List of one-eyed creatures
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This page lists one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction.
In mythology, this trait was generally associated with fearsome creatures. In modern fiction, some one-eyed creatures are likewise frightening enemies, but others are friendly.
The list includes peoples and mutants born with only one eye, but not one-eyed humans who are understood to have lost an eye.
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In mythology
- Arimaspi or Arimaspoi, legendary people of northern Scythia, "always at war with their neighbours" and stealing gold from griffins. They had a single eye in the centre of the forehead.
- Cyclops (plural: cyclopes or cyclopses), a race of giants in Greek and Roman mythology, including Polyphemus. They likewise had a single eye in the centre of the forehead.
- Hagen or Högni, a Burgundian warrior in German and Norse legend, depicted as one-eyed in some accounts
- Hitotsume-kozō, monsters (obake) in Japanese folklore. They had a single giant eye in the center of the face.
- Jian (bird), a bird in Chinese mythology with only one eye and one wing. A pair of such birds were dependent on each other and inseparable.
- Psoglav, one-eyed dog-headed monster in Serbian mythology
- Kabandha, a demon with no head or neck with one large eye on the breast and a mouth on the stomach. Kabandha appears in Hindu mythology as a character of Ramayana.
- Tepegoz, one-eyed ogre in Oghuz Turkish epic Book of Dede Korkut
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In fiction
- Ahgg, the witches' giant spider with one eye in the center of his forehead in My Little Pony: The Movie
- Alpha Centauri, green hermaphrodite hexapod with one huge eye, Doctor Who character first seen in "The Curse of Peladon"
- Basilisk, large one-eyed mutant in Marvel Comics' New X-Men
- Big Dan T., a character in the Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou, who is intended to emulate the Cyclops from Homer's "Odyssey"
- Big Billy in The PowerPuff Girls who showed that he had one eye in the episode "School House Rocked"
- B.O.B. (Bicarbonate Ostylezene Benzoate), gelatinous creature in Monsters vs. Aliens
- Cyclopskin and cyclops in the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons
- The Cyclops in various media based on Greek mythology, such as Ray Harryhausen's movie The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
- Cylon Centurions in sci-fi franchise Battlestar Galactica
- Dalek Sec, monster that became a one-eyed Dalek-human hybrid in Doctor Who. Daleks always had a single eye-stalk; when the creature inside was shown, it generally appeared to have only one eye.
- Darklops Zero, prototype of Darklops in the anime Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
- Draken, one-eyed sea monster in animated series Jumanji
- The ghost Pokémon Duskull, Dusclops and Dusknoir
- Evil Eye, a monster in the online RPG MapleStory
- Kang and Kodos, recurring alien duo in animated series The Simpsons
- Kerack, alien race resembling large one-eyed prawns in novel Camelot 30K
- Turanga Leela, mutant character in animated series Futurama
- Many of the yellow "minions", comic henchmen in the animation Despicable Me
- Monoids, alien race in the 1966 Doctor Who serial "The Ark"
- Muno in children's television series Yo Gabba Gabba!
- Naga and his tribe of one-eyed violent mutants in the 1956 B-movie World Without End
- One-Eye, one of three sisters in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes". She had only one eye in the middle of her forehead.
- One-eyed Monster, the antagonist of the 2008 film One-Eyed Monster
- one-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the planet Paira in the 1956 Japanese film Warning from Space
- Sheldon Plankton in the animated children's series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Agent Pleakley in the 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch
- Purple People Eater in the 1958 novelty song of the same name
- Shuma-Gorath, a giant eye with tentacles, in the Marvel comics universe
- Starro the Conqueror, a supervillain in DC Comics, a starfish-like creature who first appeared in 1960
- Suezo, a one-eyed, one-footed breed of monster in video game/anime series Monster Rancher
- Vaati and Bongo Bongo, from the Legend of Zelda game series
- Waddle Doo from Nintendo game franchise Kirby
- Mike Wazowski, round monster with one large eye in the 2001 animated film Monsters, Inc.
- Wenlock and Mandeville, London 2012 Olympic mascots
- Zargon, a giant one-eyed monster in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
- Zatar the Alien, a green alien in the MTV series Celebrity Deathmatch
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