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10->''"Here's (Insert weapon here) In Your Eye!"''
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13Playing it may just be worse than seeing it. Here are examples of EyeScream from video games.
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18* In ''VideoGame/SevenDaysASkeptic'', [[spoiler:Dr. William Taylor has been forced to construct a body for a ghost out of the murdered crew. The ghost possesses the body, but it needs eyes ([[FridgeBrilliance the only intact head Taylor got needed glasses]]), so it takes a pair. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness From Dr. Taylor.]]]]
19* Kaname Date of ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' lost his left eye before the events of the game; he doesn't remember how. [[BenevolentAI Aiba]] was put into its socket. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this is the result of him being subjected to the prototype Psync machine and switching bodies with Saito Sejima. On the Resolution route, he is forced to Psync in the same machine, causing him to go through this ''again'' with the same eye. Saito even takes Aiba with him for good measure, [[YourHeadAsplode though it ends up being his undoing]].]] In [[VideoGame/AITheSomniumFilesNirvanaInitiative the sequel]], Mizuki inherits Aiba after losing her own left eye [[spoiler:in an explosion at Naixatloz's underground cathedral]] during the time between the two games. Averted with her fellow Psyncer Ryuki though, who's revealed to have willingly had his left eye surgically removed with the express purpose of replacing it with an AI-Ball. [[spoiler:The same goes for tritagonist Mizuki "Bibi" Kuranushi as well, as she had been born with a blind eye.]]
20* One of the endings of ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' has [[spoiler:Mike shooting Leland at [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank range]] through his eye]]. And it's definitely not one of the game's normal PrettyLittleHeadshots.
21* A major plot point in ''VideoGame/{{Amea}}''. [[spoiler:As part of their attempts to escape life's hardships and begin a new, false life, the Master Eye's cult have all ritualistically removed their eyes and replaced them with artificial ones (likely of the Master Eye's own design) that wipes their memories beyond the bare essentials, thus letting them begin a new "life" as the Master Eye's slave. When Amea, who had initially joined the cult due to ParentalAbandonment, learns this, she decides that she's not going to run away anymore and face whatever life throws at her, and shows this by ''ripping out her fake eyes''.]]
22* In ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'', there is a particularly disturbing text passage upon discovering [[spoiler:the Iron Maiden in the Choir]].
23-->'''Excerpt from text:''' [[spoiler:His knee jerked and he felt blood trickle down his leg. In pain his head fell slightly forward. It took him a while to realize his eye had ruptured and begun to leak.]]
24* In the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series, shaking trees sometimes results in a beehive falling out, leading to the pissed-off [[ScaryStingingSwarm bees]] chasing you. If they catch you, they'll sting your eye, leaving it puffy and swollen. Fortunately it's not permanent. Taking a rest (read: saving and quitting) or using some medicine will fix it.
25* In ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'', Ryan Flores lost his left eye in a past incident when [[spoiler:Ann accidentally awakens [[EvilMeScaresMe Amok]] within her, lost control, and attacked him]]. His injury wasn't too severe and soon got treatment via a cybernetic replacement with bioskin, making it indistinguishable from the original.
26* The ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' franchise:
27** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'':
28*** This game took the counter kills from [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI the first game]] and jacked the brutality level up to eleven. Countering with Ezio's hidden blade will occasionally result in both blades being jabbed through a guard's eyes. You can't really make out much, but really the dark red spurts of blood from both sockets are enough.
29*** There's also the fact that Mario Auditore (Ezio's uncle) is blind in his left eye, with a scar around said eye. The injury itself is only elaborated on in the Facebook spinoff ''Project Legacy''. In one mission (before the events of ''Assassin's Creed II''), Mario was cut in the face by a bladed pendulum, causing his eventual blindness. To make it worse, there is even a picture showing Mario with the newly acquired injury, [[SarcasmMode because we needed to see that]].
30** There is a unique Assassination move done by the Footpad (from the ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'' multiplayer) where said Footpad slashes the target in the eyes with his weapon before stabbing the target in the throat. The move's nickname? "Blinded and Helpless". Quaint.
31%%* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': Go for the eyes, Boo! GO FOR THE EYES! (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
32* One of Minsc's shouts in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' is him telling Boo to go for the eyes. [[spoiler:This becomes an implemented mechanic in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''.]]
33* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'':
34** In an early cutscene, you get to watch two characters get implanted with illithid tadpoles through the eye -- one of them being your POV character.
35** Later in the game, Volo can try to remove your tadpole by going through your pupil with increasing force, starting out with a needle and ending by knocking your whole eye out with an ice pick. A mortified Volo gives you a magical prosthetic that lets you see invisible creatures as a replacement and runs away.
36** The player can also make a bargain with the hag [[spoiler: Auntie Ethel]] to remove the tadpole, which also costs them an eye (on purpose this time) and doesn't work either. She also replaces it, but less beneficially - your eye now makes you more intimidating but doesn't see as well and makes it harder for you to hit hags in the event you come into conflict her. If you've already done one of these, the other one will refuse.
37** [[DeadlyDoctor Malus Thorm]] will slice the eyes of his "patient" with a scalpel, giving you a good luck at the bloody, empty sockets left behind, while explaining why he considers this an improvement according to his maddened [[ReligionOfEvil Sharran ideals]]. He'll compliment you on having removed one of your eyes already if you took either of the above options, though he doesn't think you've gone far enough.
38* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' includes a little spin on this by doing it with eyeball plants. They play a game of keep away with a jiggy, and to get the jiggy you have to... [[{{Squick}} pop them open with bee stingers]]. Okay. [[BloodlessCarnage It isn't too violent, given that this is rated E for everyone.]]
39* In ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga2'', the Sundr Eyeless is so named because her eyes are sewn shut. She usually wears a mask to cover it.
40* Penguin in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' has been shown with [[http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Images/8229620110829_110004_1_big.jpg the bottom of a glass bottle over his eye]] in place of a monocle, which according to previews was stabbed there and cannot be removed without killing him. Being the "sophisticated" man he is, though, he's grown rather "attached" to it.
41* ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' doesn't shy away from this.
42** One of the bullets that killed Thomas Wayne went into his eye.
43** [[spoiler:Vicki Vale gouged out her adopted mother's.]]
44** [[spoiler:Saving Selina instead of Harvey in Episode 2 sees Bruce toss a Batarang into one of the goons' eyes.]]
45** [[spoiler:Deciding not to unmask in front of Vicki results in Alfred losing his left eye.]]
46* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', Orendi's "Starring Contest" taunt animation has her do the ''Film/AceVenturaWhenNatureCalls'' thing wherein she pushes her own eyeball in and out.
47* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'': Stage 4 of the arcade game features enemies named Ugly Mugs that need to have their eyes knocked out before smacking them in their [[PunnyName ugly mugs]].
48%%* Invoked in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''. [[spoiler:When Father Balder and Bayonetta are trapped in the massive statue that will be used to resurrect Jubileus, the Creator, Jeanne suddenly shows up and yanks Bayonetta out of the magic pool of water she was suspended in. What we then see is the pool running down the statue's face, and the faint sound of Jubileus screaming (maybe in pain, maybe in fury).]] (Needs elaboration on where exactly eyes factor in.)
49* Several power-up items in ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' do this to Isaac, but since his main weapon is [[SwissArmyTears his tears]], doing this is actually ''beneficial''.
50* In ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain'', Nupraptor sews his own eyes and mouth shut during his descent into madness.
