Scary Shiny Glasses/Live-Action TV
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Examples of Scary Shiny Glasses in Live-Action TV include:
- Not quite so literal Western example: Mr. Bennet in Heroes wears horn-rimmed glasses, which ramp up his personal creepiness factor.
- Dramatically. His Fan Nickname during the first season, when he had appeared but his identity was not yet known, was simply "Horned Rim Glasses" or "The HRG."
- They aren't hornrims, they're browlines—but that hasn't stopped them from referring to him as "HRG" in the show
- Actually, in the "Heroes Unleashed" commentary that goes with one of the earlier episodes of the first season, it's revealed that in order to keep the twist of his identity a secret, the scripts all referred to Bennett as HRG, making this Word Of God.
- They aren't hornrims, they're browlines—but that hasn't stopped them from referring to him as "HRG" in the show
- Dramatically. His Fan Nickname during the first season, when he had appeared but his identity was not yet known, was simply "Horned Rim Glasses" or "The HRG."
- Self appointed moral guardian Mary Whitehouse is portrayed as having them by the trailers for her upcoming[when?] TV biopic, Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story. Since the film is made and shown by the BBC, which was one of her most frequent targets, this may be an intentional use of this trope.
- In one episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cameron walks around in a pair of motorcycle cop shiny sunglasses, in an homage to the T-1000 in Terminator 2.
- Admiral Adama's glasses in Battlestar Galactica often catch the light and glint ominously when some serious ass-kicking is about to ensue.
- Rare early Western example: the War Lords in the Doctor Who story "The War Games" (capable of using it to hypnotise human characters).
- In the Columbo episode "Death Lends a Hand," after the culprit kills his victim, the whole sequence of the coverup (moving the body, etc.) is shown in the lenses of the glasses worn by the actor (Robert Culp), who does not move for the several minutes it takes to play out. Talk about windows into the soul...
- Top Gear's "tame racing driver," the Stig, wears a helmet with a reflective blue visor which serves the same purpose.
- The introduction of Simon in Firefly, as part of the misdirection that he's The Mole.
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