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2[[caption-width-right:240:[[VisualPun One-eyed Snake]].]]
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4->''"You can't spell 'warrior' without one 'I'."''
5-->-- '''Podcast/RiffTrax''' on ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
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9Something covers one of the character's eyes. It might be an eyepatch, [[HidingBehindYourBangs a particularly concealing haircut]], or a tilted MartialArtsHeadband. 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.
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11Perhaps both.
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13These characters rarely experience any problems with depth perception or suffer from the resulting reduced field of vision. In fact, sometimes the Eyepatch of Power covers a perfectly functional -- or [[MagicalEye specially functional]] -- eye instead of the empty hole one might suspect. This is sometimes a technique of TheTrickster. Main characters will often gain an eyepatch as a FutureBadass or EvilTwin.
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15{{Pirate}}s often have eye patches as a {{Stock Costume Trait|s}}, which is a separate thematic concept -- see DressedToPlunder -- but the overlap of badassery and piracy is significant enough to mention. This is partially TruthInTelevision, pirates in real life did often wear eye patches regularly, but mainly because on sailing ships in the 18th century there were over a thousand different ways one could lose body parts, including eyes (this is also the reason why hooks for hands and peg legs are commonly associated with them as well, seeing as such items could easily be improvised using materials already on a ship to compensate for missing limbs). In this case, sailors didn't wear eye patches to look tough so much as they did because on average people have an easier time looking at a piece of cloth over one eye than at the scarred tissue where the eye used to be. Furthermore, even pirates (and other seamen) with two functioning eyes were wont to wear eyepatches: since it's so dark belowdecks, having one eye always in darkness made it easier to adjust.
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17In TheFuture, rough and tumble outlaws will often have a single, obvious [[ElectronicEyes cybernetic eye]] which will give them some sort of special holdout ability or SuperSenses.
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19When the [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse god]] Odin traded an eye for a drink from Mimir's well of knowledge, he made this trope OlderThanPrint.
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21Related to BlindSeer--power gain through the loss of an eye is a repeating motif in literature, like the Odin example above.
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23See also: MagicalEye, MaskPower, EyesAlwaysShut, and if you're masochistic, EyeScream. For characters that weren't wearing it the last time you saw them, see EyepatchAfterTimeSkip. See also BlindfoldedVision, where a blindfolded combatant is no worse off (or better!) than their opponents. May result because ScarsAreForever.
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30* The [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/70/59/d1/7059d114104a6551e6093371bd577381.jpg Hathaway Shirt man]] of the 1950s-1970s (one of the more famous creations of David Oglivy, a real-life [[Series/MadMen Don Draper]]).
31* Both [[InvokedTrope invoked]] and [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwlh1yl054 this DirecTV commercial]].
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35* Eyepatches and concealing hairdos abound in Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's works (''Manga/CaptainHarlock'', ''Manga/QueenEmeraldas'', ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'').
36* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheHauntsOfEvil'': The dangerous MookLieutenant of Daburanda''s army is a wolfhound named Saberu, who sports an eyepatch over his left eye. He's also the only named villain who's an actual threat in direct combat, being a very competent MasterSwordsman.
37* In ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes'', Kakeru has a [[SupernaturalGoldEyes blind right eye]], covered by an overly large eyepatch, which grants him the power of precognition.
38* ''Manga/FireForce'': Both [[RankScalesWithAsskicking 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.]]
39* Akito from ''Manga/AirGear'''s eyepatch acts as an indicator as to which half of his SplitPersonality is in charge: if over the right eye, sweet and innocent Akito is in control. Over the left eye, violent and brash Agito takes over. Without the eyepatch, Agito ''still'' has control, but with more power.
40* [[spoiler:Akachi]] from ''Manga/ArataTheLegend'' wears one after implanting their eye in another character.
41* Nice Holystone of ''Literature/{{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.
42* In the ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen 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 right eye is missing/heavily damaged after [[spoiler:being clawed out by a demon]] during the Eclipse, he doesn't wear an eyepatch; he just... keeps his eyelid closed.
43* ''Anime/TheBigO'': [[BattleButler Norman]] has one, along with a mustache.
44* Ciel Phantomhive of ''Manga/BlackButler'' has one to hide his MagicalEye pentagram; the sign of his DealWithTheDevil contract.
45* In ''Manga/BlackCat'', Sven Vollfied wears an eyepatch over his right eye, which has the ability to see a few seconds into the future. If he uses it extensively, it can cause extreme exhaustion. He has the eye from [[spoiler: his old partner Lloyd who had these powers of seeing the future. Foreseeing Sven's death, Lloyd went to intervene and was consequently killed himself. Sven lost an eye in the process but was given a transplant from Lloyd who had registered as an organ donor not long before.]]
46** 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 MagicalEye so he doesn't need his Eyepatch Of Power as often, but he keeps it anyway. (Probably because it looks badass.)
47* For some unexplained reason in ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' her younger but older looking sister Zakuro wears an eye patch.
48* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
49** Kenpachi Zaraki hides one (functioning) eye under an eyepatch made from a creature that eats his BattleAura, [[PowerLimiter which allows him to fight at a lower power-level]] so as not to crush lesser opponents and [[BloodKnight ruin all the fun so quickly]].
50** Kenpachi's evil counterpart, the Quinto Espada Nnoitra Gilga, also has an eyepatch, which conceals [[spoiler: his Hollow hole and the remnants of his mask.]]
51** Coyote Starrk's release gives him what's either an eyepatch or a scouter. When he does this, he goes from BrilliantButLazy to a NotSoHarmlessVillain.
52** [[spoiler:Shunsui Kyoraku]] starts using one of these after [[spoiler: Robert Accutrone]] subjects him to [[spoiler: EyeScream by shooting his right eye.]] Every now and then, Kubo mistakenly [[OffModel draws the eye intact]].
53** One of the [[spoiler:original Thirteen Court Guard Captains, Furoufushi Saitou]], wears an eyepatch and being part of the [[spoiler:strongest generation of the Division Captains]] this trope is a given.
54* [[spoiler:Saya Kisaragi]] from ''Anime/BloodC'' gets one in episode 12, [[spoiler:after getting the left half of her head blown off '''and living to tell'''. So she rips her clothes and covers her injury as her HealingFactor slowly kicks in...]]
55* In ''Manga/Brave10'', Rokurou hides his right eye behind bandages [[spoiler:to conceal the power of the Water Crest eye, which lets him suck out people's memories and store limitless amounts of knowledge in it. He [[EyeScream loses it]] to Anastasia when she [[TheMole betrays the Braves]] and the eyepatch starts doing its normal job...Or so it would seem, until the sequel, at which point it's revealed he's gone and put his other family heirloom, the [[PowerCrystal God's Jewel]], in the socket to make up for it and is now hiding ''that''.]]
56* Othinus from ''Literature/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.
57* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'':
58** Himeno, one of the more experienced devil hunters, has an eyepatch hiding her right eye. She gave up her right eye to the Ghost Devil for a devil contract in exchange for borrowing some of its supernatural power.
59** Quanxi also bears one and, according to her former buddy Kishibe, would win in a bare-knuckle fighting tournament of all of humanity. [[spoiler:She's also a weapon devil hybrid (presumably bow), making her [[HealingFactor nigh-unkillable]]. Her eyepatch hides an arrow which acts as the switch for the transformation when removed, explaining why her regeneration doesn't just give her a new eye.]]
60* Lelouch Lamperouge of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has a variation in the second season of the show, as now that his geass in his eye is in PowerIncontinence mode, he has to wear a special contact lens over it to hide that power in civilian life.
61** 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.]]
62** 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. Lelouch outsmarts him, though, because he's savvy enough not to rely exclusively on Geass.
63** [[PaperThinDisguise "Julius Kingsly"]] in the OVA ''Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled'' also has his left eye covered by a particularly extravagant eye patch, almost certainly [[spoiler: to prevent him from using his Geass]].
64* In ''Manga/ComicGirls'', TheHero of [[SequentialArtist Tsubasa]]'s {{shonen}} manga is a traditional hero wearing this and BadassCape. Tsubasa herself sometimes wear both when she acts him out for story writing.
65* Lavi from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' wears an eye patch over his right eye. Under it he hides a secret "only known to Bookmen". Nobody know what it is. Yet. [[SeriesHiatus And God knows how long til we find out]].
66** Cross Marian's right eye is covered by a faceplate. And since he [[spoiler: was either killed or was PutOnABus,]] "God knows how long till we find out." (Because when an eye is covered by something, you know it's covered for a reason...)
67* In ''Manga/TheDaughterOfTwentyFaces'', [[spoiler: Ken gets one after losing an eye and turns DarkerAndEdgier as a result.]]
68* An odd and extremely {{narm}}y version of this is combined with MaskPower in ''Anime/DragonautTheResonance''. When Kazuki, the RivalTurnedEvil, returns from a NoOneCouldSurviveThat moment, he's wearing an eyepatch... as a mask. It makes it look like he has a thong on his head.
69* Jay Rock of ''Anime/FangOfTheSunDougram'' is more or less Che Guevara with an eyepatch. Not surprisingly, he's the show's local avatar of the god of Badass.
70* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
71** Führer King Bradley uses a patch [[spoiler: to hide his "Ultimate Eye", his left eye which holds his Ouroboros that gives him the foresight to see all possible outcomes of a given situation, allowing him to predict the moves of any opponent before they happen. His original eye rotted out long ago once he graduated from Führer school.]]
72** Bradley's eye in the first anime didn't let him see the future, but it let him see just about everything else. It was used to great effect in his fight with [[spoiler: Mustang]] were swinging his sword altered the air currents in the room and diverted [[spoiler: Mustang's attacks.]]
73** In the end of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 first anime]], [[spoiler:Mustang kills Bradley]] but ends up losing his eye himself. He starts using an eyepatch afterward.
74* The Genbu Seishi Hikitsu from ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' and ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'' wears an eyepatch over his right eye, which he calls "Shikyokan". [[MindRape The eye forces the person looking into it to remember their worst memories, letting him see these as well,]] and beyond.
75* Minene Uryu of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' 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.]]
76* Saito from ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' has a cybernetic implant that resembles an eyepatch. His left eye was replaced with the "Hawkeye", a prosthetic eye that interfaces with satellites to allow for shots of incredible accuracy.
77* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has Kyuubei (based on Yagyu Jubei in the Real Life examples below) and Takasugi. Kyuubei got [[spoiler: hers]] as a child after being injured protecting Tae.
78* Chigusa Tsukikage from ''Manga/GlassMask'' uses her [[GoodHairEvilHair long and messy black hair]] to cover the scars on her face after a terrible on-stage accident.
79* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'':
80** Subverted, as while the eyepatch Lockon Stratos receives later in the series does make him look more badass (if this is even possible for [[StupidSexyFlanders stupid, sexy Lockon]]), [[spoiler: it gives Ali an advantage in the final fight causing Lockon to lose their fight and ''die''.]]
81** Allelujah's [[HidingBehindYourBangs 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.
82%%* Nightmare of ''VideoGame/AliceInTheCountryOfHearts''.
83* ''Manga/{{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.
84* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'':
85** Ryoumo, 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.]]
86** Later when [[spoiler: Kakouton Genjou]] has an eye gouged out saving [[spoiler: Sousou]] from [[spoiler: Koushaji's fatal needles]] he starts sporting a rather spiffy patch with a skull and bones motif. This is a ShoutOut to and/or GenerationXerox of [[spoiler: his past incarnation Xiahou Dun]] of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' fame, seen below under "RealLife".
87* Laura Bodewig from ''Literature/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.
88* Elder Kaede from ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' wears one because she lost her eye during an attack of demons when she was a little girl.
89* Midari of ''Anime/{{Kakegurui}}'', who lost an eye by her own hands, paying a debt, [[AxCrazy and smiling as she did so]] - which also made her realize [[CombatSadomasochist she liked both gambling and pain]].
90* Jiyu Nanohana from ''Anime/JubeiChan'' received a "Lovely Eyepatch" that turned her into a super swordswoman. Her [[TheRival Rival]] Freesia in the second season had a similar one.
91* Nui Harime from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has an eyepatch shaped like a combination of the katakana of her name. She is one of the most powerful fighters [[spoiler:due to the Life Fibers in her body]].
92* Farfarello of ''Anime/KnightHunters''. It doesn't seem to slow him down much.
93* Gantai from ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' has one to conceal her mechanical eye. Fitting to the trope, she's incredibly dangerous when she goes berserk.
94* ''Literature/KonoSuba'': Even though both of her eyes are fine, Megumin wears an eyepatch solely because she thinks it looks cool.
95* Moritsugu Reiji's Machina Verdant in ''Manga/LinebarrelsOfIron'' has one eye destroyed, odd considering that like other machina it can heal given time, and Kouichi actually does try 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.]]
96* [[CoolOldGuy Retsudou]] from ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub'' got his after the hero tried to kill him by means of an arrow through the eye. It didn't work.
97* In ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', Rikka wears an eyepatch under the delusion of being a seal to her "Evil Eye".
98* Cinque of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''. She once fought against an [[RankInflation S-Rank mage]]. [[Literature/{{Redwall}} She lost her eye, he lost his life.]] Also an invoked trope for Cinque, as she could've gotten an artificial eye replacement after losing her eye in battle, but she chooses not to. Cypha from ''Force'' also wears one.
99* In Manga/{{MAR}}, the Chess Piece Candice has one of these ''in addition'' to a [[MaskPower mask]]. The eyepatch conceals a magic stone instead of an empty socket, which she uses as a Dimension Ärm.
100* [[spoiler:Dr. Hell]] from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' wore one in [[spoiler: the sequel series, ''Anime/GreatMazinger'']].
101** A minor character showed up in one chapter also wore one. He was a homeless thief and street urchin, and the eyepatch furthered the sensation of he was a badass in one fight.
102** Minister Zurill of ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' was a BadassBookworm with one eyepatch covering his left eye.
103* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Shota Aizawa, Eraser Head, starts wearing one after he loses an eye during the Paranormal Liberation War arc.
104* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
105** Kakashi hides a [[MagicalEye special eye]] behind his MartialArtsHeadband. [[spoiler:In fact, he had to ''switch out his old eye for it''...]]
106** A later chapter shows that [[spoiler:Danzo has it too]].
107** In fact, there are a lot of minor ninja with eyepatches/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 an arm]] (doesn't even need to be with an eyepatch; it can just be with hair), they must be hiding a Sharingan. Humorously, just a couple chapters ''earlier'', Ao, a 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.]]
108* In ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'', Matoba, head of the notorious Matoba clan, wears a paper seal to protect his right eye. This is because his ancestor's had negotiated the assistance from a {{Youkai}} for his right-eye but he never kept up his end of the deal and so vengeful youkai target the head's right-eye. He notes he does have [[EyeScream a horrible scar from an ayakashi attack]] but his eye-patch has yet to be lifted. Realistically though, his depth of perception is poor due to working with only one eye.
109* ''Anime/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).
110** In Evangelion 3.0, [[spoiler:Asuka]] has a more typical pirate-type eyepatch.
111* You'd think ''Manga/OnePiece'', being a manga about ''pirates'', would be all over this trope. But to date, it has actually '''averted''' it, with not a single eyepatch to be seen despite a length of over 1000 chapters. WordOfGod 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...
112* In the concealing haircut version of the trope, Xerxes Break of ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has bangs that conceal an empty eye socket, accidentally revealed by a young Gil. It is shown later in the series that the eye was [[EyeScream plucked out]] [[spoiler: by the Will of the Abyss]] to replace Cheshire's [[spoiler: having encountered the Will of the Abyss due to being dragged into the Abyss after going on a killing spree with his chain]].