51* One of the artifacts you're supposed to collect in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}}'' is a demon's eye [[spoiler:which forcibly implants itself upon collecting. From Rayne's reaction to this, it's... not pleasant.]]
52* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'':
53** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'':
54*** During the introductory mission, RobotBuddy Claptrap gets [[CyberCyclops his eye]] ripped out by the game's first boss, a bullymong named Knuckle Dragger, and he tasks you with helping him get it back.
55*** At some point in the game, Handsome Jack talks to the player about the time a man tried to attack him with a spoon. He then proceeds to laugh about how he then took the spoon and gouged out said man's eyeballs in front of his children.
56*** One line from Goliaths when their helmets are shot off: "Get ready to feel my fingers in your eyeballs!"
57** ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'':
58*** An early QTE sequence in "Atlas Mugged" has Fiona digging out the eyeball of a general in order to access a retinal scanner. Rhys startles her by screaming, so that she slips and cuts one eye in half. By the time she succeeds and accesses the retinal scanner, [[spoiler:it turns out the general was alive all along, in suspended animation. And he was possibly a last hope for the universe.]]
59*** Rhys ripping out his ECHO eye in Episode 5 in order to [[spoiler:free himself of Handsome Jack's control]] is milked for all it's worth.
60* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'':
61** At the beginning of the game, Lance pokes Fritz's eyes, prompting him to cover them... too bad that he has {{Hook Hand}}s.
62** Also, in one death scene, Fritz will approach Lance from behind, poke him in both eyes with his hooks, and proceed to rip him apart vertically, putting new meaning to the words "splitting headache".
63* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' unsurprisingly has a good one. Go ahead and lose the RTS battle with Doviculus. The resulting losing animation quickly switches to Eddie's point of view just as the emperor tells you he is going to make a necklace with your eyes, then thrusts his fingers into the screen as it turns to black.
64* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
65** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'', at the very beginning of the game, a Japanese officer puts out his cigarette in a captured Marine's eye after he refuses to break under [[ColdBloodedTorture interrogation]].
66** In the climax of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'', you kill [[spoiler:Shepherd]] by throwing a knife into his eye,[[spoiler:[[LodgedBladeRecycling after pulling it out of yourself]]]].
67** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', during the Baikonur level, after Weaver gets compromised and tied to a chair, Kravchenko stabs him in the eye. He survives, and gets an EyepatchOfPower.
68** In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar'', Bell will receive an injection in his eye socket thanks to Adler during "Break on Through". His team is obviously shaken by the action. [[spoiler: Moving forward in the mission Bell will receive more and more every time he "dies" or goes out of the rail of Adler's narration.]]
69* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
70** ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness Curse of Darkness]]'' has an alluded-to near-miss of this. See that scar over Trevor's left eye? Dracula got testy. Judgment made him lose the eyeball (thus making ''him'' look more like a pirate than Faust-VIII-lookalike zombie Grant).
71** The cyclops is only vulnerable to headshots. But it's a cyclops, so we know they're actually eyeshots.
72** Balore's weak spots are his eyes. Always. And ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' makes him way less pretty.
73* One of the ghost children in ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' has had her left eye stabbed out. And if you get caught by her? [[spoiler:She takes yours!]]
74* ''VideoGame/ColdWinter'' have this happening in Kim's flashback, where she's recruited by some Red Chinese operatives in a cell and told to sign some papers in exchange for her brother's life. She swiftly kills everyone and finishes the recruiter by [[ThePenIsMightier shoving her pen through said recruiter's eye]].
75* ''VideoGame/CrueltySquad'': The description for the Zoom N Go Bionic Eyes implies that installation is as simple as shoving them into one's existing eyes.
76* In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'', characters in the Byzantine culture group can blind prisoners. This inflicts them with a malus to stats and gives their character portraits black, gaping holes in their sockets.
77* Alighiero, Dante's father in ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', puts up a good fight with an assassin. He only loses when said assassin grabs a nearby cross and plunges it deep into Alighiero's eye, killing him.
78* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' a Psychopath meets his end when a statue tips over onto him. The statue is holding a real sword. Guess where that sword goes. It's foreshadowed by his cult having a major [[EyeMotifs eye theme]].
79* The ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' franchise:
80** In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace1'', the Captain of the ship has gone mad and the doctor declares him unfit for duty. He picks up a needle with a sedative, but the Captain jerks as he tries to get free, and the needle is jammed into his eye.
81** In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', this happens twice. Once to [[spoiler:Ellie]] at the hands of [[spoiler:Dr. Stross]] ("You owe me an eye, you bastard!"), and once to Isaac if you fail to get the needle in the right place in a minigame near the end of the game. (It's still a nasty case of EyeScream if you ''do'' get the needle in the right place. You just don't die.) It's made worse by the fact that ''you're in control of it the whole time''. Both of these are preceded by the rather nightmarish little chant "Cross my heart and hope to die... stick a needle in your eye..."
82** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'' tops them all; you kill the FinalBoss by throwing things into its eyes. Seems mundane, [[spoiler:but the final boss is a post-Convergence Necromorph the [[GeniusLoci size of a moon]], its eyes are ''several hundred feet wide'', and the things you throw into its eyes are Red Markers about 30 feet tall. Upon impact, the eyes burst open into a tidal wave of blood and fluid. Here, you make the closest thing to an unrelenting, timeless PhysicalGod feel pain]].
83* In ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', the Maiden in Black has her eyes covered by wax that's melted into her skin, blinding her. It's unclear that if she was born this way [[spoiler:due to her being an incredibly powerful demon]] or if the wax was more of a result of her being the keeper of the Nexus. If the latter is the case, it's also unclear if she lost her eyes before coming to the Nexus, if she still has her eyes under the wax, or if she lost them due to the waxing.
84* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'':
85** Dante leaves Leviathan's body by bursting out of its eye.
86** Beowulf had his left eye sliced out by Sparda in the past. In the present, Dante takes out the right eye after their battle.
87* In the intro of ''VideoGame/Diablo1997'', you see a close up of a crow picking out the eye of a decaying body. While not looking too realistic by today's CGI standards, that was a pretty unpleasant scene at the time of release. The sequel also allows you to summon ravens as the Druid class, and their attacks blind enemies.
88* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}: [[DownloadableContent The Brigmore Witches]]'', if you manage to land a deathblow on Edgar Wakefield from the front, Daud pulls him closer and plunges his sword into Edgar's left eye. And then Daud slowly pulls it out.
89* ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'':
90** In the level "Under watch", you have to destroy living cameras made out of giant demonic eyes by pulling them out with your grappling hook.
91** During the first two phases of the boss battle against Bob Barbas, you end up grappling hook-jumping into his eyes to proceed to the next stage of the battle.
92* In the ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'' games, King K. Rool is depicted as having one eye that's constantly bloodshot.
93* The ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' franchise:
94** ''VideoGame/{{DOOM}}'' GameMod ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'' has executions, available through use of the [[QuadDamage Berserker Pack]]. The one-eyed Cacodemons can be executed by the Marine reaching into its face and tearing out its eye with his bare hands.
95** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' and ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' made execution moves a mechanic to get health back during the Doom Slayer's rampages. Most of the Cacodemon executions involve the Slayer stabbing, punching, or ripping that eye from its socket in a squall of gore.
96* Pops up a few times in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', usually with throwing knives.
