The mangaka is saving the eye patch for a fundamental character of the end of ‘One Piece’. “In the final scenes of ‘One Piece ...

This article contains spoilers from One Piece's Elbaf arc. Oda plans to introduce a legendary eye patch pirate in One Piece.

So lots may have also had eye patches and ... person imagines a pirate with a hook for a hand, a great big floppy hat, a blue waistcoat, and maybe even a peg leg, with a parrot on his shoulder.

Pirates, the fancy-dressed rum-drinking parrot-keeping seafarers of old are, as a new exhibition shows, nothing of the sort.

The result is that our enduring image of pirates is based on the fictional Long John Silver – complete with eye patch, wooden leg and pet parrot ... decided that the pirate life was for them.