Line #100 Main/StoicSpectacles


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4	[[BespectacledCutie Bespectacled girls are cute]]. [[TheShortGuyWithGlasses Bespectacled short guys]] are book-smart. Bespectacled [[APrettyBoyIndex pretty boys]], on the other hand, are cool, calm and collected. It's not uncommon for them to also be intelligent and kick ass in a fight, [[BadassBookworm as this character type tends to be where the opposing viewpoints of]] "[[NerdGlasses glasses are for nerds]]" and "glasses look cool" converge.
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6	Most commonly, the glasses in question are of the narrow, thin-rimmed sort to avoid obscuring the bishie boy's pretty face, though they can be prone to [[ScaryShinyGlasses shining spookily]]. Also, God help you if TheGlassesComeOff. If you're dangerous even without removing them, they are SpecsOfAwesome. If you're a [[FetishizedAbuser cold, sadistic]] but [[MrFanservice hot]] LoveInterest type as well as a spectacled guy, then you might be a KichikuMegane. If you've got the cold and sadistic but not the love interest, you might have FourEyesZeroSoul.
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8	Bonus points if the character also has [[LongHairedPrettyBoy long hair]]; double if it's worn in a ponytail. See also the "little round glasses" option of MaskPower. See also GlassesOfAging.
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16	* William T. Spears of ''Manga/BlackButler''. He's stoic and bespectacled.
17	* Uryu Ishida from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fits the "where nerdy and cool converge" part of the trope description, being 1st in his class, a highly skilled warrior, and a dorkily obsessive sewing fanboy.
18	* Kunikida Doppo from ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs''. He is professional and likes to organize and schedule every little detail to the point that it becomes a RunningGag. Double points since he has his long hair in a ponytail.
19	%%* Eriol from ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''.
20	%%* Nagayama from ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan''.
21	* Aion from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', complete with the long ponytail. However, while he enjoys keeping up an appearance of being stoic, he has several moments where he reveals a more dramatic side--indeed, flashbacks that show him without the glasses have him being much more emotional, and when he loses the glasses in the final battle his motives are revealed and he's ''much'' more emotional.
22	%%* Gilbert G.P. Guilford from ''Anime/CodeGeass''. And then he goes for stoic CoolShades...
23	* Subverted by Hidenori from ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''. While his glasses does make him ''look'' stoic, it's just a paper-thin shell that hides his ''LargeHam'' tendencies. [[spoiler:This is not to say he doesn't wear those for vision purposes; he has 40/20 vision ''without''.]]
24	* Mikami from ''Manga/DeathNote'' appears to be yet another subversion: he comes across as polite, incisive, determined, quiet and intelligent (he also gets bonus style points for his long black hair and smart clothes) - until he's properly introduced and we get to see just how twisted his psyche is.
25	* Satoshi in ''Manga/DNAngel''. In fact, it's hinted that his glasses has something to do with suppressing his emotions to keep his SuperpoweredEvilSide at bay.
26	* ''Manga/DrStone'': Kinro was already TheStoic, but Senku eventually makes him some proper glasses to fix his "fuzzy sickness", and they make him look all the more stoic and serious.
27	* Kakei from ''Manga/DrugAndDrop''. Bonus points in that he wears a lab coat, no word on if he's actually a doctor or not. Also very pretty.
28	* Lord Il Palazzo from ''Manga/ExcelSaga'', though he wears the small type of glasses that don't cover your eyes. Also, he's not very collected.
29	* Takami Ichiro of ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' is a good example of the convergence of nerdy and cool: an intelligent, strategic thinker, and the quarterback of a football team. Maybe athletic glasses aren't the best choice for looking suave, but they're much more practical.
30	%%* Rei Ryugazaki in ''Anime/{{Free}}'' wears a mean pair. Occasionally subverted in his interactions with Nagisa.
