Crossovers
- Aeon Entelechy Evangelion has no shortage of these, starting with Rei's hollow eyesocket and then scaled up with the monster plucking the eye out from the Unit-01 and Shinji (by synchronization).
- All For Luz:
- In the backstory of Luz's cousin, Riley, she lost her right eye in an explosion she made from accidently killing her abusive dad when she gained her Quirk, Bomb Touch, and blew him up when she was in the blast radius. She avoids Facial Horror and dying only because of her younger brother's Healing Spit power.
- In chapter 19, while sitting in a pool of her own blood, Luz notices she's missing her right eye from the explosion caused by Sophia's Energy Ball Quirk. Luckily, it soon gets better thanks to her Healing Factor.
- In chapter 25, One of the injuries Gilbert Park gets is stabbed in the eye by Toshiko when he tried to attack her in a fit of rage by her Wolverine Claws. Luckily, she decides to heal him and let the man off with a warning.
- Lilith lost her right eye to All For One in the climax of the Ten-Year War.
- Avenger Goddess: During the Battle of Wakanda, James kills the commander of the Iron Cross legion by stabbing him in the eye with his claws.
- Avenger of Steel:
- Matt recounts the agony of how he lost his sight to the chemicals that burned his eyes.
- Nobu gets glass shards in his eyes during the dockyard fight, which Matt headbutts further in.
- Superman ultimately defeats the dragon Ao Shun by flying through his head via an eye.
- Avengers: Darkness in Kingdom Hearts
features a comparatively low-key example of this; after Kaa (The Jungle Book (1967)) hypnotises and nearly eats Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker, Wanda retaliates by using her powers to literally seal Kaa's eyelids together, leaving him blind (although she notes that such a hex will only last for a few hours before he returns to normal). - Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus: When Yuya is about to drop Yvonne from the carousel roof they're fighting on, Yvonne drives a knife into his eye. It turns out that it's a fake knife with a retractable blade because when Yuya drops her, the narration states both his eyes were glaring at her.
- In Chapter 70 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, Terumi rips Ruby's right eye out of its socket.
- Boldores And Boomsticks: Whisper puts out one of Tyrian's eyes with Psycho Cut.
- In the crossover fic Blood That Flows, Cinque uses her Rumble Detonator IS on Laevatein while Signum was holding it. The resulting explosion not only took her eye, but her hand and Laevatein as well.
- In Children of an Elder God, Ritsuko and Maya stabbed Naoko's eyes when they killed her.
- Connecting the Dots is not very kind to its characters' eyes. Sasuke loses one of his eyes in a fight with Kyuubi-Naruto, Neji shoots a Kryptonite-tipped arrow into Bizarro's eye, killing him and Lex Luthor /Darkseid rips the Mangekyou Sharingan out of Kakashi's head to complete the Anti-Life Equation.
- In the Mass Effect/StarCraft fic Cycles Upon Cycles Saren gets his eyes burned out with acid while invading a Zerg colony.
- Deus Ex Machina features a fight between Superman and Homelander; at one point they clash with their respective Eye Beams and Superman forces Homelander's attack back into his own eyes, forcing him to the ground.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Human Twilight shoots an arrow into Garble's eye, blinding him there but only really pissing him off in the long run. He then uses Resurreccion to heal it over, and claws out Sugarcoat's eyes shortly afterwards. Unlike him, she doesn't heal them back; instead, Twilight creates a visor utilizing technology powered with both magic and spiritual energy to give her her sight back.
- Equestrylvania: During Shatterstorm's brutal fight with Whisper White, he ends up beating the latter so hard that one of his eyes is described as having been beaten into jelly.
- In Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons, Blackjack loses an eye when her rapidly mutating body literally pushes it out of its socket. Later, she gets the other blown out by grenade shrapnel.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters:
- Simon gets shot in the eye with an arrow by Aldarn during the Sack of Torus Filney. His Healing Factor regenerates it, but this just makes Aldarn shoot the other eye with an arrow coated in a mold that feeds on the eye's liquids. This he can't fix, so he just rips the whole eye out.
- Servantis' wife slashes Rhouglar's eye when he's trying to rape her.
- Ross stabs Harold Hale in the eye with a pen, only for it to heal immediately.
- At one point during the big fight in Chapter 32, Will jabs her thumb into Phobos' eye. It doesn't destroy the eye, but does make it bleed. In the following chapter, Jade manages to gouge out his left eye completely while slashing his face.
- Infinity Crisis:
- Nyssa shoots a Dark Elf in the eye with an arrow after Thea’s arrow fails to penetrate its armour.
- Bruce and Hela both reference how Thor lost an eye in the destruction of Asgard.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail:
- Shortly after their reunion, Ash notices that one of Trip's eyes looks different; the iris has faded and lost its color. In the following chapter, a Flashback reveals that this stems from an injury he sustained while on the Train: Simon took a sledgehammer to his face.
- When the Apex visited the Plush Penguin Car, Simon tormented Nico by throwing sea salt in his eyes. Most of the other penguins stood by and watched; only Cara, his best friend, jumped in to stop them... and in the process, caught the eye of one of the younger Apex members, who wanted her to join them as her partner. Later, it's revealed that Cara paid them back by using a similar trick to escape.
- Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Lampetia, who is a kore, gets one of her eyes and half of her face shaved off by one of Ai's Ignister monsters. Thankfully it gets healed.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: Instead of cutting off Yang's arm during the Fall of Beacon like in canon, Adam slashes out both of Weiss' eyes with his sword.
- My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: This is an expected given when the Slayer gets to work on enemy combatants.
- In chapter 15, he breaks a Saber's arm before ripping out a rib bone and plunging it into his eye.
- Gouges out Chainsaw's eyes in Chapter 16, in order to prevent him from using his Medusa Rays Quirk.
- Gouges out one of Chimera's eyes in the same chapter with his HAR after Chimera turned into a giant dinosaur-like hybrid.
- In Chapter 18, one of the magnesium flares Miruko fired at Wolfram strikes him in the eye and burns it out.
- Narrowly averted in Chapter 26 when Eraserhead, several orderlies, Hawks, Nezu and Recovery Girl get to a supply closet to find that Ragdoll was seconds away from gouging Miruko's eye out. They forcibly restrain and sedate her because of her now highly violent nature. In Ragdoll's defense, Miruko didn't know that she had read the Slayer's mind and was probably convinced Miruko was some demonic entity that wanted to kill her.
- Several occasions of this happen in The Night Unfurls, not including the times where Kyril inflicts this on mooks.
- Hugh was stabbed in the eye by an orc in Chapter 4.
- Chloe lost an eye when held captive by Mandeville during the Hunt for Mandeville Arc.
- Strangely, this happens to the Good Hunter in Chapter 32. To elaborate, he is shot dead by an assassin from a distance, and for some reason, he loses an eye upon respawning. This violates one of the rules of the source material, that is the Good Hunter should respawn with no impediment upon death.
- Point Me at the Skyrim: Danica heals a bear attack victim who has one eye hanging by its tendon outside his skull.
- When Emerald tried to protect Cinder from the Doom Slayer in Remnant Inferis: DOOM, she ended up getting punched in the face so hard that her right eye was completely mutilated. Chapter 24 shows that she now wears bandages where it used to be.
- Rise of the Galeforces: Ludlow tries to pull this trope on Violet with a sniper rifle in the Final Battle in Chapter 35. When Chomper pushes her out of the way, he pulls the trigger anyway and blows his eye out at point-blank range. OUCH.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- At one point during the fighting at Snowpoint in Chapter 17, Jade throws a shuriken into a rebel soldier's eye.
- In Chapter 18, Vera Bexley dissolves a Mantis Khan by stabbing it in the eyes with her knives.
- In Chapter 26, when Vera ignites coal dust as a weapon against Tyrian, he gets burned around his eyes.
- In the Magical Girl Crossover Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights, Fate has one of her eyes torn out by Viluy after being paralyzed by the latter's Nanomachines.
- In Spider-Man and Power Girl, Karen briefly suffers from this when Scorpion hits her in the face with a blast of acid. Her invulnerability protects her from permanent damage, but she still has to find a nearby fire hydrant and blast her face with water so that she can see again.
- In the The Hunger Games/Hetalia crossover What If, one character, driven mad by guilt, will do anything to keep herself from seeing hallucinations of the one she killed. So she ends up (accidentally) wedging a rock in one eye and (purposefully) gouging out the other with the claw end of a hammer.
- In the first chapter of Temporal Anomaly, Sougo, after his first encounter with the Watchers, realizes the influence they have over Zero through the Flower that has taken the place of her eye. Sougo's solution is to therefore rip the Flower out of her with his magically-enhanced bare hand, stems and all, with the process being just as painful as it sounds, with Zero actually blacking out after it is done. When she wakes up later, she discovers that Sougo restored her missing eye back to normal.
- Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: Nabiki Tendo gets shot in the eye by a particularly skilled and/or lucky bounty hunter sniper. Fortunately, this is after she Took a Level in Badass by acquiring the Bat-Bat, Model Type: Vampire Devil Fruit, so her Healing Factor lets her regenerate it almost instantly.
- With Pearl and Ruby Glowing: Elsa gets jabbed in the eye, suffering a minor injury, when Hans assaults her. Later, Ragetti describes Barbossa and company raping his fortunately-already-empty eye socket as punishment for getting them arrested, having to break his cheekbone for this to actually be physically possible since eye sockets aren't very wide. Sapphire had her eye cut out by the Ark, though she was already blind in that eye. A side story mentions that, after Foulfellow and Gideon turned in both the Coachman and themselves, the Coachman put out Foulfellow's eyes with a lit cigar.
- In Lightning Only Strikes Once, Finn is struck in the face with a sword that destroys both his eyes, with Clarke only just able to treat the injuries so that he will survive and soon forced to acknowledge that they couldn't have saved his vision even if they were on the Ark. By the end of the story, Finn has shifted his initial new trade from metalwork to woodwork, which he can do by touch with greater ease, even if he makes it clear he still has limited senses despite the stereotype.
- In Alien: Nemesis, Zack Ryan attempts to steal a valuable tool from Newt and his face is mauled by Jones the cat, Jones doing so much damage to Ryan's eyes that the left is completely destroyed and even advanced medical treatments will only be able to restore 20% of his vision in the right.
- In one battle in Kyoshi Rising, Kyoshi is pinned to the ground by a one-eyed Earthbender, who has just given her a thinly veiled rape threat. In response, she grabs the man around his good eye and releases a blast of fire, eventually grabbing the man's whole face and burning it off.She only let go once the man stopped screaming.
