Nah mate, the red lenses are reflecting red light, which is why they appear red. If they absorbed red light they would be absorbing incredible amounts of energy every second and heat up super fast. Because they reflect the energy the energy just goes back through the portals to the dimension that it came from. (Canonically.)
see i’ve always had two pretty massive issues with this: 1) how tf does he see anything if he’s got portals in his eyes, and 2) shouldn’t there be a constant glow from behind his glasses whenever his eyes are open?
Obviously it’s a cartoon and it doesn’t matter, but once you try to explain things you kinda gotta come up with explanations for things like this…And WTF are his eyelids made of??
In a world where mind-reading is possible, I don’t think it’s too difficult to say that his “magic eyes” also still retain the ability to see.
Editor: Why did you make his eyes red?
Artist: Coz of the lazers, duh
Editor: No, I mean why scientifically?!
Artist: (oh shit oh shit)
Editor: WE NEED TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER
Editor: CALL NASA, SPARE NO EXPENSE!
(ten convoluted phone calls later)
Artist: … and so the force beam reflects forcelessly off the glasses and back into its home dimension where his optic nerve lives…And it’s actually not light coming out of his eyes, but punch energy.
Mmmmm…fruit juicy red!
Neat! That’s actually cool that it gets explained! I feel much better about that now and can finally sleep after all these years. Thank you.
Except, also canonically, his eyes project a beam of concussive, ruby-coloured force. If they’re reflecting the blast, they should be experiencing a huge amount of force, and go flying off his face.
