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** ''Literature/TheGreatZooOfChina'' has an eye surgery scene is described in quite nauseating detail.
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* ''Literature/MermaidsSong'': While fighting with Kagor and his sharks, Elan puts one shark's eyes out.
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** Joshua, in the book of the same name, that if the Israelites clung to the remnant of the nations God had driven out, and made marriages with them, then those nations would figuratively be (among other things) thorns in their eyes.
** In Judges 16:21, the Philistines put out Samson's eyes. He later retaliated in a TakingYouWithMe fashion.
** In 2 Kings 25:7 King Zedekiah's eyes were also put out - after having to watch ''his own sons being killed in front of him''.

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** Joshua, in the [[Literature/BookOfJoshua book of the same name, name]], that if the Israelites clung to the remnant of the nations God had driven out, and made marriages with them, then those nations would figuratively be (among other things) thorns in their eyes.
** In [[Literature/BookOfJudges Judges 16:21, 16:21]], the Philistines put out Samson's eyes. He later retaliated in a TakingYouWithMe fashion.
** In [[Literature/BooksOfKings 2 Kings 25:7 25:7]] King Zedekiah's eyes were also put out - after having to watch ''his own sons being killed in front of him''.

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* In the Creator/JinYong ''{{wuxia}}'' novel ''Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'', a selfish, spoiled {{Yandere}} becomes blind after being poisoned, but the ButtMonkey harboring an unrequited romance for her donates his eyes to her. Eventually, she decides to give them back...by plucking them out and throwing them at him.

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* In the Creator/JinYong ''{{wuxia}}'' novel ''Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'', ''Literature/DemiGodsAndSemiDevils'', a selfish, spoiled {{Yandere}} becomes blind after being poisoned, but the ButtMonkey harboring an unrequited romance for her donates his eyes to her. Eventually, she decides to give them back...by plucking them out and throwing them at him.


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* ''Literature/TheMermaidChronicles'': In ''Secrets of the Deep'', Zale, who is in shark form, bites down on Dylan's shoulder. Cordelia digs her thumb into his eye, causing blood to spurt into the water. Zale screams, releasing Dylan.
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* ''Literature/{{Everland}}'': Hook had his eye clawed out by Katherina on his thirteenth birthday when he offered her a green apple from the Forbidden Garden, unaware that it contained the Horologia virus. [[spoiler: He returns the favor at the end of ''Ozland''.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'':
** In a flashback, Czeslaw Meyer gets stabbed in the eye with a red-hot poker. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good thing he can heal]]… [[AFateWorseThanDeath or not]].
** It's later revealed that Nice Holystone lost her eye because she played with gunpowder as a child. She hasn't learned her lesson, either — she keeps a spare bomb ''in her empty eye socket!''
** In the light novels, [[spoiler:Firo]] takes one of [[spoiler:Huey's]] eyes as part of a plan orchestrated by [[spoiler:Renee. Huey]] actually is willing to accept this, as long as he gets one of [[spoiler:Renee's]] eyes in return. ''Furthermore,'' [[spoiler:Huey's daughter Leeza]] gets revenge on [[spoiler:Firo]] by taking one of his eyes. "An eye for an eye" was in full force during those novels.
* ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'': [[{{Yandere}} Shouko]] frequently pokes Yuuji's eyes when there's even the slightest instant she suspects Yuuji to be a little sexually liberated.
* [[{{Yandere}} Hitagi Senjougahara]] from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' nearly stabs Koyomi Araragi in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific.
--> Araragi-kun, your wounds heal very quickly, don't they? So I bet it'd be okay if I just took out an eyeball.
** She also jabbed him in the eyes with her fingers once for referring to her as Senjougahara-chan rather than Senjougahara-sama like she wanted.


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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Happens when the fact that some of Index's bites are apparently going for Touma's eye sockets.
** Shiage gouges out Mugino's eye. She gets a cybernetic one later.
** Othinus gave up her right eye for the power of Odin. [[spoiler:She reveals that if her eye is returned to her, she will lose her powers and become human.]]


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* In ''Literature/DrugstoreInAnotherWorld'', Reiji Kirio ends up inventing the magical equivalent of pepper spray bombs. Due to ignorance on the part of his client, the Red Cat Brigade, and an accident on his part, they all end up experiencing its ability to cause debilitating burning sensations in the eyes and nose.


