Tropescilloscope: Eyepatch of Power

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

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More Tropes The Stoic Anti-Villain Hypocritical Humor Dirty Cop Obstructive Bureaucrat War Is Hell Chekhov's Skill Rewatch Bonus Damsel in Distress Leitmotif "Shaggy Dog" Story Mercy Kill Man on Fire Fat Bastard My God, What Have I Done? Calling the Old Man Out Intrepid Reporter Recycled IN SPACE! Earn Your Happy Ending Television Movie Index Only in It for the Money Small Name, Big Ego Not So Above It All Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Precision F-Strike Berserk Button Only Known by Their Nickname Sassy Black Woman Heroes Want Redheads Historical Villain Upgrade Woman Scorned Dirty Old Man Decoy Protagonist Adaptation Distillation The Brute Action Girl Real Life Bottomless Magazines Made of Iron Male Frontal Nudity Does This Remind You of Anything? Dwindling Party Drives Like Crazy Slasher Smile Hidden Depths Adaptation Expansion Russian Films "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Hollywood Darkness Composite Character Vomit Discretion Shot Ripped from the Headlines Brainless Beauty Neck Snap Serious Business Mind Screw One-Man Army Deal with the Devil Naïve Newcomer Dirty Coward Department of Redundancy Department Parental Substitute Groin Attack The Bad Guy Wins The Faceless Martial Arts Movie Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Horror Comedy Faking the Dead Punch-Clock Villain Drill Sergeant Nasty Ungrateful Bastard Catapult Nightmare Karma Houdini Didn't Think This Through Fan Disservice Sequel Escalation Spell My Name with an "S" Creepy Child Refuge in Audacity Science Fiction Films Pimped-Out Dress Adaptational Attractiveness Bury Your Gays Expy No Celebrities Were Harmed Taking You with Me My Beloved Smother Black Best Friend Disney Death Fainting Dark and Troubled Past Apocalypse How Not So Stoic Captain Obvious Lighter and Softer Show Within a Show Tap on the Head Intergenerational Friendship Downer Ending Stealth Hi/Bye Riddle for the Ages Never Trust a Trailer Flashback All There in the Manual Taking the Bullet Tempting Fate Dark Is Not Evil It Can Think Reality Is Unrealistic Romantic Comedy Shirtless Scene Arc Words Retirony The Cavalry Bring My Brown Pants Random Events Plot Our Zombies Are Different Anyone Can Die Enemy Mine MacGuffin Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Smart Guy I Did What I Had to Do Broken Pedestal Important Haircut Interrupted Suicide Manly Tears Suspiciously Specific Denial Contrived Coincidence More Dakka The Bully Continuity Nod Determinator Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sports Stories Meaningful Name Film Series Death by Irony Madness Mantra Jerkass Has a Point The Voiceless Bavarian Fire Drill Product Placement Hollywood Law Left the Background Music On Good Is Not Nice Artistic License – Physics Genre Throwback Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gender Flip Naked People Are Funny The '70s Setting Update Wicked Cultured Big Brother Instinct Neck Lift Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Defiant to the End Cool Old Guy Ambiguously Gay The Mafia The Ditz Cruel and Unusual Death Genre Savvy Toplessness from the Back Brick Joke The Chessmaster Gone Horribly Right Double-Meaning Title Soundtrack Dissonance Author Appeal Butt-Monkey For Want of a Nail Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hooker with a Heart of Gold Slasher Movie Artistic License – Biology Coming-of-Age Story Visual Pun Dissonant Serenity Never My Fault Half the Man He Used to Be Belligerent Sexual Tension Be Careful What You Wish For Action Prologue Scenery Gorn Card-Carrying Villain Chekhov's Gun Evil Plan Christmas Movies Index '80s Hair Grievous Bottley Harm Those Wacky Nazis Peek-a-Boo Corpse Artistic License – Law Bound and Gagged Running Gag Race Lift Dropped a Bridge on Him Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Frame-Up Dogged Nice Guy Romantic False Lead All There in the Script Cat Scare Heel Realization Last-Name Basis Black Dude Dies First From Nobody to Nightmare Papa Wolf Logo Joke Pretty in Mink The Musical Chekhov's Gunman Fantasy Films Fanservice Extra Dull Surprise Shoot the Shaggy Dog Yandere Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Gold Digger Victoria's Secret Compartment You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Word of God Dumb Blonde Parental Neglect Unusually Uninteresting Sight Historical-Domain Character Hypocrite Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Attempted Rape Hoist by His Own Petard Villainous Breakdown Failed