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No matter the time, place, or problem, sunglasses are always the answer.[1]

Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes,it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.

Wearing dark glasses or mirrorshades is long-standing visual shorthand forBadassitude. The act ofputting them on means that it's time to kick ass, take names or do both. The act of taking them off is a sign that somebody's about to get scrutinised by the badass, usually just prior to an asskicking.

Obligatory for aCyberpunk setting, or for intimidatingDeep South Lawmen. A nice accessory to aBadass Longcoat.

The opposite ofNerd Glasses, and the inverse ofThe Glasses Come Off.

Overlaps, but is not identical to,Scary Shiny Glasses. If the effect is to make the wearer look sinister rather than badass, this isSinister Shades. If you'reMaking a Spectacle of Yourself, the effect is to make you look just plainweird. But remember, sometimes theGoggles Do Nothing.

Aside from making them lookBadass the reason behind them wearing shades is so they don't show that their eyes flinch when firing a weapon or having massive swords flung at their face. So when a character isn't wearing any shades and running around firing automatic weapons and manages to show no discomfort you know they're trulyBadass.

Another reason being that most people commonly have visual cues they give with their eyes subconsciously -- something a properly trained (or badass) opponent might pick up on. If they can't see your eyes, obviously they won't see you look at the gun before you leap into a roll for it, or look at the guy in the corner right before shooting him and making a break for it.

For some specific variants, seeTriangle Shades andLennon Specs.

Examples of Cool Shades include:

Advertising

  • Chester Cheetah from the Cheetos commercials wear those.
  • The Cool Spots,little red bottlecaps with arms, legs, and shades, who appeared in 7-Up commercials duringThe Nineties.

