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14	->'''Gwog:''' Geez... what a bunch of ''freaks''.\
15	'''Dr. Thaddeus John Euphemism:''' Says the alien with ''one eye''.
16	-->-- ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish''
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18	To put it quite simply, a character or creature that only has one eye.
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20	Monocular vision is symbolic of metaphorical narrow vision and lack of depth perception. As such, many human villains have one eye as an indication of their simplistic worldview. This also provides an excuse for an EyepatchOfPower. Characters who lack perspective on a temporary basis might sport bangs or some other ocular obtrusion.
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22	It should be noted that "cyclops" more accurately translates to "circle-eye" or "wheel-eye", referring to the eye's size. Therefore, "cyclopean" ''technically'' means huge, and not one-eyed (not to mention that the Cyclopes themselves were giants).
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24	Not to be confused with the FacelessEye, as cyclopes typically have a recognizable facial structure (or at least a mouth), or with OneEyedShot, which is just a camera shot of a person's eye. In modern fiction, the visual of a single eye can give a character an intimidating feel as easily as it can be played as a [[UglyCute cute trait]] on an adorable character.
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26	For other deviations from normal eye structure, see EyelessFace, ThirdEye, {{Oculothorax}}, and ExtraEyes. Compare to the robotic version, the CyberCyclops, and EyepatchOfPower. For the mythological being, specifically, see ClassicalCyclops.
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28	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Oh, wait,]] were you looking for [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops that guy with the visor]]?
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31	!!Examples:
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34	%%[[folder:Advertising]]%%Links are not context.
35	%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQRm4vbH1w This ad]] for H&R Block has three cyclopes.
36	%%* There's one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHCzLARS68 this ad]] for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s website app.
37	%%* Dr. Cyclops from [[http://vimeo.com/96571666 this ad]] for Skittles.
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40	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
41	* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': Yabaru, one of Kaiyanwang's followers, is a massive squid-like demon with a single massive eye composing most of his face. Worth noting that he's the one who relies the most on brute force.
42	* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' has Billy's guardian bakugan Cycloid, a giant one-eyed creature modeled after the ones from the Greek Mythology. His signature weapon is his [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon hammer]].
43	* Mummymon of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' has only one eye on the left side of his face.
44	%%* ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'': Landsborough.
45	* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Franmalth of the Nine Gates of Tartaros is a rotund yellow demon who has a single red and black eye in the middle of his forehead. Rather than rely on brute force though, he uses a Curse which let him absorb people and even Star Spirits in his body.
46	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
47	** The Doll Soldiers are one-eyed ZombieMooks who look a lot like [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVAs]].
48	** Although his initial OneWingedAngel form is {{Extra Eyes}}/{{Eyes Do Not Belong There}}, Father takes on a cyclops appearance right before crossing the BishonenLine.
49	* ''Anime/HunterXHunter'' has cyclops as monsters on Green Island.
50	%%* ''Mako-san to Hachisuka-kun'': Mako.
51	* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Manako, the FriendlySniper. She's a CuteClumsyGirl due to having trouble judging distance to objects that are really close and horribly self-conscious because of all the attention her eye gets. The anime clarifies that she is actually a race called a monoeye, while true cyclopes are a type of one-eyed giant, but the official English translation of the manga continues to call her a cyclopse.
52	* ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' has the one-eyed youkai Chukyuu, and several other minor youkai as well.
53	* ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'': Hitotsume Nyūdō is a cyclops and the chairman of the One-Eyed Demon Clan.
54	* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'': The title character is a school doctor with a single large red eye. Her name even means "pupil".
55	%%* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Lord Boros and Engine Knight.
56	* ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'': The most humanoid type of Abyssal beast is an orc-like creature with a single glowing eye in the center of its face. The GiantSpider Abyssal beast in chapter 47 likewise has a single glowing eye.
57	* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Starjun's Intimidation and Gourmet Devil is a massive blue Cyclops with horns. One-Eyed monsters appears among the inhabitants of the Hex Food World, among them Dinner the Blue {{Oni}}.
58	* In ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'', one of the three devils that are minor antagonists is a cyclops who keeps her eye hidden under a plate-like mask. She freaks out the one time she's seen with her eye uncovered... which is when she had just gotten out of the shower, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality so she covers her eye instead of her body]].
59	* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'': Gold and Silver. In the latter case, it's also his weak point. (Gold's eye is just as [[RubberMan bouncy]] as everything else.)
60	* The anime of ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' has Insomni, a small, CuteMonsterGirl {{youkai}} with only one eye. There's actually a large number of one-eyed yokai, including the ones mentioned under Japanese Mythology below.
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63	[[folder:Card Games]]
64	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': There are quite a few cyclopes in the setting's various worlds.
65	** Dominaria, the closest the game has to a "main" setting, hosts cyclopes in the Ekundu Mountains. They're noted to have a very simple language -- their tongue has only fifty words, [[LanguageEqualsThought ten of which mean "kill"]].
66	** Ravnica's cyclopes are horned, towering brutes often employed by Red-aligned guilds. Most live among the [[BarbarianTribe Gruul Clans]], but they also serve as fortress guards in the Boros Legion and in the Izzet League as heavy lifters.
67	** In Theros, a plane heavily based off of Myth/ClassicalMythology, cyclopes are animalistic, aggressive brutes who live in the wilderness and attack anyone they come across. They don't feel pain, and are capable of razing villages on their own. [[https://scryfall.com/card/bng/113/thunder-brute Some]] even [[ShockAndAwe wield lightning]].
68	* "Art/MysticalMedleysAVintageCartoonTarot": "The Magician" and "The Hierophant" both have one giant eye for a head.
69	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has a few, such as the [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Hitotsu-Me_Giant Hitotsu-Me Giant]] (simply "Cyclops" in the Japanese version) and the [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Opticlops Opticlops]].
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72	[[folder:Comic Books]]
73	* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'': During Number One's retelling of the Odyssey, we find out that the dreaded Cyclops living in Sicily were actually a tribe of shy one-eyed midgets who were using their reputation as fearsome man-eating giants to keep strangers at bay. They bribe Odysseus and Number One to make them keep the secret and leave their lands forever.
74	* ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'': The Sewell family are from a species with only one large, centered eye among other alien qualities.
75	* ''ComicBook/DarkHorseMonsters'': A huge reptilian beast with one eye shows up in one of the stories.
76	* The eighth issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Ewoks}}'' comic had the witch Morag attempt to kill the Ewoks by resurrecting a one-eyed beast known as the Kreegon.
77	* ''Literature/{{Kull}} the Destroyer'': The comic has Gasshga, a giant blue cyclops.
78	* Creator/MarvelComics:
79	** Psyklop, a ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' supervillain, has one giant red compound eye. He can use it to fire energy beams and to hypnotize people.
80	** ''ComicBook/NewXMen'': Basilisk, in his second incarnation, is a mutant with an abnormally large physique, no hair, and a single eye in the middle of his forehead from which he can shoot paralyzing EyeBeams.
81	* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'': D. Oswald Heist is a cyclops who writes romance novels.
82	* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'', Supergirl fights off Nightflame and her demonic minions. One of them is a short, wrinkled, bald, purple-skinned cyclops dressed in red robes. He attempts to suck out Supergirl's powers and life essence and transfer them to Nightflame.
83	* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'': Farmer Palmer is very proud of his cyclops grandson, the result of generations of first-class inbreeding.
84	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
85	** Diana and ComicBook/WonderGirl once had to deal with Cyclon, the giant, one-eyed progeny of Polyphemus and Medusa. Fortunately, he turned out to be friendly.
