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[[File:plissken.jpg|link=Escape from New York|frame|[[Visual Pun|One-eyed Snake]] ]]
{{quote|''"[[Incredibly Lame Pun|You can't spell 'warrior' without one 'I'.]]"''
|'''[[Riff Trax]]''' on ''[[Star Trek VI]]''}}
Something covers one of the character's eyes. It might be an eyepatch, [[Peek-a-Bangs|a particularly concealing haircut]], or a tilted [[Hachimaki]]. Whatever it is, and however it came to be, through [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] it neatly conveys the fact that the wearer is either 1) an experienced combatant or 2) secretly a [[Badass]].
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* Both [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] and [[Parodied Trope|parodied]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwlh1yl054 this DirecTV commercial].
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Kakashi in ''[[Naruto]]'' hides a [[Evil Eye|special eye]] behind his [[Hachimaki]]. {{spoiler|In fact, he had to ''switch out his old eye for it''...}}
** A later chapter shows that {{spoiler|Danzo has it too.}}
** In fact, there are a lot of minor ninja with eye patches/coverings including Kuromaru (who for the uninformed is ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140823025443/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/7/75/Kuromaru.jpg a dog]'') and [http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tonbo_Tobitake Tonbo Tobitake], who has a covering for ''both'' eyes. {{spoiler|The above revelation}} has started a [[Memetic Mutation|joke among the fandom]] that anyone who is covering their eye ( {{spoiler|or more recently an arm}})(doesn't even need to be with an eye patch; it can just be with [[Peek-a-Bangs|hair]]) they must be hiding a Sharingan. Humorously, just a couple chapters ''earlier'' Ao, a newly introduced character from the Mist village took off his eyepatch to reveal {{spoiler|not a Sharingan, but a ''Byakugan''.}}
*** However, he doesn't remove it.
* {{spoiler|Dr. Hell}} from ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' wore one in {{spoiler|the sequel series, ''[[Great Mazinger]]''}}. A minor character showed up in one chapter also wore one. He was a homeless thief and street urchin, and the eyepatch furthered the sensation of he was a [[Badass]] in one fight.
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** There are actually several characters in the series who have lost one or both of their eyes, to the point of being a running [[Body Motifs|motif]]. Others include Dr. Thunderland (one eye) and the twin gatekeepers (both eyes).
* Jay Rock of ''[[Fang of the Sun Dougram]]'' is more or less Che Guevara with an eyepatch. Not surprisingly, he's the show's local avatar of the god of Badass.
* Taken to ridiculous extremes in ''Tono no Issho'' OVA with [[Date Masamune]]. Just [https://web.archive.org/web/20130707110444/http://www.animeseason.com/tono-to-issho-episode-1/ watch] first five minutes.
** The ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' version is no slouch, fighting with 6 swords at once when he gets serious.
* Farfarello of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]''. Doesn't seem to slow him down much.
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* {{spoiler|Ryuuko Kounuma}} from ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c067/7.html as of recently].
* Nightmare of ''[[Heart no Kuni no Alice]]''.
* In the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Pegasus' [[Peek-a-Bangs|hair]] almost always covered his Millennium Eye. Usually when it doesn't, it's because he's lifted it out of place.
** In the video game ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction]]'', where he uses the pseudonym "Sol Chevalsky", he ties his hair back in a ponytail and uses an actual eyepatch.
* ''[[Oriko Magica]]'''s Kirika has an eyepatch in her [[Magical Girl]] form. This doesn't seem to hamper her fighting ability.
* {{spoiler|Saya Kisaragi}} from [[Blood C]] gets one in episode 12, {{spoiler|after getting the left half of her head blown off '''and living to tell'''. So she rips her clothes and covers her injury as her [[Healing Factor]] slowly kicks in...}}
* Minene Uryu of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' gains an eyepatch after {{spoiler|becoming blind in one in a fight with protagonist Yukiteru Amano, and said eye is plucked out by Yomotsu Hirsaka.}}
* Othinus from ''[[
* Megumin in ''[[Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!]]'' wears an eyepatch over her left eye, which has a strange sigil on it. Revealing the sigil apparently increases her magical power.
