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[[File:cyclops2 2631.jpg|frame|It's bad when you get blinded by [[Odyssey|Nobody]].]]

 

 

 

No matter how thick the hide, hard the chitin, or magically impervious the body, the eyes are a natural weak spot for any creature that has them.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Near the beginning of ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'', Jubei confronts Tessai, a bad guy with the ability to harden his body like stone. Jubei casually mentions that he can't be invulnerable ''everywhere'', right before throwing a needle into his eye.

* In ''[[Ghost Rider]]'', the All-New Orb (whose entire head is a giant eyeball) is taken out by a trap that flung a board with a nail in it into his eye. He survived, but was temporarily blinded and gravely hurt.

* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', this was the way they killed Madcoil.

 

* In ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', the [[Power Armor]]-wearing Black Hand soldiers are [[Immune to Bullets]], except for their optics. The [[Humongous Mecha|Avatars]] have a similar weakness.

 

* What the human snipers does exactly against several Decepticons in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' during the climatic battle in Chicago, allowing [[Badass Army|NEST]] to take down a couple of them without Autobot aid.

** It's not just the Decepticon mooks that fall victim to this. [[Trope Namer|Star]][[The Starscream|scream]] is killed by having his eyes taken out and a grenade dropped inside his head through one of his now-empty eyesockets.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, the eyes are a [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon's weak point]].

** While not a fatal move in itself, Harry is greatly aided at the end of the second book, ''The Chamber of Secrets'', when {{spoiler|the basilisk he is facing gets its eyes plucked out, rendering it unable to use its [[One-Hit Kill]] ([[Unblockable Attack|and even still petrifying when reflected]]) gaze.}}

* ''[[Ender's Game]]'': {{spoiler|How Ender finally gets past the Giant's Drink in the fantasy game.}}

** Homaged in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''. {{spoiler|The Giant now wears a steel-reinforced eyepatch.}}

* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|A Horse and his Boy]]'', the Hermit (remotely watching a battle) observes that one of the Narnian Giants is down, "shot through the eye, I suppose."

* Brought up by a Klingon hunter in one ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel: while hunting a particularly large and aggressive beast as part of a contest with a just-discovered warrior race, he muses on how it's good sense to aim for the eye. Best-case scenario, your shot goes straight into its brain. If you hit, then you've at least partially blinded it, giving yourself an advantage.

* Similar to the Real Life spitting cobra example below, Pip of [[Allan Dean Foster]]'s Pip and Flinx novels prefers to aim at the eyes for her one-hit kill venom.

* This is how {{spoiler|Kaladin managed to kill a Shardbearer}} in ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'', he rammed a spearpoint through the visor slit in his armour.

 

* The Nigerian masked zombie-demon in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Dead Man's Party".

** This could be applied somewhat to Xander as well. Sure he's had an arm broken here and there, and has been beaten with a Troll God's Hammer, but all to little actual effect. It was only an attack on his eye that really harmed him.

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Daleks' eyepiece is the most susceptible to gunfire, though only comparatively.

** On more than one occasion, Daleks have been incapacitated by damaging or covering their single eyestalk: "My vision is impaired!! I can not see!!"

*** Notably avoided on one occasion. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllVlPQ1cuI&feature=related\] "MY-VISION-IS-NOT-IMPAIRED!"

** The show parodied this once in ''Remembrance of the Daleks''. After the Doctor repeatedly tells soldiers to shoot the Daleks in the eyepiece throughout the story, Ace ends up blowing one up entirely with a rocket launcher.

'''Ace''': [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I aimed for the eyepiece.]] }}

* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' episode "Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today," when Cameron is {{spoiler|confronting Cromartie}}, she aims shotgun slugs at his eyes, and manages to damage him enough to disable him.

 

* Despite being primarily a video game trope nowadays, this is actually [[Older Than Feudalism]]. How does Odysseus defeat the Cyclops Polyphemos? By shoving a burning stick in his eye.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

{{quote|"Go for the eyes, Boo! GO FOR THE EYES! EYYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!"}}

** The final battle of ''Shadows of Amn'' features the memorable line "Boo will finish his eyeballs so he will not rise again!"

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games use this trope often. Most of the examples are different iterations of Gohma.

** This is so common in the series that they incorporated it into puzzles, starting in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', in which a statue of a cyclopean monster acts as a switch when shot in the eye. In the first 3-D games, an ornate eye on the wall would act similarly.

** A ''lot'' of bosses in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]''. Scaldera, Moldarach, Tentalus, Levias, Bilocyte...

** Basically, if it's got a big eye, you're probably supposed to shoot at it.

* Phantoon from ''Super [[Metroid]]'' can only be damaged when his eye is open as well.

** The second type of boss in ''[[Metroid Prime]]: Hunters'', which are almost nothing ''but'' huge, floating eyes.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In one episode on ''[[Adventure Time]]'', [[Kid Hero|Finn]] defeats an [[Eldritch Abomination]] by stabbing it in its [[Call Back|crystal eye]], and throwing it in a pit.

 

 

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