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Lack of pupils, and customary light reflection; iris shading goes from the usual radial to gradient; eyelids drop. Yep, this character is suffering from the "Empty Eyes" trope, a condition denoting that the character is dying, dead, distracted, shocked, traumatized, mind-controlled, broken, in a state of Tranquil Fury, completely insane, or some combination of the above.
Due to the condition of shock causing the eyes to dilate, realistic live action will never have this unless the producers don't know better. Could be a way to show someone is so shocked they haven't blinked for a while, because the tears that accumulate would make the eyes more reflective and the pupils harder to see. Pushed for effect in Break the Cutie scenarios.
Sister trope of Prophet Eyes, and the two may coincide as repeated trauma could give someone a Disability Superpower.
Subtrope of Reflectionless Useless Eyes. Compare Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, Thousand-Yard Stare, Mind-Control Eyes, Heroic BSoD and Angst Coma.
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The page image is Michael Kappel of Collar 6, deep in the midst of a Heroic BSoD after his parents were killed by Unfriendly Fire.
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Wonder Woman (1987): When Artemis dies, her jade green eyes go flat, losing all highlights and shading, to indicate that she is really gone.
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The track "Riding Tigers" on Desperate Straights by Slapp Happy goes "An empty gaze/Sitting like that for days."
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Kishou Arima from Tokyo Ghoul, which combined with his Scary Shiny Glasses, makes him look quite intimidating. This detail turns out to be significant, as it hints towards him being partially blind and a Death Seeker.
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Gadget Trial: The titular trial is pitting two families of E-Series cyborg girl soldiers against each other to see which is better. Contrasting the protagonist White family, are the E-Series Black who are programmed for perfect obedience, lack of character and minimal self-awareness. Gleamless eyes and stiff expressions come with it.
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In all A Certain Magical Index media except for the anime adaptation of A Certain Scientific Railgun, the Sisters (Hive Mind clones of Misaka Mikoto with dulled emotions) are drawn with Empty Eyes to distinguish them from the original. The exception is Last Order, a "network administrator" Sister who is already easy to distinguish from Mikoto by virtue of being a Token Mini-Moe Genki Girl.
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The Last Unicorn:
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In Umineko: When They Cry, Clair Vaux Bernard always has these eyes, representative of her status as merely Yasu's storyteller, unable to interfere with anything that actually occurs within the story she tells.
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Tapiseri Soujourn: While burning down the village, Caleb has empty, crazed eyes.
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Naruto: When Sasuke Uchiha impales Karin in order to kill Danzo, the iris of his right eye is shown as being filled with black scribbles to show how far he's succumbed to the Uchiha Clan's Curse of Hatred.
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In Genocide Man, all of the Genocide Men have cold, dead stares (represented in the art by blank white eyes) due to the lifetime of horrors they've each seen and committed. One character actually thought the eyes were cybernetic, because she didn't believe that human eyes could look like that.
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Yandere Simulator: One of the signs that Ayano has become "visibly insane" is that her eyes go blank. This is fitting, because her true nature is that she's close to emotionless, with what emotions she does have reserved for love for her Senpai and hatred for her rivals. Word of God says that being visibly insane is less her actually going crazy (since she already is), but more her insanity becoming more apparent to onlookers. So, it's only fitting that her eyes go blank when this happens.
Ayano can also torture someone into becoming an Empty Shell. Once the process is over, they'll have these.
Shiromi also has these. In her case, it's to show how odd she is, and not linked to craziness.
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In Assassination Classroom Karma alone in class E lacks eyeshine in his design. Coupled with them being drawn a bit wider, it makes him look a little unhinged compared to the others. Given that a lot of his attitude is from being let down horribly by a teacher he once respected, there's definitely a sign of being broken there.
This may also be due to his psychopathic and manipulative behavior, since his eyes apparently have always lacked the shine. But that doesn't erase the fact that the incident about how his teacher betrayed him in favor for maintaining images instead of doing the right thing destroyed Karma.
Both Asanos have this as well.
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In Oblivion, this is a trait of Scamps, the weakest and smallest known form of lesser Daedra. Other games have variously given them red eyes or Black Eyes of Evil.
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In Alice Isn't Dead, the eyes of the narrator's soon-to-be stalker The Thistle Man are described as "...flat. Like a bad painting of a face," shortly before he deliberately reveals himself as a Humanoid Abomination.
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Halloween (1978) had Dr. Loomis describe Michael as having "the blackest eyes. The Devil's eyes." This was back when he was a little boy having just murdered his sister, and he would only get worse from there.
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In Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger, Hols' Super Mode has blank, angry eyes, indicating that after seeing red, no amount of looking at anything else can stop him.
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Robin (1993): Lady Shiva stops Robin from going after Clyde Rawlins when he goes to what Tim knows it the man's certain death by pointing out that a look in his eyes should tell Tim that regardless of physical health Rawlins died with his family and there's no way to stop him going after their murderer even if he has no chance at avenging them or survival.
