An eyepatch (or eye patch) was a device worn over the eye, generally used to protect an eye that was injured or missing.
Brigade Leader Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's counterpart from an alternate timeline where Britain was a fascist republic state, wore a black eye patch. (TV: Inferno)
Amy Pond likened the Eye Drive worn by Madame Kovarian to an eyepatch. (TV: The Almost People)
In an alternate timeline where the Weapons-Grade Cybermen used Time Lord resources to conquer all of history, Commander Sturg of the Last Great Sontaran War Fleet wore an eyepatch. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
Pirate Sea Devils wore eyepatches. (GAME: Worlds Apart [+])
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Nicholas Courtney frequently retold an anecdote from the filming of Inferno at fan conventions. For the serial's reveal of the alternate Brigadier, he began with his back facing the camera and then spun around in the office's swivel chair. When Courtney spun the chair around, the entire cast and crew had also put on eyepatches but he managed to continue as if nothing had happened. "Everybody was wearing an eyepatch" became closely associated with Courtney, and was among the tributes to him written into The Wedding of River Song after he passed away in 2011.