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* Thorkell of ''[[Vinland Saga]]'' has just recently come into possession of an eye patch after losing an eye in a battle. As if he wasn't [[Badass]] enough already, if this trend continues he'll soon be wearing a longcoat regardless of how anachronistic that might be to the period.
* Ryomou from ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'', a.k.a. ''Battle Vixens'', wears a medical bandage over her left eye. {{spoiler|it's eventually revealed that the eyepatch is there to help Seal Evil (a "dragon" berserker spirit) In A Can.}}
** Later when {{spoiler|Kakouton Genjou}} has an eye gouged out saving {{spoiler|Sousou}} from {{spoiler|Koushaji's fatal needles}} he starts sporting a rather spiffy patch with a skull and bones motif. This is a [[Shout
* In ''[[Shura No Toki]]'', two characters use this trope. Takato keeps one eye closed while the legendary Yagyuu Juubei wears a tsuba (sword guard) over one eye. In both cases they have perfectly functional binocular vision but close one eye for the sake of "training". They instantly [[Power-Up]] when they use both eyes.
* Adiane in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. It's bulletproof, too, if the first movie is to be believed.
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* In ''[[The Mummy Returns (Film)|The Mummy Returns]]'', the character Izzy is first seen wearing an eyepatch. Subverted when he openly admits that he wears it to look good; Rick pulls it off afterwards.
* [[Action Girl|Major Eden Sinclair]] in ''[[Doomsday]]''. She also has a fake eye, but half the time it's being bounced around and used as a spy camera.
* "Big" Dan Teague from ''[[O Brother Where Art Thou|O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' wears an eyepatch when he is introduced and a one-eyed Ku Klux Klan hood later. This is a [[Shout
* Colonel Max Redl (Rovert Duvall) in ''The Eagle Has Landed''.
* Inspector Kemp from ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' sports one of these, along with wooden arm (either the left or the right depending on context and [[Rule of Funny|funniness]]) and monocle (on the same eye as the eyepatch).
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== Literature ==
* 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
* Ryan Cawdor of the [[Deathlands (Literature)|Deathlands]] novels has one. He is an exceptional shot with a gun, but in conversation the characters note that this is rather unusual and indicative of his marksmanship talents.
* Mr. Teatime in the [[Discworld]] novel ''Hogfather'' is a sociopathic and highly-skilled assassin with one good eye. Many characters in the book think his glass eye (which is blank, and rumored to be made from the same glass used for crystal balls) isn't nearly as scary as his good eye (which has an unnervingly narrow pupil). Of course, considering that Discworld magic is more than a little unstable, it proves how insane he is if he ''put a magic prosthetic in his eye socket''.
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* [[Neuromancer|Molly/Sally]]'s lens-covered eyes may count as both [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] ''and'' a dual [[Eyepatch of Power]] in William Gibson's books. Not only are they the cherries on her [[Badass]] sundae, they're also functional enhancements.
* The Divine Fratery of [[Dan Abnett]]'s novel ''Ravenor Returned'' are an organization that dedicates their efforts to ruining the Imperium by scrying out possible futures and working to manifest the ones that would do the most harm. In order to become a full member, the supplicant must put out one of their own eyes and receive no medical treatment for any reason until they have completed fashioning the silver mirror they will use to divine the future. Constructing the mirror can take years. Those who are successful are given an augmetic eye to replace the one they sacrificed, and henceforth hide their remaining real eye behind an eye patch when not actively scrying.
* There are three people in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' who each have a mechanical eye - Booster Terrick, General Edor Crespin, and Ton Phanan. Booster and Phanan each have a [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|glowing]] [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red]] prosthetic. When {{spoiler|Phanan}} dies [[Dies Wide Open|staring at the stars]] and someone closes his real eye, his mechanical one stays powered, [[Eye Lights Out|not dimming]]. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crespin Crespin] is said to have got a glossy black prosthetic, but because people found it unnerving he wore a mirrored patch over it. Wedge suspects that he can see through it.
** Later in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] we find that Baron Soontir Fel has also acquired an eye patch. When asked why he never replaced it with a prosthetic, he says that the resources can be better used elsewhere and that he's still the [[Handicapped Badass|best damn pilot in the Empire]] {{spoiler|of the Hand.}}
* ''[[Friday (Literature)|Friday]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. Friday's unnamed Boss refuses to have his eye regenerated, and so wears an 'unfashionable' eyepatch.
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* Saul Tigh, as of S3 of ''[[Series/Battlestar Galactica Reimaged|Battlestar Galactica Reimaged]]''. He's always been somewhat of a [[Poisonous Friend]], almost a [[Magnificent Bastard]], but perhaps not coincidentally, he becomes a significantly more formidable character at more or less the exact same point at which he loses his eye. In what may count as a subversion, Tigh forgoes a classic black eyepatch for a distinctly more medical flesh-colored patch with transparent cords. Moreover, he spends several episodes beforehand with a very uncool chunk of gauze taped to his face. It's also worthy of note that there was an episode where he was having a great deal of difficulty putting his "uncool chunk of gauze" on by himself, subverting the "no loss of depth perception" addendum above.
* 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 ''[[
** ''[[The Middleman]]'' also uses this, probably in a [[Shout
* Madam Kovarian from the 2011 series of ''[[
** 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 (TV)|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.
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* Humorously subverted in the Ferengi episode of ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]''. While Paris and Chakotay visit an alien planet, they're approached by a 'prophet' (read: con-man) who gives interpretations of sacred legends for a 'small fee'. This all works very well (though neither of them are actually fooled), until Paris dryly points out that his [[Eyepatch of Power]] was on the ''other'' eye the last time they spoke with him. Said con-man then switches the patch to the 'correct' eye right in front of them, and holds out his hand for payment.
