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Something covers one of the character's eyes. It might be an eyepatch, [[Peek-a-Bangs|a particularly concealing haircut]], or a tilted [[Hachimaki]]. Whatever it is, and however it came to be, through [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] it neatly conveys the fact that the wearer is either 1) an experienced combatant or 2) secretly a [[Badass]].

** In fact, there are a lot of minor ninja with eye patches/coverings including Kuromaru (who for the uninformed is ''[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/7/75/Kuromaru.jpg a dog]'') and [http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tonbo_Tobitake Tonbo Tobitake], who has a covering for ''both'' eyes. {{spoiler|The above revelation}} has started a [[Memetic Mutation|joke among the fandom]] that anyone who is covering their eye ( {{spoiler|or more recently an arm}})(doesn't even need to be with an eye patch; it can just be with [[Peek-a-Bangs|hair]]) they must be hiding a Sharingan. Humorously, just a couple chapters ''earlier'' Ao, a newly introduced character from the Mist village took off his eyepatch to reveal {{spoiler|not a Sharingan, but a ''Byakugan''.}}

*** However, he doesn't remove it.

* Syaoran's Ultimate Eyepatch Of [[Darker and Edgier|We're Edgy Now]] in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''.

** Which was later passed to {{spoiler|Fai}} after {{spoiler|Clone!Syaoran ate Fai's eye and Real!Syaoran escaped from his fishbowl.}}

* Lucia Nahashi from ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'' wears an eyepatch in order to hide her glowing left eye.

* Jiyu Nanohana from ''[[Jubei-chan]]'' received a "Lovely Eyepatch" that turned her into a super swordswoman. Her [[The Rival|Rival]] Freesia in the second season had a similar one.

* 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.}}

* 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.

** Later on in the manga, {{spoiler|his eye can greatly accelerate his perception of motion so everything appears slowed down, allowing him to easily dodge bullets, punches, and anything else that comes flying at him}}. He also gets better at using his [[Evil Eye]] so he doesn't need his Eyepatch Of Power as often, but he keeps it anyway. (Probably because it looks badass.)

* Itsuki Iba of ''[[Rental Magica]]'' always wears an eyepatch, though even with it, he still feels a bit of pain when he's around too much magical pollution.

* ''[[Trigun]]'''s Dominique the Cyclops has what she calls the Demon Eye. Hidden by a metal shutter over her right eye, the fake eye can temporarily put all who are near in a trance for a few moments.

* In ''[[Shura No Toki]]'', the main character Yamato keeps one eye closed as a self-inflicted handicap. So does his son.

* Cinque of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. She once fought against an [[Rank Inflation|S-Rank mage]]. [[Redwall|She lost her eye, he lost his life. ]] Cypha from ''Force'' also wears one.

** {{spoiler|His companion Cygnus Hyoga}} wears a more traditional one.

* Barasuishou of ''[[Rozen Maiden]] Traumend'' wears a flowery eyepatch over her left eye, acting as a seal over her emotions. {{spoiler|Kirakishou, the doll she was based on, appears to have an identical one over her right eye, but it was revealed to be an actual rose growing from the socket.}}

* ''[[Hellsing]]'' has two examples, the first being the mercenary Pip Bernadotte and the second being Integra after her eye was damaged in the final battle.

* Makiko Nagi of ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]'' wears one, and it covers a pretty freaky scar. She got it {{spoiler|after her lover decided to try creating an ultimate weapon out of someone else and removed the eye in question in order to give his new experimentee the abilities she'd already absorbed from other people.}}

** What about Allelujah? His eyepatch (hair, actually) shows which side of him is fighting. If you can see the right eye, you are fighting pacifist, gentle Allelujah. See the left eye, you are fighting the rather terrifying Hallelujah. See both eyes, you are fighting the infinitely scarier gestalt of the two.

* Bel Peol, a leader of the villain group Bal Masque from ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', actually has three eyes, but her normal right eye is covered by an eyepatch. This only makes her look even more badass.

** 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]]'').

* Chigusa Tsukikage from ''[[Glass Mask]]'' uses her [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|long and messy black hair]] to cover the scars on her face after a terrible on-stage accident.

* In MÄR, the Chess Piece Candice has one of these ''in addition'' to a [[Mask Power|mask]]. The eyepatch conceals a magic stone instead of an empty socket, which she uses as a Dimension Ärm.

