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* Sumire from ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'' has cross-shaped pupils along with [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] while in her Berseker state.

* Used by Evangeline A.K. McDowell of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' whenever she taps into her vampiric powers: the pupils slit, the sclera turns black and the iris starts to glow yellow. Interestingly enough she only does this AFTER she relinquishes her antagonistic role, for such purposes as [[Right Behind Me|scaring the shit out of Anya]] for the lulz.

* Used by certain of the Aoyama girls in ''[[Love Hina]]'', typically right before doing something violent/evil. Happens somewhere around Chapter 70.

* In ''[[Kuroko no Basuke]]'', the former captain of the Generation of Miracles, Akashi, has these.

 

* [[The DCU]]'s [[The Spectre|Spectre]] sometimes manifests images of skulls where his pupils should be, terrifying those who see him face-to-face.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Super Sonic]], the resident [[Omnicidal Maniac]] in ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' had red spirals instead of pupils. In some stories they seemed to reflect his demeanour; when he was at the peak of his evil powers the spirals were large enough to fill his eyes, but when he was good they shrank noticeably.

* Dodge from [[Locke and Key]] gets these sometimes.

 

* In ''[[Suur Toll]]'', Vanatühi the devil has three red iris pupils.

 

* In ''[http://copperbadge.fanficauthors.net/Cartographers_Craft/index/ The Cartographer's Craft]'', Peter Pettigrew performs a ritual to immensely increase his power, and his eyes are afterwards described as "yellow, with cross-shaped pupils; a goat's eyes."

* Nyx in ''[[Past Sins]]'', inherited from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Nightmare Moon]]. Who she is. Kind of.

 

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|The]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Master]] [[Rule of Cool|in]] [[Rule of Scary|the]] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[The Movie|movie.]] The last time we saw him in the series, he was fighting off the effects of turning into a cat-like creature with the same result.

* Megumi the [[wikipedia:Yurei|Yurei]] spirit does this in the [[Foreign Remake|American version]] of ''[[Shutter]]'', she has a scene where her eyes widen and her pupils go inhumanly small. Very creepy effect.

* An eye with Hellish Pupils appears in the trailer for ''[[Battleship (film)|Battleship]]''.

 

* The mage Raistlin from the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''-derived ''[[Dragonlance]] Saga'' has pupils shaped like hourglasses, a side effect of a [[Blessed with Suck|magical talent]] he received when young.

** Naturally, Raistlin has [[Eyes of Gold]], too.

* ''[[Good Omens]]:'' [[Noble Demon|A. J. Crowley]] has yellow, snake-like eyes (six thousand years ago he ''was'' a snake, hence the fact that he occasionally hisses, doesn't blink much, and can do 'odd things' with his tongue), hence his [[Cool Shades]]. Crowley is a demon who lives in a fantastic London flat, designed the M25 railway as one of his most evil deeds, and drives a Bentley. His shades are pretty damn cool.

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]:'' Voldemort has slit-pupiled, red eyes.

* All [[The Witcher|Witchers]] gain catlike eyes during their mutation. This enables them to see in the dark, but also makes them distinctly more badass.

** And, coincidentally, in bright light as well (Pointed out in-text, when Geralt's pupils turned into thin slits, giving him an advantage in a fight). A cat's eye not only looks cooler, it's simply more awesome.

*** We don't know anything about what he looked like when he took vampire/werewolf/elf form. Presumably something like [http://images.allposters.com/images/MMPH/248282.jpg this].

 

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': Members of Species 8472, one of Trek's few completely non-humanoid alien races, have cross-shaped eyes. How nasty are they? The ''Borg'' are terrified of them.

* The Silicates (AIs) of ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' also had crosshair eyes.

* The Wraith of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' have both the slitted pupils and the yellow iris. And they are pretty creepy. Well, at first.

 

* Virgil describes Charon as having eyes "like hollow furnaces on fire."

 

* [[The Muppet Show|Kermit the Frog]] obviously isn't evil (except for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5--UrlQu4 in the last sketch here]), but that doesn't stop him from having these kind of eyes.

** And no, they're not like real frog eyes, unless there's some particular frog species with weird eyes.

*** They may not look exactly like Kermit's eyes, but [http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=frog%20photograph&order=9&offset=96&offset=144#/d34fbz1 there are]. Frog eyes can get pretty strange as they often have ''horizontal'' pupils and are the same colors as the rest of the frog's face.

 

* One piece of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' art depicts a pair of eyes with the [[Eldritch Abomination|eight]]-[[The Corruption|pointed]] [[Big Bad|star]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|of]] [[Religion of Evil|Chaos]] for pupils. As a general rule: if you are in the Warhammer world and you see someone with those symbols in their eyes looking at you, it may be time to take a long vacation. And it's probably best if you don't stop to pack.