113* Senri from ''Manga/PlusAnima'' uses an eyepatch to control his + anima form.
114* ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'''s Kirika has an eyepatch in her MagicalGirl form. This doesn't seem to hamper her fighting ability.
115* Shirow Watari from ''Anime/RahXephon'' has one. Fitting for the commander of a small army.
116* Itsuki Iba of ''Literature/RentalMagica'' always wears an eyepatch, though even with it, he still feels a bit of pain when he's around too much magical pollution.
117* [[spoiler:André Grandier]] from ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' has one [[spoiler:after losing his left eye rather messily]].
118* Barasuishou of ''Manga/RozenMaiden Träumend'' 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.]]
119* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
120** Somewhat subverted by Dragon Shiryu in . [[spoiler:Shiryu either blinds himself or loses his eyesight in the peak moments of his fights, then emerges much more powerful.]]
121** [[spoiler:His companion Cygnus Hyoga]] wears a more traditional one.
122* Several of the Manga/SamuraiGun have these. Losing an eye is apparently an occupational hazard.
123* Toppi of ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'' wears a patch across his right eye; it isn't stated how he lost it. In one episode, he meets up with an old adventuring buddy named Yappi who also wears one.
124* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' Helbram [[spoiler: in his human form]] wears an eyepatch on his right eye.
125* Bel Peol, a leader of the villain group Bal Masque from ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'', actually has three eyes, but her normal right eye is covered by an eyepatch. This only makes her look even more badass.
126* In ''Manga/ShuraNoToki'', 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 [[IAmNotLeftHanded they use both eyes]].
127* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', the Death Scythe Marie Mjolnir has an eyepatch with a lightning 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.
128* [[http://www.thiel-a-vision.com/images/speedracer/speed144.jpg Professor Anarchy]], Anime/SpeedRacer's adversary in the episode "Gang of Assassins", sports a rather distinctive patch.
129* Fultac from Arakawa's earlier manga ''Manga/StrayDog'' also has one hiding a plot-relevant functional eye.
130* Mio Sakamoto of ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' wears a patch over her right (magical) eye. It allows her to see the cores of Neuroi. It should also be noted that this magical eye seems to be always on, meaning the eye patch may also maintain her sanity, if you saw things in magic-o-vision 24/7 you would probably {{Go Mad From The Revelation}}s.
131* Lag Seeing from ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'' 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.]]
132** There are actually several characters in the series who have lost one or both of their eyes, to the point of being a running [[BodyMotifs motif]]. Others include Dr. Thunderland (one eye) and the twin gatekeepers (both eyes).
133* Adiane in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. It's bulletproof, too, if the first movie is to be believed.
134* Makiko Nagi of ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' 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.]]
135* Natose, one of the more powerful characters in ''Anime/TheyAreMyNobleMasters'' (which is saying something), has an eye patch which is a direct reference to her tragic past.
136* Taken to ridiculous extremes in ''Manga/TonoToIssho'' OVA with Date Masamune. Just [[http://www.animeseason.com/tono-to-issho-episode-1/ watch]] first five minutes.
137** The ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' version is no slouch, fighting with 6 swords at once when he gets serious.
138* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Kaneki Ken wears a medical eyepatch to conceal his [[HowDoIShootWeb oft-uncontrolled]] [[BlackEyesOfEvil Kakugan]]. After the time skip and his descent into AntiHero territory, he starts wearing an eyepatch with a stylized [[CreepyCentipedes Centipede]] embroidered on it. His CoolMask is designed with an eyepatch covering his normal eye, resulting in him gaining the alias "Eyepatch".
139** In the sequel, ''Tokyo Ghoul: Re'', Mutsuki Tooru wears a medical eyepatch for the same reason.
140* ''Manga/{{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.
141* Syaoran's Ultimate Eyepatch Of [[DarkerAndEdgier We're Edgy Now]] in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. Which was later passed to [[spoiler: Fai]] after [[spoiler: Clone!Syaoran ate Fai's eye and Real!Syaoran escaped from his fishbowl.]]
142* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', Siesta 00, the commander of the Siestas (bunny-girl soldiers), has one of these.
143* Lucia Nahashi from ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' wears an eyepatch in order to hide her glowing left eye. It blends in well with her gothic lolita fashion.
144* Thorkell of ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' 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 long coat regardless of how anachronistic that might be to the period.
145* Wicked Witch of the West in the 1982 anime adaptation of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' wears an eyepatch.
146* [[spoiler:Ryuuko Kounuma]] from ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'', after her boyfriend beats her up.
147* Lord Darcia III from ''Anime/WolfsRain'': He uses a patch on his left side to hide the gold-colored wolf's eye which he uses to [[spoiler: inexplicably render humans unconscious]]. It's the result of a family curse and [[spoiler: being descended from wolves.]]
148* ''Anime/YuGiOh'',
149** In [[Anime/YuGiOh the original anime]], Pegasus' 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''.
150** One episode in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' featured Don Zaruug/Don Zaloog, a Duel Monster spirit wearing a gold eyepatch that allowed him to manifest in the physical world and bring his fellow "Dark Scorpion" gang members with him. Jim also has bandages constantly covering his magic eye.
151* Fu Inubozaki of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' starts wearing an eyepatch [[spoiler:after losing the vision of her left eye to the Senju.]]
152* Irvine from ''Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury''. Though his eyes are completely normal, the eyepatch he wears effectively functions as a combination camera, camcorder, and binoculars.
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156* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', Martial Wolf is [[FamousAncestor famous]] among wolves for being the original leader of the wolf pack. He wears an eyepatch as a part of his {{pirate}} outfit.
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160* Red Jasper in the Creator/BigFinish audio adventure ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho043DoctorWhoAndThePirates Doctor Who and the Pirates]]''.
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164* ''ComicBook/AgeOfTheWolf'':
165** One of the female leaders of a Neo-Nazi post-apocalyptic gang is wearing a black eyepatch after half her face was burned in a fight against Rowan.
166** By the time she is an old woman, Rowan herself has lost an eye that she covers with a black eyepatch as a result of her repeated fights against werewolves.
167* Blackjak of the second ''ComicBook/AtariForce'' series has a cybernetic camera eye plugged into his left eye socket.
168* ''ComicBook/{{Barracuda}}'': Blackdog the pirate wears a tattered red silk bandana tied across his missing left eye, which adds to his fearsome appearance.
169* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': [[TheStarscream Frater Sinister]] has his eye gouged out by the dragonlord he was allied with when his insurrection against the emperor falls apart, and has to wear a black eyepatch from then on as he openly joins the forces of evil.
170* ''Cherry Comics'': Cherry wears one in her role as Sgt. Cherry in "Sgt. Cherry and her Squealing Commandos".
171* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
172** ''ComicBook/BatmanGordonOfGotham'': Robbery Division captain Danzien has a powerful presence and an eyepatch.
173** ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear'': The intimidating and unyielding Norwegian queen has an eyepatch as a result of her own initiatory DuelToTheDeath.
174** In ''ComicBook/CodeNameGravedigger'', German spy Eric Vonking, a.k.a. 'The Man with the Opened Eye', often wears an eyepatch to conceal his permanently opened blind left eye.
175** The badass assassin ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} wears an eyepatch over his missing eye; his mask is split into two colors, with featureless black over his missing eye, because he's so badass that it doesn't matter if his opponents know he has a physical impairment. In addition, his daughter wears an eyepatch after taking out her own eye in order to prove herself to him.
176*** Deathstroke's missing eye is even more badass considering that he lost it when his wife, standing right behind him, tried to shoot him in the back of the head. He heard her cock the gun and dodged. Well mostly. Also keep in mind that his wife was the one who initially trained him as a Special Forces operative, so she knew how to kill someone.
177*** Well, except for [[ClickHello knowing the proper time to cock a gun]]. Despite that, she ''still'' managed to hit him -- and to this day, she's still one of the very, ''very'' few people to ever successfully hit him... and out of everybody, she's the one who inflicted the most damage on him.
178** The ActionGirl Tallulah Black from ''ComicBook/JonahHex'' wears an eyepatch on account of her facial scarring from being subject to a MoeGreeneSpecial.
179** Mark Shaw (one of the characters to use the name ComicBook/{{Manhunter|DCComics}}) wore one in his alternative identity of the Privateer. And, no, there was nothing wrong with his eye. He wore it purely because it was cool.
180** The original Lynx, a recurring foe in ''ComicBook/Robin1993'', after King Snake [[EyeScream rips out one of her eyes]] as punishment for failing to kill Robin.
181** In the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'', the left eye of the titular villain is covered with a large rhinestone-encrusted black eyepatch which in no way hampers her marskmanship.
182** Deathstroke's daughter Rose, a.k.a. Ravager, [[EyeScream gouged out her own eye]] in an attempt to emulate her father while BrainwashedAndCrazy. She would go on to become one of the most badass members of the ComicBook/TeenTitans. And looks smoking hot in her white eyepatch.
183** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
184*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Nazi super-soldier Red Panzer has a scar through one eye which he usually keeps covered as it is no longer funtional.
185*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Daxamite wears an eyepatch over her missing eye that does not have a robotic replacement, and she is undeniably an excellent and powerful fighter who commands respect through her insistence on respecting life despite all the horrible things she's gone through. It's a bit of {{Space Pirate|s}} flair for one of the least piratey of ComicBook/WonderWoman's space pirates.
186*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': ComicBook/BlackCanary wears an eyepatch as part of her disguise for infiltrating a superpowered underground fighting ring. It doesn't impede her in the least.
187*** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey'': Philippus lost the use of an eye in the failed fight to defend Themyscira, and as the she was the Amazon's best warrior even before the fall of Themyscira she remains so with the Amazons decimated and the survivors living as refugees.
188*** ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': In "Wonder World", the brash Amazon guard Techne has an eyepatch over her left eye, and a scar running across her forehead slips beneath it at an angle that would hit her eye.
189%%** The Natalie Reed version of Lady Blackhawk in ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample
190* The 1980s version of ''ComicBook/{{Eagle}}'' included a strip titled "One-Eyed Jack". The title character was a Film/DirtyHarry style New York cop who loses an eye in a shootout with some crooks. Returning to the force now sporting an eyepatch, he unleashes high caliber justice on the scum of New York.
191%%* Trench from ''ComicBook/{{Elephantmen}}''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample
192* One-Eye of ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' has a very prominent eyepatch, having lost an eye to humans. In the novelization, Leetah offers to heal it but finds that there's nothing left of the missing eye to heal. In any event, his missing eye turns out to be a liability [[spoiler:because when the elves and trolls are fighting, he can't see a troll sneaking up on his blind side and is killed]].
193* 8-Ball from ''ComicBook/ElMarvo'' wears an eye patch and is presumably a respected member of Sokrates' organization, as he's first seen in the comic performing executions in his name.
194* Maj. Bludd has one of these by default in every incarnation of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' he appears in, but in the comic, Billy eventually acquires one as well, cementing his status as a badass.
195* {{Averted|Trope}} by ''ComicBook/TheGoon'', who lost the sight in one eye after getting [[spoiler:clawed in the face by a dragon]]. He just pulls his hat down over his eyes.
196* ''ComicBook/HaloBloodLine'': Spartan-II Black-One has one, though in a variant, it's actually a cybernetic prosthetic that lets her keep seeing despite the loss of her actual eye.
197* Jolly Roger of ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'' is an anarchist with a pirate-themed alter-ego and has a closely-shaved head and an eyepatch. Also, she's a lesbian.
198* ''ComicBook/JuiceSqueezers'': Coach Kettleborne, the leader of the Juice Squeezers, has an eyepatch. He got it as a kid in the Battle of Valley May Farms. A giant potato bug tried to eat his brain, so he cut its thorax in half and pulled the head out of its eye socket.
199* In ''ComicBook/JustAPilgrim'', we are introduced to two Eyepatch Badasses. The pilgrim does not have an eyepatch as such, but he did burn out one of his own eyes, leaving a cross-shaped scar across his face. He seems to be the baddest dude on the planet. Till he meets the pirate king, who has TWO eyepatches, TWO hooks for hands, and TWO peg legs. "This be MY killing floor, mate!"
200%%* Commander Winter from ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika''.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample
201* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
202** ComicBook/NickFury, ''Agent of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'', started as the hard-charging [[ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos Sgt. Fury]] during WWII. But he had two eyes then. The eyepatch gave Fury an older, badass injured look -- something the spy gained as a soldier during the war. Since both were running concurrently, Marvel Comics could differentiate the two timelines of the character by use of the patch.
203** ComicBook/DoctorStrange had one for a while as part of a retool into a 'darker' character.
204** ''ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics'': Pete Wisdom wore an eyepatch, but later revealed that he has full functionality in both eyes and did it just so he could pick up chicks.
205** Odin, father of ComicBook/TheMightyThor, wears an eyepatch to cover the socket that used to hold the eye that was cast into the Well of Mimir in exchange for wisdom.
206** Warbow in ''ComicBook/TheSagaOfCrystarCrystalWarrior''. 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.
207** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''[[ComicBook/NotBrandEchh What The—?!]]'', where every character in the Marvel Universe tries to wear an eyepatch just to be as cool as Wolverine. (See the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] wearing nothing but an eye patch!) Wolverine explains that only he can handle the eyepatch as Human Torch slams into the side of a building having misjudged the distance.
208** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} wore an eyepatch for a short time -- and went by the name Patch -- as a disguise. This worked only as long as you had never met Wolverine before, and/or had never seen him unmasked, since he didn't change anything else about his appearance, including his distinctive hairstyle and facial hair.
209*** He has another one in ''ComicBook/MarvelOneHundredthAnniversarySpecial'', but there's no indication that this one is fake.
210** Female examples from ''ComicBook/XMen'' -- Callisto and [[http://www.angelophile.co.uk/pictures/max0021.jpg this]] Danger Room simulation zombie pirate version of [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]].
211* 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]].
212* ''The Phoney Pages'', a 1980s-vintage parody "history" of comic books, included the "cover" of an issue of "Brooke Shields, Agent of F.U.R.Y.", which depicted the title character with ''two'' eyepatches -- one on each eye.
213* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'':
214** Jesse Custer acquires an eyepatch towards the end of the series, after his eye is ''bitten out by [[GodIsEvil God]]''.
215** The antagonist has a horrible [[ScarsAreForever facial scar]] over one eye, two of the supporting cast were born with only one eye apiece, and a minor villain has two myopic eyes was called Odin, after the one-eyed god. (No, not the one from North of Kathmandu!)
216* Both Edmund Holt and Des of ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'' wear one over the left eye to remind readers that they're serving the same role in the story.
217* In ''ComicBook/SerenityThoseLeftBehind'', [[spoiler:Lawrence Dobson harbors a massive grudge against Mal, who shot his eye out in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' [[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity pilot]], and as a nifty bonus, he gets a ''seriously'' mean-looking cybernetic eye implant grafted onto the side of his head]]. This goes hand-in-hand with his boosted badassness by that point. [[spoiler:Then subverted, as Mal ends up shooting him in the ''other'' eye (and a few dozen other places).]]
218* Gareth the Bowman from ''ComicBook/{{Sojourn}}''. Various characters did wonder how someone with no depth perception could be an expert archer. In his narration, Gareth promised that there was an explanation, but the series ended before we could find out what it was.
219* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
220** The MirrorUniverse version of Antoine wears one. When Evil Sonic decides to get rid of him by swapping him for the good version, he makes fun of Evil Antoine for only wearing an eyepatch to look cool. Later, when Evil Sonic becomes Scourge, and the king of the mirror universe, he becomes determined to make all the evil counterparts more unique than just mirror versions, including actually cutting out Antoine's eye.
