History Main / Cyclops

* The ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' series has [[http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Cyclopses a number of them]].

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* ''Art/MysticalMedleysAVintageCartoonTarot'': "The Magician" and "The Hierophant" both have one giant eye for a head.
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** The [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Primarch]] of the [[CosmicPlaything Thousand Sons]] was [[AntiVillain Magnus the Red]], whose defining features were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin coppery red skin]], [[MeaningfulName being a giant]], and having just one eye. It wasn't clear for a time whether he was a cyclops, [[EyelessFace had only one orbit]], or simply lacked one eye, although artwork for the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novels and his official Forge World model for the game have him with a normal face and missing his right eye. His Daemon Primarch model has three possible face options, two normal faces missing the right eye and one which is a typical cyclops.

Not to be confused with the FacelessEye, as cyclopes typically have a recognizable facial structure (or at least a mouth), or with OneEyedShot, which is just a camera shot of a person's eye. In modern fiction, the visual of a single eye can give a character an intimdating UncannyValley feel as easily as it can be played as a [[UglyCute cute trait]] on an adorable character.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Many of the minions have a single eye in the middle of their foreheads.

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'', Brontes (from Greek mythology, above) appears as a boss fight at the end of a side-quest line. Arges and Steropes were later added as BonusBoss enemies for high-level characters via patch.

* In Myth/BrazilianFolklore, the Mapinguari is a giant humanoid with a single eye and a BellyMouth.

* ''Webcomic/MonsterPop'': Genevieve "George" Tinsley is a college freshman and cyclops.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': Billy from the Gangreen Gang is revealed to be a cyclops under his BlindingBangs.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Billy from the Gangreen Gang is revealed to be a cyclops under his BlindingBangs.

->'''Gwog''': "Geez... what a bunch of '''freaks'''."\\
'''Dr. Thaddeus John Euphemism''': "Says the alien with '''one eye'''."

Oh, wait, were you looking for [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} that guy with the visor]]?

** Psyklop, a ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' supervillain, has one giant red compound eye. He can use it to fire energy beams and to hypnotize people.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''Literature/PercyJackson'':

** The only ones not born to Poseidon are the trinity of cyclopes that are his elder half brothers. They are the ones that forged the iconic weapons the Big Three (Zeus, Poseidon and Hades) used in their war against their father.
%%** Tyson -- Percy's half-brother on the divine side of the family -- is a heroic example.

** '''Hesiodian''' cyclopses (described in Hesiod's ''Literature/{{Theogony}}'') were three brothers named Arges, Steropes, and Brontes. They were master craftsman and giants of considerable size and power (and prone to fits of rage). Their father Uranus was so afraid of their power and fits of rage that he imprisoned them in Tartarus. When their nephew Zeus finally freed them to help in overthrowing their brother Cronus, they worked together to forge Zeus's lightning bolt (each contributing one third of the weapon's elements; the blinding light, lethal heat, and deafening thunderclap, respectively). They also created Poseidon's trident and Hades's helmet of invisibility. Eventually, the brothers were surpassed by Zeus's son, Hephaestus, to whom they and their descendants became assistants. They also created the SolarAndLunar [[SacredBowAndArrows bows and arrows]] of Apollo and Artemis.
** '''Homeric''' cyclopses (from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' by Homer and derived works like Euripides' ''Theatre/{{Cyclops}}'') are a lot more down to earth then their Hesiodian counterparts -- We at TV Tropes call them the ClassicalCyclops. They are big, dumb, uncivilized giants who live in caves and herd sheep for a living. The cyclopses of Homer-derived myths are all (or at least mostly) children of the ocean god [[LordOfTheOcean Poseidon]] (which probablu explains why they tend to be island-dwelling). [[ImAHumanitarian Humans are on the list of things they will eat]] but it's not the only thing. In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', our hero Odysseus meets the famous cyclops named Polyphemeus on an island who holds him and his mates captive while preparing to eat them. Odysseus identifies himself as "nobody", and while Polyphemus sleeps he stabs him in the eye before running away, all the while Polyphemus complains to his fellow cyclopses [[WhosOnFirst "nobody" stabbed his eye]].
** Lastly, '''Wall-Building''' cyclopses are less attested in literature (and thus don't get a fancy literary name), but they were commonly believed to be a race of craftsmen. The Greeks saw massive ancient structures, so they assumed they must have been built by giant cyclops {{precursors}} -- hence why they are called "Cyclopean architecture".