Eye Scream / Video Games

Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in your eye.

"Here's (Insert weapon here) In Your Eye!"

— A running gag in Dota 2

Playing it may just be worse than seeing it. Here are examples of Eye Scream from video games.

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• In 7 Days a Skeptic, Dr. William Taylor has been forced to construct a body for a ghost out of the murdered crew. The ghost possesses the body, but it needs eyes (the only intact head Taylor got needed glasses), so it takes a pair. From Dr. Taylor.
• Kaname Date of AI: The Somnium Files lost his left eye before the events of the game; he doesn't remember how. Aiba was put into its socket. It's eventually revealed that this is the result of him being subjected to the prototype Psync machine and switching bodies with Saito Sejima. On the Resolution route, he is forced to Psync in the same machine, causing him to go through this again with the same eye. Saito even takes Aiba with him for good measure, though it ends up being his undoing. In the sequel, Mizuki inherits Aiba after losing her own left eye in an explosion at Naixatloz's underground cathedral during the time between the two games. Averted with her fellow Psyncer Ryuki though, who's revealed to have willingly had his left eye surgically removed with the express purpose of replacing it with an AI-Ball. The same goes for tritagonist Mizuki "Bibi" Kuranushi as well, as she had been born with a blind eye.
• One of the endings of Alpha Protocol has Mike shooting Leland at point-blank range through his eye. And it's definitely not one of the game's normal Pretty Little Headshots.
• A major plot point in Amea. As part of their attempts to escape life's hardships and begin a new, false life, the Master Eye's cult have all ritualistically removed their eyes and replaced them with artificial ones (likely of the Master Eye's own design) that wipes their memories beyond the bare essentials, thus letting them begin a new "life" as the Master Eye's slave. When Amea, who had initially joined the cult due to Parental Abandonment, learns this, she decides that she's not going to run away anymore and face whatever life throws at her, and shows this by ripping out her fake eyes.
• In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there is a particularly disturbing text passage upon discovering the Iron Maiden in the Choir.
  Excerpt from text: His knee jerked and he felt blood trickle down his leg. In pain his head fell slightly forward. It took him a while to realize his eye had ruptured and begun to leak.
• In the Animal Crossing series, shaking trees sometimes results in a beehive falling out, leading to the pissed-off bees chasing you. If they catch you, they'll sting your eye, leaving it puffy and swollen. Fortunately it's not permanent. Taking a rest (read: saving and quitting) or using some medicine will fix it.
• In ANNO: Mutationem, Ryan Flores lost his left eye in a past incident when Ann accidentally awakens Amok within her, lost control, and attacked him. His injury wasn't too severe and soon got treatment via a cybernetic replacement with bioskin, making it indistinguishable from the original.
• The Assassin's Creed franchise:
  • Assassin's Creed II:
    • This game took the counter kills from the first game and jacked the brutality level up to eleven. Countering with Ezio's hidden blade will occasionally result in both blades being jabbed through a guard's eyes. You can't really make out much, but really the dark red spurts of blood from both sockets are enough.
    • There's also the fact that Mario Auditore (Ezio's uncle) is blind in his left eye, with a scar around said eye. The injury itself is only elaborated on in the Facebook spinoff Project Legacy. In one mission (before the events of Assassin's Creed II), Mario was cut in the face by a bladed pendulum, causing his eventual blindness. To make it worse, there is even a picture showing Mario with the newly acquired injury, because we needed to see that.
  • There is a unique Assassination move done by the Footpad (from the Brotherhood multiplayer) where said Footpad slashes the target in the eyes with his weapon before stabbing the target in the throat. The move's nickname? "Blinded and Helpless". Quaint.
• One of Minsc's shouts in Baldur's Gate II is him telling Boo to go for the eyes. This becomes an implemented mechanic in Baldur's Gate III.
• Baldur's Gate III:
  • In an early cutscene, you get to watch two characters get implanted with illithid tadpoles through the eye — one of them being your POV character.
  • Later in the game, Volo can try to remove your tadpole by going through your pupil with increasing force, starting out with a needle and ending by knocking your whole eye out with an ice pick. A mortified Volo gives you a magical prosthetic that lets you see invisible creatures as a replacement and runs away.
  • The player can also make a bargain with the hag Auntie Ethel to remove the tadpole, which also costs them an eye (on purpose this time) and doesn't work either. She also replaces it, but less beneficially - your eye now makes you more intimidating but doesn't see as well and makes it harder for you to hit hags in the event you come into conflict her. If you've already done one of these, the other one will refuse.
  • Malus Thorm will slice the eyes of his "patient" with a scalpel, giving you a good luck at the bloody, empty sockets left behind, while explaining why he considers this an improvement according to his maddened Sharran ideals. He'll compliment you on having removed one of your eyes already if you took either of the above options, though he doesn't think you've gone far enough.
• Banjo-Tooie includes a little spin on this by doing it with eyeball plants. They play a game of keep away with a jiggy, and to get the jiggy you have to... pop them open with bee stingers. Okay. It isn't too violent, given that this is rated E for everyone.
• In The Banner Saga 2, the Sundr Eyeless is so named because her eyes are sewn shut. She usually wears a mask to cover it.
• Penguin in Batman: Arkham City has been shown with the bottom of a glass bottle over his eye◊ in place of a monocle, which according to previews was stabbed there and cannot be removed without killing him. Being the "sophisticated" man he is, though, he's grown rather "attached" to it.
• Batman: The Telltale Series doesn't shy away from this.
  • One of the bullets that killed Thomas Wayne went into his eye.
  • Vicki Vale gouged out her adopted mother's.
  • Saving Selina instead of Harvey in Episode 2 sees Bruce toss a Batarang into one of the goons' eyes.
  • Deciding not to unmask in front of Vicki results in Alfred losing his left eye.
• In Battleborn, Orendi's "Starring Contest" taunt animation has her do the Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls thing wherein she pushes her own eyeball in and out.
• Battletoads: Stage 4 of the arcade game features enemies named Ugly Mugs that need to have their eyes knocked out before smacking them in their ugly mugs.
• Several power-up items in The Binding of Isaac do this to Isaac, but since his main weapon is his tears, doing this is actually beneficial.
• In Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Nupraptor sews his own eyes and mouth shut during his descent into madness.
• One of the artifacts you're supposed to collect in Bloodrayne is a demon's eye which forcibly implants itself upon collecting. From Rayne's reaction to this, it's... not pleasant.
