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"What's it like having the fluids inside of your eyes boil? I'd imagine it might sting a little."
— Roy Mustang, Fullmetal Alchemist
"Alright, it's settled. Pluck 'em out!"
"I see that you have no use for your eyes."
— Dakki, Hoshin Engi
Comic Books
Photographer Phil Jamieson has seen more than his share of appalling human suffering. He began his career in Vietnam in The '60s: there has rarely been a war zone which he has not visited. Yesterday it seems the cumulative horror finally took its toll; Phil Jamieson decided that he'd seen enough.
— Hellblazer: Extreme Prejudice
"Confound this thing in my eye!"
— Captain Haddock, Tintin, "Tintin in Tibet"
Fan Works
"He reached out a hand, fingers pronged to tear at her eyes."
Kara drew on her every erg of reserve power to keep fighting. But, increasingly, she found herself on the defensive. She fought to keep Satan Girl's fingers from her eyes, her jaws from her carotid artery, her knees from her crotch.
Where is my eye!?
—Chloe, The Night Unfurls
Films – Animation
"To gaze upon his form is to invite madness, that is why in order to serve him I chose to make...(Grendon steps out of the shadows to reveal his eyes are missing) ...adjustments."
"Step 4: Shower, and always be sure to keep the soap out of your AAAAAAAA—"
— Emmet, The LEGO Movie
"MY EYES!"
— Fred the "My leg!" guy, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
"Go on, get out of here or I'll black your other peeper!"
— Horace, 101 Dalmatians
"Soap in the eye! Soap in the eye! Soap in the eye! Soap in the eye!"
— Oscar, Shark Tale
Films – Live-Action
"Take my eyes, I'd rather be blind."
— Blind Mag, Repo! The Genetic Opera
"Fortunately for you, nothing you did is worth dying for. You have only...seen...too much. We are going to make sure this does not happen again."
— Barillo, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, to Agent Sands, right before having Dr. Guevara drill his eyes out.
"How about a magic trick? I'm gonna make this pencil disappear." [Wham.] "TA-DAAAA! It's—It's...gone!"
— The Joker, The Dark Knight
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
"A man lives inside his head. That's where the seed of his soul is. James and I were both present recently when a man was deprived of his eyes and the most astonishing thing happened, didn't you notice? He wasn't there anymore. He had gone even though he was still alive, so this brief moment between life and death, there was nobody inside his skull. Most odd."
— Franz Oberhauser/ Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Spectre
"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
— Dr. Weir after going bonkers and doing this to himself, Event Horizon
"You stay under water for three minutes. If you can do it, I'll just nick you. But if you can't, I'll poke one of your eyes out."
— Jimmy, Let the Right One In
"I don't like spies. You can tell her from me, the next time I catch her I shall yank her eyeball through the keyhole!"
— Cook, No Kidding
Literature
"My frustrate! Gosh, such wish to know sensation of plait all five eyes into single superocular followed by pluck like obscene daisy!"
— Slox Captain, trading threats with the Groaci in The Piecemakers
"He couldn't help screaming, especially when he smelled his own eye burning."
"Sorry, Drylda's eyeballs are being a bit stubborn. You'd almost think they weren't designed to pop out."
"Ha ha," I muttered.
I heard a musical twanging sound, the crash of a metal implement being dropped on a tray, and Civious hissing a dreadful curse.
"And one of them just rolled under a desk. Sorry. You've got to expect some teething troubles when you're on the cutting edge of scientific discovery.”
"Ha ha," I muttered.
I heard a musical twanging sound, the crash of a metal implement being dropped on a tray, and Civious hissing a dreadful curse.
"And one of them just rolled under a desk. Sorry. You've got to expect some teething troubles when you're on the cutting edge of scientific discovery.”
— Mogworld
Innes told a neighbor last Saturday, the day after he first took the drug, that his eyes were bothering him and that he could not read. Wednesday night, police said Innes seemed to be a in a deeply depressed state and so impervious to pain that he did not scream when he pulled out his eyes.
And now I saw what he meant, as he cried out, day after day, "I cannot close my eyes! I cannot close my eyes." For they had cut off his eyelids.
