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These characters rarely experience any problems with depth perception or suffer from the resulting reduced field of vision. In fact, sometimes the [['''Eyepatch of Power]]''' covers a perfectly functional - or [[Evil Eye|specially functional]] - eye instead of the empty hole one might suspect. This is sometimes a technique of [[Trickster]] types.

[[Pirate|Pirates]]s often have eye patches, which is a separate thematic concept, but the overlap of badassery and piracy is significant enough to mention. This is partially [[Truth in Television]], pirates in real life do wear eye patches regularly, but for a completely different reason: They force the concealed eye into night vision state before a raid so that when all the torches are blown, they switch side of the eye patches, gaining instant night vision and advantage against the victim ship's crew. Main characters will often gain an eyepatch as a [[Future Badass]] or [[Evil Twin]].

** 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''.}}

* {{spoiler|Dr. Hell}} from ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'' wore one in {{spoiler|the sequel series, ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|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.

** Minister Zurill of ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' was a [[Badass Bookworm]] with one eyepatch covering his left eye.

* One episode in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' featured Don Zaruug/Don Zaloog, a Duel Monster spirit wearing a gold eyepatch that allowed him to manifest in the physical world and bring his fellow "Dark Scorpion" gang members with him. Jim also has bandages constantly covering his magic eye.

* Ciel Phantomhive of ''[[Black Butler]]'' has one to hide his [[Evil Eye]] pentagram; the sign of his [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] contract.

* In ''[[Black Cat (Mangamanga)|Black Cat]]'', Sven Vollfied wears an eyepatch over his right eye, which has the ability to see a few seconds into the future. If he uses it extensively, it can cause extreme exhaustion. He has the eye from {{spoiler|his old partner Lloyd who had these powers of seeing the future. Foreseeing Sven's death, Lloyd went to intervene and was consequently killed himself. Sven lost an eye in the process but was given a transplant from Lloyd who had registered as an organ donor not long before.}}

* Lavi from ''[[D Gray Man|D.Gray-Manman]]'' wears an eye patch over his right eye. Under it he hides a secret "only known to Bookmen". Nobody know what it is. Yet. [[Series Hiatus|And God knows how long til we find out]].

** Cross Marian's right eye is covered by a faceplate. And since he {{spoiler|was either killed or was [[Put Onon a Bus]],}} "God knows how long till we find out." (Because when an eye is covered by something, you know it's covered for a reason...)

* Cinque of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. She once fought against an [[Rank Inflation|S-Rank mage]]. [[Redwall|She lost her eye, he lost his life. ]] Cypha from ''Force'' also wears one.

* Akito from ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'''s eyepatch acts as an indicator as to which half of his [[Split Personality]] is in charge: if over the right eye, sweet and innocent Akito is in control. Over the left eye, violent and brash Agito takes over. Without the eyepatch, Agito ''still'' has control, but with more power.

* An odd and extremely [[Narm]] version of this is combined with [[Mask Power]] in ''[[Dragonaut: theThe Resonance]]''. When Kazuki, the [[Rival Turned Evil]], returns from a [[No One Could Survive That]] moment, he's wearing an eyepatch...as a mask. It makes it look like he has a thong on his head.

* Nice Holystone of ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'', who conceals a small but functional ''bomb'' within the empty eye socket covered by her eyepatch.

* Saito from ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'' has a cybernetic implant that resembles an eyepatch. His left eye was replaced with the "Hawkeye", a prosthetic eye that interfaces with satellites to allow for shots of incredible accuracy.

* Kind of subverted in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' as the while the eyepatch Lockon Stratos receives later in the series does make him look more badass (if this is even possible for [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|stupid, sexy Lockon]]), {{spoiler|it gives Ali an advantage in the final fight causing Lockon to lose their fight and ''die''.}}

* Senri from ''[[Plus Anima (Manga)|Plus +Anima]]'' uses an eyepatch to control his + anima form.

