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{{quote|'''Yuya Sakaki''': Are my goggles really stupid, or is my mind playing tricks on me?
|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] ARC-V [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}ypFheQlQmfQ Abridged: Episode 1]''}}
A character wears goggles or other eyewear, despite the fact that they don't have an actual use. In many cases, they'll wear them ''above'' their eyes (see picture) like some weird hat.
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See also [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]]. Subtrope of [[Useless Accessory]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Basque Ohm from ''Gundam0083'' and ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' literally wears goggles that seem to serve no purpose. However, it's possible that they cover an injury of some sort as it was hinted he was tortured by Zeon during the One Year War.
* During the Hades arc of ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'', {{spoiler|Katou}} wears goggles around his neck for no good reason, other than [[Rule of Cool]].
* Parodied in ''[[
* In one of the ''[[
** Matt, a frequent gamer, also wears goggles at all times. Though they might be worn to protect his eyes from glazing. Or maybe he's cosplaying Raz from ''[[
* In ''[[
** Davis/Daisuke's [[Image Song]] is actually called "Goggle Boy," and he has an audio drama track called "Goggles."
*** He does say that he wore them ''specifically'' because Tai/Taichi did, so it's kind of a [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]] Because They Do Unusual Things For My Role Model.
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*** ''Tamers'' subverts this. Takato's goggles come in handy in a digital field, among other places; the other two members of the [[Power Trio]] have sunglasses which they use in the same situations.
** Well, every lead character aside from [[Digimon Savers|Masaru]]. But that's probably because he's too manly for them.
*** And yet, [[Digimon Xros Wars
* Izumi from ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]''.
* Yuuno's side-pouch in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', which we never see him use. [http://ashitahadocchida.sakura.ne.jp/top.html Some] [[Fan Web Comics]] (Omake (?)) [http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/653/bangai07rm2.jpg have made speculations on what he places in there]. Arnage actually has redundant goggles.
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** Notably averted when it comes to the pouches and holsters worn by shinobi. Characters are often shown withdrawing weapons or supplies from them.
* Gold in the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' the first noticable difference between him and the male PC for the second generation games.
* Rin-rin in ''[[
* The protagonist, Simon, in ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' averts this trope by actually wearing his goggles to protect his eyes and provide illumination while digging underground tunnels. It is worth mentioning, however, that Simon wears the goggles on his forehead at all times, even when not underground, and even {{spoiler|in space}}. He is also the only one to wear them even though he is by no means the only one who digs tunnels.
** Kamina is a better example, as he is shown always wearing his [[Cool Shades]]. Nevermind that they don't do anything since he's spent a good part of his life underground with no natural light source that he needs them for, but something like that isn't going to stop him.
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** Renji, meanwhile, likes wearing expensive sunglasses over his forehead tattoos, but are broken easily in fights. He substitutes a bandanna instead.
** A variation occurs in one of the anime omake: Tousen is seen using binoculars. This would be fine, except [[Fridge Logic|''TOUSEN IS BLIND''.]]
* ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'': Sailor V's mask is this. Unlike [[Sailor Moon]]'s similar mask in the manga it has no point aside from obscuring her face. When she becomes Sailor Venus she continues to wear it offscreen for a bit and during her introduction (probably so viewers/readers know that she and Sailor V are the same person) ditches it once she joins the team and her identity is never revealed due it.
* Dominikov from ''[[Murder Princess]]''. Come to think of it, he kinda resembles a more [
* Parodied in ''[[One Piece]]''. Zoro was fighting a character whose guns shoot bright flashes to blind his opponents from seeing the bullets. Believing that the goggles should protect his eyes so he can fight properly, he put them on, declaring that they would protect him from the flashes...then his opponent calmly pointed out that the goggles had no shades, rendering them useless for this fight.
** Captain Eustass Kidd however wears raised goggles as part of his normal fashion.
* Quatre Raberba Winner of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has a pair of goggles. The practical way to use them would be for crossing the desert - the only time he does wear them is inside his Gundam.
