History Main / SmartPeopleWearGlasses

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse'': Invoked. Resident {{Ditz}} and assistant relic hunter Bolo is given a pair of [[XRayVision X-Ray Specs]] to help with his nearsightedness. While it doesn't help with his vision, it does make him feel super smart, and he proceeds to identify the fossil he was given with a series of smart-sounding words. "It's been heavily pyritized, and contains high levels of sulfur." then procedes to clean it. "I've removed most of the sediment, but left a bit of matrix for stability." Some time later, [[spoiler:the Techno Baron employs him as his assistant simply because of how super smart he looks with his glasses... whereupon this gets subverted as Bolo accidentally installs the circuit panel of the Targeting Module backwards, upside down, and inside out, causing the Disruptor Cannon to miss its intended target wildly and hit the Techno Baron several islands over. While Shantae initially believes that he did that on purpose, talking to him in Propeller Town afterwards proves that he had no idea about what happened and removes any doubts about him still being the same dunderhead as before.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Sniffles is a GadgeteerGenius (albeit a BumblingInventor) and thus is considered the smartest character on the show, as well as the only one to wear glasses (besides [[BlindPeopleWearSunglasses the Mole]]).

* Monty from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' is the only student to wear glasses (at least in the first game), and he's a GadgeteerGenius who can reprogram or disarm bombs, synthesise the drugs Ms. Applegate is addicted to, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking read]] (which is still more impressive than it sounds, given that the characters are kindergarteners).

* In ''Anime/ChainsawMan'' this trope is parodied in episode 10. Denji and Power, who are decidedly not the sharpest tools in the shed (and don't wear or need glasses), decide that they'll "use their brains" and try to beat seasoned devil hunter Kishibe through smarts. When he comes to their house the following day, both Denji and Power are wearing glasses.

* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles Mini-sodes'': {{Parodied|Trope}}. In one strip, Naruto is portrayed as being intellectual while wearing glasses. Then Hinata removes his glasses from his face and he goes back to being his normal, significantly less intellectual self, much to her joy.

* In ''Anime/ChainsawMan'' this trope is parodied in episode 10. Denji and Power, that are decidedly not the sharpest tools in the shed (and don't use glasses as of their regular designs), decide that they'll "use their brains" and try to beat seasoned devil hunter Kishibe through smarts. When Kishibe comes to their house the following day, both Denji and Power are wearing glasses.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'', Sebastian Ives wears glasses and consistently scores better than anyone else on tests. Tim also notes that he's annoyingly good at spotting and getting rid of a tail despite his vision problems.

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* In ''Anime/ChainsawMan'' this trope is parodied in episode 10. Denji and Power, that are decidedly not the sharpest tools in the shed, decide that they'll "use their brains" and try to beat seasoned devil hunter Kishibe through smarts when he comes to their house the following day. While they are waiting for Kishibe, both Denji and Power are wearing glasses.

This trope is an inherent part of TheGlassesGottaGo and BeautifulAllAlong, and often nerds. {{Supertrope}} to NerdGlasses. The invoked form of this is PurelyAestheticGlasses. Compare TheShortGuyWithGlasses.

* Firo invokes this trope in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}''. After taking the position of the [[TheMafia Martillo Family]] bookkeeper, he immediately takes to wearing a pair of PurelyAestheticGlasses. Why? Because he's doing a smart-person job now, so he has to look smart (and because he wants to look slightly less like the [[CompleteImmortality perpetual teenager he is]]).

* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': In [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2023/01/21 this comic]], when Kevin is about to take a science quiz that he absolutely must ace or he will be [[HeldBackInSchool held back a year]], he tries to invoke the trope by putting on a pair of oversized glasses, and asks Miles how smart they make him look. Miles is clearly not impressed by the plan. Kevin [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2023/01/23 even lampshades the trope]].