* Mio Sakamoto of ''[[Strike Witches]]'' wears a patch over her right (magical) eye. It allows her to see the cores of Neuroi. It should also be noted that this magical eye seems to be always on, meaning the eye patch may also maintain her sanity, if you saw things in magic-o-vision 24/7 you would probably [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|Go Mad From The Revelations]].

* Shirow Watari from ''[[Rah XephonRahXephon]]'' has one. Fitting for the commander of a small army.

* ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'': [[Battle Butler|Norman]] has one, along with a [[Badass Mustache]].

* For some unexplained reason in ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan (Light Novel)Dokuro-chan|Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan]]'' her younger but older looking sister Zakuro wears an eye patch.

* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'', Siesta 00, the commander of the Siestas (bunny-girl soldiers), has one of these.

* Lord Darcia III from ''[[WolfsWolf's Rain]]'': He uses a patch on his left side to hide the gold-colored wolf's eye which he uses to {{spoiler|inexplicably render humans unconscious}}. It's the result of a family curse and {{spoiler|being descended from wolves.}}

* ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' has Kyuubei (based on Yagyu Jubei in the Real Life examples below) and Takasugi.

* Elder Kaede from ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]'' wears one because she lost her eye during an attack of demons when she was a little girl.

* In ''[[Eleven Eyes11eyes]]'', Kakeru has a [[Eyes of Gold|blind right eye]], covered by an an overly large eyepatch, which grants him the power of precognition.

* 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.

* [http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/images/speedracer/speed144.jpg Professor Anarchy], [[Speed Racer (Anime)|Speed Racer]]'s adversary in the episode "Gang of Assassins", sports a rather distinctive patch.

* {{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].

* 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.

* {{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...}}

* Othinus from ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu no Index (Light Novel)|To Aru Majutsu noMagical Index]]'', much like {{spoiler|her}} mythological counterpart. Othinus has acquired the position of majin (magic god) and is thus one of the most powerful beings in the world.

* Red Jasper in the [[Big Finish]] audio adventure ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who (Radio)/Recap/043 Doctor Who and the Pirates/Recap|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]''.

* ''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.

*** Well, except for [[Click. "Hello."|knowing the proper time to cock a gun.]]

* ''[[Y: theThe Last Man]]'': Rose Copen is not only an eye-patched modern pirate {{spoiler|though she turns out to be working for the Australian navy}} she also manages to explode a depth charge by hitting the primer with a single bullet from an AK-47. When asked how she managed this with no depth perception the deafened Rose can only reply: "WHAT?"

* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Bookcomics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', the [[Mirror Universe]] version of Antoine wears one. When Evil Sonic decides to get rid of him by swapping him for the good version, he makes fun of Evil Antoine for only wearing an eyepatch to look cool. Later, when Evil Sonic becomes Scourge, and king of the mirror universe, he becomes determined to make all the evil counterparts more unique than just mirror versions, including actually cutting out Antoine's eye.

* Averted by ''[[The Goon (Comic Book)|The Goon]]'', who lost the sight in one eye after getting {{spoiler|clawed in the face by a dragon}}. He just pulls his hat down over his eyes.

* Trench from ''[[Elephantmen (Comic Book)|Elephantmen]]''.

* Lampshaded in ''WHAT THE?'' comics where every character in the Marvel Universe tries to wear an eyepatch just to be as cool as Wolverine. (See the invisible woman wearing nothing but an eye patch!) Wolverine explains that the only he can handle the eyepatch as Human Torch slams into the side of a building having misjudged the distance.

* In [[The DCU]], Mark Shaw (one of the characters to use the name [[Manhunter (Comic Bookcomics)|Manhunter]]) wore one in his alternative identity of the Privateer. And, no, there was nothing wrong with his eye. He wore it purely because it was cool.

* Snake Plissken of ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]'' and ''[[Escape From LAL.A.]]'' fame. [[Captain Ron]] ... not so much.

* General Chang in ''[[Star Trek VI]]: The Undiscovered Country'' doesn't ''wear'' an eyepatch -- heeyepatch—he's such a badass that he actually has a metal plate riveted to his face.

