Scary Shiny Glasses/Video Games

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Examples of Scary Shiny Glasses in Video Games include:

  • During the tutorial of Metroid: Other M a scientist says he gave Samus' suit a "polish" and then repositions his glasses causing them to flash, creepy... It turns out this scientist is the reason Metroids still exist.
  • There's one of the most scariest scenes in Condemned:Criminal Origins, where you've been suddently attacked by your recent companion, with a Scary Shiny Glasses effect permanently on. Turns out that this was just a hallucination, though.
  • Latooni Subota from Super Robot Wars: Original Generation is a perfect example. She wears extremely thick coke-bottle glasses that she says are her analyzation glasses; they turn out to be a psychological tool she uses to stay professional at all times.
  • Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog games always hid his eyes behind a pair of round-frame sunglasses, and at one point wore goggles over them. His true eye color (blue) was not revealed until 2006's Sonic The Hedgehog, and even then it was only briefly.
  • In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Kristoph Gavin develops this this when things cease going his way. At one point, you can look through those glasses and see his eyes. It's very, very unnerving.
    • Also in the same game, it is subverted with Winfred Kitaki who LOOKS like he has them (or perhaps very large shadows in place of his eyes), but in reality, they are his eyebrows, and look like glasses because his eyes are always shut.
  • Sparda of Devil May Cry has a one-way purple monocle over his left eye while in his human form.
  • The Sorrow in Metal Gear Solid 3 has glasses that simultaneously blank out and break when he does his ghost routine.
  • Keats from Folklore does this often, like every second scene. He also has scary shiny glasses whenever he's in combat and his Transcendence bar is filling up.
  • It is implied that Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss literally wears his glasses to protect the environment from his eyes. Needless to say, they flash often, especially in the anime adaptation.
  • Played for laughs in Persona 3: FES: In one of the new extra features for the original storyline, Shuji Ikutsuki's glasses do this whenever he thinks up one of his terrifyingly bad puns. This happens a lot. Also, when he goes into full-on Nietzsche Wannabe slash A God Am I territory, his glasses do this too. It abruptly ceases being funny.
    • Players familiar with this trope can spot the twist a mile away, as all but one of his evil mode pictures show up before he reveals his plan.
  • When Mao's glasses start to shine, it's generally a good rule of thumb to get the bloody hell out of there. Usually, it means he's planning to drill a hole in your head to see what's inside the mad science is about to begin, and you're the specimen.
  • Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's infamously creepy Survival Horror freeware game, 1213, features the impatient and batshit-insane Westbury, who torments 1213 through video screens. All that we see of him besides his silhouette are his his huge round glasses. What's more, the shiny glasses are the boss of the second episode, as a pair of giant white circles that fire bolts of lighting at the protagonist.
  • Beruga, one of the main antagonists in Terranigma. His hometown Mosque is adorned with giant posters of his face, and his eyes hidden behind a pair of opaque round glasses.
  • Professor Hojo from Final Fantasy VII gets a lot of mileage out of this one. Due to the limitations of low-poly models, in-game his glasses are opaque pretty much the whole time. In better-animated Compilation materials, he glints significantly at the drop of a hat.
  • Roxis Rozenkrantz of Mana Khemia. Whenever he's in battle, his idle battle sprite will periodically have an omnimous glare
  • Albert Wesker from Resident Evil does this a hell of a lot. Come 5, it's gotten even worse, as the Virus has apparently done a lot of good for Wesker in this case. He wears mirrored glasses to keep people from seeing his obviously-infected eyes, and the second Jill and Chris open fire, begins teleporting around the room and dodging bullets like he just stepped right out of the Matrix. All without losing the scary as hell shine.
  • Kamek and his fellow Magikoopas from the Super Mario Bros. games all wear identical round, opaque glasses.
  • Iron Tager from BlazBlue: Bringing the Real Soviet Damage with permanent glasses-glow.
  • Aoi-sensei in Aoi Shiro occasionally engages the shine effect, usually when teasing the girls with scary stories.
  • This trope, and a significantly better voice actor, did wonders for The House of the Dead's Goldman when he reappeared in the fourth game.
  • The player can pull this off with Niko in GTA IV, given the right lighting conditions.
  • The clever costume builder can achieve the effect in City of Heroes by combining the glasses costume part with the "glowing eyes" aura.
  • Mr. R of Boy Love game Kichiku Megane uses the common version of this trope from time to time. Is is interesting as it combines with various other features to add to his largely concealed face.
  • The Doctor from Cave Story.
  • In Team Fortress 2, the BLU Engineer has these in the last page of the Loose Canon comic.
  • Ovan from .hack//GU has shiny glasses.
  • In the intro for Worgen, Godfrey shows he has quite an experience when it comes to being scary. Bonus points for the reflection of the worgen's eyes in his glasses.
  • Oswald from The King Of Fighters XI.
  • Michael Thorton's glasses tend to be rather reflective. Sometimes to a ridiculously bright extent.
  • Some of the scientists in Black Mesa in the original Half-Life 1 have glasses like these. Averted, since they're mostly craven cowards.
    • The eyes in the masks of Combine civil protection and overwatch troops in Half-Life 2 shine like this. (CP silver, Overwatch blue.)
  • Batman: Arkham City introduces Hugo Strange with Bruce Wayne's reflection in his glasses. You can even see his eyes under them.
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