Faceless Eye - TV Tropes

"Got no human grace, your eyes without a face."

• Vision Express, a chain of opticians in the UK, started an advertising campaign in 2009 using pairs of identically-dressed people with giant eyeballs for heads. It is probably meant to be goofy rather than creepy.
• Eylea, a medicine for treating certain eye-based diseases, has an advertising campaign involving an animated man and woman who have only a single eye on their faces, meant to represent the human eyes.

• Angel's Egg: A gigantic orb shows up at the beginning and end of the story. It may or may not be God.
• Tentaclear from Bakugan is a giant floating eyeball whose main attack is his dangerously bright shining.
• In Devilman, the demonic Gan Triplets traumatize Tare and instill a phobia of disembodied eyes in him.
• The Gizmon of Digimon Data Squad are something of a mechanical version of this trope.
• In The Flowers of Evil, the Flower of Evil is a giant floating eyeball surrounded by fuzzy black petals.
• The Gate of Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist has a huge disembodied eye visible in the darkness on the other side of it. Likewise, Father's original form was a black shadow-ball that could display a single eye (and a Slasher Smile).
• GeGeGe no Kitarō has Kitaro's father Medama-Oyaji the eyeball (semantic translation, "Old Man Eyeball") (it's a long story) and the evil Backbeard, an incredibly creepy-looking black ball of prickly menace who'd be truly terrifying if most of his evil schemes didn't consist of crap like this.
• Ichimoku Ren of Hell Girl can project his left eye, which is normally covered by his hair, onto any surface with this as the typical result. He uses this to good effect to freak out Aya Kuroda, the first tormentor of the series, before she's sent to Hell.
• Zell from Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko has a big eyeball on his turban that's quite icky-looking. He uses it to attack people's psyches.
• In the first season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Bardiche's Power Crystal revealed a slitted eye when it gets activated. This trait seemed to have disapppeared after Fate's Heel–Face Turn.
• One of Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro's 777 Tools of Hell is Evil Friday, a swarm of little eyeballs with legs that he can see through. While most commonly used for research, reconnaissance, and tracking, they're shown to have lives and personalities of their own, and one memorable aside shows that they enjoy participating in racing. Why Evil Friday? Who knows?
• The true form of My-HiME's Obsidian Lord is a giant eyeball centered within a pair of sword-like pillars.
• Odin in Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok is only seen as a single All-Seeing Eye; either floating in the sky or in a crystal ball.
• "The Eye" is an insignia for the Priesthood in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Angels Matarael and Sahaquiel are both designed with eyes as a prominent motif, without any other elements of a face present. Sahaquiel is a gigantic abstract being with two circular eyes centered by one humanoid eye, while Matarael's spiderlike underside is adorned with several fake eyes and one real eye.
• Pygmalion has a floating eyeball in the protagonist's party which can become big enough for the hero to ride it.

• Guernica: In the top of the sky is a large eye with a light-bulb for a pupil.

• In his introductory episodes in Happy Friends, Kalo is frequently seen morphed into a Cephalothorax body shape with a single eye for a face.
• Kung Fu Pork Choppers: In Season 13 episode 12, the heroes face off against a giant mushroom monster with a single eye on its face.
• Lamput:
  • In "Shape Shift", after the docs gain a shapeshifting ability, they take on the form of flowers to track Lamput. Both have no mouth visible when they are transformed, and Specs Doc takes on the form of a one-eyed flower.
  • In "Transfer Gun", one of the forms the Boss takes in Lamput's body is a one-eyed, orange flower.
• The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf season The Tailor's Closet features several anthropomorphic versions of objects you'd find in a tailor's shop. Among them is a magnifying glass that has a single eye as its only facial feature.

• In Cindy and Biscuit, the "Bad Girl" entity has an eyeball for a head.
• The Eye Sees: The Eye is literally a floating giant eyeball.
• The Great Planner from Funky Koval takes the form of a massive eye-like sphere.
• Ghost Rider: The first person to take the name "The Orb" wears an eyeball-shaped helmet with a laser in the pupil. The second Orb, while he looks very similar to the original, does not wear an eyeball-shaped helmet; that's actually his head.
• The Justice League of America villain Starro is a Faceless Eye attached to a five-tentacled starfish-like body.
• Legion of Super-Heroes:
  • The Eye of Ekron, the floating, intelligent weapon of the Emerald Empress. However, as 52 revealed, there is an Emerald Head of Ekron which is looking for the eye. In the Supergirl (2016) story arc "The Girl of No Tomorrow", Supergirl's super-senses ascertain that the Eye is thousands of years older than Earth, and it is apparently but subtly influencing the Empress.
  • In The Great Darkness Saga, the lawyer assigned to Chameleon Boy is some weird kind of headless alien worm with a cluster of big eyeballs permanently floating around its body.
• In Monica's Gang, the parody of The Lord of the Rings has as its antagonist Sousauron, who prior to becoming a Faceless Eye was known as Maurisauron.
• O.M.A.C.'s partner, Brother Eye, is a sentient, computerized satellite that looks roughly like an eye, staring down at Earth.
• Paranoia: Just like in the tabletop game, the all-seeing insane Friend Computer is represented as a digital image of an eye.
• Shakara: The Psico are extraordinarily powerful telepathic and telekinetic aliens with frail bodies and a floating eyeball for a head. Commander Kreech notes after brainwashing an entire species that he'd laugh if he actually had a proper orifice.
• Thor (Marvel Comics): A very odd subplot from 1970s comics involves Thor discovering that the eye Odin sacrificed to gain wisdom has survived as an independent being in some strange dimension, just floating there as a giant sentient eyeball.
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Part of the Empurata process involves the victims having their faces surgically removed and replaced with a new, completely featureless head that usually features one blinking light standing in for their eyes. Of the most prominent empurata victims, Whirl has an Expressive Mask where his single eye can squint and warp to convey emotions, while Shockwave doesn't benefit from such a mask because he has barely any emotions to begin with.
• The Evil Eye from the strip of the same name in the British comic Whoopee is just that; a disembodied eye that floats in the air, trying to get people to do bad things by 'zapping' them with some sort of evil ray, and taking delight in the mischief.
• The evil alien (masquerading as a superhero) Wandering Eye in Wildguard: Casting Call.

