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4[[InWhichATropeIsDescribed A scene in which]] a character has a huge eye staring at them. In many cases, the character won't notice even this--[[ScareChord at least not until they turn around and find themselves face-to-eyeball]]. In the case of an {{Oculothorax}} the eyeball is all there is!
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6Compare with MirrorScare, DangerTakesABackseat, and PeekABooCorpse. There is naturally a lot of overlap with EyeAwaken.
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12%%* The eye at the end of the Soul Society arc in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''.
13%% * The "giant eye looking through a window" variant happens completely randomly and inexplicably in ''Anime/CatSoup''.
14* The Truth (as seen through the gate) in ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' is pretty much dozens of this with {{Slasher Smile}}s in a doorway.
15** Also found [[spoiler: for a similar reason]] with Gluttony.
16* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
17** In the second episode, Shinji has just witnessed Unit-01 going berserk and kill an Angel... then he notices that the reflection of its exposed eye is looking directly at him. Needless to say, it freaks him out real good.
18** And later when it goes berserk again and '''eats''' an Angel, it is wrapped in bandages with only its eye and a toothy grin being seen.
19** For some reason, Angels seem to like eyes. One of them had an eye which poured ''acid'' to burn a way into the Geofront. Another is just a gigantic eye that drops from space onto Tokyo 3.
20* ''Anime/HellGirl'''s Ren Ichimoku has pulled his own personal giant eye of doom on Enma's victims; most notably Kuroda Aya from the first episode. "I saw you".
21** Shibata Hajime has indirectly fallen here. Ren summoned his eye on Hajime's chest to scare away a shopskeeper who was about to tell him about the whereabouts of Mina.
22* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Aki's first encounter with an [[EldritchAbomination Earthbound God]]. When Misty summons her God, she looks around, confused... only to turn around and [[OhCrap see]] Ccaryhua's massive eye staring at her through what's at least the twentieth story of the building's she in.
23* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': In episode 10, Senketsu stretches his eye to expand the entire battle arena just so Ryuko can have a chance to hit Inumuta while he's invisible.
24* In ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'' Odin manifests as humongous eyeball; his true form is never seen.
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28* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=1436 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]] and its ''Time Spiral'' [[ShoutOut shout-out]], the even more obvious [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=83811 Evil Eye of Urborg]].
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32* Two ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' enemies have used the name "The Orb". One wore a helmet that looked like a giant eyeball, but the All-New Orb's head is an actual giant eyeball.
33* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': In the issue #30, after Fone Bone, Smiley, Bartleby, the little possuns and the orphans enter a small cave to escape from Roque Ja. Fone goes to check if the mountain lion has gone, just to find Roque Ja's big eye blocking the cave entrance.
34* In ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', there is a giant eyeball that looms above Hell and causes paranoia and self-consciousness among the damned.
35* It happens in the ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'' series when Dr. Willy finds Ra Moon, a massive mechanical eye, as exploring the Lanfront Ruins.
36* ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'': Shortly before the climax of "The Girl of No Tomorrow", ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} turns around and finds the larger-than-a-human-head, floating Eye of Ekron staring at her, and its mistress the Emerald Empress standing beside it.
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40* ''ComicStrip/NaturesWay'' (Gary Larson's comic prior to ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'') had a comic with a woman peering into a fishbowl and staring at a goldfish while an enormous monster is peering into her window and staring at ''her''.
41* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
42** One comic showed a driver looking at the rear-view mirror and seeing it filled with the image of a giant eye, and underneath we see the message, "Objects in the mirror are [[CloserThanTheyAppear closer than they appear]]."
43** Another comic involved an old woman calling her neighbor on the telephone. "Hello, Mabel? It's Ethel, from up the street...fine, thanks. Say, I wonder if you could go to your front window and describe what's in my front yard." At her window is a humongous eyeball.
44* ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' strips [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/moon-bunny/ Moon Bunny]] and [[https://pbfcomics.com/comics/rainbow/ Rainbow]].
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48* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': When [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Thor]] meets Vivienne and San for the first time since they fused to each-other, coming to their rescue without knowing for sure who they were in advance, his giant blue eye gazes into the ElaborateUndergroundBase through a hole in the wall.
