynn, when she gets so angry that the powers of K'Z'K or the Book of E-Ville activate in her automatically.
  • Bun-bun once manifests red eyes (not unambiguously drawn as glowing, but he starts glowing red next) when he gets absolutely enraged.
• Vampire Girl: The Vampiress has glowing red eyes, and they are among the only parts of her face that are visible to anybody to see.
• Wapsi Square: The golem girls and Monica can make their eyes glow, essentially causing them to function as flashlights. It is fueled by fear, doubt, or anger. A golem feeling any of those certainly spells danger.
• Zomgan: In the first episode, the Zomgan guards' eyes start glowing ominously as they approach Mirae On, taunt him and talk about how they got a human feast on their hands.

Web Original

• This became an internet meme mid-2018, usually connoting things like Perverse Sexual Lust or Unstoppable Rage.
• In The Gamer's Alliance, the eyes of demons and half-demons start glowing when they channel their demonic powers and are about to kick some major ass.
• In Journey of the Cartoon Man, Oswald Sherzikien's One-Winged Angel form includes glowing red eyes.
• Mahu: In "Frozen Flame", Mr. Storm has the glowing eyes to be expected of a mage able to cast thunder and lightning.
• Red/the Hellbeast in NES Godzilla Creepypasta. It's very unnerving.
• After Mara Wilson got revenge on The Nostalgia Critic by exploiting his Old Shame, her eyes glowed white as everything else turned red.
• Whateley Universe:
  • Tennyo's got some. Her irises sometimes go red when she's very angry. But actually, it's when they glow green that you really need to start worrying - that means the Star Stalker has taken the wheel, and people are going to start hurting and dying.
  • From VAMP:
    "Vamp!" Tara said running my way, “They’re getting UP, and they look PISSED!” And, sure enough, both Poppin’ Fresh and Bravo were indeed getting up, and from the energy shows coming from their eyes, they were indeed pissed and burning some serious fuel for some serious butt–whupping.