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Characters in Homestuck who are dead gain completely blank eyes if they are seen in Dream Bubbles afterward. It doesn't affect their personality or eyesight, though. Andrew Hussie's Author Avatar also had empty eyes even before his in-comic death. Whether that is significant or not remains to be seen.
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In Kemono Friends, empty eyes are used to represent Friends born from endangered or extinct animal species like Crested Ibis.
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Higurashi: When They Cry
Used when Rika is found dead by the others.
Given to Rena at the height of her insanity during the Atonement Arc, same with Shion during hers, it comes and goes.
Satoko gets these at any time when her Evil Uncle is around and subjecting her to abuse. It's a sign that she's found the courage to stand up to him when her pupils and highlights come back.
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In A Wrinkle in Time, Charles Wallace's pupils constrict completely, leaving only empty blue irises.
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Azumanga Daioh: Sometimes invoked by Sakaki, particularly when she's either daydreaming, or when she's suffering from Cuteness Overload.
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A Moth to a Flame: Marcy gains these after coming out of the Healing Vat, symbolizing her complete Innocence Lost after Gaining the Will to Kill.
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The Owl House: Under his golden mask, Emperor Belos looks remarkably normal, save for the rotting scar across his face... and the fact that, unlike every other character in the show, his eyes have no shine to them, underscoring his nature as The Sociopath.
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Wights, the main antagonists of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, can only be differentiated from Peculiars and normals by their lack of pupils. Granted, there are plenty of ways for them to hide this.
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Junko was depicted like this in the spin-off manga Visionary Fairies in Shrine, with dull irises, tiny pupils and an empty smile. In her case it's justified because she's less a person and more a vengeful spirit, the purified embodiment of a woman's grudge against those who killed her son.
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My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps!: Both Haruka and Kisaki are often drawn with black iris, to represent how bored (Haruka) or obsessive (Kisaki) they are. In both cases, those empty eyes are what push them to enter in a relationship with the other.
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Used to imply mind control in Heart of Empire, or the Legacy of Luther Arkwright.
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Steven Universe: In "Mirror Gem", Steven frees Lapis Lazuli from her imprisonment in a mirror, but the gem on her back is still cracked and her eyes have no irises. In the next episode, Steven heals her gem and she regains both her irises and her ability to create water-based wings for herself.
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Happens to Takiko in Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, after Genbu devours her soul.
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Sengoku Youko: Senya is drawn with pupil-less irises that resemble black scribbles, and prior to his Heel–Face Turn he was stated to have eyes devoid of everything except murderous intent.
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Death Note: Happens with Kiyomi Takada and Naomi Misora under the influence of the Death Note; arguably a case of Mind-Control Eyes, as well.
Inverted with L, whose eyes only become shiny and reflective when he dies
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The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal: As the mermaid princess Ela's addiction to seafood worsens, she's drawn with solid black irises both when despairing over her growing desire to eat her friends and when she lets her Killing Intent come to the surface.
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In the manga's "Infinity Arc," this is used to demonstrate that Saturn has awakened, and Hotaru's no longer in control. In the anime's equivalent season, this is occasionally used when someone besides Hotaru is "behind the wheel," though it prefers to combine Glowing Eyes of Doom and Red Eyes, Take Warning.
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Shimoneta: Exhibited by Oboro in chapter 10. Tanukichi mistakes Oboro for a member of Gathered Fabric and wrestles him to the floor, which is when Tanukichi realizes something is "off" and uses his foot to confirm his suspicions. The inspection causes Oboro to silently arch his back as he experiences his first orgasm. After which, he's seen smiling with a faint blush.
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This is what happens to anyone who befell the titular curse in Bloody Parrot, notably on the hero's Hooker with a Heart of Gold girlfriend. It's depicted on the film's poster, too.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: When unmasked as the Phantom, Bobby Fulbright loses the light in his eyes.
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In Heat Guy J, this is how Clair is first introduced at his dad's funeral, before he throws a grenade at his father's grave. It happens to him later in the series, when he goes into an Angst Coma, and when he comes out of the coma to rescue his bodyguard/friend Giovanni from the titular J.
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"Beast Changer" (Savage/Noble) from the Beast Machines line had literally empty eyes in his Noble mode. Some think that this was a deliberate decision,note To show that he was in reality a waste of organic material possessed by the soul of Megatron? Or foreshadowing to him becoming a "soulless" yet still living body later on? His bio on the packaging surely kept these reveals under tight wraps. others say that the toy was simply released incomplete — at any rate, Noble had normal eyes in the TV series.
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The Elder Scrolls
Throughout the series, this is a trait of some Vampire bloodlines. Their eyes are a pale white with no irises or pupils. Others have Black Eyes of Evil, while others still have Super Natural Gold Eyes. (It's implied that they may all have these glowing gold eyes, but only beings with divine souls, such as the Dragonborn of Skyrim, can actually see them.)