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52* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. The crew's first close-up view of the Leviathan is an ''extreme'' close-up of a mechanical iris and a fiery pupil. "Jiminy Christmas! It's a machine!"
53* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', the appearance of the dragon is when a gigantic eye peers at Donkey through the gap in a broken castle wall.
54* There is a scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' where Cera finds Sharptooth lying on its back, with its eyes closed. Thinking he is dead, Cera taunts it and charges at its face. When she gets closer, Sharptooth opens its eye, staring menacingly back at her.
55* During the Pink Elephants sequence in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', one of the elephants turns into a camel, [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a snake]], [[FanDisservice a harem dancer]] and a giant eyeball.
56* A [[OneSceneWonder giant eyeball]] appears in the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'', but there's no "doom" - whatever's attached to the eyeball is not a rampaging beast, just idly curious.
57* Happens near the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' when we see Jiminy Cricket run into Monstro the whale.
58* One of the monsters Sulley and Mike run into on their way to work at the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' is a giant eyeball peeking out of a window.
59* In ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing,'' Sauron's Great Eye surmounts his fortress of Barad-Dûr (this is something of a LiteralMetaphor), and Frodo and Sam spend some time dodging it's vision cone. The emblem the orcs and Nazgûl wear looks like a cartoony skull at first glance, but on closer inspection, is actually a black-sclera'd eye with a red iris, shooting a trio of EyeBeams. When actually seen near the climax, it shines like a second sun.
60* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': While hiding from a huge pike, Wart [[https://youtu.be/clPClnaLfJw?t=85 looks around a wooden beam]], sees nothing, looks around the other side... and suddenly the pike is eyeballing him from an inch away, said eyeball being the size of Wart's goldfish body.
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64* '' Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': Scott Lang is stunned unconscious by Hope van Dyne and wakes up in her car driving away from his house. He starts to panic that someone will see he's broken house arrest, then ''really'' panics when a huge eye looks through the car window. Turns out Hope's car has been [[SizeShifter shrunk to miniature size]] so no-one will see Scott leaving, and some curious pigeons are checking them out.
65* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has this moment:
66-->Giselle is sitting on her windowsill with Pip. An enormous troll suddenly peeks in the window behind her.\
67'''Giselle's Woodland Friends:''' Eye, eye, eye, eye...\
68'''Giselle:''' I--I ''what?''\
69'''Troll:''' I ''eat you now!''
70* This happens in ''Film/Godzilla1998''. The soldiers searching New York's AbsurdlySpaciousSewer for the creature come to the end of a blocked tunnel and turn to search somewhere else. As they do so, the "rubble" blocking the tunnel turns out to be Godzilla's eyelid.
71* In ''Film/{{Head}}'', Davy opens a medicine cabinet and sees a giant staring eye -- naturally, he freaks out, and naturally, [[YouHaveToBelieveMe it's not there when he warns the others about it]].
72* In the BatmanColdOpen of ''Film/Hellboy2004'', a floodlight is knocked through the dimensional portal and drifts through the void where Lovecraftian demons are trapped inside a vast crystalline asteroid. As its beam sweeps over the asteroid, two huge and one ''gigantic'' yellow eyes swivel to watch it, behind the semi-transparent crystal.
73* When the protagonists' submarine is captured by the giant octopus in the finale of ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea'', Dr. Carter swims up to one of its eyes and attacks it to make it let go.
74* Used memorably in ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', as illustrated above. Also appears in [[Franchise/JurassicPark the sequels]] -- a T-rex peers into Eddie's car in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', and the reflection of the Spinosaur's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane in the ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.
75* In "The Woman of the Snow", the second of four segments of AnthologyFilm ''{{Film/Kwaidan}}'', a giant eye, presumably a manifestation of the ''yuki-onna'' snow demon, appears and is watching the woodcutters as they stagger through the blizzard.
76* ''Film/MobyDick2010'': Several US Navy sailors are patrolling on an island, [[TemptingFate feeling grateful]] they're not searching for the MonsterWhale on the sea. A RedShirt wades into [[ThatsNoMoon what he thinks is shallow water]] until a giant eye opens in front of him.
77* Franchise/MonsterVerse:
78** In ''Film/Godzilla2014'', the female MUTO's glowing eye (or equivalent) passes eerily close to Ford Brody and Tre Morales when they're lying flat on a train track to avoid because noticed, [[WalkingTechbane causing Morales' radio to hiss]].