97** The best one is the conclusion of the [[spoiler:Orsino!Harvester]] battle. Hawke leaps onto the beast and ''stabs it in the eye again and again''. [[spoiler:Then Hawke ''rips out its head'' and ''stomps it to death''.]]
98** Zevran gets a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when an Antivan Crow runs at him from behind, sword raised. Barely turning, he flicks [[AscendedMeme Murder Knife]] at the man, who slows to a stop and keels over, revealing the hilt protruding from his left eye.
99* At the end of the third episode of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', Duke kicks the eye right out of the Cycloid Emperor's head. This part was recreated in the prologue/video-game-within-a-video-game level of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', only in this case the Cycloid Emperor's eyeball is on the ground, but still connected to his head.
100* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', eyes are damageable (and, in some cases, targetable) organs. However, in the current version, bugs mean they can't be removed and will rapidly recover ''any'' damage they receive. Still, not fast enough that gouging out something's eyes won't let you kill it at your leisure, or at least massively improve your chances of it. There's a reason why it's one of the two ways to make Wrestling a viable skill.
101* In the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' series, Xiahou Dun's EyepatchOfPower stems from him getting hit in the eye by an arrow. Unlike King Harold in the Battle of Hastings however, who simply dropped dead, he remained standing, pulled the arrow out, and ''ate the lost eyeball''. Not only does this prove that Xiahou Dun is MadeOfIron, but it also provides a defining ([[{{Squick}} if disgusting]]) moment in ''Dynasty Warriors''.
102* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', one of the earlier enemies (yes, early in the game), a crow, have their attack read as a peck to the eyes.
103* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': This is a common motif with the Frenzied Flame. Frenzied Flame-affected enemies have flames spurting from their eye sockets, its greatest human servant is named Shabriri (the same name as a Hebrew demon of blindness), who had his eyes gouged out as a punishment for the crime of MaliciousSlander. Hyetta's quest involves giving her "Shabriri Grapes", which are actually human eyeballs from followers of the Frenzied Flame. [[spoiler: Completing her questline sees her eyes ''melt out of their sockets''.]]
104* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', one of the finishing moves against dragons involves the [[PlayerCharacter Dovahkiin]] jumping onto the dragon's head and stabbing it in the eye. Possibly FridgeBrilliance since the eyes are sometimes a dragon's AchillesHeel in literature.
105* Throughout the first three levels of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'', there are gems hidden in Mario-esque floating blocks with happy faces on them. Level 4 lets you know exactly where the game is headed when you are forced to jump into one and [[spoiler:its eyes pop out of its sockets as you instantly evert from SugarBowl World 4-1 to the completely terrifying World 4-5.]]
106* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'':
107** In ''VideoGame/FableI'' on the Xbox, the main character's sister has her eyes cut out by bandits when she refuses to tell them where you are.
108** In ''VideoGame/FableIII'', during your first encounter with [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Crawler]], when you find Walter after his disappearance, he is covered by a dark goo, and his eyes seem to be bleeding said goo. More creepy than {{Squick}}-inducing, though]].
109* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'':
110** Sorrow-spiders, which are spiders that bite out the eyeballs of sleeping people (or people who're drunk enough to fall over). They get their name from the tears that flow from the remaining eye. More aggressive Sorrow-Spiders will just leap on your very awake face and tear them right out of your sockets, too. Notably, they're so picky about this ([[spoiler:since they don't eat them, but rather use them for eggs]]) using protective goggles will ward them off, and applying Shapeling Arts to [[BodyHorror just have your head swallow your eyeballs for a bit]] will make them outright ignore you.
111** The Correspondence can [[BrownNote make your eyes bleed if you read it]]. Inuring yourself to it, if you keep going said eyes can occasionally ''burst into flame'' in the middle of reading. [[spoiler:The Discordance can cause a similar effect, in that if you read even a little bit you can occasionally feel your vitreous humors freeze and ''crack'']].
112** The body tends to react rather badly when exposed to plentiful [[FictionalColour Irrigo]], for '''[[BrownNote very]] [[EmptyShell good]] [[WistfulAmnesia reasons]]''', and will grow bone over the eye sockets to try and block it out.
113** As a minor example treated as AmusingInjuries, an encounter with [[PressXToDie the Museum's Toxicology Exhibit]] can have this gem:
114--->Extract of ''Amanita chthonica'', the ghost cap. Your eyes rotate longitudinally in their sockets, twisting your optical nerves into taut strings.
115* In the [[VideoGame/Fallout1 first]] [[VideoGame/Fallout2 two]] ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' games, aiming for the eyes is not only possible but one of the most effective ways to dispatch enemies -- not only does a critical hit to the eyes typically inflict extra damage, it also bypasses the damage resistance of any armor the target might be wearing and has a chance of automatically killing them outright. In the later ones you can, at most, target the head, but the fact that it just about ''kills'' Perception when a target's head is crippled tends to imply that some of this is still going on. Can't shoot someone in the face with a laser/shotgun and not have a bit of that get in their eyes, after all.
116* In the opening scene of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'', the [[PlayerCharacter Junior Deputy]] watches a video in which [[SinisterMinister Joseph Seed]] gouges out the eyes of a man he caught spying on one of his {{cult}}'s church services.
117-->'''Joseph Seed:''' They are blind... ''but I will make them see''.
118* [[BoisterousBruiser Karoosh]] from ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' has one eye scratched and permanently closed, stemming from a battle with Mog, the Udam who [[OutlivingOnesOffspring killed his son]].
119* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'':
120** One of the items you can find in [[VideoGame/FatalFrameI the first game]] is a mask with large spikes in the eyes. It's revealed that girls are blinded with this device for a horrific [[SealedEvilInACan ritual to close hellgates]]. What's worse is you can try to use the mask yourself, though many never have the courage to find out what happens if you press the "Use" button.
121** The sequels also have cases of EyeScream, including the Mourners in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameII II]]'', whose eyes were sewn shut, the Needle Women in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameIII III]]'', who had their own eyes gouged out, and the Shrine Maidens in ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater Maiden of Black Water]]'', whose eyes were slashed out. Also, there's a text in ''II'' that warns you not to look into the local HellGate, for obvious reasons, [[spoiler:as Mio finds out in one of the game's MultipleEndings]].
122* ''VideoGame/FearAndHungerTermina'': Prior to the events of the game, Daan ripped out his own eye as an offering in a failed attempt to revive his dead wife Elise. [[HandicappedBadass It doesn't hinder him one bit in braving the horrors of Prehevil]].
123* ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' has this in the ''Sedna'' release. Hana, the resident MsFanservice, can get shot in the chest, then gets a bullet right through her eye, leaving her blood and brains on the wall behind her.
124* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
125** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'':
126*** In a flashback, we see how Auron gets blasted into the face/left eye by [[spoiler:Yunalesca]] when trying to [[spoiler:avenge Jecht's and Braska's deaths]]. Well, at least he got his [[strike:Eyepatch]] [[CoolShades Sunglasses]] [[EyepatchOfPower of Power]] after that.
127*** During the attack on the Blitz Stadium, you can see that the aeon Anima's Pain ability is based on this. In a surprisingly gory cutscene for the series, blood can be seen coming out of her eye every time she uses it, culminating in a close-up of her bleeding eye socket.
128** Referred to offhand in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' when your character is training to become a Blacksmith: Brithael mentions having accidentally thrown a freshly-forged hammerhead into the eye of one of his previous apprentices, though he adds that he got his sight back eventually.
