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[[caption-width-right:209:Isn't wearing opaque glasses self-defeating?]]

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 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.

Opaque Nerd Glasses are two 4-inch disks that hide the wearer's eyes behind [[OpaqueLenses blank white circles]], that can be marked either with thin black spiraling lines, or, in the western variant, small or hazy dots denoting pupils. In some cases, the person's eyes will stay as tiny black dots even when the glasses are taken off, possibly to indicate how bad their eyesight is, or to make them look naked without their iconic glasses. They indicate that a character is painfully geeky, and is probably BlindWithoutEm.

Female characters with Opaque Nerd Glasses often reveal that they were BeautifulAllAlong upon [[TheGlassesGottaGo their removal]]. Male characters may be TheShortGuyWithGlasses.

This trope is found more often in comedy than in drama.

Subtrope of NerdGlasses. Contrast with {{Meganekko}}.

See also OpaqueLenses.

Opaque Nerd Glasses often play a part in the UnwantedGlassesPlot.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
%%* Miyuki Miyazawa in the TV series version of ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku''.
%%* Sandy Grayson in ''Manga/AoiHouse.''
* [[NinjaMaid Maylene]] from ''Manga/BlackButler''. [[spoiler:Somewhat justified as it neutralizes her absurd farsightedness when not going GunsAkimbo with scopeless rifles.]]
* Subverted with Roberta from ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. They're huge but they function like ScaryShinyGlasses. When they're aren't opaque, you see a [[DeathGlare glare with the fury of 10,000 Hells]].
* A throwaway gag in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has Ichigo offered a pair of these (and a {{Hachimaki}}) by a classmate who he outperformed.
* Sakura Yamazaki in ''Manga/BlueSeed'' only wears her nerd glasses when fighting demons.
* Tyki Mikk from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' wears a pair of these when he's disguised as a vagabond. A male example of a character being [[BeautifulAllAlong incredibly beautiful]] when not wearing them.
%%* Watabe from ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours'' though he is more of an {{Otaku}}.
* Episode 9 of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' gives us an interesting example; an old man with Opaque Nerd Glasses. Under the glasses, he has the eyes of UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi!
* Mamoru Kagemori, the title character of ''Literature/GuardianNinjaMamoru'', wears a fake pair of these to disguise the fact that he is a highly skilled teen ninja.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Anime/JuuniSenshiBakuretsuEtoRanger''. Nyorori's nerd glasses aren't ''normally'' opaque, typically letting his pupils and eyebrows through. However, they ''become'' opaque when [[spoiler: Pakaracchi is begging him to PleaseWakeUp]]. It's a powerful visual indicator that, [[LetsGetDangerous yes, things have gotten serious]].
* Osaragi from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar''. Despite -[[{{Meganekko}} or possibly because of]]- this, [[DudeMagnet she is considered to be very attractive in-universe]].
%%* Benzo from ''Kiteresu Daihyakka''.
* Arara Cocoa from the ''[[Anime/NGKnightLamune40 Lamune & 40]]'' series, though this is mostly in the TV series as she doesn't wear them in later installments of the series.
** The joke was later carried over into ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara'' (produced by the same staff) with Cocoa's sorta-expy Miyama Soshigaya/Death Crow, who [[Creator/SakikoTamagawa happens to share the same seiyuu as Cocoa]], but ''not'' the same personality.
* {{Invoked|trope}} by Sanae in ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' by putting them on ''only'' when she read a BookOfDoom [[spoiler:that was likely written by Shinka]].
* Naru Narusegawa in her "nerd mode" in ''Manga/LoveHina''. However, once Naru has obviously become the love interest in the story, TheGlassesGottaGo -- and when they ''are'' seen afterward, they are no longer opaque and spiralled, but simple clear {{Meganekko}} circles. Also, in the manga, she gives her Opaque Nerd Glasses to Shinobu as a "good luck" token when the younger girl is taking exams; later, Motoko uses them for the same purpose while studying to get into Tokyo U.
* Naru's {{Expy}} Chisame from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' started with the same look, occasionally falling back into it during her moments of annoyance.
* Makoto Takiya from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' normally doesn't wear glasses, but he spontaneously gains the classic opaque spiral lenses when he enters "otaku mode".
%%* ''VisualNovel/NanatsuiroDrops'' has Keisuke, a friend of main character Haru.