— Stray
"Earlier in the fight, I'd decided to leave Lilith's eyes alone. Not anymore - the situation was too dire for me to be squeamish. Or maybe it was just the difference between ganking an eyeball with my bare hands and shooting it from afar with a dart.
Either way, out vile jelly. Sploosh."
Either way, out vile jelly. Sploosh."
— All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault, by James Alan Garner
"My eye! Help! The vacuum cleaner is stuck on my eye! It's sucking my eyeball right out of its socket! The pain is incredible."
— Andy, Andy Griffiths' Just Series, "Just Crazy", "Band-Aide"
Live-Action TV
Darla: All that power wasted on a mopey, whiny do-gooder. (frustrated sigh) God, I could eat his eyeballs.
Lindsay: Our plans for Angel are a little more long-term than that... But if you can't help yourself, be my guest.
Darla: You're fun for a human.
Lindsay: Our plans for Angel are a little more long-term than that... But if you can't help yourself, be my guest.
Darla: You're fun for a human.
— Angel, "Dear Boy"
Ross: Anytime anything comes close to touching her eye or anyone else's she like freaks out. Watch! Watch! [He takes his finger and moves it towards his eye.]
Rachel: [flinches] Ross! Come on! That's all right! Fine—Okay, I have a weird thing about my eye. Can we not talk about it please?
All: All right, fine.
Monica: Hey Rach, remember that great song, Me, Myself, and I? [And on the "I" part she mimics poking her eye.]
Rachel: [flinches again] Monica! Come on!
Ross: Hey, does anybody want to get some lunch? All those in favor say I? [Pokes his eye]
Rachel: [freaks] Ross! Stop it! Come on!
Chandler: How much did I love The King and I?
Rachel: [flinches] Ross! Come on! That's all right! Fine—Okay, I have a weird thing about my eye. Can we not talk about it please?
All: All right, fine.
Monica: Hey Rach, remember that great song, Me, Myself, and I? [And on the "I" part she mimics poking her eye.]
Rachel: [flinches again] Monica! Come on!
Ross: Hey, does anybody want to get some lunch? All those in favor say I? [Pokes his eye]
Rachel: [freaks] Ross! Stop it! Come on!
Chandler: How much did I love The King and I?
— Friends, "The One With Joey's Big Break"
"No! Its not okay! You can't just dig into me, shove pointy needles in my eyes and ask me what I see!"
Natira: Animal... you have lovely eyes. I love red eyes: very sensual; very unusual. Animal, what are you doing here?
Rorf: I told you—
Natira: Do not lie again! Who were you communicating to? And what is the plan to free the human?
Rorf: What plan? I don't know of any plan!
Natira: Animal, I love your eyes. Your lying eyes...
[Cut to Crichton's expression as Rorf's screams echo across the room.]
Rorf: I told you—
Natira: Do not lie again! Who were you communicating to? And what is the plan to free the human?
Rorf: What plan? I don't know of any plan!
Natira: Animal, I love your eyes. Your lying eyes...
[Cut to Crichton's expression as Rorf's screams echo across the room.]
— Farscape, "Liars, Guns and Money- Part 3"
The Chamberlain: This peeper beetle, found only in Crystal Desert. Is something, yes?
Gurjian: I've seen uglier.
The Chamberlain: We keep starved. Hungry beetle likes the soft meats. Favorite is round, wet eyes. Peeper beetle goes chomp, chomp, CHOMP!
Gurjian: Perfect for torturing Gelfling, huh?
The Chamberlain: No! Never use on Gelfling, only on Skeksis who misbehave. Did you hear screams last night? Friend Scientist was naughty, so saw peeper beetle. Think, Gelfling: if Skeksis do that to Skeksis, imagine what Skeksis do to Gelfling that will not talk, hmmmmmm?
Gurjian: I've seen uglier.
The Chamberlain: We keep starved. Hungry beetle likes the soft meats. Favorite is round, wet eyes. Peeper beetle goes chomp, chomp, CHOMP!
Gurjian: Perfect for torturing Gelfling, huh?
