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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.
** ''[[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.
▲* Massmouth, from the ''
* Many enemies in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' franchise sport a single eye, often as their [[Aim for the Eye|weak point]], and many of them are recurring enemies as well.
** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The first game]] introduced its share of examples to start:
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