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"If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people. I'm looking at the eyes of a man who wants to run."

―Maz Kanata, tostormtrooper deserterFinn^[1]

SixEyes-SoloUSC — Azumels, such asArgus Panox, possessed six eyes.

Eyes were the primary visual organ of manysentient and animalspecies. Most species possessed a single pair of eyes located on their head, although some species, such asAbyssin, had only one eye,^[2] whileGran had three, and others, like theHarch and theDyplotid, possessed several pairs.^[3] Yet other species, like theMelitto fromLi-Toran, orMiraluka likeProsset Dibs, had no eyes at all, relying on other organs to navigate.^[4]

TheChiss had red eyes which could see moreinfrared thanhumans,^[5] whileKaminoans had large black eyes that could seeultraviolet.^[6]Jawas had sickly glowing yellow eyes that they used to peer through the dark folds of thecowls theywore.^[7]Rodians had large, round pupil-less eyes.^[8] The droid equivalent to an eye was aphotoreceptor.^[9]

EyeExam-MIA — Meebur Gascon looks into the eye ofGregor, a human clone

A human's eyecolor was determined by the pigmentation in the iris. The phenotypic eye color for allclone troopers was brown,^[10] because they were all grown from the sameclone template, thebounty hunter Jango Fett.^[11] This also applied to the mutatedClone Force 99, as their mutation did not affect the iris pigmentation.^[10] A humanparent could pass on their eye color to theiroffspring –Ben Solo had the same piercing brown eyes as his motherLeia Organa, who was sure that this feature was inherited from her own birth mother,Padmé Amidala.^[12] As a child, Leia used to see kindness in eyes of her adoptive fatherBail Organa and, despite knowing she was adopted, used to hope she saw the same kindness in her own eyes.^[13]

Vader yelloweyes — Fueled by the dark side, Darth Vader's eyes reflected his hatred.

Eyes acted as windows to thesoul, and so reflected the emotions that theSith harnessed. Adark side user's eyes would sometimes change color and burn yellow with a fiery red rim when rage and anger seethed inside them.Anakin Skywalker's eyes changed color in this way as hemassacred theExecutive Separatist Council on theplanet Mustafar^[14] in19 BBY,^[15] radiating anger and hate.^[16] Nevertheless, Skywalker's eyes returned to their normal shade upon the arrival of hiswife, Padmé Amidala.^[14]

When tutoringLuke Skywalker in the use ofthe Force,Obi-Wan Kenobi warned him that his eyes could deceive him and suggested not to trust them. To prove his point, he blindfolded Skywalker, after which Skywalker was successful in deflecting shots from atraining remote with hislightsaber by drawing upon the power of the Force.^[2]

When the redeemed Anakin Skywalker was mortally wounded after killing theEmperor to save his son, his last request was for Luke to remove his helmet so that he could look on his son with his own eyes instead of through the filters of his mask.^[17]

Kanan Jarrus' eyes were destroyed byMaul with hislightsaber, rendering him blind.^[18]Cybernetic replacements were available, however, as shown byClone Commander Wolffe, whose right eye was destroyed byAsajj Ventress.^[19]