The Chamberlain: No! Never use on Gelfling, only on Skeksis who misbehave. Did you hear screams last night? Friend Scientist was naughty, so saw peeper beetle. Think, Gelfling: if Skeksis do that to Skeksis, imagine what Skeksis do to Gelfling that will not talk, hmmmmmm?
"Eyes are for thumbs, to push into the brain."
— David Stirling, SAS: Rogue Heroes
Bette: [on the verge of tears] How is this a better world?
John Dee: You're still seeing it with your eyes. You need to close them. Embrace the darkness...
John Dee: You're still seeing it with your eyes. You need to close them. Embrace the darkness...
— The Sandman (2022), "24/7"
Music
"My eyes, my eyes! Now what am I gonna do for eyes?"
— Oedipus, Oedipus Tex by P.D.Q. Bach
When he found what he had done
He plucked his eyes out one-by-one
A tragic end to a loyal son who... loved his mother.
He plucked his eyes out one-by-one
A tragic end to a loyal son who... loved his mother.
— Tom Lehrer, "Oedipus Rex", An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
All we wanna do is eat your brains.
We're not unreasonable, I mean,
No one's gonna eat your eyes.
We're not unreasonable, I mean,
No one's gonna eat your eyes.
— Jonathan Coulton, "Re: Your Brains"
"F is for Frank, who was stabbed through the eye."
— Creature Feature, "A Gorey Demise"
"I'll tear your eyes out, 'cause I can't stand the tears you shed."
— Terrorwheel, "Under Your Skin"
''I want to see a blade shoved through your face
See strange fluid all over the place
All we want is eyeball gore right now!
I want to see what's under the patch
I want to know what one looks like detached
All we want is eyeball gore right now!
See strange fluid all over the place
All we want is eyeball gore right now!
I want to see what's under the patch
I want to know what one looks like detached
All we want is eyeball gore right now!
— Iron Reagan, "Eyeball Gore"
Theatre
"Out! Out, vile jelly!"
— Cornwall, King Lear
"Apollo, friends, Apollo—
he ordained my agonies—these, my pains on pains!
But the hand that struck my eyes was mine,
mine alone—no one else—
I did it all myself!
What good were eyes to me?
Nothing I could see could bring me joy."
he ordained my agonies—these, my pains on pains!
But the hand that struck my eyes was mine,
mine alone—no one else—
I did it all myself!
What good were eyes to me?
Nothing I could see could bring me joy."
— Oedipus, Oedipus the King (trans. Robert Fagles)
Video Games
"You know, you have your mother's eyes. And so will I... On a necklace, I think."
— Doviculus, Brütal Legend
"GIVE ME BACK MY EYES!"
—Roxanne Wolf, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
"One more word, Oracle, and I'll rip your eye from its socket!"
— Brute Alpha-Chieftain Tartarus, Halo 2, trying to get 343 Guilty Spark to shut up
Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in your eye.
— Nicole, Dead Space 2
"When you're dead, you can join the others... WITH YOUR EYES GOUGED OUT!"
"It's dark! Somebody turn on the lights! I can't see shit!"
— Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii, No More Heroes, after getting his eyes slit by a beam katana.
"We never saw them coming. Not even my gunner, Edward. I used to envy his sharp eyes. On the first day, the enemy took us unaware. On the third day, Edward tore out his eyes. He smiled. He said he could see the enemy now. He said... he said they were so beautiful..."
— Kurt Kuszczak, The Secret World
"The Watchman's eye was opened: not in the usual way, but with a knife."
"The light is hurting my eyes. He's telling me I don't need this vitreous flesh inside my skull to see salvation. I will gladly remove them. Stop them from obfuscating this divine mission."
— Graffiti left by Terry Akers, SOMA
"A stark reminder to always wear eye protection when handling firearms."
— Description of "Jack's Other Eye", Borderlands
Deadshot: I'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Donatello: Overstating your chances, dude.
Donatello: Overstating your chances, dude.
"YOU KNOCKED MY BLOODY EYE OUT!"
—Baldur's Gate III after you agree to let Volo try to remove the tadpole.