79** In ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'', Madison Russell has drawn the three-headed evil dragon [[BigBad King Ghidorah]] to Fenway Park using a bio-acoustic device called the ORCA. When she unplugs the ORCA from Fenway Park's PA systems and attempts to flee with it (causing the sound that's attracting Ghidorah's attention to ''solely'' emit from the device in her hands), Ghidorah's heads all crowd around the press box's windows separating him from Madison, with one eye on the side of each head glaring daggers into her back as she slowly realizes something is wrong and turns around. [[OhCrap "Oh, shit"]] indeed.
80*** And in the film's novelization, another monster called Kraken stares with one giant eye through the window at the scientists monitoring it when it awakens due to Ghidorah's call.
81** In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', Maia Simmons shits bricks when Kong grabs the HEAV she's inside, after she pissed him off by having the HEAV shoot at him, and he peers directly inside at her with one eye.
82* ''Film/PacificRim'': Blackmarketeers specialising in the [[OrganTheft organs of alien creatures]] are squelching through the dead body of a {{kaiju}} when they [[MonsterIsAMommy hear a heartbeat]] and see a huge eye peering at them through the membrane of a womb-sac. Cue SoundOnlyDeath.
83* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'', someone peers into a crack in the ground and sees this trope -- turns out a huge bug creature makes up a large part of the planet.
84* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium:
85** ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies do this several times with the Great Eye of Sauron, most memorably: the first time Frodo puts on the Ring, he turns around and...
86-->'''Sauron''': You cannot hide. I ''see you''.
87** Bonus points for the eye being ''on fire''. In Mordor itself, it has a visible sight-cone, and Frodo is stunned with ''pure, concentrated despair'' when it glances at him.
88*** Parodied in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/GoingPostal''. The Unseen University wizards are trying to contact another wizard with a crystal ball, but keep getting a fiery eyeball. This turns out to be the eye of that wizard, who'd developed a severe shrimp allergy. It also gave him a giant fiery nose.
89** ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'': When Bilbo is briefly mesmerized into exposing himself to Smaug, the very first thing he sees upon taking off the Ring is [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmSmaug Smaug]]'s giant eye staring right at him, not five feet away from his face.
90* ''The Trollenberg Terror'': Our heroes are trapped on a mountain by ''giant killer eyeballs from outer space!'' [[SpecialEffectFailure That look like crap!]]
91** One re-release of the movie underlined this detail by retitling the movie as ''Film/TheCrawlingEye''.
92* Used in the "It's a Good Life" segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''.
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96* This happens in a couple of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' adaptations (the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Disney version]] and the one with Fiona Fullerton) when Alice grows too large in the White Rabbit's house. The animals look at the "monster" in the house and freak.
97* The Crayak in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''.
98* In ''Cauldron'', Literature/PriscillaHutchins pilots an expedition to the centre of the galaxy to find the origin of the civilization-destroying omega clouds. They back-track them to a {{Space Cloud|s}} that's too vast and radioactive to enter, and are on the verge of giving up when they realise a dark patch has formed inside the cloud that appears to be a giant eye looking directly at them. Naturally everyone freaks out.
99* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Merlin is the only one to see the Serpent incarnate, and describes it as a slithering darkness, with the exception of its one, gigantic luminous eye.
100* In Creator/ShelSilverstein poem "The Deadly Eye", the narrator tells of the Deadly Eye of [[FluffyTheTerrible Poogly-Pie]]. Anyone who looks at it will die. [[TemptingFate It's a good thing you didn-]]You did? [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Good-bye.]]
101* Happens in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', in a fashion. A character sees a giant eye in front of them, which turns out to be an [[TheIgor Igor]] wearing a huge magnifying lens. When he removes it the sight is slightly less terrifying.
102** There's also this ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' in ''Going Postal'': "It's not working, Mr. Stibbons! Here's that damn enormous fiery eye again!"
103** Bel-Shamharoth does this to Rincewind just before it intends to eat him. [[spoiler: This bites Bel-Shamharoth on the tentacled butt. The camera Rincewind is holding at the time takes a picture and flashes into the monster's eye. It appears that even the creature so terrifying that both Death and Time are afraid of, can't stand a bright camera flash.]]
