History Main / Oculothorax

* A post-2000 pre-2010 ''X-Men'' comic book introduced us to a disciple / cousin of Shuma-Gorath which is a six-tentacled, starfish-like form with MANY eyes. They have a fight. [[TheyMightBeGiants Triangle wins.]]

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!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Suezo from ''MonsterRancher'' is this.
* Medama-Oyaji from ''GeGeGeNoKitaro''

* In the ''{{Tokko}}'' manga, Kureha keeps a little pet phantom in her jacket pocket that is basically just an eyeball with legs.

[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange's enemy Shuma-Gorath has no true form, but he prefers a six tentacled, starfish-like form with a single giant eye.
** A post 2000 pre 2010 X-Men comic book introduced us to a disciple / cousin of Shuma-Gorath which is a six tentacled, starfish-like form with MANY eyes. They have a fight. [[TheyMightBeGiants Triangle wins.]]

[[folder:Film]]
* ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' had a Beholder-like monster.
* The aliens in ''ItCameFromOuterSpace''.
* One of the monsters in ''Voyage Into Space'' was a giant floating eyeball.
* The MadScientist in {{Freaked}} had, as his trusty lieutenants, a pair of Rastafarian, machine gun-using eyeballs the height of a normal person. The inherent flaw of such a guardian became apparent when the hero discovers how well AHandfulForAnEye works on someone who is all eye.

[[folder: Literature]]
* [[Discworld/TheColourOfMagic Discworld]] has Bel-Shamharoth, the fact that he has the giant eye [[BlindingCameraFlash bites him on the tentacled butt.]]

[[folder: Live Action Television]]
* Early ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' monster Eye Guy is built entirely out of eyeballs. His "Core" form is a single Eyeball floating in the air, making him this.
* The Atraxi in ''Series/DoctorWho'' "The Eleventh Hour" is nothing except a giant eye. Check it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWr0Hajo3k out]].
* Beljoxa's Eye in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a...thing made of several eyes.
* ''PeeWeesPlayhouse'' once hosted Roger the Monster, a big eye with a mouth underneath, all attached to a foot-like body. Although friendly, it made few appearances, probably due to the prop's cumbersome nature.

* The Beholders of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' are the TropeCodifier for this type of monster in fantasy settings.

* ''MagicTheGathering'' has the [[http://magiccards.info/ts/en/107.html Evil Eye of Urborg]]. The [[http://magiccards.info/tsts/en/42.html Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]] appears to be related, but the artwork is zoomed in too closely to see its full body.

[[folder: VideoGames]]
* The Floating Eyes of ''NetHack'' that stuns you for a long time if you strike it.
* One of the monsters in ''Conan: Hall of Volta'' was a large floating eyeball. You can see them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTkRXKPXq4#t=4m50s here]].
* The 'Eyeball' costume in the ''CostumeQuest'' DLC 'Grubbins On Ice'.

* The Ahriman in ''FinalFantasy'' games.

* ''{{Everquest}} 1 and 2'' and has the 'Evil Eyes'.

* Ameno-Sagiri, a giant laser eyeball boss from ''{{Persona 4}}''.
* The Feyesh in ''SuperSmashBrothersBrawl,'' an eyeball fish with tentacles. Yuck.
* [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Stalker Stalkers]] in ''{{Runescape}}''
* ''ALinkToThePast'': the DarkWorld's GoddamnedBats are eyeballs with bat wings.

** The "Ocular Parasite" boss in ''SkywardSword'', which is four giant eyeballs on stalks, and a fifth giant eyeball with a mouth and wings, also on a stalk.

