History Main / GiantEyeOfDoom

Not to be confused with [[HeWhoFightsMonsters The Abyss Gazes Also Into You]]. Unless it does.

* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', this is all we ever see of "The Great Unknown", a dreaded ''something'' that stalks the depths of the ocean, and looks like a question mark on sonar. It gazes in the porthole of a submarine at one point.

* * ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', this is all we ever see of "The Great Unknown", a dreaded ''something'' that stalks the depths of the ocean, and looks like a question mark on sonar. It gazes in the porthole of a submarine at one point.

Compare with MirrorScare, DangerTakesABackseat, and PeekABooCorpse.

* This happens in a couple of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' adaptations (the [[Disney/AliceInWonderland Disney version]] and the one with Fiona Fullerton) when Alice grows too large in the White Rabbit's house. The animals look at the "monster" in the house and freak.

** Parodied in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/GoingPostal''. The Unseen University wizards are trying to contact another wizard with a crystal ball, but keep getting a fiery eyeball. This turns out to be the eye of that wizard, who'd developed a severe shrimp allergy. It also gave him a giant fiery nose.

[[InWhichATropeIsDescribed A scene in which]] a character has a huge eye staring at them. In many cases, the character won't notice even this - [[ScareChord at least not until they turn around and find themselves face-to-eyeball]]. In the case of an {{Oculothorax}} the eyeball is all there is!

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' had this in the second episode. Shinji just witnessed Unit-01 going berserk and kill an Angel... then he notices that the reflection of its exposed eye is looking directly at him. Needless to say, it freaks him out real good.

* Two ''Comicbook/GhostRider'' enemies have used the name "The Orb". One wore a helmet that looked like a giant eyeball, but the All-New Orb's head is an actual giant eyeball.

* ''Nature's Way'' (Gary Larson's comic prior to ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'') had a comic with a woman peering into a fishbowl and staring at a goldfish while an enormous monster is peering into her window and staring at ''her''.
** One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic showed a driver looking at the rear-view mirror and seeing it filled with the image of a giant eye, and underneath we see the message, "[[AC:[[FridgeHorror Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear]].]]"
** Another ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic involved an old woman calling her neighbor on the telephone. "Hello, Mabel? It's Ethel, from up the street...fine, thanks. Say, I wonder if you could go to your front window and describe what's in my front yard." At her window is a humongous eyeball.

* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. The crew's first close-up view of the Leviathan is an ''extreme'' close-up of a mechanical iris and a fiery pupil. "Jiminy Christmas! It's a machine!"

* During the Pink Elephants sequence in ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'', one of the elephants turns into a camel, [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a snake]], [[FanDisservice a harem dancer]] and a giant eyeball.

** There's also this ShoutOut to ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' in ''Going Postal'': "It's not working, Mr. Stibbons! Here's that damn enormous fiery eye again!"

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* The CBS VanityPlate.
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* Big Eye in ''[[VideoGame/{{Something}} Something Else]]''. It may seem threatening, but it's the WarmUpBoss.

* Happens near the end of ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' when we see Jiminy Cricket run into Monstro the whale.

** Both were in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original NES game]] as well, along with Patra, a squadron of giant flying eyeballs.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAmhzitRTA Digdogger]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-mjoAkBNI Gohma]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAmhzitRTA Digdogger]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-mjoAkBNI Gohma]] from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Both were in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original NES game]] as well, along with Patra, a squadron of giant flying eyeballs.

* One of the bosses in ''[[VideoGame/{{Turok}} Turok 2: Seeds of Evil]]'' on the N64 was called Golden Eye (a TakeThat at [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 a certain other N64 shooter]]), and was just a giant eyeball (with CombatTentacles). Turok stumbles into its lair, unaware what lurks there [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong until pretty much the entire ceiling blinks at him]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]]: Spoofed when Rory and Amy shriek when they open a drawer to reveal a huge eye staring out at them... only for it to turn out to be a huge but harmless GlassEye.

