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{{trope}}
[[File:GiantEyeOfDOOM.jpg|link=Jurassic Park|frame|[[
[[In Which a Trope Is Described|A scene in which]] a character has a huge eye staring at them. In many cases, the character won't notice even this - [[Scare Chord|at least not until they turn around and find themselves face-to-eyeball]].
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Not to be confused with [[He Who Fights Monsters|The Abyss Gazes Also Into You]]. Unless it does.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Fan Nickname|Superchunky]]'s eye at the end of the Soul Society arc in ''[[Bleach]]''.
* The "giant eye looking through a window" variant happens completely randomly and inexplicably in ''[[Cat Soup]]'' - [[Surreal Horror|not that it seems]] [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|out of place]] [[Widget Series|or anything]].
* The Truth (as seen through the gate) in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is pretty much dozens of this with [[Slasher Smile
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' had this in the second episode. Shinji just witnessed Unit-01 going berserk and kill an Angel... then he notices that the reflection of its exposed eye is looking directly at him. Needless to say, it freaks him out real good.
** And later when it goes berserk again and '''eats''' an Angel, it is wrapped in bandages with only its eye and a toothy grin being seen.
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** Shibata Hajime has indirectly fallen here. Ren summoned his eye on Hajime's chest to scare away a shopskeeper who was about to tell him about the whereabouts of Mina.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', Aki's first encounter with an [[Eldritch Abomination|Earthbound God]]. When Misty summons her God, she looks around, confused... only to turn around and [[Oh Crap|see]] Ccaryhua's massive eye staring at her through what's at least the twentieth story of the building's she in.
== [[Card Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=1436 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore] and its ''Time Spiral'' [[Shout-Out]], the even more obvious [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=83811 Evil Eye of Urborg].▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Used memorably in ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', as illustrated above. Also appears in the
* ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]''. "Jiminy Christmas! It's a machine!"
* ''[[Enchanted]]'' has this moment:
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'''Troll:''' I ''eat you now!'' }}
* This happens in the American version of ''[[Godzilla]]''. The soldiers searching New York's [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]] for the creature come to the end of a blocked tunnel, and turn to search somewhere else. As they do so the "rubble" blocking the tunnel turns out to be Godzilla's eyelid.
* The ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies do this several times with the Great Eye of Sauron, most memorably: the first time Frodo puts on the Ring, he turns around and...
{{quote|'''Sauron''': You cannot hide. I ''see you''.}}
** Bonus points for the eye being ''on fire''.
** Parodied in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* Used in the "It's a Good Life" segment of ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]''.
* In ''[[Shrek]]'', the appearance of the dragon is when a gigantic eye peers at Donkey through the gap in a broken castle wall.
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* Victor Hugo wrote a poem about an eye stalking Cain wherever he went. At the end, he digs a grave for himself, goes to live in it, and the eye is still there. The last line - "L'?il était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn" ("The eye was in the grave and looking at Cain") - is proverbial in French.
* Happens in the ''[[Discworld]]'', in a fashion. A character sees a giant eye in front of them, which turns out to be an [[The Igor|Igor]] wearing a huge magnifying lens. When he removes it the sight is slightly less terrifying.
** There's also this [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' in ''Going Postal'': "It's not working, Mr. Stibbons! Here's that damn enormous fiery eye again!"
** [[Cosmic Horror|Bel-Shamharoth]] does this to Rincewind just before It intends to eat him. {{spoiler|This bites Bel-Shamharoth on the tentacled butt. The camera Rincewind is holding at the time takes a picture and flashes into the monster's eye. It appears that even the creature so terrifying that both Death and Time are afraid of, can't stand a bright camera flash.}}
* The Crayak in ''[[Animorphs]]''.
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* In ''[[My Teacher Is an Alien|My Teacher Flunked the Planet]]'', there's an alien that's supposed to [[Stealth Pun|keep an eye on]] the main characters in the basement. Them main characters ask if they can come in. He tells them they can't. As he explains that they literally ''can't'' come in, they open the door to find a giant eye. He takes up the entire basement.
** Of course, s/he can squirm around enough to be fed. In practical terms, this means that opening the basement door could greet you with an enormous eye or ''a door-sized mouth''.
* At the end of ''[[Jonathan Strange
* The horror novelette ''Slimer'' by Harry A. Knight has a scene where the characters are looking through a porthole in the door at something weird, and gradually realise it's a giant eyeball pressed up against the glass, staring back at them.
* This happens in a couple of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' adaptations (the [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Disney version]] and the one with Fiona Fullerton) when Alice grows too large in the White Rabbit's house. The animals look at the "monster" in the house and freak.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''Nature's Way'' (Gary Larson's comic prior to ''[[The Far Side]]'') had a comic with a woman peering into a fishbowl and staring at a goldfish while an enormous monster is peering into her window and staring at ''her''.
