History Main / FourEyesZeroSoul

* ''Series/DahmerMonsterTheJeffreyDahmerStory'': Jeffrey Dahmer was a SerialKiller responsible for the deaths of at least 16 people between 1978 and 1991.

* ''Series/DahmerMonsterTheJeffreyDahmerStory'': Jeffrey Dahmer was a SerialKiller responsible for the deaths of at least 16 people between 1978 and 1991. He also wore some pretty big glasses.

* ''WesternAnimation/Zootopia'': Dawn Bellwether is the Assistant Mayor of Zootopia who wears glasses, and she's a mastermind of a conspiracy plot against innocent predator civilians.

** Al [=McWhiggin=], one of the antagonists of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. Downplayed in that while he still has his own crimes, he's more of a bastard than an actual villain.

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* Mikami Teru from ''Manga/DeathNote'' is an eager accomplice to the ruthless KnightTemplar vigilante Kira. Ironically, he makes the shinigami eye trade, which improves his vision as well as giving him name-spotting powers, shortly after Kira recruits him, meaning that he stops needing glasses at the same time that he starts killing people. Since what he's doing is a secret, he still wears the glasses to avoid questions.

%% * Mikami from ''Manga/DeathNote''.

** Professor Hugo Strange, who takes upon himself to torment Batman. Taken UpToEleven in ''Prey'', where we never ever see his eyes, only what's caught in his glasses' reflections.

* Kemal in ''ComicBook/{{Djinn}}'' looks like an completely unassuming man with glasses who doesn't appear to be sinister at first. But then he quickly establishes himself as an violent an misogynistic brute who derives pleasure from abusing women. His boss Amin specifically threatens women with handing them over to Kemal to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty do anything he wants with them]].

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' gives us Info-chan, the game's KnowledgeBroker. She actively encourages the VillainProtagonist to murder her rivals, and will provide favors for her should she give her panty shot photos for her to sell. Aside from selling said photos to boys, she has a history of blackmailing female students. Naturally, she wears red-framed glasses that [[ScaryShinyGlasses gleam brightly]].

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' gives us Info-chan, the game's KnowledgeBroker. She actively encourages the VillainProtagonist to murder her rivals, and will provide favors for her should she give her PantyShot photos for her to sell. Aside from selling said photos to boys, she has a history of blackmailing female students. Naturally, she wears red-framed glasses that [[ScaryShinyGlasses gleam brightly]].

* In a case arc of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'', the MadDoctor, who used to abduct, murder, and mutilate the patients in the sanatorium where he worked and bury their bodies under the ground where the cherry trees stood near said sanatorium, wore glasses. [[ForTheEvulz And the only known possible motive behind his atrocities is for his twisted enjoyment at the thought of seeing cherry blossoms in blood-red color.]]

** ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' has [[TheBrute Daisaku Kuze]] and [[TheDragon Keiji Shibusawa]], though only Kuze has a soul, and at times TheGlassesComeOff his face in certain fights. Meanwhile, [[spoilers:Keiji Shibusawa is ''literally one of two characters who Kiryu felt genuine hatred for and wanted to kill with his bare hands, thus violating his ThouShaltNotKill code.]]
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' has [[BigBad Tsuneo Iwami]], who's the slimiest son of a bitch in the entire game. [[spoilers:Like Shibusawa, he managed to get into Kiryu's list of people he would kill, though, unfortunately, Kiryu is shot and [[FakingTheDead is forced to go into hiding as he is proclaimed "dead"]].]]

Compare SinisterShades. Contrast StoicSpectacles, where the glasses make the guy look aloof, intellectual and cute. Since glasses also evoke physical weakness, this often also evokes SissyVillain. On the other hand, since SmartPeopleWearGlasses, it can also signal that the character is a BadassBookworm. It may also be a parallel to EvilCripple, in which a physical defect (poor eyesight, in this case) reflects a moral one. When this is treated as a {{fetish}}, see KichikuMegane.

* [[VillainProtagonist Claude]] [[BattleButler Faustus]] in ''Manga/BlackButler'', a literal demon -- and not the "they just have horns and tails and cool powers" anime kind of demon -- a real, soul devouring demon.

** Roberta earlier in the series gave off this impression, she appeared meek and polite to hide her terminator-like abilities. Granted she does ditch her glasses, and deeply cares for her young master, Garcia. However glasses or not, NEVER mess with Roberta.

* ''Film/{{Room}}'': The villain Old Nick wears glasses.

* ''Film/Troll2'': Creedence wears a pair of glasses in her old lady form.

* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', Aunt Spiker wears steel-rimmed spectacles.

** Hugo Strange of course, who is never seen without his red-tinted Lennon specs.

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* [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]] wore glasses, though he didn't wear them in a match.
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* The Doctor from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', complete with ScaryShinyGlasses.