** In homage or (more likely, given the tone of the film) parody of the above, [[Big Bad]] Sarris from ''[[Galaxy Quest (Film)|Galaxy Quest]]'' has a metal plate bolted over his damaged right eye after surviving having his ship blown up by ''atomic mines''. He's a sadistic bastard, but that's pretty badass.

* Dilios, the sole survivor in the film ''[[Three Hundred|300]]''. By definition (given his peers) a badass, he is perhaps more so because, with his one eye and his talent for storytelling, he is ordered to do the hard thing (for a Spartan): escape and live, to tell their story.

* Emilio Largo in ''[[Thunderball (Film)|Thunderball]]''. It helps that he's one of the most charismatic Bond villains ever.

* In ''[[The Mummy Returns (Film)Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', the character Izzy is first seen wearing an eyepatch. Subverted when he openly admits that he wears it to look good; Rick pulls it off afterwards.

* "Big" Dan Teague from ''[[O Brother Where Art Thou|O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' wears an eyepatch when he is introduced and a one-eyed Ku Klux Klan hood later. This is a [[Shout-Out]] to the Cyclops and the Greek mythology underpinning the story.

* [[Christopher Lee]] wore an eyepatch for his role as Rochefort in ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973 (Filmfilm)|The Three Musketeers 1973]]'', to make him more sinister, and this appearance detail has carried over to a lot of other adaptations.

* [[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.

* Nick Fury director of S.H.I.E.L.D in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] movies ''[[Iron Man]]'' 1 & 2, ''[[Captain America: theThe 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?<br />

'''Maria Hill:''' He turns.<br />

* [[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]] wore an eyepatch in one book after her left eye was damaged, before she had it replaced with a cybernetic eye (with telescopic vision). Later, she also acquired a synthetic arm.

* Uno in ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'' is introduced with just one eye, later on he starts wearing an eyepatch with a scary eye painted on it. While he IS a [[Badass]] he more of a drill sergeant.

** {{spoiler|Mat}} loses an eye, too, and he actually notes his lack of depth perception and worsened sight, but he decides it isn't so bad. After all,he needed to trade it with [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s shaped as Snakes, who you can only way to survive the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]], which a children's game is base off of, because [[All Myths Are True]]. {{spoiler|"Luck worked better when you were not looking anyway."}}

* [[Neuromancer|Molly/Sally]]'s lens-covered eyes may count as both [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] ''and'' a dual [[Eyepatch of Power]] in William Gibson's books. Not only are they the cherries on her [[Badass]] sundae, they're also functional enhancements.

* ''[[Friday (Literaturenovel)|Friday]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. Friday's unnamed Boss refuses to have his eye regenerated, and so wears an 'unfashionable' eyepatch.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' 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.

* Saul Tigh, as of S3 of ''the [[Series/Battlestar Galactica Reimaged(2004 TV series)|''Battlestar Galactica'' Reimagedremake]]''. He's always been somewhat of a [[Poisonous Friend]], almost a [[Magnificent Bastard]], but perhaps not coincidentally, he becomes a significantly more formidable character at more or less the exact same point at which he loses his eye. In what may count as a subversion, Tigh forgoes a classic black eyepatch for a distinctly more medical flesh-colored patch with transparent cords. Moreover, he spends several episodes beforehand with a very uncool chunk of gauze taped to his face. It's also worthy of note that there was an episode where he was having a great deal of difficulty putting his "uncool chunk of gauze" on by himself, subverting the "no loss of depth perception" addendum above.

* 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: theThe 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.

** ''[[The Middleman]]'' also uses this, probably in a [[Shout-Out]] in "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome." In the alternate universe, the one sporting the [[Eyepatch of Power]] is the alt!Middleman himself. He's a [[Badass Biker]] to boot, but still a good guy.

* Mikhail from ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]''. The man survived many injuries (such a sonic fence-induced brain hemorrhage and being shot in the chest with a harpoon) relatively unscathed. It took the [[Word of God]] to convince fans that he ''could'' die.

* General Martok, of ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', was already badass as a Klingon. Add to that the removal of his eye, the scar tissue that covered up the socket in a ''natural'' eye patch, and his becoming the winningest Klingon commander of the war and eventually the new Chancellor, and you have a true badass.