Anime andManga

  • Kamina ofGurren Lagann is constantly wearing cool shades (whichstay on without any visible means of attachment and he wore despite living undergroundnever seeing the sun for most of his life), and after he hijacks his ownHumongous Mecha, Gurren, he melts down the pair of swords it had on it to give the mech a pair of shades too. Later on, those same shades (combined with the mecha's wings) are used to hold the enemy down for a final blow. Then the shades reattach themselves.Rule of Cool indeed. This isn't even going into the far more ridiculous and over-the-top sunglasses that appear later on. These shades have undergoneMemetic Mutation, instantly rendering any character they are shopped onto incredibly manly.
  • Bleach: Seems to be a requirement for members of the 7th Division given former-captain Aikawa Love, former-lieutenant Kotsubaki Jin'emon and incumbent lieutenant Iba Tetsuzaemon all wear/wore badass shades. Renji's predecessor in the 6th Division Ginjirō Shirogane left to open a sunglasses shop called the Silver Dragonfly which Renji himself frequently buys from. (In keeping with hisButt Monkey status, Renji's badass shades invariably get destroyed in battle shortly after he buys a new pair. No one else seems to suffer this fate.)
  • Adam Blade fromNEEDLESS wears shades as well, and it makes him look mighty badass.
  • Sanson fromNadia: The Secret of Blue Water has some pretty damn Cool Shades. They have a similar shape to Kamina's without being as over the top, and the generally extremely similar personality of the two characters suggests that the Gurren Lagann team were a littleinspired by Gainax's earlier figure of goofball manliness.
    • While not quite as cool, his partner in crimeHanson also wears Cool Shades.
  • InTrigun, Vash the Stampede always puts on his yellow sunglasses right before he stopsplaying the fool and reveals his actual hypercompetence.
    • This is actually because his eyesglow blue when he gets pissed and he likes to hide it.
    • Also, you will observe that they areactually [dead link] kind of goofy-looking sunglasses, and only fall into this because of the trope's prevalence and the fact that he wears them so awesomely.
    • Wolfwood wears Cool Shades most of the time in the manga. In the manga, Knives occasionally gets cyberpunk-style ones.
  • Moonlight Lady has this trope represented with Chikako.
  • Dutch, Eda and Mr. Chang fromBlack Lagoon. Rotton the Wizard is a subversion.
  • In thePokémon anime, Ash's Squirtle kept theTriangle Shades from his days leading the Squirtle Squad and has been known to pull them out from time to time.
    • Compare Squirtle's shades with Kamina's.The ramifications of this don't bear thinking about.
      • Something, perhaps, likethis?
      • Orthis.
      • Ow. Images like that are too awesome to show casually like that.
    • The recurring Sandile/Krokorok inBest Wishes has a pair of red sunglasses...even though its evolution line does technically have built-in shades (giving Krookodile theFan Nickname "Kaminacroc").Ash ends up catching it during its fourth appearance.
  • Shino Aburame wears a pair of shades that never leave his face inNaruto, as well as most, if not all, of the Aburame clan from which he hails from.
  • InHellsing, Alucard's sunglasses, at least toward the beginning of the series. By later on, he's abandoned them, in what is probably the mostBadass way of havingThe Glasses Come Offever.
  • Harlem Beat: there are the Three Men team,Shades, Ultraman (his shades even shaped like Ultraman’s eyes!), and Kojiya twins from Kyan.
  • Nerima Daikon Brothers seems to reference the Blues Brothers. The not-quite-cool title characters seem to wear sunglasses...well, because they're in a blues band!
    • Specifically, they put them on whenever they head out to pull off a money-making caper.
  • Enishi fromRurouni Kenshin is always seen with a pair of purple-tinted John Lennon shades...which brings up the question of who sold sunglasses in the late 19th century...
  • Sai Saici fromG Gundam, when trying to look cool to a girl, wore a huge pair of pointed triangular shades.
  • Suzaku Kururugi ofCode Geass wears a pair of shades in his civilian clothing. Also, Schneizel sported a pair during the FLEIJA testing. They were only protective sunglasses,but still...
    • It's almost as is Schneizel has inheritedDoc Brown's protective Cool Shades...
    • Guilford gets in on the action too, though from the presenceof a certain sort of cane when he visits Cornelia in the hospital, it's implied that this is not purely a fashion choice.
  • Franky fromOne Piece wears very Kamina-esque ones. Before Kamina did it.
    • Admiral Kizaru wears shades too.
    • After theTime Skip, Nico Robin also sports a pair.
  • Tooya ofAyashi no Ceres wears shades at the beginning of the story, while—you guessed it—he was still working for the Mikages. He begins to wear them less frequently as time wears on, which is cool because you get a glimpse of the first facial expressions he makes. In hislife.
  • Iceman Hotty fromBasquash! wears a pair of cool shades all the time. Though it's not until Spanky attempts to eat a pair of random lizards scampering through the desert that we find out his shades are actuallyalive. Though they're hardly the first pair of equipment to be alive in the series.
  • Scar fromFullmetal Alchemist sports a badass pair of shades to hide his red eyes.He seems to have left them behind following hisHeel Face Turn. Another Ishvalan character, Major Miles also wears shades to hide his red eyes, the distinctive characteristic of his race. Greed is another character who likes sunglasses—in his case, it's mostly for the cool factor, but since he hasHellish Pupils, there is a practical benefit as well.
    • And in Ling Yao's cameo appearance in the2003 anime version, he's wearing some pretty awesome glasses.In fact; they're just like Greed's, as a nod to what happens in the manga.
  • Char Aznable/Quattro Bajeena trades his famous helmet for a pair of these inMobile Suit Zeta Gundam.
  • Matt fromDeath Note has goggles thatnever seem to be given a real purpose (though he does wear them at least), but are still thought to be one of the coolest things in the world by fans of his.
    • In the second intro, Aizawa is seen wearing a pair of aviator type sunglasses he never dons outside the opening.
  • Batou/Bateau takes this to its logical Cyberpunk extreme inGhost in the Shell (all versions) by "wearing" night vision goggle lenses implanted in place of his eyes. They cannot be removed and his "real" eyes, should they exist, are never seen. Also double asScary Shiny Glasses when he's being extra intimidating.
    • Judging by their size and some other things, like a doctor in Stand Alone Complex trying to sell him actual eyeballs, they indeed are his eyes in their entirety, and their purpose is to pack in more functions than normal-sized eyeballs could, implying again that they are cylinderical and extend deeper in his skull than normal eyeballs would.
  • Ban Mido fromGetBackers is another great example. He wears his 'Anti Evil Eye' shades constantly; the only time they ever come off is when he's about to use his signature Evil Eye, or in rare cases, when they've been broken. If it's the latter, he will inevitably materialize a new pair at some point in the near future to wear again.
  • Straight Cougar fromS-Cry-ed is almost as much defined by his glasses as he is by his speed.
  • The Sailor Animamates of theSailor Moon anime sport sunglasses in their respective disguises.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX has Trueman, and given the rest of hischaracterization, it's probably best we can't see his eyes.
  • Osamu Sugo/Knight Schumacher fromFuture GPX Cyber Formula wears those. So much so that it became aRunning Gag in the series when Randoll, Shinjyo, Bootsvorz and even Clair wears the same type of shades he wore during his racing days.
  • Shizuo Heiwajima fromDurarara!! is almost never seen without his pair of designer sunglasses, although not everyone thinks that they're awesome.Shuji, for example, thinks they make him look like a pretentious hipster (at least up until Shizuo clotheslines him into oblivion, at which point Shuji agrees that they suit him perfectly and couldn't imagine him any other way and OH GOD, PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!).
  • Ruki and arguably Jianliang inDigimon Tamers wear them occasionally. Yamaki wears his nearly all the time!
    • What, no one rememberedCaptain Satsuma? We literally never see him without his sunglasses.Ever.
  • Queen Victoria in theKuroshitsuji manga. All part of theAnachronism Stew.
  • The villain Chinmei fromSamurai Deeper Kyo wears shades most of the time except his final battle against the entire Sanada clan, revealing his "True Red Eyes". At one point his shades was damaged by Mahiro during his battle with Kyo, only to be replaced by a spare shade.
  • Tsuchimikaido Motoharu inA Certain Magical Indexalways wears awesome shades, making him even more badass when he actually is involved in solving a conflict of some sort.
  • Bear Walken ofGungrave always wear cool yellow shades. Up untilhe was defeated by Brandon and he died. One cute note: Sherri, his daughter, was shown as a girl with a teddy bear with those glasses.
  • Leo/Loki fromFairy Tail wears them on occasion. It might have something to do withhis power.
  • Kagato from the firstTenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA.

Comic Books

  • TheX-Men‍'‍s Scott Summers, Cyclops, wears sunglasses (or a visor, when in costume) with special lenses to contain hisunceasingEye Beams all the time, even when asleep. In various depictions, these range from clunky to top of the range Oakleys. In this case, taking themoff is the threatening move.
  • Heather Hudson ofAlpha Flight (who normally wore prescription glasses) began wearing wraparound shades when she became leader of the team. When she received her version of the Vindicator/Guardian battlesuit, Madison Jeffries modified her shades for wear with the suit.
    • In the secondAlpha Flight series, Heather had switched to contacts, and initially didn't wear glasses with the new suit Department H had provided her, but after a while of getting bothered by the wind in her eyes, she brought the shades back.
  • Cassidy fromPreacher (Comic Book) always wears them to hide his eyes, which seem to be the only part of him that changed substantially when he became a vampire.
  • InTransmetropolitan Spider Jerusalem has distinct "live shades" with circular red lens and rectangular green lens. The item maker that created them was on hallucinogenic drugs. Now how cool is that.
    • Cool enough that when he finally needed another pair,they had the same mismatched lenses.
  • The Sandman: The Corinthian also wears them to hide his nature. While his taking them off is a threatening move, his leaving them on isn't so reassuring either.
    • It'salso up in the air what he did before the invention of sunglasses—wear a blindfold?Fringey hair?
      • While not normal, sunglasses may have already been invented when Dream created him—he was wearing them that time when he ate the orangutan's eyeballs, which seemed to be the eighteenth century. Before he had sunglasses, he presumably didn't go out in public. He only AWOLed after Dream went MIA. Before that, when not being a footman or whatever he was supposed to be on that occasion, he was a full-time nightmare. Turning around was a sufficientReveal.
  • Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin once tried to convince his mom to buy him a pair of shades that bore a remarkable similarity to Kamina's(despite predating them by a good 15 years or so).He couldn't really pull the look off, though.
  • The titularMister X wears circular shades to cover up his eyes, which look about as bad as you'd expect from someone who hasn't slept in years.