* Urik von Kharkov, a ''[[Ravenloft]]'' darklord who can change into a panther, develops slitted pupils when he gets angry.

 

* When Chris gets possessed by Orochi in ''[[The King of Fighters]] '97'', his eyes become slitted and yellow; however, this only part of the transformation.

** Goenitz also gets slitted pupils before fighting in ''The King of Fighters '96''; and in the Neo-Geo pocket games, the Heavenly King version of Yashiro and Chris also have these kind of eyes. Sheremie? [[Hidden Eyes|Who knows]].

* Beckett from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' has slitted cat pupils and eyes that are ''completely'' red—a side-effect of his vampire clan. He is, however, neither a villain, trouble, nor particularly sinister—the worst he'll do is [[Deadpan Snarker|be sarcastic at you]].

** Minamimoto's eyes, on the other hand, are constantly yellow and catlike—his form is Leo Cantus.

* Albert Wesker's cat eyes in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series, first seen in ''Code Veronica''. Possible [[Shout-Out]] to [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Thriller''.

* If you pay close attention to the skits in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' you'll notice that Presea's pupils are black while the pupils of the rest of the cast are white. She's not evil though.

* Mephiles' eyes after taking on the shape of Shadow the Hedgehog in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]''. Despite this combined with [[No Mouth|him not having a mouth]] and his evil-sounding voice, Silver doesn't seem suspicious in the slightest during their first meeting.

* ''[[Touhou|Touhou Project]]'' offer Nue, who's missing her pupils almost entirely (they're just darker red spots). Despite ZUN being famously bad at character art, he does normally color eyes correctly, so much of the fandom accepts this as intentional.

 

** Gilgamesh from the same game has slitted pupils, apparently just to make him look more threatening.

** So does Lancer; it might be Fate-continuity shorthand for marking out someone who's got {{spoiler|divine ancestry - Lancer is Cu Chulainn ergo his dad is the god Lugh, and Gilgamesh WOULD be two-thirds divine (not sure how that one works...). but he's had his godly-rating dinged by the fact that ''he really doesn't like the gods very much'' and is thus is usual - er - [[Jerkass|charming]] self at them.}}

*** And she has box pupils in Shirou's dreams. {{spoiler|As does Rider under her mask. [[Fridge Horror|This isn't a coincidence]].}}

 

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'': Jigsaw's pupils and irises turn red, with the whites replaced by black, when she really loses her temper. It's one of the signs that she's a vampire, and her powers seem to get a significant boost when it happens. It's not something she wants people to see, though - she's trying to keep the fact that she's a vampire under wraps.

* [[Byronic Hero|Vriska Serket]] from ''[[Homestuck]]'' has one normal eye and one eye with seven pupils, though she considers them to be seven different eyes. It fits the "hellish" part perfectly, since she's the [[Token Evil Teammate]] (and considering [[Crapsack World|where she lives]] and [[Our Trolls Are Different|who her]] [[Jerkass|teammates are]], that's really saying something!) It also fits her "eight" [[Numerological Motif]].

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', the transformation from normal pupils to this is used [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-17 here] to signal the beginning of Grace's (almost) [[Unstoppable Rage]].

* Most [[Hell Hound|Hellhounds]] in ''[[Wurr (Webcomic)|Wurr]]'' spot these. [[Dark Is Not Evil|They are nicer than they look.]]

 

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', [[Lady of Black Magic|Shyralis]] has snake-like slitted eyes, and this disturbing appearance is part of the reason why she was bullied as a kid.

* In ''[[Spin-Off|More]] [[Tales of MU]]'', a dragon is described as having "jagged diagonal pupils".

* Tetras from ''[[The Motley Two]]'', a descendant of ''Homestuck'''s Vriska Serket described above, has four pupils in total (three in the left eye). Her [[Numerological Motif]] is, of course, four.

 

* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', the symbol of the AI antagonist XANA is a stylized eye. Humans and animals possessed by XANA have their pupils replaced by this symbol. (It also appears somewhere on all of XANA's monsters in the [[Cyberspace|virtual world]], usually as a [[Attack Its Weak Point|weak spot]].)

* The version of Adrian Toomes (A.K.A. the Vulture) seen on ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has comma-shaped pupils, which look particularly odd when he's out of costume.

** Maybe they help her see in the dark?

 

* [[Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods|Cuttlefish]] have W-shaped pupils that sense polarization rather than color. As for "channeling something nasty"... [http://xkcd.com/520/ KiLL ThE PhYsIcIsTs].

* Goats have rectangular pupils. Creepy, rectangular pupils.

 

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