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23	So you have a guy who is cold, emotionless, or [[ShootTheDog brutally practical]], a [[ForTheEvulz little cruel]] or even a [[TheSoulless soulless monster]]. To quickly tip off the audience to his personality, give him glasses. The eyes are said to be windows of the soul, [[RuleOfSymbolism so hiding them behind glasses makes the character seem more removed]]. They mask the spitefulness on a villain's face and usually after the facade is taken off it is seen in their eyes (often going with CreepyShadowedUndereyes of evil). Particularly effective if the glasses have OpaqueLenses and you can have the light reflect off them [[ScaryShinyGlasses in scary ways.]] Double bonus points if seen on the EvilGenius.
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25	Compare SinisterShades. When used to portray remorselessness or malevolence, HiddenEyes follows the same principle. 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 or WickedCultured. 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.
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* ''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]].
34	* Shyamalan from ''Manga/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.
35	* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
36	** [[VillainProtagonist Claude]] [[BattleButler Faustus]] is a literal demon -- and not the "they just have horns and tails and cool powers" anime kind of demon -- a real, soul devouring demon.
37	** 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.
38	* [[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?
39	* 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/DrewCarey). 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.
40	%%** 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.
41	* For a short time (like 3 episodes short), [[spoiler:Aizen]] from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' personified this trope by massacring the ruling force of Soul Society, near murdering his second in command, and what he did to Rukia. He ditched the glasses after, but he's definitely remained super evil.
42	%% ** [[MadScientist Szayel Aporro Granz]] fits as well.
43	%% * 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.
44	* Girge from ''Manga/BrokenBlade'' is a special case. While he's definitely a spectacled blood knight, at times, he can be StoicSpectacles as well, thanks to his [[FreudianExcuse complicated personality]].
45	* 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.
46	%% * [[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.
47	%% * Aion from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', although in reality he's more of a [[spoiler:BrokenBird]] MagnificentBastard.
48	* November 11 in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' alternates between "[[LackOfEmpathy sociopathic]] jerk" and TheCharmer and habitually wears glasses with OpaqueLenses.
49	%% ** Better/even more extreme example with the Contractor Ilya in the second season. At first glance, he's a handsome, intellectual looking guy with a pleasant smile. Then you find out that he was a SerialKiller before gaining his powers and is still an AxCrazy psycho, just more calm about it.
50	* 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.
51	* 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 {{Namedar}}, 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.
52	%% * Muraki from ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' has hobbies that include raping, torturing, killing, and scientific experiments to revive the dead for the sake of killing them again. He's just a tiny bit psycho.
53	%% ** Averted with Yutaka Watari, the lovable genki scientist of JuOhCho. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Or is it?]]
54	%% * The Millennium Earl of ''Manga/DGrayMan''. While he may at first seem too cheerful and cartoony to be scary. This impression, however, is very quickly corrected as we learn more about him. It's becoming increasingly obvious that he's {{Satan}}.
55	%% * [[TheMenInBlack Mitsuo Yamaki]] from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', especially near the beginning of the season.
56	%% ** And then there's Akihiro Kurata from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', MadScientist extraordinaire.
57	%% * 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.
58	%% * 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.
59	* 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.
60	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
61	** 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.
62	** [[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]].
63	* Inverted in ''Literature/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.
64	* Parodied with Anko Isuna/Dark Grasper from ''Literature/GonnaBeTheTwinTail''. In a setting where the main villains are trying to steal people's "attributes" for energy source, Isuna joined the Ultimegil because she takes the glasses attribute [[SeriousBusiness very seriously]] and would rather have them drain out all other attributes besides it to preserve it. She is otherwise more of a {{Hikikomori}}, albeit a rather big LoonyFan to Twoearle.
65	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' has four glasses-wearing antagonists, though all are more complex than mere villains:
66	** DeanBitterman Uchiyamada always wears glasses, and hates Onizuka with a passion, but over time he gets more characterization and becomes an AntiVillain.
67	** Teshigawara is a stalker [[spoiler:and kidnapper]] who suffers a VillainousBreakdown when confronted with his actions.
68	** EvilPrincipal Misuzu Daimon wears glasses, and is a KnightTemplar who believes she's doing what's best for the students. At first, all she is concerned with is her revenge and she thinks of the students at school as nothing more than gears to move a business forward and believes school is nothing more than a business, the complete opposite of Sakurai. Then [[spoiler:finding out that Sakurai saved her from the fire she caused and Onizuka saving her from a second fire]] kickstarted her HeelFaceTurn.
69	** Subverted with [[spoiler:Sho Shibuya]], who ''stopped'' wearing glasses once he went full-on villain.
70	%% * The Brunette in ''Manga/{{Gunjo}}''.
