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- In the Harry Potter series, Professor Tofty, a wizard who works as an Examiner for the Wizarding Examinations Authority, wears them in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
- In the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez", a murder mystery revolves around them.
- The fictional detective Ellery Queen is regularly described as wearing pince-nez.
- In the television serial Agatha Christie's Poirot, Poirot wears pince-nez that is attached to a cord around his neck. When not worn, he puts the pince-nez in his top left waistcoat pocket and hooks the cord on one of its buttons to remove the slack.
- In the Matrix trilogy, Morpheus wears reflective-lensed pince-nez sunglasses when he appears in the Matrix.
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, the main antagonist, Doctor Eggman wears blue tinted pince-nez sunglasses.
- In Sonic the Hedgehog comics, an evil echidna scientist, Doctor Finitevus wears them; the color of the glasses are often transparent violet or transparent yellow.
- In The Master and Margarita, one of the devil's associates, "Koroviev", is noted as wearing "a checkered suit, a jockey's cap, and a cracked pince-nez."
- Don Knotts' character Henry Limpet wears them in The Incredible Mr. Limpet.
- In the Russian novel 12 Chairs by Ilf and Petrov, the character Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov wears a pince-nez with a golden bridge.
- In the C.S. Lewis novel That Hideous Strength, Professor Frost, a member of the N.I.C.E., is identified multiple times by his wearing a pair of pince-nez.
- In Lives of the Monster Dogs, a novel by Kirsten Bakis, Ludwig, a monster dog, wears pince-nez.
- Walt Disney's cartoon character Scrooge McDuck has pince-nez.
- In Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Niko's mentor Ariel wears black pince-nez glasses.
- In William Dean Howells's novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham", Bromfield Corey, father of Tom Corey, is found reading with his pince-nez.
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