86	** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', Diana and Hippolyta have to deal with [[Literature/TheOdyssey Polyphemus]], who was imprisoned in the underworld behind Dooms Doorway and has spent centuries starving in a cave still [[Literature/TheOdyssey blinded from his encounter with Odysseus]]. He is further agitated because he ate the god Pan and god flesh doesn't take being eaten very well.
87	** [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Slaughter]], one of the Children of Cronus, is a big, blue, twelve-armed cyclops [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur]] with a single, red eye.
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90	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
91	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': The January 16, 1981 strip has Garfield encounter a one-eyed dog.
92	* ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'': The Wizard makes a cyclops. Who then crawls around the floor looking for his "contact len." Eventually, the Wizard sends him away because they couldn't see eyes-to-eye with each other.
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95	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
96	* "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes": One-Eye has one eye in the middle of her forehead.
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99	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
100	* ''Franchise/DespicableMe'': Many of the minions have a single eye in the middle of their foreheads.
101	* ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth'': Io is a large crab-like alien with only one eye.
102	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'':
103	** There is a giant cyclops as one of the Titans that [[spoiler:Hades sends to attack Thebes after Hercules gives up his godly powers in exchange for Meg's freedom]].
104	** The Fates share one eye between the three of them, with the one currently holding onto it consequently having only one eye herself. One even has only one eye socket in the middle of her face.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesPureMagic'' has King Augeas, a giant with one eye but two eyebrows. Comments about his eye make him upset easily.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'': Agent Wendy Pleakley is an alien with a single large eyeball.
107	* ''Franchise/MonstersInc'':
108	** Mike. He consists of a [[{{Oculothorax}} giant eye, a mouth underneath, and limbs]].
109	** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'':
110	*** Mike's girlfriend Celia is a GorgeousGorgon with just one eye.
111	*** Mike owns a one-eyed teddy bear named Little Mikey.
112	** [[ConjoinedTwins Terri and Terry]] from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' are a MultipleHeadCase with one eye on each head.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'': B.O.B. is a BlobMonster with only one eye.
114	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'': The witches' minion Ahgg is a GiantSpider with a single huge eye.
115	* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'': A cyclops appears as the bouncer on [[BadGuyBar the Poisoned Apple]].
116	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' features a legend about a dreaded Cyclops, who ultimately turns out to be [[spoiler:[[HumansAreCthulhu a guy in an old-timey diving suit]]]].
117	* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'': A one-eyed centaur appears.
118	* Subversion: In the Sea of Monsters segment of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', George sees what he thinks is a cyclops.
119	-->'''Paul:''' Can't be. It's got two eyes.\
120	'''John:''' Well then it must be a bicyclops.
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123	[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
124	* ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'': The cyclopes, which looks like a giant one-eyed satyr with a horn on its head. There's a second cyclops as well, with two horns. Reportedly, Creator/RayHarryhausen made a point of giving them goat legs so the audience would intuitively realize that these were the products of StopMotion, and not PeopleInRubberSuits.
125	** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' had a one-eyed centaur in a cave, [[FedToTheBeast to whom]] the cave's residents make {{human sacrifice}}s.
126	* The crew of ''Film/TheAtomicSubmarine'' dub the [[FlyingSaucer Unidentified Submerged Object]] "Cyclops" because it has a single light on top of its dome. Turns out the alien inside only has one eye as well.
127	* In ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', a cyclops-like man working for a circus and billing himself as The One-Eyed Monster appears in the AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption sequence of people spotting Dr. Evil's phallic spacecraft.
128	%%* ''Film/{{Cyclops}}'' centers around one.
129	* ''Film/TheCyclops'': The title creature. Kinda. He's really a giant with half of his face melting over his right eye. It's ''very'' similar to the director's other film ''Film/WarOfTheColossalBeast'' (even the monster is played by the same guy).
130	* ''Film/DarkLight'': The monsters living in the catacombs under the Knox household have one big eye making up most of the upper half of their heads.
131	* In ''Film/DasepoSonyo'', there is a ButtMonkey named Cyclops, who only has one eye in the center of his forehead.
132	%%* ''Film/JackBrooksMonsterSlayer'': The monster in the opening and ending scenes is one.
133	* ''Film/JourneyToTheSeventhPlanet'': A giant one-eyed alien appears.
134	* One of the most memorable characters in ''Film/{{Krull}}'' is a cyclops named Rell who joins TheHero's adventuring party. The backstory is that his people sacrificed one eye (apiece, duh) to the {{B\|igBad}}east in exchange for being able to see the future, but [[JackassGenie were only given]] the ability to [[BlessedWithSuck foresee their own deaths]].
135	%%* ''Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi'', a 1961 Italian film also known as ''Atlas in the Land of the Cyclopes'', has one.
136	* ''Film/MonsterBrawl'': One of the combatants is a cyclops who works as a blacksmith in his spare time and enters the ring with [[WeaponsOfTheirTrade a hammer]]. He can also shoot EyeBeams out of his eye.
137	* ''Film/PuppetMaster'': One of the puppets in ''Pupper Master 7: Retro Puppet Master'' (the one starring Creator/GregSestero) is a cyclops.
138	%%* ''Film/PurplePeopleEater'': The monster is naturally one, considering that the [[TheFilmOfTheSong movie is based on the song]] of the same name.%%And?
139	* ''Film/TheThreeStooges'': There's a two-headed, hairy cyclops in ''The Three Stooges Meet Hercules''.
140	* ''Film/WrathOfTheTitans'': They make an appearance, defending the land where Hephaestus lives. They attack the heroes, but relent in time and guide them to the Smith God.
141	* Invoked in ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' with Big Dan Teague, a [[EvilIsBigger sinister, physically imposing]] Bible salesman with an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]], played by Creator/JohnGoodman. The movie is a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', and Dan clearly stands in for Polyphemus - his day job is likely a nod to Polyphemus being a literal shepherd.
142	* In ''Film/TheGoonies'', the eponymous RagtagBunchOfMisfits are searching for the PirateBooty of the notorious captain One-Eyed Willy. When they eventually find the treasure, they also find a skeleton with an eyepatch, which they reason must be Willy's remains. When the eyepatch is lifted, however, ''there is no socket underneath'', suggesting that he was born with only one eye. The kids realize that Willy was a misfit like them, and decide to leave some of the treasure as a tribute to him.
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145	[[folder:Literature]]
146	* ''Literature/BaileySchoolKids'': ''Cyclops Doesn't Roller-Skate'' has Dr. Polly, who [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not be a cyclops]].
147	* ''Literature/CarnivalInAFix'': A number of background characters in the book have one big eye, which helps to emphasize that they're all aliens. The most notable example is Mrs. Mimms, who runs the Lost Property Office that [[TheProtagonist Emily]] lives above.
148	* ''Literature/TheCrimsonShadow'': The cyclopean race. Due to having only one eye, their depth perception is very bad, so they are generally poor at using ranged weapons. One that we see though makes up for this by having a crossbow equipped with small mirrors on each side to help him aim.
149	* ''Literature/DisgustingMcGrossface'': A one-eyed creature can be seen on a police sketch.
150	* ''Literature/TheDivideTrilogy'': There's a female cyclops by the name of Turpsik in the second book, who writes extremely depressing poetry.
151	* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' has used cyclopes as enemies plenty of times. The most notable one is the FinalBoss of ''Literature/SeasOfBlood'', which you have to fight bare-handed and choose all your attacks.
152	* ''The Girl, the Dog, and the Writer in Provence'': Discussed when it's mentioned that even someone who was [[BlindWithoutEm nearsighted]] and had one eye and dirty glasses could see that Vivi and Tobias were in love.
