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[[File:jacobsladder.jpg|link=Jacob's Ladder|frame|...oh God. I think I need my [[Bring My Brown Pants|brown pants]].]]

 

{{quote|''They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea''

 

Compare with [[Hidden Eyes]], which is a temporary, metaphorical implementation of this. Contrast [[Extra Eyes]], where the character in question has too many eyes. Related to [[The Blank]]. And if something doesn't have eyes on their face, they may have them [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|somewhere else]]. Not to be confused with [[Rob Liefeld|Young]][[Clint Squint|blood's]] [[Atop the Fourth Wall|disease]]. Justified if [[Bizarre Alien Senses]] are used in place of vision.

 

* The Mass Production EVAs from ''[[End of Evangelion]]''. It isn't a human face though. Take a snake. Paint it white. Give it massive red lips, and a big block of square teeth. Now take its eyes away. And make it constantly smile, even when having its head blown off, back snapped, stabbed through the head.

* [http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Truth Truth] from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. He/she/it usually appears as [[The Blank]]. Sometimes we see a grin on Truth's face, but never any eyes.

* [[Digimon Frontier|Mercuremon]]'s "face" is just a mirror with lips painted on it. No nose. No eyes. Just a mouth.

* Marvel's [[Batman]]-[[Expy]] the Shroud had his eyes burnt off by means of steaming hot iron being pressed in his face. To prevent the readers from [[Squick|spazzing out by seeing burnt eyes and molten flesh]] it's toned down to just scarred flesh. He's a [[Daredevil]]-esque hero, with supersenses and a [[Disability Superpower]].

* Probe from the Jaime Reyes ''[[Blue Beetle]]'' has psychic powers and no eyes, which she disguises with sunglasses. She mentions that she hasn't had any easy time growing up without eyes.

 

== [[Film]] ==

*** {{spoiler|When she was captured by the Sith, they must have found it creepy as well. [[Eye Scream|She woke up to find her new master had carved out large pockets of flesh to imitate eye sockets.]] The scars apparently never faded.}} [[Fridge Horror|This is why she never takes off her hood.]]

* The main character in ''[[Jacob's Ladder|Jacobs Ladder]]'' is haunted by the supremely disturbing figures pictured above, though you eventually learn that {{spoiler|they're actually Angels helping him leave his past behind and enter heaven.}}

* The grim oracles in ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' had no eyes, but traded a single crystal between them to see.

** This is based on the mythical Graeae, or 'Grey Ones'--three women who were born old, with one eye and one tooth between them.

** To be specific, the employee was created from the memory of a character who never noticed anything about his "real" incarnation but his acne. Therefore, his face is a solid mass of oozing pimples.

* The Myrddaal from ''[[The Wheel of Time]]''.

* [[The Blank|The Harrowing]] in [[Simon R. Green]]'s ''[[Nightside]]'' series.

* Moonbeasts from [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s ''Dream Quest to Unknown Kadath'' have no eyes. Or even a face—just a tangle of writhing slimy tentacles where it should be. The god Nyarlatothep is also occasionally described as having an eyeless face (or a mask that covers his eyes)...when he doesn't have one huge tentacle ''instead of a face''.

* The Dementors in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' normally have their faces hidden by hoods, but are described as having faces with no eyes (only skin over where the eye sockets should be) and giant round sucking mouths.

* The aptly-named Blind Io of ''[[Discworld]]'', of which he is arguably the chief god (or once was, real estate in Dunmanifestin moves around fairly quickly). He has eyes, but they don't spend any time in his head.

* In the future-evolution book ''After Man'', most bats have completely lost their eyes, making room on their faces for additional echolocation-enhancing folds and depressions.

* There's a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel called ''The Eyeless''. Although that is ''not'' the creepiest thing about the [[Hive Mind]] aliens who harvest "trophies" and absorb them into their transparent bodies. In fact, the creepiest one ''does'' [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|have eyes]].

* Every creature in Wayne Barlowe's ''Expedition'' is eyeless, save for one creature that sports what ''might'' be a single (retractable!) eye. Semi-subverted in the case of those species whose nostrils or breathing-spiracles are positioned so they ''resemble'' eyes.

 

* The Harbingers or Bringers in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' have scarred flesh instead of eyes. "Crazy alphabet eyes".