129*** Also in the same game, dragons are explicitly noted as having their powers be within their eyes. As you might imagine, both good and evil end up using dragon eyes for a multitude of reasons, and doing so does require the eye(s) to be plucked from the dragon in question, willingly or otherwise. Fortunately the eyes can be restored to their rightful owners, and good guys always do just that once they're done with whatever they needed the eyes for.
130** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', [[spoiler:Ignis Scientia]] receives a hideous eye injury at one point during the Leviathan trial. He's left blind in both eyes, and has a massive burn-like scar around his left eye socket. He may or may not have lost the left eye completely; he never opens it again after that [[spoiler:except in (possibly glitched) photos after the time skip]].
131* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' has four cases, in three different continuities:
132** [[spoiler:Nergal]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', in its not-torn-out, googly-eyed twitchiness. [[spoiler:The Archsage Athos gave it to him in the past, after they went from best friends to CainAndAbel.]]
133** [[{{Ninja}} Saizo]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is blind in his right eye due to [[RuggedScar a scar]] obtained while [[spoiler:attempting to kill the ruler of the Principality of Mokushu [[YouKilledMyFather for the death]] of [[DisappearedDad his father]], the previous Saizo.]] In [[CriticalHit his critical animation]], he actually opens his right eye wide so the player can see its milky whiteness, probably due to cataracts forming.
134** [[AntiHero Niles]], also from ''Fates'', wears an EyepatchOfPower over his empty socket. In one of his skinship lines in the Japanese version, he tells Corrin that his eye was taken from him by an "unworthy person", probably a thief since Niles once was a StreetUrchin.
135** After the TimeSkip in most routes of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Dimitri ends up losing his eye. Considering [[BloodKnight his behavior]] after the timeskip, it's safe to say that he lost it due to his recklessness in battle.
136* In ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'', after Jankowski's disappearance in the second level, you will occasionally see a "phantom" image of him... with his eyes gouged out. Whether or not he's actually dead, though, is up in the air.
137* ''VideoGame/FlashOfTheBlade'' have the Soulstealer revealing his true form, a FacelessEye floating in a realm of red. But you're wielding a sacred weapon called the Lightbringer, at which point you put an end to Soulstealer by [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing the Lightbringer]] into Soulstealer's pupil.
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141* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'':
142** Kratos is capable of killing cyclopes by yanking out their eyeballs.
143** Kratos tears up Typhon's eye in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarII II]]''.
144** The most epic example of this is when he kills ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Poseidon]]'' in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII III]]'' by gouging his eyes before [[NeckSnap breaking his neck]] and throwing him off a cliff. The fact that you see this from [[ShakyPOVCam Poseidon's point of view]] makes this horror and a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
145* In ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', Repti was rendered permanently blind after directly witnessing [[spoiler:Bahamut at Estalucia]]. Repti later [[spoiler:shows his memory of this experience to Hailak, and while it doesn't blind ''him'', it does damage his eyes to the point that he now needs to wear glasses.]]
146* ''VideoGame/GreedFall'': During a battle, Eseld kills an unnamed enemy soldier by throwing a dagger into his eye socket.
147* In ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', you have to use your scythe against the eye of an octopus. Granted, it's protected by a crystal, but the fact that it breaks and shows blood afterwards...
148* NES game ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend'' has a huge number of bosses that play this trope straight. Notable examples include the Eyeball Growths, giant masses of eyeballs growing out of the ground that you have to shoot until they pop, and Grimgrin, a giant monster covered in eyes, which [[ShowsDamage explode as you damage him]].
149* In the ''Nightfall'' campaign for ''VideoGame/GuildWars'', the mad god of secrets Abbadon and his servants have a thing for eyes. His favorite minion begins growing extra eyes on her forehead in imitation of her master, and her favorite threat/curse is "Abbadon will eat your eyes." [[spoiler:This is what happens to Kormir when she's taken prisoner after the rout at Consulate Docks -- her eyes are fed to the Hunger and she's blind for the rest of the game, even when she ascends to become the new Goddess of Truth.]]
150* In ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'', this happens to [[spoiler:King Bohan]] very close to the end of the game, after [[spoiler:the Raven God pecks his eyes out as a punishment for Bohan failing him]].
151* Norman Jayden of ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' will start [[TearsOfBlood bleeding from the eyes]] if he uses the ARI for too long at a particular point in the game. If the player persists in using the ARI, [[spoiler:he'll eventually start [[DeadlyNosebleed bleeding from the nose as well]], which is a sign that his time is almost up]].
152* In the ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' installment ''Escaping the Prison'', Henry can choose to escape his cell by shooting a rocket launcher at his cell door. However, the rocket goes through the bars, loops through a set of ventiliation pipes, and back at Henry, drilling into his eye before exploding.
153-->'''FAIL Screen''': Uh... way to aim, buddy.
154* ''VideoGame/{{Hobo}}'': The A-D combo introduced in the series' third game, ''Hobo 3: Wanted'', has Hobo shoot his eyes out of the sockets to attack enemies. It's step-up that debuted in ''Hobo 4: Total War'', A-D-S, takes it a step further by also having Hobo's neck split to extend its ligaments, granting him a longer attack range.
155* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': One of the Warrior Dream-bosses is a woman only called "No Eyes". After she was infected by [[spoiler:the Radiance's light]], she couldn't sleep due to fear of the light taking over her mind through her dreams. She and many other bugs tore their eyes out to protect themselves, before dying of the infection. Her in-game sprite shows her with a black substance dripping from her empty eyesockets like tears.
156* ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'': Yuri's unfortunate first encounter with Valantin ends in tragedy as he finds himself with a 5-foot blade in his left eye. He gets better.
157* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': [[spoiler:When Shazam calls out Regime!Superman for planning to destroy Gotham and Metropolis, Supes responds by grabbing Shazam by the throat and firing EyeBeams directly into his eyeballs]].
158* ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'': Unlocking and using the "special knife" allows you to add a large amount of weight to the scale during battles...by carving out your own eye and putting it on said scale. Thankfully, your "[[AloneWithThePsycho host]]" always offers you a new one after the battle. [[spoiler:It's necessary to unlock more of the story, by replacing your eye with a wizard's to gain TrueSight. Said wizard, Magnificus, lost that eye during a squabble with Leshy and remarks on the unpleasantness even after the game is reset and he gets it back]].
159* ''VideoGame/InTheHunt'' features a giant living statue as a PuzzleBoss. Your submarine has to make [[FridgeLogic floating blocks of stone]] drop on its head. Once damaged enough, the stone covering the statue's face is destroyed, showing the flesh and bones underneath, and its eyeballs dangle out of their sockets. It doesn't help that it gains an attack where it spits out four homing eyeballs.
160* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': After [[spoiler:the Guy goes OneWingedAngel and breaks through the background, his eyes become weak points; shooting them repeatedly causes them to degenerate from black dots into [[{{Squick}} red blotches]]]].
161* ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}''; the calling card of the mysterious SerialKiller that Yagami nicknames "The Mole" is that all of his victims had their eyes carved out, presumably with an ice pick. [[spoiler: This is because The Mole is covering up that the victims were test subjects for a highly toxic Alzheimer's cure, one of the side effects being that their eyes were tinted a vivid shade of blue.]]