153	* ''Literature/KingdomOnFire'': [[HumanoidAbomination R'hlem]], one of the seven Ancients, is a humanoid creature with no skin, who has a big yellow eye. [[spoiler:This likely happened because of his transformation from William Howel.]]
154	* ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin'': Balor from ''The Seven Songs of Merlin'', the second story in the series. It's made worse by the fact that his gaze can kill you.
155	* ''Literature/TheOdyssey'': The most well-known cyclopes today, Polyphemus, was the son of Poseidon and a sea nymph, a shepherd and a man-eater. DependingOnTheArtist he's either shown with a single eye where a person's eyes would be or -- worse -- his eye sockets are covered skin and a single eye rests in his forehead.
156	* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'':
157	** Polyphemus appears as an antagonist in ''The Sea of Monsters''. Both he and Tyson, along with almost every other cyclops in the series, are Percy's half siblings, to his surprise.
158	** Tyson -- Percy's half-brother on the divine side of the family -- is a heroic example of a young cyclops introduced in ''The Sea of Monsters''. He helps his half-brother take down Polyphemus. Polyphemus often tries to get Tyson to join him and act like a "real" cyclops, which Tyson delines.
159	** The only ones not born to Poseidon are the trinity of cyclopes that are his elder half brothers. They are the ones that forged the iconic weapons the Big Three (Zeus, Poseidon and Hades) used in their war against their father.
160	* ''Literature/TimeOutOfTime'': [[BigBad Balor's]] true face only has one eye, which has magical powers.
161	* ''Literature/{{Underworlds}}'': Loki releases a pair into Pinewood Bluffs to build him a suit of armor. Hades tasks the children with capturing them, which they succeed at.
162	* ''Literature/VainqueurTheDragon'': One, in "Food Chain", called "Ogron the Ogre", where ogres are another another species that exists in the world, and how it's therefore a NonIndicativeName, is discussed, with that name supposed to be one of the NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast, as it's a reference to how he eats people.
163	* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': One of the races, called Gazers, are basically cyclopes. They have one huge eye, although unlike the usual ones they have four more smaller ones.
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166	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
167	* ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'': Tommy has to fight one at one point, although he has trouble remembering what they're called.
168	-->'''Tommy:''' You're a... a uni... mono... [[BuffySpeak one-eyed monster dude]]! Cool.
169	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
170	** Dalek Sec is a [[HalfHumanHybrid Dalek/human hybrid]], and as such has the Daleks' [[FacelessEye single eye]], but with a more human-shaped body. This gives him a cyclopean appearance.
171	** In one episode, the Doctor mentions "the munchkin lady with the one big eye who breathed fire".
172	* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': Cyclops of Traycus from "Eye of the Beholder" is a [[spoiler:non-villainous]] example.
173	* ''Series/KrodMandoonAndTheFlamingSwordOfFire'': Cy is a Biclops -- a [[DepravedBisexual bisexual cyclops]].
174	%%* ''Series/LostInSpace'': "There Were Giants in the Earth" has one.
175	* ''Series/NightGallery'': In the vignette "Prof. Peabody's Last Lecture", the skeptical Peabody is transformed into a one-eyed monstrosity with a face like a pile of seaweed after injudiciously poo-pooing the Great Old Ones and then reading aloud from the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Necronomicon]].
176	%%* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': Roger the monster.
177	* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Conjunctivus, also known as Flyer, from "[[Recap/XenaS01E01SinsOfThePast Sins of the Past]]".
178	* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'': Muno has one large eye. The episode "Family" reveals that his parents, his older sister Gibo, and his younger brother Gobbo all have one eye as well.
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181	[[folder:Magazine]]
182	* ''Magazine/{{Analog}}'': The [[Recap/Analog1930 August 1930 cover]] has an alien with one (huge) eye and pointy ears, but is otherwise human-sized.
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185	[[folder:Music]]
186	* Music/DanielAmos: In the short story that accompanies the ''Music/{{Alarma}}'' album, the narrator gets threatened by a one-eyed giant.
187	* Sheb Wooley's 1958 novelty song "Purple People Eater" is about a monster who, among other unusual physical traits, has only one eye. It comes down out of the sky to eat purple people, and play rock'n'roll music. It's a very silly song.
188	* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "Cyclops Rock" is (apparently?) a break-up song uses the cyclops as a central motif, and the narrator mentions his "one glass eye".
189	* Music/NickCave And The Bad Seeds have a song called "More News From Nowhere" that is basically a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', but in the context of being a celebrity.
190	-->I turn another corner\
191	I go down a corridor\
192	And I see this guy\
193	He must be about one hundred foot tall\
194	And he only has one eye\
195	He asks me for my autograph\
196	I write "nobody" and then\
197	I wrap myself up in my woolly coat\
198	And I blind him with my pen
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201	[[folder:Mythology]]
202	* In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Papinijuwari are a race of one-eyed giants who live in the sky and come down to Earth in the form of shooting stars in search of sick and dying humans to consume and drain of their blood.
203	* In Myth/BrazilianFolklore, the Mapinguari is a giant humanoid with a single eye and a BellyMouth. Other monsters are frequently said to be one-eyed as well, such as the Pé de Garrafa - a single-legged humanoid who lures people into the woods by screaming and imitating voices -, the Gorjala - a man-eating giant -, and the Labatut - a monster with round feet and large tusks who hunts people at night.
204	* Myth/CelticMythology: The Fomorians have many descriptions, but some of them were weird creatures with one eye. Balor was their leader and in many ways resembled a cyclops from classical mythology, but his single eye had a DeadlyGaze with EyeBeams that obliterated everything in its path and could wipe out entire armies.
205	* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
206	** The TropeNamers are the original cyclopes of Greek myth. Since Greek mythology is decentralized, there are plenty of different depictions of what cyclopses are like, but scholars divide Greek cyclopses into three kinds:
207	*** '''Hesiodian''' cyclopses (described in Hesiod's ''Literature/{{Theogony}}'') were three brothers named Arges, Steropes, and Brontes. They were master craftsman and giants of considerable size and power (and prone to fits of rage). Their father Uranus was so afraid of their power and fits of rage that he imprisoned them in Tartarus. When their nephew Zeus finally freed them to help in overthrowing their brother Cronus, they worked together to forge Zeus's lightning bolt (each contributing one third of the weapon's elements; the blinding light, lethal heat, and deafening thunderclap, respectively). They also created Poseidon's trident and Hades's helmet of invisibility. Eventually, the brothers were surpassed by Zeus's son, Hephaestus, to whom they and their descendants became assistants. They also created the SolarAndLunar [[SacredBowAndArrows bows and arrows]] of Apollo and Artemis.
208	*** '''Homeric''' cyclopses (from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' by Homer and derived works like Euripides' ''Theatre/{{Cyclops}}'') are a lot more down to earth then their Hesiodian counterparts -- We at TV Tropes call them the ClassicalCyclops. They are big, dumb, uncivilized giants who live in caves and herd sheep for a living. The cyclopses of Homer-derived myths are all (or at least mostly) children of the ocean god [[LordOfTheOcean Poseidon]] (which probablu explains why they tend to be island-dwelling). [[ImAHumanitarian Humans are on the list of things they will eat]] but it's not the only thing. In ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', our hero Odysseus meets the famous cyclops named Polyphemeus on an island who holds him and his mates captive while preparing to eat them. Odysseus identifies himself as "nobody", and while Polyphemus sleeps he stabs him in the eye before running away, all the while Polyphemus complains to his fellow cyclopses [[WhosOnFirst "nobody" stabbed his eye]].