** Quatre's goggles are more for sentimental value; the prequel novel ''Episode Zero'' shows that they belonged to Rashid, leader of the Maganac Corps, and mark the young man as [[True Companions|one of them]], which makes the Maganacs the first real friends he ever had.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]] Heihachi of ''[[Samurai
** He's shown actually wearing the goggles in one episode during a heavy rain storm. It still doesn't explain the pilot's hat though.
* In ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'', both Ken and Omi wear goggles as part of their mission clothes. Possibly averted since they both ride motorcycles, though that doesn't explain their constant presence.
** Averted in the last episode (and lampshaded in the accompanying [[Hilarious Outtakes|outtakes]] for this and an earlier episode), when Omi actually uses his to see the infrared beams.
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** Played straight with the nonsensical orange jacket Ken wears around his waist as well.
* In ''[[
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Canada]] from ''[[
** Considering Canada's [[WW 2]] role as the airplane manufacturing/flight training center for most of the British Empire and the fact that his uniform seems to include a parachute, he's probably a bombardier or navigator, so the goggles aren't totally superfluous.
== Card Games ==▼
* Chandra, a Planeswalker in ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'', wears a pair of goggles on her brow.▼
** As did Jaya Ballard, whom Chandra is arguably an [[Expy]] of.▼
*** Since both of them derive great pleasure from [[Kill It With Fire|killing things with fire]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing stuff up]], it's easy to see why they ''might'' be useful. Too bad we never see them actually being used!▼
*** Going by flavor text, the reason appears to be that before becoming a Planeswalker, Chandra was trained in pyromancy by Jaya. So either it's Jaya's goggles passed down, she wanted to look like her teacher or she was simply told that goggles are a good thing when [[Playing With Fire]].▼
*** Although you never SEE her wear them, in the Webcomic series her face is covered in soot and ash, except for the goggle marks around her eyes. So conceivably, they actually DO do something.▼
**** [http://steveargyle.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d25og0g But when does she wear them?]▼
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** Just because you're invulnerable doesn't mean it's not annoying/disgusting to get bugs in your eyes during high-speed flight.
* Bob Burden's [[Flaming Carrot]] wears flippers all the time, [[Cloudcuckoolander|in case he needs to swim.]]
* Will Feral in ''[[
* Indirect example: [[Hellboy (
* Averted in Garth Ennis's ''[[The Boys]]''. One of the team's resident sociopathic anti-heroes, The Frenchman, initially appears to wear a pair of basic goggles on his bald head for purely aesthetic reasons. However, when he enters combat and draws them on to his eyes, their utility is quickly demonstrated as he rips his opponents apart like wet tissue paper and is immediately covered in viscera.
* Averted in ''Starman'', where the hero's goggles protect his eyes from the light of his own weapon.
* Hay Lin in ''[[
* ''[[Jenny Everywhere]]''.
== Fan
* Adelleh in the ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5153247/1/Tunnels_The_Tale_of_Tavor_T1 Tales]'' series of ''[[Looking for Group]]'' fanfiction is a ''crazy zombie priestess'' who wears green goggles for no apparent reason (then again [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|much of what]] [[Crazy Awesome|Adelleh does]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|has no apparent reason]]), despite them being somewhat out of place in a medieval fantasy setting. Nobody knows why she wears them, but they've become her signature costume item.
== Film ==
* In the
* In ''[[Alien (
** In ''Alien 3'', a prisoner has special rape goggles, which makes no sense, unless you employ a bit of [[Fridge Horror]] and realize that things get wet and splashy.
* In ''[[Top Gun]]'', the bad guys [[Faceless Goons|wore their visors at all times]] while flying, while the good guys never did.
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** By this time, the first T-800 was known as a cop-killer who escaped justice. No better way to have your charge recognize you than to adopt the same look.
