| abstract | - Playing it may just be worse then seeing it. Here are examples of Eye Scream from video games.
* In Killzone 3's new "Brutal Melee System" you can do this in two very fun ways: stabbing an opponent in the eye and (somehow) gouging out a Helghast's eyes through his goggles.
* In Call of Duty: Black Ops during the Baikonur level, after Weaver gets compromised and tied to a chair, Kravchenko stabs him in the eye. He survivesunlike Shepherd at the end of Modern Warfare 2.
* Within the Wii version of Sonic Unleashed's final battle, Super Sonic damages Dark Gaia by slamming into the beast's giant eyeballs. Before that, in the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 version, he uses repeated homing attacks in its eyes. With a twinkly smile.
* In Demons Souls, the Maiden in Black has her eyes covered by wax that's melted into her skin, blinding her. It's unclear that if she was born this way due to her being an incredibly powerful demon or if she if the wax was more of a result of her being the keeper of the Nexus. If the latter is the case, it's also unclear if she lost her eyes before coming to the Nexus, she still has her eyes under the wax, or if she lost them due to the waxing.
* In a flashback scene at the end of Saejima's episode in Yakuza 4, we are treated to a very, VERY squicky scene where a bound Goro Majima refuses to bow down to a low-level yakuza that's in charge of restraining him, and the yakuza drives a foot-long knife into Majima's left eye.
* In many The Legend of Zelda games there are enemies that can only be killed by hitting their eyes. Lots of them especially in (but not limited to) the 3D games.
* And not just enemies: some games feature switches resembling eyes that are activated by shooting them with arrows.
* Banjo-Tooie includes this. They've put a little spin on it by doing it with eyeball plants. They play a game of keep away with a jiggy, and to get the jiggy you have to... pop them open with bee stingers. Okay. It isn't too violent, given that this is rated E for everyone.
* Yuri's unfortunate first encounter with Valantin in Infinite Space ends in tragedy as he finds himself with a 5-foot blade in his left eye. He gets better.
* Castlevania: Curse of Darkness has an alluded-to near-miss of this. See that scar over Trevor's left eye? Dracula got testy.
* Judgment made him lose the eyeball (thus making HIM look more like a pirate than Faust-VIII-lookalike zombie Grant).
* The cyclops is only vulnerable to headshots. But it's a cyclops, so we know they're actually eyeshots.
* In Dead Rising a Psychopath meets his end when a statue tips over onto him. The statue is holding a real sword. Guess where that sword goes.
* In Dead Space, the Captain of the ship has gone mad and the doctor declares him unfit for duty. He picks up a needle with a sedative, but the Captain jerks as he tries to get free, and the needle is jammed into his eye.
* In Dead Space 2, this happens twice. Once to Ellie at the hands of Dr. Stross ("You owe me an eye, you bastard!"), and once to Isaac if you fail to get the needle in the right place in a minigame near the end of the game. Both of these are preceded by the rather nightmarish little chant "Cross my heart and hope to die...stick a needle in your eye..."
* No, it's still a nasty case of Eye Scream if you do get the needle in the right place. You just don't die.
* The second one is made worse by the fact that you're in control of it the whole time.
* In Treasure of the Rudras - shortly into Sion's Scenario One of the Jades gets lodged right in Sion's Skull via his right eye
* In the original Diablo's intro, you see a close up of a crow picking out the eye of a decaying body. While not looking too realistic by today's CGI standards, that was a pretty unpleasant scene at the time of release.
* In Dwarf Fortress, eyes are damageable (and, in some cases, targetable) organs.
* However, in the current version bugs mean they can't be removed and will rapidly recover any damage they receive.
* Throughout the first three levels of Eversion, there are gems hidden in Mario-esque floating blocks with happy faces on them. Level 4 lets you know exactly where the game is headed when you are forced to jump into one and its eyes pop out of its sockets as you instantly everse from Sugar Bowl World 4-1 to Nightmare Fuel World 4-5.
* In Fable on the Xbox, the main character's sister has her eyes cut out by bandits when she refuses to tell them where you are.
* In Fable 3, during your first encounter with the Crawler, when you find Walter after his disappearance, he is covered by a dark goo, and his eyes seem to be bleeding said goo. More creepy than Squick-inducing, though.
* In the first two Fallout games, aiming for the eyes is not only possible but one of the most effective ways to dispatch enemies.
