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* [[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.
** AnotherSimilarly, Bert Gordon film,in ''[[War of the Colossal Beast]]'', features a similar monster - 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]]'':
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