104* The novel ''Eye in the Sky'' by Creator/PhilipKDick, is basically about that.
105* Literature/TheEyeOfArgon itself, which is described as "gigantic", and which later [[spoiler:melts and turns into a blood-sucking blob]].
106* In Creator/PhilipKDick short story "Fair Game", a nuclear physicist, Professor Douglas, is startled to see an eye the size of a piano looking at him. It turns out to belong to a monstrous being from another dimension that Douglas assumes wants him for his scientific knowledge. It turns out that the monstrous being wanted him for dinner.
107* Stephen King's ''Literature/{{It}}'': One of Pennywise's forms in the Derry sewers is a giant eye, as seen in ''The Crawling Eye''. [[spoiler:Eddie drives it back by spraying it with his asthma inhaler and claiming the liquid is battery acid; a direct comparison to the medicine's taste when he uses it. In reality, his inhaler is a placebo, water with a dash of camphor, prescribed to Eddie in order to placate his mother who uses guilt and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy to keep Eddie under her thumb.]]
108* At the end of ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' they succeed in contacting the Raven King or one of his lieutenants, who looks at them through the window in the form of a raven so large all they can see is its eye. Mr. Norrell fails to fully understand what he's seeing even when it blinks, and comments that he was very glad he hadn't realized or he would have been much afraid. Strange agrees rather shaken, as he did realize what it was.
109* Creator/VictorHugo wrote a poem called "La Conscience" about an eye stalking Cain wherever he went. At the end, he digs a grave for himself, goes to live in it, and the eye is still there. The last line - "L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn" ("The eye was in the grave and looking at Cain") - is proverbial in French.
110* In ''Literature/MyTeacherFlunkedThePlanet'', there's an alien that's supposed to [[StealthPun keep an eye on]] the main characters in the basement. Them main characters ask if they can come in. He tells them they can't. As he explains that they literally ''can't'' come in, they open the door to find a giant eye. He takes up the entire basement.
111** Of course, s/he can squirm around enough to be fed. In practical terms, this means that opening the basement door could greet you with an enormous eye or ''a door-sized mouth''.
112* ''[[Literature/TheAdversaryCycle Nightworld]]''. Portals to AnotherDimension have opened sending nightmare creatures swarming across the Earth. To defeat them the protagonists must go on a FetchQuest. Literature/RepairmanJack is flying through an ash cloud over the Pacific Ocean when he suddenly thinks they're flying too close to the ground, only to see a GiantEyeOfDoom staring back at him from a [[GiantFlyer titanic flying leviathan several miles in diameter]]. During the final confrontation between the hero and the BigBad, who is in the process of changing into an EldritchAbomination, the latter stares at him via a giant eye pressed up against the membrane of its womb-sac.
113* The Eye Storm in ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' nearly drives Speaker-To-Animals into a HeroicBSOD. Because it looks like a ''human'' eye.
114* The horror novelette ''Literature/{{Slimer}}'' by Harry A. Knight has a scene where the characters are looking through a porthole in the door at something weird, and gradually realise it's a giant eyeball pressed up against the glass, staring back at them.
115* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium:
116** Narrowly {{subverted}} in ''Literature/TheHobbit''. The second time Bilbo approaches [[Characters/TheHobbit Smaug]], he catches sight of a ray peeking out from one of Smaug's eyes (indicating that the dragon is now only feigning sleep), and he recoils just in time to avoid being seen.
117** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings,'' despite what [[WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing the]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings movies]] might tell you, the Great Eye is more of a metaphor and emblem of Sauron's power, and not a literal giant-ass flaming eyeball on top of an EvilTowerOfOminousness.
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121* Cyclops in TheSixties British sci-fi serial ''Series/AForAndromeda'', a large amoeba in a tank that stares out at the scientists with a huge single eye.
122* ''Series/TheAquabatsSupershow'' episode "The Floating Eye of Death", which is about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin take a guess]].
123* In ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'', this is all we ever see of "The Great Unknown", a dreaded ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' that stalks the depths of the ocean and looks like a question mark on sonar. It gazes in the porthole of a submarine at one point.
124* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
125** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]: Used by the eye belonging to an Atraxi, a species of starship-sized eyes with a crystalline "shell".
126** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]]: Spoofed when Rory and Amy shriek when they open a drawer to reveal a huge eye staring out at them... only for it to turn out to be a huge but harmless GlassEye.
127* In the live-action series of ''Series/GiantRobo'', one {{Kaiju}} was a giant eyeball with only a pair of legs and no body or other limbs.
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131* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons,'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beholder_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Beholders]] have eleven eyeballs, which makes it hard for them to ''stop'' being an example of the trope.
132** On a related note, the discovery of a gigantic slumbering dragon (huge eye included) inside a mountain kicks off events in ''[[Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God]]''.
133* An edition or two ago, the cover of the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' core rulebook showed a pair of investigators finding a giant, unmistakably alien eye taking up one whole end of a cavern.
134* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''. As shown by the cover of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paranoia_XP.png Paranoia XP]] game, Friend Computer is often depicted as being one of these.
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138* The 2007 A Nightmare on Elm Street house at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights in Hollywood recreated the Roach Motel scene from the fourth movie, complete with a screen in the window to simulate giant Freddy looking in through the window.
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142* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' has several times fought Dark Matter. In ''Kirby's Dream Land 3'' and ''[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Kirby 64]]'' at least, he is constantly staring at you; in the former, the final boss's final form ''is'' a Giant Eye Of Doom that shoots its blood as an attack.
143* In ''VideoGame/TheLastDoor'', Jeremiah Devitt and the rest of the Witnesses express horror upon seeing The Eye of the Bird.
144* The Overmind in ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' uses a gigantic lidless eyeball for his conversational avatar.
145* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has Evil Eye Sigma, who appeared as the extra boss of ''VideoGame/TouhouFuumarokuTheStoryOfEasternWonderland''... and was promptly forgotten.
146* C'thun, FinalBoss of the Ahn'Qiraj dungeon in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', is literally a GiantEyeOfDoom in its initial stage, complete with EyeBeams. Then it turns into a giant mouth with lots of little eyeballs sticking out of the sides. And it uses eyeball-tipped CombatTentacles to attack players. There's also a standard creature model in the Outland zones that is [[ShoutOut reminiscent]] of the famous ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Beholder.
147** And in the second expansion, the player is sent on a quest to destroy a [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings gigantic, magical eye on top of a tower]] in the [[strike: Ice Mordor]] Icecrown zone to prevent the current BigBad from observing the good guys invading his turf. For some added hilarity, the quest is called "It's All Fun and Games".
148* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
149** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUb1JQwL8M Digdogger]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-mjoAkBNI Gohma]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
150** Both were in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the original NES game]] as well, along with Patra, a squadron of giant flying eyeballs.
151** And then there's Wart from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. He's a giant freaking eye covered in what look like fish eggs. And how does the fight start? You look up at him, only to suddenly have the camera zoom in so much that his eye's taking up most of the screen.
152** And Bongo Bongo, a giant eye with GiantHandsOfDoom.
153** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has the Pools of Malice, which frequently sprout giant eyes that Link must shoot in order for the Malice to recede. [[spoiler:The FinalBoss, Dark Beast Ganon, has a cluster of such eyes on top of its head that Link must shoot to beat the game.]]
154* The scene in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' at the Northern Crater when the WEAPONS awaken. One of them blinks at Rufus and the others through the transparent wall.
155* In ''VideoGame/LaMulana'', Viy, the [[BossBattle Guardian]] of the [[LethalLavaLand Inferno Cavern]], is so huge his body doesn't fit on the screen, but the part of it you can see consists of tentacles and an eye roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle with a lid so heavy that Viy has minions whose entire purpose is to lift it.
156* Any Gaze attack in ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier''; especially Boss X's Hypergaze (Inflicts random status abnormality) in which a HUGE eye, about half as big as the screen appears and hits every character with a gaze attack.
157* There's one of these in ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}''.
158* Corbenik's [[SequentialBoss final form]] in ''[[VideoGame/DotHackR1Games .hack//quarantine]]'' is an enormous eye, with hundreds of other Giant Eyes of Doom flying about in the background. All of the other Phases in the games had eyespot markings on them somewhere, foreshadowing this. Naturally, the battle has plenty of {{Eye Beam}}s going around, and when Corbenik cries his tears create an ''earthquake''.