209	*** Lastly, '''Wall-Building''' cyclopses are less attested in literature (and thus don't get a fancy literary name), but they were commonly believed to be a race of craftsmen. The Greeks saw massive ancient structures, so they assumed they must have been built by giant cyclops {{precursors}} -- hence why they are called "Cyclopean architecture".
210	** The arimaspi, a race of one-eyed humans and the archenemies of [[OurGriffinsAreDifferent griffins]].
211	* Myth/JapaneseMythology is full of one-eyed creatures, including the Hitotsume Nyuudo (one-eyed monk), the Aobozu (Blue Monk), the {{karakasa}} (an umbrella come to life), and the Ippondatara (a giant with one eye and one leg).
212	* Odin from Myth/NorseMythology is depicted as having one eye after sacrificing the other to the Well of Mímir in exchange for the ability to tell the future.
213	* ''Literature/SinbadTheSailor'' has met a Cyclops in the Polyphemus mold before.
214	* Myth/SlavicMythology has the terrifying Likho, an embodiment of evil, fate, and misfortune.
215	* Bungisngis is a one-eyed giant in Philippine folklore who is described as having huge tusks and superb hearing. He's said to be pretty dimwitted, but also very jovial and fond of laughing.
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219	* ''Pinball/AsteroidAnnieAndTheAliens'': A one-eyed alien can be seen on the backglass.
220	* ''Pinball/BigBangBar'': Many of the aliens either have only one eye or [[ExtraEyes lots of them]].
221	[[/folder]]
222
223	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
224	* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'': The supplement ''Pursuit to Kadath''[='=]s adventure "The All Seeing Eye of the Alskali" has the titular Alskali monsters, whose single eye can hypnotize their victims.
225	* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': One of the Ogre kiths is the Cyclopean. They almost always have a missing eye and their mien makes it look like one central eye. They do come in other varieties though.
226	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has had a long history with Cyclopes.
227	** The Myth/GreekMythology version first appears in the 1st Edition ''Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia''. There are two variants, the ChaoticGood Greater Cyclops (based on the ones who serve Hephaestus in his forge) and the LawfulEvil Lesser Cyclops (based on Polyphemus and his ilk).
228	** Cyclopes have also appeared as the core ''Monster Manual'' in some editions, but in those cases there are just one species of Cyclops, which has more in common with the Lesser Cyclops, being violent but dimwitted recluses that spend their days tending to sheep and smashing trespassers with their clubs.
229	** Like many things in [[OddballInTheSeries 4th Edition]], Cyclopes were drastically changed. Instead, they originate from the Feywild's version of [[BeneathTheEarth the Underdark]], where they work as a ServantRace for the Fomorians, a hideously deformed race of insane, subterranean giants who constantly war with TheFairFolk on the surface. While this change was one of the more welcomed ones due to the depth it gave them, it was quietly dropped with the advent of 5th edition and cyclopes went back to their usual characterization.
230	** There are also the Cyclopskin (who are blue Cyclopes) in the 1E Monster Manual 2, and Zargon, the "god" of the Lost City (B-4).
231	** The orc god Gruumsh alternates between being portrayed as a cyclops-orc or simply having just one working eye (the other supposedly shot out by the elf god Corellon Larethian). As orcs hold that the "lost an eye to the elf god" story is elven propaganda, they usually show him as the former, while elves show him as the latter.
232	** Nothics are hunched, gaunt, insane monsters with faces dominated by a single, immense, staring eye, [[MakeThemRot and can rot flesh from bone with their gaze]].
233	* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'': The supplement ''Scourge Unending'' has cyclopean [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]].
234	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Cyclopes are the degenerate descendants of an ancient civilization that once ruled much of the continent of Garund. There are also great cyclopes, which are even bigger and resemble the Creator/RayHarryhausen Cyclops, and kabandhas, cyclopes with no heads and their eye and mouth on their chests (based on a character from the Indian epic Literature/TheRamayana).
235	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Cyclopes are a metavariant/subspecies of the troll player race, native to the Mediterranean. They're notable for largely avoiding the FantasticRacism that baseline trolls face and having been mostly accepted into Mediterranean society, finding steady work at dockyards as labor and security.
236	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Most one-eyed creatures have [[AuraVision the ability to perceive the Winds of Magic]].
237	** The Fimir are one-eyed, skull-faced amphibious creatures whose superior perception of the Winds of Magic allows them to roll six dice to channel instead of one, although they're too greedy to share the power dice produced by this channelling.
238	** The Beastmen creature known as a Cygor -- essentially a hybrid of a cyclops, a minotaur, and a giant -- has a degree of magical perception that it uses to find, kill, and usually eat enemy spellcasters.
239	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
240	** The [[RankScalesWithAsskicking Primarch]] of the [[CosmicPlaything Thousand Sons]] was [[AntiVillain Magnus the Red]], whose defining features were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin coppery red skin]], [[MeaningfulName being a giant]], and having just one eye. It wasn't clear for a time whether he was a cyclops, [[EyelessFace had only one orbit]], or simply lacked one eye, although artwork for the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novels and his official Forge World model for the game have him with a normal face and missing his right eye. His Daemon Primarch model has three possible face options, two normal faces missing the right eye and one which is a typical cyclops.
241	** Plaguebearers of Nurgle usually only have one eye.
242	** The mjordhainn were alien giants with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads.
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:Toys]]
246	* ''Toys/FlickToStickBungees'':
247	** Lojo of Europe's Series 1 is a caterpillar-like Bungee with one eye.
248	** Pak/Tok from ''Bionic Bungees'' and their American version Fulcram all have a one-eyed face.
249	* ''Toys/StarMonsters'': Belbo, Hanne, Xivu, and Guija have a mouth, but only one eye. In Hanne's case, it's because the star it formed from landed on a camera case. In Xivu's case, it's because it landed on a megaphone, the round shape of the horn-like speaker obviously being where its eye is. Guija came from a guitar, and its eye is mean to be the hole in a guitar.
250	* ''Toys/TeddyScares'' features a cyclops bear named Abnormal Cyrus.
251	[[/folder]]
252
253	[[folder:Video Games]]
254	* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'':
255	** Cyclopes appear as [[SuperpoweredMooks Myth Units]] if you progress to Classical Age with Ares.
256	** Another cyclops, Gargarensis, is the main antagonist.
257	* ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'': AI-Balls are AI-controlled prosthetic eyes that can take on an autonomous form outside of their user's body, forming a gelatinous body around the eye, evoking the appearance of a cyclops.
258	* In ''VideoGame/AnimalJam'', the Phantoms (evil blob creatures) have one eye in the middle of their bodies.
259	* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'', Brontes (from Greek mythology, above) appears as a boss fight at the end of a side-quest line. Arges and Steropes were later added as OptionalBoss enemies for high-level characters via patch.
260	* ''VideoGame/BasketballNightmare'': You can play against a team of cyclopes.
261	* ''VideoGame/BattleMonsters'' has Drethdock, a cyclopean monster who comes from the "Monocle" tribe.
262	* ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'': You must defeat a cyclops to rescue the [[DamselInDistress Green Princess]]. [[spoiler:He's revived by [[TheDragon the Necromancer]] as part of the final BossRush.]]
263	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': There are several cyclopean creatures in the series, two of which serve as bosses in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse Castlevania III]]'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance''. They seem similar to the one from the ''Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', except that they're blue skinned instead of red and carry enormous [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer hammers]].