* Mr Burke, ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''. They're sunglasses, not corrective lenses... but it hardly matters.
** An evil Courier in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' can be this with the Four Eyes trait.

* Fawful from the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series.

* Goda from ''VideoGame/SentinelDescendantsInTime''. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the end when we learn that Beni is really Ramirez.]]

* Jade Curtiss from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. Okay, he's a good guy... but that doesn't stop him from being [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold rather cruel]] to just about everyone.

* Duke Greene, the BigBad from ''VideoGame/ThreeTheHardWay''

* [[MadScientist Dr. Teklov]], the BigBad of '' VideoGame/VentureKid'', wears eyeglasses that completely obscure his eyes from view.
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has Megumi Kitaniji and Mitsuki Konishi.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Mr. Freeze is a shades-wearing villain who is cold in every possible meaning of the word.
** Interestingly, the trope is inverted with Jonathan Crane, who, while he wears glasses in the comics (see above), never wears them in the show. This might have something to do with his more sympathetic [[AffablyEvil portrayal]] in the show.
*** This also extends to the sequel series, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', with Spellbinder, a former high school psychologist who used his work to take advantage of students and coerce them into absconding with valuables from their own homes, [[InstantTasteAddiction and would even use addictive methods to go through with it]].

** Gabriel Agreste. With his cold, unfriendly personality, it's obvious. [[spoiler:Even more as the true identity of Hawk Moth.]]

* Saruhiko Fushimi in ''Anime/{{K}}'', and his boss, the Blue King, Reisi Munakata -- in the first season at least, their Clan looks quite heartless. Munakata commends one of his subordinates for her "blatant disregard of [a powerful prisoner]'s human rights", and Fushimi chloroforms a high school student in order to steal her identity and hack her school's computers -- not to mention his constantly picking fights with his ex (a member of the Clan [[LoveInterestTraitor Fushimi betrayed]]). Subverted in the side stories that focus on them -- they get quite a few "AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther" moments, and you see their side of the story more. And in Season 2, [[spoiler: Fushimi gets an excellent PetTheDog moment when it's revealed that he didn't actually [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray the Blue Clan]], he joined Jungle as TheMole and helps the alliance save the world]]. They are both very much geared to the BespectacledBastardBoyfriend -- loving crowd, though. (See Munakata's scenes with Kuroh).

* Kyoya from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this and even some of the lighter shades of BespectacledBastardBoyfriend (since the Host Club is all about fulfilling romance-novel stereotypes). He pretends to be polite and charming, but doesn't really make too much secret of the fact that he's ruthlessly scheming underneath it, and willing to go to terrifying lengths to protect and/or advance his own interests. [[spoiler:This is at least partly an act: Kyouya in fact cares very deeply about his friends in the Host Club, and is even demonstrated to be kind to strangers when it wouldn't put him at a disadvantage to do so. Being scary just makes it less likely that people will mess with his plans...or his friends.]]

* Algaliarept from ''Literature/TheHollows'' series, though he could also be considered a BespectacledBastardBoyfriend if you support Al/Rachel.

Compare SinisterShades. Contrast StoicSpectacles, where the glasses make the guy look aloof, intellectual and cute. Since glasses also evoke physical weakness, this often also evokes SissyVillain. On the other hand, since SmartPeopleWearGlasses, it can also signal that the character is a BadassBookworm. It may also be a parallel to EvilCripple, in which a physical defect (poor eyesight, in this case) reflects a moral one. When this is treated as a {{fetish}}, see BespectacledBastardBoyfriend.

%% * ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'' gives us Shidou, a former teacher who uses the chaos caused by ''[[NotUsingTheZWord them]]'' to [[spoiler:create what [[FanNickname fans refer to as]] the orgybus]].

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*** This also extends to the seqel series, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', with Spellbinder, a former high school psychologist who used his work to take advantage of students and coerce them into absconding with valuables from their own homes, [[InstantTasteAddiction and would even use addictive methods to go through with it]].

* Subverted with Shuji Ikutsuki from ''VideoGame/Persona3'' -- wears glasses, [[spoiler:is actually evil]], and... is a PungeonMaster (it's not even a facade -- you can see ''practicing'' his puns while alone in one scene).

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%% * ''Manga/HaouAiren'' gives us Fuuron.
%% * ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'' gives us Shidou, a former teacher who uses the chaos caused by ''[[NotUsingTheZWord them]]'' to [[spoiler:create what [[FanNickname fans refer to as]] the orgybus]].
%% * ''Manga/OnePiece'': Captain Kuro
%% * Kabuto in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', as well as his temporary teammates Yoroi and Misume.
%% ** Shino is a slightly more heroic example of this...even his own team is a little freaked by him.