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* Red Jasper in the [[Big Finish]] audio adventure ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap/043 Doctor Who and the Pirates|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* [[Nick Fury]], Agent of SHIELD, in the [[Marvel Universe]]. He started as the hard-charging Sgt. Fury during WWII. But he had two eyes then.
* [[Wolverine]] wore an eyepatch for a short time - and went by the name Patch - as a disguise.▼
* ''The Phoney Pages'', a 1980s-vintage parody "history" of comic books, included the "cover" of an issue of "[[Brooke Shields]], Agent of F.U.R.Y.", which depicted the title character with ''two'' eyepatches - one on each eye.
* A similar parody occurred on the cover of one issue of ''[[Marvel Age]]'', which showed Fury, Wolverine as Patch, and [[Series Mascot|Forbush Man]] with patches over ''both'' eyes.
* ''Pete Wisdom'' wore an eyepatch, but later revealed that he has full functionality in both eyes and did it just so he could pick up chicks.
▲* [[Wolverine]] wore an eyepatch for a short time - and went by the name Patch - as a disguise.
* Avoided in the funny pages: Beetle Bailey and his nephew Chip Flagston (from ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' and ''Hi & Lois'', respectively) have their eyes covered by various hats and hair (again respectively). Avoided as neither are [[Badass]], and Beetle is even specifically incompetent. And let's not forget [[Andy Capp]], a cheerful layabout whose eyes are always obscured by his near-namesake cloth cap.
* Jolly Roger of ''[[The Invisibles]]'' is an anarchist with a pirate-themed alter-ego and has a closely-shaved head and an eyepatch. Also, she's a lesbian.
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* The Natalie Reed version of Lady Blackhawk in ''[[Blackhawk]]''.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* Rooster Cogburn, [[John Wayne]]'s [[The Remake|(or Jeff Bridges')]] anti-hero from ''[[True Grit]]''. Though the Rooster in the 2010 film is still an excellent shot with one eye, the film points out his difficulty aiming, and {{spoiler|1=it's why he accidentally hits LaBoeuf in the arm during a shootout.}}
* Snake Plissken of ''[[Escape from New York]]'' and ''[[Escape From L.A.]]'' fame. [[Captain Ron]] ... not so much.
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* [[The Dragon]] of Bajrangpur's infamous gang in ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'' wears this, in addition with a walking stick. Before Maruti explored [[Forbidden Zone|the gang's HQ]], he was thought as a one-eyed demon.
* A ''[[Thor]]'' example: As in mythology and the [[The Mighty Thor|comic books]], Odin has one eye. What sets him apart in this adaptation is his choice of eyegear. He has a regular eyepatch and an armored eyepatch for battle. Verily.
* Nick Fury director of S.H.I.E.L.D in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] movies ''[[Iron Man]]'' 1 & 2, ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' and most prominently ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]''. When Tony Stark is on board the Helicarrier bridge looks at Fury's computer on either side of his station and covers one eye:
{{quote|'''Stark:''' How does Fury even see these?
'''Maria Hill:''' He turns.
'''Stark:''' Sounds exhausting. }}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Lampshaded with jollity in [[Garth Nix]]'s ''[[Keys to the Kingdom]]'' series, in which Arthur encounters a band of savage looking sailors. When it's revealed that their appearances are all for show, one of them insists that he can not only have one but two eyepatches, if one-way leather is used.
* Professor Mad Eye Moody in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books has a magical glass eye, which is not only intimidating and can see in any direction, but also [[See-Thru Specs|penetrates solid objects and illusions]].
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* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'': Xiahou Dun earns his Eyepatch of Power by getting hit in the eye with an arrow. Unfazed, he plucks out the arrow, ''eats his own eye'', and returns to the fight.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[MythBusters]]'' did a segment exploring the possibility that a person with two good eyes might wear an eyepatch over one so as to be able to move from a well-lit area into a darkened room and function without having to wait for both eyes to adjust to the lower light, as the covered eye would already be dark-acclimated. Their tests showed that switching an eyepatch from one eye to the other in a darkened room made navigating an obstacle course significantly easier.
