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7The ability to [[EyeScream remove one's eye]] (real or false, magical or mechanical) and use it to view hard-to-see areas during certain situations after placing it somewhere. The eye is not in any way connected to the owner, yet it operates just as well as it was. Apart from the creepiness value, it can also work as a SurveillanceDrone.
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9Compare DetachmentCombat, HelpingHands, LosingYourHead.
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11A SubTrope of FacelessEye. Can be used for SinisterSurveillance. For using eyes not one's own, see SeeingThroughAnothersEyes and AnimalEyeSpy.
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19* There's one Noah in ''Anime/DGrayMan'' who possess this ability, implanting his eye into his victim to spy on them. Thing is, [[ExtraEyes he has more than two eyes]]...
20* In ''Anime/HellGirl'', Ichimokuren can use his left eye to both spy on and frighten people. He can also use it to communicate. Or he can just appear as the eye.
21* Gaara in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' can make a floating eye out of sand and connect his optic nerve to it to scout around.
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26* The Emerald Empress, enemy of the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' has a big giant eyeball that floats around and does her bidding. She can see what it sees.
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30* B.O.B. from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' is able to hold his eyeball in his hand. He uses this to look around a corner when the monsters infiltrate Gallaxhar's ship.
31* In the ''Franchise/ToyStory'' series, the Potato Heads are often seen holding their eyes above their heads to see, etc., as a gag.
32** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': Mr. Potato Head takes out his eyes and uses them to see over the other toys at the windowsill when they're watching Sid destroy his Combat Carl action figure.
33** He does it again in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' to see inside the room where Woody was being held.
34** It becomes a plot point in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', when Mrs. Potato Head loses an eye before leaving Andy's room, and later finds that she can still use it to see Andy's room from under the dresser where she left it.
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38* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': Batman has a pair of contact lenses that can act as hi-definition cameras, even being able to record sound. He lends them to Selina Kyle so he can see through her eyes and get [[FacialRecognitionSoftware facial recognition data]] on the customers in [[BadGuyBar -44 Below]].
39* In ''Film/TheBeastmaster'', one of the BigBad's witches implants her eye in a piece of jewelry, then allows the heroes to acquire it so she can spy on them. When a hero spots it "opening", he jams a burning stick into it; miles away the witch clutches her face and screams, indicating it didn't just convey messages of vision to her, but pain as well.
40* ''Film/BeyondReAnimator'' has this happen to one of the prison junkies who unknowingly injected himself with multiple revival serums belonging to the MadDoctor Herbert West until he exploded (he reanimated himself) causing one of his eyeballs to pop out of his head. For reasons the movie doesn't explain, the doctor takes the eyeball and keeps it around until at the end of the movie when he discard the eyeball outside the front lawn of the chaos-infested prison, while it struggles to move.
41* That [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Beholder-like]] eyeball creature the heroes encounter in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''. "What it sees, Lo Pan knows!"
42%%* The alien does this in ''Film/BrotherFromAnotherPlanet''.
43* In both ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' and [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 the 2010 remake]], the trio of hags who advise Perseus share a single disembodied eye that they pass back and forth.
44* Aughra from ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' has only one eye, but she can remove it from her head and hold it up to get a better look at things.
45* Eden makes effective use of one of these several times in ''Film/{{Doomsday}}''.
46* The Black Queen uses these in ''Film/MirrorMask''. For added creepiness, they have spider legs.
47* In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', [[ElectronicEyes bionic eyes]] have become a thing for one-eyed people. Both Blofeld and Spectre henchman Primo/"Cyclops" use one. They're detachable, they record videos and sound and they have a network to share what's filmed. Blofeld uses his to [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll run Spectre from his prison cell]] and organize his "birthday party" in Cuba via another eye that's moved around during said party. Blofeld's eye later gets taken away and analyzed by Q.
48%%* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061019/ Spy in Your Eye]]''
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52* Displacers in ''Literature/TheBeyonders'' can detach any part of the body and it remains connected crossdimensionally. [[TheEmperor Maldor]] is particularly fond of having his Displacer spies graft their eyes or ears onto released prisoners or mistrusted vassals.
53* Blind Io from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has dozens of remote eyes.
54* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye. Also, it's used by Dolores Umbridge as a spycam.
55* ''Literature/MerkabahRider'': In "The Nightjar Women", Lilith is able to remove and send semm flying around to spy for her.
56* Randall Flagg in ''Literature/TheStand'' sends his eye to spy on the good guys in one scene.
57* In a UsefulNotes/WW2 novel set in Italian-occupied East Africa, a British soldier takes out his GlassEye and tells the natives he'll leave his eye behind to make sure they don't get up to mischief. It doesn't work because one of them is a former sailor and knows about glass eyes.
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61* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E04IFallToPieces I Fall to Pieces]]" features a creepy doctor who can do detach and levitate his eyes, his hands, etc. (pretty much take himself apart and put himself back together again at will). He uses his powers to stalk and eventually try to kill a nice young lady, providing her with some horrific moments (like disembodied hands crawling in her bed, up her legs...).
62* G'Kar picks up this ability on ''Series/BabylonFive'': after [[TheCaligula the deranged Centauri emperor]] [[EyeScream gouges his eye out]], it is later replaced with an [[ElectronicEyes artificial eye]] that can function even when removed from his eye socket. Being [[DirtyOldMan G'Kar]], he exploits the PowerPerversionPotential for all it's worth.
63* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Girl in the Fireplace]]", one of the Clockwork Robots aboard the ''S.S. Madame de Pompadour'' used an unfortunate crewman's eye to fix a camera that had broken down.
64* During the Wizards challenge from season 6 of ''Series/FaceOff'', one contestant chose a wand with an eye mounted at its tip, so crafted a blind witch who used her wand to see.
65* In one episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', an alien has a few detached eyes scattered over the city and can show others what he's seen with those eyes by attaching a tentacle to their eye sockets, for a price. Which helps Crichton and D'Argo figure out WhatDidIDoLastNight?
66* A MonsterOfTheWeek on ''Series/TheXFiles'' was able to order his body parts about to act independently, including his eyes.
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70* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
71** The ocularon is a tentacled LivingGasbag known for [[EyeScream plucking out the eyes of enemies and impaling them on the end of its tentacles.]] The creature can then animate those eyeballs and send them off as morbid surveillance drones, or fling them at enemies as poisonous projectiles.
72** [[MageSpecies Hags]] can create "Hag Eyes", which are enchanted eyeballs that serve as scrying tools and which are cloaked with an illusion of being semi-precious gemstones. In at least some editions of the game, destroying a Hag Eye leads to painful backlash (damage and/or blindness) for its creator.
73** In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', hags can also use Hag Eyes to create a unique slime called the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hag Eye Ooze]]; a BlobMonster with a giant disembodied eyeball floating inside of it that its hag creator can see and channel spells through. They are considered more useful and reliable than just handing out Hag Eyes to humanoid minions. There's also a larger, nastier, multi-eyed version called the Coven Ooze, which is what happens when a Hag Eye Ooze survives the destruction of its creator and feeds on her coven's flesh, absorbing some measure of their intelligence in the process.
74* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' the Utilit-i ocular implant is primarily used for AugmentedReality but its connection to the owner has a wireless range of 9 feet, and it can be connected to a network so someone can pop their eye out and leave it somewhere that has a public network and still see through it.
75* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' you have the option to replace one (or both) of your eyes with a [[IProduct Lone Star iBall]]. They are like normal cybereyes, until you take it out. Then they act as [[SurveillanceDrone recon drones]], which can roll around on the floor.
76* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', Belial's Brood has an investment called Flesh Spider that lets the detach body parts but still use them. This includes their eyes.
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80* ''VideoGame/BloodIITheChosen'' has an item called "The Eye". When used, Caleb drops it, but it still appears in the inventory; when toggled again, the player's view changes to the Eye itself, allowing them to look around where the Eye landed. Unfortunately, Caleb cannot throw the Eye more than a step in front of him, so in single player it's almost useless.
81* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', a Bullymong steals Claptrap's eye from its socket. The following quest has the player and Claptrap finding said Bullymong, during which the blind robot mentions he can see what his eye is seeing when he's within range, similar to a Bluetooth connection.
82* A cutscene in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper 2'' has a skeleton pop its [[TheDeadHaveEyes improbably pristine]] eye out and hold it to peep around a corner. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Skeletons can't do this in-game, mind you]].
83* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' has the ability with some spells, an item, and a monk disciple to send out an eye to investigate for you.
84* The Eye of Kilrogg spell in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 2'' summons a floating eye that works like this.
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88* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' certainly features this a lot, though given the [[{{Gorn}} nature of the show]] it's less of a visibility asset and much more of a tool to show [[EyeScream exactly what's coming next]] in perhaps one of the most horrifying ways possible.
89* In ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'' Huey (Huehuecoyotl) is known to juggle his eyes when bored. In one episode he tosses one over a roof to check if the coast is clear.
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93* Pages of the all-seeing lexicon in ''Webcomic/{{Bibliography}}''.
94* Dabbler of ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' has a cybernetic eye that she can [[http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1167 pop out]], she's not allowed to at the dinner table anymore]].
95* One character in ''Webcomic/{{Kaspall}}'' has a prosthetic eye that he once used to see around a corner.
96* Golgo (a.k.a. Angel Eye) from ''Webcomic/RiceBoy'' has a mechanical eye that's capable of functioning autonomously, acting as a flying video camera. He prefers it over his biological eye, referring to the mechanical one as "my good eye" at one point.
97* Schlock from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' can move his eyes to any point of his [[BlobMonster amorphous body]] and has used this to spy around corners and in other tactical situations. Or to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-11-08 get a good stereo base]].
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101* The whole point of Krumm's character design from ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters''. He doesn't even ''have'' eye sockets -- he carries his eyeballs around in his hands. They get thrown around or rolled into places where he wants to see quite a bit. Krumm's father looks almost identical, except that he's lost one of his eyes and wears a black glove on that hand to give the appearance of an EyepatchOfPower.
102* One of Gumball and Darwins' classmates in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is a flying eyeball who acts as the SadistTeacher's personal snitch.
103* Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Although how his eyes function varies based on the RuleOfFunny.
104* In ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', one of [[TheChewToy the N.I.G.E.L. robot's]] eyes is a mobile microcamera.
105* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'', Berk manages to lose one of the Bad-Tempered Thing's (detachable) eyeballs. After he's spent most of the episode recovering it:
106-->'''Berk:''' Oh yes, I found it. But it's a good job Him Upstairs didn't see what happened to it.\
107'''Thing:''' But I did see, Berk. ''[the eyeball rotates.]'' I saw everything!\
108'''Berk:''' [[OhCrap Oh, globbits.]] I hates eyeballs.
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