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10->''"What is the purpose of the goggles?"''
11-->-- '''G-Man''', ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''
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16A character wears goggles or other eyewear, despite the fact that they don't have an actual use. In many cases, they'll only ever wear them ''above'' their eyes (see picture) like some weird hat. It's not that the goggles ''can't'' do their job, it's that they're never used in the first place.
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18Unused articles such as this often make up the RummageSaleReject. Goggles are popular, because [[RuleOfCool they look cool]]. If you can actually get something out of them besides protection, then it's probably because your GogglesDoSomethingUnusual.
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20If a character has a logical reason to be wearing goggles, like [[AdventurerOutfit pilot with aviator goggles]], it doesn't count as this trope, even if he never actually gets to use them.
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22See also PurelyAestheticGlasses for when glasses don't actually correct vision. Contrast StylishProtectionGear for functional, protective goggles that also happen to look really cool. SubTrope of UselessAccessory.
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29* During the Hades arc of ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'', [[spoiler:Katou]] wears goggles around his neck for no good reason, other than RuleOfCool.
30* Subverted in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. When the main form of combat is high-speed aerial acrobatics, goggles are pretty much the only way to keep from losing one's vision-correction apparatus. They also serve much in the same way as pilot's goggles, although that raises the question of why more characters don't wear them, as only Hange is shown to wear them more-or-less regularly -- and she wears glasses anyway.
31* In ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', Oshino Shinobu wears a motorcycle helmet and goggles, despite appearing to be maybe six or eight years old and spending most of her time sitting around in the shade.
32* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
33** Shiba Ganju was supposed to have goggles as part of his design, but Kubo lamented that he simply forgot to add them every time he drew the character. However, the goggles do appear on Ganjuu in some color spreads.
34** Renji, meanwhile, likes wearing expensive sunglasses over his forehead tattoos, but are broken easily in fights. He substitutes a bandanna instead.
35** A variation occurs in one of the anime omake: Tousen is seen using binoculars. This would be fine, except ''[[FridgeLogic TOUSEN IS BLIND.]]''
36* Parodied in ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo''. Bubble-uba, a minor villain, wears ''three pairs'' of goggles on his forehead, and has an extra-large pair wrapped around his waist.
37* ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'': Sailor V's mask is this. Unlike Manga/SailorMoon's similar mask in the manga it has no point aside from obscuring her face. When she becomes Sailor Venus she continues to wear it offscreen for a bit and during her introduction (probably so viewers/readers know that she and Sailor V are the same person) ditches it once she joins the team and her identity is never revealed due to it.
38* In early chapters of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Rosette wears a pair of goggles over her wimple. She uses them a grand total of once, while she and Chrono are on a plane and attempting to board an enemy's blimp. Chrono wears them, too, but it's the only time he's ever seen with goggles, and he takes his off once they make it in, but Rosette's stay on until she gets her militia outfit.
39* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
40** In one of the ''Death Note Relight'' specials a shinigami, [[spoiler:possibly Light Yagami]], is seen (pictured above) with goggles when he doesn't even have any eyes!
41** Matt, a frequent gamer, also wears goggles at all times. Though they might be worn to protect his eyes from glazing. Or maybe he's cosplaying Raz from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
42* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', it borders on a RunningGag that the lead character always wears goggles. It started with [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Taichi/Tai]], then [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Daisuke/Davis]] actually started wearing Taichi's original goggles. ''Then'' [[Anime/DigimonTamers Takato]] wears them because he watched a different version of Digimon on television. Then there's [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Takuya]], [[Anime/DigimonFusion Taiki/Mikey]], [[Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime Tagiru]], [[Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters Haru]], Tsurugi in ''Next'', and Hikaru in ''D-Cyber''. Strangely, [[OlderThanTheyThink the very first guy to wear goggles]] ([[NoExportForYou another guy named Taichi]] in ''[[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 V-Tamer 01]]'') actually got them as a gift from a pilot and [[UnbuiltTrope used them for that very purpose.]] In several instances, the characters do actually use them. The problem is that nobody else seems to ever be bothered by whatever condition prompts the current goggle boy to wear them.
43** Davis/Daisuke's ImageSong is actually called "Goggle Boy," and he has an audio drama track called "Goggles." He does say that he wore them ''specifically'' because Tai/Taichi did, so it's kind of a GogglesDoSomethingUnusual Because They Do Unusual Things For My Role Model.
44** ''Tamers'' subverts this. Takato's goggles come in handy in a digital field, among other places; the other two members of the PowerTrio have sunglasses which they use in the same situations.
45*** ''Frontier'' featured a similar subversion, with Takuya using his goggles to cover his eyes while underwater. This came in handy since that meant he was the only group member who could see underwater and they weren't just swimming blind.
46** Well, every lead character aside from [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Masaru/Marcus]], but that's probably because he's [[BadassNormal too manly for them]]. However, [[Anime/DigimonFusion fans prefer goggles]]. Note that Masaru doesn't look like an Elementary / Junior High school student, [[YoungerThanTheyLook despite the fact that he is the latter]]. Similarly, [[Anime/DigimonGhostGame Hiro]] also completely averts this with a goggleless outfit.
47* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'': Several Birdopian characters in the anime, including the new protagonist Gusuke, wears goggles 24/7 on their foreheads, even during intense, high-speed chase sequences or when they're battling Phoenixia the fire-breathing eldritch monster at the end, where having goggles over their eyes would seem useful. Oddly enough the manga story the anime's adapted from avert the trope, with Gusuke and his rival Tsubakuro pulling their goggles over their eyes during the Icarus Rally.
48* Erwin in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. Since her goggles are transparent, many viewers never notice them, and often fan artists and cosplayers leave them out. But since she is emulating UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel, listed below under Real Life, she does indeed have goggles on top of her hat the way Rommel did. However, she is never shown wearing them over her eyes.
49* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
50** Basque Ohm from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gundam 0083]]'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' literally wears goggles that seem to serve no purpose. However, it's possible that they cover an injury of some sort as it was hinted he was tortured by Zeon during the One Year War.
51** Quatre Raberba Winner of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' has a pair of goggles. The practical way to use them would be for crossing the desert -- the only time he does wear them is inside his Gundam.
52** Quatre's goggles are more for sentimental value; the prequel novel ''Episode Zero'' shows that they belonged to Rashid, leader of the Maganac Corps, and mark the young man as [[TrueCompanions one of them]], which makes the Maganacs the first real friends he ever had.
53* [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Canada]] from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' sports a pair of goggles on his head in a few illustrations of his military uniform. Oddly enough, his brother America is the one who wears a uniform resembling that of a pilot, but only is drawn with goggles once or twice. Considering Canada's UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarII}}W2 role as the airplane manufacturing/flight training center for most of the British Empire and the fact that his uniform seems to include a parachute, he's probably a bombardier or navigator, so the goggles aren't totally superfluous.
54* Subverted with Kidou from ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven''. [[spoiler:In the third season Kageyama explains through a flashback that he gave him his goggles to concentrate on the field, because they narrow his vision, allowing him to predict where the ball will land at all times.]] He also keeps the goggles because they're his trademark. Dylan, on the other hand, wears goggles with no explanation, while Amagi from the sequel wears his goggles ''on his chin''.
