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  • This happened to Chloe as part of her backstory in Angel Down, her most recent foster parent before Samuel poured cleaning detergent in her eyes, leading to her being blinded and scarred in the upper half of her face.
  • In the very first pages of Archipelago, Blitz washes up ashore with a bleeding, presumably empty, left eye socket. Because his last act as Anthony was gouging his left eye out to stop a raven spirit from taking him over and soulsealing him. This broke Anthony's mind and turned him into Cloudcuckoolander Blitz.
  • In chapter 24 of Ava's Demon Odin Arrow tries on Ava Ire's damaged See-Thru Specs, only to get a tiny piece in his eye. This allows him to partially see some of the demons possessing the main characters.
  • Awful Hospital: How the protagonist defeats the Kidney Stone Mother.
  • Blonde Sunrise: When we see the flashback in which Cyran loses his eye to a basilisk while saving Leonard's life, we see the basilisk's fang pierce the roof of Cyran's skull and push out his eye in gory detail.
  • In Book of Lies, there is an entire chapter all about a man who cuts the eyes out of his victims.
  • In a Boy and Dog strip, Rowan pokes Murphy in the eye. Murphy says that it hurts and so Rowan tries to see for himself by poking himself in the eye. He then says, "I agree with your assessment!".
  • Brawl in the Family:
    • In Marshy, Mario and friends set up camp on a hill, and Mario unwittingly drives a stake into its eye.
    • Implied by Phantoon Has It Rough. Going to the dentist is a much scarier experience when your eyeball is in your mouth.
  • But I'm a Cat Person: Frederick Oliver, the former owner of the Tiger, has a long scar that passes over his right eye.
  • Charby the Vampirate: Charby sinks oversized hooks into Captain Blackheart's eyes.
    • Munchie's eyes are sewn shut, he pops the stitches off one of them when he gets whacked across it with a large tree branch.
    • Sadick accidentally lodges a toothpick in the eye of someone who startled him at a bar.
    • What happened to Victor's eye is implied to have been quite painful before being confirmed and shown in the side comic Here There Be Monsters.
    • When Tony's eye is slowly swelling shut after being injured by a possessed Zeno it looks quite painful.
    • Evidently the lower lid tears Kavonn sports are something of a habit of his hat.
    • Sadick is shown in a flashback shortly after the loss of his eye that led to his current use of an Eyepatch of Power.
  • In Crepuscule, Neal has had his eye ripped out by Navarus as 'punishment'. Twice.
  • The Purple Shirted Eye Stabber from Cyanide and Happiness. Subverted in one strip where the guy getting stabbed is a fan and is happy to get his eye stabbed.
  • Cuanta Vida: Poor, poor, Liam. And it was done by the Spy who replaced Gabry, his lover.
  • When Daniel blinds Wayne with some kind of heated poker, the reader is given a horrifying first-person view of the last thing he sees.
  • Inflicted in Dead of Summer on Dr. Light.
  • In the bonus arc of Deities Death gets an arrow shot in his eye in this strip by War.
  • In Digger, it's mentioned to be a "kindness" to sew shut the eyes of acolytes who display second sight, possibly so they aren't constantly trying to untangle it from their first sight.
  • In Dominic Deegan:
    • ...When the Infernomancer reveals that the blindfold he's wearing features two very long spikes...
    • A later arc has one-time villain Urban Eddie demonstrate how dangerous he's gotten by (thankfully off-panel) pulling one from an underling's head.
    • Another villain's backstory involves him removing his own eyes.
    "That... hnh... wasn't so bad."
  • The Dragon Doctors has Goro confronting a woman with Eye Beams. Goro is badly hurt in the fight but proves very handy with a pair of scalpels.
  • Used to distract Jer'kol by Ariel to allow Kormaril to strike at him in this strip of Drowtales. He got better. His eye did not, and Ariel finished him off the next time he tried to kill her.
  • The Embodiment of Sins: Ish puts a goblin's eye out with a thumb while fighting his way to safety.
  • Ennui GO!:
    • Narrowly averted when Asher cuts Hashim's face with the broken whiskey bottle, as the cuts weren't deep enough to damage his eye.
    • Asher himself completely loses his left eye when Izzy hacks off half his face with his own cleaver.
