Eyepatch of Power: Difference between revisions

** A (slightly) more straight example can be found in Knight Of One Bismarck Waldstein, who has his left eye sewn shut. {{spoiler|This is to seal his always-on Geass, which allows him to predict an opponent's movement.}}

** When Jeremiah Gottwald opens his left eye, he can nullify any Geass power. Being a badass already, it made it easy for him to deal with Rolo and Lelouch when they were unable to use their Geass on him.

* Gantai from ''[[Koi Koi 7]]'' has one to conceal her mechanical eye. Fitting to the trope, she's incredibly dangerous when she goes berserk.

* Eyepatches and concealing hairdos abound in [[Leiji Matsumoto]]'s works (''[[Captain Harlock]]'', ''[[Queen Emeraldas]]'', ''[[Star Blazers]]'').

* In ''[[The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'', {{spoiler|Ken gets one after losing an eye and turns [[Darker and Edgier]] as a result.}}

* Natose, one of the more powerful characters in ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'' (which is saying something), has an eye patch which is a direct reference to her tragic past.

* [[Cool Old Guy|Retsudou]] from ''[[Lone Wolf and Cub]]'' got his after the hero tried to kill him by means of an arrow through the eye. It didn't work.

* {{spoiler|André Grandier}} from ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' has one {{spoiler|after losing his left eye rather messily}}.

* The badass assassin [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Deathstroke]] from [[The DCU]] wears an eyepatch over his missing eye; his mask is split into two colors, with featureless black over his missing eye. In addition, his daughter wears an eyepatch after taking out her own eye in order to prove herself to him.

** Deathstroke's missing eye is even more Badass when you consider he lost it when his wife, standing right behind him, tried to shoot him in the back of the head. He heard her cock the gun and dodged. Well mostly. Also keep in mind that his wife was the one who initially trained him as a Special Forces operative, so she knew how to kill someone.

* Deathstroke's daughter Rose, a.k.a. Ravager, gouged out her own eye in an attempt to emulate her father while [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. She would go on to become one of the most [[Badass]] members of the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]. And looks smoking hot in her white eyepatch.

* In the Top Cow comic ''[[Just a Pilgrim]]'', by Garth Ennis, we are introduced to two Eyepatch Badasses. The pilgram does not have an eyepatch as such, but he did burn out one of his own eyes, leaving a cross-shaped scar across his face. He seems to be the baddest dude on the planet. Till he meets the pirate king, who has TWO eyepatches, TWO hooks for hands, and TWO peglegs. "This be MY killing floor, mate!"

 

== Live Action TV ==

** 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.

** The eyepatches also {{spoiler|act as kill-devices that electrocute their wearers to death once the Silence have no further use for them.}}

* Mikhail from ''[[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.

** And on top of all that, in the [[Expanded Universe]] he becomes the ''Klingon King Arthur''!

* 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 ''[[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.)

** And don't forget the Eye of Vecna. A cursed relic of an infamous arch-mage that requires the user to put out one of their own eyes and place the Eye of Vecna in the empty socket.

** [[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].

 

 

** FE7's antagonist, Nergal, has one eye covered by his loose turban-like wrap, but that's as close as it gets... at least until the finale, when he takes it off to reveal some badass scars.

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

* Likewise, in ''[[Gungrave]]'', Grave lost his left eye when he was murdered. He wears glasses with the left lens blacked out and a white cross on top of that to conceal it, although sometimes his [[Peek-a-Bangs|hair]] has the same effect. Like Auron above it's not quite an eyepatch but Grave did take several levels of badass after being resurrected.

* General Beatrix of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' has a badass metal eyepatch, and the first fights against her cannot be won. The goal is only to survive.

* ''[[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 ''[[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction]]'', the Smuggler has an eyepatch. It's probably just for show though, since in his first scene he lifts up the eyepatch and glares at Ratchet with the eye underneath (which appears normal). Also, the eyepatch switches sides between scenes . . . and this ''isn't'' a [[Ambidextrous Sprite|sprite game]].

* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' has [[Date Masamune]] (who is also down there in the Real Life examples) and Chosokabe Motochika. Masamune's eyepatch of power is so badass that it's a tsuba. [[Gratuitous English|You see]].

* In ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', there is Balrahn, celebrated hero and Emperor of Aht Urghan, who in his day managed to collect 20 unique weapons (one for each job class, conveniently) as war trophies during epic battles with foreign powers. These "Mythic Weapons", now locked in the Empire's vaults, are obtainable by the player after completing a series of difficult and/or time-consuming tasks, one of which is to obtain Balrahn's Eyepatch, which is described as a sacred relic.

== Web Original ==

* 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]].

* Tom from ''[[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.}}

* In ''[[I Am Not Infected]]'' Amanda sports one in her first appearance. She quickly stops wearing it, and with it her status as a badass.

* Matrix, the [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up|grown-up Enzo]] from ''[[Re Boot]]'''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.

** Parodied with the pirate bi-nomes. There's at least one "zero" bi-nome with two patches that optionally hide two good eyes, and there's at least one "one" bi-nome with a single patch over it's only perfectly fine eye.

** Subversion: His eye is perfectly normal before he mutates, and this eyepatch is important to his painful defeat.

* 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 at Law]]'', where Falcon 7 becomes Phil Ken Sebben.

* 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.

* While ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' villain Maj. Bludd's ''actual'' status as a [[Badass]] is more than a little questionable on the show, the patch at least made him ''look'' suitably badass.

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

** According to a 1976 interview, ''White Heat'' received general release because Warner Brothers sent several studio heads to strongarm the censor board into passing it. Walsh's awesomeness cannot be denied.

** He also played John Wilkes Booth in ''Birth of a Nation''. Wrap your brain around ''that'' one!

* Crime novelist and child protection lawyer [[wikipedia:Vachss|Andrew Vachss]].

* Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a German soldier and aristocrat who lost his left eye, right hand, and two fingers from his remaining hand during an Allied air raid. As portrayed in the film ''Valkyrie'', he healed up enough to come closer than anyone to assassinating Hitler.