History Main / OpaqueNerdGlasses

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAlloweed'', Prof. Yonggi Choi, one of the main protesters against AVAC, wears opaque glasses. He [[GadgeteerGenius invents various tools]] to help the citizens of Ajik City rise against the organization, such as a holographic projector that shows snapshots of past events in historical places.

%%* Officer Shinshi in ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''.

%%* Marcie from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}''.

** Henry Bemis from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]" is a particularly famous example.
** Oliver Crangle from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E94FourOClock Four O'Clock]]" wears them too.

** Some characters from the games have NerdGlasses, such as Iggy Koopa, Professor E. Gadd from ''Luigi's Mansion'' and Professor Frankly from ''VideoGame/PaperMario''. These characters usually look (and sometimes sound) more Japanese than the others.

* WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob Squarepants}} wears these for safety when out jellyfishing.

** It doesn't help that many works depicting The Nostalgic [[TheFifties Fifties]] and [[TheSixties Sixties]] tend to associate them with the prudish SchoolMarm or other unsympathetic authority figures trying their darnedest to suppress {{The New Rock and Roll}}. It's no wonder so many associate horn-rims with the [=McCarthy=] hearings or the BeehiveHairdo-sporting women of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.
** Ironically, [[{{FoxNewsLiberal}} MTV conservative]] Lisa Kennedy Montgomery was one of the first people to bring them back in TheNineties.

** ''Videogame/EarthBound:'' Both Jeff, the GadgeteerGenius, and his [[ParentalAbandonment estranged father]], the scientist Dr. Andonuts, have these.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Some characters from the games have NerdGlasses, such as Iggy Koopa, Professor E. Gadd from ''Luigi's Mansion'' and Professor Frankly from ''VideoGame/PaperMario''. These characters usually look (and sometimes sound) more Japanese than the others.
** A few background characters in the ''ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures'' comic have these.
** All Magikoopas wear these as well.
** Fawful from the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games sports these glasses, complete with spirals and crazy grin.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Original Generation'', Latooni wears these to begin with. But their size is actually functional, as they're used to help her collect an analyze data. When she finds herself undergoing [[BeautifulAllAlong a dramatic shift in appearance]], she loses them altogether. In the remake for the Playstation 2, she is instead given a pair of {{Meganekko}} glasses. This was parodied (foreshadowed?) in a {{Yonkoma}} where several characters tried to get Ryusei to talk her into putting the glasses back ''on''.
* A fortune teller named Kalifa in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' has a pair of the large, spiral variant. She joins your crew once you get your own ship.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** [[TheIgor Chobin]] in ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' has googly glasses, which are apparently essential to his functioning.
** Clemont in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Interestingly, this is abandoned in the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY anime]] in favor of the occasional ScaryShinyGlasses.
** The Cosplay Pikachu in the Omega and Alpha remakes of ''Videogame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'' dons these in her [=PhD=] costume.
** Blipbug, introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' has eyes without pupils that are pretty clearly based on this trope as part of its bookworm aesthetic.

* ''VideoGame/LivePowerfulProBaseball'' has the recurring ButtMonkey [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Akio Yabe]], the primary sidekick of the main character. Throughout the series he gets at least four [[IdenticalStranger identical strangers]] who wear the same gigantic glasses and an extended family of half-brothers who are vaguely distinguished by some kind of mark on the face, facial hair or the shape of their glasses.

* The {{Fanboy}} [[DigitalAvatar smileys]] in ''VideoGame/EverybodyEdits'' both come with thick white glasses. They were fairly rare, and could only be gotten by sending a creative letter to specific staff members or winning certain contests.
* ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'': Vermouth Matin, the youngest member of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Hell Hounds]] has them, adding up to the nasal voice and stereotypical nerd personality.
* Seen on Thomas Lysander, the nerdy history professor at Thors Military Academy in the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' games. [[spoiler:They go away in favor of a more reasonable pair of spectacles when he drops this persona in favor of his more true position: Second Dominion of the Septian Church's Gralsritter knights.]]

* [[NinjaMaid Maylene]] from ''Manga/BlackButler''. [[spoiler:Somewhat justified as it neutralizes her absurd farsightedness when not going {{Guns Akimbo}} with scopeless rifles.]]

* Sakura Yamazaki in ''Anime/BlueSeed'' only wears her nerd glasses when fighting demons.

** Clemont in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Interestingly, this is abandoned in the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime]] in favor of the occasional ScaryShinyGlasses.

* Karin and Shiho from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Shiho's are coke-bottle glasses while Karin's have thick black frames. Interestingly, both are huge {{Fangirl}}s of other characters who have yet to return their interest -- Sasuke for Karin and Shikamaru for Shiho. And Udon, who [[CatchPhrase loves factoring.]]

