Eyepatch of Power: Difference between revisions

 

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* Both [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] and [[Parodied Trope|parodied]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwlh1yl054 this DirecTV commercial].

 

* 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.}}

* {{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]]''.

* ''[[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...}}

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

 

* [[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 Natalie Reed version of Lady Blackhawk in ''[[Blackhawk]]''.

 

* 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.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Stark:''' How does Fury even see these?

'''Maria Hill:''' He turns.

'''Stark:''' Sounds exhausting. }}

 

* 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]].

* ''[[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.

 

* ''[[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).

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

 

* 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].

* 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.)

 

* ''[[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.

 

* 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.)

** [[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.

 

* [[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.

 

* 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.

* 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].

* Vanka the theif from ''[[Oglaf]]'', who wears a rolled headband with the hem positioned to cover her missing eye.

 

* 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.

* [[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.

 

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* [[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.

 

* [[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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