History Main / SinisterShades

* Protoman had these in the Ruby-Spears ''WesternAnimation/{{Mega Man|RubySpears}}'' cartoon; at a few points, we could see Mega reflected in them as he was about to sneak up on him.

* Colonel Franklin and his men wore SunglassesAtNight at the beginning of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron''. He wore them less after he was revealed as a good guy rather than a sinister government agent.

* In ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'', Robespierre dons a pair from time to time.

* In a James Bond FanFilm ''[[WebVideo/DiamondsCut Property Of A Lady]]'', an unnamed enforcer sent to spring the trap on Bond wears these alongside the black suit.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when Grandma Wu shows up she wears reflective sunglasses which contribute to her intimidating appearance despite [[MakingASpectacleOfYourself having rhinestone-encrusted frames]].

* Bad Cop of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' wears a pair of shades while his Good Cop side wears simple glasses.

* Doctor Octopus in ''Film/SpiderMan2''. This is explained away in the novelized version, as Octavius was left with very light-sensitive eyes after the tritium exploded.
* Every portrayal of a Highway Patrol officer has him wearing mirrored aviator sunglasses. The T-1000 in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' is a prime example.

* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', the enemy [[EliteMooks Octolings]] have swapped their metal goggles from [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} the first game]] out for a pair of shades with a single glowing red eye, Terminator-style. [[spoiler:During the final boss battle, the BrainwashedAndCrazy Callie wears a pair of "Hypnoshades" that do said brainwashing. She's freed after Marie blows the glasses off her face with a well-placed Charger shot.]]

* Char Aznable, originally of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', sports these in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam''. He and his [[CharClone Clones]] tend to alternate between these and CoolMask.

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' gives us the little [[ScaryShinyGlasses shiny]] sunglasses Vash puts on when [[LetsGetDangerous he's about to kick someone's ass]].
** Remarkably the same CoolShades invoke {{Bishonen}}. In fact, because of the starkness of the character change from the goofball, simply shifting to StoicSpectacles reaches the border of this trope. The shades can change in the same situations where, if his shades didn't go Sinister, we'd probably see the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Of Doom]] instead.

* From the ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}}'' franchise there's Rodin who wears a pair, he's a ScaryBlackMan FallenAngel who is one of the most powerful demons in the entire Trinity of Realities, not to mention a master weaponsmith who forges his wares by [[YourSoulIsMine sucking out the souls of demons]] to fuel them. Despite this and evil-looking shades, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's not actually a bad guy]]... not that it makes him any less sinister.

* ''VideoGame/CosmicStarHeroine'' has [[BigBad Dominic Steele]], the director of Agency of Peace and Intelligence. He always wears shades, and he is a KnightTemplar believing in TheEvilsOfFreeWill and tries to create a better world by brainwashing everyone in the galaxy with him ruling over all. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he himself was actually mind-controlled by Eternity, the true BigBag of the game]]. On lesser note, Groff Brokston, the StarterVillain turned LoneWolfBoss, also wears shades and he is a leader of a criminal gang known as Chaos Dogs.

* Terezi [[MeaningfulName Pyrope]] of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' wears [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003937 pointy red ones]] because she's [[BlindSeer blind]].
** It's funny how the person who's wearing the shades can affect whether they count as cool shades or sinister shades. [[spoiler:Bro's shade's on Bro? [[CoolShades Cool]]. Bro's shades after having been taken from his own bloody corpse by [[BigBad Bec Noir]]? [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004830 HOLY SHIT HOLD ME]]]]

* ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'''s [[FakeRussian Pitr Dubovich]] wears these, as does his [[EvilerThanThou Eviler]] [[EvilTwin Twin]].

--> '''Danny:''' I knew it was Wesker!
--> '''Arin:''' Obviously! He wears sunglasses indoors!
--> '''Danny:''' Yeah! No one not evil would do such a thing!

* Protoman had these in the Ruby-Spears ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon; at a few points, we could see Mega reflected in them as he was about to sneak up on him.

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Younger Toguro, the antagonist of the Dark Tournament arc, wears an intimidating pair of triangular shades that enhance his stoic, merciless attitude.

%%* Younger Toguro in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.

* ''Film/{{Soultaker}}'' stars Martin Sheen's brother as a CoolShades-wearing [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]] who falls in love with the [[CanonSue leading lady/scriptwriter]]. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 The SOL Crew]] insisted upon singing "Sunglasses At Night" to mock this.

* Evil Sonic AKA Scourge from ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' wears these.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Post-Crisis General Zod's wife, Ursa, sported a pair of shaded goggles to protect her eyes from excess light. She was also one of the most demented of all the Kryptonians.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:

Examples are numerous, including TheMenInBlack, members of [[AncientConspiracy secret societies]], [[CIAEvilFBIGood CIA agents]], [[TheMafia mafiosi]], {{Yakuza}}, [[TheBadGuysAreCops sinister police officers]], Agent programs in the [[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]... you get the picture. Not ''always'' associated with villainous characters but usually a deliberate attempt to intimidate, so chances are that if a hero wears these, they're an example of GoodIsNotNice if not a full AntiHero. Compare FourEyesZeroSoul. GasMaskMooks takes this a few steps further.

