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An eyepatch is a small patch that is worn in front of one eye. It may be a cloth patch attached around the head by an elastic band or by a string, or an adhesive bandage. It is often worn by people to cover a lost or injured eye, but it also has a therapeutic use in children for the treatment of amblyopia
Amblyopia

Amblyopia, otherwise known as lazy eye, is a Disease of the visual system that is characterized by poor or indistinct Visual perception in an eye that is otherwise physically normal, or out of proportion to associated structural abnormalities....
. (See orthoptics and vision therapy
Vision therapy

Vision therapy, also known as visual training, vision training, or visual therapy, is a group of techniques attempting variously to correct or improve presumed ocular, oculomotor, visual processing, and perceptual disorders." Vision therapy encompasses a wide variety of non-surgical methods which some have divided into two...
.)

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In the years before advanced medicine and surgery, eyepatches were common.






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An eyepatch is a small patch that is worn in front of one eye. It may be a cloth patch attached around the head by an elastic band or by a string, or an adhesive bandage. It is often worn by people to cover a lost or injured eye, but it also has a therapeutic use in children for the treatment of amblyopia
Amblyopia

Amblyopia, otherwise known as lazy eye, is a Disease of the visual system that is characterized by poor or indistinct Visual perception in an eye that is otherwise physically normal, or out of proportion to associated structural abnormalities....
. (See orthoptics and vision therapy
Vision therapy

Vision therapy, also known as visual training, vision training, or visual therapy, is a group of techniques attempting variously to correct or improve presumed ocular, oculomotor, visual processing, and perceptual disorders." Vision therapy encompasses a wide variety of non-surgical methods which some have divided into two...
.)

History


In the years before advanced medicine and surgery, eyepatches were common. They were particularly prevalent among members of dangerous occupations, such as sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
s and blacksmith
Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a person who processess iron or steel by forging the metal; i.e., by using tools to hammer, bend, cut, and otherwise shape it in its non-liquid form....
s. Sailors would also wear them over one eye above deck and then switch it over in order to be able to see in the dark below deck. David Bowie made it a fashion statement in 1972.

Today, with prosthetic eyes increasingly accessible, eyepatches are no longer common.

Sailors

Piratey, Vector Version
Eye patches may have had a more practical purpose for sailors and pilots.

Sailors (stereotyped by the eye-patch-wearing pirate) who often went above and below deck, used eye patches to have one eye adjusted for the top deck and the other eye already adjusted for the darkness when suddenly going below deck. The strong sunlight while above deck on an oceangoing vessel could require minutes of adjustment to the dim lighting below deck. With virtually no light sources below deck, sailors would have to rely heavily upon their eyes to adjust. In the critical moments of modifying the rigging, navigating, and especially during battle, those minutes were too precious. A simple switch of the patch from one eye to the other saved time and was more convenient than being temporarily blinded when going between decks.

This was deemed plausible on the January 17, 2007 episode of MythBusters
MythBusters

MythBusters is a popular science television program produced by Australian firm Beyond Television Productions originally for the Discovery Channel in the United States and Canada....
.

Pilots


Similarly, pilots at one time would also do the same, when flying at night over brightly lit cities, so that one eye could look out, and the other would be adjusted for the dim lighting of the cockpit to read unlit instruments and maps.

When flashlights with red bulbs, backlit instruments, and other modern instruments came along, that no longer was necessary, just as boats and ships evolving into being well lit made eye patches a thing of the past.

Some military pilots have worn a lead-lined or gold-lined eyepatch, to protect against blindness in both eyes, in the event of a nuclear blast
Effects of nuclear explosions

The energy released from a nuclear weapon detonated in the troposphere can be divided into four basic categories:*explosion—40-50% of total energy...
 or laser weapon
Laser applications

There are many scientific, military, medical and commercial laser applications which have been developed since the invention of the laser in the 1958....
 attack.