* Fire Emblem Nergal, not torn out, GOOGELY EYED TWITCHEYNESS!
* In Fatal Frame, one of the items you can find is a mask with large spikes in the eyes. It's revealed that girls are blinded with this device for a horrific ritual to close hellgates. What's worse is you can try to use the mask yourself, though many never had the courage to find what happen if you press the "Use" button.
* The sequels also have cases of Eye Scream, especially the Needle Women in FF 3 who sewed their own eyes shut.
* In a flashback in Final Fantasy X we see how Auron gets blasted into the face/left eye by Yunalesca when trying to avenge Jecht´s and Braska´s deaths Well, at least he got his Eyepatch Sunglasses of Power after that
* In Heavenly Sword, this happens to King Bohan very close to the end of the game, after the Raven God pecks his eyes out as a punishment for Bohan failing him.
* From Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance "[if they escape] then I shall find the men responsible and feed them their own eyes!"
* In Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake's been captured, and Volgin tells the Boss to cut out his eyes. She doesn't. He loses his eye when Ocelot, doing his Russian-roulette-juggling thing, is about to shoot EVA. Snake tackles him, and the gun goes off right by his eye, damaging it irreparably.
* Just so you have the proper context, Naked Snake, AKA Big Boss was well known before this game came out for having only one eye. That makes the above instance very uncomfortable to watch, as you know he probably won't be getting saved in the very last moment.
* Subverted in Metroid Fusion with Nightmare; when he increases the gravity, it seems his eyes are bleeding, that is, until the mask pops off and it turns out his face is melting.
* Samus herself gets an Eye Scream in Prime 3: Corruption, when her face becomes increasingly scarred as the Phazon corruption progresses. By the time you hit 50% corruption or so, not only are her eyes glowing blue, but the pupils have turned radioactive green. It's even squickier in the trailer video, when you see the Phazon flowing into her eyes from the inside.
* The "phazon in your eyes" thing is still in the game. Go into Hyper Mode and let yourself get corrupted. It'll probably be the last thing you see, though.
* In Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe one of The Joker's close combat moves is to poke his opponents in the eyes.
* In No More Heroes, Travis Touchdown blinds Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii by throwing his beam katana at him, cutting out both of his eyes.
* Wich leads to the Strangely funny line "It's Dark! Somebody turn on the lights! I Can't See Shit!" Right now, it won't sound funny. But with his Accent, is a whole different story
* Very rarely in the sequel, the Tsubaki Mk III, whoops I mean Carmelia Mk III, will slice an enemies head in half, right about eye level. Least of their worries, but still...
* In Planescape: Torment, The Nameless One has a special equipment slot called 'eyeball'. Its default contents are, well, what you'd expect, and you can replace it by... Well... You can connect the dots yourself. At no fewer than two occasions in the game you can also lose the other eye for story reasons, the first time by tearing out your eyeball by hand and replacing it with an old eyeball a previous incarnation of you had torn out and stored somewhere and the second time by having Ignus pluck it out (again, by hand... And this time, said hand is on fire) to use it as a repository for magic you can learn.
* Three times. If you take the right dialogue options with Ravel Puzzlewell, she'll stab you in the eye with a claw and hook it out, then stuff a black-barbed seed in the eyeball and pump it full of magic before giving it back to you. This is one of the many statistic boosting choices in the game.
* Planescape Torment: The game where having your eyes poked out gives you stat bonuses.
* One time used for humor. One of the sensory stones contains the mind-numbing tedium experienced by a student in what was apparently the most boring lecture of all time. At one point, the student considered jamming his quill into his eye for a change of pace (though if he had actually done it it would have been a completely different sensory experience in the stone).
* Briefly played with in Psychonauts.
* In Silent Hill 3, the hint for the Hard Mode hospital keypad puzzle (Guide Dang It!), is a poem about poking out someone's eye, drinking the blood from the crushed eye, and biting off their tongue and left ear.
* I Wanna Be the Guy: After The Guy goes One-Winged Angel and breaks through the background, his eyes become weak points; shooting them repeatedly causes them to degenerate from black dots intored blotches.
* Wax Works: many of the more gruesome standard deaths involve this.
* In Thief: the Dark Project Garrett's eye is torn right out of his head. The empty socket is even shown later on, albeit briefly.
