History Main / SunglassesAtNight

* In the fifth season ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode ''Changing Channels'', the main characters are trapped inside various television shows. This trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a thinly veiled ''Series/CSIMiami'' parody:

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "Stardust City Rag", it's nighttime when Cristóbal Rios beams down to Freecloud with his CoolShades, and he still keeps them on when he enters Bjayzl's casino and orders an UmbrellaDrink from the bartender. He doesn't remove his sunglasses until he meets Mr. Vup.

** Kazuhira Miller from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' wears his aviator sunglasses every day, even during a thunderstorm. In addition, Miller wore them in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2'''s rereleases, and in VideoGame/MetalGearSolid (although that was actually Liquid Snake disguised as Miller). In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', during the night, when Snake reaches Kaz after he's been tortured and amputated, Snake hands Kaz his sunglasses, which he then proceeds to wear.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': After his transition into a vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac always sports sunglasses during the evenings when he visits his family at the mansion to hide his vampiric green irises (his eyes used to be brown when he was human).

* Creator/TommyWiseau. He wears shades all the time in all the presentations of Film/TheRoom (presumably he also watches the movie with them on), and to all the interviews.

Sunglasses serve mainly six purposes:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': [[SmallNameBigEgo Worse-than-he-thinks-he-is]] Detective Cash Tankinson wears sunglasses at night. [[ThirdPersonPerson And speaks in third person.]] Detective Yin at one point starts hanging lampshades all over the place. ComicBook/TheJoker even nicknames the guy "Detective Shades".
* In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE3NothingToFear Nothing to Fear]]", the third episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Bruce Wayne goes to visit his parents' graves at night, and apparently just for the extra added FilmNoir factor he's wearing a pair of round dark glasses when he does so.

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie, Bender goes back in time to terminate Fry. When he [[Film/TheTerminator puts on sunglasses]] before leaving, his reasoning is "It's really bright in the past."

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': One of Dr. Caballeron's {{mook}}s always wears sunglasses.
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'': In "Pups In A Fog", Captain Turbot dons a pair of sunglasses. Justified because he was preparing to turn on a lighthouse beacon.

* Shizuo Heiwajima from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' evidently sees no reason to take off his sunglasses when the sun goes down or he's off the job. Given that they're implied to be a gift from Tom, he probably just clings to them like he does [[LimitedWardrobe his other]] {{Memento MacGuffin}}s.

* The 1980's pulp hero John Thomas Rourke in ''The Survivalist'' series by Jerry Ahern. This is due to his sensitivity to light, and he is always seen wearing them on the book covers.

* Numbah One from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. In one episode, Lizzie took his glasses so she could lead the team. When she realized she was in over her head, he was about to take over, but it just didn't seem right... Then she gave him back the glasses and ''then'' everything was right.

* Music/RoyOrbison started as he didn't want to be seen wearing his glasses in public so he took to wearing prescription sunglasses all the time instead. He must have really hated contacts.

* Another medical example is photophobia; despite its suffix it's not a psychological fear of light, but a condition of increased physical sensitivity to light which can make standard light levels painful. It can result in wearing sunglasses all the time, when symptoms are especially bad.

* Johnny Smiles from ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'' does this for reason #3. Apparently the cool factor overrides the safety issues that may arise from wearing shades while patrolling a dark ship at night.

* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' with regards to [[UndergroundMonkey underground koopas]].

** Blake Hall from ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger 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.

** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', [[spoiler:These are what help Sheva and Chris defeat him at the end, as they just turn the lights off and shoot him when he starts having trouble seeing them]].

* Creator/RichardBelzer always wears either sunglasses or strongly tinted eyeglasses to the point of seeing his own eyes is rare.

* Most albinos, due to their sensitivity to light and possibly disturbing eyes.
* Another medical example is photophobia--which can, with sudden onset, mean you've got brain cancer, and is also a common result of aging. It can result in wearing sunglasses all the time, when symptoms are especially bad and people less than considerate about turning on lights.

A subtrope of CoolShades and UselessAccessory. Compare to SinisterShades. Named for, but mostly unrelated to, a song by {{Music/Corey Hart}}.

* Parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit which featured various OneHitWonder stars from TheEighties speaking at a congressional hearing on music piracy. One of the artists was Corey Hart, wheelchair bound and badly scarred.

* The [[TropeNamers aptly titled]] {{Music/Corey Hart}}'s song "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sunglasses at Night]]". [[WordOfGod According to the song's co-producer Phil Chapman]], Corey first wrote the song while he was recording his debut album, and he observed the control room personnel wearing sunglasses to shield their eyes from the air conditioning that was blowing directly into their faces, as the vents were situated above the mixing console.