• Borderlands:
  • Borderlands 2:
    • During the introductory mission, Robot Buddy Claptrap gets his eye ripped out by the game's first boss, a bullymong named Knuckle Dragger, and he tasks you with helping him get it back.
    • At some point in the game, Handsome Jack talks to the player about the time a man tried to attack him with a spoon. He then proceeds to laugh about how he then took the spoon and gouged out said man's eyeballs in front of his children.
    • One line from Goliaths when their helmets are shot off: "Get ready to feel my fingers in your eyeballs!"
  • Tales from the Borderlands:
    • An early QTE sequence in "Atlas Mugged" has Fiona digging out the eyeball of a general in order to access a retinal scanner. Rhys startles her by screaming, so that she slips and cuts one eye in half. By the time she succeeds and accesses the retinal scanner, it turns out the general was alive all along, in suspended animation. And he was possibly a last hope for the universe.
    • Rhys ripping out his ECHO eye in Episode 5 in order to free himself of Handsome Jack's control is milked for all it's worth.
• Brain Dead 13:
  • At the beginning of the game, Lance pokes Fritz's eyes, prompting him to cover them... too bad that he has Hook Hands.
  • Also, in one death scene, Fritz will approach Lance from behind, poke him in both eyes with his hooks, and proceed to rip him apart vertically, putting new meaning to the words "splitting headache".
• Brütal Legend unsurprisingly has a good one. Go ahead and lose the RTS battle with Doviculus. The resulting losing animation quickly switches to Eddie's point of view just as the emperor tells you he is going to make a necklace with your eyes, then thrusts his fingers into the screen as it turns to black.
• Call of Duty:
  • In Call of Duty: World at War, at the very beginning of the game, a Japanese officer puts out his cigarette in a captured Marine's eye after he refuses to break under interrogation.
  • In the climax of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you kill Shepherd by throwing a knife into his eye,after pulling it out of yourself.
  • In Call of Duty: Black Ops, during the Baikonur level, after Weaver gets compromised and tied to a chair, Kravchenko stabs him in the eye. He survives, and gets an Eyepatch of Power.
  • In Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Bell will receive an injection in his eye socket thanks to Adler during "Break on Through". His team is obviously shaken by the action. Moving forward in the mission Bell will receive more and more every time he "dies" or goes out of the rail of Adler's narration.
• Castlevania:
  • Curse of Darkness has an alluded-to near-miss of this. See that scar over Trevor's left eye? Dracula got testy. Judgment made him lose the eyeball (thus making him look more like a pirate than Faust-VIII-lookalike zombie Grant).
  • The cyclops is only vulnerable to headshots. But it's a cyclops, so we know they're actually eyeshots.
  • Balore's weak spots are his eyes. Always. And Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow makes him way less pretty.
• One of the ghost children in Corpse Party has had her left eye stabbed out. And if you get caught by her? She takes yours!
• Cold Winter have this happening in Kim's flashback, where she's recruited by some Red Chinese operatives in a cell and told to sign some papers in exchange for her brother's life. She swiftly kills everyone and finishes the recruiter by shoving her pen through said recruiter's eye.
• Cruelty Squad: The description for the Zoom N Go Bionic Eyes implies that installation is as simple as shoving them into one's existing eyes.
• In Crusader Kings II, characters in the Byzantine culture group can blind prisoners. This inflicts them with a malus to stats and gives their character portraits black, gaping holes in their sockets.
• Alighiero, Dante's father in Dante's Inferno, puts up a good fight with an assassin. He only loses when said assassin grabs a nearby cross and plunges it deep into Alighiero's eye, killing him.
• In Dead Rising a Psychopath meets his end when a statue tips over onto him. The statue is holding a real sword. Guess where that sword goes. It's foreshadowed by his cult having a major eye theme.
• The Dead Space franchise:
  • In Dead Space, the Captain of the ship has gone mad and the doctor declares him unfit for duty. He picks up a needle with a sedative, but the Captain jerks as he tries to get free, and the needle is jammed into his eye.
  • In Dead Space 2, this happens twice. Once to Ellie at the hands of Dr. Stross ("You owe me an eye, you bastard!"), and once to Isaac if you fail to get the needle in the right place in a minigame near the end of the game. (It's still a nasty case of Eye Scream if you do get the needle in the right place. You just don't die.) It's made worse by the fact that you're in control of it the whole time. Both of these are preceded by the rather nightmarish little chant "Cross my heart and hope to die... stick a needle in your eye..."
  • Dead Space 3 tops them all; you kill the Final Boss by throwing things into its eyes. Seems mundane, but the final boss is a post-Convergence Necromorph the size of a moon, its eyes are several hundred feet wide, and the things you throw into its eyes are Red Markers about 30 feet tall. Upon impact, the eyes burst open into a tidal wave of blood and fluid. Here, you make the closest thing to an unrelenting, timeless Physical God feel pain.
• In Demon's Souls, the Maiden in Black has her eyes covered by wax that's melted into her skin, blinding her. It's unclear that if she was born this way due to her being an incredibly powerful demon or if the wax was more of a result of her being the keeper of the Nexus. If the latter is the case, it's also unclear if she lost her eyes before coming to the Nexus, if she still has her eyes under the wax, or if she lost them due to the waxing.
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening:
  • Dante leaves Leviathan's body by bursting out of its eye.
  • Beowulf had his left eye sliced out by Sparda in the past. In the present, Dante takes out the right eye after their battle.
• In the intro of Diablo (1997), you see a close up of a crow picking out the eye of a decaying body. While not looking too realistic by today's CGI standards, that was a pretty unpleasant scene at the time of release. The sequel also allows you to summon ravens as the Druid class, and their attacks blind enemies.
• In Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches, if you manage to land a deathblow on Edgar Wakefield from the front, Daud pulls him closer and plunges his sword into Edgar's left eye. And then Daud slowly pulls it out.
• DmC: Devil May Cry:
  • In the level "Under watch", you have to destroy living cameras made out of giant demonic eyes by pulling them out with your grappling hook.
  • During the first two phases of the boss battle against Bob Barbas, you end up grappling hook-jumping into his eyes to proceed to the next stage of the battle.
• In the Donkey Kong games, King K. Rool is depicted as having one eye that's constantly bloodshot.
• The Doom franchise:
  • DOOM Game Mod Brutal Doom has executions, available through use of the Berserker Pack. The one-eyed Cacodemons can be executed by the Marine reaching into its face and tearing out its eye with his bare hands.
  • Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal made execution moves a mechanic to get health back during the Doom Slayer's rampages. Most of the Cacodemon executions involve the Slayer stabbing, punching, or ripping that eye from its socket in a squall of gore.
• Pops up a few times in Dragon Age II, usually with throwing knives.
  • The best one is the conclusion of the Orsino!Harvester battle. Hawke leaps onto the beast and stabs it in the eye again and again. Then Hawke rips out its head and stomps it to death.
  • Zevran gets a Moment of Awesome when an Antivan Crow runs at him from behind, sword raised. Barely turning, he flicks Murder Knife at the man, who slows to a stop and keels over, revealing the hilt protruding from his left eye.
• At the end of the third episode of Duke Nukem 3D, Duke kicks the eye right out of the Cycloid Emperor's head. This part was recreated in the prologue/video-game-within-a-video-game level of Duke Nukem Forever, only in this case the Cycloid Emperor's eyeball is on the ground, but still connected to his head.
• In Dwarf Fortress, eyes are damageable (and, in some cases, targetable) organs. However, in the current version, bugs mean they can't be removed and will rapidly recover any damage they receive. Still, not fast enough that gouging out something's eyes won't let you kill it at your leisure, or at least massively improve your chances of it. There's a reason why it's one of the two ways to make Wrestling a viable skill.
• In the Dynasty Warriors series, Xiahou Dun's Eyepatch of Power stems from him getting hit in the eye by an arrow. Unlike King Harold in the Battle of Hastings however, who simply dropped dead, he remained standing, pulled the arrow out, and ate the lost eyeball. Not only does this prove that Xiahou Dun is Made of Iron, but it also provides a defining (if disgusting) moment in Dynasty Warriors.
• In EarthBound (1994), one of the earlier enemies (yes, early in the game), a crow, have their attack read as a peck to the eyes.
• Elden Ring: This is a common motif with the Frenzied Flame. Frenzied Flame-affected enemies have flames spurting from their eye sockets, its greatest human servant is named Shabriri (the same name as a Hebrew demon of blindness), who had his eyes gouged out as a punishment for the crime of Malicious Slander. Hyetta's quest involves giving her "Shabriri Grapes", which are actually human eyeballs from followers of the Frenzied Flame. Completing her questline sees her eyes melt out of their sockets.
• In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one of the finishing moves against dragons involves the Dovahkiin jumping onto the dragon's head and stabbing it in the eye. Possibly Fridge Brilliance since the eyes are sometimes a dragon's Achilles' Heel in literature.
• Throughout the first three levels of Eversion, there are gems hidden in Mario-esque floating blocks with happy faces on them. Level 4 lets you know exactly where the game is headed when you are forced to jump into one and its eyes pop out of its sockets as you instantly evert from Sugar Bowl World 4-1 to the completely terrifying World 4-5.
• Fable:
  • In Fable on the Xbox, the main character's sister has her eyes cut out by bandits when she refuses to tell them where you are.
  • In Fable III, during your first encounter with the Crawler, when you find Walter after his disappearance, he is covered by a dark goo, and his eyes seem to be bleeding said goo. More creepy than Squick-inducing, though.
• Fallen London:
  • Sorrow-spiders, which are spiders that bite out the eyeballs of sleeping people (or people who're drunk enough to fall over). They get their name from the tears that flow from the remaining eye. More aggressive Sorrow-Spiders will just leap on your very awake face and tear them right out of your sockets, too. Notably, they're so picky about this (since they don't eat them, but rather use them for eggs) using protective goggles will ward them off, and applying Shapeling Arts to just have your head swallow your eyeballs for a bit will make them outright ignore you.
  • The Correspondence can make your eyes bleed if you read it. Inuring yourself to it, if you keep going said eyes can occasionally burst into flame in the middle of reading. The Discordance can cause a similar effect, in that if you read even a little bit you can occasionally feel your vitreous humors freeze and crack.
  • The body tends to react rather badly when exposed to plentiful Irrigo, for very good reasons, and will grow bone over the eye sockets to try and block it out.
  • As a minor example treated as Amusing Injuries, an encounter with the Museum's Toxicology Exhibit can have this gem:
    Extract of Amanita chthonica, the ghost cap. Your eyes rotate longitudinally in their sockets, twisting your optical nerves into taut strings.
• In the first two Fallout games, aiming for the eyes is not only possible but one of the most effective ways to dispatch enemies — not only does a critical hit to the eyes typically inflict extra damage, it also bypasses the damage resistance of any armor the target might be wearing and has a chance of automatically killing them outright. In the later ones you can, at most, target the head, but the fact that it just about kills Perception when a target's head is crippled tends to imply that some of this is still going on. Can't shoot someone in the face with a laser/shotgun and not have a bit of that get in their eyes, after all.
• In the opening scene of Far Cry 5, the Junior Deputy watches a video in which Joseph Seed gouges out the eyes of a man he caught spying on one of his cult's church services.
  Joseph Seed: They are blind... but I will make them see.
• Karoosh from Far Cry Primal has one eye scratched and permanently closed, stemming from a battle with Mog, the Udam who killed his son.
• Fatal Frame:
  • One of the items you can find in the first game is a mask with large spikes in the eyes. It's revealed that girls are blinded with this device for a horrific ritual to close hellgates. What's worse is you can try to use the mask yourself, though many never have the courage to find out what happens if you press the "Use" button.
  • The sequels also have cases of Eye Scream, including the Mourners in II, whose eyes were sewn shut, the Needle Women in III, who had their own eyes gouged out, and the Shrine Maidens in Maiden of Black Water, whose eyes were slashed out. Also, there's a text in II that warns you not to look into the local Hell Gate, for obvious reasons, as Mio finds out in one of the game's Multiple Endings.
• Fear & Hunger: Termina: Prior to the events of the game, Daan ripped out his own eye as an offering in a failed attempt to revive his dead wife Elise. It doesn't hinder him one bit in braving the horrors of Prehevil.
• Fear Effect has this in the Sedna release. Hana, the resident Ms. Fanservice, can get shot in the chest, then gets a bullet right through her eye, leaving her blood and brains on the wall behind her.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy X:
    • In a flashback, we see how Auron gets blasted into the face/left eye by Yunalesca when trying to avenge Jecht's and Braska's deaths. Well, at least he got his Eyepatch Sunglasses of Power after that.
    • During the attack on the Blitz Stadium, you can see that the aeon Anima's Pain ability is based on this. In a surprisingly gory cutscene for the series, blood can be seen coming out of her eye every time she uses it, culminating in a close-up of her bleeding eye socket.
