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* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Gendo Ikari.
** Keel with his visor-like apparatus might count, even though ''End of Evangelion'' reveals them to be his real eyes since he's a cyborg.
* The young model Sara from ''[[
* [[Spider Sense|Brad Crawford]] from ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]''. Also Reiji and Hirofumi Takatori, Masato Shimojima, and maybe Mayumi Tsujii.
* Yamaki from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', especially near the beginning of the season.
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** Better/even more extreme example with the Contractor Ilya in the second season. At first glance, he's a handsome, intellectual looking guy with a pleasant smile. Then you find out that he was a [[Serial Killer]] before gaining his powers and is still an [[Ax Crazy]] psycho, just more calm about it.
* Suitengu from ''[[Speed Grapher]]''. Bespectacled [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]], rich <ref>(He [[Money to Burn|smokes cigarettes made with rolled up money]]. Seriously.)</ref>, smart and a totally evil manipulative bastard.
* Amon Garam of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' -- child prodigy, [[Gadgeteer Genius]], Duel Monsters champion... and cold-blooded killer of his girlfriend to fulfill a [[Deal
** As well as the D aka Kyle Jables.
* Mikami from ''[[
* Played with in regards to Tooru Hanagata from [[Slam Dunk]]. He's ''very'' serious but not a strictly bad guy, but yet he's ''ruthless'' in the fields.
* Prof. Kurata from ''[[Digimon Savers]]''. [[Mad Scientist]] and [[Complete Monster]] extraordinnarie.
* Quattro of [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]].
* {{spoiler|Telestina}} Kihara {{spoiler|Lifeline}} from ''[[
* Female [[Macross Frontier]] example: {{spoiler|Grace O' Connor.}} Though sometimes it's a monocle.
* '''Several''' characters from [[Hellsing]] are well within the bounds of this trope. [[Cool Old Guy|Walter Dorneaz]] becomes an absolute ''monster'' on the battlefield with his [[Razor Floss]] {{spoiler|takes it further with his Vampirization}}. [[Dracula|Alucard]] is a very literal monster, and often wears a set of orange sunglasses before and sometimes during his rampages. The [[Big Bad|Major]], gleeful warmonger and Nazi, also fulfills this trope nicely.
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* Chikusa Kakimoto from [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]] has this going for him. Plus, the first panel where they're really focused on looks suspiciously like the image on this page...
* Katsuragi of ''[[Sakura Gari]]''.
* The Millennium Earl of ''[[D
** Oh please. [[Complete Monster|Compared to the Earl, Satan is an underachiever]].
* Tamaki Tsunenaga of ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]''. The primary antagonist revealed so far, Tamaki is Assistant Warden and de facto tyrant of Deadman Wonderland. Under his calm, almost idiotic attitude, he is something of a sadist, caring nothing about the fact that he butchers dozens of prisoners every day for the sole purpose of gathering money or experimenting on them, or simply for his amusement. As son of the dying Chief Warden of Deadman Wonderland, he eagerly hopes for the death of his father to become truly the supreme ruler of the prison, and he devotes much of his time and resources in studying and experimenting on the powers of the Branch of Sin and their origin. He also is in contact with the upper echelons of the Japanese government, his ultimate goal being the synthesis of artificial Deadmen. In sharp contrast with his cruelty, he enjoys playing with children's toys.
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* Kaito from [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] seems like this, until it turns out that {{spoiler|he was working for Genkai the whole time}}
* An interesting subversion occurs with Dr. Nazo, the [[Big Bad]] of [[The Sixties|60s]] anime ''[[Ougon Bat]]'': he doesn't wear glasses, but he ''does'' indeed have four eyes. And less than zero of a soul.
* [[Depraved Homosexual]] [[Mad Scientist|Professor Aizawa]] from ''[[
* [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsukuyomi]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
* The Brunette in [[Gunjo]].
* Claude "Torch" Weaver from [[Black Lagoon]] is a fat, plain-looking man who is [[Dissonant Serenity|always smiling]] and wears thick glasses with basic "aviator" frames (bearing a strong resemblance to [[Drew Carey]]). He is also an insane [[Pyromaniac]] who burned his wife to death and now works as a bounty hunter. Surprisingly capable in a fight too, since he was one of the last men standing during the [[Carnival of Killers|Greenback Jane]] arc.
