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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 pair of cyclopean-looking young adults appear as minor characters in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''. They're from an isolated family living in the swamps of Louisiana, and were born from generations of in-breeding.
== [[Film]] ==
* Mike from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' is a
* The Cyclops in ''[[The 7th Voyage of Sinbad]]'', which
* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]'' had a one-eyed centaur.
* In the 2007 '
* The Cyclopes in ''[[The City of Lost Children]]'' are a group of religious zealots who are all blind, and see through the aid of [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Borg-like]] eyepieces called "Optacons" that they emphatically only wear over
* ''[[Krull]]'' has Rell, a cyclops that aids the protagonist Colwyn and his army.
* B.O.B. in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' is a one-eyed [[Blob Monster]].
* Many of the
* [[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.
* [[Bert I. Gordon]] films:
** In ''[[The Cyclops]]'', the titular monster is [[Was Once a Man|a man]] mutated into a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|25-foot tall monster]], with his left eye melted shut, as a result of massive and radioactive radium deposits.
** Similarly, in ''[[War of the Colossal Beast]]'' the titular "beast" is [[Was Once a Man|former Army officer Glenn Manning]], who was mutated into a scarred giant from the radiation of a plutonium bomb in a previous Gordon film, ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]''. Manning is revealed to have survived the atomic bomb explosion at the end of that film, though at the cost of his right eye - unlike ''The Cyclops'', his socket is visible and completely empty.
* In the [[Peter Jackson]] adaptations of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', Sauron is represented as an enormous fiery eyeball. The Great Eye is also his symbol in the book, though he's implied to still have a physical body that presumably has two eyes.
* ''[[Shrek]]'':
** In ''[[Shrek 2]]'', a cyclops serves as the bouncer of [[Bad Guy Bar|The Poisoned Apple]].
** In ''[[Shrek the Third]]'', the same cyclops is a minor antagonist, aiding Prince Charming in his attempt to take over Far Far Away. [[Minion with an F In Evil|He's not much of a villain]] though, and is in fact [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|a devoted father]] who often brings his cyclops daughter to work.
* In ''[[Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters]]'', two Cyclopes are among the monsters that pursued Thalia Grace and her friends on their way to Camp Half-Blood seven years prior - one of them ends up nearly killing Thalia after she wounds the other in the leg. Another Cyclops, a young and friendly one named Tyson, is a son of Poseidon that attends the camp. {{spoiler|Polyphemus also appears as the guardian of the Golden Fleece.}}
* In ''[[Cyclops Island]]'', the ten-minute sequel to ''[[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas]]'' (also known as ''Sinbad and the Cyclops Island''), Sinbad and his crew decide to spend their vacation on the tropical island of Krakatoa and end up fighting a tripe of Cyclopes.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* The [[Trope Namers]] are the Cyclopes of [[Classical Mythology]], of which there were two types:
** One was a group of people-eating giants - the most famous of them is Polyphemous from ''[[The Odyssey]]''.
** The other was a group of giants that worked in Hephaestus' forges, and were responsible for creating Zeus's thunderbolts among other things; these Cyclopes feature somewhat prominently in the first three ''[[Hymns of Callimachus]]''.
* [[Sinbad the Sailor]]
* [[Japanese Mythology|Japanese folklore]] is full of one-eyed creatures, including the Hitotsume Nyuudo (one eyed monk), the Aobozu (Blue Monk) and the Ippondatara (a giant with one eye and one leg).
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* The Cyclopean Ghoul in the ''Earthdawn'' supplement ''Scourge Unending''.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Pursuit to Kadath'', adventure "The All Seeing Eye of the Alskali". The title Alskali monsters, whose single eye can hypnotise their victims.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has had a variety of
**
** Zigzagged with the beholder, who has one big eye on its face but ten smaller eyes on eyestalks.
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' one of the Ogre kiths is the Cyclopean. They almost always have a missing eye and their mien makes it look like one central eye. They do come in other varieties though.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'':
** [[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 [[Cyber Cyclops]] and possibly a counterpart, as they share a Type and Attribute.
** [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 for a head, with the camera lens acting as its "eye".
** [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] and has a single red eye.
== [[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 ''[[
* Various ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''
** 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.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'':
** ''[[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]]'' add some examples:
*** 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 subverts this, as its body is composed of two swords (with one 'eye' gem for each sword); the final evolution Aegislash plays it straight, with more of an actual 'eye' situated where the blade and hilt of its body meet.
*** 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 possibly be another eye.
** ''[[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 few more still:
*** 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]]'':
** 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.
* 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.
* 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.
** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]] introduced its share of examples to start:
*** 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 animated statues that debut with the one-eyed design the use in many of the later games.
*** 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 appears as a boss in ''[[Titan Quest]]''. You also meet some other cyclopes while ascending {{spoiler|Mount Olympus}}.
* 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.
* In the NES game ''[[Day Dreamin' Davey]]'', there is a Cyclops that Davey has to destroy by attacking his eye in one Greek mythology stage. Of course, that "Cyclops" in his imagined state [[Would Hit a Girl|turns out to be a girl whom he just hit in the eye in class]]! [[Oh Crap]]!
* The Inkies and their leader in ''[[De Blob]]'' have one eye, which also functions as a mouth, or at least
* In the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' game for the [[PlayStation]], a cyclops guards King Valarian's island stronghold in the ''Isle of Kronos'' stage
* ''[[Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu]]'': Nyudo Monster, the fourth stage boss.
* ''[[Space Harrier]]'' had one-eyed woolly mammoths.
* 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.
** One of the deformed Powerpuff Clones seen near the end "Knock It Off" has an eyeball in place of their head.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'':
** 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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