Amblyopia


Eye patching is used in management of children at risk of amblyopia
Amblyopia

Amblyopia, otherwise known as lazy eye, is a Disease of the visual system that is characterized by poor or indistinct Visual perception in an eye that is otherwise physically normal, or out of proportion to associated structural abnormalities....
 (lazy eye), especially strabismic
Strabismus

Strabismus is a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other. It typically involves a lack of coordination between the Muscles of orbits that prevents bringing the gaze of each eye to the same point in space and preventing proper binocular vision, which may adversely affect depth perception....
 or anisometropic
Anisometropia

Anisometropia is the condition in which the two eyes have unequal refractive power; that is, are in different states of myopia , hyperopia or in the extreme, antimetropia , the unequal refractive states cause unequal rotations thus leading to diplopia and asthenopia....
 amblyopia.

These conditions can cause visual suppression of the dissimilar images by the brain, resulting in blindness in an otherwise functional eye.

By patching the good eye, the amblyopic eye is forced to function, causing vision to be retained.

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  • Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
    Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov

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  • Jan Zizka (Czech general and Hussite
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     (Czechoslovak general and polictian)
  • Bushwick Bill
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  • Gabrielle
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  • Raoul Walsh
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  • André De Toth
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  • Nicholas Ray
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  • James Joyce
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     (he was known to wear one even though he never lost an eye)
  • Wiley Post
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  • Andrew Vachss
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  • Slick Rick
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  • Date Masamune
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  • José Millán Astray
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  • Jamey Sheridan
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  • Ray Sawyer
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    , lead vocalist for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
  • Claus von Stauffenberg
  • Rich Williams
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    , Kansas
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     guitarist
  • Sammy Davis Jr. (singer, entertainer, member of the infamous "Rat Pack", lost eye in an auto accident 1954)
  • Nivek Ogre
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    , singer of Skinny Puppy
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  • David Bowie
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     (British singer)
  • Pete Burns
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     (Leader sing of British New Wave band, Dead or Alive)
  • Ron Hamilton
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  • Victor Page
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  • Barbara Boggs Sigmund
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  • Dick Curless
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  • Jean-Marie Le Pen
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     (French far-right politician, lost his left eye in a brawl)
  • GX Jupitter-Larsen
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    GX Jupitter-Larsen is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who has been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s....
     (Noise Musician/The Haters)
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    Bobby Helms was an United States singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957....
  • Joao Stotz
  • Katie Bore


Fictional eyepatch-wearers

  • Dr. Serizawa (Gojira
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     [1954] and the 1956 Amercanized version titled Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
    Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

    Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is a 1956 United States black-and-white science fiction film adapted from the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla , which had previously been shown Subtitle d in the United States in Japanese community theaters only, and was not known in Europe....
    )
  • Miss Astrid, from the burlesque show The Va Va Voom Room (actrss Katherine Valentine)
  • The Red Bamboo Commander in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster
    Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster

    Godzilla versus the Sea Monster , released in Japan as , is a 1966 tokusatsu film directed by Jun Fukuda and written by Shinichi Sekizawa. It was the seventh film to be released in the Godzilla franchise....
    .
  • Antoine, an Agent of the Upright Citizens Brigade
    Upright Citizens Brigade

    The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago, Illinois's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The most recent incarnation consists of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts , and Matt Walsh ....
  • Dr. Kiriko, the 'rival' of the namesake main character of Black Jack (Manga)
    Black Jack (manga)

    is a manga written by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the eponymous doctor Black Jack .Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained episodes that are typically about 20 pages long....
  • Lockon Stratos
    Lockon Stratos

    is the codename of two fictional characters in the Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The original Lockon's real name was. He was a Gundam Meister and piloted the GN-002 Gundam Dynames....
    , Gundam pilot from Gundam 00
  • Snake Plissken
    Snake Plissken

    S.D. "Snake" Plissken is a fictional character in John Carpenter's films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A., played by Kurt Russell....
     (    Escape from New York
    Escape from New York

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     and Escape from L.A.
    Escape from L.A.