* [[Samurai Gun|"I...am Samurai Gun."]] Or as they say in the [[Gag Dub]] DVD extra: "I...have only one eye."

* ''[[One Piece]]'', a manga about ''pirates'', has to date '''averted''' this trope, with not a single eyepatch to be seen despite a length of over 590 chapters. [[Word of God]] is that the Eyepatch Of Power is being saved for someone special. Considering how incredibly badass and powerful some of the characters we've already met have been, it can only be wondered what kind of person the eyepatched one will be...

** In a straight, but less literal, example of this trope, [[Chef of Iron|Sanji's]] left eye is perpetually covered by his hair. {{spoiler|After the [[Time Skip]], he changes his hairstyle so now it's his ''right'' eye that is covered, along with the right side of his face.}}

** {{spoiler|And now zoro has lost an eye. Now if that isn't a setup for one badass eyepatch of power...}}

* The Genbu Seishi Hikitsu from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' and ''[[Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden]]'' wears an eyepatch over his right eye, which he calls "Shikyokan". [[Mind Rape|It forces the person looking into it to remember their worst memories, letting him see these as well,]] and [[Up to Eleven|beyond]].

* In the ''[[Berserk]]'' [[What Could Have Been|prototype story]], Guts has an eyepatch. He gives it away as a souvenir at the end. In the actual manga Guts averts this, as even though his eye is missing/heavily damaged after the Eclipse, he doesn't wear an eyepatch he just... keeps his eyelid close.

* Moritsugu Reiji's Machina Verdant in ''[[Linebarrels of Iron]]'' has one eye destroyed, odd considering that like other machina it can heal given time, and Kouichi actually does try to use to use this to his advantage imagine his shock when {{spoiler|Verdant suddenly heals its right eye after he took notice of the blind spot, Reiji goes on to state that verdant deliberately left the eye permanently damaged as a means of testing opponents.}}

** Kyuubei got {{spoiler|hers}} as a child after being injured protecting Tae.

* [[Soul Eater|Death Scythe]] Marie Mjolnir has an eyepatch with a lightening bolt on it over her left eye. We're not told what happened for her to need it. In the anime, it is removed during a vision when she uses her special soul wavelength.

* Lag Seeing from ''[[Letter Bee]]'' has an eye of amber that is usually covered by his hair... unless he is shooting his Heart Gun. It lets him shoot Heart Shots without amber in his gun, and {{spoiler|lets him shoot bullets from the palm of his hand too.}}

** The ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' version is no slouch, fighting with 6 swords at once when he gets serious.

* Farfarello of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]''. Doesn't seem to slow him down much.

* {{spoiler|Ryuuko Kounuma}} from ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/wolf_guy_ookami_no_monshou/v07/c067/7.html as of recently].

* Nightmare of ''[[Heart no Kuni no Alice]]''.

* ''[[Oriko Magica]]'''s Kirika has an eyepatch in her [[Magical Girl]] form. This doesn't seem to hamper her fighting ability.

* 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.}}

 

 

== Audio Adventure ==

 

 

* Jesse Custer, the [[Badass]] star of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', acquires an eyepatch towards the end of the series, after his eye is ''bitten out by [[God Is Evil|God]]''.

** The antagonist of the same series had a horrible [[Scars Are Forever|facial scar]] over one eye, two of the supporting cast were born with only one eye apiece and a minor villain who had two myopic eyes was called Odin, after the one-eyed god (no, not the one from North of Kathmandu!)

** Tails' father and dr. Quack wears one of those too. Both of them lost one of their eyes in the Great War against the overlanders.

* Future incarnations of Raphael, from the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' invariably have this.

* Female Examples - Callisto and [http://www.angelophile.co.uk/pictures/max0021.jpg this] danger room simulation zombie!pirate version of Emma Frost.

* Tallulah Black from ''[[Jonah Hex]]''.

* Maj. Bludd has one of these by default in every incarnation of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' he appears in, but in the comic Billy eventually acquires one as well, cementing his status as a [[Badass]].

* Warbow in ''[[The Saga Of Crystar]]''. He lost his eye fighting a wizard and had to be changed to crystal to save his life. The process couldn't restore his eye and he notes that his lack of depth perception makes aiming his bow a bit more difficult.