* Nikaidou Yuu from ''Manga/ShugoChara'' [[spoiler:before his HeelFaceTurn]]. He used his students' issues to his benefit, destroying their hopes and dreams so that he could try for a promotion. Even worse, he feels no regret, even going so far as to say he finds it so much fun he "can't help himself."
%% * A borderline version is Kunimitsu Tezuka from ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', who is less evil and more aloof/ComicallySerious. Eishirou Kite from Higa plays it straighter, though.
%% ** Sadaharu Inui can be seen as one, but taking this more for comedy as he's both a LethalChef ''and'' the ButtMonkey when not in calculating mode.
%% * Yukio Okumura from ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' certainly can fit this trope despite his somewhat "harmless" exterior. Especially in the anime, but the manga is showing this as well.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': Gendo Ikari — a clearly sociopathic NERV commander, who is so fixated on the death of his wife that sees his own son only as a mean to reverse said death, and everyone else as not even that.
%% * The young model Sara from ''Manga/TheDropsOfGod'' said about Tomine Issei, "Gosh, he's so cold. But... that part about him is kind of good." This may be a bit odd though, since Issei turns out to be her brother.
%% * [[SpiderSense Brad Crawford]] from ''Anime/WeissKreuz''. Also Reiji and Hirofumi Takatori, Masato Shimojima, and maybe Mayumi Tsujii.
%% * [[TheMenInBlack Mitsuo Yamaki]] from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', especially near the beginning of the season.
%% ** And then there's Akihiro Kurata from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', MadScientist extraordinaire.
%% * Furoku Tsukumo, mother of TeenGenius Susumu from ''Anime/WandabaStyle'', is a rare female version.
%% * Naohiro Usui in the ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro''.

* Suitengu from ''Anime/SpeedGrapher''. Bespectacled {{Bishonen}}, rich,[[note]]He [[MoneyToBurn smokes cigarettes made with rolled up money]][[/note]] smart and a totally evil manipulative bastard.
%% * Amon Garam of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' -- child prodigy, GadgeteerGenius, Duel Monsters champion... and cold-blooded killer of his girlfriend to fulfill a DealWithTheDevil in an attempt to TakeOverTheWorld.
%% ** As well as the D aka Kyle Jables.

%% * Played with in regards to Tooru Hanagata from ''Manga/SlamDunk''. He's ''very'' serious but not a strictly bad guy, but yet he's ''ruthless'' in the fields.
* Quattro of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' plays with it a bit. She is easily the most sadistic and cruel of the Numbers, but we don't really see just how evil she is until after she takes the glasses off. The glasses themselves are part of her being TheFakeCutie.
%% * [[spoiler:Telestina]] Kihara [[spoiler:Lifeline]] from ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. That un-spoilered name is already a dead give away of what to expect, considering how Grandpa Kihara and his son turned out.
* When Lady Une puts on her glasses in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', it means that [[SplitPersonality her utterly ruthless]] [[TheBaroness "Iron Une" personality]] is in command, and that anyone who crosses her is going to die.
* Rosa Aphrodia from ''Anime/SpaceWarriorBaldios'', similar to Lady Une mentioned above, is presented as a cold and merciless LadyOfWar with glasses and TheDragon to the main villain Gattler. [[spoiler:She later ditches the glasses as part of her CharacterDevelopment when she warms up to the hero Marin.]]
* [[spoiler:Grace O' Connor]] from ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' is almost a textbook example: a megalomaniacal MadScientist who stops for nothing in pursuing grand power, and is quite adept in political intrigues as well. Interestingly, while the glasses sometimes work as ScaryShinyGlasses, they are largely for [[spoiler:her {{Meganekko}} [[TheFakeCutie Fake Cutie]] persona as Sheryl's kindly manager]].
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]] himself is a very literal monster, and often wears a set of orange sunglasses before and sometimes during his rampages. The [[BigBad Major]], gleeful warmonger and Nazi, also fulfills this trope nicely.
%% ** [[CoolOldGuy Walter C. Dorneaz]] becomes an absolute ''monster'' on the battlefield with his RazorFloss [[spoiler:and takes it further with his Vampirization]].
%% ** Rip Van Winkle too, but maybe she's not the best example as she is sadistic but cheerful.
%% * Kakei from ''Manga/DrugAndDrop'' has several sadistic tendencies, especially when assigning odd jobs to Rikuou and Kazahaya. And mostly, this is for his own amusement. Fortunately, he does have a nice side to him as well.
%% * In ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'', [[spoiler:Gainer Sanga himself fits this when he's [[DemonicPossession possessed by]] [[EldritchAbomination the Overdevil]].]]

%% ** Averted with Yutaka Watari, the loveable genki scientist of JuOhCho. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Or is it?]]
%% * Aion from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', although in reality he's more of a [[spoiler:BrokenBird]] MagnificentBastard.
%% * Chikusa Kakimoto from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has this going for him.
%% * Katsuragi of ''Manga/SakuraGari''.

