Category:Eye Scream: Difference between revisions

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The eyes are our window to the world. We rely mostly on our sight to tell us about the world -- its wonders, its dangers, and its beauty (well, [[Disability Superpower|unless you're]] [[Daredevil]] or [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Toph Bei Fong]]). At the same time, however, our eyes are mostly made of water and nerve tissue. Which basically means that most direct attacks on the eyes, especially with a sharp, pointy object, will probably destroy them utterly.<ref>Most of the time, this will also kill you rather quickly unless you can get immediate medical attention, due to blood loss and shock.</ref>

Ah. Made you wince, didn't it?

The [[Eye Scream]] is when the creator of a work takes advantage of our [[Primal Fear]] of having something utterly horrible happen to our eyes, usually involving the invasion of the eye sockets by a foreign body, and [[Nightmare Fuel|plays it up for all its worth]]. All its squishy, bloody, traumatic worth.

Academically, this is known as the ''Injury to the Eye Motif''. It also has strong [[Freud Was Right|Freudian ties]] to genital mutilation.

An interesting commonality in these examples is that one of the best ways to quickly show a character has [[Go Mad From the Revelation|gone]] [[Sanity Slippage|completely]] [[Moral Event Horizon|off the deep end]] is to show them mutilating their own eyes.

Usually accompanied with [[Reflective Eyes]], so we can get a nice and nasty glimpse of the incoming foreign object. See also [[Go for the Eye]], [[A Handful for An Eye]], [[Moe Greene Special]], [[Forced to Watch]], and [[Eye Poke]].

Likewise, a [[Groin Attack]] can invoke the same [[Squick|primal reaction]]. Compare [[Fingore]], [[Agony of the Feet]] and [[Ear Ache]]. Contrast [[Eyes Are Unbreakable]]. If the character survives it often results in an [[Eyepatch of Power]].

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{{quote|I scream, you scream, we all scream for [[Eye Scream]]!}}

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[[Category:Native American Mythology]]

[[Category:Injury Tropes]]

[[Category:Medical Horror]]

[[Category:Eye Tropes]]

[[Category:Just for Pun]]

[[Category:Older Than Dirt]]

[[Category:Horror Tropes]]

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