History Main / SunglassesAtNight

* Black Monday Blues of Dead Winter is almost never seen without his iconic red shades. In one moment his shades are knocked off and crushed but he simply reaches into his coat and takes out [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/119.htm another pair.]]

* Dave Strider in ''{{Homestuck}}'', as well as his brother, wears shades constantly.\

* CSIMiami: Horatio Caine, though the main purpose seems less to avoid glare and more to put them on or take them off dramatically.
* Dave Strider in ''{{Homestuck}}'', as well as his brother, wears shades constantly.

* [[TheSarahConnorChronicles Cameron]] did this, though as part of a ShoutOut to the T-1000 of the above films.

* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]], briefly in season five's "The Hungry Earth".
* TheManShow suggested doing this when walking on the street to oggle women without getting noticed.

* Yamaki in ''DigimonTamers'' only has his sunglasses off for about a minute of his total screentime, if that, and is often literally wearing them at night (or indoors in a darkened room). They also function as ScaryShinyGlasses, even though he retains them [[spoiler:after changing his mind and allying with the Tamers]].

*** In America.

* Kamina of ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' wore his famous orange sunglasses all the time even though he spent most of his life ''underground with no knowledge of the sun's existence'' ([[FridgeLogic which makes you wonder]] how he even got them in the first place).

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* Blake Hall from ''{{Pokemon}} Ranger 2'' wears them in the middle of the night...''on the roof of a several-hundred-foot-tall building while standing close to the edge''. Smart guy.
* [[MegaMan Protoman]] has never removed his sunglasses/visor, in-game or out. The same applies to his [[Series/MegaMan Ruby-Spears]] and .EXE counterparts. (If one piece of art from ''Megaman 8'' is to be believed, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment he even wears shades under his helmet's visor.]])

** Master Roshi

* The ''MenInBlack'' also [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual use their shades for a purpose]]: It keeps them from being affected by their [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory-erasing Neuralizer]].
* Zaphod Beeblebrox from the ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy~=]'' also doesn't take off his sunglasses in a cave because they are "peril-chromatic," that is, they turn black at the slightest hint of danger, thus preventing you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
** One of the {{Feelies}} with the text adventure game was a set of peril-sensitive sunglasses. [[spoiler:They're entirely opaque]].

* Wesker in ''ResidentEvil'' series, but in Code Veronica he has a reason. Perhaps the most ridicious use is when [[spoiler:flashbacks and pictures shows him wearing them in the lab]].

* The former NFL quarterback [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McMahon Jim McMahon]] is never seen without sunglasses. Even during games he wore a tinted visor on his helmet -- perhaps the first quarterback to do so -- leading to the nickname "[[StarWars Darth Vader]]". His right eye is sensitive to light due a childhood accident.

* [[MegaMan Protoman]] has never removed his sunglasses/visor, in-game or out. The same applies to his [[Series/MegaMan Ruby-Spears]] and .EXE counterparts. (If one piece of art from ''Megaman 8'' is to be believed, he even wears shades ''under his helmet's visor'')

Then there are times where a character wears glasses most of if not all the time, even if it's impractical to do so. Sunglasses at Night is a trope where the glasses wearer is known for wearing their shades on even when it's nighttime, when they are fighting and in some occasions, when they are asleep. Most of these characters do it because of reason #2, but for others it is #3, or some other {{Handwavium}} induced reason. Sometimes justified because [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual the shades do something unusual]]. Other characters have enhanced senses, so they follow reason #1 even at night. Many of the characters wouldn't be as recognizable without them.

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* Shilo from ''[[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/ Rhapsodies]]''

* Rudy Dewclaw, ''{{Kevin and Kell}}''.

* At one point in ''[[XMenEvolution X-Men: Evolution]]'', [[JerkJock Duncan]] invokes this trope by name on the aforementioned Cyclops.

* Eggman in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' game always wears those little blue glasses that hide his eyes for no apparent reasons. Even on dimly-lit space colonies. Maybe they're for protection, right? No, he sometimes covers them up with big black (welding?) goggles. Apparently, in the very visually-detailed 2006 title, Eggman's eyes can be seen behind his glasses, and they're blue. OrSoIHeard.