** Henry Bemis from "Time Enough at Last" is a particularly famous example.

* Mamoru Kagemori, the title character of ''LightNovel/GuardianNinjaMamoru'', wears a fake pair of these to disguise the fact that he is a highly skilled teen ninja.

* {{Invoked|trope}} by Sanae in ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' by putting them on ''only'' when she read a BookOfDoom [[spoiler:that was likely written by Shinka]].

* Saori of ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'' uses them to provoke a stereotypical {{otaku}} image. [[spoiler:Although she does like things like anime, she is more of an {{ojou}} and doesn't have much of stereotypical traits of an otaku.]]

They're not coke-bottle glasses he's wearing, they're paperweights in a frame. Glasses in Comics, Manga and animated media usually come in four forms -- there are tiny little things that don't get in the way (see CoolMask), so-clear-they're-almost-not-there spectacles worn by pretty girls (a.k.a. ''{{meganekko}}'') and [[StoicSpectacles handsome]] [[{{Megane}} boys]], lenses meant to hide the character's eyes from anyone who wants to get a glimpse at their soul (ScaryShinyGlasses), and then there are Opaque Nerd Glasses.

* Jade and John in ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' both sport some. John's are rectangular spectacles, though they can be hard to see because the bridge isn't often drawn; Jade's are big and round. Several other characters also wear glasses, but the nerdiness of them are debatable: Sollux fits the nerdy archetype well, being an ''extremely'' good computer programmer, but his red-and-blue CoolShades are used more to [[HiddenEyes cover up]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning his]] bizarre [[KaleidoscopeEyes color-changing eyes]] than denote nerdiness; Vriska's big lenses match those requirements, but her personality ''really'' doesn't fit.

* Cedric Sner in ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' albeit his eyes are small like two dots to begin with. Due to this [[{{Woolseyism}} he was called]] [[PunnyName Cegato (Blindy)]] in the Spanish dub.

** It doesn't help that many works depicting [[TheFifties The Nostalgic Fifties]] [[TheSixties and Sixties]] tend to associate them with the prudish SchoolMarm or other unsympathetic authority figures trying their darnedest to suppress {{The New Rock and Roll}}. It's no wonder so many associate horn-rims with the [=McCarthy=] hearings or the BeehiveHairdo-sporting women of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.

* In ''[[http://www.triquetracats.com/ Triquetra Cats]]'', Rain Soricha wore a pair of these in her adopted civilian life. When she becomes a super-powered magic user, she removes them, revealing [[BeautifulAllAlong her big sparkly doe eyes]].
* Ping from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' starts wearing these in an effort to look HollywoodHomely and fit in with the jealous girls of her class. To her horror it pretty much ends up as {{meganekko}}, no matter how nerdy the glasses.
* Dave of ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' wears these. One strip even lampshades this trope when another character that wears normal glasses ask Dave why his glasses are opaque. It turns out that Dave's glasses are multifunctional displays with internet access.
* Gwynn of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is a classic example of this trope, not only being BlindWithoutEm but also BeautifulAllAlong.

%%* Meegs the wizard aprentice in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic''.
%%* Emojueel of ''{{Webcomic/Juathuur}}'' sports them.
%%* Ichabod of ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'' boasts an especially gigantic pair.
* Jade and John in ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' both sport some. John's are rectangular spectacles, though they can be hard to see because the bridge isn't often drawn; Jade's are big and round. Several other characters also wear glasses, but the nerdiness of them are debatable: Sollux fits the nerdy archetype well, being an ''extremely'' good computer programmer, but his red-and-blue CoolShades are used more to [[HiddenEyes cover up]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning his]] bizarre [[KaleidoscopeEyes color-changing eyes]] than denote nerdiness; Vriska's big lenses match those requirements, but her personality ''really'' doesn't fit.
* Mouse wears them in ''Webcomic/SquidRow'', though his eyes are shown in close-up shots.
%%* Both ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' and his love interest Amber.

%%* ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'': Tori was actually designed with this in mind.

* Thaddeus Euphemism from ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'' wears glasses that you can't see his eyes through.
* Dr. Phage from ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' has these, complete with spirals. Turns out these actually ''are'' his eyes, and nothing is behind them.

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner's most recognizable appearance is that of a [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/77/124444-180838-hulk_super.jpg short, scrawny, lab-coat-wearing geek with completely opaque nerd glasses.]]
* This is true as well for Peter Parker, the Amazing ComicBook/SpiderMan, before his original transformation took away his defective eye sight.

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%%* Agent Monocle from ''ComicBook/InvestiGators''.