** Well, he was riding a motorcycle for much of the second movie, and he loses them when he goes to rescue Sarah Connor. The third movie definitely fits this trope, though, when he takes a pair of [[Camp Gay]] sunglasses and crushes them in favor of a pair of Raybans.
* Although the thermal goggles in ''[[Hollow Man]]'' actually do something quite important for the film's plot, a possibly unintentional [[Shout
* Subverted in ''[[Pitch Black]]'', as Riddick's night vision makes his eyes sensitive to normal light. Played straight by Jack, as he (she) wears a fake pair in order to imitate Riddick.
== Live
* In the new version of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Mason's death in ''[[Dead Like Me]]''. He was searching for the ultimate high and put a drill into his brain. He wore safety goggles.
* The trope name is said verbatim by Topher in a ''[[Dollhouse]]'' deleted scene where he tries on some goggles that are meant to go with his interactive computer screen.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[
* Rabbit of [[
▲** As did Jaya Ballard, whom Chandra is arguably an [[Expy]] of.
▲*** Since both of them derive great pleasure from [[Kill It
▲*** Going by flavor text, the reason appears to be that before becoming a Planeswalker, Chandra was trained in pyromancy by Jaya. So either it's Jaya's goggles passed down, she wanted to look like her teacher or she was simply told that goggles are a good thing when [[Playing
▲*** Although you never SEE her wear them, in the Webcomic series her face is covered in soot and ash, except for the goggle marks around her eyes. So conceivably, they actually DO do something.
▲**** [http://steveargyle.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d25og0g But when does she wear them?]
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
** In a wasteland with, as shown in some areas, lots of blowing dust. She's encountered indoors, though, so has no need to keep them down - unlike a lot of the outdoor NPCs (who take great care to keep wrapped up, for the most part, against the elements, including goggles).
* In ''[[
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** The boss responds by turning all the lights off, [[Double Subversion|rendering the goggles decorative again]].
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has an accessory known as beer goggles. The enchantment is "They do Nothing!"
** Ironically, said enchantment allows them to be pulverised into twinkly powder (as opposed to [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' and ''[[City of Villains]]'' have goggle appearances, including ones always stay on the forehead. Like every other cosmetic choices, there's no gameplay result.
** Which actually means that every single piece of your equipment, other than any weapon-based powers are an example of this trope. Some good examples would include things like [[Utility Belts]], wings, armor, bandoliers, extra swords/guns, tails, and claws.
* Weirdly [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[
* In the ''[[
* Oddly enough, in ''[[
* ''None'' of the many goggles in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' have a stat bonus other than armor class, and they're both harder to find replacement components and no better as armor than glasses that do have stat bonuses.
** In addition, some of the costumes and headgear in the game feature goggles. This means that if a player wants he can have one pair on a helmet, one pair around his neck (as part of the costume) and at the same time wearing a pair.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', Goggles are an equippable item, which prevent blindness. Unfortunately, a glitch with the Evasion stat in the game made it so blindness doesn't affect the accuracy of physical attacks as it's supposed to, making the Goggles useless. This was fixed in the remake.
** Sadly, the goggles aren't actually drawn on your character.
* In ''[[
** Reno also boasts a pair, except without cigarettes, [[All There in the Manual|seeing as he's a very competent helicopter pilot.]]
* Rikku from [[Final Fantasy X]] wears a pair of goggles in her swimwear. When she takes it off, there's ''another'' pair of goggles underneath. She never wears these.
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** Funnily enough, Baird ''does'' wear his goggles properly as part of his 'Mechanic Baird' multiplayer skin. They still don't do anything, but at least it makes sense now.
