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    Shady characters.[1]Gokai RED (film), Cobra Commander, Motoko Kusanagi, Geordi LaForge, Astronaut Scott Parazynski of NASA, Master Chief, Cyclops, and RoboCop.
    1: My legions of terror will have clear, plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.

    A visor is a piece of eyewear that covers at least both eyes and the bridge of the nose. It's like a pair of goggles, but with temple-arms. Visor also refers to the faceplate of a helmet, the part that can be raised or lowered. This is about both kinds, specifically, ones that are opaque on one side (although, for all we know, it's opaque on both sides, so it doesn't have to be confirmed to be one-way), which is often—but not necessarily—connoted by a gold, silver, or obsidian mirror effect. Opaque, spherical helmets also count. Bonus points if the technology to do this shouldn't have been invented yet.

    Separate lenses don't count, they go on Opaque Lenses. Compare Sinister Shades, The Blank, Eyeless Face, The Faceless. Contrast In Space Everyone Can See Your Face.

    Examples of One-Way Visor include:

    Anime and Manga

    • Female Saints of Athena from Saint Seiya.
    • Zero from Code Geass.
    • The Pluto colonists from Vandread.
    • At various points throughout the Ghost in the Shell multiverse, Motoko is seen using one sooner or later.
      • She wears one in Cash Eye as part of a thief's disguise in Stand Alone Complex.
      • She has one during her fight against the giant Spider Tank at the end of the first movie.
      • The manga series also shows her using one every now and then.
    • Crimson Scorpion's henchmen in Steam Detectives
    • Arc Ail snipers from Elemental Gelade
    • The Uruk Army commanders from The Tower of Druaga anime (the regular, BFS-weilding footmen don't count, however). One is also seen in the background when Jil gets his armor fixed.

    Comic Books

    • Judge Dredd
    • Moon Man, a pulp mag character who came out when one-way glass was invented.
    • Originally, the Red Hood, a Batman villain had this. Later, it was changed to the standard superhero opaque eyepeices.
    • Cyclops from X-Men.
    • Mysterio, a Spider-Man villain.
    • Red Hook Asylum guards from Neonomicon
    • Yorrick's gas mask in Y: The Last Man
    • Space Marines from Wonton Soup
    • In G.I. Joe, Cobra Commander's battle helmet featured a completely mirrored facemask. Many varieties of Cobra Vipers wore such masks as well.

    Film

    Live Action TV

    Music

    Tabletop Games

    • Warhammer 40,000 unsurprisingly features many such helmets. The Dark Eldar are especially fond of these, with mirrored full-face masks common among Reaver jetbike pilots, and most of the Haemonculi "creations" such as Wracks and Grotesques have blank visors surgically implanted over their faces.

    Video Games

    • Terran Marines from StarCraft have this. In StarCraft II, Banshee and Viking pilots have this when their ships are invisible or transformed, respectively.
    • Quarian helmets from Mass Effect. However, looking very closely vaguely shows eyes and a nose.
    • RiG helmets from Dead Space.
    • Sanctioned Psyker helmets from Dawn of War. Their helmets are probably all opaque, as it's heavily decorated with imperial religeous ioconography to keep them from exploding or being possessed.
    • Nod Chem Warriors from Command & Conquer: Renegade.
      • Cyborg Commando from Tiberian Sun
      • Most GDI units from Tiberium Wars
    • Combine Elites from Half-Life 2.
    • UNSC SPARTAN soldiers in the Halo series.
    • The Assassin Cyber from Space Siege
    • Jeanne's Soul Armor from Jeanne D'Arc
    • Rosies from BioShock (series)
      • Alpha Sieres' from the sequel.
    • Mantel Corporation soldiers from Haze
    • Mega Man Geo-Omega from Mega Man Star Force
    • Komuso from Okami
    • Samus Aran from Metroid, although she can make hers transparent.
      • Federation Space Marines
    • Zig Zagged in The Breach, the Security (staring) and Prototype (ending) suits appear to have this, but the cutscenes show us Sergei's expressions through it.
    • The Assassination mission in Bulletstorm has all members of the Dead Echo team wearing these.
    • Security guards from Doom3
    • Several outfits from Fallout.[2] Most prominently, the T-51b Powered Armor (it's on the front of the box for the original and the second sequel, after all). It's got a sort of squinty, angry-eyes look to it.
    • Sam's prototype Powered Armor from Vanquish.
    • The Purple Bird in Angry Birds in Space.
    • Godot from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations wears a visor consisting of three horizontal, red, glowing lines. It allows him to see since he lost his vision due to poison, but he can't see red on a white background.

    Web Comics

    • The Judicatrix and Pillar Security from Collar 6.
    • The alien cabbie from Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger.
    • Arbite helmets from Servants of the Imperium.
    • One What Might Have Been strip for Gone With the Blastwave, titled "GWTBW 250k", had Gunless and Sniperguy in helmets that were featureless save for the crosshair etched in the centre and some red detailing.
    • Splink from Zortic. He likes weasring bizzarre makeup and/or prosthetics underneath so he can weird out people who make him take it off. The Continuity Reboot/Retcon introduces the Soykil, who have a pentagonal one as part of their uniforms.
    • One human scientist from Daydream wears one.
    • Lord Sigfreid wears one in Dominic Deegan when he's claimed by the Demon Lord Karnak and made into his second-in-command.
      • Part of the Callan Battlecaster uniform.
    • Scarlet and her four sisters' Powered Armor from Sequential Art.
    • Zig Zagged with Mecha Maid from Spinnerette. About fifty percent of the time she has this.
    • Greylock, the four-armed climber dude, and Gali-Leo from American Barbarian.
    • P-T.U.N.I.A.[3] from Beyond the Canopy.
    • Callista of Magick Chicks never seems to take her's off. Its made evident when Cerise removes it and it leaves lines on her face.
    • "Sarge," one of Nova's cyborg minions, from Keychain of Creation
    • The Emmissary from Chorus Of The Neverborn

    Web Original

    Western Animation

    • G.I. Joe: Cobra Commander's mask. The Movie shows that it's a rare fully opaque version.
    • Played With in Static Shock with Richie (AKA Gear). Other characters act as if it's this, but the audience can see through it just fine.
    • Most goggles in the Dilbert cartoon.

    Real Life

    • Space Suits have these.
    • Welding helmets and goggles have heavily smoked glass to protect one's corneas from the light generated by plasma arcs and metal-melting flames.
    • Hazmat Suits
    • Some sports eyeshields (including motorbiking helmets).
    • Air force pilots sometimes wear these (as seen on almost every air-force movie, usually on Mooks).
    • Mirrored, wraparound sunglasses.
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    2. ↑ the entire series, not just the original
    3. ↑ Plant-(at)Tuned Undead Named In Acronym
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