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Kaleidoscope Eyes

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Some characters have a range of eye colors that change for no reason.
Minor sight gags such as Blank White Eyes don't count and neither do contacts. The latter would be Eye Colour Change in Real Life, because there's a reason behind it.
Sister Trope to Eye Colour Change; this trope may be subverted into that if a reason for the changes is revealed. Not to be confused with Technicolor Eyes, where the eyes are just different from the humanly possible.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Kaleidoscope Eyes apply when the author clearly intends for the eye color to change in-universe, instead of having something like the lighting alter their perceived color. That would be Inconsistent Coloring.
The use of this trope usually adds a bit of mystery to a character or a world because something weird happens without clear explanation, usually occurring in settings with magical elements.
Compare and contrast Wingding Eyes, where the eyes have pupils that are symbols.
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C Me Dance: The Devil's eyes inexplicably change from red to brown to white.
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Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv): Misa's eyes: Blue, brown, blue, brown, blue, brown... Then Living Mood Ring-type Eye Colour Change: RED!!!
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City of Bones by Martha Wells: The Krismen, a Bio Augmented human offshoot, have eyes that continually shift through a range of colours. It overlaps with Living Mood Ring-type Eye Colour Change as physical distress and some strong emotional states can provoke specific reactions.
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Yandere Simulator: Mai Waifu's eyes change between many different colors, but they have a consistent timing and pattern that they go through. If setting "green" as the first color, the pattern starts on green, then goes through blue, purple, red, yellow, then back to green. If you dismember her head, the colors stop changing and become pink, causing Curtains Match the Window.
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New Jedi Order, from the Star Wars Expanded Universe: Yuuzhan Vong Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane has these, due to mqaaq'it implants.
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Homestuck: Played with using "eyes" that aren't actually organic spheres of visual perception. The Eldritch Abomination Lord English's eyes are pool balls that rapidly flicker through all the different colours. In the final act, they stall on a pair of eight balls when his Complete Immortality is negated and he's about to be killed.
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The cute French vampire from Innocent Blood has literal kaleidoscope eyes that go all swirly with different colors when she's aroused/in full vamp mode.
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Door of Neverwhere has "fire-opal" eyes of ever-changing/unclassifiable colour.
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Codex Alera: Alera, a Physical God has eyes that cycle through just about every color imaginable.
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The Sandman Endless Nights: With the Eternal who was previously Delight:
Delight's eyes change from green to blue during her brief appearance. This was probably the norm for her, before she turned into Delirium and acquired her present heterochromia.
Delirium: After her change of status from being Delight, it's subverted: While the rest of Delirium is highly mutable owing to her nature, her eyes are almost always the same. They only change when she briefly pulls herself together to help Dream, both eyes becoming the same color to represent her temporary sanity.
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: In extreme close-ups, Catherine Bloom has eyes that appear to shimmer, changing color constantly.
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Magnus's remaining eye is a different color every time it's mentioned in A Thousand Sons.
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Girl Genius:
The eyes of Feetmen ("zuper-engineered sqvirrels or zumting") sometimes are white and sometimes green.
In "Fanfiction" sidestory where a teenage girl is telling her younger siblings the stories of the Heterodynes and inserts her Author Avatar.
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Death Note: Misa Amane, whose eyes change from brown to blue to even green in one instance. There is no mention of why this occurs, though the circumstances where her eyes switch from their natural brown imply that she wears the contacts for idol-related work.
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Cyberpunk 2020, as well as presumably other systems with a similar setting, includes colorshifting as a decorative option for cyberoptics, aka artificial eyes.
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Furious Tide of Light, a sorceress from the Garrett, P.I. series, has eyes that have changed color practically every time Garrett looks at her.
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Katteni Kaizo: The main characters seem to swap between brown, green and blue eyes every episode.
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Ensign Sue Must Die: It's a Star Trek Parody Sue comic, and the title character has eyes that change color in every strip along with her hair highlights and beauty mark, but In-Universe happens at random times. This gets lampshaded in the eighth strip, when Ensign Sue narrates her own actions, 'limpid blue' eyes gets crossed out and replaced with 'stunning violet' eyes.
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Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls: Yagyuu Jubei's eyes randomly turn into Supernatural Gold Eyes.
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Eighth Doctor Adventures:
The Doctor apparently has eyes like this, although they're usually blue (and the descriptions aren't usually this overwrought).
Also, Fitz's eyes are almost always grey, but are inexplicably described as blue shortly after he's introduced. To be fair, grey and blue are a lot alike. Sabbath's eyes can be brown, green, or black.
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Bloody Urban: Cherry, one of the Renfields has eyes that can be blue, brown, one of each, or both at the same time at any given point.
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Wynne in Beansidhe's Wail is said to have eyes that change from "pale grey, to sky blue, to sea green, to violet to silver."
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The Camp Half-Blood Series: Applies to Aphrodite due to her constant shifting to multiple people the viewer finds attractive. Her daughter Piper is described as heaving these sort of eyes.
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In the Jason Bourne series, the titular character has eyes that mildly change color depending on the clothes he wears.
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The Witches: Among other Red Right Hand features, the titular malevolent Witch Species has colour-changing pupils where a very careful viewer can see fire and ice dancing in the centre.
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Charlie Bone in the Children of the Red King series has a "cousin" who can do this. She is, in fact, a very old shapeshifter and her eyes can't remember what color they are supposed to be. In the story it is unnerving to other characters and is treated more as a Glamour Failure.
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Haruhi Suzumiya: The amateur film has this happen In-Universe to one of Mikuru's eyes. The second novel explains this as Haruhi putting in different contact lenses every day they shoot the film. It turns out this actually causes Mikuru to fire something from her eyes depending on the color of the lens, from ultraviolet lasers to micro-black holes to rifle bullets.
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