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There are a few reasons a character might want to wear another's glasses. As stated above, they may want to look "cool" or "smart." Similarly, they may just be curious if they've never worn glasses themselves. Another, more practical, reason is that they're having trouble seeing something far away or reading something, and might need glasses of their own. When a bully does this, it's usually to mock their victims, especially if said bully is engaging in a game of KeepAway.

TruthInTelevision, as many glasses wearers can attest to. This behavior typically starts when they're just babies and lasts all through grade school, usually (but not always) tapering off during or after college, when people realizing how awkward and weird it is to take people's glasses off their faces. People doing this are normally trying to invoke {{Meganekko}}, SexySpectacles, and/or some combination of NerdGlasses and SmartPeopleWearGlasses. Related to BlindWithoutEm and DroppedGlasses.

Bob wears glasses, and Alice does not. One day, she asks him "Can I borrow/see/try (or try on)/wear your glasses?" He gives them to her, and she'll likely comment on either how bad his vision is or how cute/smart she feels/looks (or [[TakeAThirdOption both]]). Another possible scenario is her just randomly yanking them off his face and putting them on.

The reasons for someone wearing the glasses of another vary. As stated above, they may want to look "cool" or "smart." Similarly, they may just be curious if they've never worn glasses themselves. Another, more practical, reason is that they're having trouble seeing something far away or reading something and might need glasses of their own. When a bully does this, it's usually to mock their victims, especially if said bully is engaging in a game of KeepAway.

Asking to try on someone else's glasses could be a way of flirting with them, but most of the time, when a character just snatches the glasses off of someone's face without even asking first, they come off as rude and are demonstrating their inability to grasp the basic concept of [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace personal space]].

TruthInTelevision, as many glasses wearers can attest to. This behavior typically starts when they're just babies and lasts all through grade school, usually (but not always) tapering off during or after college due to people realizing how awkward and weird it is to take people's glasses off their faces. People doing this are normally trying to invoke {{Meganekko}}, SexySpectacles, and/or some combination of NerdGlasses and SmartPeopleWearGlasses. Related to BlindWithoutEm and DroppedGlasses.

The reasons for someone wearing the glasses of another vary. As stated above, they may want to look "cool" or "smart." Similarly, they also may just be curious if they've never worn glasses themselves. Another, more plausible, reason is that they're having trouble seeing something far away and might need glasses of their own. Bullies also sometimes do this to mock their victims, especially if said bullies are engaging in a game of KeepAway.

Asking to try on someone else's glasses could be a way of flirting with them but if a character just rips the glasses off of someone else's face without permission, that makes it clear that the character is rude and has no sense of boundaries or [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace personal space]].

TruthInTelevision, as many glasses wearers can attest to. This behavior typically starts when we're just babies and lasts all through grade school, usually (but not always) tapering off during or after college due to people realizing how awkward and weird it is to take people's glasses off their faces. People doing this are normally trying to invoke {{Meganekko}}, SexySpectacles, and/or some combination of NerdGlasses and SmartPeopleWearGlasses. Related to BlindWithoutEm and DroppedGlasses.

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** In "Picture Perfect," while trying to make his sisters look presentable for a sibling photo reshoot, he removes Lisa's glasses and puts them on Leni to make the latter look smarter (than she already is, as he himself says).

* As mentioned up top in the description, this can and does happen quite often to grade school age glass-wearers. Although quite annoying, there are those who sincerely don't mind letting others wear their glasses (either due to general apathy or just being used to it).
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->'''Steven:''' How do I look?
->'''Connie:''' ''(squints)'' I have no idea.
-->'''-WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse",''' [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E24AnIndirectKiss "An Indirect Kiss"]]

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-->'''Marigold:''' ''That's not what my prescription is like.'' (starts to whisper to herself) I wish that was what it was like.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Other characters sometimes steal and wear Millhouse's glasses, with Bart even using them as goggles in one episode.
** In "$pringfield," Homer finds a pair of glasses in the toilet and decides to keep them (unknowingly swiping the ones Henry Kissinger wears) after he likes how intelligent he looks with them. Even if, from his new perspective, wearing them makes Bart and Lisa look like something from a Salvador Dali painting.

-->'''Steven:''' How do I look?
-->'''Connie:''' ''(squints)'' I have no idea.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': In "K is for Knowledge," Uriah Dunn purposely bumps into Taranee, which causes her to drop both her books and her glasses. He steals the specs and later puts them on to mock her.

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-->''"Lordy, can you even see in these?"''

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': "Chuckie Loses His Glasses" revolves around this. When Angelica and later Tommy put on his glasses, they see the same stuff he does without them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Chuckie has an entire episode that revolves around this. When the other babies put on his glasses, they see the same stuff he does without them.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "The Heartbreak Dog," Chris reveals he ''loves'' trying on other people's glasses upon seeing a pair stolen from a nursing home by Meg. When he does try them on, he gets a headache and suddenly remembers that particular downside of wearing other people's glasses.

* ''Webcomic/{{Questionable Content}}'': While both Faye and Marigold wear glasses, in one strip they choose to try each other's glasses. Faye's prescription is so strong, it shocks Marigold. Faye jokes that Marigold's glasses make everyone look like anime characters...

* ''Series/Zoey101'': Early in the episode "Trading Places," Lola looks over at the street from the basketball court she and Quinn were playing at and thinks she sees Zoey. Instead of saying something, Lola pulls Quinn's glasses off her face and puts them on. When Quinn starts to ask Lola why she took her glasses, the latter merely says "Look over there!" ''while still wearing Quinn's glasses''. Quinn has to snatch them back.

* ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'': In the episode "Abby Loses Her Glasses," Princess Flug briefly comes into the possession of Abby's glasses and initially doesn't want to return them due to receiving compliments while wearing them.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In the episode "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth," Francine yanks Steve's glasses off his face and asks if she looks smart in them when she and Stan come home drunk one night.

* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'': In the episode "Wicked Game," Noelle loses her glasses in a bet to Polly Shuster, who later wears them for a little while.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the episode "Framed," Dee Dee steals Dexter's glasses and mocks him with them while the two kids are on the bus to school. Later on, after he retrieves his broken specs from the floor of the bus, he lets another girl try them on when she compliments him on them.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the episode "The Heartbreak Dog," Chris reveals he ''loves'' trying on other people's glasses upon seeing a pair stolen from a nursing home by Meg. When he does try them on, he gets a headache and suddenly remembers that particular downside of wearing other people's glasses.

** In the episode "Picture Perfect," while trying to make his sisters look presentable for a sibling photo reshoot, he removes Lisa's glasses and puts them on Leni to make the latter look smarter (than she already is, as he himself says).
** In the episode "The Old and the Restless," Lincoln takes a passerby man's glasses and puts them on when the boy thinks he sees Pop Pop about to skydive.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': In the episode "K is for Knowledge," Uriah Dunn purposely bumps into Taranee, which causes her to drop both her books and her glasses. He steals the specs and later puts them on to mock her.

->'''Connie:''' ''(squints)'' I have no idea.

-->'''Steven:''' How do I look

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* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': While Kida is showing Milo around Atlantis for the first time, she takes and wears his glasses due to never having seen the object until now.

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