Playing With / Four Eyes, Zero Soul

Basic Trope: Glasses are used as a faux-prop to highlight an antagonist's rapacious nature.

• Straight: Emperor Evulz, the main antagonist of the work, wears glasses and is a perpetually and dangerously unsatisfied dictator.
• Exaggerated:
  • All of the villains in the work wear glasses, but none of the heroes do.
  • Emperor Evulz is a Complete Monster who wears glasses.
• Downplayed:
  • Emperor Evulz only wears spectacles or reading glasses.
  • Emperor Evulz is an Affably Evil Noble Demon with diminished dictatorial goals.
• Justified:
  • Evulz was bullied for having glasses as a kid, and decided to incorporate wearing glasses as part of his character trait.
  • Emperor Evulz is an expy of a historical figure, such as Heinrich Himmler or Lavrentiy Beria.
  • Evulz relies on some Greek mythological creature with limited eyesight to be his minion(s), like the Grey Sisters or a Classical Cyclops, and he rationalizes that he needs to see what they're up to since out of all of them his eyesight is the least poor, if only by a margin.
• Inverted:
  • The hero/protagonist
    • wears glasses
    • and/or is The Soulless
  • The villain/antagonist
    • needs no eyewear
    • and/or happens to be a blind being with four souls
• Subverted: Although Evulz wears glasses, he later reveals that he doesn't actually need them.
• Double Subverted: except as a show of intimidation.
• Parodied:
  • Putting on glasses automatically brainwashes someone into being evil.
  • A supervillain names himself "Glasses Man".
  • Luxotica is a MegaCorp dedicated to evil deeds.
• Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Evulz wears glasses, sometimes he doesn't.
• Averted: No villains wear glasses.
• Enforced:
  • Giving Evulz glasses can make him look more intimidating.
  • Evulz is an Evil Genius, so it's only appropriate.
• Lampshaded: "I pity anyone who fails an eye exam."
• Invoked: Evulz is contemplating corrective eyewear.
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Evulz does have poor vision, but either wears contact lenses or gets vision-correcting surgery to fix it instead.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Deconstructed: Due to myopic urban legends that only apply to certain Anti Intellectuals, it doesn't take too long until Khmer Rouge 2.0 ensues.
• Reconstructed: Yet Evulz takes pride in being Khmer Rouge 2.0, as long as his glasses can intimidate the heroes.

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