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Giant Eye of Doom (trope)
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A scene in which a character has a huge eye staring at them. In many cases, the character won't notice even this — at least not until they turn around and find themselves face-to-eyeball, at which point you can expect a Scare Chord. In the case of an Oculothorax, the eyeball is all there is!

Compare with Mirror Scare, Danger Takes a Backseat, and Peek-a-Boo Corpse. There is naturally a lot of overlap with Eye Awaken.


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    Anime & Manga 
  • The Truth (as seen through the gate) in Fullmetal Alchemist is pretty much dozens of this with Slasher Smiles in a doorway. Also found for a similar reason with Gluttony.
  • Hell Girl:
    • Ren Ichimoku has pulled his own personal giant eye of doom on Enma's victims; most notably Kuroda Aya from the first episode. "I saw you."
    • Shibata Hajime has indirectly fallen here. Ren summoned his eye on Hajime's chest to scare away a shopskeeper who was about to tell him about the whereabouts of Mina.
  • Kill la Kill: In episode 10, Senketsu stretches his eye to expand the entire battle arena just so Ryuko can have a chance to hit Inumuta while he's invisible.
  • In Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Odin manifests as humongous eyeball; his true form is never seen.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion:
    • In the second episode, Shinji has 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.
    • Later, after Unit-01 goes berserk again and eats an Angel, it is wrapped in bandages with only its eye and a toothy grin being seen.
    • For some reason, Angels seem to like eyes. One of them has an eye which pours acid to burn a way into the Geofront. Another is just a gigantic eye that drops from space onto Tokyo-3.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Aki's first encounter with an Earthbound God. When Misty summons her God, she looks around, confused... only to turn around and see Ccaryhua's massive eye staring at her through what's at least the twentieth story of the building's she in.

    Art 
  • Gerard Dubois' Moby Dick depicts the titular whale as larger than the painting itself, his only recognizable feature in a wall of white flesh being his red eye staring down Ahab.

    Comic Books 
  • Bone: In the issue #30, after Fone Bone, Smiley, Bartleby, the little possuns and the orphans enter a small cave to escape from Roque Ja. Fone goes to check if the mountain lion has gone, just to find Roque Ja's big eye blocking the cave entrance.
  • Two Ghost Rider 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.
  • In Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, there is a giant eyeball that looms above Hell and causes paranoia and self-consciousness among the damned.
  • It happens in the Mega Man (Archie Comics) series when Dr. Willy finds Ra Moon, a massive mechanical eye, as exploring the Lanfront Ruins.
  • Supergirl (2016): Shortly before the climax of "The Girl of No Tomorrow", Supergirl turns around and finds the larger-than-a-human-head, floating Eye of Ekron staring at her, and its mistress the Emerald Empress standing beside it.

    Comic Strips 
  • Calvin and Hobbes: In the February 20, 1993 strip, one of Calvin's Imagine Spots features his dad as a monstrous eyeball expressing his opposition to Calvin skipping his homework.
  • The Far Side:
    • One 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, "Objects in the mirror are Closer than They Appear."
    • Another 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.
  • Natures Way (Gary Larson's comic prior to The Far Side) 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.
  • The Perry Bible Fellowship strips Moon Bunny and Rainbow.

    Fan Fiction 
  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): When Thor meets Vivienne and San for the first time since they fused to each-other, coming to their rescue without knowing for sure who they were in advance, his giant blue eye gazes into the Elaborate Underground Base through a hole in the wall.