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* The light novel series ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', depicts Erika and Walker torturing a man by imitating a scene from ''Manga/BlackButler'', by branding his eye. It's a very disturbing reveal of just ''how devoted'' they are to their anime and manga -- although they're also quick to note that if it wasn't anime and manga, it would be something else that they would take their inspiration from. In the anime, it's PlayedForLaughs, by just seeing comical struggling from outside the van, just barely skimming over how twisted these kids are.
** ''Durarara!!'' also features an Eye Scream moment when Awakusu executive Mizuki Akabayashi [[spoiler: rips his own right eye out with his fingers after his eye is slashed with Saika.]] Somehow, he not only doesn't die, he remains standing and continues talking to Sayaka Sonohara –- [[spoiler: the ''person who slashed him'']] -– as if it were nothing.


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* In an infamously disturbing scene from ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', [[spoiler: the HERO Kirito does this to the VILLAIN, Oberon AKA Nobuyuki Sugou. [[PayEvilUntoEvil In response to]] [[AttemptedRape Sugou’s DISGUSTING]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil treatment of Asuna]], Kirito uses [[EleventhHourSuperpower his newly acquired Admin Privileges]] to [[BroughtDownToNormal strip Sugou of his cheating GM abilities]], [[CruelMercy offer him THE STRONGEST WEAPON IN THE GAME, knowing it won’t save him]], [[AnArmAndALeg hack off one of his hands]], [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slice his body in half]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill and finally]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice tosses him up and impales him]] [[EyeScream THROUGH HIS EYE SOCKET!]] The final nail in the coffin was [[YourMindMakesItReal turning off the pain absorber, ensuring his real body felt every second of it without dying]]. In their final confrontation in the real world, the eye injury was revealed to be so painful that he went half blind from the phantom pain]].


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* In ''Literature/VampireHunterD'' when D breaks into Count Magnus Lee's hideout he tosses a knife into his eye, Magnus casually takes out the knife, pulls his eye out of his socket, and places it back in after healing it.

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* In the additional [[Literature/TheBourneSeries Bourne]] books by Eric Van Lustbader, there seems to be an unusual fixation on the ruination of eyes (and BLT sandwiches, which is, thank God, separate). In ''The Bourne Legacy'', one of the characters burns out someone's eye with a match, and Bourne jabs out the eye of an agent that has come to kill him, ''with his thumb''. In ''The Bourne Betrayal'', one of the characters [[spoiler:Martin Lindros, the Deputy Director of the CIA, is kidnapped and tortured, and his eye is removed in a pretty atrocious display of pseudoscience because it still works on retinal scans even after being implanted into someone else. Finally, when he is freed, he finds the doctor who removed his eye and jams his thumbs into the eyes of the doctor, which is described in great detail as his eyes BURST, and then driving his thumbs so deep into the eye sockets that he actually kills the doctor]].

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* In the additional [[Literature/TheBourneSeries Bourne]] ''[[Literature/TheBourneSeries Bourne]]'' books by Eric Van Lustbader, there seems to be an unusual fixation on the ruination of eyes (and BLT sandwiches, which is, thank God, separate). In ''The Bourne Legacy'', one of the characters burns out someone's eye with a match, and Bourne jabs out the eye of an agent that has come to kill him, ''with his thumb''. In ''The Bourne Betrayal'', one of the characters [[spoiler:Martin Lindros, the Deputy Director of the CIA, is kidnapped and tortured, and his eye is removed in a pretty atrocious display of pseudoscience because it still works on retinal scans even after being implanted into someone else. Finally, when he is freed, he finds the doctor who removed his eye and jams his thumbs into the eyes of the doctor, which is described in great detail as his eyes BURST, and then driving his thumbs so deep into the eye sockets that he actually kills the doctor]].


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* Madame Tarsa of ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' got one of her eyes shot out by Pessimist's Fog Ship's defensive laser bolt in [[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/the-toymakers-labyrinth/ her debut]], although it regenerated within four minutes (and she expressed annoyance at how ''slow'' the process was).

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* In ''Literature/PercyJackson: The Last Olympian'', Percy stabs the Lydian Drakon in the eye with Riptide. Gory, no? It gets better. Clarisse puts out the Drakon's ''other'' eye with her enchanted electric spear. That not only puts out its other eye, but ''shatters the spear completely,'' outputting a huge amount of lightning that ends up ''electrocuting'' the beast, killing it in the process!

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* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'':
** Ethan Nakamura, a demigod who fights for Kronos, had one of his eyes torn out as a promise to his mother Nemesis that he would make a place for her on Olympus. He's clearly trained to fight without it, as Percy tries to take advantage without success.
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* In the prequel novel to DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes, we learn how Koba the bonobo's left eye got blinded. One of his former human owners, a {{Jerkass}} TV producer named Tommy, slashed his face with a knife, leaving a long, jagged scar over Koba's left forehead, eye and cheek. However, the knife wounded failed to blind Koba's eye, so Tommy finished the job by ''sticking a lit cigarette into it.''