** This is because the pigments in the eye are depleted by light and take time to replenish. It takes about 30 minutes for the pigment in the rods (black and white vision, also more sensitive to light) to fully replenish and about six minutes for the cones (color vision).
** It should also be noted that this test was done specifically with respect to pirates, as the myth/theory suggests that many of them wore eye-patches to easily adjust to the dark conditions below deck on a sailing vessel, as opposed to having actually lost an eye.
** Alternatively one could wear a pair of glasses or monocle with red glass. The pigment in rods is depleted by almost any color except red (which you cannot see with rods). Wearing red glasses gives fairly useful sight during daylight conditions, except for distinguishing colors. Removing the glasses when entering darker environment gives you optimal use of your low-light vision.
* Saul Tigh, as of S3 of
* Subverted in ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'': David Bowie appears to Bret in a dream and tells him that he'd become more famous as a musician if he started wearing an eyepatch. Bret wears one for a while but stops after he complains about his poor depth perception causing him to miss chairs and run into walls. In his next dream, Bret tells Bowie what happened and he admits he had similar problems when he wore one (see Music below).
* In the same way goatees are commonly used to depict [[Evil Twin|evil]] [[Alternate Universe]] versions of characters in parodies (after Spock grew one in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Mirror Mirror"), eyepatches are used for the same purpose, because the evil version of the Brigadier wore one in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Inferno''. And as we all know, [[Evil Is Cool|Evil is Bad Ass]], therefore, this counts as a variation on this trope.
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* Lily Charles of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' is missing an eye due to an incident while cleaning cat litter and is definitely bad-ass, {{spoiler|blowing her erstwhile assassin out the window with her shotgun after he thought her choked to death}}. Her lack of an eye is dealt with realistically, if a bit comedically, in that she [[Failed a Spot Check|misses the fact]] that Chuck, her niece{{spoiler|/daughter}}, is back from the dead despite Chuck standing right in front of her. You see, Chuck just happened to be in her blind-spot at the time...
* Travis in ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'' has a skinlike eye patch. Plus a laser-firing artificial arm.
* "Archangel" loses one eye after the Evil Dr. Moffett's attack on the control tower in the pilot of ''[[Airwolf]]''. From then on, he wears glasses with [https://web.archive.org/web/20171029092335/http://awmod.uni.cc/info/Archangel.jpg one black lens], as well as a white eyepatch on occasions he can't wear the glasses.
* In the pilot for ''[[Firefly]]'', {{spoiler|Lawrence Dobson gets his eye shot out by Mal. Though he survives, he harbors a massive grudge in the tie-in comic ''Those Left Behind'', and, as a nifty bonus, he gets a ''seriously'' mean-looking cybernetic eye implant grafted onto the side of his head.}} This goes hand-in-hand with his boosted [[badass]]ness by that point.
* Subverted in the Disney series ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' during the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' spoof school for magic (where everyone must wear a bathrobe over their clothes and a pair of glasses just like Harry's to accessorize the bathrobes) the rude upperclassman who acts as Justin's rival wears an Eyepatch over a functioning eye, not to make himself better but just to get out of wearing the dorky glasses.
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* In ''[[NCIS]]'', Trent Kort seems quite unfazed and even more driven ever since losing an eye to the port-to-port killer and wearing a metallic eye patch. He even seems to enjoy the menacing look it gives him.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* The music video for [[They Might Be Giants]]' song "Hollywood House of Blues" involves an innovative alternative rock band called The Lads, whose lead singer wears an eyepatch. The eyepatch is also key to the greater success of Lads rip-off band The Blokes.
* Pete Burns from Dead or Alive wore a spiffy black eyepatch in the video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo You spin me right round].
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* When [[David Bowie]] made a Dutch television appearance to promote his then-new album ''Diamond Dogs'', his right eye was affected with pinkeye and he thus wore an eyepatch for the duration of it. The eyepatch was cool enough that his whole outfit became tied to the character of Halloween Jack (from the album's title track) for fans, despite him not wearing anything similar to it on the subsequent Diamond Dogs Tour. (His performance of "Rebel Rebel" from this show appears on the ''Best of Bowie'' DVD set.)