    Films — Animated 
  • This happens in Alice in Wonderland (1951) when Alice grows too large in the White Rabbit's house. The animals look at the "monster" in the house and freak.
  • Atlantis: The Lost Empire. 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 Dumbo, one of the elephants turns into a camel, a snake, a harem dancer and a giant eyeball.
  • There is a scene in The Land Before Time where Cera finds Sharptooth lying on its back, with its eyes closed. Thinking he is dead, Cera taunts it and charges at its face. When she gets closer, the Tyrannosaurus rex opens its eye, staring menacingly back at her.
  • Monsters, Inc. 1: One of the monsters Sulley and Mike run into on their way to work at the very beginning is a giant eyeball peeking out of a window.
  • Happens near the end of Pinocchio (1940) when we see Jiminy Cricket run into Monstro the whale.
  • A giant eyeball appears in the film Rango, but there's no "doom" - whatever's attached to the eyeball is not a rampaging beast, just idly curious.
  • In The Return of the King, Sauron's Great Eye surmounts his fortress of Barad-Dûr (this is something of a Literal Metaphor), and Frodo and Sam spend some time dodging its vision cone. The emblem the orcs and Nazgûl wear looks like a cartoony skull at first glance, but on closer inspection, is actually a black-sclera'd eye with a red iris, shooting a trio of Eye Beams. When actually seen near the climax, it shines like a second sun.
  • In Shrek 1, the appearance of the dragon is when a gigantic eye peers at Donkey through the gap in a broken castle wall.
  • In Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Sinbad and his crew have made port at an island to repair their ship, which took damage after being steered through an area of dangerous rocks called the Dragon's Teeth. Sinbad and Marina get into an argument which starts to turn physical, with Marina picking things up and throwing them at Sinbad. When she picks up what appears to be a large flat rock, the ground opens up between them, revealing that they were standing on the closed eyelids of an enormous fish, and the "rock" Marina picked up was one of its scales. A couple of crewmen stumble and fall onto the eye itself, which then swivels to look directly at them. Cue screaming and running back to the ship.
  • The Sword in the Stone: While hiding from a huge pike, Wart looks around a wooden beam, sees nothing, looks around the other side... and suddenly the pike is eyeballing him from an inch away, said eyeball being the size of Wart's goldfish body.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Scott Lang is stunned unconscious by Hope van Dyne 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.
  • The Crawling Eye: Our heroes are trapped on a mountain by giant killer eyeballs from outer space!
  • The events of Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God are kicked off by the discovery of a gigantic slumbering dragon inside a mountain, huge eye included.
  • Enchanted has this moment:
    Giselle is sitting on her windowsill with Pip. An enormous troll suddenly peeks in the window behind her.
    Giselle's Woodland Friends: Eye, eye, eye, eye...
    Giselle: I—I what?
    Troll: I eat you now!
  • This happens in Godzilla (1998). The soldiers searching New York's Absurdly Spacious Sewer for the creature come to the end of a blocked tunnel and turn to search somewhere else. As they do so, the "rubble" blocking the tunnel turns out to be Godzilla's eyelid.
  • In Head (the Monkees movie), Davy Jones opens a medicine cabinet and sees a giant staring eye — naturally, he freaks out, and naturally, it's not there when he warns the others about it.
  • In the Batman Cold Open of Hellboy (2004), 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.
  • When the protagonists' submarine is captured by the giant octopus in the finale of It Came from Beneath the Sea, Dr. Carter swims up to one of its eyes and attacks it to make it let go.
  • Used memorably in Jurassic Park (1993), as illustrated above; Rexy staring at the terrified Lex Murphy. Also appears in the sequels — a T. rex peers into Eddie's car in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and the reflection of a Spinosaurus's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane in the Jurassic Park III.
  • Kwaidan: In the second of the four segments, "The Woman of the Snow", a giant eye, presumably a manifestation of the yuki-onna snow demon, appears and is watching the woodcutters as they stagger through the blizzard.
  • Moby Dick (2010): Several US Navy sailors are patrolling on an island, feeling grateful they're not searching for the Monster Whale on the sea. A Red Shirt wades into what he thinks is shallow water until a giant eye opens in front of him.
  • MonsterVerse:
    • In Godzilla (2014), the female MUTO's glowing eye (or equivalent) passes eerily close to Ford Brody and Tre Morales when they're lying flat on a train track to avoid because noticed, causing Morales' radio to hiss.
    • In Kong: Skull Island, Kong's giant eye is spotted by a soldier onboard a helicopter that he's attacking, before the soldier hurtles toward Kong's open jaws.
    • In Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Madison Russell has drawn the three-headed evil dragon King Ghidorah to Fenway Park using a bio-acoustic device called the ORCA. When she unplugs the ORCA from Fenway Park's PA systems and attempts to flee with it (causing the sound that's attracting Ghidorah's attention to solely emit from the device in her hands), Ghidorah's heads all crowd around the press box's windows separating him from Madison, with one eye on the side of each head glaring daggers into her back as she slowly realizes something is wrong and turns around. "Oh, shit" indeed. In the film's Novelization, another monster called Kraken stares with one giant eye through the window at the scientists monitoring it when it awakens due to Ghidorah's call.
    • In Godzilla vs. Kong, Maia Simmons shits bricks when Kong grabs the HEAV she's inside, after she pissed him off by having the HEAV shoot at him, and he peers directly inside at her with one eye.
  • Pacific Rim: Blackmarketeers specialising in the organs of alien creatures are squelching through the dead body of a kaiju when they hear a heartbeat and see a huge eye peering at them through the membrane of a womb-sac. Cue Sound-Only Death.
  • In Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, someone peers into a crack in the ground and sees this trope — turns out a huge bug creature makes up a large part of the planet.
  • Tolkien's Legendarium:
    • The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy does this several times with the Great Eye of Sauron. Bonus points for the eye being on fire. In Mordor itself, it has a visible sight-cone, and Frodo is stunned with pure, concentrated despair when it glances at him. Most memorably, the first time Frodo puts on the Ring, he turns around and...
      Sauron: You cannot hide. I see you.
    • In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, when Bilbo is briefly mesmerized into exposing himself to Smaug, the very first thing he sees upon taking off the Ring is Smaug's giant eye staring right at him, not five feet away from his face.
  • Used in the "It's a Good Life" segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