Fan Works

Film

  • The firstBack to The Future ends with Doc Brown showing up wearing some very Cool Shades. They're so cool, they're made out of sheet metal! Christopher Lloyd couldn't see a thing out of them. They were only written in as a gag for the first film. When the sequels came around, he ditched them ASAP.
    • In Part II the glasses are revealed to be a part of the Delorean's modifications that allow him to see what's happening around the car.
    • Note than you can now re-create this appearance with some brands of modern-day mirror shades.
  • The Cool Shades in the filmThey Live!!actuallyDo Something Unusual ; they allow the wearer to see the aliens in human guise, who are apparently responsible for the widening wealth gap, economic inflation, anda bubblegum shortage. That doesn't stop them from being used forBadass effect, though.
  • Reservoir Dogs, in the intro sequence.
  • John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wore shades when performing as Jake and Elwood Blues. The Blues Brothers act originated onSaturday Night Live and got made into a blockbuster movie in 1980. Neither one of the Blues Brothers removed their sunglasses in the film... well, Jake removed his in the scene where he was apologising to the Mystery Woman (Carrie Fisher).
    • The Blues Brothers had a not-so-successful sequel in 1998 calledBlues Brothers 2000, in which Elwood takes off his shades (only) once—and he covers his eyes with his hand when he does. Even his driver's license has shades. New core members of the band also get cool shades; when Cable is converted to the true faith of R&B, his cop shades are turned into cool shades.
    • The DVD of the original movie includes scenes omitted from the earlier versions, that include Elwood resigning his job as a menial factory worker, while he wears protective goggles instead of shades.
  • Putting on sunglasses is just about allAce Ventura does.
  • TheMen in Black also use their shades for a purpose - it keeps them from being affected by theirmemory-erasing Neuralizer.
    • J (who claims, "I make these lookgood!") actually trades his first pair in for a more styling set at the end of the first movie.
  • Blade, in the movie and sequels of the same name, apparently stores his surplus Badassitude in his shades. In every movie, there seems to be a point where he loses them, gets his butt kicked for a while, and then regains them, just to put 'em on in a badass way. Usually this happens right before fighting theBig Bad. Step 1 of defeating Blade is "remove his sunglasses."
  • Cool Shades is what differentiates characters from extras inThe Matrix. Virtually everyone that matters wears them.

Agent Smith: You'll notice I'm wearing my sunglasses indoors. In the real world, this would make me look stupid.

    • It's also a visual cue that Neo is reaching his potential when he breaks Smith's shades. Smith takes them off and says, "I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson."
      • Sunglasses seem to be symbolic armor foreveryone, really. Nearly every time someone gets beaten up, they aren't unquestionably defeated until after their shades are gone. One exception is Morpheus, who takes his off before Agent Johnson fights him on the truck, perhaps symbolizing the fight's ultimate futility. The final fight between Neo and Smith has them knocking each others' shades off early on, because armor is irrelevant with the level of control they both exert over the world.
    • InThe Matrix Reloaded, Trinity removes a motorcycle helmet with black-tinted visor - and she is wearing sunglasses underneath. And it is night-time. How the hell could she see ANYTHING? Not to mention, how does she take the helmet off without breaking or pulling off the glasses? Mighty powers indeed.
      • As with many tropes in this series, easily justified by programming; the sunglasses worn by redpills would be specialized models in the Matrix that don't obscure the sight of the wearer while appearing normal otherwise.
  • My Science Project. This quote could be considered aTrope Codifier.

Cop: Hey kid, why do you wear your sunglasses at night?
Vince Lotello: Because when you'recool, the sun shines on you 24 hours a day.

  • Regardless of what model it is, everyTerminator cyborg is required to acquire cool shades before proceeding with its mission. They have to be cool. They have to be shades. They can't beuncool shades. The first T-800 used the shades to hide his damaged skin, but the next two seemed to just be concerned with style.
    • Exception: "Cameron", theWaif Fu Terminator inThe Sarah Connor Chronicles, doesn't bother. WithSummer Glau in the role,they'd just be redundant.
      • The episode of 25 February 2008 demonstrates that they aren't merely redundant... they look a little silly.Decide for yourself.
    • Subverted inFilm/Terminator 3, where the T-850 discovers to his dismay that the shades that come with the outfit he mugged off a male stripper are pink and star-shaped. He drops them on the ground and crushes them with his boot, then finds a better pair in the car he steals.
  • InThe Chronicles of Riddick, Riddick seems to put on (ortake off) his welding goggles to emphasize what he's saying. To be fair, the goggles are actually functional; his eyes are extremely sensitive to light (allowing him to see no matter how dark it is), so he needs them to protect his eyes. He also takes them off or puts them on depending on the amount of light in a scene and how clearly he wants to see something.
    • Kind of played with in the first Riddick movie,Pitch Black. In the first half of the movie, it's played straight: glasses on when he's kicking ass. The brightness of the sunlight leaves him vulnerable without his welding goggles - when they're torn off during a fight, he's pretty much helpless. For the second half of a movie, during the total darkness of an eclipse, it's subverted: he takes the goggles off so he can see in the dark.
  • Done to great effect inHot Fuzz: the main character is disenchanted and giving up when he sees DVDs ofPoint Break andBad Boys 2 in a little convenience store. Inspired, he buys a pair of cheap sunglasses that make him look disproportionately badass. He later hands off a spare pair to his partner when they meet up.
  • Soultaker stars Martin Sheen's brother as a Cool Shades-wearingGrim Reaper who falls in love with theleading lady/scriptwriter.The SOL Crew insisted upon singing "Sunglasses At Night" to mock this.
  • The blind character inSneakers only wears dark glasses in one scene, apparently for the sole purpose of reflecting screens of computer code.
  • Combined with a subversion ofThe Glasses Come Off in the movieAirplane!, when Captain Rex Kramer whips off his sunglasses to make a dramatic point, only to revealanother pair of sunglasses underneath.
    • He then removesthose sunglasses to makeanother dramatic point. Unfortunately, he was not wearing a third pair, as theRule of Three cannot be applied to this trope for fear of implosion.
  • Vincent Latello, from the movieMy Science Project. "Because when you're cool, the sun shines on you twenty four hours a day."
  • Rodney Skinner, Gentleman Thief, wears these to hide the fact that his eyes are invisible.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, theThe Film of the Book: thiscampaign ad for Zaphod Beeblebrox puts forward the following argument:

