Meganekko: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Chocotto Sister]]'': Chitose, the landlady, wears thick glasses and is very self-conscious about it. A boy calling her a "four-eyed dog" in high school is a major emotional hurt of hers and Haruma's complimenting her on how she looks wearing them is a large part of why she falls for him.

* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'': Shader, although she's much more of a [[Genki Girl]] than the typical stereotype.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Nina Einstein was like this for much of the first season. She ''appears'' this way for a good portion of season one because she barely says anything. But then she gets [[Fantastic Racism|weirder]], and [[Cargo Ship|weirder]], and '''[[Psycho Lesbian|weirder]]'''. And then [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|worse]]. And in the end, [[My God, What Have I Done?|she gets]] [[Character Development|better]]. Wow.

** She also has elements of [[Beautiful All Along]] in episode 9 of R2 when she attends the wedding banquet for Tianzi and Prince Odysseus as Schniezel's date, in a pretty gown and without her glasses. Although whether this actually makes her more attractive or not is up to personal taste.

** ''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]]'''''.

** The character notes in Negima claim that Nodoka was designed as an evolution of the Meganekko trope, the "megamikko". Instead of "girl with glasses", it is "girl with long bangs [[Overly Long Name|falling into her face and obscuring her eyes]] [[Overly Long Gag|in an overall cute way]]".

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

* ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'': Tsutako Takeshima.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': The first two times Ranma Saotome disguised [[Gender Bender|himself]] as a different girl, rather then just using his female form and trusting to the sucker's lack of knowledge/wits to disguise him, he pretended to be one of these as part of the [[Wig, Dress, Accent|disguise]]. One might almost think Ryoga was attracted to Meganekkos, given how easily he fell for these disguises, but considering the ease with which he also fell for Ranma's rudimentary disguise ([[Ms. Fanservice|Ranma in girl form wearing a volleyball uniform]]), and when Ranma claimed to be his maid, [[Ho Yay|well...]]

* ''[[Read or Die]]'': Yomiko Readman.

*** Those aren't her glasses anyway.

** If you search Google Images for Meganekko, it suggests Yomiko Readman as a related search.

** Kara in the ''The Curse of Michael Myers''.

* ''[[The Hangover]]'': Melissa. One can see why Stu wants to stay with her initially, regardless of how mean she is to him.

* ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'': [[Zooey Deschanel]] in her first main story scene, where she also [[She's Got Legs|bares her legs]].

** Don't forget the argyle socks!

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

*** Except [[Bayonetta]] is [[Femme Fatale|anything but sweet, cute, pleasant, or vulnerable]].

** Though that's not the only thing [[Gag Boobs|you'll like about her.]]

* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'': Angie Ng. Also, Beatrice, who becomes Jimmy's first girlfriend.

* ''[[Skullgirls]]'': Some of [[Hourglass Hottie|Parasoul]]'s [[Palette Swap]]s give her glasses.

* ''[[Songs of Araiah]]'': Melissa.

* ''[[Star Ocean]]'': [[Cute Clumsy Girl]] Sarah Jerand seems to be an archetype laundry list with some wings attached. Most players, however, hate her because her personality traits are exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness in most of her featured cutsenes.

* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'': Tsugumi Takakura. Latooni Subota was once like this, but has dropped it. The recent ''[[Super Robot Wars]] K'' also features a Meganekko named Angelica Shartill.

*** Dan commented that he's been doing this more and more lately with random female background characters.

** [[Shrinking Violet|Rhoda]] wore glasses before joining [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|Diane's]] [[Girl Posse]] {{spoiler|and reverts to this look as a disguise after becoming famous.}}

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': Agatha, the title character.

{{quote|'''"Homeless Blog"''': The loneliness is only magnified by the attention I ''do'' receive. Somehow I have a "quiet, nerdy thing goin' on" that some guys find attractive. This scares me.}}

** Janet Van Dorn, Gotham City's District Attorney.

* ''[[Bonkers]]'': Marilyn Piquel.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': Heloise, whenever she wears her [[Nerd Glasses]].

* ''[[Johnny Test]]'': Susan and Mary Test.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Mrs. Dr. Anne Possible, as well as Ron's mother.

* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Peggy.

* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'': Male example; Dethklok's manager, Charles Foster Offdensen.

* ''[[Monster Allergy]]'' has Zick's [[Hot Mom]], [http://butterfly.altervista.org/ma/personaggi_file/greta.gif Greta] [http://www.mapage.altervista.org/Greta%20Barrymore1.JPG Barrymore].

* ''[[Pepper Ann]]'': The title character.