264	* ''VideoGame/CoffeeCrisis'' have one-eyed aliens as the second-most recurring enemy (the first being TheGreys), whose heads are just a single eyestalk and their mouths on their torsos. They can attack by [[EyeScream launching their eyeballs like projectiles]], regrowing a new eye after losing their previous one in seconds.
265	* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': A grey-skinned cyclops with a single centrally-positioned horn appears in [[DeathMountain Rugged Ridge]] as an AdvancingBossOfDoom, starting to chase the player halfway through and destroying any platform in its way.
266	* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'':
267	** Kalameet, the one-eyed black dragon from the ''Artorias of the Abyss'' {{DLC}} for [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI the first game]].
268	** More traditional cyclopes are relatively tough enemies in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'', hippo-like {{O\|urOgresAreHungrier}}gres you can encounter within the first minute of gameplay. [[spoiler:Late-game dungeons heavily imply that they are an artificial creation of Aldia.]]
269	* In ''VideoGame/DayDreaminDavey'', there is a cyclops that Davey has to destroy by attacking his eye in one Greek mythology stage. Of course, that "cyclops" in his imagined state turns out to be a girl whom he just hit in the eye in class. OhCrap ensues.
270	* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' has the Deerclops, a giant, one-eyed humanoid deer.
271	* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': Massmouth, from the GameMod series ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfMassmouth'', is an alien with a single eye on an eyestalk. (He was originally a ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' skin.) He also appears as a bot in ''Skulltag'', a source port focused on multiplayer, where one of his lines is a complaint about his lack of depth perception.
272	* ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'': Big, blue cyclopes appear as boss monsters, and you fight them two at a time.
273	* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'':
274	** Giant, tusked cyclopes can be found as enemies.
275	** ''Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen'' introduces the "Gorecyclops", which are darker, evil versions of the normal cyclops.
276	** On top of that, the "Condemned Gorecyclops" is also introduced in ''Dark Arisen''. This one is a gigantic enemy boss chained to a wall. It's one of the largest enemies in the game, and far larger than any other Cyclops.
277	%%* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'': Cyclopes are pretty common enemies.
278	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': [[TheDragon Atlas]] is an amber-skinned, one-eyed, horned giant.
279	* ''VideoGame/{{Dragonvale}}'': It's possible to breed a Cyclops Dragon.
280	* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'':
281	** The Cycloid Emperor boss from ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''. Duke even makes a field goal with its eye.
282	** Zero from ''Duke Nukem: Zero Hour''.
283	%%* ''VideoGame/EarthEternal'' has Cyclopes as a playable race.
284	* ''VideoGame/EternityTheLastUnicorn'' have Cyclopses as a regular GiantMook enemy, one-eyed giants swinging huge clubs. Beware their ShockwaveStomp!
285	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
286	** Cyclopes appear as enemies in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', and one is a boss in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure''.
287	** A purple, horned cyclops is a summon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''.
288	** Cyclopes are also one of the new enemy types in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII''. They have EyeBeams and wield huge clubs that can deal a ridiculous amount of damage if you don't guard their attacks with the right timing.
289	* ''VideoGame/GladiatorSwordOfVengeance'': Smaller than most examples (despite the game's setting in ancient Rome), but the game has gorilla-sized cyclopses as enemies in the Isle of Titans. And you later fight Cyclops skeletons, the UndeadCounterpart of their living equivalents.
290	* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'': The strangely-named Unicorn Demon is a somewhat traditional-looking cyclops.
291	* ''VideoGame/{{Gigantic}}'': Cyclopes are a type of creature the players can summon. They can create stone walls around the control point they're summoned on to prevent enemy heroes from taking certain pathways.
292	* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', being based on Myth/GreekMythology, has these as recurring enemies in a few varieties. A common method of finishing them off is to [[EyeScream rip their eyes out]], which you can [[TwentyBearAsses trade in for goodies]]. ''VideoGame/GodOfWarAscension'' has [[Literature/TheOdyssey Polyphemus]] as an especially gigantic cyclops boss on the multiplayer map "Desert of Lost Souls".
293	* ''VideoGame/{{Grow}}'': A lot of creatures only have one eye, the most prominent ones being the Tonties, who live underground in some sort of ant-like society.
294	%%* ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend'': The Red and Blue Fleepas and the FinalBoss.
295	* ''VideoGame/HeroOfSparta'' have it's first boss being a cyclops the size of a skyscraper, where you run circles around it while finding a way to fight back. And just like in the myths, you slay it by [[GoForTheEye stabbing it through the eye]].
296	* ''VideoGame/InexistenceRebirth'': Some enemies in the game have only one eye, like the poisonous [[BlobMonster Blob Monsters]].
297	** And of course, there's cyclops enemies who will throw axes at [[PlayerCharacter Hald]] if he's close enough.
298	* ''VideoGame/JackieChansActionKungFu'': Nyudo Monster, the fourth stage boss.
299	* A number of characters in ''VideoGame/KidBabyStarchild'' only have one eye.
300	* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus1986'': Eggplant Wizards are cycloptic purple wizards with the power to turn Pit into an eggplant. They've been in every Kid Icarus game to date, and one was a recurring villain on ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster''.
301	* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'': Eyedol is a two-headed cyclops, as is Eyeclops from ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'', who however has several more eyes all over his body.
302	* The ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten\|2017}}'' [[CollectionSidequest Monstermon card]] Cyclops Duckling. The reason it only has one eye is [[EyeScream because the other one was pecked out by a bigger duckling]].
303	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', Donald Duck only has one eye while in [[Franchise/MonstersInc Monstropolis]].
304	* ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'': The Balor is a gigantic Lord of destruction with powerful claws and a single massive eye that shoots beams of light.
305	* ''VideoGame/LastArmageddon'': The single-eyed Cyclops is one of your party members.
306	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
307	** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds A Link Between Worlds]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' feature the Hinoxes, one-eyed, bomb-throwing brutes which most closely resemble the classic cyclops of Greek mythology.
308	** Gohma, a recurring boss, is [[BigCreepyCrawlies a gigantic arthropod]] typically depicted with a single yellow eye. The (relatively) smaller Tektite enemies are like this as well; in their case, whether they're depicted as spider- or crablike monsters with a single eye or as [[{{Oculothorax}} gigantic eyeballs with spindly legs]] tends to vary from game to game.
309	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfAges'': While the boss Smog has two eyes, its halves and thirds have only one each.
310	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Cragma is a cyclops made of molten rock.
311	%%** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has the bosses Tentalus, Scaldera, and Bilocyte.
312	%%** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CDi games]] have Glutko.
313	* ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'' features a single cyclops named Dirgo, who sports a single enormous eyepatch. According to his {{Backstory}}, he was blinded by an unnamed sailor, and is roaming the land seeking revenge.
314	%%* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'': The Evil Eye monster.
315	* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'': Cyclopes have appeared in almost every game, either as enemies or as units.
316	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'':
317	** Fishlips the Glump has one rather large eye.
318	** Lefty, Captain Buck's assistant, has one eye. He jokes about this fact by saying "[[{{Pun}} eye eye]], captain!".
319	** Zommers are a species that are born with one detachable eye. Later on, they grow an empty eye socket that never has an eye in it.
320	%%* ''VideoGame/MuffinKnight'' has one who casts black holes.
321	* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'': The Blue Monk is a large cyclops with a big head.
322	* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has the Meowclopses, one-eyed cats.
323	* ''VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite'': Globulous Maximus from the final game ''Globs of Doom'' qualifies after becoming [=SpongeGlob=], as this form resembles a one-eyed [=SpongeBob=] and he has other eyes around his body in his original form.