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* Used memorably in ''Film/JurassicPark'', as illustrated above. Also appears in the sequels -- a T-rex peers into Eddie's car in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', and the reflection of the Spinosaur's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane in the ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Used in the episode "The Eleventh Hour", turned [[UpToEleven up to]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Ele]][[TheNthDoctor ven]] by the eye belonging to an Atraxi, a species of Starship-sized eyes with a crystalline 'shell' .
** Spoofed in "Night Terrors" when Rory and Amy shriek when they open a drawer to reveal a huge eye staring out at them...only for it to turn out to be a huge but harmless GlassEye.
* The CBS VanityPlate.
* Cyclops in TheSixties British sci-fi serial ''Series/AForAndromeda'', a large amoeba in a tank that stares out at the scientists with a huge single eye.
* ''Series/TheAquabatsSupershow'' episode "The Floating Eye of Death", which is about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin take a guess]].
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* ''Nature's Way'' (Gary Larson's comic prior to ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'') had a comic with a woman peering into a fishbowl and staring at a goldfish while an enormous monster is peering into her window and staring at ''her''.
** One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic showed a driver looking at the rear-view mirror and seeing it filled with the image of a giant eye, and underneath we see the message, "[[AC:[[FridgeHorror Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear]].]]"
** Another ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic involved an old woman calling her neighbor on the telephone. "Hello, Mabel? It's Ethel, from up the street...fine, thanks. Say, I wonder if you could go to your front window and describe what's in my front yard." At her window is a humongous eyeball.

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* This is how Korrok usually appears in ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''. The entire wall between universes is the window, and you may or may not see his giant, blue, lidless eye peeking through at you at any given time. And if you accuse him of ripping off of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]], he'll [[PsychopathicManchild call you a fag]].
* [[TheDragon The Observer]] from ''WebVideo/TribeTwelve'' uses a giant eyeball as a way of telling Noah [[ParanoiaFuel I'm always watching]].
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* In the BatmanColdOpen of ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'', a floodlight is knocked through the dimensional portal and drifts through the void where Lovecraftian demons are trapped inside a vast crystalline asteroid. As its beam sweeps over the asteroid, two huge and one ''gigantic'' yellow eyes swivel to watch it, behind the semi-transparent crystal.

* The 2007 A Nightmare on Elm Street house at the Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights event in Hollywood recreated the Roach Motel scene from the fourth movie, complete with a screen in the window to simulate giant Freddy looking in through the window.

** There's also this ShoutOut to ''LordOfTheRings'' in ''Going Postal'': "It's not working, Mr. Stibbons! Here's that damn enormous fiery eye again!"

** And in the second expansion, the player is sent on a quest to destroy a [[LordOfTheRings gigantic, magical eye on top of a tower]] in the [[strike: Ice Mordor]] Icecrown zone to prevent the current BigBad from observing the good guys invading his turf. For some added hilarity, the quest is called "It's All Fun and Games".

* This is how Korrok usually appears in ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''. The entire wall between universes is the window, and you may or may not see his giant, blue, lidless eye peeking through at you at any given time. And if you accuse him of ripping off of [[LordOfTheRings Sauron]], he'll [[PsychopathicManchild call you a fag]].

* '' Film/AntManAndTheWasp''. Scott is stunned unconscious by Hope and wakes up in her car driving away from his house. He starts to panic that someone will see he's broken house arrest, then ''really'' panics when a huge eye looks through the car window. Turns out Hope's car has been shrunk to miniature size so no-one will see Scott leaving, and some curious pigeons are checking them out.

[[InWhichATropeIsDescribed A scene in which]] a character has a huge eye staring at them. In many cases, the character won't notice even this - [[ScareChord at least not until they turn around and find themselves face-to-eyeball]].

* ''MagicTheGathering'''s [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=1436 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]] and its ''Time Spiral'' [[ShoutOut shout-out]], the even more obvious [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=83811 Evil Eye of Urborg]].

* In ''{{Thundercats}}'', Lion-O enters a cave where the first thing he saw is a giant eye coming at him and staring before it blinked and disappear.

* The Eye Storm in ''{{Ringworld}}'' nearly drives Speaker-To-Animals into a HeroicBSOD. Because it looks like a ''human'' eye.