71	%% * ''Manga/HaouAiren'' gives us Fuuron.
72	* In ''Manga/HeavenlyDelusion'' there is the “Glasses Man,” a sinister criminal who took advantage of a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] Japan to rape children. One of his former victims, a girl named Helm, enlisted the aid of Maru and Kiruko to help her end the Glasses Man’s perverted crimes towards children once and for all when she found him in a town many years later.
73	* ''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.
74	%% ** [[CoolOldGuy Walter C. Dorneaz]] becomes an absolute ''monster'' on the battlefield with his RazorFloss [[spoiler:and takes it further with his Vampirization]].
75	%% ** Rip Van Winkle too, but maybe she's not the best example as she is sadistic but cheerful.
76	%% * ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'' gives us Shidou, a former teacher who uses the chaos caused by ''[[NotUsingTheZWord them]]''.
77	* Ghiaccio from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' wears thick, red-rimmed glasses, and is by far the most [[HairTriggerTemper volatile]] member of La Squadra.
78	* 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 FetishizedAbuser -- loving crowd, though. (See Munakata's scenes with Kuroh).
79	* ''Manga/TheKindaichiCaseFiles'':
80	** One of the participants in the Snow Goblin Legend murder case is [[LonersAreFreaks Kaito Sabaki]], a {{Jerkass}} who wears glasses with the only known "hobby" being spreading MaliciousSlander online ForTheEvulz. While it's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] since he's not a murderer per se, the fact he gleefully relishes in ruining the lives of those he targets, up to and including causing some of them to become DrivenToSuicide, makes it difficult to sympathize with him once his past deeds are exposed.
81	** Part of the backstory in the Bloodthirsty Cherry Blossom murder case goes that a glasses-wearing MadDoctor 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. [[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.]]
82	%% * [[SpiderSense Brad Crawford]] from ''Anime/KnightHunters''. Also Reiji and Hirofumi Takatori, Masato Shimojima, and maybe Mayumi Tsujii.
83	* Shiroe from ''Literature/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]]".
84	%% * Zera from ''Manga/LycheeLightClub'' is a perfect example of this trope. [[ScaryShinyGlasses His glasses even shine and all]].
85	%% * ''Mahou Shoujo Ai'': Akitoshi's best friend Shinji becomes this after being possessed by the demonic Yuragi.
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87	* [[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]].
88	* 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.
89	%% * Naohiro Usui in the ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro''.
90	%% * Doji in ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade''. He planned to take over the world by harnessing the power of L-Drago [[spoiler:and later tries to bring about the apocalypse with Nemesis]], for crying out loud!
91	* 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.
92	%% * The aptly named {{Colonel\|Kilgore}} [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Killing]] of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'', who tries to get his own men killed off so that he can [[NukeEm nuke]] Side 6.
93	* 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.
94	* Director Udo Heinemann from ''Manga/{{Monster}}''. He has glasses and is a corrupt doctor who doesn't care about the patients of his hospital, but for the money. Also, he has plagiarized the research of his subordinates and is a BadBoss.
95	%% * Kabuto in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', as well as his temporary teammates Yoroi and Misume.
96	%% ** Shino is a slightly more heroic example of this...even his own team is a little freaked by him.
97	%% * [[PsychoLesbian Tsukuyomi]] of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''.
98	* ''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.
99	%% * ''Manga/OnePiece'': Captain Kuro
100	%% * In ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'', [[spoiler:Gainer Sanga himself fits this when he's [[DemonicPossession possessed by]] [[EldritchAbomination the Overdevil]].]]
101	* Kyoya from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this and even some of the lighter shades of FetishizedAbuser (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.]]
102	* Matori from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' is an elite Team Rocket member, who is often referred to as a "bob-cut, glasses-wearing goon girl" by Jessie.
103	%% * 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.
104	%% ** 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.
105	%% * Chikusa Kakimoto from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has this going for him.
106	%% * Katsuragi of ''Manga/SakuraGari''.
107	* ''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.
108	* 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."
109	%% * 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.
110	* Rosa Aphrodia from ''Anime/SpaceWarriorBaldios'' 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.]]
111	* 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.
112	* DepravedHomosexual [[MadScientist Professor Aizawa]] from ''Literature/{{Sukisho}}'' who was responsible for performing sadistic experiments on Sunao and Sora when they were children.
113	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Sugou Nobuyuki, the ArcVillain of the Fairy Dance arc, wears glasses in real life, though not as Oberon in ALO. He's also a {{slimeball}} CorruptCorporateExecutive who does such horrible things as perform inhumane MindControl experiments on 300 SAO survivors, and [[AttemptedRape try to rape Asuna]] while [[ForcedToWatch making Kirito watch]].