324	* ''VideoGame/{{Nioh}}'':
325	** Hitotsume-Nyuudo are massive enemies which can be stunned if you land a hit on their eye. Smaller variants also exist.
326	** Trailers from ''VideoGame/Nioh2'' show the Ippondatara, depicted as a fanged, one-eyed and one-legged monster brandishing either a smith's mallet or a giant sword.
327	* ''VideoGame/OrcsMustDieUnchained'': Stinkeye is a cyclops hero class who uses arcane magic.
328	* In ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'', we have [[SorcerousOverlord Vordakai]], the ArcVillain of ''The Varnhold Vanishing''. He was the last king of a race of AbusivePrecursors, and is planning to retake his position in the present day.
329	* ''VideoGame/PilgrimRPGMaker'': Nekaneminorpe is a CuteMonsterGirl version of one with GirlishPigtails.
330	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Several Pokémon have only one eye, but the most cyclops-like ones are Dusclops and Trevenant.
331	* ''VideoGame/RagingBlades'' has a chubby but {{acrofatic}} cyclops as a boss, who alternates between using his [[CarryABigStick hammer]] to squish you or jumping around to flatten you with his gut as attacks.
332	* ''VideoGame/RainbowBillyTheCurseOfTheLeviathan'': A number of characters in the game, such as [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Giro]] and [[AnimateInanimateObject Rodrigo]].
333	* The ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'' series has Kyle, Myukus, and Eyegore as playable monster Cyclopes.
334	* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' has two examples.
335	** The lowest-ranked Tyrrhanoids have only one eye. A few times in the game, Ratchet will use a Tyrrhaguise to turn himself into one to get through locations guarded by them.
336	** The monkeys found in the Florana Jungles also have just one eye. One of them, Skrunch, is adopted by Captain Qwark and becomes a partner for Clank during his three segments in the game.
337	* ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'': Jano has one eye.
338	* ''VideoGame/RemiLoreLostGirlInTheLandsOfLore'' has Lore, a living, floating book with only one big blue eye.
339	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'': The FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Norman's OneWingedAngel]], is a Tyrant-like monster riddled with BodyHorror; notably, his whole face split in half, revealing a red tumorous mass with a single eye beneath. It's not merely cosmetic, as it allows him to blind the players with sudden flashes of light to perform FlashStep and [[SelfDuplication illusionary clones]].
340	* ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'': Cyclopes seem to be denizens of the [[DishingOutDirt Plane of Earth]]. They're built along the same large and solid lines as [[ProudWarriorRace bahmi]] (although they tend to be even taller), but have ivory-yellow skin, vaguely bestial features, and the definitive single, centrally-positioned eye.
341	* ''VideoGame/Run3'': Everyone in the game has this trait, considering they're all aliens.
342	* The ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series:
343	** Wetmen appear in ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'', ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'' and ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'', and they have the same appearance, as a blue, bipedal and pincer-ed enemy with a thick long neck that connects to just an eyeball with what looks like three teeth.
344	** ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': Ammo Baron onlu has the one big eye that takes everyone on his face but his mouth.
345	* The ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' series has [[http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Cyclopses a number of them]]. And there are some Skylanders who might not be Cyclops, but still only have one eye, including:
346	** In ''Giants'', we have the mushroom Shroomboom, and Eye-Brawl who is a giant eye without a body and a body without a head put together.
347	** In ''Swap Force'', there's Magna Charge, who is a robot built with only one eye.
348	** In ''Trap Team'', Rocky from the duo Skylander Rocky Roll has one giant green eye.
349	** In ''[=SuperChargers=]'', Dive-Clops, the twin brother to the eye of Eye-Brawl, is a walking scuba suit with a giant eye inside it.
350	** And finally in ''Imaginators'', we have another robot cyclops, the tech Bowslinger Ro-Bow.
351	* ''VideoGame/SpaceFury'': A cyclopean alien head comes onto the screen to antagonize you throughout the game. A DistaffCounterpart appears in the homebrew sequel game ''Ms. Space Fury''.
352	* ''VideoGame/SpaceHarrier'' has one-eyed woolly mammoths.
353	* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'': One of the unlockable spelunkers is a "[[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130602182457/spelunky/images/1/13/XBLA_C17.png goofy cyclops]]".
354	* ''Videogame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'': The Kyororo are cyclops monsters in the Pumpkin Zone.
355	* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
356	** ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'': Senjoo, Seerook, Mumbo, Halzyn, Gravitt, Yumee, and Ramulken all have one eye, although they are also much smaller than the mythological cyclops. Autoad and Autom are Cyber Cyclops, while Pincher Fly takes it to Oculothorax.
357	** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'': Mother Brain's alternate form is an one-eyed giant.
358	** It's seen again in a flashback in 3D at the beginning of ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM''.
359	* ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'': Rufus, the right head of the two-headed Juju, has one eye.
360	* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'': In the [[Platform/SegaGenesis Genesis]] version, the "Magma Ocean Planet" stage has a gigantic cyclops lava monster in the background.
361	* Mimit from ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' is a WaddlingHead with a single, large eye at the centre of its "face".
362	* ''VideoGame/TimothyVsTheAliens'': The small orange aliens have one big eye.
363	* In ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'', Polyphemus the cyclops from the Odyssey appears as a boss. You also meet some other cyclopes while ascending [[spoiler:Mount Olympus]]. One last one is shown [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] prior to the fight with the Gorgon Sisters. Finally, a duo of cyclopes named Brontes and Steropes are bosses in a sidequest of Act IV in Hades. All of them are massive reddish humanoids armed with stone clubs and capable of attacking with stone-shattering shockwaves and stunning howls. They were classified as Magical beasts before ''Ragnarök'', which classified them as "Giants".
364	* ''VideoGame/ATotalWarSagaTroy'': Polyphemus is a pirate who uses a dwarf elephant's skull as a helm and wields a mace tipped with a ram's skull, implied to be the distant source of myths about a monstrous, cyclopean son of the sea god who lived on a distant island and reared sheep.
365	* ''VideoGame/{{Trog}}'': The one-eyed cavemen [[AntagonistTitle called the Trogs]].
366	* ''VideoGame/TurtlePopJourneyToFreedom'': One kind of enemy you can run into in the game is a CartoonBomb with two feet, and a single eye.
367	* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': The enemies that use the Puppet.png art are a cloth hung on a cross of wooden poles. The cloth looks like it has a head in the center, that has one black-pupiled yellow scalera eye further surrounded by some red flesh.
368	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogre magi]] have two heads, one with two eyes and another with one. Cyclopean ogres of the single-headed variety also exist in the ''Franchise/WarcraftExpandedUniverse''. The latter category rarely appear in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' (although ogre magi are common enough), but ''[=WoW=]'' did introduce their kin the Gronn, who bear a resemblance to the cyclopes from ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad''.
369	* ''VideoGame/WeirdAndUnfortunateThingsAreHappening'': [[https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMzcxOTgxLzE4NjUxOTMucG5n/original/9smiNV.png Mystic Books]] have one eye in the center of their open pages, bad wings, four tentacles and four legs with two joints each.
370	* ''VideoGame/WillRock'': A cyclops appears as the first boss, capable of hitting you from far away by spitting stones at you. It becomes a DegradedBoss soon enough.
371	* ''VideoGame/Wizard101'' has an area called Cyclops Lane, which has quite a few of the creatures.
372	* ''VideoGame/WrathUnleashed'': A monstrous cyclops with a spiked turtle-shell (that may just be a form of crude armor) is part of the Dark Chaos roster.