• One strip of The Far Side had an eye called "Mr. Pembrose" resting on a psychiatrist's couch.
• In the FoxTrot strip that ran on March 15, 2002, Jason and Marcus had obtained giant novelty eye masks (similar to those worn by The Residents) just so they could tell Paige to "Beware the eyes of March!" (And possibly also freak her out, in which case they failed.) They genuinely didn't realize the saying was "Ides of March".

• A crossover between Discworld and Good Omens by A.A. Pessimal has the Angel Aziraphile and the Demon Crowley sent on a fact-finding trip to a world run by a pantheon of Gods.^note  They arrive in the sky above Cori Celesti, abode of the Gods. The first thing they encounter are the disembodied flying Eyes which are Blind Io, Lord of the Gods. These recognise Ambassadors from the divine set-up of another world, but very firmly and emphatically, escort them to one of the entrances to the Discworld's Hell, where the tour begins.
• Elementals of Harmony: The honesty elemental's single eye occupies the whole face area.
• The Fluffy Folio: The Eye Catcher is a whole swarm of disembodied, floating eyes.
• Hellsister Trilogy: The Emerald Empress and her tool, the giant, floating Emerald Eye of Ekron, reluctantly join Mordru's ploy to destroy the Legion of Super-Heroes. During the war, the Eye transports allies and turns enemies into lizards or blasts them into paralysis.

  The Emerald Empress's mystic, floating eye phased them in just outside of the presidential palace. [...] She telepathed a command to the Emerald Eye of Ekron. It spewed forth a burst of green energy that pushed the guardsmen against a wall and held them there, immobile.

• In Imperium Ascendant, Tzeentch takes a form similar to a giant eyeball when the Emperor confronts him.
• No stars in sight: A Jupiter-sized floating eyeball is one of the Eldritch Abominations that Ikharos encounters when he exits the Exodus colony ship while it was inside a Negative Space Wedgie.
• Romance and the Fate of Equestria has Spectatus, who is an alien being consisting of nothing but floating eyeballs and a dagger-toothed smile.

• The Animation Show by Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge: "There is a giant eyeball and it is looking at us!"
• In Clinic, the third nightmare has an enormous monster that's just a disembodied eye floating above the hospital. It's implied the eyes the doctor keeps in his office are the monster's offspring.
• The Mind's Eye: Both "Too Far" from Beyond and "Nuvogue" from The Gate feature segments with large, bare eyeballs acting like perfectly normal people. Mostly, they seem to like watching TV. They even come in varieties: one segment features a teenage eyeball moving out of its folks' house, and another shows a whole family right down to a dog eyeball on the floor. "Nuvogue" becomes especially cringe-worthy when, after a pair of eyeballs short out their TV from constantly bouncing on the remote to change the channel, one floats over and starts tackling the TV in order to fix it.
• Planet 51 has these as the alien invaders (on an alien world) in a movie set in the classic sense of 1950s B-movies and it features a whole bunch of them in the closing credits (of the actual film).
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The World Guardians depicts one-eyed mushroom creatures among the underground world's fauna.
• In Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion, Kyubey's soul gem containment technology apparently somehow involves the use of dozens of floating devices with screens showing his signature creepy soul-piercing red eyes.
• The Spot from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has a round black blot where his face should be that expands and contracts with his mood. When combined with his white skin, it makes his entire head resemble an eyeball.