* Blackjak of the ''[[Atari Force]]'' second series has a cybernetic camera eye plugged into his left eye socket.

== Film ==

* Rooster Cogburn, [[John Wayne]]'s [[The Remake|(or Jeff Bridges')]] anti-hero from ''[[True Grit]]''. Though the Rooster in the 2010 film is still an excellent shot with one eye, the film points out his difficulty aiming, and {{spoiler|1=it's why he accidentally hits LaBoeuf in the arm during a shootout.}}

* [[Angelina Jolie]]'s character in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]'' (2004).

** All the more so, because she's a ''pilot''.

* Benedict, the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Last Action Hero]]'', has a collection of unique glass eyes, most of which have special functions, like explosives.

* General Chang in ''[[Star Trek VI]]: The Undiscovered Country'' doesn't ''wear'' an eyepatch -- he's such a badass that he actually has a metal plate riveted to his face.

* Towards the end of the third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie, Ragetti (a [[Plucky Comic Relief]] character) gives up his wooden eye for an eyepatch since it turned out {{spoiler|his wooden eye was one of the pieces of eight of the Pirate Lords}}. He doesn't really become more badass, but it does mark a shift into a more serious tone of the film.

* Dr. Serizawa, the man who killed ''[[Godzilla]]''.

* Captain Typho, who replaces Captain Panaka in between Episodes One and Two of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels as the head of Amidala's guard. Some viewers mistook Typho for a recast Panaka with battle damage.

* In ''[[The Pagemaster]]'', Adventure ([[Patrick Stewart]]) looks like a pirate, complete with eyepatch. There's nothing wrong with the eye under it - so when he needs to get a better look at something he just lifts it up.

* [[Big Bad|Bill]] "[[The Butcher]]" [[Badass|Cutting]] in ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' cut out his own eye because he once flinched from the protagonist's father.

* The aptly named Kid Blink from ''[[Newsies]]''.

* [[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.

* 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).

* In the old cowboy film ''Black Patch'', the title character got the name because he had to wear such a patch after his enemies cut out his eye.

* In ''[[True Lies]]'', Charlton Heston makes a cameo as the boss of Ahnuld's character. He sports one of these, as well as several gold teeth.

* [[The Dragon]] of Bajrangpur's infamous gang in ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'' wears this, in addition with a walking stick. Before Maruti explored [[Forbidden Zone|the gang's HQ]], he was thought as a one-eyed demon.

* 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.

{{quote| '''Stark:''' How does Fury even see these?<br />

'''Maria Hill:''' He turns.<br />

 

== Literature ==

* 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-Thru Specs|penetrates solid objects and illusions]].

* 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''.

** Then there's [[Post Mortem Character]] John Keel in ''Night Watch'' - [[The Obi-Wan|the guy who taught Sam Vimes everything he knows]]. Vimes has to act briefly as his one-eyed mentor to establish a [[Stable Time Loop]] - however, he's no more badass than he normally is, which is still pretty damn badass.

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' antagonist/antihero [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Jarlaxle Jarlaxle] has two good eyes, but sports a magical eyepatch with powers including including x-ray vision and protection against psionics, depending on which eye the patch covers. Jarlaxle [[Authority Equals Asskicking|leads]] a prestigious mercenary company and is something of a [[Magnificent Bastard]], glorying in chaos and favored by the drow's evil spider goddess.

* Titular character Hawk of Simon R. Green's ''[[Hawk And Fisher]]'' fantasy-mystery series has an eyepatch over one eye, as well as several scars along his face. Unusually enough, he does have depth perception problems, at least to the point where he prefers to fight with a short-handled axe rather than a sword. He's almost over-the-top in levels of 'experienced badass combatant', though, even with this handicap. How Hawk lost his eye is {{spoiler|revealed in ''Beyond the Blue Moon'', which confirms that Hawk is Prince Rupert from Blue Moon Rising where he lost the eye in battle against a [[Big Bad]].}}

* Captain William Fredrickson from the ''[[Sharpe]]'' series is missing an eye (and his two front teeth). When he enters combat, he removes his eyepatch and false teeth to frighten the enemy.

