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Ah. Made you wince, didn't it?
The [[Eye Scream]] is when the creator of a work takes advantage of our [[Primal Fear]] of having something utterly horrible happen to our eyes, usually involving the invasion of the eye sockets by a foreign body, and [[Nightmare Fuel|plays it up for all its worth]]. All its squishy, bloody, traumatic worth.
Academically, this is known as the ''Injury to the Eye Motif''. It also has strong [[Freud Was Right|Freudian ties]] to genital mutilation.
An interesting commonality in these examples is that one of the best ways to quickly show a character has [[Go Mad
Usually accompanied with [[Reflective Eyes]], so we can get a nice and nasty glimpse of the incoming foreign object. See also [[Go for the Eye]], [[A Handful for
Likewise, a [[Groin Attack]] can invoke the same [[Squick|primal reaction]]. Compare [[Fingore]], [[Agony of the Feet]] and [[Ear Ache]]. Contrast [[Eyes Are Unbreakable]]. If the character survives it often results in an [[Eyepatch of Power]].
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