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* Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody's magical eye from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' adds an aura of mystique around the veteran dark wizard hunter. His eye also has some particularly creepy abilities such as being able to see through things and turn around in its socket to see through his head in any direction, as befits his ever-watchful, ever-paranoid personality.

* Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' adds an aura of mystique around the veteran dark wizard hunter. His eye also has some particularly creepy abilities such as being able to see through things and turn around in his head to watch all behind him, as befits his ever-watchful, ever-paranoid personality.

* ''Literature/FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe'' has Frank Bennett have one glass eye, which he got after a bullet destroyed the real one. He likes to use it as a form of a joke by telling a stranger to guess which of his eyes is false, and buy them a drink if they guess correctly. Most people can't tell the difference. [[spoiler:One old man got it right and the bartender asked how he could tell, with the old man stating that the glass eye was the one that seemed to have even a shred of human compassion in it.]]

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' Yes ol' Seth Briars sure is quite the piece of work. He destroyed his entire life hunting down the treasure. He even admits to it a few levels earlier. His wife, his children, his business. '''All for a fucking glass eye'''. [[spoiler:However, according to the epilogue he eventually does find actual treasure that made him rich.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': After Duane's eyes were stabbed by assassins his brother gave him [[{{Magitek}} pymaric]] glass eyes. They see almost as well as the real thing, but have occasionally fallen out at inopportune moments.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': After Duane's eyes were stabbed by assassins his brother gave him [[{{Magitek}} pymaric]] glass eyes to see with.

* The protagonist of ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', [[PeekABangs not that one can normally notice]]. It also serves as a constant reminder of [[YourDaysAreNumbered the death that awaits him the moment his other eye disappears]]. At one point he uses it to make an actual eye for a little girl who [[EyeScream lost both of her eyes thanks to a Mushi]] while her friend looks on and [[FreakOut freaks out]] at the entire thing.

* An example of an attractive character with one -- in ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'', A-drei (A3), a handsome [[YouAreNumberSix deposed]] WarriorPrince, gets his eye shot out in the second episode. Later, he comes back with a replacement, which matches his other eye in color, except it isn't drawn with as much detail. The eye and the scar around it are often seen, even though they're under his [[PeekABangs bangs]]. It doesn't take away at all from his [[{{Bishonen}} beauty]].

* Jin from ''Webcomic/{{Bastard|2014}}'' has a glass left eye after a brutal childhood "accident" that left him [[TraumaInducedAmnesia amnesiac]] and his body battered. His classmates pejoratively call him "glass-eye," while his bullies go even further with "glass-eye [[PeekABangs emo freak]]."

* ''Manga/FairyTail'', Erza lost her eye as a young girl after being tortured by her jailers. She's eventually given an artificial eye which cannot shed tears (at first) but can also NoSell illusions based on eye contact.

* ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'': during his second appearance, Phantoma Mark has both eyes made of glass, and in one scene his assistant pull them out of their sockets and proceeds to wash them.

* ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' finally shows how Fury lost his eye, and in the end Coulson presents him with a selection of glass eyes as a replacement. Given that all his other appearances show him with his trademark EyepatchOfPower, he apparently chose to forego using one.

** A very creepy version is Mr. Teatime from ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. He has a grey (black in the FilmOfTheBook) glass eye that may actually be a crystal ball. As the author makes clear, though, it's Teatime's ''real'' eye which is the scarier, with its pinhole-sized pupil.

* Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' adds an aura of mystique around the veteran dark wizard hunter. His eye also has some particularly creepy abilities such as being able to see through things and turn around in his head to watch all behind him, as befits his ever watchful, ever paranoid personality.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': Creator/PeterFalk had a glass eye, but throughout the entire run of the series there was only one hint that the same might be true of Columbo as well. In episode "[[Recap/ColumboS10E11 A Trace of Murder]]", Columbo invites Patrick Kinsley to accompany him on the investigation by saying "Three eyes are better than one!"
* The Tailies on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' find a glass eye within one of the bunkers. It presumably belonged to Mikhail, who by that time was wearing an eye-patch instead.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' has [[StarterVillain the Cyclops]], who gets his name because he's missing an eye, which he replaced with a very expensive obsidian eye that he's extremely proud of. After the Eagle Bearer gets a hold of it, they [[AssShove force it up the backside off a goat]] just to piss him off. After the boss battle, killing the goats in the area will case one of them (determined randomly) to drop it, at which point it can be sold for a pretty good amount of money.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards Wild Cards]]", the Joker frees a bunch of super-powered youngsters from a secret government facility and makes them part of his latest scheme (or act), where as the flashback makes it clear that the place was less than innocent, the overseer turns and reveals he has a facial scar and a glass eye as if to confirm it.

* Creator/JohnKani is a relatively ReclusiveArtist, but what is known is that he lost an eye after being beating up by policemen who supported of a politician who was subjected to a TakeThat by a play Kani starred in.

* Catscratch in ''Webcomic/TheSuburbanJungle'' has a glass eye to replace the one that was, well, [[MeaningfulName scratched out by a cat]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'' has an eye taken out by Agent 300, afterwards he usually has a glass eye but sometimes wears an EyepatchOfPower. And then there's one time he finds a [[http://nielsg.com/never-forget-never-forgive transparent eye]] in order to gross out 300.

* Vard's glass eye in ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'' magically follows the movements of his remaining eye but he can't see out of it. He grosses out traveling companion Marya cleaning it.

* Merno from ''Webcomic/DragonSanctuary'' has one in the left after he lost his own in battle. It's apparently a good omen, as the world's creation myth says that the Moon lost her left eye as well.
* ''Webcomic/PoisonIvyGulch'': Ace [[https://www.poisonivygulch.com/comic/poison-ivy-gulch-9-8-2021/ mentions his schoolteacher]] has a glass eye as part of a joke about her losing a pupil as a {{Pun}}.

* ''Anime/LupinTheThirdPartII'': during his second appearance, Phantoma Mark has both eyes made of glass, and in one scene his assistant pull them out of their sockets and proceeds to wash them.