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== [[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, inand follows Sinbad and the filmprincess into a cave; Sinbad baits a dragon into fighting the Cyclops, and 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.
* 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 their left eye. Their temple is designed after the forges of the cyclopesCyclopes in Callimachus' hymn (where they were blacksmiths who assisted Hephaestus)hymns, and features huge open furnaces and mountains of coal.
* ''[[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]].
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** 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 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.}}
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==