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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has the Doll Soldiers, which are one-eyed [[Zombie Mooks]] who look at lot like [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVAs]], except those were [[Eyeless Face]].
** Also, although his initial [[One-Winged Angel]] form is [[Extra Eyes]] / [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]], Father takes on a cyclops appearance right before crossing the [[Bishonen Line]].
* Gold And Silver from ''[[Yaiba]]''. In the latter case, it's also his weakpoint. (Gold's eye is just as [[Rubber Man|bouncy]] as everything else).
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* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]'' had a one-eyed centaur.
** So does 2007's TMNT.
* 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 one eye (their left). Their temple which features huge open furnaces and mountains of coal is also a reference to the cyclopes in Callimachus' hymn in [[Greek Mythology]] where they were blacksmiths who assisted Hephaestus.
* Rell in ''[[Krull]]''.
* B.O.B. in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]''.
* Many of the minions in ''[[Despicable Me]]''.
* There is a giant cyclops in ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'' as one of the Titans. The series also included smaller cyclopes. The Fates from the same movie also shared one eye between the three of them, with one even having only one eye socket in the middle of her face.
* Agent Wendy Pleakley from ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In Classic ''[[Doctor Who]]'' the ambassador from Alpha Centauri in the "Peladon" stories is from a Cyclopean species.
== Mythology ==
* The trope namer are the cyclopses of [[Classical Mythology]], the most famous of which is Polyphemous from ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''.
** There were two types--one group were people-eating giants, the others were also giants, but worked in Hephaestus' forges.
** The other kind of giants were the Hekatonkheires, hundred-armed giants. Now imagine a Hekatonkheir playing tennis against a Cyclops...
* [[Sinbad the Sailor]] has met a Cyclops in the Polyphemous mold before.
* 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).
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* 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 and Dragons]]'' has had a variety of cyclops:
** [[Greek Mythology]] version in the 1st Edition ''Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia''
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* ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'', being based on [[Greek Mythology]], has these as recurring enemies in a few varieties. A common method of finishing them off is to [[Eye Scream|rip their eyes out]], which you can [[Twenty Bear Asses|trade in for goodies]].
* Several [[Pokémon]] including Magnemite, Unown, Beldum, Dusclops, Dusknoir, and Sigilyph.
* Massmouth, from the ''[[Doom]]'' [[Game Mod]] series ''The Adventures of MassMouth''. (He was originally a [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]]'', including [[Giant Spider|Tektites]], [[Man-Eating Plant|Diababa]], and most famously, [[Attack Its Weak Point|Gohma]].
* 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]]}}.
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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 on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* Biclops on ''[[Chalk Zone]]'' only had one eye before Rudy drew him his second one.
* Kang and Kodos from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[Halloween Special|Halloween Specials]].
* A Cyclops appears on the ''[[Shrek]]'' movies as the bouncer on [[Bad Guy Bar|The Poisoned Apple]].
* [[Meaningful Name|Iris]] from ''[[Ruby Gloom]]''.
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