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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]].
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* 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
* Amon Garam of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''
** As well as the D aka Kyle Jables.
* Mikami from ''[[Death Note]]''.
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* 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
* ''[[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 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.}}
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* Jim Keats of BBC's ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''. He has this sinister 60's government agent look.
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU|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
* Nyder from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S12/E04 Genesis of the Daleks|Genesis of the Daleks]]'' (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".
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* [[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).
** Also [[wikipedia:
* For a much more heroic example, Pius XII (the [http://u.jimdo.com/www18/o/s74ac46f7e428ee56/img/idd5540c5d4a72054/1281553776/std/paul-dahm-s-photographic-tribute-to-pope-pius-xii-orig-1952-kühlen-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 some historians, [[wikipedia:Pope Pius XII#Hitler.27s Pope and The Myth of Hitler.27s Pope|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]] ''[[Guile Hero|did]]'' [[Guile Hero|work like crazy behind the scenes]].
* The reflective glass example gets used as a selling point for non-reflective spectacle coatings.
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