* Humorously subverted in the Ferengi episode of ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek: Voyager]]''. While Paris and Chakotay visit an alien planet, they're approached by a 'prophet' (read: con-man) who gives interpretations of sacred legends for a 'small fee'. This all works very well (though neither of them are actually fooled), until Paris dryly points out that his [[Eyepatch of Power]] was on the ''other'' eye the last time they spoke with him. Said con-man then switches the patch to the 'correct' eye right in front of them, and holds out his hand for payment.

* Travis in ''[[Blake's Seven7|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 (TV)|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|badassnessbadass]]ness by that point.

* {{spoiler|Xander}} from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' got considerably more [[Badass]] after {{spoiler|Caleb takes out his eye during Season 7}}. This too subverts the "no lost depth perception" by having him state that he now has to renew his driver's license every year, due to his loss in depth perception.

* Richard "Yin Yang Man" Branden on ''[[WMAC Masters (TV)|WMAC Masters]]'' wore an eye patch with a yin yang symbol on it however his is legitimately blind in that eye and sometimes during exhibitions he would actually use a glass eye with the symbol on it instead.

* In the original television airings of ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'', there were segments set in the present day (the ''then'' present, around 1992). These bits featured an elderly [[Indiana Jones]], who wore an eyepatch over his right eye, and a pair of glasses over the patch. He also had a nasty facial scar trailing out from under his eyepatch. However, [[Done a George LucasRecut|these 1990's scenes were all deleted in later airings of the show]], and still haven't become available on home video. A [[Eyepatch After Time Skip|time skip]] was involved here, because Indy still has both eyes in all the films so far (which cover events up to 1957, and when the ''Chronicles'' first aired extended only to 1938).

* One of the most popular characters on ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' in the late 1980s was Steve 'Patch' Johnson who (in his backstory) had lost an eye in a fight with the show's main hero Bo Brady and wore a patch. Steve's initial storylines included terrorising Bo and his wife Hope but after a [[Heel Face Turn]], Steve reconciled with Bo and eventually married Bo's sister after taking over from Bo as the show's main hero when Bo was [[Put Onon a Bus|put on a sailing ship]].

* In ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]'', the [[Engrish|Seaick]] form of their [[Giant Robot]], Gosei Great, has a literal [[Eyepatch of Power]]; it not only adds to the pirate look of the mecha, it allows it to detect and target enemies.

* In ''[[NCIS (TV)|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.

* There's a magic item in one ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' sourcebook called the Corsair's Eyepatch, which is transparent to the wearer so as not to impede vision. Depending on which eye it's worn over, the wearer can activate it to See Invisible, or gain the Blind Fight feat.

* [[Commissar]] [[Badass Grandpa|Yarrick]] of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' 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.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Dalton from ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|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|golemsgolem]]s to do his fighting for him, but ''[[Updated Rerelease|Chrono Trigger DS]]'' proved him to be a [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]].

* Subversion: when Naked Snake of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'' gets his eye muzzle-burned and is rewarded with an eyepatch, he has quite a touching scene in which he attempts to catch a moth, but fails because of his poor depth perception. (Since [[Word of God]] says that Snake's codename was inspired by ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]'''s Snake Plissken, the eyepatch doubles as a [[Shout-Out]].) The lead female expresses pity, but he shrugs it off. The first person view for the player goes a bit funny, too - the lost eye was his dominant one, so that's what he habitually aligns his gunsights to.

{{quote| '''Naked Snake:''' [[Survival Mantra|It's not like I can't see. I've got one good eye and I can still fire a gun.]]}}

*** However in [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]] and Peace Walker both allow Snake and Big Boss to fire their guns with either their left or right hands, which in the case of Big Boss would allow him to look down the scope/iron sight with his left eye. Such ambidextrous shooting however is never displayed by Big Boss in [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]], his eye patch must really have power if he can see through it even when it is on.

