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* Eyepatches and concealing hairdos abound in Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's works (''Anime/CaptainHarlock'', ''Anime/QueenEmeraldas'', ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'').

* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', our heroes often take disguises involving eyepatches. Luke once [[http://images.plurk.com/cdb0c27bd918ff20fa1a089b4f064062.jpg dyes his hair red]] and wears an eyepatch and a beret. In ''The Big Con'', Lando [[http://images.plurk.com/e5e87607672fd825692cf20d98b85158.jpg cosplays]] as a palette-swapped Anime/CaptainHarlock, choosing this costume in order to play up to the ruffians he's trying to get information from -- everything makes him seem more remote and mysterious. At one point he puts the patch [[http://images.plurk.com/65ad3d6e5a0636ae7194cd15119727ce.jpg on the wrong side]].

Something covers one of the character's eyes. It might be an eyepatch, [[HidingbehindYourbangs a particularly concealing haircut]], or a tilted {{hachimaki}}. Whatever it is, and however it came to be, through FashionableAsymmetry it neatly conveys the fact that the wearer is either 1) an experienced combatant or 2) secretly a badass.

** Allelujah's [[PeekABangs hair]] works similarly to an eyepatch, as it 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.

** In fact, there are a lot of minor ninja with eye patches/coverings including Kuromaru (who for the uninformed is ''[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/6/6e/Kuromaru.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20150130144408 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 [[MemeticMutation 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 [[PeekaBangs hair]]) they must be hiding a Sharingan. Humorously, just a couple chapters ''earlier'' Ao, a newly introduced character from the Mist village revealed that his eyepatch hides [[spoiler: not a Sharingan, but a ''Byakugan''. Since the Byakugan grants XRayVision, he doesn't ever ''need'' to take off the eyepatch.]]

** In [[Anime/YuGiOh the original anime]], Pegasus' [[PeekABangs hair]] almost always covered his Millennium Eye. Usually when it doesn't, it's because he's lifted it out of place. Even after he loses the Millennium Eye, he still covers the place where it was with his hair. He ''did'', however, wear an eyepatch in the (non-canon) card battle video game ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction''.

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has worn an eyepatch since ''infancy'' because his grandfather [[EyeScream tore one eye out]] and is coming for the other. [[BadassAdorable He's certainly not one to be trifled with]], but a [[KidHero twelve-year-old]] with an eyepatch is still a bit disconcerting, which probably why it's usually [[PeekABangs covered by his hair]].

* Likewise, in ''VideoGame/{{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 [[PeekABangs 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.

* Qamra Umar of ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'' fame lost [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/MangaPacificators/MangaPacisV03CH01n136.html an eye and an ear]] to a bomb. She covers it up [[PeekABangs with hair]].

** Himeno, one of the more experienced devil hunters, has an eyepatch hiding her right eye she gave up to the Ghost Devil for a devil contract in exchange for a limited use of its ghostly power.

** Himeno, one of the more experienced devil hunters, has an eyepatch hiding her right eye she lost against a devil who also killed her buddy at the time.

Something covers one of the character's eyes. It might be an eyepatch, [[PeekABangs a particularly concealing haircut]], or a tilted {{hachimaki}}. Whatever it is, and however it came to be, through FashionableAsymmetry it neatly conveys the fact that the wearer is either 1) an experienced combatant or 2) secretly a badass.

-->-- '''Podcast/RiffTrax''' on ''[[Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Star Trek VI]]''

* Farfarello of ''Anime/WeissKreuz''. Doesn't seem to slow him down much.

* Laura Bodewig from ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' has an eyepatch to conceal her nanomachine-enhanced golden super-eye, named Odin's Eye, or the ''Eye that Surpasses the World.'' It heightens the nerve processing to the brain, giving much faster reactions, to make her a better pilot.

* In ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', Rikka wears an eyepatch under the delusion of being a seal to her "Evil Eye".

* Goro Majima of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series has an eyepatch over his left eye. The fourth game shows that he got it due to [[spoiler:refusing to sell out his {{Blood Brother|s}} and had it stabbed out by the tanto he now carries]].

* ''Manga/FireForce'': Both [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Captain Burns]] and [[WildCard Joker]], two powerful fighters in their own right, wear eyepatches on opposite sides. [[spoiler:And it's not a coincidence. Both of them were partners once, and went their separate ways after a mission led to their respective eyes literally burning out of their skulls from staring right into the setting's equivalent of Hell itself.]]

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' 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 [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking leads]] a prestigious mercenary company and is something of a MagnificentBastard, glorying in chaos and favored by the drow's evil spider goddess.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': The Twins, who serve as the game's ultimate BonusBoss, each wear an eyepatch on the opposite eye. [[spoiler:Their true form, Lavenza, does not have one.]] Party member Ryuji Sakamoto's FightingSpirit, a badass skeletal pirate, also wears an eyepatch, despite not having physical eyes anymore, because it goes with his pirate motif.

* Nice Holystone of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', who conceals a small but functional ''bomb'' within the empty eye socket covered by her eyepatch. A bomb is also how she lost the eye in the first place.

* For some unexplained reason in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' her younger but older looking sister Zakuro wears an eye patch.

* Othinus from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', much like [[spoiler: her]] mythological counterpart. Othinus has acquired the position of majin (magic god) and is thus one of the most powerful beings in the world.

* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': Even though both of her eyes are fine, Megumin wears an eyepatch solely because she thinks it looks cool.

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

* Bel Peol, a leader of the villain group Bal Masque from ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', actually has three eyes, but her normal right eye is covered by an eyepatch. This only makes her look even more badass.

