In the film Jackie Brown, Samuel L. Jackson's character wears leather gloves.
A popular depiction of a leather glove in fiction is the use of such a glove by Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars movies. He wears the glove to cover his robotic hand and to hint at the transformation of Anakin into the evil villain Darth Vader.
In the television show Bonanza, Joe Cartwright famously wore black leather gloves.
Another example of leather gloves in fiction is in the Hitman video games. Agent 47, the main character, is an assassin who typically wears a suit, tie, and prominently-displayed black leather gloves.
In a Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch on Saturday Night Live, Sean Connery (as portrayed by Darrell Hammond) humorously refers to a leather glove being an object out of which people drink water. |