** Also, Dom has a gigantic Ka-Bar-esque knife strapped to his chest. Guess when he actually pulls it out?
* Both titular characters (even though one is an otter-weasel hybrid) in the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series wear goggles around their heads. In Jak's case this trope is averted: his goggles are useful in [[Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy|the first game]] for sniping out enemies and Dark Eco crystals using yellow Eco; in [[Jak 3
** Played straight with Daxter in most games, until he eventually puts them to use while being flung through the air to dismantle planes in ''The Lost Frontier''.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', you really gotta wonder which or even ''if'' any of those zippers actually did anything. Zippers on ''hats''? There's a reason many of the game's critics call it "Buckles and Zippers."
** Also notable is the pair of goggles that Cid and Goofy wear. Though it's possible that Cid may use the goggles while working on Gummi ships, it's hard to imagine what use they would serve for a Captain of the Guard who uses shields as weapons.
* In ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Star Wars II]]'', some of the NPCs in the Mos Eisley Cantina and in the Tatooine levels are wearing what appear to be bucket hats with goggles around the crown. This hat can also be chosen in the character builder. These have no effect on gameplay, but boy, do they ever look cool.
* The protagonist of ''[[Persona 3]]'' has an [[
** The player is then referenced in a bit of a [[Mythology Gag]] in which [[The Lancer|lancer]] and [[Butt Monkey]] Yousuke(Voiced by the [[Yuri Lowenthal|same voice actor as P3's protagonist]]) is shown to also be wearing an [[
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''Red Alert 3'' where one of the allied units (who wear goggles) say when clicked on "The googles! Zey do nothink!".
* In ''[[
** Being the [[Mad Scientist]] he is, Robotnik probably uses them when welding his [[Mecha
* The Heroes in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Riders]]'' wear goggles even before they know they're going to compete in a hoverboard competition, and once they start competing, they never put their goggles over their eyes. This isn't so for the antagonistic Babylon Rogues.
** Actually, only Sonic has any headgear in the introductory cut
* There are goggle sprites in the original ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
* ''[[
* Rita, of ''[[
* ''[[
** The Engineer has goggles, which do nothing gameplay-related.
*** However, the way he looks without googles is so freaky to some that it ascended to [[Memetic Mutation
** The Medic received a pair of mad scientist goggles as a hat option in one update. Their description consists of just one word: "[[Ascended Meme|NOTHING]]"
** Scout now has the [[Magic:
** Theoretically, goggles/hats/wigs/doo-rags do do something, in a subtle manner: They distinguish newbies/Free-To-Play players (who don't have/can't get hats) from experienced players, help distinguish strangers from friends, and show what other games the player owns if they have a buy-in bonus.
* The goggles Hwoarang from the ''[[Tekken]]'' series wears but never puts over his eyes. There is a cutscene in PSP version of ''[[Tekken]]'', when Hwoarang is riding his bike... With the goggles still up on his hair.
* ''[[Warcraft III]]'' has an ending credit movie, in which Archimonde is 'filming' a movie, complete with several takes. In one take, there's a dragon attack, and while running away, someone says "The goggles! They do nothing!!"
** One of the new quests in [[World of Warcraft|Cataclysm]] gives a pair of safety goggles.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''' <s>Elzam V. Branstein</s> Ratsel Feinschmecker wears enormous aviator goggles as a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]], in homage to [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Char Aznable]]'s similar trick with [[Cool Shades]]. They're useless because the disguise fools absolutely no one.
* The main character of ''Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja'' wears a pair of strange triangular goggles that are never used.
* Dust Man from ''[[
* Beaux from ''[[Atelier Annie]]'' wears a pair of goggles on his head that he's never actually seen using as protective eyewear. One of his alchemy requests is for you to make a Glass Sphere to help him repair one of the lenses, which makes one wonder...what exactly ''does'' the boy use the goggles for, anyway?
* ''[[The Sims]] 2'' has goggles you can wear on your forehead, but not over your eyes. A lot of user made content involves giving your character other equipment such as weaponry, backpacks, etc. that don't do anything.
* Okay, so it's not goggles, but ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'': Covenant has Yuri, wearing a small satchel on his back (with trailing buckle-straps). While one could argue that's [[Hammerspace|where the millions of random items you collect or buy over the course of the game]] end up stashed, you never see Yuri use it. Seems he took a few traveling tips from [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]].