"Zaphod Beeblebrox has the longest hair of any candidate
and he's got the coolest shades..."

    • In other versions of theGuide these are "the greatest shades in the known sky": Joo Janta Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses. At the first hint of dangerthey turn totally black, and prevent you from seeing anything that may alarm you. Ford isn't impressed.
  • The firstMortal Kombat movie has Johnny Cage wearing a rather pricey set of shades that get crushed byGoro.

Johnny Cage: Those were 500 dollar sunglasses,asshole.

  • Night Watch. In the film adaptation almost all Watchers wear sunglasses. Yes, exactly,in the night.
  • Léon: The Professional has Leon's signature round sunglasses. Mathilda doesn't look all that bad in them either.
  • Dirty Harry Callahan's dark sunglasses...punk!
  • Used intentionally inThat Thing You Do. Once The Wonders sign on a major record label, their manager gives the drummer a pair of sunglasses to make him stand out.Lampshaded later by a reporter: "Are those prescription, or are you just trying to look cool?"

Literature

  • Molly (aka Rose, Sally, etc) fromNeuromancer has mirrorshades surgically implanted over her eyes. The same surgery also rearranged her tearducts, so she literally can't cry. Instead, she spits.
    • They're not just mirrorshades; they have microchannel image amps built into them so she can see in the dark. Somewhatcooler than your typical cybernetic replacement eyes, not to mention being rather easier to manufacture.
  • Crowley fromGood Omens wears a pair of sunglasses all the time to hidegold eyes withpupils slitted like a snake's.
    • It's partly just because they're cool. The other demons find his coolness irritating.
  • InArtemis Fowl, mirrored shades are on the list of items needed for a night-time mission, but they turn out to serve a practical purpose - deflecting the fairies' hypnoticmesmer ability.
  • Minty Fresh fromCoyote Blue wears Cool Shades to hide hisgolden eyes.
  • Shane Schofield, fromMatthew Reilly's books, wears silver anti-flash glasses to hide hisscars.
  • Alloysius Knight, also fromMatthew Reilly's books, wears similar shades due to his eyes being hypersensitive, and being like "Shane Schofield gone wrong"
  • Tre's Blindsided Shades (read: shutter shades) inStuck are considered all the rage by his standards.He breaks them in Stuck at School, but later replaces them with Blindsided Mirrorshades in Stuck at the Wheel.
  • The sports glassesDaemon operatives use may be this orSinister Shades.
  • Lampshaded by Robert B. Parker in one of his Spenser novels, where Spenser needs glasses, & remarks he could get prescription shades, so nobody would know & everybody would just think he was cool.
  • InInvisible Man, the protagonist puts on a pair of dark sunglasses, and finds himself being mistaken for Rinehart.
  • Dark Future: Many people dress themselves with these inDark Future novels. Many of them are also shades which double as music-playing devices.Elder Seth's shades are not merely cool ones, but they're also a means to see beyond the normal and perceive the Outer Darkness and create a conduit between him and theDark Ones he serves.

Live-Action TV

  • Adam-12: In the final few episodes of Season 7, Reed begins wearing sunglasses on-duty. This includes an off-duty rescue of Malloy (who has been taken hostage by a gang of reactionists) and during Reed's investigation of a typewriter theft ring.
  • Horatio Caine ofCSI: Miami punctuates almost everyQuip to Black by putting on his Cool Shades—if he's not already wearing them. (If he's already wearing them, he'll take them off and put them back on again.) So you could say that he... (puts on sunglasses) has it made in the shades.YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH!!
    • Shows up now and then with the other franchise leaders, Grissom fromCSI and Mac fromCSI: NY but not as often. And they usually don't do the Quip To Black with them like Horatio does.
  • InDouble the Fist, Steve's glasses are so cool, they give himThe Force.
  • In an early episode ofThe West Wing, Josh puts on his sunglasses to punctuate his threat to a Congressman. "The President doesn't hold grudges. That's what he has me for."
  • Power Rangers Jungle Fury features a set of shades as aTransformation Trinket.
  • Parodied onChef!

Gareth: Everton, why are you wearing sunglasses?
Everton: They make me look cool.
Gareth: Take them off.
Everton: I brought you a pair.
Gareth: Okay.

    • Later on...

Gareth: Why do you keep checking the mirror? Are we being followed?
Everton: No. I'm just making sure I look cool.