- Control: While attacking Yukio, Nyamo hits him hard in the head with his own gun. This causes his left eye to pop out of its socket.
- Vow of the King:
- Tatsuki has an eye cut out twice, though it's healed both times. The first time is against Ikkaku and the second time against Yachiru Kusajishi.
- When fighting his hollow for the first time, Ichigo stabs him in the eye with a rapier.
- Near the end of his bankai training, Ichigo smacks Eien-ō in the face with a broken fragment of her armor, cutting open her eye.
- In Splinter, the alternate Cordelia the gang encounter is missing her eyes; they eventually realise that she literally tore her own eyes out with her fingernails to try and stop the onslaught of visions she was subjected to by Vocah.
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- Zomega, a Major Kusanagi Expy in For Good, is introduced with a cybernetic, red right eye. The Backstory of that eye has not yet been revealed, and Nothing Is Scarier.
- Between the Lines (MrQuestionMark): Chapter 41: The Silent Screams:
- Author's note:
If at any point, you covered your eyes while looking at this, turned away, felt 'I really want to skip this bit' or just yelled "WHAT THE HELL!? HIS EYE?!"Actual Scene:
'She' sank 'her' teeth into the boy's left eye.
- In Sinful Behaviors, Mr. Cosmo accidentally slashes out his own left eye during a brief struggle with Snap. The sequel, Play the Game, has another incident. Before the start of the sequel, Bardot ripped out Barney's eyes during his first encounter with him.
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars
- In Tiberium Wars, a Nod soldier is hit by shrapnel in her eyes from a grenade, ruining both her eyes and her face. This becomes a minor plot point later on when the Nod commander, Rawne, opts to give her advanced cybernetic eye replacements and transfers her to his personal command.
- In The PreDespair Kids, Kyoji ends up inflicting this on himself during the Fall of Hope's Peak. He has a monitor that keeps track of his physical health, which will signal his allies in Future Foundation should anything happen to him. When he realizes the severity of the situation, namely by running into Junko again, he goes ahead with signaling them as fast as possible.
- In Challenge of the Super Friends: The End, very few of the Legion of Doom's members have their eyes intact.
- Earth-27 has Alexandra Kosov, the head of the Odessa Mob in Gotham, who stabbed her own eye with the scalpel she used to stab her own father's eye, killing him from shock.
- In A Force of Four, U-Ban tries to stab Power Girl's eyes, but she doesn't let him.He reached out a hand, fingers pronged to tear at her eyes.
- In Hellsister Trilogy, Satan Girl tries to gouge Supergirl's eyes out in their final fight.Kara drew on her every erg of reserve power to keep fighting. But, increasingly, she found herself on the defensive. She fought to keep Satan Girl's fingers from her eyes, her jaws from her carotid artery, her knees from her crotch.
- Here There Be Monsters: During one battle, Illyria rakes her claws across Mary Marvel's eyes. It is not enough to gouge Mary's eyes out, but it hurts all the same.
- The dark BL fanfic Poison Apple provides an example of this trope when Light gouges his own eye out with a piece of shattered mirror.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?: Muzan transfers his blood to Tanjiro, destroying the latter's right eye.
- In the Tamers Forever Series, Matt narrowly avoids having his eyes cut open by a DarkScubamon.
- Ryo is also on the receiving end of this, all though it is Played for Laughs:
Ryo: [after a major crisis has just been averted] So…what's for dinner? Owww, Rika! Stop it, it hurts! Ouch, my eye!
- A.A. Pessimal has a young student Assassin lose her eyes to an enraged baboon in Nature Studies. She gets new ones in the successor tale where it is also revealed, in detail, how The Igor working for the City Watch breeds bio-articied new ones in jars in his lab.
- In one of the fanfics in the 3 Doctors, 9 Companions, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? series, a character is sprayed in the face with an acidic substance and has to undergo an emergency eye removal surgery, performed by a character with no surgical experience. It's... a lot.
- In The Eye Opens, a cult appears built around an Eldritch Abomination that manifests as a giant eye. Joining the Cult involves having your eyes plucked out, which is demonstrated here, in the second chapter.
- The major wham moment of Accursed Ones is when the main character wakes up one morning to find that his lover's father has cut the eyes out of his son's head and made off with them, in a gruesome bid to rebuild his Frankenstein's Bride. Subsequent revelations make it even worse: not only was Amell awake the entire time, but his father used blood magic to mind-control his own lover into wielding the knife.
- In Ash the Wanderer's fanfiction Atrocities, original character Erik tells the Son brothers of replacing his love interest's eyes with those of a mad scientist using a machine the scientist created after her own eyes were destroyed in an explosion. Not quite as squicky as it could be, but the gore in the rest of the fic more than makes up for that.
- Between Dreams and Memories Universe:
- In Between Dreams and Memories, Schlatt goes blind in one eye after Techno's massacre by Fatal Fireworks at the Manberg Festival.
- Between Heroes and Villains: Like in canon, Quackity gets one from being on the wrong end of Techno's Powerful Pick in Chapter 102, "The Hog Hunt (Part 6)". It's described very graphically.
- A fanfiction featuring Erza torturing Kyouka as payback for the torture that Kyouka put Erza herself through in the actual series. Erza... gives that torture a rousing finale to say the least. As she rips out Kyouka's eyes. Gruesomely. And then squashes them both under her boot heel.