* Euron Greyjoy from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Called the Crow's Eye, Euron is a vicious [[Magnificent Bastard]] with serious issues. His brother [[Knight Templar|Aeron]], describes Euron's uncovered eye as his "smiling eye" and makes vague, fearful references to [[Evil Eye|what he hides beneath the patch]]. He is captain of the ship "Silence", whose crew is made of mutes and its [hull painted red with the blood of Euron's enemies, and it is said that men pray whenever they see his sails.

* Corum in [[Michael Moorcock]]'s novels is given the Eye of the missing god Rhynn to replace his lost eye. This allows him to see into - and summon the assistance of creatures from - other realms whenever he raises his jeweled eyepatch. Later on he has to give (the no-longer missing) Rhynn his eye back, and thereafter wears a conventional eyepatch.

** {{spoiler|Mat}} loses an eye, too, and he actually notes his lack of depth perception and worsened sight, but he decides it isn't so bad. After all,he needed to trade it with [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] shaped as Snakes, who you can only way to survive the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]], which a children's game is base off of, because [[All Myths Are True]]. {{spoiler|"Luck worked better when you were not looking anyway."}}

* [[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.

* 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.}}

* ''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.

 

== 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.

* 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).

** ''[[The Middleman]]'' also uses this, probably in a [[Shout-Out]] in "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome." In the alternate universe, the one sporting the [[Eyepatch of Power]] is the alt!Middleman himself. He's a [[Badass Biker]] to boot, but still a good guy.

* Madam Kovarian from the 2011 series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has some kind of cybernetic device over her right eye. A bunch of other characters start wearing copies of it in "The Wedding of River Song." The Doctor notes that all the servants of The Silence wear them, and as such is horrified when he sees Amy wearing one. She however is not [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] and notes that it is not an eyepatch, {{spoiler|it lets them remember the Silence}}. Which is why their servants wear them.

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

** 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 Seven|Blakes Seven]]'' has a skinlike eye patch. Plus a laser-firing artificial arm.

* "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.

* 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.

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': G'Kar was badass even before losing the eye, but gets downright messianic afterwards. Also, his eye was part of a prophecy involving Londo - {{spoiler|"saving the eye that does not see" is one of three actions that would save Londo from bad, bad things. He doesn't. [[Grand Theft Me|Then the Drakh put a Keeper on him]].}}

** 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.}}

* In the ''[[Spin City]]'' episode "Grand Illusion", bumbling press secretary Paul Lassiter (Richard Kind) is forced to wear an eyepatch for several days because of an accident with his new toaster. Almost immediately, it starts taking effect: Women start finding him attractive, he's able to hold his own with the people who insult him, he makes sure the press have no questions at all, and is even able to order his boss around a little. At the end of the episode, he decides he doesn't need the eyepatch in order to be confident, and pitches it. Needless to say, it doesn't go as planned, and he ends up trying to find it again.

* The [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent]] Catalina Creel from ''[[Cuna De Lobos]]'', [[Evil Matriarch]] who uses her eyepatch to inflict guilt over her [[The Unfavourite|unfavourite son]] for the accident who left her blind on that eye. She also overdoes every [[Telenovela]] villain ever. Her eyepatch is so vital to her that {{spoiler|the first murder we see she does, in the very first chapter, is her husband's, because he discovered that the eye under that patch is ''healthy'', and he wanted to uncover the truth.}}

** Another telenovela example is Arturo Peniche's character, Governor Fernando Sánchez de Moncada, from the recent [[Zorro]] telenovela - ''Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa'' (Zorro: the Sword and the Rose). He's the father of [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry|the antagonistic sisters]] Esmeralda and Mariangel, both interested in the main character, and wears a nice black eyepatch.

* In the original television airings of ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'', there were segments set in the present day (the ''then'' present, around 1992). These bits featured an elderly [[Indiana Jones]], who wore an eyepatch over his right eye, and a pair of glasses over the patch. He also had a nasty facial scar trailing out from under his eyepatch. However, [[Done a George Lucas|these 1990's scenes were all deleted in later airings of the show]], and still haven't become available on home video. A [[Eyepatch After Time Skip|time skip]] was involved here, because Indy still has both eyes in all the films so far (which cover events up to 1957, and when the ''Chronicles'' first aired extended only to 1938).

