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[[File:elijahsin l 2556.jpg|link=Sin City|frame|Eyes to die for.]]

So you have a guy who is cold, emotionless, or [[Shoot the Dog|brutally practical]], maybe a little cruel. Maybe a ''lot'' cruel, or even a [[Complete Monster|soulless monster]]. To quickly tip off the audience to his personality, give him glasses. The eyes are said to be windows on the soul, so hiding them behind glass makes the character seem more removed. Particularly effective if the glasses have [[Opaque Lenses]]. And you can have the light reflect off them [[Scary Shiny Glasses|in scary ways.]] This often signals that the character is a [[Badass Bookworm]].

Compare [[Sinister Shades]]. Contrast [[Stoic Spectacles]], where the glasses make the guy look aloof, intellectual and cute. Since glasses also evoke physical weakness, this often also evokes [[Sissy Villain]]. When this is treated as [[Fetish Fuel]], see [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]].

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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'' gives us Shidou, a former teacher who uses the chaos caused by ''[[Not Using the Z Word|them]]'' to  {{spoiler|create what [[Fan Nickname|fans refer to as]] the orgybus}}.
* Captain Kuro from ''[[One Piece]]''.
* Kabuto in ''[[Naruto]]'', as well as his temporary teammates Yoroi and Misume.
** Shino is a slightly more heroic example of this...even his own team is a little freaked by him.
* For a short time (like 3 episodes short), {{spoiler|Aizen}} from ''[[Bleach]]'' personified this trope by massacring the ruling force of Soul Society, near murdering his second in command, and what he did to Rukia. He ditched the glasses after, but he's definitely remained super evil.
** [[Mad Scientist|Szayel Aporro Granz]] fits as well.
* Nikaidou Yuu from ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' before his {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]].}} He used his students' issues to his benefit, destroying their hopes and dreams so that he could try for a promotion. Even worse, he feels no regret, even going so far as to say he finds it so much fun he "can't help himself."
* A borderline version is Kunimitsu Tezuka from ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'', who is less evil and more aloof/ComicallySerious. Eishirou Kite from Higa plays it straighter, though.
** Sadaharu Inui can be seen as one, but taking this more for comedy as he's both a [[Lethal Chef]] ''and'' the [[Butt Monkey]] when not in calculating mode.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Gendo Ikari.
** Keel with his visor-like apparatus might count, even though ''End of Evangelion'' reveals them to be his real eyes since he's a cyborg.
* The young model Sara from ''[[Kami no Shizuku]]'' said about Tomine Issei, "Gosh, he's so cold. But... that part about him is kind of good." This may be a bit odd though, since Issei turns out to be her brother.
* [[Spider Sense|Brad Crawford]] from ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]''. Also Reiji and Hirofumi Takatori, Masato Shimojima, and maybe Mayumi Tsujii.
* Yamaki from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', especially near the beginning of the season.
* Furoku Tsukumo, mother of [[Teen Genius]] Susumu from ''[[Wandaba Style]]'', is a rare female version.
* Naohiro Usui in the ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]''.
* November 11 in ''[[Darker than Black]]'' alternates between "[[Lack of Empathy|sociopathic]] jerk" and [[The Charmer]] and habitually wears glasses with [[Opaque Lenses]].
