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{{cleanup|This trope is [[Always Female]] by dictionary definition. The male examples need to be moved to [[Megane]] (which, despite some people's misconception, is ''not'' a fanspeak term).}}

 

{{quote|''"...fanboys make passes at girls who wear glasses."''

 

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* Any print ad for eye wear will most likely feature one.

** Any ''other'' ad will most likely ''not''.

* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'': Played straight by Nanoha's elder sister Miyuki and the [[Wrench Wench]] Shario "Shari" Finieno in ''[[Nanoha Striker S]]''.

** Also subverted by Quattro in the third season. She [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|looks and acts the part]], but all of that hides a [[Smug Snake]] who's nasty to the core.

* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'': Fuu.

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Haruna Saotome, Satomi Hakase, Chisame Hasegawa when she's not being [[Cosplay Otaku Girl|net idol Chiu]]. Kazumi Asakura and Evangeline A.K. McDowell sometimes wears glasses. The same goes for Nodoka's cosplay form in the [[Gag Series]] ''[[Negima Second Season|Negima!?]]'' and the mostly manga-only character Tsukuyomi.

** ''Negima'' tends to subvert the "sweet girl" part. Haruna is downright ''scary'', Chisame is far more [[Meta Guy|snarky]] than sweet, Hakase is a [[Mad Scientist]], and as for Tsukuyomi...'''''[[Psycho Lesbian|HOLY SHIT]]'''''.

* ''[[My-HiME]]'' and ''[[Mai-Otome]]'': Yukino Kikukawa, whose shyness provides a perfect balance for her very outspoken [[Heterosexual Life Partners|best friend]] Haruka. Her ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' [[Expy]], Irina, also wears cute-girl frames, but they're smaller and rounder.

** On the other hand, Chie from the same series seems like she'd be a meganekko, but turns out to really be a [[Bifauxnen]].

* ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'': [[Hot Teacher|Shizuka and Ririko]].

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Mizuno Ami (Amy in the English dub) is an interesting example, though they were an obvious metaphor for Ami's introversion and fear of making friends. In the original manga, she just used them for reading occasionally, and the anime rarely showed them at all. However, in ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', she seemed to have caved to fan appeal, and wore them more or less all the time in the earlier episodes.

* ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'': All four teams have one. Kiyosumi has Mako, Ryuumonbuchi has Tomoki, Kazekoshi has Miharu, and Tsuruga has Kaori. They all somehow ended up facing one another in the second round.

* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'': Harumi Fujiyoshi is a meganekko, and sees her teacher's wearing of glasses as [[Teacher-Student Romance|one of his most attractive traits]]. In fact, when one day he loses his glasses and comes to class wearing contacts, Harumi promptly ''[[Dope Slap|slaps them out of his head]]'', forcing him to procure [[Rose Tinted Glasses|a new pair of spectacles]].

* ''[[Zombie Loan]]'' has Michiru, though in more later chapters, she begins to stop wearing them as often.

 

* ''[[Alpha Flight]]'': A long-defining trait of Heather Hudson. Unfortunately, she got laser eye surgery when she became Vindicator and no longer wore them.

* [[Batgirl]] has used glasses as her secret identity. Barbara Gordon is the quintessential [[Hot Librarian]].

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat. Her [[Intangible Man|phasing]] prevents her from using contacts... awww, too bad!

 

* ''[[Guardians of Pokémon]]'': According to the author, Mitsumi is based on this archetype.

* ''[[Skin (fanfic)|Skin]]'': For some reason, during the time before 'going blind' became too serious, [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Shizuka Kawai]] was one for a short period of time. After her blindness took a nasty turn and surgery was required, this quickly stopped.

 

* ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'': Tara Reid's character.

* ''[[Austin Powers]]'': Vanessa Kensington (Elizabath Hurley) in her first few scenes in the first movie. Also, Austin is a male example.

* ''[[Jennifer's Body]]'': Needy ([[Amanda Seyfried]]).

* ''[[Jurassic Park]]'': Dr. Ellie Sattler ([[Laura Dern]]), already hot, gets just a little bit hotter in the movie's scene in the park's tourist museum and dinosaur egg laboratory when she puts on a pair of glasses.

* ''[[Night at the Museum]] 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian'': [[Amy Adams]] as {{spoiler|the woman Ben Stiller's character meets at the end of who resembles the other person Adams played, a wax figure of [[Amelia Earhart]] come to life.}}

* ''Ocean's Thirteen'': Abigail Sponder (Ellen Barkin).

{{quote|'''Katherine Johnson:''' "I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we're proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses. Have a good day."}}

 

* ''[[Friday the 13th|Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat]]'': An FBI agent mentions his new partner suddenly goes from hot to absolutely adorable when she briefly puts on a pair of reading glasses.

