History Main / FacelessEye

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' games, the symbol of Chaos (an eight-pointed star) is often depicted as having an eye or a skull in the center of the star. The Eye of Horus, an emblem of the TabletopGame/BlackLegion, is an eye incorporated into the eight-point star..
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', [[AIIsACrapshoot Friend Computer]] is usually represented as a monitor with a single giant eyeball.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Everquest}}'' - One class of monsters is a group of small eyeball ISLANDS! (their upper lids are covered with cracks and mountains). Another monster was a gelatinous, red-veined eyeball that attached itself to ceilings and used its wet tentrils to snatch unwary prey.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' the lich-slash-god Vecna could transform an especially devoted cultist into one of two emissaries named for the two powerful artifacts named for him, this one being The Eye of Vecna--a humanoid figure with a gigantic eyeball where a human head used to be possessed of telepathic awareness that allows him to finish the sentence of others as the least of what he can do.

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.

Of course, being long past the UncannyValley already, these examples often also involve TechnicolorEyes, HellishPupils, and RedEyesTakeWarning. Contrast TheBlank and EyelessFace. If an eye is on a part of the body other than the face, it's EyesDoNotBelongThere. See also {{Oculothorax}} for monsters whose body is primarily an eyeball. Since they are mostly an eye, they tend to be evil.

* ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' loves this, having three bosses that fit this bill, Mono-eye Titan, Hecto-eye Titan, and Heimdall. The first two are faced consecutively without a chance to save in between, and the third is a powerful BonusBoss.

* The Music/TomWaits song ''Eyeball Kid'' from ''Music/MuleVariations'' is about a child who is born as just an eye and details his life as a successful circus freak.
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject's best known song, "Eye In The Sky" from the album of the same name, is a person telling his/her significant other (in a very creepy and vindictive fashion) that he/she knows the other's been cheating and is tired of pretending to be ignorant of it. The cover of the album... the Eye of Horus.
* The music video for Music/{{Gotye}}'s ''Coming Back'' features a bunch of aliens with giant yellow eyes for faces.
* The members of {{Music/Sakanaction}} are shown playing with their heads covered by giant eyeball masks in the video for "Endless".

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* ''Anime/AngelsEgg'': A gigantic orb shows up at the beginning and end of the story.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Everquest}}'' - One class of monsters ia a group of small eyeball ISLANDS! (their upper lids are covered with cracks and mountains). Another monster was a gelatinous, red-veined eyeball that attached itself to ceilings and used its wet tentrils to snatch unwary prey.

* ''Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst'' has a scene (that's curiously gone missing) where Creator/JamesCoburn is shocked to discover there are indeed spies following him [[spoiler: including ''his girlfriend'']] and freaks out, seeing disembodied looming eyeballs everywhere (with footage pulled from the 1961 3-D movie "The Mask").

* The titular "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(novel) Eye in the Sky]]" in the Creator/PhilipKDick novel of the same name is the gigantic, all-seeing eye of God that is in part a manifestation of a old man's worldview. Several people were transported into his mind after a particle accelerator accident forms a gestalt consciousness.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': One of the monsters found in [[EldritchOceanAbyss the Caliginous Abyss]] is "[[https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Eye_in_the_darkness an eye in the darkness]]", a giant bloodshot eye staring out at you from a patch of deeper darkness within the sea. Its attacks mostly boil down to several variants of menacing glares, carefully modulated to give you existential crises, unnerve you or fill your field of vision.

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

* [[spoiler: Ameno-sagiri, the fake final boss]] in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', [[AiIsACrapshoot XANA]], due to being a computer program with no real physical body, the only real signifier of his presence is the circular Eye of XANA sigil that is used on his monsters and on any electronic he hacks. [[spoiler: The closest he gets to physically appearing is in the second last episode as a gigantic, vaguely humanoid, faceless phantom with the afromentioned eye symbol on the chest.]]

