Tropescilloscope: Eyepatch of Power

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

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