31	* Saikawa, the bespectacled butler from ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' is mysterious, quiet and always keep a straight face even when telling a "joke".
32	%%* Shibungi from ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' plays this trope well, despite not garnering any kind of attention from female characters.
33	* Nagato Yuki of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is female, but gravitates more toward this trope than the typical {{Meganekko}}. She loses her glasses near the end of the first book and, from there, goes through TinMan development.
34	* Sugata Eishirou from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' fits this well. He generally has the same expression on his face, he's TheSmartGuy of the group, and he fights bears on a regular basis.
35	%%* Kawasumi from ''Manga/HibiChouchou''.
36	* Subversion: Ryoki from ''Manga/HotGimmick'' comes across as emotionally distant in his introduction, but later on develops strong feelings for the female lead in [[LoveMakesYouCrazy his own twisted way]].
37	* Kakyoin from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. While prone to outbursts of emotion like his compatriots, he is by far the least prone to them, and is often the straight man to Polnareff's {{Emotional Bruiser}}, {{Idiot Hero}} combo.
38	* ''Anime/{{K}}'': Reisi Munakata, the Blue King, is distilled essence of this trope. He's bespectacled, TallDarkAndHandsome, rational, and coolheaded.
39	* Karasuma Kirio of ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' is a parody of this character type; he appears to be this for about the first five minutes he appears, and then the MoodWhiplash starts and his [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain true personality]] comes to light.
40	%%* Hirato from ''Manga/{{Karneval}}''.
41	* Soubi from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'', complete with intelligence, badass magic fighting skills, and long hair which is sometimes pulled back. Also prone to TheGlassesComeOff before wordspell battles.
42	* Griffith Lowran from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. Also serves as the NumberTwo to [[TheCaptain Hayate]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Yagami]].
43	* There's a generic {{shoujo}} manga called ''Megane Ouji'' (or "Four-Eyed Prince" in the USA) that's built around this trope. The main love interest wears glasses and is quiet, aloof, bookish and generally blunt. However, at night he [[TheGlassesGottaGo takes off his glasses]], dons an apron and works as a bartender. While at his job he takes on a personality of a [[ChivalrousPervert flirty]], warm and chipper character. He later explains to the main character that as a child he was shuffled around to be raised by several relatives, and took on whatever persona that seemed to please his current foster parents, resulting in the split.
44	* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has Fafnir, who's the "[[AxCrazy acts reserved, but would probably kill you and your entire family if you so much as annoy him]]" type.
45	* Rin from ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' is another female example. The first episode also hints that she's BlindWithoutEm, although she still manages to kick ass pretty well despite losing her glasses every now and then.
46	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Shino has a pair of stoic ''shades'' which constantly cover his eyes, even during side views. It's even become somewhat of a running gag among the fandom that his eyes have never been seen.
47	* Takahata from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. He wears thin glasses and his expression ranges from bemused smile to mildly concerned frown even in the midst of combat.
48	%%* Gendo Ikari from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
49	%%* Kyouya from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''.
50	* Kneesocks from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' wears glasses and never lets her emotions go over-the-top, without a good reason [[SiblingYinYang unlike her sister whose anger and impulsiveness is partly the reason why they fail a lot of the time.]]
51	* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'':
52	** Kunimitsu Tezuka and Sadaharu Inui. The latter in particular is prone to a constant state of ScaryShinyGlasses. So mcuh that his eyes are ''very'' seldom seen -- which is a RunningGag in one of the chibi episodes, where he constantly covers his eyes when he loses his glasses.
53	** Yuushi Oshitari from Hyoutei too, and he's got the long hair to go with it. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when he reveals that he doesn't really need glasses, he just wears them because he's going for this look.
54	** Also Hiroshi Yagyuu from Rikkai and Eishirou Kite from Higa, who borders on KichikuMegane.
55	** Subverted in Hyoutei's Hiyoshi, who fits the associated traits for the trope and actually ''needs'' glasses, but wears contact lenses instead.