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     protagonist)
  • Deathstroke
    Deathstroke

    Deathstroke the Terminator , originally simply the Terminator, is a fictional character, a supervillain and sometime anti-hero in the DC Comics DC Universe....
     A fictional character, a supervillain and sometime anti-hero in the DC Comics Universe.
  • Jesse Custer (Preacher
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    Preacher is a term the for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies.Some believe a preacher is distinct from a theologian by focusing on the communication rather than the development of doctrine....
     main character)
  • Man from Estwyck - Survivor of a Wendol
    Wendol

    The Wendol are members of a fictional enemy race in the film The 13th Warrior and the Michael Crichton novel Eaters of the Dead on which it is based....
     attack in the movie     The 13th Warrior
    The 13th Warrior

    The 13th Warrior is a 1999 action film based on the novel Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park of Jurassic Park . It is directed by John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, and an uncredited Crichton, and starring Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan and Vladimir Kulich as Buliwyf ....
  • Nao Yuuki manga/anime character from My-HiME
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    is an anime series, created by Sunrise . Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino , the series originally premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005....
  • Lucia Nahashi manga/anime character from Venus Versus Virus
    Venus Versus Virus

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  • Captain Harlock
    Captain Harlock

    is a fictional character created by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto.Harlock is the archetypical romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life....
     manga/anime character appearing in various works by Leiji Matsumoto
    Leiji Matsumoto

    is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife is also known as a manga artist ....
  • Hortense Toomey (Earthly Powers
    Earthly Powers

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     sister of main character)
  • Natsuo Sagan
    Loveless (manga)

    Loveless is a fantasy manga by Yun Kouga. It is currently serialized in the monthly magazine Monthly Comic Zero Sum published by Ichijinsha....
     (Loveless (manga)
    Loveless (manga)

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    )
  • The Wicked Witch of the West (Land of Oz
    Land of Oz

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     villain)
  • Demian Martinez Guerra (Mundo de Fieras
    Mundo de Fieras

    Mundo de Fieras was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Venevisi?n. It was written by Ligia Lezama and directed by Gabriel Walfenzao....
     villain)
  • Bazooka Joe
    Bazooka Joe

    Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character, featured on small comics included inside individually wrapped pieces of Bazooka bubble gum.He wears an eyepatch, lending him a distinctive appearance....
     (Bazooka (chewing gum)
    Bazooka (chewing gum)

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     comic strip main character)
  • Beatrix (Final Fantasy IX
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     character)
  • Captain Pip Bernadette of the Hellsing manga
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  • Big Boss, aka Naked Snake (a central character in the Metal Gear
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     series)
  • Sally Brown
    Sally Brown

    Sally Ann Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz....
     in     Peanuts wore one to treat amblyopia
    Amblyopia

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    .
  • Fuhrer King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist
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     character)
  • General Chang (played by Christopher Plummer
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     in     Star Trek VI)
  • Gotrek Gurnisson (Protagonist of the Gotrek and Felix
    Gotrek and Felix

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     novels by William King
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     and Nathan Long, set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe)
  • Rooster Cogburn
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     (played by John Wayne
    John Wayne

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     in     True Grit
    True Grit

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     and Rooster Cogburn
    Rooster Cogburn

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    )
  • Captain Francesca 'Franky' Cook (played by Angelina Jolie
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     in     Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

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    )
  • Fancy Crane
    Fancy Crane

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     (    Passions
    Passions

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    ; following a 2006 eye injury)
  • Dalton (Chrono Trigger
    Chrono Trigger

    is a console role-playing game video game developer and video game publisher by Square Co. for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. The game's story follows a group of adventurers who travel through time to prevent a global catastrophe....
    )
  • Dangermouse
    DangerMouse

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  • Chihiro (Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two)
  • Dee
    Dee

    Dee might refer to:*a name of the letter "D"*a familiar form of the name Cordelia, Deanna, Deidre, Denise, Diane, Dianne, Dolores, Douglas, Jody? Mandy....
     (    Preacher
    Preacher

    Preacher is a term the for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies.Some believe a preacher is distinct from a theologian by focusing on the communication rather than the development of doctrine....
     character)
  • Elle Driver (Kill Bill
    Kill Bill

    Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-Film director Quentin Tarantino. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate volumes due to its running time of approximately four hours....
     villainess)
  • Nick Fury
    Nick Fury

    Colonel Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury is a fictional character World War II army hero and present-day spy fiction in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe....
     (Marvel Comics
    Marvel Comics

    Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
     superhero)
  • Monica Geller
    Monica Geller

    Monica E. Geller is a fictional character on the popular United States TV series situation comedy Friends , played by Courteney Cox. Monica is known as the "Mother Hen" of the group and her Greenwich Village apartment was one of the group's main gathering places....
     (    Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    , "The One with Chandler in a Box")
  • Gippal (Final Fantasy X-2
    Final Fantasy X-2

    is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. for Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 2. It was released in 2003 and is the sequel to the best-selling 2001 game Final Fantasy X....
     character)
  • The "Man in the Hathaway Shirt" (advertising campaign of the 1950s)
  • "Wildcat" Chris Harris (currently wearing an eyepatch in kayfabe
    Kayfabe

    In professional wrestling, kayfabe is the portrayal of events within the industry as "real", that is, the portrayal of professional wrestling as being not staged or not List of professional wrestling terms#W....
     as part of his character in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
    Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

    Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is an United States professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett in May 2002....
    )
  • Jarlaxle
    Jarlaxle

    Jarlaxle is a fictional character in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. He first appeared in the 1990 novel, Exile, by R....
     (Forgotten Realms
    Forgotten Realms

    The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, created by game designer Ed Greenwood, around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories....
     dark elf rogue)
  • Steve "Patch" Johnson (Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives

    Days of our Lives is an United States soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world....
    )
  • Katsuichi
    Katsuichi

    Katsuichi is a supporting character in the Usagi Yojimbo anthropomorphic comic book series. His name is said by Stan Sakai to be a combination of Katsu and ichi or, "One who wins"....
     (    Usagi Yojimbo
    Usagi Yojimbo

    is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1984.Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period Japan , with anthropomorphism animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who is partially based on the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi....
     character)
  • Deunan Knute
    Deunan Knute

    is a character and the main protagonist from the science fiction manga Appleseed and its adaptations in anime. Along with her partner Briareos Hecatonchires, she is one of ESWAT's most important members....
     (    Appleseed
    Appleseed

    is a science fiction manga authored by Masamune Shirow. The series follows the adventures of ESWAT members Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires in Olympus....
     Main Character)
  • Emilio Largo
    Emilio Largo

    Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond novel Thunderball . In the novel he is depicted according to the British stereotypes about Italians as a large, olive-skinned, powerful man exuding animal charm, with a profile of a Roman emperor and hairy hands which are likened to crawling tarantulas....
     (James Bond
    James Bond

    James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
     villain)
  • Mikhail Bakunin
    Characters of Lost

    The characters from the American drama/adventure Television program Lost were created by by Damon Lindelof, J. J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Airlines crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
     (A character on the TV show     Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
    )
  • Zakuro Mitsukai (Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
    Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

    is a fiction series written by Masaki Okayu and illustrated by Torishimo. It centers around a young boy and an angel from the future who constantly gets him into trouble and kills him violently and repeatedly with a kanabo, only to Resurrection him seconds later....
    )
  • Wolf O'Donnell (Star Fox villain)
  • Patchy the Pirate (SpongeBob SquarePants
    SpongeBob SquarePants

    SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated Television program and media franchise. It is currently one of Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Network's most-watched show....
    )
  • Seamus
    List of characters from Family Guy

    These are characters from the popular animated TV series Family Guy. Characters are only listed once, normally under the first applicable subsection in the list; very minor characters are listed with a more regular character with whom they are associated....
     (    Family Guy
    Family Guy

    Family Guy is an animated cartoon Television in the United States Situation comedy created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox Broadcasting Company and regularly on other television networks in syndication....
     character)
  • Random Hero (Haggard: The Movie
    Haggard: The Movie