* No-Face in Twisted Metal: Black got badly beaten in a boxing match. When he went to a back-alley surgeon to get his face put back together, he chose badly; the surgeon had lost $20,000 betting on him, and took out the man's eyes and tongue as revenge while he was out. We get to see his eyes falling onto a tray. Thankfully, in his ending, No-Face gets his revenge - punching the doctor in the face with a needle-loaded boxing glove.
* The trope name describes what Needles Kane does in this webisode quite well.
* Also, Calypso in his more recent appearances has a missing eye, prominently showing off the gaping hole where it used to be.
* The white chamber... Hoo, boy. There's an FMV devoted to a decapitated head with its eyes missing, and said eyes open. And you find the eyes in a sealed box. Even with the eyes back in, it's not a pretty sight.
* Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see...
* Also, there's a console which the player must use to gain access to a room. It requires a color code that's acquired after a certain event, and if the player tries to use the code before they are supposed to, the aforementioned head appears, scowling and covering the screen, with the words 'not yet' carved into its empty eye sockets.
* In the cinematic for "The Gods of Zul'Aman" that came with Patch 2.3 of World of Warcraft, a High Elven soldier prepares to cut out one of Zul'jin's eyes as a way of adding insult to injury. The action fades to white just as the point of the dagger is a mere centimeter from Zul'jin's eye. Being a troll Zul'jin should have been able to regenerate but it seems this was somehow forgotten.
* WoWWiki offers some explanations.
* Also, the icon for one of the Rogue abilities, Cheap Shot, is a knife about to plunge into an eyeball, implying that what is "cheap" is that you're stabbing them in the eyeball.
* In Yggdra Union, when Milanor is rescuing Yggdra from the prison in which she's held captive by Gulcasa, Valkyrie Aegina cuts his escape. Elena, former assassin of the Bronquian Empire, sneaks behind her troops and fires her crossbow... Hitting Aegina in the eye. Later on, when you meet Aegina again, she's wearing a bandage on her left eye.
* In the backstory, this happened three separate times to poor Nessiah. First, his real body was blinded by the gods as part of his punishment for disobeying them and not fighting in Ragnarok. Second, his contract with the Yumel required him to sacrifice an eye to get their help in mastering his magic. And finally, he tore his remaining eye out in order to complete the Gran Centurio. (Yes, he was that desperate at the time. And insane.)
* In F.E.A.R., after Jankowski's disappearance in the second level, you will occasionally see a "phantom" image of him...with his eyes gouged out. Whether or not he's actually dead though, is up in the air.
* In Grim Fandango you have to use your scythe against the eye of an octopus, granted, it was protected by a crystal, but the fact that it breaks and shows blood afterwards...
* In 7 Days A Skeptic, Dr. William Taylor has been forced to construct a body for a ghost out of the murdered crew. The ghost possesses the body, but it needs eyes (the only intact head Taylor got needed glasses), so it takes a pair. From Dr. Taylor.
* In Fate/stay night, inflicting one of these on Enfant Terrible Illyasviel fully cements Gilgamesh's status as the Big Bad of the Unlimited Blade Works scenario. Particularly vicious, as he slashed her across the face with a sword, but only so she would be blinded while he continued to torment her.
* One of the artifacts you're supposed to collect in Blood Rayne is a demon's eye which forcibly implants itself upon collecting. From Rayne's reaction to this, it's...not pleasant.
* In the Nightfall campaign for Guild Wars, the mad god of secrets Abbadon and his servants have a thing for eyes. His favorite minion begins growing extra eyes on her forehead in imitation of her master, and her favorite threat/curse is "Abbadon will eat your eyes."
* In Okami, the locks on doors in dungeon take the from of a demonic-looking face, with a large singular eye and the pupil shaped liked a keyhole. It doesn't react/end well, when Amaterasu brings a key along.
* Modern Warfare 2 ends with Soap throwing a combat knife into the Big Bad's eye. The true Big Bad of MW2, LTGEN. Shepherd, has left Soap on the ground with a knife almost-hilt-deep in his chest, while Shepherd goes to beat Capt. Price into the dirt. Soap manages to pull the knife out of his own chest and throw it with such precision that it impales Shepherd in the skull right through his left eye. Easily one of the most badass moments in the Call Of Duty franchise history of everything!
