History Main / GiantEyeOfDoom

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersAtWork'': In a nod to the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' example above, the elevator that takes Tylor to his job passes by a giant eye. Tylor even greets it on the way down in one episode.

* One of the monsters Sulley and Mike run into on their way to work at the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' is a giant eyeball peeking out of a window.

* ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' has several times fought Dark Matter. In Kirby's Dream Land 3 and ''[[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards Kirby 64]]'' at least, he is constantly staring at you; in the former, the final boss's final form ''is'' a Giant Eye Of Doom that shoots its blood as an attack.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has Evil Eye Sigma, who appeared as the extra boss of Story of Eastern Wonderland... and was promptly forgotten.

* In ''WebComic/BloodIsMine'' the protagonists discover [[http://bloodismine.com/comics/525 the giant eye]] of a frozen EldritchAbomination in one of the government bunkers.

*** Bonus points for the eye being ''on fire''. In Mordor itself, it has a visible sight-cone, and Frodo is stunned with ''pure, concentrated despair'' when it glances at him.

** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings,'' despite what [[WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing the]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings movies]] might tell you, the Great Eye is more of a metaphor and emblem of Sauron's power, no literal giant-ass flaming eyeball on top of an EvilTowerOfOminousness.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' plays with this trope in ''DestinationImagination''; while trying to find a way back into the imaginary toy box world, Mac turns around frightfully and sees a giant eye staring at him through the window. It turns out that it's Frankie's eye, and that he and his friends have been shrunk and put into a miniature replica of the house by the [[RealityWarper reality-changing friend]] that lives in the toy chest.

* In the live-action series of ''Manga/GiantRobo'', one {{Kaiju}} was a giant eyeball with only a pair of legs and no body or other limbs.

* The "giant eye looking through a window" variant happens completely randomly and inexplicably in ''Anime/CatSoup'' -- [[SurrealHorror not that it seems]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs out of place]] [[WidgetSeries or anything]].

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shivers_6239.jpg The cover art]] of VideoGame/{{Shivers}}.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the appearance of the dragon is when a gigantic eye peers at Donkey through the gap in a broken castle wall.

* In ''Moby Dick: 2010'', Several US Navy sailors are patrolling on an island, [[TemptingFate feeling grateful]] they're not searching for the MonsterWhale on the sea. A RedShirt wades into [[ThatsNoMoon what he thinks is shallow water]] until a giant eye opens in front of him.

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* This happens in the first American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''. The soldiers searching New York's AbsurdlySpaciousSewer 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.
* In Music/TheMonkees' movie ''Film/{{Head}}'', Davy opens a medicine cabinet and sees a giant staring eye - naturally he freaks out, and naturally [[YouHaveToBelieveMe it's not there when he warns the others about it]].
* In the BatmanColdOpen of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', a floodlight is knocked through the dimensional portal and drifts through the void where Lovecraftian demons are trapped inside a vast crystalline asteroid. As its beam sweeps over the asteroid, two huge and one ''gigantic'' yellow eyes swivel to watch it, behind the semi-transparent crystal.

* Used memorably in ''Film/JurassicPark'', as illustrated above. Also appears in the sequels — a T-rex peers into Eddie's car in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', and the reflection of the Spinosaur's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane in the ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.

* ''Moby Dick: 2010''. Several US Navy sailors are patrolling on an island, [[TemptingFate feeling grateful]] they're not searching for the MonsterWhale on the sea. A RedShirt wades into [[ThatsNoMoon what he thinks is shallow water]] until a giant eye opens in front of him.
* ''Film/PacificRim''. Blackmarketeers specialising in the [[OrganTheft organs of alien creatures]] are squelching through the dead body of a {{kaiju}} when they [[MonsterIsAMommy hear a heartbeat]] and see a huge eye peering at them through the membrane of a womb-sac. Cue SoundOnlyDeath.

