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A '''Cyclopean Creature''' -- or informally just a "cyclops" -- is a character or creature that naturally only has one eye, and typically only one orbit for that eye. The term is derived from the Cyclopes of [[Classical Mythology]]: here, "cyclops" more accurately translates to "circle-eye" or "wheel-eye", referring to the eye's size rather than its number - the Cyclopes themselves were giants as well.
As a design trope, monocular vision is very occasionally symbolic of a narrow vision and lack of (figurative) perception,
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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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[X-Men]]'' member Scott Summers AKA Cyclops averts this - he has two eyes,
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▲* A couple appear as minor characters in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''. They're from an isolated family living in the swamps of Louisiana, and are born from generations of in-breeding.
== [[Film]] ==
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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 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.
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*** 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.
* Many enemies in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise sport a single eye, often as their [[Attack Its Weak Point|attacking its eye]]. Recurring examples include:▼
** ''[[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 Tektite is a one-eyed [[Giant Spider]] which often hops around the map. The recurring Gohma is a giant spider boss that can usually only be damaged by [[Attack Its Weak Point|attacking its eye]].▼
▲* Massmouth, from the ''
** Armos are animated statues that feature a one-eyed design in some of the games.▼
▲* Many enemies in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise sport a single eye, often as their [[
** Ghinis are one-eyed ghosts found solely around graveyards.▼
** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]]
** Eyegores are typically statue-like cyclopean beasts that are tough to damage, but are weak to arrows.▼
▲*** The Tektite is a one-eyed [[Giant Spider]] which often hops around the map
▲** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]] had its own share of examples to start:
▲*** Armos are animated statues that
▲*** 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
*** 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}}.
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* ''[[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.
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* 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 and Dorkus from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' are examples of this, with Saffi providing the page image.
* ''[[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]]''.
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** "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]].
** Big Billy of the Gangreen Gang is revealed to be one-eyed under his [[Blinding Bangs]] in "Schoolhouse Rocked".
** "Down n' Dirty" has Buttercup fighting
** One of the deformed Powerpuff Clones seen near the end "Knock It Off" has an eyeball in place of their head.
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** 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.
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