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* The MonsterOfTheWeek of the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "The Mane Event" is a beholder-like creature consisting of black orb full of blue eyes. It's large enough to block out the sun's lightning in Townsville, and its eyes shoot vaporizing lasers. It can only be attacked when its eyes are shut.

* One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' is Infrared Ivan, an invisible eyeball who steals eye-based items (like glasses) by fooling people into thinking he's an invisible man with a coat and hat dangled on one of his tentacles. After reluctantly wearing the super-sensory (but embarrassing-looking) new eyes her mother made, Jenny exploits Ivan's weakness by [[EyeScream kicking sand into him]]... which he then humorously subdues itself by picking up all the wrong things to help the burning (hot sauce, a magnifying glass, and a pointy stick).

* 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=]]].

* One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' is an invisible eyeball stealing eye-based items (like glasses) that fools people into thinking he's an invisible man with a coat and hat dangled on one of its tentacles. After reluctantly wearing the super sensory (but embarrassing looking) new eyes her mother made, Jenny exploits its weakness by kicking sand into the eye... which it then humorously subdues itself by picking up all the wrong things to help the burning (hot sauce, a magnifying glass, and a pointy stick).

* Dark Schneider from ''Manga/{{Bastard}}'' at one point encounters a beholder, which is virtually identical to the page image.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'' has the Cyclops Plant boss, which is a giant, floating, [[EyeBeams laser-shooting]], [[FlunkyBoss slime-dripping]] eyeball protected by an equally large plant.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': The Ghomas resemble colossal eyeballs, with eyelids and minimal bodies around them, scuttling around on four jointed legs.

* 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 [[ChekhovsGun Rigby uses a laser pointer on him]] after he cheats by growing extra eyes.

** One of the most common generic fiends seen in series (mostly in promotional material) are simplistic black circles with a single eye and wings.
** An eye with limbs is seen in the Onion Stand commercial from the episode "Shorts: Set 1".

* A FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider version appears in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'', in which spiders are seen with one eye, but they're all nice, especially Baby Spider from the episode "Pato's Egg".

* A FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider version appears in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'' in which spiders are seen with one eye, but they're all nice, specially Baby Spider from "Pato's Egg" episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''

A subtrope of {{Cephalothorax}}, a creature whose body is mostly head. Not to be confused with a {{Cyclops}} or FacelessEye. Often combined with GiantEyeOfDoom. See also BrainMonster, which exposes a different organ instead.

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* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls fought a beholder-like creature made up almost entirely of eyes in the Season 3 episode "The Mane Event".
* The MonsterOfTheWeek in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' is an invisible eyeball stealing eye-based items (like glasses) that fools people into thinking he's an invisible man with a coat and hat dangled on one of its tentacles. After reluctantly wearing the super sensory (but embarrassing looking) new eyes her mother made, Jenny exploits its weakness by kicking sand into the eye... which it then humorously subdues itself by picking up all the wrong things to help the burning (hot sauce, a magnifying glass, and a pointy stick).

* The ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' books have Eye Stingers, spiky floating monsters with a single eye who likes to ambush adventurers from dark places. One of them notably shows up in the Lost City of Vatos in ''Literature/TempleOfDoom'', and its spines can [[TakenForGranite turn victims into stone]] with a single prick; the only way to defeat it is either by stabbing its central eye or showing it an onyx egg, which will make the monster immobile and close its eye allowing adventurers to pass unscathed.

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

A subtrope of {{Cephalothorax}}, a creature whose body is mostly head. Not to be confused with a {{Cyclops}} or FacelessEye. Often combined with GiantEyeOfDoom.

* 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?]]

* Suezo from ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'' is this.
* Medama-Oyaji from ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro''

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': The true, original form of the entity referred to as [[spoiler:'Father of the Homunculi']] or [[spoiler:'The Dwarf In The Flask']] is this; a spherical cloud of black smoke with one eye. It occasionally manifests a mouth and a pair of arms as well.