    Literature 
  • The Adversary Cycle: In Nightworld, portals to Another Dimension have opened, sending nightmare creatures swarming across the Earth. To defeat them the protagonists must go on a Fetch Quest. Repairman Jack is flying through an ash cloud over the Pacific Ocean when he suddenly thinks they're flying too close to the ground, only to see a Giant Eye of Doom staring back at him from a titanic flying leviathan several miles in diameter. During the final confrontation between the hero and the Big Bad, who is in the process of changing into an Eldritch Abomination, the latter stares at him via a giant eye pressed up against the membrane of its womb-sac.
  • In The Chronicles of Amber, Merlin is the only one to see the Serpent incarnate, and describes it as a slithering darkness, with the exception of its one, gigantic luminous eye.
  • Victor Hugo wrote a poem called "La Conscience" about an eye stalking Cain wherever he went. At the end, he digs a grave for himself, goes to live in it, and the eye is still there. The last line - "L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn" ("The eye was in the grave and looking at Cain") - is proverbial in French.
  • In Shel Silverstein's poem "The Deadly Eye", the narrator tells of the Deadly Eye of Poogly-Pie. Anyone who looks at it will die. It's a good thing you didn't— You did? Good-bye.
  • Discworld:
    • Happens in a fashion when a character sees a giant eye in front of them which turns out to be an Igor wearing a huge magnifying lens. When he removes it, the sight is slightly less terrifying.
    • Bel-Shamharoth does this to Rincewind just before it intends to eat him. This bites Bel-Shamharoth on the tentacled butt. The camera Rincewind is holding at the time takes a picture and flashes into the monster's eye. It appears that even the creature so terrifying that both Death and Time are afraid of, can't stand a bright camera flash.
    • Parodied in Going Postal, in a Shout-Out to The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. The Unseen University wizards are trying to contact another wizard with a Crystal Ball, but... "It's not working, Mr. Stibbons! Here's that damn enormous fiery eye again!" When they zoom out, it turns out to be the eye of that wizard; it's "fiery" because he's having an allergy attack which gives him a giant fiery nose.
  • The novel Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick is basically about this.
  • The Eye of Argon itself, which is described as "gigantic", and which later melts and turns into a blood-sucking blob.
  • In Philip K. Dick's short story "Fair Game", a nuclear physicist, Professor Douglas, is startled to see an eye the size of a piano looking at him. It turns out to belong to a monstrous being from another dimension that Douglas assumes wants him for his scientific knowledge. It turns out that the monstrous being wanted him for dinner.
  • It: One of Pennywise's forms in the Derry sewers is a giant eye, as seen in The Crawling Eye. Eddie drives it back by spraying it with his asthma inhaler and claiming the liquid is battery acid; a direct comparison to the medicine's taste when he uses it. In reality, his inhaler is a placebo, water with a dash of camphor, prescribed to Eddie in order to placate his mother who uses guilt and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy to keep Eddie under her thumb.
  • This is how Korrok usually appears in John Dies at the End. 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 Sauron, he'll call you a fag.
  • At the end of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the eponymous characters succeed in contacting the Raven King or one of his lieutenants, who looks at them through the window in the form of a raven so large all they can see is its eye. Mr. Norrell fails to fully understand what he's seeing even when it blinks, and comments that he was very glad he hadn't realized or he would have been much afraid. Strange agrees rather shaken, as he did realize what it was.
  • My Teacher Is an Alien: In My Teacher Flunked the Planet, there's an alien that's supposed to keep an eye on the main characters in the basement. Them main characters ask if they can come in. He tells them they can't. As he explains that they literally can't come in, they open the door to find a giant eye. He takes up the entire basement. Of course, s/he can squirm around enough to be fed. In practical terms, this means that opening the basement door could greet you with an enormous eye or a door-sized mouth.
  • Priscilla Hutchins: In Cauldron, Hutch pilots an expedition to the centre of the galaxy to find the origin of the civilization-destroying omega clouds. They back-track them to a Space Cloud that's too vast and radioactive to enter, and are on the verge of giving up when they realise a dark patch has formed inside the cloud that appears to be a giant eye looking directly at them. Naturally, everyone freaks out.
  • The Eye Storm in Ringworld nearly drives Speaker-To-Animals into a Heroic BSoD. Because it looks like a human eye.
  • Slimer has a scene where the characters are looking through a porthole in the door at something weird, and gradually realise it's a giant eyeball pressed up against the glass, staring back at them.
  • Tolkien's Legendarium:
    • Subverted in The Hobbit. The second time Bilbo approaches Smaug, he catches sight of a ray peeking out from one of Smaug's eyes (indicating that the dragon is now only feigning sleep), and he recoils just in time to avoid being seen.
    • In The Lord of the Rings, despite what the movies might tell you, the Great Eye is more of a metaphor and emblem of Sauron's power, and not a literal giant-ass flaming eyeball on top of an Evil Tower of Ominousness.

