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* In ''Manga/YuGiOh'', Bakura uses the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Sanctuary Dark Sanctuary]] to change their surroundings into a bloody, horrific world where the sky itself is covered with giant eyes and mouths. Or, as YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries puts it,

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* In ''Manga/YuGiOh'', Bakura uses the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Sanctuary Dark Sanctuary]] to change their surroundings into a bloody, horrific world where the sky itself is covered with giant eyes and mouths. Or, as YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries puts it,
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* One of the stories in ''FuanNoTane'' is about a bunch of disembodied eyes on a freeway, disguised as Botts' Dots. They look creepy, but they're easily squashed by speeding cars.

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* One of the stories in ''FuanNoTane'' ''Manga/FuanNoTane'' is about a bunch of disembodied eyes on a freeway, disguised as Botts' Dots. They look creepy, but they're easily squashed by speeding cars.

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* In ''YuGiOh'', Bakura uses the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Sanctuary Dark Sanctuary]] to change their surroundings into a bloody, horrific world where the sky itself is covered with giant eyes and mouths. Or, as YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries puts it,

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* In ''YuGiOh'', ''Manga/YuGiOh'', Bakura uses the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Sanctuary Dark Sanctuary]] to change their surroundings into a bloody, horrific world where the sky itself is covered with giant eyes and mouths. Or, as YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries puts it,



* ''{{Wadanohara}}'' features the [[spoiler: Sea of Death]], which has large, realistic eyes on its walls and in its floors.

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* ''{{Wadanohara}}'' features the [[spoiler: Sea [[spoiler:Sea of Death]], which has large, realistic eyes on its walls and in its floors.


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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Hurricane Fluttershy", [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] must take part in a physical challenge, but flashes back to when everyone tormented her for her weakness during flight training as a filly. As part of her mental breakdown, she sees herself surrounded by a wall of giant eyes.
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* In most Mario games from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros.3|3]] onwards, the hills have eyes!

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* In most Mario games from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros.3|3]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3|3]] onwards, the hills have eyes!
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* In most Mario games from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros.3|3]] onwards, the hills have eyes!
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* Somewhere in ''TheCatReturns''.

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* Somewhere in ''TheCatReturns''.''Anime/TheCatReturns''.
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* The final boss area in the obscure and extremely weird beat 'em up ''VideoGame/PuLiRuLa'' by Taito is a dark room, which sometimes lightens up to show lots of twitchy eyes on the walls.
* Barkhang Monastery in ''Franchise/TombRaider 2'' has areas with eye details on the walls. They just look like paintings at first sight, but closer inspection reveals that [[ParanoiaFuel some of them move]].

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* The final boss area in the obscure and extremely weird beat 'em up ''VideoGame/PuLiRuLa'' by Taito is a dark room, which sometimes lightens up to show lots of twitchy eyes on the walls.
* Barkhang Monastery in ''Franchise/TombRaider 2'' ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII'' has areas with eye details on the walls. They just look like paintings at first sight, but closer inspection reveals that [[ParanoiaFuel some of them move]].
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* In ''HellGirl'', Ichimokuren can spy on people by projecting an eye onto any surface. He usually uses walls and ceilings.

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* In ''HellGirl'', ''Anime/HellGirl'', Ichimokuren can spy on people by projecting an eye onto any surface. He usually uses walls and ceilings.
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* The Hitchcock film ''{{Spellbound}}'' features a dream sequence, designed by none other than Creator/SalvadorDali, that includes this [[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/files/2009/10/daliSpellbound.jpg wall of eyes.]]
* ''ThePresidentsAnalyst'' - in deleted footage, Dr. Schaefer, in the throes of paranoia, rambles out his anxieties that he's a target for spies to his girlfriend in a hotel lounge. He then puts it to the test, loudly faking getting shot, and sees everyone in the lounge is on their feet with guns trained on each other - then sees that [[spoiler: his girlfriend is too.]] He starts hallucinating disembodied pairs of eyeballs looming out at him until he [[AllJustADream falls out of bed.]]

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* The Hitchcock film ''{{Spellbound}}'' ''Film/{{Spellbound}}'' features a dream sequence, designed by none other than Creator/SalvadorDali, that includes this [[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/files/2009/10/daliSpellbound.jpg wall of eyes.]]
* ''ThePresidentsAnalyst'' ''Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst'' - in deleted footage, Dr. Schaefer, in the throes of paranoia, rambles out his anxieties that he's a target for spies to his girlfriend in a hotel lounge. He then puts it to the test, loudly faking getting shot, and sees everyone in the lounge is on their feet with guns trained on each other - then sees that [[spoiler: his girlfriend is too.]] He starts hallucinating disembodied pairs of eyeballs looming out at him until he [[AllJustADream falls out of bed.]]
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* ''ThePresidentsAnalyst'' - in deleted footage, Dr. Schaefer, in the throes of paranoia, rambles out his anxieties that he's a target for spies to his girlfriend in a hotel lounge. He then puts it to the test, loudly faking getting shot, and sees everyone in the lounge is on their feet with guns trained on each other - then sees that [[spoiler: his girlfriend is too.]] He starts hallucinating disembodied pairs of eyeballs looming out at him until he [[AllJustADream falls out of bed.]]
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Compare EyesDoNotBelongThere (for when the eyes are on a human body), GiantEyeOfDoom (for when it's just a single eye and may in fact belong to something), PortraitPaintingPeephole (for when they're in a painting and definitely belong to something), WallpaperCamouflage (when the eyes belong to a person disguised as wallpaper) and WallMaster (for when the eye is more than capable of popping out and maiming you).