** Better/even more extreme example with the Contractor Ilya in the second season. At first glance, he's a handsome, intellectual looking guy with a pleasant smile. Then you find out that he was a [[Serial Killer]] before gaining his powers and is still an [[Ax Crazy]] psycho, just more calm about it.
* Suitengu from ''[[Speed Grapher]]''. Bespectacled [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], rich,<ref>(He [[Money to Burn|smokes cigarettes made with rolled up money]]. Seriously.)</ref> smart and a totally evil manipulative bastard.
* Amon Garam of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''—child prodigy, [[Gadgeteer Genius]], Duel Monsters champion... and cold-blooded killer of his girlfriend to fulfill a [[Deal with the Devil]] in an attempt to [[Take Over the World]].
** As well as the D aka Kyle Jables.
* Mikami from ''[[Death Note]]''.
* Played with in regards to Tooru Hanagata from ''[[Slam Dunk]]''. He's ''very'' serious but not a strictly bad guy, but yet he's ''ruthless'' in the fields.
* Prof. Kurata from ''[[Digimon Savers]]''. [[Mad Scientist]] and [[Complete Monster]] extraordinaire.
* Quattro of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', when she isn't [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] (and sometimes even when she is).
* {{spoiler|Telestina}} Kihara {{spoiler|Lifeline}} from ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]''. That un-spoilered name is already a dead give away of what to expect, [[Complete Monster|considering how Grandpa Kihara and his son turned out]].
* Female ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' example: {{spoiler|Grace O'Connor.}} Though sometimes it's a monocle.
* '''Several''' characters from [[Hellsing]] are well within the bounds of this trope. [[Cool Old Guy|Walter Dorneaz]] becomes an absolute ''monster'' on the battlefield with his [[Razor Floss]]  {{spoiler|takes it further with his Vampirization}}. [[Dracula|Alucard]] is a very literal monster, and often wears a set of orange sunglasses before and sometimes during his rampages. The [[Big Bad|Major]], gleeful warmonger and Nazi, also fulfills this trope nicely.
** Rip Van Winkle too, but maybe she's not the best example as she is sadistic but cheerful.
* Kakei from ''[[Legal Drug]]'' has several sadistic tendencies, especially when assigning odd jobs to Rikuou and Kazahaya. And mostly, this is for his own amusement. Fortunately, he does have a nice side to him as well.
* In ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'', {{spoiler|Gainer Sanga himself fits this when he's [[Demonic Possession|possessed by]] [[Eldritch Abomination|the Overdevil]].}}
* [[Complete Monster|Muraki]] from ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'' has hobbies that include raping, torturing, killing, and scientific experiments to revive the dead for the sake of killing them again. He's just a tiny bit psycho.
** Averted with Yutaka Watari, the loveable genki scientist of ''[[Ju Oh Cho]]''. [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Or is it?]]
* Aion from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', although, to be fair, he's more like {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird]]}} [[Magnificent Bastard]].
* Chikusa Kakimoto from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has this going for him. Plus, the first panel where they're really focused on looks suspiciously like the image on this page...
* Katsuragi of ''[[Sakura Gari]]''.
* The Millennium Earl of ''[[D.Gray-man]]''. While he may at first seem too cheerful and cartoony to be scary. This impression, however, is very quickly corrected as we learn more about him. It's becoming increasingly obvious that he's basically [[Satan]].