    Haggard is a 2003 independent comedy film based on the true story of how Ryan Dunn's promiscuous girlfriend cheated on him. The film was financed, directed and produced by Bam Margera....
     character)
  • Lavi
    Lavi

    Lavi is a kibbutz in the Lower Galilee area of Israel. It is a member of the Religious Kibbutz Movement.Located 310 meters above sea level and 10 minutes from Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council....
     (D.Gray-man
    D.Gray-man

    is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. The series tells the story of a boy named Allen Walker who is able to use an ancient substance called Innocence, and becomes an Exorcist in order to collect all the Innocence that is lost in the world alongside other Exorcists and to defeat the List of D.Gray-man cha...
     character)
  • Commander Red (Dragon Ball character)
  • Yagyu Retsudo (Lone Wolf and Cub
    Lone Wolf and Cub

    is a well-known gekiga or manga created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima. Its story led to the creation of six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four plays, a television series starring Kinnosuke Yorozuya, and much more....
     main villain)
  • Sagat
    Sagat

    is a boss video game character from the early editions of Capcom's Street Fighter versus fighting game series. He was later turned into a regular, player character....
     (    Street Fighter
    Street Fighter

    , commonly abbreviated as SF, is a popular series of fighting games in which the players pit competitive fighters from around the world, each with his or her own Special attack, against one another....
     character)
  • Saito
    Saito (Ghost in the Shell)

    Saito is a fictional character from the anime series, Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C.. Among the members of Public Security Section 9, he is regarded as one of the least cyberized....
     (    Ghost in the Shell
    Ghost in the Shell

    is a Japanese people cyberpunk manga created by Masamune Shirow, and first published in 1989 in Young Magazine. A collected edition was released in 1991; a sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface, was released in 2002; and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, was released in 2003, which contain...
     character)
  • Ramon (King of Fighters
    King of Fighters

    , officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of fighting games by SNK Playmore, formerly SNK. The series was originally video game developer for SNK's Neo Geo arcade hardware, which served as the main platform for the series until 2004, when SNK retired the MVS in favor of the Atomiswave arcade board and will move the series to the Taito Ty...
     character)
  • Phil Ken Sebben (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a United States animated television series comedy created by Williams Street that aired on Cartoon Network during its Adult Swim late night programming block....
     character)
  • Piotr Skut
    Piotr Skut

    Piotr Skut is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Herg?. He is an eyepatch-wearing Estonian pilot and radio expert, who appears in two albums: The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714....
     – Estonia
    Estonia

    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
    n aeroplane pilot in     The Adventures of Tintin
    The Adventures of Tintin

    The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic strips created by Belgium artist Herg?, the pen name of Georges Remi . The series first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper on 10 January 1929....
  • Solidus Snake (Metal Gear Solid 2
    Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

    is a stealth game video game directed by Hideo Kojima, video game developer by Konami and video game publisher by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2001....
     antagonist)
  • Lans Tartare (Tactics Ogre
    Tactics Ogre

    is a Japanese tactical role-playing game game created by Quest Corporation.The game was originally released in 1995 in video gaming on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan and then re-released on the Sega Saturn in 1996 in video gaming and the Sony PlayStation in 1997 in video gaming....
     villain)
  • Big Dan Teague (O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a comedy-adventure film made by the Coen Brothers. Released in 2000 in film, the film is set in Mississippi during the Great Depression ....
     character)
  • Col. Saul Tigh
    Saul Tigh

    Colonel Saul Tigh is a fictional character on Battlestar Galactica played by Michael Hogan .The character was named Paul Tigh in early scripts, and was renamed after a clerical error....
     (Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
    Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

    Battlestar Galactica is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning Serial television program created by Ronald D. Moore that first aired in a Battlestar Galactica in December 2003, on Sci Fi Channel ....
    )
  • Captain Typho (Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
     character)
  • Umanosuke
    List of Samurai Champloo characters

