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[[caption-width-right:330: The entire left hand side of his face is charred, but his eye is untouched.]]

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** Even before getting burned to a crisp, Anakin Skywalker had a scar over one eye.

Sometimes, this can be TruthInTelevision, thanks to the rather nifty design of the human skull, with the eye set back and largely surrounded by bony prominences in the shape of the brow, nose, and to some extent the cheekbone. This makes it often possible to receive damage around the eye with little or none to the actual eyeball.

* Early in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk', Indy discovers the long-dead corpse of Forrestal, a fellow treasure hunting archaeologist. Despite being mostly dessicated and badly decomposed the point that parts of his lower skull are visible, Forrestal's baby blues are still perfectly intact.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'' reveals that [[spoiler:after the High Evolutionary killed Rocket’s lab experiment friends, Rocket flew into a rage and mauled his face off. When the Evolutionary is later seen without his artificial face-replicating mask, his real face is grievously wounded flesh, but his eyes are unharmed.]]

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''; Zuko has a scar running across most of one side of his face, from his nose to his ear. His eye is surrounded by damaged tissue and looks unharmed, but Zuko lacks peripheral vision and has damaged tear ducts under it.

* Averted in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' by York. After a grenade went off near his face, he not only was badly scarred on most of one side of his face, but he lost vision in that eye. Further, his eye is usually [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m703pgSCQe1rab0ado1_1280.png depicted as being a ruined, iris-less void.]]

* At [[Literature/TheDarkTower2004 the end]] of ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', the Crimson King [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven is erased from existence]]]], but his eyes remain on the balcony of the titular tower (as [[spoiler:the RealityWarper artist who did this had to color his eyes with red paint on his pencil drawing, and thus couldn't erase them]]).

* Accepted wisdom is to [[GoForTheEye jab at an attacking shark's eyes]]. And while this method has a well documented success rate, sharks not only have protective eyelids, but surprisingly hard eyeballs.

* Averted in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' when we see Nick Fury's eye and why it usually covered in an eye-patch.
* Happens twice to the same guy in ''Film/{{Constantine}}''. When the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demon]] Balthazar is sprayed with holy water, the left side of his face is eaten away but his left eye is O.K. Later on, after Constantine blows his face off his body with dragon fire, [[FridgeLogic his right eye is still in perfect condition]].

* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' the charred body of Max Schreck at the end has creepily intact eyes.

* In ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', the explosion that get the titular hero disfigured is actually shown by a close up refection in his eye. However when we next see him his eyes are pretty much the only part of his face left.
* The film ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace'' is about, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOntheTin well...]].
* In ''Film/AKnightsTale'', Count Ademar explains in detail how dangerous eye slits are, and how knights usually tilt their chins to avoid getting shrapnel in their eyes.

* In ''Film/TheSpirit'', the BigBad taunts the captive hero by having a fluffy white kitten ''melted alive'' in front of him. The kitten's entire body liquefies - fur, bones, everything - but its innocent blue eyes remain perfectly intact, afloat in a basin of liquid kitty.

* The cat [[http://chasenoface.blogspot.com/ Chase No-Face,]] who lost her nose and eyelids in a car accident but lives a normal life, needing only a dash of eyedrops twice a day and a dark room to sleep in. If you feel slightly queasy now, brace yourself before looking at this link.

* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'': This is one of the concessions to taste, along with your opponents' lack of internal organs. The unintentionally humorous result is that an opponent with no remaining face has its eyes bulging out of its ruined flesh. (Yes, this game has {{Gorn}} by the bucketload.)

* ''Webcomic/AngelDown'': Ariel's left eye is completely intact despite her having large burns on that side of her body as a result of an explosion. [[spoiler:{{EyeScream Chloe wasn't so lucky in her backstory.}}]]

* Averted by Zuko in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a scar running across most of one side of his face, from his nose to his ear. His eye is surrounded by damaged tissue and looks unharmed, but Zuko lacks peripheral vision and has damaged tear ducts under it.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''; Hudson has a scar across one eye. The eyeball itself is intact, but he is blind on that side.