** Oh please. [[Complete Monster|Compared to the Earl, Satan is an underachiever]].
* Tamaki Tsunenaga of ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]''. The primary antagonist revealed so far, Tamaki is Assistant Warden and de facto tyrant of Deadman Wonderland. Under his calm, almost idiotic attitude, he is something of a sadist, caring nothing about the fact that he butchers dozens of prisoners every day for the sole purpose of gathering money or experimenting on them, or simply for his amusement. As son of the dying Chief Warden of Deadman Wonderland, he eagerly hopes for the death of his father to become truly the supreme ruler of the prison, and he devotes much of his time and resources in studying and experimenting on the powers of the Branch of Sin and their origin. He also is in contact with the upper echelons of the Japanese government, his ultimate goal being the synthesis of artificial Deadmen. In sharp contrast with his cruelty, he enjoys playing with children's toys.
** Subverted. He's actually a hardcore gamer. As such, he only puts live stock into his games.
* Kaito from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' seems like this, until it turns out that  {{spoiler|he was working for Genkai the whole time}}
* An interesting subversion occurs with Dr. Nazo, the [[Big Bad]] of [[The Sixties|60s]] anime ''[[Ougon Bat]]'': he doesn't wear glasses, but he ''does'' indeed have four eyes. And less than zero of a soul.
* [[Depraved Homosexual]] [[Mad Scientist|Professor Aizawa]] from ''[[Sukisho]]'' who was responsible for performing sadistic experiments on Sunao and Sora when they were children.
* [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsukuyomi]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
* The Brunette in ''[[Gunjo]]''.
* Claude "Torch" Weaver from [[Black Lagoon]] is a fat, plain-looking man who is [[Dissonant Serenity|always smiling]] and wears thick glasses with basic "aviator" frames (bearing a strong resemblance to [[Drew Carey]]). He is also an insane [[Pyromaniac]] who burned his wife to death and now works as a bounty hunter. Surprisingly capable in a fight too, since he was one of the last men standing during the [[Carnival of Killers|Greenback Jane]] arc.
* [[Villain Protagonist|Claude]] [[Battle Butler|Faustus]] in ''[[Black Butler]]''.
* Doji in ''[[Metal Fight Beyblade]]''.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist|The]] [[Mad Scientist|Doctor]], the only flat out [[Complete Monster]] in ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' embodies this. He's a [[Mad Doctor]] [[For Science!]] loon who acts as [[The Medic]] for [[The Big Bad]], and believes that emotion is pointless, and that dissecting young girls and trapping people in [[Mind Screw]] [[Reality Warper|Warp Worlds]] based on their worst fears is fun. Is it possible to have negative soul points?
* Kyoya from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has this. He is the most self-interested guy in the main cast and will go to extreme lengths to get what he wants. {{spoiler|Or so he'd like people to believe.}}
* While not the most evil of the Elite Four, the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' incarnation of Lorelei certainly qualifies.
* Shou Tucker from [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], who shows no remorse whatsoever when he {{spoiler|performs alchemy experiments on ''his own daughter''}} to advance his career. True to form, he has the creepy glasses, but ironically the glasses become clear and reveal his eyes when he admits what he did and gives a [[Hannibal Lecture]] to Edward.
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]''{{'}}s Kururu is the resident [[Mad Scientist]] and wears [[Nerd Glasses]]. He's also the [[Token Evil Teammate]] in a group that is ''trying'' to take over the world, with a disturbingly blase attitude towards testing his inventions on his own teammates.
* Zera from ''[[Litchi Hikari Club]]'' is a perfect example of this trope. [[Scary Shiny Glasses|His glasses even shine and all]].
* ''[[Mahou Shoujo Ai]]'': Akitoshi's best friend Shinji becomes this after being possessed by the demonic Yuragi.
* Michio Yuki from ''[[MW]]''.