* ''[[Soldier of Fortune]]''.
** In ''Soldier Of Fortune 2'', thermal goggles allowed you to see through walls (but were less compatible with sniper rifles).
* In ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', you can personalise your Spartan with various different helmets, shoulder pieces, etc. Despite many of them having obvious bonuses (extra armor, grenades, etc.) all the changes are cosmetic.
* One of the guys behind ''[[Vacant Sky]]'' is likely a troper, as there's a tombstone that literally reads:
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The goggles did nothing }}
* Flak in ''[[Advance Wars]]'' wears goggles and a helmet. No-one's quite clear on why ''[[Dumb Muscle|Flak]]'' would need head protection.
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* The character of Jyrras Gianna from ''[[Dan and
* Used every which way in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', as befits its [[Mad Scientist|mad science]] milieu.
** Played straight, but also
* Parodied (maybe) in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' with the character of Charles. Ever since [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/06/23 his redesign], he has kept a pair of goggles on his forehead.
* Hell, Zaraki Yagami of [[Mitadake Saga]]'s alias -is- The Boy with Goggles. [[Captain Obvious|They don't come in useful]]
* Lampshaded in [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=266 this] [[Hark!
* The Commander in ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]'' has these. Lampshaded [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/454 here.]
* [[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]] presents to us the advanced rules for Rock, Paper, Scissors. As the Alt-text/Votey specifically points out: [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2131#comic Goggles: They Do Nothing]
* [[Weregeek]] gives us [http://www.weregeek.com/2008/07/25/ this].
* Pocky Robot parodies subversions of this at end of [
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]], in [[
* Since a character redesign, Shelly Mander of ''[[Femmegasm]]'' wears goggles for no reason.
== Web Original ==
* [[Mad Scientist]] ''[[Dr.
* ''[[That Guy With
* http://www.southperry.net has a goggle smiley inspired in part by one of Maplestory's bosses, [http://maplestory.wikia.com/wiki/File:Monster_Rellik.png Rellik]{{broken link}}, and in part by the Simpsons quote below. The goggles became wildly popular, and people began editing their avatars to include them. Nexon (Maplestory's publisher in North America) saw this and created Gachapon (egg-machine that requires real money in exchange for random items) only goggles equippable by players. There is an inscription on them stating [[Lampshade Hanging|"Who says the goggles do nothing?"]]
* Alex Steacy of [[Loading Ready Run]] wears welding goggles at all times, apparently for the look.
* In [[Mitadake High]], one of the characters wears goggles (and is in fact referred to as The Boy With Goggles). There are a number of ways to inflict temporary blindness on other players, and Goggles is no exception to them. More than once somebody playing Goggles has yelled the memetic phrase after being blinded.
* [[Stuart Ashen]] [[Invoked Trope|invokes this trope]] at the end of his Cyber FX review, in which the eponymous goggles [[Exactly What It Says
* Vdex Project once had goggles in the Secondhand Shop. Lampshaded in the achievement you get when you buy them.
* Many in ''[[The League of STEAM]]'' wear goggles (it's steampunk, what do you expect?) but they rarely seem to be used for anything.
== Western Animation ==
* Named for a line in ''[[The Simpsons (
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* Frida from ''[[El Tigre]]''. In one episode, after her goggles fall off and break, Frida shrieks, "Those are prescription!" However, she never actually wears them over her eyes.
