Argus
Profile
Argus the "all seeing" spent a lot of dough on contact solution. Why? Well, he had a hundred eyes—all over his body. Things didn't end well for this guy. See, Zeus had transformed his nymph-love Io into a cow to hide her from Hera. The queen wasn't fooled, though, and she hired Argus to watch over the cow. Even with all those eyes, Argus proved to be a pretty bad watchman. Zeus sent Hermes to check out the scene. The messenger god put the giant to sleep by playing the lyre, and then it was off with Argus' head. What a way to go.
Basic Information
Name Argus
Nickname Argus Panoptes
Argos
The All Seeing
That dude with the eyes all over his bodySex Male
Current city Underworld
Work & Education
Occupation Monster Slayer
Servant of Hera
WatchmanEducation Hera's School of Doing What She Says
Beliefs
Political views Hera should kick Zeus to the curb
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
Children None
Friends Hera (People talk a lot of junk about her, but my mistress always stood by me.)
Relationships
Relationship status Single
Favorites
TV Shows Quotations "Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant."
– Yiddish Proverb
"Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break, every step you take
I'll be watching you"
– The Police (yeah, it's creepy, I know)
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
– Isaac Newton
"Gigantic! Gigantic! Gigantic! A big big love!"
– The Pixies
"Getting your head chopped off while you're sleeping majorly sucks."
– ArgusBooks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Life really is this absurd.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Beowulf (Beowulf isn't the only monster slayer around—I totally took out Echidna.)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (I wish I could've survived having my head cut off like the Green Knight.)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
"Lullaby" by W.H. Auden (Much better than the lullaby Hermes played to put me to sleep.)Music These Eyes by The Guess Who
Wide Awake by Katy Perry (I wish I'd been wide awake right before Hermes cut my head off. Blah.)
The Argus by Ween (Kind of my theme song.)
I Can See Clearly Now by Jimmy Cliff
Every Breath You Take by The Police (I'm always watching everybody since I'm covered with eyes.)
Gigantic by The Pixies (Yeah, this song is on every giant's fave playlist.)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by The Platters (It really sucks when this happens to me. My whole body cries.)
The Outsider by Argus (When this band hit the scene, everybody kept asking me if I'd released an album, so I had to check them out.)Movies The Avengers (I could totally be one of these guys.)
The Watch
City Slickers (A film that proves that herding cattle is harder than it looks.)
King Kong
Watchmen
The Iron Giant
Godzilla
Jack the Giant Killer (Though I do find this subject matter disturbing.)Activities & Interests
Likes Cheeseburgers
Andre the Giant
The Jolly Green Giant
Lens CraftersInterests Gigantism
OptometryGroups The Federation of Giants
We're Not Monsters
Andre the Giant Fan ClubSpotter's Guide
Argus will probably spot you before you spot him. He's a giant whose entire body is covered with a hundred eyes, so we're willing to bet he'll see you coming. His eyes even take turns sleeping, so he's not likely to miss much. You'll find him down in the Underworld, where he's been chilling ever since Hermes chopped his head off. Do yourself a favor and don't bring that up when you see him—he's still a little sensitive about the whole thing.
Sex: Male
Age: Middle-aged
Build: Gigantic
Complexion: Bronze
Hair Color: Brown
Facial Hair: Beard
Scars/marks/tattoos: Completely covered with eyes
Jewelry and accessories: Lots of contact lenses
Clothing: A cape made from the hide of the Arcadian bull
Armor: Nope
Type of Weapon: SwordTypical Companions
Hera
Io (though she was kind of forced to hang out with him)Known Hangouts
Olympus
The UnderworldSightings
Jan 1, 1970 - Jan 1, 1970
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
This tragedy puts an original twist on the myth: Argus transforms into the gadfly after he's killed and gets the pleasure of stinging Io.
Dec 20, 2019
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Argus loses his head when he gets caught up the marital disputes of Zeus and Hera in Ovid's old classic.
Dec 20, 2019 - Dec 20, 0199
The Library by Apollodorus
Get the lowdown on all of Argus' pre-Io heroic deeds in this ancient text.
Dec 20, 2019
God of War: Betrayal
A particularly nasty looking version of the many-eyed Argus tries to destroy Kratos in this hack-and-slash video game.
Dec 20, 2019
Percy Jackson/Last Olympians Series by Rick Riordan
Argus is the security guard of Camp Halfblood and blinks his baby blues in several of the books in this series.
Dec 20, 2019
Marvel Comics
The eye-covered Argus pops up in Marvel's Hercules comics to duke it out with the hero of heroes at Hera's bidding.