221** Tails' father and Dr. Quack wear these too. Both of them lost one of their eyes in the Great War against the overlanders.
222* Torin Mac Quillon from ''ComicBook/{{Starslayer}}'' wears an eyepatch that also includes a link to his RobotBuddy SAM.
223* ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': The MirrorUniverse version of Admiral Pike wears one of these, along with some massive scars.
224* 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 Manga/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]].
225* [[EyepatchAfterTimeskip Future incarnations]] of Raphael of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' invariably have this.
226* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' comics, the villainous Herr Doktor Count Baron Napoleon von Strudel ([[spoiler:real name Bert Maudsley]]) sports an eyepatch to go with his DastardlyWhiplash mustache. He uses the patch to conceal [[MundaneMadeAwesome an experimental ping-pong ball that will explode if it touches the ground]].
227* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': Rose Copen is not only an eye-patched modern pirate [[spoiler:(though she turns out to be working for the Australian navy)]], she also manages to explode a depth charge by hitting the primer with a single bullet from an AK-47. When asked how she managed this with no depth perception, the deafened Rose can only reply: "WHAT?"
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231* While he's soft-spoken by nature and aphasic by condition, Leo from ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' does come off as badass at times.
232* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
233** Snoopy and his (pretend) crew of "bloodthirsty pirates" wear these. Although the badass quotient decreases when one of his crewbirds tries to double it--and wanders into a post.
234** Sally, during a story arc where she wears an eyepatch to treat 'lazy eye', looks at herself and thinks she should be in an ad for men's shirts. (When her eye got better, she gave it to Snoopy.)
235* A one-page gag in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', written and drawn by John Caldwell, features two pirates talking about a third, saying how he is twice as fearsome of a pirate as they will ever be. Said fearsome pirate has two peg legs, two hook arms, two eye patches, and a parrot on both shoulders.
236* In ''ComicStrip/SnarfQuest'', Prince Raffendorf wears an eyepatch that would probably be far more dashing had he not suffered a ForcedTransformation that transformed him into a [[RatMen humanoid rat]].
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240* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Asuka wears a patch over her right eye after a spear pierced it during a battle.
241* ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'': Eleya's father Kanril Torvo has a patch over his left eye, said to be a souvenir from the Bajorans' war of liberation from Cardassian rule.
242* In ''[[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical A Very Potter Sequel]]'', the Death Eater Yaxley is inexplicably given one.
243* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasureBadEnding'', Mitch, a narrow-gauge diesel owned by the Ministry of Defence and stationed at Boulder Quarry, has an eyepatch over his right eye, and Holmes, a Class 08 diesel and member Barrow Union of Diesels who stole four mail vans and threatened to scrap Oliver, is a villainous example with an eyepatch over his left eye.
244* As of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon/art/Let-s-Endless-Party-Ch-3-pt-2-Final-741080972 chapter 3 part 2]] of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SilfofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfic ''Let's Endless Party!'', UsefulNotes/DateMasamune and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Sanada]] [[MisterSeahorse Yukimura]]'s son Masa loses his right eye during a fight [[spoiler:with the ghost of UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi, who Masa's SplitPersonality Sei killed five years earlier, and starts wearing an eyepatch since.]]
245* ''Fanfic/TheSeaShadow'': Vivian wears an eyepatch to cover her missing eye and is quite the impressive fighter and sailor.
246* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': Miho wears one as a result of losing an eye defending her father's sheep herd from wolves at a very young age.
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250* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'':
251** Jorge and Scardelita Sanchez wear ones over their left eye sockets.
252** [[spoiler:Joaquin loses his right eye in the final battle. He places a black eyepatch over it.]]
253* ''Anime/HarlockSpacePirate''. The title character as in the anime, and we see how he loses his eye during a flashback scene. Harlock passes on his eyepatch to Yama while PassingTheTorch; Yama having had his eye shot out during the course of the movie.
254* Buck the weasel in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' movie, although more CloudCuckoolander ("And now let me tell you about the time I used a sharpened clamshell to [[GroinAttack turn a T-Rex... into a T-Rachel]]!") than badass.
255* 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 covered by his hair.
256* In ''WesternAnimation/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.
257* Doofenshmirtz-2's eyepatch in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension''.
258-->'''Doofenshmirtz-1:''' [[LampshadeHanging I couldn't help but notice that your scar goes over your eyepatch.]]
259* TheDragon of Bajrangpur's infamous gang in ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'' wears this, in addition with a walking stick. Before Maruti explored [[ForbiddenZone the gang's HQ]], he was thought as a one-eyed demon.
260* Captain Crow of ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'' is a famed captain of a ship full of monster hunters and has lost an eye in the pursuit of a particularly nasty one.
261* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Among Bowser's troops there's a Koopa Troopa with red spiked shoulderpads who wears an eyepatch. It's clearly just to look much tougher as during the intro scene, when another Koopa gets knocked down by a snowball, he lifts it revealing his eye is fine.
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265* Dilios, the sole survivor in the film ''Film/ThreeHundred''. By definition (given his peers) a badass, he is perhaps more so because, with his one eye and his talent for storytelling, he is ordered to do the hard thing (for a Spartan): escape and live, to tell their story.
266* Anne's first mate Dougal sports an eyepatch in ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'': only losing it during the final battle [[spoiler:just before he dies]].
267* ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'': Alan is given one by the war nurses due to Finski [[EyeScream removing his eye]] before the time portal opened.
268* Number Two in ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'' neatly takes the second version: hidden in his eyepatch is a sight-enhancing camera, allowing him to cheat at blackjack.
269* In ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', when Barbarella first meets the Black Queen of Sorgo, the Queen is in disguise wearing an eyepatch.
270* In the old cowboy film ''Film/BlackPatch'', the title character got the name because he had to wear such a patch after his enemies cut out his eye.
271* Professor Zero from the spy film, ''Film/TheBrainStealers'', wears an eyepatch and is the leader of a powerful SPECTRE-like criminal organization who commands plenty of mooks, and have minions who failed him disposed in an AcidPool. Turns out to be a subversion when [[spoiler: the film's ending reveals Professor Zero to be the heroine's former partner - the eyepatch, scar and cap is just a disguise]].
272* In ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman'', BigBad's Longara's right-hand man Bracoli sports a heavy leather eyepatch. Longara eventually kills him [[EyeScream by driving a drinking straw through his good eye]].
273* [[BigBad Lord]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dread]] in ''Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture''. Upper-left quarter of his head is cybernetic. His eye is a reg-glowing lens.
274* In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', Darkie, one of Dragon's henchmen, sports one. It is later revealed to be the result of Rose putting his eye out in an earlier encounter.
275* The Russian assassin Morovich in ''Film/{{Condorman}}'' is prone to wearing an eyepatch. It's usually worn either in place of or to conceal his distinctive false eye, which is entirely silver. he and his team of EliteMooks are so feared that whenever people hear their fleet of black Porsches approaching they run and hide.
276* Horace's dog Wink wears one in ''Film/{{Cruella}}''.
277* Nicole's GentlemanThief father sports one in ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels''.
278* [[ActionGirl Major Eden Sinclair]] in ''Film/{{Doomsday}}''. She also has a fake eye, but half the time it's being bounced around and used as a spy camera.
279* Subverted in ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded''. While Colonel Radl does wear a black eyepatch, he is neither particularly evil nor that powerful. He is in fact a calm, empathetic and remotely fatalistic officer.
280* Snake Plissken of ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' and ''Film/EscapeFromLA'' fame. Film/CaptainRon ... not so much.
281* The obscure 80s action movie ''Firewalker'' had its villain, Coyote, wear one. Although which eye he wore it over changed a few times without explanation...
282* ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'': Jocko, one of Sheila Frankenstein's two human henchmen, sports an eyepatch. Whatever is under it is so horrific that Curtis recoils away when shown it.
283* In ''Film/FriendlyPersuasion'', the Union Army veteran giving new-to-combat Josh some friendly advice while they lay in wait for Confederate raiders has an eyepatch over one eye.
284* BigBad Sarris from ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' has a metal plate bolted over his damaged right eye after surviving having his ship blown up by ''atomic mines''. He's a sadistic bastard, but that's pretty badass.
285* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Bill "the Butcher" Cutting has a glass eye with an iris in the shape of an eagle. He cut his own eye out for flinching from an enemy.
286* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
287** Dr. Serizawa, the man who kills Godzilla in ''Film/Godzilla1954''.
288** Akikito Hirata plays an eyepatch-wearing villain in ''Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep''.
289* Patch, the leader of the Howlers motorcycle gang in ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'', gets his name from the distinctive eyepatch he wears, which makes him look really badass.
290* [[ParodiedTrope Spoofed]] in ''Film/TheHebrewHammer'', where a guy has an eyepatch with a Star of David on it. The character is a deliberate parody of real-life Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan, who wore an eyepatch. (See Real Life)
291* ''Film/TheHorseSoldiers'': Jackie Jo, one of the pair of {{Dangerous Deserter}}s captured by Marlowe and his men, wears an eyepatch which adds considerably to his dangerous and desperate air.
292* ''Film/JamesBond''
293** Emilio Largo in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. It helps that he's one of the most charismatic Bond villains ever.
294** Played with the minor villain Gettler in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', who wears glasses that have one lens darkened.
295* DarkActionGirl and EvilCounterpart of the protagonist, Elle Driver from ''Film/KillBill'' has one due to getting her eye plucked out by HermitGuru Pai Mei prior to the film. Tarantino got the idea from a '70s exploitation film ([[AuthorAppeal no surprise there]]) called ''Film/ThrillerACruelPicture'', about an eyepatch-wearing prostitute going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Unfortunately for Driver, getting her remaining eye plucked out makes her defenseless.
296* ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' [[DeconstructedTrope explores the downsides]] of this trope. The character wearing the eyepatch (and later, a pair of glasses with one black lens) was established as a highly trained [[OneManArmy One-Man Army]] before the event that cost him his eye. Sadly, without proper depth perception, he now struggles to aim his shots properly, and in his first fight since that event, he is caught completely off guard by an attack from his blind side. He gets better over the course of the story and seems capable enough in the final fights, but the failures early on are shown to put quite a damper on his confidence.
297* Benedict, the BigBad in ''Film/LastActionHero'', has a collection of unique glass eyes, most of which have special functions, like explosives.
298* ''Film/LongJohnSilver'': As might be guessed from his name, Silver's first mate [[PersonWithTheClothing Patch]] sports an eyepatch.
299* Several examples in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
300** A ''Film/{{Thor}}'' example: As in mythology and the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor 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.
301** Nick Fury in all his film appearances. In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' Fury even [[spoiler:weaponizes this trope by storing the retinal data for his bad eye in the S.H.I.E.L.D. systems in case his primary clearance is revoked.]]
302** By the end of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', [[spoiler:Thor loses an eye and gains one of these. Though in [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar his next appearance]] he gets a ElectronicEye from Rocket, which isn't the same color as the remaining one.]]
303* In ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', the character Izzy is first seen wearing an eyepatch. Subverted when he openly admits that he wears it to look good; Rick pulls it off afterward.
304* The aptly named Kid Blink from ''Film/{{Newsies}}''.
305* Wilhelm in ''Film/NoneShallEscape'' briefly uses an eyepatch after losing his left eye before getting a GlassEye instead.
306* "Big" Dan Teague from ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' wears an eyepatch when he is introduced, and a one-eyed Ku Klux Klan hood later. This is a ShoutOut to the Cyclops and the Greek mythology underpinning the story.
307* Towards the end of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', Ragetti (a PluckyComicRelief 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.
308* Willy T, the weird but surprisingly perceptive and cultured gas station attendant in ''Film/PsychoPike'' wears an eyepatch over his right eye, which was bitten off by a ferocious pike.
309* Holmes wears one as part of his disguise to infiltrate Moriarty's gang in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheDeadlyNecklace''.
310* [[DoNotCallMePaul Johnny Five]] dons an eyepatch of sorts [[spoiler: it's actually his nonfunctional eye being held in place and covered by electrical tape]] during the third act of ''Film/ShortCircuit 2''. Its reveal marks a second mood shift in the film and begins his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
311* In ''Film/SixGunSavior'', the outlaw Grant Dillion, the object of Lane's obsession and the major human villain of the film, sports an eye-patch.
312* Franky, Creator/AngelinaJolie's character in ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004).
313* General Chang in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' doesn't ''wear'' an eyepatch--he's such a badass that he actually has a metal plate riveted to his face.
314* Captain Typho, who replaces Captain Panaka in between Episodes [[Film/ThePhantomMenace I]] and [[Film/AttackOfTheClones II]] of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels as the head of Amidala's guard. Some viewers mistook Typho for a recast Panaka with battle damage.
315* Many of the publicity photos and posters for the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' movies show Arnie with one human-like eye and one glowing red machine eye, showing the bad-assedness of having one normal eye and one weird high-tech eye.
316* Creator/ChristopherLee wore an eyepatch for his role as Rochefort in ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'', to make him more sinister, and this appearance detail has carried over to a lot of other adaptations.
317* Rooster Cogburn, Creator/JohnWayne's [[TheRemake (or Jeff Bridges')]] anti-hero from ''Film/TrueGrit''. Though the Rooster in the 2010 film is still an excellent shot with one eye, the film points out his difficulty aiming, and [[spoiler: it's why he accidentally hits [=LaBoeuf=] in the arm during a shootout]]. After this role brought John Wayne the Academy Award for Best Actor, he said: "If I'd known this, I'd have put that eyepatch on 40 years ago."
318* In ''Film/TrueLies'', Charlton Heston makes a cameo as the boss of Ahnuld's character. He sports one of these, as well as several gold teeth.
319* Inspector Kemp from ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' sports one of these, along with a wooden arm (either the left or the right depending on context and [[RuleOfFunny funniness]]) and monocle (on the same eye as the eyepatch).
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323* ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'': Hua Cheng is a very powerful Ghost King and one of the Four Calamities, and he wears an eyepatch almost all the time.
324* Donar Vadderung in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has one of these, as well [[spoiler: an incredible amount of power]]. Unsurprising, since he's [[spoiler: Odin]].
325* Lampshaded with jollity in Creator/GarthNix's ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'' series, in which Arthur encounters a band of savage looking sailors. When it's revealed that their appearances are all for show, one of them insists that he can not only have one but two eyepatches, if one-way leather is used.
326* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': When he is introduced in Battle of the Labyrinth, Ethan Nakamura has already made a deal with his godly mother, Nemesis, and sacrificed one eye in order to become more powerful. [[spoiler: He is the one to find Percy's AchillesHeel (literally) and even his own conscience when he turns against Kronos in the last minute.]]
327* Professor Mad Eye Moody in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books has a magical glass eye, which is not only intimidating and can see in any direction, but also [[SeeThruSpecs penetrates solid objects and illusions]].
328* Ryan Cawdor of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' novels has one. He is an exceptional shot with a gun, but in conversation the characters note that this is rather unusual and indicative of his marksmanship talents.
329* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
330** Mr. Teatime in ''Literature/{{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''.
331** PosthumousCharacter John Keel in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}''--[[MentorOccupationalHazard the guy who taught Sam Vimes everything he knows]]. Vimes has to act briefly as his one-eyed mentor to establish a StableTimeLoop--however, he's no more badass than he normally is, which is still pretty damn badass.
332* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series, Hawk 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. The truth isn't revealed (both in-universe and to readers) until the parent series' book 4 (''Beyond the Blue Moon''), when it comes out that Hawk is actually Prince Rupert from the parent series' book 1 (''Blue Moon Rising''), who lost the eye in battle against a BigBad.
333* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' antagonist/antihero [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Jarlaxle Jarlaxle]] has two good eyes, but sports a magical eyepatch with powers including X-ray vision and protection against psionics, depending on which eye the patch covers. Jarlaxle [[RankScalesWithAsskicking leads]] a prestigious mercenary company and is something of a MagnificentBastard, glorying in chaos and favored by the drow's evil spider goddess.
334* Literature/HonorHarrington wore an eyepatch in one book after her left eye was damaged before she had it replaced with a cybernetic eye (with telescopic vision). Later, she also acquired a synthetic arm.
335* Captain William Fredrickson from the ''Literature/{{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.
336* Euron Greyjoy from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Called the Crow's Eye, Euron is a vicious MagnificentBastard with serious issues. His brother [[KnightTemplar Aeron]], describes Euron's uncovered eye as his "smiling eye" and makes vague, fearful references to [[MagicalEyes what he hides beneath the patch]]. He is the 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.
337* Corum in Creator/MichaelMoorcock'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.
338* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''
339** Uno is introduced with just one eye, later on he starts wearing an eyepatch with a scary eye painted on it. While he IS a badass he more of a drill sergeant.
340** [[spoiler: Mat Cauthon]] 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}}s shaped as Snakes, who you can only way to survive the EvilTowerOfOminousness, which a children's game is base off of, because AllMythsAreTrue. [[spoiler: "Luck worked better when you were not looking anyway."]]
341* The Divine Fratery of Creator/DanAbnett's novel ''[[{{Literature/Ravenor}} Ravenor Returned]]'' are an organization that dedicates their efforts to ruining the Imperium by scrying out possible futures and working to manifest the ones that would do the most harm. In order to become a full member, the supplicant must put out one of their own eyes and receive no medical treatment for any reason until they have completed fashioning the silver mirror they will use to divine the future. Constructing the mirror can take years. Those who are successful are given an augmented eye to replace the one they sacrificed, and henceforth hide their remaining real eye behind an eye patch when not actively scrying.
342* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
343** There are three people in the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' who each have a mechanical eye--Booster Terrick, General Edor Crespin, and Ton Phanan. Booster and Phanan each have a [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] prosthesis. When [[spoiler: Phanan]] dies [[DiesWideOpen staring at the stars]] and someone closes his real eye, his mechanical one stays powered, [[EyeLightsOut 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.
344** Baron Soontir Fel acquires 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 [[HandicappedBadass best damn pilot in the Empire]] [[spoiler:of the Hand]].
345** ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'': Tusken Raiders always go masked anyway, but A'Yark only has the use of one eye, so she's jammed a reddish gemstone into the other eyepiece.
346* ''Literature/{{Friday}}'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein. Friday's unnamed Boss refuses to have his eye regenerated, and so wears an 'unfashionable' eyepatch.
347* In the ''Literature/{{Mageworlds}}'' series by Debra Doyle and James D. [=MacDonald=], 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.
348* ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'': 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.
349* ''Literature/TalesOfTheSunderedLands'': One-Eyed Ryan, as his name suggests, has only one eye. He is also very experienced.
350* ''Literature/TheHerewardTrilogy'': Lysir, who may actually BE Odin.
351* The Wicked Witch of the West wears one in the original ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
352* Major ____ de Coverley wears one in ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''. His face is so forbidding that no one dares ask his first name. It turns out that his eyepatch was not gained during any battlefield heroics. [[spoiler:An ornery old man tossed a rose in the Major's eye for being so damn imperious]].
353* Mrs. Arthur B. Candy in ''[[{{Literature/Flashman}} Flashman and the Redskins]]'', from the “Seventy-Sixer” half of the book, wears an eyepatch. Flashy doesn't care why she has it, as he finds it smoking hot, along with her. To his sorrow, he later finds out that [[spoiler: she's actually the ex-slave Cleonie, and is wearing the patch to hide the shape of her face so she can fool him, seduce him, and lure him to his doom as revenge for the evil he did to her in the “Forty-Niner” half of the book]].
354* In ''Literature/ExpectingSomeoneTaller'' (a very loose, comic sequel to the famous opera, ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung''), Wotan, the king of the gods, wears one, just as he does in the opera. It's very intimidating.
355* Bagley Brown Jr., the lead character in the children's novel ''Literature/TheWainscottWeasel'', sports an eyepatch [[spoiler:as the result of losing an eye to a bird attack when he was a child]]. His troubles with depth perception are accurately mentioned, and he definitely meets his badass quota by [[spoiler:doing most of the work in hauling off an osprey's nest from the top of a telephone pole]].
356* In ''Changeling'' by Creator/RogerZelazny, when Mark Marakson is slowly becoming [[TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar a dark lord of high technology in a world of magic]], one of the first things he gets is an implant in his left eye. With a lens that buzzes and changes color adapting to illuminance.
357* In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', the mercenary known as the Mongrel has an eyepatch, but she isn't missing an eye. Rather, her two eyes work differently from each other as a result of her supernatural illness (which applies a sort of DualityMotif to her). Both eyes work, but they don't work well ''together'', and she actually sees better if she only uses one at a time.
358* In ''Literature/{{Another}}'', Mei Misaki wears an eyepatch that covers an artificial eye that replaces the one she lost to cancer. [[spoiler: She can see the "color of death" with said "eye".]]
359* Jurand in ''Literature/TheKnightsOfTheCross'', of an experienced combatant variety (also, badass). [[spoiler: Later on he loses the other eye, along with some other body parts, thanks to the vengeful villains]].
360* The sorcerer Peredur in ''Literature/TheDragonWaiting''.
361* Jerry Ahern (aka Axel Kilgore) wrote an ActionAdventure series ''They Call Me The Mercenary''. The title character Hank Frost wore an eyepatch, and a RunningGag involved him providing a [[UnreliableNarrator different]] and [[TallTale highly implausible]] explanation every time someone asked how he lost his eye.
362* In the ebook ''Literature/LockhartandTeague:TheEmptyChest'' Allegra Stroud is a powerful and imposing character who has a glass eye. It's implied that she had it made a slightly lighter shade than her other, real eye just to screw with people.
363* Polly in ''Literature/QuicksandHouse'' spends most of the story wearing an improvised eyepatch made from a doll's face. Hence why the picture on the book's cover is of a green-haired girl with antlers and a doll's-face eyepatch, [[BizarroFiction giving you a good idea of what to expect.]]
364* ''[[Literature/AlcatrazSeries Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians]]'': The BigBad of the first book is Blackburn, who {{Invoked|Trope}} this trope. In their world, magic has to do with lenses (magic glasses) and he put out one of his own eyes in order to concentrate '''all''' his power through the '''one''' eye. It works, in that it makes him a more powerful Oculator, but it also handicaps him and makes him short-sighted.
365-->'''Bastille''': He's a very powerful Oculator, Alcatraz -- they say he put out his own eye to increase the power focused through his single remaining one.
366* In ''Literature/RaiseSomeHell'' [[spoiler: Ramona herself]] gets one after [[spoiler: her]] eye is hit by a piece of flaming wood. It's burned to the point that even the school nurse can't regenerate it, though they can make sure it won't act up.
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370* Michael "Archangel" Coldsmith-Briggs, CIA agent and MissionControl for ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'', loses an eye during the GrandTheftPrototype of the eponymous helicopter in the PilotMovie. He wears a medical eyepatch at first, then for the rest of the series wears spectacles with one opaque black lens, in a variation on the trope.
371* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', [[spoiler:Slade Wilson]] wears an eyepiece that restores and enhances vision 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]].
372* ''Series/BabylonFive'': G'Kar is badass even before losing the eye, but gets downright messianic afterward. Also, his eye is 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. [[GrandTheftMe Then the Drakh put a Keeper on him]]]].
373* Saul Tigh from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', as of the third season. He's always been somewhat of a PsychoSupporter, 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.
374* [[TheDragon Space Commander Travis]] in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' has a skin-like eye patch large enough for the TwoFaced trope to also apply. It's an [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon injury inflicted by Blake]] in their {{Backstory}}, along with the damaged arm that's been converted into an ArmCannon.
375* Tom Croydon of ''Series/BlueHeelers'' first has a bandage, then a medical patch after the station bombing. He's implied to kill two criminals, threatens the jobs of those around him, alienates everyone who knows him and becomes a thug for the better part of the rest of the series.
376* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': In the season 3 finale, [[spoiler:Maeve loses an eye fighting Homelander. Before she goes into exile with her girlfriend, eye still only covered in gauze, she asks whether to get an eyepatch or a glass eye. The girlfriend replies the first, certainly very aware of this trope]].
377* [[spoiler:Xander]] from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' [[TookALevelInBadass gets considerably more badass]] after [[spoiler:Caleb takes out his eye during Season 7]]. This too subverts the "no lost depth perception" by having him state that he now has to renew his driver's license every year, due to his loss in depth perception.
378* Colonel March sports one in ''Series/ColonelMarchOfScotlandYard''.
379* One episode of ''Series/Combat1962'', "Odyssey", has Sgt. Saunders pretending to a shell-shocked 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.
380* The [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]] Catalina Creel from ''Series/CunaDeLobos'', EvilMatriarch who uses her eyepatch to inflict guilt over her [[TheUnfavorite 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]].
381* One of the most popular characters in ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' in the late 1980s was Steve 'Patch' Johnson who (in his backstory) had lost an eye in a fight with the show's main hero Bo Brady and wore a patch. Steve's initial storylines included terrorizing Bo and his wife Hope but after a HeelFaceTurn, Steve reconciled with Bo and eventually married Bo's sister after taking over from Bo as the show's main hero when Bo was [[PutOnABus put on a sailing ship]].
382* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
383** The evil version of the Brigadier wears an eyepatch in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]" -- and as we all know, [[EvilIsCool Evil is Badass]], so therefore, this counts as a variation on this trope. This example may have started the trend of [[EvilTwin evil]] AlternateUniverse versions of characters depicted with eyepatches.
384** Madam Kovarian from the 2011 series has some kind of cybernetic device over her right eye. A bunch of other characters start wearing copies of it in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong 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 BrainwashedAndCrazy and notes that it is not an eyepatch, [[spoiler:it lets them remember the Silents]], which is why both their servants and those fighting them (like Amy's group) wear them. The eyepatches also [[spoiler:act as kill-devices that [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment electrocute their wearers to death]] once the Silence [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness have no further use for them]], as Kovarian learns the painful way when Amy forces hers back on]].
385* Subverted in ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'': 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).
386* In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', the alternate Kamen Rider [=TheBee=] has one. He lost his eye to [[spoiler:Souji]].
387* Mikhail from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. The man survives many injuries (such a sonic fence-induced brain hemorrhage and being shot in the chest with a harpoon) relatively unscathed. It took the WordOfGod to convince fans that he ''could'' die.
388* In ''Series/MadMen'', after an incident while hunting with clients in Detroit, Ken Cosgrove wounds his right eye and is forced to wear an eyepatch.
389* ''Series/TheMiddleman'': In the alternate universe shown in "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome", the alternate Middleman sports an Eyepatch of Power and is a BadassBiker to boot.
390* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E6 The Night of the Stag]]", local beekeeper and resident CoolOldGuy Byron Street has this. He is the only person in the valley not afraid of Samuel Quested and shows up wielding a shotgun in a Big Damn Heroes moment to save Barnaby and Jones from being lynched by an angry mob.
391* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': Abigail's bodyguard Bridey has an eyepatch, a reminder of her failure to save her sister.
392* ''Series/MythBusters'' did a segment exploring the story that a pirate captain wore an unnecessary eyepatch so that they could go above and below decks without losing their night-vision, as the eye covered would already be dark-acclimated. Their tests showed that switching an eyepatch from one eye to the other in a darkened room made navigating an obstacle course significantly easier.
393* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', Trent Kort seems quite unfazed and even more driven ever since losing an eye to [[SerialKiller the Port-to-Port Killer]] and wearing a metallic eye patch. He even seems to enjoy the menacing look it gives him.
394* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Kove wears an eyepatch, given that she's a female ComicBook/NickFury spoof.
395* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': Subverted in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E18TheLightBrigade The Light Brigade]]", in which 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.
396* Lily Charles of ''Series/PushingDaisies'' 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 [[FailedASpotCheck 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...
397* In one episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', Kramer sees a cop wearing an eyepatch and, thinking it looks cool, decides to start wearing one as well. His trademark klutziness exacerbates thanks to his now-limited field of vision, but he doesn't seem to care.
398-->'''Jerry:''' You look like a pirate!\
399'''Kramer:''' I ''want'' to be a pirate!
400* ''Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
401** ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Beric Dondarrion wears one after "surviving" a dagger in the eye.
402** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Aemond Targaryen wears one after the childhood brawl against his Velaryon nephews over his claiming of Vhagar that cost him an eye. He grew up a fearsome swordsman regardless.
403* In the ''Series/SpinCity'' episode "Grand Illusion", bumbling press secretary Paul Lassiter 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.
404* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
405** General Martok of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is already badass as a Klingon. Add to that the removal of his eye, the scar tissue that covered up the socket in a ''natural'' eye patch, and his becoming the winningest Klingon commander of the war and eventually the new Chancellor, and you have a true badass. On top of all that, in the ExpandedUniverse, he becomes the ''Klingon King Arthur''!
406** Humorously subverted in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E5FalseProfits False Profits]]". While Paris and Chakotay visit an alien planet, they're approached by a 'prophet' (read: con man) who gives interpretations of sacred legends for a 'small fee'. This all works very well (though neither of them are actually fooled), until Paris dryly points out that his eyepatch was on the ''other'' eye the last time they spoke with him. Said con man then switches the patch to the 'correct' eye right in front of them and holds out his hand for payment.
407* {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS08E20PacManFever 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.
408* In ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', the Seaick form of the HumongousMecha 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.
409* 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 ''pulls a door off its hinges''.
410* A villainous example from ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': 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.
411* Subverted in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' during the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' 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.
412* Richard "Yin Yang Man" Branden in ''Series/WMACMasters'' wears an eye patch with a yin yang symbol on it. However, his is legitimately blind in that eye, and sometimes during exhibitions, he would actually use a GlassEye with the symbol on it instead.
413* In the original television airings of ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', there were segments set in the present day (the ''then'' present, around 1992). These bits featured an elderly Franchise/IndianaJones, 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, [[{{Recut}} these 1990s scenes were all deleted in later airings of the show]], and still haven't become available on home video. A [[EyepatchAfterTimeSkip 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).
414* A cutaway sketch in ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' involves a [[VisualPun literal]] [[BuccaneerBroadcaster pirate radio DJ]] wearing an eyepatch. The trouble with that is, he's a cyclops. When his parrot shouts out insults he thinks the cabin boy's doing it.
415* Arturo Peniche's character, Governor Fernando Sánchez de Moncada, from the {{telenovela}} ''[[DerivativeWorks/{{Zorro}} El Zorro, la espada y la rosa]]'' (''Zorro: The Sword and the Rose''). He's the father of [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry the antagonistic sisters]] Esmeralda and Mariangel, both interested in the main character, and wears a nice black eyepatch.
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419* Following a childhood accident that left his left eye blind, British-American rapper Music/SlickRick is always seen with it as an IconicOutfit.
420* Music/{{Kansas}} guitarist Rich Williams, who lost an eye to a childhood fireworks accident. He used to have a glass eye, but now goes for this trope.
421* Country singer Dick Curless covered a bad right eye with his trademark patch.
422* Ray Sawyer of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show has worn one ever since losing an eye in a car crash.
