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14->'''Kevyn:''' The bolted patch looks very roguish.\
15'''Ennesby:''' I don't ''want'' "roguish", I want "depth perception".
16-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
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18A quick way to indicate that events during a TimeSkip (or in [[BadFuture the future]]) were not all hugs-n-puppies is to have one of your heroes return wearing an eyepatch.
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20The reasons a missing eye is used so consistently for this purpose (instead of, for example a missing limb or massive scarring), are:
21* It doesn't reduce the character's capabilities. (In real life, the lack of depth perception and peripheral vision on that side can be troublesome, though not as much so as people tend to think. In fiction [[InformedFlaw this only comes up if the writer wants it to]].)
22* In a live-action production, removing an actor's arm (et cetera) is hard to fake with special effects, and scars require makeup. A patch is easy.
23* Scars elsewhere on the body are less obvious, and may be covered by clothing, but a character's eyes are usually front-'n'-center.
24* [[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatches]] [[RuleOfCool are cool]].
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26To qualify for this trope, the eyepatch has to be ''[[NoodleIncident unexplained]]'' when the reader/viewer first encounters it. Any explanation must come later. This is usually a sign that they TookALevelInBadass, and as such is a common accoutrement of a FutureBadass. SisterTrope to GlassesOfAging.
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28Possibly caused by an EyeScream.
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36* Hanji Zoe from ''Manga/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.
37* In the manga version of ''Anime/BloodC'', Fumito shoots Saya in her left eye as he escapes the town. One year after, Saya arrives in Tokyo with her eye covered with a bandage. However when she's in Watanuki's shop, she removes it revealing that her eye is fully healed thanks to her regenerative abilities as [[OurVampiresAreDifferent an Elder Bairns]].
38* After the TimeSkip in ''Manga/TheDaughterOfTwentyFaces'', Ken dons one. [[spoiler:This also marks a turning point towards DarkerAndEdgier for him.]]
39* [[spoiler:Asuka]] gained one for ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion 3.0]]'', [[spoiler:which takes place 14 years after ''2.0'']]. Mildly played with, in that we ''probably'' saw her lose the eye in ''2.0'', but before the TimeSkip she was shown with [[BandagedFace a whole load of bandages over that side of her face]] instead of the EyepatchOfPower she sports afterwards. ([[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible Close enough.]]) [[spoiler: Then again, one scene hints [[GlowingEyes she still has the eye.]]]]
40* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
41** Roy showed up with one in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', the movie finishing the series after a timeskip. He lost his eye in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the series proper]] [[spoiler:fighting Pride in the final episode]].
42** And in the [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist 2009 series]], President Bradley is eventually shown in flashback as a young man without his eyepatch, which seems to be needed only [[spoiler:to conceal his {{Ouroboros}} 'ultimate eye'l]]
43* In the epilogue of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Integra is wearing an eyepatch over the eye she injured while fighting the Major.
44* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has Part 3's [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]] returning OlderAndWiser with a see-through eyepatch ([[HandicappedBadass and wheelchair bound]]) in Part 5 after losing his right eye's sight and legs fighting the BigBad.
45* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' plays with this: William reappears after the three-year TimeSkip with an eyepatch he'd never been seen before wearing, but a glimpse of a potentially nasty eye injury was shown before his re-appearance from Sherlock's narration.
46* A variation is used in ''Manga/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 (i.e. Zoro) who just has yet to start wearing an eyepatch is unknown.
47* ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland:'' Sandy gets one during the year and a half skip after the Goldy Pond arc. Considering he got pummeled to the point of being unrecognizable, he got off quite lucky.
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51* The alternate Cyclops of the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' has his ruby-quartz visor over only ''one'' eye. The scarred socket on the other side is covered by his bangs. [[spoiler: We eventually learn his eye was clawed out by Wolverine seconds before Cyclops blasted Wolverine's hand off.]]
52* [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica Colonel America]] of Comicbook/{{The Defenders}} in ''{{Comicbook/Age Of Ultron}}''.
53* In the comics continuation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Brooklyn comes back from his 40 year time dance with a wife, egg, kid, beast and an eyepatch. No official story on how that happened.
54* The CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' was followed by a TimeSkip called ''One Year Later''. Afterwards, Alan Scott, the original ComicBook/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.
55* After the "Five Year Gap" in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' comic, Shrinking Violet returns with a missing eye and a nasty scar. (But no patch, alas.)
56* Spike has acquired one for some reason in the short for Issue #4 of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'', even though both his eyes clearly work fine in the last panel. Perhaps he just felt [[RuleOfCool it looked cool]].
57* ComicBook/NickFury gained his EyepatchOfPower during the two-decade time skip that turned him from a Howling Commando into an Agent of SHIELD.
