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* 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.
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* The [[Trope Namer]] is Harry Hamlin of the original [[Clash of the Titans]], who instructs this of his mechanical owl Bubo.
* Subverted in ''[[Superman (film)|Superman Returns]]'': as always, [[Shooting Superman]] fails.
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* Parodied in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]''. "Go for the eyes!" "It doesn't have any eyes!" "Then the nose, the throat, its vulnerable spots!" "It's ''rock'', it doesn't have any vulnerable spots!"
* This is how [[Kill Bill|The Bride]] defeated {{spoiler|Elle Driver, who had bad luck when it came to this trope.}}
* In ''[[Demon Knight]]'' this is one of the only ways to kill a demon, the other being to use the blood in the Key. This only works on weaker demons
* 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.
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* The Yellow Devil and its different incarnations in the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series.
* The Brain boss in the first stage of ''[[Gradius|Life Force]]''.
* In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', a miniboss, Nipper, is a [[Giant Enemy Crab]], and you defeat it by attacking its
** Lord Woo Fak Fak in ''Banjo Tooie'', once he's opened his eyes (apparently his eyelids are grenade-proof).
* Many of the bosses in ''[[Stinkoman 20 X 6]]''.
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