Line #78 Main/TriangleShades


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7	These are the absolute coolest variety of CoolShades. Rather than those frightfully ''dull'' elliptical, circular, or square lenses, the lenses in these shades are in the shape of scalene triangles, joined at one point and with the shortest sides resting on the bridge of the nose. They are often, but not always, worn by lowlife hoodlum characters. There's even an {{emoticon}} for them: ◥▶◀◤
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9	Aren't they cool?
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11	A variation is for robots to have their actual eyes in this shape. This serves no purpose other than looking [[RuleOfCool cool]].
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14	!!Examples -- sunglasses
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18	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
19	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Old Man Zangetsu wears a wraparound variety of these.
20	* The title character of ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' wears a pair that he hardly takes off.
21	* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
22	** A Gazimon is briefly seeing wearing a pair in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. And by "briefly" we mean that Taichi accidentally broke them with a soccer ball to the face shortly thereafter.
23	** [=SuperStarmon=] of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' and ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'', as well as Starmon of ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', perpetually wear them.
24	* Knight Shoemach/Osamu Sugo from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' wears those when he's racing. It is also to keep his real identity a secret so he can catch up on Smith.
25	* ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'':
26	** Present Mic has yellow-orange triangular sunglasses but they aren’t scalene, they’re equilateral triangles. He appears to wear them out of costume too as he’s clearly sporting a pair in the flashback to his U.A. student days. He may also have an off duty pair that are a little more round on the bottom but we only see those once and it’s hard to tell if they’re different or just a variation in how he’s drawn.
27	** Aoyoma sports a pair with extremely long upper edges in his hero costume that are probably meant as eye protection from his laser.
28	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Ash's Squirtle has a pair that he whips out every now and then, which signifies his role as TheLeader of the Squirtle Squad (the other Squirtle instead wear round sunglasses). So do various members of Team Rocket, especially Meowth.
29	* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''
30	** Kamina starts off with a pair, and everybody gets in on the act towards the end of the series. They've become so associated with him and considered such a defining trait that "Kamina shades" is a very common term used to refer to this style of sunglasses. This trope also applies to the Gurren, Kamina's personal mecha. Gurren's shades are also sharp enough to double as a sword and a boomerang.
31	** [[spoiler:Simon tops it off towards the end of the series, with his shades becoming ''star-shaped''! ( which is like the original, with three pointed tips added)]]
32	** And topped off once more with [[spoiler:Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] in ''Lagann-hen'' which manifests '''galaxy-sized Kamina's shades'''.
33	* Akane from ''Anime/VividredOperation'' puts on these types of shades when she tries to disguise herself in Episode 3. The kicker is they are the ''exact'' [[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GSHPwqOkofw/VaeOcss2PlI/AAAAAAAAk8w/0OZlTlmlp60/w346-h194/wfegrhtjyujhngbfvd.PNG same shade of red as Kamina's]]. Her grandpa pulls them out again in episode 6.
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The villainess Magpie's original costume sported a pair of these.
38	* ''ComicBook/VideoBoy'', the eponymous protagonist of an [[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/v/videoboy.htm Italian superhero comic]] from the late 1980s, sports green triangle shades as part of his costume.
39	* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Negative Man begins to wear these after becoming Rebis
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42	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
43	* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin once tried to convince his mom to buy him a [[color:green:BRIGHT GREEN]] pair of these. Became HilariousInHindsight when TTGL came out, prompting a lot of crossover fanart (or just the strip while recoloring the shades to the appropriate color).
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46	[[folder:Fan Works]]
47	* Hottie from ''Fanfic/Hottie3TheBestFanFicInTheWorld'' wears pink Triangle Shades.
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50	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
51	* In the future presented in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', triangular sunglasses are apparently fashionable as one of Griff’s henchmen has a pair.
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54	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
55	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': Pointed shades are built into the helmets of [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger GokaiSilver]] and [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters Red Buster]], and his EvilCounterpart Dark Buster. All of the members of ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' have triangular glasses that allow them to see into the Nouto dimension. In their transformed states they all have visors shaped in this style that stick out the sides of their helmets. Triangle shades are also included in the team's emblem and a lot of their equipment is designed to resemble triangle shades.