    This is a list of known characters in the anime and manga series Samurai Champloo....
     (    Samurai Champloo
    Samurai Champloo

    is a Japanese Anime Television program consisting of twenty-six episodes. It was broadcast in Japan from May 20, 2004 through March 19, 2005 on the television network, Fuji TV....
     character)
  • Akito/Agito Wanijima (from "Air Gear
    Air Gear

    is a shonen manga and anime by the mangaka Oh! great. Air Gear is about the life of Itsuki Minami, also known as "Baby face" and "Lil Crow", and his friends....
    ")
  • Xigbar
    Organization XIII

    File:Org XIII.jpg is a fictional group of characters featured in Square Enix and Buena Vista Games' Kingdom Hearts video game series. Kingdom Hearts is a Fictional crossover of various The Walt Disney Company settings based in a Parallel universe made specifically for the series....
     (    Kingdom Hearts II
    Kingdom Hearts II

    is an action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and published by Disney Interactive Studios and Square Enix in 2005 for the Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation 2 video game console....
    )
  • Kenpachi Zaraki
    Kenpachi Zaraki

    is a Character and supporting anti-hero in the anime and manga series Bleach created by Tite Kubo. He is the Soul Reaper #Unit Commander of the 11th Division within the Soul Reaper #Gotei 13....
     (    Bleach
    Bleach (manga)

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he accidentally obtains the power of a shinigami?a Japanese death personification similar to the Grim Reaper?from Rukia Kuchiki....
     character)
  • Nnoitra Jiruga (Bleach
    Bleach (manga)

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he accidentally obtains the power of a shinigami?a Japanese death personification similar to the Grim Reaper?from Rukia Kuchiki....
     character)
  • Zatch (Surf Ninjas
    Surf Ninjas

    Surf Ninjas, sometimes called Surf Ninjas of the South China Seas, is a 1993 American comedy film family film involving martial arts film, directed by Neal Israel and written by Dan Gordon ....
     Character)
  • Molotov Cocktease
    Molotov Cocktease

    Molotov Cocktease is a Characters from The Venture Bros. on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros. She appears primarily as a love interest, friend, and occasional rival of Brock Samson and is very much like a distant homage to Marvel's Black Widow ....
     and Master Billy Quizboy
    Master Billy Quizboy

    Master Billy Quizboy is a Characters from The Venture Bros. appearing on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros. He is a friend and ally of Doctor Thaddeus Venture and Team Venture as well as business partner and close friend of Pete White....
     (from     The Venture Bros.
    The Venture Bros.

    The Venture Bros. is an United States animated television series airing as part of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. It chronicles the adventures of two dopey yet well-meaning teenage boys, Hank Venture and Dean Venture; their emotionally insecure, ethically challenged super-scientist father Doctor Thaddeus Venture; and the family bodyguar...
    )
  • Number Two
    Number 2 (Austin Powers)

    Number 2 is a fictional character in the Austin Powers franchise. He is played by Robert Wagner in all three movies, while his younger self is played by Rob Lowe in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me....
     (Austin Powers movies)
  • Captain Ron (Kurt Russell
    Kurt Russell

    'Kurt Vogel Russell' is an United States actor and celebrity. He started acting as a child in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has continued appearing in a wide variety of films since, including The Thing , Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, Silkwood, Stargate , Backdraft , Tombstone , Vanilla...
     in the movie Captain Ron
    Captain Ron

    Captain Ron is a 1992 film starring Martin Short and Kurt Russell. A family in Chicago inherits a yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste....
    )
  • Xander Harris
    Xander Harris

    Alexander LaVelle "Xander" Harris is a fictional character in the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The character is portrayed by Nicholas Brendon, whose twin brother Kelly Donovan occasionally appeared as his double or as a substitute actor when Brendon was unavailable....
     (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Rose Wilson,Ravager (Teen Titans)
  • Takuma Fudo (GetbackerS)
  • Commandant Spangler (Malcolm in the Middle)
  • Sven Vollfied from Black Cat
    Black Cat (manga)

