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{{trope}}
[[File:Beholder 2594.jpg|link=Dungeons and Dragons|frame|[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Beauty is in... right.]]]]
A subtrope of [[Cephalothorax]], a character's body is primarily an eyeball. Common variants include a character made of several smaller eyes around one giant center eye or a single eyeball above a wide mouth. A third common variation is a single disembodied eye with a pair of demonic wings. These creatures will generally move by simply floating in the air like a bubble if wingless. If they have limbs, they tend towards tentacles or wings rather than arms and legs. May attack using special eye-related attacks such as [[Taken for Granite|petrifying]] gaze or [[Eye Beams]]. Because of the symbolism between [[Faceless Eye|disembodied eyes and evil]] creatures like this are more often evil than not. It is also a good way to make them appear truly alien.▼
▲A subtrope of [[Cephalothorax]], '''Oculothorax''' is a term used to describe a character's body that is primarily an eyeball. Common variants include a character made of several smaller eyes around one giant center eye or a single eyeball above a wide mouth. A third common variation is a single disembodied eye with a pair of demonic wings. These creatures will generally move by simply floating in the air like a bubble if wingless. If they have limbs, they tend towards tentacles or wings rather than arms and legs. May attack using special eye-related attacks such as [[Taken for Granite|petrifying]] gaze or [[Eye Beams]]. Because of the symbolism between [[Faceless Eye|disembodied eyes and evil]] creatures like this are more often evil than not. It is also a good way to make them appear truly alien.
The name comes from the Latin ''oculus'' ("eye") and ''thorax'' ("chest").
See also:
* [[Cyclopean Creature]], which can be confused for this and often overlaps, and
* [[Faceless Eye]], a similar trope for disembodied eyeballs which can also overlap.
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== Literature ==
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== Live-Action TV ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One of the monsters in ''[[Conan: Hall of Volta]]'' was a large floating eyeball. You can see them [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTkRXKPXq4#t=4m50s here].
* The 'Eyeball' costume in the ''[[Costume Quest]]'' DLC 'Grubbins On Ice'.
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* The (''very'' low-level) Aibatt mobs in [[Flyff]].
* The ''[[MARDEK]]'' series has several floating eyeball monsters, most of them [[Palette Swap]]s based on element, but in a bit of a twist they each usually have a "polyp" form as an eyeball stuck to the ground with a stem that is [[All There in the Manual|explained]] to eventually grow into the floating eyeball form.
* Many of the bosses in the [[Kirby]] series are like this. In no particular order, there's Kracko, Dark Matter, Dark Nebula, Zero,
* Small, medium, and large in ''[[Terraria]]'': Servants of Cthulhu, Floating Eyes, and the Eye of Cthulhu.
* The '''[[Meaningful Name|MONOCULUS!]]''' from [[Team Fortress 2]].
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