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| - It's said that eyes are the window to the soul, and in fiction, their color is often the first way to hint at a character's true nature. In particular, characters who have gold and yellow-colored eyes tend to have some form of supernatural origin or powers that place them above normal humans and very often have an animalistic side to them. In the real world, several creatures have this eye color -- ducks (you read right), wolves, foxes, owls, cheetahs (though their eyes are most commonly copper or light brown), lions, domestic cats, bearded dragons, and quite a few others. Humans can also possess this eye color, though it is rare, or at least very uncommon.
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| - It's said that eyes are the window to the soul, and in fiction, their color is often the first way to hint at a character's true nature. In particular, characters who have gold and yellow-colored eyes tend to have some form of supernatural origin or powers that place them above normal humans and very often have an animalistic side to them. In the real world, several creatures have this eye color -- ducks (you read right), wolves, foxes, owls, cheetahs (though their eyes are most commonly copper or light brown), lions, domestic cats, bearded dragons, and quite a few others. Humans can also possess this eye color, though it is rare, or at least very uncommon. In the West, this also tends to be shown with characters who have feline or lupine traits, so, understandably, they're often accompanied by werewolf-like powers. In Japan, this probably traces back to legends of Kitsune (foxes) and their naturally golden eyes. It was said that a human possessed by a fox would gain gold eyes, and that a child born to a fox and a human would possess them as well. Because kitsune were also shapeshifters, this often shows up when characters change their forms. It is also found around the world in many other contexts: in tales of Genies, witches, and other mythological beings, where they cannot hide their golden or two-tone eye-colors in animal form. In the sorting algorithm of "Uh-Oh Eyes", gold eyes fall one step below Red Eyes, Take Warning, since it's entirely possible for the character to just be a Trickster rather than evil. Gold eyes are also harder to distinguish from "normal" colored-eyes, and hence can add more of an element of surprise if The Reveal shows a character to be something other than what they initially appear to be. They're also sometimes indicative of having a Super-Powered Evil Side. A subtrope of Technicolor Eyes and Common Eye Colors. If paired with Hair of Gold, Blondes Are Evil, Blond Guys Are Evil, or Dumb Blonde, it becomes a case of Curtains Match the Window. May overlap with Dark-Skinned Redhead. It should be noted that these eye color tropes are not just for characters who have eyes of this color, but when the color actually stands for something significant to that character, like blue for water, green for earth, red for evil, ect. Please do not add characters who just happen to have eyes of this color without a substantial reason behind it. Examples of Eyes of Gold include:
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