* In ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]'', the [[Engrish|Seaick]] form of their [[Giant Robot]], Gosei Great, has a literal [[Eyepatch of Power]]; it not only adds to the pirate look of the mecha, it allows it to detect and target enemies.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]],'' the alternate Kamen Rider TheBee has one. He lost his eye to {{spoiler|Souji.}}

* 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''.

 

 

 

== Video Games ==

* Kano from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' had a red cyber-eye in a metal plate. Ironically, he's a bit of a jobber.

* Sagat from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' has an eyepatch, and embodies this trope to an extent.

* 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.

{{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.

** 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.

*** Somewhat justified: The cutscene where he pulls out the SVD after jumping out of Eva's sidecar shows pretty clearly that he's just forcing his left eye into the scope of those weapons.

** One of his sons, later in the series's chronology, is actually happy to lose his eye in a plane crash - now he looks like his father. However, this is subverted, as an easy way to defeat him in the final boss battle is to approach him from the side of his missing eye, where he has a small blind spot.

*** Except Otacon specifically instructed Snake to put the Solid Eye over his left eye. Big Boss didn't have his right eye.

** He also states in the opening cutscene of ''The Frozen Throne'', "Now my blind eyes see what others cannot!".

** It is revealed in [[All There in the Manual|extra material]] that the other demon hunters, seeking to emulate Illidan's life, ritualistically bind a demon's soul into a knife and slice their eyes out with it to gain a magic-o-vision like him. Ouch.

** Similarly, [[The War of the Ancients|in the novels]], the Highborne Lord Xavius traded his eyes for magic crystals which can see magical energies and other things normal eyes can't.

** In early ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' one of the most potent pieces of leather armor was an eyepatch, which rather counter intuitively increased your [[Critical Hit|critical strike]] chance. Eyepatches still show up occasionally, where they provide just as much armor as a full helm of the same type.

* Garrett of the ''[[Thief]]'' series of [[Stealth Based Game|stealth-based video games]] had his eye yanked out of his head during the events of the first installment, and had it replaced with a mechanical one that allows him to telescope his vision. While more of an extraordinarily skilled [[Deadpan Snarker]] than an out-and-out badass, he's still not someone you'd ever want to mess with.

* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'' the protagonist Manny's sidekick Glottis, in awe after an eyepatch-wearing, gruff, salty sailor type has given a stirring speech, whispers "Wowww! Manny, could I have an eyepatch?"

** Geddoe from ''[[Suikoden III]]'' also wears one of these.

*** Though in his case, it's actually handled somewhat more realistically; his accuracy stat is quite low, and the absolute worst of all the playable storyline characters.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' has Lawrence (first and third games) and Haar (ninth and tenth games). Nailah (tenth game) doesn't have an actual eyepatch but does cover her eye with various scarves. Interestingly enough, there have been no bad guys with an eyepatch.

** 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.

* 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.

** He seems ''really'' bitter.

{{quote| ''...prancin' aboot with yer heads full of eyeballs!''}}

{{quote| '''RED Demoman's Mum:''' Mark me, boy: no Demoman worth his sulfur ever had an eye in his head past thirty!}}

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

** Vyse has an eyepatch-like lens over one eye - he has two good eyes, although the equipped lens is supposed to increase his accuracy. It gives him telescopic sight in that eye, too. The original lens is also replaced with one that allows him to see Moonfish in the remake.

*** This carries over to his cameo in [[Valkyria Chronicles]], where he retains his signature goggle patch and is easily one of the best Shocktroopers in the game.

* Interesting example from the ''[[Empire Earth]]'' opening movie. You see four warriors in four dramatically different epochs (stone age, British imperial age, second world war and the future). The stone age warrior has a white (blind) left eye, the imperial sea-captain has a cloth in front of his, the WWII commander has a standard black eyepatch and the futuristic warrior has a cyborg left eye.

* Lord David from ''[[The Last Remnant]]'' takes this to a particularly literal level. In battle, he wears an eyepatch that appears to be tied into the aiming or activation of the remnant Gae Bolg -- an enormous energy cannon.