  • Referred to offhand in Final Fantasy XIV when your character is training to become a Blacksmith: Brithael mentions having accidentally thrown a freshly-forged hammerhead into the eye of one of his previous apprentices, though he adds that he got his sight back eventually.
    • Also in the same game, dragons are explicitly noted as having their powers be within their eyes. As you might imagine, both good and evil end up using dragon eyes for a multitude of reasons, and doing so does require the eye(s) to be plucked from the dragon in question, willingly or otherwise. Fortunately the eyes can be restored to their rightful owners, and good guys always do just that once they're done with whatever they needed the eyes for.
  • In Final Fantasy XV, Ignis Scientia receives a hideous eye injury at one point during the Leviathan trial. He's left blind in both eyes, and has a massive burn-like scar around his left eye socket. He may or may not have lost the left eye completely; he never opens it again after that except in (possibly glitched) photos after the time skip.
• Fire Emblem has four cases, in three different continuities:
  • Nergal from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, in its not-torn-out, googly-eyed twitchiness. The Archsage Athos gave it to him in the past, after they went from best friends to Cain and Abel.
  • Saizo from Fire Emblem Fates is blind in his right eye due to a scar obtained while attempting to kill the ruler of the Principality of Mokushu for the death of his father, the previous Saizo. In his critical animation, he actually opens his right eye wide so the player can see its milky whiteness, probably due to cataracts forming.
  • Niles, also from Fates, wears an Eyepatch of Power over his empty socket. In one of his skinship lines in the Japanese version, he tells Corrin that his eye was taken from him by an "unworthy person", probably a thief since Niles once was a Street Urchin.
  • After the Time Skip in most routes of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Dimitri ends up losing his eye. Considering his behavior after the timeskip, it's safe to say that he lost it due to his recklessness in battle.
• In First Encounter Assault Recon, after Jankowski's disappearance in the second level, you will occasionally see a "phantom" image of him... with his eyes gouged out. Whether or not he's actually dead, though, is up in the air.
• Flash of the Blade have the Soulstealer revealing his true form, a Faceless Eye floating in a realm of red. But you're wielding a sacred weapon called the Lightbringer, at which point you put an end to Soulstealer by throwing the Lightbringer into Soulstealer's pupil.

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• God of War:
  • Kratos is capable of killing cyclopes by yanking out their eyeballs.
  • Kratos tears up Typhon's eye in II.
  • The most epic example of this is when he kills Poseidon in III by gouging his eyes before breaking his neck and throwing him off a cliff. The fact that you see this from Poseidon's point of view makes this horror and a Moment of Awesome.
• In Granblue Fantasy, Repti was rendered permanently blind after directly witnessing Bahamut at Estalucia. Repti later shows his memory of this experience to Hailak, and while it doesn't blind him, it does damage his eyes to the point that he now needs to wear glasses.
• GreedFall: During a battle, Eseld kills an unnamed enemy soldier by throwing a dagger into his eye socket.
• In Grim Fandango, you have to use your scythe against the eye of an octopus. Granted, it's protected by a crystal, but the fact that it breaks and shows blood afterwards...
• NES game The Guardian Legend has a huge number of bosses that play this trope straight. Notable examples include the Eyeball Growths, giant masses of eyeballs growing out of the ground that you have to shoot until they pop, and Grimgrin, a giant monster covered in eyes, which explode as you damage him.
• In the Nightfall campaign for Guild Wars, the mad god of secrets Abbadon and his servants have a thing for eyes. His favorite minion begins growing extra eyes on her forehead in imitation of her master, and her favorite threat/curse is "Abbadon will eat your eyes." This is what happens to Kormir when she's taken prisoner after the rout at Consulate Docks — her eyes are fed to the Hunger and she's blind for the rest of the game, even when she ascends to become the new Goddess of Truth.
• In Heavenly Sword, this happens to King Bohan very close to the end of the game, after the Raven God pecks his eyes out as a punishment for Bohan failing him.
• Norman Jayden of Heavy Rain will start bleeding from the eyes if he uses the ARI for too long at a particular point in the game. If the player persists in using the ARI, he'll eventually start bleeding from the nose as well, which is a sign that his time is almost up.
• In the Henry Stickmin Series installment Escaping the Prison, Henry can choose to escape his cell by shooting a rocket launcher at his cell door. However, the rocket goes through the bars, loops through a set of ventiliation pipes, and back at Henry, drilling into his eye before exploding.
  FAIL Screen: Uh... way to aim, buddy.
• Hobo: The A-D combo introduced in the series' third game, Hobo 3: Wanted, has Hobo shoot his eyes out of the sockets to attack enemies. It's step-up that debuted in Hobo 4: Total War, A-D-S, takes it a step further by also having Hobo's neck split to extend its ligaments, granting him a longer attack range.
• Hollow Knight: One of the Warrior Dream-bosses is a woman only called "No Eyes". After she was infected by the Radiance's light, she couldn't sleep due to fear of the light taking over her mind through her dreams. She and many other bugs tore their eyes out to protect themselves, before dying of the infection. Her in-game sprite shows her with a black substance dripping from her empty eyesockets like tears.
• Infinite Space: Yuri's unfortunate first encounter with Valantin ends in tragedy as he finds himself with a 5-foot blade in his left eye. He gets better.
• Injustice: Gods Among Us: When Shazam calls out Regime!Superman for planning to destroy Gotham and Metropolis, Supes responds by grabbing Shazam by the throat and firing Eye Beams directly into his eyeballs.
• Inscryption: Unlocking and using the "special knife" allows you to add a large amount of weight to the scale during battles...by carving out your own eye and putting it on said scale. Thankfully, your "host" always offers you a new one after the battle. It's necessary to unlock more of the story, by replacing your eye with a wizard's to gain True Sight. Said wizard, Magnificus, lost that eye during a squabble with Leshy and remarks on the unpleasantness even after the game is reset and he gets it back.
• In the Hunt features a giant living statue as a Puzzle Boss. Your submarine has to make floating blocks of stone drop on its head. Once damaged enough, the stone covering the statue's face is destroyed, showing the flesh and bones underneath, and its eyeballs dangle out of their sockets. It doesn't help that it gains an attack where it spits out four homing eyeballs.
• I Wanna Be the Guy: After the Guy goes One-Winged Angel and breaks through the background, his eyes become weak points; shooting them repeatedly causes them to degenerate from black dots into red blotches.