159* This happens with the player character in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''... as in, it's Bowser who's the one glaring through the window just before fighting the Fawful Express. Especially fitting after Bowser has used fire breath to practically blow up the windscreen of the train a second ago.
160* One of the bosses in ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2: Seeds of Evil'' on the N64 was called Golden Eye (a TakeThat at [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 a certain other N64 shooter]]), and was just a giant eyeball (with CombatTentacles). Turok stumbles into its lair, unaware what lurks there [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong until pretty much the entire ceiling blinks at him]].
161* The [[SequentialBoss final part]] of the FinalBoss from the obscure ShootEmUp ''VideoGame/SteelSaviour'' is one of these.
162* In the flash game ''Gateway II'', there's a room that looks like a normal, unassuming kitchen, until you touch something on a counter and a ''pair of enormous eyes open behind the windows''.
163* Tangram from the ''VideoGame/VirtualOn'' Series: The Giant Eye is Tangram's WaveMotionGun
164* Flashbacks in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' show that an enormous, smoke-shrouded malevolent eye appeared above Madain Sari instants before the entire city was annihilated. The same eye appears over the Iifa Tree as Kuja commands it to corrupt Bahamut, and again when Alexander protects its city from the maddened dragon lord. However, in this last instance, it is revealed that the eye is actually the mind-controlling, corrupting device on the bottom of the [[CoolAirship Invincible]], which only ''looks'' like a giant malevolent red eye.
165* In ''VideoGame/{{Alundra 2}}'', the mid-bosses of the underwater cave are bunch of these. And they throw bombs at you, those bastards.
166* Seen in ''VideoGame/TheWhiteChamber'' during one of the more horrifying hallucinations.
167* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixOnline'', as the end-of-beta events led up to a player wipe, the [[RedSkyTakeWarning reddening skies]] filled with giant eyes, all looking down on players in random orientations.
168* In the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'' games, this is basically what you see of the titular Elderitch Abomination.
169* The FinalBoss of the NES version of ''VideoGame/LegendaryWings'' is a giant [[CyberCyclops cybernetic eye]] of doom.
170* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shivers_6239.jpg The cover art]] of ''VideoGame/Shivers1995''.
171* The Eye of Big Brother in ''VideoGame/IRobot''. Jumping while it is open results in death.
172* Eyebot in ''VideoGame/HeavyWeapon'', whose design is based off a tentacled EldritchAbomination.
173* Subverted in ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' during the penthouse stage of Neon Boulevard. While you fight enemies in the penthouse, the gigantic yellow eye of a massive ''kaiju'' will peer into the window, but that one is just MonstrousScenery that doesn't have any impact on gameplay.
174* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the Eye of Cthulhu, and The Twins in hardmode.
175* Big Eye in ''VideoGame/{{Something}} Else''. It may seem threatening, but it's the WarmUpBoss.
176* One of the early Strikes in ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' has as its boss a giant Servitor called Sepkis Prime. It stares straight ahead as the door to his room opens, not looking at the player until the Fallen around it are killed and it finishes absorbing the energies around it. Shoot the iris for precision damage as you would an ordinary Servitor.
177* The Eye in ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'' is a colossal eye that appears on a nameless tile in the southern part of the sea floor that causes you to gain Terror at an alarming rate in its presence.
178-->''The eye! The eye! As vast and round and wild as the moon! Your crew shriek and cavort! You, of course, are calm. Utterly calm. Calm as the moon! Those noises must be coming from someone else!''
179* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': In the final chapter, Team Snakemouth is stalked by [[spoiler:Dead Lander Omega, a giant... [[EldritchAbomination thing]] that constantly follows them and drops Dead Lander Gamma at them whenever it spots them.]] One of the only visible parts of it, [[spoiler:besides the bony hands]], is a giant glowing yellow eye with [[HellishPupils vertical pupil]].
180* ''VideoGame/IronLung'': During your exploration, you are tasked with taking pictures of what is within the blood seas of the moon you are on since you cannot look out of the porthole and have to rely upon the photographs for navigation. [[spoiler:One of the things you wind up taking a picture of is a massive sea monster's eyeball staring directly at you, which roars and knocks at your submarine before swimming away.]]
181* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': In the Marble Gallery, there is a long hallway that leads to the outer wall of the castle. There are windows in the background of the long hallway. A giant eyeball is always behind those windows. The eyeball has no purpose other than to stare at Alucard.
