Basic Trope: Someone has one eye and was born that way.
- Straight: Alice was born with one eye.
- Exaggerated: Everyone in this series has one eye, right down to the birds.
- Downplayed: Alice was born with one eye and one empty eye socket.
- Justified:
- Alice is an alien, the species of whom it's normal to have one eye.
- Alice has a rare genetic mutation.
- Inverted: Alice has Extra Eyes.
- Subverted:
- Alice looks like she has one eye, but then it's revealed that she has a second one on her back.
- Alice gains a second eye.
- It's revealed that Alice didn't always have one eye.
- Double Subverted:
- The eye on her back was painted on as a joke.
- Alice feels weird with two eyes and gets her second eye removed.
- Bob thought he remembered seeing Alice with two eyes years ago, but that was her sister Carol.
- Parodied: A cyclops wearing glasses is picked on by being called "two-eyes" instead of "four-eyes".
- Zigzagged: Alice appears to have one eye, but there's a rumor that she has a second one on her back. However, that rumor never gets confirmed or denied despite evidence occasionally leaning one way or another.
- Averted: Alice has two eyes.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "Why do you have one eye, Alice?"
- Invoked: Dave (Alice's father) has one eye and he gets pregnant by Emily because they want to see if their baby will have one eye too.
- Defied: When Emily finds out that her unborn baby will have one eye, she uses genetic engineering to make the fetus have two eyes instead.
- Discussed: "Remember the incident with the one-eyed lady?"
- Conversed: "Why does the lady in that show have one eye?"
- Implied: We never see Alice, but she's mentioned to have one eye a few times.
- Deconstructed: Alice faces prejudice and is treated like nothing more than a freak for having one eye.
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Alice has trouble buying sunglasses.
- A one-eyed alien thinks humans look weird.
- Played for Drama: Alice is embarrassed about her one eye.
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