55* Koga the {{Jerkass}} NobleDemon of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' wears a sheathed sword that he never uses during battle. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when he finally draws the thing to whack his way free of a demon's giant clutching hand. When [[ThoseTwoGuys his pair of loyal minions]] express surprise that he's never used the sword before, Koga admits he doesn't even know how to fight with it -- he just took the sword off a corpse to carry [[RuleOfCool because he thought it would make him look cool]].
56* In ''Anime/KnightHunters'', both Ken and Omi wear goggles as part of their mission clothes. Averted in the last episode (and lampshaded in the accompanying [[HilariousOuttakes outtakes]] for this and an earlier episode), when Omi actually uses his to see the infrared beams.
57-->'''Omi:''' Finally a use for these goggles I've been wearing for 24 episodes.
58** Played straight with the nonsensical orange jacket Ken wears around his waist as well.
59%%* Izumi from ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance''.
60* Yuuno's side-pouch in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', which we never see him use. [[http://ashitahadocchida.sakura.ne.jp/top.html Some]] FanWebComics (Omake (?)) [[http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/653/bangai07rm2.jpg have made speculations on what he places in there.]] Arnage actually has redundant goggles.
61* In ''Manga/MangaShakespeare'', Benvolio of ''Romeo and Juliet'' wears goggles but is never shown using them.
62* Dominikov from ''Manga/MurderPrincess''. Come to think of it, he kinda resembles a more [[http://www.nautiljon.com/images/perso/grandes/Murder_Princess/dominikov.jpg family-friendly]] version of the image up top.[[spoiler:.. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/Kottke/Muir%20Woods/MurderPrincessep05b.jpg usually]] (he's the one on the right).]]
63* ''Anime/NappingPrincess'': In her pirate outfit, Ancien has a pair of goggles. When she climbs to the outside of a towering Enginehead, she actually discards them (and her pirate hat), despite it seeming like the situation would make the goggles useful.
64* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
65** In the early design stages, the titular character was also supposed to wear a pair of useless goggles. However, the artist found goggles too hard to draw, and so replaced it with a headband after the first few issues. Attention is called to it, as one of Naruto's mentors notes he's wearing the goggles as a replacement for the {{hachimaki}} actual ninja wear; it's taken as a sign of his immaturity. In the [[Manga/Naruto1997 original one-shot]], the goggles weren't useless; he wears them when riding his motorcycle. The goggles in the first few chapters of the series proper were a holdover from that one-shot.
66** After Chapter 2, Konohamaru takes to wearing goggles on his forehead in order to emulate Naruto. After the TimeSkip, when Konohamaru and his teammates are now genin, he wears a Leaf headband instead.
67** Averted with Obito, who wears goggles properly over his eyes. Likely due to being an Uchiha, he took very good care of his eyes, protecting them from debris with the goggles and using eye drops to moisturize.
68** One chapter briefly features a character named Kosuke who wears goggles, which is weird since he's ''a toad'' (albeit [[SummonMagic a magic one]]).
69* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
70** Parodied in an occasion. Zoro was fighting Braham whose guns shoot bright flashes to blind his opponents from seeing the bullets. Believing that the goggles should protect his eyes so he can fight properly, he put them on, declaring that they would protect him from the flashes... then his opponent calmly pointed out that the goggles had no shades, rendering them useless for this fight.
71** Captain Eustass Kid however wears raised goggles as part of his normal fashion.
72** Wanze of Cipher Pol. is a chef who wears googles on his forehead. In an SBS question corner, the author said that they were to prevent him from crying when he chops onions. In response to another reader's statement that onions irritate the nose to cause tears, Creator/EiichiroOda said that Wanze [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual sticks them in his nostrils]].
73* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': The first noticeable difference between Gold and the male PC for the second generation games is that Gold wears goggles and Ethan doesn't. Occasionally, Gold ''does'' wear his goggles though.
74* GadgeteerGenius Heihachi of ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' always wears a "pilot's helmet" on his head, which has goggles on it, which he never has over his eyes (which are [[EyesAlwaysShut always closed anyway]]). He's shown actually wearing the goggles in one episode during a heavy rain storm, but it still doesn't explain the pilot's hat though.
75* Rin-rin in ''Literature/SisterPrincess'' habitually wears a pair of goggles pushed up on top of her head. Given that she's a maker of robots and other technotoys, they may be welding goggles or other similar eye protection, but she's never seen with them actually over her eyes.
76* The aptly named Goggles from the ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' manga wears the Pilot Goggles item from [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} the games]] on his head. Like in the games, he never pulls them down.
77* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': The protagonist, Simon, averts this trope by actually wearing his goggles to protect his eyes and provide illumination while digging underground tunnels. It is worth mentioning, however, that Simon wears the goggles on his forehead at all times, even when not underground, and even [[spoiler:in space]]. He is also the only one to wear them even though he is by no means the only one who digs tunnels.
78* In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', Syaoran's goggles appear useless at first, but then he finds an underwater country and uses them for diving.
79* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'':
80** TheProtagonist, Yuya Sakaki averts this trope. Aside that he uses them to hide his feelings, they protect his eyes when he is riding into bushes, puddings or other nasty things. In the Synchro Arc, he uses his goggles whenever he's in a Riding Duel.
81** Averted with Yuto in his first appearance. They protect him from flying debris, but they break. After that, he ditches them.
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85* Chandra, a Planeswalker in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', wears a pair of goggles on her brow.
86** As did Jaya Ballard, whom Chandra is arguably an {{Expy}} of. Going by flavor text, the reason appears to be that before becoming a Planeswalker, Chandra was trained in pyromancy by Jaya. So either it's Jaya's goggles passed down, she wanted to look like her teacher or she was simply told that goggles are a good thing when PlayingWithFire.
87** Although you never SEE her wear them, in the webcomic series her face is covered in soot and ash, except for the goggle marks around her eyes. So conceivably, they actually DO do something.
88** In the card [[http://i.imgur.com/Fw8aVGO.jpg Act on Impulse,]] Chandra finally gets serious and wears the goggles. She warns we don't want to know what happens when she does.
89** [[http://mythicspoiler.com/ori/cards/pyromancersgoggles.jpg Jaya's goggles are now represented on a card,]] subverting this trope. Chandra's goggles, however, have been [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/125547700908/hi-mark-yesterday-was-my-birthday-and-i-was confirmed to do nothing.]]
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93* Averted in Garth Ennis's ''Comicbook/TheBoys''. One of the team's resident sociopathic anti-heroes, The Frenchman, initially appears to wear a pair of basic goggles on his bald head for purely aesthetic reasons. However, when he enters combat and draws them on to his eyes, their utility is quickly demonstrated as he rips his opponents apart like wet tissue paper and is immediately covered in viscera.
94* Bob Burden's ''ComicBook/FlamingCarrot'' wears flippers all the time, [[CloudCuckooLander in case he needs to swim.]]
95* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest Wally West]] and Bart Allen both wore lenses in their masks for some time, despite it being shown by other speedsters (or themselves when out of costume) as unnecessary as their speed aura protects them. This was more pronounced with Bart, who had wide lenses while Wally's were small and just part of an ExpressiveMask. For Wally, it just seemed to be RuleOfCool and later to distinguish him from Barry Allen, while Bart. Subverted with Jesse Quick, who ''also'' wore this for a while, but it was shown she was actually short-sighted and occasionally wore glasses outside of uniform, so the goggles were probably for corrective reasons.