    Live-Action TV 

    Tabletop Games 

    Theme Parks 
  • The 2007 A Nightmare on Elm Street house at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights 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.

    Video Games 
  • Corbenik's final form in .hack//quarantine is an enormous eye, with hundreds of other Giant Eyes of Doom flying about in the background. All of the other Phases in the games had eyespot markings on them somewhere, foreshadowing this. Naturally, the battle has plenty of Eye Beams going around, and when Corbenik cries his tears create an earthquake.
  • In Alundra 2, the mid-bosses of the underwater cave are bunch of these. And they throw bombs at you, those bastards.
  • Bug Fables: In the final chapter, Team Snakemouth is stalked by Dead Lander Omega, a giant... thing that constantly follows them and drops Dead Lander Gamma at them whenever it spots them. One of the only visible parts of it, besides the bony hands, is a giant glowing yellow eye with vertical pupil.
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: In the Marble Gallery, there is a long hallway that leads to the outer wall of the castle. There are windows in the background of the long hallway. A giant eyeball is always behind those windows. The eyeball has no purpose other than to stare at Alucard.
  • In the Chzo Mythos games, this is basically what you see of the titular Elderitch Abomination.
  • One of the early Strikes in Destiny has as its boss a giant Servitor called Sepkis Prime. It stares straight ahead as the door to his room opens, not looking at the player until the Fallen around it are killed and it finishes absorbing the energies around it. Shoot the iris for precision damage as you would an ordinary Servitor.
  • The scene in Final Fantasy VII at the Northern Crater when the WEAPONS awaken. One of them blinks at Rufus and the others through the transparent wall.
  • Flashbacks in Final Fantasy IX show that an enormous, smoke-shrouded malevolent eye appeared above Madain Sari instants before the entire city was annihilated. The same eye appears over the Iifa Tree as Kuja commands it to corrupt Bahamut, and again when Alexander protects its city from the maddened dragon lord. However, in this last instance, it is revealed that the eye is actually the mind-controlling, corrupting device on the bottom of the Invincible, which only looks like a giant malevolent red eye.
  • The final boss of Final Fantasy X essentially is one of these. The symbol of the Church of Yevon is a stylized eye. At the end of the game, you face Yu Yevon himself, who has long since degraded to the point he's a giant stone plinth with the Yevon symbol painted on it - for all intents and purposes, you fight the Yevon eye symbol.
  • In the flash game Gateway II, there's a room that looks like a normal, unassuming kitchen, until you touch something on a counter and a pair of enormous eyes open behind the windows.
  • Eyebot in Heavy Weapon, whose design is based off a tentacled Eldritch Abomination.
  • The Eye of Big Brother in I, Robot (1984). Jumping while it is open results in death.
  • Iron Lung: During your exploration, you are tasked with taking pictures of what is within the blood seas of the moon you are on since you cannot look out of the porthole and have to rely upon the photographs for navigation. One of the things you wind up taking a picture of is a massive sea monster's eyeball staring directly at you, which roars and knocks at your submarine before swimming away.
  • Subverted in Jitsu Squad during the penthouse stage of Neon Boulevard. While you fight enemies in the penthouse, the gigantic yellow eye of a massive kaiju will peer into the window, but that one is just Monstrous Scenery that doesn't have any impact on gameplay.
  • Kirby has several times fought Dark Matter. In Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64 at least, he is constantly staring at you; in the former, the final boss's final form is a Giant Eye Of Doom that shoots its blood as an attack.
  • In The Last Door, Jeremiah Devitt and the rest of the Witnesses express horror upon seeing The Eye of the Bird.
