List of one-eyed creatures
This page lists one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction.
In mythology, this trait was generally associated with fearsome creatures.[1] 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.
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.
- Likho, a embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology.
- 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
- Balor figure from Irish mythology. balor of the evil eye. could kill by looking at you. prophesied that he would be killed by his grandson, attempted to have his grandchildren killed. one survived, Lugh who killed him at the second battle of magh tuiredh.
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"[2]
- 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
- The Cyclops and other various monsters in the popular Japanese role-playing game series "Dragon Quest"
- 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 film 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
- Leela, a mutant character, as well as her parents Munda and Morris, in the 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[3]
- 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
- Tyson, Percy Jackson's half-brother in Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- 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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