* Bernice in ''[[This Present Darkness]]''. In her introductory scene, she's mentioned as being very attractive and wearing glasses in the same sentence.

 

 

* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Bernadette, Amy, and Leslie. Also, Leonard is a male version.

* ''[[Burn Notice]]'': The episode "Partners in Crime" had Fiona donning a pair in order to pose as a CIA Agent, placing her nicely into this trope.

* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': The episode, "You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Zit Is About You'' revealed that Lily wears contacts, and when her dog eats them, she has to wear glasses. Even though she hates them, they put her squarely into this trope.

** Also, Miley wore a pair while she was Lily's "lawyer" in the episode "You Are So Sue-able To Me".

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': Another medical example, Dr. Cameron occasionally puts some specs on. And frankly looks way hotter in them.

** Dr. Park is almost never seen without her glasses.

* Brazilian actress Tania Khalill at the novela "Fina Estampa".

* ''[[Angel]]''. [[Gibbering Genius]] Winifred 'Fred' Burkle wears [[Nerd Glasses]] on occasion to highlight her braininess. Lampshaded when [[Dating Catwoman|Lilah Morgan]] gets jealous over Wesley pining over Fred and dresses up like her to taunt him. As they're stripping off to have sex, Wes tells Lilah to keep the glasses on.

 

* Guitarist/vocalist Sheena Ozzella of the indie rock band Lemuria definitely qualifies when she's wearing glasses. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g0BTJk_F00 Just look at her!]

* [[Taylor Swift]]. In the video for the song "You Belong With Me", she plays dual roles as a cheerleader and as a nerdy neighbor girl. For the nerdy neighbor girl part she dons a pair of glasses, which not only fail to make her look unattractive but actually make her even more beautiful.

 

 

* ''[[Peanuts]]'': Marcie.

* ''[[Zits]]'': One strip reveals that Sara wears glasses and ends with Jeremy saying, "Just when I thought she couldn't get any hotter."

 

 

* ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'': Katrina Shanks. Medium notwithstanding, she fits the mold of a meganekko, she acts like a meganekko, and just to dispel any remaining doubt, the official artwork (only seen in the older, less stylized pictures for good measure) depicts her as a reserved, bespectacled meganekko.

** Lucy Cunningham-Schultz, the resident [[Intrepid Reporter]] for the Odyssey Owl, is another example.

 

 

* The ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series: Maggey Byrde.

** Adrian Andrews, an actor's manager; Penny, a film set designer; and to a goggle extent, Ema Skye.

* ''[[Arcana Heart]]'': [[Cute Witch|Yoriko]].

* ''[[Backyard Sports]]'': Lisa Crocket (now Crockett).

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' is here to challenge Yomiko for the Meganekko throne.

** [[Paper Master|Paper]] or [[Prehensile Hair|hair]]? [[Guilty Gear|Let's rock!]]

** ''[[Xenogears]]'': Also, her predecessor, Citan Uzuki/Hyuuga Ricdeau.

 

* ''[[CROSS†CHANNEL]]'': Misato Miyasumi.

* ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'': Rin wears glasses when she's in teacher mode—with sexy results. In the sequel ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'', Rider has a [[Power Limiter|more functional]] pair that she wears when she's in civvies.

 

 

* ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]'': Nicole is one of these. Glasses are a little smaller than the usual fare, but she certainly fits the trope.

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' brings us Cloe, the Meganekko [[Moe]] [[Horny Devil|succubus]].

 

 

* ''[[Gaia Online]]'', with its strong anime influence, has several.

** Meredith, an [[Office Lady]]

* ''[[Fenspace]]'' has one character who can build a [[Robot Girl]] version of almost any fictional character - as long as she wears glasses in the in-universe source material. This is why the setting has [[Captain Ersatz]] versions of so many anime meganekko.

 

* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'': Jeanette of the Chipettes. A [[Funny Animal]] example.

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'': Harleen Quinzel before becoming Harley Quinn, in another example of the glasses signifying a personality (or in this case, sanity) change.

* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'': Sam Sparks, about midway through, when she decides to embrace the nerdier side she kept hidden for so long with Flint's help.

* ''[[Daria]]'': The title character, though she may be something of an inversion—it's pretty well established that Daria is naturally attractive and dresses down to avoid attention, so it's not too clear if the glasses work for her or against her.

*** [[The Ditz|Brittany]] also entered the trope in the episode "Through a Lens Darkly" where she gets a set of glasses thinking they'll make her smarter.

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': Tootie.

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{{reflist}}

[[Category:Glasses Tropes]]

[[Category:Harem Genre]]

[[Category:Costume Tropes]]

[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]