56	%%* Joui in ''Manga/PsychoBusters''.
57	%%* ''Anime/RahXephon'''s Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi.
58	%%* Verde from ''Manga/Reborn2004'', with a dash of NerdsAreSexy.
59	* Jin from ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'', the stoic and coolheaded samurai with a long ponytail. [[spoiler:The glasses didn't actually do anything. He'd apparently adopted them as a disguise (seriously ineffective; the only time it fools anyone looking for him was because the searcher had heard Jin wore glasses but he happened to ''not'' be wearing them currently), but it's still a serious badass moment when TheGlassesComeOff in the finale because it means he's past hiding behind the disguise.]]
60	* Chiga in ''Manga/SeitokaichouNiChuukoku'', who is one of the best fighters in the dojo but still occasionally blushes.
61	* The methodical, quiet monk and writer Seishin Muroi in ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' fits this extremely well, right down to wearing the small, half-framed style of glasses common with the trope.
62	* Spoofed in a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' {{Yonkoma}}, where Stoic Spectacles can make even the most HotBlooded of {{Idiot Hero}}es look like an intelligent bishie.
63	-->'''[[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji]]:''' I can put on a pair of glasses and...''[[BishieSparkle Voila!]]'' See how intelligent I look?
64	-->'''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka]]:''' ...''Whoa.''
65	* Kishou Arima from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''. Known as the "God of Death", he is a [[HunterOfMonsters Ghoul Investigator]] with a fearsome reputation and an unapproachable air. Upon seeing him for the first time, Kaneki notes that he is an incredibly beautiful man, even standing calmly among piles of corpses. His eyes are often hidden behind his glasses, helping to obscure his expressions.
66	* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'s'' Vash the Stampede can wear his specs and remain the [[LoveFreak lovable]] [[IdiotHero goofball]]. Or he can put them on dramatically, with a [[ScaryShinyGlasses bit of shine]], and go [[ImplacableMan implacable]].
67	* [[{{Tsundere}} Soichi]] of ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' has long, pale hair, often tied back in a ponytail, is intelligent and wears glasses, but that's about where it stops. Being an extreme {{tsundere}} and all. And it only gets worse after the glasses come off (during sex) and the ponytail comes undone (also during sex), both to make him more traditionally {{uke}}-ish.
68	* The bespectacled gamer Keima Katsuragi from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' only breaks his stone cold stoicism to gush about his {{dating sim}}s.
69	%%* Kyousuke Kishi of ''Manga/YozakuraQuartet''.
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73	* Beast of the Comicbook/XMen is a partial example, as he only wears glasses when he's reading, but he's definitely got the BadassBookworm and DeadpanSnarker aspects covered.
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77	* ''Fanfic/FobbiesAreBorange'': Jeff Andonuts. Bonus points to that he is sometimes depicted with [[http://mestephen.com/fab/wiki/images/4/46/Jeff.png his voice actor's former long hair]].
78	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Japan is stoic. He also wore hexagonal glasses with his [[Anime/DeathNote Teru Mikami]] cosplay.
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82	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', this is Downplayed, but Priya wears glasses and is the most deadpan out of Mei's three friends.
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86	* Juror #4(E.G. Marshall) in ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' is a "rational stockbroker, unflappable, self-assured, and analytical" and the only juror who wears glasses.
87	* Milo Hoffman in ''Film/AntiTrust'' wears glasses to read and work on his computer. Seeing as he's played by Ryan Phillipe, the thick-framed monstrosities just make him look all the hotter.
88	* ''Film/BallisticKiss'': The main character, Cat, is an elite hitman and killing machine who wears glasses in all his scenes. His character is also TheStoic.
89	* Jonathan Crane of ''Film/BatmanBegins''. Largely calm and stoic, intelligent, good looking and wears glasses, but he's also a psychopath who gasses people with fear toxins. True to trope, heaven help you when he takes them off.