96* Depending on the artist, the Creator/MarvelComics ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}} sometimes wears what appears to be goggles instead of the usual domino style mask.
97* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} does not wear goggles. However, the fact that the filed-down horn stumps on his forehead were ''mistaken for goggles'' by many early fans goes to show how ubiquitous the "goggles as fashion accessory" idea is. Even Creator/GuillermoDelToro, the director of [[Film/Hellboy2004 the first pair of movies]], thought they were goggles.
98* Punchy in ''ComicBook/TheIntimates'' usually wears his goggles on his forehead, but whenever he's required to do a lot of moving around he'll pull them over his eyes. This is less a fashion statement and more a matter of comfort -- the goggles are part of his costume, meaning he ''has'' to wear them constantly according to his SuperheroSchool's rules, but wearing them over his eyes all day would be uncomfortable and pointless
99* Will Feral in ''ComicBook/{{Kingdom}}'' wears an aviator's hat and matching goggles for no particular reason. Dingo Star's shoulder pads and pouches might also count.
100* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': when asked by Warlock why he bothers to wear goggles when his powers protect him while he's "blastin'", Cannonball responds that they just look cool, okay?
101* Retro Girl of ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' used aviator goggles when flying, for some reason, despite being a level nine "We as a species just pray to dear God they're good folks" power.
102* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': The extra two sets of goggles lenses that don't cover Redback's eyes don't appear to have any use outside of giving her a spider-like aesthetic. Though of course she's never seen outside of costume, nor confirmed to be human so given that she's in the DCU they could possibly be covering another two sets of eyes.
103* Averted in ''ComicBook/{{Starman|DCComics}}'', where the hero's goggles protect his eyes from the odd conditions of flying at high altitude with an extremely bright staff.
104* Hay Lin in ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' likes to wear a pair of goggles just above her forehead.
105* ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie Sandsmark originally wore aviation goggles to protect her eyes during flight and help disguise her identity, however she eventually started wearing the goggles as a hairband instead.
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109* In the Malaysian 4-panel comic strip ''Lawak Kampus'', the main character Vanness seems to have goggles permanently glued to his forehead for no reason, including a comic where he's having a CucumberFacial. The comic's artist Keith Chong is a huge manga nerd, and appears to be lampooning the "useless goggles" common in anime.
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113* Scootaloo wears a set of goggles around her neck in ''Fanfic/BadFutureCrusaders'' which she never wears and only keeps because they [[TragicKeepsake used to belong to Rainbow Dash]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted though: although she never actually wears them, she uses them as a weapon against Lightning Dust by using a piece of broken glass as a knife.]]
114* Doctor Watts is annoyed by Faba's seemingly pointless goggles in ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks''.
115* Retro, an original villain made for ''Fanfic/CanYouImagineThat'', then reappears in ''Fanfic/TroubleIsland'' and ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', wears a pair of these for no good reason.
116* Conis wears a pair in ''Fanfic/ThisBites''. In a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer, she name drops the trope when faced with [[spoiler:Mermaid Kokoro]].
117* Adelleh in the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120503190121/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5153247/1/Tunnels_The_Tale_of_Tavor_T1 Tales]] series of ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' fanfiction is a ''crazy zombie priestess'' who wears green goggles for no apparent reason (then again [[BunnyEarsLawyer much of what]] [[SuccessThroughInsanity Adelleh does]] [[CloudCuckoolander has no apparent reason]]), despite them being somewhat out of place in a medieval fantasy setting. Nobody knows why she wears them, but they've become her signature costume item.
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121* In ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'', a prisoner preparing to violate Ripley slips his goggles over his eyes for some reason. FridgeHorror comes into play if you wonder whether they would actually serve a purpose in the events to follow.
122* In ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'''s director's commentary, the director said that originally only one character was to wear goggles on his head. The other cast members thought it looked cool, so they all wore goggles on their head... which meant they had to be fogged up so they wouldn't reflect the cameras.
123* A character in ''Film/CantHardlyWait'' wears goggles on his forehead. They are actual swimmer's goggles. He never goes swimming.
124* Although the thermal goggles in ''Film/HollowMan'' actually do something quite important for the film's plot, a possibly unintentional ShoutOut occurs when the room fills with steam, prompting a character to declare "The goggles are worthless!"
125* In F. Bondarchuk's ''[[Creator/StrugatskyBrothers Inhabited island]]'' the gear of an alien guardsman includes fa-abulous pink (!) ski goggles. They almost never put them on, even during shooting practice, obstacle courses (with fire barriers) and actual combat raids against insurgents.
126* J-Bone in ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' wears a pair of ski goggles across his forehead throughout the entire movie.
127* Imperial defector Bodhi Rook wears protective goggles on the top of his head for almost all of his screen time in ''Film/RogueOne''. Yes, he's a pilot but he flies a cargo shuttle in space so their utility would seem limited. The only time they might have been useful -- on the dusty desert planet of Jeddha -- he still doesn't wear them in the prescribed fashion.
128* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', both Raph and Mikey have sunglasses as part of their clothing, but both never use them. Mikey's don't even seem to be the same size as his face! Averted with Donatello's high-tech scanners.
129* Randall in ''Film/TimeBandits'' wears an old-fashioned flight helmet with the goggles always perched on his forehead, unused.
130* In ''Film/TopGun'', the bad guys [[FacelessGoons wore their visors at all times]] while flying, while the good guys never did.
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134* ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'': Features a lower class subculture referred to as "Goggleboys", whose goggles are actually low cost virtual reality rigs. Middle and upper class copy their aesthetic to look hip and cool, featuring goggles that are purely decorative.
135* In ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'', goggles are the trademark of the supervillain mad scientists, handed out when the community accepts you as a true MadScientist. The goggles are actually perfectly functional, but by the time anyone gets them, they've probably already bought or invented better ones, so most just wear them as a symbol.
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139* Jasper in ''Series/{{The 100}}'' wears goggles as a hat-like accessory. The fact that he stops wearing them after he crosses the DespairEventHorizon implies that he thought it looked cool, and now doesn't care for it.
140* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', the Colonial Marines wear goggles on the top of their helmets, but they're very rarely actually worn and their exact purpose is never explained. Presumably, they're standard ballistic goggles like the kind we have today. The directors probably agreed to keep them there but leave them off due to RuleOfCool and so we could see the actors' faces.
141* Mason's death in ''Series/DeadLikeMe''. He was searching for the ultimate high and put a drill into his brain. He wore safety goggles.
142* The trope name is said verbatim by Topher in a ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' deleted scene where he tries on some goggles that are meant to go with his interactive computer screen.
143* Selina sports goggles on top of her head in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', in a nod to Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}}'s 2000s redesign by Darwyn Cooke. Those are night vision goggles, which serve a purpose.
144* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': Heckyl wears fancier welding goggles (or so they look like) around his neck. It is implied in a late episode that they can protect from the petrifying effects of one monster's amulet.
