History Main / EyepatchAfterTimeskip

* After the "Five Year Gap" in ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' comic, Shrinking Violet returns with a missing eye and a nasty scar. (But no patch, alas.)

* Averted when Blake returns for the final episode of ''Series/BlakesSeven''. He was originally supposed to have an eyepatch [[NotSoDifferent similar to his arch-enemy Travis]] from the first two seasons, but it was decided to downplay the trope and just give him a facial scar instead.

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* After an unexpected three months go by in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick,'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html we return to find out the bard Elan is wearing a patch]]. [[spoiler:Naturally, he's only wearing it to look mysterious.]]
* During a particularly convoluted bit of flashbacking-and-flashforwarding in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary,'' we meet up with part of the crew after a gap of weeks, to find trusty floating robot Ennesby wearing a patch bolted over one optical sensor. [[spoiler:It's easily fixed once they get their engineer back from the dead.]]
* In the [[BadFuture Futures Trading]] arc of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dark Smoke Puncher has a huge scar and a glass eye after Doc jumps forward in time.

* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' the future version of Norman has a prosthetic eye and is missing his signature buck teeth. Historical footage of the early days of his revolution show him with an eyepatch.
* Used as a RunningGag in ''Webcomic/JoeLovesCrappyMovies'', whenever a future version of Joe appears. Joe also did a series of bonus sketches showing possible ways he lost the eye (the most popular one being him having donated it to his wife).
* [[http://yamara.com/2006/07/20/dickory-dock/ One strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'' does double duty on eyepatch cliches; not only does the character's future self show up wearing one, she acquired it after going off to be a time pirate. (Well. Time privateer. Close enough.)

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', this happens to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191220#.XzPrqzV7mUk the unnamed character]] who passes Agatha's message dingbot to Dr Francisca Monahan. She had both eyes at around the time Agatha was escaping from Martellus, and a patch over a scar at some point after it had become public knowledge that Agatha was not trapped in Mechanicsburg.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'': When Sonic returned from his year away from Space a number of characters had changed since the time skip. Dr. Quack was the one sporting an eye-patch, having stepped on a land-mine in the field and retiring from duty.

* Hanji Zoe from ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'' receives one of these after her near-fatal encounter with the Colossal Titan in the Return to Shiganshina Arc, during which the left side of her face was badly burned in a blast that wiped out her entire squadron. Hanji survived the ordeal and returned to see the defeat of the Colossal Titan but was forced to wear bandages over her left eye as a result. Post-Timeskip, she now wears an eyepatch beneath her glasses even in combat when leading the Survey Corps, confirming that she lost her sight in her left eye due to her earlier experience.
* A variation is used in ''Franchise/OnePiece''. After the timeskip, Zoro is in fact missing an eye, but so far hasn't been seen to use an eyepatch. How he lost his eye has yet to be explained. Interestingly enough, ''One Piece'' (a series about pirates) has managed to run 700+ chapters without a ''single'' character wearing an eyepatch. WordOfGod is that this is being saved for a character who will appear near the end of the series. Whether this will be a new character or an existing character (ie. Zoro) who just has yet to start wearing an eyepatch is unknown.

* In ''VideoGame/SlapCity'', One of VideoGame/IttleDew's skins is an "old" version of her with grey hair, a few wrinkles, and an eyepatch.

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[[folder:Film]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]] [[spoiler: Amy Pond]] and her army appear with them after time goes [[TimeyWimeyBall wibbly-wobbly]]. Subverted in that they all have two working eyes; the patches contain tech which allows them to "remember" the Silence.

* In the original 1992-3 airings of ''[[Series/YoungIndianaJones The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'', there were [[FramingDevice opening and closing bookends]] set in the present day (that is, the 1990s). These featured a wizened 93-year-old Franchise/IndianaJones (played by George Hall), who sported a patch over his right eye, and a pair of glasses over the eyepatch. He also had a long vertical facial scar trailing out from under the patch. No explanation was ever offered for how Indy had lost an eye. The "time skip" element comes into play because Creator/HarrisonFord's Indy of course still has both eyes in the film series, set in the 1930s. These contemporary bookends were later all cut out when [[ReCut George Lucas re-edited the show]] into ''The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones'' in the later part of the decade.

* Over the chronological time skip between Music/MyChemicalRomance's music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU "Na Na Na"]] and their music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTgnDLWeeaM "SING,"]] the character Jet Star gained an eyespatch.

[[folder:Web Original]]

* It's a common trend in RWBY fandom to give adult iterations of Ruby Rose an eyepatch, especially after Volume 4 where a villain expressed desire to initiate EyeScream on her.
** And it's almost always Ruby, partially because of the contrast it makes with her sweet, (mostly) innocent personality, partially because her eyes are explicitly said to be special in some way (we see exactly how special they are in the Volume 3 finale, when she pretty much [[AngstNuke angst-nukes]] a Grimm Dragon after [[spoiler: witnessing Cinder kill Pyrrha]].)

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* The CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' was followed by a TimeSkip called One Year Later. Afterwards, Alan Scott, the original GreenLantern, was sporting an eyepatch (''under'' his domino mask, for some reason). The series ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', which occured during the missing year and filled in a lot of the gaps, explained that Alan lost his eye (And the eye he has left is not even his own) in the massive teleportation disaster that swept up many of Earths heroes at the climax of the Crisis. Creator commentary in ''Fifty Two'' reveals that they also felt that the idea of wearing an eyepatch ''and'' a mask was ridiculous.

* After an unexpected three months go by in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick,'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html we return to find out the bard Elan is wearing a patch]]. [[spoiler:[[InvokedTrope He's only wearing it because of this trope.]]]]

* After an unexpected three months go by in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick,'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html we return to find out the bard Elan is wearing a patch]]. [[spoiler:He's only wearing it to look mysterious. He's silly like that.]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has Part 3's [[ButtMonkey Jean Pierre Polnareff]] returning OlderAndWiser with a see-through eyepatch ([[HandicappedBadass and wheelchair bound)]] in Part 5 after losing his right eye sight and legs fighting the BigBad.

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* Hanji Zoe from ''[[Anime/AttackOnTitan]]'' receives one of these after her near-fatal encounter with the Colossal Titan in the Return to Shiganshina Arc, during which the left side of her face was badly burned in a blast that wiped out her entire squadron. Hanji survived the ordeal and returned to see the defeat of the Colossal Titan but was forced to wear bandages over her left eye as a result. Post-Timeskip, she now wears an eyepatch beneath her glasses even in combat when leading the Survey Corps, confirming that she lost her sight in her left eye due to her earlier experience.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Is there some sort of epic pony war in the distant future or something?"[[note]][[NextSundayAD Actually, she's from next Tuesday morning]], and the eyepatch is because she accidentally looked into the sun with a telescope.[[/note]] ]]

* Done extensively in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': The Movie.