114	* ''Utaite no Ballad'': VillainProtagonist Seiji Kotani is almost never seen without wearing a pair of glasses. He is also a SerialRapist who frequently abuses his position of trust as a musician to [[PaedoHunt prey upon underage girls]].
115	%% * Furoku Tsukumo, mother of TeenGenius Susumu from ''Anime/WandabaStyle'', is a rare female version.
116	* Amon Garam of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has to wear glasses -- he also [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses is a child prodigy]], GadgeteerGenius, Duel Monsters champion... and cold-blooded killer of his girlfriend to fulfill a DealWithTheDevil in an attempt to TakeOverTheWorld.
117	%% ** As well as the D aka Kyle Jables.
118	%% * Kaito from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' seems like this, until it turns out that [[spoiler: he was working for Genkai the whole time]]
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122	* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfAeroGirl'': Dr. Chimera wears red glasses that hide his eyes from view, and is a member of Aero-Girl's rogues gallery.
123	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
124	** When out of costume, Jonathan Crane (Alias: The Scarecrow) is a bookish, glasses wearing nerd... who just so happens to love terrifying those around him and being a general sadist.
125	** Professor Hugo Strange, who takes upon himself to torment Batman. In ''Prey'', we never ever see his eyes, only what's caught in his glasses' reflections.
126	%% ** Jim Gordon Jr. fits as well. His seldom-used villain name was "four eyes", although given [[EyepatchOfPower recent developments]], a more appropriate name would the "three-eyes".
127	* Kemal in ''ComicBook/{{Djinn}}'' looks like a completely unassuming man with glasses who doesn't appear to be sinister at first. But then he quickly establishes himself as a violent and 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]].
128	* ''ComicBook/Elsewhere2017'': While the bespectacled scientist [[spoiler:didn’t order Gwenore's experimentation, he was very adamant that she not return home.]]
129	* ''ComicBook/HybridForce'': The BigBad of the comic is Dr. Insomnia, a bespectacled scientist who's the leader of a terrorist organization bent on [[TakeOverTheWorld ruling the world]].
130	%% * [[spoiler:Alberto Falcone]] of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' and ''ComicBook/DarkVictory.''
131	* 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.
132	* Kevin from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' 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.
133	* Baxter Stockman has glasses that fit him both as a villain and as a MadScientist in ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' from the comics to the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series]], and even the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 series]].
134	%% * Thomas in ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' turns out to be completely evil and insane. Not actually %% surprising.
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138	%% * Mulmangcho in ''A Squirrel and a Hedgehog''.
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142	* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'': Akihiro Garaki is almost never seen without a pair of glasses. He is also openly condescending towards others, even those trying to become his friends, is introduced espousing [[TheSocialDarwinist beliefs that the intellectually superior should dominate the weak]], [[spoiler:and eventually kills Miyuki and is revealed to have conducted inhumane experiments on his own sister simply because he could, showing absolutely no remorse for what he did]].
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146	* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': [[HateSink Noodles]], one of the [[TerribleTrio three]] [[JerkassWoobie orphan]] [[KidsAreCruel bullies]] [[TheHero Fievel]] meets in [[OrphanageOfFear Orphan Alley]] wears big round glasses and [[LackOfEmpathy doesn’t show the latter any pity]].
147	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'': Mr. Gristle wears glasses and is a single-minded psychopath.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Gilbert Huph has glasses, and is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive calculating and greedy executive]] who serves as a foil to Mr. Incredible's sense of justice.
149	* Bill Sykes from ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has glasses and not an inch of pity.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Played with; Ego isn't necessarily evil, but his unforgiving criticism paired with his powerful reputation can singlehandedly destroy a restaurant's reputation, as Gusteau's can attest to. It takes the culinary genius of a rat to bring out a much warmer side in the man.
151	* The ''Franchise/ToyStory'' franchise has two cases of this trope:
152	** Al [=McWhiggin=], one of the antagonists of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. Downplayed in that while he still has his own crimes, he's more of a jerkass than an actual villain.
153	** Ron Tompkins, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryOfTerror''. He's a motel manager who steals toys from children and sells them so that he can afford the payments of his motel.
154	* ''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.
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158	* 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]].
159	* 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.
160	* ''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.
161	* 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.
162	* ''Film/{{Bait\|2000}}'': 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."
163	* Dr. Jonathan Crane from ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is a bookish, glasses wearing nerd who just so happens to be a general sadist who loves terrifying those around him.
164	* ''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".
165	* ''Film/{{Bent}}'' features a bespectacled evil Nazi that is memorable for his interrogation methods on the train.
166	* 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.]]