• Judgment; the calling card of the mysterious Serial Killer that Yagami nicknames "The Mole" is that all of his victims had their eyes carved out, presumably with an ice pick. This is because The Mole is covering up that the victims were test subjects for a highly toxic Alzheimer's cure, one of the side effects being that their eyes were tinted a vivid shade of blue.
• In Just Shapes & Beats, when the Big Bad overdoses on power from the third Triangle, its eyes explode, leaving blood-oozing empty sockets. The next song/battle, "Annihilation", begins with dodging the drops of blood. Then more mutations begin...
• In Killzone 3's "Brutal Melee System", you can do this in two very fun ways: stabbing an opponent in the eye and (somehow) gouging out a Helghast's eyes through his goggles.
• Kindergarten:
  • The Cyclops Duckling Monstermon card got its name by getting its eye pecked out by a bigger duckling.
  • Almost all the laser guns in the sequel seem to have the odd property of always aiming for the eye.
• Done in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep of all places, where Braig's fight with Terra ends with Terra firing a blast of dark energy right into his eye. Well, now we know where he got that eyepatch.
• The Disco Bandit in Kingdom of Loathing has an attack called Disco Eye-Poke.
• The King of Fighters:
  • This happened in Clark Still's past. His partner and best friend Ralf was practicing with some knives, he carelessly threw one around... ouch. That's why he has a scar on the left side of his face.
  • Rugal Berstein has been on both sides of the trope. In KOF 94 we learn that he not only killed Heidern's family and squad, he also plucked out one of his eyes. And on the other hand, in KOF 96 it's explained that Goenitz sliced out Rugal's eye when trying to kill him. Impressed that Rugal survived a fatal attack, Goenitz then gave him some of the Orochi power. Which would later kill him for real.
• Kirby:
  • Some of the bosses in the Kirby games have very large and prominent eyes, and some are little more than just eyes, so attacking these bosses becomes this, especially if you do it with the Master Sword. And then, there's Zero. To elaborate, Zero rips out his own eye in a fountain of blood. In a later game, you fight Zero Two, and dealing damage to his eye results in puffs of more blood.
  • Recurring enemy Waddle Doo's Dummied Out "appearance" in Kirby's Block Ball has its eye blown off in its death animation.
• The Last Door has lots of this.
  • In Anthony's manor house, you find a cat trapped in the basement that's had its eyes gouged out by a bird.
  • At the Catholic hospice, you meet Father Ernest, your old teacher. He's burned his eyes out.
  • At various points in the game, the Eye of the Bird appears in nightmares, windows, and keyholes, always accompanied by a literal scream.
• The Hunter of Left 4 Dead has a character design that suggests some kind of eye damage; his eyes are thickly crusted with blood. The character model has no eyes at all, but it's possible that they just aren't rendered because his hood would obscure them from any in-game camera angle. In Versus mode, you can see fine while playing as him, but this could just be for the player's convenience.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails: Olivier in Trails of Cold Steel III is supposedly killed when The Courageous is blown up by a bomb. He's revealed to have survived in Cold Steel IV, but now wears an eyepatch due to a blast from an explosion getting his eye before he escaped.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In many of the games there are enemies that can only be killed by hitting their eyes. There are especially a lot of them in the 3D games.
  • Some games feature switches resembling eyes that are activated by shooting them with arrows.
  • It's implied that the Link of Ocarina of Time eventually loses an eye - as the Hero's Shade in Twilight Princess, one eye is dimmed out, and his wolf form has the same eye scarred shut.
  • In Hyrule Warriors, poor, poor Gohma gets smashed in its eye with a wide variety of weapons.
• Liar Jeannie In Crucifix Kingdom: Marta's left eye is always shut, though it's not clear if the two marks on his eyes are stitches or scars.
• The second Life and Death game during a patient's examination. You can do the humane thing and give them a normal exam, or be totally sadistic and click on the patient's eye while holding the pin. Of course, your boss will call you out for it afterward.
• Life Is Strange 2 has Sean taking a shard of glass through the eye when Daniel loses control of his powers at the end of Episode 3. Episode 4 reveals that the eye had to be removed entirely, and Sean sports an eye patch for the rest of the game (coupled with the odd Gory Discretion Shot whenever it's removed). And since he's the playable character, the occasional sections which take place from a first-person POV have the left side of the screen blacked out from then on. Surprisingly for a series which usually lets you avert disasters like character deaths and serious accidents if you make the right choices, there is no way to prevent this from happening.
• Luxaren Allure: Greater Evils can use an attack called "Eye Gorge".
• In Mad Father, there is a puzzle that requires you to retrieve a girl's missing eyes.
• A few weapons in Manhunt involve gouging out eyes. The Gruesome execution with the glass shard (stabbing the right eye, then slashing their throat), and the Violent execution with the pliers (where the player removes both eyes before knocking the victim out, complete with throwing the eyeballs away) are but two examples.
• Mass Effect 2:
  • In the Downloadable Content Overlord, when you finally get to the cause of all the trouble, David Archer, you find him suspended in some kind of harness with probes sticking out of, among other things, his eyes and holding them open. Think this picture, only with more focus, lingering, and different angles in the course of the ending cinematic.
  • According to Mordin, a batarian religion considers this act deeply insulting. Since they believe souls exit through the eyes when the body dies, removing or destroying the eyes is a terrible act of desecration. Which gives some extra chilling factor to Renegade Shepard's payback on a racist batarian bartender who tries to kill him or her with a poisoned drink — he or she forces the bartender in question to drink his own nasty concoction, and threatens to "blind him one eye at a time" if he doesn't follow through.
• From Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance: "[If they escape] then I shall find the men responsible and feed them their own eyes!"
• This is how Sir Daniel of Medievil met his end a century before the events of the first game: killed during the very first charge of the very first battle via an arrow to the eye. Practically everybody is quick to remind him of this.
  Canny Tim: I used it in the Battle of Gallowmere. After you were slain, I killed Zarok's champion, Lord Kardok! A clean kill! Through the eye at some 1000 yards!... Not that there's anything funny about shooting someone in the eye, sir.
• Metal Gear:
  • Solidus loses his eye after the Harrier fight in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake (AKA Big Boss, who is well known for only having one eye in the present day) has been captured, and Volgin tells the Boss to cut out his eyes. She doesn't. He loses his eye when Ocelot, doing his Russian-roulette-juggling thing, is about to shoot EVA. Snake tackles him, and the gun goes off right by his eye, damaging it irreparably.
