Basic Trope: Moneyed, sophisticated characters wear monocles.
- Straight: Humphrey the Non-Idle Rich wears a monocle.
- Exaggerated:
- Humphrey is a Fiction 500 member who wears two monocles, one on each eye. His even wealthier father wears three.
- Humphrey is a trillionaire who wears two monocles on top of a pair of glasses.
- Downplayed: Humphrey wears pince-nez glasses.
- Justified:
- Humphrey's monocle is actually a high-tech appliance that is bulletproof, increases his visual acuity, and is a mobile computer with Wi-Fi connection and stats display. It's so expensive that he is one of few who can afford it.
- Humphrey needs vision correction in only one eye.
- Inverted: Humphrey's poor servant Helena wears a monocle, and Humphrey does not.
- Subverted: People think that Humphrey is rich because of his monocle, but he is actually a middle-class slob.
- Double Subverted: Later it is revealed that Humphrey is secretly a millionaire.
- Parodied: Only Humphrey ranks highly enough to wear a monocle, and with his riches he hires a task force to punish anyone else who dares to wear one.
- Zig-Zagged: Humphrey doesn't wear a monocle despite being a prince, but his father does. Then again, so does his wife, who is a villager ... but his mother doesn't, even though she is a noblewoman.
- Averted: Either everyone or nobody wears monocles.
- Enforced: "Hey, he doesn't look as elegant as he should ... how about if we add a monocle?"
- Lampshaded: "You are so elegant, it's clear why you wear that monocle."
- Invoked: No one takes Humphrey seriously, so he wears a monocle to look like a noble.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Do you think that just because I'm a noble, I must necessarily wear a monocle?"
- Discussed: Humphrey is examining several monocles and discussing their various merits with their sellers.
- Conversed: ???
Back to High-Class Glass, if you're rich enough.