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148* Music/DoctorSteel was never seen without his goggles, regardless of his attire. Somewhat justified, as he was a roboticist and was seen in one video welding.
149* Rabbit of Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe wears steampunk-style goggles on his hat.
150** He finally gets to wear them in the music video for Automatonic Electronic Harmonics. Reportedly he was completely blind with them on
151* Till Lindemann of Rammstein wears goggles in the original video for "Du Riechst So Gut" just because they [[RuleOfCool look cool]]. Onstage, they have an [[PlayingWithFire obvious purpose]].
152* Music/EltonJohn didn't really need glasses; he wore them as a tribute to Music/BuddyHolly.
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156* Captain B. Zarr from ''Pinball/ThePartyZone,'' who wears aviator goggles and a propeller-topped polka-dotted aviator helmet just because.
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160* Wrestling/{{Konnan}} goggles had a tint, so they might have had some use. Except he wore these during his Filthy Animal Wrestling/{{WCW}} run, where the large majority of events were indoors. So what they did was probably impede his vision.
161* As a wrestler, Leva Bates wears goggles to protect herself from eye pokes (she's made use of other "armor" such as headphones to block out Wrestling/JillianHall's [[HollywoodToneDeaf singing]]) As a referee though, the goggles serve no purpose besides [[EasilyDistractedReferee restricting peripheral vision]].
162* Wrestling/BeckyLynch wore goggles as part of her "steam-punk" persona, but they served no real purpose in the ring.
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166* ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'': A lot of mechanics and warcasters appear in both figures and art wearing goggles of various types. While they generally have no rule-mechanical effect, a pair of solid protective goggles are an eminently sensible accessory for people who spend a lot of time around experimental steam engines and high explosives,
167* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
168** Chandra Nalaar wears her goggles on her forehead almost all the time. At least one card, which shows her actually wearing them over her ''eyes'', lampshades this by claiming she only pulls them down [[LetsGetDangerous when things get really bad]].
169** Braids keeps her goggles on her head even after becoming an Arisen Nightmare. That said, there is ''one'' picture of her wearing them properly (the ''Scourge'' art for the card Skulltap).
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173* An example from toys (and the associated comic/cartoon/etc): The ''Franchise/GIJoe'' enemy troops called [[http://www.yojoe.com/action/86/86card/viper.jpg Vipers]] have a wraparound helmet with opaque facemask ... and goggles atop the helmet!
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177* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars'': Flak wears goggles and a helmet. No-one's quite clear on why ''[[DumbMuscle Flak]]'' would need head protection. Also [[AcePilot Eagle]], who always wears his goggles around his neck. Apparently they're his lucky goggles. He IS a pilot, though.
178* ''VideoGame/AtelierAnnieAlchemistsOfSeraIsland'': Beaux wears a pair of goggles on his head that he's never actually seen using as protective eyewear. One of his alchemy requests is for you to make a Glass Sphere to help him repair one of the lenses, which makes one wonder... what exactly ''does'' the boy use the goggles for, anyway?
179%%* ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' and ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'': Inzaghi.
180* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'': Patricia Tannis, an archaeologist, constantly wears aviator goggles. Gaige of ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' also wears a pair of goggles on her head that she never puts on.
181** In a wasteland with, as shown in some areas, lots of blowing dust. She's encountered indoors, though, so has no need to keep them down -- unlike a lot of the outdoor [=NPCs=] (who take great care to keep wrapped up, for the most part, against the elements, including goggles).
182** In the original game, Roland and Mordecai both have goggles. Mordecai at least wears his over his eyes, while Roland's remain up on his forehead.
183** Sasha in the Telltale spinoff series ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' wears a pair of goggles around her neck for most of the game (from Episode 1 to about a quarter of the way into Episode 4). She puts them on precisely once when she's moving particularly fast, but she takes them off during the same scene and never wears them again.
184* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' gives us this FlavorText for the Steampunk Fedora item:
185--> ''A needlessly expensive novelty hat with glued-on goggles, which do nothing.''
186* Weirdly {{averted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'', where one of the various upgrade items is a pair of goggles. The text for it reads something like "Actually does something." You can choose to have Goggles for a head item, an eye item, and a neck piece, leading to three pair of goggles, only one of which is on your eyes but all of which are purely aesthetic.
187* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' and ''City of Villains'' have goggle appearances, including ones always stay on the forehead. Like every other cosmetic choices, there's no gameplay result. Which actually means that every single piece of your equipment, other than any weapon-based powers are an example of this trope. Some good examples would include things like {{utility belt}}s, wings, armor, bandoliers, extra swords/guns, tails, and claws.
188* ''Videogame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The actual quote is said word-for-word during the Mount Rushmore mission in the Allied campaign, when [[spoiler:President Ackerman activates the various laser cannons installed in Mount Rushmore to attack your forces]].
189--> '''Peacekeeper''': My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
190* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'': Coco Bandicoot wears a pair of goggles on her head in ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'', ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant'', and ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime''. Justified, considering Coco's [[WrenchWench mechanical aptitude]], but for the most part, her goggles are merely cosmetic. Subverted in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', where both Crash and Coco wear aviator goggles over their eyes... albeit only in the airplane levels.
191* ''VideoGame/DangerGirl'' introduces new character JC, the teenaged Canadian WrenchWench, to the team, whose outfit has a pair of goggles that doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than identifying her as the gadget expert. Even during a cutscene when she attempts to fix a submarine, her goggles are ''above'' her eyes.
192* ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'': Jan Ors actually uses the goggles she wears on her head twice. Somehow, both the Empire and Jabba the Hutt let her keep them on after she was captured by them.
193* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': If you're a protagonist, odds are that you're wearing a pair of useless goggles. Keisuke manages to avert it however in ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory'', as his goggles (though more of a visor really) are actually his Digivice, and he needs to put them on to log into [[CyberSpace Eden]]. He is shown with them on while using an item in battle.
194* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': Both the Prince of Lauraisa and the Prince of Cannock wear goggles as part of their headgear. While this may be justified by the fact both live close to small patches of desert, they're never shown actually ''using'' them. (The Princess, meanwhile, doesn't get any goggles of her own.)
195* ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'': A variant. The Leather Armor has a dagger in a sheath attached to the sleeve. You can't do anything with it, but it looks cool.
196* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': ''None'' of the many goggles have a stat bonus other than armor class, and they're both harder to find replacement components and no better as armor than glasses that do have stat bonuses. In addition, some of the costumes and headgear in the game feature goggles. This means that if a player wants he can have one pair on a helmet, one pair around his neck (as part of the costume) and at the same time wearing a pair.
197* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
198** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Goggles are an equippable item, which prevent blindness. Unfortunately, a glitch with the Evasion stat in the game made it so blindness doesn't affect the accuracy of physical attacks as it's supposed to, making them useless. The Goggles, quite literally, do nothing. This was fixed in the remake. Sadly, the goggles aren't actually drawn on your character. Ironically, the Blind status effect (rendered irrelevant by the above-mentioned glitch aside from preventing Strago from [[PowerCopying learning enemy spells]]) ''does'' make a character look like they're wearing goggles.
199** ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'': While Cid never uses his goggles in the intended manner, despite actually being a pilot, they do provide a nice place for him to stick his pack of cigarettes. Reno also boasts a pair, except without cigarettes, [[AllThereInTheManual seeing as he's a very competent helicopter pilot.]]
200** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': Rikku wears a pair of goggles in her swimwear. When she takes it off, there's ''another'' pair of goggles around her neck as part of her normal outfit, but she doesn't actually don them. The actual reason most Al Bhed have goggles ''is'' safety, technically -- but it's got more to do with safety from FantasticRacism than sparks and metal shavings, as they specifically wear opaque lenses that hide their spiral eyes. For whatever reason, Rikku elects not to do this when she becomes Yuna's guardian.
201** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
202*** Cid Garlond wears a pair of goggles up on his forehead, not because as an engineer he may need them at any time, but to hide the ThirdEye that marks him as a pureblooded [[TheEmpire Garlean]].
203*** Using the "adjust visor" toggle on the character screen when wearing a pair of goggles or glasses raises them to the forehead position.
204*** In the aftermath of the ''Stormblood'' expansion, the PlayerCharacter receives the "Scion Adventurer's Outfit" which boasts the same aether-detecting goggles the rest of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn use, but they are a decoration, thus fit into this trope. This goes the same for the Mogstation-purchased outfits based on the other Scions.
205* ''VideoGame/FortunesRun'': Your character wears goggles on her forehead all the time, even in fight scenes when she's slicing up enemies by way of katana and splashed by blood.
206* ''VideoGame/FossilFightersChampions'': The male player character wears oversized goggles over his hair. The setting has a plausible reason to have them -- keeping dirt of the eyes while cleaning fossils. However, this is never seen, and when the other major charcters don't have goggles either, including the female PlayerCharacter, they never amount to more than an accessory.
207* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'': Baird has goggles that seem to serve no apparent purpose... but being the squad's self-proclaimed [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] and MrFixit, they would seem to have a potential use for him. Averted in ''Gears of War 2'', as in the part where [[spoiler:Delta Squad rides Reavers]], he puts the goggles over his eyes, since [[spoiler:they are flying]].
208** Funnily enough, Baird ''does'' wear his goggles properly as part of his "Mechanic Baird" multiplayer skin. They still don't do anything, but at least it makes sense now.
209** Also, Dom has a gigantic Ka-Bar-esque knife strapped to his chest. Guess when he actually pulls it out? [[spoiler:The knife at least gets some use in ''Gears of War 3'': Dom lends it to Marcus who needs it to help move a rusty lever. He dies before he can get it back, but Marcus holds onto it and uses it to kill Queen Myrrah.]]
210%%* ''VideoGame/GloriaUnion'': Velgas.
211* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': Used as an achievement. The player character must don a pair of goggles (and nothing else but their underwear), and proceed to dive into a pool of lava from an immense height. As the fall will kill the player character due to the height before the lava even does any damage, the goggles really didn't help at all.
212* ''VideoGame/IzunaLegendOfTheUnemployedNinja'': The main character wears a pair of strange triangular goggles that are never used.
213* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'': Both titular characters (even though one is an otter-weasel hybrid) wear goggles around their heads. In Jak's case this trope is averted: his goggles are useful in [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy the first game]] for sniping out enemies and Dark Eco crystals using yellow Eco; in [[VideoGame/Jak3 the third]] he wears them while out in the desert. Played straight with Daxter in most games, until he eventually puts them to use while being flung through the air to dismantle planes in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier''. He also wears his goggles over his eyes in an early cutscene in ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing''.
214* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Cid and Goofy wear goggles. Though it's possible that Cid may use the goggles while working on Gummi ships, it's hard to imagine what use they would serve for a Captain of the Guard who uses shields as weapons.
215* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has an accessory known as beer goggles. The enchantment is "They do Nothing!" Ironically, said enchantment allows them to be pulverized into twinkly powder (as opposed to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin useless powder]]). Which means that the fact that they do nothing means they do something. But if they do something, they can't do nothing. But if they don't do nothing, then they can't do that something... [[LogicBomb ow, my brain]].
216* ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'': The titular pink puff gains a headgear containing goggles upon taking the Robobot Armor for himself. However, for some odd reason, he refuses to wear them on his face.
217* ''VideoGame/LegoStarWarsII'': Some of the [=NPCs=] in the Mos Eisley Cantina and in the Tatooine levels are wearing what appear to be bucket hats with goggles around the crown. This hat can also be chosen in the character builder. These have no effect on gameplay, but boy, do they ever look cool.
218* ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'': In his first, patchwork suit, Iron Man wears a pair of goggles around his neck despite his eyes already by covered by his helmet.
219* ''VideoGame/NostalgiaRedEntertainment'': Melody's [[RobeAndWizardHat pointy witch hat]] sports a pair of goggles for some reason. She never wears them.
220* ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'':
221** Played straight by Ruckus, who has forehead goggles and never puts them on.
222** Averted by Barik and Pip. They have forehead goggles at champion select, but put the goggles over their eyes when the action starts. On a similar note, Fernando also puts his helmet's visor down.
223* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': The protagonist has an [=MP3=] player around his neck, with headphones hanging on his chest. Except for the opening cutscene, he never uses them onscreen. Although [[spoiler: Fuuka upgrades the headphones at the end of her Social Link, and the upgraded headphones unlock the Scathach persona]]. The player is then referenced in a bit of a MythologyGag in which [[TheLancer lancer]] and ButtMonkey Yosuke (voiced by the [[Creator/YuriLowenthal same voice actor as P3's protagonist]]) is shown to also be wearing an [=MP3=] player. He's actually shown wearing them in battle, even ''tapping his foot'' (Though not quite in-time to the battle music, sadly.) And shown taking them off post-battle.
224* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' inverts this with the Safety Goggles held item that debuted in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Like other held items, it is not visible on the Pokemon holding it. But it grants protection from Sandstorm and Hail damage and from powder-based moves.
225* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': The [[http://theportalwiki.com/wiki/Goo_Gear_Snorkel Goo Gear Snorkel item]] from summer 2011 for the co-op robots don't really help much against the deadly goo in the test chamber levels.
226* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': Raz lowers his goggles over his eyes before entering a person's mind... for no apparent purpose. In "The Milkman Conspiracy," this becomes {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by the interrogative [[TheMenInBlack Men In Black]]: "Who are you?" "Who is the Milkman?" "What is the purpose of the goggles?" It's then {{subverted|Trope}} when the [[BossBattle boss]] threatens to pluck out his eyes:
227-->'''Razputin''': Ha, you can't! [[BrickJoke ''That'' is the purpose of the goggles.]]
228* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'': Rivet has a pair of goggles that she never wears over her eyes. They're mainly there to [[SceneryPorn show off the ray-traced reflections in the lenses]].
229* ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' has Yuri wearing a small satchel on his back (with trailing buckle-straps). While one could argue that's [[HammerSpace where the millions of random items you collect or buy over the course of the game]] end up stashed, you never see Yuri use it. Seems he took a few traveling tips from [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]].
230* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' has goggles you can wear on your forehead, but not over your eyes. A lot of user made content involves giving your character other equipment such as weaponry, backpacks, etc. that don't do anything.
231* ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune''. The night vision goggles do almost nothing. And enemies can still see you in the darkness without night vision. In ''Soldier of Fortune 2'', thermal goggles allowed you to see through walls (but were less compatible with sniper rifles).
232* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
233** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'': There are goggle sprites in the original game. See them [[http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(16-bit)/Hidden_content#Sprites here]]. They were [[DummiedOut removed from the game]] before being programmed to do anything. It's speculated that they were intended to be SCUBA gear.
234** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik wears not only goggles that never leave the top of his head, but also spectacles. So he couldn't wear his goggles even if he wanted to. The only time he actually wears his goggles in one scene in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', where he dons them for dramatic purposes. Of course, they're back on top of his head in all of the scenes immediately following. Being the MadScientist he is, Eggman probably uses them when welding his MechaMooks together... it's just that we never ''see'' him doing it.
235** ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'': The heroes wear goggles even before they know they're going to compete in a hoverboard competition, and once they start competing, they never put their goggles over their eyes. This isn't so for the antagonistic Babylon Rogues. Amusingly, in addition to not being used, their sunglasses/goggles are far too small to actually ''be'' worn.
236%%** ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'': You can buy a replica pair, and their description points out that [[LampshadeHanging "wearing them has no effect"]].
237* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'': Zigzagged. Googles are among many pieces of headgear in the game, with some only worn on the forehead, while others are actually put on by the character. Not that shielding your eyes does anything gameplay-wise.
238* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''' Ratsel Feinschmecker wears enormous aviator goggles as a PaperThinDisguise, in homage to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable's]] similar trick with CoolShades. They're useless because the disguise fools absolutely no one.
239* ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'''s Hisui has a pair of goggles that flip randomly between the top of his head and around his neck. He actually keeps them on in battle and off when out of it, but no particular significance is given for that.
240* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': Rita has a pair worn on her forehead that do absolutely nothing. She also apparently has a pair of glasses tucked into the collar of her shirt that are never used.
241* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' being a game where cosmetic items only serves an aesthetic purpose, goggles aren't exempt from this.
242** The Engineer's in-game model wears goggles, but they do nothing gameplay-related, and he ''has no eyes'' underneath. The most popular fanmod that removes said googles looks so freaky to some that it ascended to MemeticMutation as the "Staregineer".
243** The Medic received a pair of mad scientist goggles (resembling the strange device Egon wore in ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' as a hat; they're called "Ze Goggles" and with the description "[[AscendedMeme Nothing]]".
244** Scout now has the [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Planeswalker Goggles]], which are ''supposed'' to keep the bugs out of his eyes as he runs, but considering you never see bugs in-game, they really do nothing. (Although wearing them with the Bombing Run makes him look like [[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} Raz]]).
245** Similarly, the Heavy has the War Goggles that does nothing but making him partially look like his VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic counterpart.
246** Though set bonuses that change in-game stats have since been patched out of the game, goggles/hats/wigs/doo-rags still have a function: they help distinguish strangers from friends, and show what other games the player owns if they have a buy-in bonus.
247* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': The goggles that Hwoarang wears but never puts over his eyes. There is a cutscene in ''VideoGame/Tekken5'' (and ''Dark Resurrection''), where Hwoarang is riding his motorbike... with the goggles still up on his hair.
248* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', you can craft goggles out of two lenses (as in the [[OrganDrops organ itself]]), they do nothing more than give one measly point of defense so they're more for decoration than anything for your character. During [[HolidayMode Halloween]], the [[SteamPunk Steampunker]] sells steampunker goggles that are completely vanity only and their not even worn over the character's eyes compared to the former example.
249* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'': Captain Rush wears a pair of orange goggles around his neck. Being a US Army soldier and all, you'd think they'd come in handy...
250* ''VideoGame/{{Torchlight}}'': The Alchemist wears them proudly in the loading screen and other art. All classes can wear helms that show up as just goggles, and in the case of the Vanquisher the goggles strap ties up her ponytail as well.
251* ''VideoGame/VacantSky'': There's a tombstone that reads "RIP Jiroriseth Moss: The goggles did nothing".
252* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
253** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIIIReignOfChaos'' has an ending credits movie, in which Archimonde is "filming" a movie, complete with several takes. In one take, there's a dragon attack, and while running away, someone says "The goggles! They do nothing!!"
254** ''VideoGame/WorldofWarcraft'':
255*** One quest in ''Cataclysm'' gives a pair of safety goggles. It's pretty obvious what they do. (They ''do'' have armor, but less than a helmet (which occupies the same slot) would generally give.)
256*** [[http://us.media1.battle.net/cms/gallery/YRKA6UMGLQ701315846622103.jpg The mage Tier 13 set]] has what looks like a pair of glowing goggles -- on the forehead. They are meant to just look cool as the particular set has been dubbed "Technomage."
257* ''VideoGame/WarioWare'': Wario wears his goggles when riding his motorcycle but Mona doesn't wear hers on her scooter. Her ''monkey'' even wears his goggles.
258* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'': Luka Allen Smithee has a pair of goggles that are more or less just decoration. [[spoiler:Subverted in the epilogue, in which he becomes "Wonder Goggles", and they fire laser blasts.]]
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262* ''VisualNovel/GyakutenKenji2'''s [[AmoralAttorney Blaise Debeste]] wears a pair of biker goggles. Their only purpose seems to be damming his [[CrocodileTears endless supply of tears]]. [[spoiler:During his VillainousBreakdown, [[HumiliationConga having accidentally set himself on fire]], they don't even shield his eyes properly.]]
263-->'''Blaise:''' [[spoiler:[[SkywardScream Y... YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHITBURNSITBURNSTHEGOGGLESDONOTHING!]]]]
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267* The character of Jyrras Gianna from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' gains goggles in his new outfit, which are never used. Doubly unnecessary, in that he also wears glasses (which he doesn't need but wears for image's sake). He did use goggles during the non-canon spy spoof arc, but their only purpose was to hide his eyes, as villains are not allowed to be 'cute'.
268* A [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1753.html bonus strip]] of ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' has Bria/Jyn questioning why Bodhi wears goggles when he does his piloting in a pressurised cockpit, and Bodhi coming up with increasingly unlikely reasons, all of which happen over the course of the story. (One of them is in fact happening while they have the conversation, but Bodhi's goggles are perched uselessly on his forehead.)
269* Averted in ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': Dewhurst's goggles [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2014-02-05/comic/tangled-web/stay-sanguine/ did protect him]] from the blood splatter, at the cost of becoming opaque (and thus, requiring to be lifted after use).
270* Since a character redesign, Shelly Mander of ''Webcomic/{{Femmegasm}}'' wears goggles for no reason.
271* Used every which way in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', as befits its [[MadScientist mad science]] milieu.
272** Wooster wears goggles and a leather jacket when he's using Gil's open-cockpit flyer and unlike most media, actually [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061002 LOOKS]] like he's been in an open-cockpit aircraft (dirty with visible marks where he's had the goggles over his eyes to see.)
273* Arby from ''Webcomic/GodsWorld'' wears goggles and is not shown to put them to use.
274* {{Averted|Trope}}, in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=884 here]], and then lampshaded in Tom's [[TheRant rant]].