- Another fanfiction rewriting the 321st chapter has Erza doing this to Minerva too. She sliced her eyes out with a scythe, Zorin Blitz style!
- Another fanfiction rewriting the
- A Flower's Touch: Reno deals with a guy attempting to rape Aerith by shoving his electrostaff through the man's eye.
- A Brighter Dark: In this dramatic retelling of Fire Emblem Fates, Takumi shoots out Corrin's eye during the battle for Fort Dragonfall.
- In Boys do Tankary?, while on a mission, Josh gets attacked by Gage, who wants to "taste a human eyeball." In the ensuing scuffle, Gage stabs Josh in the eye.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Vivienne Graham is at one point shot in the eye by Alan Jonah's Mook Lieutenant, and though her and San's Healing Factor fully repairs the damage, she still remembers the event balefully later in the story.
- MaNi/Elder Brother suffers this a couple times. San and Vivienne slash one of his eyes in self-defense, and later, they gouge out both his eyes.
- Two of Keizer Ghidorah's heads end up each losing an eye in battle to Viv and San, and Mothra, respectively.
- The Gravity Falls fic Blind Faith by pinesinthewoods has the incredibly cringe-inducing sequence of Ford burning out his brother's eyes due to Sanity Slippage and trying to protect Stan, so he won't be able to See the horrors around him and can get them out.
- In Half-Life: Full Life Consequences, a particularly hilarious fanfic based on Half-Life 2, Gordon Freeman is only able to defeat the "final boss" after he is blinded by bullets fired by his brother John, which shoot him in the eye. Which is to say, the bullets themselves seem to do the actual shooting. To wit:John Freeman fired his bullet from the gun really fast and the bullets went and shot the final boss in the eyes and the final boss couldnt see.
- "Enemy of my Enemy". When the Pride of Sangheilos crashes on Crassus, one of the crew members comes up to his commanding officer with one eyeball gone, burst during the impact. He treats it as if he just got a haircut.
- In Dominus Mundi : The King of Kings, the initiates of the Order of the Blind Priests have their eyes plucked out and burned as offerings to the Triumvirate of Fate when they become full-fledged members of the Order.
- In Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness, Dennis Creevey kills the Death Eater who killed his brother by jamming his wand into the Death Eater's eye and screaming "AVADA KEDAVRA, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Unfortunately, it's a mutual kill.
- In Fear the Reapers Harry splits a Death Eater's eyeballs in two with throwing knives.
- In For the Love of a Green Eyed Kitten Draco gouges out the eyes of an older vampire then squeezes them until they burst, as punishment for looking at naked photos of Draco's mate.
- In The Grass Is Always Greener Theo has Daphne at wandpoint. She acts seductive long enough to get close to him and when he lowers his head for a kiss, she jabs her thumb into his eye, then grabs his wand and sticks it in his other one.
- In Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin Voldemort casts the Conjunctivitis Curse in Parseltongue and his victim's eyes burst out of their sockets.
- In Harry Potter and the Something Something when a Parody Sue appears in Voldemort's lair offering him a shot at redemption Voldemort is entranced by her pretty eyes... the Sue ends up dead like all the others who keep showing up on Voldemort's doorstep but Voldemort keeps her pretty eyes to play with.
- Like Shadows on the Winter Sky by Resmiranda: In chapter 3 you find out that Snape is getting tortured after being found out to be a spy, but the reader is left unsure as to how. Then chapter 5 comes along, in which the reader is told exactly how his torture proceeded. Voldemort took the knife mentioned at the end of chapter 3 and plugged it into his eye sockets to remove his eyes. After that is done, Voldemort makes sure that Snape can never be fitted for a prosthesis by placing his wand into the sockets and firing off a curse that completely damages the nerves that runs from the socket all the way to the occipital lobes in the brain. At the end of the chapter, Snape is back at Hogwarts, confined to his rooms. While there, he decides that it will be a good idea to plunge his own fingers into his bloody sockets and use said blood to write morbid poetry on the wall.
- In Once More Around the Bend Ron, who's lying on top of Harry to restrain him, points his wand at Harry's face so his stunning spell won't miss. Harry kicks him in the back of the head and Ron jerks forward, impaling Harry's eye.
- In Psychosis when the horcrux takes control of Harry's body he makes it so Harry stabs himself in the eye.
- In Stepping Back, Sirius curses several Death Eaters, one of whom claws at his own face in pain, puncturing an eye and pulling it out of the socket.
- Thirty Hs opens with Harry eating Ron's eyeballs for no apparent reason. It gets weirder.
- In Tom Riddle's Schooldays Tom blinds a unicorn with fire.
- In Walk the Shadows by jharad17 after Harry pisses off Nott, he responds by casting a spell which damages Harry's eyes and removes his tongue.
- In Wind Shear Harry blinds Voldemort in one eye. After returning to headquarters, Voldemort impales the useless eye with his wand, pulls it out of the socket, magically suspends it in mid-air, casts Dark spells on it and then returns the now-functional eye to its socket.
- The villain of Awakening is real-life Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, whose many twisted interests included trying to change people's eye color with dye injections. The scene depicting such a surgery made even the author cringe while she was writing it.