== Comic Books ==
* Kevin in ''[[Sin City]]''. (The Trope Image)
* Gideon Gordon Graves of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]''.
* Thomas in [[The Walking Dead]] turns out to be completely evil and insane. Not actually surprising.
* '''WARNING: WORLD-CLASS SPOILERS:''' {{spoiler|Alberto Falcone}} of ''[[The Long Halloween]]'' and ''[[Batman: Dark Victory]].''
* Professor Hugo Strange, ''[[Batman]]'' villain. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in ''Prey'', where we never ever see his eyes, only what's caught in his glasses' reflections.
** Jim Gordon Jr. fits as well.
* When out of costume, Jonathan Crane is a bookish, glasses wearing nerd. Who just so happens to love terrifying those around him and being a general sadist.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s foe Dr. Octopus often combines this with [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] and/or [[Sunglasses At Night]].

== Eastern Animation ==
* Mulmangcho in ''[[A Squirrel and a Hedgehog]]''.

== Film ==
* Dr. Herbert West, ''[[Re-Animator]]''. In the third film's commentary, the director mentioned how just putting the old-style glasses on actor Jeffrey Combs instantly transformed him into West.
* Major Toht, the creepy-as-hell Gestapo torture guy ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.
* Dr. Jonathan Crane from [[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]
* The Warden in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', heavily implied to be {{spoiler|the Devil himself}}.
* The bespectacled Cleaner in the French film ''[[Nikita (film)|Nikita]]'', the American remake ''[[Point of No Return]]'' (chillingly played by [[Harvey Keitel]]), and the TV series ''[[Nikita (TV series)|Nikita]]''. Though more efficient than cruel, his only concern over the twitching of the still-living victims is the inconvenience. He also doesn't hesitate to apply his methods to the heroine and allies.
* Comes up frequently in the films of [[Alfred Hitchcock]].{{context}}
* ''[[Bent]]'' features a bespectacled Nazi that is memorable for his interrogation methods on the train.
* [[Known Only By Their Nickname|Gold Glasses]] in ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Identity]]''. He guns down several bystanders (including a fellow assassin) [[Complete Monster|without batting an eye]]. Later, he [[Fingore|breaks Bourne's fingers]] by slamming them in a car door [[For the Evulz|for no apparent reason]].
* Brick Top in ''[[Snatch]]'' is a brutal, sadistic gangster who wears a pair of thick rimmed glasses. His introductory shot is him bashing a man's teeth out with a hammer. All the characters in the film who know who he is are terrified of him, lest they get cut into pieces and fed to a pack of pigs.
* Boss Godfrey, of ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''. You don't talk to him, ever. The movie's rife with symbolism, and his sunglasses are meant to reflect a distorted view of man (most shots of him are close-ups on his Aviators).
* Clarence Boddicker in ''[[RoboCop]]'' was specifically made to resemble Heinrich Himmler. [[Complete Monster|It shows.]]
* The evil cult leader in the [[Film of the Book]] ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy]]'' also wears glasses. To add to the creepiness, it turns out the apparently transparent "lenses" are actually small video screens. Beneath the glasses, he has no eyes.
* Emil Leopold Locque in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' is {{spoiler|Kristatos'}} quiet, cruel, ruthless enforcer who wears a distinctive pair of glasses.
* Dr. William Block, played by Josh Brolin in the ''Grindhouse'' segment ''Planet Terror''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106021738/http://images.wikia.com/grindhouse/images/6/61/Doc.jpg/ What do you think?]
* ''[[Angels & Demons]]'' has an assassin who single-handedly leads the Vatican police on a chase that ends with dozens slain. He isn't even killed by the good guys but gets double-crossed.
* Mark Collins, played by [[Christian Slater]], in ''[[Twisted]]''.
* Judge Doom in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.

== Literature ==
* Zabulon, the head of Moscow's Dark Others in ''[[Night Watch]]''; looks like a sensitive glasses-wearing intellectual, but is also fond of having rough sex in the form of a snake demon.
* Done deliberately in ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]].''
* In their demonic forms, the Denarians of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' make this trope literal—one set of glowing demon eyes over another set of (glowing a different color) human eyes.
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' uses this trope to enhance its introduction of "duckspeaking" (spouting politically-correct statements without thinking):
{{quote|His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles [[Scary Shiny Glasses|caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes]]. ... As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy.}}
** {{spoiler|And O'Brien, who plays this trope horrifying straight.}}
* Arguably Algaliarept from ''[[The Hollows]]'' series, though he could also be considered a [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]] if you support Al/Rachel.

