List of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction

There are many creatures in the mythology, folklore, and fiction of many cultures who are one-eyed, this page lists such one-eyed creatures.

In mythology, folklore and religion

• Arimaspi, 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.
• Balor, a giant in Irish mythology, with one eye in his forehead that would wreak destruction when opened
• Bungisngis, one-eyed giants of Philippine folklore
• Cyclopes (singular: Cyclops), one-eyed giants in Greek mythology, including Polyphemus. They had a single eye in the centre of their forehead.
  • Polyphemus, a giant Cyclops shepherd in Greek mythology
  • Arges, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology
  • Brontes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology
  • Steropes, one of the three Cyclops smith gods in Greek mythology
• Dajjal, a figure in Islam akin to the Antichrist, who has one eye
• Duwa Sokhor, an ancestor of Genghis Khan, according to The Secret History of the Mongols , who had one eye in his forehead ^[1]
• Fachan, a creature from Celtic mythology with one eye, one arm and one leg
• The Eye of Providence is a representation of Divine Providence
• The Graeae, the three witches (or sisters) that shared one eye and one tooth between them; often depicted as clairvoyant. They were forced by Perseus, by stealing their eye, into revealing the location of Medusa.
• Hagen or Högni, a Burgundian warrior in German and Norse legend, depicted as one-eyed in some accounts
• Some yokais, in the Japanese folklore, have a single giant eye:
  • Hitotsume-kozō, monsters (obake) in Japanese folklore, with a single giant eye in the center of the face
  • Hitotsume-nyūdō could pass for really tall human priests if not for the large, single eye in the center of their faces.
  • Kasa-obake, one-eyed sentient umbrella yokai of Japanese folklore
  • Shirime
  • Yamawaro
• Jian, a bird in Chinese mythology with only one eye and one wing. A pair of such birds were dependent on each other and inseparable.
• 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 in the Ramayana .
• Likho, an embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology
• Mapinguari, giant sloth-like cryptid of Brazil and Bolivia often described as having one eye
• Odin, a Norse god (he was born with two eyes, but traded one for a drink from Mimir's well)
• Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with a ten-fingered hand, a ten-toed foot, a long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality
• One-Eye
  • One of three sisters in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes
  • A one-eyed giant in a story from a from Georgia, in the Caucasus, whose story parallels the story of Polyphemus (see Polyphemus#Possible origins)
• Papinijuwari, Australian sky deities with vampiric tendencies
• Popobawa, a Tanzanian shetani (evil spirit) that often takes the form of a one-eyed bat-like creature
• Psoglav, a one-eyed dog-headed monster in Serbian mythology
• Snallygaster, a one-eyed dragon-like creature said to inhabit the hills surrounding Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, Maryland
• Tepegoz, a one-eyed ogre in the Oghuz Turkish epic Book of Dede Korkut

In fiction

Science fiction

• Alpha Centauri, a green hermaphrodite hexapod with one huge eye; Doctor Who character first seen in The Curse of Peladon
• Cylon Centurions in sci-fi franchise Battlestar Galactica
• The Cyclops (1957), a science fiction horror film about a creature created via radiation exposure
• Dalek Sec, a monster that became a one-eyed Dalek-human hybrid in Doctor Who
• Gigan from the Godzilla series, a one-eyed alien cyborg Kaiju
• Kerack, an alien race resembling large one-eyed prawns in the novel Camelot 30K
• Magnus the Red, the one-eyed primarch of the Thousand Sons legion in Warhammer 40,000
• Monoids, an alien race in the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark
• Myo and other Abyssin aliens in Star Wars
• Naga and his tribe of one-eyed violent mutants in the 1956 movie World Without End
• Old One Eye, a unique Tyranid carnifex with the ability to rapidly regenerate from mortal wounds in Warhammer 40k
• One-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the planet Paira in the 1956 Japanese film Warning from Space
• Ravage, a panther-like Decepticon in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, a time-travelling alien in the 1979 Doctor Who story City of Death
• Uniocs, an alien race in the webcomic Schlock Mercenary

Comic books

• Basilisk, a large one-eyed mutant in Marvel Comics' New X-Men
• Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics super-villain, primarily an adversary of Ghost Rider
• Shuma-Gorath (or Shuma Gorath), a giant eye with tentacles in the Marvel comics universe, first appearance in Marvel Premiere #10 September 1973
• Starro the Conqueror, a supervillain in DC Comics, a starfish-like creature who first appeared in 1960
• Garagantos in Marvel Comics, first appearance in Sub-Mariner (1968–1974) issue #13