** Remarkably the same CoolShades invoke {{Megane}} {{Bishonen}}. In fact, because of the starkness of the character change from the goofball, simply shifting to StoicSpectacles reaches the border of this trope. The shades can change in the same situations where, if his shades didn't go Sinister, we'd probably see the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Eyes]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom Of Doom]] instead.

* Seen in the "police" ambush of Nick Fury in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', where the patrol cops are all wearing sunglasses and peaked caps to hide their identities, while the SWAT officers have their helmets and goggles on.

** As mentioned above, Agent programs sport these by default

* Masai in ''Film/TheWarriors''.

* In ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', Albert goddamn Wesker. Eventually, it's to cover up for bizarrely inhuman eyes, but mostly [[RuleOfCool they're just there to be rockin']], especially since he did it before he got them and why he wore them in the lab, so yeah; it's mostly to be badass.

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'', Chassis' main [[TheRival rival]] Covergirl wears a reflective visor that she never takes off. Given her body had to be reconstructed are after a near-fatal crash, it is possible the visor is permanently attached to her face.

* ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] with the sunglasses-wearing security agents of the villainous [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Bathory]] [=PaleGrace=][[superscript:TM]] makeup company. One agent grudgingly admits that they're required to wear enchanted eyeliner that enables the BigBad to see through their eyes -- the sunglasses are optional, but they hide the fact that the big beefy guards all have makeup on.
* In the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' series, TheMenInBlack invariably wear dark glasses in all circumstances. In "Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch", it's stated that there's something unpleasantly strange about their eyes that the glasses conceal (the character who's seen what's under there doesn't wish to dwell on the details). On the other hand, in "Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood", the leader of the group has a private meeting with the protagonist in which, as a show of good faith, he removes his glasses to reveal apparently normal and "surprisingly humorous" eyes.
* ''Literature/JohannesCabal'': The titular {{Necromancer}}'s blue-tinted sunglasses are a constant throughout the series, though their sinister connotations are zig-zagged as he progresses from VillainProtagonist to AntiHero.

* The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Spider People]] from ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus''.

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Rita's fake Rangers from "A Bad Reflection On You" wear these in civilian guise.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': in "Intro to Politics", Secret Service agent Robin Vohlers is always wearing dark glasses, attempting a FourEyesZeroSoul level of intimidation, but Abed sees into her soul anyway.

* In ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', Albert goddamn Wesker. Eventually, it's to cover up with bizarrely inhuman eyes, but mostly [[RuleOfCool they're just there to be rockin']], especially since he did it before he got them and why he wore them in the lab, so yeah; it's mostly to be badass.

* Leon Bronev, boss of the criminal organization Targent (which is essentially the archeology mafia) and BigBad of ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'', sports a villainous pair of TriangleShades for most of the game.
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' has newcomer [[LeanAndMean F.A.]][[PoisonousPerson N.G.]] wear a sinister pair of round sunglasses.
* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games have the Black Glasses, a pair of sunglasses that heighten the power of [[DarkIsEvil Dark-type moves.]] Krokoroks and Krookodiles have a dark membrane in front of their eyes that act similar to these, letting them intimidate their prey and foes, and allowing them better vision at longer distances.
* From the ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}}'' franchise there's Rodin who wears a pair, he's a ScaryBlackMan FallenAngel who is one of the most powerful demons in the entire Trinity of Realities, not to mention a master weaponsmith who forges his wares by [[YourSoulIsMine sucking out the souls of demons]] to fuel them. Despite this and evil-looking shades, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's not actually a bad guy]]... not that it makes him any less sinister.
* In ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'', [[spoiler:the Dark Crafter has shades that he uses to possess Claycia. They seem to be purely cosmetic otherwise, as its single eye is situated in his ''mouth'']].
* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'', the enemy [[EliteMooks Octolings]] have swapped their metal goggles from [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} the first game]] out for a pair of shades with a single glowing red eye, Terminator-style. [[spoiler:During the final boss battle, the BrainwashedAndCrazy Callie wears a pair of "Hypnoshades" that do said brainwashing. She's freed after Marie blows the glasses off her face with a well-placed Charger shot.]]
* [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has always worn these, although early Western material [[AmericanKirbyIsHardcore tried to pass them off as pitch black eyes.]]
* ''VideoGame/CosmicStarHeroine'' has [[BigBad Dominic Steele]], the director of Agency of Peace and Intelligence. He always wears shades, and he is a KnightTemplar believing in TheEvilsOfFreeWill and tries to create a better world by brainwashing everyone in the galaxy with him ruling over all. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he himself was actually mind-controlled by Eternity, the true BigBag of the game]]. On lesser note, Groff Brokston, the StarterVillain turned LoneWolfBoss, also wears shades and he is a leader of a criminal gang known as Chaos Dogs.
* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' has [[StayingAlive Wild Dog]], [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Wild Fang]] and [[spoiler:[[RogueAgent Robert Baxter]]]].