* Suezoes from ''MonsterRancher'' are naught but eyeballs and mouths on a single tiny tail/foot-like appendage.
* Charade, of SoulCalibur, is a humanoid with an eyeball for his thorax. He still has a faceless "head" too.
* {{Overlord}} has beholders that [[EnemySummoner teleport enemies into combat]], as well as projecting an energy field directly below them that vaporizes [[TheMinionMaster minions]] and inflicts heavy damage on the Overlord.
* The (''very'' low-level) Aibatt mobs in FlyFF.
* The ''{{Mardek}}'' series has several floating eyeball monsters, most of them {{Palette Swap}}s based on element, but in a bit of a twist they each usually have a "polyp" form as an eyeball stuck to the ground with a stem that is [[AllThereInTheManual explained]] to eventually grow into the floating eyeball form.
* Many of the bosses in the {{Kirby}} series are like this. In no particular order, there's Kracko, Dark Matter, Dark Nebula, Zero, [[spoiler: Zero-Two, Drawcia Soul, and Dark Mind's second form.]]
* Small, medium, and large in ''{{Terraria}}'': Servants of Cthulhu, Floating Eyes, and the Eye of Cthulhu.
* The '''[[MeaningfulName MONOCULUS!]]''' from VideoGame/TeamFortress2.
* The [[MeaningfulName Oculons]] in ''{{Ascendancy}}'' (although like most of the other examples here, they're a [[PlanetOfHats race]] of chivalrous astronomers, rather than being evil or otherwise disturbing.)
* Subverted with Roggenrola from ''{{Pokemon}}''. What looks like its eye is actually its ear.
* The old ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' verse had Evil Eyes/Beholders, who are heads with a single giant eye floating on tentacles, optionally with additional eyes on eyestalks. They were created by a mad mage to serve as living weapons, and do well in that role, even if they hadn't entered service by the time the war they were made for ended.

* "Floating Eye" demons in WoW. (The model's file name is "beholder.")
* Monoeyes from the ''KidIcarus'' series are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what they say on the tin.]]
* A common enemy in the ''{{Castlevania}}'' series are "flying eyes".
* The Killer Eye viruses in the ''{{Mega Man Battle Network}}'' series. They stay perfectly still and attempt to zap anything that enters their line of sight with a paralyzing beam.
* {{Recettear}} has the bat-winged Eyebats.

* Dr. Zin's Robot Spy from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' is a robot composed of giant eye on spider legs.

** Another example from the original ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'': The title creature in "The Invisible Monster".

* ''ReBoot'' features this as a sprite in one of the games. A single eyeball that uses its nerves and veins as limbs, like an octopus.
* From ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Mike Wazowski, who is mostly a giant eyeball, with a small mouth and spindly arms and legs.

* ThePowerpuffGirls fought a beholder-like creature made up almost entirely of eyes in the Season 3 episode "The Mane Event."

* DoctorStrange's enemy Shuma-Gorath has no true form, but he prefers a six tentacled, starfish-like form with a single giant eye.

The name comes from the latin: "Oculus" meaning eye and [[CaptainObvious "Thorax" well, for the thorax]].

See also (and please do not confuse with) {{Cyclops}} and FacelessEye.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Suezo from ''MonsterRancher'' is this.
* Medama-Oyaji from ''GeGeGeNoKitaro''
* One of ''Demon Detective Neuro'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?]]

[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* DoctorStrange's enemy Shuma-Gorath has no true form, but he prefers a six tentacled, starfish-like form with a single giant eye.

[[folder:Film]]
* ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' had a Beholder-like monster.
* The aliens in ''ItCameFromOuterSpace''.
* One of the monsters in ''Voyage Into Space'' was a giant floating eyeball.

[[folder: Live Action Television]]
* Early ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' monster Eye Guy is built entirely out of eyeballs. His "Core" form is a single Eyeball floating in the air, making him this.
* The Atraxi in ''Series/DoctorWho'' "The Eleventh Hour" is nothing except a giant eye. Check it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWr0Hajo3k out]].

[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
* The Beholders of ''DungeonsAndDragons'' are the TropeCodifier for this type of monster in fantasy settings.
** The Eye of the Deep: An underwater Beholder-like creature with a large central eye that sends out a blinding flash of light that dazzles and stuns its victims.
** Floating Eye: A fish with a single large eye that hypnotizes its target.
** Eyewing: A creature of the Abyss with bat wings and an 8 foot long rat's tail. Has a 4 foot wide eye that weeps an [[PoisonIsCorrosive acidic, poisonous]] blue liquid. The liquid forms into a 1 foot diameter sphere when the Eyewing drops it on its target below.
* ''MagicTheGathering'' has the [[http://magiccards.info/ts/en/107.html Evil Eye of Urborg]]. The [[http://magiccards.info/tsts/en/42.html Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]] appears to be related, but the artwork is zoomed in too closely to see its full body.

