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Given its association with wealth and status, it's a very popular prop for the [[Mock Millionaire]]. Today, putting a monocle and top hat on ''anything'' is sure to get a laugh just out of the pure absurdity.<ref>Unless you go by the name of [[Total Biscuit|John Bain]]</ref>. Sub-trope of [[Stock Costume Traits]].
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* Cho Hakkai from ''[[Saiyuki (Manga)|Saiyuki]]}}'' has one over his artificial right eye, presumably to protect it. He's also generally the most level-headed and polite of the group -- unless he has to pull his [[I Am Not Left Handed]] trick and remove his [[Restraining Bolt]] accessories when it's time to kick some ass.
* In ''[[Trinity Blood (Light Novel)|Trinity Blood]]'', Cardinal Sforza is a woman who wears a monocle. She's also a duchess and half-sister to the Pope.
* ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'' and the Kaitou Kid. The monocle (and top hat) practically define the character, harkening back to [[
* Though not a high-class woman at all, Forte of ''[[Galaxy Angel (Anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' wears a monocle.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic the Second Raid]]'': Sir Mallory, one of the top dogs in Mithril, is shown wearing a monocle.
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* Count Brocken in ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]''.
* Prof. Moriarty in ''[[Sherlock Hound (Anime)|Sherlock Hound]]'', who looks like a traditional melodrama villain with cape, tophat and mustache.
* Whenever [[
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* The [[DC Universe|DC Comics]] supervillain The Monocle. It's a ''weaponized'' monocle, too.
** Marvel had their own villain named The Monocle, also sporting a monocle that could fire energy blasts and [[Charm Person|hypnotize people]]. Fought the [[Fantastic Four]] a couple of times.
* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''
** After Captain Haddock came into a sizable inheritance, at the beginning of ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/The Seven Crystal Balls|The Seven Crystal Balls]]'' he starts wearing a monocle. Not being accustomed to them, he loses a lot of them.
** Colonel Sponsz is a villainous example.
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* The Grand Duke from ''[[Cinderella (Disney)|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".
* Slightly averted in Shane Acker's ''[[
* 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.
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* The "Monopoly Guy" in ''[[Ace Ventura]]: When Nature Calls''.
* One of the villains in ''The Assassination Bureau, Limited''<ref>Based on an unfinished novel by [[Jack London]]</ref> is a Prussian general. At one point, when he's about to shoot a woman, his [[Slasher Smile]] involves an abrupt widening of his eyes, causing his monocle to fall and dangle on its cord.
* In the Spanish comedy ''Hay que educar a papá'' (1971), the aristocratic character Count De Ronda wears a monocle, which pops off his face whenever the main character, a lower-class [[Self
** De Ronda is played by a real-life self-styled aristocrat (albeit he never really had a title) and eccentric Don Jaime De Mora y Aragón, who used monocle, walking stick and hair gel in his constant public appearances as a celebrity (one of these "famous for being famous" types).
* The [[Herr Doktor|psychiatrist]] in ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' has one.
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* [[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.
* ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter]]'' features two slight subversions of the trope. The persons wearing the monocles are a judge and a schoolteacher, but both are women -- Madam Amelia Bones and Professor Wilhemina Grubbly-Plank, respectively.
* [[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.
* This continues into the distant future. In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]]'' stories, the warlord of Kalgan wore a monocle along with his "fur-lined scarlet robe and high-crowned hat". In his humbler role as {{spoiler|the loyal viceroy of the Mule}}, he wears none of these.
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* The Oberstleutenant Boerner bot from ''[[Daemon]]'' wears a monocle.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' Prince Heinreich wears one. There's no particular comedy to it, although a groan may result from his [[Obligatory Joke]], "If I had two I'd make a spectacle of myself."
* A trademark of [[
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* A favorite of ''[[The Daily Show (TV)|The Daily Show]]''.
** When Robert Novak described Jon Stewart as a "self-righteous comedian taking on airs of grandeur" ([[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|moments after claiming he'd never seen the show]]), Stewart's response involved trying to wear a monocle and pince-nez at the same time, while smoking a pipe.
