History Main / EyesDoNotBelongThere

* Literature/TheBible describes some angels as having eyes on all sides of their bodies, making this OlderThanFeudalism. Among these angels are angelic beings referred to as Ophans or Ophanim. They make an appearance in the book of Ezekiel and are described as looking like beryl colored wheels within wheels with rims full of eyes. It seems angels, in true Abrahamic tradition, are terrifying beings of grotesque body horror. Jewish tradition describes Azrael, the angel of death, with a body consisting of ''nothing but eyes'' and Christian tradition also includes tongues whose number corresponds to the number of people inhabiting the Earth. Metatron, the Face of God and Heavenly Scribe in Jewish mysticism, is said to have a million eyes (and mouths) all over his body. Several Angels and other celestial beings have strange number or placement of eyes, such as ''hundreds covering their wings''. Turns out there was more than one reason to start every conversation with "Do not be afraid"!

* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''. Mater is a little freaked out by a Parisian car whose eyes are in her headlights instead of her windshield like every other car. [[FridgeHorror (Somewhat understandable when you remember what the headlights stood in for briefly in the first movie).]]

* Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head from ''Franchise/ToyStory'' can remove their eyes to see from different angles.
* One alien in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' has a set of eyes inside his mouth. [[AllThereInTheManual Outside material in a Disney magazine]] states that it enables his species to get a good look at what they're eating.

* In ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', the ghostly Maitlands [[NightmareFace deform their faces to look scarier]]; Adam ends up with eyes on his fingertips, Barbara with eyes in her mouth.

* The Stygian Witches in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' have to ''share'' a single (magical) eye between the three of them.
* One of the [[{{Kaiju}} giant monsters]] in the Japanese comedy/drama ''Dai Nipponjin'' (released in America as ''Film/BigManJapan'') has no head and carries a giant eye on its hands (though in this case, it represents a [[spoiler: giant penis]]).
* One of the more watchable bits of the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' movie is a scene where a soldier sees somebody's eyes opening in the darkness, and calls out assuming it's the scientist he's looking for. Then all of the figure's ''other'' eyes open, all over its head...
* In ''Film/TheGate'', an eye grows out of protagonist's hand. [[EyeScream He stabs it.]]
* As depicted (with [[{{Narm}} unintentionally hilarious]] results) in the 1986 film ''Gothic'', the poet Percy Shelley had recurring nightmares about a woman with eyes where her nipples should be. It was inspired by the real-life account of his experiencing that horrific vision after a reading of Coleridge's "Cristabel."
* The Tao Tie from ''Film/TheGreatWall'', which resemble large, reptilian hyenas. Their eyes are located on their shoulders (a slight [[SadlyMythtaken departure from their mythological inspiration]] which had them on its ''armpits'') and notably were the creatures's sole weak spot, killing them instantly once their eyes were pierced by spears and arrows. The [[HiveQueen queen of the Tao Tie]] is an aversion, however, being distinguished from her lesser troops by having her eyes on her face.
* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', the Angel of Death had eyes all over its wings... but none on its face. Creepifying. From the same director as the above ''Pan's Labyrinth'', and, in fact, the same actor. This is clearly based on Azrael, the Angel of Death from Islamic legend. He has an eye on his wings for ''every living thing'', which close as they die. ''Way'' cooler than that pansy knitting stuff.
* Topper Harley from ''Film/HotShots!'' has his father's eyes. Literally. He keeps them in a little velvet case.
* In the 1993 movie ''Film/KamenRiderZO'', there's a bat monster whose eyes are on its palm, much like the Pale Man seen above.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', the {{Kaiju}} Mutavore has eyes on her lower jaw.
* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', there's a mossy plant covered with eyes that watches Jennifer Connelly. Don't blame it a bit.

* In the 1959 horror film ''Film/TheManster'', an eyeball growing on a character's shoulder is the first sign that [[EnemyWithin something weird is happening]] to his body.
* The Pale Man from ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' has eyes on his palms, and provides the page image.
* The two aliens from ''Film/WhamBamThankYouSpaceman'' have their eyes [[BrainBleach between their legs]]...
* In ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'', Mark's wish for Linda to be able to see again results in her sprouting multiple eyes across her torso.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "The New Breed", a man whose body is being involuntarily upgraded by injected {{Nanomachines}} finds that the source of the sudden pain on the back of his head is a new pair of eyes.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has a few of these in containment:

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Lowing Shaensigin's exteral eye sockets are empty, but he has two large blue eyes inside his mouth.

** Another one, Tenome, wears its two eyes on the palms of its hands. And yes, the Pale Man from ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' is supposed to be one.

** Utsuho [[ILoveNuclearPower Reiuji]] has a huge red eye on her chest. It doesn't look entirely unlike [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]].

* Mr. Potato Head remove his eyes to see around corners in the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.

** Osmund Saddler from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', when he goes OneWingedAngel. To be fair, those eyes were technically on his face; his face just happened to sprout legs and combat tentacles. Even before that, he had an eye ''in his mouth''. Like, his lips were eyelids.

* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In Episode 3, the helpers of the Order of Twelve don’t have eyes in their heads, but several mobile eyes floating around their bodies. Stevil can even use his eyes to trap people, like Mooncake.

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** Crayfish have an extra eye on their ''tails'' (that one does not form images though, but responds vigorously to a passing shadow).

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* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In Episode 3, the helpers of the Order of Twelve don’t have eyes in their heads, but several mobile eyes floating around their bodies. Stevil can even use his eyes to trap people, like Mooncake.

** Ragna, the "main" character, has a gauntlet/[[spoiler: magical prosthetic arm]] with a red eye-like design on the back of the hand. The eye even opens widely when he uses his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Blood Kain]] ability. Note that RobotGirl Nu-13 has a virtually identical eye-design that she wears as an {{eyepatch|OfPower}}, one of many hints that the two characters are connected. The True Ending reveals that these "eyes" are [[note]]fake[[/note]][[spoiler:Azure Grimoires.]]

** Hakumen has red eyes on his shoulders wrists, and shin. Mu-12 has the same ones on her armor's shoulders.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': This could be the game's friggin' tagline. Eyes show up in all sorts of places they really shouldn't; studded all over heads, on enemies' bodies, on brains, in place of one boss's teeth, as eyeball spiders, on scenery, on lanterns, and so on. Gaining Insight is also often referred to as 'lining one's brain with eyes.' [[spoiler: And then you realize that most of these monsters are the results of Byrgenwerth/Healing Church experiments on gaining Insight, and suddenly lining your brain with eyes sounds ''uncomfortably literal''...]]

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' totes so many eyes eyes. Many of the ''things'' more heavily affected by the eldritch powers sprouting from the Darkest Dungeon have eyes peppered ''everywhere'', most notable being the Flesh, [[BlobMonster an amalgamation of constantly-mutating pork from failed summoning experiments]]. [[spoiler:As it turns out, blinking black beady eyes in the entirely wrong places is a hallmark of the Heart of Darkness, the EldritchAbomination the Ancestor came into contact with.]]

** Taken UpToEleven in chapter 700+5 of the New Era's Gaiden series, [[spoiler: the new BigBad not only has a whole armful of Sharigan like Danzo, he also has several on the back, the side and the top of his head.]]

** Taken UpToEleven in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' with [[spoiler:Unicron]] and an eye inside his spark chamber.

* Dark Samus/[[spoiler:Metroid Prime]] in the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' series has an eye on the back of her hand, for apparently no reason [[RuleOfScary except to look scary as hell when she first appears]]. This actually makes some sense, because the [[AllThereInTheManual manual for Metroid 2]] says the PowerCrystal that Samus has in the same place is a sensor. However, it's unknown if the makers of the Prime series knew that at the time. The eye is absent in from Dark Samus' hand in Prime 2. [[spoiler:Absent until the climax where Dark Samus has been exposed to so much phazon that its insides are visible. At this point the eye on its hand can also be seen.]]
** Phantoon is a bulbous tentacled ghost creature with a large eyeball inside its mouth.

* One of the enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' consists of a wheel with a huge eye in the center. Even better though, the locks in the game consist of a single giant eye and mouth. You unlock them by ''[[EyeScream driving the key right into the eye]]''.
** One of the bosses, the Spider Queen (or "Prostitute Spider" in the original translation). It's scary enough her head is just an eyeless giant mouth complete with oversized mandibles, but her abdomen can open up like a flower bud which has 8 EYEBALLS for petals. Yikes.

* ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'': When the medical team splits up to get away from [[spoiler: Trevor]], he appears to watch them with a multitude of eyes through the ventilation system, and it’s not clear where on his body they have formed.

* ''{{Webcomic/Unsounded}}'': Lowing Shaensigin's exteral eye sockets are empty, but he has two large blue eyes inside his mouth.
* In [=WolfPearl's=] comic ''Webcomic/{{Wurr}}'', Iralbe the hell hound has two eyes set into his tongue, which open when he pants and close when he retracts his tongue. His empty eye sockets are covered in heat-sensing pits instead.

* One monster in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' was a large floating sphere completely covered in eyes. It could also shoot lasers from any of them. Hence, it effectively shut the girls down in combat as any attempt they made to get close resulted in the monster spotting her and zapping her. Conveniently, Blossom's poorly-cut hair made the monster laugh so hard, it shut all of its eyes, allowing Bubbles and Buttercup to damage it.

** The Grey Sisters of Greek myth were [[RuleOfThree three old hags]] that shared between them a single eye and a single tooth, making this an example of FacelessEye and EyelessFace. Perseus got information about Gorgons from them by stealing the eye and holding it hostage. After getting what he needed, he threw the eye into the cave so that the sisters would be too preoccupied "[[IncrediblyLamePun looking]]" for it to chase him down.

* The Problem Blob from ''WesternAnimation/Numberjacks'' has an eye on a stalk that can come out of his mouth at times.

* ''Mutant Future''. Yhe Eyedog has eyes all over its body. Some can see heat, some can see in ultraviolet, and others can give off light, radiation or energy blasts.