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{{quote|''1: My legions of terror will have clear, plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.''|The [[Evil Overlord List]]}}
 
A visor is a piece of eyewear that covers at least both eyes and the bridge of the nose. It's like a pair of goggles, but with temple-arms. Visor also refers to the faceplate of a helmet, the part that can be raised or lowered. This is about both kinds, specifically, ones that are opaque on one side (although, for all we know, it's opaque on both sides, so it doesn't have to be confirmed to be one-way), which is often--butoften—but not necessarily--connotednecessarily—connoted by a gold, silver, or obsidian mirror effect. Opaque, spherical helmets also count. [[Schizo-Tech|Bonus points if the technology to do this shouldn't have been invented yet]].
 
Separate lenses [[Not an Example|don't count]], they go on [[Opaque Lenses]]. Compare [[Sinister Shades]], [[The Blank]], [[Eyeless Face]], [[The Faceless]]. Contrast [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Female Saints of Athena from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
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== Music ==
* [[Daft Punk]].
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Space Suits have these.
* Welding helmets and goggles have heavily smoked glass to protect one's corneas from the light generated by plasma arcs and metal-melting flames.
* [[Hazmat Suit|Hazmat Suits]]
* Some sports eyeshields (including motorbiking helmets).
* Air force pilots sometimes wear these (as seen on almost every air-force movie, usually on [[Mooks]]).
* Mirrored, wraparound sunglasses.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer 40,000]] unsurprisingly features many such helmets. The Dark Eldar are especially fond of these, with mirrored full-face masks common among Reaver jetbike pilots, and most of the Haemonculi "creations" such as [[The Renfield|Wracks]] and [[Was Once a Man|Grotesques]] have blank visors surgically implanted over their faces.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Space Marines|Terran Marines]] from ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' have this. In ''[[StarcraftStarCraft II]]'', Banshee and [[Transforming Mecha|Viking]] pilots have this when their ships are invisible or transformed, respectively.
* Quarian helmets from ''[[Mass Effect]]''. However, looking ''very'' closely vaguely shows eyes and a nose.
* RiG helmets from ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]''.
* Sanctioned Psyker helmets from ''[[Dawn of War]]''. Their helmets are probably all opaque, as it's heavily decorated with imperial religeous ioconography to keep them from exploding or being possessed.
** [[God of Evil|Khorne]] [[Axe Crazy|Berserkers]]
* Nod Chem Warriors from ''[[Command and& Conquer]]: Renegade''.
** [[Cyborg]] Commando from ''Tiberian Sun''
** Most GDI units from ''Tiberium Wars''
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* The [[Hot Chick with a Sword|Assassin]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cyber]] from ''Space Siege''
* Jeanne's Soul Armor from ''[[Jeanne D'Arc]]''
* Rosies from ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]''
** Alpha Sieres' from the sequel.
* Mantel Corporation soldiers from ''[[Haze]]''
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* The ''Assassination'' mission in ''[[Bulletstorm]]'' has all members of the Dead Echo team wearing these.
* Security guards from ''[[Doom|Doom3]]''
* Several outfits from ''[[Fallout]]''.<ref>the entire series, not just the original</ref>. Most prominently, the T-51b [[Powered Armor]] (it's on the front of the box for [[Fallout 1|the original]] and the [[Fallout 3|second sequel]], after all). It's got a sort of squinty, angry-eyes look to it.
* Sam's prototype [[Powered Armor]] from [[Vanquish]].
* The Purple Bird in ''[[Angry Birds|Angry Birds in Space]]''.
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* [[Played With]] in ''[[Static Shock]]'' with Richie (AKA Gear). Other characters act as if it's this, but the audience can see through it just fine.
* Most goggles in the ''[[Dilbert]]'' cartoon.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Space Suits have these.
* Welding helmets and goggles have heavily smoked glass to protect one's corneas from the light generated by plasma arcs and metal-melting flames.
* [[Hazmat Suit|Hazmat Suits]]s
* Some sports eyeshields (including motorbiking helmets).
* Air force pilots sometimes wear these (as seen on almost every air-force movie, usually on [[Mooks]]).
* Mirrored, wraparound sunglasses.
 
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[[Category:Glasses Tropes]]
[[Category:Who Was That Masked Index?]]
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