162* In ''VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats'', when the [[spoiler:BigBad overdoses on power from the third [[MacGuffin Triangle]]]], its eyes ''explode'', leaving blood-oozing empty sockets. The next song/battle, "Annihilation", begins with dodging the drops of blood. Then [[BodyHorror more]] [[EldritchAbomination mutations]] begin...
163* In ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}} 3'''s [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Brutal Melee System"]], you can do this in two very fun ways: stabbing an opponent in the eye and (somehow) gouging out a Helghast's eyes ''through'' his goggles.
164* ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'':
165** The Cyclops Duckling [[CollectionSidequest Monstermon card]] got its name by getting its eye pecked out by a bigger duckling.
166** Almost all the laser guns in [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 the sequel]] seem to have the odd property of always aiming for the eye.
167* Done in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' of all places, where [[spoiler:Braig]]'s fight with Terra ends with Terra firing a blast of dark energy right into his eye. [[spoiler:Well, now we know where he got that eyepatch.]]
168* The Disco Bandit in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has an attack called Disco Eye-Poke.
169* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'':
170** This happened in Clark Still's past. His partner and best friend Ralf was practicing with some knives, he carelessly threw one around... '''ouch'''. That's why he has a [[ScarsAreForever scar on the left side of his face]].
171** Rugal Berstein has been on both sides of the trope. In ''KOF 94'' we learn that he not only killed Heidern's family ''and'' squad, he also plucked out one of his eyes. And on the other hand, in ''KOF 96'' it's explained that [[spoiler:Goenitz sliced out Rugal's eye when trying to kill him. Impressed that Rugal survived a fatal attack, Goenitz then gave him some of the Orochi power. [[SuperPowerMeltdown Which would later kill him for real.]]]]
172* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
173** Some of the bosses in the ''Kirby'' games have very large and prominent eyes, and some are [[FacelessEye little more than just eyes]], so attacking these bosses becomes this, especially if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5xQWCn9Y4 do it with]] [[{{BFS}} the Master Sword]]. And then, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VItRIOqako Zero]]. [[spoiler:To elaborate, Zero rips out his own eye in a fountain of blood. In a later game, you fight Zero Two, and dealing damage to his eye results in puffs of more blood.]]
174** Recurring enemy [[FacelessEye Waddle Doo]]'s DummiedOut "appearance" in ''Kirby's Block Ball'' has its eye blown off in its death animation.
175* ''VideoGame/TheLastDoor'' has lots of this.
176** In Anthony's manor house, [[spoiler:you find a cat trapped in the basement that's had its eyes gouged out by a bird]].
177** At the Catholic hospice, [[spoiler:you meet Father Ernest, your old teacher. He's burned his eyes out.]]
178** At various points in the game, [[spoiler:the Eye of the Bird appears in nightmares, windows, and keyholes, always accompanied by a literal scream]].
179* The Hunter of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' has a character design that suggests ''some'' kind of eye damage; his eyes are thickly crusted with blood. The character model has no eyes at all, but it's possible that they just aren't rendered because his [[InTheHood hood]] would obscure them from any in-game camera angle. In Versus mode, you can see fine while playing as him, but this could just be [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality for the player's convenience]].
180* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrails'': [[VideoGame/TrailsInTheSky Olivier]] in ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel III'' is [[spoiler:supposedly killed when The Courageous is [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb blown up by a bomb]]. He's revealed to have survived in ''Cold Steel IV'', but now wears an eyepatch due to a blast from an explosion getting his eye before he escaped]].
181* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
182** In many of the games there are enemies that can only be killed by hitting their eyes. There are especially a lot of them in the 3D games.
183** Some games feature switches resembling eyes that are activated by shooting them with arrows.
184** It's implied that the Link of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' eventually loses an eye - as the Hero's Shade in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', one eye is dimmed out, and his wolf form has the same eye scarred shut.
185** In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', poor, poor Gohma gets smashed in its eye with a wide variety of weapons.
186* ''VideoGame/LiarJeannieInCrucifixKingdom'': Marta's left eye is always shut, though it's not clear if the two marks on his eyes are stitches or scars.
187* The second ''VideoGame/LifeAndDeath'' game during a patient's examination. You can do the humane thing and give them a normal exam, or be totally sadistic and click on the patient's eye while holding the pin. Of course, your boss will call you out for it afterward.
188* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' has [[spoiler:Sean]] taking a shard of glass through the eye when Daniel loses control of his powers at the end of Episode 3. Episode 4 reveals that the eye had to be removed entirely, and [[spoiler:Sean]] sports an eye patch for the rest of the game (coupled with the odd GoryDiscretionShot whenever it's removed). [[spoiler:And since he's the playable character, the occasional sections which take place from a first-person [=POV=] have the left side of the screen blacked out from then on.]] Surprisingly for a series which usually lets you avert disasters like character deaths and serious accidents if you make the right choices, there is ''no way'' to prevent this from happening.
189* ''VideoGame/LuxarenAllure'': Greater Evils can use an attack called "Eye Gorge".
190* In ''VideoGame/MadFather'', there is a puzzle that requires you to retrieve a girl's missing eyes.
191* A few weapons in ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' involve gouging out eyes. The Gruesome execution with the glass shard (stabbing the right eye, then slashing their throat), and the Violent execution with the pliers (where the player removes both eyes before knocking the victim out, complete with throwing the eyeballs away) are but two examples.
192* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'':
193** In the DownloadableContent ''Overlord'', when you finally get to the cause of all the trouble, [[spoiler:David Archer]], you find him suspended in some kind of harness with probes sticking out of, among other things, his eyes and holding them open. Think [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/David_Archer this picture]], only with more focus, lingering, and different angles in the course of the ending cinematic.
194** According to Mordin, a [[ExtraEyes batarian]] religion considers this act deeply insulting. Since they believe souls exit through the eyes when the body dies, removing or destroying the eyes is a terrible act of desecration. Which gives some extra chilling factor to Renegade Shepard's payback on a racist batarian bartender who tries to kill him or her with a poisoned drink -- he or she forces the bartender in question to drink his own nasty concoction, and threatens to "blind him one eye at a time" if he doesn't follow through.
195* From ''VideoGame/{{Mechwarrior}} 4: Vengeance'': "[If they escape] then I shall find the men responsible and feed them their own eyes!"
196* This is how Sir Daniel of ''VideoGame/{{Medievil}}'' met his end a century before the events of the first game: killed during the very first charge of the very first battle via an arrow to the eye. [[ButtMonkey Practically everybody is quick to remind him of this.]]
197-->'''[[NiceGuy Canny Tim]]:''' I used [[AutomaticCrossbow it]] in the Battle of Gallowmere. After you were slain, I killed Zarok's champion, Lord Kardok! A clean kill! Through the eye at some 1000 yards!... [[VerbalBackspace Not that there's anything funny about shooting someone in the eye, sir.]]
198* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
199** Solidus loses his eye after the Harrier fight in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''.
200** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', Naked Snake ([[LateArrivalSpoiler AKA Big Boss]], who is well known for only having one eye in the present day) has been captured, and Volgin tells the Boss to cut out his eyes. [[spoiler:She doesn't. He loses his eye when Ocelot, doing his Russian-roulette-juggling thing, is about to shoot EVA. Snake tackles him, and the gun goes off right by his eye, damaging it irreparably.]]
201** In the prologue chapter of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden's eye is stabbed out during the encounter with Jetstream Sam.
202* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
203** Subverted in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' with [[ThatOneBoss Nightmare]]; when he increases the gravity, it seems his eyes are bleeding. That is, until the mask pops off and it turns out ''his face is melting''.
204** Samus herself gets this in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', when her face becomes increasingly scarred as the Phazon corruption progresses. By the time you hit 50% corruption or so, not only are her eyes glowing blue, but the pupils have turned [[SicklyGreenGlow radioactive green]]. It's even squickier in the trailer video, when you see the Phazon flowing into her eyes ''from the inside''. This can be seen in-game too if you go into Hyper Mode and let yourself get corrupted, or stay in Phaaze too long. It'll probably be [[NonStandardGameOver the last thing you see]], though.
205* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'':
206** [[spoiler:During the boss fight with the Wither Storm, Jesse stabs one of the heads the Wither Storm manifests inside itself to defend its heart right in the eye.]]
207** In season two, [[spoiler:you have to pick between recovering Petra's sword or helping Jack fight Prismarine Golems. Should you choose the former, Jack will be stabbed in the eye. Of course, he was already blind in that eye, but...]]
208* The Fatalis trio of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' have a visible scar over one of their eyes once their head takes enough damage. It's particularly noticeable with White Fatalis, as its eye socket ''starts to bleed'' when it's enraged. Gouging out the nominate subspecies' eye is the only way to disable its [[TurnsRed Hellfire Mode]] and reduce the power of its flames to a manageable level. The eyes serve as the species' RareRandomDrop, being needed to upgrade most of their gear to the maximum. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou They also follow the movements of your screen when they're inlaid on a piece of gear.]]
209* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
210** In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' one of the Joker's close combat moves is to poke his opponents in the eyes.
211** Several characters in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' have {{Eye Scream}}y X-Ray attacks, particularly Reptile (who pokes his opponent in the eyes), Kitana (who stabs her opponent in the eyes with her fans), Baraka (who stabs his opponent clean through the head through the eyeball), and Skarlet (who kicks her opponent in the eye with the heel of one of her CombatStilettos).
212** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' has many examples, including [[KillItWithIce Sub-Zero]], whose X-Ray move and fatality involve the opponent's eyes and icicles (in the latter case, [[AndIMustScream complete with the impaled eyeball detached from the socket and looking around]]), Kung Jin, who shoots arrows in the eyes, then grabs the arrows and smashes you against the ground, and [[SirSwearsALot Cassie Cage]], who [[GroinAttack punches your opponent's nuts]] so hard they '''explode''', then {{Pistol Whip}}s them, ''then'' shoots them in the eyes for good measure. And just like he did in ''Mortal Kombat 9'', Reptile also goes for the eyes in his X-ray. After breaking his opponent's jaw, he pushes his thumbs into their eye sockets until his thumbs break into their skull.
213* ''VideoGame/MrNutz'' has a grimacing giant as one of the more memorable bosses in the game among players. One of his methods of attack is to ooze the eyes out of his head, although new eyes will grow in place of the old ones each time he does it.
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217* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Travis Touchdown [[spoiler:blinds Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii by throwing his beam katana at him, cutting out both of his eyes.]]
218* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': Very rarely, the Tsubaki Mk III will slice an enemy's head in half, right about eye level. Least of their worries, but still.
219* In ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}: Abe's Exoddus'', the Mudokon slaves being used to mine the bones of their ancestors for [=SoulStorm=] Brewery are blind -- because they've had their ''eyelids stitched shut''. This is evidently to keep them from learning they're desecrating their species' ancient burial ground and remain docile.
220* In ''[[VideoGame/OfficeJerk Office Zombie]]'', depending on the item, you can hit the Zombie in the eye or knock his right eye out of his skull.
221* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': The locks on doors in dungeons take the form of a demonic-looking face, with a large singular eye and the pupil shaped liked a keyhole. It doesn't react/end well when Amaterasu brings a key along.
222* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': [[spoiler: While trying to stop Basil from killing himself, Sunny gets stabbed in his right eye and blacks out from the pain. In the few seconds before the scene fades to black, [[ImpairmentShot the right side of the screen is blackened to represent the loss of his right eye]]. His last scene in the hospital has bandages over the damaged part of his face.]]
223* ''VideoGame/OneNightAtFlumptys'': The game over screens feature this. In the first game, your eyes are being cooked in a frying pan while the sequel has your eyes being diced. Veers into CrossesTheLineTwice territory rather than NightmareFuel, as they are both done so in a manner of preparing eggs.
224* ''VideoGame/OverlordII'': At the beginning, shortly after the frozen [[CreepyChild Overlad]] arrives in the Netherworld, [[ButtMonkey Quaver]] gets his eye stuck to the ice. And when Gnarl orders that the ice be thawed by fire, Quaver pulls away fast enough to leave the eyeball behind. ''Ouch.''
225* ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'': You can have Pikmin attack Bulborb eyes to render them incapable of attacking, and attacking the eyes of a Bugeyed Crawmad will make them stop eating any Pikmin currently in their mouth, in addition to making them vulnerable.
226* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'':
227** The Nameless One has a special equipment slot called "eyeball". Its default contents are, well, what you'd expect, and you can replace it by... Well... You can connect the dots yourself. At no fewer than three occasions in the game can you also lose the ''other'' eye for story reasons.
228*** The first time you ''tear out your eyeball by hand and replace it with an old eyeball a previous incarnation of you tore out and stored somewhere''.
229*** The second time you have Ignus pluck it out (again, by hand, and this time, said hand is ''on fire'') to use it as a repository for magic you can learn.
230*** If you take the right dialogue options with Ravel Puzzlewell, she'll stab you in the eye with a claw and hook it out, then stuff a black-barbed seed in the eyeball and pump it full of magic before giving it back to you. This is one of the many statistic boosting choices in the game. ''Planescape Torment'': The game where having your eyes poked out gives you stat bonuses.
231** One time used for humor. One of the sensory stones contains the mind-numbing tedium experienced by a student in what was apparently the most boring lecture of all time. At one point, the student considered jamming his quill into his eye for a change of pace (though if he had actually done it it would have been a completely different sensory experience in the stone).
232* In ''VideoGame/Prey2006'', the access to the sniper function of the Hunter's Rifle is done by a three-pronged tentacle leaping out and attaching itself to Tommy's eye. [[SubvertedTrope It's perfectly harmless]], but the first few times you use it are guaranteed to startle.
233* Briefly played with in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
234-->'''Den Mother:''' Enough! It is time for me to pluck out your eyes!\
235'''Raz:''' You can't -- ''that'' is the purpose of the goggles!
236* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has multiple:
237** [[spoiler:In Chapter 4, when Kieran Duffy's corpse is found riding on a horse, his eyes have been gouged out of [[DecapitationPresentation his decapitated head]]. Hopefully it happened after he was killed, but given how psychotic Colm O'Driscoll is...]]
238** [[spoiler:If Arthur Morgan has high honor when he goes for Dutch's loot, he will give [[ClimaxBoss Micah Bell]] a slash across his left eye during their knife fight. By the time of the final epilogue mission, he's still got a scar from it. And you can blow his eye socket clean open as John Marston.]]
239* ''VideoGame/RemiLoreLostGirlInTheLandsOfLore'': In the FlavorText for the "Craft Scissors" weapon:
240--> Keep them pointed away from you or you'll gouge your eye out.
241* ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider'': Konstantin was dissatisfied with his deputy.
