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Whether a permanent indication of malevolence, the emergence of the Superpowered Evil Side, or perhaps the result of a Berserk Button or Rant-Inducing Slight, 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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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.

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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,

when Athena has to come down from the heavens to stop Achilles from killing Agamemnon. The West Virginia crypid Mothman's eyes are legendarily red, and often the only thing the witness will see (and sometimes be hypnotized by).

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

Tabletop Games

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.

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.

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 would gain glowing eyes whenever they used 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 also has the "Fiery Eyes" spell, which makes the caster's eyes glow with an unnatural fire.

In the Palladium Fantasy RPG, a character could be "cursed" with glowing red eyes, which actually give him increased stats for the purposes of intimidation.

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.

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.

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).

* 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.

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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.

. Also, Morgan Fey tends to do this when she gets angry. 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.

. Figure out the 'of doom' part. 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.

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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.

Haiku Melon from Banana-nana-Ninja! has eyes that glow orange when he's about to unleash Psychic Watermelon Powers.

Hyperboy: The Hypersuit .

. 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!!

, 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. 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 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.

Chicken and Moose: The titular Chicken sometimes has these, usually coupled with bursts of frightening lucidity.

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