History Main / GlassEye

* ''Anime/LupinTheThirdRedJacket'': during his second appearance, Phantoma Mark has both eyes made of glass, and in one scene his assistant pull them out of their sockets and proceeds to wash them.

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* Jin from ''Webcomic/{{Bastard}}'' has a glass left eye after a brutal childhood "accident" that left him [[TraumaInducedAmnesia amnesiac]] and his body battered. His classmates pejoratively call him "glass-eye," while his bullies go even further with "glass-eye [[PeekABangs emo freak]]."

* On ''Series/{{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.
* On ''Series/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.
* One of the most powerful Objects from ''Series/TheLostRoom'' was the Glass Eye. The only way to use it was to wear it.
* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': Creator/PeterFalk had a glass eye, but throughout the entire run of the series there was only one hint that the same might be true of Columbo as well. In episode "[[Recap/ColumboS10E11 A Trace of Murder]]", Columbo invites Patrick Kinsley to accompany him on the investigation by saying "Three eyes are better than one!"

* In the ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' episode "The Glass Eye", adapted from a short story by John Keir Cross, a lifelong spinster holds onto a glass eye as a keepsake. She acquired it when she met briefly with a ventriloquist she'd fallen in love with. [[spoiler: He actually had two glass eyes because he wasn't the ventriloquist but the dummy, and the "dummy" was a little person throwing his voice.]]

* Sammy Davis Jr. is probably the best-known celebrity to wear an ocular prosthesis, about which he was always very un-self-conscious and self-deprecating. (Example: In an outtake from a Creator/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!!")

* On ''Series/BabylonFive'', G'Kar is fitted with an ocular prosthesis after having his right eye [[EyeScream gouged out]] (thankfully off-screen) by the insane Centauri emperor [[TheCaligula Cartagia]].

* On ''Series/BabylonFive'', G'Kar is fitted with an ocular prosthesis after having his right eye gouged out (thankfully off-screen) by the insane Centauri emperor [[TheCaligula Cartagia]].

-->'''Wilhelm''': What are you staring at?\\

'''Wilhelm''': In which eye?\\

'''Wilhelm''': ''(chuckles)'' That's the glass one.\\

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode [[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards "Wild Cards"]], the Joker frees a bunch of super-powered youngsters from a secret government facility and makes them part of his latest scheme (or act), where as the flashback makes it clear that the place was less than innocent, the overseer turns and reveals he has a facial scar and a glass eye as if to confirm it.

* Remorseless hoodlum Muscular from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' lost an eye to the last Heroes he killed before being captured, and wears an odd lens-like prothesis over his empty socket
* ''Anime/LupinTheThirdRedJacket'': during his second appearence, Phantoma Mark has both eyes made of glass, and in one scene his assistant pull them out of their sockets and proceeds to wash them.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'' has [[StarterVillain the Cyclops]], who gets his name because he's missing an eye, which he replaced with a very expensive obsidian eye that he's extremely proud of. After the Eagle Bearer gets ahold of it, they [[AssShove force it up the backside off a goat]] just to piss him off. After the boss battle, killing the goats in the area will case one of them (determined randomly) to drop it, at which point it can be sold for a pretty good amount of money.

* In ''Literature/ErecRex,'' the title character has one, which doesn't quite match his natural eye. Most of his adoptive siblings are also disabled in some way. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler The first book ends]] with him getting a magical dragon's eye to replace it, however.

** A very creepy version is Mr. Teatime from ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''. He has a grey (black in the FilmOfTheBook) glass eye that may actually be a crystal ball. As the author makes clear, though, it's Teatime's ''real'' eye which is the scarier, with its pinhole-sized pupil.
** It is very briefly mentioned in ''Discworld/MenAtArms'' that Lance-Constable Cuddy has a glass eye. It's been speculated that this is a subtle ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.

* Ragetti in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' has a wooden eye that has a tendency to fall out a lot and/or "splinter something fierce" especially when he rubs it. He wants to spend his share of the treasure to buy a glass one that fits. [[spoiler:In ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'', it turns out to be one of the Pieces of Eight needed to free Calypso.]] He switches to a proper EyepatchOfPower after that.
* Mr. Benedict in ''Film/LastActionHero'' has a selection of glass eyes, some of which double as bombs. Each of them with different motifs for the iris (such as a Happy Face or a target or a crosshair).

* ''Film/TheSonsOfKatieElder'' has a LovableRogue as one of the sons. He has the trick of auctioning off his glass eye in a raffle at a bar in order to get money for drinks.

* Michael Burry from ''Film/TheBigShort'' lost an eye due to a childhood illness. He discusses it, to the discomfort of the candidate he's interviewing, and a flashback shows the eye popping out due to a hard tackle during a football game.

* The BigBad of ''Film/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 Happy Face or a target or a crosshair).

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}''-- Creator/PeterFalk had a glass eye in real life (see below), but throughout the entire run of the series there was only one hint that the same might be true of Lt. Columbo as well. In episode "[[Recap/ColumboS10E11 A Trace of Murder]]", Columbo invites an LAPD colleague to accompany him on the investigation by saying "Three eyes are better than one!"

* The actor Creator/PeterFalk 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 Series/{{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. A RealLife Crowning Moment of Funny: when playing baseball in high school, Falk slid into home, and was called out. He popped out his eye, handed it to the umpire, and said: "You need this more than I do."

* ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'' plays this trope to the hilt, including the eye falling out and rolling around. Also an example of ElectronicEye. It becomes a BorrowedBiometricBypass.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' implies that the title character (like actor Peter Falk, see Real Life below) only has one functional eye, telling someone who was helping him search for evidence in one crime that "Three eyes are better than one."