167	* Boss Godfrey, of ''Film/CoolHandLuke''. You don't talk to him, ever. The movie's rife with symbolism, and his sunglasses are meant to reflect a distorted view of man (most shots of him are close-ups on his Aviators).
168	* ''Film/{{Copycat}}'': The killer wears glasses most of the time, and is even seen watching future victims with their images reflected on the lenses, highlighting them at the same time his face isn't shown at first. He's a remorseless sadist who loves to harm and murder people.
169	* ''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.
170	* Nathan from ''Film/ExMachina''. His thick glasses reflect his cold and detached personality and attitude toward others.
171	* Emil Leopold Locque in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' is [[spoiler: Kristatos']] quiet, cruel, ruthless enforcer who wears a distinctive pair of glasses.
172	* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': Walter "[[TaxidermyIsCreepy The Taxidermist]]" Harris is a SerialKiller who would make taxidermy models out of people. He wears a pair of glasses.
173	%% * Dr. William Block, played by Josh Brolin in the ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' segment ''Film/PlanetTerror''. [[http://images.wikia.com/grindhouse/images/6/61/Doc.jpg What do you think?]]
174	* A subversion in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': Harry certainly ''isn't'' this trope. However, after he uses Sectumsempra on Draco Malfoy, the next scene has him looking like he has ScaryShinyGlasses instead of eyes, expressing [[HeelRealization his realization that he's gone too far in their enmity]].
175	%% * Comes up frequently in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
176	* Humma Kavula, the evil religious leader in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' 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.
177	* ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt'': Jack, a remorseless serial killer who often wears glasses.
178	* ''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.
179	* In ''Film/{{If}}'', the prim, proper and soulless school prefect Denson wears glasses.
180	* 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.
181	* Christian Szell from ''Film/MarathonMan'', is a cruel NaziGrandpa who kills Babe's brother, and tortures Babe himself, over some costly diamonds.
182	* In ''Film/{{Mirage 1965}}'', Willard is a brutal assassin whose distinguishing characteristic is his wire rim glasses.
183	* ''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.
184	* 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.
185	%% * The Warden in ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'', heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the Devil himself]].
186	* Larry Thornhill from ''Film/{{Psychos}}''. He wears glasses, and [[spoiler:sexually abuses his daughter when she was young]].
187	* Major Arnold Ernst Toht, the creepy-as-hell Gestapo torture guy ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', wears glasses.
188	* 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.
189	* 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.
190	* Clarence Boddicker, the memorable antagonist in ''Film/RoboCop1987'', was specifically made to wear glasses to resemble UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler. It shows.
191	* ''Film/RolloAndTheSpiritOfTheWoods'': Lackey, the utterly rotten and [[SmugSnake conceited]] [[EvilChancellor adviser]] of the [[AllTrollsAreDifferent rolleys]]' chieftain, wears spectacles.
192	* ''Film/{{Room}}'': The kidnapper, rapist villain Old Nick wears glasses.
193	* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': David, Dianne's boyfriend and Liz's other flatmate. He was an obnoxious dick before the outbreak. The ZombieApocalypse makes him [[TheStarscream outright evil]]. [[spoiler:It turns out [[GreenEyedMonster he always resented Shaun for getting with Liz]].]]
194	* 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.
195	%%* ''Film/Troll2'': Creedence wears a pair of glasses in her old lady form.
196	%% * Mark Collins, played by Creator/ChristianSlater, in ''Film/{{Twisted\|1986}}''.
197	%% * Judge Doom in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
198	* ''Film/{{Wishcraft}}'': The killer wears glasses, while murdering his own students for [[DisproportionateRetribution very petty reasons]].
199	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
200	** In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', William Stryker wears glasses in his older age and seeks the complete genocide of mutants.
201	** 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.
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205	* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' uses this trope to enhance its introduction of "duckspeaking" (spouting politically-correct statements without thinking):
206	--> 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.
207	%% ** [[spoiler:And O'Brien, who plays this trope horrifyingly straight.]]
208	%%* Algaliarept from ''Literature/TheHollows'' series.
209	* [[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]].
210	* In ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' book ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree'', we're repeatedly told that SerialKiller Jack Mort wears gold-rimmed glasses.
211	* In ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', EvilVizier Lord Hong, who is not so much power-mad as power-sane (he doesn't even ''think'' of cackling madly, like the ''traditional'' type of Grand Vizier), wears little round glasses.
212	* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', the abusive Aunt Spiker wears steel-rimmed spectacles.
213	* In ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'', Saturday wears a pair of round, tinted glasses that obscure his eyes entirely, and have a terrifying effect on people around him. Once the glasses are removed, though, [[spoiler:his looks turn out to be so wholesome and commonplace that his terrorist disguise is instantly blown.]]