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki with an anime adaptation. It was serialized in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump and collected in 20 tankobon volumes....
  • Matthew from The Law of Ueki
    The Law of Ueki

    is a Japanese manga series by Tsubasa Fukuchi. It was first Serial in the manga magazine Shonen Sunday in 2002 and ended in 2004. Sixteen tankobon volumes was compiled and published by Shogakukan....
  • Nadine Hurley
    Nadine Hurley

    Nadine Hurley is a fictional character on the 1990-1991 primetime ABC series Twin Peaks. She is married to Big Ed Hurley and is well known in the town for her ferocity and eccentricity....
     (Twin Peaks)
  • Vernon Schillinger
    Vernon Schillinger

    Vernon Schillinger is a fictional character, played by United States actor J. K. Simmons, on the HBO series Oz ....
         Oz (TV series)
    Oz (TV series)

    Oz was an United States television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by Home Box Office....
  • Lily Charles from Pushing Daisies
    Pushing Daisies

    Pushing Daisies is an United States television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller. Fuller also serves as the show's executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy, Peter Ocko, and Barry Sonnenfeld....
  • Halloween Jack (David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
     alter ego)
  • Barasuisho ( Rozen Maiden Träumend )
  • Kirakishou ( Rozen Maiden Träumend )
  • Hatake Kakashi (Naruto Manga)
  • Russel (Happy Tree Friends)
  • Fay D. Flourite
    Fay D. Flourite

    is a character in the manga Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle by acclaimed manga artist group Clamp . The romanization of his name has also been expressed as Fai D....
     (from     Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
    Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

    , is an ongoing manga series by Clamp . It is currently being serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine.It was adapted into an anime series, , animated by Bee Train, which aired 52 episodes over two seasons during 2005 and 2006....
    )
  • Shin Natsume
    Shin Natsume

    is a character in the manga and anime series Tenjho Tenge. He is the founder of the Team KATANA, and the Juken Club....
     (Tenjho Tenge
    Tenjho Tenge

    is an ongoing Japanese manga Mangaka by Oh! great. The story primarily focuses on the members of the Juken Club and their opposition, the Executive Council, which is the ruling Students' union of a high school that educates its students in the art of combat....
    )
  • Zegram from Rogue Galaxy
    Rogue Galaxy

    is a science fiction console role-playing game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The game was first released in Japan on December 8, 2005, and later in North America on January 30, 2007....
    *
  • Matthew Taylor Shoegazing musician*
  • Solid Snake
    Solid Snake

    is a Character and the main protagonist of the Metal Gear series of video games created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. Introduced in the 1987 video game Metal Gear, Solid Snake is a combination spy, special operations agent, and mercenary who works for FOXHOUND, a fictional black ops and espionage unit, and Philanthropy in late...
     in     Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
    Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

    , commonly abbreviated to MGS4 is a third person Stealth game video game developed by Kojima Productions exclusively for the PlayStation 3. Guns of the Patriots is the latest addition to the Metal Gear series and was directed by Hideo Kojima, Shuyo Murata and Yoji Shinkawa....
     (note that this eyepatch was a cybernetic surveillance and data processing tool, not a necessity; Snake still had two functioning eyes, and could remove the eyepatch at will)
  • Ryomou Shimei in Ikki Tousen
    Ikki Tousen

    or "Bakunyu" Hyper-Battle Ikki Tosen is a 13 episode anime series loosely based on the manga by Yuji Shiozaki, which is in turn based on the classic Chinese literature Romance of the Three Kingdoms....
  • Mio Sakamoto in Strike Witches
    Strike Witches

    is a mixed-media project originally created by Humikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. It was later adapted into two light novel series, two manga series, an anime OVA, and a televised anime series....
  • Dr. Eyepatch (Super Milk Chan)
  • The Demoman from Valve's Team Fortress 2
    Team Fortress 2

    Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to Valve's previous Team Fortress Classic, it was first released as part of the video game bundled software The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox 360....
  • General Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist
    Fullmetal Alchemist

    Fullmetal Alchemist, known in Japan as , is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after European Industrial Revolution....
     character) in the last episode of the anime series and in the movie, Conqueror of Shamballa.