    • Noah's final opponent in the Arcanus: The Widening tournament stabs himself in the left eye solely so he can put the ball of tiger's eye that was the grand prize in the socket.
  • Girl Genius:
    • Jiminez Hoffmann takes a shot of acid from a clank in the old Corbettite vault to the face. Since the acid is centuries old and lost much of its potency and Agatha and Violetta started eyewashing immediately, he's left only mostly blind, and his face thankfully isn't melted off either. He and Agatha cobble together a temporary vision aid out of the clank's optic sensors, and he knows an oculist spark at the University that may provide a more permanent remedy; he goes with cat eyes to be able to see in the dark.
    • One panel of Count Beausoleil's Death Montage shows one of his remote bodies in mid-fall just about to be impaled through the eye by a spiked floor.
  • Abbey in Gnoph usually goes for the eyes first when fighting, with gory results.
  • In Godquest, Galvan has to wear a mask over his eyes because he lost one of them confronting a demon.
  • In Godslave, Edith takes down her first Blacksmith by piercing his Heru-eye.
  • In El Goonish Shive, Elliot defeats the first Goo by punching its eye out and lighting it on fire.
  • Grrl Power:
  • Guilded Age: Von Carnaj is killed this way by Gravedust.
  • Gunnerkrigg Court:
    • Invoked: to scare Paz, Mort creates an illusory Circus of Fear, where all the mannequins are missing their eyes. Except for the clown, brandishing a rusty saw, who says (in Spanish) "What lovely eyes you have, Paz. Will you give them to me?"
    • Zimmy and Diego's eyes are commonly mistaken for no eyes at all when they're really a shadowy sort of blockage which is possibly meant to be from her little Crapsack World.
  • Homestuck:
    • In the "Midnight Crew" intermission, Snowman uses her cigarette holder to stab out Spades Slick's eye.
    • The giclops encountered by John ends up getting its eye shot out by Grandpa Harley. However, when later seen in the distance, its eye appears to have completely recovered.
    • Shortly after entering the Medium, Rose stabs out an ogre's eyes with knitting needles, blinding it. She then uses the yarn as reins and rides it. Her alpha counterpart does the same to Guy Fieri. It's a tad bloodier this time.
    • Terezi was blinded when she was mind-controlled into sleepwalking outside and staring into the sun until her corneas burned out. (Fridge Brilliance: Pyrope means "fire-eyed".) This was in revenge for Terezi having caused another character to lose an eye and an arm to an exploding cue ball.
    • Sollux's eyes are taken out completely by a blast from Eridan, leaving only empty eye sockets.
    • The Big Bad mind controls Human Session Alpha Jack Noir into stabbing his own eyes out.
      EYESTAB X2 COMBO!!!
      • It's hinted that Jack knifed them because he couldn't stop staring.
  • On Hyperbole and a Half, Allie describes a toothache.
  • Shuugo of Juathuur gets his eyes gouged in a flashback. You can view it in all its gory glory here.
  • How Sul lost his eyesight in Kiss Wood. After setting his house on fire, he realises Ro (a butterfly) is trapped in the house. He goes in to rescue her, but gets stabbed/burnt in the eye by a burning piece of wood that falls from the ceiling.
  • Klunscomic: It's heavily implied that a botched spell caused Tajer to have eight eyes, with seven of them in the spot where her right eye is supposed to be. From this tweet posted on the official account, the implications of the pain she went through are horrifying to say the least. Seven years after the spell being cast, she can still feel pain on the right side of her face.
  • Lackadaisy:
    • Calvin accidentally gets horseradish in his eye in one of the comedic side comics.
      "My eye! I spicened it!"
    • In one of the comedic side comics Zib holds his eyes wide and leans into the author's space until she stabs him in the eye with a pencil. Evidently he thought he was hallucinating.
  • Melvina's Therapy: Melvina's first successful "therapy" made her friend Grethel rip her own eyes out.
  • In Men in Hats, Aram puts deadly poison into Gamal's eye while teaching him about "Word of the Day" fun.
  • Matt from Murphy's Law fires an arrow into a dragon's eye.
