Eyepatch of Power: Difference between revisions

* 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]]''. When Tony Stark is on board the Helicarrier bridge looks at Fury's computer on either side of his station and covers one eye:

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

** DiZ uses a [[Too Many Belts|belt]] to this effect. Yes, on his head.

* 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 from 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.

** Later in the game, however, he is wiring a base up with plastic explosive. He moulds it into the shape of a moth, throws it up into the air, and catches it - "Got you this time," he tells it, then attaches it to the detonator.

** Strangely, in a later scene, the player needs to fire a sniper rifle at explosives to destroy the Shagohad, and when that fails he switches to an RPG, all of this with his standard pinpoint accuracy - which normally would be fine, except the sight is on the right side and cannot be moved. Guess which side his eyepatch is on. And the kicker? You can still see down the sight of the RPG in First-Person View.

* The Demoman from ''[[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.

** He seems ''really'' bitter.

** Seems to run in the family; a comic released prior to his (and the Soldier's) update reveals that both the RED Demoman's parents are blind, a result of the family profession being demolitions.

* Genshin from ''[[Ninja Gaiden]] II''.

* Drachma of ''[[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.