Giant Eye of Doom: Difference between revisions

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[[File:GiantEyeOfDOOM.jpg|link=Jurassic Park|frame|[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|I. Can. See!]] '''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|You!]]''']]

 

[[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]].

 

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]]''.

** 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.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

'''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.

{{quote|'''Sauron''': You cannot hide. I ''see you''.}}

** Bonus points for the eye being ''on fire''.

* 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.

* 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.

** [[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]]''.

== [[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''.

** 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]] ==

* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]],'' Beholders. Just... [[wikipedia:Beholder|Beholders!]]

** 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''.

* ''[[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 Giant Eye of Doom in its initial stage, complete with [[Eye Beams]]. Then it turns into a giant mouth with lots of little eyeballs sticking out of the sides. And it uses eyeball-tipped [[Combat Tentacles]] to attack players. There's also a standard creature model in the Outland zones that is [[Shout-Out|reminiscent]] of the famous [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]] Beholder.

* [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.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* [[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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