  • While most of the deputies onReno911 wear shades to take on the Badass Cop persona, Deputy Junior almost never takes them off. Not even indoors or at night.
  • Kung Fu: the Legend Continues: Ex-mercenary/police detective Kermit Griffin virtually never takes his sunglasses off.
  • OnChuck, shades-wearing secret agent Bryce Larkin tries to give his sunglasses to Chuck, claiming that he should have them if he's going to be a real spy.
    • In reality, he's imprinted an update to the Intersect within them.
      • Recent seasons seem to have shades that can either upload the Intersect to one's head, or remove it entirely.
  • Harper's imaginary friend Mr. Lies sports a pair of these inAngels in America.
  • One recurring character inthe reimagined series ofBattlestar Galactica, Romo Lampkin, nearly always wears shades, despite the fact that he's living in a fleet of dimly-lit spaceships. Justified in that he wears them so that people cannot tell what he is looking at - he is a kleptomaniac lawyer, after all...
  • In theFirefly pilot, Simon is first shown wearing a pair of nice-looking sunglasses. TheBetter Days comic tie-in indicates these are actually functional, as they block retina scans.
    • Also a slightGenius Bonus to people who watches Chinese period films, where that style of glasses tends to be worn by evil characters or traitors.
  • The awe-spiring sunglasses of Michael Westen fromBurn Notice. Sales of that particular brand of shades (Oliver People's Victory) shot up right after the show started to get popular, a testament to just how damn cool they are.
  • Let's not forget the Ray Bans inMiami Vice
  • "Hawk" onSpencer For Hire played by Avery Brooks. Brooks was on the Arsenio Hall Show actually defined a hero as someone who could get into a fight with a bunch of people andnever lose his sunglasses!
  • Jamie Hyneman wears some badass Julbo shades whenever the crewtakes a field trip.
  • Played with inGlee, Quinn and Finn, wanting advice on how to avoid having slushies thrown in their face and to regain their status, go to the guidance counsillor Emma who suggests cool shades. It doesn't work.
  • Hong Gil Dong in "Hong Gil Dong"
  • Gene Hunt manages brand new levels of awesomewhen he wears shades.
  • Duncan MacLeod onHighlander the Series had them too in some episodes.
  • The Rotten Tomatoes Show features a song called "Shade Tippin'" in which Brett Erlich examines the phenomena in movie posters.
  • On all versions ofThe Addams Family, Cousin Ittonly wears two articles of clothing (if any): this and hisderby hat.

Music

  • Sunglasses at Night by Corey Hart
  • The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk3

Newspaper Comics

Professional Wrestling

  • Bret Hart wore a pair of pink ones in his run with WWF/WCW. He'd usually give them to a child fan before the match.
  • "Macho Man"Randy Savage is known for his colorful, decorative, and all around badass sunglasses usually with designs on them coordinating with his tights.
  • Hulk Hogan, ofthe nWo wore a pair f shades and looked absolutely badass while wearing them.
  • The Undertaker wore a pair during his American Badass/Big Evil run.
  • John Morrison has a pair he wears to the ring, although how he sees in themis a mystery to me.
  • These + cool shirt +Fascinating Eyebrow =The Rock.

Tabletop Games

  • Unsurprisingly,Shadowrun allows characters to purchase Cool Shades. The real fun comes when you start putting visual enhancements on them.

