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A '''Cyclopean Creature''' --
Compare to the other deviations from normal eye structure:
* [[Eyeless Face]], where the eyes are ''missing'' from a being's features.
* [[Extra Eyes]], which describes characters with ''more'' than two.
** [[Third Eye]], a common motif and design trope that often places an additional eye in the middle of the forehead.
* [[Oculothorax]], where a creature's body is almost entirely taken up by a giant eyeball, and may or may not have other eyes besides.
For other uses of the term, see [[Cyclops|the disambiguation page]].
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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has the Doll Soldiers, which are one-eyed [[Zombie Mooks]] who look similar to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVAs]].
** Although his initial [[One-Winged Angel]] form is [[Extra Eyes]] / [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]], Father takes on a cyclopean appearance right before crossing the [[Bishonen Line]].
* Gold And Silver from ''[[Yaiba]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[X-Men]]'' member Scott Summers AKA Cyclops averts this - he has two eyes,
* A
▲* A couple appear as minor characters in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''. They're the kids of an isolated family living in the swamps of Louisiana, after generations of in-breeding.
== [[Film]] ==
* Mike from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' is a cyclopean [[Cephalothorax]], and his girlfriend Celia is also one-eyed. The logo of the titular company also features a single eye.
* The Cyclops in ''[[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]]'', which looks like a giant one-eyed satyr with a horn on its head; it is defeated when Sinbad blinds it by [[Eye Scream|shoves a fiery torch into its eyeball]], then leads it off a nearby cliff. A second, two-horned one also appears, and follows Sinbad and the princess into a cave; Sinbad baits a dragon into fighting the Cyclops, and the two successfully make their escape while the dragon kills it.
* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]'' had a one-eyed centaur.
* In the 2007 ''[[TMNT (film)|TMNT]]'' film, a one-eyed centaur is one of 13 immortal monsters released from a portal 3,000 years ago.
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* Many of the Minions in ''[[Despicable Me]]'' have only one eye.
* [[Disney]]'s ''[[Hercules (1997 film)|Hercules]]'':
** A giant fat Cyclops appears as [[Our Titans Are Different|one of the Titans]], which Hades sent after Hercules while the rest of the Titans attacked the gods of Olympus; ''[[Villainous]]'' confirms his name to be Arges.
** The three Fates share one eye between themselves as in the original tales, and one of them has a single orbit in her head.
* Agent Wendy Pleakley from ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' is a Plorgonarian, a race of tripedal one-eyed aliens.
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** [[Anti-Villain|Magnus the Red]], [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Primarch]] of the [[Cosmic Plaything|Thousand Sons]], is also known as "the Red Cyclops" - his defining features are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|coppery red skin]], [[Meaningful Name|being a giant]] and having just one eye. Magnus lost his right eye in a bargain to save his Legion from mutation, with a being whom he would later discover to be Tzeentch; the mutations did go into remission, albeit temporarily. After the Burning of Prospero, Magnus gave in to Chaos, becoming a [[One-Winged Angel|Demon Prince]] of Tzeentch.
*** Older material describes the pre-daemonic Magnus as resembling the mythological Cyclops, as does his ''Epic'' miniature; later editions established the above lore, which is a parallel to that of Odin from [[Norse Mythology]].
*** In the ''[[Horus Heresy]]'' novel ''[[Betrayer]]'' by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]], Lorgar remarks that [[Multiple Choice Past|the truth is kept deliberately skewed]]; Magnus himself seems to prefer the version where he lost his eye to gain ultimate knowledge.
* The [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' card game]] has many an instance:
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Hitotsu-Me_Giant "Hitotsu-Me Giant"] (or simply "Cyclops" in the OCG) is an EARTH Beast-Warrior and one of the earliest examples. A very similar-looking monster named [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Cybernetic_Cyclopean "Cybernetic Cyclopean"] is a [[
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Opticlops "Opticlops"] (OCG "Red Cyclops") is a DARK Fiend-type example.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Cameraclops "Cameraclops"] is a LIGHT Warrior-type with a camera
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Sengenjin "Sengenjin"] is another EARTH Beast-Warrior type, and in some video games appears as a Ritual Monster that explicitly uses "Hitotsu-Me Giant" as a base.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Serpent_Marauder "Serpent Marauder"] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Flame_Viper "Flame Viper"] are cyclopean snakes (and no, not ''that'' kind).