* Shuma-Gorath's ancient creation, Quoggoth, appeared in Wolverine:First Class. It appears as a six-tentacled, starfish-like form with MANY eyes.
* Similarly, Starro, a ComicBook/JusticeLeague foe, is a starfish with one big eye in the middle [[spoiler:or at least, post-retcon, his drones are]].

** The TropeCodifier for modern fantasy is the Beholder, pictured above. These powerful aberrations are eight-foot-wide floating heads dominated by a central eye, which can emit a cone of AntiMagic, while its ten supplementary eye stalks can fire magical rays with effects ranging from ''[[SupernaturalFearInducer fear]]'' and ''[[TheParalyzer paralyze]]'' to ''[[TakenForGranite flesh to stone]]'' and ''[[DisintegratorRay disintegrate]]''. They come in a surprising number of variants, such as {{the undead}} Death Tyrant, the pincher-clawed Eye of the Deep that uses illusions to lure sailors close before stunning them with a blinding flash of light, or the Death Kiss and its blood-draining tentacles. Other beholderkin are simply scaled-down variants with less dangerous eye beams, such as the medium-sized Gauth and Spectator, or the [[FunSize foot-wide]] Gazer. Beholders are intelligent and often brilliant, but also insane by human standards due to the divide between their rational and irrational minds. They have little love for other races save as food or minions, but they are intensely xenophobic toward other Beholders because they look wrong, i.e. not like the Beholder in question.

** The TropeCodifier for modern fantasy is the Beholder, pictured above. These powerful aberrations are eight-foot-wide floating heads dominated by a central eye, which can emit a cone of AntiMagic, while its ten supplementary eye stalks can fire magical rays with effects ranging from ''[[SupernaturalFearInducer fear]]'' and ''[[StandardStatusEffects/ParalyzedStun paralyze]]'' to ''[[TakenForGranite flesh to stone]]'' and ''[[DisintegratorRay disintegrate]]''. They come in a surprising number of variants, such as {{the undead}} Death Tyrant, the pincher-clawed Eye of the Deep that uses illusions to lure sailors close before stunning them with a blinding flash of light, or the Death Kiss and its blood-draining tentacles. Other beholderkin are simply scaled-down variants with less dangerous eye beams, such as the medium-sized Gauth and Spectator, or the [[FunSize foot-wide]] Gazer. Beholders are intelligent and often brilliant, but also insane by human standards due to the divide between their rational and irrational minds. They have little love for other races save as food or minions, but they are intensely xenophobic toward other Beholders because they look wrong, i.e. not like the Beholder in question.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': Many of the enemies and bosses in the series are like this. In no particular order, there's 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]].

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Chasupas, the DarkWorld's GoddamnedBats, are eyeballs with bat wings.

** The very first game ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' has [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Digdogger Digdogger]]. It's not clear from the old in game graphics this is what it is, but concept art and Oracle of Seasons show it more clearly.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'': The DarkWorld's GoddamnedBats are eyeballs with bat wings. Vitreous, the boss of the Misery Mire, is a giant eyeball surrounded by smaller eyeballs.
** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' has some flying eyeballs. Incredibly annoying flying eyeballs. Some of which are invisible without the right item.
** Wart is a mini-boss in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' that consists of an eyeball surrounded by heavily-armored frog-like scales. It is invulnerable while the eye is closed, and starts out surrounded by bubbles which must be separated and dispatched in order to attack it cleanly. Wart is related to Arrghus, a giant-eyed jellyfish that appears in some other games.
** The "Ocular Parasite" boss in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', which is four giant eyeballs on stalks, and a fifth giant eyeball with a mouth and wings, also on a stalk.
** Vaati, the boss of the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords'' games, generally takes the form of a giant eyeball with 4-6 bat wings.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', the [[BatOutOfHell Keese]] are reimagined as being essentially gigantic orange eyes with eyelids, ears and wings.