Tropescilloscope: Eyepatch of Power

An eyepatch makes a character look badass. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Last-Name Basis Lighter and Softer '80s Hair Bond One-Liner Demoted to Extra From Bad to Worse Tempting Fate From Nobody to Nightmare B-Movie Double Entendre Book-Ends Match Cut Offscreen Moment of Awesome Creator Cameo Defrosting Ice Queen Jerkass Face Death with Dignity Villain Protagonist Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Jitter Cam Ambiguous Ending Chewing the Scenery N-Word Privileges Hooker with a Heart of Gold Genre Shift Dual Wielding Playing Gertrude Air-Vent Passageway Determinator Our Zombies Are Different Eldritch Abomination Idiot Ball Shower Scene Black and Gray Morality Pragmatic Adaptation Not What It Looks Like Dressing as the Enemy Faking the Dead Those Two Bad Guys War Is Hell Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Brit Demonic Possession Camera Abuse Unusual Euphemism Not Even Bothering with the Accent You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Blackmail The Mafia Light Is Not Good Scenery Gorn The Vamp Nothing Is Scarier Creepy Child Skewed Priorities Brainless Beauty Does Not Like Shoes Black Comedy Rape Informed Ability Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Atoner Adult Fear Comically Missing the Point Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Belligerent Sexual Tension Combat Pragmatist Badass Boast The Oner Mooks True Companions French Films Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Blood Knight Didn't Think This Through Red Oni, Blue Oni Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Drowning My Sorrows Vomit Discretion Shot Death by Adaptation Made of Explodium Reality Has No Subtitles Film Series And Starring Aluminum Christmas Trees It's Personal Slap-Slap-Kiss Line-of-Sight Name Imagine Spot All Just a Dream Big Brother Instinct Broken Bird Zombie Stories Fate Worse than Death Anachronic Order The Voiceless Actor Allusion Guns Akimbo Serious Business Drugs Are Bad Agony of the Feet Developing Doomed Characters Smoking Is Cool Adaptational Attractiveness Call-Back Frame-Up The Dragon Amoral Attorney Vacation Films Psycho for Hire Mr. Exposition A God Am I Easily Forgiven Batman Gambit Handicapped Badass Villainous Breakdown For the Evulz Animal Title Index Expy Evil Sounds Deep Kick the Dog Empathic Environment Closed Circle Precision F-Strike Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Car Fu Curb-Stomp Battle More Dakka Earn Your Happy Ending Evil Laugh Lock and Load Montage Eye Scream Villain Opening Scene Instant Death Bullet Broken Aesop Epic Movie Parental Abandonment Dirty Old Man Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Big Eater Spiteful Spit What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is Serious Business Shout-Out Video Credits Historical Hero Upgrade Shipper on Deck Crucified Hero Shot Token Minority Title Drop Psychopathic Manchild Antagonist Title Dumb Blonde Heel Realization Knife Nut Thriller Took a Level in Badass Unspoken Plan Guarantee Distracted by the Sexy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fantastic Racism As Himself As Long as It Sounds Foreign Men Are the Expendable Gender Scary Black Man Foil And I Must Scream Disney Villain Death Major Injury Underreaction Irony Happily Married No Name Given All Men Are Perverts Corrupt Corporate Executive Redemption Equals Death The Hero Guile Hero Adaptation Distillation Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Chick Taking You with Me Jerkass Has a Point Domestic Abuse Spared by the Adaptation Sci-Fi Horror Superhero Fingore In Medias Res Good Is Not Nice Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Up to Eleven Not So Different Artistic License – Physics Product Placement Half the Man He Used to Be Important Haircut Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Recycled IN SPACE! 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