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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The logo for CBS. Many viewers comparing notes on [http:[Main/Vanity/tvtropes.orgPlates/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/VanityPlatesNightmare Fuel|scary logos]] feel the CBS Eye is a [[Giant Eye of Doom]] -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGEhD9_UUE as shown here].
* Know that RX symbol you see on prescriptions? It represents the Eye of Horus from Egyptian mythology. Or the astrological symbol for Jupiter. Or, most likely, it's an abbreviation of the Latin imperative "recipe", meaning "take".
* Run for the hills! Its the animatronic eyeball monster!!! http://www.instructables.com/id/SKUB6JCF8JUW9KS/
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office:Information Awareness Office#The_IAO_sealThe IAO seal|original logo]] for the federal government's Information Awareness Office. They had to change it after people complained about a government project to mine civilian data [[Unfortunate Implications|being represented by an all-seeing eye]]
* The Adelaide Film Festival features people with giant eyes for heads.
* The [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Iraqi_General_Security_Directorate_logo.png Iraqi Directorate of General Security's logo] evokes this (appropriate for [[Secret Police|its]] [[State Sec|nature]]). Maybe the IIS' logo, too.
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