423* When Music/DavidBowie made a Dutch television appearance to promote his then-new album ''Music/DiamondDogs'', his right eye was affected with pinkeye and he thus wore an eyepatch for the duration of it. The eyepatch was cool enough that his whole outfit became tied to the character of Halloween Jack (from the album's title track) for fans, despite him not wearing anything similar to it on the subsequent Diamond Dogs Tour. (His performance of "Rebel Rebel" from this show appears on the ''Best of Bowie'' DVD set.)
424* When Music/TheWho performed ''Music/{{Quadrophenia}}'' at London's Hyde Park in 1996, lead singer Roger Daltrey wore a red, white and blue eyepatch after he got hit in the eye by Gary Glitter's mike stand during rehearsals.
425* Bushwick Bill of Music/GetoBoys fame has sported one ever since a 1991 incident when he goaded his girlfriend into shooting him in the face. While holding their kid out a window. No, really.
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429* The music video for Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "Hollywood House of Blues" involves an innovative alternative rock band called The Lads, whose lead singer wears an eyepatch. The eyepatch is also key to the greater success of Lads rip-off band The Blokes.
430* Pete Burns from Music/DeadOrAlive wore a spiffy black eyepatch in the video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo You Spin Me Right Round]]".
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433[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
434* Odin, the chief god in Myth/NorseMythology, is said to have plucked out an eye to gain wisdom from a magic well. Personal sacrifice to gain knowledge is actually a recurring theme for him.
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438* ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' [[spoiler: Merle]] receives one after [[spoiler: giving up his left eye in "The Suffering Game".]]
439* In ''Podcast/MissionToZyxx'' Pleck tries one out to look cool. [[spoiler:He adopts it full-time after his eyeball hatches.]]
440* In the ''Podcast/RelativeDisasters'' episode on the Roman invasion of Kush, Queen Amanirenas loses an eye in battle and continues to personally lead her army, though it's unclear whether or not she has a literal eyepatch.
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444* Pirata Morgan took up a {{pirate}} [[TheGimmick gimmick]] after he lost an eye during a match. He usually wears a mask with only one eye hole rather than a patch but he has worn those too.
445* Rocky Romero takes to an eye patch when teaming with Alex Koslov as Forever Hooligans.
446* Wrestling/BryanDanielson wore an eye patch after Takeshi Morishima punched him in the face and detached his retina.
447* Wrestling/JimmyJacobs took up an eye patch after his own spike was turned on him by [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious,]] so he wouldn't miss the rest of Wrestling/RingOfHonor's early 2009 Canada tour.
448* Leva Bates as ''Comicbook/NickFury: Agent Of Shield''.
449* Wonder Ring Stardom's Act Yasukawa wears an eye patch, partially due to being blind in one eye, though she can function without it. More importantly, she's from the same area as "the one-eyed dragon" Date Masamune, who also wore a patch.
450* Wrestling/NaomiKnight after having her orbital bone broken by Wrestling/{{Aksana}}.
451* Wrestling/JonMoxley wore one after being stabbed in the eye by then-current ''Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling'' champion Wrestling/ChrisJericho. He wore it for weeks, before pulling it off to reveal his eye was healed during his match against Jericho for the championship, using the surprise to pin Jericho and become AEW champion himself.
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455* Paul Smith of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' 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.
456* Tom from ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' [[spoiler: has his right eye ripped out early on; he's left with an empty socket until he and Ruby find some gauze and bandages to make an eyepatch. Eventually, this is augmented with a "DO NOT OPEN" label. In this case it only serves as an apropos emblem of his supreme badassery, as his MANLY PHYSIQUE and inclination towards smashing things prove valuable assets throughout the course of the story.]]
457* El Cid Campeador from ''Roleplay/FateNuovoGuerra'' sports an eyepatch, and some [[GoodScarsEvilScars facial scarring]] to boot. He also happens to be the national hero of Spain, and a heroic spirit capable of superhuman feats.
458* ''Roleplay/EquestriaChronicles'': Behold Fidelity, badass pegasus guard, [[NoSocialSkills though outside guard situations she's not that good.]]
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462* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'', one of the canon {{NPC}}s is a [[BadassNormal grizzled veteran of a dozen wars and conflicts with the supernatural]] who sports just such an eyepatch. The story goes like this: Hank Ketchum was laying in the surgeon's tent at the Battle of Gettysburg when his surgeon-to-be snapped. He had already lopped body parts off of a few other men before gouging out Ketchum's eye with a scalpel. What did the gruff Texan do? He ''chased the surgeon away'', presumably with violence real and threatened. And that's why they call him One-Eye.
463** Based off the John Wayne character Rooster Cogburn (see Movies above.)
464* There's a magic item in one ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook called the Corsair's Eyepatch, which is transparent to the wearer so as not to impede vision. Depending on which eye it's worn over, the wearer can activate it to See Invisible, or gain the Blind Fight feat.
465** And don't forget the Eye of Vecna. A cursed relic of an infamous arch-mage that requires the user to put out one of their own eyes and place the Eye of Vecna in the empty socket.
466** TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms has a lot of unusual magical items, including eyepatches such as the one worn by Jarlaxle (see above) and [[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frbk/20060712a eyepatch of shooting stars]].
467* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
468** {{Commissar}} [[OldSoldier Yarrick]] replaced a missing eye with a bionic implant that could fire a laser in order to live up to Ork stories that he could kill with a glance.
469** "Lord Prince" Yriel, an [[SpaceElves Eldar]] [[{{Pirate}} corsair]] turned High Admiral of Iyanden whose Eye of Wrath can blast everything around him once per game.
470** All Navigators wear coverings of some sort over their third eye when not guiding a ship through the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]], because eye contact with a Navigator's third eye is fatal.
471* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'':
472** Susie "One-Eyed" Morgaine-Ryan was one of the few surviving Bandit Kingdom leaders after the coming of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Clans]] wiped out almost all of the bandits in their path. That she not only survived but kept her unit intact ''and'' captured some [[LightningBruiser Clan Omnimechs]] speaks volumes about her credentials. Naturally, she looks and acts the part of a pirate queen.
473** Anastasius Focht is never seen without an eyepatch, and though he's at least 50 years old by the time he shows up, he is both an accomplished Battlemech pilot and a strategic genius who turned back the Clans at Tukayyid. To beat one Clan is already a feat. To beat six out of the seven invading Clans on their own terms is pretty impressive. Focht is [[spoiler:really Frederick Steiner of House Steiner, a disgraced minor scion who was found to be plotting treachery and was given the chance to make one last heroic stand against his nation's enemies instead. Instead of dying, he was shot in the side of the head--costing him an eye, but, as he notes, granting him new insight and maturity concerning the nature of politics and people.]]
474* Zigzags for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'', at least for some editions. "One Eye" disadvantage normally gives -1 reaction roll, but "If you have Charisma, or are Handsome or Very Handsome, the patch just looks romantic, and does not affect reaction rolls."
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478* The Maniac wears one ([[ObfuscatingDisability covering a perfectly functional eye]]) in ''Theatre/AccidentalDeathOfAnAnarchist''.
479* In ''Theatre/TheSpongeBobMusical'', Plankton's actor wears an eyepatch to represent how the character is a one-eyed plankton in the cartoon.
480* Head god Wotan in ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'' is usually portrayed with an eyepatch, since he ''is'' a version of Odin.
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484* [[ComicBook/NewGods Big Barda]] is re-imagined as a space pirate with an Eyepatch Of Power in the ''Ame-Comi'' Girls line of PVC statues from DC Direct.
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488* Dalton from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', one of the villains in 12,000 B.C. He may not seem to fit the "of Power" part of the trope, being a [[SmugSnake arrogant]] [[LargeHam blowhard]] who prefers for {{golem}}s to do his fighting for him, but ''[[UpdatedRerelease Chrono Trigger DS]]'' proved him to be a NotSoHarmlessVillain.
489* In ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons'', the Thief wears an eyepatch on his left eye, adding to his "rogue thief" aesthetic.
490* Kano from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' had a red cyber-eye in a metal plate. Ironically, he's a bit of a jobber.
491* Sagat from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has an eyepatch, and embodies this trope to quite an extent.
492** Juri Han wears one in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' when [[BigBad Bison]] rips out her [[ElectronicEyes cybernetic eye]]. She gets a replacement, but it doesn't look like a human eye, so she hides it with the eyepatch until she wants to use it.
493* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'':
494** Zasalamel from ''Soul Calibur 3'' has a golden left eye, which is rumored to contain his immortal soul.
495** In the Korean versions, Mitsurugi (a samurai) is replaced by a blonde English man with an eyepatch called Arthur. This allowed the makers to keep Mitsurugi's moveset in the game without offending the Korean players.
496* [[ColonelBadass Heidern]], [[FemmeFatale Mature]] (in [=KoFXII/XIII=] only) and [[MaskedLuchador Ramon]] from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''.
497** Badass [[SNKBoss Rugal Bernstein]], rocking the glowing red eye version. Double points for having lost that eye to the next game boss [[SNKBoss Goenitz]] back when both were younger. [[spoiler: For worse, ''he'' is the reason why Heidern is wearing his own 'patch... and why he lost his first unit and his family.]]
498** And in the case of Mature, the eyepatch is actually a PowerLimiter. If she takes it off, it's a clue that she's about to unleash a world of PAIN on you with the strongest super move she's got.
499* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' gives us not one, but two examples of this trope. Bartholomew Fatima, the ousted [[SandIsWater desert pirate]] prince of Aveh, and Sigurd, the AmbiguouslyBrown PrettyBoy [[spoiler: who is Bart's brother]] with his eyepatch on the opposite eye. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point later in the game.]]
500* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'':
501** [[{{Chuunibyou}} Zeke]], who wears an eyepatch emblazoned with a turtle. He claims it conceals his "Eye of Shining Justice", which supposedly has enough power to reduce men to ash, but if his Blade Pandoria is to be believed, he just wears it because he was too poor to afford a contact lenses for a bad eye. A multitude of his battle poses have him with a hand in front of said eye as though he's channeling power from it. However, the addition of NewGamePlus would reveal that the Eye of Shining Justice was RealAfterAll. Working in a similar fashion to invoking Pnuema, the Eye will give Zeke and Pandoria a major speed and power boost. The right set-up could even kill the strongest superboss with ease.
502** The Blades Praxis and Theory also wear an eyepatch; in post-battle banter, Zeke will accuse Praxis of "infringing" on his "copyright." Praxis retorts that she has an actual condition, so if anything he should lose ''his'' eyepatch.
503* Vandham and his crew in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' bore eyepatches when he first encountered the six soldiers that he would empower with the Ouroboros Stone before his passing. Much later, after the party reach Swordmarch as Vandham had recommended, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he and other denizens of the City wore these eyepatches over the eye that contained their [[ElectronicEye Iris]] when out on missions with the Lost Numbers. These eyepatches had small fragments of Origin metal that served to obscure them from Moebius' tracking systems. The party would even obtain these eyepatches for themselves, and would be automatically equipped with them whenever they journeyed from the City; the Kevesi team members over their right eyes, the Agnians over their left.]]
504* From ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Xigbar, of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Organization XIII]], plays this trope to the hilt. Not only does he have an eyepatch, but several [[GoodScarsEvilScars scars running across his face.]] Of all the Organization, he carries himself almost like a seasoned warrior. At one point, he even hints to Sora that he has fought several Keyblade Masters before him. Except for [[NietzscheWannabe Xemnas]] and [[AntiVillain Roxas]], that's probably the closest any member of the Organization gets to having an actual backstory. [[spoiler: It's confirmed in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' that he did in fact meet and fight previous keyblade masters-- Terra, Ven, and Aqua. It's also confirmed in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' that he's the current incarnation of Luxu, a ''Keyblade Master''.]]
505** [[spoiler: Terra is also the one who gave him the need to wear an eyepatch in the first place, adding weight to his words in VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII.]]
506** Also in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, Riku spends a long period with a blindfold on. It's not directly stated ''why'' he wears it; the most explanation we get is Mickey in ''[=KH2=]'' saying he wore it because 'his eyes couldn't lie', and when Sora asks who he was trying to fool, Riku says himself. It's also 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.]]
507** [=DiZ=] uses a [[TooManyBelts belt]] to this effect. Yes, on his head.
508** 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.
509* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
510** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'':
511*** Subversion: when Naked Snake (later named Big Boss) 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. 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.
512*** 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. ''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.
513** 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.
514** Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', Solid Snake is given the Solid Eye device, an advanced monocular display mounted in an eyepatch. Combat advantage? Definitely. Looks cool? Possibly enough to balance out the Dick Van Dyke mustache. In any case, it makes him look almost exactly like his father.
515** In ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Metal Gear Rising]]'', Raiden covers his damaged left eye with a cloth when he gets a new cyborg body, but the cloth is covered in sensors that act as a replacement eye, allowing him to keep full vision.
516* The titular character of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' is a one-eyed HunterOfMonsters skilled in using various weapons, and can take down hordes and hordes of deadly monsters.
517* ''VideoGame/WildcatGunMachine'' sees you playing as an eyepatched mercenary, Cat, who slays monsters by the hundreds easily.
518* In early ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' one of the most potent pieces of leather armor was an eyepatch called the Eye of Rend, which rather counter-intuitively increased your [[CriticalHit critical strike]] chance. Eyepatches still show up occasionally, where they provide just as much armor as a full helm of the same type.
519* Garrett of the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series of [[StealthBasedGame 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 DeadpanSnarker than an out-and-out badass, he's still not someone you'd ever want to mess with.
520* In ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' 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?"
521* Since the Yagyu Jubei from the ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' games is supposed to be the one from real life, he wears an eyepatch. Notable for him and Sagat earlier ... the nature of the graphics means the patch switches from one eye to the other when the character changes which way he's facing.
522* Sion from ''VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra'' not only has an Eyepatch Of Power but said eyepatch hides the CosmicKeystone that got embedded in his eye after a battle against [[spoiler: Surt.]]
523* Zato-1 from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' is blind and blindfolded (his name is a homage to [[HandicappedBadass blind swordsman]] Zatoichi). He's supposedly able to access better senses than with his eyes, which probably means that his shadow, the sentient bioweapon Eddie, sees for him. He ''is'' reasonably badass...[[spoiler:for a dead guy (though Eddie's also pretty badass itself.]]
524* Georg Prime in ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'' wears an eyepatch over his left eye. Even with the handicap, he's considered the greatest swordsman around, with a reputation for defeating all foes with his first attack. He eventually tells the main character that in his youth, he was careless in a battle and was slashed in the face, only surviving because the main character's father rescued him. [[spoiler: Still later, he reveals that the slash actually missed his eye, and that he wears the eyepatch as a reminder not to get too cocky. At that point he discards the eyepatch, deciding he doesn't need it anymore.]]
525** Geddoe from ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' also wears one of these.
526*** 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.
527* James "Paladin" Taggart is depicted with an eyepatch in ''Super VideoGame/WingCommander'', though in the other ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' games featuring the character, he has the use of both eyes. He gains no special powers or abilities from missing an eye (indeed, as an AI wingman he is somewhat mediocre, even compared to other AI wingmen), but he is an experienced combat pilot whose career spans several decades.
528* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' has quite a few eyepatch wearers.
529** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'' have General Lorenz of Grust. Malice, a character introduced in spinoff material before making her way into ''New Mystery of the Emblem'', also wears one.
530** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'''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.
531** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' have Haar, and the latter game introduces Nailah.
532** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'''s Basilio, one of the Khans of Feroxi, sports one. It's also possible to give a build 2 Female Avatar one.
533** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates's'' Niles is a very cynical AntiHero, and wears a rather cool blue eyepatch with a star on it. It's also possible to give the Avatar one, whether in white or in black, no matter the build or gender this time. There's also the 'Cross Eyepatch' accessory one can buy and give to anyone in the party, but in this case, it's simply for RuleOfCool rather than necessity.
534** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses's'' Dimitri, who is one of the protagonists of the game, wears an eyepatch [[spoiler: [[EyepatchAfterTimeSkip after the timeskip]] in every route but Crimson Flower.]] It is briefly deconstructed in the advice boxes, where he needs eye drops to do paperwork.
535** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': Many of the above also return for this game. In addition, Sutur's Perilous Seas alt sports one of these, and among the accessories are a few eyepatches that can be put on any character able to wear mask-type accessories.
536* Auron of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has one missing eye, partially concealed with sunglasses. Not quite an eyepatch, but it should be noted that after losing his eye, he [[TookALevelInBadass took levels exclusively in badassery]].
537* 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 [[HidingBehindYourBangs 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.
538* General Beatrix of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has a badass metal eyepatch, and the first fights against her cannot be won. The goal is only to survive.
539* Forcystus from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has both an Eyepatch Of Power and an ArmCannon that appears to replace his left arm (actually, his arm is inside the thing and can be seen during some of his attacks when the arm cannon opens up.
540* The Demoman from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' wears one, and is actually quite bitter about having lost his eye, referring to himself as a 'black, Scottish cyclops'. His lack of an eye has minimal impact on the player when playing as him[[note]]he fires very slightly to the right of the crosshairs instead of dead-on like everyone else[[/note]]; however, and he still performs quite adequately considering his weapon of choice is a grenade launcher.
541** He seems ''really'' bitter.
542-->''...prancin' aboot with yer heads full of eyeballs!''
543** Seems to run in the family; a comic released prior to his (and the Soldier's) update reveals that both the RED Demoman's parents are blind, a result of the family profession being demolitions.
544-->'''RED Demoman's Mum:''' Mark me, boy: no Demoman worth his sulfur ever had an eye in his head past thirty!
545** In one comics it was revealed that a wizard Merasmus took his eye, after a sentient book possessed the eye for the lols. In one of the Halloween maps, the players fight Merasmus, and the Demoman seems really eager to kick his ass.
546** Taken to its logical conclusion when playing as a Demoknight[[note]]A melee-focused Demoman loadout that trades his explosive weapons for better control/damage in melee[[/note]] with the Eyelander sword or its functional equivalents. Such a Demoknight starts slower and weaker than a stock Demoman, but quickly surpasses stock after gaining enough heads from kills. Gaining heads also adds a glow in/over the eyepatch, possibly implying MagicalEye (Socket) is in play; the higher a Demoknight's headcount, the stronger the glow.
547** Originally {{exaggerated|Trope}} for comedy with the [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Eye-Catcher Eye-Catcher]] cosmetic. Yes, it gives all classes an eyepatch, but concept art reveals the artist had wanted it to cover Demoman's ''remaining'' eye. Valve nixed this idea, sadly denying players the comedy of a Demoman who can't see anything.
548** In ''WebVideo/SearchForSandvich'', whenever Gary Schwartz switches from Heavy to Demoman, he visually indicates it by putting on an eyepatch.
549* Sakuma from ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' wears an eyepatch over his right eye. [[spoiler:While part of Shin Teikoku, his right eye is visible through a hole in his eyepatch and he's revealed to have [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black sclerae]], possibly a side effect of the Aliea Meteorite]].
550* In ''VideoGame/{{NieR}} Gestalt'', the Protagonist wears an eyepatch after the five-year TimeSkip. His younger ''Replicant'' counterpart does not.
551* Genshin from ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden II''.
552* Drachma of ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' has a literal Eyepatch of Power. The accessory he starts with is an eyepatch that increases his attack power slightly when he has it equipped.
553** 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.
554*** This carries over to his cameo in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', where he retains his signature goggle patch and is easily one of the best Shocktroopers in the game.
555* Gippal of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''. [[spoiler: The MexicanStandoff kind of forces that point home, too]].
556* Lucian of ''[[VideoGame/{{Boktai}} Lunar Knights]]'' has an eyepatch. He's also [[spoiler: former prodigy member of the Three Gunslingers Sartana.]]
557* Wolf O'Donnell of ''Franchise/StarFox'' goes through several variations of this. In the prototype ''VideoGame/StarFox2'', he is depicted with a scar over one of his eyes, while in ''VideoGame/StarFox64'', he sports an eyepatch (over the opposite eye), and from ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' onwards, he wears a cybernetic eyepatch. Although some have assumed that his left eye is missing, his ''Assault'' model shows that it is still there, and can even be seen during certain cutscenes. He's even seen without the eyepatch in his concept art.
558* Interesting example from the ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'' 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.
559* Lord David from ''VideoGame/TheLastRemnant'' 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. It even has a name -- "Kellendros" -- and is described as the "Trigger device of the Gae Bolg", though it may be that Kellendros and Ex Machina (his uber gun) are dual triggers for it, since both are used to summon the extra uber cannon.
560* Alfred Woden of the ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' series wears a special pair of glasses which are shaded over his right eye. This was meant to evoke Odin, as was his last name, since Oden himself wore an eyepatch, and thus establishes himself as the one running the show. Max himself notes "In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King"
561* [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Praxis]] in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' has a highly visible bionic eye. His [[TheDragon 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.
562* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
563** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'': 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.
564** ''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:
565-->"Put this baby on to double your manliness instantly. Ideal for the grittier guys and gals."
566* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'', 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 [[AmbidextrousSprite sprite game]].
567* In ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', [[EmotionlessGirl Nu-13]] has an Eyepatch Of Power that is replaced by a [[CyberCyclops visor]] whenever she [[PoweredArmor activates the angelic-looking Murakumo unit]]. Disturbingly, the eyepatch in question has a design akin to a [[RedEyesTakeWarning red sphere]] with a [[HellishPupils thick black stripe]] running down the middle at an angle. Note the similar design on the back of protagonist Ragna's [[EyesDoNotBelongThere right hand]]. In case it isn't obvious, Nu is ''dangerous''.
568* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Mitsuru's father, Takeharu, who runs the omnipresent Kirijo Group corporation.
569* ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' gives [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Marie]] the option of wearing an eyepatch over her forward eye whereas most other characters in the game have glasses. The eyepatch is a reference to [[spoiler:the unnatural color that Marie's left eye attains in her dungeon in ''Persona 4 Golden'']].
570* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The Twins, who serve as the game's ultimate {{Superboss}}, 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.
571* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' has Date Masamune and Chosokabe Motochika. Masamune's eyepatch of power is so badass that it's a tsuba. [[GratuitousEnglish You see]].
572* Masamune also makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' and ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi''.
573* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', there is Balrahn, celebrated hero and Emperor of Aht Urghan, who in his day managed to collect 20 unique weapons (one for each job class, conveniently) as war trophies during epic battles with foreign powers. These "Mythic Weapons", now locked in the Empire's vaults, are obtainable by the player after completing a series of difficult and/or time-consuming tasks, one of which is to obtain Balrahn's Eyepatch, which is described as a sacred relic.
574** Don't forget Gilgamesh, the pirate with an eye patch of power.
575** ...And Moblin Maze Mongers event has an eye patch as a possible reward.
576* Averted in the later ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' games with Calypso. As the organizer of the tournament, and a LiteralGenie with all sorts of power, one would think an eyepatch would suit him. Except in the early games, he had both eyes, and in later games when he's missing one (with no explanation) ''[[EyeScream he gladly shows off the gaping hole]]''.
577* John Marston, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' wears one in the 'Deadly Assassin' outfit which, humorously, improves his slow-motion 'Dead-eye Aim'.
578** Though some voice lines hint towards him possibly having a blind eye.
579* Ellie Langford, deutragonist of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' loses her eye to Titan Station's resident mental patient Nolan Stross, and it is shown in a rather humourous and awesome moment. "You owe me an eye, you bastard!"
580** She gets a prosthetic in the sequel. Shame.
581* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'', the imagery is evoked with both the co-op player characters rendered in the loading screen with their sonar goggles only covering one eye. This also applies to [[spoiler: the enemy Splinter Cells.]] Appropriately, the latter are EliteMooks. However, the biggest badass, protagonist Sam Fisher, wears his goggles covering both eyes.
582* BigBad Morden of ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' bears one of these over his right eye. [[spoiler: He lost that eye in the Central Park Bombing that also killed his young son, giving him his reasons for defecting from the Regular Army]]. Also used for a bit of FridgeBrilliance in Metal Slug 3... [[spoiler: The Morden you fight at the midway point of the Final Mission has the patch over the left eye... it's a Mars Person in disguise.]]
583* Captain Price in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'' invokes this with his night-vision goggles -- it's more of a monocle.
584* Goro Majima of the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series has an eyepatch over his left eye. It does little to stop him from being one of the series' canonically best fighters and consistently hardest bosses to fight. [[VideoGame/Yakuza4 The fourth game]] shows that he got it due to [[spoiler:refusing to sell out his [[SwornBrothers blood brother]] and had it stabbed out by the tanto he now carries]].
585* Iorveth, elvish terrorist/guerilla leader from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2''. Iorveth covers the remains of his right eye with a tilted bandana and has spent the better part of a century fighting humans.
586** Sorceress Philippa Eilhart has both her eyes carved out as punishment for conspiration in The Witcher 2. In the next game she sports replacement magical eyes, only visible by a faint glow under her blindfold.
587* As with the Real Life person he's based on, Masamune from ''VideoGame/PokemonConquest'' 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.]]
588* In ''VideoGame/SuperTimeForce'', Commander Repeatski, savior of the world, has ''two'' eyepatches, one for each eye.
589* A character customization option in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''. Klingons get a leather patch with three metallic studs on it for free, and you can buy a pirate-style patch to cover either eye as a {{microtransaction|s}}.
590* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhReshefOfDestruction'', Pegasus sports a golden eyepatch over his left eye, covering the socket where his Millennium Eye used to be.
591* In ''VideoGame/BillyVsSnakeman'', the titular Billy (a parody of Naruto) wears an eyepatch at level one. If you level him up once (by, specifically, defeating a pirate) he dons a second eyepatch over his other eye, which somehow makes him more powerful. And if you do the quest that gets him to level three, he dons a ''third'' eyepatch. (Where he puts it, the game doesn't say.)
592* Taupy from ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' wears an eye patch over his right eye ([[AmbidextrousSprite except when he faces the other way]]). He lost it when [[spoiler:he accepted a duel-by-proxy job and wound up fighting his best friend.]]
593* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', The Iron Bull wears an eyepatch over his left eye, lost to being gouged out by a flail while [[spoiler: protecting Krem, a man he didn't know at the time, who later became his second-in-command.]]
594* Siripent has one in ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics''. It's never explained where he got it.
595* [[spoiler: Keith Martin]] from ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Time Crisis 5]]''.
596* Apparently the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hero of Time]] lost an eye at some point, because he has one eye blacked out (in both his human and wolf forms) when he appears as the Hero's Shade in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]''.
597* Two characters in ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'' have these. Markov, the SoleSurvivor of a [[SpacePirates corporate mercenary]] raid on his colony from either side, and Hyde, a BloodKnight veteran of [[GreatOffscreenWar The First Mutagen War]].
598* 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.
599* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', the Man-at-arms is missing an eye, and his backstory comic doesn't give an explanation, although it shows that he was the SoleSurvivor of his squad back before joining the heroes.
600* Viktor from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' has both his eyes, but can wear different kinds of eyepatches as a cosmetic accessory. And Dredge the undead pirate.
601* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'':
602** While the members of the Occult Club all have something covering one eye, they're considered creepy and aren't played attention to much (and it's possible none of them are actually missing an eye).
603** Student Council member Aoi Ryugoku also has an eyepatch, and pulls off this trope much better (case in point, she's the ''enforcer'' of the Student Council). Unlike the Occult Club, she is confirmed to be missing an eye. [[spoiler:It's rumored Student Council President Megami Saikou has something to do with her missing eye but nothing's been proven.]]
604* ''VideoGame/GodEater'' has a sniper, Gina with a purple eye patch over her left eye. Player characters can wear one too over either eye, with five different types to choose from. The two smaller variants however don't stick to the face fully, meaning that you can see under them with a proper angle.
605* [[PlayfulHacker Jacker]] of ''VideoGame/Ghost10'' has a cybernetic implant resembling an eyepatch which covers his left eye.
606* Kaeya, Fischl, and Beidou in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact''. Particularly Beidou as she is a pirate captain. She's also probably the only one who actually needs it as Kaeya and Fischl only wear theirs as stylistic choices.
607* Kiria from ''VideoGame/TokyoMirageSessionsFE'' has an eyepatch in her Carnage form.
608* ''[[VideoGame/TrailsSeries Trails]]'':
609** General Zechs Vander notably sports one of these, and is actually called "One-Eyed Zechs".
610** [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Sigmund Orlando]] also sports one of these, presumably because mercenary work is particularly dangerous for eyeballs.
611** [[spoiler:Prince Olivert]] sports one of these from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Trails of Cold Steel IV]]'' onwards, as a result of [[spoiler:surviving an assassination attempt by the Gnomes]].
612* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the fearsome Black Mages of ancient Mhach would wear eyepatches and wide-brimmed hats to obstruct the gaze of Voidsent abs prevent them from using eye contact to establish control over them, and this is reflected in how all the black mage artifact armor includes an eyepatch. Interestingly, though it’s never called out such, the same seems to go for Reapers, who wear eyepatches in their signature outfits and also deal with voidsent as part of their power.
613* In ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'', the highest advancement of Thug, named Highwayman, wears an eyepatch. Fittingly, Highwayman is the strongest unit in terms of melee combat among the outlaw units.
614* Smith has one in ''VideoGame/TwoDark''
615* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': In one of Flavio's sermons, Desdemona reveals that she doesn't like her eyepatch's intimidation factor since it makes her for her to find love:
616--> '''Desdemona:''' It's the eyepatch, isn't it?! [pause for player input] I can't help it if it makes me look intimidating!\
617I've had it ever since [[spoiler:that skiing accident in the fifth grade]]!
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621* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
622** Apollo wears an eyepatch in the first and last two cases of ''Dual Destinies''. This and his CoatCape imply that he's [[TookALevelInBadass become a ''lot'' more hard-boiled]] [[CharacterDevelopment since the last game]], [[spoiler:but the eyepatch is actually a PowerLimiter for his perception ability so he wouldn't have to notice Athena lying about her relation to his best friend's death]].
623** Dhurke Sahdmadhi, [[spoiler:his foster father]], also wears one. Ga'ran's propaganda certainly makes full use of it to make the rebel leader seem menacing. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when it turns out that he's actually just a fun-loving goofball]], but he still manages to pull off a few ''terrifying'' {{Death Glare}}s
624* How do we know M in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'' is awesome even before he does anything? Guess. Interestingly enough, despite it being implied that the eye underneath it actually works fine, it is never removed.
625* Masamune Date from ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'' is a handsome, cocky SpiritedCompetitor who wears an eyepatch over his right eye. He becomes even more badass when you learn the story behind his eyepatch: he lost his eye to smallpox when he was younger and after angsting about it for a while, decided to just cut short his self-pity party by asking one of his subordinates to cut the entire eye out for him. The female main character even thinks that "anything sounds good coming from a man with an eyepatch" in regards to him.
626* ''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 to be jokes, as Tact immediately admits he has no idea because Lester never talks about it.