58* Jesse Custer of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' falls out of an airplane and is presumed dead, but mysteriously returns wearing a patch. [[spoiler:Turns out, his eye was ''bitten out by God.'']]
59* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': 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.
60* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
61** Since at least 1990, Mirage's ''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comic regularly hinted at a unpleasant future for our heroes. Most of these stories would show Raphael missing his left eye. An explanation seemingly comes in Creator/ImageComics' Volume 3, where Raph gets disfigured and eventually wears a patch, but this would later be ruled CanonDiscontinuity. It would later be revealed in ''Tales of the TMNT'' #69 that [[spoiler:Shadow Jones cut Raph's eye out during battle]].
62** The LighterAndSofter ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' also featured a future Raph missing an eye.
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66* ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'': While not commented on, [[https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2023/04/17 future Marigold]] wears an eyepatch upon meeting her past self to take her to the time museum.
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70* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''[='=]s MyFutureSelfAndMe episode shows that Future Andy has an eyepatch. This is lampshaded by Calvin.
71* Hans in ''Fanfic/PerfectDiamondWorld'' has an eyepatch a decade after ''Frozen''. He lost his eye and now has a huge scar going from his eye to his scalp.
72* 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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76* ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion'' takes place chronologically later than [[Literature/StarshipTroopers any other]] [[Film/StarshipTroopers presentation]] [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles of the franchise]], and gives General Johnny Rico an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]]. The only implied explanation comes by way of [[EyeScream a scar running down his face past where the eye used to be.]]
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80* In ''Film/KaizokuSentaiTenGokaiger'', which serves as the ReunionShow for ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', Captain Marvelous sports an eyepatch for unknown reasons. During the mid-credits scene, [[spoiler:it turns out his eye was fine, just having an infection]].
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85* In ''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld'', hard-bitten copper Sam Vimes is sent thirty years into the past of [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Ankh-Morpork]] and ends up fighting for his life alongside his thirty-years-younger self. He receives a vicious scarring cut to his face and ends up wearing an eyepatch; this stays with him when he returns to his correct time.
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89* The future Beka from "older Trance's" timeline in ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' had one, along with some cybernetics and red hair.
90* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Sheridan's brief visit to the future in season 3 gives the viewer a glimpse of G'kar, who has for some reason lost his right eye. After Sheridan returns to the present, later seasons show how it happens.
91* In the ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'' reimagining, Saul Tigh loses his right eye to the Cylons some time during their 4 month occupation of New Caprica.
92* Averted when Blake returns for the final episode of ''Series/BlakesSeven''. He was originally supposed to have an eyepatch similar to his arch-enemy Travis from the first two seasons, to imply he had become just like him. However it was decided to downplay the trope and just give him a facial scar instead.
93* Inverted in ''Series/Dark2017'': Throughout Seasons 1 and 2, Wöller appears with a medical eyepatch as a result of an [[NoodleIncident incident]] that [[TheUnreveal he never gets a chance to elaborate on]]. After the entanglements involving [[spoiler: the two [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]] are resolved]] in the GrandFinale, Wöller is seen with a simple bandage over the same eye. While he still [[RunningGag doesn't get a chance to elaborate]] on what happened, conversation indicates the injury was less severe [[spoiler: in this version of reality]] and will heal in time. In a way, it mirrors the BittersweetEnding of the show.
94* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
95** Not a time skip, but in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]", Brigade-Leader Lethbridge-Stewart, the AlternateUniverse version of TheBrigadier, has an eypatch (and no moustache).
96** 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.
97* Beric Dondarrion of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' gains an eyepatch between his first appearance in season 1, when sent on a mission to arrest [[PsychoForHire Gregor]] [[GiantMook Clegane]], and his reappearance in season 3, as a battle-scared RebelLeader. He also [[TheOtherDarrin changes actors between appearances]] (from an extra to a substantive role).
98* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': In "The Jessie-nator: Grudgement Day", Emma and Ravi are visited by Jessie from 60 years in the future, where she had been fighting in a war against Bertram-Bots. When they ask about her eyepatch, she shows them what's under it, [[ScreamingAtSquick to their utter horror]] (and thankfully, [[UnrevealAngle it isn't shown to the viewer]]).
99-->'''Ravi:''' ''Have you not considered putting some ointment on that?!''
100* On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the character Martok is introduced at the beginning of season 4; season 5 reveals him to actually be a shapeshifter impersonating Martok. When real Martok is found and rescued, he is missing an eye.
101* In the original 1992-3 airings of ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', 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.
102* ''Series/ZNation'': After the TimeSkip between Seasons 3 and 4, Addie is now wearing an eyepatch to cover a missing eye. How she lost it is never explained.