  • The Final Boss of the NES version of Legendary Wings is a giant cybernetic eye of doom.
  • The Legend of Zelda:
  • Look Outside:
    • One of the apartments on the first floor just has a single gigantic eyeball staring at you filling almost the entire room above a Bottomless Pit. Staring at it for too long will kill you. Sam will wonder later if the eyeball connects to some proportionately giant skull or other unfathomably massive entity in the void below.
    • When you attempt the ritual in the finale on the roof, you'll discover what was causing the apocalyptic event outside was a vast eyeball staring down on the Earth, mutating every living thing its gaze falls upon. If you accept its offer to look upon its entire visage, you'll discover it merely one of countless eyes on tendril-like stalks at the tip of a tentacle branching off a much larger tentacle, branching off a much larger limb, branching off another larger appendage, and so on well beyond the breadth of the entire solar system.
  • This happens with the player character in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story... as in, it's Bowser who's the one glaring through the window just before fighting the Fawful Express. Especially fitting after Bowser has used fire breath to practically blow up the windscreen of the train a second ago.
  • In The Matrix Online, as the end-of-beta events led up to a player wipe, the reddening skies filled with giant eyes, all looking down on players in random orientations.
  • In La-Mulana, Viy, the Guardian of the Inferno Cavern, is so huge his body doesn't fit on the screen, but the part of it you can see consists of tentacles and an eye roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle with a lid so heavy that Viy has minions whose entire purpose is to lift it.
  • Any Gaze attack in SaGa Frontier; especially Boss X's Hypergaze (Inflicts random status abnormality) in which a HUGE eye, about half as big as the screen appears and hits every character with a gaze attack.
  • The cover art of Shivers (1995).
  • Big Eye in Something Else. It may seem threatening, but it's the Warm-Up Boss.
  • The Overmind in Star Craft uses a gigantic lidless eyeball for his conversational avatar.
  • The final part of the Final Boss from the obscure Shoot 'em Up Steel Saviour is one of these.
  • The Eye in Sunless Sea is a colossal eye that appears on a nameless tile in the southern part of the sea floor that causes you to gain Terror at an alarming rate in its presence.
    The eye! The eye! As vast and round and wild as the moon! Your crew shriek and cavort! You, of course, are calm. Utterly calm. Calm as the moon! Those noises must be coming from someone else!
  • Terraria has the Eye of Cthulhu, and The Twins in hardmode.
  • Touhou Project has Evil Eye Sigma, who appeared as the extra boss of Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland... and was promptly forgotten.
  • One of the bosses in Turok 2: Seeds of Evil on the N64 was called Golden Eye (a Take That! at a certain other N64 shooter), and was just a giant eyeball (with Combat Tentacles). Turok stumbles into its lair, unaware what lurks there until pretty much the entire ceiling blinks at him.
  • Tangram from the Virtual-ON Series: The Giant Eye is Tangram's Wave-Motion Gun.
  • Seen in the white chamber during one of the more horrifying hallucinations.
  • C'thun, Final Boss of the Ahn'Qiraj dungeon in World of Warcraft, is literally a Giant Eye of Doom in its initial stage, complete with Eye Beams. Then it turns into a giant mouth with lots of little eyeballs sticking out of the sides. And it uses eyeball-tipped Combat Tentacles to attack players. There's also a standard creature model in the Outland zones that is reminiscent of the famous Dungeons & Dragons Beholder.
    • And in the second expansion, the player is sent on a quest to destroy a gigantic, magical eye on top of a tower in the Ice Mordor Icecrown zone to prevent the current Big Bad from observing the good guys invading his turf. For some added hilarity, the quest is called "It's All Fun and Games".

