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== Advertising ==

** [[The Office|Dwight Shrute]] disagrees.

* [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]] Isaiah Mustafa has introduced the term [[Memetic Mutation|Monocle Smile!]], useful in everything from referencing Anonymous to helping [[Barack Obama]]'s public image.

 

* Walter Dornez, loyal retainer to the Hellsing family in ''[[Hellsing]]'' wears a monocle. It goes into [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] mode when he's ready to kick undead ass.

* Dr. Adashino from ''[[Mushishi]]'' wears a monocle, presumably to make him look more intellegent and make him visually distinguishable from the other villagers, since the series' art style mostly averts the [[Hair Colors]] commonly see in anime and gives most people black hair.

* Prof. Moriarty in ''[[Sherlock Hound]]'', who looks like a traditional melodrama villain with cape, tophat and mustache.

* Whenever [[Arsène Lupin]] appears in [[Lupin III]] (usually via flashback), he's usually shown with one of these.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[Dark Reign]]'': ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', the FF traveled through several alternate universes, including one with the FF as the royal family in a mock-Elisabethan England. The Thing, dressed as a chamberlain and sporting a monocle, has become an internet meme.

{{quote|"Milady, [[Sophisticated As Hell|'tis the clobbering hour.]]"}}

 

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]'', classmate Arisa Erisawa wears a monocle over one of her eyes—because she's blind in that eye.

 

* The Grand Duke from ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]''.

* For sure, Mr. Grasshopper in ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'' is this. Especially when he puts on a top hat during the song number "That's the Life for Me".

* Professor Z, [[The Dragon]] of the Pixar film ''[[Cars 2]]'' actually wears a monocle over his windshield.

* The evil owl from ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' is first seen with a monocle over his face, but then he takes it off when he finds out that Edmund had touched his face (or at least on a storybook illustration of his face). He then turns Edmund into a cat with his magic as revenge.

* Edgar Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy.

* In [[Mel Brooks]]' ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', Transsylvanian police Inspector Kemp is evidently so attached to his monocle he continues to wear it even though the eye in question is also covered with a patch.

* Invoked in ''[[Night Train to Munich]].'' Randall wears one as part of his [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] [[Dressing as the Enemy|disguise.]]

* The Three Stooges in ''Three Sappy People'' go to a party pretending to be psychiatrists. There they meet a stuffy woman identified as "Countess" who wears a monocle.

 

== Literature ==

* Wilkins Micawber from ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]''.

* [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] from [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' detective novels. His monocle was actually a disguised magnifying glass, perfect for taking a really close look at something—and looking like a bloody ass while doing it.

* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Uller Uprising'' has General Carlos Von Schlicten, who wears a monocle; the only thing ever observed to knock it out of his eye is a nuclear blast while kissing a lady. "Don't you know, lieutenant, that no gentleman ever wears a monocle while kissing a lady?"

* Count Olaf of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', when disguised as a wealthy, fashionable [[Funny Foreigner]] auctioneer, adopts a monocle as part of his getup. It seems to be a standard part of the V.F.D. disguise kit.

* In ''[[King Solomon's Mines|King Solomons Mines]]'' by [[H. Rider Haggard]], Sir Henry's monocle is a plot-point that endears him to the denizens of the secret African kingdom.

* In [[Patricia A. McKillip]]'s ''The Bell at Sealey Head'', Mr. Moren eyes Emma with a monocle while quizzing her about where the heiress, Miranda Beryl, went. (And expresses disdain for the local squire's son while he's about it.)

** Galahad Threepwood wears a black-rimmed monocle in the ''[[Blandings Castle]]'' stories.

** [[Psmith]] habitually wears a monocle.

* In ''[[A Little Princess]]'', in one of the scenes illustrating Sara's luxurious lifestyle, it's mentioned that her new ''doll'' has its own little opera glasses.

* The Oberstleutenant Boerner bot from ''[[Daemon]]'' wears a monocle.