275* In ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName,'' Veser wears a pair of goggles around his neck. A partial example, since it helps with his [[AnimalMotif shark motif]], and may somehow be related to the fact that [[spoiler:his mother is a [[SelkiesAndWereseals selkie]]]].
276* The heavy use of this trope in steampunk is lampshaded in [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=266 this]] ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant''.
277* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': The trope name is referenced by Meenah upon encountering Kanaya, who glows [[spoiler: because she is a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker]]]]. Meenah is blinded by the glare and says, "The goggles do nothing [to help]."
278* Averted in ''Webcomic/TheLastTomorrow'': Avril eventually uses her googles as eye protection while repairing a broken weapon.
279* The Commander in ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' has these. Lampshaded [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/454 here.]]
280* Zaraki Yagami of ''Webcomic/MitadakeSaga'''s alias -is- The Boy with Goggles. The goggles don't serve a purpose.
281* ''Webcomic/NextSoundOfTheFuture'': The signature outfit for Megpoid android units features a pair of goggles that are presumably there for style rather than function, since a Megpoid's purpose is to be an IdolSinger.
282* Parodied (maybe) in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' with the character of Charles. Ever since [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/06/23 his redesign]], he has kept a pair of goggles on his forehead. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when he gets asked [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/06/29 if he's going swimming]].
283* Averted and lampshaded in [[http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/2018-04-25/ this strip]] of ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'', when Moonshadow uses high-tech goggles to scan what another character is holding:
284--> '''Moonshadow:''' It's a flash drive with a bluetooth transmitter attached to it.
285--> '''Cecil:''' How do you know ''that''?
286--> '''Moonshadow:''' The googles, they do something.
287--> '''Cecil:''' You're quipping now. Stop it.
288* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' presents to us the advanced rules for Rock, Paper, Scissors. As the Alt-text/Votey specifically points out: [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2131#comic Goggles: They Do Nothing]]
289* Sock from ''Webcomic/WelcomeToHell'' wears goggles on top of his hat for apparently aesthetic reasons, even as a demon.
290* ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'' gives us [[http://www.weregeek.com/2008/07/25/ this]].
291* Pocky Robot parodies subversions of this at end of [[http://www.ansemretort.org/pockyrobot/art/adventuresofadom.png this strip.]]
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295* ''MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere'': aviator goggles are part of her basic character design, even though she's not necessarily an aviatrix in most stories. That Jenny is keen on adventure does leave open the ''potential'' for subversion, though...
296** Played straight in one origin story, where she buys an old pair simply because they make her "look awesome".
297** Another story has it that she was Amelia Earhart's daughter, and inherited them.
298** ''Literature/TheGenesisOfJennyEverywhere'' (another origin story for a different version of Jenny) offers no obvious explanation why she wears them, but the fact is lampshaded constantly.
299* Creator/LiamDryden of the band Music/ChameleonCircuit sports a fairly awesome pair at times, notably in live concerts, his "TimeTravel" outfit, and when he and Creator/AlexDay are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj1OF7d9m4 raiding Wal-Mart.]] Liam even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the fact that he just wears them on his head as a hat most of the time in the Wal-Mart video.
300* ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': MadScientist Dr. Horrible wears goggles on his forehead; he does no more than adjust them until the end, when he [[spoiler:becomes a true villain]].
301* The kiwi from ''WebAnimation/{{Kiwi}}'' dons a pair of pilot's goggles before jumping off the cliff. ''But he doesn't ever use them.''
302* Many in Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM wear goggles (it's steampunk, what do you expect?) but they rarely seem to be used for anything.
303* Alex Steacy of ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'' wears welding goggles at all times, apparently for the look.
304* http://www.southperry.net has a goggle smiley inspired in part by one of ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' 's bosses, [[http://maplestory.wikia.com/wiki/File:Monster_Rellik.png Rellik]], and in part by ''The Simpsons'' quote below. The goggles became wildly popular, and people began editing their avatars to include them. Nexon (''[=MapleStory=]'''s publisher in North America) saw this and created Gachapon (egg-machine that requires real money in exchange for random items) only goggles equippable by players. There is an inscription on them stating [[LampshadeHanging "Who says the goggles do nothing?"]]
305* In ''VideoGame/MitadakeHigh'', one of the characters wears goggles (and is in fact referred to as The Boy With Goggles). There are a number of ways to inflict temporary blindness on other players, and Goggles is no exception to them. More than once somebody playing Goggles has yelled the memetic phrase after being blinded.
306* ''WebVideo/ThePlumberKnightReturns'': Mario has goggles as part of his new costume, but only puts them on while suiting up, wearing them around his neck otherwise.
307* WebVideo/StuartAshen [[InvokedTrope invokes this trope]] at the end of his Cyber FX review, in which the eponymous goggles [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin are rather useless.]]
308* ''[[Website/ChannelAwesome That Guy with the Glasses]]'' had That Chick with the Goggles.
309* Vdex Project once had goggles in the Secondhand Shop. Lampshaded in the achievement you get when you buy them.
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313* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Sprig wears goggles on his forehead, which seem to be a part of his hat, and never puts them over his eyes.
314* ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'': Jack always wears a pair of pilot goggles, but they are more for the show than anything else. In Episodes 23 and 24 he briefly uses them as protection during a blizzard, but the other characters (who don't have goggles or any other form of eye protection) don't seem bothered by the snow either.
315* ''[[ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars Bucky O' Hare]]'' sported a pair of snazzy aviator goggles that seemed to serve no purpose other than to look cool. While he might be excused considering most of his adventures took place in space, the goggles stayed up even when he was piloting the Toad Croaker inside planetary atmospheres that had just been turned to swamps.
316* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': Both Monterey Jack and Gadget wear goggles on their head as part of their normal outfit, but rarely (as in, maybe once or twice ever) wear them over their eyes. This is despite the fact that they fly around in a high-speed air vehicle without a windscreen all the time. Once Monterey wore his normal flightcap goggles on his head and a ''second'' pair actually over his eyes.
317* ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'': In the first episode, Mandrake is seen wearing goggles in the scene where Ming attempts to electrocute him, Flash, the Phantom and Lothar, though there is no discernible reason for this and none of the others are wearing similar goggles. Also, the goggles seemingly appear out of nowhere and disappear just as abruptly.
318* ''WesternAnimation/DexHamiltonAlienEntomologist'': Jenny, Zap and Tung all wear goggles. Jenny and Zap never wear them over their eyes (despite Zap being the group's pilot), while Tung never takes his off his eyes.
319* Launchpad in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' wears his goggles atop his head. He only wears them over his eyes once or twice in the entire series. The same goes for the character ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''.
320* Frida from ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre''. In one episode, after her goggles fall off and break, Frida shrieks, "Those are prescription!" However, she rarely, if ever, wears them over her eyes.
321* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' by Rex and Caesar, who use their respective goggles several times in situations where they are actually needed.
322* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' with the "future" gear of "A Sitch In Time". The "future hat" also does nothing.
323* Slightly averted in ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' with Rocky, in that he does mostly use them when he's flying, even though he stills wears them on the head most of them time even when they're not needed.
324* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' has Molly, who, being a Star Racer pilot (basically a podracer pilot) always wears her goggles on her forehead and has even been seen sleeping in them. However, since inside her vehicle she is safely concealed behind a plastic dome, she doesn't really need to protect her eyes. Since [[MissingMom her mother]] also wore a pair, which are constantly seen in flashbacks on top of her head, chances are very high that Molly initially got hers because they looked like her mother's.
325* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The {{Trope Namer|s}}, born from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY a line]] uttered by Rainier Wolfcastle acting the lead role in the in-universe Radioactive Man movie. Note that in this case the goggles were ''supposed'' to do something, they just didn't work. Rainier's line is even said to be one of Creator/MattGroening's all-time favorite quotes from the show.
326* Unlike his teammates who have [[OneWayVisor helmet visors]], Air Enforcer of the ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' has goggles that he never uses even in mid-flight.
327* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Hera Syndulla has a pilot's headgear and goggles [[FridgeLogic despite the fact that her cockpit is shielded against the vacuum of space, which has no wind to begin with]]. She finally used the goggles in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E10WolvesAndADoor "Wolves and a Door"]], when she was riding a Loth-wolf.
328* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'':
329** Tam Ryvora wears a visor on her forehead. She has yet to actually use it as eye protection, despite the fact that she works as a mechanic.
330** Aunt Z, owner of the Colossus' only cantina, also constantly sports goggles on her forehead.
331* ''Westernanimation/StevenUniverse'': Peridot's visor seems to lack any purpose beside aesthetics. It's gotten to the point that, whenever she works with something that ''would'' require safety goggles, she puts a pair on ''[[http://68.media.tumblr.com/c0b8612645315a89a984548bbc52d78a/tumblr_okxq5y9qBR1vtvf5jo1_r1_540.gif over her visor]]''.
332* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' is fond of this:
333** [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:AniBlitzwingPromoModel.jpg Blitzwing]] has goggles built into the helmet of his robot mode head. Not only does he A) Not wear them, B) Not need them, what with being a robot and all, C) Could not pull them down over his eyes even if he ''did'', but D) his "angry" face already has a red visor over its eyes and his "calm" face has a monocle, which means that he is essentially wearing ''two'' pairs of equally-useless goggles! Blitzwing is the KING of Goggles Do Nothing.
334** Prometheus Black still wears his visor thing even after turning into a sentient mass of acid. Maybe it's so we don't have to see whatever the hell his eyes must look like.
335** And ''once again'' Jetfire has aviator goggles that are apparently part of his head.
336* Many of the racers of ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' and all four pilots of ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' (as well as Yankee Doodle Pigeon) have headgear with goggles, but at no time do the goggles go to use protecting the eyes. Once in awhile, Wacky Racer Red Max will have his goggles covering his eyes.
337** Similarly in the Hanna-Barbera vein, Motormouse and Autocat (from ''WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats'') sport crash helmets with goggles that go to no use in protecting the eyes.
338* Dr Two-Brains in ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' wears a pair of goggles on top of his head as part of his MadScientist aesthetic. For the most part this trope is played straight, though there are some aversions (such as when he's tunneling out of jail) when he slides them over his eyes for protection.
339* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', Granny Weatherwax inexplicably has a pair of goggles strapped to her pointy hat. The trope is later subverted though: in the scenes when she goes broomstick-flying, she wears the goggles to protect her eyes. Which ''is'' entirely in character for the ever practical Granny.
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343* Neon coloured goggles are popular in rave and UsefulNotes/{{Cybergoth}} culture, purely for aesthetic reasons.
344** Ditto {{Steampunk}}, though their goggles tend to be more monochrome, made of brass and have gadgets on them.
345** Rivethead as well.
346** Even {{Cyberpunk}} is guilty of this with its signature mirrorshades -- though they might be waiting for [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual display glasses]].
347** Some pairs of rave goggles even have a grate under the lens, making them harder to see through than shutter shades.
348*** They can have ''some'' use when they are used to mask bits of headgear (such as a headband holding Cyberlox in place) but that is it.
349*** Appropriately lampshaded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_NqVd5Wqv0 in this]] [[Music/{{PSY}} Gangnam Style]] parody video. (0:44)
350* US Army soldiers are all issued ballistic safety goggles to protect against dust and shrapnel, and almost every unit has the standard that they be secured to the Kevlar helmet over the special clamp that is used to mount a separate night vision device. This is a uniform standard, but the goggles themselves are difficult to use in this configuration, and likely become deformed, scratched, uncomfortable, or too cumbersome to use as eye protection. With the change in the US army to a brimless helmet, the goggles (normally covered by a cloth sleeve) work better as a brim to shade they eyes than they do when used as intended. Furthermore, soldiers are all issued ballistic sunglasses, which are usually worn (as intended) in addition to the mostly useless goggles on their helmets. The main reason you never see this in TV or movies is that the glasses cause horrible reflection and distortion, and goggles further have a tendency to fog up, making this "protective gear" potentially fatal in combat. Most soldiers will have multiple pairs of goggles and some even use them as intended, but the ones already on the helmet are the least likely to see actual use.
351** People's Liberation Army Marine Corps. Never were they once shown wearing their standard issue [[http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/U135P200T1D207292F16DT20081225172132.jpg goggles over their eyes]]; even when they require eye protection they wear their own ([[http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/ChinesePeoplesLiberationArmySpecialOperationsForcesNavalZhnggutzhngbdunavaltype054a521abcgulfofadenantipiracypatrol9.jpg the issued goggles on their helmets/tuques]]). Can be justified by the same reasons as the American army example above.
352** Ditto for the Russian Army, which has lead to the oft-asked question why they wear them at all, if they're not going to use them, even in the cases where this would be obviously useful, like for [[https://photos.smugmug.com/Military/Victory-Day-Rehearsal-in-Moscow-27April2017/i-mWZqrFS/0/25b66a6a/X3/NightRehearsal270417-18-X3.jpg tankers driving over the wet streets "unbuttoned."]] In that case at least, the goggles could be used any moment, the infantry, OTOH, seems to never even take the goggles out of their cloth cases, [[https://youtu.be/cNIcqY9gJms like in this training video.]]
353* Ancient Greek soldiers had a habit of tipping their [[CoolHelmet Corinthian helms]] up to rest on their foreheads for comfort when out of combat. Natives living near Magna Graecia in Italy, inspired by the way this looked, created a style of helm called the Italo-Corinthian, which was meant to be worn as a cap but still had eye holes and a nose-guard that no longer served any purpose whatsoever, other than [[RuleOfCool looking cool]].
354* German general UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel was always seen wearing a pair of goggles pushed up over his cap. While this was part of his carefully cultivated image as the Desert Fox, the goggles also served a practical function: in the desert in a moving vehicle, sand and grit ''will'' be blown back into your face and eyes. Especially in vehicles where the glass windscreen has been removed as dangerous and impractical (it reflects the sun, and if hit will throw glass fragments around). For that reason, sand goggles were widely issued to both sides. Rommel continued to wear his goggles (which were actually British anti-gas shields given to him by a captured British officer) in Italy and France, where the practical need for them was a lot less.
355* Brazilian food company Sadia has as its mascot [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-77-UMRQiQXo/VYCYvvGxb0I/AAAAAAABZRg/CWkU04sEYmc/s1600/sadia%2Bmascote.jpg Lequetreque]], a chicken wearing biker goggles.
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