* 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 Seven
* "Archangel" loses one eye after the Evil Dr. Moffett's attack on the control tower in the pilot of ''[[Airwolf]]''. From then on, he wears glasses with [http://awmod.uni.cc/info/Archangel.jpg one black lens], as well as a white eyepatch on occasions he can't wear the glasses.
* In the pilot for ''[[Firefly (TV)|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|badassness]] 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.
* ''[[
* {{spoiler|Xander}} from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' got considerably more [[Badass]] after {{spoiler|Caleb takes out his eye during Season 7}}. This too subverts the "no lost depth perception" by having him state that he now has to renew his driver's license every year, due to his loss in depth perception.
** Though Dawn proves that even with his badass boost she is more badass by {{spoiler|using a tazer on him soon after waking up from him chloroforming her. While he's driving.}}
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* Also in the Kingdom Hearts series, Riku spends a long period with a blindfold on so as "not to deceive himself". It is never made clear whether he can see through it, although the fact that he has lifted it on occasion suggests that he can't. Some of his more badass moments involve the blindfold. As Roxas found out the hard way, if he takes it off, you're on for a major beatdown {{spoiler|courtesy of Xehanort's Heartless.}}
** 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
{{quote| '''Naked Snake:''' [[Survival Mantra|It's not like I can't see. I've got one good eye and I can still fire a gun.]]}}
** 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.
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* ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|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]].
* In ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', [[Emotionless Girl|Nu-13]] has an [[Eyepatch of Power]] that is replaced by a [[Cyber Cyclops|visor]] whenever she [[Powered Armor|activates the angelic-looking Murakumo unit]]. Disturbingly, the eyepatch in question has a design akin to a [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red sphere]] with a [[Hellish Pupils|thick black stripe]] running down the middle at an angle. Note the similar design on the back of protagonist Ragna's [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|right hand]]. In case it isn't obvious, Nu is ''dangerous''.
* ''[[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.
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** ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' shows it off well. {{spoiler|Compare Longarm Prime to Shockwave.}}
** ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' gives one to Breakdown, after MECH removed his eye. Presumably Megatron forbids letting him get a replacement eye as punishment for getting captured by [[Puny Humans]].
* Matrix, the [[Plot
** 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.
* Gutierrez, Ricardo Montelban's character on ''[[Freakazoid]]'', had an eye patch. When he transformed into his "super freak" form, it had an eye painted over it, and an energy weapon behind it.
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== Real Life ==
* [
** One of Alexander's generals (and a later ruler in his own right), Antigonus, was known by the nickname ''"Monopthalmus"'', or "the One-Eyed".
* Though he didn't wear an eyepatch, Horatio Nelson lost the sight in his right eye. He later went on to be arguably the most famous Admiral in history. He famously ignored a signal not to engage a Danish fleet by holding his telescope to his blind eye and asserting that he could not see the signal to hold back. He went on to decisively win the Battle of Copenhagen. This event is considered the origin of the idiom "to turn a blind eye."
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** He also played John Wilkes Booth in ''Birth of a Nation''. Wrap your brain around ''that'' one!
* The pirate stereotype may have come from pirate captains who, needing to go above and below decks constantly, would put an eyepatch over one eye above deck to avoid losing their dark-vision in that eye (see ''[[Myth Busters]]'').
* Crime novelist and child protection lawyer [
* 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.
* Steve Watt, a Wyoming State Trooper, was shot five times by a bank robber, one bullet of which came within about a paper's width of damaging his brain. Fortunately, he got better. While he isn't a State Trooper anymore, his eyepatch now undoubtedly adds to his presence as a D.A.R.E. instructor and ordained minister.
* As an aside, losing an eye would have very little, if any, effect on long-range rifle accuracy such as sniping (presuming it wasn't their dominant eye) - in fact, USMC recruits (at least as of the early 90's) would be taught to close the eye opposite the one being used to sight with, and even issued an eyepatch to cover that eye until they could break the habit of trying to use both eyes. At ranges over about 100 meters (give or take), human eyes simply aren't far enough apart to contribute greatly to depth perception, and visual references (the car or doorway the opponent is standing near, for example) are much better for use in estimating distance.
* Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was an Anglo-Belgian aristocrat, soldier and diplomat, was wounded seven times during the First World War, [[Moe Greene Special|losing his left eye to a bullet]] and having his hand so badly mangled he bit his own fingers off. He went on to win a Victoria Cross at La Boiselle, afterwards saying, "Frankly I enjoyed the war." He spent the inter-war period with the British military mission to Poland, fighting off Red Army cavalry with a revolver at Warsaw. When WWII rolled around he escaped Poland just ahead of the Wehrmacht, led an amphibious assault on Norway and was transferred to the Mediterranean just in time to be shot down and captured by the Italians, escaping five times despite being over sixty and speaking no Italian. Released as part of Italy's surrender in '43 he was then sent as Churchill's personal representative to China. He did all this looking much like [
* [[James Joyce]] wore one, just because he could.
** Joyce was troubled by eyesight problems for much of his life, and underwent numerous eye surgeries. The eyepatches he wore at various times were thus not entirely an affectation.
* Chilean TV host and [[Intrepid Reporter]] Santiago Pavlovic lost an eye due to serious illness. He now wears a spiffy eyepatch to cover it.
* Russian [[Four
* War Journalist [
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