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* [[BigBad Lord Hater]]'s {{mooks}} and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Peepers on ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' had eyeballs for heads.

* Eyeball from ''WebAnimatiom/OtherworldlyRavenousBeast'' is just an eyeball with limbs, and they are one of the less creepier examples.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has '''a ton''' of enemies like this, bosses and otherwise. Most bosses you have to [[GoForTheEye hit in the eye to kill]], including [[GiantSpider Gohma]], Wart, [[TheUndead Bongo-Bongo]], and Morpheel. [[BigBad Vaati]] of ''Four Swords'', oddly enough, didn't have his eye as his weakness.
** [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Patra Patra]] from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the original game]] is a swarm of winged eyeballs.
** The trope is most vividly present in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' boss called Vitreous, which was a giant eyeball surrounded by a dozen or so smaller eyeballs.
** Indeed, ''A Link To The Past'' had no fewer than three bosses who were ''nothing but'' eye(s). Arrghus, Kholdstare, and the aforementioned Vitreous.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Slime_Eyes Slime Eyes]], two gelatinous eyes fused into one.
** And then in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' we get introduced to [[EvilGenius Wizzro]], a creepy, decrepit, phantom-like wizard that was locked inside a cursed ring. Half of the time, his only facial feature is a single [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]]. The other half, it morphs into a creepy red mouth.

* In ''Manga/AkuNoHana'', the Flower of Evil is a giant floating eyeball surrounded by fuzzy black petals.

* One of the monsters in ''Voyage Into Space'' was a giant disembodied floating eye.

* At one point ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'' encounters some evil plant AIs who look like bloodshot eyeballs with some leaves and tendrils added. He also has a StarfishAlien shipmate who is composed entirely of eyestalks, and his own face consists entirely of one huge eye, which is usually glaring/scowling.

* The true form of ''Anime/MaiHime''[='s=] [[spoiler:Obsidian Lord]] is a giant eyeball centered within a pair of sword-like pillars.

* One of [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Gaara's]] powers was the Eye of Sand, which he used for spying, as well as to see outside the shell of sand he once used to conceal a TransformationSequence.

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 FrickinLaserBeams. Fighting them usually leads to "GoForTheEye".

** ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic V'' has a monster called a "Beholder Bat" which is, in essence, a [[BatOutOfHell bat]] with one small eye and one huge eyeball attached under it. And it [[EyeBeams shoots]] [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]] that inflict [[KillItWithFire fire damage]]. Seriously.

* The [[AIIsACrapshoot Geth]], MechaMooks who form the forces of the BigBad in the first Franchise/MassEffect, have long heads terminating in glowing "eyes" and nothing else except armour, with [[ActionGirl one character]] commenting that they have "flashlight heads". They're portrayed in a less overtly hostile light in the sequel... conveniently coinciding with a Geth "character" gaining something closer to a face. Added for good reason; Legion's headflaps were specifically installed to help [[PronounTrouble it/him/them]] emote to players and characters, since otherwise Legion could not easily convey body language and facial expressions. The flaps also help make Legion absolutely {{Adorkable}}.

* ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'': When David meets the other living specimens aboard the Trimaxion Drone Ship, one of them is a creature inside a darkened tank which initially appears to have a face -- but when it opens its "mouth", it reveals itself to be a giant eyeball (and lets out a piercing shriek that sounds a lot like "[[PokemonSpeak eyeyeyeyeye]]..."

* Zell from ''Anime/GenmuSenkiLeda'' has a big eyeball on his turban that's quite icky-looking. He uses it to attack people's psyches.

* [[BigBad Lord Hater]]'s {{mooks}} and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Peepers on ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder''.

* The Eye of Ekron, the floating, intelligent weapon of the Emerald Empress in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. However, as ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' revealed, there is an Emerald Head of Ekron which is looking for the eye.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comics have the Eye of Ekron, the floating, intelligent weapon of the Emerald Empress. However, as ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' revealed, there is an Emerald Head of Ekron which is looking for the eye. In ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth "The Girl of No Tomorrow"]]'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s super-senses ascertain the Eye is thousands of years older than Earth, and it is apparently but subtly influencing the Empress.
* The ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' villain Starro is a Faceless Eye attached to a [[CombatTentacles five-tentacled]] [[StarfishAliens starfish-like body]].