** One ''[[The Far Side]]'' comic showed a driver looking at the rear-view mirror and seeing it filled with the image of a giant eye, and underneath we see the message, "{{
** Another ''[[The Far Side]]'' comic involved an old woman calling her neighbor on the telephone. "Hello, Mabel? It's Ethel, from up the street...fine, thanks. Say, I wonder if you could go to your front window and describe what's in my front yard." At her window is a humongous eyeball.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲=== [[Card Games]] ===
* In ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]],'' Beholders. Just... [[wikipedia:Beholder|Beholders!]]▼
▲* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s [https://web.archive.org/web/20081002175037/http://ww2.wizards.com/
=== Tabletop RPG ===
** On a related note, the discovery of a gigantic slumbering dragon (huge eye included) inside a mountain kicks off events in ''Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God''.
* An edition or two ago, the cover of the ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' core rulebook showed a pair of investigators finding a giant, unmistakably alien eye taking up one whole end of a cavern.
* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]''. As shown by the cover of the [[wikipedia:File:Paranoia XP.png|Paranoia XP]] game, Friend Computer is often depicted as being one of these.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Kirby]]'' has several times fought Dark Matter. In Kirby's Dream Land 3 and ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards|Kirby 64]]'' at least, he is constantly staring at you; in the former, the final boss's final form ''is'' a Giant Eye Of Doom that shoots its blood as an attack.
* The [[Cosmic Horror|Overmind]] in '''[[
* ''[[Touhou]]'' has Evil Eye Sigma, who appeared as the extra boss of Story of Eastern Wonderland... and was promptly forgotten.
* C'thun, [[Final Boss]] of the Ahn'Qiraj dungeon in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', is literally a
** And in the second expansion, the player is sent on a quest to destroy a [[The Lord of the Rings|gigantic, magical eye on top of a tower]] in the <s> Ice Mordor</s> Icecrown zone to prevent the current [[Big Bad]] from observing the good guys invading his turf. For some added hilarity, the quest is called "It's All Fun and Games".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAmhzitRTA Digdogger] from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]'', as well as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-mjoAkBNI Gohma] from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''. Both were in [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|the original NES game]] as well, along with Patra, a squadron of giant flying eyeballs.
** And then there's Wart from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]''. He's a giant freaking eye covered in what look like fish eggs. And how does the fight start? You look up at him, only to suddenly have the camera zoom in so much that his eye's taking up most of the screen.
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* The scene in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' at the Northern Crater when the WEAPONS awaken. One of them blinks at Rufus and the others through the transparent wall.
* In ''[[La-Mulana]]'', Viy, the [[Boss Battle|Guardian]] of the [[Lethal Lava Land|Inferno Cavern]], is so huge his body doesn't fit on the screen, but the part of it you can see consists of tentacles and an eye roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle with a lid so heavy that Viy has minions whose entire purpose is to lift it.
* Any Gaze attack in ''[[
* There's one of these in ''[[Eversion]]''.
* Corbenik's [[Sequential Boss|final form]] in ''[[.hack|.hack//quarantine]]'' is an enormous eye, with hundreds of other Giant Eyes of Doom flying about in the background. All of the other Phases in the games had eyespot markings on them somewhere, foreshadowing this. Naturally, the battle has plenty of [[Eye Beam
* This happens with the player character in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''... as in, it's Bowser who's the one glaring through the window just before fighting the Fawful Express. Especially fitting after Bowser has used fire breath to practically blow up the windscreen of the train a second ago.
* One of the bosses in ''[[Turok (series)|Turok 2: Seeds of Evil]]'' on the N64 was called Golden Eye (a [[Take That]] at [[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|a certain other N64 shooter]]), and was just a giant eyeball (with [[Combat Tentacles]]). Turok stumbles into its lair, unaware what lurks there [[He Was Right There All Along|until pretty much the entire ceiling blinks at him]].
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* In the ''Chzo Mythos'' games, this is basically what you see of the titular Elderitch Abomination.
* The [[Final Boss]] of the NES version of ''[[Legendary Wings]]'' is a giant [[Cyber Cyclops|cybernetic eye]] of doom.
* [[media:
* The Eye of Big Brother in ''I, Robot''. Jumping while it is open results in death.
* Eyebot in ''[[Heavy Weapon]]'', whose design is based off a tentacled [[Eldritch Abomination]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* This is how [[Cosmic Horror|Korrok]] usually appears in ''[[John Dies at the End]]''. The entire wall between universes is the window, and you may or may not see his giant, blue, lidless eye peeking through at you at any given time. And if you accuse him of ripping off of [[The Lord of the Rings|Sauron]], he'll [[Psychopathic Manchild|call you a fag]].
* [[The Dragon|The Observer]] from ''[[Tribe Twelve]]'' uses a giant eyeball as a way of telling Noah [[Paranoia Fuel|I'm always watching]].
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