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dicelops "Diceclops"] is a FIRE Machine-type that uses the "one" side of its die-like head as its face.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Meklord_Emperor_Granel "Granel"] is one of the three [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Meklord_Emperor Meklord Emperors
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ogre magi in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' universe [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier|have two heads]], one with two eyes and another with one eye. Cyclopean ogres of the single-headed variety also exist in the [[Warcraft Expanded Universe]]. The latter category rarely appear in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' (although ogre magi are common enough), but ''WoW'' did introduce the gronn, their kin who bear a resemblance to the Harryhausen cyclopes from ''[[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]]''.
* Various ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' games
** In ''[[God of War II]]'', [[Twenty Bear Asses|collecting twenty of them]] unlocks the "General Kratos" costume.
** In ''[[God of War: Ascension]]'', Polyphemus appears as the first multiplayer boss of the series in the desert stage.
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** ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' introduces the Electric/Steel Magnemite, a small vaguely robotic Pokémon with a single eye - it evolves into Magneton, which appears as a fusion of three Magnemites.
** ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' introduces the Unown, glyph-like Psychic Pokémon whose eye takes up most of their bodies.
** ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]''
*** Duskull is a Ghost Pokémon with a single red eye behind a skull mask-like face. It evolves into Dusclops, which appears as a mummy-like ghost with a more "traditional" cyclopean eye.
*** Beldum is a Steel/Psychic Pokémon that resembles a floating arm, and has a single eye positioned in the "joint".
** ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' introduces Dusknoir, an evolution of Dusclops that appears more djinn-like but retains the single eye.
** ''[[Pokémon X and Y]]'' add some more examples:
*** Honedge is a Steel/Ghost Pokémon that appears as [[Living Weapon|an animate sword]] with a gem in the hilt that appears to be its "eye". Its evolution Doublade
*** Trevenant is a Ghost/Grass Pokémon resembling [[When Trees Attack|an animate tree]] with a single red eye.
** The cells and Cores of Zygarde (a Pokémon introduced in ''X/Y'') are ambiguous examples - each have a single visible eye next to a white oval that could
** ''[[Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!]]'' add Meltan and Melmetal, amorphous Steel Pokémon that have a single sphere for an eye - said sphere usually rests within their heads, which resemble gold hexagonal nuts.
** ''[[Pokémon Sword and Shield]]'' adds a
*** The Pokédex entry for the Gigantamax form of Melmetal describes it as a cyclopean giant that inspired a legend in a distant land.
*** Rolycoly is a Rock Pokémon that appears as a chunk of coal with a single red eye.
*** Runerigus is a Ground/Ghost Pokémon formed from a cursed painting absorbing a Galarian Yamask, and its ghostly form only has a single eye visible within the slabs composing its body.
* ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'':
* Massmouth, from the ''[[Doom]]'' [[Game Mod]] series ''The Adventures of MassMouth''. (He was originally a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131002132955/http://planetquake.gamespy.com/View.php?view=ModeloftheWeek.Detail&id=28 Quake II skin].) He also appears as a bot in ''Skulltag'', a source port focused on multiplayer, where one of his lines is a complaint about his lack of peripheral vision.▼
** The original introduces the [[Oculothorax|cacodemon]], spherical flying horned monsters with a single eye and a toothy maw. Cacodemons attack by spitting a ball of lightning, and can bite you at close range, though knockback from damage typically prevents the latter. Cacodemons are something of a [[Mascot Mook]] among the games' community.
