Go for the Eye: Difference between revisions

* This is the only way that the title cyborg girls from ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' can be killed due to their extensive cybernetic enhancement.

** Well, until the enemies start investing on [[Stuff Blowing Up|high-grade explosives]] and [[BFG|high caliber weaponry]].

* In ''[[Yaiba]]'', Silver's body is rubber-like everywhere, but his eye do bleed and is his weak spot. His brother Gold, however, avert this by having a rubbery eye too.

 

* In ''[[Brimstone (TV)|Brimstone]]'', the eyes of the fugitives from Hell are their only weak spot (because eyes are the windows to the soul), thus Zeke has to shoot their eyes to send them back. Interestingly enough, he's also immune to everything except the eyes.

** As the Devil points out, that's because Zeke is also a damned soul himself.

** 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 Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|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 T He Past (Video Game)|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.

*** The devs even have some fun with this. The boss of the Temple of Time is Armogohma, a giant spider with an eye on its back, which also serves as a weak point and a weapon. {{spoiler|Hilariously, the eye is revealed to be ''a smaller spider that was controlling the bigger spider!'' Even [[Heroic Mime|Link]] has a stunned look on his face.}}

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'' has the Phantoms, which are invulnerable except for the eye in their back, and even that can only be used to stun them for most of the game.

* The final boss in ''[[Mass Effect|Mass Effect 2]]'' has to be shot in one of three misshapen eyes. Or in the mouth. The stomach weak point isn't as easy, as it only rarely appears and is really hard to hit.

** Also, the Oculus at the beginning of the final mission is essentially a giant floating eyeball that shoots laser beams.

* In ''[[Pac-Man World]]'', King Galaxian has four eyes. You defeat it by destroying its eyes, but it becomes faster, uses more shots, and summons more difficult enemies after each eye is destroyed.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', one of the final bosses of the old world was the EYE of Eldrich Abombination Cthun. Merely defeating Cthun's eye was for a long time considered more difficult and hardcore than any of the raids that followed it.

** It also doubles in usefulness as it's intimidating as hell.

* In medieval plate armor the eye slit of the helmet was a very vulnerable spot. If it was too small the fighter would be almost blind. If it was too big, an arrow or crossbow bolt could pass through it and kill the fighter. During a battle a knight might lift his visor to get a better look at what was happening around him only to get shot right in the eye.

** Remains symbolically true of armored vehicles: any sort of viewing slit provides a gap in the armor, whereas a camera or other remote system is itself vulnerable to being shot off.

* Several surfers and swimmers attacked by sharks have managed to get away after landing a lucky punch in their eye.

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