Darth Vader had glowing red eyes in Episode 4

plz

can you name when it was introduced in a popular work?

@Somnio literally any myth involving warriors of evil

Hell Lord of The Rings did it

I'm going to say it's Jin Roh

Lord of the Rings

Probably a tad more influential

glowing red eyes and body armor?

actually the right wing death squad must look like the nazgül from LOTR

which lord of the rings did you watch?

>watch

The books you dumb cunt

It's referencing the pagan troupe of balky armored warriors with red eyes

It's an ancient concept

From TV tropes:

the monster Grendel from the Old English poem Beowulf is described as having glowing red eyes: "on fagne flor feond treddode,/eode yrremod; him of eagum stod/ligge gelicost leoht unfæger" ("Across the decorated floor the fiend trod, went enraged in mind; there stood in his eyes a foul light most like to flame").

That literally predates modern western civilization

Not just anime

😂

did Grendel have body armor?

he might as well had

No

M OV E T H E G O A L P O S T M O R E

then no, that is not the origin of the aesthetic

He was described as having an impenetrable hide so kinda

natural armor is still armor

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedEyesTakeWarning

Find it yourself

This looks like Guts

@Deleted User It's time to clean the floors.

He is the protagonist though

You could also see this troupe in the earliest of D.C. Comics

The villain Black Manta

Black body armor and glowing red eyes

It's very common in anime. But they don't use it as "An easy way to tell a villainous (or sinister) character apart from the protagonists"

They give those to protagonists too

Know what's scary and villanous? Red eyes.
What else.... ARMOR! Big, tough armor.

I'm gonna combine them.

@Baraban https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlowingEyesOfDoom

@Somnio even if it was due to anime the Right Wing Death Squad meme draws more from Millennium from Helsing than anything else

So even there you're wrong

you fucking retard