214	* Zack, the SociopathicHero of ''Literature/TheMentalState'', wears elliptical lenses, as shown on the book's cover. He usually appears to be friendly, compassionate and obliging. It is only when he looks at you from over the tops of his spectacles and smiles that you know he has completely screwed you over.
215	* 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]].
216	* 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.''
217	* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': A student witch named Brynne is part of Lily's gang and acts as the gang's lookout, warning them when someone is coming so they know when they can and can't get away with bullying the other students. She also has thick glasses which she [[BlindWithoutEm cannot see without]], and it's a plot point that when she breaks hers, Emily figures it's Lily's group who provides her with new ones (which she couldn't otherwise get) so as to maintain her loyalty to their evil gang.
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221	* The second season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' had Dr. Whitehall, who wears Himmler-like glasses, probably because not only he's a high-up HYDRA head, but he actually ''was'' a Nazi.
222	* A recurring villain on ''Series/{{Alias}}'' was a Chinese torturer named "Suit-and-Glasses" because, you guessed it, those were his only identifying features.
223	%% * Jim Keats of BBC's ''Series/AshesToAshes2008''. He has this sinister 60's government agent look.
224	* ''Series/BabylonFive'' has the interrogator who tortured Sheridan in the episode "Intersections in Real Time".
225	%% * ''Series/{{Banshee}}'' has Clay Burton, TheDragon to Kai Proctor's BigBad.
226	* Robert Daly, the antagonist of the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''"USS Callister"'' wears thick nerdy glasses in his regular life and takes them off inside his ''Infinity'' game, [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue where he plays a cool-as-cucumber alpha male starship captain]]. However Daly also has a malicious and tyrannical side he keeps hidden from the people he interacts with in reality and unleashes with terrifying coldness in the game.
227	* ''Series/BlackSails'': Dufresne, an 18th century pirate ship accountant, initially sports NerdGlasses that establish him as a wimp. Once he [[TookALevelInBadass toughens up]], he also gets more treacherous, becoming prone to dead-eyed stares through his cracked lenses.
228	* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
229	** Gus Fring's glasses are inseparable from his politeness, intelligence, and harmless persona... and also from his cool, menacing stares.
230	** Walter White becomes one as he embraces his Heisenberg personality.
231	* 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.
232	* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': a very chilling example occurs in an early episode. After the villain offs his victim, his efforts to clean the crime scene are superimposed on each of his spectacles, while his face keeps unnervingly still. Watch the scene in all its Hitchcockian glory [[https://youtu.be/S1rLbO6RcCg here]].
233	* ''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.
234	* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
235	** James Wesley. His flat expressions, especially when combined with his glasses, greatly unnerve almost everyone around him.
236	** Leland Owlsley wears thick glasses that mask the eyes of a well-dressed white-collar crook.
237	** 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.
238	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
239	** The War Lord from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames "The War Games"]] sought to use Earth's history's greatest warriors to conquer the universe and totally nailed the Steve Jobs look, right down to the glasses. Which is rather more impressive when you consider that Steve Jobs was a 14-year-old nobody when this serial first aired.
240	** Nyder from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" (a blatant UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler {{Expy}}). Even his voice is a cold and steely monotone, except when he displays some actual feeling. But don't believe him when he does it.
241	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab "Demons of the Punjab"]]: Manish, a Hindu fanatic who hates Muslims so much he [[spoiler:arranges his brother Prem's [[SiblingMurder murder]] when Prem marries one]], sports a pair of round glasses.
242	* The camera lingers quite a bit on Leland Townsend's designer glasses on the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Evil\|2019}}'', just before he threatens the death of Kristen's daughters. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he encouraged Orson [=LeRoux=] to act on his murder fantasies and coached him in how to fake insanity.]]
243	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Dr Harrison Wells is much more prone to ShootTheDog than his idealistic team-mates, and has the NerdGlasses to match this tendency. Interestingly, he usually takes his glasses off before doing morally questionable things. [[spoiler: This is because he doesn't actually need them, only wearing them as part of his 'Harrison Wells' persona. When he drops the act and reveals his true identity, he stops wearing his glasses altogether.]]
244	* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': The Riddler in this canon swaps in his traditional domino mask for a pair of glasses, and is a smug, petty sadist.
245	%%** Hugo Strange of course, who is never seen without his red-tinted Lennon specs.
246	* ''Series/GrangeHill'': the much-hated teacher Mr Bronson wears glasses.
247	* Sylar from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' began his murderous streak while he was still a bespectacled watchmaker. Taken to extremes with the multi-lens glasses he wears for his job.
248	* ''Series/{{Imposters}}'': The Doctor is a SoftSpokenSadist and crime boss with glasses.
