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* 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.}}
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* {{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.
== Audio Adventure ==
* 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 ==
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* [[Doctor Strange]] had one for a while as part of a retool into a 'darker' character.
* The Natalie Reed version of Lady Blackhawk in ''[[Blackhawk]]''.
== Film ==
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'''Maria Hill:''' He turns.
'''Stark:''' Sounds exhausting. }}
== Literature ==
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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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* In ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Nadine Hurley]] wears an eyepatch over her left eye after {{spoiler|losing it in a hunting accident on her and her husband Ed's honeymoon}}. At the beginning of the second season after {{spoiler|attempting suicide}}, she not only loses her memory, but also gains [[Super Strength]]. In fact, she's so strong, she accidentally ''pulled a door off it's hinges''.
* 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 ==
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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.
== 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 ==
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* 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.
== Web Comics ==
* 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].
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* 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 ==
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* 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 ==
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* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' the bailiffs in the Horn Fairy Court wear eyepatches with stars on them.
* [[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 ==
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