* Tamaki Tsunenaga of ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', Assistant Warden and [[BigBad de facto tyrant]] of Deadman Wonderland. Under his calm, almost idiotic attitude, he is something of a sadist, caring nothing about the fact that he butchers dozens of prisoners every day for the sole purpose of gathering money or experimenting on them, or simply for his amusement. As son of the dying Chief Warden of Deadman Wonderland, he eagerly hopes for the death of his father to become truly the supreme ruler of the prison, and he devotes much of his time and resources in studying and experimenting on the powers of the Branch of Sin and their origin. He also is in contact with the upper echelons of the Japanese government, his ultimate goal being the synthesis of artificial Deadmen. In sharp contrast with his cruelty, he enjoys playing with children's toys.
%% * Kaito from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' seems like this, until it turns out that [[spoiler: he was working for Genkai the whole time]]
* DepravedHomosexual [[MadScientist Professor Aizawa]] from ''LightNovel/{{Sukisho}}'' who was responsible for performing sadistic experiments on Sunao and Sora when they were children.
%% * [[PsychoLesbian Tsukuyomi]] of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''.

* Claude "Torch" Weaver from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is a fat, plain-looking man who is [[DissonantSerenity always smiling]] and wears thick glasses with basic "aviator" frames (bearing a strong resemblance to Creator/{{Drew Carey}}). He is also an insane PyroManiac who burned his wife to death and now works as a bounty hunter. Surprisingly capable in a fight too, since he was one of the last men standing during the [[CarnivalOfKillers Greenback Jane]] arc.
** Roberta earlier in the series gave off this impression, she appeared meek and polite to hide her terminator-like abilities. Granted she does ditch her glasses, and deeply cares for her young master, Garcia. However glasses or not, NEVER mess with Roberta.
* [[VillainProtagonist Claude]] [[BattleButler Faustus]] in ''Manga/BlackButler'', a literal demon - and not the "they just have horns and tails and cool powers" anime kind of demon - a real, soul devouring demon.
** Subverted with Sebastian, the series' main demonic BattleButler, who looks warmer and more human in his bespectacled tutor guise than in his regular costume, and with the Grim Reapers, a {{Psychopomp}} [[CelestialBureaucracy bureaucracy]] who are ''required'' to wear glasses, but are a lot warmer and more human than the demons.
* Inverted in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' with Touko Aozaki. While she's wearing her glasses, she's a somewhat eccentric magus with a smoking habit. But when the glasses come off, she tends to get [[TranquilFury ugly]]. Her facial expressions even match this change.
* Saruhiko Fushimi in ''Anime/{{K}}'', and his boss, the Blue King, Reisi Munakata - in the first season at least, their Clan looks quite heartless. Munakata commends one of his subordinates for her "blatant disregard of [a powerful prisoner]'s human rights", and Fushimi chloroforms a high school student in order to steal her identity and hack her school's computers - not to mention his constantly picking fights with his ex (a member of the Clan [[LoveInterestTraitor Fushimi betrayed]]). Subverted in the side stories that focus on them - they get quite a few "AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther" moments, and you see their side of the story more. And in season 2, [[spoiler: Fushimi gets an excellent PetTheDog moment when it's revealed that he didn't actually [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray the Blue Clan]], he joined Jungle as TheMole and helps the alliance save the world]]. They are both very much geared to the BespectacledBastardBoyfriend -loving crowd, though. (See Munakata's scenes with Kuroh).

* [[EvilutionaryBiologist The]] [[MadScientist Doctor]] in ''Manga/BlackCat''. He's a MadDoctor ForScience loon who acts as TheMedic for the BigBad, and believes that emotion is pointless, and that dissecting young girls and trapping people in MindScrew [[RealityWarper Warp Worlds]] based on their worst fears is fun. Is it possible to have negative soul points?
* Kyoya from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this and even some of the lighter shades of BespectacledBastardBoyfriend (since the Host Club is all about fulfilling romance-novel stereotypes). He pretends to be polite and charming, but doesn't really make too much secret of the fact that he's ruthlessly scheming underneath it, and willing to go to terrifying lengths to protect and/or advance his own interests. [[spoiler:This is at least partly an act: Kyouya in fact cares very deeply about his friends in the Host Club, and is even demonstrated to be kind to strangers when it wouldn't put him at a disadvantage to do so. Being scary just makes it less likely that people will mess with his plans...or his friends.]]
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Shou Tucker, who shows no remorse whatsoever when he [[spoiler:performs alchemy experiments on ''his own daughter'']] to advance his career. True to form, he has the creepy glasses, but ironically the glasses become clear and reveal his eyes when he admits what he did in a MotiveRant to Edward.
** [[NoNameGiven The Gold-Toothed Doctor]] counts as well. Despite his rare appearances, he still manages to be one of the most vile characters in the series, and is complicit in Father's EvilPlan [[spoiler:which involves killing everyone in Amestris and keeping their souls in an AndIMustScream situation while trapped inside Father's body]].
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'''s Kururu is the resident MadScientist and wears OpaqueNerdGlasses. He's also the TokenEvilTeammate in a group that is ''trying'' to take over the world, with a disturbingly blase attitude towards testing his inventions on his own teammates.