* [[Villain Protagonist|Claude]] [[Battle Butler|Faustus]] in ''[[
* Doji in ''[[Metal Fight Beyblade]]''.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist|The]] [[Mad Scientist|Doctor]], the only flat out [[Complete Monster]] in ''[[Black Cat (
* Kyoya from [[Ouran High School Host Club]] has this. He is the most self-interested guy in the main cast and will go to extreme lengths to get what he wants. {{spoiler|Or so he'd like people to believe.}}
* While not the most evil of the Elite Four, the ''[[
* Shou Tucker from [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], who shows no remorse whatsoever when he {{spoiler|performs alchemy experiments on ''his own daughter''}} to advance his career. True to form, he has the creepy glasses, but ironically the glasses become clear and reveal his eyes when he admits what he did and gives a [[Hannibal Lecture]] to Edward.
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'''s Kururu is the resident [[Mad Scientist]] and wears [[Nerd Glasses]]. He's also the [[Token Evil Teammate]] in a group that is ''trying'' to take over the world, with a disturbingly blase attitude towards testing his inventions on his own teammates.
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== Film ==
* Dr. Herbert West, ''[[Re-Animator]]''. In the third film's commentary, the director mentioned how just putting the old-style glasses on actor Jeffrey Combs instantly transformed him into West.
* Major Toht, the creepy-as-hell Gestapo torture guy ''[[
* Dr. Jonathan Crane from [[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]
* The Warden in ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', heavily implied to be {{spoiler|the Devil himself}}.
* The bespectacled Cleaner in the French film ''[[Nikita (
* Comes up frequently in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
* [[Bent]] features a bespectacled Nazi that is memorable for his interrogation methods on the train.
* [[Known Only By Their Nickname|Gold Glasses]] in ''[[The Bourne Series (
* Brick Top in ''[[Snatch]]'' is a brutal, sadistic gangster who wears a pair of thick rimmed glasses. His introductory shot is him bashing a man's teeth out with a hammer. All the characters in the film who know who he is are terrified of him, lest they get cut into pieces and fed to a pack of pigs.
* Boss Godfrey, of ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''. You don't talk to him, ever. The movie's rife with symbolism, and his sunglasses are meant to reflect a distorted view of man (most shots of him are close-ups on his Aviators).
* Clarence Boddicker in ''[[
* The evil cult leader in the [[Film of the Book]] ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (
* Emil Leopold Locque in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
* Dr. William Block, played by Josh Brolin in the ''Grindhouse'' segment ''Planet Terror''. [http://images.wikia.com/grindhouse/images/6/61/Doc.jpg/ What do you think?]
* ''[[Angels and Demons]]'' has an assassin who single-handedly leads the Vatican police on a chase that ends with dozens slain. He isn't even killed by the good guys but gets double-crossed.
* Mark Collins, played by [[Christian Slater]], in ''[[Twisted]]''.
* Judge Doom in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
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* Giles in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] slips into this now and again, mostly because of [[I Did What I Had to Do]]. Shown perhaps most clearly at the end of season 5, where he's perfectly prepared to sacrifice [[Apocalypse Maiden|Dawn]] and suffocates [[People Puppets|Ben]] in cold blood to stop Glory's return.
* HRG in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Though he turns out to be mostly good if ruthless.
** And Sylar, who began his murderous streak while he was still a bespectacled watchmaker. Taken to extremes with the multi-lens glasses he wears for his job.
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'s'' season-one [[Big Bad]] was a Chinese torturer named "Suit-and-Glasses" because, you guessed it, those were his only identifying features.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Stargate SG
* Jim Keats of BBC's ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''. He has this sinister 60's government agent look.
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' once dealt with a case involving a man who had abducted a teenage girl and was holding her captive as a sex slave. At one point, the girl (who had managed to acquire a phone) mentions the guy was (for some reason...) at his absolute worst and sadistic when he was wearing his glasses (which was a lot).