• As mentioned in the description above, 2001: A Space Odyssey has possibly the most iconic use of this trope for an insane AI with HAL-9000.
• The Crawling Eye's (US) title comes from the fact that the aliens in the movie resemble giant ambulatory eyeballs — their bodies are spherical and veiny, they have tentacles suggestive of optic nerves, and each alien has a single eye of their own in their center that looks like the iris and pupil of the eye-body.
• Flight of the Navigator: When David meets the other living specimens aboard the Trimaxion Drone Ship, one of them is a creature inside a darkened tank which initially appears to have a face — but when it opens its "mouth", it reveals itself to be a giant eyeball (and lets out a piercing shriek that sounds a lot like "eyeyeyeyeye...").
• Freaked contains two faceless, machine gun-wielding Rastafarian eyeballs.◊
• Horrific: The monster in the Terror Vision segment is a giant floating eyeball.
• The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy: Sauron's emblem is the fiery Lidless Eye. He's physically depicted as such in the movies — which makes him a living Clear Eyes ad, only without Ben Stein, and therefore slightly less frightening.
• In Patrick Still Lives, whenever the title character uses his Psychic Powers, the image of his disembodied eyes appears on screen.
• The President's Analyst has a scene (that's curiously gone missing) where James Coburn is shocked to discover there are indeed spies following him including his girlfriend and freaks out, seeing disembodied looming eyeballs everywhere (with footage pulled from the 1961 3-D movie 'The Mask'').
• In Rhapsody in August, Kane admits that she sometimes sees an eye in the sky, and is freaked out about it.
• Small Soldiers features Ocula, a creature with a single giant eye, a neck/eyestalk, and three legs.
• The eyes in the darkness at the beginning of Suspiria (1977).
• One of the monsters in Voyage Into Space is a giant disembodied floating eye.

• Alien in a Small Town: The alien Jan, rather than a head, just have a huge eyestalk with a jet black "eyesphere" on top, as seen on the book's cover◊.
• Animorphs has Crayak, a red-eyed being first glimpsed in the dying visions of a Yeerk in Book Six. It's one of several Shout-Outs to The Lord of the Rings (below).
• A gigantic flying one shows up in the Choose Your Own Adventure book "The Perfect Planet," terrorizing the locals who believe it to be a portent of doom from their own mythology. With the right choices, the reader finds out the "Evil Eye" is really just a disguised alien warship taking advantage of local superstition to conquer the planet Utopia.
• In Victor Hugo's poem La Conscience, Cain is driven mad by an eye constantly watching him wherever he goes (representing his guilt over killing his brother). He ends up sealing himself into a grave to escape the eye, leading to the ending verse, which has become famous in French literature: "The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain".
• Discworld:
  • The god Blind Io has no eyes on his face, but a whole host of flying eyes (complete with wings and trailing optic nerve...) which can see anywhere in the world.
  • There is also a passing reference to a painting whose eyes "followed you not only around the room, but also out of the gallery and all the way down the street".
• In Eisenhorn: Malleus, there's a mutant thug with a giant eyeball for a head.
• The titular "Eye in the Sky" in the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name is the gigantic, all-seeing eye of God that is in part a manifestation of an old man's worldview. Several people were transported into his mind after a particle accelerator accident forms a gestalt consciousness.
• The Handmaid's Tale: The repressive theocratic government of Gilead employs internal spies known as Eyes to monitor the population, and their logo is (what else?) an eye.
• Umbridge keeps a magical eyeball in her door in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What makes it especially disturbing is that it confirms that Moody is indeed dead, and Umbridge took his eye.
• In "The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P. Lovecraft, the eponymous creature (one of Nyarlathotep's many avatars) does have a body (some kind of winged, tentacled Living Shadow/Eldritch Abomination-type thing), but its distinguishing feature is a huge three-lobed burning eye.
• In Kingdoms of Light by Alan Dean Foster, the Sea of Blue is in fact a colossal eye, known to the creatures of that sea as the Eye of the Beholder.
• Lone Wolf: In the bonus story of the reprint of Book 7, Tavig faces down a creature called the All-Seeing One, a roughly humanoid creature whose head is just one big eye.
• The Lord of the Rings has the Eye of Sauron. To quote Saruman: "His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame." Unlike in the movies, it's not made clear that Sauron is simply embodied as one big eye, but the Eye does manifest as described at least in the Mirror of Galadriel, and about the only thing seen of Sauron in his tower is his gaze, like an evil searchlight. From other material, it seems he's not exactly embodied at all.
• The Regeneration Trilogy: "The Eye in the Door" isn't a real eye, just a peephole to spy on prisoners, but it has a similar effect.
• Ringworld: "Eye storms" are caused when a meteor puncture in the Ring bed drops air pressure sharply; Coriolis effects shape the surrounding cyclone into a miles-high lidded eye shape. The first time the protagonists saw one, it gave Speaker to Animals a Heroic BSoD due to his odd religious upbringing.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: The odious Count Olaf has a tattoo of an eye on his ankle, and eyes are a recurring motif throughout the books.
• In The Stand, Randall Flagg uses a disembodied eye to spy on some of the good guys.
• Vorkosigan Saga: Barrayar's Imperial Security uses the Eye of Horus for its insignia.