* The god Blind Io in Literature/{{Discworld}} has no eyes on his face, but a whole host of flying eyes (complete with wings and trailing optic nerve...) which can see anywhere in the world.

* ''Manga/GegegeNoKitaro'' has Kitaro's father Medama-Oyaji the eyeball (semantic translation, ''"Old Man Eyeball"'') [[http://www.bogleech.com/gba-kitarou.html (it's a long story)]] and the evil Backbeard, an incredibly creepy-looking black ball of prickly menace who'd be truly terrifying if most of his evil schemes didn't consist of crap like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq6gO-GQaDw this.]]

* [[ComicBook/{{OMAC}} OMAC's]] partner, Brother Eye, is a sentient, computerized satellite that looks roughly like an eye, staring down at Earth.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' has these as the alien invaders (on an alien world) in a movie set in the classic sense of 1950s B-movies and it features a whole bunch of them in the closing credits (of the actual film).
* 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.

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* A proto-superhero [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks from 1939]] named [[http://www.toonopedia.com/eyesees.htm the Eye.]] [[ComicBook/TheEyeSees Has its own page.]]

A cyclops character is more relatable than this kind of being, since cyclopes have a recognizable facial structure, with at least a mouth. These examples are far beyond the edges of the [[UncannyValley Uncanny Continent]]. It is also interesting to note that the representations of many [[AIIsACrapshoot insane AIs]] use this trope - most likely to underscore their creepiness.

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* The Film ''WesternAnimation/{{Planet 51}}'' has these as the alien invaders (on an alien world) in a movie set in the classic sense of 1950s B-movies and it features a whole bunch of them in the closing credits (of the actual film).

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* The Graii from Myth/ClassicalMythology were a trio of hags who lived "north of the North Pole" with only one eye amongst them, which they who would trade around when they wanted to see something. Perseus gets ahold of it and ''[[EyeScream squeezes it in his hand]]'' until the hags give him information he needs to continue his [[TheQuest quest]].

** Daleks have a periscope of varying design over the years in their giant-pepper-pot-of-death power armor, matching their single biological eye.

** The Atraxi from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" are in fact nothing but giant floating space eyeballs, held aloft by a vaguely snowflake-shaped ring.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Beljoxa's Eye. What happened to the rest of Beljoxa?
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had the psychic/psychotic surgeon in "I Fall to Pieces", and he used his eyes and other detached body parts to spy on the girl he was stalking.

* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'' has a two-parter featuring the Decreator. A giant eyeball in the sky that destroys all matter in the universe. It can only be defeated by the Recreator who also is a giant eyeball.

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* At one point ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'' encounters some evil plant AIs who look like bloodshot eyeballs with some leaves and tendrils added. He also has a StarfishAlien shipmate who is composed entirely of eyestalks, and his own face consists entirely of one huge eye, which is usually glaring/scowling.

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has [[SpacePolice Officer Zodboink,]] a member of a race of StarfishAliens with heads that look like giant eyeballs.
* Ebbirnoth from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' The fact that Ebbirnoth (and Uniocs in general) have a faceless eye is actually a minor plot point during one of the Credomar arcs-someone "headshots" Ebby, blasting out his eyeball and seriously pissing him off. Schlock realizes the mistake that's been made, and encourages the lieutenant to play dead; the sniper was human, and didn't realize that Unioc brains are kept in a bone cage in their pelvis.

* ''Webcomic/DecryptingRita'' has the Panopticon, a mysterious group of eyes floating in the void between the {{Alternate Universe}}s.
* In ''Webcomic/LucidSpring'', Pacem and Viktor's psychically-induced hallucination culminates in the [[BearsAreBadNews bear's]] face turning into [[http://lucidspring.thecomicseries.com/comics/39 one giant eye.]] This trope shortly thereafter combines with EyesDoNotBelongThere.
* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': In the beginning, [[spoiler:before Tristan breaks all of the barriers to release her power]], Vashi appears as just a glowing, floating pair of eyes.

* Waddle Doo, an early enemy in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games, as well as Dark Matter, 02, and Dark (Nebula/Zero).