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The anti-[[Eye Scream]]. When even though in all likelihood one's eyes would be harmed during a fight, or in a nasty accident etc., the eyes remain, remarkably, unharmed. This is seen often in works trying to avoid being [[Squick
This is the case pretty much whenever you see a character with a big, deep scar over his eye.
Related to [[The Dead Have Eyes]]. The opposite of [[Go for
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In the [[Fist of the North Star]] movie, you get to see the nukes drop. There is a closeup of one unlucky soul caught in the epxlosion, and everything but his eyes disintegrates.
* Scar from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has a huge scar over both his eyes from an explosion, but then the one who did blow up his face could control the explosion very precisely and probably wanted him to suffer, not to die.
* Mello from ''[[
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', several characters have scars over their eyes (such as Shanks and Rayleigh) but their eyes are perfectly functional. After the [[Time Skip]], {{spoiler|Zoro}} subverts this trope by having his scarred eye permanently closed. He can still [[Badass|kick ass]], though.
* Claw from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' is a [[Subversion]]. He has a scar across his left eye, but unlike most characters with eye scars, his left eye is always closed.
* Subverted with Kakashi from ''[[
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* In ''[[X
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* A [[Terminator]] never loses its red eye, but always loses the eye covering.
** In this case, their eyes likely ARE unbreakable, or very near so.
* In ''[[A
** ... because they tilt their chins or are super-badasses who just need to scream their own name to gain an unbreakable shield?
* In the Japanese horror classic ''[[Audition]]'', the killer loves to sew eyes shut and poke needles under the eyes, but never harms the eye directly.
** [[Afraid of Needles|Still not enough D: in the world.]]
* Happens twice to the same guy in ''[[
* Partial aversion: [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]]. Lord Vader's eyes still function, but his corneas were burned away. This is why, when his mask is lowered onto his face in Episode III, the lenses have a red-tinted HUD.
* Played straight in ''[[Superman Returns]]'' when {{spoiler|a thug attempts to shoot the title character in his eye, the bullet crinkles on impact.}}
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Any Given Sunday]]'', to demonstrate the violence of football, in one scene, someone's eye is torn out and is lying on the field. While on the surface, this might seem to be a subversion of this trope, but in actuality, the eye itself is completely undamaged other than being removed from the socket (e.g., it's not crushed or even bloody). It's packed into a resealable plastic bag for (presumably) re-attachment.
* In ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', patients come in with all sorts of horrible conditions, and treatment has ranged from amputations, removal of one hemisphere of the brain, to death. However, not one single patient has yet lost an eye. The most severe damage eyes take is eyes turning red or yellow, or temporary blindness. Interestingly, when blindness has occurred, never has it been because of eye damage, but because of pressure to the optic nerve, a brain parasite, or brain damage. Blood may pour from every single orifice in the body, except eyes.
** {{spoiler|However, that's only if you don't count the Season Two Finale. Even if it [[All Just a Dream|never really happened]], we still saw a guy's eye burst out of its socket.}}.
* No corpses in ''[[
** A season 9 episode features a woman whose eyes have been gouged out by her killer's thumbs.
* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' poke each other in the eyes so much, it's a wonder they all can still see.
* The original [[Life Meter]] in ''[[Knightmare]]'' is a slowly disintegrating head. The eyes remain when all the other flesh has gone, and then outlast the skull. When they're all that's left, they look at each other before spinning away out of shot.
* In one episode of ''[[
** In another episode a serial killer specifically leaves the team an intact eye and they figure he cut it out from a dead or unconscious victim. It turns out that the eye was taken out during a violent struggle but remained intact.
* ''[[Torchwood
* Averted in ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' when {{spoiler|Gustavo Fring}} gets half their face blown off by {{spoiler|Walter's booby trap on Hector Salamanca's wheelchair}}. While the eye socket is shown mostly intact, it is completely empty.
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* [[Crash Bandicoot]]'s explosive-death animation leaves only his [[Smoldering Shoes|shoes]] and his eyes.
* This is one of the concessions to taste in ''[[Carn Evil]]'', along with your opponents' lack of internal organs. The unintentionally humorous result is that an opponent with no remaining face has its eyes bulging out of its ruined flesh. (Yes, this game has [[Gorn]] by the bucketload.)
* Semi-example: Sir Daniel Fortesque, the protagonist of ''[[
* In the ''Day of Sigma'' OVA for ''[[
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', hitting a hobo with too much cold damage causes it to shatter, leaving behind nothing but its eyes.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Pac-Man]]'' makes this [[Older Than the NES]]: When he [[Extreme Omnivore|eats a ghost]], its eyes remain.
* Keldorn and Imoen from ''[[
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', [[Your Head Asplode|blowing an enemy's head apart]] causes intact eyeballs to fly hither, thither and/or yon. This is almost certainly an application of the [[Rule of Funny]].
* If you throw a bundle of TNT sticks to an enemy with low energy in the ''[[Cadillacs and Dinosaurs]]'' arcade game, he will explode, leaving only his eyeballs flying away.
* Initially played straight in [[
* In ''[[Rise of the Triad]]'', the player routinely [[Ludicrous Gibs|gibs]] enemies, blasting them into chunky kibbles, but very often, a perfectly intact eyeball will slide down the screen.
* ''[[Prehistorik Man]]'' has the [[Looney Tunes]] version in [[Rise to
* The Facebook game "Zombie Lane" features sentry guns, powerful twin-barrelled cannon that blow zombies of all sizes to shreds if they come too close. One of the few bits large enough to land is an eyeball that bounces on the ground, and it is the last part of a killed zombie to fade.
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== Western Animation ==
* Common in [[Western Animation]], when characters' faces have something blow up in front of their face, turning their entire face chalky black. But not their eyes.
** The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cast can actually do more than [[Non
** Given the number of times Daffy Duck has had his bill blown off, he has amazingly never been poked in the eye. [[Fridge Logic]] would dictate that perhaps on at least one occasion, his bill should splinter and poke him in his eye.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'' a man shoots himself in the head, turning his face in a blackened splatter, but leaving his two, blinking eyes intact.
* Averted by Zuko in ''[[
* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Hudson has a scar across one eye. The eyeball itself is intact, but he is blind on that side.
* [[Averted]] in ''[[Thundercats 2011
* Combined with [[Smoldering Shoes]] for an [[Imagine Spot]] in ''[[My Life
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