* Canadian figure skater Nicolas Nadeau evoked this trope by sporting sunglasses while he performed to Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" for [[https://streamable.com/s2mum2 his exhibition number]] during the 2019-2020 competitive season, and nighttime is suggested by the darkened arena. He [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BusWusYHybx/ jokingly posted on Instagram]] his character's motivation for covering his eyes when it's dark.

* {{Trope Namer|s}} Corey Hart wears his sunglasses at night, so he can keep track of the visions in his eyes. Later subverted: he started avoiding being seen wearing sunglasses under any conditions, because he wanted to be known for more than that one song (seemingly the only song of his anyone outside his native Canada knows).

%%* ''Series/HardGay''.

A subtrope of CoolShades and UselessAccessory. Compare to SinisterShades. Named for, but mostly unrelated to, a song by Corey Hart.

* The [[TropeNamers aptly titled]] Corey Hart song "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Sunglasses at Night]]". [[WordOfGod According to the song's co-producer Phil Chapman]], Corey first wrote the song while he was recording his debut album, and he observed the control room personnel wearing sunglasses to shield their eyes from the air conditioning that was blowing directly into their faces, as the vents were situated above the mixing console.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. Romo Lampkin wears his sunglasses constantly, even in the dark corridors of Galactica. He is however a kleptomaniac lawyer who wouldn't want people to see where he's looking. Not to mention the times he finds it useful to [[TheGlassesComeOff remove them for effect]] (e.g. when he's interviewing Caprica Six).

** The Doctor does this briefly in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth "The Hungry Earth"]]. Justified in that they're night vision sunglasses. It's also not actually nighttime thanks to an opaque forcefield sealing the area off.
** He pulls it again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], wearing his sonic sunglasses on a robbery after dark rather than accept the offer of a domino mask.
** The Doctor does it a third time in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld "The Pyramid at the End of the World"]], to the point his companion [[TomboyishName Bill]] asks him why. This time, however, [[spoiler:it's for a ''far'' more serious reason — he's [[HidingTheHandicap hiding]] the fact that he's still [[TemporaryBlindness blind]] from the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]].]]

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Netflix series:
** Matt Murdock in ''Series/Daredevil2015'' is blind, and wears sunglasses whenever he's not in his Daredevil gear. This of course doesn't obstruct his nonexistent vision at all; it's to hide his eyes from the sighted, who might find his lack of focus disturbing.
** Hernan "Shades" Alvarez tends to wear his trademark sunglasses at all times. He takes them off when he means business.

[[folder: Tabletop Games]]

* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol''[='s=] Mike Thorton can wear opt to wear sunglasses on any mission, at any time of the day. Most of them take place during the daytime, but a few happen at night, notably the airfield during Desert Shield, the infiltration of Marburg's villa in Deus Vult, and just about every mission in Moscow save the train yard.

* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce EXTRAPOWER Attack of Darkforce]]'': Ryo is never apart from his sunglasses, donning and doffing them to punctuate his dramatics. Not even night time disqualifies their use.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3''[='s=] sun glasses give your perception stat a bonus regardless of when they're worn, encouraging this trope. There is even a mod that gives the player a perk that causes all sun glasses to grant a massive charisma bonus, but only at night, with RuleOfCool serving as an in-game justification.

* Sissel [[spoiler: (actually Yomiel)]] in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' always wears sunglasses, even though the game takes place entirely during the night. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as he's a ghost, and they don't hinder his vision.
** [[spoiler: Justified even more because he saw the body he thought was his wearing sunglasses, and, being a cat, he likely didn't know what those black things on the face were. With Yomiel, it's probably just because of RuleOfCool.]]

* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': Norman Jayden wears his [[JustifiedTrope high-tech, crime scene analyzing sunglasses]] indoors and at night.

* Cole's best friend Zeke from ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'' always wears sunglasses as part of his static model. [[spoiler: This actually undergoes GameplayAndStoryIntegration in [[VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}} the second game]], as he's hiding his face so Cole can't work out Zeke has caught the plague.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetalGear''

* Guido Kandori from ''VideoGame/Persona2''. [[EyeScream He has reasons.]]
* Blake Hall from ''VideoGame/PokemonRanger 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.
** Played almost literally in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', where you meet a man wearing sunglasses in the middle of Dark Cave (which requires using Flash to navigate through).

* Eggman in the ''VideoGame/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.
** The pair he wears on top of his head are basic safety goggles - apparently he builds his robots by hand sometimes - and in the 2006 game you can clearly see that the regular sunglasses serve as micro-computer screens for the Doctor.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Disco Stu always wears Disco Glasses

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' is the TropeCodifier here.