• Angel: The psychic/psychotic surgeon in "I Fall to Pieces" uses his eyes and other detached body parts to spy on the girl he's stalking.
• Doctor Who:
  • Daleks have a periscope of varying design over the years in their giant-pepper-pot-of-death power armour, matching their single biological eye.
  • The Ambassador from Alpha Centauri who appears in a couple of '70s stories is basically a big eyeball on legs.
  • The Atraxi from "The Eleventh Hour" are in fact nothing but giant floating space eyeballs, held aloft by a vaguely snowflake-shaped ring.
• Doom Patrol (2019) has a two-parter featuring the Decreator, a giant eyeball in the sky that destroys all matter in the universe. It can only be defeated by the Recreator, who is also a giant eyeball.
• The Garth Marenghis Darkplace episode "Skipper the Eyechild" features the titular monster baby, who is mostly eye. Skipper's eyeball father also appears.
• The Ultra Series have a few examples, usually as a sneak preview for the Monster of the Week:
  • Ultraseven: Annon is an eye-like entity separated from his body when he arrived on Earth via a crashed rocket ship. Before he can reunite with his body, he primarily appears in the form of a single eye.
  • Ultraman Ace: Right in the beginning of episode 5, the sky cracks open, as it usually does whenever monsters from Yapool's Dimension comes into the human world, but all there is to be seen is a single, bug-like eye. Which belongs to Giron Man, one of Yapool's servants, who is silently observing the city and planning his later assault on the human world.
  • Ultraman Leo: The monster, Alien Akumania, travels in the form of a giant floating eyeball before morphing itself into monster form. Said eyeball can also create horrifying illusions.
  • Ultraman Gaia: Gan-Q, literally "Eye Monster", firstly appears as a giant eyeball on the surface of the earth, which absorbs attacks like a black hole, before revealing itself to be a giant monster covered in eyes.

• Analog: The October 1930 cover has a man struggling against an apparently invisible enemy. Only their eyes and right hand are visible, but they seem to have a neck that can be strangled.

• One of the many enemies of The Aquabats! is the Floating Eye of Death. It's mentioned in the title of their third album, The Aquabats! vs. the Floating Eye of Death and Other Amazing Adventures (and is also mentioned in the second song off that album, "Giant Robot Bird-Head!"), and shows up in an episode of The Aquabats! Super Show!.
• The music video for Gotye's "Coming Back" features a bunch of aliens with giant yellow eyes for faces.
• The cover of the Einstürzende Neubauten album Ende Neu consists of Blixa Bargeld's right eye apparently embedded in an otherwise featureless expanse of pink flesh.
• In the video for "Endless", the members of Sakanaction are shown playing with their heads covered by giant eyeball masks.
• The Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky", from the album of the same name, is a person telling their significant other (in a very creepy and vindictive fashion) that he/she knows the other's been cheating and is tired of pretending to be ignorant of it. The cover of the album... the Eye of Horus.
• "Eyeball Kid" from Mule Variations is about a child who is born as just an eye and details his life as a successful circus freak.

• The Graii from Classical Mythology were a trio of hags who lived "north of the North Pole" with only one eye amongst them, which they who would trade around when they wanted to see something. Perseus gets ahold of it and squeezes it in his hand until the hags give him information he needs to continue his quest.

• Tales from the Crypt uses eyeballs for the KEEPER targets.

• Call of Cthulhu has Groth, a planet sized eyeball that floats through space.
• The Dark Eye: Gotongis are demons resembling large eyeballs with batlike wings.
• Dungeons & Dragons: The lich-slash-god Vecna could transform an especially devoted cultist into one of two emissaries named for the two powerful artifacts named for him, this one being The Eye of Vecna—a humanoid figure with a gigantic eyeball where a human head used to be possessed of telepathic awareness that allows him to finish the sentence of others as the least of what he can do.
• Everquest: One class of monsters is a group of small eyeball islands (their upper lids are covered with cracks and mountains). Another monster is a gelatinous, red-veined eyeball that attaches itself to ceilings and uses its wet tentrils to snatch unwary prey.
• Magic: The Gathering: Eyes are a rare creature type depicting giant, independently mobile eyes. The first one printed, Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore, depicts — depending on the specific card's art — either a close-up of a narrowed eye within what appears to be something else's face or an entirely free-floating eyeball, while Evil Eye of Urborg is a floating eye with nothing beyond a narrow rim of flesh around it.
• Paranoia: Friend Computer is usually represented as a monitor with a single giant eyeball.
• Warhammer 40,000 The symbol of Chaos (an eight-pointed star) is often depicted as having an eye or a skull in the center of the star. The Eye of Horus, an emblem of the Black Legion, is an eye incorporated into the eight-pointed star.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: A few cards have eyes with no faces: "Relinquished" and "Thousand-Eyes Idol", which can be fused together into "Thousand-Eyes Restrict". These cards have zero Attack/Defense, but "Relinquished" and "Thousand-Eyes Restrict" can steal monsters from an opponent's side of the field and effectively use them as meat shields.