%% * Zera from ''Manga/LycheeLightClub'' is a perfect example of this trope. [[ScaryShinyGlasses His glasses even shine and all]].

%% * ''Mahou Shoujo Ai'': Akitoshi's best friend Shinji becomes this after being possessed by the demonic Yuragi.
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%% * Michio Yuki from ''{{MW}}''.
%% * The aptly named [[ColonelKilgore Colonel]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killing]] of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'', who tries to get his own men killed off so that he can [[NukeEm nuke]] Side 6.
* The original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has Degwin Zabi, dictator of Zeon, who likely murdered his way into his position, and now prosecutes a war against Earth from behind his green-tinted glasses. In fairness to him, he's got nothing on his 20/20 sighted children when it comes to being truly evil.
* Sawa Nakamura from ''Manga/TheFlowersOfEvil'' is a middle school student who is detached from - and disgusted with - the society around her. The series follows a classmate of hers as she catches him doing something creepy and blackmails him into letting her "corrupt" him into something more "real" than the "s**tbugs" around them. They're really just preteens acting out, but from their point of view (and that of their classmates), she is this trope personified.
* Shyamalan from ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty: Decode'' fits this trope to a T, even invoking ScaryShinyGlasses and making his eyes look more evil on occasions where his glasses come off.
* Subverted in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' anime episode 799. An old woman's glasses become ScaryShinyGlasses in a flashback ''just'' as Conan is realizing she was responsible for the death of that episode. The subversion is that the death was accidental. The criminal was a burglar who used WallCrawling as a gimmick. They saw and startled one another, shocking the woman and causing the man to lose his grip, which sent him plummeting to his death.
* Shiroe from ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' is a subversion. He's a [[TheStrategist master tactician]], but tends not to explain his motives to people. This makes him a HeroWithBadPublicity, as a lot of people assume his ultimately beneficial plans are for his own personal gain. Other characters (including some of his ''allies'') even call him "[[InSeriesNickname The Villain in Glasses]]".

* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'''s [[MadScientist Desty Nova]] wears weird metallic goggles that makes his face especially sinister, and is ''totally'' [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] in his quest ForScience. He's the man who crippled ''thousands'' in his experiments, and even his most resounding ''success'' is a BrokenAce at best. He's also the {{Deuteragonist}} of the story, and is [[BlackAndGreyMorality on of the]] ''[[BlackAndGreyMorality better]]'' [[BlackAndGreyMorality side]] of the character spectrum. It's [[CrapsackWorld that kind of series]].
* Ghiaccio from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' wears thick, red-rimmed glasses, and is by far the most [[HairTriggerTemper volatile]] member of La Squadra.
* In a case arc of ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'', the MadDoctor, who used to abduct, murder, and mutilate the patients in the sanatorium where he worked and bury their bodies under the ground where the cherry trees stood near said sanatorium, wore glasses. [[ForTheEvulz And the only known possible motive behind his atrocities is for his twisted enjoyment at the thought of seeing cherry blossoms in blood-red color.]]

* Kevin from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' (pictured above) is a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] SerialKiller. He's first introduced to us after having eaten a woman's arm while she was still alive. This is further emphasized by how the art style frequently gives the lenses a solid, opaque look.
* Gideon Graves from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' is the only Evil Ex who has glasses, and is by far the most notorious one, being a manipulator and controller who had put Ramona subject to DomesticAbuse.
%% * Thomas in ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' turns out to be completely evil and insane. Not actually %% surprising.
%% * [[spoiler:Alberto Falcone]] of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' and ''ComicBook/DarkVictory.''

* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfAeroGirl'': Dr. Chimera wears red glasses that hide his eyes from view, and is a member of Aero-Girl's rogues gallery.

* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': Walter "[[TaxidermyIsCreepy The Taxidermist]]" Harris is a SerialKiller who would make taxidermy models out of people. He wears a pair of glasses.
* Larry Thornhill from ''Film/{{Psychos}}''. He wears glasses, and [[spoiler:sexually abuses his daughter when she was young]].
* Dr. Herbert West, ''Film/ReAnimator''. In the [[Film/BeyondReAnimator third film]]'s commentary, the director mentioned how just putting the old-style glasses on actor Jeffrey Combs instantly transformed him into West.
* Major Arnold Ernst Toht, the creepy-as-hell Gestapo torture guy ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', wears glasses.