373	* In the ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'' game for the Platform/PlayStation, a cyclops guards King Valarian's island stronghold in the ''Isle of Kronos'' stage. In a ShoutOut to ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', he has one horn on his forehead, and if the player uses the "chakram-cam" feature, it can be seen that he has satyr-like legs similar to [[Creator/RayHarryhausen Harryhausen]]'s cyclopes.
374
375	[[/folder]]
376
377	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
378	* '' VisualNovel/LoveAtFirstSight'' is about a romance between the two-eyed protagonist and Sachi Usui, an injury-ridden cyclops girl.
379	[[/folder]]
380
381	[[folder:Webcomics]]
382	* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'':
383	** King Evilfatozon, the ruler of evil Evil EVIL PLANET TINKO!
384	** [[http://axecop.com/comic/episode-84/ The King of all Bad Guys]] is one.
385	* ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion'' has [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-02-page-04-destructive-sight/ Gorgorath]].
386	* ''Webcomic/{{Boozle}}'' is a webcomic centered around a grumpy gnome wizard and a large female cyclops named Bitsy.
387	* ''Webcomic/CloseToYourHeart'': Like their original designs from the game, the antagonists Blixer and Cuda only have one eye each. Cuda's younger brother, Rave, also has only one eye, but he's far less malicious.
388	%%* ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'': Splashmaster the giant squid.
389	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': A number of monsters and constructs have a single central eye. For example, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100322 a crowd of individuals]] from Sanaa's backstory [[spoiler:that are possibly what became of her crew]].
390	* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has the annually appearing [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/399/ Halloween Monster]], who only has one eye.
391	* ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'' features a similar-shaped species called Eyebolts.
392	* ''Webcomic/MonsterPop'': Genevieve "[[GenderBlenderName George]]" Tinsley is a college freshman and cyclops.
393	* Pebble's dad in ''Webcomic/PebbleAndWren'' has one eye.
394	* In ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'', all the aliens have one eye, as does [=iBall=] the cyborg.
395	* In ''Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate'', Madras, the current proprietor of the House of Paint [[spoiler: until she leaves and gives the house to Hero]], who has a... relationship with RGB. She is a CuteMonsterGirl of sorts, having only one eye and spindly limbs.
396	* ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'': In [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-1-26/ Level 1: #26]], Mimic gets a single eye, by multi-classing into Beholder, making him a ChestMonster with one eye.
397	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': The appropriately named Uniocs have one basketball-sized eye on top of a stalk on their shoulders above the mouth; their brains are apparently down in the pelvic area. Depth perception isn't a problem because their one big eye can rapidly shift focus, and they can see on the microscopic scale as well. There's also a comic where it's mentioned that there was a Unioc dressed as a cyclops at a physics convention.
398	%%* ''Webcomic/WaywardSons'': Arges.
399	[[/folder]]
400
401	[[folder:Web Original]]
402	* ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'': Gary, one of the Gemini twins, has one eye. The other one, Gerry, has three.
403	* ''Website/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'': Many alien or interdimensional beings are cyclopean; among others, recurring character [[EldritchAbomination Lord Thymon]] and one-off Lilathia (from ''The Multi-Dimensional Race'') are one-eyed.
404	%%* ''WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}}'': The aliens from the cartoon "Space Face".
405	* ''Monster Girl Encyclopedia'':
406	** The Gazer race are {{Cute Monster Girl}}s with a single red and yellow eye in the middle of their faces... along with all the other eyes attached to tentacles that come from their backs. Seeing how they are '''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Beholders]]''', they are very dangerous.
407	** Regular cyclopes are a race of [[TheStoic stoic]] [[UltimateBlacksmith blacksmiths that forge the weapon of any man's dreams]] in exchange of her bearing his child.
408	* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Kirk Odd's distinguishing feature is the single bulbous eye in the middle of his face.
409	* ''WebOriginal/ObscuredEyes'': A few characters are similar to classical cyclopes in terms of the single eye, but there are some exceptions to this rule. Sophia's eye is not centered in the middle of her face, Zeki is a Triclops, and Claude is a "Triman".[[note]]half-human, half-Cyclops[[/note]]
410	* ''Literature/SmirvlaksStone'': Mulvernt is a massive, smelly, silly one-eyed titan prone to ToiletHumour. [[BewareTheSillyOnes He's not afraid of defending himself, though.]]
411	* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': Behemoth is a massive monster with only one eye.
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413
414	[[folder:Western Animation]]
415	%%* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': The General.
416	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Cyclopes aren't uncommon. One plays a major role in the episode "[[AdventureTimeS3E23AnotherWay Another Way]]".
417	* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': Fasir is eventually revealed to be one. Also, there's his brother Fashoom.
418	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': In "Friends, Romans, Beavers!", after accidently time traveling to Ancient Rome and being forced to fight in the Colleseum, the beaver brothers face off against a giant cyclops. Norbert points out that the cyclops has two eyes instead of one, which drives the senstive monster into a crying fit as the other cyclops' made fun of him for it.
419	-->'''Cyclops:''' You don't know what it's like being born with two eyes.\
420	'''Norbert:''' Well, actually, I kinda do.
421	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' "D.W. Tale Spins" has Buster (a rabbit) as a cyclops who also only has one ear.
422	* ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'': In "The Wildman of Wildsville", the Wildman paints two TV tuning knobs on Cecil's nostrils. When he turns one of them, Cecil's eyes conjoin to form the CBS eye, making him a default cyclops at least for the gag.
423	* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
424	** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Upgrade (Galvanic Mechamorph) and Ghostfreak (Ectonurite) both have a single eye. The latter has black lines on his body that allow him to move his eye.
425	** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'': The Churls are a race of one-eyed aliens who can [[EyeBeams shoot laser beams through their eyes]].
426	* ''WesternAnimation/BestAndBester'': Grafifi is a [[AnimateInanimateObject living can of spray paint]]. As part of her design, she only has one eye, which is located where the spray can nozzle is.
427	* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Eyemore from "[[Recap/BikerMiceFromMarsS4E10ManchurianCharley Manchurian Charley]]", who can hypnotize people with his one, massive eye.
428	* ''WesternAnimation/ButtUglyMartians'' features a race of overweight and one-eyed aliens called the Karsh.
429	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainSturdy: Back in Action'' villain Moid is a cycloptic alien.
430	%%* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'': Zatar the Alien.
431	* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'': The magic chalk mine was originally guarded by a cyclops who wouldn't let anyone have any. The poor depth perception made him trip a lot, so as Rudy escaped with some of the chalk, he drew him a second eye above the first. When Rudy returns later, the cyclops, who now calls himself "Biclops", [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe is actually very grateful for his improved vision]], and lets Rudy take as much chalk as he wants.
432	%%* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'': Polyphemus, along with Brontes, Steropes, and Arges.
433	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has Carmen, a serpentine sea monster with one eye, from the episode "Serpent of Evil River".
434	* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' has a variant with Ash; she has bangs, but as revealed in "[[Recap/FinalSpaceS2E5TheNotoriousMrsGoodspeed The Notorious Mrs. Goodspeed]]", there's absolutely no eye underneath them, so her left eye is the only one she has. [[spoiler:At the end of "[[Recap/FinalSpaceS2E5ChangeIsGonnaCome Change is Gonna Come]]", [[BigBad Invictus]] restores her missing eye and gives her a new hairstyle to go with it.]]
435	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Leela, who only has one giant eyeball and is somewhat touchy about it. A couple of episodes reference the fact that she has very poor depth perception. She was initially presented as a member of an unknown alien race, but later turned out to be a human mutant. Both of her parents are cyclopes as well.