242* In ''VideoGame/RobinsonsRequiem'', this can potentially happen to the hero: One or both of his eyes can be damaged [[EverythingTryingToKillYou by various hazards]], leaving him partly or completely blind in that eye. Or both.
243* One quote in the Knitted Knight Tutorial in ''VideoGame/SackboyABigAdventure'', Scarlet asks the viewer about what happened to her eye. [[EyePatchofPower Well]]...
244* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', [[BloodKnight Johnny Gat]], after he and the [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Saints]] reject AnOfferYouCantRefuse from [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Phillipe Loren]], he then frees himself from his chair and attacks his guards. Loren stabs Johnny with a Bowie knife, but he [[MadeOfIron shrugs it off]] and grabs Loren before slamming his face into an airplane window, breaking it and presumably getting glass shards in Loren's left eye. From that point on, Loren wears an EyepatchOfPower.
245* A frequent source of [[BlackComedy squicky laughs]] in the ''VideoGame/SamAndMax'' games.
246** An EstablishingCharacterMoment in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad''':
247--->'''Sam:''' I've got something in my eye.\
248'''Max:''' You should dig it out with a fork. It always works for me.
249** In "[[Recap/SamAndMaxFreelancePoliceEpisode201IceStationSanta Ice Station Santa]]":
250--->'''Max:''' ''[sniffling]'' I - [[SandInMyEyes I've got something in my eye.]]\
251'''Sam:''' Don't play with it, you know how hard it is to get back into the socket.
252* ''VideoGame/SeaOfStars'': In the prologue, Valere, Zale, and Garl sneak into the Forbidden Cave as children. They quickly learn why this was a bad idea when one of the monsters within it ''stabs Garl through the eye'' with its horn. He survives, but even when they all reach adulthood, he still bears the scars over his missing eye.
253* ''VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE'' has Melee Grabs, a type of ActionCommand OneHitKill that generally affects weaker enemies. Performed on a Gnaar, Sam will grab it, shove his hand into its eye socket, and rip out its single large eyeball, which can then be thrown at other enemies.
254* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesCrimesAndPunishments'': Sir Rodney Bentcliffe, the murder victim in the Blood Bath case, gets killed by being stabbed in the eye.
255* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', after the world goes kablooey, you wake up, getting a first person view of a kid holding a bug... and then he drops the bug, right into your character's eye (and with the first person view, it's like it went into your own eye).
256* In ''VideoGame/{{Shinobido}}'', Zaji the Blackhawk has only one eye left and wears an eyepatch. [[spoiler:Gamuran took out his other eye during the attack on the Asuka village by throwing a sharp wooden piece at it.]]
257* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', the hint for the Hard Mode hospital keypad puzzle is a poem about poking out someone's eye, drinking the blood from the crushed eye, and biting off their tongue and left ear.
258* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' has a momentary but haunting example in Peacock's individual storyline. A short flashback from [[spoiler:Patricia]]'s perspective shows us [[spoiler:one of the slave traders who captured her, his thumbs reaching for her eyes. Then, they close in -- suddenly, the screen goes red as a sickening ''squelch'' is heard.]]
259* ''VideoGame/SmallSaga'': Verm's first battle against Blademaster Leo ([[HopelessBossFight which you cannot win]]) ends with Leo's needle sword getting snapped in half. Just when it looks like Verm bested him, Leo uses his broken needle to [[spoiler:stab Verm in his left eye, seemingly killing him when his body falls into the Underriver]].
260* In ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'', while Terry Akers isolated himself at site Delta, [[spoiler: the [[AIIsACrapshoot WAU]] slowly brainwashed him into consuming [[MutagenicGoo Structure Gel]] until he gouged out his own eyes. You can even play with them in one of the buildings at Delta.]]
261* In the Wii version of ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'''s final battle, Super Sonic damages Dark Gaia by slamming into the beast's giant eyeballs. Before that, in the [=PS3=]/Xbox 360 version, he uses repeated homing attacks in its eyes. With a twinkly smile.
262* In ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion'', [[spoiler:dying to the puppeteer]] around room 310 shows a cutscene of [[spoiler:one of your eyes being held open with a knitting needle being lowered into it]].
263* The player has [[GoForTheEye to do this to defeat the Bacoon]] when she initiates her final phase in ''VideoGame/StarFox64''. Andross in this game (as well as the original ''VideoGame/StarFox'') is depicted as a disembodied floating head; guess what his weak point is...
264* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
265** In ''Super VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', there's [[BoisterousBruiser Zangief's]] defeated portrait... What the ''hell'' did happen to Zangief's left eye?! Whatever it was, it looks horrible.
266** [[DragonLady Juri]] [[DarkActionGirl Han]] from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' lost her eye in the incident that killed her mother and got her and her father captured by Shadaloo, with her dad being publically executed later. Said missing eye is replaced by the Feng-Shui Engine, made by S.I.N., which greatly boosts her strength. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' reveals that Bison ultimately ripped Juri's enhanced eye, but when she joined the Illuminati, they gave her a new one.]]
267* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the boss MONOCULUS!, a FacelessEye who is actually the Demoman's eye, magicked out of his head by Merasmus the Magician after the young Demoman got it haunted by reading a cursed book.
268* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has quite a bit of this with {{Faceless Eye}}s. All of them explode into LudicrousGibs when beaten, the Eye of Cthulhu sheds its pupil in favor of a toothy maw when it TurnsRed, and [[DualBoss the Twins]], Retinazer and Spazmatism, shed theirs in favor of a [[EnergyWeapon laser cannon]] and a {{Hellfire}}-[[BreathWeapon breathing]] mouth, respectively. At least the last two are partially robotic to lessen the horror.
269* ''VideoGame/TheiaTheCrimsonEclipse'':
270** Seth slashes Horus's right eye in a duel. This leads to an infection that nearly kills Horus, until he got rebuilt as an Orihalcon-powered cyborg.
271** Seth himself loses his left eye while escaping Mystia, courtesy of Var Nell. His eye is replaced by the [[ElectronicEyes electronic Falcon Eye]].
272* In ''VideoGame/ThiefTheDarkProject'', Garrett's eye is ''torn right out of his head''. The empty socket is even shown later on, albeit briefly.
273* ''VideoGame/{{Timeslaughter}}'' has an intro where the man who becomes the final boss has an eye removed with a drill -- although that's not too much in such an already {{Gorn}}-tastic game.
274* In the opening of ''VideoGame/TormentedSouls'', Caroline Walker heads into the spooky Wildberger Hospital to investigate a disappearance. She loses consciousness, wakes up later naked in a bathtub, and finds to her horror that her right eye has been surgically removed. You even get a close-up of the empty socket, for {{Squick}} and FanDisservice. It later gets revealed how that happened: [[spoiler: She gets back in time to when she was unconscious in a bathtub and ''extracts her own eye'' in order to [[BorrowedBiometricBypass access the bunker locked by two retinal scanners, normally intended to be opened by a pair of twins]].]]
275* In ''VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra'', shortly into Sion's scenario, [[spoiler:one of the [[CosmicKeystone Jades]] gets lodged right in his skull via his right eye]].
276* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'':
277** No-Face in ''Black'' got badly beaten in a boxing match. When he went to a back-alley surgeon to get his face put back together, he chose badly; the surgeon had lost $20,000 betting on him, and took out the man's eyes and tongue as revenge while he was out. We get to see his eyes falling onto a tray. Thankfully, in his ending, No-Face gets his revenge: punching the doctor in the face with a needle-loaded boxing glove.