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and the Eye of Sauron. To quote Saruman: "His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame." Unlike in the movies, it's not made clear that Sauron is simply embodied as one big eye, but the Eye does manifest as described at least in the Mirror of Galadriel, and about [[UltimateEvil the only thing seen]] of Sauron in his tower is his gaze, like an evil searchlight. From [[AllThereInTheManual other material]], it seems he's not exactly embodied at all.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' has two bosses along these lines:

* Vision Express, a chain of opticians in the UK, started an advertising campaign in 2009 using pairs of identically-dressed people with giant eyeballs for heads. [[http://www.utalkmarketing.com/Pages/CreativeShowcase.aspx?ArticleID=12944&Filter=0&Keywords=&Order=LATEST&Page=1&Title=Vision_Express_%27Eyeballs%27_ Here.]] Is probably meant to be goofy rather than creepy.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Eyes are a rare creature type depicting giant, independently mobile eyes. The first one printed, [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsb/42/evil-eye-of-orms-by-gore Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]], depicts -- depending on the specific card's art -- either a close-up of a narrowed eye within what appears to be something else's face or an entirely free-floating eyeball, while [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/107/evil-eye-of-urborg Evil Eye of Urborg]] is a floating eye with nothing beyond a narrow rim of flesh around it.

* Franchise/DotHack: Corbenik's [[OneWingedAngel third and final form]] is a massive floating eye, with hundreds of similar eyes flying about in the background (which is weird, since Corbenik's first two forms were a seed and a leaf... how does that trend continue to eye?)

* ''Webcomic/LethHate'' has [[http://leth.smackjeeves.com/comics/1514720/chapter-8-page-7/ God]], who has an eyeball for a head. For expressiveness's sake, his iris has an eyebrow and his pupil has an eyelid.

* The logo for CBS. Many viewers comparing notes on [[VanityPlate scary logos]] feel the CBS Eye is a GiantEyeOfDoom -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGEhD9_UUE as shown here]].
* Run for the hills! It's the animatronic eyeball monster!!! http://www.instructables.com/id/SKUB6JCF8JUW9KS/

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' fought a spherical monster entirely ''covered'' with eyes that shot EyeBeams, and couldn't find a way to get close enough to hit it until Blossom finds a way to make it laugh, making it close its eyes upside-down, anime-style.

* ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace'', Georges Franju's 1959/1960 Films Gaumont picture, features fun, staring creepiness that will scare anyone afraid of dolls with lifelike eyes. Real horror and the source of Mr. Idol's fascination with the topic, in the first place.

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".

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* The final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}}''

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Eyes are a rare creature type depicting giant, independently mobile eyes. The first one printed, [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsb/42/evil-eye-of-orms-by-gore Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]], depicts a close-up of a narrowed eye within what appears to be something else's face, while [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/107/evil-eye-of-urborg Evil Eye of Urborg]] is a free-floating eyeball with nothing beyond a narrow rim of flesh around it.

* A few ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' cards have eyes with no faces: "Relinquished" and "Thousand-Eyes Idol", which can be [[FusionDance fused together]] into "Thousand-Eyes Restrict". These cards have zero Attack/Defense, but "Relinquished" and "Thousand-Eyes Restrict" can steal monsters from an opponent's side of the field and effectively use them as meat shields.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107278 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Evil%20Eye%20of%20Urborg Evil Eye of Urborg.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{DESTINY}}: The Fallen worship eye-like floating purple robots called servitors.''

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Beljoxa's Eye. What happened to the rest of Beljoxa?

* Experimental Rock group Music/TheResidents usually hide their faces with large eyeball masks. The only member that doesn't wear one of these wears a large black skull mask, due to the original mask being stolen and vandalized during a tour. These masks have become a cult icon of sorts.

* ''Pinball/TheBrain'' has one of these on the playfield, representing sight.

* The Music/{{Tool}} gig in ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero: World Tour]]'' has one of these. Tool didn't want the usual background of a virtual performance to accompany their songs, and instead created an animated background for the gig that incorporates several artistic motifs from their past album art and music videos, of which eyes feature in fairly prominently. Also arguably counts as an EldritchAbomination.

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