Eye-gouging using the thumb
Eye-gouging is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers, other bodyparts, or instruments. Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of eye injury, such as permanent eye loss. It is disallowed in combat sports, but some self-defense systems teach it. Training in eye-gouging can involve extensive grappling training to establish control, the eye-gouging itself being practiced with the opponent wearing eye protection such as swimming goggles.
Yuki Nakai went on to win a bout in the Vale Tudo Japan 1995 tournament after his opponent performed an illegal gouge that blinded him in that eye.[1]
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- In the manga Battle Royale, the antagonist Kiriyama is shown to have ripped his teacher's eye out when he became curious about what color the fluid surrounding the eye was.
- The film 28 Days Later, an eye gouging is performed on a corrupt soldier after the infection reached the military grounds a group of survivors was residing in.
- In the film 28 Weeks Later, an eye gouging is performed by an infected man on his wife while he is attacking her.
- In the film See No Evil, the character Jacob Goodnight often gouges eyes of his victims and stores them in jars.
- In the 2006 remake of Black Christmas, there are many eye gougings as deaths in the film.
- In Shakespeare's King Lear, the character Gloucester has his eyes gouged out onstage.
- In Blade Runner, an eye gouging is performed by Roy Batty on Dr. Tyrell. Eye-gouging is a trademark in replicants system attack.
- In Repo: The Genetic Opera, the character Blind Mag gouges out her own eyes, saying she'd rather be blind before she is killed.
- In the British horror film The Descent one of the female explorers gouges out the eyes of a Crawler before slamming its head onto a pointed rock.
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