- A Hetalia doujinshi featuring the sweden/Denmark pairing portrayed Denmark as quite the insane Yandere for Sweden, and one of his first crazy actions was using his axe to injure Sweden's eyes when he merely insinuated that he may take off and leave the Nordic group. Sweden managed to escape the worse part of his ire, but still had some damage to his eyes; in the next scene, he's seen using glasses.
- In Seeing it Through, Methos' eyes are destroyed with a hot poker by a vengeful immortal. Duncan is off somewhere and Connor and Joe have to deal with an understandably cranky blind immortal who isn't sure he wants to keep living given that a blind immortal is vulnerable. Fortunately after a blind battle and winning thanks to Duncan showing up the Quickening kick starts his Healing Factor and he can see again.
- Hivefled; a risk of punching someone who's wearing glasses.
- In the Homestuck RP NEWGAME+, eye injuries seem to be a recurring theme. Near the beginning Kevin Low burnt out an imp's eyeballs with a lit cigar to prove a point to his rival/enemy Jack and other imps. Then he beat an ogre by jumping up to its head, and shooting his duel revolvers directly into its eyes. And then during a possession he has a monster's tendrils stab him through the eyes and take over his body.
- Warbound Widow, a Homestuck fanfic, has quite a few victims of these, most noticeably Vriska, who has her vision eightfold eye gleefully gored from her head by a torturer who boasts about having the largest eyeball collection in the Empire. Jane narrowly avoids becoming a victim of this and one of the trolls introduced later on has an eye replaced with a jewel because her kismesis clawed out the original.
- In Black As Night, Hiccup is graphically blinded on the second day of dragon training; the Deadly Nadder heats Astrid's axe during the chase, but Astrid doesn't register it until she swings the axe at Hiccup in frustration, the molten metal flying from the axe to strike Hiccup in the face, destroying both his eyes and leaving him with permanently disfiguring scars.
- A minor example in The Blacksmith's Apprentice, as Snotlout receives a serious scar over his left eye during a duel with Hiccup, although all observers can see that Snotlout is only 'blinded' because of the blood from the scar and he can still see through the eye as normal. On a more serious note, the Red Death loses several eyes to Nadder spines and direct flames at its eyes during the final battle with the corrupt Queen.
- In A Thing of Vikings, as in Real Life, putting out someone's eyes was one of the favorite tactics used by the Byzantine Romans to disqualify people from being Emperor, for both theological (the Emperor had to be physically intact) and practical reasons (hard to command armies if you're blind). This is done to the deposed Emperor Michael V at the end of Book II.
- In Tales of a Reset Mind, Mania does this to Nico. With her hands. He survives, but is blinded.
- Asylum of Doom: As punishment for Gaz trying to attack him with a shiv, Dr. Burke decides to lobotomize her with an icepick through the eyeball, which will destroy her brain. This actually turns out to be the key to getting her back to her own time — just before the icepick hits, she wakes up in the ruins of the Asylum in the present day, perfectly fine.
- Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom: While trying to catch a Sugar Fairy, Bill hands out Mondo Deluxe Poop Candy Bars to trick-or-treaters by shooting them out of a tube. One unfortunate kid gets nailed straight in the eye with one.
- Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends:
- In the Courtroom Episode, when installing a Brain Nail into lawyer James Conroy in order to both brainwash him and increase his underwhelming legal knowledge, the Irkens do so by stabbing it through his eye.
- Skoodge gets an eye ripped out by Lex's "Brother" during the fighting in Chapter 15.
- Ruby Pair: A minor example in "Beefus Megabombus". Gaz finishes her fight with Ned, the first mate of the Carne Bee pirates, by kicking him in the face. When he shows up again later, he's wearing an eyepatch over the eye she hit in the process.
- Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): At one point in The Rematch, Skoodge has wires go into his eyes when Space Case starts draining his life energy.
- The Violet Demon: During their fight, Gaz gouges out Wrennock's eye with her thumb in order to get him off of her.
- In Queen of All Oni, Jade has a moment of this, after being captured by the Smug Snake/ Squishy Wizard Lung — he traps her astral form, contained in a body of shadows, in a glass sphere and gives her the "tanning session from Hell", using industrial-strength lights to torture her until she submits, at one point MELTING HER EYELIDS! After he's Killed Off for Real when she is rescued, she recovers somewhat, but her eyelids are now transparent, forcing her to wear a blindfold to give her some darkness when she blinks.
- Queen of Shadows: During the Battle of Awaji, Himitsu is at one point seen casting a spell that causes a couple of the Gani to have their eyes burn out of their skulls. Later in the fight, Tsume gets one of his eyes gouged out by Yasashi's blade, and the other is hit by some random archer's arrow.
- from porcelain to ivory to steel:
- Silver Chariot stabs out one of J. Geil's eyes when he tries to kill Sherry.
- Like in canon, N'Doul attacks at Kakyoin's eyes with his Stand Geb, this time completely taking out his right eye rather than slashing both of them.
- In A Month of Sundays, Ankh gets this treatment by having Shotaro—still in the body of a crazed, possessed mannequin (It Makes Sense in Context)—driving a huge nail into both his eyes. Ankh starts cursing up a storm.
- From Kill la Kill AU, we have Uzu spraying himself in the eyes with something an aerosol can, after viewing a shock site, which leaves him blinded and unable to regain his sight until high school or after high school. Later, he shown to be wearing bandages over his eyes.