* A trademark of [[Arsène Lupin]], along with a top hat and cape.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* An incident on ''[[QI]]'' where Stephen Fry [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure|had to have the expression "beer goggles" explained to him]] resulted in the panel accusing him of using "Madeira pince-nez" or a "sherry monocle" instead.

* Queen Machina from ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' wears a monocle over her left eye.

 

== Music ==

* The cover of Belgian [[Thrash Metal]] band Cyclone's ''[http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/9/5/4/2954.jpg Brutal Destruction]'' shows a monocle-wearing skull.

 

 

* A number of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' magic items are monocles. They are often described as a "lens". The "Lens of True Seeing", which allows someone to see through illusions and invisibility (well, to ''not'' see through invisible creatures), is probably the most famous.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''

** ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' has Targeting Monocle - disguised wireless version of an advanced camera sight that also can show weapon status. Of course, disguise implies that normal monocles are fairly common in these circles.

 

* Three [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] characters, all of them George Grossmith comic baritone roles, wear monocles as part of their costume. Sullivan himself wore a monocle.

** [[Modern Major-General|Major-General]] Stanley in ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''.

* Sir Edward Ramsay in ''[[The King and I]]'', whose monocle causes a panic among the King's wives.

* Gwendolyn in [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' uses a lorgnette.

 

== Video Games ==

* Baron from ''Shining Force Neo''. Despite being a [[Big Badass Wolf|wolfling ninja]], he's still quite classy.

* The [[ZX Spectrum]] game ''[[Killed Until Dead]]'' is populated by parodies of various detectives, including a "[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Lord Peter Flimsey]]". If you manage to rattle him when you interrogate him, his monocle flies off -- [[Rule of Funny|but it still blinks when his eyes do]].

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. One of the Pyro's new unlockable [[Nice Hat|hats]] is a monocle and fake mustache taped over his mask.

* ''[[EVE Online]]'' added a cash shop with player clothing in the Incarna update. Although all of the items are rather expensive for in-game microtransactions, the most expensive by far is a $70 "ocular implant" which looks conspicuously like a monocle, meaning that players who have enough money to spend that much on a cosmetic item in an MMO can now fly around looking like a 19th-century industrialist. The rest of the playerbase is less than thrilled about this, what with the in-game riots and the player-led advisory board being sent all the way to the developers in Iceland in an attempt to save face.

* Similiar to the [[Warhammer 40,000]] example above, [[Cowboy Cop|Garrus]] [[Vigilante Man|Vakarian]] in [[Mass Effect]] games wears the sci-fi version of it, with the HUD showing tactical data, helping him to aim etc.. In second and third game, [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] can acquire one like that, too.

 

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]''

** [[Affably Evil|Gentleman]] [[Career Killers|assassin]] Shelly DeKiller in ''Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All'', and Detective Luke Atmey in the sequel ''Trials and Tribulations'', who has a monocle that doubles as magnifying glass. Curiously enough, when de Killer {{spoiler|testifies in court via transciever, the gadget's button}} mimics his monocle.

** And {{spoiler|the trailer to ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'' shows him holding an ice cream cone with a cherry to mimic the monocle.}} Guy really loves that monocle.

 

== Web Animation ==

* Used frequently in ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'', most often when Yahtzee wants to depict a particular person (such as the creators of ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'') as being wealthy.

{{quote|'''Viewer:''' Monocles and Top Hats, eh?}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' provides us with [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0742.html ambassador Gourntonk], a monocle-wearing [[Lizard Folk]].

* Harkon of ''[[Turn Signals on a Land Raider]]'' briefly [https://web.archive.org/web/20130720175418/http://tsoalr.com/?p=474 wears a monocle] while serving as prime minister to a Warhammer Emperor.

* Subverted in [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2255#comic a fantastic little strip] from ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]''

* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609084754/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter003/ib015.html Caspian's father]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609103033/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib084.html Plus one of the Watchers]

{{quote|"What's with the monocle?"

"It's an affectation." }}

 

== Real Life ==

 

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