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Compare EyesDoNotBelongThere (for when the eyes are on a human body), GiantEyeOfDoom (for when it's just a single eye and may in fact belong to something), PortraitPaintingPeephole (for when they're in a painting and definitely belong to something), WallpaperCamouflage (when the eyes belong to a person disguised as wallpaper) and WallMaster (for when the eye is more than capable of popping out and maiming you).
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In Japanese, there is a similar expression, "kabe ni mimi ari, shouji ni me ari" (literally "the walls have ears and the doors have eyes").
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* * ''{{Wadanohara}}'' features the [[spoiler: Sea of Death]], which has large, realistic eyes on its walls and in its floors.

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* * ''{{Wadanohara}}'' features the [[spoiler: Sea of Death]], which has large, realistic eyes on its walls and in its floors.
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* * ''{{Wadanohara}}'' features the [[spoiler: Sea of Death]], which has large, realistic eyes on its walls and in its floors.

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* In ''YuGiOh'', Bakura uses the card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Sanctuary Dark Sanctuary]] to change their surroundings into a bloody, horrific world where the sky itself is covered with giant eyes and mouths. Or, as YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries puts it,
-->'''Yami Bakura:''' Look, we're in Hell, okay?! Did the giant bloody eyeballs not tip you off!?
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* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook "Book of Vile Darkness" provides with a [[{{Squick}} squicktastic]] example in the Spell [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wall of Eyes"]] - if you try to force your way through it, it will dissolve and absorb you, your eyes added to the wall.

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* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook "Book of Vile Darkness" provides with a [[{{Squick}} squicktastic]] {{squick}}tastic example in the Spell [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Wall of Eyes"]] - if you try to force your way through it, it will dissolve and absorb you, your eyes added to the wall.
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* {{Tool}}'s music video for "[[{{Tool}} Vicarious]]". Look around the 7 minute mark.

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* {{Tool}}'s music Music/{{Tool}}'s video for "[[{{Tool}} Vicarious]]"."Vicarious". Look around the 7 minute mark.
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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', when As Nodt goes into his [[OneWingedAngel Volstandig, Tatar Foras]], he can create walls covered with eyes to surround his opponent. This ensues his opponent cannot escape his DeadlyGaze of [[EmotionBomb Fear]]. Byakuya quickly destroys them all with his Shikai.

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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', when As Nodt goes into his [[OneWingedAngel Volstandig, Vollstandig, Tatar Foras]], he can create walls covered with eyes to surround his opponent. This ensues his opponent cannot escape his DeadlyGaze of [[EmotionBomb Fear]]. Byakuya quickly destroys them all with his Shikai.
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* ''{{Abadox}}'', which is set inside a [[PlanetEater planet-eating]] EldritchAbomination, has wall-eyes all over the place.
* Some of the evil spirits in ''{{Tsukumogami}}'' fall under this, most notably the Hundred-Eye Screen Door.

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* ''{{Abadox}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Abadox}}'', which is set inside a [[PlanetEater planet-eating]] EldritchAbomination, has wall-eyes all over the place.
* Some of the evil spirits in ''{{Tsukumogami}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Tsukumogami}}'' fall under this, most notably the Hundred-Eye Screen Door.
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* In ''{{Hellsing}}'''s Manga and related anime serieses, this is a common element of the vampire Alucard when he enters his more powerful stages of NightmareFuel and appears more as an EldritchAbomination.
* ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' supplies [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cit_to_aru_majutsu_no_index_-_the_walls_have_eyes_-_o_o.jpg the picture]] for EyeTropes.

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* In ''{{Hellsing}}'''s ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'''s Manga and related anime serieses, series, this is a common element of the vampire Alucard when he enters his more powerful stages of NightmareFuel and appears more as an EldritchAbomination.
* ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' supplies [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cit_to_aru_majutsu_no_index_-_the_walls_have_eyes_-_o_o.jpg the picture]] for EyeTropes.



* A (mainly) harmless example can be found in ''OnePiece''. Nico Robin's Devil Fruit powers enable her to grow parts of her body on any surface, including, yes, ''eyes''.