• Keetongu of BIONICLE has a big red eye at the end of a long stalk but no face. As a subversion, in universe this is actually a fake eye and his real eyes are hidden behind it. The film Web of Shadows opted to redesign him with an actual (albeit very small) face, including a tiny mouth under his eye that's now blue.
• Flick-to-Stick Bungees: Tulka/Takin from Bionic Bungees, and their American equivalent Plinian, have a faceless eye.
• Several characters in the Gogo's Crazy Bones series have a single eye as their only facial feature. Examples include Satori from the Evolution series and Uyu and Goomi from the Power series.
• Star Monsters: Siruos, Skimuz, and Nanor have one. Siuros's bio speculates that it might have fallen into a pipe, hence its weird eye and pipe-like head and neck shape. Skimuz collided with a lighthouse, while Nanor landed between two snakes' nests and peeks out over the water, its body shape giving it the appearance of a periscope.

• .hack: Corbenik's third and final form is a massive floating eye, with hundreds of similar eyes flying about in the background (which is weird, since Corbenik's first two forms were a seed and a leaf... how does that trend continue to eye?).
• The "Mind's Eye" creatures in 3 in Three.
• Altered Beast (1988) has its Level 2 boss.
• Angband and NetHack have floating eyes. Their power is paralysis, and they are usually harmless when encountered alone.
• The Eyeballus Jiggium plants in Banjo-Tooie.
• Alexander the Great from BioShock 2 is only seen as an eye on a screen from his personal flying guard bot.
• Bloodborne features a lot of eldritch monsters as bosses or enemies, and one of these that definitely fits the description is the Eye of Mensis, a mutated being that may or may not have previously been a Mensis scholar. The brain of the individual is bloated to the point that the rest of the head is gone, and the beast can kill you by just staring at you from across a canyon. The most notable detail besides its gigantic brain are the numerous eyes dotted across it which don't blink and simply stare. You can get a reward after dumping it into the basement of the Nightmare of Mensis by simply walking up to its crippled body, standing before its biggest eye, and performing the "Make Contact" gesture until it responds with a reward.
• Bricks Of Egypt and its sequel has faceless Egyptian eyes as the main helpers.
• In Broodstar, the Seer is an alien creature consisting primarily of a giant eyeball. The Augur is a similar creature which is also covered in spikes.
• Castlevania:
  • Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge have rolling eyeball enemies that are explosive.
  • In Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth, this enemy makes a return appearance. A huge version of it is even the boss of the first stage.
  • The Buckbairds (probably a Shout-Out to the GeGeGe no Kitarō villain) have been a staple enemy ever since Castlevania (1986).
• Catacomb Fantasy Trilogy:
  • Catacomb Abyss features giant, man-sized blooshot floating eyes which shoot fireballs from their pupils.
  • Catacomb Apocalypse has tiny, grey floating eyes which appear on some levels; unusually, they are not enemies, but guides who lead the player along the right path (though it's hard to keep pace with them, and easy to accidentally kill them with your fireballs).
• The Mutant core from Chaos Heat starts off as a gigantic pulsating floating eye as the first phase of its Sequential Boss battle. If you destroy it, the floating eye shrinks, assimilates itself with other mutations, and pulls a Bishōnen Line transformation into a far more humanoid second form to continue fighting.
• Chzo Mythos: Chzo is shown to have no face, only a strange pink body part and he only has one eye, which he uses to make a New Prince out of Theo near the end of the series.
• City of Heroes: Rularuu Watchers are giant eyeballs with teeth-edged eyelids. The also tend to gaze around in sync when idle, indicating even more that they are all connected to the same mind. They attack with Eye Beams and a sort of terrifying chomp attack — with really good accuracy, being, you know, giant eyeballs.
• The alien enemies in The Colony are eyeballs atop geometric solids, because the computing horsepower of 1988 didn't allow for 3D humans like the programmer had wanted.
• In Cookie Clicker, this is revealed to be the final form of Santa Claus, as of version 1.0402.
• In Creature Crunch, many of the monsters Wesley has to get past in Dr. Drod's mansion have eyeballs for heads.
• The Dark Castle games include giant floating eyeballs as enemies. Some are wreathed in perpetual flame; others cry tears of acid.
• Darkest Dungeon II has the Focused Fault, a massive collection of faceless eyes, as the Act 3 final boss.
• In Deus Ex, one of the evil A.I.s, Icarus, is represented by a single eyeball connected to some kind of organic machinery.
• Destiny: The Fallen worship eye-like floating purple robots called servitors.
• In the Dimensional Doors mod for Minecraft, directly above the player in Limbo is always a giant red eye staring down at them. Monoliths (with the same red eye mentioned above on them) are scattered across the landscape, staring at you if you are in line of sight, and will teleport you thousands of blocks away.
• Dragon Quest includes several eyeball-themed monsters, in particular the Darkeye and an eye monster in a boot called a Skipper.
• The Evil Eye and Electro Swoosh enemies in EarthBound (1994).
• The Rhombulans in Elite Beat Agents are led by an eye in a polygon. It narrows when it gets pissed off.
• In Eversion, normal enemies turn into faceless eyes in world X-4.
• Exorcist Fairy has a giant eye growing in the middle of a cavern's wall as one of the bosses. Who doesn't have any attacks of its own, but can periodically summon smaller eyeballs on its left and right which can shoot even more exploding eyes.
• Final Fantasy:
  • The Ahriman family of monsters are flying creatures that are over 50% eye.
  • Bigeyes from the first game are disembodied pairs of eyes.
• Fire Emblem: The Mogall and Arch Mogall monster classes in Fire Emblem Gaiden and The Sacred Stones.
• Flash of the Blade: After its host body is defeated the first time, the Soulstealer then reveals itself to be a gigantic floating eye in a red realm, before animating its host body for another battle.
• Gargoyle's Quest: Demon's Crest features the hidden boss Ovnunu, a collective of eyeballs suspended in green jelly.
• The GeGeGe no Kitarō Famicom game has a Backbeard as a boss, which was also in the manga.
• The Wise One of Golden Sun fame is a rock... with a bright green eye embedded in it.