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
** Snoopy and his (pretend) crew of "bloodthirsty pirates" wear these. Although the baddass quotient decreases when one of his crewbirds tries to double it—and wanders into a post.
** Sally, during a story arc where she wears an eyepatch to treat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism 'lazy eye'], looks at herself and thinks she should be in an ad for men's shirts. When her eye got better, she gave it to Snoopy.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Odin, the chief god in [[Norse Mythology]], is said to have plucked out an eye to gain wisdom from a magic well. (see [[Blind Seer]]) Personal sacrifice to gain knowledge is actually a recurring theme for him.
* In one [[Robin Hood]] story, the hero wears an eyepatch as part of a disguise to compete in the royal archery contest. Despite jeers from the spectators - who can't see how someone missing an eye could possibly aim straight - he wins easily.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Deadlands]]'', one of the canon [[NPC]]s is a [[Badass Normal|grizzled veteran of a dozen wars and conflicts with the supernatural]] who sports just such an eyepatch. The story goes like this: Hank Ketchum was laying in the surgeon's tent at the Battle of Gettysburg when his surgeon-to-be snapped. He had already lopped body parts off of a few other men before gouging out Ketchum's eye with a scalpel. What did the gruff Texan do? He ''chased the surgeon away'', presumably with violence real and threatened. And that's why they call him One-Eye.
** Based off the John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn (see Movies above.)
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** [[Forgotten Realms]] has a lot of unusual magical items, including eyepatches such as the one worn by Jarlaxle (see above) and [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frbk/20060712a eyepatch of shooting stars].
* [[Commissar]] [[Badass Grandpa|Yarrick]] of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' replaced a missing eye with a bionic implant that could fire a laser in order to live up to ork stories that he could kill with a glance. Bionic eyes are common in both the setting and model range, though the only other special character who weaponizes his is "Lord Prince" Yriel, an [[Space Elves|Eldar]] [[Pirate|corsair]] turned High Admiral of Iyanden whose Eye of Wrath can blast everything around him once per game.
* [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Amazoness_Queen Amazoness Queen] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Don_Zaloog Don Zaloog] from the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]] game have them.
== [[Toys]] ==▼
▲== Toys ==
* [[New Gods|Big Barda]] is re-imagined as a space pirate with an Eyepatch of Power in the ''Ame-Comi'' Girls line of PVC statues from DC Direct.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* Dalton from ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', one of the villains in 12,000 B.C. He may not seem to fit the "of Power" part of the trope, being a [[Smug Snake|arrogant]] [[Large Ham|blowhard]] who prefers for [[golem]]s to do his fighting for him, but ''[[Updated Rerelease|Chrono Trigger DS]]'' proved him to be a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]].
* Kano from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' had a red cyber-eye in a metal plate. Ironically, he's a bit of a jobber.
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* Captain Price in ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'' invokes this with his night-vision goggles - it's more of a monocle.
* Undyne from ''[[Undertale]]'', the biggest hero of the Underworld.
* In ''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'', Captain Fishhook - a [[Ghost Pirate]] who also a [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|a Ghost Shark]]! - wears one, keeping an Elevator Button - part of a [[Dismantled MacGuffin]] that Luigi needs - under it.
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* How do we know M in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]'' is awesome even before he does anything? Guess. Interestingly enough, despite it being implied that the eye underneath it actually works fine, it is never removed.
* Nimmel Feenix from ''[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/ Dominic Deegan]'' had his right eye slashed to uselessness, so he combed his previously slicked-back hair in such a way as to cover it up. Curiously, The Infernomancer from who inflicted this injury ''also'' sported an eyepatch of power ? a blindfold with long spikes on the inside, that concealed magically ever-bleeding eyes (the mark of the demonic pact that gave him his powers).
** At one point, Dominic was recovering from temporary blindness and had only gotten back his sight in one eye. He wore an eyepatch until his vision recovered; combined with his artificial leg, this gave rise to at least one [https://web.archive.org/web/20130316100639/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-09-19 pirate joke].
