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* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Benson hires one of these named Peeps to watch Mordecai and Rigby to ensure that they don't slack off, but he didn't read the fine print that said Peeps will watch over everyone in the park till they die. In order to make him leave, Mordecai challenges him to a staring contest (which he wins when [[ChekovsGun Rigby uses a laser pointer on him]] after he cheats by growing extra eyes.

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Benson hires one of these named Peeps to watch Mordecai and Rigby to ensure that they don't slack off, but he didn't read the fine print that said Peeps will watch over everyone in the park till they die.

* The 1958 BMovie ''The Crawling Eye'' (aka ''The Trollenberg Terror'')

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

* The Beholders of ''VideoGame/{{Scrapland}}'' are a mechanical version. They're basically floating robotic eyes with one arm on the side of their bodies.
* The Floating Eyes of ''VideoGame/NetHack'' that stuns you for a long time if you strike it.
* One of the monsters in ''Conan: Hall of Volta'' was a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTkRXKPXq4#t=4m50s large floating eyeball.]]
* The "Eyeball" costume in the ''VideoGame/CostumeQuest'' DLC "Grubbins on Ice".
* The [[{{God}} Wise One]] in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''.
* Mr. I from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' is just an eyeball. It constantly faces Mario, so the only way to defeat it is to [[WeaksauceWeakness run around it quickly until it gets dizzy]]. A [[GiantMook bigger version]] appears as a MiniBoss in BigBoosHaunt.
* The Ahriman in ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' also featured the Evil Eye and Death Eye as bosses. Their similarity to beholders (see under Tabletop Games, above) is due to them being a LawyerFriendlyCameo.
* The [[http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Pain_elemental Pain elementals]] and [[http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacodemon Cacodemons]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. While both are sturdy Pain Elementals are even worse because they can take a beating and spawn Lost Souls on death (along with the Lost Souls they spawn as an attack). In ''VideoGame/{{Brutal Doom}}'' and ''Project Brutality'' add different variants that are meaner and stronger. Fortunately the brutal finishers you can do on them is both painful and satisfying: Doomguy rips a Cacodemon in half by tearing apart by the jaws or rips out their eye in the case of both. This actually ''prevents'' Pain Elementals from spawning Lost Souls ''because'' they don't pop.
* ''VideoGame/EverQuest I'' and ''II'' have the "Evil Eyes".
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' has several, like Ichimokuren.
* A betentacled floating eyeball early boss in ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy''.
* Ameno-Sagiri, a giant laser eyeball boss from ''VideoGame/Persona4''.
* The Feyesh in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'''s single player mode is a flying eyeball fish with tentacles. Yuck.
* [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Stalker Stalkers]] in ''VideoGame/RuneScape''.

* Suezoes from ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'' are naught but eyeballs and mouths on a single tiny tail/foot-like appendage.
* Charade, of ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'', is a humanoid with an eyeball for his thorax. He still has a faceless "head" too.

* Many of the enemies and bosses in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series are like this. In no particular order, there's Waddle Doo, Kracko, [[spoiler:Dark Matter, Dark Nebula, Zero, Zero-Two, Drawcia Soul, Dark Mind's second form, Dark Crafter, and Star Dream's first and second form.]]
* The '''[[MeaningfulName MONOCULUS!]]''' from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.
* The [[MeaningfulName Oculons]] in ''VideoGame/{{Ascendancy}}'' (although unlike most of the other examples here, they're a [[PlanetOfHats race]] of chivalrous astronomers, rather than being evil or otherwise disturbing.)
* Unown, Magnemite, Magneton and Magnezone from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. Duskull plays with this in that it wears a skull mask to hide it's single eye visable through the eyeholes.
** Subverted with Roggenrola, what looks like its eye is actually an ear. Since it lives deep underground it is completely blind.
* 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 ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. (The model's file name is "beholder.") The Throne of Thunder raid added the boss Durumu the Forgotten, whose fight revolves around various eye-themed attacks.