** Yep. It even has a name- "Kellendros" and is described as the "Trigger device of the Gae Bolg" Though I'd be inclined to believe Kellendros and Ex Machina (his uber gun) are dual triggers for it since both are used to summon the extra uber cannon.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Baron Praxis]] in ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak II: Renegade]]'' has a highly visible bionic eye. His [[The Dragon|Dragon]], Erol, ends up with only half his head semi-intact with a mechanical body, giving him his very own bionic eye (and face, and torso, and legs...). For a more heroic example, Sig has yet another bionic eye. Yeah, Naughty Dog Software seem to enjoy this one.

* 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''.

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==

 

 

** 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 [http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-09-19 pirate joke].

* In ''[http://www.itswalky.com It's Walky!]'', Penny Worthington was ''double'' the [[Badass]] for wearing the eyepatch she took from her predecessor, Dargon Chesterfield, after assassinating him.

* This is parodied in ''[[A Modest Destiny]]''; Maureen's younger brother wears an eyepatch to impress new thieves guild members, because he thought Maureen's looked cool.

** Right-Eye, Redcloak's little brother, and {{spoiler|Redcloak himself}} sport an eyepatch as well, although it actually covers a missing eye.

* Sarn Kellfrock of [[Planescape Survival Guide]] is a ancient duergar dwarf cleric who lost his eye to the future god Bane while defending his own god (Jergal's) realm. His eyepatch of power comes into play later on when he takes Bane's eye out before killing the god single-handedly.

** There were previous references to his hidden face being badly hurt or burned, however.

*** Zane would know-he's blind (or nearly so) in one of his eyes as a result of a detached retina.

* Tony the Tiger in ''[[Breakfast of the Gods]]''

* The Suicide Girl from ''[[Sexy Losers]]''. She's an animated corpse; the eyepatch covers the eye she accidentally shot herself through (she was toweling her hair and blindly picked up what she thought was her hairdryer; unfortunately, she kept her gun next to her hairdryer for some reason...).

* Chief from ''[[Goblins]]'' has a riveted-on eyepatch bearing his clan symbol (which was originally tattooed on near his lost eye. It doesn't make him markedly more badass, though. Most of the time.

* In Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's (completed, not ongoing) webcomic "Yahtzee Takes On The World", the alternate universe Anti-Yahtzee has the token alt-self eyepatch, as well as the other inevitable deliberate clichés of the identical-but-opposite-colour clothing and the typical facial hair inversion.

* [[Smug Snake|Vriska]] of ''[[Homestuck]]'' sports one. Due to [[Ambidextrous Sprite|Ambidextrous Sprites]], ''which'' eye it covers is never officially determined. It isn't until later in the Hivebent arc that we find out how she lost her eye (and arm) in the first place.

** She later gets her eye and arm back, so she loses the patch.

* 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]].

* Xinjao O'Reilly in ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' wears one after being tortured by having a soldering iron thrust into one eye. This also comes shortly after he [[Took a Level In Badass]] and went from comic-relief engineer with a [[Porn Stash]] to resourceful leader of a guerrilla band of engineers and admiral of his own private mercenary space fleet.

* 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.

* Parodied in ''[[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN]]'', where Billy's power is proportional to how many eyepatches he's wearing. When he reaches his highest level, he puts on a third eyepatch.

* 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.

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

** Ha ''ha!'' Power!

** In the "New Year's Eve Party at Brak's House" series of bumps, [[Sealab 2021|Hesh]] doesn't believe that Phil needs the patch, calling it 'Your Bum Eye And How It Doesn't Exist'.

* [[Popeye]], while not wearing an eyepatch, misses one eye. He just keeps eyelids permanently closed.

** [[Family Guy|I thought it was a stroke.]]

* Subversion during the pirate episode of ''[[The Backyardigans]]:'' Uniqua has an eyepatch, but she only wears it to show she's a pirate. In other words, [[Goggles Do Nothing|Eyepatch Does Nothing]] during the episode.

* Parodied in ''[[The Tick]]'' episode "That Moustache Feeling", where the Tick meets Jim Rave, Agent of S.H.A.V.E.. Rave is a Nick Fury lookalike, down to the eyepatch-but at the episode's end, the Tick realizes Rave isn't a ''real'' special agent because he still has both eyes-the eyepatch is just there to make him look cool.

* Officer Shallowgrave on ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' wears an eyepatch.

* 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.

* Alejandro gets punched in the eye in an episode of ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'', resulting in him having to wear an eyepatch for the rest of the episode.