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Creatures without eyes can be downright creepy, let's face it. Seeing a FacelessEye chasing you is scary, sure, but seeing an eyeless face is usually ''more'' scary, since [[UncannyValley it looks so close to human but there's something not quite human about it]]. In addition, eyes are a massive weak point if you're looking to attack or injure something. When you're dealing with a hostile creature that lacks eyes, they don't have that weak point.

Creatures without eyes can be downright creepy, let's face it. Seeing a FacelessEye chasing you is scary, sure, but seeing an eyeless face is usually ''more'' scary, since it looks so close to human but there's something not quite human about it. In addition, eyes are a massive weak point if you're looking to attack or injure something. When you're dealing with a hostile creature that lacks eyes, they don't have that weak point.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, due to technical limitations.

* The Fates in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' had to share one eye and usually fought over who would use it. They even ''[[{{Squick}} dropped it]]'' once.
* The demonic PinkElephants in WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'s alcohol-induced hallucinations are bright shapes with empty black voids where their eyes should be.

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** The Shirshu is [[MixAndMatchCritters a cross between a giant anteater, a German Shepherd, and a star-nosed mole]]. While even the blind Badgermoles have eyes, albeit blank, glazed over ones, this beast doesn't have any at all, instead navigating by means of its [[TheNoseKnows acute sense of smell.]]
** During the NightmareSequence in "Nightmares and Daydreams", Aang sees Toph gazing soullessly at him with eyes entirely filled in the same color as her skin before she's dragged into the ground.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "The Farnsworth Parabox" features numerous alternate universes, among which is one where nobody had any eyes.
-->''(The eyeless Fry, Leela, and Hermes are facing away)''\\
'''Alternate Amy''': Hello? Did you see two smelly lobsters?\\
'''Eyeless Hermes''': We didn't see anyt'ing...\\
''([[FaceRevealingTurn They turn around]])''\\
'''Eyeless Hermes''': ...'''Ever'''.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': Mr. Lunt is a gourd with no eyes. More silly than creepy.
** Many characters from ''[=VeggieTales=]'' don't have eyes. Most cover them with hats, Pa Grape switches between glasses and hats.
** Notably, Mr. Lunt has been seen without either glasses or a hat. His eye-indicators were two locks of his hair that fell down on his brow. That brow crinkling with passionate song was creepy, though.
** Later averted for Pa Grape in his new design, as he gained BlackBeadEyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'':
** Eye Guy has [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes everywhere on his body]] ''except'' his face. Either because of this, or at least Ben not being used to it, Ben is very prone to being taken by surprise despite being able to see in every direction.
** Wildmutt doesn't have eyes at all. He "sees" using gill-shaped nostrils on either side of his head.

* Rectangular Businessman of ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' wears a pair of glasses that hide the fact that he has no eyes. He casually reveals to the other characters a couple of times over the course of the series.
* On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Jake's daughter [[GenderBlenderName Jake Jr.]] lacks eyes even though the rest of Jake's children have them.
* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' has Krumm, a monster with no eyes on his face, who has separate eyeballs which he carries around in his hands or mouth.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Teacher's Pests", [=SpongeBob=], Mr. Krabs, and Plankton are sewn together after surviving an explosion. Out of all of them, [=SpongeBob=] is the most intact... other than him missing the top of his head where his eyes once were.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Braxas, the demon child in the baby class, has a massive mouth with sharp teeth that takes up the entirety of his face. Interestingly enough his father (revealed to be [[spoiler:Warden Wrath]]) presumably a more mature version of his demonic species, actually has eyes that are normally hidden by his hood.
* The animated short ''WesternAnimation/{{Blindscape}}'' is about a blind man lost in the woods, the surroundings left blank until he hears or touches them to symbolize how he experiences the world around him. To convey his blindness, the protagonist is drawn with no eyes.

This is often a feature of the SenseImpairedMonster, particularly when its missing sense is sight.

* ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'': Most bats have completely lost their eyes, making room on their faces for additional echolocation-enhancing folds and depressions.

* In the future-evolution book ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'', most bats have completely lost their eyes, making room on their faces for additional echolocation-enhancing folds and depressions.

* ''VideoGame/BoundByBlades'': Mittux is a monster consisting of a gigantic mouth with leathery, bat-like wings, without any eyes. Turns out it's sole eye is [[EyesDoNotBelongThere located on it's tongue]].

* From ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Zubat Zubat]] have no eyes, "seeing" entirely via echolocation. Their evolved forms, however, develop eyes.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', Peacock can classify as an eyeless face. What look like her eyes technically are fake and don't work at all, as her real eyes were gored out. The eyes on her arms are the only way she can see now that she's a cyborg.
** We also see how she lost [[EyeScream her eyes]]. From her first person view.
* Some zombies in ''VideoGame/{{Propogation}}'' have mutated to the point where their eyelids are fused shut. It's most evident when they lunge towards you for a bite and you get a lovely, close-up glimpse of their faces.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', making your creatures this way causes the screen to be dark while playing, until the Civilization phase.
* In Wrath of the Lich King, the expansion pack to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there is an old Titan base called Ulduar, which has been corrupted by the villainous old god Yogg-Saron. The beast in question is known as the "Beast With a Thousand Maws" because, in addition to its main mouth, it has several other mouths all over its body, including where its eyes would normally be.

* The main character in ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' appears in some of the game art, but her eyes are never shown in any cgs. Her bangs don't always cover where the eyes should be... Partially subverted in that one of the default pics you can choose for your avatar has a woman who looks just like the girl in the cgs, but with yellow eyes.

[[caption-width-right:350:At least he doesn't have to worry about trips to the optometrist...]]

* Nuzzner Fubs from ''WebAnimation/ElainTheBountyHunter'', whose face consists solely of a ''massive'' set of ScaryTeeth.

* In the J-Horror movie ''Apartment 1303'', Mariko is telling a ghost story to her friends. This story features the ghost of a woman in a kimono, who stands by the elevator doors on the 13th floor. Her face is concealed, as she hangs her head and faces away. Whenever someone goes to use the elevator, the ghost first asks them if they are currently on the 13th floor. When they respond "yes", and start to move towards the elevator, the ghostly woman grabs their arm and reveals her face - pale, sickly, and with the eyes covered in bloody bandages. She then demands for the person to "Give me back my eyes", before the bandages suddenly fall away - to reveal an eyeless face.

* ''Escape From the Valley of the Tapes'' is an Australian documentary film about a cult video store suffering financial difficulties, with flashback scenes in the style of a sci-fi BMovie. A businessman (shown as a sinister figure wearing SunglassesAtNight) is willing to finance the store, until his EvilPlan is revealed -- he wants them to sell Hollywood blockbusters! At this point, the owner of the cult video store tears off the man's sunglasses to reveal an eyeless horror and flees in terror.