90	* [[Creator/TommyLeeJones Major Hank Marshall]] (pictured about to punch his creepy superior officer) in ''[[https://78.media.tumblr.com/a90ce179f32de1ea785954183c4cdbba/tumblr_p40y0iyDyA1r48qqvo1_1280.jpg Blue Sky]]'' -- which makes it all the more heartbreaking that when he does take the glasses off, it's to [[StoicWoobie wipe away tears]].
91	%%* Pasha in ''Film/DoctorZhivago''.
92	* Western example: Morpheus from ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', despite having circular pince-nez (no earpieces), is definitely a stoic badass with glasses.
93	* Peter in ''Film/TheRoom2003'', a somewhat uptight but reasonably intelligent (by this film's standards, anyway) psychiatrist.
94	* There is an example of this trope in the third ''Film/TheThinMan'' film. The character is a crime boss named Vogel who probably also qualifies as a SmugSnake. What's amusing is that once the glasses are gone, he's worthless in a fight. Against a ditzy blonde.
95	* In ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', George Smiley wears glasses, and is certainly stoic.
96	%%* Creator/GregoryPeck as Atticus Finch in the ''Film/ToKillAMockingbird'' movie.
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100	* In the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series, Jeff Higgins wears NerdGlasses for normal reasons. However, due to a combination of spectacles being rare in the 17th century and Jeff [[TookALevelInBadass taking several levels in badass]], many down-timers conclude that he is a cold killer who uses spectacles to see his victims better.
101	* Henry Winters from Literature/TheSecretHistory exemplifies this trope: tall, handsome, hyperintelligent, and rarely shows any emotion, although he does have them.
102	* Uesugi of ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'' is the no-nonsense smart guy of the team who wears glasses. Aya's first impression on him is being cold, but as she find out quite soon after he isn't soulless.
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106	* Giles from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is the grand master of stoicism ''and'' spectacles. However, he averts the trope in the season 5 finale when he ''puts his glasses on'' to [[spoiler: smother Ben, the human counterpart to the god, Glory]].
107	%%* ''Series/DarkAngel'''s Alec as Simon Lehane. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/mousebumples/JAckles/jensen-da211a.jpg See]].
108	* Dr Harrison Wells of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' wears half-black-half-clear-rimmed NerdGlasses, and is usually the calm, logical voice of reason on Team Flash, despite his occasional NotSoStoic moments. He's also quite the BadassBookworm, although being confined to a wheelchair means that his feats of badassery are of the intellectual and strategic variety rather than the physical.
109	* Joe Gibken of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' gets these during the [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger Megaranger]] tribute episode, which involved the core cast becoming High School students for the day. This was in order to gain the [[{{Macguffin}} Greater Power]] of the Megarangers who were High School Students during their series, while their representitive has become a teacher at their school.
110	* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' has Jamie Hyneman. He is aloof, stoic, and spectacled.
111	* Franchise/SherlockHolmes, emotionally-detached BadassBookworm par excellence, wears little round reading glasses in a few scenes of Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson.
112	* Mr. Harris, the strangely intense chemistry teacher in ''Series/TeenWolf''. If this show weren't live-action, you could expect ScaryShinyGlasses to be invoked for emphasis.
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116	* Franchise/MonsterVerse: Dr. Serizawa in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' and ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fits this trope with his stoic and intelligent personality and his narrow, thin-rimmed choice of spectacles, though he's a little bit older than most examples. It's even slightly {{lampshaded}} in ''King of the Monsters'', when he has his glasses off while mourning [[spoiler:Dr. Graham]]'s death, but puts them back on once he recollects his resolve for the time. In the prequel graphic novel ''Godzilla Awakening'', Serizawa's father Eiji has traded his youthful self's NerdGlasses for a pair of thin-rimmed spectacles which give off this impression. There's also the bespectacled Miles Atherton in the graphic novel ''Godzilla: Aftershock'' who rarely loses his composure.