%% * The Warden in ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'', heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the Devil himself]].
* The bespectacled Cleaner in the French film ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', and the American remake ''Film/PointOfNoReturn'' (chillingly played by Harvey Keitel), and the TV series ''Series/{{Nikita}}''. Though more efficient than cruel, his only concern over the twitching of the still-living victims is the inconvenience. He also doesn't hesitate to apply his methods to the heroine and allies.
%% * Comes up frequently in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

* Brick Top in ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' is a brutal, sadistic gangster who wears a pair of thick rimmed glasses. His introductory shot is him bashing a man's teeth out with a hammer. All the characters in the film who know who he is are terrified of him, lest they get cut into pieces and fed to a pack of pigs.
* Cameron Alexander from ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'' is the sinister xenophobic leader of the Californian Neo-Nazis. He is indirectly responsible for all the bad that happens on the course of the movie, since practically every action is made by the brainwashed youngsters as a result of nothing but his hideous manipulation and evil influence.

* Clarence Boddicker, the memorable antagonist in ''Film/RoboCop1987'', was specifically made to wear glasses to resemble Heinrich Himmler. It shows.
* George Harvey in ''Film/TheLovelyBones'' is a twisted serial killer of little girls. Harvey is maybe the worst example of his kind and a horrible person, so depraved and vicious he can't abstain himself from taking young, innocent lives.
* Humma Kavula, the evil religious leader in the FilmOfTheBook ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' also wears glasses. To add to the creepiness, it turns out the apparently transparent "lenses" are actually small video screens. Beneath the glasses, he has no eyes.
* Gary Winston, the perfidious CEO in ''Film/{{Antitrust}}'', is another good example. His malicious nature is revealed not long after the protagonist encounters him. He tries to project the fake image of a well-intentioned visionary.

* ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'' has an assassin who single-handedly leads the Vatican police on a chase that ends with dozens slain. He isn't even killed by the good guys but gets double-crossed.
%% * Mark Collins, played by Creator/ChristianSlater, in ''Film/{{Twisted}}''.
%% * Judge Doom in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
* ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'': Dr. Decker is a serial killing, genocidal psychopath. He's more of a monster than every being in Midian combined, and he's the only character in the movie with prominent glasses.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', William Stryker wears glasses in his older age and looks for the complete genocide of mutants.
** Bolivar Trask in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' wears glasses and the things he had done to [[spoiler:the mutants who were KilledOffScreen between ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'']] seem to indicate that he made them victims of PlayingWithSyringes.

* Nathan from ''Film/ExMachina''. His thick glasses reflect his cold and detached personality and attitude toward others.

* Christian Szell from ''Film/MarathonMan'', is a cruel NaziGrandpa who kills Babe's brother, and tortures Babe himself, over some costly diamonds.
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': The "Sick Mob Man", an utterly cold-blooded hitman who killed a whole family, wears glasses. He can be seen carefully adjusting them before coming out of the bathroom to attack Rocco. So much for "no women, no kids".
* Thorwald from ''Film/RearWindow'' wears glasses. He also cheats on and murders his wife, then kills a dog and attempts to kill Lisa to cover it up.
* ''Film/RolloAndTheSpiritOfTheWoods'': Lackey, the utterly rotten and [[SmugSnake conceited]] [[EvilChancellor adviser]] of the [[AllTrollsAreDifferent rolleys]]' chieftain, wears spectacles.
* In ''Film/{{Allied}}'', there's a high-ranking government man in a suit and glasses, cold as ice, who tells Max that [[spoiler:Marianne may be a traitor]], that he is not to interfere, and that, if she is [[spoiler:guilty, he is to shoot her]].

* ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt'': Jack, a remorseless serial killer who often wears glasses.
* ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'': Beria is the only prominent character in the movie who wears glasses most of the time (aside from Malenkov) and he is definitely the most villainous member of the cast.

* ''Film/{{Bait}}'': Bristol is a ruthless thief and murderer in glasses. Often speaks in a calm, detached voice. A memorable scene has him nearly crash his car into a truck. He gets out, the truck drives asks if he's crazy. Bristol calmly turns, shoots him, and just as calmly replies, "No, I'm fine."
* Arnim Zola seems like an aversion in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', when he's the seemingly reasonable one in HYDRA and is a less-than-intimidating bespectacled Swiss man. [[spoiler:Not so much when it turns out that he was just trying a different method of building a worldwide fascist empire. His uploaded form in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has the glasses appear opaque, meaning he looks like he has ''no'' eyes.]]
* ''Film/HudsonHawk:'' Snickers, the bespectacled CIA agent, has fewer AffablyEvil moments than his companions and is happy to try and incapacitate Hawk and let him know a time bomb is about to kill him.