* In World At War, at the very beginning of the game, a Japanese officer puts out his cigarette in a captured Marine's eye after he refuses to break under interrogation.
* Freeware fighting game Timeslaughter has an intro where the man who becomes the final boss has an eye removed with a drill - although that's not too much in such already Gorn-tastic game.
* In the Hunt featured a giant living statue as a Puzzle Boss. Your submarine had to make floating blocks of stone drop on its head. Once damaged enough, the stone covering the statue's face is destroyed, showing the flesh and bones underneath, and its eyeballs dangle out of their sockets. It doesn't help that he gains an attack where it spits out four homing eyeballs.
* At the beginning of Overlord II, shortly after the frozen Overlad arrives in the Netherworld, Quaver gets his eye stuck to the ice. And when Gnarl orders that the ice be thawed by fire, Quaver pulls away fast enough to leave the eyeball behind. Ouch.
* Assassin's Creed 2 took the counter kills from the first game and jacked the brutality level up to eleven. Countering with Ezio's hidden blade will occasionally result in both blades being jabbed through a guards eyes. You can't really make out much but really the dark red spurts of blood from both sockets are enough.
* There's also the fact that Mario Auditore (Ezio's uncle) is blind in his left eye, with a scar around said eye. The injury itself is only elaborated on in the Facebook spinoff Project Legacy. In one mission (before the events of Assassin's Creed II), Mario was cut in the face by a bladed pendulum, causing his eventual blindness. To make it worse, there is even a picture showing Mario with the newly aquired injury, because we needed to see that.
* There is also an unique Assassination move done by the Footpad (from the Brotherhood multiplayer) where said Footpad slashes the target in the eyes with his weapon before stabbing the target in the throat. The move's nickname? "Blinded and Helpless". Quaint.
* Brutal Legend unsurprisingly has a good one. Go ahead and lose the RTS battle with Doviculus (if you dare!) The resulting losing animation quickly switches to Eddie's point of view just as the emperor tells you he is going to make a necklace with your eyes then thrusts his fingers into the screen as it turns to black.
* Done in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep of all places, where Braig's fight with Terra ends with Terra firing a blast of dark energy right into his eye. Well, now we know where he got that eyepatch.
* Some of the bosses in the Kirby games have very large and prominent eyes, and some are little more than just eyes, so attacking these bosses invokes this, especially if you do it with the Master Sword. And then, there's Zero. Also worth noting is that recurring enemy Waddle Doo Dummied Out "appearance" in Kirby's Block Ball has its eye blown off in its death animation.
* In Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, after the world goes kalooey, you wake up, getting a first person view of a kid holding a bug... then he drops the bug, right into your character's eye (and with the first person view, it's like it went into your own eye).
* Baldur's Gate: Go for the eyes, Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
* Go for the optics, Chikktika, go for the optics!
* Ironically enough, "Chikktika" is a combat drone, and those are shaped roughly like eyes.
* Also, in the Mass Effect 2 DLC Overlord, when you finally get to the cause of all trouble, David Archer, we find him suspended in some kind of harness with probes sticking out of, among other things, his eyes and holding them open. Think this picture, only with more focus, lingering, and different angles in the course of the ending cinematic.
* According to Mordin, a batarian religion considers this act deeply insulting. Since they believe souls exit through the eyes when the body dies, removing or destroying the eyes is a terrible act of desecration.
* Which gives some extra chilling factor to Renegade Shepard's payback on a racist batarian bartender who tries to kill him or her with a poisoned drink -- he or she forces the bartender in question to drink his own nasty concoction, and threatens to "blind him one eye at a time" if he doesn't follow through.
* In the God of War series, Kratos is capable of killing cyclopses by yanking out their eyeballs. But the most epic example of this is when he kills Poseidon in III by gouging his eyes before breaking his neck and throwing him off a cliff. The fact that you see this from Poseidon's point of view makes this horror and a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
* Kratos tears up Typhon's eye in II.
* At the end of the third episode of Duke Nukem 3D, Duke kicks the eye right out of the Cycloid Emperor's head.
* In Shinobido, Zaji the Blackhawk has only one eye left and wears an eyepatch. Gamuran took out his other eye during the attack on the Asuka village by throwing a sharp wooden piece at it.
* In Robinson's Requiem, this can potentially happen to the hero: one or both of his eyes can be damaged by various hazards, leaving him partly or completely blind in that eye. Or both.