Video Games

  • Cecile Forward wears a nice looking pair in intermission scenes inCastle Fantasia 2 Renewal, though they do tend to subvert their purpose in battle scenes, where she looks rather bug eyed.
  • Dr. Robotnik fromSonic the Hedgehog wears a pair of round-frame sunglasses at all times with the intended effect of making him look more intimidating.It didn't really work, at first.
  • One of the customizable clothing options inBattlefield Play4Free is several types of sunglasses for the player-character.
  • Azel, theMirror Boss inGod Hand. Weirdly, they manage to stay on even when he does all sorts of impossible fighting moves, exceptin the final stage where he takes them off deliberately. From the cutscene you can tell that nowIt's Personal, and he's really quite pissed.
  • InThe King of Fighters, K' always wears sunglasses and takes them off during his intro. Some official artwork shows him with white framed glasses with red tint. The shades aren't solely there for show as his Chain Drive move has him throwing them at the foe and when hit, follows up with an autocombo, he also seems to have an infinite supply of sunglasses as he can perform his Chain Drive whenever he has 1 power bar.
    • In the latest installment (KOF XIII), he has them on the whole time. Now he grabs back the sunglasses when it hits the opponent during Chain Drive.
  • Parodied inFinal Fantasy VII: Advent Children, wherein Rude, upon having his shades destroyed during battle (because Reno steps on them), immediately produces a spare pair from his pocket and puts them on before returning to the fight. He seems rather distraught by their loss, though.
    • Cloud has a pair at the beginning of the movie, though he loses them in the same scene.
    • InDirge of Cerberus, Cloud puts on a new pair of (very sexy) sunglasses in the big battle cutscene.
  • Al-Cid Margrace fromFinal Fantasy XII actually had someone to hold his glasses for him while he wasn't using them.
  • Auron ofFinal Fantasy X, however, is always wearing his. Except during flashbacks.
    • Subverted slightly in that his cool shades are small and worn low on the nose, so you can often see at least part of his eyes.
  • Beyond the Grave, the main character ofGungrave wears a pair of small, yet neat, sunglasses (?) that have the left lens blacked out and a cross design on top of that. It serves a minor purpose in that the black lens slightly covers up theprominent scar on his face—and the fact that heno longer has a left eye, because it wasshot out at point-blank range, andkilled him back when he was still Brandon.
  • Proto Man fromMega Man.
  • J.C fromDeus Ex never takes them off. When mocked by Agent Navarre for wearing sunglasses at night, he gruffly replies that his vision is augmented. Additionally it is suggested that the cool shades stop him freaking the public with his solid blue eyes.
  • With the exceptions of theDuke Nukem games beforeDuke Nukem 3D, the titular character is never seen without his signature pair of cool shades.
  • All five members of theElite Beat Agents from newbie Spin to veteran team leader Chieftain.
    • Make that allten characters, not countingMr.X. The Divas and Khan have some pretty nice shades too, although the Divas' are transparent.
  • Many characters fromUnreal Tournament 2004
  • Johnny Cage fromMortal Kombat, naturally. In some games he wears them during the fight, in others he puts them on after winning. In the upcoming eleventh game, he can actually use them as a projectile, including in an X-Ray Move.
    • His daughter Cassie wears them in some of her mods.
  • Serious Sam started off wearing shades, but they were later removed from his design, allegedly to "make a lessDuke Nukem looking character".
  • Albert goddamn Wesker. Eventually, it's to cover up hisbizarrelyinhuman eyes, but mostlythey're just there to be rockin'.
    • He only takes them off twice inRE:5 the first time the throws them at Chris as distraction(and then wipes the floor with him before catching his glasses to put them back on) before the boss sequence begins and the second time was during the final battle.
      • Ada Wong inResident Evil 4 drops a pair, which then explode as a distraction.
  • Johnny fromGuilty Gear. His shades are removed only in his Burst sprite (to show he's serious now, of course).
  • Cool Shades adorn the titular Spot inCool Spot. They're also found in the scenery on occasion.
  • Jake Armitage from theSuper Nintendo incarnation ofShadowrun. Initially he needs to put them on to solve a puzzle.He needs to wear them to prevent the morgue guys from recognizing him as the guy whowoke up at the morgue, so they won't flee and he can talk with them. But they can't be taken off once worn and show up in all the cutscenes from then onwards. Some characters also comment on them when spoken to.
  • InFallout 2, putting mirrored shades on actually gave your character + 1 bonus to Charisma.
    • Likewise, inFallout 3,Mr. Burke wears a pair of these. Which you can later steal from his house, provided you are crazy good with lockpicks (or have discovered cheat codes).
      • Or you can just loot them off his corpse (which is probably the best option for anyone not playing as a evil character).
      • One of the women in Andale has the same kind of shades. There's a way to get them without losing karma,just reveal Andale's evil secret and, when confronted by the 4 adults, tell them you think they're freaks. They'll try to kill you, which lets you get rid of them AND score some Cool Shades.
    • Fallout 3 also has the "Lucky Shades", a unique pair of sunglasses that gives you a + 1 bonus to your Luck while you wear them.
  • In Pen and Teller's unreleased gameSmoke and Mirrors, a minigame has a slider for the amount one wears sunglasses ranging from "hate them, never wear them." to "I'm Lou Reed, I never take them off." On Impossible in the main game, Lou Reed shows up wearing the shades, and kills the player characters with his laser eyes. Without removing the shades.
  • Katsuya and Baofu, both fromPersona 2: Eternal Punishment, sport some rockin' shades.
    • In thePSP remake,Hitler/Nyarlathotep also looks pretty damn good sporting a pair, to the point where one wonders whether Atlus's censorship will backfire by simply making him look too cool.
    • InPersona 4, Cool Shades not only can be worn by some of the characters (Kanji especially), they even are gameplay relevant.
  • Blank fromSpace Channel 5. His were pink variants of the classic Kamina 'boomerang' shades. His 'turn' icon even had a glint next to the glasses!
  • InThe Godfather: The Game, you can buy a pair of shades for your character.
  • Vinnie the Gooch fromBackyard Baseball.
  • Liquid Ocleot wears these togreat effect MANY times inMGS4: Guns of the Patriots.
  • While they have no effect in increasing the badass quotient of the characters, Thane Krios and Jack fromMass Effect 2 have gained their personal cool shades in a DLC.
    • Some DLC items also allow Shepard to rock the look, such as the Umbra Visor or the Archon Visor.
  • InArt of Fighting, John Crawley the navy man wears a pair of sunglasses that can be knocked off if you damage them enough. His boss,Mr. Big, also wears them.
  • Michael Becket, the player character ofF.E.A.R 2, is shown putting on a pair of futuristic looking shades that serve as your HUD for the game.
  • SpikeLakilester fromPaper Mario.
  • InAlpha Protocol, Mike can sport several different types of sunglasses, ranging from simple slightly tinted glasses to wraps to big aviators to mirrored sunglasses that make him look like a sinister CIA agent right out of the 60's, all the way to shiny reflective razor sunglasses.
  • InJumper Three, you can acquire sunglasses in Sector 2. Like any otherNice Hats you get there, they are useless, but still cool.
  • You can't affordSuper Macho Man's sunglasses. Now get your hands off the ropes.
  • Air Zonk has the titular Zonk wearing shades. When an ally is chosen to help him, they are powered up and recieve a similar set of shades. One of Zonk's weapons is actually firing neon shades at his enemies.
  • Star FOX hasJames McCloud.
  • Sissel fromGhost Trick wears a pair of shades...Or rather,Yomiel does. Although Sissel's tail in his real form as a cat is kinked to resemble the shades.
  • In the early 90s adventure gameDreamweb, protagonist Ryan has to put some shades on to obscure his identity after he is wanted for murder.
  • Developer teamThe Bitmap Brothers had cool shades as their schtick. On photographs in game magazines of the day,they often wore sunglasses, and in at least some of their games, cool shades were included as a hidden item or easter egg. One example isXenon II Megablast, where the player can buy "Bitmap Shades" as an extremely expensive item. All it does is change the graphics to pure black and white.
  • Rude, a boss in the remake ofFinal Fantasy VII, wears a pair. During the firstBoss Battle with him, after reducing him to about 50% health, Cloud's attacks break them; there's a short cutscene where he discards them, then puts on a spare pair, then continues the battle.