278** The trope name describes what Needles Kane does in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtQJieYgLY this webisode]] ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin quite well]]''.
279** Calypso in his later appearances has a missing eye, prominently showing off the gaping hole where it used to be.
280** In the 2012 reboot, [[spoiler:Sweet Tooth's daughter escaped from him when she stabbed his eye with a pair of scissors.]]
281* In ''VideoGame/UltimaIX'' Raven comes to the Avatar's rescue after he's ambushed by Blackthorn, injuring his eye with a throwing knife. He wears an eye patch for the rest of the game.
282* In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', there are a couple of cases of this.
283** Both Ashley and Emily can have the Wendigo violently shove its fingers into their eyes, killing them in a bloody mess.
284** Emily can get shot through the eye, leaving blood and brains on the wall behind her in horrifying detail.
285* The Creator/{{Valve}} logo from 1998 to 2006 depicted a man with a valve lodged in his eye socket.
286* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Episode 2:
287** At one point when a zombie is attacking Lee, he gouges out its eyes with his thumbs while trying to fend it off.
288** In Episode 3, Carver brutally beats [[spoiler:Kenny with a walkie-talkie so badly that Kenny's skull caves in and destroys his eye]].
289* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000RogueTrader'': The Chaos cultists in Chapter One try1 to make people see their truth by burning their eyes out. [[Film/EventHorizon Where they're going, they won't need eyes to see.]]
290* ''VideoGame/Waxworks1992'': Many of the [[{{Gorn}} standard]] deaths involve this. Examples include a spike pit's spike goring you right in the eye, or a plant mutant's seeds pushing your eye out of its socket as they grow inside you.
291* ''VideoGame/TheWhiteChamber''... Hoo, boy. There's an FMV devoted to a decapitated head with its eyes missing, and said eyes open. And you find the eyes in a sealed box. Even with the eyes back in, it's not a pretty sight. There's also a console which the player must use to gain access to a room. It requires a color code that's acquired after a certain event, and if the player tries to use the code before they are supposed to, [[spoiler:the aforementioned head appears, scowling and covering the screen, with the words "not yet" carved into its empty eye sockets]].
292* ''VideoGame/WishboneAndTheAmazingOdyssey'': Downplayed. Wishbone covers Polyphemus's head with a blanket, but he still screams and otherwise acts as if he's been permanently blinded.
293* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'':
294** ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2'' features [[spoiler:Phillippa]] getting [[spoiler:her]] eyes gouged out with a ''spoon''. [[{{Squick}} You see the aftereffects.]] Diminished a bit by the fact that the person in question can grow new eyes as mage, and seems to be able to function just fine without them anyway.
295** In the ''Hearts of Stone'' expansion pack to ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3'', a clueless drunk makes the mistake of mildly irking SatanicArchetype [[spoiler:Gaunter O'Dimm. O'Dimm simply claps to freeze time, and then plunges the handle of a wooden soup spoon all the way through the man's eye and into his brain, killing him.]]
296--->'''[[spoiler:Gaunter O'Dimm]]:''' That was the last time you interrupted me while I was talking to someone.
297* In ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'', there is a book you can read called "The Book of Death" that will cause the main character to scratch her own eyes out.
298* ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' has a subtle example: the [[ExpressiveHealthBar status bar face]] shows damage depending on your health. If you get hurt enough, BJ's right eye is such a mangled mess that it doesn't move anymore.
299* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'' has a few examples:
300** In the "Eerie Episode of Evolving Eels", the player has the option to inflict this themselves at the cost of [[SanityMeter 3 Reason]]. This includes a disturbing close-up as you [[spoiler:plunge a needle into your neighbor's eye in order to release the baby eels inside]].
301** If [[MirrorMonster Goizo, the Thing Forsaken By God]], is your opponent, the event "Desperate Solution" has you run into a woman who's [[GoMadFromTheRevelation freaked out]] after seeing Goizo in the mirrors of a beauty parlor and ''carved her own eyes out'', raving that if she can't see it, it can't see ''her''.
302* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
303** In the cinematic for "The Gods of Zul'Aman" that came with Patch 2.3, a High Elven soldier prepares to cut out one of Zul'jin's eyes as a way of adding insult to injury. The action fades to white just as the point of the dagger is a mere centimeter from Zul'jin's eye.
304** The icon for one of the Rogue abilities, Cheap Shot, is a knife about to plunge into an eyeball, implying that what is "cheap" is that you're stabbing them in the eyeball.
305* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3''
306** The Consuls had the ability to directly hack the [[ElectronicEyes Iris]] of each soldier in the Kevesi and Agnian colonies, to make them perceive the Ouroboros as monsters and motivate them to hunt the party down. Consul O attempted to do this to [[{{Samurai}} Cammuravi]] to motivate him to fight in earnest against the Ouroboros. Cammuravi responded to this by ''gouging out his Iris'', determined to retain control of his own faculties. [[spoiler:His next incarnation retains the eye containing his Iris, but [[ResurrectionSickness has evidently suffered at least partial sight loss in it]] as a result of this prior trauma.]]
307** Eunie eventually starts experiencing flashbacks of [[spoiler:her previous incarnation's death--along with that of her previous colony--at the hands of [[{{Sadist}} Moebius D]], and it is heavily implied that D kills her by slowly stabbing his sharp finger right through her eye ([[GoryDiscretionShot the game cuts away before his claw makes direct contact, however]]).]]
308** In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'' it's revealed that [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Rex]] lost his left eye in the battle against [[spoiler:Alpha]], and while it makes life a bit harder he admits to actually liking it as it reminds him of Zeke, someone he looked to in his youth (though it should be noted that Zeke never lost an eye, simply wearing an eyepatch because he thought it looked cool and he was too broke to afford a second contact lense).
309* In a flashback scene at the end of Saejima's episode in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', we are treated to a very, ''very'' squicky scene where [[spoiler:a bound Goro Majima refuses to bow down to a low-level yakuza that's in charge of restraining him, and the yakuza drives a foot-long knife into Majima's left eye. Ever since, he wore his [[EyepatchOfPower characteristic eyepatch]]... and now wields that very same tanto in battle.]]
310* In ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Sawashiro [[spoiler:gouges out an Omi Alliance patriarch's eye with just his thumb after the latter made the mistake of making light of Masumi Arakawa's death.]]
311* ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'':
312** When Milanor is rescuing Yggdra from the prison in which she's held captive by Gulcasa, Valkyrie Aegina cuts his escape. Elena, former assassin of the Bronquian Empire, sneaks behind her troops and fires her crossbow... hitting Aegina in the eye. Later on, when you meet Aegina again, she's wearing a bandage on her left eye.
313** In the backstory, this happened ''three separate times'' to poor Nessiah. First, [[spoiler:his real body was blinded by the gods as part of his punishment for disobeying them and not fighting in Ragnarok]]. Second, his contract with the Yumel required him to sacrifice an eye to get their help in mastering his magic. And finally, he tore his remaining eye out [[spoiler:in order to complete the Gran Centurio]]. Yes, he ''was'' that desperate at the time. And insane.
314* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'': Helim is a [[CloudCuckoolander corwid]] who wants to be invisible. Being invisible means people can't see you. People need eyes in order to see. [[InsaneTrollLogic Corwid logic]] leads him to decide that the best path to being invisible is ripping the eyes out of every living thing he encounters and can get a hold on.
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