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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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*** 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.
* 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]]
** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]]
*** The Tektite is a one-eyed [[Giant Spider]] which often hops around the map
*** 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.
** Eyegores are typically statue-like cyclopean beasts that are tough to damage, but are weak to arrows.▼
▲** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]] had its own share of examples to start:
*** 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.
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