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|A]][[Crowning Moment of Funny|h]][[Sophisticated As Hell|e]][[Cluster F
* In ''You Rang, Milord'', there is an example of a lesbian in the early 20th century wearing a monocle, Lady Cissy.
* Ted Mosby, of ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'', wants to be a high class guy. At a society function, he encounters a man in a monocle. Just before he's pulled away ...
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== Theater ==
* 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
** Sir Joseph Porter in ''HMS Pinafore''.
** Reginald Bunthorne in ''[[Patience]]''. Another character from ''Patience'', the Duke of Dunstable, is also sometimes portrayed wearing a monocle.
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== Video Games ==
* Wally B. Feed of ''[[Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge (Video Game)|Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge]]'' wore one. It was a kind of [[Running Gag]] that he was constantly losing it, and unable to [[Blind Without
* Sparda from ''[[Devil May Cry (Video Game)|Devil May Cry]]'' used to have a monocle as part of his attire. It's one-way and tinted purple.
* The twin bosses Lechku and Nechku in ''[[Okami (Video Game)|Okami]]'' isn't satisfied with just wearing monocles, but they also wear top hats and wield canes. They are also {{spoiler|'''GIANT DEMONIC CLOCKWORK OWLS''' (who may or may not be [[Shout Out|shoutouts]] to Clockwerk, the recurring antagonist of the [[Sly Cooper]] series)}}!
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* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|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.
* The Penguin in ''[[Batman: Arkham City (Video Game)|Batman Arkham City]]'' ''looks'' like he has one of these at first glance... then you get a closer look and realize it's {{spoiler|a ''broken bottle'' [[Eye Scream|embedded around his eye]]}}
* Fugue, one of [[Big Bad|Count Waltz]]'s lackeys in ''[[Eternal Sonata (Video Game)|Eternal Sonata]]''. In the [[Play Station 3]] [[Updated Rerelease]] of the game, it earns him the mean nickname "three-eyed freak" from Salsa. Even March uses it, which is unusual, given her [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]] status to Salsa's Red Oni. Naturally, it really tees Fugue off. "Little girl, I hope you aren't referring to me."
* Similiar to the [[Warhammer 40000]] 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.
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* ''[[Better Days]]'' [http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/archives/2008/01/chapter-20-the-12.html sent this up] by having Fisk and Tommy dress up in the stereotypical upper-class style (complete with monocles and fake mustaches) while shopping for clothes for a trip to New York.
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/9/5/ Twisp] of ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' is an upper-class, monocle-wearing cat, who tends to speak in single-word sentences.
* Berserker Axinhed of ''[[
* Sean has a fantasy about becoming monocle-rich in ''[http://awkward.natural20s.com/2008/02/11/16-monocle-rich/ Sean and Mimi's Awkward Adventures]''.
* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'''s Doctor Nefarious.
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* In ''[[Questionable Content (Webcomic)|Questionable Content]]'', monocles (and [[Gorgeous Period Dress]] in general) have become [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1425 a] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1471 common] [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1480 occurrence] at a certain bar the characters frequent.
* In ''[[Megatokyo (Webcomic)|Megatokyo]]'', Largo wears a monocle with his clubbing outfit.
* One arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'' involving parodic supervillains included "Monicruel", who is [[Paper
* Capu from ''[[Death Brigade]]'' also sports one, although character art shows that he wore glasses when he was much younger.
* The (currently [[Orphaned Series|orphaned]]) ''Pixel Comic'' has [http://pixelcomic.net/271.shtml a rather impressive monocle contest].
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== Western Animation ==
* Mr. Herriman of ''[[
* So does the Mayor of Townsville on ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
* Fearless Leader in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.
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* Archibald Asparagus of ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' fame wears a monocle seemingly to emphasize the fact he's a culture-obsessed Brit. Fun fact: before the introduction of the Maya software at Big Idea, Archie's monocle had no glass in it.
* Beezy on ''[[Jimmy Two Shoes (Animation)|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'' wears a monocle during a brief gag involving him and Jimmy looking smart.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''
** In the episode "The Best Night Ever", a number of high-class ponies at the Grand Galloping Gala are seen wearing monocles.
** During Rarity's part of "At the Gala", she imagines one such pony's monocle popping off when she enters the room.
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