  Garet: Yeah, I know it's a rock, stupid!

• Grandia II has the Eye of Valmar. The manifestation of the Eye itself looks more like some sort of pineapple that opens to reveal some eyes and tendrils, but it employs floating eyes that have the power to put people into an endless sleep. It's also That One Boss.
• Several creatures in the Grow games have just a single eye on their face, the most prominent are the Tonties who even have their own game (simply called Tontie) by the same creator.
• Half-Life 2 has the Combine's City Scanners, which are robotic Faceless Eyes that fly. Their sole purpose is to act as a surveillance system for the Combine.
• Halo: 343 Guilty Spark and the other Forerunner Monitors are robotic versions.
• Heroes of Might and Magic III has two examples, both are giant eyes on tentacles, the Beholder/Evil Eye creature and the Seer's Eye, which works as a typical videogame security camera.
• Iggy's Reckin' Balls has I-Ball, who is, well, an eyeball. His high-pitched, kind of nerdy voice lightens the creepy factor, but his painful scream upon being hurt and the fact that he grapples with what appears to be a spear (conjuring images of Eye Scream) cranks it back up.
• Kingdom of Loathing: One of the monsters found in the Caliginous Abyss is "an eye in the darkness," a giant bloodshot eye staring out at you from a patch of deeper darkness within the sea. Its attacks mostly boil down to several variants of menacing glares, carefully modulated to give you existential crises, unnerve you or fill your field of vision.

  Within the darkness there is a deeper darkness. And within that deeper darkness is an eye, an ancient eye, an eye whose white has turned yellow with age. An eye as wide as a man is tall, shot through with thick red veins. An eye devoid of reason, full of malice and rage. Its stare makes you wish the world would end so that horrible eye would close forever.

• The Kirby series loves this trope, most of the time as scary. Most of the final bosses — like Dark Matter, Zero, 02, and Dark (Nebula/Zero) — are an eye or multiple eyes without a face. Other common enemies (like Waddle Doo) are this trope, but hardly scary.
• In La-Mulana, a large floating eye chases you through the lowest level of the Endless Corridor. You cannot harm it until you kill a hideously weird thing entirely made of eyes.
• The Legend of Zelda has many enemies like this, bosses and otherwise.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Patra is an enemy in the form of a swarm of winged eyeballs.
  • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link has Moas, flying eyeballs with no other appendages, some of which are invisible without the right item.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past has three bosses along these lines:
    • Vitreous, the boss of the Misery Mire, is a giant eyeball surrounded by a cluster of smaller eyeballs.
    • Kholdstare, the boss of the Ice Palace, is just an immense eyeball frozen in ice.
    • Arrghus, the boss of the Swamp Palace, is a giant tentacled eyeball.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Slime Eyes consist of two gelatinous eyes fused into one.
  • Hyrule Warriors: Wizzro is a creepy, decrepit, phantom-like wizard that was locked inside a cursed ring. Half of the time, his only facial feature is a single red eye. The other half, it morphs into a creepy red mouth.
• The "Orbs" from the Manhunter games.
• MARDEK: Chapter 3 has giant-floaty-eye monsters called I-Orbs and Black Eyes, as well as several sessile-eyestalk monsters with varying powers. Despite appearances, these should not be taken lightly.

  It can see right into the very core of your soul. It judges you, and looks for your fears and weaknesses. It doesn't really do anything with any of this knowledge though.