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* In the prequel novel to DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', we learn how Koba the bonobo's left eye got blinded. One of his former human owners, a {{Jerkass}} TV producer named Tommy, slashed his face with a knife, leaving a long, jagged scar over Koba's left forehead, eye and cheek. However, the knife wounded failed to blind Koba's eye, so Tommy finished the job by ''sticking a lit cigarette into it.''


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* ''Literature/LaughingJack'':
** In the first story, some of the disfigured children that appear in James' mother's nightmare are missing eyes and other limbs. Later, she finds her son nailed to the bedroom wall with several of his organs displaced, including missing eyeballs.
** In the origin story, Isaac kills an old blind woman with an ice pick to the eye socket. Laughing Jack does worse to Isaac's eyes; he forces his eyelids to stay open with fish hooks so that he "wouldn't miss the show", he injects an adrenaline needle into Isaac's retina and fiddles it around to keep him from drifting off, and finally he pulls the needle out along with the eyeball. ''Yikes.''
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* In the horror novella ''Literature/ThingsHaveGottenWorseSinceWeLastSpoke'', it is implied at the end that [[spoiler:Agnes [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]]]] by gouging out [[spoiler:her]] eyes with the apple peeler she was trying to sell at the beginning of the story.
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* ''Literature/TheSandmanTheDreamHunters'': As part of her revenge plot, the kitsune bites out the onmyōji's eye.
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* ''Literature/Alice2014'':
** Matthew and Morgan are identical twins but have different colored eyes, apparently because MadScientist doctors decided to remove one eye from each of them and transplant it into the other twin, ‘correcting’ their heterochromal eyes. The transplant didn’t go well so the transplanted eye in each of them is sightless.
** [[spoiler: When Michael demonstrates how he killed himself, his eye turns bloodshot and cracks appear on his face.]]
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** In ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'', Mrrov loses an eye during the Battle of Ylesia. Han's dismayed, though, Muuurgh says they consider this a badge of honor.

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** In ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'', Mrrov loses an eye during the Battle of Ylesia. Han's dismayed, though, though Muuurgh says they consider this a badge of honor.
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* ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'' has the story of Junco, who spent a day staring at the sun trying to learn the secrets of the universe. The doctors only managed to restore his perpheral vision.
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* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'':
** Clyde Wilkins catches a ping-pong ball to the eye courtesy of Hank Austen in "The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies" and gets a nasty black eye from it. [[spoiler:Jaine exploits this to save herself from him trying to kill her by throwing one of the prop cookies into his bad eye.]]
** When she's trying to fight off [[spoiler:Peter Connor]] in ''Death of a Neighborhood Witch'', Jaine jabs him in the eye with [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInCOntext the sharp end of his broken Buddha figurine]]]].
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*''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAlice'': Alice stabbed the White rabbit's eye in a brutal attack to get away from him in, leaving them both covered in blood, [[spoiler: and draining the rabbit of magic]].
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*** Queen Alicent's son and Rhaenyra's half-brother Prince Aemond is called One-Eye since the day he smuggled to Driftmark to claim the dragon Vhagar but was caught by his Velaryon nephews and after a fight, Lucerys Velaryon gouged his eye out.

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*** Queen Alicent's son and Rhaenyra's half-brother Prince Aemond is called One-Eye since the day he smuggled to Driftmark to claim the dragon Vhagar but was caught by his Velaryon nephews and after a fight, Lucerys Velaryon gouged his eye out.out in the ensuing fight. When the conflict between Rhaenyra and her elder half-brother Aegon spiralled into the [[CivilWar Dance of Dragons]], Aemond ambushed and killed Lucerys while on a diplomatic mission to Storm's End, then reputedly [[DesecratingTheDead gouged out Lucerys's eyes]] and [[AndShowItToYou presented them to Lady Maris Baratheon]] who'd previously insulted Aemond. Later in the same war, Aemond was killed in battle when his uncle (and [[PapaWolf Lucerys's stepfather]]) Daemon Targaryen [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice drove a sword through Aemond's remaining eye and out the back of his head]].
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* ''Literature/TheSagaOfBilly'': Atella, [[WarGod goddess of Peace and War]], willingly ripped out her eyes so that [[TopGod Zarkan]] could forge them on her shield and sword, creating their children Otos and Itos.
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* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': When he loses his patience with Thrembode and openly attacks him, the wizard throws some sort of magical powder into Lukash's eyes, blinding him.

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* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', Winston Smith [[spoiler: finally betrays Julia when O'Brien locks his face in a cage with rats and tells him that they've been known to chew out people's eyes.]]