Western Animation

• Animaniacs: Katie Ka-Boom gains these when she begins one of her famous anger-induced transformations.
• On Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Frylock's eyes glow blue before he zaps you.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Aang gets these when he's in the Avatar State. Every young Avatar gets Glowing Eyes of Doom when they enter the Avatar State before they learn to control it. However, when they master it and become full-fledged Avatars, they only need to enter it for about half a second to gather power, then they break out the ass-kicking with normal eyes. This is extremely important, because an Avatar killed while in the State breaks the cycle of reincarnation — there would never be another Avatar again. Avatar Kyoshi is shown using this method (her eyes pulse, then she bends all four elements simultaneously to move tectonic plates) during the episode "Avatar Day". Aang also uses the master method in the finale, after finally learning to control the Avatar State to keep himself from breaking his Moral Code and killing Fire Lord Ozai.
  • The Legend of Korra: Korra gets her own glowing eyes in the Season 1 finale, when she too goes into the Avatar State for the first time. It's every bit as awesome as ever.
• Gwen in Ben 10: Alien Force gets these with some uses of her powers. The pilot of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien has Ben getting the same for a moment after using Spidermonkey's Super Mode.
• Centaurworld: In "My Tummy Your Hurts" Durpleton's eyes light up sinisterly when he's about to drop Horse from the stratosphere.
• In Danny Phantom the title character can make his eyes glow green when he gets serious or angry; it's one of the effects of his ghost powers. Appropriately mocked by Vlad, the series' resident Magnificent Bastard, when Danny tries to intimidate him.
  Vlad: Ooh, the scaaaaary eyes. (fires his eye beams)
  • Danny's eyes also glow green when he gets a mischievous idea. Some notable examples include:
    • In Mystery Meat, Danny's eyes glowed after turning a dumpster partially intangible, burying Dash in meat.
    Dash: (Pokes head out from meat pile.) FENTON! A little help?
    Danny: (Looking pleased.) Whatever you say, Dash. (Looks at camera.) Whatever you say. (Danny's eyes glow green as the screen closes in on them.)
    • In Parental Bonding, Danny's eyes glowed when he got the idea to overshadow Tucker.
    Danny thinks for a moment, then smiles mischievously and flashes green eyes at Tucker.
    Tucker: No way. Forget it. Absolutely not. No!
    Scene cuts to Tucker's hand knocking on Sam's front door.
    • In Splitting Images, Danny's eyes glowed after he voiced his idea of stuffing frogs down Dash's pants. This example also doubles as Reflective Eyes.
    Danny: Or twelve. In his pants. (Looks at the box of frogs.)
    Sam: (Picks up box.) Oh, no. You're not gonna exploit innocent amphibians for some juvenile revenge scheme.
    Danny's eyes look indifferent, then glow green with mischief as frogs jump in their reflection.
• The Dragon Prince: Like his daughter, Viren eyes change color when he performs magic; only hers are white while his eyes are green.
• The eponymous robot in the DuckTales (1987) episode "Armstrong", when it becomes clear that he's turned on Scrooge.
  "I...AM...ARMSTRONG. I...AM...YOUR...''FRIEND.'"
• Final Space: Malevolent celestial entities with glowing eyes include Invictus (along with anyone or anything it possesses) who exhibits purple eyes or, in its astral form, yellow eyes; the red-eyed Werthrent; and the Lord Commander's eyes glowing yellow when he uses his powers. This trope is also common among the Titans, all of whom except for Bolo are Invictus' slaves. Subverted with Phil as part of his Obviously Evil subversion.
• Gargoyles:
  • Gargoyles develop these when angered; males's eyes glow white, while females' glow red. Originally, the writers only gave Demona the glowing red eyes of doom, but the creators thought that would be too silly to base it on evil alignment, and changed it to a natural, sexually dimorphic trait.
  • The gargoyle clones reverse this: Males have glowing red eyes and females white, though this may have more to do with being rapid-aged in tanks rather than their being clones, per se.
• In Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, Captain Black and anyone possessed by the Mysterons, their eyes will glow green either to show the viewer who's working for them, hypnotizing a victim, or ready to fight the title Captain.
• In Godzilla: The Series, Godzilla's eyes would glow a vibrant orange, in addition to blue flashes along his spine fins, whenever he used his Breath Weapon.
• Gravity Falls: The Gremloblin's eyes glow yellow when people look into them and see their worst nightmare.
• GIR in Invader Zim. His eyes are always glowing, but when he goes into Duty Mode, there's a brief flash from his eyes.
• On Jimmy Two-Shoes, this happened to Heloise once to go along with a Slasher Smile.
• Green Lantern John Stewart from Justice League has glowing green eyes as long as he's wearing his power ring — Word of God says that it's because he's been a GL for so long that it's more or less "infected" him. He's also one of the few Green Lanterns who doesn't wear a mask. A few other maskless Lanterns have this same effect.