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58	[[folder:Pinballs]]
59	* ''Pinball/DrDude''[='=]s bright orange shades.
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62	[[folder:Video Games]]
63	* Some of the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games feature triangle shades for your character to wear.
64	* Kamikaze Bomber from ''VideoGame/Bomberman94'' and Metal Bomber from ''[[VideoGame/SuperBomberman Super Bomberman 3]]'' wear them. For a lesser-known example, Carat Diamond wears them instead of his round shades in the story manga in the ''VideoGame/SuperBomberman'' guidebook.
65	* These have popped up thrice in the ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'' series:
66	** ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy3'' features two questgivers wearing these - Johnny, found in The Town at the start of the game, and Kamina (naturally) in the Kitten Kingdom Ruins.
67	** ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has Aniki, an {{expy}} of Kamina found at Rainbow River, wearing a pair.
68	* ''VideoGame/FZero'': Captain Falcon's mask counts, as do those of [[EvilTwin Blood Falcon]], [[EvilOverlord Black Shadow]], and [[TimeTravel Phoenix]].
69	* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'''s Sissel has a pair of these. [[spoiler:Yomiel, the person whose body Sissel mistakenly thought was his, has these too.]] These carry on even after [[spoiler: Sissel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NJikFH0erM#t=1m37s loses Yomiel's image]] and reverts to the blueish blob shape all ghosts start out as and Yomiel seems to have drawn a pair of triangle shades onto his "face" after [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NJikFH0erM#t=0m50s pulling a body together]] out of random items he found in the submarine.]]
70	* Spinni from ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'' wears a pair of triangular shades, as the other members Storo and Doc wear an eyepatch and swirly glasses, respectively.
71	* Proto Man from ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' similarly wears these as part of his helmet. The official art heavily implies that he wears ''[[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/File:Helmetless_Protoman.png another]]'' set of Triangle Shades under the ones on his helmet.
72	* Milky Nezumi from ''VideoGame/NezumiMan'', since he's a ShoutOut to [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]].
73	* Whereas Dr. Eggman from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series sports a pair of pince-nez sunglasses, his EvilTwin Eggman Nega wears triangular shades.
74	* Mouser from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' and Boshi from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' wear them, almost identical to Squirtle's, as mentioned above.
75	* Tatsu of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' got a pair of these as a memento from his father, who was selected as a yearly heropon.
76	* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'': When Jibanyan is fused with Roughraff, they [[FusionDance merge]] into Baddinyan, a delinquent version of Jibanyan that wears a pair of these along with a [[DelinquentHair pompadour]] and a school jacket.
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79	[[folder:Web Animation]]
80	* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'''s Takane Lui has these as an optional accessory.
81	* WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope a few times:
82	** Bowser puts on a pair and breakdances after successfully cooking Italian ravioli [[ItMakesSenseInContext with just Doritos]] in ''Cooking with Bowser and Mario 2!''.
83	** Peach after poisoning [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine Toadsworth]] in ''Toadsworth's how to-Princess''.
84	** Yoshi wears a pair in ''Yoshrooms'' while attracting another Yoshi, [[DownerEnding only to be beaten up by said blue Yoshi]].
85	** We also have triangle shade-wearing Series/{{Teletubbies}}. For example:
86	*** Dipsy while in the crowd cheering and dancing with [=SMG4=] in [[spoiler:''APRIL FOOLS'']].
87	*** Dipsy again in ''Tubbie TV'' while "getting it on with the ladies". This happens a second time at [[spoiler:the very end of the blooper]] when the Teletubbies celebrate.
88	*** Tinky Winky (briefly) in ''The 12 idiots of Christmas''.
