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[[File:plissken.jpg|link=Escape from New York|frame|[[Visual Pun|One-eyed Snake]] ]]
[[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]]''}}
{{quote|''"[[Incredibly Lame Pun|You can't spell 'warrior' without one 'I'.]]"''|'''[[Riff Trax]]''' on ''[[Star Trek VI]]''}}
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See also: [[Evil Eye]], [[Mask Power]], [[Eyes Always Shut]], and if you're masochistic, [[Eye Scream]]. For characters that weren't wearing it the last time you saw them, see [[Eyepatch After Time Skip]]. See also [[Blindfolded Vision]], where a blindfolded combatant is no worse off (or better!) than their opponents. May result because [[Scars Are Forever]].
See also: [[Evil Eye]], [[Mask Power]], [[Eyes Always Shut]], and if you're masochistic, [[Eye Scream]]. For characters that weren't wearing it the last time you saw them, see [[Eyepatch After Time Skip]]. See also [[Blindfolded Vision]], where a blindfolded combatant is no worse off (or better!) than their opponents. May result because [[Scars Are Forever]].
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== Advertising ==
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* Both [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] and [[Parodied Trope|parodied]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwlh1yl054 this DirecTV commercial].
* Both [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] and [[Parodied Trope|parodied]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwlh1yl054 this DirecTV commercial].
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* ''The Mageworlds'' series by Debra Doyle and James D. MacDonald feature the heroine Beka Metadi assumes the identity of the roguish (and male) Tarnikep Portee, a nearly psychotic dandy with a crimson eyepatch and an oversized blaster. Tarnikep is both crazier and more of a badass that Beka.
* ''The Mageworlds'' series by Debra Doyle and James D. MacDonald feature the heroine Beka Metadi assumes the identity of the roguish (and male) Tarnikep Portee, a nearly psychotic dandy with a crimson eyepatch and an oversized blaster. Tarnikep is both crazier and more of a badass that Beka.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Tales of the Sundered Lands]]:'' One-Eyed Ryan, as his name suggests, has only one eye. He is also very experienced.