* A consequence of the horrific [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aY7XH2ulTEU Helvetica Scenario] in the first series of ''[[Look Around You]]''. In the second series of ''Look Around You'', Prince Charles falls into this category.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** The Grimlocks are another eyeless ''D&D'' race.

** Doppelgangers are an inversion, they have eyes but no other facial features in their natural form.

* The Lesser and Greater Minions of the Eyeless Face in ''[[Exalted]]''.

* The ''[[Scarred Lands]]''—After the gods won the war against their parent Titans, they sealed them since they could never be killed. One of the Titans, Kadum the Mountain Shaker, was chained and flung into the deepest oceans, where the sea now runs red from his constantly bleeding wound where his heart was cut out. As a result of the exposure, all nearby sea life became tainted by the Titan's blood. One of these beings were the Blood Maidens, who look like beautiful women with long black hair and pale skin. When seeing their faces, the creature's monstrous nature becomes clear. Instead of a normal face, the blood maiden has only a giant circular, eyeless maw, like a lamprey.

* Every native species on the planet of ''Jorune'', good or bad, is like this, because they navigate by sensing life energy instead of light.

* NPCs in ''[[Suikoden Tactics]]'' who aren't important to the plot have eyeless character portraits.

* Many creatures in the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' series, if they have a face at all.

** Deino and Zweilous from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' may seem to have [[Blinding Bangs]] at first glance. Until you find out that their Pokedex entries state that they have no eyes and cannot see, instead relying on their sense of smell to move around (Which Justifies their Hustle ability, increased attack power for lowered accuracy).

* In ''Skullgirls'', Peacock can classify as an eyeless face. What look like her eyes technically are fake and don't work at all, as her real eyes were gored out. The eyes on her arms are the only way she can see now that she's a cyborg.

* Piranha Plants in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', seeing as they're based off of Venus flytraps, which consist of nothing but a "mouth" and a stalk.

* Crazy 8's driver No Face from ''[[Twisted Metal Black]]''. He is still able to drive, because he can somehow sense what's around him.

 

== Web Animation ==

''(They turn around)''

'''Eyeless Hermes''': "...'''Ever'''." }}

* Mr. Lunt from ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' is a gourd with no eyes. More silly than creepy.

** Many characters from ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' don't have eyes. Most cover them with hats, Pa Grape switches between glasses and hats.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* All of the adult characters in ''[[Homestuck]]'' are drawn with eyeless faces. Some - Jade's Grandpa, John's Nanna, and Dave's Bro - wear glasses, but the eyes still can't be seen through them. This has been confirmed to be only stylistic: they do actually have eyes. On a more literal level, [[Physical God|Doc Scratch]] has no eyes at all, since his head is a blank cueball; fellow [[Physical God]] [[Big Badass Wolf|Becquerel]] doesn't either, but no-one's sure if he really doesn't or if it's also stylistic.

** Dead characters have blank, white eyes without pupils, but can still see. {{spoiler|Sollux}} had his eyes burned out, leaving him with only empty sockets, after losing a duel against {{spoiler|Eridan}}.

* Does the ''[http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/The-Biting-Pear-of-Salamanca-29677500 Biting Pear of Salamanca]'', aka the [[Memetic Mutation|LOL WUT Pear]] belong here?

** Well, the "creepy" factor comes from the fact that it has ANY facial features when it shouldn't, not the other way around...

** A similar symptom is when a child is born with their skin covering over their eyes. This can be a result of radiation in the environment. This looks actually freakier than bilateral anophthalmia (who look like their lids are permanently closed), since the children born with this condition appear to have nothing but smooth skin where their eyes should be.

* Laura Bridgman was one of the first deaf-blind Americans to be educated, decades before Helen Keller. Usually she wore a silk band around her eyes, or dark glasses, but there is one picture taken for medical reasons that shows her without them. It takes you a minute to realize you're looking into nearly empty sockets. She actually did have eyes, but the rest of the story is moderate [[Eye Scream]].

* The late Raymond Robinson, aka the Green Man aka Charlie No-Face.

* A mature flounder embodies both this trope and [[Extra Eyes]], as one of its eyes shifts to the other side of its body as it grows up.

 

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[[Category:Otherness Tropes]]

[[Category:Bizarre Alien Biology]]

[[Category:Eye Tropes]]

[[Category:Horror Tropes]]