Visual Novels
Claws slice across your face, digging into the fleshy meat of your eyeball. You cry out as pain explodes through your head. You hear a sickening pop...and then everything in your right eye goes black.
Rowan: Oh shit oh shit oh shit...
Your hand shakes as you bring it up to your face. It comes away soaked in blood.
Rowan: My eye...my eye!
Rowan: Oh shit oh shit oh shit...
Your hand shakes as you bring it up to your face. It comes away soaked in blood.
Rowan: My eye...my eye!
Web Comics
"In this world there are two kinds of people. People like me, with knives; and people like you, with eyeballs."
PREE ASHMA then beheld the Universe from its side and in that moment understood the secret name of God and laughed at her stupidity. Her eyes flashed like drops of water in a pan and were gone instantly for she had willingly hungered after what was hers all along. Her beauty was lost and her flesh scoured, the blood pooled around her small white feet and she spoke the secret name of God aloud.
Web Original
When a suitable animal is found, 525-1 will climb directly towards the animal's eye. Having centered itself over a socket, four legs will secure the eyelid while the others extract the eye.
SCP-TTKU-J: I want to take up knitting.
Dr. Henderson: That's harmless enough.
SCP-TTKU-J: Because I could lure you into a false sense of security, then, when you least expect it, BAM! One knitting needle in each eye, as I tear out your heart with my teeth!'''
Dr. Henderson: That's harmless enough.
SCP-TTKU-J: Because I could lure you into a false sense of security, then, when you least expect it, BAM! One knitting needle in each eye, as I tear out your heart with my teeth!'''
Web Videos
"WHY?! WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE GODDAMMED EYE!?"
— Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z Abridged, lamenting the fact that he's always getting zapped in the eye.
Western Animation
"And with flaming swords, the Aromites did pierce the eyes of their fellow men and did feast on what flowed forth."
— Reverend Lovejoy, "Bart's Girlfriend" The Simpsons
"My eye! I'm not supposed to get pudding in it!"
— Lenford "Lenny" Leonard, The Simpsons
"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my— ARGH!"
— Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, learning the hard way that you're supposed to close your eye before poking it when making a Pinkie Promise
Strangler: AAUGHH!!! Get your feet out of my eye sockets!
SpongeBob: I'm trying, but my cleats are stuck in your corneas!
SpongeBob: I'm trying, but my cleats are stuck in your corneas!
— SpongeBob SquarePants, "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"
"AAAH! My eye! Do you have any idea how long it takes to regenerate that?!"
— Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls
"I am tempted to force you to share my perception of things!"
— Shockwave, Transformers: Prime
"I swore after last year no one's eyes would melt out of their heads!"
— Doofus Drake, DuckTales (2017), "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!"
"Retinal scan, on! [eyes get zapped out] AYE!! DAMMIT!! WRONG LASER, WRONG LASER! Why didn't you label them?!
Prepare retinal scan! Eins, zwei, drei, go! [zap] Dammit, I told you to label those buttons! My eyes are throbbing from the laser!"
Prepare retinal scan! Eins, zwei, drei, go! [zap] Dammit, I told you to label those buttons! My eyes are throbbing from the laser!"
— Oglethorpe, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Steranko: The legendary Kuro Kabuto. If someone could obtain it for me, I maybe forget terrible past misdeed, huh?
Zeck: So if I steal the helmet, you'll forgive my little mistake.
Steranko: Little mistake?! You shoot me in eyeball!
Zeck: Not on purpose! Anyway, you got that new cool eye. You used to be just another arms dealer, but now it's like "oooh, check out the cool eyeball guy."
Zeck: So if I steal the helmet, you'll forgive my little mistake.
Steranko: Little mistake?! You shoot me in eyeball!
Zeck: Not on purpose! Anyway, you got that new cool eye. You used to be just another arms dealer, but now it's like "oooh, check out the cool eyeball guy."
— Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), "The Legend of the Kuro Kabuto"
"My eye! I'm blind!"
— Leela, Futurama, "Bender Gets Made"
Other
"It's all fun and games till somebody loses an eye."
— Old American proverb
"WARNING: Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye."
— Sign commonly found in labs