* ''VideoGame/DoubleSwitch'': The members of the Society of the Scroll and Key all wear sunglasses and are willing to kill people to get an artifact.
* ''VideoGame/HogansAlley'': One of the gangsters wears a pair of sunglasses.

* Coach Gordon of ''Webcomic/DearChildren'' is always seen rocking a pair of shades. Whether or not his intentions are sinister, one thing's for sure, his glasses only add to his creep factor.

* Made fun of by the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' during their playthrough of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', when they get to the ([[ObviouslyEvil not so surprising)]] reveal that Albert Wesker is the BigBad:
--> '''Danny:''' I knew it was Wesker!
--> '''Arin:''' Obviously! He wears sunglasses indoors!
--> '''Danny:''' Yeah! No one not evil would do such a thing!

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman wears a pair when he's deputized by Officer Barbrady.

* The late Kim Jong-Il, the previous leader of UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, wore them to look even more menacing. Well, to try to look the part, anyway--it wasn't all that successful. The shades didn't make up for the fact that he was short, fat, and unbelievably goofy-looking, though. Unless you were actually under his heel, it's pretty hard to find him scary, especially after ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''.

* The Black Organization members, Vodka and Korn from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' are never seen without them; the only time when Vodka doesn't wear his shades is when he was masked in a costume party. Their colleague, Calvados, wore sunglasses, too, but [[WeHardlyKnewYe We Hardly Knew Him]].

Where ScaryShinyGlasses meets CoolShades. Usually they hide the malice from the eyes of the one wearing them. If you're MakingASpectacleOfYourself, invoking this trope will fail horribly.

* Ubik from ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' has a pair of round shades that he wears when he's scaring the piss out of those intended to be sacrificed.
* Rubel in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' has really big round ones.

* JerkJock Agon Kongo from ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' sports some nifty sports goggles, helps that they're opaque most of the time.

* Alucard in ''{{Manga/Hellsing}}'' has these as part of his initial look, but, strangely enough, as he becomes more threatening, he loses them.

* [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]] practically revels in this. He's only shown without them in flashbacks; their lack doesn't make him any less scary though.
* [[LightIsNotGood Admiral Kizaru]] of ''Manga/OnePiece'' has these.
** As does Donquixote Doflamingo.
* As of BW, Jessie, James, and Meowth of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' have been doing this a lot. They've also lately been approaching competent.
** Pokemon Hunter J before them also had these.
* Yukishiro Enishi from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''.

* Younger Toguro in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.

* Evil Sonic AKA Scourge from ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' wears these.

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel

* Peter Cook as the Devil in ''Film/{{Bedazzled 1967}}'' wears sinister looking 'mod' sunglasses along with a tuxedo, cape, and red socks.

* Fender Tremolo in ''{{Film/Cyborg 1989}}'' is nearly all the time sporting his pair of 80's vintage black, dirty shades. And believe it or not, he's much better on with these however creepy he is. You really don't want to see what lies behind them.
* The assassin in ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster''.
** This also applies to the Xilians in both ''Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster'' and ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars''.
** The Saradian Agent is this as well in ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante''.

* The Doctor character from ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' multiplayer has mirrored goggles over a WhiteMaskOfDoom. The Engineer has proper sunglasses.

* Rude (his name, not his description) in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'' has these, making him as scary as possible for being a member of the GoldfishPoopGang.

* Black Monday Blues of ''WebComic/DeadWinter'' has red-tinted pairs. Yes, multiple, he carries ''spares''.
* Ricci's manager in ''Webcomic/{{Fite}}''

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' has newcomer [[LeanAndMean F.A.]][[PoisonousPerson N.G.]] wear a sinister pair of LennonSpecs.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan:'' Doctor Octopus wears a pair of shades, to hide the fact his eyes were badly scarred by the disaster that made him Doc Ock.

* The black-clad Bone, the most brutal of the bank robbers in ''Film/TheLookout, is never seen without without his sunglasses.

* Fender Tremelo in 1989 film ''Film/{{Cyborg}}''.
* In ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', Ms. Norman wears these, as does Roger Clifford during the PCL scenes. [[spoiler:This is because Ms. Norman is actually a Ditto, and the same Ditto is impersonating Roger during the aforementioned scenes. Ditto cannot mimic human eyes, so the shades are necessary to hide its true nature.]]