- A particularly nasty example of this happens in Chapter 18 of Maim de Maim when Maiko Ogure loses her right eye after it got blown off by a shotgun shrapnel shell during her fight against some of Ragyo Kiryuin's troopers.
- A Minor Miscalculation has a couple of examples, starting with Sanageyama having his eyes removed rather than sewn shut in order to match Ryuko's elevated power level.
- Nui loses an eye after repeated strikes to it during the Naturals Election, thus matching her canon appearance.
- During the three day gap between the Raid Trip and the Grand Festival, Ragyo pulls out one of Satsuki's eyes as part of her interrogation.
- Rei Hououmaru is on the receiving end of a Moe Greene Special from Tsumugu. Unfortunately, it's a Mutual Kill.
- In Paragon, Ron blinds himself because he can't handle his visions of mutilated ghosts.
- In Twilight Valley, a dinosaur gets his eye ripped out by another dinosaur, then nearly decapitated; this is after he was kneed in the groin. The less brutal "finger in the eye" attack is also used (by a clawed pterosaur on another pterosaur).
- Left Beyond: Tsion is tied up, fitted with VR goggles that give him an external view of his prison cell, and treated to industrial drills being brought to his eye level and starting to go through the goggles. He thinks that this is a form of interrogation, and does not crack, while in fact the Omega are simply recording his biological fear reactions to see if he has any since he has a regenerating "glorified" body and would eventually grow his eyes back.
- In the Left 4 Dead 2 fanfiction Two-Step, Nick loses an eye when he saves Coach from a Witch. He is very obviously disadvantaged by it, being a survivor in a zombie apocalypse who's main defense is a gun. He's still a badass.
- In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) Dark Fic The Times They Are A-Changin' (2013), this is the result when Zoe swipes Pepper across the face while fighting with her. Pepper returns later wearing an Eyepatch of Power.
- Anger Management:
- During the first big fight, Lincoln gives Lynn a black eye.
- During the mud fight, Lana throws mud in Lynn's eye.
- A discussion is implied when Lucy's poem has the lyric "crimson tears flow from my eyes", hinting that there's blood in the tears.
- Lincoln's Memories: Lynn Sr., when he was a kid, accidentally gave his brother a black eye while playing catch.
- The Nightmare House has a near miss: Darcy once almost got a drop of concentrated acid in her eye. Talk about dramatic near misses.
- Vince gets shot in the eye by Vice (this time, intentionally), in Relationships Series.
- In The Council Era, a batarian commander (whose species possesses two pairs of eyes, one above the other, for the record) serving under the Villain Protagonist is described as only having two working eyes. This was explained on his article page at the Mass Effect Fanon wikia. During his service for the Hegemony's military, Nikhail (the batarian) was taken prisoner by guerrilla soldiers, and when he steadfastly refused to give information for three months, they resolved to execute him before he could be freed by the Hegemony. He was in fact rescued, but not before his eyes had been stabbed out with a hot poker.
- In chapter 4 of Made Again, the whitecoats inject Novocain directly into Iggy's open eyes before they experiment on them for hours.
- In the second part of Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears, Jake Snake gets shot in the eye by Revolver Ocelot, and immediately puts on an Eyepatch of Power.
- Burning Bridges, Building Confidence: One of Cole's eyes was damaged before she moved back to Paris; she wears an embroidered eyepatch and bangs over the socket. "A Night with Friends" reveals that Cole lost it because she got into a fight with her abusive father, and during it, he took a knife and attacked her face with it. At one point, Alya attempts to inflict this on Marinette by going after her with deliberately sharpened fingernails, but rips open some of Cole's stitches instead.
- Kanna performs this on a dragon with her claws in Just a Child.
- In Angela's Pet Monster, Lucille becomes blind in one eye after a near-fatal attack by Sylvia Schneider.
- In Every Step Of The Way, Shota Aizawa is kidnapped by a villain with a quirk that lets him burn things with his touch. The guy wants information and when Aizawa won't talk, he uses that ability to literally burn Aizawa's eyes out. He does it right through the blindfold he's using to counteract Aizawa's erasure quirk. Aizawa is left permanently blind because it's way beyond anything Recovery Girl can fix, though oddly he learns he can see light and shapes at the price of eye and head pain if he activates his quirk.
- One Half That You See has Midoriya lose an eye while held captive with Todoroki. The empty socket and weeping infection are Nausea Fuel for Aizawa and a couple other rescuers.
- Pay No Mind (What Other Voices Say has Aizawa captured by Overhaul and mentally and physically tortured, including Overhaul cutting his eyes out and blinding him for a time before restoring them with his quirk.
- The Harvest has a similar part to the previous fic with Overhaul temporarily blinding Aizawa then restoring the eyes.
- The Harvest
- With Eyes Closed has a villain gouge both Aizawa's eyes out. It's rather creepy reading Hizashi realizing the red cloth over them isn't a red blindfold but a piece of Aizawa's capture scarf soaked with blood. Then Aizawa yells "THEY TOOK THEM HIZASHI!!"
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Adjacency: Implied near the end of "Scattered", when Trixie is being blamed for an Alternate Self's actions:'You tried to kill Fluttershy! SHE'S BLIND BECAUSE OF YOU!!''