436	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'': The Cyclops Creature from "The Horror of Forgotten Island" is a mutant cyclops {{kaiju}}.
437	* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': One of the students is a cyclops named [[PunnyName Seymore]].
438	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E6LittleGiftShopOfHorrors Little Gift Shop of Horrors]]", one of the stop-motion monsters in the "Clay Day" segment is a cyclops.
439	* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' has a few demon characters who possess only a single eye in the middle of their head, such as the diminutive, psychotically cleanly Niffty and Australian-accented MadBomber Cherri Bomb
440	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'': Gagoyle is a giant blue monster with one eye.
441	* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' features multiple such characters, with the most prominent being Beezy's feral girlfriend Saffi and Jimmy's pet monster "dog" Cerbee.
442	* ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries'': The Draken from "Eye of the Sea" is a one-eyed sea monster.
443	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'': Very common. The toy sets use 2x2 discs for most of them, though some have started using minifigure heads instead. Some include Seismo, Teslo, and Vulk.
444	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
445	** A glitch in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]" caused part of a pony's face to disappear for a second, giving him a [[http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111106035150/mlp/images/1/11/Glitch_Noteworthy_S1E26.png strange, cyclops-like appearance]]. "Cyclops Pony" proceeded to become a minor {{meme\|ticMutation}}.
446	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone]]" has Arimaspi, a one-eyed goat monster seen in a flashback.
447	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mysticons}}'': Doug Hadderstorm, an Acromancer Cyclops in "How to Train a Mysticon".
448	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberblocks}}'': One has one eye, and several powers of ten also possess this trait: One Hundred, One Thousand, One Million...
449	** Also, One’s teddy bear. And the One Times Table.
450	** Lampshaded when One says “No, this is my eye.”
451	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberjacks}}'', the Problem Blob has one eye on the end of a stalk ''in his mouth''.
452	* ''WesternAnimation/OscarAndFriends'': The aliens Oscar, Doris, and Bugsy interact with in "Oscar Takes Off" are all cyclops aliens.
453	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': Billy from the Gangreen Gang is revealed to be a cyclops under his bangs.
454	* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': The one-binomes all only have one eye, in contrast to the two-eyed zero-binomes.
455	* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'': [[MeaningfulName Iris]], a CuteMonsterGirl version who's also Ruby's best friend.
456	* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' as a whole has had several cyclopes as monsters, including the Tar Monster and the Creepy Heap from the Deep, the Grim Creeper from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'', and the villain Dr. Cyclops in the episode "Scooby-Doo and Cyclops, Too" from ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'', who is actually a man with a weird emerald eye that turns people into zombies behind his EyepatchOfPower.
457	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'': Uni-cyclops, so named because she's a cyclops who rides a unicycle.
458	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Kang and Kodos from the {{Halloween Special}}s are aliens with a single gigantic eye each.
459	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Loomis from the Season 9 episode "The Smurf Odyssey".
460	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Plankton, a small marine critter with a single eye. TruthInTelevision too; there's actually a genus of microscopic crustaceans called ''Cyclops'' (see the Real Life folder for more). One episode has him figure out that this is detrimental to his plans because he lacks depth perception. He spends the episode trying to grow a second eye through experiments, finally getting one via [=SpongeBob=]'s DNA... but [=SpongeBob=]'s naturally good personality begins to take over Plankton's and he ultimately has to get rid of it so he can continue his plans.
461	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
462	** Sapphire is revealed to be one when her hair is moved out of her eye in the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E15KeystoneMotel Keystone Motel]]". The same applies to Padparadscha, an Off-Color orange Sapphire.
463	** Centipeetle/Nephrite has her gem as a single, functional eye.
464	** Emerald and Eyeball Ruby both have their gems where their eyes would otherwise be, thus giving each only one functional eye.
465	* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWish'': The caker pops who make up Balloonicus' army all only have one eye each. It probably has to do with how big their faces are in comparison to their heads.
466	* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'':
467	** "The Giant Bacteria": The way the title creatures work is that they divide or not depending on the number of eyes they have. The original monster has four, so it divides into two creatures with two eyes. These then have the potential to divide into a total of four single-eyed bacteria monsters, of which there wind up being two (animation errors aside).
468	** "Bride of the Pastmaster": The Pastmaster uses a trio of huge kat cyclopes as part of his army of mythological monsters. Two of them have [[Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad horned foreheads]].
469	** "Mutation City": The "[[NonIndicativeName scum snake]]" that drags the Turbokat down under the surface of the mutagen has one single cycloptic eyeball. T-Bone even exchanges glares with it through the cockpit - "What're ''you'' lookin' at, ugly?"
470	* ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'': One of the Jujus featured in the animated series who isn't present in the original video games is Killjoy Juju, a Juju with a talent for ending parties who has the appearance of a one-eyed monster. [[OppositesAttract She is ironically the significant other of the Party Juju]].
471	* ''WesternAnimation/WhatItsLikeBeingAlone'': Seymore Talkless, due to being a mutant, has one eye. He's also notable for being entirely mute.
472	* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' has Cyclops, a giant, red, one-eyed creature similar in appearance to the ones from the Greek mythology. He is physically strong and can fire a laser beam from his eye, but he's also immature and Jack has to take care of him like a baby.
473	%%* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'': Flaviour.
474	[[/folder]]
475
476	[[folder:Real Life]]
477	* Cyclopes aren't restricted to mythology -- a number of defects in fetal development can result in the birth of one-eyed creatures, although the severity of these defects and related disorders means these creatures usually die soon after. Exposure to natural or man-made poisons is often to blame nowadays.
478	** Cy, the internet-famous one-eyed noseless kitten, who was born December 2005 and died a day later.
479	** A cyclops goat was also born in Nigeria. It caused quite a stir -- [[BestialityIsDepraved they even accused the owner of an act of bestiality]].
480	** A one-eyed piglet with a severely deformed nose was also born in China in 2005.
481	** Cyclopia, as it's known, can manifest in humans as well. You can Google it, but the pics can be rather {{squick}}y, so be warned. Most cyclopia babies don't survive more than a day or so after birth, if they're not stillborn.
482	* The cyclopes from Greek legend are thought to have been based on a misconstrual of a fossilized mammoth or other prehistoric elephant skulls. If there were no tusks present, the trunk hollow could easily be mistaken for a single eye socket (it's actually the nasal cavity). You'd even have ''tourist travel guides'' telling travelers where they could see a cyclops's remains. This was especially true of dwarf elephants, which tended to have smaller or no tusks, and were common throughout the islands of the eastern Mediterranean during the Pleistociene, with most or all populations having gone extinct some time before humans were thought to have colonized the islands.
483	* Anime blogger Danny Choo [[http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/26431/Wonder+Festival+Cosplay.html took a few pictures]] of someone dressed as a [[CreepyCute cute]] and fashionable little cyclops girl at the 2012 Wonder Festival. They [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyofashion/7189793636/in/album-72157629710194568/ were also spotted]] at the Tokyo Design Festa of the same year, always clad in the latest Harajuku fashion. So far they've never appeared again, and nobody knows if they were a part of some publicity stunt or just a fan of unusual cosplays.
484	* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops_%28genus%29 Cyclops]]'' is a common genus of copepods (tiny crustaceans that range from 0.5 to 5 millimeters in size) found in freshwater environments around the world; they are easily identified by (you guessed it) [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their single large eye]]. They are harmless in and of themselves and form an important link in many aquatic food chains, but they can serve as intermediate hosts to some pretty nasty parasites (such as tapeworms and guinea worms). Plankton from ''Spongebob'' is based on these guys.
485	[[/folder]]

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