* Shortly before the climax of ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth "The Girl of No Tomorrow"]], ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} turns around and finds the larger-than-a-human-head, floating Eye of Ekron staring at her, and its mistress the Emerald Empress standing beside it.

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* '' Film/AntManAndTheWasp''. Scott Lang is stunned unconscious by Hope van Dyne and wakes up in her car driving away from his house. He starts to panic that someone will see he's broken house arrest, then ''really'' panics when a huge eye looks through the car window. Turns out Hope's car has been [[SizeShifter shrunk to miniature size]] so no-one will see Scott leaving, and some curious pigeons are checking them out.

* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', this is all we ever see of "The Great Unknown", a dreaded ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' that stalks the depths of the ocean, and looks like a question mark on sonar. It gazes in the porthole of a submarine at one point.

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* In one poem by Creator/ShelSilverstein, the narrator tells of the Deadly Eye of [[FluffyTheTerrible Poogly-Pie]]. Anyone who looks at it will die. [[TemptingFate It's a good thing you didn-]]You did? [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Good-bye.]]
* 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'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn" ("The eye was in the grave and looking at Cain") - is proverbial in French.

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* In ''Cauldron'', Literature/PriscillaHutchins pilots an expedition to the centre of the galaxy to find the origin of the civilization-destroying omega clouds. They back-track them to a [[SpaceClouds Space Cloud]] that's too vast and radioactive to enter, and are on the verge of giving up when they realise a dark patch has formed inside the cloud that appears to be a giant eye looking directly at them. Naturally everyone freaks out.

* The Crayak in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''.
* The Eye Storm in ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' nearly drives Speaker-To-Animals into a HeroicBSOD. Because it looks like a ''human'' eye.

* At the end of ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' they succeed in contacting the Raven King or one of his lieutenants, who looks at them through the window in the form of a raven so large all they can see is its eye. Mr. Norrell fails to fully understand what he's seeing even when it blinks, and comments that he was very glad he hadn't realized or he would have been much afraid. Strange agrees rather shaken, as he did realize what it was.

* This happens in a couple of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' adaptations (the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Disney version]] and the one with Fiona Fullerton) when Alice grows too large in the White Rabbit's house. The animals look at the "monster" in the house and freak.
* Stephen King's ''Literature/{{It}}'': One of Pennywise's forms in the Derry sewers is a giant eye, as seen in ''The Crawling Eye''. [[spoiler:Eddie drives it back by spraying it with his asthma inhaler and claiming the liquid is battery acid; a direct comparison to the medicine's taste when he uses it. In reality, his inhaler is a placebo, water with a dash of camphor, prescribed to Eddie in order to placate his mother who uses guilt and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy to keep Eddie under her thumb.]]
* Literature/TheEyeOfArgon itself, which is described as "gigantic", and which later [[spoiler:melts and turns into a blood-sucking blob]].
* ''[[Literature/TheAdversaryCycle Nightworld]]''. Portals to AnotherDimension have opened sending nightmare creatures swarming across the Earth. To defeat them the protagonists must go on a FetchQuest. Literature/RepairmanJack is flying through an ash cloud over the Pacific Ocean when he suddenly thinks they're flying too close to the ground, only to see a GiantEyeOfDoom staring back at him from a [[GiantFlyer titanic flying leviathan several miles in diameter]]. During the final confrontation between the hero and the BigBad, who is in the process of changing into an EldritchAbomination, the latter stares at him via a giant eye pressed up against the membrane of its womb-sac.
* In one poem by Creator/ShelSilverstein, the narrator tells of the Deadly Eye of [[FluffyTheTerrible Poogly-Pie]]. Anyone who looks at it will die. [[TemptingFate It's a good thing you didn-]]You did? [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Good-bye.]]
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Merlin is the only one to see the Serpent incarnate, and describes it as a slithering darkness, with the exception of its one, gigantic luminous eye.
* The novel Eye in the Sky by Creator/PhilipKDick, is basically about that.
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings,'' despite what [[WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing the]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings movies]] might tell you, the Great Eye is more of a metaphor and emblem of Sauron's power, no literal giant-ass flaming eyeball on top of an EvilTowerOfOminousness.

