History EyeScream / Literature

** Later, in the novel ''Changes'', Harry [[spoiler: pulls it off himself, turning his right hand into an icy claw and stabbing it into the eyes of the Red King. And then, for good measure, blasting soulfire through it straight into the inside of his head. '''This is not enough to kill him'''.]]

* HonorHarrington loses an eye in ''Honor of the Queen'' when defending the Protector from goons sent by TheMole, to later be replaced by a prosthetic. Which was then damaged beyond repair a few books later by StateSec. [[IGotBetter She got better]]

* ''{{Coraline}}''. Buttons. That is all. This is a ''children's book''.

* In Martin Caidin's ''Cyborg'' novels, Col. Steve Austin's bionic eye had to be physically removed in order to obtain the microfilm stored inside (in the original novels, it was a camera; it didn't provide super-vision). In the first book, during a mission in which Austin's survival is uncertain, he gives a female agent rather squicky instructions on how to remove the eye without having access to the bionics lab. For some reason, this aspect of Austin's bionics was skipped when TheSixMillionDollarMan came along.

* Menshikov from ''TheKaneChronicles'' had his eyes burned when he tried and failed to awaken Ra.

** In ''HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Harry eventually has to fight a basilisk. Luckily Fawkes the phoenix blinds the snake before Harry has to worry about the basilisk's deadly gaze. And earlier in the same book, Harry asks Ron how a book could possibly be dangerous. One of the examples Ron brings up as a response is a book the Ministry of Magic confiscated: It burns its reader's eyes.

** In ''HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecret'', Harry eventually has to fight a basilisk. Luckily Fawkes the phoenix blinds the snake before Harry has to worry about the basilisk's deadly gaze. And earlier in the same book, Harry asks Ron how a book could possibly be dangerous. One of the examples Ron brings up as a response is a book the Ministry of Magic confiscated: It burns its reader's eyes.

* A heroic example happens in HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix when Neville, unable to use spells since his nose has been broken and therefore can't pronounce them properly, resorts to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome sticking his wand in a Death Eater's eye.]]

** What about Percy in ''SkyClan's Destiny'' when his eye gets ripped out?

* Eyes, eyes, what eyes? Acheri, from Hell’s Children by Andrew Boland.

** In ''The Dark Half'' during the main character's childhood [[spoiler: his foetal twin begins to regrow ''in his brain'' including an eyeball and several teeth. A surgeon lances the eyeball and extracts it. Cut to the future where the main character is an author writing crime fiction about a character who -- you guessed it -- lances someone's eyeball with a paperclip]].

* Denis Johnson's Vietnam War novel "Tree of Smoke" features a scene in which a soldier tortures a captured Viet Cong by popping out his eyeballs with a spoon (while leaving the optic nerves attached), and then re-inserting the eyeballs into their sockets in reverse, so that the victim can "take a look at himself."

* ''[[CarrerasLegions The Lotus Eaters]]'': In the course of escaping the men sent to capture [[spoiler:Carrera]], his wife tricks one of them into position to use a letter opener to kill him, stabbing the intruder through the eye.

* Eyes, eyes, what eyes? Acheri, from Hell’s Children by Andrew Robert Boland.

* In the PaladinOfShadows series, [[HeroicSociopath Katya]] talks about gouging out several "bad guy" eyes and injecting the poison weapon she's given in ''Unto the Breach'' into them, but doesn't actually get to do it until near the end of ''A Deeper Blue'', to the drug smuggler who was working with Islamic terrorists to sneak VX into the US.

* Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn, where the Inquisition remove Urisel Glaw's eyelids as part of the Ninth Action Torture. As a Slaaneshi cultist, he seems to enjoy it.
* In the MagicTheGathering novel ''Rath and Storm'', the [[SmugSnake treacherous and self-serving]] Starke joins the ''Weatherlight'' crew to attack Volrath's fortress and rescue the captive Sisay, on the condition that they free his daughter Takara as well. Near the end of the [[strike: adventure]] disaster, they find Sisay and Takara wandering around and Starke rushes over to embrace his daughter. However, both women are under a strong mind-control spell and Takara [[spoiler: (who is actually the shapeshifter Volrath in disguise)]] slashes out both of Starke's eyes with her sword.

* In the MagicTheGathering novel ''Rath and Storm'', the [[SmugSnake treacherous and self-serving]] Starke joins the ''Weatherlight'' crew to attack Volrath's fortress and rescue the captive Sisay, on the condition that they free his daughter Takara as well. Near the end of the [[strike: adventure]] disaster, they find Sisay and Takara wandering around and Starke rushes over to embrace his daughter. However, both women are under a strong mind-control spell and Takara [[spoiler: who is actually the shapeshifter Volrath in disguise]] slashes out both of Starke's eyes with her sword.

* In the MagicTheGathering novel ''Rath and Storm'', the [[SmugSnake treacherous and self-serving]] Starke joins the ''Weatherlight'' crew to attack Volrath's fortress and rescue the captive Sisay, on the condition that they free his daughter Takara as well. Near the end of the [[strike: adventure]] disaster, they find Sisay and Takara wandering around and Starke rushes over to embrace his daughter. However, Sisay and Takara are both under a strong mind-control spell and Takara [[spoiler: who is actually the shapeshifter Volrath in disguise]] slashes out both of Starke's eyes with her sword.

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* Cormac McCarthy's ''[=The Crossing=]'' has a particularly gruesome scene involving the Mexican revolutionary. After mouthing off to the German mercenary Wirtz and spitting in his face, Wirtz proceeds to lick up the spittle, swallow it, smile, then ''[=sucks out the man's eyeballs with his mouth, leaving them to dangle down his face=]''. The revolutionary talks about how, due to his eyes literally hanging from his face via a handful of nerves, the world seems to jostle as his eyes sway back and forth on his march back to camp.

* In AlanDeanFoster's ''HumanXCommonwealth'' series, Alaspinian miniature dragons spit a potent and highly corrosive neurotoxin as their primary weapon, and their preferred target is the eyes. This is [[NightmareFuel every bit as horrifying and painful as it sounds]], and, courtesy of Pip, we get treated to its effects many, many times throughout the novels. Although her empathic ability allows her to discriminate fairly effectively between good and bad people, it's still a nasty way to die, and those who don't are permanently scarred. The threat of death by minidrag venom also makes a very handy interrogation technique.

* Subverted in ''The Legacy'', one of the later sequels to the IcewindDaleTrilogy penned by R.A. Salvatore. Drizzt's friend [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Bruenor]] is suffering from UnstoppableRage when he attacks a pair of the dark elves that kidnapped Drizzt and [[spoiler:he thinks]] killed Wulfgar. The dark elves fight back and one of them slashes Bruenor across the face and gouges out his eye, but it doesn't even faze the grieving dwarf, who proceeds to brutally pay the drow back in spades for what they did to his friends.