Historical and mythological fantasy

• Beholder, a creature in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with one large eye and many smaller eyestalks
• Cyclops in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
• Draken, a one-eyed sea monster in the animated series Jumanji
• Imbra, an idol and the highest god of Kafiristan in Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
• Medusa in the Italian film Medusa Against the Son of Hercules , adapted for television as one episode of the series The Sons of Hercules
• Rell, a cyclops in the film Krull . The Cyclops traded with the Beast one of their eyes for the ability to see into the future. The Beast did give them the ability to see into the future – but they can only see the moment of their own deaths.
• Sauron, the eponymous arch-villain of The Lord of the Rings , often depicted as looking through a single 'Eye' in Peter Jackson's cinematic adaptations of Tolkien's work
• Tyson, Percy Jackson's half-brother in Percy Jackson and the Olympians , is a Cyclops. Cyclopes also appear as villains.
• Zargon, a giant one-eyed monster in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons

Animation and puppetry

• Ahgg, the witches' giant spider with one eye in the center of his forehead in My Little Pony: The Movie
• Some of the characters in Ben 10
• Bill Cipher, an evil yellow eye of providence-like entity in Gravity Falls
• 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), a gelatinous creature in Monsters vs. Aliens
• The Centaur Monster with a body of a centaur in TMNT (2007)
• Iris in the animated series Ruby Gloom
• Horvak, Krumm's father from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
• Kang and Kodos, a recurring alien duo in the animated series The Simpsons
• Leela, a mutant character, as well as her parents Munda and Morris, in the animated series Futurama . One episode also features the "Cyclopophage" - a one-eyed monster that only eats other one-eyed creatures (including the robot Bender, after one of his two eyes falls out).
• Some of the Minions, comic henchmen in the Despicable Me franchise
• Muno, a tall, red monster with one large eye, in the children's television series Yo Gabba Gabba!
• Sheldon Plankton in the animated children's series SpongeBob SquarePants
• Agent Pleakley in the 2002 animated film Lilo & Stitch
• Sapphire in the Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe
• Mike Wazowski, a round monster with one large eye on the breast and a mouth on the stomach. He appears in the 2001 animated film Monsters, Inc.
• Zatar the Alien, a green alien in the MTV series Celebrity Deathmatch
• Tri-Klops, a henchman of the villain Skeletor in the children's show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
• Rob, an anthropomorph cyclops boy in the animated show The Amazing World of Gumball
• Kyle, the owner of the Queen's Goiter, and Cloppy, Evan's one-eyed monster doll from The Barbarian and the Troll

Anime and manga

• Lord Boros, in One-Punch Man , the alien leader of the Dark Matter Thieves, self-proclaimed subjugator of the universe, and the first antagonist to give Saitama a "serious fight"
• Norman Burg, the butler and weapons specialist to Roger Smith in The Big O
• Darklops Zero, prototype of Darklops in the film Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
• Iwanaga Kotoko, in In/Spectre , A 17-year-old Goddess Of Wisdom to the spirits and humans alike, has only one eye and one leg due to sacrificing a part of her to become a goddess.
• Manako, a cyclops sniper in Monster Musume
• Hitomi Manaka, cyclops school nurse and protagonist of Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary
• Mannequin soldiers, lesser homunculi created by a government project in Fullmetal Alchemist
• Ode, a yellow kind cyclops in Chiikawa

Video games

• The beholster (a direct reference to the beholder from Dungeons & Dragons ) in Enter the Gungeon
• Ahriman, a species of monster from the Japanese role-playing game series Final Fantasy
• The Cacodemon and Pain Elemental from id software's computer game DOOM
• The Cyclops and other various monsters in the popular Japanese role-playing game series Dragon Quest
• Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Drethdock from the Sega Saturn game Battle Monsters
• The ghost Pokémon Duskull, Dusclops, and Dusknoir
• Eggplant Wizard, an enemy in Nintendo's Kid Icarus
• Evil Eye, a monster in the online RPG MapleStory
• Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, the ultimate yakuza from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair .
• Gohma in The Legend of Zelda has only one eye. Gohma's appearance varies from game to game.
• Myukus a giant blue-green Alien with one eye in Rampage 2: Universal Tour
• Suezo, a one-eyed, one-footed breed of monster in the video game/anime series Monster Rancher
• Vaati and Bongo Bongo in the Legend of Zelda game series
• Waddle Doo in Nintendo's game franchise Kirby

Music

• Purple People Eater in the 1958 novelty song of the same name
• Sgt. Psyclopps, the one-eyed guitarist for the costumed comedy punk band The Radioactive Chicken Heads
• "Cyclops", a song from Portrait of an American Family by Marilyn Manson
• Wotan/Wandrer in The Ring of the Nibelung , a Germanic variant of Odin in Wagner's cycle of four music-dramas
• Black Shuck - a one-eyed demon dog in the song Black Shuck, by rock band The Darkness from their debut album Permission to Land.

Other

• The Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ; also other queens and witches in Oz such as Blinkie ( The Scarecrow of Oz ) and Marcia ( The Yellow Knight of Oz ).
• Wenlock and Mandeville, London 2012 Olympic mascots.

See also

• List of many-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction

References

1. "History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century", p.36, at Archive.org