  • In the prologue chapter of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Raiden's eye is stabbed out during the encounter with Jetstream Sam.
• Metroid:
  • Subverted in Metroid Fusion with Nightmare; when he increases the gravity, it seems his eyes are bleeding. That is, until the mask pops off and it turns out his face is melting.
  • Samus herself gets this in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, when her face becomes increasingly scarred as the Phazon corruption progresses. By the time you hit 50% corruption or so, not only are her eyes glowing blue, but the pupils have turned radioactive green. It's even squickier in the trailer video, when you see the Phazon flowing into her eyes from the inside. This can be seen in-game too if you go into Hyper Mode and let yourself get corrupted, or stay in Phaaze too long. It'll probably be the last thing you see, though.
• Minecraft: Story Mode:
  • During the boss fight with the Wither Storm, Jesse stabs one of the heads the Wither Storm manifests inside itself to defend its heart right in the eye.
  • In season two, you have to pick between recovering Petra's sword or helping Jack fight Prismarine Golems. Should you choose the former, Jack will be stabbed in the eye. Of course, he was already blind in that eye, but...
• The Fatalis trio of Monster Hunter have a visible scar over one of their eyes once their head takes enough damage. It's particularly noticeable with White Fatalis, as its eye socket starts to bleed when it's enraged. Gouging out the nominate subspecies' eye is the only way to disable its Hellfire Mode and reduce the power of its flames to a manageable level. The eyes serve as the species' Rare Random Drop, being needed to upgrade most of their gear to the maximum. They also follow the movements of your screen when they're inlaid on a piece of gear.
• Mortal Kombat:
  • In Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe one of the Joker's close combat moves is to poke his opponents in the eyes.
  • Several characters in Mortal Kombat 9 have Eye Screamy X-Ray attacks, particularly Reptile (who pokes his opponent in the eyes), Kitana (who stabs her opponent in the eyes with her fans), Baraka (who stabs his opponent clean through the head through the eyeball), and Skarlet (who kicks her opponent in the eye with the heel of one of her Combat Stilettos).
  • Mortal Kombat X has many examples, including Sub-Zero, whose X-Ray move and fatality involve the opponent's eyes and icicles (in the latter case, complete with the impaled eyeball detached from the socket and looking around), Kung Jin, who shoots arrows in the eyes, then grabs the arrows and smashes you against the ground, and Cassie Cage, who punches your opponent's nuts so hard they explode, then Pistol Whips them, then shoots them in the eyes for good measure. And just like he did in Mortal Kombat 9, Reptile also goes for the eyes in his X-ray. After breaking his opponent's jaw, he pushes his thumbs into their eye sockets until his thumbs break into their skull.
• Mr. Nutz has a grimacing giant as one of the more memorable bosses in the game among players. One of his methods of attack is to ooze the eyes out of his head, although new eyes will grow in place of the old ones each time he does it.

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• No More Heroes: Travis Touchdown blinds Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii by throwing his beam katana at him, cutting out both of his eyes.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Very rarely, the Tsubaki Mk III will slice an enemy's head in half, right about eye level. Least of their worries, but still.
• In Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, the Mudokon slaves being used to mine the bones of their ancestors for SoulStorm Brewery are blind — because they've had their eyelids stitched shut. This is evidently to keep them from learning they're desecrating their species' ancient burial ground and remain docile.
• In Office Zombie, depending on the item, you can hit the Zombie in the eye or knock his right eye out of his skull.
• Ōkami: The locks on doors in dungeons take the form of a demonic-looking face, with a large singular eye and the pupil shaped liked a keyhole. It doesn't react/end well when Amaterasu brings a key along.
• OMORI: While trying to stop Basil from killing himself, Sunny gets stabbed in his right eye and blacks out from the pain. In the few seconds before the scene fades to black, the right side of the screen is blackened to represent the loss of his right eye. His last scene in the hospital has bandages over the damaged part of his face.
• One Night at Flumpty's: The game over screens feature this. In the first game, your eyes are being cooked in a frying pan while the sequel has your eyes being diced. Veers into Crosses the Line Twice territory rather than Nightmare Fuel, as they are both done so in a manner of preparing eggs.
• Overlord II: At the beginning, shortly after the frozen Overlad arrives in the Netherworld, Quaver gets his eye stuck to the ice. And when Gnarl orders that the ice be thawed by fire, Quaver pulls away fast enough to leave the eyeball behind. Ouch.
• Pikmin 3: You can have Pikmin attack Bulborb eyes to render them incapable of attacking, and attacking the eyes of a Bugeyed Crawmad will make them stop eating any Pikmin currently in their mouth, in addition to making them vulnerable.
• Planescape: Torment:
  • The Nameless One has a special equipment slot called "eyeball". Its default contents are, well, what you'd expect, and you can replace it by... Well... You can connect the dots yourself. At no fewer than three occasions in the game can you also lose the other eye for story reasons.
    • The first time you tear out your eyeball by hand and replace it with an old eyeball a previous incarnation of you tore out and stored somewhere.
    • The second time you have Ignus pluck it out (again, by hand, and this time, said hand is on fire) to use it as a repository for magic you can learn.
    • If you take the right dialogue options with Ravel Puzzlewell, she'll stab you in the eye with a claw and hook it out, then stuff a black-barbed seed in the eyeball and pump it full of magic before giving it back to you. This is one of the many statistic boosting choices in the game. Planescape Torment: The game where having your eyes poked out gives you stat bonuses.
  • One time used for humor. One of the sensory stones contains the mind-numbing tedium experienced by a student in what was apparently the most boring lecture of all time. At one point, the student considered jamming his quill into his eye for a change of pace (though if he had actually done it it would have been a completely different sensory experience in the stone).
• In Prey (2006), the access to the sniper function of the Hunter's Rifle is done by a three-pronged tentacle leaping out and attaching itself to Tommy's eye. It's perfectly harmless, but the first few times you use it are guaranteed to startle.
• Briefly played with in Psychonauts.
  Den Mother: Enough! It is time for me to pluck out your eyes!
  Raz: You can't — that is the purpose of the goggles!
• Red Dead Redemption 2 has multiple:
  • In Chapter 4, when Kieran Duffy's corpse is found riding on a horse, his eyes have been gouged out of his decapitated head. Hopefully it happened after he was killed, but given how psychotic Colm O'Driscoll is...
  • If Arthur Morgan has high honor when he goes for Dutch's loot, he will give Micah Bell a slash across his left eye during their knife fight. By the time of the final epilogue mission, he's still got a scar from it. And you can blow his eye socket clean open as John Marston.
• RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore: In the Flavor Text for the "Craft Scissors" weapon:
  Keep them pointed away from you or you'll gouge your eye out.
• Rise of the Tomb Raider: Konstantin was dissatisfied with his deputy.
• In Robinson's Requiem, this can potentially happen to the hero: One or both of his eyes can be damaged by various hazards, leaving him partly or completely blind in that eye. Or both.
• One quote in the Knitted Knight Tutorial in Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Scarlet asks the viewer about what happened to her eye. Well...
• In Saints Row: The Third, Johnny Gat, after he and the Saints reject An Offer You Can't Refuse from Phillipe Loren, he then frees himself from his chair and attacks his guards. Loren stabs Johnny with a Bowie knife, but he shrugs it off and grabs Loren before slamming his face into an airplane window, breaking it and presumably getting glass shards in Loren's left eye. From that point on, Loren wears an Eyepatch of Power.
• A frequent source of squicky laughs in the Sam & Max games.
  • An Establishing Character Moment in Sam & Max Hit the Road':
    Sam: I've got something in my eye.
    Max: You should dig it out with a fork. It always works for me.
  • In "Ice Station Santa":
    Max: [sniffling] I - I've got something in my eye.
    Sam: Don't play with it, you know how hard it is to get back into the socket.
• Sea of Stars: In the prologue, Valere, Zale, and Garl sneak into the Forbidden Cave as children. They quickly learn why this was a bad idea when one of the monsters within it stabs Garl through the eye with its horn. He survives, but even when they all reach adulthood, he still bears the scars over his missing eye.
• Serious Sam 3: BFE has Melee Grabs, a type of Action Command One-Hit Kill that generally affects weaker enemies. Performed on a Gnaar, Sam will grab it, shove his hand into its eye socket, and rip out its single large eyeball, which can then be thrown at other enemies.
• Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments: Sir Rodney Bentcliffe, the murder victim in the Blood Bath case, gets killed by being stabbed in the eye.
• In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, after the world goes kablooey, you wake up, getting a first person view of a kid holding a bug... and then he drops the bug, right into your character's eye (and with the first person view, it's like it went into your own eye).
• In Shinobido, Zaji the Blackhawk has only one eye left and wears an eyepatch. Gamuran took out his other eye during the attack on the Asuka village by throwing a sharp wooden piece at it.
• In Silent Hill 3, the hint for the Hard Mode hospital keypad puzzle is a poem about poking out someone's eye, drinking the blood from the crushed eye, and biting off their tongue and left ear.
• Skullgirls has a momentary but haunting example in Peacock's individual storyline. A short flashback from Patricia's perspective shows us one of the slave traders who captured her, his thumbs reaching for her eyes. Then, they close in — suddenly, the screen goes red as a sickening squelch is heard.
• Small Saga: Verm's first battle against Blademaster Leo (which you cannot win) ends with Leo's needle sword getting snapped in half. Just when it looks like Verm bested him, Leo uses his broken needle to stab Verm in his left eye, seemingly killing him when his body falls into the Underriver.
• In SOMA, while Terry Akers isolated himself at site Delta, the WAU slowly brainwashed him into consuming Structure Gel until he gouged out his own eyes. You can even play with them in one of the buildings at Delta.
• In the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed's final battle, Super Sonic damages Dark Gaia by slamming into the beast's giant eyeballs. Before that, in the PS3/Xbox 360 version, he uses repeated homing attacks in its eyes. With a twinkly smile.
• In Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion, dying to the puppeteer around room 310 shows a cutscene of one of your eyes being held open with a knitting needle being lowered into it.
• The player has to do this to defeat the Bacoon when she initiates her final phase in Star Fox 64. Andross in this game (as well as the original Star Fox) is depicted as a disembodied floating head; guess what his weak point is...
• Street Fighter:
  • In Super Street Fighter II, there's Zangief's defeated portrait... What the hell did happen to Zangief's left eye?! Whatever it was, it looks horrible.
  • Juri Han from Street Fighter IV lost her eye in the incident that killed her mother and got her and her father captured by Shadaloo, with her dad being publically executed later. Said missing eye is replaced by the Feng-Shui Engine, made by S.I.N., which greatly boosts her strength. Street Fighter V reveals that Bison ultimately ripped Juri's enhanced eye, but when she joined the Illuminati, they gave her a new one.
• Team Fortress 2 has the boss MONOCULUS!, a Faceless Eye who is actually the Demoman's eye, magicked out of his head by Merasmus the Magician after the young Demoman got it haunted by reading a cursed book.
• Terraria has quite a bit of this with Faceless Eyes. All of them explode into Ludicrous Gibs when beaten, the Eye of Cthulhu sheds its pupil in favor of a toothy maw when it Turns Red, and the Twins, Retinazer and Spazmatism, shed theirs in favor of a laser cannon and a Hellfire-breathing mouth, respectively. At least the last two are partially robotic to lessen the horror.
• Theia - The Crimson Eclipse:
  • Seth slashes Horus's right eye in a duel. This leads to an infection that nearly kills Horus, until he got rebuilt as an Orihalcon-powered cyborg.
  • Seth himself loses his left eye while escaping Mystia, courtesy of Var Nell. His eye is replaced by the electronic Falcon Eye.
• In Thief: The Dark Project, Garrett's eye is torn right out of his head. The empty socket is even shown later on, albeit briefly.
• Timeslaughter has an intro where the man who becomes the final boss has an eye removed with a drill — although that's not too much in such an already Gorn-tastic game.
• In the opening of Tormented Souls, Caroline Walker heads into the spooky Wildberger Hospital to investigate a disappearance. She loses consciousness, wakes up later naked in a bathtub, and finds to her horror that her right eye has been surgically removed. You even get a close-up of the empty socket, for Squick and Fan Disservice. It later gets revealed how that happened: She gets back in time to when she was unconscious in a bathtub and extracts her own eye in order to access the bunker locked by two retinal scanners, normally intended to be opened by a pair of twins.
• In Treasure of the Rudra, shortly into Sion's scenario, one of the Jades gets lodged right in his skull via his right eye.
• Twisted Metal:
  • No-Face in Black got badly beaten in a boxing match. When he went to a back-alley surgeon to get his face put back together, he chose badly; the surgeon had lost $20,000 betting on him, and took out the man's eyes and tongue as revenge while he was out. We get to see his eyes falling onto a tray. Thankfully, in his ending, No-Face gets his revenge: punching the doctor in the face with a needle-loaded boxing glove.