a Spot Check Red Oni, Blue Oni Badass Bookworm Silent Movie Killed Mid-Sentence Genre Shift Death by Sex I Have Your Wife Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Action Survivor Arch-Enemy Plucky Comic Relief Totally Radical Adaptational Heroism Poor Communication Kills Sequel Hook Comically Missing the Point World of Ham Amoral Attorney Disney Villain Death And the Adventure Continues Empathic Environment Nice Hat Blackmail Properly Paranoid Sealed Evil in a Can A Date with Rosie Palms No Name Given You Killed My Father Destination Defenestration Black Comedy Rape Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ironic Echo Country Matters Well-Intentioned Extremist Badass Boast Adult Fear Never Found the Body Extreme Doormat Unusual Euphemism Face–Heel Turn Manchild Obviously Evil Not What It Looks Like Big "NO!" Villain Song Amusing Injuries No Ending BFG Vomit Indiscretion Shot Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Famous Last Words Guns Akimbo German Films Same Language Dub Tranquil Fury An Arm and a Leg Jerk with a Heart of Gold Four-Temperament Ensemble Stylistic Suck Wounded Gazelle Gambit Psychopathic Manchild Kill It with Fire Made of Explodium The Casanova I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Humiliation Conga Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pet the Dog The Smurfette Principle Bittersweet Ending Closed Circle Insistent Terminology Dual Wielding Creator Cameo Jerk Jock Sir Swears-a-Lot Say My Name Gilligan Cut Mistaken for Gay Thriller La Résistance Hate Sink The Place Framing Device Homage All for Nothing Blood from the Mouth Once More, with Clarity! Eagleland Mugging the Monster Ship Tease Straight Gay It Will Never Catch On Artistic License – History Knife Nut Adults Are Useless Dramatic Irony Back from the Dead Title Drop Batman Gambit Heroic Sacrifice Blood Knight Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Shell-Shocked Veteran Took a Level in Badass A Minor Kidroduction Overprotective Dad Even Evil Has Loved Ones Unresolved Sexual Tension Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Mood Whiplash Wham Shot Canon Foreigner Funny Background Event Eye Scream Call-Back Expository Hairstyle Change For the Evulz Dramedy Armor-Piercing Question Mystery and Detective Films Whole Plot Reference Curb-Stomp Battle Married to the Job The End... Or Is It? Nothing Is Scarier Kill 'em All Immune to Bullets Fake Shemp Foil Noodle Incident Oh, Crap! Plot Hole Redshirt Army Take a Third Option Vacation Films Paper-Thin Disguise Ascended Extra The Atoner Rasputinian Death Evil Laugh Big Bad Duumvirate Sanity Slippage As the Good Book Says... Adaptational Villainy Music Stories Irony Easily Forgiven Better to Die than Be Killed Greater-Scope Villain NO INDOOR VOICE Rule of Symbolism Bloody Hilarious Bare Your Midriff Due to the Dead Narrator Hope Spot Get Out! Not Using the "Z" Word The Stoner Artistic License – Gun Safety Bi the Way Early-Bird Cameo Punny Name Take That! Combat Pragmatist Maybe Ever After Fire-Forged Friends The Alleged Car Improvised Weapon Bait-and-Switch Revenge Scare Chord Evil vs. Evil Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Major Injury Underreaction Cluster F-Bomb Age Lift It's Personal Karmic Death Wham Line Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Depraved Bisexual Training Montage Spared by the Adaptation Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – Military The Great Depression Imagine Spot Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Un-Reveal Distracted by the Sexy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Early Installment Weirdness Laughing Mad Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Action Genre Race Against the Clock Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Alcoholic Anti-Hero 20 Minutes into the Future Bond Villain Stupidity Unreliable Narrator Demonic Possession Reality Ensues Mythology Gag All Men Are Perverts Manipulative Bastard Author Avatar Bowdlerise Evil Is Petty Only One Name The Dragon Lock and Load Montage Black and Gray Morality Deliberately Monochrome The Hero Accidental Murder Crapsack World Asshole Victim Playing Gertrude Cat Fight Conspicuous CG The Oner Real Life Writes the Plot Silence Is Golden Fantastic Racism As Himself Break the Haughty Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ominous Latin Chanting Woman in White Dramatic Gun Cock Lampshade Hanging The Chick Meet Cute The Reveal Cain and Abel A Father to His Men Mexican Standoff Green-Eyed Monster Shut Up, Hannibal! Handicapped Badass Daddy's Girl Token Minority Adaptational Badass Character Development