== Live-Action TV ==
* Giles in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' slips into this now and again, mostly because of [[I Did What I Had to Do]]. Shown perhaps most clearly at the end of season 5, where he's perfectly prepared to sacrifice [[Apocalypse Maiden|Dawn]] and suffocates [[People Puppets|Ben]] in cold blood to stop Glory's return.
* HRG in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Though he turns out to be mostly good if ruthless.
** And Sylar, who began his murderous streak while he was still a bespectacled watchmaker. Taken to extremes with the multi-lens glasses he wears for his job.
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias's]]'' season-one [[Big Bad]] was a Chinese torturer named "Suit-and-Glasses" because, you guessed it, those were his only identifying features.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' with alternate/evil Daniel Jackson, who ''didn't'' wear glasses. One WMG suggests that glasses are the inverse of [[Beard of Evil|beards]] in the [[Stargate Verse]]. (Both the glasses and the evil were the result of some [[Applied Phlebotinum]].)
* Jim Keats of BBC's ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''. He has this sinister 60's government agent look.
* An episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' once dealt with a case involving a man who had abducted a teenage girl and was holding her captive as a sex slave. At one point, the girl (who had managed to acquire a phone) mentions the guy was (for some reason) at his absolute worst and sadistic when he was wearing his glasses (which was a lot).
* In the 6th ''Prime Suspect" miniseries, there's a ruthlessly pragmatic woman from the government with large, very thick-lensed glasses. She also looks quite young—though clearly an adult, she sort of looks like a 12-year-old. This gives her a nerdy-schoolgirl look, for dramatic irony.
* Nyder from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E04 Genesis of the Daleks|Genesis of the Daleks]]'' is a blatant Heinrich Himmler [[Expy]]. Even his voice is a cold and steely monotone, except when he displays some actual feeling. But don't believe him when he does it.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has the interrogator who tortured Sheridan in the episode "Intersections in Real Time".
* The Supervisor in ''[[The Prisoner]]'', although the effect is enhanced by being combined with the character's booming [[Robo Speak]] voice and his almost never-changing deadpan facial expression.
* On ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's [[For Science!]] attitude and callousness toward Beaker make him a comedic example. [[Eyeless Face|Then again...]]

== [[Video Games]] ==
* Jade Curtiss from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. Okay, he's a good guy... but that doesn't stop him from being [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|rather cruel]] to just about everyone.
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' has Megumi Kitaniji and Mitsuki Konishi.
*  {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Kristoph Gavin}} from ''[[Apollo Justice]]''.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Tohno Shiki is an inversion - his cold, ruthless side shows itself when [[The Glasses Come Off]].
** Eh... sort of an inversion. He's still a [[Jerkass|complete dick]] to Arcueid and Arihiko with his glasses on, he just goes waaaaaaay [[Up to Eleven]] with them off.
** With Arihiko its mutual, they did start their relationship by beating each other up. With Arcueid, its just his way of showing his affections; as is stated, he treats everyone with his default kindness except Arc because she's special.
*** Actually, the glasses have nothing to do with it. It's his Nanaya blood, that turns him into a killer. It's just, most times when his Nanaya personality shows up, the glasses are already off.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': The Medic. And, to some extent, the Engineer, if you're not on his team; one of of his taunts can even be a bone-chilling [[Evil Laugh]]. Although it depends on whether you count goggles as glasses, really.
* Mr Burke, ''[[Fallout]]'' 3. They're sunglasses, not corrective lenses... but it hardly matters.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilBGmN2G0Q Jihl Nabaat] from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', with an element of titillation. Large breasts, chillingly prim and proper diction, and gracious, the woman walks around with a ''riding crop''.
* Subverted with Shuji Ikutsuki from ''[[Persona 3]]'' - wears glasses, {{spoiler|is actually evil}}, and... is a [[Pungeon Master]] (it's not even a facade - you can see ''practicing'' his puns while alone in one scene).
* The Doctor from ''[[Cave Story]]'', complete with [[Scary Shiny Glasses]].
* Yaginuma in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]]'' is even described in the ingame notebook with Still An Asshole.
* ''DoubleSwitch''. Early on, Eddie seems to subvert this trope and Lyle seems to play it straight. {{spoiler|However, Eddie ends up playing the trope straight, and Lyle ends up subverting it}}.
* Director Raymond McMullen, the Director of Research at [[Playing with Syringes|Gentek]], in ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]''. [[Mad Scientist]], [[Evilutionary Biologist]], nice little designer specs. A more spoilery example: {{spoiler|Doctor Alexander Mercer himself wore glasses too, before he died. The virus animating his corpse obviously doesn't need them.}}
* Dimitri Rascalov in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]''.
* {{spoiler|Dr. Bumby}} from ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''. In fact, the Memories recovered involving him are identifiable by icons shaped like spectacles.