* [[KnownOnlyByTheirNickname Gold Glasses]] in ''[[Literature/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]''. He guns down several bystanders (including a fellow assassin) without batting an eye. Later, he [[FinGore breaks Bourne's fingers]] by slamming them in a car door [[ForTheEvulz for no apparent reason]].
* Zabulon, the head of Moscow's Dark Others in ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'', looks like a sensitive glasses-wearing intellectual. He's also a MagnificentBastard who not only plays global XanatosSpeedChess with his [[WorthyOpponent ages old nemesis Geser]], but also manages to maintain the fearful respect of most of his Dark underlings - quite a feat in a faction of egoists which operates on a KlingonPromotion basis. He's also fond of having rough sex in his "true form" - a huge, monstrously endowed demon. While it's probably hard for him to find long term lovers, he has no reservations against tossing them aside once they're no longer useful to him, or even [[SacrificialLion sacrificing their lives to further his agenda]].
%% * Done deliberately in ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday.''

--> His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. ... As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy.

* Prof. Frost, from [[Literature/ThatHideousStrength the last book]] of ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' of Creator/CSLewis. We never see his eyes because, by a nasty little miracle of staging, they are always hidden behind the reflections of his glasses. Technically, he must have a soul (or had one at one point), but we find out that ''he objects to the very existence of souls.''

* In ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' book ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree'', we're repeatedly told that SerialKiller Jack Mort wears gold-rimmed glasses.

* Giles in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' slips into this now and again, mostly because of IDidWhatIHadToDo. Shown perhaps most clearly at the end of season 5, where he's perfectly prepared to sacrifice [[ApocalypseMaiden Dawn]] and suffocates [[PeoplePuppets Ben]] in cold blood to stop Glory's return.

** Subverted by Mitchell Ellison. While he wears glasses and is initially presumed by Ben Urich to be on Wilson Fisk's payroll, he's ultimately a good guy, and mentors Karen in season 2.

* In the 6th ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' miniseries, there's a ruthlessly pragmatic woman from the government with large, very thick-lensed glasses. She also looks quite young--though clearly an adult, she sort of looks like a 12-year-old. This gives her a nerdy-schoolgirl look, for dramatic irony.

** This is somewhat referenced in the Creator/{{HBO}} movie based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial [=McMartin=] trial]], where an accused pedophile's lawyer orders him to get rid of his glasses--" You ''look'' like a child molester!" (The cruel irony is that the man is innocent, but his lawyer is clearly aware of this trope).

* Jade Curtiss from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. Okay, he's a good guy... but that doesn't stop him from being [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold rather cruel]] to just about everyone.
* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has Megumi Kitaniji and Mitsuki Konishi.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Medic. And, to some extent, the Engineer, if you're not on his team; one of of his taunts can even be a bone-chilling EvilLaugh. Although it depends on whether you count goggles as glasses, really.

* Subverted with Shuji Ikutsuki from ''VideoGame/Persona3'' - wears glasses, [[spoiler:is actually evil]], and... is a PungeonMaster (it's not even a facade - you can see ''practicing'' his puns while alone in one scene).
* The Doctor from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', complete with ScaryShinyGlasses.
* ''VideoGame/DoubleSwitch''. Early on, Eddie seems to subvert this trope and Lyle seems to play it straight. [[spoiler:However, Eddie ends up playing the trope straight, and Lyle ends up subverting it]].
* Director Raymond [=McMullen=], the Director of Research at [[PlayingWithSyringes Gentek]], in ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. MadScientist, EvilutionaryBiologist, nice little designer specs. A more spoilery example: [[spoiler:Doctor Alexander Mercer himself wore glasses too, before he died. The virus animating his corpse obviously doesn't need them.]]

* In the 3DS remake of ''Videogame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', Maxie is given a pair of glasses that makes him look more like a MadScientist. It also serves the purpose of holding his [[UpgradeArtifact Mega Stone]].

