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Having some '''Extra Eyes''' can become Nightmare Fuel if done right or [[Nightmare Retardant]] is done with [[Special Effects Failure]] (although if done wrong, it can still be freaky).
Contrast [[Eyeless Face]], where it's the ''lack'' of eyes that's freaky, or [[
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== Anime
* Lilith in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
** Also Unit-02, which has four eyes.
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* Eye-ful Ethel, an Earth native rejected from the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]''.
* The demon lord Trigon of [[DC Comics]] fame and many of his servants sport an extra pair of eyes.
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== Live
* ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'': "It May Look Like A Walnut," they do a science fiction episode as [[All Just a Dream]] where people live on walnuts and water (which they call "air") and grow eyes in the back of their heads after watching a scary movie.
** [[The Other Wiki]]'s description of it is awesome: "Under the influence of science fiction, Rob fears that a walnut will steal his imagination and his thumbs. Danny Thomas guest-stars." Somebody must have been [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|tripping]].
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== Music
* A great deal of Tool's music videos are a fan of this.
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* This trope is [[Older Than Feudalism]] with [[wikipedia:Argus Panoptes|Argos Panoptes]], or Argos Many-eyes, a giant in Greek mythology who had four eyes (or two faces) in early versions of his myth, and 100 eyes all over his body in later stories.
* Descriptions of Angels in ''[[The Bible]]'' portray them as having multiple eyes, wings, and heads (and many combinations thereof). Since most of these are in the symbol-heavy apocalyptic genre, they are probably not meant to be taken literally.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Ofanim, a type of angel also known as "The Wheels", are described in [[The Bible]] as covered in eyes:
{{quote|As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. ... Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
|[https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Ezekiel%201:15%E2%80%9318 Ezekiel 1:15-16,18}}
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