History Main / FacelessEye

* The Ahriman family of monsters from the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series.

* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'' has its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrCAl8oDuE Level 2 boss.]]

* The Evil Eye and Electro Swoosh enemies in ''Videogame/EarthBound''.

* Several characters in comics, such as [[MarvelUniverse Marvel's]] The Orb, wear eyeball-shaped helmets, usually with a laser or other weapon in the pupil. Oddly enough, these characters are always villains. Wonder why?

* Speaking of ''Guitar Hero'', Neversoft's [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Neversoft_Logo.png corporate logo]] has a faceless eye for their "O". Most of their {{Vanity Plate}}s for their ''Tony Hawk'' games play with this; not so much for their ''Guitar Hero'' plates.

* A crossover between ''Literature/GoodOmens'' and the Literature/{{Discworld}} by Creator/AAPessimal has the Angel Aziraphile and the Demon Crowley sent on a fact-finding trip to a world run by a pantheon of Gods. [[note]] Jesus Christ himself has just reminded them of the line about "In my Father's house there are many mansions", and has sent them to discover the essential truth of there being a multiplicity of Mansions. They land on the Discworld.[[/note]] They arrive in the sky above Cori Celesti, abode of the Gods. The first thing they encounter are the disembodied flying Eyes which are Blind Io, Lord of the Gods. There recognise Ambassadors from the divine set-up of another world, but very firmly and emphatically, escort them to one of the entrances to the Discworld's Hell, where the tour begins.

* In ''Anime/Devilman1972'', the demonic Gan Triplets traumatize Tare and instill a phobia of disembodied eyes in him.

* One of ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro's'' 777 Tools of Hell is Evil Friday, a swarm of little eyeballs with legs that he can see through. While most commonly used for research, reconnaissance, and tracking, they're shown to have lives and personalities of their own, and one memorable aside shows that they enjoy participating in racing. Why Evil Friday? [[WordSaladTitle Who knows?]]

As [[EyeTropes other tropes indicate]], eyes are very, very meaningful. It's a cliché to call them windows to the soul. This trope reminds us that alone, eyeballs are fragile spheres of gel only vaguely reminiscent of their usual purpose of subtle social cues. So a single eye completely outside the context of a face is just creepy. Bad guys often favor a singular, unblinking, Faceless Eye as an insignia-- bonus points if said villain is TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness that runs a [[BigBrotherIsWatching dystopian society of unending surveillance]] ala TheIlluminati. Even without an ominous BigBad attached, the prospect of a thousand eyeballs shooting you to death with EyeBeams is fundamentally more unsettling than a thousand {{Mooks}} with {{Energy Weapon}}s. Fighting them usually leads to "GoForTheEye". A CosmicHorror story can involve a vague entity such as an EldritchAbomination whose eyes are one of the few things to be recognized with the remainder of its body being [[GoMadFromTheRevelation too horrid to describe]] and its actions being [[BlueAndOrangeMorality too alien to understand]].

* ''VideoGame/TurboOverkill'' have Syn's default form, where it appears as a gigantic holographic eyeball without a body, using it to scan you in a cutscene.

* "The Eye" is an insignia for the Priesthood in the ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' manga.

* The true form of ''Anime/MyHime''[='s=] [[spoiler:Obsidian Lord]] is a giant eyeball centered within a pair of sword-like pillars.
* One of ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro's'' 777 Tools of Hell is Evil Friday, a swarm of little eyeballs with legs that he can see through. While most commonly used for research, reconnaissance, and tracking, they're shown to have lives and personalities of their own, and one memorable aside shows that they enjoy participating in racing. Why Evil Friday? [[WordSaladTitle Who knows?]]

* The [[ArtificialHuman Gizmon]] of ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' are something of a mechanical version of this trope.

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' Kyubey's [[spoiler:soul gem containment technology]] apparently somehow involves the use of dozens of floating devices with screens showing his signature creepy soul-piercing red eyes.
* Ichimoku Ren of ''Anime/HellGirl'' can project his left eye, which is normally covered by his hair, onto any surface with this as the typical result. He uses this to good effect to freak out Aya Kuroda, the first tormentor of the series, before she's sent to Hell.
* Zell from ''Anime/LedaTheFantasticAdventureOfYohko'' has a big eyeball on his turban that's quite icky-looking. He uses it to attack people's psyches.
* ''Anime/AngelsEgg'': A gigantic orb shows up at the beginning and end of the story. It may or may not be [[spoiler: {{God}}]].
* In ''Anime/Devilman1972'', the demonic Gan Triplets traumatize Tare and instill a phobia of disembodied eyes in him.
* In ''Manga/TheFlowersOfEvil'', the Flower of Evil is a giant floating eyeball surrounded by fuzzy black petals.
* Tentaclear from ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' is a giant floating eyeball whose main attack is his dangerously bright shining.

* Two submissions in ''Animation/TheMindsEye'' series. Both "Too Far" from ''Beyond'' and "Nuvogue" from ''The Gate'' feature segments with large, bare eyeballs acting like perfectly normal people. Mostly, they seem to like watching TV. They even come in varieties: one segment features a teenage eyeball moving out of its folks' house, and another shows a whole family right down to a dog eyeball on the floor. "Nuvogue" becomes especially cringe-worthy when, after a pair of eyeballs short out their TV from constantly bouncing on the remote to change the channel, one floats over and starts [[PercussiveMaintenance tackling]] the TV in order to fix it.