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    Western Animation 
  • The "Staring Contest" episode of The Brak Show (best lampshading of Limited Animation ever) ends with Dad being challenged by a gigantic floating eye with no eyelid.
  • "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" : As Dodgers enters the laboratory of Dr. I.Q. High, a giant electronic eye observes him from above.
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends plays with this trope in Destination Imagination; while trying to find a way back into the imaginary toy box world, Mac turns around frightfully and sees a giant eye staring at him through the window. It turns out that it's Frankie's eye, and that he and his friends have been shrunk and put into a miniature replica of the house by the reality-changing friend that lives in the toy chest.
  • Monsters at Work: In a nod to the example from Monsters, Inc. 1, the elevator that takes Tylor to his job passes by a giant eye. Tylor greets it on the way down in one episode.
  • Monster Loving Maniacs: One of the Portal Doors in the pyramid lair of Ishaani's Mirror Monster has one behind it. The characters later discover it belongs to a baby Space Whale that got stuck on the pyramid's entrance.
  • In Regular Show, the group is harassed by a giant (security) eyeball.
  • Lactose the Intolerant, a giant-headed space entity, pulls one of these on the titular duo in the last episode of Sam & Max: Freelance Police through an airplane window, complete with a hammy, sing-song "I SEE YOU!"
  • Used in The Simpsons episode "Bart Gets An Elephant."
  • In an episode of Star Wars Rebels, Ezra faints while on the back of a giant Space Whale, falling over the side and coming face-to-face with the whale's giant eye. (Fortunately, while being scary, the whales are force users and communicate with him.)
  • T-Bone encounters a giant eye in the "Mutation City" episode of SWAT Kats.
  • Dimension X as depicted in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) has a giant eye floating in a black hole that randomly zaps whatever gets caught in its sight with purple lightning.
  • 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.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Bunny and Hampton spend an entire episode trying to get rid of the giant, talking eyeball that's following them (it's only Plucky, caught in an "advanced Wild Take").


 

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