* A common enemy in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series are "flying eyes" (which sometimes have tails).
* The Killer Eye viruses in the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series. They stay perfectly still and attempt to zap anything that enters their line of sight with a paralyzing beam.

* The Mogal and its upgraded form, as part of the Demon Hordes of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemSacredStones''.

* Orbs -- the aliens that conquered Earth in ''VideoGame/{{Manhunter}}'' series. Especially the variety holding New York in the first game -- just [[spoiler:carnivorous]] floating eyes.
* Gazers and eyebeasts from ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'' series are for all intents and purposes renamed beholders with a smaller main eye.
** Another series by the same author, ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', originally had monsters with the same names that looked like shapeless floating blobs with many eyes. But in the recent remake they became just like their ''Geneforge'' namesakes.
* Evil Eyes, Vile Eyes and the Gazer from ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' are similar to beholders, save for the "eyestalks" having mouths on the end.
* Vel'Koz, a champion in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''.

* Wheatley and the other Personality Cores in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
* One of the bosses in the arcade game ''VideoGame/GateOfDoom'' resembles a large eye surrounded by many smaller eyes.
* Evil Eyes in ''VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath''. They face a particular direction, and wake up when you step into a square in their line of sight. However, once woken, their behaviour is identical to roaches.
* In the second ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game, ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'', flying eyes with bat wings are a common enemy in the first couple stages. The game's BonusBoss is a giant mechanical version called "Evil Eye Sigma", built by the stage 1 boss [[WrenchWench Rika]].

* ''{{VideoGame/Zombidle}}'': The Swarm of Bats mook is a swarm of bat[[NonIndicativeName -winged eyeballs]] with a disturbingly chipper personality.

* Junior in ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' is literally a sapient eyeball.

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

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

* The Atraxi in ''Series/DoctorWho'' "The Eleventh Hour" is nothing except a giant eye. Check it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWr0Hajo3k out.]]
* Beljoxa's Eye in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a... thing made of several eyes.

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* Similarly, Starro, a JusticeLeagueOfAmerica foe, is a starfish with one big eye in the middle [[spoiler:or at least, post-retcon, his drones are]].

* The Feyesh in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' is a flying eyeball fish with tentacles. Yuck.

* A betentacled floating eyeball early boss in ''RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy''.

* Mr I from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' is just an eyeball. It constantly faces Mario the only way to defeat one is to run around it fast enough so it get's dizzy.

* One of the bosses in the arcade game ''Gate of Doom'' resembles a large eye surrounded by many smaller eyes.

* The [[http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Pain_elemental Pain elementals]] and [[http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Cacodemon Cacodemons]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

* 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=]]].

* The ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' series has Gazers, which look like the D&D creature but aren't called that for trademark reasons. When killed, they release insects, making them [[{{Pun}} Bee Holders]].

* ''Franchise/{{Neopets}}'' formerly had the [[http://i.imgur.com/7M5yrqh.jpg Fleye,]] which was eventually redesigned into a dragonfly-like Neopet called the Buzz.

* TabletopGame/{{Mortasheen}} has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/oculapus.htm Oculapus]], an octopus creature that cantransfer what it sees to its creator over a distance of miles. It's also severly agorophobic, and uses and old-timey diving helmet to shield itself from the outside world.

* ''VideoGame/EverQuest 1 and 2'' and has the "Evil Eyes".

* Ameno-Sagiri, a giant laser eyeball boss from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''.

* "Floating Eye" demons in ''VideoGame/{{World of Warcraft}}''. (The model's file name is "beholder.") The Throne of Thunder raid added the boss Durumu the Forgotten, whose fight revolves around various eye-themed attacks.

* Evil Eyes, Vile Eyes and the Gazer from ''VideoGame/{{Dragons Dogma}}'' are similar to beholders, save for the "eyestalks" having mouths on the end.