* ''[[Oban Star Racers]]'' has Molly, who, being a Star Racer pilot (basically a podracer pilot) always wears her goggles on her forehead and has even been seen sleeping in them. However, since inside her vehicle she is safely concealed behind a plastic dome, she doesn't really need to protect her eyes. Since [[Missing Mom|her mother]] also wore a pair, which are constantly seen in flashbacks on top of her head, chances are very high that Molly initially got hers because they looked like her mother's.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is fond of this:
** [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:AniBlitzwingPromoModel.jpg Blitzwing] has goggles built into the helmet of his robot mode head. Not only does he A) Not wear them, B) Not need them, what with being a robot and all, C) Could not pull them down over his eyes even if he ''did'', but D) his "angry" face already has a red visor over its eyes and his "calm" face has a monocle, which means that he is essentially wearing ''two'' pairs of equally-useless goggles! Blitzwing is the KING of
** Prometheus Black still wears his visor thing even after turning into a sentient mass of acid. Maybe it's so we don't have to see whatever the hell his eyes must look like.
** And ''once again'' Jetfire has aviator goggles that are apparently part of his head.
* The kiwi from ''[[Kiwi]]'' dons a pair of pilots goggles before jumping off the cliff. ''But he doesn't ever use them.''
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** Once Monterey wears his normal flightcap goggles on his head and a ''second'' pair actually over his eyes.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (
** When she [[Not Quite Flight|rides a rock as she levitates it]], the goggles may protect against the wind. They may also protect against dust and dirt that get flung around when she moves rocks.
* In "The Rock", [[
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== Real Life ==
* For some time, Drew Carey's glasses were only a prop and did not actually correct his vision; he had eye surgery and didn't need glasses. They're bifocals now, though.
* Neon coloured goggles are popular in rave and cybergoth culture, purely for aesthetic reasons.
** Ditto steampunk, though their goggles tend to be more monochrome and have gadgets on them.
** Rivethead as well.
** Even [[Cyberpunk]] is guilty of this with
** Some pairs of rave goggles even have a grate under the lens, making them harder to see through than shutter shades.
* In certain accessory stores, such as Claire's or Icing, it is possible to buy rectangular-lensed, black-and-neon-framed [[Nerd]]-looking glasses that do nothing. In fact, because real glasses dirty so easily, unless the buyer polishes them almost constantly they'll partially ''obscure'' her vision.
** Some people actually wear these spectacle frames without any lens because of the last sentence.
* US Army soldiers are all issued ballistic safety goggles to protect against dust and shrapnel, and almost every unit has the standard that they be secured to the Kevlar helmet over the special clamp that is used to mount a separate night vision device. This is a uniform standard, but the goggles themselves are difficult to use in this configuration, and likely become deformed, scratched, uncomfortable, or too cumbersome to use as eye protection. With the change in the US army to a brimless helmet, the goggles (normally covered by a cloth sleeve) work better as a brim to shade they eyes than they do when used as intended. Furthermore, soldiers are all issued ballistic sunglasses, which are usually worn (as intended) in addition to the mostly useless goggles on their helmets. The main reason you never see this in TV or movies is that the glasses cause horrible reflection and distortion, and goggles further have a tendency to fog up, making this "protective gear" potentially fatal in combat. Most soldiers will have multiple pairs of goggles and some even use them as intended, but the ones already on the helmet are the least likely to see actual use.
* Most women's clothing doesn't have belt loops, making belts on women nonfunctional. Furthermore, since women tend to have higher hip-to-waist ratios than men, they usually don't need belts to begin with, depending on how well their trousers fit.
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** Depending on the cause of the blindness, if you saw them without the sunglasses, [[Nightmare Fuel|you'd understand why they wear them]].
* In almost every science class, where safety goggles are actually required AND handed out, most students either wear them on their forehead or else around their necks, doing nothing at all to protect the eyes from chemicals that might splash back into the face, which is what they're supposed to do.
** Some science teachers require safety goggles for rather mundane experiments (in some extreme cases the greatest danger being a paperclip), making the already rarely used goggles very useless indeed.
* People's Liberation Army Marine Corps. Never were they once shown wearing their standard issue goggles over their eyes [https://web.archive.org/web/20130706210720/http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l597/Cifyra/PLA/PLAN/U135P200T1D207292F16DT20081225172132.jpg
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