* In ''[http://www.itswalky.com It's Walky!]'', Penny Worthington was ''double'' the [[Badass]] for wearing the eyepatch she took from her predecessor, Dargon Chesterfield, after assassinating him.
* Nikolai Vankof, a former Soviet secret agent from ''[[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma-Man]]'' has an eyepatch over his right eye.
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* Also parodied by ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' strip: Elan, after the [[Time Skip]], [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0501.html is shown sporting an eyepatch]... but [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html one comic later] it's revealed that [[Genre Savvy|he started wearing it]] because [[Invoked Trope|it made him look mysterious]].
** Right-Eye, Redcloak's little brother, and later {{spoiler|Redcloak himself}} sport an eyepatch as well, although it actually covers a missing eye.
** Redcloak himself eventually wears one, though he confirms that he ''does'' suffer from depth perception loss. Not that it stops Xykon from preventing him from regenerating it, if only because he prefers Redcloak to look like a pirate.
* Sarn Kellfrock of [[Planescape Survival Guide]] is a ancient duergar dwarf cleric who lost his eye to the future god Bane while defending his own god (Jergal's) realm. His eyepatch of power comes into play later on when he takes Bane's eye out before killing the god single-handedly.
* In ''[[The Wotch]]'', there's DeFrain the [[Pirate]] - a member of [[La Résistance]], whose piratey eyepatch hides a magical eye capable of seeing through anything, as well as detecting magical auras - handy for checking out whether a ship contains anything worth stealing. He also appears to be a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Ninja Pirate]].
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* Tony the Tiger in ''[[Breakfast of the Gods]]''
* The Suicide Girl from ''[[Sexy Losers]]''. She's an animated corpse; the eyepatch covers the eye she accidentally shot herself through (she was toweling her hair and blindly picked up what she thought was her hairdryer; unfortunately, she kept her gun next to her hairdryer for some reason...).
* In ''[[The KAMics]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120606054350/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4853859/ Ratatosk (self-proclaimed) god of the squirrels] wears one to seem more Odin-like. Since both eyes are good he occasionally switches which eye it covers.
* Chief from ''[[Goblins]]'' has a riveted-on eyepatch bearing his clan symbol (which was originally tattooed on near his lost eye. It doesn't make him markedly more badass, though. Most of the time.
* In Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's (completed, not ongoing) webcomic "Yahtzee Takes On The World", the alternate universe Anti-Yahtzee has the token alt-self eyepatch, as well as the other inevitable deliberate clichés of the identical-but-opposite-colour clothing and the typical facial hair inversion.
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* [[Smug Snake|Vriska]] of ''[[Homestuck]]'' sports one. Due to [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]s, ''which'' eye it covers is never officially determined. It isn't until later in the Hivebent arc that we find out how she lost her eye (and arm) in the first place.
** She later gets her eye and arm back, so she loses the patch.
* In ''[[Galactic Maximum]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120104034530/http://maximumcomic.com/?strip_id=1 one uses a knife in the gun fight]
* Vanka the theif from ''[[Oglaf]]'', who wears a rolled headband with the hem positioned to cover her missing eye.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* Paul Smith of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has an eyepatch, having lost one eye after a freak barbecue accident (no, seriously). He is shown to be a more than competent fighter, being (as of the end of the 2007 school year) the second best fighter in the school and certainly something of a [[Badass]].
* Xinjao O'Reilly in ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' wears one after being tortured by having a soldering iron thrust into one eye. This also comes shortly after he [[Took a Level in Badass]] and went from comic-relief engineer with a [[Porn Stash]] to resourceful leader of a guerrilla band of engineers and admiral of his own private mercenary space fleet.
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* [[Equestria Chronicles|Behold Fidelity, badass pegasus guard,]] [[No Social Skills|though outside guard situations she's not that good.]]
* Colonel Blitzer from [[Coyle Command]] has one. You may notice it switches eye from time to time.