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106* 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.
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110* In ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'', when you finally meet Eggabell in person (after having only seen her in videos), she's wearing an eyepatch. [[spoiler:This goes unnoticed and unexplained until she explains it to Lizbert. Turns out she only got pink eye.]]
111* Dimitri from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' gains an eyepatch after 5 years in all routes apart from Edelgard's route, in which he is able to ascend to the throne of Fhirdiad instead of becoming a fugitive. WordOfGod is that the eyepatch was to [[ShowDontTell show]] that Dimitri "went through some hardships" during the TimeSkip. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'', Dimitri becomes king after defeating his uncle, and his post-timeskip appearance does not include the eyepatch.
112* Played a bit more straighter though in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Raiden is shown in the prologue of having gotten better after the events of the previous game and received a more human like cyborg body, but at the end of the prologue, has his left eye sliced out by Jetstream Sam's katana, and loses his left arm again. After a few week time skip, we're introduced to the game proper, and Raiden has received an upgraded cyborg body, featuring what appears to be a cloth strip eye patch over his left eye. Of course, it too also acts as an EyepatchOfPower as it's actually an "artificial compound eye unit" that's basically top of the line device that greatly enhances Raiden's vision... Raiden's PMC, Maverick Security, and the Cybernetics expert Wilhelm "Doktor" Voigt just didn't have time to turn it into an actual human style eye thus giving it the eye patch appearance.
113* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', subverted, with both the Solid Snake, and Raiden, which takes places 5 years (2014 Metal Gear Timeline) after the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. Snake receives an Eyepatch device developed/stolen by Otacon and Sunny called the Solid Eye early in the game, but it's actually a multipurpose Eyepiece that acts as Monocular with variable zoom, and also works as a Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) functions all built into it, and apparently, also has been designed to act as a corrective lens for Far-sightedness. Raiden, sports two of these Solid Eyes for both of his eyes, and works also with his visor face plate combo. Their eyes however are fine making them more [[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatches of Power]].... which is more than can be said for the rest of the rest of [[CloneDegeneration their]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul bodies]]. [[CrapsackWorld Or the rest of the world for that matter]]
114* The PapaWolf version of Nier in the ''VideoGame/NieR Gestalt'' version gains one after the five-year time skip between the first and second acts.
115* ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit'' does this, after a fashion: [[spoiler: a character encountered by the protagonist turns out to actually just be a ''memory'' of the person before they underwent a FaceHeelTurn, meaning that the character is presented as their past self. The "real" version of the character, seen in TheStinger, has acquired an eyepatch between the time of that memory and the present.]]
116* In the first case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', which takes place a year after the previous game, we see that Apollo is covered in various bandages and has an eyepatch over one eye. We are initially led to believe that he obtained these injuries during the courtroom bombing that your client is being accused of, [[spoiler:but he still has the eyepatch in Case 4, which takes place even further in the past. It's ultimately revealed that his lie-detector vision was going crazy whenever Athena talked about the case (due to her attempting to hide her involvement with the space program), and he covered his eye in order to prevent himself from sensing her tells.]]
117* Future Shaundi from the "How the Saints Saved Christmas" DLC for ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' has a cybernetic eye after shooting her real eye out [[Film/AChristmasStory with a BB gun.]]
118** Speaking of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', [[DiscOneFinalBoss Phillipe Loren]] in [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird the third game]]. When we first meet him, he has two working eyes. Then [[BloodKnight Johnny Gat]] slams his face into an airplane window to break it, and by the time he next appears, he's wearing an eyepatch.
119* In ''VideoGame/SlapCity'', one of VideoGame/IttleDew's skins is an "old" version of her with grey hair, a few wrinkles, and an eyepatch.
120* ''VideoGame/SuperTimeForce'' [[ParodiedTrope played with this]] with Doctor Repeatski, whose future self has ''two eyepatches'' covering both his eyes.
121* Happens InUniverse for Saejima in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', wherein he encounters his old best friend, Majima, after having just spent twenty five years in prison with no information about the outside world, and is visibly shocked at Majima's appearance, which includes an eyepatch Saejima has no idea the reason for. [[note]] It's actually the incident that led to Saejima getting jailed that caused Majima to freak out and end up needing it.[[/note]]
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125* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': In the [[BadFuture Futures Trading]] arc, Dark Smoke Puncher has a huge scar and a glass eye after Doc jumps forward in time.
126* Marsha of ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' got an eyepatch and went crazy after a time skip caused by holes in Dave's memory.
127* ''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.
128* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
129** An interesting example: [[spoiler:Sollux]] has his [[EyeScream eyes blown out]] during a duel with [[spoiler:Eridan]]. He then spends the rest of the act with empty eye sockets, but his appearance is otherwise unchanged. When we next see him, it's been [[spoiler:three years]] in-universe, and he's sporting a fashionable pair of eyepatches.
130** In the ''Summerteen Romance'' arc of the ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' spinoff, Karkat is shown with an eyepatch after a TimeSkip in [[FramingDevice Karkat's story]]. The joke, of course, is that there wouldn't actually ''be'' a TimeSkip if Dave didn't get bored with reading the story and skip to just before the end.
131** Karkat also acquires an unexplained eyepatch after a timeskip in Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues.
132* ''Webcomic/JoeLovesCrappyMovies'': Used as a RunningGag 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).
133* ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'': Debbie Hives has taken to wearing an eyepatch between her appearances in ''Webcomic/SeventySeas'' and ''Latchkey Kingdom''. She wears it because she's ComicallyCrossEyed like the character she was parodying.
134* ''Webcomic/LeifAndThorn'': The [[http://leifandthorn.com/comic/fish-story-3141/ brief appearance]] of [[spoiler:time-traveling future Thorn]]. Who Holly first guesses to be "[[MirrorUniverse alternate-dimension evil]] [[spoiler:Thorn]]."
135* ''Webcomic/MutantNinjaTurtlesGaiden'' follows its inspiration by having this happen to Raphael.
136* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Lampshaded. After an unexpected three months go by [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html we return to find out the bard Elan is wearing a patch]]. However, after an annoyed Hinjo pulls it off, it's revealed that he's only wearing it to look mysterious.
137* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': While the timeskip between chapters is pretty short, Nikita wears one as a direct consequence of his battle wounds in chapter four.
138* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': During a particularly convoluted bit of flashbacking-and-flashforwarding 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.]]
139* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'': In Part 2, Dee sports an eyepatch over her left eye due to having lost it [[spoiler:during Mick's attacking]] partway through Part 1.
140* ''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.
141* ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'': [[http://yamara.com/2006/07/20/dickory-dock/ One strip]] 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.)
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145* In the ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'' review dedicated to ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' licensed games, Seb as a "Future Resistance Leader" is wearing an eyepatch.
146* Parodied in ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz''. The ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' episode has Scott being visited by himself 14 minutes from the future, wearing an eyepatch. [[spoiler:It turns out that future Scott got the eyepatch from accidentally swatting his eye out with a paddleball. Also, the now-future Scott (which was the regular Scott from 14 minutes ago) is then visited by another Scott from farther into the future, with eyepatches over both of his eyes.]]
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150* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'''s second movie, ''WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy'', the future [[HarmlessVillain Box Ghost]] has an eyepatch and a HookHand primarily to show he's not as much of a pushover any more.
151* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FutureWorm'' by giving the titular worm's future counterpart, [[RepetitiveName Future-Future-Worm]], an eyepatch over his visor.
152* The ''{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}}'' episode "Future Tense" has a variant: future!Broadway is blind.
153* An extra in the "A Sitch In Time" DVD shows the future ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' as Dr. Director's successor, sporting an eyepatch as Dr. Director does in the present. Maybe it's part of the uniform.
154* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
155** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", Twilight Sparkle encounters a future version of herself sporting a skintight suit, a bandanna, an eyepatch, and a scar on her cheek. [[spoiler:These are actually a SpyCatsuit, a bandage, a therapeutic eyepatch, and a paper cut, respectively. The eyepatch in this case was from being [[BlindedByTheSun blinded by looking at the Sun through a telescope]].]]
156** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 1]]", a brief shot of an [[BadFuture alternate timeline]] shows us Rainbow Dash with an eye scar, torn ear, and metal wing. This is played dead serious, unlike the previous example: it's part of a WarIsHell montage.
157* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': The ice maze in the First Spinjitzu Master's tomb alters the ninja's reflections to show their future-selves. Kai resembles his father, Zane is wearing a different robe, Cole doesn't have a reflection, and Jay has an eyepatch. Cole and Jay's reflections get realized in the next arc, where Cole learns to turn invisible and Jay gets beat up by pirates.
158* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', Dot wakes up in a BadFuture where a teenage Enzo has a scar over his right eye, though it turns out it was AllADream. Later, little Enzo loses his right eye in a game of [[Franchise/MortalKombat Immortal Konflict]] and after a time skip an adult Enzo Matrix has an artificial right eye.
159* Moe Szyslak has an eyepatch in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]" when Lisa gets her future foretold.
160* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' series, Donatello is transported to a BadFuture in "Same As It Never Was." Among the changes are (as you might've guessed), Raphael missing an eye and wearing a patch as an intentional nod to the comics.
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