History Main / EyePatchOfPower

* ''{{Webcomic/Roommates}}'' played with this trope as two characters wore eye-patches. Odin is obviously a straight example, but the other one Mortal!Jareth an inversion as he literally had an ''Eyepatch of {{Depower}}'' covering his left eye (he normally has MismatchedEyes as a sign of his magical heritage), he got better.

* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Judy's kitten had survived an attack from a dinosaur and now sports an eyepatch. It still looks very cute.

->''"[[IncrediblyLamePun You can't spell 'warrior' without one 'I'.]]"''

*** Well, except for [[ClickHello knowing the proper time to cock a gun.]]

* Warbow in ''TheSagaOfCrystar''. 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.

* Elle Driver (played by Creator/DarylHannah) in ''Film/KillBill''.

* Avoided in the funny pages: Beetle Bailey and his nephew Chip Flagston (from ''BeetleBailey'' and ''Hi & Lois'', respectively) have their eyes covered by various hats and hair (again respectively). Avoided as neither are {{badass}}, and Beetle is even specifically incompetent. And let's not forget AndyCapp, a cheerful layabout whose eyes are always obscured by his near-namesake cloth cap.

* Also parodied by ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' strip: Elan, after the TimeSkip, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0501.html is shown sporting an eyepatch]]... but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html one comic later]] it's revealed that [[GenreSavvy he started wearing it]] because [[InvokedTrope it made him look mysterious]].
** Right-Eye, Redcloak's little brother, and [[spoiler: Redcloak himself]] sport an eyepatch as well, although it actually covers a missing eye.

* 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.]]

* As with the Real Life person he's based on, Masamume from {{Pokemon Conquest}} is the one eyed warlord of Avia with dreams of uniting the entirety of Rensai under his rule. [[spoiler:In fact, during the post game challenge The Dragon's Dream, Masamune does just that. His Warrior skill is One-Eyed Dragon.]]

* Tallulah Black from ''JonahHex''.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon Philip II of Macedon]] lost his right eye early in his life. He'd go on to beat all of Greece to submission, and radically reform the Macedonian army for top-notch new battle strategies, allowing his son Alexander to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great conquer nearly all the known world]]

* The [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]] Catalina Creel from ''CunaDeLobos'', EvilMatriarch who uses her eyepatch to inflict guilt over her [[TheUnfavourite 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.]]

* The Natalie Reed version of LadyBlackhawk in ''{{Blackhawk}}''.

* As with the Real Life person he's based on, Masamume from [[Pokemon Conquest]] is the one eyed warlord of Avia with dreams of uniting the entirety of Rensai under his rule. [[spoiler:In fact, during the post game challenge The Dragon's Dream, Masamune does just that. His Warrior skill is One-Eyed Dragon.]]

* The Natalie Reed version of Lady Blackhawk in ''{{Blackhawk}}''.

* Elle Driver (played by DarylHannah) in ''Film/KillBill''.

* In ''ThePagemaster'', Adventure (Creator/PatrickStewart) 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.

* AngelinaJolie's character in ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004).

* Canadian Léo Major during WWII lost an eye in Normandy. He refused to be brought back home, saying that he "only needed one eye to aim at Germans". He went on to liberate a city (Zwolle) in the Netherlands from an entire German squad ''on his own'' by firing multiple rifles and throwing grenades, making the Germans rout as they believed they were being attacked by an entire platoon. He was actually awarded three [=DCM=]s, but turned the first one down because he thought General Montgomery, the man awarding it to him, was too stupid to be handing out medals. He died in 2008, and the Dutch Ambassador to Canada was present at his funeral. The city he liberated held a vigil.

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' goes this route with bandages. Rei starts the series with an eyepatch, Asuka ends the movie with one (given that she's thin, likes to wear red, and is German, she should look for work in the next Matsumoto movie).