Does an Eyepatch make you super cool or super lame?

I'm going to be airborne for most of the day, so I'll make this brief. Eye-patches are not cool in my book. It's not because Tom Cruise is wearing one in "Valkyrie", it's just that after thinking about it, I feel like they are completely un-necessary. I mean no disrespect to people who wear them in real life, I mean that's in a different story, but in thislalife, eye patches should only be worn by villains. And if villains do so, they should take the eyepatch off promptly which should then reveal a nasty scar or a creepy glass eye. Then and only then will we know how menacing they really are and reafirm what we already knew: eyepatches are weak.