- The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity: In What's Done in the Dark..., this is done to Brother Veritas in order to make him reveal all he knows about Shining Armor and Luna's affair to Cadance, or rather her Superpowered Evil Side the Crystal Empress.
- Flutterspy: One of the evil ninja's Blue Cobra's Blow Gun darts hits supermodel Jet Black in the eye. It's Played for Laughs.Jet Black: Seriously, if I lose an eye, I am gonna be so freaking ticked!... Then again, I could get an awesome eyepatch...
- In The Great Slave King, Lord Ouroboros loses an eye after having it cut out from the inside.
- Heir of the Nightmare: Fluttershy uses The Stare on Nightmare Moon. It almost works, but Nightmare is able to break away from it and knock Fluttershy out cold. The madmare's solution for getting rid of it? Severing Fluttershy's optic nerves.
- Glossed over in I Quit, when Coco Pommel throws hot coffee into Suri Polomare's muzzle, and it briefly mentions Suri rubbing coffee out of her eyes.
- The Immortal Game: General Esteem inflicts this on Twilight Sparkle by ramming an Artifact of Doom called the "Sliver of Darkness" into her eyeball, allowing a demon sealed within it to possess her. Much later, after regaining her body, she repays the favor by driving an even larger metal shard into Esteem's eye, through his brain, and out the back of his skull after he boasts about how he tortured, killed, and ate Spikenote .
- Inner Demons: During the Final Battle, Apple Bloom stabs the Darkness in one of its eyes.
- Twilight also loses an eye in Mirrors, the sequel to Prince Charming, when Pinkie Pie's vengeful ghost carves it out with a knife.
- The Nuptialverse: In Families, Twilight inflicts this on Garble in retaliation for Garble threatening Spike, by stabbing him in the eye with a burning stick.
- In Pages Of Harmony, Twilight inflicts this on Sweetie Belle by pressing a red metal plate to one of her eyes while Rarity watches in horror. She later does the same procedures on Fluttershy, though for the latter it's merely the first step in an alphabetical procedure to take Kindness.
- Past Sins: Glimpses 2: "Day": An eye was lost due to fighting a magical Cult and had the affected eye replaced by "a magically enhanced prosthetic". A glass prosthetic.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell:
- One of Sharp Point's gang has an eye ripped out and eaten by Wind Breaker during their fight (he coughs it up when he realizes what he's done).
- When his sword breaks, some of the metal fragments strike Night Blade in one eye, blinding it. Fortunately, it heals up thanks to the intervention of the Questioning Order.
- Pony POV Series:
- In the Dark World, Rarity ends up doing this to Fluttercruel during their duel — Fluttercruel manages to immobilize Rarity by using the Stare inherited from her "mother" and is about to finish her off when Rarity manages to telekinetically launch her fragment of Tom through one eye and then out the other. The Elements of Chaos can heal, but Fluttercruel is distracted long enough for Rarity to strike a more fatal blow (though not as fatal as she would have liked).
- During a fight with Simurghs after the apocalypse that ended the Age of Wonders, Teddy (after snapping one of their necks) gets slashed across the face, badly damaging his eye. While he doesn't completely lose the eye, he's rendered blind in it.
- Popped: Pokey Pierce ends up blinding Pinkie Pie in one eye by mutilating it with needles, fishhooks, and razor blades.
- The World is Filled with Monsters:
- When Vermillion faces Blightweaver in Hollow Shades, he manages to drive it off by stabbing it in the eye with another spider's fang.
- Another spider rips out Rose Quartz's left eye during the retreat from Hollow Shades, leaving a very ugly scar.
- Used several times in Zombons, most notably when Apple Bloom's eyes are eaten by zombie!Silver Spoon. With a spoon.
- In A Growing Affection, Madara can take over someone's body by having his own disembodied eyes burn their way into the victim's eye sockets, and then connecting his optic nerves to the victim's.
- Jack O'Lantern revolves around Sarada being blinded on a mission gone wrong. Her kidnapper wanted her Sharingan for himself but couldn't extract them in time, so he permanently damaged her eyes.
- Misrecognition: Kakashi inflicts this upon Itachi in order to prove to Sasuke that he's gotten his revenge for him without actually killing him. Notably, it's emphasized that this is very much not a merciful act: Kakashi is only sparing Itachi's life because he realizes the other ninja wants him to kill him, and refuses to grant him that satisfaction.
- In War of the Eyes a character's eyes "exploded in their sockets" after taking an attack to the face. Less brutal than it seems, as said character had been born blind and only recently received eyes; still gory, however.
- Yet again, with a little extra help: Waltz tears out a rogue Hyuuga's eye, in front of a mirror.
- Nobody Dies: "Ocular virginity?" Gendo Ikari asks, "What does 'Loss of Ocular Virginity' mean?"
- In the Neverwinter Nights 2 fanfic Hungry Dreams the the main character spends most of the story wearing an Eyepatch of Power. Eventually, it's revealed that she took an acid arrow to the eye, and the results are not pretty.
- Alpha leverages this trope pretty well in one of the later chapters. (It's also well-handled Dark Fic, but in all likelihood not SFW. Mentions of Villainous Incest at the start of the second chapter might warn you.)
- In Not Old, Alone or Done For, Tinker Bell cruelly pranks Wendy by spraying her with a dust that makes her temporarily blind.