249	* ''Series/JudgeJohnDeed'': The somewhat sinister circuit administrator Lawrence James, who wears thick-framed glasses.
250	* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' once dealt with a case involving a man who had abducted a teenage girl and was holding her captive as a sex slave. At one point, the girl (who had managed to acquire a phone) mentions the guy was (for some reason...) at his absolute worst and sadistic when he was wearing his glasses (which was a lot).
251	%% * On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's ForScience attitude and callousness toward Beaker make him a comedic example. [[EyelessFace Then again...]]
252	* TheMole who infiltrates the OSP on ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' is a bespectacled FatBastard who poisons Granger, kills a RedShirt, and takes Eric hostage before being captured.
253	* Nazi leader and later ''Führer'' UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler himself from ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle''.
254	* Roan from ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' is a prime example. From his very first introduction, Roan is seen ruthlessly killing the first man they interrogate, and shows virtually no development of sympathy or a moral conscience throughout the series.
255	* 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.
256	* The Supervisor in ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'', although the effect is enhanced by being combined with the character's booming RoboSpeak voice and his almost never-changing deadpan facial expression.
257	* Criminal gang leader Charlie Elkin (played by Christopher Ellison) in the BBC children's drama serial ''Running Scared'' from 1986. In fact, his glasses are a major plot point, as they are a critical piece of evidence that could put him away for good, which is why he ruthlessly searches for them.
258	* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Charles Augustus Magnussen, a bespectacled man whom Sherlock describes as "the Napoleon of blackmail".
259	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} in ''Series/StargateSG1'' with alternate/evil Daniel Jackson, who ''didn't'' wear glasses. One WMG suggests that glasses are the inverse of {{beard\|OfEvil}}s in the Franchise/StargateVerse. (Both the glasses and the evil were the result of some AppliedPhlebotinum.)
260	* In the MiniSeries "I Know My First Name Is Steven", based on the kidnapping of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Stayner Steven Stayner]], Steven's abductor Kenneth Parnell wears glasses throughout. His RealLife counterpart didn't, so presumably either the actor or the producers correctly surmised that they would be very effective in conveying how much of a creep he was.
261	** 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).
262	* Sandy Furness, one of the most amoral characters on ''Series/{{Succession}}'', wears glasses that often obscure his eyes due to how the light reflects off them, only reinforcing his villainy.
263	* Professor Nakagawa from the ''Series/UltramanEighty'' episode, ''The Devil Doctor's Laborator'' is a bespectacled scientist who appears to be a friendly and wise man and an old friemd of Emi Jouno's father, but turns out to be an amoral EvilutionaryBiologist. He stole the harmless infant monster, Myu, from UGM's research facilities, intending to turn a harmless creature into an experimental bio-weapon to prove to the UGM of his superiority as a scientist. Performing all sorts of experimentations on the harmless Myu, including force-feeding it a serum and putting it through electrical torture, Nakagawa's exploits ultimately causes Myu to enlarge to a kaiju-sized behemoth going on a rampage. This bespectacled asshole is perhaps the ''only'' human character in the show without a single redeeming quality.
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266	[[folder:Music]]
267	* The music video for Music/Maroon5's ''Animals'' stars Creator/AdamLevine as a creepy stalker/serial killer, wearing a pair of stereotypical psychopath glasses all the way through.
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270	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
271	* [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]] wears glasses and is a {{Heel}} who always demands people to pay their taxes. He even teamed up with Wrestling/TedDiBiase and formed the tag team Money Inc. His most notorious moment was when he whacked Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake in the face with his suitcase (this was right after Beefcake got back into wrestling after taking a few years off due to a face injury from a parasailing accident). Though he didn't wear the glasses during a match.
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274	[[folder:Roleplay]]
275	* Kasei Araragi, the Blaziken gijinka from ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'', is a mad scientist who experimented on a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire girl who can regenerate]] and his sister, Luca Araragi the Lucario gijinka just because he could.
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278	[[folder:Theater]]
279	* Juror #4 in ''Theatre/TwelveAngryMen'' is the only one who wears glasses and represents the detached, analytical approach to deliberating the case. He's the second-to-last to switch his vote from guilty to innocent (and the argument that convinces him there's a reasonable doubt is in fact related to eyeglasses).
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282	[[folder:Video Games]]
283	* ''VideoGame/AceCombat''
284	** 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.]]
285	** 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.]]
286	%%* The Doctor from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', complete with ScaryShinyGlasses.
287	* 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.
288	** 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.
289	* ''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]].
290	%%* Mr Burke, ''VideoGame/Fallout3''. They're sunglasses, not corrective lenses... but it hardly matters.
