monocle

The ruthless military officer with the monocle and the swagger stick who sends his men to senseless death and/or turns traitor.

In his earlier incarnations on the page and screen, the Penguin was a demented society swell whose signature accouterments were a top hat, a monocle and a trick umbrella.

If God had intended the country to be ruled by elites, Hitler said at one rally, “we would all have been born with monocles.”

“There’s a quote on our ‘about us’ page that says we’re removing the monocle from opera’s … rump, essentially.

“Go ahead and put a monocle and top hat on him.”