** Furthermore, in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4|Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', Solid Snake is given the Solid Eye device, an advanced monocular display mounted in an eyepatch. Combat advantage? Definitely. Looks cool? Possibly enough to balance out the Dick Van Dyke moustache. In any case, it makes him look almost exactly like his father.

* Illidan Stormrage, an [[Anti-Hero]]''/''[[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]''/''[[Big Bad]] from the ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' universe, has ''no'' eyes - a blindfold covers both the burned-out sockets where they were seared away. Nonetheless, he has magical vision that is actually superior to the naked eye, is quite happy with his new ability (despite its hideous adjustment to his appearance), and even appears to have a sense of humor about it - one of his default responses in the campaign is "I'm blind, not deaf."

* Jerec from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Star Wars: Dark Forces Saga (Video Game)|Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2]]'' is much the same. No eyes, but he's such a strong dark Jedi that this doesn't slow him down at all. The Extended Universe has him as being of the Miraluka species; his eyes, therefore, are present, but atrophied like others of his species, who see using the Force.

* Sion from ''[[Treasure of the Rudras]]'' not only has an [[Eyepatch of Power]] but said eyepatch hides the [[Cosmic Keystone]] that got embedded in his eye after a battle against {{spoiler|Surt.}}

* James "Paladin" Taggart is depicted with an eyepatch in ''Super [[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'', though in the other ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'' games featuring the character, he has the use of both eyes. He gains no special powers or abilities from missing an eye (indeed, as an AI wingman he is somewhat mediocre, even compared to other AI wingmen), but he is an experienced combat pilot whose career spans several decades.

*** [[FE 9]]FE9 and 10 have Haar, who is one of the best characters in [[FE 10]] due to his overwhelming Mobility, Strength and Defense.

* Auron of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has one missing eye, partially concealed with sunglasses. Not quite an eyepatch, but it should be noted that after losing his eye, he [[Took a Level Inin Badass|took levels exclusively in badassery]].

* Forcystus from ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' has both an [[Eyepatch of Power]] and an [[Arm Cannon]] that appears to replace his left arm (actually, his arm is inside the thing and can be seen during some of his attacks when the arm cannon opens up.

* The Demoman from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' wears one, and is actually quite bitter about having lost his eye, referring to himself as a 'black, Scottish cyclops'. His lack of an eye has no impact on the player's vision when playing as him, however, and he still performs quite adequately considering his weapon of choice is a grenade launcher.

{{quote| ''...prancin' aboot with yer heads full of eyeballs!''}}

{{quote| '''RED Demoman's Mum:''' Mark me, boy: no Demoman worth his sulfur ever had an eye in his head past thirty!}}

* Drachma of ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' has a literal Eyepatch of Power. The accessory he starts with is an eyepatch that increases his attack power slightly when he has it equipped.

* Gippal of ''[[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X -2]]''. {{spoiler|The [[Mexican Standoff]] kind of forces that point home, too}}.

* Lucian of ''[[Boktai (Video Game)|Lunar Knights]]'' has an eyepatch. He's also {{spoiler|former prodigy member of the Three Gunslingers Sartana.}}

* Wolf O'Donell of ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star FoxFOX]]'' goes through several variations of this. In the prototype ''Star Fox 2'', he is depicted with a scar over one of his eyes, while in ''Star Fox 64'', he sports an eyepatch (over the opposite eye) and later games give him a cybernetic eye, although it still comes with metallic straps as if it were still an eyepatch, raising questions about whether or not he can take it off.

* Lord David from ''[[The Last Remnant]]'' takes this to a particularly literal level. In battle, he wears an eyepatch that appears to be tied into the aiming or activation of the remnant Gae Bolg -- anBolg—an enormous energy cannon.