  • The Order of the Stick:
    • O-Chul broke out of his cage at an opportune moment and used one of the bars to take revenge on his torturer, Redcloak, by shoving it through his right eye. (Even better, had Redcloak not teleported out of the way first, it seems like O-Chul wasn't going to stop with the eyes...) This parallels Start of Darkness, in which Redcloak's younger brother lost his left eye when paladins attacked their village. While Redcloak can heal said wound, Xykon forbids him from doing so as a reminder of his failure to properly protect his Phylactery.
    • It is a bad idea to say "I think there's something in my eye." when Belkar is within (dagger) range.
    • Eagle-Eye Pete learned that it was a bad idea to choose a nickname based on something he couldn't afford to lose. Twice.
    • Lacking anything else to use as a weapon at the moment, Roy smashes the phial of the healing potion he just chugged down into Thog's eye. Even a raging Barbarian can't shrug off broken glass in the eyes.
  • Our Little Adventure:
    • A female imperial mook the group was fighting in this comic gets shot by Julie in the eye right after this mook lost her arm.
    • And in one of the later battles against an Angelo Kid, this magician cast blindness on Angelika. Instead of something traumatic happening to her eyes, they completely disappear from her face.
  • Penny Arcade:
  • Pixie and Brutus: What happened to Brutus' eye remains unexplained but he bears a scar over it and the eye beneath is clouded, implying he was injured there somehow. It eventually gets explained. Back when he was working as a military dog for a man named Sergio, they experienced a surprise attack as a terrorist pulled out a gun and shot Sergio. Brutus attempted to stop the attacker, resulting in his eye getting damaged along with other severe injuries.
  • In Prophecy of the Circle, one of the tekk gets a spear thrust into its eye. We don't see the impact, but the aftermath — half of the spear's shaft stuck between bloodied eyelids — isn't too pleasant.
  • Queen of Wands, here:
    Grammar Nazi: How are you feeling now, Jimmy?
    Jimmy: Like I just fucked Jocasta!
  • Rosebuds: When Rosa asks Maria to clean the windows, she warns her to be careful with how she holds the window spray which Maria brushes off. Predictably, Maria holds it the wrong way and sprays herself in the eyes.
  • Ruby Quest: So much, it's almost a central feature.
  • Sarilho: Nikita gets a lot of shattered glass on his face as a result of breaking his helmet's faceplate. He plucks at least one of the pieces off.
  • Schlock Mercenary:
    • Ebbirnoth gets his eye shot off by a sniper, who does not understand Unioc biology and thinks he killed Ebby (Unioc brains reside in the pelvic cradle, all he accomplished was blinding Ebby). Aware of this, Schlock tells Ebby to play dead, with mixed results.
      Schlock: You don't play dead very well.
      Ebbirnoth: Sorry. I'm in a lot of pain. Talking takes my mind off of the desire to scream in agony. Do you have any idea how many exposed nerves there are in a popped Unioc eyeball?
      Schlock: I can cauterize them if it will help you shut up.
      Ebbirnoth: The threat alone will suffice.
      Schlock: Prove it.
    • Eyes are lost pretty often: Aardy, Chisulo (on purpose, no less, by Tagon), and Captain Tagon himself. Nano-surgery and rapid regrowth make it a non-serious injury, though.
    • When sufficiently angry, even a knife in the eye won't stop Tagon.
  • Sequential Art has possibly the cutest Eye Scream ever, with Scarlet sucks on a candy cane and ends up hurting her eye with the curved end.
  • Skadi: A major reason Boudica resents Skadi is because of two circumstances where she lost an eye to Skadi due to her misunderstanding something she said, leaving her blind for a while before she eventually has her eyesight restored in addition to gaining a magical third eye.
  • Sleepless Domain: When Cassidy is confronted by the Purple One while alone on patrol, she manages to stab her through the eye with her scissor blade, in one final act of defiance as she fades away. The next time the Purple One appears, there is a gaping hole where her eye should be, and the entire right side of her face sags visibly — though she eerily doesn't seem to notice or care.
  • In Slightly Damned, this is (sort of) used as a gag when Buwaro first hears the words "ice cream".
  • Sluggy Freelance: "Keep your eyes peeled." The damage leaves Acey with an Eyepatch of Power.

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