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* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': Discussed in “It’s a Blackout, Roys Bedoys!”, where Loys gets the terms “blackout” and “black eye” confused.

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* Happens to a rat in ''[[Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles Gregor and The Prophecy of Bane]]''.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Underdogs}}'' novel ''Acceleration'', Pearce cuts Jack's left eye out with a knife during a fight.
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* In ''Literature/{{War of the Spider Queen}}'' [[spoiler:Gromph Baenre]] took out the eyes of captive drow and transplanted to replace his own damaged eyes when he had no access to adequate magical healing. And then [[spoiler:compelled rat to ''eat out'']] his own eyes. Both without any anesthesia.

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* In ''Literature/{{War of the Spider Queen}}'' ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'' [[spoiler:Gromph Baenre]] took out the eyes of captive drow and transplanted to replace his own damaged eyes when he had no access to adequate magical healing. And then [[spoiler:compelled rat to ''eat out'']] his own eyes. Both without any anesthesia.
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* In ''Literature/TheGraceYear'', Helen, one of the girls banished to the wilderness to purge out her magic, is convinced her magic power is being able to turn herself invisible. As she tells Tierney, the protagonist, she turned so invisible that she could not see herself anymore, so the other girls had to take out her entire eye.
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** In ''Literature/UnderTheDome'', a teenage boy [[spoiler:[[WhatAnIdiot attempts to shoot a bullet through the Dome to pop it]]. The bullet ricochets back and destroys his eye, entering his brain and blinding him in the other eye.]]

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** In ''Literature/UnderTheDome'', a teenage boy [[spoiler:[[WhatAnIdiot attempts [[spoiler:attempts to shoot a bullet through the Dome to pop it]].it. The bullet ricochets back and destroys his eye, entering his brain and blinding him in the other eye.]]
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** In Judges, the Philistines put out Samson's eyes. He later retaliated in a TakingYouWithMe fashion.
** King Zedekiah's eyes were also put out in II Kings.

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** In Judges, Judges 16:21, the Philistines put out Samson's eyes. He later retaliated in a TakingYouWithMe fashion.
** In 2 Kings 25:7 King Zedekiah's eyes were also put out - after having to watch ''his own sons being killed in II Kings.front of him''.
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* In the prequel novel to DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes, we learn how Koba the bonobo's left eye got blinded. One of his former human owners, a {{Jerkass}} TV producer named Tommy, slashed his face with a knife, leaving a long, jagged scar over Koba's left forehead, eye and cheek. However, the knife wounded failed to blind Koba's eye, so Tommy finished the job by ''sticking a lit cigarette into it.''
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* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': [[spoiler: Bullseye]] was born blind so his mother plucked an eyeball out of [[spoiler: Bill Sikes]], his infant brother, to sew it into the former's head. The brother's eye is replaced with a GlassEye.
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** There's also a scene in the original ''Literature/TheRunningMan'' where a guy gets his eyes poked out and drained. Eww.

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** There's also a scene in the original ''Literature/TheRunningMan'' where includes a guy gets his scene in which one of Ben Richards' allies is captured and tortured, including having both eyes poked pierced with needles. It turns out and drained. Eww.to be AllJustADream by Richards.
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** When [[PerceptionFilter Imp]] stabs [[MadDoctor Bonesaw]] in the eye, she reacts relatively calmly, talking enthusiastically about maybe switching to a different color, or perhaps heterochromia.
** Skitter defeats Valefor, a villain whose power works via his gaze, by [[spoiler:filling his eyeballs with maggots]].

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** When [[PerceptionFilter Imp]] stabs [[MadDoctor Bonesaw]] in the eye, she reacts [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction relatively calmly, calmly]], talking enthusiastically about maybe switching to a different color, colour, or perhaps heterochromia.
** Skitter defeats Valefor, a villain whose power works [[HypnoticEyes via his gaze, gaze]], by [[spoiler:filling his eyeballs with maggots]].



** Implied: when they learn [[GlassShatteringSound Shatterbird]] is in town, people take off their glasses.

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** Implied: when they learn [[GlassShatteringSound [[ThePowerOfGlass Shatterbird]] is in town, people take off their glasses.
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* ''Literature/TheLotterysMoreOrLess'': Early in the book, Catalpa and her friends have the Lotterys' Brazilian guest, Luiz, go sledding in the ice with them without a helmet. When he comes back, he starts complaining about a bad eye and seeing fireworks. When he's stated as being sluggish, he's rushed to the hospital, where it's revealed that he suffered a crash that tore the upper part of the retina in one of his eyes. He has to have an air bubble injected into his eye to hold his retina in place so it can heal properly, and spends a good portion of the book having to keep his head face down to keep the bubble positioned in his eye properly.

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