Web Comics

  • Yuki fromMegatokyo switched fromMeganekko-style glasses to Cool Shades after Largo made her aLittle Miss Badass.
  • Brent Sienna fromPv P is never seen without his trademark shades. He takes them off when he gets married, only to be blinded immediately because his eyes haven't been exposed to that much light in decades.
    • At one point, Cole Wilson tries to emulate him by wearing aviator sunglasses, which Brent objects to because cool shades arehis thing. A few strips later, Cole no longer wears them and admits he sat on them.
  • Shadehawk's shades inAntihero for Hire. He (almost) only wears them for Cool, since he operates at night.
  • Riff fromSluggy Freelance isnever seen without sunglasses. Normally he wears black shades, but when he suits up for theFinal Battle during "Dangerous Days," heswitches to someeven moreBadass yellow shades.
  • Mad Scientist Kevyn Andreyasn, fromSchlock Mercenary. It's revealed, at one point, that he doesn't need them to see well. In the visual spectrum, at least.
  • Shilo fromRhapsodies
  • Cool Shades abound inHomestuck, ostensibly ironically. Dave Strider sports a bitching pair of aviators, the very same worn by Ben Stiller in theStarsky And Hutch movie. (They were also a key item in the previousMS Paint Adventure,Problem Sleuth.) Dave'sBro wearsKamina shades (an unintentional resemblance people kept pointing out which got aFandom Nod later down the line when they were referred to as "dumb pointy anime shades"). Terezi Pyrope wears bright red cat eye sunglasses, and Sollux Captor wears heterochromatic shades.
  • Youngsilver fromThe Pride of Life sports a Bebop-inspired pair.
  • Black Monday Blues, ofDead Winter, is hardly ever seen without his red-tinted shades...and he carries a second pair inside his jacket, just, you know, in case.
  • Punintended‍'‍s character N/A wears these as driving glasses. It is rather subverted as they are bright pink.
  • James ofOut There has yet to be pictured without his Ray-Bans (if that's what they are). You can't even see his eyes when he's inprofile. Since youcan see the eyes of theother characters when they're viewed from the side (even when they're wearing glasses), it's hard not to wonder: does James evenhave eyes?
  • Bob and George:Like he'd really use this trope when he could wear sunglasses to see the invisible
  • Murry Purry Fresh and Furry: Cool Cat, an actual non-athropomorphic cat, wears cool shades.
  • El Goonish Shive: Tedd wore glasses to invoke this tropeit didn't work but the glasses themselvesare still cool.
  • Nearly everyone inShinigami Death Punch has their very own pair of cool shades in their color. The author never hesitates to use them for dramatic effect, either.

Web Original

  • TheShadow Men inBroken Saints both wear these in one scene, apparently just so artist Andrew West could have their enormous monitor reflected in the shades.
    • Also, Mars' glowing red shades.
  • The potato in the secondAsdfmovie gets a pair.
  • Referenced/spoofed a few times onHomestar Runner. Strong Bad'sCowboy Cop alter-ego Dangeresque, from the Strong Bad Emails "stunt double" and "dangeresque 3", wears Cool Shades. In the Strong Bad Email "the bet", Homestar manages to win the titular bet with Strong Bad that he can "be's cool" by simply putting on a pair of Cool Shades and saying "'Sup?".
    • Homestar Runner also subverted the trope in a different skit, where Homestar buys a pair of "cool shades" from Bubs but stashes them inside a can of yellow paint before wearing them. When he dons the shades, still dripping with paint, the result is that he looks even more foolish than usual and can barely see, causing him to apparently confuse Strong Sad for an old friend named "Dripping Yellow Madness".
  • The Necro Critic. ACaustic Critic who is characterized by his sunglasses.
  • Standard issue forProtectors of the Plot Continuum. Used mainly when agents need to Neuryalize a canon character (MIB style) yet not get neuryalized themselves.
  • Mr. Mendo: The fact that you can never see his eyes takesDeadpan Snarker to awhole 'nother level.
  • Sockbaby - Ronnie Cordova.
  • Sign up forTV Tropes' forums and you can post a Cool Shades smiley! Or most any forum these days. If you happen to not have access something that writes it, just write a B, followed by a bracket opening to the left, possibly with a dash in between [ B) and B-), respectively.]
  • In theLady Lumps VS Boy Bumps cartoonSonik Kombat,Amy Rose puts on a pair when she copiesJohnny Cage'ssignature move.
  • 80's Dan has a pair.
  • Coco Adel fromRWBY finishes off her stylish look with a pair.

Western Animation

  • Throttle fromBiker Mice From Mars wears a pair of sunglasses at all times—this is because as a result of being experimented on he lost his eyes and got them replaced by bionic ones. Although some Biker Mice fans say he's blind.
  • Johnny Bravo wears black shades throughout every episode, and actively covers his face whenever they've fallen off.
  • Many of the 'younger'Transformers (like Jazz and Prowl) have optics shaped like cool shades. Fans generally write fanfiction about them being blind underneath, or how they really havered Decepticon optics.
  • Prowl and Soundwave ofTransformers Animated both have similar pairs of shades as Kamina (though it's possible those are their actual optic sensors, beingMechanical Lifeforms and all; they evenmatch their factions like most others eyes), and both areawesomeness incarnate (they're a nod to Joe Pineapple's optic visor fromABC Warriors of 2000AD comics). Jazz and Jetstorm also have sensors that look like visor shades, and Grimlock's are shaped like normal ones.
  • "Hello,Lilo. I'm Mr. Bubbles." "Your knuckles say Cobra...have you ever killed anyone?"
  • Robin wears a pair whenever he's out of costume.
    • Red Arrow wears them whenever he's in a stakeout.
  • Tad and Chad fromThe Fairly OddParents wear them to look cool.
  • One of the villians inThe Real Adventures of Jonny Quest was a government agent who always wore sunglasses. Lampshaded by Race Bannon when he said that he "was one of them, until the shades became a part of the uniform."
  • OnJimmy Two-Shoes,Heloise wears a pair during her stint as Jimmy's bodyguard. This parodied in another episode whereJimmy attempts to invoke this trope, but the sunglasses he uses get increasingly tacky.
  • Backyardigans Pablo and Tyrone wear these as 'Delivery Agents' in the episode Elephant On The Run. So don't mess with them.
  • In the recent special forTotal Drama Action, Noah and all the members of the boy-band "The Drama Brothers" have them.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: Nigel Uno Has these, until thelast episode, where they are passed on toNumbuh 5
  • Alan Chan's violet-tinted specs inThe Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan.
  • In the episode "In the Line of Doody," the Penguins ofMadagascar briefly don cool shades, complete with earpieces, while "protecting" the parks commissioner. And they look simultaneously hilarious and awesome.
  • An interesting preschool version - in theNick Jr. showBubble Guppies, there is an episode where the characters are welcoming the arrival of spring by going to see the spring chicken - basically a regular chicken who, for some inexplicable reason,wears giant sunglasses.
  • My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash has sported a pair of sunglasses on occasion.
  • Agent Six fromGenerator Rex rocks shades and a sharp green suit. Oh, and foldout katanas. That he can slice bullets with.
  • InFuturama, Leela has interesting sunglasses...er, sunglass?