Mr. Fanservice Jump Scare Scenery Porn Corrupt Corporate Executive Blatant Lies Demoted to Extra Catch-Phrase Biopic Instant Death Bullet Kick the Dog Non-Indicative Name Spiritual Successor The Power of Love You Have Outlived Your Usefulness This Is Gonna Suck Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Hero Dies Hero Antagonist Break the Cutie Face Death with Dignity Chewing the Scenery No-Sell Broken Aesop Retired Badass Laser-Guided Karma Meaningful Background Event Beta Couple Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies My Greatest Failure Motor Mouth Morality Pet He Who Fights Monsters Informed Ability Bad "Bad Acting" Even Evil Has Standards Bond One-Liner Epic Movie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Loophole Abuse Red Herring Evil-Detecting Dog As You Know Bald of Evil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Damn Heroes Bloodless Carnage Deus ex Machina Politically Incorrect Villain Funny Foreigner Your Head A-Splode Broken Bird Translation Convention Bar Brawl Male Gaze Fourth Date Marriage Mundane Made Awesome Death Glare O.O.C. Is Serious Business Redemption Equals Death The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Jerkass Dying Moment of Awesome Older Than They Look Rousing Speech Room Full of Crazy Stepford Smiler Gory Discretion Shot Evil Sounds Deep Abusive Parents Covers Always Lie Off-into-the-Distance Ending Adaptation Name Change Canadian Movies Protagonist Title Bland-Name Product Stock Footage Big Applesauce Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ass Shove Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Put on a Bus May–December Romance An Aesop Award-Bait Song Children Are Innocent Red Eyes, Take Warning Re-Cut Badass Longcoat Sexy Discretion Shot Love at First Sight Heterosexual Life-Partners Captain Ersatz Horror Films The '50s Star-Crossed Lovers Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Camera Abuse The Starscream Kick the Son of a Bitch Annoying Younger Sibling Vitriolic Best Buds Make It Look Like an Accident Curse Cut Short After the End Historical Hero Upgrade Arranged Marriage Death of a Child Police Brutality Getting Crap Past the Radar Red Shirt She's Got Legs The Film of the Book Dutch Angle Darkest Hour Sci-Fi Horror Not Even Bothering with the Accent Disproportionate Retribution Unwitting Instigator of Doom Kids Are Cruel Idiot Ball Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Epic Fail Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Heroic BSoD Everyone Has Standards Anachronism Stew Undying Loyalty Almost Kiss Market-Based Title Rule of Three Serial Killer Does Not Like Shoes Slap-Slap-Kiss Bolivian Army Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees Have a Gay Old Time Crazy Jealous Guy Badass in a Nice Suit Brutal Honesty Sinister Minister Would Hit a Girl Parental Incest All Girls Want Bad Boys The Ace Slashed Throat Love Triangle Really Gets Around Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Quiet One Every Car Is a Pinto Gainax Ending Off with His Head! Pragmatic Villainy Breaking the Fourth Wall Japanese Films Final Girl Danny Peary Cult Movies List Affectionate Parody Suspiciously Similar Substitute Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Heel–Face Turn Pragmatic Adaptation Alliterative Name The Stinger Foreshadowing Together in Death Stuff Blowing Up Smug Snake Eureka Moment Double Entendre Big Bad Alpha Bitch Nice Guy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Ghost Animal Motifs The Remake Agony of the Feet Red Right Hand Rule of Funny What You Are in the Dark Reckless Gun Usage Cool Shades You Have Failed Me Would Hurt a Child Obfuscating Stupidity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! One-Word Title Fish out of Water Central Theme Film Noir Drugs Are Bad Honor Before Reason Bloodier and Gorier Advertised Extra Reasonable Authority Figure Improbable Weapon User Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Military and Warfare Films Fatal Family Photo Film Noir Index Happily Married Adorkable Actor Allusion Outrun the Fireball Humans Are Bastards The Dog Bites Back Sole Survivor Deconstruction Here We Go Again! Gratuitous English Darker and Edgier Bullying a Dragon Freudian Excuse Line-of-Sight Name Death Seeker The Vamp Soft Glass Wretched Hive Corpsing Only a Flesh Wound A.I. Is a Crapshoot Disguised in Drag Malevolent Masked Men The Dreaded Femme Fatale Ambiguous Ending Fatal Flaw Eiffel Tower Effect Deliberate Values Dissonance Retcon Australian Movies Big Eater Rape as Drama The Sociopath Spanner in the Works An Axe to Grind Babies Ever After Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Dies Wide Open Implacable Man Let's Get Dangerous! Loads and Loads of Characters I Need a Freaking Drink Friend to All Children Evil Counterpart And I Must Scream Took a Level in Jerkass Mad Scientist Offscreen Teleportation Needs Wiki Magic Love Time Skip Parental Abandonment I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Fiery Redhead Jitter Cam Foregone Conclusion Scary Black Man Your Cheating Heart Mama Bear Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Pay Evil unto Evil All Just a Dream The '80s Evil Is Hammy Cowboy Cop Video Credits Beauty Is Never Tarnished "Awesome McCool" Name Dark Reprise Hell Is That Noise In the Back Police are Useless Villain Ball Gorn Ambiguous Disorder Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Credits Gag Developing Doomed Characters Only Sane Man Diabolus ex Machina Improbable Aiming Skills Casting Gag Extremely Short Timespan Big Fancy House Ugly Guy, Hot Wife As Long as It Sounds Foreign Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Anachronic Order Beard of Evil The X of Y Alas, Poor Villain Unspoken Plan Guarantee Costume Porn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism One Steve Limit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Crucified Hero Shot The Big Guy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Evil Brit Mr. Exposition Dressing as the Enemy Camp Gay Shipper on Deck Cloudcuckoolander timeperiod Badass Normal Freeze-Frame Bonus Bad Boss Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Aside Glance B-Movie Sadistic Choice Establishing Character Moment Self-Deprecation Facial Horror The '60s Domestic Abuse Big-Bad Ensemble Sacrificial Lion Eyepatch of Power Mighty Whitey Large Ham Cool Old Lady Eldritch Abomination Ax-Crazy Kubrick Stare Flipping the Bird Hair-Trigger Temper Villain Protagonist Tagline Black Comedy Celebrity Paradox Missing Mom Awesome, but Impractical Insane Troll Logic Truth in Television Fun with Acronyms Monumental Damage Those Two Bad Guys Chiaroscuro The Cameo Spiteful Spit Knight Templar Actually Pretty Funny Defrosting Ice Queen Offscreen Moment of Awesome He Knows Too Much Rule of Cool Public Domain Feature Films I'm a Humanitarian Super Strength Skewed Priorities Psycho for Hire Cool Guns British Films Did Not Get the Girl Not Quite Dead Posthumous Character Adaptation Dye-Job Animated Credits Opening Insult Backfire Hero of Another Story Car Fu She Cleans Up Nicely Animal Title Index Pretty Little Headshots Henpecked Husband French Films Book-Ends Shown Their Work The Lancer Rated M for Manly Becoming the Mask True Companions Smoking Is Cool Call-Forward Accidental Misnaming Match Cut How We Got Here Wrong Genre Savvy Vampire Fiction From Bad to Worse Twist Ending Cool Car Badass Grandpa Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fingore Rich Bitch Our Vampires Are Different Shout-Out Ghost Fiction Shower Scene Bilingual Bonus Drowning My Sorrows Crazy-Prepared Zombie Stories Boom, Headshot! Stalker with a Crush Despair Event Horizon Hong Kong Films Fate Worse than Death Italian Films Deadpan Snarker Faux Affably Evil The Mole Suddenly SHOUTING! Novelization Artistic License – Geography Ms. Fanservice Brother–Sister Incest Cold-Blooded Torture "Well Done, Son!" Guy Daylight Horror Too Dumb to Live Moment Killer Body Horror Creative Closing Credits And Starring Those Two Guys Stealth Pun Superhero Exact Words Overly Long Gag Betty and Veronica Beware the Nice Ones It's All About Me Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie What the Hell, Hero? Grey and Gray Morality Index of Film Westerns Death by Adaptation Leaning on the Fourth Wall Light Is Not Good Worthy Opponent Fanservice Determinator aka: The Determinator "The Reason You Suck" Speech Abhorrent Admirer Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Adapted Out Authority Equals Asskicking A God Am I Mooks N-Word Privileges folderlabel Villain with Good Publicity No Antagonist Chase Scene Villain Opening Scene The Lost Lenore In Medias Res Leave the Camera Running Five-Man Band Documentary Meaningful Echo Cassandra Truth Roaring Rampage of Revenge Not So Different Guile Hero Historical In-Joke Air-Vent Passageway No OSHA Compliance Pre-Mortem One-Liner Works Set in World War II Based on a True Story The Load In Name Only Dark Action Girl Reality Has No Subtitles Affably Evil What Happened to the Mouse? The '90s Trailers Always Spoil Men Are the Expendable Gender Manic Pixie Dream Girl Antagonist Title Anguished Declaration of Love Up to Eleven Storming the Castle Disappeared Dad Psychological Thriller Auto Erotica Driven to Suicide