* The Hunter of Left 4 Dead has a character design that suggests some kind of eye damage; his eyes are thickly crusted with blood. The character model has no eyes at all, but it's possible that they just aren't rendered because his hood would obscure them from any in-game camera angle. In Versus mode, you can see fine while playing as him, but this could just be for the player's convenience.
* The Disco Bandit in Kingdom of Loathing has an attack called Disco Eye-Poke.
* A frequent source of squicky laughs in the Sam and Max games.
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* In the animated series, the James Bond episode involves Max keeping a microchip in his eye socket, which, when retrieving, he digs around for a disturbingly long time, accompanied with squelching.
* In Snatcher, the iconic Gross Up Close-Up of the rotting corpse involves its yellowed, shrivelled eye dropping out of the socket.
* A major plot point in Amea. As part of their attempts to escape life's hardships and begin a new, false life, The Master Eye's cult have all ritualistically removed their eyes and replaced them with artificial ones (likely of the Master Eye's own design) that wipes their memories beyond the bare essentials, thus letting them begin a new "life" as the Master Eye's slave. When Amea, who had initially joined the cult due to Parental Abandonment, learns this, she decides that she's not going to run away anymore and face whatever life throws at her, and shows this by ripping out her fake eyes.
* Several characters in Mortal Kombat 9 have EyeScreamy X-Ray attacks, particularly Reptile (who pokes his opponent in the eyes), Kitana (who stabs her opponent in the eyes with her fans), Baraka (who stabs his opponent clean through the head through the eyeball), and Skarlet (who kicks her opponent in the eye with the heel of one of her Combat Stilettos).
* Penguin in Batman: Arkham City has been shown with the bottom of a glass bottle over his eye in place of a monocle, which according to previews was stabbed there and is too dangerous to remove. Being the "sophisticated" man he is, though, he's grown rather attached to it.
* Pops up a few times in Dragon Age II, usually with throwing knives. The best one is the conclusion of the Orsino!Harvester battle. Hawke leaps onto the beast and stabs it in the eye again and again. Then Hawke rips out its head and stomps it to death.
* Zevran gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome when an Antivan Crow runs at him from behind, sword raised. Barely turning, he flicks Murder Knife at the man, who slows to a stop and keels over, revealing the hilt protruding from his left eye.
* One of the dead girls in Kara no Shoujo had her eyes cut in order to have it with tears of blood in order to mimic something from the Divine Comedy.
* In Earthbound, one of the earlier enemies (yes, early in the game), a crow, have their attack read as a peck to the eyes.
* Enter MONOCULUS!
* One of the endings of Alpha Protocol has Mike shooting Leland at point-blank range through his eye. And it's definitely not one of the game's normal Pretty Little Headshots.
* Terraria has quite a bit of this with Faceless Eyes. All of them explode into Ludicrous Gibs when beaten, The Eye of Cthulhu sheds its pupil in favor of a toothy maw when it Turns Red, and The Twins, Retinazer and Spazmatism, shed theirs in favor of a laser cannon and a Hellfire-breathing mouth, respectively. At least the last two are partially robotic to lessen the horror.
* In Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Nupraptor sews his own eyes and mouth shut during his descent into madness.
* In Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, the Mudokon slaves being used to mine the bones of their ancestors for SoulStorm Brewery are blind - because they've had their eyelids stitched shut.
* Norman Jayden of Heavy Rain will start bleeding from the eyes if he uses the ARI for too long at a particular point in the game. If the player persists in using the ARI, he'll eventually start start bleeding from the nose as well, which is a sign that his time is almost up.
* In The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, one of the finishing moves against dragons involves the Dovahkiin jumping onto the dragon's head and stabbing it in the eye. Possibly Fridge Brilliance since the eyes are sometimes a dragon's Achilles Heel in literature.
* Also, this accidental arrow headshot.
* In Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there is a particularly disturbing text passage upon discovering the Iron Maiden in the Choir.
* Skullgirls has a momentary, but haunting example in Peacock's individual storyline. A short flashback from Patricia's perspective shows us one of the slave traders who captured her, his thumbs reaching for her eyes. Then, they close in-- suddenly, the screen goes red as a sickening squelch is heard.
* The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings features Phillippa getting her eyes gouged out with a spoon. You see the aftereffects.
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