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== Video Games ==
* Jade Curtiss from ''[[
* ''[[
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]] Kristoph Gavin}} from ''[[Apollo Justice]]''.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Tohno Shiki is an inversion - his cold, ruthless side shows itself when [[The Glasses Come Off]].
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** With Arihiko its mutual, they did start their relationship by beating each other up. With Arcueid, its just his way of showing his affections; as is stated, he treats everyone with his default kindness except Arc because she's special.
*** Actually, the glasses have nothing to do with it. It's his Nanaya blood, that turns him into a killer. It's just, most times when his Nanaya personality shows up, the glasses are already off.
* ''[[
* Mr Burke, ''[[Fallout]]'' 3. They're sunglasses, not corrective lenses... but it hardly matters.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilBGmN2G0Q Jihl Nabaat] from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', with an element of titillation. Large breasts, chillingly prim and proper diction, and gracious, the woman walks around with a ''riding crop''.
* Subverted with Shuji Ikutsuki from ''[[Persona 3]]'' - wears glasses, {{spoiler|is actually evil}}, and... is a [[Pungeon Master]] (it's not even a facade - you can see ''practicing'' his puns while alone in one scene).
* The Doctor from ''[[
* Yaginuma in ''[[Kara no Shoujo]]'' is even described in the ingame notebook with Still An Asshole.
* ''DoubleSwitch''. Early on, Eddie seems to subvert this trope and Lyle seems to play it straight. {{spoiler|However, Eddie ends up playing the trope straight, and Lyle ends up subverting it}}.
* Director Raymond McMullen, the Director of Research at [[Playing
* Dimitri Rascalov in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]''.
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== Web Original ==
* [[Ask That Guy With
* [[Jon Lajoie|Jon Lajoie's ]] rapist glasses. Because [[Dead Baby Comedy|"...ladies love the bad boy look"]].
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* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': Arguably Dr. Venture himself. Certainly Dr. Henry Killinger.
* Given his excessive number of doomsday devices, [[Comedic Sociopathy|casual disregard for the life of his employees (and everyone else)]], willingness to disregard the welfare of the environment for profit or convenience, penchant for creating atomic monsters, and habit of needlessly killing lab animals; Professor Farnsworth of ''[[Futurama]]'' definitely qualifies.
* Dr. Scientist on ''[[Jimmy Two
* Agent Bishop from ''[[
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* [[Those Wacky Nazis|Heinrich Himmler]] ([[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] second-in-command). He famously kept his spectacles on even while fighting a duel as a student.
* One could probably also add [[Yellow Peril|Tojo Hideki]] (Emperor Hirohito's second-in-command).
** Also [[wikipedia:Shir%C5%8D Ishii|Shiro Ishii]], a leader of Unit 731, Japan's WWII era league of [[Mad Scientist|Mad]] [[Playing
* For a much more heroic example, Pius XII (the [http://u.jimdo.com/www18/o/s74ac46f7e428ee56/img/idd5540c5d4a72054/1281553776/std/paul-dahm-s-photographic-tribute-to-pope-pius-xii-orig-1952-kühlen-verlag-m-gladbach-1959-pius-xii-was-pope-from-1939-to-1958.jpg Pope]): real name Eugenio Maria Pacelli, [[The White Prince|member of a very high class Roman family]]. Elected pope in 1939, he reigned during [[World War II]]. A competent, well-read, [[The Stoic|stoic]], and popular pope, but accusations, made by some historians, [[wikipedia:Pope Pius XII#Hitler.27s Pope and The Myth of Hitler.27s Pope|that he did not not do enough to save the Jews during the Holocaust]] have made him a controversial figure after his death. However, several sources, including Israeli scholars, estimate that [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|as many as 860,000 European Jews were saved from death]] through concealment in Church facilities, issuance of fake Baptismal certificates, public appeals and other methods he ordered: this means, [[Guile Hero|he didn't speak up in public a lot but]] ''[[Guile Hero|did]]'' [[Guile Hero|work like crazy behind the scenes]].
* The reflective glass example gets used as a selling point for non-reflective spectacle coatings.
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