* Iggy Koopa in the Franchise/SuperMarioBros franchise, who's one of Bowser's top underlings, prone to [[LaughingMad crazy laughter]] and taunting his opponents when he has an advantage.
* The main villain of ''VideoGame/CielNosurge'', Revelt, [[OffingTheOffspring sees his children as expendable]], [[FantasticRacism hates the other intelligent race]] on the planet and only believes [[ANaziByAnyOtherName an "elite 1%" of humanity]] is fit to survive the coming apocalypse. He has a pair of glasses in true MadScientist fashion.
** Zill, another antagonist (and one of the main antagonists in the [[VideoGame/ArNosurgeOdeToAnUnbornStar sequel]]), is also bespectacled, but she is a WellIntentionedExtremist with a sympathetic cause rather than an all-out villain like Revelt.
* Asav, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'', wears a pair of glasses that make him look more like a wise, frail college professor than an immoral, genocidal warlord leading a militant insurrection in a brutal civil war against the Indian government for the sole purpose of assuming personal power by any means necessary. Nadine states that the glasses are an affectation; he doesn't need them, but wears them to cultivate an appearance of intellect and physical weakness so his enemies will underestimate him.
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat''
** Simon Orestes Cohen in ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'', particularly in the OmegaEnding. [[spoiler:He created [[PlayerCharacter Nemo]], an ArtificialIntelligence, and ran it through a simulation to see if it would be able to kill a BrainUpload version of Abyssal Dison, because he blamed him for the death of Yoko Martha Inoue. The simulation showed that Nemo will indeed kill Dision, and since this was the result that he was hoping for, Simon then created a fresh copy of Nemo that he intended to release upon the world, and would go on to manipulate events to ensure that the corporate war that the simulation had predicted would occur so that Dision would die.]]
** Dr. Schroeder at the beginning of ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' is rather amoral and apathetic towards the strain that Mihaly puts on his body when flying increasingly risky sorties in order to collect data to improve Erusea’s drone army. However, while he discarded it when the Lighthouse War began, Dr. Schroeder’s soul started coming back to him as the war dragged on, and as Mihaly’s granddaughters came to resent him for putting their grandfather through such risky procedures, but he [[IgnoredEpiphany kept pushing away]] because he believed that [[IveComeTooFar it was too late]] to turn back. [[spoiler: In the end, its {{Subverted}} once the truth behind his motivations come out, and Ionela calls him out on it, which convinces him to welcome his soul back.]]
* Goda from ''VideoGame/SentinelDescendantsInTime''. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the end when we learn that Beni is really Ramirez.]]
* [[spoiler:Penelope]] in ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' starts off as a sweet {{Meganekko}}, but is eventually revealed to be a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] GoldDigger who [[spoiler:never loved Bentley in the first place; she was only using him as a pawn to TakeOverTheWorld]].
* [[MadScientist Dr. Teklov]], the BigBad of '' VideoGame/VentureKid'', wears eyeglasses that completely obscure his eyes from view.
* [[spoiler: Senator Armstrong]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Right before beginning the final battle against him, [[TheGlassesComeOff he takes his glasses off]].

* ''VisualNovel/WorldEndSyndrome'' has Mibu Kamashiro, heir to his family's business empire - and also an abusive, power-hungry, murderous {{Jerkass}}.

** [[KillerDM Vriska Serket]], arguably the [[TokenEvilTeammate nastiest troll]] in her group - [[BlueAndOrangeMorality and that's]] [[CrapsackWorld saying something]]. Bonus points for having her "8" motif extend to her eyes, making her ''doubly'' four-eyed.

* Given his excessive number of doomsday devices, [[ComedicSociopathy casual disregard for the life of his employees (and everyone else)]], willingness to disregard the welfare of the environment for profit or convenience, penchant for creating atomic monsters, and habit of needlessly killing lab animals; Professor Farnsworth of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' definitely qualifies.
* Eustace Bagge from ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. He ALWAYS mistreats Courage even in life and death situations in which the dog saves his life. He has a low-down and greedy personality, so his glasses do well even as SinisterShades since his eyes are rarely seen.
%% * Dr. Scientist on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.
%% * Agent Bishop from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''.
%% ** So does Baxter Stockman
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Mr. Freeze is a shades-wearing villain who is cold in every possible meaning of the word.
** Interestingly, the trope is inverted with Jonathan Crane, who, while he wears glasses in the comics (see above), never wears them in the show. This might have something to do with his more sympathetic [[AffablyEvil portrayal]] in the show.
* Janus Lee, the maniacal inventor from ''WesternAnimation/AlphaTeensOnMachines''. He created a gang of super-assassins with the sole purpose of killing the heroes because they served and accomplished what he wanted, in the first season's finale.
* Scarlett of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' wears glasses that make her look innocent, but she quickly allies herself with the season's CardCarryingVillain, Max. [[spoiler: Oh, and later she tries to kill the remaining five contestants by hijacking the computer that controls the entire island.]]
%% * Edmund pre-HeelFaceTurn in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe1979''.
* Principal Abacus Cinch from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'' is a bespectacled school principal blackmailing her star student to do her bidding.
* Mertle Edmonds from ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' acts like a AlphaBitch of a SpoiledBrat who insults and spites Lilo simply because she acts "weird". In [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the first movie]] alone, she also [[RejectedApology harshly rejects Lilo's apology]] and threatens to run her over with her trike. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Prompting Stitch to knock her over and stealing her trike]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
** Gabriel Agreste. With his cold, unfriendly personality, it's obvious. [[spoiler:Even more as the true identity of Hawk Moth.]]
** Zig-zagged with his assistant, Nathalie Sancoeur. She's aloof and cold, but she has her nice moments. [[spoiler:Then she knows Gabriel is Hawk Moth, and is outright helping him.]]
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/GerisGame''; White!Geri wears glasses while Black!Geri does not.