• The Geth, Mecha-Mooks who form the forces of the Big Bad in Mass Effect, have long heads terminating in glowing "eyes" and nothing else except armour, with one character commenting that they have "flashlight heads". They're portrayed in a less overtly hostile light in the sequel... conveniently coinciding with a Geth "character" gaining something closer to a face. Added for good reason; Legion's headflaps were specifically installed to help it/him/them emote to players and characters, since otherwise Legion could not easily convey body language and facial expressions.
• The players in Mazewar are represented as these.
• The Reaverbots of Mega Man Legends are all monocular.
• The boss at the end of Metal Slug 3's second level are six floating giant aliens with humanoid bodies, but with single eyestalks where their heads should be.
• The Mother Brain from Metroid, especially in Metroid: Zero Mission and Super Metroid. Also from Super Metroid is Phantoon, who has a large eye which seems to be inside a mouth.
• Might and Magic V has a monster called a "Beholder Bat" which is, in essence, a bat with one small eye and one huge eyeball attached under it — and it shoots lasers that inflict fire damage. Seriously.
• The Suezo monsters from Monster Rancher are essentially this. They have mostly psychic attacks, plus Eye Beams.
• Plane vs Eye from MySims.
• In Necronomicon, the "Arkham Asylum" playfield features a deep red eye staring out from the middle of the playfield.
• Neversoft's corporate logo◊ from 1999 to 2014 has a faceless eye that was impaled with a spear for their "O". Most of their Vanity Plates for the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games (including the short-lived Underground sub-series) play with this; not so much for their Guitar Hero plates.
• Wizeman in NiGHTS into Dreams…, more or less. His eyes are in his hands, not his face.
• One level in Paranoiascape sees you battling an entire field of gigantic, floating eyeballs that surrounds you from all sides.
• In Parodius for the MSX, the boss of Stage 5 is GeGeGe Aunt, a female version of Medama-Oyaji.
• Ameno-sagiri, the fake final boss in Persona 4.
• Many Pokémon, including the Magnemite family and Unown.
  • Duskull is strange, as it has one pupil, but wears a human-skull-mask over it. In the 3D games, Duskull's eye switches from eyehole to eyehole whenever it wants to. Its body also appears hollow inside, implying that its "eye" is more like a lamp wavering back and forth inside, perhaps being its soul or something.
  • While Jirachi has a face typical of other "Cute Legendaries", its Third Eye is in its stomach.
  • Roggenrola is either this or has a hole where its face should be. Its evolutions imply the former.
• The personality cores form Portal are all talking spheres with one eye in the centre. The most notable of the bunch is Wheatley from Portal 2.
• Orbb, one of the player models in Quake III Arena, is a giant eye with legs.
• Ichimokuren in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army and Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon.
• One of the Rock Band venues has a gigantic image of an eyeball (which appears to look in different directions during the performance) at the back of the stage, surrounded by rings of teeth with tentacles.
• The second stage of the original R-Type has swarms of small enemies who look like eyeballs with undulating tails.
• The "Tower" table in Ruiner Pinball has roaming eyeballs as one of the enemies.
• Shantae and the Seven Sirens: Ghost Eye enemies are invisible flying eyeballs, revealed only by use of Seer Dance, or the dust from bumping into things.
• Shaddai, one of YHVH's avatars in Shin Megami Tensei II.
• The NES game Solstice has enemies which appear to be floating eyeballs with long cloaks covering what could possibly be a body.
• A stylized single eye is the emblem for the Haunted Castle Hang Castle Zone in Sonic Heroes. It's placed on all of the castle's waving flags and appears to be the signature of its former owner.
• Soul Series: Soul Edge developed a Faceless Eye when the series changed names to Soulcalibur, and retains it in all its "awakened" forms.
• The briefing image of the Overmind in StarCraft is a creepy tendril-covered eye floating in red goop. It's a remarkably expressive eye, swiveling around and shaking about in tune with the Overmind's "speech". Also, in the Expanded Universe novel Liberty's Crusade, Kerrigan and Liberty come across something matching this description in a Zerg hive, just outside the hatchery room. Canister rifle is applied with haste.
• Mr. I, an enemy from the Super Mario Bros. series who first appeared in Super Mario 64.
• In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's story mode "World of Light", Dharkon, the Dark Is Evil rival to the Light Is Not Good villain Galeem, has a core consisting of nothing but a single slit eye.
• Team Fortress 2: The 2011 Halowe'en update introduced MONOCULUS!, a giant floating eyeball which launches smaller eyeballs as rockets when it's pissed. Its backstory is that the spirit in the Bombonomicon, an eldritch tome of explosives, haunted the Demoman's eye.
• Terraria has the Demon Eye enemy that torments players who venture outside at night, and its King Mook the Eye of Cthulhu, which starts off as just a giant Demon Eye. It then grows a mouth.
• Turbo Overkill: Syn's default form is a gigantic holographic eyeball without a body, used to scan you in a cutscene. Syn's eye takes a more physical form during the boss fight.
• Warcraft:
  • The warlock/ogre mage spell Eye of Kilrogg summons a floating green eye that serves as an extension of the caster's sight.
  • The Old God C'Tun from World of Warcraft is a boss fight with two stages. The first stage is against the Eye of C'Tun, which is (surprise, surprise!) a humongous eyeball that can fire an Eye Beam which kills players in one hit. After defeating the eye, his body rises from the ground for the stage two of the fight.
• Kineticlops from War of the Monsters is a vaguely humanoid Energy Being focused around one giant eye.
• Wild ARMs 3 loves this, having three bosses that fit this bill, Mono-eye Titan, Hecto-eye Titan, and Heimdall. The first two are faced consecutively without a chance to save in between, and the third is a powerful Super Boss.
• Witcheye sees you playing as one. You're a witch transformed into a floating eyeball and must find a way to revert yourself back.
• The Gran Centurio of Yggdra Union features a disembodied eye as its pommel jewel, which is unnerving if you notice it, but not brought up in the storyline of the main game. The side materials inform us that yes, this is actually someone's eye, which he himself tore out to use in the sword's forging.
• A level in Zeliard features enemies that are just giant eyeballs, capable of rushing at you at high speed.