291	%%** An evil Courier in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' can be this with the Four Eyes trait.
292	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
293	** Professor Hojo from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. He wears glasses, and is a MadScientist who performs vile experiments in the name of science, and is also a grade-A {{Jerkass}}.
294	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilBGmN2G0Q Jihl Nabaat]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', with an element of titillation. Large breasts, chillingly prim and proper diction, and gracious, the woman walks around with a ''riding crop''.
295	%%* [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Dimitri Rascalov]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''.
296	%%* Fawful from the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series.
297	* [[spoiler: Senator Armstrong]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''. Right before beginning the final battle against him, [[TheGlassesComeOff he takes his glasses off]].
298	* Subverted with Shuji Ikutsuki from ''VideoGame/Persona3'' -- wears glasses and... is a PungeonMaster (it's not even a facade -- you can see him ''practicing'' his puns while alone in one scene). [[spoiler:Double subverted when it turns out he was EvilAllAlong]].
299	* 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]].
300	* 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.]]
301	* Played with by Klug in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoFever''; he's a jerk, he's impatient, and he fits the bill for GoodIsNotNice. ...Then he gets [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by a demon, is practically humiliated as the three people he offends the most save him, and he eventually [[PetTheDog Pets The Dog]]. His possessed alter ego is a more straight example, as he is a literal demon with only half a soul, wearing glasses.
302	%%* Goda from ''VideoGame/SentinelDescendantsInTime''. [[spoiler:{{Subverted\|Trope}} at the end when we learn that Beni is really Ramirez.]]
303	* Forget Me Not from ''VideoGame/Reverse1999'' is a WickedCultured, glasses-wearing member of the magical terrorist organization, the Manus Vindictae. He is a manipulative and ruthless schemer, willing to lie to his own allies, endanger countless innocents, and directly cause the financial ruin of countless hapless souls when he helps accelerate the 1920s stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. The lenses may be clear but you'll find no humanity in the eyes behind them.
304	* [[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]].
305	* 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.
306	* ''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.
307	%%* Duke Greene, the BigBad from ''VideoGame/ThreeTheHardWay''
308	* 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.
309	%%* [[MadScientist Dr. Teklov]], the BigBad of '' VideoGame/VentureKid'', wears eyeglasses that completely obscure his eyes from view.
310	* Judecca from ''VideoGame/WildArms2'' wear glasses that he constantly has to push back into place whenever he gets overexcited ([[spoiler: subjecting someone to horrific torture]]). It becomes a plot point in ''VideoGame/WildArmsMillionMemories'' where [[spoiler: he loses them after being defeated, and [[BlindWithoutEm falls off a cliff.]]]]
311	%%* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has Megumi Kitaniji and Mitsuki Konishi.
312	* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' has some examples.
313	** ''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, [[spoiler: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.]]
314	** ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' has [[BigBad Tsuneo Iwami]], who's the slimiest son of a bitch in the entire game. [[spoiler: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"]].]]
315	* ''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]].
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318	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
319	* ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' has [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], the BigBad of the game. Not only does he have a ScaryShinyGlasses animation, using Perceive on said animation and [[spoiler:concentrating on his hand will reveal a scar that looks like a ''demon'']].
320	* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has Byakuya Togami, a character so arrogant and antisocial that he openly declares his intention to murder someone, asserts his own invulnerability, and isolates himself because he can't imagine anyone else might have anything to say worth hearing. [[spoiler: This being ''Dangan Ronpa'', not only doesn't he ever actually kill anyone, he also survives the entire story.]]
321	** The true mastermind of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', [[spoiler: Tsumugi Shirogane]] is so openly in love with the killing game that she wants it to keep going, even at the expense of hundreds of innocent teens. She also was the reason that [[spoiler: Kaede was executed as Tsumugi framed her so well that even Kaede herself believed she was guilty of murder.]]
322	* Yaginuma in ''VisualNovel/TheShell'' is even described in the ingame notebook with "Still An Asshole".
323	* Yakumo from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' is shown to be wearing round, reflective spectacles while [[spoiler:dissecting his victims]], which make him seem all the more detached and cold.
324	* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'''s Tohno Shiki is an inversion. He is somewhat of a {{Jerkass}} to Arceuid and Arihiko with his glasses, but his cold, ruthless side really shows itself when TheGlassesComeOff.
325	* ''VisualNovel/WorldEndSyndrome'' has Mibu Kamashiro, heir to his family's business empire -- and also an abusive, power-hungry, murderous {{Jerkass}}.
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328	[[folder:Web Animation]]
329	* In ''WebAnimation/{{Damaged}}'', one of the two people who seem to be stalking Emily is wearing a pair of glasses, behind which you don't see his eyes.