* Alfred Woden of the ''[[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]'' series wears a special pair of glasses which are shaded over his right eye. This was meant to evoke Odin, as was his last name, since Oden himself wore an eyepatch, and thus establishes himself as the one running the show. Max himself notes "In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed man is King"

* ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]] Tri'': Your character has 2 if you are female and one if you are male, the female has an exclusive helmet in the deviljho gunner set with an eyepatch, and both genders have the Wyvernking Eyepatch which has 3 slots and is upgradeable

* In ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'', [[Emotionless Girl|Nu-13]] has an [[Eyepatch of Power]] that is replaced by a [[Cyber Cyclops|visor]] whenever she [[Powered Armor|activates the angelic-looking Murakumo unit]]. Disturbingly, the eyepatch in question has a design akin to a [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red sphere]] with a [[Hellish Pupils|thick black stripe]] running down the middle at an angle. Note the similar design on the back of protagonist Ragna's [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|right hand]]. In case it isn't obvious, Nu is ''dangerous''.

** Don't forget Gilgamesh, the pirate with an eye patch of power.

* How do we know M in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth (Visual Novel)|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.

== Webcomics[[Web Comics]] ==

** 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].

* 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.

* Also parodied by ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|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.

* The First Mate, Marge, of ''[[I Was Kidnapped Byby Lesbian Pirates Fromfrom Outer Space]]'' sports an eyepatch.

* In ''[[The KA MicsKAMics]]'', [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.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Judy's kitten had survived an attack from a dinosaur and now sports an eyepatch. It still looks very cute.

* [[Smug Snake|Vriska]] of ''[[Homestuck]]'' sports one. Due to [[Ambidextrous Sprite|Ambidextrous Sprites]]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.

* 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.

* 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 Inin 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.

* Tom from ''[[Ruby Quest (Roleplay)|Ruby Quest]]'' {{spoiler|has his right eye ripped out early on; he's left with an empty socket until he and Ruby find some gauze and bandages to make an eyepatch. Eventually, this is augmented with a "DO NOT OPEN" label. In this case it only serves as an apropos emblem of his supreme badassery, as his MANLY PHYSIQUE and inclination towards smashing things prove valuable assets throughout the course of the story.}}

* Matrix, the [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|grown-up Enzo]] from ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'''s third season, has a golden cybernetic eye that provides super targeting abilities, which he received after the original was cut out. By THE DEVIL in a Mortal Kombat-ish game.

* 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.

* Falcon 7, Birdman's boss in ''[[Birdman And The Galaxy Trio]]'' has an eyepatch. That, of course, becomes a source of many jokes in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]]'', where Falcon 7 becomes Phil Ken Sebben.

* ''[[Danger Mouse (Animation)|Danger Mouse]]''. Bad Ass mouse!

* Parodied in ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' episode "That Moustache Feeling", where the Tick meets Jim Rave, Agent of S.H.A.V.E.. Rave is a Nick Fury lookalike, down to the eyepatch-but at the episode's end, the Tick realizes Rave isn't a ''real'' special agent because he still has both eyes-the eyepatch is just there to make him look cool.

* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' gives us resident [[Badass]], Hoss Delgado. Complete with [[Swiss Army Appendage]].

* Officer Shallowgrave on ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' wears an eyepatch.

** His [[G.I. Joe: Renegades|Renegades]] incarnation, however, has ''more'' than earned his badass cred (and likely the eyepatch itself) in his debut episode.

* Gen Abernathy from [[G.I. Joe: Renegades]] sports one of these.

* Something of a subversion on ''[[Captain Planet and Thethe Planeteers]].'' [[Mad Scientist]] Dr. Blight is blonde, but wears one shock of long white hair over one of her eyes. This would seem to be this trope...except that the hair is actually hiding the fact that part of her face is deformed.

* On ''[[Jimmy Two -Shoes]]'' the bailiffs in the Horn Fairy Court wear eyepatches with stars on them.

* [[Danger Mouse (Animation)|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.

* Moshe Dayan, Israeli General and Defense Minister (including during the Six-Day war -- whenwar—when Israel battled against 3 armies and still managed to triple its land mass in six days), lost his left eye while infiltrating Syria in WWII; the binoculars he was looking through were shot and the glass and metal destroyed his eye socket. He didn't like his black eyepatch, but it did make him look pretty badass.

* The pirate stereotype may have come from pirate captains who, needing to go above and below decks constantly, would put an eyepatch over one eye above deck to avoid losing their dark-vision in that eye (see ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'').

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