• 8-Bit Theater at one point has a passing reference to Black Mage invoking "my new god, Mst'r Ieb'al". Guess what he looked like.
• Angel Moxie: In the beginning, before Tristan breaks all of the barriers to release her power, Vashi appears as just a glowing, floating pair of eyes.
• Odineye from Brat-Halla is one of Odin's eyes that he sacrificed to the Well of Wisdom; it escaped and is plotting revenge for its treatment. It doesn't have a lid, but for some reason it does have a brow.
• Decrypting Rita has the Panopticon, a mysterious group of eyes floating in the void between the Alternate Universes.
• Exterminatus Now: The Patterner (one of the dark gods) and at least one of his Greater Daemons, Kevin, each have a head that consists of a giant eyeball partially surrounded by flesh for the sake of eyelids.
• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has Officer Zodboink, a member of a race of Starfish Aliens with heads that look like giant eyeballs.
• Leth Hate has God, who has an eyeball for a head. For expressiveness's sake, his iris has an eyebrow and his pupil has an eyelid.
• In Lucid Spring, Pacem and Viktor's psychically-induced hallucination culminates in the bear's face turning into one giant eye. This trope shortly thereafter combines with Eyes Do Not Belong There.
• Ebbirnoth from Schlock Mercenary The fact that Ebbirnoth (and Uniocs in general) have a faceless eye is actually a minor plot point during one of the Credomar arcs-someone "headshots" Ebby, blasting out his eyeball and seriously pissing him off. Schlock realizes the mistake that's been made, and encourages the lieutenant to play dead; the sniper was human, and didn't realize that Unioc brains are kept in a bone cage in their pelvis.
• In Tower of God, Scout has a tool called Observer. In Miseng's case, it is a floating eyeball.
• At one point, Vexxarr encounters some evil plant A.I.s who look like bloodshot eyeballs with some leaves and tendrils added. He also has a Starfish Alien shipmate who is composed entirely of eyestalks, and his own face consists entirely of one huge eye, which is usually glaring/scowling.

• Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum prominently features Licky, who also works the control booth. And sings. And flirts heavily with Miss Diagnosis. Did we mention he's a giant eyeball?
• The Fear Mythos has the Eye, the original Fear of Judgement with a very creative name.
• Eyeball from Otherworldly Ravenous Beast is just an eyeball with limbs, and they are one of the less creepy examples.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Koh the Face-Stealer loves doing this.
• In Code Lyoko, XANA, due to being a computer program with no real physical body, the only real signifier of his presence is the circular Eye of XANA sigil that is used on his monsters and on any electronic he hacks. The closest he gets to physically appearing is in the second last episode as a gigantic, vaguely humanoid, faceless phantom with the aforementioned eye symbol on the chest.
• In The Fairly OddParents!, the Tooth Fairy conjures a giant eye with tentacles to illustrate that she should stick only to teeth.
• Futurama: An early concept for Leela experimented with making her one of these, as opposed to the more conventional Cyclops design she ended up with.
• Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls is this, being that he's shaped like the Eye of Providence.
• Dr. Zin's Robot Spy from Jonny Quest (which inspired the Walking Eye in The Venture Bros.).
• My Life as a Teenage Robot has an invisible giant eye with tentacles as one Monster of the Week. Its vulnerability is demonstrated in a Humiliation Conga as in short order it get sand, hot sauce, blindingly focused sunlight, pointed sticks and other harmful items in its... self.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): The Girls once fight a spherical monster entirely covered with eyes that shoot Eye Beams, and can't find a way to get close enough to hit it until Blossom finds a way to make it laugh, making it close its eyes upside-down, anime-style.
• Regular Show: Benson orders a surveillance system to keep tabs on Mordecai and Rigby. When it fails, he orders the company's ultimate system: a giant floating eyeball named Peeps. Peeps turns out to far more trouble than he's worth, but the Park can't get rid of him because in a rage Benson didn't read that Peep's contract is a "life-time guarantee"; they're stuck with him until they die. Mordecai has to beat Peeps in a staring contest to get rid of him, and if Peeps wins, he gets all of their eyes (he has an ice cream scoop and pick for the job). The only way the gang wins is by Rigby shooting a laser pointer into Peep's pupils.
• Shockwave from Transformers; in G1, it even flashes (like Wheeljack's 'ears') when he speaks.
• Wander over Yonder: Lord Hater's mooks and his Dragon Peepers have eyeballs for heads.