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Per [[Rule 34]], there are of course exceptions to this work for writers who [[Author Appeal|consider glasses to be sexy]], and pornographic websites dedicated to people wearing glasses can be found without much effort.
A common way to avert this one is to turn the character into a [[Badass Bookworm]]. When The Glasses Gotta Stay - the girl is more attractive with the glasses on - see [[Megane]], [[Meganekko]], [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]], or [[Sexy Spectacles]].
{{examples}}
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* The reality makeover show ''10 Years Younger'' employs Lasik eye surgery religiously.
* In the first episode of ''[[Sliders]]'', Quinn needs reading glasses, yet this was dropped for later episodes.
* Will Zimmerman of ''[[Sanctuary (TV series)|Sanctuary]]'' switches out his glasses for contacts in the Season 1 Finale.
* In an episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', Hilary makes her glasses-wearing boyfriend stop wearing them, saying he looks better without them. It becomes a plot point in the episode {{spoiler|He gets in an accident with Will and sues for damages. When it's revealed he wasn't wearing glasses while driving as the law requires, the judge rules in Will's favor}}
* On MTV's ''Made'' Sweet, nerdy girl Kitty wants to be in a high school beauty pageant. The makeover works better than expected for a few reasons. One, Kitty turned out to have a great body(long legs, small waist and big bust) that was hidden under the baggy clothes she always wore. Two, she had beautiful blue eyes that could be seen better without her thick glasses. She actually ends up winning second place!
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{{quote|'''Velma:''' [[Blind Without'Em|My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!]]
'''Johnny Bravo:''' [[Cool Shades|My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!]] }}
* A variation, [[Evil Is Sexy|Evil-Lyn]] from ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''. She looks far more beautiful [http://mypheman.blogspot.com/2014/04/ the rare times she takes her helmet off.]
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', this Trope is lampooned and exaggerated in an episode where the family is watching a [[Show Within a Show| movie about Latino dancers]]. When the male lead asks the female lead, a nerdy-looking young woman, to dance, her glasses fall off as she does, and her hair cascades to her shoulders in a far more beautiful style, and her bust grows about two cup sizes.
== Aversions ==
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* Hilariously subverted in ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' where a man asks a woman who looks homely with glasses and her hair in a bun to take the glasses off and let down her hair. Guess what? Still homely.
* In ''[[Waiting for Guffman]]'', Corky has Eugene Levy's character take his glasses off to make him more presentable as a performer. It just makes his eyes cross comically.
* In ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' Brad whips off his glasses when he starts getting angry at Frank-N-Furter (to which the audience will usually yell "Superman!"), but it's an aversion because Brad is essentially powerless and Frank knows it. He's eventually forced to put them back on, both because he needs them to see and because the servants have by this time stripped him to his underwear and he has nowhere to put them.
=== [[Literature]] ===
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{{quote|'''Wesley:''' ''(removing Fred's glasses)'' Now you truly are...perfection.
'''Fred:''' Whereas you are slightly fuzzy; can I have those back? }}
* ''[[Bones]]'': Booth finds Brennan quite sexy when she dons glasses in one episode.
{{quote|'''Booth (seeing Brennan wearing someone's zany glasses)''': Right. What I want you to do is take off your glasses, shake out your hair and say "Mr. Booth, do you know [[Hot Librarian|what the penalty is for an overdue book]]?"
'''Brennan''': Why?
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** "Evil Daniel" also didn't wear glasses in Absolute Power. The character also stopped wearing them when he {{spoiler|ascended to a higher plane of existence. Both times.}}
* [[Stoic Spectacles|Logan]] in ''[[Dark Angel]]'' also manages to keep his glasses for the entire run (shorter though it was) and when Max is lusting over him, she mentions how much they ''add'' to his appeal.
* When the obligatory makeover came in ''[[Yo Soy Betty, la Fea]]'' Betty changed her ugly, thick rimmed glasses for… thin rimmed, modern, fashionable glasses. Her mentor Catalina Angel actually wanted Betty to go with contacts, but because Betty was in a hurry and didn't have time to get accustomed to them, prettier glasses were the compromise.
=== [[Music]] ===
* [[Buddy Holly]]'s manager had suggested he lose the glasses for his performances, but Holly insisted on wearing them, thinking they'd help fans identify with him. He did so for all of his (tragically short) career.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* In one ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, Peppermint Patty suggests that Marcie would look more sophisticated if she pushed her glasses up onto her forehead. After walking into a wall and a lamp-post, Marcie comments "Before I became sophisticated, I almost never had headaches."
** On a related note, Patty was reluctant to see an optometrist because she didn't want to end up wearing glasses like Marcie; though Marcie told her they might make her look like [[Elton John]].
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* [[Bayonetta]] and her [[Sexy Spectacles]]. Common among Umbral Witches, it seems. This was a feature that developer Mari Shimazaki ''would not budge'' on, not only because he found glasses attractive but because he wanted Bayonetta to stand out among other video game divas. Threatening to abandon the project if he was not allowed to let Bayonetta keep her glasses.
=== [[Web Original]]===
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