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120	%%* Lazard Deusericus from ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: Final Fantasy VII''.
121	* [[RareFemaleExample Miriel]] and Laurent from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' are both [[SpockSpeak stoic]], [[HotWitch good]]-[[{{Bishonen}} looking]] glasses-wearers who are also [[BadassBookworm badass in fights]]. Though Laurent's hair is short, his glasses ''are'' [[ScaryShinyGlasses shiny on occasion]] (according to text, anyway).
122	%%* Arcade Gannon of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''.
123	* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'':
124	** Jin, the doctor from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonTreeOfTranquility''. He has a ponytail, too.
125	** And Lloyd in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonGrandBazaar''. He doesn't have a ponytail, but his hair is still on the long side.
126	* Roxis from ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis''. He's intelligent, stoic, and has long hair swept back in a ponytail. Can also kinda throw down: though the storyline likes to suggest that he isn't hugely powerful, in battles he's actually pretty awesome.
127	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' has the Sorrow. He doesn't fight much, but he's easily TheStoic and probably the smartest of the Cobras- at least, he's the most normal. He also has his own creepy version of TheGlassesComeOff - when he's about to show someone [[spoiler:the ghosts of everyone they've killed]], he cries blood and his glasses shatter-- [[spoiler:an allusion to [[EyeScream how he died]] [[DeadAllAlong at the Boss' hands]]]].
128	* Another RareFemaleExample: Xion from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2''. She wears glasses and speaks with a slow, deliberate, almost CreepyMonotone.
129	%%* Kyosuke Kagami from ''VideoGame/RivalSchools''.
130	* Jade Curtiss, the resident DeadpanSnarker of ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss''. Also very prone to the ''ScaryShinyGlasses'' trope.
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134	* Bernard from ''Webcomic/AngelDown'' wears a pir of thin rectangular glases, and almost never looses his cool.
135	* Liz from ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}''. Even though she's female, her glasses and demeanor imply stoicism rather than vulnerability. Bonus points for the fact that, as a shape shifter, she doesn't even need glasses.
136	* Chapel, from ''Webcomic/TheChapelChronicles'' constantly wears granny glasses -- perhaps she even sleeps with them on.
137	* Tarvek of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' does his best to appear stoic, and is ''much'' more stoic than other Sparks, but he still has his MadScientist freakouts like all Sparks do and he ends up loosing his composure and yelling at Gill rather often. His chosen pince nez glasses however very much seem to be part of the stoic and cool persona he's trying to present though.
138	* Sven Bianchi from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' wears these ''and'' has long, flowing hair. Apart from geeky Wil, he's the only male character to wear glasses, and they certainly don't detract from his appeal to women.
139	* Momba Kawunei from ''Webcomic/TheWaterPhoenixKing.'' As an Archer it makes sense that he'd worry more about vision than vanity, though he's the first glasses-wearing warrior we've seen so far. His rivals (make that ''late'' in one case) may have mistaken them for NerdGlasses, but not for long. Even more badass for wielding a weapon ''completely'' unsuitable for use by someone with lenses, and being good enough to get away with it.
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143	%%* Doug Walker's suave ''[[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]]'' persona.
144	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': Percy is mostly portrait as level-headed and calm. [[ScaryShinyGlasses Mostly]].
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148	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'''s title character is a RareFemaleExample: thick manstopper glasses, and [[EmotionlessGirl very stoic]].
149	%%* Owen Burnett, David Xanatos' [[RightHandHottie right hand]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
150	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has Prowl, tall, stoic, he's a [[GratuitousNinja Ninja]] and his eyes(?) make him look like he's wearing sunglasses.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': Qilby's glasses help give him an old yet wise figure's air which hide what an AxCrazy lunatic he really is. He breaks these after merging with the Eliacube and revealing his true colors.
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