- In Poké Wars: The Exigence, Banette burns out a Golem's eyes (and everything else) with Will-O-Wisp. Also in the same story, Alpha Houndoom headbutts a Golem just so hard that its eyes rupture.
- In Poké Wars: The Subsistence, Tracy stabs a Beedrill in the eye with a stick.
- In Pikapoon, Ash actually gouges out his own left eye to prove his love to his Pikachu, who is getting off to it.
- In Tales of Faith, this is revealed to have happened to both Nin and Shi as they lost focus and slashed each other's eye.
- The protagonist of Be careful what you wish for winds up taking a knife to the eye. He later on is caught performing a self-inspection to check its condition. This is Played for Laughs, really.
- In the sequel, A careless wish former protagonist's successor fights something big, purple, and mean. The words 'Ocular Fluid' are used, and cover one of the character's hands. NOT played for laughs this time.
- In the sequel, A careless wish
- Ranma Goes to War plays this brutally with Daisuke, who loses his eyes to shrapnel.
- Sima Shi's eye becomes infected after he has his tumour removed in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. Eventually it bursts out of its socket, causing his head to explode.
- Brunswick Arc- The Adel Aka Rewrite: As a punishment, Adam was whipped on the face by a Faunus hating man when he was younger. The injury left him blind and permanently scarred in that eye.
- Due to its AU nature, Camellias changes the way Weiss got her eye scar. Instead of receiving it in a fight at age seventeen, she received it several years prior when the White Fang attacked a banquet she was at.
- In Crossroads, Adam slashes his own eyes rather than watch Blake be raped.
- How Salem Should Have Dealt With Tyrian had Roman Torchwick gouging Tyrian's eyes out.
- In Reverse, Cinder shoots Ruby in one of her eyes after Ruby kills Mercury.
- RWBY: Scars:
- Weiss' eye scar wasn't caused by fighting a knight, like in canon. Instead, she intentionally slashed her eye with a razor.
- Whitley is slashed across an eye by Cardin's father Maximus when he tries to frame him for murdering his father.
- The entire point note of the story See and Observe.
- This trope is why The Builder always wears sunglasses in The Racket-Rotter Chronicles. It's to hide that they have no eyes at all.
- Chasing Dragons: Viserys ends his duel with the monster champion of Mantarys by stabbing it in the eye with a dagger.
- In Robb Returns, the first move in Ramsay's death is when a raven rips his eye out with its beak.
- In Patron of the Art of War, Thrawn makes a very clear threat of this when Sabine doesn’t make the painting he wants, instead made something else in defiance, and has a droid come very close to removing her eyes. He stops it before it can actually happen, but it is clear that he will follow through next time. Sabine ends up complying to his demand.
- In the backstory of The Sea Shadow, Vivian's eye was stabbed out and the wound was so bad that it needed to be cauterized.
- In The Captain and the King, Boromir is blinded when he catches the flat side of a broadsword in the face: his face is crushed and the bone shards are driven into his eyes.
- In The Servants of Ungoliant, Daurin, during his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, executes a Gong by slitting the eye-level of its face with his sword.
- In Before The Dawn, as punishment for his part in a final confrontation, Alec's eyes are removed and destroyed so that he can't use his ability any more.
- In On The Edge Of A Knife, Sara stabs out both of Wander's eyes during their first battle, with some hellish black liquid oozing from both sockets before, during and after this. When Wander wakes up months later, they're only able to see out of one eye.
- A particularly dark (even for the setting) fanfic is framed as a Tau interview with a former Imperial Guardsmen, who was captured and recruited by a Chaos warband devoted to the god/dess Slaanesh. The ex-cultist describes how his "owner" proved her superiority over him by tearing out his eye and popping it in her mouth as a snack, and later was gifted with a mutation giving her an eye in her hand. She apparently spent a few days admiring herself through it, before growing bored and poking, twisting, and mutilating it for the sensations it gave her.
- In Tales of the Emperasque Eldrad severs his own optic nerves so that he won't see everything Slaanesh prepared from him, to Slaanesh's fury. Entirely justified, given that the Prince of Pleasure has a fine supply of Brown Notes.
- While what, exactly, happens to Anchorite Ranith in the WoW fanfic Stand Of The Exiles is obscured by Purple Prose, she's blinded beyond hope of magical repair. And ends up crying blood.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series:
- In the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pegasus possesses the Millennium Eye, which takes the place of his own left eye. At the end of Duelist Kingdom, Bakura rips the Millenium Eye out of Pegasus's head. This is horribly and hilariously lampshaded in The Abridged Series:[pop]
Pegasus: AGH! That's the WRONG EYEBALL, you fool!
Bakura: Oh, sorry.
[pop]
Pegasus: Much better. - Referenced yet again in the re-cap episode:Bakura: I spy, with my little eye, something that begins with "I". Guess what? It's your eye!
Pegasus: But "eye" doesn't start with—
[pop!]
- In the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pegasus possesses the Millennium Eye, which takes the place of his own left eye. At the end of Duelist Kingdom, Bakura rips the Millenium Eye out of Pegasus's head. This is horribly and hilariously lampshaded in The Abridged Series:
- During the Wave in Take a Stand: Star of Ceartais, Hannah is blinded by an exploding gas canister. At first it seems like it was the shrapnel that injured her eyes, but later it's revealed that her retinas were burned out by the explosion's light.