* Parodied in ''[http://www.elfwood.com/u/andersson/image/52460240-23da-11e4-9fb0-6fd3a883da45/patched-up-matey Patched Up Matey]''{{Dead link}} by Fredrik K.T.Andersson where pirates wound up with ''several crates'' of these, marked "<big>☠</big> [[Talk Like a Pirate|Arrh]] Patches". More inventive crewmembers began to look for inspired misapplications {{spoiler|(a [[Pirate Girl]] can [[Barely-There Swimwear|put to good use at least 3]] even with both eyes intact)}}.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Dr. Director from ''[[Kim Possible]]'', and her [[Evil Twin|evil (fraternal) twin brother]] have eye patches, and are some of the most competent fighters in the series. Dr. Director is primarily a parody/homage to Nick Fury.
** An extra in the "A Sitch In Time" DVD showed a [[Eyepatch After Time Skip|future]] Kim as Dr. Director's successor. She also wore an eyepatch.
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** ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' shows it off well. {{spoiler|Compare Longarm Prime to Shockwave.}}
** ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' gives one to Breakdown, after MECH removed his eye. Presumably Megatron forbids letting him get a replacement eye as punishment for getting captured by [[Puny Humans]].
* Matrix, the [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|grown-up Enzo]] from ''[[
** Parodied with the pirate bi-nomes. There's at least one "zero" bi-nome with two patches that optionally hide two good eyes, and there's at least one "one" bi-nome with a single patch over it's only perfectly fine eye.
* Gutierrez, Ricardo Montelban's character on ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', had an eye patch. When he transformed into his "super freak" form, it had an eye painted over it, and an energy weapon behind it.
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* Pariah Dark in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Probably doesn't suffer any depth perception since he's a ghost.
** The once useless Box Ghost will eventually become a [[Future Badass]] who can fight on par with any of the major villains. His secret? An eyepatch.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Gibbs in ''[[Titan Maximum]]'', who's both the main villain and probably [[Only Sane Man|one of the smartest characters]] in the series.
* In ''[[Street Sharks]]'', big bad villain Dr. Paradigm wears an eyepatch for no explained reason. He starts off the show as an implied college lecturer. It's somewhat [[Badass]] in context.
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* [[Danger Mouse]] has one. People who worked on the show can't seem to agree on whether he lost an eye or he just has it to be fashionable.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* [[wikipedia:Philip II of Macedon|Philip II of Macedon]] lost his right eye early in his life. He'd go on to beat all of Greece to submission, and radically reform the Macedonian army for top-notch new battle strategies, allowing his son Alexander to [[wikipedia:Alexander the Great|conquer nearly all the known world]]
** One of Alexander's generals (and a later ruler in his own right), Antigonus, was known by the nickname ''"Monopthalmus"'', or "the One-Eyed".
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** As [[Aubrey-Maturin|Captain Jack]] put it, "Lord Nelson is [[Historical In-Joke|a man of singular vision.]]"
* Hannibal Barca lost his eye while on the march from pink eye. Not long after this he launches a massive ambush on Roman forces in the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
* The common stereotype of pirates wearing eyepatches likely dates back to the Arabian pirate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahmah_ibn_Jabir_Al_Jalhami Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah], who wore it after losing an eye in battle in the 18th century.
* [[Date Masamune]], a general during the Japanese Warring States period, lost an eye as a youth and had to wear an eyepatch. It didn't hinder him much, as he went on to defeat Japan's prominent strategists of the time. Legend says that he ripped it out himself when it was rendered useless by smallpox (though this is highly unlikely given that he was a young child when he contracted the illness). It earned him the nickname of One-Eyed Dragon; though it started off as a comment on his reckless nature, it later in his life became a term of respect. He, like Xiahou Dun below, is almost always portrayed with an eyepatch in fictional appearances, even though there's no record of him wearing one in real life.
* Another historical example: Xiahou Dun, a Chinese general serving under Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Reputedly, he was such a [[Badass]] that, when an arrow shot him in the eye, he plucked it out and ''[[Eye Scream|swallowed it to instill fear in his enemies.]]'' In most literary and pop culture depictions of him (read: ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''), he's wearing either an eyepatch or a bandanna around his eye.
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