In Oblivion, this is a trait of Scamps, the weakest and smallest known form of lesser Daedra. Other games have variously given them red eyes or Black Eyes of Evil.
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In Fate/Zero, both the protagonist Kiritsugu Emiya and the antagonist Kirei Kotomine constantly have empty eyes.
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The fan-made anime Fantasy Kaleidoscope gives this to Yuyuko, who falls under the "dead" distinction by virtue of being a Cute Ghost Girl.
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Italy temporarily gained the traumatized type in Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità. After Germany pulled out a Browning Hi Power on Japan and Japan pulled out his katana on Germany, Italy had had enough of their cock fight.
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Touhou Project:
Giving Koishi Komeiji these was common in fanart even before it became official as of Touhou Shinkirou ~ Hopeless Masquerade. The reason why is a very odd combination of the potential uses of this trope - yes, she's air-headed, but more significantly Koishi is a former mind-reader who, after being reviled for her powers, sealed away her own ability. As a side effect she lost the ability to read her own mind, so she's more or less an Empty Shell with a complete Lack of Empathy, wandering around and acting on her unconscious impulses. She's either insane or close to enlightenment, depending on who you ask.
Junko was depicted like this in the spin-off manga Visionary Fairies in Shrine, with dull irises, tiny pupils and an empty smile. In her case it's justified because she's less a person and more a vengeful spirit, the purified embodiment of a woman's grudge against those who killed her son.
The fan-made anime Fantasy Kaleidoscope gives this to Yuyuko, who falls under the "dead" distinction by virtue of being a Cute Ghost Girl.
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In Skip Beat!, Kyoko gets these more and more as the message of her mother mentioning on TV that she has no children settles in.
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In Questionable Content, Hannelore's eyes go flat when she is avoiding engaging with a police officer.
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades: The manga and the anime both depict Oliver's eyes going empty when Darius Grenville begs for Oliver to finish him off, as a visual version of what the original novel described as, "The moment Oliver heard those words, all his rising emotions felt as if they were being sucked down into a bottomless void."
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Dark Arle in Puyo Puyo 7 has these, when under control of Ecolo.
As well as Yu, but mostly because she's a cheerful ghost. Probably her brother Rei too, but he hides his eyes with bangs.
Dapper Bones, too. At least, in the one eye he has left, anyway. (The other falling under Glowing Eyelights of Undeath.)
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Jaws had Quint's memorable quote about how a shark's eyes look like a doll's eyes - cold and empty.
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Ava's Demon: Implied regarding Odin's sociopathic brother Olai. He's drawn with ordinary pupils, but...
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Doki Doki Literature Club!: You wouldn't think this would come up that way in such a cheery-sounding game, but it applies to more than one character when they're dead. In one case, they even start out like this but their normal colour, but turn greyer as time passes after the character's death.
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The Hunger Games: Effie Trinket. Katniss notes how Effie has a "vacant look" in her eyes in Mockingjay due to the torture she suffered while being held prisoner by the Capitol.
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After the climax of Sailor Moon S, Usagi emerges from her battle against Pharaoh 90 with blank, horrified eyes.
In the manga's "Infinity Arc," this is used to demonstrate that Saturn has awakened, and Hotaru's no longer in control. In the anime's equivalent season, this is occasionally used when someone besides Hotaru is "behind the wheel," though it prefers to combine Glowing Eyes of Doom and Red Eyes, Take Warning.
In Act 2 of Sailor Moon Crystal, a Brainwashed Ami's eyes go from a deep sea blue to a matte, dull deep green with dilated, obscured pupils under the influence of the Crystal Disk, a magical CD meant to enslave the user, disguised as a Cram School study aid.
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Dino Attack RPG:
Most Mutant Dinos and Quasifigus Hybrids have blank white eyes.
After being attacked by a Mutant Raptor, Greybeard's scarred eye appears washed-out in color in comparison to his other eye. He was also nearly blind in that eye.
When Rex's body was possessed by Baron Typhonus, his eyes turned blank white.
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The Fruit of Grisaia: In her bad ending Michiru gets these, after her attempted suicide leaves her with permanent brain damage, all but dead inside.
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The Sacred and the Profane: The eyes of the Fallen Angel Zirah, aka Mr. Rah, are as bright, blue, and depthlessly empty as the sky. He's the sort of being who honestly does not understand why one shouldn't kill a baby simply because it's the most expedient way to stop it from crying.
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In Act 2 of Sailor Moon Crystal, a Brainwashed Ami's eyes go from a deep sea blue to a matte, dull deep green with dilated, obscured pupils under the influence of the Crystal Disk, a magical CD meant to enslave the user, disguised as a Cram School study aid.
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