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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]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Princess Diaries (film)|The Princess Diaries]]'' (2001). The guy ''pulls them off her face and breaks them in his hand''. That's right, not only is it shockingly, willfully unattractive to wear glasses on a day-to-day basis, you shouldn't even ''own'' them, little missy. Or remember you spent hundreds on that one pair.
* Parodied in ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]'', where the protagonist is obviously beautiful, but all the guys are horrified by her glasses and ponytail, to the point that she's deemed more difficult to turn into a beauty queen than a pair of Siamese twins joined at the head and what appears to be a troll.
* In the movie spoof ''[[Monster in the Closet]]'', the hero is an overt [[Superman|Clark Kent]] parody: every time his glasses come off, the heroine literally goes into a slack-jawed trance at how handsome he "suddenly" is. And then {{spoiler|the same thing happens with the monster, and it kidnaps him}}.
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* [[Christopher Nolan]] tried to find excuses for [[Cillian Murphy]] to take off his glasses as Dr. Crane in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'', so his [[Blue Eyes|baby blues]] could get more screentime.
* In the ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' film, when Peter Parker gets his super powers, it corrects his eyesight. Mary Jane only starts to notice him after he stops wearing his glasses. In the sequel, Peter starts losing his powers and wearing his glasses again, but he sheds them once more when his self confidence (and powers) start returning.
* Subverted in ''How To Marry a Millionaire'' (1953): A running gag is Marilyn Monroe's character quotes the Dorothy Parker line at the top of the page, takes her glasses off... and walks into things.
* Subverted in in ''The Pink Panther'' (2006): Inspector Clouseau puts the finishing touch on a plain woman's glamorous transformation by removing her glasses. She squints, stumbles, and smacks into a post.
* 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 the ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' films, mild-mannered Clark Kent wears glasses to help look more "mild-mannered." He removes them when he's Superman and appears much more dashing. In the fourth film, a woman hitting on Clark tries to remove his glasses and suggests that he wear contacts, but he says that they irritate his eyes and keeps his glasses on to protect his identity.
* 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.
* Played completely straight with Adrian's granny glasses in ''[[Rocky]]''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the [[Sitcom]] ''[[Grounded for Life]]'', the husband goes through ridiculous lengths to keep his wife from wearing her new glasses because he finds glasses ''so ugly'' that looking at them turns him off instantly. In a flashback, he even snubbed his would-be wife simply because she was wearing glasses.
* Subverted in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
** Gob attempts to seduce his father's plain secretary to get some illegal business done. In an attempt to make this easier for himself, he asks her to take her glasses off and let her hair down, which makes her even less attractive, since without them, she has cross-eyes and crazy hair. He spends the rest of the scene trying to find an acceptable combination of glasses and hair.
** Lucille demanding that Buster take off his glasses at a party. This resulted in Him accidentally hitting on her rival, Lucille Two.
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** In ''Divine Wars'' and ''Original Generations'', Princess Shine only has her ditch the glasses when she's in the Lolita look (since Latooni's her bodyguard). Even more, she gives her a new pair of glasses that doesn't obscure her eyes, showing her opening up more.
* Otacon in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', at Naomi's suggestion. Which is decidedly odd, as he had far left behind his actual [[Otaku|namesake-look]] and had been noticably [[Bishonen]] for a long time. {{spoiler|It's not all bad, though -- eventually, he puts them back on.}}
** Also, Emma Emmerich. Raiden says she would look better without her glasses, but she tells him 'no', and not for the sake of practicality, either. She doesn't even need them; they're just frames. She says that she just likes glasses.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* In another male example, one of the episodes of ''[[Animaniacs]]'' with Minerva Mink had her falling in love with a nerdy-looking wolf who happened to turn into a hunky werewolf when the moon was out. Naturally, his glasses somehow magically disappeared and reappeared to suit whichever form he was in.
* Gwen Stacy in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has a makeover in "Gangland," making her look less like Deb Whitman (a love interest from the comics, notable only for having glasses and being overdependent) and more like, well, Gwen Stacy. This included losing the glasses. While Harry and Peter did go through the standard awed gape, this is likely also because her hair was down and she was wearing a nice dress with a stole. She's kept the hair and the lack of glasses.
** And of course, like in most incarnations, Peter had glasses before becoming Spider-Man but loses them afterward.
* Parodied in ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''. Johnny tries to teach a nerd how to be a chick magnet, but nothing works. That is until he removes the kid's glasses and gives him [[Cool Shades]], which for some reason not only change him from nerd to a miniature Johnny, personality wise, but suddenly cause every woman to fall for him.
** Inverted in the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode, ''Bravo Dooby-Doo'' when Johnny and Velma [[Dropped Glasses|accidentally drop their respective eyewear]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Harry's iconic glasses are never said to make him any less attractive.
* Averted a bit in "[[A Wrinkle in Time]]" and its sequels. Meg Murray hates her glasses with a passion, as well as her "mouse brown" hair and braces, and wishes she could look more like her mother. But her love interest/boyfriend/husband (depending on where you are in the series) Calvin O'Keefe, prefers her to wear them, saying "You just keep wearing those glasses. I don't think I want anyone else knowing what dream-boat eyes you have."
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