• In the 105th episode of Kaeloo, Mr. Cat is portrayed with glowing white eyes while laughing evilly in an alternate version of the theme song.
• Metalocalypse:
  • A few episodes end with the band members' eyes glowing red, notably "Performanceklok", which ends with them watching their therapist being ripped apart by wolves.
  • Mr. Salacia's eyes glow white whenever he uses his Eldritch Abomination powers. Also, Gen. Crozier's glow any time he is being controlled by Mr. Salacia.
    "Gosh. Maybe this is weird to say, but... am I the only one who's being made to feel hungry by watching... this? "
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  • Twilight Sparkle gets these when she uses some of her more powerful spells.
  • Princess Luna also gets these when angry.
  • The Mane Six whenever they break out the Elements of Harmony.
  • Whenever Rarity uses the magic found in the Inspiration Manifestation spellbook, her eyes glow a sickly green color and she becomes more and more obsessed with making everything pretty.
  • King Sombra may just have the most-elaborate ones of all.
  • When the Kirin get mad first their eyes glow and they get GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS. Then they turn black, sprout fangs, burst into flames, and become very aggressive monsters called Niriks. Basically if you see glowing eyes it's probably a good idea to put some distance between you and them.
• The Owl House:
  • Emperor Belos has infernal glowing blue eyes through his skeleton mask, to just show how intimidating he is to the entire Boiling Isles. While unmasked, his eyes are a regular, non-glowing blue, though they lack the eye-shines the other characters have, and glow when he's particularly upset. Possessing other creatures gives them the same blue glow in their eyes, and when he's possessing a creature that no longer has eyes, a glowing blue dot manifests in the empty eyesocket.
  • Hooty gets glowing blue eyes when he falls under control of the Moonlight Conjuring in "Hooty's Moving Hassle".
• ReBoot:
  • when Matrix's bionic eye spins around and glows red, you know something is either going to blow up or die. Even when he doesn't get to shoot something, he obviously wants to.
  • Hexadecimal's eyes are always like this except for the time she became a sprite.
• The Minions of Set from Samurai Jack have bright blue glowing eyes. They also happen to be super strong, super fast, nigh-invulnerable juggernauts that simply cannot be defeated by normal mortal methods, even with enchanted holy weapons like Jack's sword.
• On The Secret Saturdays, Zak Saturday's eyes glow yellow-orange whenever he uses his cryptid-controlling powers. His antimatter counterpart Zak Monday bears a bright green glow.
• In Silver Surfer: The Animated Series, Galactus' eyes glow brightly. So does his mouth when it opens.
• Spawn in the HBO animated series. That's pretty much ALL you see of his face most of the time. Also Clown/Violator.
• In Static Shock, many Bang Babies, good or bad, have glowing eyes while using their powers. The protagonist's eyes don't glow, but they do have sparks flying in them.
• M. Bison from Street Fighter while explaining that he does not whine about it! Well, he did state that he got his power from a God of Evil.
• Tangled: The Series: In "Painter's Block", whoever Sugarby puts under her spell will have glowing white eyes.
• Pretty common in Teen Titans:
  • When animated Starfire's eyes go from green with green-tinted whites to solid, glowing green, you don't want to be in her way. And once she gets Eye Beams, this happens whenever they're used. (Comicverse Starfire's eyes are always solid green.)
  • Raven's eyes generally glow solid white when she's using her powers. And if her eyes ever start glowing solid red, it's advisable to run. Especially when they split from two into four. But then, it's probably already too late if that's happened. (Happened in "Aftershock", in season two, without recourse to the Season Four Arc.)
  • Terra's eyes glow bright yellow when she's pissed or can't control her powers.
  • Trigon has red eyes that glow constantly, Brother Blood's eyes glow red when he uses any of his powers, Blackfire's eyes are purple and glow when she's angry or charging up a starbolt, and Jinx's glow pinkish-purple.
• Transformers:
  • The Transformers: Megatron's red eyes glow fiercely whenever he's being particularly malevolent.
  • Although most of the Transformers in Beast Wars have glowing eyes, Dinobot's normally red eyes shine bright green when he's charging up his Eye Beams. On top of that, they blink by having the lights switch off and then back on, while the actual physical eyes don't close.
• In Wakfu, Qilby's eyes gain an eerie glow after he merges with the Eliacube.
• X-Men: The Animated Series: Animated Cable's left eye glows white when using his telekinesis (or at dramatically appropriate moments) and red when using his cybernetically enhanced vision.

Real Life

• While not strictly a glow, the Eyeshine caused by the Tapetum lucidum in nocturnal animals is often regarded as disquieting. Experienced outdoorsmen can often identify a creature by the colour of the eyes peering at them in the darkness, with the greenish-gold of big cats and coyotes, and the distinctive yellow of wolves and bears more than living up to the trope.

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