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{{quote|"You wouldn't dare hurt me! You forget that I have... the glasses!"|'''Milhouse Van Houten''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
Common [[Stock Phrase]], and a [[Tempting Fate]] trope: Whenever any fictional character tries to invoke this, the odds are pretty good that he
Compare [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]], contrast [[Hold My Glasses]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Early in the John Byrne ''[[Superman]]'' comic reboot, Superman faces a gang which includes a violent, glasses-wearing, heavily armed female member spouting revolutionary phrases. She tries the double-powered "[[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|You wouldn't hit a lady]] with ''glasses'', would you?" Superman gently removes her glasses and flicks his finger, knocking her cold. He then says, "A lady? No, but then I've never met a ''lady'' who carries dynamite under her coat."
* In one ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comic, some drunkards tried to pick a fight with (civilian-dressed) Cyclops. He said the page quote, so one of the mobs removed glasses from him. This
== [[Film]] ==
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the [[The Joker|Joker]] in ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''. Yes, Batman ''would'', especially if the same man with glasses also happened to be {{spoiler|the same guy who also murdered Batman's parents}}. Fun Fact: One especially stupid TV edit cuts out the entire climax after this point and goes straight to the Joker [[Disney Villain Death|falling to his death]].
* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]: The Squeakquel''. While playing
{{quote|'''Simon:''' Glasses! Glasses! You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?! [Gets hit by a
* [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]] says this in ''Go West'' (and, yes, the guy would).
* Shemp does this to avoid getting hit by Moe in the [[Three Stooges]] short "Who Done It?" Of course, Moe does it anyway without bothering to remove the glasses.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''
** In "The Bookworm Turns", Batman cites this trope as he prepares to battle the Bookworm's [[Mook]]s, requesting that they take off their glasses, which they oblige. Batman takes a moment to deliver [[An Aesop]] to Robin: "Never hit a man with glasses." Which is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] considering [[Michael Keaton]]'s Batman would avert this trope 20 years later (and to a [[The Joker|
** In "It's the Way You Play the Game" a [[Mook]] named Leo confronts Batman.
{{quote|Leo: You wouldn't hit a man with glasses, would ya?
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* Implied in ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' episode "The Kirkoff Case": Rockford puts on glasses and pretends to be an insurance agent; when the disguise fails and he starts getting roughed up, he protests, "Didn't you notice I was wearing glasses?"
* Subverted in ''[[Get Smart]]'' when Smart, 99, and The Chief are captured by KAOS agents and ordered to make a phone call for something. Smart notices that the agent covering them and closest to them is wearing glasses and he knows that the Chief can sing a note high enough to shatter glass. So, he makes up a story that the Chief needs to sing a certain note as part of a code on the phone, and the Chief sings that note to shatter the lenses of the KAOS agent's glasses, allowing Smart to tackle him. Thus their survival depended on specifically hitting a guy with glasses.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'': Narrowly averted in the Season 1 episode "In a Jam," where a bully torments the glasses-wearing Steve Urkel into giving him his lunch money. When
** In contrast, in later seasons, after
* At least once on an episode of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'', a criminal syndicate corners the glasses-wearing, elderly C.D. Parker (Noble Willingham) in an effort to intimidate him into getting Walker to drop his investigation. When C.D. tries to get them to back off by saying they shouldn't hit a guy with glasses, one of the crooks removes his glasses, breaks them ... and then beats him to a pulp. (Of course, Walker gets his revenge in the end.)
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'''Linus''' (turning to Snoopy): Glasses are good for your eyes… They keep you from getting punched in them! }}
* ''[[U.S. Acres]]'' invoked the trope in [http://www.garfield.com/usacres/vault.html?yr=2012&addr=120420 this strip]{{Dead link}}. A worm wearing glasses used this to discourage Booker from beating him. Booker was initially proud to have shown "chickens do have hearts" but later banged his head on a tree out of frustration once he remembered "worms don't have eyes".
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* In one memorable WWE Summerslam main event, Bret Hart was turning the tide against Intercontinental Champion Mr. Perfect. When Mr. Perfect's coach stood by the ropes and tried to motivate his man to get up, Hart knocked him down. Both announcers were aghast that Hart would hit a man with glasses.
* On the last night of Season 4 of WWE NXT, [[Bryan Danielson]] was talking with his rookie, [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Derreck Bateman backstage before a tag team match. Danielson recalled that he'd punch Bateman if he got eliminated (which he did, the prior week). Bateman reaches down and ''immediately'' tries to invoke this; as soon as he straightens up, Danielson decks him. But seeing how he would go on and win the match for his team, Danielson's actions turned into a [[Wangst]]less version of [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]].
{{quote|'''Daniel Bryan'''(To Bateman): Now get up. Because you've got a NXT Rookie Reunion Tag Team Match tonight, an I want you to win! And I don't want you to win for me, I want you to win for you! I want you to win for chicks! I want you to win for America! AND I WANT YOU TO WIN FOR [[Cheap Pop|CLEVELAND]]!
'''Bateman''': [[Large Ham|WAAAAARRRRGHHH!]] }}
* In the late 1980s/early 1990s WWF, the character of Brother Love was a bespectacled Southern preacher who—during his talk show segments—was clearly alligned with the villians and did everything to antagonize the faces. Several times, he attempted to get involved in the action, almost always leading to him gettting socked by the good guys. The most frequent people who struck Love (both while he was wearing his glasses, and also after they were knocked off) were the top two faces of the WWF at the time: Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior. Roddy Piper has gotten a few licks in, while the Hart Foundation (the tag team of Bret "the Hitman" Hart and Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart) once clotheslined Love after a match. Every time, the announcers—save for the heelish Jesse "the Body" Ventura and Bobby "the Brain" Heenan—supported hitting ''this'' guy with glasses every time.
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* In one episode of the ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' cartoon, some toughs in a bar are getting belligerent with Cyclops. He tries to play it cool and says the line, but one of them says "So ''take 'em off''!", grabs Cyke's shades, and things start to go downhill from there.
** ''"Put 'em back on, '''please!!'''"''
* In one episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', Gizmoduck tries to persuade an attacking security robot not to hit him by putting on a wig and saying, "You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?" When that doesn't work, he adds a pair of glasses to his disguise and asks, "What about a lady in glasses?" He gets punted.
* In ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', Jackie is looking for a sheep's spirit using a pair of magic goggles. When he becomes surrounded by Shadowkhan, Jackie says this phrase.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender is caught cheating in a game of poker using X-ray glasses. When he's cornered, he nervously states, "Hey...you wouldn't hit a guy wearing X-ray glasses, would ya?" Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.
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