Real Life

  • Sunglasses were used functionally by actors who would wear them on set to protect their eyes from the intense set lighting. People saw behind the behind the scenes footage of actors doing so and thus concluded wearing sunglasses is fashionable.
  • Many celebrities attempt to invoke this trope; perhaps the most successful example is Roy Orbison, who originally wore them because he left his regular prescription glasses on the plane that was taking him to one of his concerts, and didn't have time to get a replacement set (in the 1960s, you couldn't get glasses in less than several days, unlike today's one-hour stores).
  • All of the members ofX Japan, except forPata.
  • Tom Waits has an incredibly badass instrumental piece simply called "In Shades."
  • Corey Hart wears his sunglasses at night, so he can, so he can watch you weave an breathe your storylines.
  • ZZ Top, who even have the song "Cheap Sunglasses".
  • Kanye West wears those neat 'Shutter Shade' sunglasses to many of his concerts, regardless of lighting.
  • The late, great Eazy-E of N.W.A was rarely seen without his shades.
  • FutureWorld Emperor and musician,Dr. Phineas Waldorf Steel, has yet to be seen in public without his characteristic thick black-lensed goggle-glasses.
  • Ozzy Osbourne andGeddy Lee perform wearing round framed sunglasses.
  • Joe Satriani's black sunglasses andBald of Awesome make up his look.
  • Bono alternates between Cool Shades andScandalous Shades, often really bright. He explains it happens because his eyes are sensitive to light, and thus it's hard to see him without any glasses (and many of those times,he looks weird).
  • Guns N' Roses had two frequent wearers, Axl Rose (who liked to use themover his bandanna) and Slash (who also frequently uses aNice Hat).
    • Axl is occasionally not seen wearing shades, but Slash on the othere hand never takes his off. One interview said he went to see his mother who was dying of cancer in a hospital, and never took off his shades.
  • The only guy who whore glasses as much as Bono and Slash wasJoey Ramone.
  • 2 the Ranting Gryphon, a well known comedian within theFurry Fandom, is rarely seen without his trademark brown shades. In fact, this troper doesn't believe he's ever witnessed a single time in which he hasn't worn them, indoors or out.
  • Dutch author of children's books Paul van Loon is never seen in public without his shades. This rather adds to his mistique, being a writer of mostlykiddy horror.
  • General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, famous for his roles inWorld War Two and theKorean War, was known for, among other things, wearing aviator shades... long before the aviators started wearing them. It helps that MacArthur, being literallyOlder Than They Think, had been a commissioned officer in the Army since 1903, making the shades a literal example ofFollow the Leader.
    • Worth noting that the shades are pretty essential for pilots as they allow them to see better. Modern combat pilots don't need them so much anymore due to their helmets having shades built-in, but civilian pilots can find these extra useful on sunny days or whenever they absolutely must fly above cloudcover.
  • The lateMitch Hedberg.
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • A 17 year-old kid accused of being the Lulz Sec hacker 'Topiary' was wearing these when he was taken into custody.
  • Shades are standard issue for people working in the Secret Service and other bodyquard services, allegedly because they conceal what the wearer is looking at. This can help keep potential troublemakers in line, since they can't be sure that sunglassed muscleman isn't staring directly at them.
    • Larger, square ones can also have a one-way mirror formed into the glass/plastic as well which allows them to look behind without having to turn around.
    • Also very useful in protecting their eyes when the President is photographed, at least back when flash-photography was widely used.
  • Bob Dylan. He was almost never seen without them in the '60s.
  • Lou Reed.
  • Ric Ocasek ofThe Cars.
  • Former PresidentGeorge W. Bush accidentally mistook legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten's medically-required sunglasses as Cool Shades. They were in fact medically prescribed glasses for a rare form of macular degeneration caused by exposure to UV light.

Wallsten: "Mr. President! Peter Wallsten, Wall Street Journal. Is it true that-"
George Bush: "Are you going to ask that question with shades on?"
Wallsten: "I can take them off."
Bush: "I’m interested in the shade look, seriously."
Wallsten: "All right, I’ll keep it, then."
Bush: "For the viewers, there’s no sun."(Audience Laughter.)
Wallsten: "I guess it depends on your perspective."(More Laughter.)
Bush: "Touche!"

    • Later, upon learning that Wallsten was legally blind and the glasses were medical, a red-faced President Bush called him to apologize. Wallsten shook off the incident, saying it was a funny exchange that didn't offend him at all. He is currently a national policy reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
  1. ↑From left to right, the sunglasses-wearers includeCobra,The Squirtle Squad,Randy Savage,T-101,Krookodile,Kamina,Lt. Horatio Caine,Nada,Duke Nukem, one of the California Raisins, Chester Cheetah, andK'.
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