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Mismatched Eyes can refer to:
- Comically Cross-Eyed / Fish Eyes: Eyes looking in different directions.
- Creepy Asymmetry: When mismatched eyes are used as a Red Right Hand or other indicator that something is wrong with the character.
- Duality Motif: Differently colored eyes foreshadow/reinforce a dual nature about the character.
- Electronic Eyes: One eye is cybernetic.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Unusual pupils or iris shapes.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: When mismatched eyes are used as a fashion statement, usually via contacts or other ways to gain them voluntarily.
- Glass Eye: One of their eyes is a prosthesis.
- Mad Eye: One of the eyes is considerably weirder.
- Magical Eye: One eye grants them magical powers.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Marks the character as special in some way, whether as magical, nonhuman, or something else entirely.
- Mismatched Eyes of Madness: When heterochromatic eyes are used as a sign that the character isn't sane, or is otherwise highly whimsical.
- Patchwork Kids: When the patchworking of parents' features to make their kid, is with the eyes, instead of some other part of the body.
- Real Life: Heterochromia iridum
Bear in mind that while healthy individuals can have this, such as star baseball pitcher Max Scherzer◊, it is often a sign of medical conditions. Interestingly this does not necessarily mean vision problems. In fact, the condition is often tied to hearing loss. Waardenburg syndrome, which can turn one or both eyes an unusually vibrant blue, includes deafness in its list of comorbidities. Many mammals with white fur and mismatched eyes are deaf or have poor hearing for their species as a result of this.
- Red Right Hand: To foreshadow/reinforce something evil about the character.
- Shared Unusual Trait: Two or more characters have differently colored eyes because they're related or connected somehow.
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