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91	[[folder:Webcomics]]
92	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Dave's Bro sports "dumb pointy anime shades", as John calls them; [[Creator/AndrewHussie the comic's author]] has denied this being a ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' reference on several occasions. Dave himself wore a pair of his own for most of his life, but swapped them for the aviators Creator/BenStiller wore in ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'' which John gave him as a thirteenth birthday present. [[spoiler:The post-[[ResetButton Scratch]] counterpart of Bro,]] Dirk Strider, also wears his own [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual computerized specs]], which themselves [[spoiler:hold Dirk's "Auto-Responder" an ArtificialIntelligence based off Dirk's own consciousness.]]
93	* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': [[spoiler:Bishified Commander Badass]] has a pair. They come in handy for [[spoiler: slitting Final Form Gackt's throat]].
94	** As does [[spoiler:VideoGame/DukeNukem]]. He looks remarkably similar to Dirk above.
95	* ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'': Triangle shades are used in a webcomic version of the story to make a character look sinister.
96	* Buwaro of ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' wears a pair in [[http://hyenafu.tumblr.com/post/155083238024/patron-renduras-dream-of-a-slightly-damned-rock this non-canon piece of art drawn by the author]]
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99	[[folder:Web Original]]
100	* Cartoonist [[http://www.kazcooke.com.au/ Kaz Cooke's]] AuthorAvatar.
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103	[[folder:Western Animation]]
104	* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', Bullfrag, one of Ben's transformations, wears a pair.
105	* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', Di Lung wears these [[NouveauRiche to show off how rich and cool he is]].
106	* While not in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' itself, they're worn by Princess Cadance in one of the non-matching pictures from the printable ''[[http://wedding.mylittlepony.com/pdf/Wedding_CadancePerfectMatch.pdf Princess Cadance Perfect Match]]'' activity.
107	* Ace, the leader of the Gangreen Gang, from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' always wear his triangular shades, meaning that his eyes are seldom seen.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
109	** For Garnet's first two outfits, she wears a visor that is flat on the top and sides, but has a triangle beneath each eye. Her third form changes it to have ''three'' triangular prongs on top, the middle one covering her ThirdEye.
110	** Sugilite has a fully triangular pair that covers [[ExtraEyes four of her five eyes]].
111	** Peridot gains these as part of her Crystal Gem outfit. They're even designed as a direct ShoutOut to Kamina himself.
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114	!!Examples -- eyes
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116	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
117	* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': As if the humans having them wasn't enough, the [[HumongousMecha Gunmen]] also sport triangle shade-shaped optical receptors. And, as if ''that'' is not enough, [[SerialEscalation Gurren Lagann sports humongous triangular shades over his triangular eyes]]. And the final kicker is that Gurren/Gurren Lagann's shades can be used as an ImprovisedWeapon, being used as a sort of boomerang by Kamina and Simon, as well as the first strike of their FinishingMove, the Giga Drill Breaker!!
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120	[[folder:Comic Books]]
121	* ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'': These robotics warriors enjoy this trope. Depending on their current bodies, at least a few of the titular robots have them at any one time. Hammerstein and Mek-Quake are the most fond of theme.
122	* Franchise/{{Batman}} villain Mr. Zsasz has these in his original appearances, although [[DependingOnTheArtist this was dropped in the late 1990s]].
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125	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
126	* In the TV adaptation of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'', Marvin the Paranoid Android has these, although instead of flaring up at the edges, they droop down to give him a suitably depressive expression.
127	** Same goes for [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 the movie version]], except the triangles are placed against a meridian line around his perfectly-spherical head. The effect is the same, given the arc the line makes.
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130	[[folder:Video Games]]
131	* Many of the robots in ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'' have eyes like these, plus GlowingMechanicalEyes.
132	* [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Krookodile Krookodile]] of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has markings around his eyes that resemble triangle shades.
133	* [[SuperRobot Ultra-V]] from ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'' has these in glowing yellow.
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136	[[folder:Western Animation]]
137	* The character designs in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' were influenced by those of ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'', and that famously included the eyes.
138	** Soundwave's visor is ''literally'' the shape of Kamina's shades! Prowl's is close. ThePowersThatBe say it was indeed ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' and not ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' that was the inspiration.
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