  • The trope name describes what Needles Kane does in this webisode quite well.
  • Calypso in his later appearances has a missing eye, prominently showing off the gaping hole where it used to be.
  • In the 2012 reboot, Sweet Tooth's daughter escaped from him when she stabbed his eye with a pair of scissors.
• In Ultima IX Raven comes to the Avatar's rescue after he's ambushed by Blackthorn, injuring his eye with a throwing knife. He wears an eye patch for the rest of the game.
• In Until Dawn, there are a couple of cases of this.
  • Both Ashley and Emily can have the Wendigo violently shove its fingers into their eyes, killing them in a bloody mess.
  • Emily can get shot through the eye, leaving blood and brains on the wall behind her in horrifying detail.
• The Valve logo from 1998 to 2006 depicted a man with a valve lodged in his eye socket.
• The Walking Dead, Episode 2:
  • At one point when a zombie is attacking Lee, he gouges out its eyes with his thumbs while trying to fend it off.
  • In Episode 3, Carver brutally beats Kenny with a walkie-talkie so badly that Kenny's skull caves in and destroys his eye.
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader: The Chaos cultists in Chapter One try1 to make people see their truth by burning their eyes out. Where they're going, they won't need eyes to see.
• Waxworks (1992): Many of the standard deaths involve this. Examples include a spike pit's spike goring you right in the eye, or a plant mutant's seeds pushing your eye out of its socket as they grow inside you.
• the white chamber... Hoo, boy. There's an FMV devoted to a decapitated head with its eyes missing, and said eyes open. And you find the eyes in a sealed box. Even with the eyes back in, it's not a pretty sight. There's also a console which the player must use to gain access to a room. It requires a color code that's acquired after a certain event, and if the player tries to use the code before they are supposed to, the aforementioned head appears, scowling and covering the screen, with the words "not yet" carved into its empty eye sockets.
• Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey: Downplayed. Wishbone covers Polyphemus's head with a blanket, but he still screams and otherwise acts as if he's been permanently blinded.
• The Witcher:
  • The Witcher 2 features Phillippa getting her eyes gouged out with a spoon. You see the aftereffects. Diminished a bit by the fact that the person in question can grow new eyes as mage, and seems to be able to function just fine without them anyway.
  • In the Hearts of Stone expansion pack to The Witcher 3, a clueless drunk makes the mistake of mildly irking Satanic Archetype Gaunter O'Dimm. O'Dimm simply claps to freeze time, and then plunges the handle of a wooden soup spoon all the way through the man's eye and into his brain, killing him.
    Gaunter O'Dimm: That was the last time you interrupted me while I was talking to someone.
• In The Witch's House, there is a book you can read called "The Book of Death" that will cause the main character to scratch her own eyes out.
• Wolfenstein 3-D has a subtle example: the status bar face shows damage depending on your health. If you get hurt enough, BJ's right eye is such a mangled mess that it doesn't move anymore.
• World of Horror has a few examples:
  • In the "Eerie Episode of Evolving Eels", the player has the option to inflict this themselves at the cost of 3 Reason. This includes a disturbing close-up as you plunge a needle into your neighbor's eye in order to release the baby eels inside.
  • If Goizo, the Thing Forsaken By God, is your opponent, the event "Desperate Solution" has you run into a woman who's freaked out after seeing Goizo in the mirrors of a beauty parlor and carved her own eyes out, raving that if she can't see it, it can't see her.
• World of Warcraft:
  • In the cinematic for "The Gods of Zul'Aman" that came with Patch 2.3, a High Elven soldier prepares to cut out one of Zul'jin's eyes as a way of adding insult to injury. The action fades to white just as the point of the dagger is a mere centimeter from Zul'jin's eye.
  • The icon for one of the Rogue abilities, Cheap Shot, is a knife about to plunge into an eyeball, implying that what is "cheap" is that you're stabbing them in the eyeball.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
  • The Consuls had the ability to directly hack the Iris of each soldier in the Kevesi and Agnian colonies, to make them perceive the Ouroboros as monsters and motivate them to hunt the party down. Consul O attempted to do this to Cammuravi to motivate him to fight in earnest against the Ouroboros. Cammuravi responded to this by gouging out his Iris, determined to retain control of his own faculties. His next incarnation retains the eye containing his Iris, but has evidently suffered at least partial sight loss in it as a result of this prior trauma.
  • Eunie eventually starts experiencing flashbacks of her previous incarnation's death—along with that of her previous colony—at the hands of Moebius D, and it is heavily implied that D kills her by slowly stabbing his sharp finger right through her eye (the game cuts away before his claw makes direct contact, however).
  • In Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed it's revealed that Rex lost his left eye in the battle against Alpha, and while it makes life a bit harder he admits to actually liking it as it reminds him of Zeke, someone he looked to in his youth (though it should be noted that Zeke never lost an eye, simply wearing an eyepatch because he thought it looked cool and he was too broke to afford a second contact lense).
• In a flashback scene at the end of Saejima's episode in Yakuza 4, we are treated to a very, very squicky scene where a bound Goro Majima refuses to bow down to a low-level yakuza that's in charge of restraining him, and the yakuza drives a foot-long knife into Majima's left eye. Ever since, he wore his characteristic eyepatch... and now wields that very same tanto in battle.
• In Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Sawashiro gouges out an Omi Alliance patriarch's eye with just his thumb after the latter made the mistake of making light of Masumi Arakawa's death.
• Yggdra Union:
  • When Milanor is rescuing Yggdra from the prison in which she's held captive by Gulcasa, Valkyrie Aegina cuts his escape. Elena, former assassin of the Bronquian Empire, sneaks behind her troops and fires her crossbow... hitting Aegina in the eye. Later on, when you meet Aegina again, she's wearing a bandage on her left eye.
  • In the backstory, this happened three separate times to poor Nessiah. First, his real body was blinded by the gods as part of his punishment for disobeying them and not fighting in Ragnarok. Second, his contract with the Yumel required him to sacrifice an eye to get their help in mastering his magic. And finally, he tore his remaining eye out in order to complete the Gran Centurio. Yes, he was that desperate at the time. And insane.
• Zeno Clash: Helim is a corwid who wants to be invisible. Being invisible means people can't see you. People need eyes in order to see. Corwid logic leads him to decide that the best path to being invisible is ripping the eyes out of every living thing he encounters and can get a hold on.

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