In the recently released film Thor (2011), Anthony Hopkins played the King of Asgard with a golden eyepatch over his right eye. Despite the optical restriction that prevents the character from having three-dimensional vision, the King of Asgard has been portrayed as a wise man, who wields both physical and intellectual power with determination and prudence. A one-eyed man as the king of Asgard is an image familiar to audiences. From celebrities such as David Bowie, John Ford and James Joyce to fictional characters like Snake Pissken in Escape from New York (1981), Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and Dilios in 300 (2006), the image of a one-eyed man has circulated in recent decades in the media. Although one-eyed people in popular culture are warriors or soldiers who have lost their eyes during battle but still remain as tall as before, this fictional setting is contradictory. to reality. After filming Thor, Anthony Hopkins admitted that he had to rely on others when moving around the set and that he had "moments of anxiety" because he couldn't not see properly with the eye patch (Aceshowbiz, 2008). With only one eye open, male characters in cultural representations were not expected to defeat the enemy and embody masculinity. In the military medical standards for enlistment and commissioning, there is a long list of cases disqualifying applicants with defective or corrected vision. However, the optical deficiencies of one-eyed men in popular culture are unmarked, overshadowed by their normal, and sometimes even extraordinary, bodily functions. Not only is the one-eyed man king in the land of the blind, but he is also king in the land of the sighted. This article examines these one-eyed... middle of paper ...those with a missing eye. Compared to films that show disabled people as helpless and dependent, one-eyed films place disabled people in a superior position to non-disabled people. In particular, these films see one-eyed people as people full of wisdom, who embody greatness and have a vision of a humanist future. Additionally, these films contradict typical depictions of effeminate disabled men by showing male characters with masculine qualities. However, as the film The Anniversary demonstrates, these representations are obviously gendered. Once the same condition is applied to a woman, wisdom turns into vice that causes dysfunctions of normal masculinity. In films about one-eyed men, the association of sight and masculinity reproduces the idea that vision, as the most precise sense perceiving reality, is a masculine quality..