Basic Trope: Blue eyes used to emphasize a character's innocence or naivete.
- Straight: Alice is The Ingenue and is noted to have wide, trusting, innocent blue eyes.
- Exaggerated: Alice is a
Purity Sue with the most beautiful blue eyes in the world. - Downplayed:
- Alice is noted to have blue eyes, and is just a bit more naive than everyone else.
- Alice has blue eyes and is the villain, but is fairly polite and friendly.
- Alice is the most innocent of the group, but her eyes aren’t blue, but they are a color that is mixed with blue, like green, purple or indigo.
- Alice is commonly depicted with blue eyes in promotional material and fanart, but in the actual story she lacks them.
- Justified: Blue-eyed children are rare in the setting and seen as precious, so they are sheltered growing up.
- Inverted:
- Alice has red eyes.
- The irredeemable Lord Bloodstone has blue eyes.
- Emperor Evulz is a Villain with Good Publicity whose blue eyes make people believe he’s good.
- Subverted:
- Alice is actually a villain.
- Alice is wearing colored contacts.
- Alice is more jaded and cynical than she initially appears.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice may be evil, but she's still the most trusting and naive of the villains.
- Those colored contacts actually turn out to be not that far from her original eye color, which is more of a blue-green.
- Alice Took a Level in Idealism, and ends the story as one of the most idealistic characters.
- Parodied: Whenever Alice widens her eyes and bats her lashes, Love Bubbles and Woodland Creatures appear around her.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No one has blue eyes.
- Eye color doesn't particularly signify innocence.
- Enforced: "We need a way to show Alice is innocent" "Give her blue eyes"
- Lampshaded: "Your blue eyes are so sweet-looking!"
- Invoked:
- Alice's mother is a pious blue-eyed woman who wanted to raise a pure-looking daughter, so she made sure Alice's father had blue eyes so Alice would inherit them.
- Alice is The Ingenue, but gets blue contacts to look more innocent.
- Exploited: Alice uses her blue eyes to look innocent and unassuming to lure someone into a false sense of complacency. Then she murders them!
- Defied: Alice refuses to act innocent or goody-goody just because of her eye color.
- Discussed: "Your eyes are so blue, just like the naive heroines in movies!"
- Conversed: "You ever wonder why the naive ones always have blue eyes?"
- Implied: Alice is The Ingenue but her eye color is never described. Her parents both have blue eyes, however.
- Played For Laughs: Alice gets out of all kinds of ridiculous trouble just by widening her eyes slightly.
- Played For Drama: Alice goes through a Trauma Conga Line. At first, the hopefulness in her blue eyes is emphasized. By the end, it's noted that there's no joy or innocence left in her blue eyes.
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