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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is famous for Kamina's over-the-top jagged orange shades, which have gone on to [[Memetic Mutation|inspire an internet meme]].
** Kamina's shades aren't even the most spectacular ones. They get topped about twenty episodes later with Simon's Kamina/Kittan homage shades. And this all ignoring the ones some of the ''mecha'' wear.
** Little known fact: ''[[Pokémon (
** Calvin wore shades that were remarkably similar to Kamina's in a Sunday strip of [[Calvin and Hobbes]], predating both [[Gurren Lagann]] and Pokémon by quite a bit.
* Togano Shozo of [[Eyeshield 21]] sports a pair of oversized, orange-tinted sunglasses that somehow manage to escape notice or mention throughout the entirety of the series thus far.
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* The heart-shaped sunglasses from the Stanley Kubrick version of ''[[Lolita]]''.
** The heart-shaped glasses never appear in the movie itself; only in publicity material.
* Gary Oldman in ''[[Bram
* Meg Ryan in ''[[The Doors]]'' (blue hippie glasses)
* In ''[[Terminator]] 3'', Arnold ends up stealing his usual all-black & leather outfit from a gay male stripper and tries on a pair of gaudy star-shaped sunglasses that he finds in the pocket. He then takes them off and steps on them as he walks off.
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* The ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketches "Coffee Talk with Linda Richman" has Linda Richman (Mike Myers) wearing outrageously large tinted glasses.
* In [[Twin Peaks]], the lenses of Dr. Jacoby's glasses have different colors.
* ''[[Are You Being Served?
* David Dickinson, original host of "Bargain Hunt", often wore glasses with rainbow plastic frames.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' ([[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight|and his US counterpart]]) have an entire facemask resembling Kanye Shades overlaying the typical [[Kamen Rider]] red bug eyes.
* UK [[Excited Kids' Show Host]] Timmy Mallett.
* In ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', [[Impossibly Tacky Clothes|Al]] occasionally wears a pair of red, lightning-bolt-shaped shades.
* The vicar wears a big, glittery red pair that says "BOOB" (with the lenses as the 'o's) in ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', during the episode where they're expecting [[Elton John]] to open the Dibley village fair.
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** 'Alejandro' has her wearing goggles with black lace-covered lenses. Given the other examples, though, that's downright normal.
*** Did you see the [[Nice Hat]] they were attached to? They count.
* Bono from [[
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bootsycollins/photos/collection/photo/2 Bootsy Collins].
* [http://www.johnconlee.com/disco.html John Conlee]. Like Damon Gant and Porter C Powell, listed above he also has a pair of pink glasses (actually rose colored but close enough), the glasses actually appear on the covers for 3 of his albums (album pictures can be viewed by clicking on above link)
* [[Guns N' Roses
== Real Life ==
* Pictured above: Sir Reginald Kenneth Dwight aka [[Elton John]] is famous for these, and they appear in every parody of him. [http://hubpages.com/hub/Gay-Celebrities---The-Many--Amazing-Sunglasses-of-Sir-Elton-John See many of them here]
** Curiously, he doesn't use them so much now. He had some of his most famous pairs auctioned for charity purposes, so he tends to stick to [[Cool Shades]].
** In ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
* Dame Edna's glasses, with glitter stars hanging from the corners.
* Paul Shaffer...just...Paul Shaffer.
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== Video Games ==
* Miror B's ridiculous star-shaped sunglasses in the ''[[
* From [[Ace Attorney]], you have Chief of Police [[Memetic Badass|Damon Gant]] and his hot pink sunglasses.
* Travis Touchdown from ''[[No More Heroes]]'' wears a variety of coloured shades...his default one are 'Sunflower Yellow', but they're also available in Peony Pink, Cobalt Blue, Pumking Seed Orange, and - if you're feeling particularly boring - traditional grey.
* Academician Prokhor Zakharov from ''[[Alpha Centauri]]'' wears boat-light glasses. As literally as possible-one lens is red, the other is green (except their directions are reversed: his glasses are red on the right and green on the left, whereas a boat is the other way around).
* Tabitha, the recurring guest on the Black Mountain Radio broadcast in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' wears pink, heart-shaped glasses with one lens missing, and a blonde babydoll wig with a red ribbon (referred to as her "truth-seeing eye" and "head of real hair"). Seeing as Tabitha is a hulking, overmuscled, blue-skinned supermutant with few definite sexual characteristics and the voice of a longtime smoker gargling gravel, it might be a desperate attempt to hold on to any vestiges of feminine identity. Being terminally insane plays some part, as well.
== Web Comics ==
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Porter C Powell]] of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has pink sunglasses for God only knows why, even though he's a serious businessman.
* Clock King of ''[[Batman:
* Speaking of [[Batman:
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