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630* ''WebAnimation/Plan3'': The cursed pirate has an eyepatch over his left eye. It’s not established if something happened to the eye before, or after he was cursed.
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634* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Judy's kitten had survived an attack from a dinosaur and now sports an eyepatch. It still looks very cute. The President of the United States is also shown to have one.
635* Like her canon counterpart, Integra in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' gets one in the end. During her brief period of unconsciousness, in which she talks with [[spoiler:her mother]], Integra admits that being able to intimidate people better with an eyepatch on was an experience worth living for.
636* Inverted in ''Webcomic/AngelDown'' with Maria, who only wears her eyepatch at formal events. She mostly preforms her badassery while wearing a pair of [[OpaqueLenses blacked out sunglasses]].
637* In the BadFuture in ''Webcomic/AutumnBay'', both Johnny and [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Dr. Deacon]] have one, though Dr. Deacon's is the [[{{Cyborg}} cybernetic]] version.
638* Tony the Tiger in ''Webcomic/BreakfastOfTheGods''
639* ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'': Wila, who was the Hyperia Pantheons previous High priestess introduced in the "''Wills induction''" short story (which chronologically takes place years before the main story), had an eyepatch that covered up a scar where her left eye should be.
640* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2012/10/07/dressed-for-success/ CK himself tries to invoke this, though even he admits it's probably overdoing things.]]
641* ''Webcomic/CrimsonFlag'': Ludovic, Lord Julian's right-hand man, has an eyepatch, though it's also mentioned that he uses a depth-perception spell.
642* Nimmel Feenix from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' had his right eye slashed to uselessness, so he combed his previously slicked-back hair in such a way as to cover it up. Curiously, The Infernomancer from who inflicted this injury ''also'' sported an eyepatch of power ? a blindfold with long spikes on the inside, that concealed magically ever-bleeding eyes (the mark of the demonic pact that gave him his powers).
643** 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]].
644* Fenny's manager, Missy, wears an eyepatch in the first two chapters of ''Webcomic/FurryFightChronicles'' to cover her missing eye, which she gave to a demon for fighting knowledge.
645* In ''Webcomic/GalacticMaximum'', [[http://maximumcomic.com/?strip_id=1 one uses a knife in the gun fight]]
646* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
647** The Smoke Knight Varpa is revealed to be hiding an eyepatch underneath the hood she keeps up and pulled over one eye.
648** Captain Hawkins, a privateer working for the British, wears a bandanna over one eye as part of her very piratey outfit, she is also an excellent fighter.
649* Chief from ''Webcomic/{{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.
650* Sydney from ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/704 got one]] for [[WebcomicTime an hour or so]] after a [[http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/697 an incident with a noodle]]. It heals up within a few hours, but she keeps it anyway.
651-->'''Maxima:''' Do you still need that eye patch?\
652'''Sydney:''' Um, no?\
653'''Maxima:''' Take it off.\
654'''Sydney:''' Aw.
655* Royce Lashiec of ''Webcomic/{{Heartcore}}'' takes to wearing one after the Prologue Arc.
656* [[SmugSnake Vriska]] of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' sports one. Due to {{Ambidextrous Sprite}}s, ''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.
657** She later gets her eye and arm back, so she loses the patch.
658** Sollux wears [[NumerologicalMotif two]] eyepatches (one red, one blue) on the pirate ship in the Furthest Ring. However, the fact that he lost his eyes means that he lost the ability to produce his insanely powerful {{Eye Beam}}s, so he's sort of an inversion.
659* In ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'', Penny Worthington was ''double'' the badass for wearing the eyepatch she took from her predecessor, Dargon Chesterfield, after assassinating him.
660* Nikolai Vankof, a former Soviet secret agent from ''Webcomic/TheIncredibleAndAweInspiringSerialAdventureOfTheAmazingPlasmaMan'' has an eyepatch over his right eye.
661* Viktor Vasko of ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' lost his right eye in a violent striker's rally, shortly before he became a rum runner for Atlas May.
662* Debbie in ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'' has both her eyes, but wears an eyepatch purely for RuleOfCool, and usually switches which eye is covered every appearance (one strip has her hit her uncovered eye while playing with nunchakas, so she moves the patch to cover that eye instead).
663* This is parodied in ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny''; Maureen's younger brother wears an eyepatch to impress new thieves guild members because he thought Maureen's looked cool.
664** And Maureen herself only wears her eyepatch to hide her heterochromia, which is seen as an ill omen.
665* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
666** Also parodied: Elan, [[EyepatchAfterTimeSkip after the time skip]], [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0501.html is shown sporting an eyepatch]]... but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html one strip later]] it's revealed that he started wearing it because [[InvokedTrope it made him look mysterious]].
667** Right-Eye, Redcloak's little brother, and later [[spoiler:Redcloak himself, courtesy of O-Chul]] sport an eyepatch as well, although it actually covers a missing eye. In the case of the latter, [[spoiler:while he does have the ability to regenerate it with cleric magic, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0662.html Xykon forbids him from doing so]], as punishment for delaying too long in Azure City in the aftermath of the siege. From that point on, whenever Redcloak looked in the mirror, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0701.html he'd see the face of Right-Eye]], whom he had sacrificed in service of The Plan, staring back at him.]]
668* Sarn Kellfrock of ''Webcomic/PlanescapeSurvivalGuide'' is an 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.
669* In ''Webcomic/TheWotch'', there's [=DeFrain=] the {{Pirate}} - a member of LaResistance, whose piratey eyepatch hides a magical eye capable of seeing through anything, as well as detecting magical auras - handy for checking out whether a ship contains anything worth stealing. He also appears to be a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Ninja Pirate]].
670* Agent Jim of Mayu Zane's ''Siege'' is nearly shot down in one scene because of a gunner on his left-and he's blind in his left eye, which he neglected to mention to anyone previously.
671** There were previous references to his hidden face being badly hurt or burned, however.
672*** Zane would know-he's blind (or nearly so) in one of his eyes as a result of a detached retina.
673* From ''Webcomic/{{Sidekicks}}'', Kyle (aka One-Eyed Shadow) is a [[HeelFaceTurn villain-turned-sidekick]] who wears an eyepatch over his right eye. His right eye isn't seen when he enters a [[CastingAShadow shadow-like form]] so it may not be functioning.
674* Hwaryun from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' ever since Bam cut her right eye. As a girl, all her eyepatches are also very stylish.
675** Sachi Faker now sports a stylish black eyepatch-thing(?) over his left eye 600 years after he first took on the Hell Train.
676* The First Mate, Marge, of ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'' sports an eyepatch.
677* The Suicide Girl from ''Webcomic/SexyLosers''. 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...).
678* In ''Webcomic/TheKamics'', [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/4853859/ Ratatosk (self-proclaimed) god of the squirrels]] wears one to seem more Odin-like. Since both eyes are good he occasionally switches which eye it covers.
679* In Creator/BenCroshaw's 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.
680* Vanka the theif from ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'', who wears a rolled headband with the hem positioned to cover her missing eye.
681* Kogeru from [[http://www.rmtoads.com Rune Master: Tales of A demon Slayer]] wears an eyepatch on his (functioning) right eye, to cover the word "traitor" tattooed on its lid.
682* ''{{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 heterochromia as a sign of his magical heritage), he got better.
683* 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 [[HidingUnderYourBangs with hair]].
684* ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'': Commander Mercédès Vampa, Conal's commanding officer, and crush. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/11302011/ (Apparently she stole her eyepatch from a pirate.)]]''
685* Myra Rienkemeyer from ''Webcomic/SkinDeep.'' Both her eyes work fine, but due to a damaged [[TransformationTrinket medallion]] the left one is [[RedRightHand stuck permanently]] as the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing Eye of Doom]] of her bugbear form. She keeps it covered with an eyepatch unless she's got her GameFace on.
686* The Raider, the most powerful and notorious villain in the world in ''Webcomic/AHateStory'', wears one to cover the blank spot where his left eye socket should be. He has SuperSenses, but notably poor depth perception.
687* Dante in ''Webcomic/TheStoryOfAnima'' [[http://tapastic.com/episode/43377 wears a metal one over his magic eye]].
688* The title character of ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfLucy'' wears one over her left eye.
689* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Irma Keon, a powerful battle wright and Crescian state Aseptick, is introduced with a bandage over her right eye while decimating Aldish troops.
690* Val in ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac''. Cybernetics exist in-universe, but Val's allergic, so she just covers up her missing eye. She's also a BadassNormal.
691* In [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=313j a guest strip]] of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', after checking to see that nobody was watching him, Liquid decided to see what he'd look like if he had an eyepatch like Big Boss before him. However, the ghost of Big Boss is always watching...
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695* Parodied in ''VideoGame/BillyVsSNAKEMAN'', 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.
696* In a ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article about soldiers shrugging off horribly painful and debilitating wounds, all of the top 3 had eyepatches. The article briefly commented by saying something along the lines "Having an eyepatch is like taking the express lane to being a badass."
697* Xinjao O'Reilly in ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'' wears one after being tortured by having a soldering iron thrust into one eye. This also comes shortly after he TookALevelInBadass and went from comic-relief engineer with a PornStash to resourceful leader of a guerrilla band of engineers and admiral of his own private mercenary space fleet.
698* Sylvester in ''Literature/{{Twig}}'' loses an eye to the Baron Richmond, and sports an eyepatch until he gets it replaced. When he runs into the Baron again, though, he puts the eyepatch back on to disguise that [[EyeScream he's filled his eye with massive amounts of poison so he can squirt it at people as a one-use weapon.]]
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702* [[RetiredBadass Sarge]] in ''WebVideo/AgentsOfCracked'' has one of these, although it's probably only for looks since it [[RunningGag keeps switching eyes]].
703* Creator/ApolloZHack. No reason is given for why he wears it; [[RuleOfCool it just looks badass]].
704* ''WebVideo/BoardJames'': Bad Luck Bootsy has an eye patch after he got stabbed in the eye by ''Tornado Rex'' on his first appearance.
705* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'':
706** Snake, whose name that doesn't hide [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork who]] he is a parody of.
707** Flower Scout Tabii starts wearing an eyepatch (caused by being hit in the eye by a fork... thrown by herself) in the same episode where she and her friends become drug lords that can even take down the Mexican cartel.
708* Colonel Blitzer from ''WebVideo/CoyleCommand'' has one. You may notice it switches eye from time to time.
709* Lord Commander Mason Garrilac of ''WebVideo/DeathFromAbove'' sports one. Presumably he lost his eye in battle, being a mech warrior. In one episode where he's piloting a mech and misses terribly he mentions lack of depth perception as the reason.
710* In ''Series/IAmNotInfected'' Amanda sports one in her first appearance. She quickly stops wearing it, and with it her status as a badass.
711* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'':
712** {{Invoked|Trope}} for Graecie, who started wearing her eye-patch because "that's how she earns respect around here", rather than being actually unable to see out of that eye. She also constantly lies about why she wears the eye-patch to everyone else. It's likely that she did so because while her faction, the Nightingales, get along with the other factions without much issue, they are also often [[MemeticLoser overlooked for being "softies"]].
713** Kuervo wears a gold-lined eye-patch; the finale reveals that it's [[spoiler:a BattleTrophy from [[{{Tyrannicide}} killing Commander Miria]] (the eye-patch's previous owner) of the Nayan Armada, from which (and more) he'd become a DefectorFromDecadence and gone on the run.]]
714* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'': The series discusses the incredible exploits of British general Carton de Wiart who sports one of these after being [[TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain shot in the face]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
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718* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
719** Dr. Director and her [[EvilTwin evil (fraternal) twin brother]] have eye patches, and are some of the most competent fighters in the series. Dr. Director is primarily a parody/homage to Nick Fury.
720** An extra in the "A Sitch in Time" DVD shows a [[EyepatchAfterTimeSkip future]] Kim as Dr. Director's successor. She also wears an eyepatch.
721* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', with the charter boat captain "Two-Patch" Crappie Jack (yes, that is his name). He can't walk too well. Two wooden legs. Can't steer too well. Two wooden arms. Can't see too well. Two wooden eyes.
722* While it's not technically an eyepatch, your chances of badassness go way up in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' if you have one optic sensor rather than two. Shockwave is probably the most obvious of these.
723** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' shows it off well. [[spoiler: Compare Longarm Prime to Shockwave.]]
724** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' gives one to Breakdown, after MECH removed his eye. Presumably Megatron forbids letting him get a replacement eye as punishment for getting captured by PunyHumans.
725* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the candy pirate [[CaptainColorbeard Stickybeard]] has a patch. (''And'' a peg leg, ''and'' a hook hand; he's pretty much DressedToPlunder.)
726* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'': Marion, one of several shout-outs to ''Film/TrueGrit''. Alt!Cassie from "Twin Cheeks" also has one.
727* Matrix, the [[PlotRelevantAgeUp grown-up Enzo]] from ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'''s third season, has a golden cybernetic eye that provides super targeting abilities, which he received after the original was cut out. By THE DEVIL in a ''Franchise/MortalKombat''-ish game.
728** Parodied with the pirate bi-nomes. There's at least one "zero" bi-nome with two patches that optionally hide two good eyes, and there's at least one "one" bi-nome with a single patch over it's only perfectly fine eye.
729* Gutierrez, Ricardo Montalbán's character on ''WesternAnimation/{{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.
730** Subversion: His eye is perfectly normal before he mutates, and this eyepatch is important to his painful defeat.
731* Falcon 7, Birdman's boss in ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' has an eyepatch. That, of course, becomes a source of many jokes in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', where Falcon 7 becomes Phil Ken Sebben.
732** Ha ''ha!'' Power!
733** In the "New Year's Eve Party at Brak's House" series of bumps, [[WesternAnimation/{{Sealab2021}} Hesh]] doesn't believe that Phil needs the patch, calling it 'Your Bum Eye And How It Doesn't Exist'.
734* Hudson, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', has only one good eye due to a wound that either stayed with him due to its magical origin or didn't heal properly before sunrise. In either case, throughout the series it's implied that while he might be getting a little old and slow and even his good eye is starting to fail, he's a canny warrior whose insight is invaluable.
735* The Pirate Captain from ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' has ''two'' eyepatches (as well as two wooden legs). This doesn't seem to slow him down much, although he's not very badass because he and his men are always being defeated by a bunch of kids.
736* WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}, while not wearing an eyepatch, misses one eye. He just keeps eyelids permanently closed.
737** [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy I thought it was a stroke.]]
738* Subversion during the pirate episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans:'' Uniqua has an eyepatch, but she only wears it to show she's a pirate. In other words, [[GogglesDoNothing Eyepatch Does Nothing]] during the episode.
739* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' 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.
740* Tako from ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'' wears a fake eyepatch that does not diminish his fighting prowess in the least. Then again, considering that his main attack is flinging paint at enemies, direct aim may not be crucial.
741* Suzi X from ''WesternAnimation/TheHauntedWorldOfElSuperbeasto''.
742* Pariah Dark in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Probably doesn't suffer any depth perception since he's a ghost.
743** The once useless Box Ghost will eventually become a FutureBadass who can fight on par with any of the major villains. His secret? An eyepatch.
744* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' gives us resident badass, Hoss Delgado. Complete with SwissArmyAppendage.
745* Gibbs in ''WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum'', who's both the main villain and probably [[OnlySaneMan one of the smartest characters]] in the series.
746* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', big bad villain Dr. Paradigm wears an eyepatch for no explained reason. He starts off the show as an implied college lecturer. It's somewhat badass in context.
747* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
748** Officer Shallowgrave wears an eyepatch.
749** In one of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Cosmo and Wanda wear eye patches while playing pirate. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Wanda tries wearing two at once]].
750* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe''
751** While 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. His ''Renegades'' incarnation, however, has ''more'' than earned his badass cred (and likely the eyepatch itself) in his debut episode.
752** Zanzibar the Dreadnok Pirate has one, but his teammates think it's for show, as he's little more than a SpoiledBrat who ''thinks'' he's badass.
753** Gen Abernathy from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'' sports one of these.
754* Something of a subversion on ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers.'' MadScientist Dr. Blight is blonde, but wears one shock of long white hair over one of her eyes. This would seem to be this trope... except that the hair is actually hiding [[spoiler: the fact that part of her face is deformed.]]
755* Alejandro gets punched in the eye in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'', resulting in him having to wear an eyepatch for the rest of the episode.
756* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' the bailiffs in the Horn Fairy Court wear eyepatches with stars on them.
757* The lead character of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' has one. People who worked on the show can't seem to agree on whether he lost an eye or he just has it to be fashionable.
758** The current reboot kits DM with an eyepatch with modern technical advances (it's an "i-patch.")
759* Jonathan Kidd, the commander of the ''Voyager'' in the ''Fantastic Voyage'' animated series.
760* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', [[TheBarnum Grunkle Stan]] wears an eyepatch over a perfectly healthy eye in order to fit into the Mystery Shack's mood of strange and paranormal.
761** He wears it ''over his glasses!''
762** Dipper borrows the look in "Boss Mable" when Stan's on vacation, as does Soos [[spoiler: when he becomes the new manager of the Mystery Shack following Stan's retirement in the GrandFinale]].
763* Mr. Fischoeder, the wealthy, eccentric, AffablyEvil landlord on ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' wears an eyepatch. The story behind it (he lost his eye while roughhousing with his brother as a child) isn't very impressive, though.
764* In ''Animation/CatCity'' the DragonInChief [[AllGermansAreNazis Fritz]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Teufel]] wears an eyepatch. When it gets torn off in the climactic fight, we get to see a [[RedRightHand ruby]] in his eye socket.
765* Nick Fury's becomes a plot point in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', due to a flipped picture printed by J. Jonah Jameson. The backwards picture is used by Chameleon to pretend to be Fury, only for everyone who's met him to figure it out.
766* Evil Morty, from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' wears an eyepatch as a reference to this trope and as an EvilTwin. [[spoiler:Both of his eyes are actually fully functional, but he uses the eyepatch as a device to remotely control Evil Rick. At the end of the episode, he got rid of the eyepatch when Evil Rick was killed.]]
767* ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' features Amber, the lead hunter of the community who wears an amber rock in her eye. Although jokes are made about her missing an eye, in one episode she gives the rock to Ugga as a symbolic gesture and everyone is surprised to find the eye underneath is just fine.
768* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'':
769** Doctor Blowhole has a very functional cybernetic one on his missing right eye. He has a laser in it and once uses it as a remote control to his [[BuffySpeak "scooter one-wheel thing."]]
770** The Red Squirrel has one. He has a button to launch a rocket under it.
771* Given an interesting twist in ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters''. Krumm and his father Horvak are both monsters consisting of a {{Cephalothorax}} that carry their disembodied eyes in their hands. However, Horvak lost one of his eyes when it was mistaken for a musket ball and so he carries the remaining eye in one hand while in the other he wears ''a black leather glove''.
772* The pirate captain Two-Eyed Alonso in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'', as his name (sort of) suggests, combines this trope with ExtraEyes.
773* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'': One antagonist was the ghost of Captain Hook's brother, [[CanonForeigner Jasper Hook]], who was known as "Captain Patch" because he had an eye-patch to go with his brother's HookHand.
774* Kwazii of ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'' wears one, as he was a pirate before he became an Octonaut and still affects some stereotypical piratical behaviors [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything (other than plunder, of course)]]. While it's never explicitly stated, he most likely wears it for the "able to switch between light and dark areas" reason - a few times, he lifts it up and shows that he still has both eyes.
775* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Wallace, one of the [[ScoutOut Poppy Rangers]], has an eye-patch she apparently gained [[NoodleIncident trying to earn one of her merit badges]]. She apparently [[WorthIt has no regrets]].
776* Octavia in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' wears her Force Captain badge as an eyepatch, covering the damage done when a young Catra scratched her on the eye.
777* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', Beast Boy gets an eyepatch made out of a metal plate and a chain as part of his "Scar Man" persona in the episode "Man Person".
778* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
779** Portrayed by [=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.
780** Parodied in "Arrgh!" when Spongebob and Patrick cosplay as pirates. Patrick puts eyepatches over ''both'' eyes and calls himself "[[CaptainColorbeard Blindbeard the Pirate]]". Of course, he can't see anything and trips, so he removes them.
781* In ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPugwash'', Pugwash's ArchNemesis Cut-Throat Jake sports an eyepatch and a SeadogBeard.
782* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}}'': The trailer shows Pibby with an eyepatch on after she receives [[EyeScream an injury to one eye]]. It ties into her maturation and CharacterDevelopment, as several scenes afterward show her acting as a sword-wielding leader.
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786* [[UsefulNotes/UnitedStates U.S.]] Representative Lt. Dan Crenshaw (R-[[UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} TX]]) wears an eyepatch (and, in conjunction with his beard, [[CelebrityResemblance arguably looks]] not unlike Big Boss.) A former Navy SEAL, Crenshaw lost his right eye in an IED blast in Afghanistan. Beneath it, he sports a glass eye with a Captain America emblem, which he showed to Creator/ChrisEvans.
787* One of Alexander's generals (and a later ruler in his own right), Antigonus, was known by the nickname ''"Monopthalmus"'', or "the One-Eyed". Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon was one-eyed as well but lacked an eyepatch. After his damaged eye had been surgically removed, it was then sewn shut defeating the purpose of an eyepatch completely, though some portrayals do feature him with one.
788* Though he didn't wear an eyepatch, UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson lost the sight in his right eye. He later went on to be arguably the most famous admiral in history. He famously ignored a signal not to engage a Danish fleet by holding his telescope to his blind eye and asserting that he could not see the signal to hold back. He went on to decisively win the Battle of Copenhagen. This event is considered the origin of the idiom "to turn a blind eye." As Captain Jack in the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series put it, "Lord Nelson is [[HistoricalInJoke a man of singular vision.]]"
789* UsefulNotes/HannibalBarca lost his eye while on the march from pink eye. Not long after this he launches a massive ambush on [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Roman]] forces in the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Battle of Lake Trasimene]].
790* UsefulNotes/DateMasamune lost an eye as a youth, and thus is often depicted as wearing an eyepatch. It didn't hinder him much, as he went on to defeat Japan's prominent strategists of the time. Legend says that he ripped it out himself when it was rendered useless by smallpox (though this is highly unlikely given that he was a young child when he contracted the illness). It earned him the nickname of One-Eyed Dragon; though it started off as a comment on his reckless nature, it later in his life became a term of respect. He is almost always portrayed with an eyepatch in fictional appearances, even though there's no record of him wearing one in real life.
791* Xiahou Dun, a Chinese general serving under Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Reputedly, he was such a badass that, when an arrow shot him in the eye, he plucked it out and ''[[EyeScream swallowed it to instill fear in his enemies.]]'' In most literary and pop culture depictions of him (read: ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''), he's wearing either an eyepatch or a bandanna around his eye.
792* UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei, one of the most famous and romanticized samurai of all time, is a somewhat more ambiguous case. Although portraits from his own time show him with two eyes, somewhere along the line of centuries spent telling and retelling his story it became traditional to depict him wearing an eyepatch. Whether the historical Jubei ever wore one or it comes from Kabuki exaggerations is open to debate, but it has become a traditional part of his character, usually with the explanation that he lost it as a child while training. Other movies show him being wounded by a cut to the face as an adult, but developing his skill to greater degrees afterwards.
793* Moshe Dayan, Israeli General and Defense Minister (including during the Six-Day war -- when Israel battled against 3 armies and still managed to triple its land mass in six days), lost his left eye while infiltrating Vichy France-controlled Syria in WWII; [[ScopeSnipe the binoculars he was looking through were shot]] and the glass and metal destroyed his eye socket (the bulk of the binoculars probably slowed the bullet enough to save his life). He didn't like his black eyepatch (he went through several unsuccessful surgeries in an attempt to be rid of it), but it did make him look pretty badass. Nor did it slow him down when it came to [[TheCasanova the ladies]] -- his first wife wrote a whole chapter of her autobiography about "Moshe's bad taste in women." When he was once stopped for speeding (with fellow minister/future PM and President Shimon Peres next to him), he told the police officer, "I can either look at the road or at the speedometer. Which would you prefer?"
794* UsefulNotes/JanZizka had already lost an eye, either in battle or due to a childhood accident depending on the source, by the time he became the leader of the Czech rebel faction in the Hussite Wars. He soon lost the other one as well but continued to lead his troops into battle personally despite being ''completely blind''. As is fitting for a man of his stature, he is the subject of the world's tallest equestrian statue in Prague.
795* John Pendlebury, a famous archaeologist lost one eye, and made a point of being better at athletics because people assumed he couldn't. He later became a war hero in WWII, fighting Nazis in a critical battle on Crete.
796* Canadian UsefulNotes/LeoMajor 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.
797* Director Raoul Walsh lost an eye in a car accident, and took to wearing a very large black eyepatch. Opinions on his films remain pretty mixed (a common statement is that he "never let the truth get in the way of a good story," due to films like ''Gentleman Jim'' and ''They Died With Their Boots On'' taking significant historical liberties) but he's certainly one of the toughest looking directors ever. He also directed ''The Roaring Twenties'', ''High Sierra'', ''They Drive By Night'', ''White Heat'', and many other famous gangster films. ''White Heat'' in particular was the most violent film at the time of its release, broke the censorship code completely, and caused several revisions to the Code, ultimately leading to its downfall twenty years later. ''High Sierra'' was also one of Humphrey Bogart's first not-completely-villainous roles, and led to his general stardom.
798* Many directors of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood suffered accidents in their eyes that led to them wearing eyepatches which helped give them an aura of authority and respect that maintained discipline on set. Creator/JohnFord, Creator/FritzLang, Andre de Toth and NicholasRay. The reasons why they wore eyepatches varies, with Lang having a weak eye on account of his service in the military during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI while others insist they wore it as a cool accessory.
799* Pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy are often depicted with eyepatches. This might have come from pirate captains who, needing to go above and below decks constantly, would put an eyepatch over one eye above deck to avoid losing their dark-vision in that eye. The tales of Arab pirate Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah, who wore it after losing an eye in battle in the 18th century, adds further fuel to the image.
800* The logo of the now-Las Vegas Raiders of the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague invokes the trope as part of their bad-boy outside-the-law image.
801%%(ZCE)* Crime novelist and child protection lawyer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachss Andrew Vachss]].
802* Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a German soldier and aristocrat who lost his left eye, right hand, and two fingers from his remaining hand during an Allied air raid. He was the German equivilent of a ColonelBadass and had won the Iron Cross before becoming completely convinced that Hitler needed to be killed. He took a leading role in the 20 July Plot, the closest anyone ever got to assassinating Hitler. He was popularly portrayed in the film ''[[{{Film/Valkyrie}} Valkyrie]]''.
803* Steve Watt, a Wyoming State Trooper, was shot five times by a bank robber, one bullet of which came within about a paper's width of damaging his brain. Fortunately, he got better. While he isn't a State Trooper anymore, his eyepatch now undoubtedly adds to his presence as a D.A.R.E. instructor and ordained minister.
804* As an aside, losing an eye would have very little, if any, effect on long-range rifle accuracy such as sniping (presuming it wasn't their dominant eye) - in fact, USMC recruits (at least as of the early 90s) would be taught to close the eye opposite the one being used to sight with, and even issued an eyepatch to cover that eye until they could break the habit of trying to use both eyes. At ranges over about 100 meters (give or take), human eyes simply aren't far enough apart to contribute greatly to depth perception, and visual references (the car or doorway the opponent is standing near, for example) are much better for use in estimating distance.
805* Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was an Anglo-Belgian aristocrat, soldier and diplomat, was wounded seven times during the First World War, [[MoeGreeneSpecial losing his left eye to a bullet]] and having his hand so badly mangled he bit his own fingers off. He went on to win a [[BlingOfWar Victoria Cross]] at La Boiselle, afterwards saying, [[BloodKnight "Frankly I enjoyed the war."]] He spent the inter-war period with the British military mission to Poland, fighting off Red Army cavalry with a revolver at Warsaw. When [=WWII=] rolled around he escaped Poland just ahead of the Wehrmacht, led an amphibious assault on Norway and was transferred to the Mediterranean just in time to be shot down and captured by the Italians, escaping five times despite being over sixty and speaking no Italian. Released as part of Italy's surrender in '43 he was then sent as Churchill's personal representative to China, where he called out UsefulNotes/MaoZedong to his face for holding back from fighting the Japanese, in favor of fighting the Nationalists. He did all this looking much like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart_by_Sir_William_Orpen.jpg Brigadier Lethbridge-Stuart's evil counterpart]], with a black eyepatch and a black moustache. A badass mofo in anyone's book and one of those crazy career soldiers Britain seemed to turn out like a production line prior to [=WWII=].
806* Creator/JamesJoyce often wore one. He was troubled by eyesight problems for much of his life, and underwent numerous eye surgeries.
807* Chilean TV host and IntrepidReporter Santiago Pavlovic lost an eye in a childhood accident. He now wears a spiffy eyepatch to cover it.
808* Russian [[FourStarBadass field marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov]], widely considered the best of Suvorov's pupils, got to wear one after his right eye was injured by a musket ball ([[MadeOfIron twice]]) and he started to get splitting headaches from its use. It also contributed to the myth that he was one-eyed.
809* War Journalist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Colvin Marie Colvin]] lost sight in one of her eyes due to a being caught in the blast of Sri-Lankan Army Rocket Propelled Grenade in 2001. She took to wearing an eyepatch after losing the sight in her eye due to the damage done to it.
810* British nuclear bomber crews were issued with eyepatches for fear that in a war they'd be blinded by all the atomic weapons going off. When one eye was blinded by a nuclear flash, they were supposed to switch over to the other, and hopefully there'd be a crewmember still able to see by the time they reached their target (returning home was not an issue, as there wouldn't have been enough fuel anyway).
811* Eyepatches are frequently used to correct amblyopia (lazy eye), especially in children.
812* Economist Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, [[http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/authors/rahn_oct2013.jpg wears an eyepatch over his right eye]].
813* The Austrian general Adam Albert von Neipperg lost his right eye to bayonet wounds at nineteen, in 1794 and wore an eyepatch after that. Historians mentioning him in passing often make a point of saying that this took nothing off his charm, and indeed, he became the lover and eventually morganatic husband of Marie-Louise, Napoleon's second wife.
814* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_de_Mendoza,_Princess_of_Eboli Ana de Mendoza]], a Spanish noblewoman of the 16th century famous for her beauty and court intrigues, wore an eyepatch over her right eye.
815* Even though duelling was outlawed in Prussia in 1851, and the rest of Germany upon its' founding as a result, German university fraternities still practised fencing duels, the idea being to slash the opponants' face in order to win. The scars were worn as a badge of honour, likewise a missing eye. Thus explaning why almost all fictional aristocratic villains of Germanic heritage would either sport a facial scar on the left of their face(Schmisse), or an eyepatch.
816* A [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] example comes in the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Oath Keepers]]' founder, Stewart Rhodes. In 1993, [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace he reportedly dropped a loaded handgun and it shot him in the face]], blinding him in his left eye.
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