** One of the [[spoiler:original Thirteen Court Guard Captains, Furoufushi Saitou]], wears an eyepatch and being part of the [[strongest generation of the Division Captains]] this trope is a given.

** The Blade Praxis also wears an eyepatch; in post-battle banter, Zeke will accuse her of "infringing" on his "copyright." Praxis retorts that she has an actual condition, so if anything he should lose ''his'' eyepatch.

** Right-Eye, Redcloak's little brother, and later [[spoiler: Redcloak himself]] sport an eyepatch as well, although it actually covers a missing eye.

* 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-color clothing and the typical facial hair inversion.

* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', [[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 SuperStrength. In fact, she's so strong, she accidentally ''pulled a door off its hinges''.

* A villainous example from ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': The Governor, though already established as a ''very'' dangerous man, eventually dons an eyepatch after [[spoiler: Michonne [[EyeScream gauges out his eye with a piece of broken glass]]]], though unlike most examples it ''does'' take a few episodes before he puts on the actual eyepatch, though the bandages he wears in that time could still count.
* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' [[spoiler:Slade Wilson]] wears one in the present-day timeline, having lost his right eye sometime in the past [[spoiler:due to having an arrow stabbed through his eye by Oliver.]]
** After losing his eye to Oliver, Deadshot is given an eyepiece that restores and enhances its vision.

* One episode of ''[[Series/Combat1962 Combat!]]'', "Odyssey", has Sgt. Saunders pretending to a shellshocked German soldier named "Corporal Ernst Keller." Everyone buys the act, except for two characters: one is a particularly observant and highly decorated German orderly (the other is a German lieutenant later on). In an apparently intentional allusion to Polyphemus from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', the orderly wears an eyepatch and does his best to "sniff out" Germans who are feigning their injuries, and Saunders has to continually outwit him.
* Spoofed in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Pac Man Fever". Charlie Bradbury is in a LotusEaterMachine where she's a video game ActionGirl. When she first appears she's wearing an entirely unnecessary eyepatch that she removes after her BigDamnHeroes.

* Portrayed by [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Spongebob's]] voice actor, Tom Kenny, Patchy the Pirate is the President of the Spongebob Squarepants Fan Club. He sports a fashionable black eyepatch which serves seemingly no reason other than to make him appear more badass than he already is. He can be blatantly seen switching the eyepatch from eye to eye proving the previous statement.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995''. Subverted in "The Light Brigade" where the Chief Weapons Officer on a spaceship has an eyepatch like you might expect of a badass combat veteran, but when we see the Weapons Room everyone there has the same patch, which is revealed to cover an ocular implant for a BrainComputerInterface.

* Captain Price in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' invokes this with his night-vision goggles - it's more of a monocle.

* Ana from ''Videogame/{{Overwatch}}'' was a crack sniper who had her right eye-- a cybernetic one which gave her six times normal vision-- shot out by a rival sniper via ''ScopeSnipe''. She now chooses to wear an eyepatch, despite the availability of medical options to replace the missing eye.

* [[PlayfulHacker Jacker]] of ''VideoGame/Ghost10'' has a cybernetic implant resembling an eyepatch which covers his left eye.''

* ''VisualNovel/GalaxyAngel'': Lester Coolduras, Tact's subcommander and best friend, always wears a rather cool-looking eyepatch over his left eye. One event in the first game has [[BridgeBunnies Almo and Coco]] asking Tact directly about it, and he can answer that he uses it to conceal a laser beam, an embarrassing birthmark that looks like a panda, or that he lost his eye in a duel with his father. All of these turn out jokes, as Tact immediately admits he has no idea because Lester never talks about it.

** In the end of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]], [[spoiler:Mustang kills Bradley]] but ends up losing his eye himself. He starts using an eyepatch afterward.

* Commander Mercédès Vampa, Conal's commanding officer, and crush, in ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}. ''[[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/11302011/ (Apparently she stole her eyepatch from a pirate.)]]''

* Saul Tigh, as of S3 of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. He's always been somewhat of a PoisonousFriend, almost a ManipulativeBastard, 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.

** Although there is nothing wrong with his eye, Sora wears an orange pumpkin mask over his right eye whenever he is in [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]], serving as an eyepatch. Of course, it's still possible to see his covered eye in some cutscenes, and with the right angle with the camera in gameplay. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', the magic from Sora's drive attire would end up in his mask while in this world, allowing it to change shape whenever Sora uses a [[SuperMode drive form]].
*** In the Final Mix version for the same game, Sora wears a black Santa Claus hat in Christmas Town that also covers his eye, though the right camera angle still makes the eye (but not the mask) visible. The magic from the mask is now transferred to the hat.
* Subversion: when Naked Snake (later named Big Boss) of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' 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 WordOfGod says that Snake's codename was inspired by ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'''s Snake Plissken, the eyepatch doubles as a ShoutOut.) The lead female expresses pity, but he shrugs it off. The first person view for the player goes a bit funny, too - the lost eye was his dominant one, so that's what he habitually aligns his gunsights to.
-->'''Naked Snake:''' [[SurvivalMantra 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 molds 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.
*** However in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' both allow Snake and Big Boss to fire their guns with either their left or right hands, which in the case of Big Boss would allow him to look down the scope/iron sight with his left eye. Such ambidextrous shooting however is never displayed by Big Boss in ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', his eye patch must really have power if he can see through it even when it is on.
*** 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.

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

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter 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

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' has the Dragonking Eyepatch, which gives two levels of the extremely strong Weakness Exploit skill and a deceptively high amount of protection. Plus it has this description:
-->"Put this baby on to double your manliness instantly. Ideal for the grittier guys and gals."