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* A (mainly) harmless example can be found in ''OnePiece''.''Manga/OnePiece''. Nico Robin's Devil Fruit powers enable her to grow parts of her body on any surface, including, yes, ''eyes''.




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* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', when As Nodt goes into his [[OneWingedAngel Volstandig, Tatar Foras]], he can create walls covered with eyes to surround his opponent. This ensues his opponent cannot escape his DeadlyGaze of [[EmotionBomb Fear]]. Byakuya quickly destroys them all with his Shikai.



* In DoctorWho [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]], there's a substance called the Flesh which is "fully programmable matter" - ''living'' matter. Jennifer, who was Flesh, once uses some in the raw form to paint eyes on a wall. When others pass by the wall, it's studded with huge lidless eyes which turn to track each person who goes by. One of them thinks the eyes are there to accuse.

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* In DoctorWho [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople ''Series/DoctorWho'' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]], People]]", there's a substance called the Flesh which is "fully programmable matter" - ''living'' matter. Jennifer, who was Flesh, once uses some in the raw form to paint eyes on a wall. When others pass by the wall, it's studded with huge lidless eyes which turn to track each person who goes by. One of them thinks the eyes are there to accuse.



* ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa 3'': The final boss, The Destroyer, in his temporary ultimate form during that battle. The background begins to consist of semi transparent bloodshot eyes fading in and out of existance.

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* ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa 3'': The final boss, The Destroyer, in his temporary ultimate form during that battle. The background begins to consist of semi transparent bloodshot eyes fading in and out of existance.existence.
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* ''{{Pippin}}'' has a scene where a backdrop full of eyes is watching Fastrada and Pippin. At one of the former's remarks, they roll.

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* ''{{Pippin}}'' ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' has a scene where a backdrop full of eyes is watching Fastrada and Pippin. At one of Pippin conspiring to kill Charles. When Fastrada tells Pippin where and when Charles will be alone and unguarded, the former's remarks, they eyes roll.
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* Some of the evil spirits in ''{{Tsukumogami}}'' fall under this, most notably the Hundred-Eye Screen Door.
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* Barkhang Monastery in ''TombRaider 2'' has areas with eye details on the walls. They just look like paintings at first sight, but closer inspection reveals that [[ParanoiaFuel some of them move]].

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* Barkhang Monastery in ''TombRaider ''Franchise/TombRaider 2'' has areas with eye details on the walls. They just look like paintings at first sight, but closer inspection reveals that [[ParanoiaFuel some of them move]].
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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series, Yukari Yamano's extradimensional portal consists of innumerable eyes gazing from the other side.

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series, Yukari Yamano's Yakumo's extradimensional portal consists portals consist of innumerable eyes gazing from the other side.
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* Early on in ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'', Sylvester has to deal with [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20030719.html a collection]] like this.
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* The final boss area in the obscure and extremely weird beat 'em up ''PuLiRuLa'' by Taito is a dark room, which sometimes lightens up to show lots of twitchy eyes on the walls.

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* The final boss area in the obscure and extremely weird beat 'em up ''PuLiRuLa'' ''VideoGame/PuLiRuLa'' by Taito is a dark room, which sometimes lightens up to show lots of twitchy eyes on the walls.
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* "The Truth" in ''FullMetalAlchemist'' is mainly darkness made up of lots of peering eyes - punctuated by incredibly creepy grins. The same goes for the homunculus Pride, and Father's true form.

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* "The Truth" in ''FullMetalAlchemist'' ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is mainly darkness made up of lots of peering eyes - punctuated by incredibly creepy grins. The same goes for the homunculus Pride, and Father's true form.
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* The Hitchcock film ''{{Spellbound}}'' features a dream sequence, designed by none other than SalvadorDali, that includes this [[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/files/2009/10/daliSpellbound.jpg wall of eyes.]]

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* The Hitchcock film ''{{Spellbound}}'' features a dream sequence, designed by none other than SalvadorDali, Creator/SalvadorDali, that includes this [[http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/theclog/files/2009/10/daliSpellbound.jpg wall of eyes.]]
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* The end of the ([[TheProblemWithLicensedGames surprisingly good]]) FPS ''KISS: Psycho Circus'' has the final boss in a room covered in these. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome They shoot shuriken at you.]]

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* The end of the ([[TheProblemWithLicensedGames surprisingly good]]) FPS ''KISS: Psycho Circus'' has the final boss in a room covered in these. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome They shoot shuriken at you.]]
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* In ''{{Hellsing}}'''s Manga and related anime serieses, this is a common element of the vampire Alucard when he enters his more powerful stages of HighOctaneNightmareFuel and appears more as an EldritchAbomination.

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* In ''{{Hellsing}}'''s Manga and related anime serieses, this is a common element of the vampire Alucard when he enters his more powerful stages of HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel and appears more as an EldritchAbomination.

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