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* Ginnosuke from ''[[Tokyo Underground]]'' wears thick [[Nerd Glasses]], but whenever he loses them, he has no trouble functioning - he assembled his first spirit gun without them (requiring him to scavenge for parts in a junkyard), and even fight better. He's also surprisingly handsome without glasses, a fact made clear by not a few girls. He still puts them back on when he can.
* Ninamori wore lensless glasses over contacts during the school play in ''[[FLCL]]'', instead of just wearing normal glasses, because she doesn't want the other students to know she has imperfect vision.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'''s Conan Edogawa has big round glasses for the aesthetic affect of ''looking less like himself''; he's been [[Fountain of Youth|de-aged]] into a child and is living day-to-day with a [[Childhood Friend]] whom he does not want to recognize him, and Shinichi never wore glasses. He's [[Clark Kenting]], but he doesn't have the luxury of changing back and forth at will. They also make him look cuter, which he exploits. That said, he does get some cool features built into them as time passes, chiefly that they contain the monitor system for his little electronic trackers. And yeah, I don't know how he gets his eyes to focus that close-up either.
** When he first grabs a pair in the anime he punches out the lenses in them so he can actually see as they originally belonged to someone else presumably his father, who does need them.
* An unanimated chapter of ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' revealed that {{spoiler|Hidenori has 40/20 vision ''without'' his [[Stoic Spectacles]].}}
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* In ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', Illya does seem to legitimately need reading glasses, but he's also been seen putting them on in order to pose as a doctor or scientist on short notice.
* [[Subverted]] on ''[[Dollhouse]]:'' in the first episode [[Reluctant Mad Scientist|Topher]] explains that [[The Hero|Echo]] really ''does'' need glasses when she's imprinted with the Miss Penn personality, even though she normally doesn't. The way he sees it, little weaknesses like that are important features that help give the personae their strengths.
* Ami in ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]''. She claims she feels awkward without them.
* Hugh Laurie, when hosting ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', was supposed to put on glasses at one point during a sketch, to make his character look smarter. Since he fumbled the [[Glasses Pull]] and couldn't get them on quickly, he just [[Throw It In|ad-libbed]], [[Lampshade Hanging|"Never mind, they're just an affectation."]]
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== Video Games ==
* Charlie from the ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]'' series is a well-educated individual (on top of being [[Good
* Emma plays this straight in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''. When Raiden is about to escort her underwater, she takes off her glasses and he suggests for her to get contacts. Emma then admits that she can see perfectly fine and only wears the frames to look cuter.
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* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'s'' [[Meaningful Name|Cerveau]] has glasses that are similar to [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Cyclops]]. But that didn't stop him from looking brainy.
* Scholars in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' have two specially designed pieces of headgear that are mortarboards with built-in glasses. The lower-leveled one has Intelligence and augments their ability to regain MP. The higher leveled on has Mind (generally associated with wisdom in the game), elemental magic skill, and improves their spell-casting time. [[Fantastic Racism|But the amazing thing is that the mortarboards can even make Elvaans look smart!]]
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** In the main cast commentary for ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', Lindsay discusses her usage of glasses. She explains that she stopped wearing them because the camera would be reflect in the lens, leading to several other commentators bringing up their own issues of wearing glasses while filming.
* [[James Rolfe]] doesn't need to wear glasses, as can be seen in some of his videos, but wears them in his persona as [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] to add to the image of a stereotypical geek.
* Halfway through [[Todd in the Shadows]]' review of "[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/tpsr/33324-ep-30-sexy-and-i-know-it I'm Sexy And I Know It]," he puts on a pair of glasses as the words "DEEP LYRICAL ANALYSIS" flash across the screen. He spends a good portion of the review gesturing them in his hands, though, possibly due to the [[Fridge Logic]] that his character [[The Faceless|is supposed to be wearing a mask]].
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* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', during a [[Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum]] plot, Beezy dons a pair of glasses even though he has perfect eyesight. Heloise apparently needs hers to read, but in one episode she puts them on before giving advice, probably to appear smarter.
* Later episodes of ''[[Re Boot]]'' had Dot adopt a pair of [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]] while working as Mainframe's COMMAND.COM. In earlier episodes she would wear them inconsistently with the implication that she didn't ''need'' them, she just ''liked'' them.
* On ''[[Family Guy]]'' Brian tries to show [[The Hills|Lauren Conrad]] how smart he is by taking out glasses to read. When she asks when he got reading glasses, he says he always wore them. She points out she knows they aren't real as she can see the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' logo.
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* In his youth, [[Elton John]] played this trope straight when he started wearing glasses to copy his idol, Buddy Holly. Subverted, now that he can't see without them.
* This trope has its origins in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. The literate educated classes were often forced to read by candlelight, straining and eventually damaging their eyes. Therefore, intelligent people were more likely to need (and be able to afford) glasses than the ignorant masses, or those who earned their fortune in other ways.
** Reading in candlelight doesn't really damage your eyes. Growing old does, however, and if your job is to read and write, rather than farm, then you really need the glasses, hence the connection.
* Sadly believed to be played straight in real life by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which executed any "intellectuals" in their attempt to bring Cambodia back to a self-sufficient agricultural community, including [[Insane Troll Logic|anyone who wore glasses]].
* Stephen Harper started wearing glasses, seemingly for no reason other than to look smart. They don't help.
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