** ''[[Doom II]]'' introduces the pain elemental, a cacodemon-like monster with a pair of cyberdemon-like horns and stubby arms. Pain elementals [[Mook Maker|shoot lost souls]] at you, and when killed collapse in on themselves and explode, spawning three lost souls - this is notable in that it cannot respawn on [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels|Nightmare! difficulty]] (the hardest) like most monsters. It ''can'' be revived if it is crushed while dying, leaving a small pool of gibs; these gibs can be resurrected by an arch-vile, creating a ghost monster, and is an incredibly rare event to witness.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]] introduces multiple recurring examples:▼
▲* Massmouth, from the ''
*** The Tektite is a one-eyed [[Giant Spider]] which often hops around the map.▼
* Many enemies in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise sport a single eye, often as their [[Aim for the Eye|weak point]], and many of them are recurring enemies as well.
*** Armos are also introduced, and feature a one-eyed design in this and some of the other games.▼
▲**
*** Ghinis are one-eyed ghosts found solely around graveyards.▼
▲*** The Tektite is a one-eyed [[Giant Spider]] which often hops around the map; Gohma is a [[Giant Spider]] boss that can usually only be damaged by [[Attack Its Weak Point|attacking its eye]].
▲*** Armos are
▲*** Ghinis are one-eyed ghosts found solely around graveyards, and touching the graves will cause more invincible Ghini to spawn.
*** Digdogger is a giant urchin-like monster with a single eye; the Japanese manual instead calls it a giant [[Clu Clu Land|Unira]]. Playing the recorder while in the same room as it will cause it to shrink into a smaller form, which can be damaged with other weapons. One is fought as the boss of Level 5, and a second appears in Level 7 that instead splits into 3 of its miniature self.
*** Patras are a horde of flying [[Oculothorax|winged]] [[Faceless Eye|eyeballs]] that appear as bosses, and only appear in Level 9 within the first quest.
** ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'' has the ghostly Moas, Fiery Moas and the [[Faceless Eye|eyeball-like]] Girubokku.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]]'' sees the return of Tektites, while Armos use a different design that averts this trope. Examples that debut in this game:
*** The incredibly-durable Eyegores are statue-like cyclopean beasts. The green Eyegores are tough to damage, but are weak to arrows; red Eyegores are immune to every other weapon save for arrows.
*** The Beamos are [[Invincible Minor Minion|invincible statues]] that shoot lasers at you if their single rotating eye spots you.
*** Hinox appear as monsters that roam the Dark World and lob bombs in Link's direction; they take several hits with the sword to defeat, but [[Weaksauce Weakness|can be easily felled with one of Link's own bombs]].
*** Ku are Dark World counterparts to Zoras that behave the same, surfacing from the water to shoot fireballs at Link.
*** Arrghus is a large jellyfish monster with a single eye that acts as the boss of Swamp Palace, and must have the polyps on his body (called Arrghi) pulled off with the Hookshot before he can be attacked directly.
*** Eyeball Bats are Dark World counterparts of Keese that appear in Thieves Town and Ganon's Tower, and are essentially [[Oculothorax|winged eyeballs]].
*** Kholdstare, the boss of Ice Palace, appears as a giant cloudy eye encased in ice; once its icy shell is broken with the Fire Rod or Bombos Medallion, it splits into three and floats around the boss chamber.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'':
*** Twilit Parasite Diababa is the three-headed boss of the Forest Temple, and has [[Aim for The Eye|an eye hidden inside the large main head]] that only appears during the second phase.
*** Averted with Armogohma, who has lesser eyes in the same place a normal spider would - the large eyeball you normally target is on its back instead. {{spoiler|When seemingly defeated, it's revealed that the eyeball itself is the abdomen of a smaller spider.}}
* The Cyclops in ''[[Castle Crashers]]'', whom you must defeat to rescue the [[Damsel in Distress|Green Princess]]. {{spoiler|He is revived by [[The Dragon|The Necromancer]] as part of the final [[Boss Rush]].}}
* Cyclopes appear as [[Superpowered Mooks|Myth Units]] in ''[[Age of Mythology]]'' if you progress to the Classical Age with Ares. Another Cyclops, Gargarensis, is the main antagonist of the "Fall of the Trident" campaign.
* The Cyclopes in ''[[Rift]]'' seem to be denizens of the [[Dishing Out Dirt|Plane of Earth]]. They're built along the same large and solid lines as [[Proud Warrior Race|bahmi]] (although they tend to be even taller), but have ivory-yellow skin, vaguely bestial features, and the definitive single, centrally-positioned eye.