330	* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' gives us Steve Cobs, the creator of the [=MePhones=], who is [[{{Jerkass}} abusive]] to his creations if they fail to do the job he assigned them to do.
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332
333	[[folder:Webcomics]]
334	* Doctor [[spoiler: Hayter]] of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' is a mad scientist willing to perform a vivisection on a live unwilling patient.
335	* Downplayed a tad with Arlen Watson from ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'', he's a very nasty and unpleasant guy towards other people ''especially'' to strangers. Treating the Webcomic's main crew with disdain and being more than happy to put a bullet in all of their heads (the most ironic thing is that he's devoutly religious). Despite all that however, his children are the reason why he's so nasty, because he's overprotective of them and isn't the least bit abusive towards his twins.
336	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
337	** [[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.
338	** Much more appropriate now is [[spoiler: Eridan Ampora]] who gains ScaryShinyGlasses after his FromNobodyToNightmare transformation. [[spoiler: He attempts to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill his romantic rival]]]], succeeds in [[NotGoodWithRejection murdering]] his MoralityChain, [[KillTheCutie kills]] the only other person who he ever considered a friend, and '''[[MoralEventHorizon dooms his own race to extinction]]''', all in a matter of seconds without a single blink.
339	* ''Webcomic/KaitenMutenmaru'': [[spoiler:Pain Solitude]] was the spectacled tyrant of [[spoiler:Throne]] who used the money of the town only for aristocrats.
340	* Mordecai Heller from ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}''. He's a sociopathic hitman who is extremely bad at expressing genuinely positive emotions, and shows no remorse for the people he hurts and kills. Doubles as a BadassBookworm.
341	%% * ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' has [[http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1483 Sheldon]].
342	* ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe}} morphE]]'' begins with 8 normal humans taken from their lives and pit against one another in 1-on-1 combat. The one with glasses does not bother with the emotional weight of the predicament. He sees that it is kill or be killed and tries to choke a college girl to death with little need for coercing.
343	* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1693 "No. Leave her. This one has… potential."]] Justified due to the glasses being augmented reality glasses. When Dale switches them off during an argument with then-holographic May (thereby switching ''her'' off as well, since her image was projected onto the glasses), the lenses resemble those of ordinary glasses.
344	* ''Webcomic/SamuraiPrincess's'' Fawdry qualifies [[spoiler: after nonchalantly blowing a hole in Itchyknee-san's head and laughing about it]]
345	* ''Webcomic/TheStoryOfAnima'' has [[http://tapastic.com/episode/43376 Hector]], a glasses-wearing PsychoForHire [[http://tapastic.com/episode/76313 who has no qualms with murdering children]].
346	* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', it's no coincidence that the brutal and cruel Wolf Keum has a pair of aviator shades that frame his keen eyes.
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349	%% [[folder:Web Videos]]
350	%% * [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]], in his MemeticMolester glory, and Mechakara play this straight.
351	%% * Music/JonLajoie's rapist glasses. Because [[BlackComedy "...ladies love the bad boy look"]].
352	%% * The Observer from WebVideo/TribeTwelve, AKA [[spoiler:Kevin]]
353	%% * [[spoiler:Alex Kralie]] from WebVideo/MarbleHornets.
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355
356	[[folder:Western Animation]]
357	* 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.
358	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
359	** Mr. Freeze is a shades-wearing villain who is cold in every possible meaning of the word.
360	** Inverted with Jonathan Crane, who, while he wears glasses in the comics, never wears them in the show. This might have something to do with his more sympathetic [[AffablyEvil portrayal]] in the show.
361	%%** In the sequel series, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', 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]].
362	* 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.
363	* 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.
364	%% * Owen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' is a cold version. [[{{Pun}} Stone cold]].
365	* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/GerisGame''; White!Geri wears glasses while Black!Geri does not.
366	%% * Dr. Scientist on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.
367	* Mertle Edmonds from ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' acts like an 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. [[PayEvilUntoEvil Prompting Stitch to knock her over and stealing her trike]].
368	%% * Edmund pre-HeelFaceTurn in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe1979''.
369	%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': [[BadassNormal Charles]] [[BattleButler Foster]] [[StraightMan Ofdensen]], sympathetic version.
370	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
371	** Gabriel Agreste. With his cold, unfriendly personality. [[spoiler:Even more as the true identity of Hawk Moth.]]
372	** 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.]]
373	* Principal Abacus Cinch from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'' is a bespectacled school principal blackmailing her star student to do her bidding.
374	%% * Agent Bishop from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''.
375	%% ** So does Baxter Stockman
376	* 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.]]
377	%% * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': Arguably Dr. Venture himself. Certainly Dr. Henry Killinger.
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