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* 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 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 (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S12 E4 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".
* 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.
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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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Shir%C5%8D_Ishii8D 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 [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, [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII:Pope Pius XII#Hitler.27s_Pope_and_The_Myth_of_Hitler27s Pope and The Myth of Hitler.27s_Pope27s 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.
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Btk_killer:Btk killer|BTK killer]] could also qualify for this.
 
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