* Used memorably in ''Film/JurassicPark'', as illustrated above. Also appears in the sequels — a T-rex peers into Eddie's car in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', and the reflection of the Spinosaur's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane in the ''Film/JurassicParkIII''.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies do this several times with the Great Eye of Sauron, most memorably: the first time Frodo puts on the Ring, he turns around and...
-->'''Sauron''': You cannot hide. I ''see you''.
** Bonus points for the eye being ''on fire''. In Mordor itself, it has a visible sight-cone, and Frodo is stunned with ''pure, concentrated despair'' when it glances at him.
** Parodied in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/GoingPostal''. The Unseen University wizards are trying to contact another wizard with a crystal ball, but keep getting a fiery eyeball. This turns out to be the eye of that wizard, who'd developed a severe shrimp allergy. It also gave him a giant fiery nose.
* Used in the "It's a Good Life" segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''.
* ''The Trollenberg Terror'': Our heroes are trapped on a mountain by ''giant killer eyeballs from outer space!'' [[SpecialEffectFailure That look like crap!]]
** One re-release of the movie underlined this detail by retitling the movie as ''Film/TheCrawlingEye''.

* ''Film/PacificRim''. Blackmarketeers specialising in the [[OrganTheft organs of alien creatures]] are squelching through the dead body of a {{kaiju}} when they [[MonsterIsAMommy hear a heartbeat]] and see a huge eye peering at them through the membrane of a womb-sac. Cue SoundOnlyDeath.
* In the BatmanColdOpen of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', a floodlight is knocked through the dimensional portal and drifts through the void where Lovecraftian demons are trapped inside a vast crystalline asteroid. As its beam sweeps over the asteroid, two huge and one ''gigantic'' yellow eyes swivel to watch it, behind the semi-transparent crystal.
* In "The Woman of the Snow", the second of four segments of AnthologyFilm ''{{Film/Kwaidan}}'', a giant eye, presumably a manifestation of the ''yuki-onna'' snow demon, appears and is watching the woodcutters as they stagger through the blizzard.
* '' Film/AntManAndTheWasp''. Scott Lang is stunned unconscious by Hope van Dyne and wakes up in her car driving away from his house. He starts to panic that someone will see he's broken house arrest, then ''really'' panics when a huge eye looks through the car window. Turns out Hope's car has been [[SizeShifter shrunk to miniature size]] so no-one will see Scott leaving, and some curious pigeons are checking them out.
* ''Moby Dick: 2010''. Several US Navy sailors are patrolling on an island, [[TemptingFate feeling grateful]] they're not searching for the MonsterWhale on the sea. A RedShirt wades into [[ThatsNoMoon what he thinks is shallow water]] until a giant eye opens in front of him.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury''. The original.

* A memorable strip of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' had Reakk coming face-to-eyeball with one of the Dragons of Annoyia...and he instantly poinks it in its humongous eye. "With so much eyeball, how could I resist?" was his excuse.
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' - Bob meets an alien [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/108/ Eyeball Monster.]] Who speaks Spanish.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': In [[SapientShip Petey]]'s [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010429.html first appearance]] Ennesby enters his virtual reality and finds himself in what looks like a forest, until a "lake" blinks.
* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' parodies this in one strip with [[OmnicidalManiac Richard]] the warlock. He rips the eye out a giant and does this to a group of minotaurs.
--> '''Richard:''' "What, too much?"

* In ''WebComic/BloodIsMine'' the protagonists discover [[http://bloodismine.com/comics/525 the giant eye]] of a frozen EldritchAbomination in one of the government bunkers.

* Petey's [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010429.html first appearance]] in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''