[[folder: VideoGames]]
* The Floating Eyes of ''NetHack'' that stuns you for a long time if you strike it.
* One of the monsters in ''Conan: Hall of Volta'' was a large floating eyeball. You can see them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTkRXKPXq4#t=4m50s here]].
* The 'Eyeball' costume in the ''CostumeQuest'' DLC 'Grubbins On Ice'.
* The [[{{God}} Wise One]] in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''.
* Mr I from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' is just an eyeball.
* The Ahriman in ''FinalFantasy'' games.
* The [[http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Pain_elemental Pain elementals]] and [[http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Cacodemon Cacodemons]] from ''{{Doom}}''.
* ''{{Everquest}} 1 and 2'' and has the 'Evil Eyes'.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' has several, like Ichimokuren.
* A betentacled floating eyeball early boss in ''RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy''.
* Ameno-Sagiri, a giant laser eyeball boss from ''{{Persona 4}}''.
* The Feyesh in ''SuperSmashBrothersBrawl,'' an eyeball fish with tentacles. Yuck.
* [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Stalker Stalkers]] in ''{{Runescape}}''

* Many of the bosses in the {{Kirby}} series are like this. In no particular order, there's Kracko, Dark Matter, Dark Nebula, Zero, [[spoiler: Zero-Two, Drawcia Soul, and Dark Mind's second form.]]

[[folder: WesternAnimation]]
* Dr. Zin's Robot Spy from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' is a robot composed of giant eye on spider legs.

** Another example from the original ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'': The title creature in "The Invisible Monster".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Doctor Venture builds a robot that's almost identical to the Robot Spy as one of the series' many {{Shout Out}}s to ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''. [[spoiler: It is later used as a new body for [=H.E.L.P.eR=]]].
* ''{{ReBoot}}'' features this as a sprite in one of the games. A single eyeball that uses its nerves and veins as limbs, like an octopus.
* From ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Mike Wazowski, who is mostly a giant eyeball, with a small mouth and spindly arms and legs.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The crew comes across one acting as a sentinel in the Central Bureaucracy HQ. It's sleeping, they slip past it, and the thing starts whining about its supervisor.

* ''ShinMegamiTensei'' has several, like Ichimokuren.

** Vaati, the boss of the ''FourSwords'' games, generally takes the form of a giant eyeball with 4-6 bat wings.

"Floating Eye" demons in WoW. (The model's file name is "beholder.")

* The old VideoGame/MightAndMagic verse had Evil Eyes/Beholders, who are heads with a single giant eye floating on tentacles, optionally with additional eyes on eyestalks. They were created by a mad mage to serve as living weapons, and do well in that role, even if they hadn't entered service by the time the war they were made for ended.

* The [[MeaningfulName MONOCULUS]] from VideoGame/TeamFortress2.

* [[Discworld/TheColorOfMagic Discworld]] has Bel-Shamharoth, the fact that he has the giant eye [[BlindingCameraFlash bites him on the tentacled butt.]]

* From ''Film/MonstersInc'': Mike Wazowski, who is mostly a giant eyeball, with a small mouth and spindly arms and legs.

* The [[{{God}} Wise One]] in ''GoldenSun''.

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* Dr. Zin's Robot Spy from ''JonnyQuest'' is a robot composed of giant eye on spider legs.

** Another example from the original ''JonnyQuest'': The title creature in "The Invisible Monster".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Doctor Venture builds a robot that's almost identical to the Robot Spy as one of the series' many {{Shout Out}}s to ''JonnyQuest''. [[spoiler: It is later used as a new body for [=H.E.L.P.eR=]]].

* From 'Film/'MonstersInc'', Mike, who is mostly a giant eyeball, with a small mouth and spindly arms and legs.

* In ''TheVentureBros'' Doctor Venture builds a robot composed of giant eye on spider legs. [[spoiler: It is later used as a new body for [=H.E.L.P.eR=]]].
** Dr. Zin's Robot Spy from ''JonnyQuest'' is of the same design, and the inspiration for the aforementioned giant eye.
* ''JonnyQuest'': The title creature in "The Invisible Monster".

* From ''MonstersInc'', Mike, who is mostly a giant eyeball, with a small mouth and spindly arms and legs.

* On an episode of ''RegularShow'', Benson hires one of these named Peeps to watch Mordecai and Rigby to ensure that they don't slack off.
* William, a character from ''TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', is an eyeball with wings.
* {{Futurama}}: The crew comes across one acting as a sentinel in the Central Bureaucracy HQ. It's sleeping, they slip past it, and the thing starts whining about its supervisor.

* The [[MeaningfulName MONOCULUS]] from TeamFortress2.

* Suezoes from ''MonsterRancher'' are naught but eyebals and mouths on a single tiny tail/foot-like appendage.