* Polyphemus
* A Cyclops heavily based on the one from ''The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' appears as the first boss in ''[[Will Rock]]'', capable of hitting you from far away by spitting stones at you. It becomes a [[Degraded Boss]] soon enough.
* The boss enemy Gorpus from ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]'' is a gigantic scorpion with a single huge eye hidden under his helmet.
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* Fleepa, Optomon and the [[Final Boss]] in ''[[The Guardian Legend]]''.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has MONOCULUS, a giant [[Faceless Eye]] monster. It was created when [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|the RED Demoman's missing eye was haunted and grown to monstrous size by the Bombinomicon, then summoned when the RED Soldier breaks Merasumus's staff]]. Introduced to the game during a [[Halloween]] event, it appears as the boss of several King of the Hill maps when 10 people are playing; defeating it gives the "Optical Defusion" [[Achievement]] and the accompanying "MONOCULUS!" cosmetic 'hat', which replaces the wearer's head with a MONOCULUS eyeball.
* In ''[[NetHack]]'', a classical-style Cyclops appears as the quest nemesis of the Greek-themed [[The Medic|Healer]] role, and even generates with a wand of lightning that parallels the thunderbolts forged by the mythical ones.
* ''[[Bomberman]]'':
** ''[[Bomberman Quest]]'' has several examples among the monsters you need to recapture. [[Blob Monster|Blobby]] and [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Ghostey]] are encountered in the Field Zone; Fruity, a flying plant shoot, appears in the Forest Zone; [[Giant Spider|Despider]] (which usually has at least two eyes in other appearances) is found in the Beach Zone; and Jackenboxx and Shadow Knight are fought in the Desert Zone.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Beast Legion]]'' has [http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-02-page-04-destructive-sight/ Gorgorath]
* ''[[Gastrophobia]]'' has a goblin magically transform into a [http://gastrophobia.com/index.php?date=2009-09-02 biclops]. [[Alt Text|"Exactly like a cyclops, only with twice as many eyes and therefore twice as dangerous."]]
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has the [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20091031.html annually-appearing] Halloween Monster.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Leela of ''[[Futurama]]'', who initially was presented as a member of an unknown alien race, but turned out to be a human mutant.
* Saffi, Cerbee
* ''[[ChalkZone]]'': Biclops ononly had one eye before Rudy drew him his second one above it.
* Kang and Kodos from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" [[Halloween Special]]s.
* [[Meaningful Name|Iris]] from ''[[Ruby Gloom]]''.
* The [[Monster of the Week]] roster for ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''
** "Bubblevicious" has a red one-eyed creature with crustecean-like claws among the monsters Bubbles fights after sneaking into the training simulator and cranking it [[Up to Eleven]].
**
** "Down n' Dirty" has Buttercup fighting a human-like cyclops after being kicked out of the house for [[The Pig Pen|refusing to take a bath]]. She dodges the giant's punches easily, then runs up its arm and ''punches its head clean off'' - which then [[Cephalothorax|sprouts stubby legs and runs away]]. Soon after, the monster's body inexplicably falls vertically into halves... [[Animate Body Parts|which flatten Buttercup with their hands before sprouting two eyes each]], forcing her to outwit them by getting them tangled up.
* Plankton from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''.▼
** One of the deformed Powerpuff Clones seen near the end "Knock It Off" has an eyeball in place of their head.
** Plankton. It runs in his family, too - they ''are'' single-celled after all.
** "Spongebob in Randomland" has one of the titular [[Wackyland]] area's denizens, a one-eyed woman who makes off with the food Spongebob and Squidward were delivering.
* Cherri Bomb and Niffty from ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'' are one-eyed demon-girls.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Cy, the internet-famous one-eyed noseless kitten, who was born December 2009 and died a day later.
* A cyclops goat was born in Nigeria. It caused quite a stir - [[But You Screw One Goat!|
* A one-eyed piglet with a severely deformed nose was also in China in 2005.
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