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Mordecai Heller from ''[[Lackadaisy Cats]]''.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': "No. Leave her. [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1693 This one has...potential."]
* ''[[Misfile]]'' has [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1483 Sheldon].
* Vriska Serket from ''[[Homestuck]]'', arguably the nastiest troll in her group - [[Blue and Orange Morality|and that's]] [[Crapsack World|saying something]]. Bonus points for having her "8" motif extend to her eyes, making her ''doubly'' four-eyed.
** Much more appropriate now is  {{spoiler|Eridan Ampora}} after his [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] transformation.  {{spoiler|He attempts to kill his romantic rival, succeeds in murdering his [[Morality Chain]], kills the only other person who he ever considered a friend, and dooms his own race to extinction, all in a matter of seconds without a single blink.}}
* ''[[Samurai Princess]]''{{'}}s Fawdry qualifies {{spoiler|after nonchalantly blowing a hole in Itchyknee-san's head and laughing about it}}

== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]], in his [[Memetic Molester]] [[Complete Monster]] glory, and Mechakara play this straight.
* [[Jon Lajoie]]'s rapist glasses. Because [[Dead Baby Comedy|"...ladies love the bad boy look"]].
* ''[[We Are Our Avatars]]'': Kasei Araragi, the Blaziken gijinka, is a mad scientist who experimented on a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire girl who can regenerate]] and his sister, Luca Araragi the Lucario gijinka just because he could.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Owen from ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is a cold version. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Stone cold]].
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'': [[Badass Normal|Charles]] [[Battle Butler|Foster]] [[Straight Man|Ofdensen]], sympathetic version.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': Arguably Dr. Venture himself. Certainly Dr. Henry Killinger.
* Given his excessive number of doomsday devices, [[Comedic Sociopathy|casual disregard for the life of his employees (and everyone else)]], willingness to disregard the welfare of the environment for profit or convenience, penchant for creating atomic monsters, and habit of needlessly killing lab animals; Professor Farnsworth of ''[[Futurama]]'' definitely qualifies.
* Dr. Scientist on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''.
* Agent Bishop from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]''.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [[Scary Shiny Glasses|reflective glass]] example gets used as a selling point for non-reflective spectacle coatings.
* [[w:Lavrentiy Beria|Lavrentiy Beria]], ([[Josef Stalin|Stalin's]] second-in-command). [[The Other Wiki]] calls him "the longest-lived and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs".
* [[World War II]]:
** [[Those Wacky Nazis|Heinrich Himmler]] ([[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] second-in-command). He famously kept his spectacles on even while fighting a duel as a student.
** One could probably also add [[Yellow Peril|Tojo Hideki]] (Emperor Hirohito's second-in-command).{{context}}
** Also [[wikipedia:Shirō Ishii|Shiro Ishii]], a leader of Unit 731, Japan's WWII-era league of [[Mad Scientist|Mad]] [[Playing with Syringes|Scientists]].
** For a much more heroic example, Pius XII (the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120618231451/http://u.jimdo.com/www18/o/s74ac46f7e428ee56/img/idd5540c5d4a72054/1281553776/std/paul-dahm-s-photographic-tribute-to-pope-pius-xii-orig-1952-k%C3%BChlen-verlag-m-gladbach-1959-pius-xii-was-pope-from-1939-to-1958.jpg Pope]): real name Eugenio Maria Pacelli, [[The White Prince|member of a very high class Roman family]]. Elected pope in 1939, he reigned during [[World War II]]. A competent, well-read, [[The Stoic|stoic]], and popular pope, but accusations made by at least one historian [[wikipedia:Pope Pius XII#Holocaust|that he did not not do enough to save the Jews during the Holocaust]] have made him a controversial figure after his death. However, several sources -- including Israeli scholars -- estimate that [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|as many as 860,000 European Jews were saved from death]] through concealment in Church facilities, issuance of fake Baptismal certificates, public appeals and other methods he ordered: this means [[Guile Hero|he didn't speak up in public a lot but ''did'' work like crazy behind the scenes]].
* The [[wikipedia:Btk killer|BTK killer]] could also qualify for this.{{context}}

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