History Main / GlassEye

* In {{Valkyrie}} Stauffenberg wears a cosmetic eye on formal occasions and an EyepatchOfPower on normal ones.

* On ''RedDwarf'', Warden Ackerman has a glass eye. He does wear an eye patch in one episode where it's been stolen, shortly before it's revealed that he's the owner of a glass eye.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' has magical and {{Magitek}} versions, the most famous being [[ArtifactOfDoom The Eye of Vecna]].

* Catscratch in {{The Suburban Jungle}} has a glass eye to replace the one that was, well, [[{{MeaningfulName}} scratched out by a cat]].

* {{Kabuki}}- While kabuki is stuck in prison a fellow agent switches her glass eye with a guards. Her eye is smaller so the guards eye falls out every time he bends over. It plays into their escape plan

* The actor Peter Falk had to have an eye removed as a child, and so had a glass eye for most of his life. This kind of enhanced his performance as {{Columbo}}, the master of ObfuscatingStupidity and PerpSweating, as it gave him a sort of squint where you didn't know if he was looking at you or not.

* Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye from ''HarryPotter'' adds an aura of mystique around the veteran dark wizard hunter. His eye also has some particularly creepy abilities such as being able to see through things and turn around in his head to watch all behind him, as befits his ever watchful, ever paranoid personality.
* Wednesday from AmericanGods has one. Eye itself doesn't play overly siginficant role in plot (though it plays a role) but it's one of clues to Wednesday's real identity. Well, more the fact that he would actually need one, but still...

Glass Eyes are effectively a slighty more technologically advanced version of the eyepatch but without some of the pirate overtones. So they often get the overtones of the EyepatchOfPower. This particularly happens if the glass eye is designed to not match the other eye.

However, another common use of the Glass Eye is for comedy. The eye ends up being ill-fitting, constantly rolls around in the head, perhaps falls out and rolls around on the floor, leading to some slapstick runaround. A common variation for comedy purposes is to make the eyes wooden. It's just inherently funnier somehow, though you might get the common courtesy of a joke where the wooden eye is going along with a pirate's wooden legs and wooden arms and wooden... other bits. Mention must also go to the common joke format of SammysGlassEye, where people take great pains to try to not stare at the deformity.

However, another common use of the Glass Eye is for comedy. The eye ends up being ill-fitting, constantly rolls around in the head, perhaps falls out and rolls around on the floor, leading to some slapstick runaround. A common variation for comedy purposes is to make the eyes wooden. It's just inherently funnier somehow, though you might get the common courtesy of a joke where the wooden eye is going along with a pirate's wooden legs and wooden arms and wooden... other bits. Mention must also go to the common joke format of [[{{ptitle6pqgwgev7ipd}} Sammy's Glass Eye]], where people take great pains to try to not stare at the deformity.

* On ''{{Wings}}'', Lowell mentions his grandmother gets a big laugh every year at Thanksgiving when she takes out her glass eye and sticks it in the stuffing.

* BigBad of ''LastActionHero'' has a selection of glass eyes. Some of whom double as bombs. Each of them with different motifs for the iris (such as a HappyFace or a target or a crosshair).

* SammyDavis Jr. is probably the best known celebrity to wear an ocular prosthesis, about which he was always very unselfconscious and self-deprecating. (Example: In an outtake from a BobHope Special, Sammy blows a cue card line and declares, "Hey, I'm sorry -- I only got one eye, and it was lookin' the other way!!")

* SammyDavisJr is probably the best known celebrity to wear an ocular prosthesis, about which he was always very unselfconscious and self-deprecating. (Example: In an outtake from a BobHope Special, Sammy blows a cue card line and declares, "Hey, I'm sorry -- I only got one eye, and it was lookin' the other way!!")

* Sandy Duncan has a glass eye.

* Sandy Duncan supposedly has a glass eye.

* Kabuki- While kabuki is stuck in prison a fellow agent switches her glass eye with a guards. Her eye is smaller so the guards eye falls out every time he bends over. It plays into their escape plan


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* In ''TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', one of the pirates you meet in Scumm Bar has a glass eye. And the fourth chapter of ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' involves a magical one that can change color to match the eyes of someone.

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* The protagonist of ''{{Mushishi}}'', [[PeekABangs not that one can normally notice]]. It also serves as a constant reminder of [[YourDaysAreNumbered the death that awaits him the moment his other eye disappears]]. At one point he uses it to make an actual eye for someone.
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* Once during the run of ''TheBradyBunch'', Barry Williams (Greg) told the other Brady kid actors he had a glass eye. When he was called on it, he borrowed one from an optometrist friend of his father and used that to freak out Eve Plumb (Jan).
* The actor Peter Falk had to have an eye removed as a child, and so had a glass eye for most of his life. This kind of enhanced his performance as {{Columbo}}, the master of ObfuscatingStupidity and PerpSweating, as it gave him a sort of squint where you didn't know if he was looking at you or not.
* Sandy Duncan supposedly has a glass eye.
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* The protagonist of ''{{Mushishi}}'', [[PeekABangs not that one can normally notice. It also serves as a constant reminder of [[YourDaysAreNumbered the death that awaits him the moment his other eye disappears]]. At one point he uses it to make an actual eye for someone.

* In ''GangsOfNewYork'', Bill "TheButcher" Cutting cut out his eye because it offended him when he lost to Priest Vallon in a street fight in early 19th-century [[WretchedHive New York City]]. He replaced it with a glass eye... with an ''[[WearingAFlagOnYourHead American Eagle for an iris]]''. He taps it with his steak knife to emphasize a point. Daniel Day-Lewis did the scene without blinking.
*In {{Valkerie}} Stauffenberg wears a cosmetic eye on formal occasions and an EyepatchOfPower on normal ones.