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185* In ''Webcomic/BloodIsMine'' the protagonists discover [[http://bloodismine.com/comics/525 the giant eye]] of a frozen EldritchAbomination in one of the government bunkers.
186* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'''s newest BigBad is a nameless monster that consists of a huge eye and a lot of tentacles.
187* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' the first time the Beast is seen it's just its glowing giant eye peering through [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20141128 a wall it just put a hole in.]]
188* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' - Bob meets an alien [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/108/ Eyeball Monster.]] Who speaks Spanish.
189* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' parodies this in one strip with [[OmnicidalManiac Richard]] the warlock. He rips the eye out a giant and does this to a group of minotaurs.
190--> '''Richard:''' "What, too much?"
191* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': In [[SapientShip Petey]]'s [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010429.html first appearance]] Ennesby enters his virtual reality and finds himself in what looks like a forest, until a "lake" blinks.
192* A memorable strip of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' had Reakk coming face-to-eyeball with one of the Dragons of Annoyia...and he instantly poinks it in its humongous eye. "With so much eyeball, how could I resist?" was his excuse.
193* ''Webcomic/TwistedTropes'': [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Stay Puft]] walks by a window looks into a window of a skyscrapper and noticed a woman cooking a marshmallow. She stops everything in a panic as he gives her a DeathGlare.
194* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a DoubleSubversion when Hannelore visits an undersea research installation, sees a giant eyeball through the porthole, gets reassured that it's just a curious giant squid, and then realizes that the pupil shape doesn't match.
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198* In the FishingMinigame in ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' you can fish up increasing sizes of giant squids. The largest -- the Titanic Giant Squid -- is too big to fit into an item display, and you can only see its eye glaring back at you.
199* This is how Korrok usually appears in ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''. The entire wall between universes is the window, and you may or may not see his giant, blue, lidless eye peeking through at you at any given time. And if you accuse him of ripping off of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]], he'll [[PsychopathicManchild call you a fag]].
200* [[TheDragon The Observer]] from ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'' uses a giant eyeball as a way of telling Noah [[ParanoiaFuel I'm always watching]].
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204* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' plays with this trope in ''WesternAnimation/DestinationImagination''; while trying to find a way back into the imaginary toy box world, Mac turns around frightfully and sees a giant eye staring at him through the window. It turns out that it's Frankie's eye, and that he and his friends have been shrunk and put into a miniature replica of the house by the [[RealityWarper reality-changing friend]] that lives in the toy chest.
205* Used in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Barts Gets An Elephant."
206* The "StaringContest" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' (best lampshading of LimitedAnimation ''ever)'' ends with [[spoiler: Dad being challenged by a gigantic floating eye with no eyelid.]]
207* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury''. As Dodgers enters the laboratory of Dr. I.Q. High, a giant electronic eye observes him from above.
208* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersAtWork'': In a nod to the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' example above, the elevator that takes Tylor to his job passes by a giant eye. Tylor even greets it on the way down in one episode.
209* ''WesternAnimation/MonsterLovingManiacs'': One of the {{Portal Door}}s in [[spoiler:the pyramid lair of Ishaani's MirrorMonster]] has one behind it. The characters later discover it belongs to a baby SpaceWhale that got stuck on the [[spoiler:pyramid's entrance.]]
210* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Buster Bunny and Hampton spend an entire episode trying to get rid of the giant, talking eyeball that's following them (it's only Plucky, caught in an "advanced WildTake").
211* T-Bone encounters a giant eye in the "Mutation City" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats''.
212* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}'', Lion-O enters a cave where the first thing he saw is a giant eye coming at him and staring before it blinked and disappear.
213* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', the group is harassed by a giant (security) eyeball.
214* Lactose the Intolerant, a giant-headed space entity, pulls one of these on the titular duo in the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' through an airplane window, complete with a hammy, sing-song "I SEE YOU!"
215* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', Ezra faints while on the back of a giant SpaceWhale, falling over the side and coming face-to-face with the whale's giant eye. (Fortunately, while being scary, the whales are force users and communicate with him.)
216* Dimension X as depicted in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' has a giant eye floating in a black hole that randomly zaps whatever gets caught in its sight with purple lightning.
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