* 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 loves factoring.
* Saori of ''Literature/{{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.]]
* Haruhi from ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is initially introduced wearing a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses. The club members quickly replace them with contact lenses to show her beautiful eyes. Flashbacks show that she did not wear glasses in middle school, but this is explained -- she'd lost her contacts and hadn't been able to replace them.
* Leo from ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. [[spoiler:They're not there for correction, though. They're actually there for the opposite purpose and eventually, he loses them.]]
%%* Officer Shinshi in ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}''.
* Ayaori of ''Manga/PenguinRevolution'' wears Opaque Nerd Glasses most of the time in order to keep from being recognized as Peacock's number one talent.
* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', characters like [[BadassBookworm Sadaharu Inui]] and Hiroshi Yagyuu wear thick glasses that hide their eyes from sight (though Yagyuu's glasses are more Meganekko-type). In fact, a running gag in the anime is to have Inui's teammates and friends attempting to to take his glasses off and see his eyes.
* Mousse from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is an odd case: He has the glasses, but he's not a nerd. He ''is'', however, an obsessive StalkerWithACrush with no common sense. He's BlindWithoutEm, yet never puts them on until ''after'' he has, for example, spent five minutes talking to a tree under the assumption that it's actually Shampoo. He also has a habit of [[TheGlassesComeOff taking them off to attempt something dramatic]], then doing something stupid because he can't see. And even when turning into a duck, he still wear a pair of ''[[MagicPants duck-sized]] Nerd Glasses''.
* Inverted for ''Manga/Reborn2004'''s Koyo Aoba, who evidently can't see a damn thing through his glasses, but everyone can see his eyes. [[spoiler:This is because they apparently work similarly to Cyclops' ruby quartz visor, except instead of lasers, Koyo's glasses simply hold back the true abilities he inherited.]]
* Princess Dia from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], this leads the girls to speculate how another nerd, Umino, might look without his own ever-present Opaque Nerd Glasses. WordOfGod states that [[spoiler:yes, Umino ''is'' completely {{Bishonen}} [[BeautifulAllAlong without them]]]].
%%* Kururu from ''Manga/SgtFrog''.
* In a flashback, it is shown that Faust VIII from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' used to wear these.
* Ginnosuke from ''Manga/TokyoUnderground'' is a good example, with thick glasses complete with spirals. When he loses them for a short time, the main character (a longtime friend) doesn't even recognize him, and a few girls find him quite attractive. Chelsea, one of the other main characters, can never remember his name and defaults to "Megane-kun". He's also a rather proficient computer hacker, and ironically fights better with the glasses off.
* In the anime version of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', the first New Year's Special has Momotaro, a legendary Japanese hero, wearing a set of these. In fact, he looks a lot like a somewhat younger [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Mousse]].
* GadgeteerGenius Parfet from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. They don't have the spirals, but they are extremely opaque.
* In ''Anime/TheWallflower'', Kyohei wears these when he ''really'' needs to study for an exam, which distresses his fangirls as the glasses make him look much less {{bishonen}} than usual.
* Makoto Ariga from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' in her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference first few appearances]]. Later on you could see her eyes at all times.
* Eddie Sukenari from ''Manga/YoureMyPet''. Results in BishieSparkle and women falling all over him when he takes them off.
* Weevil Underwood from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' had some like these, thought they were only opaque whenever the [[ScaryShinyGlasses light caught them]].
* Carly from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' wears a pair of large spiral glasses, although they're seen through on occasion. Once, when they fall off, she's seen with lines for eyes, but when Misty removes them in a later episode, her eyes are normal, and actually quite attractive. [[spoiler:She [[TheGlassesGottaGo loses them]] after [[MagnificentBastard Divine]] murders her. Well, they wouldn't really go with the SuperpoweredEvilSide that came with the resurrection.]] [[spoiler:After [[{{TearJerker}} Episode 59]], [[TragicKeepsake they were all that was left of her]]...]] Fortunately, [[spoiler: as the heroes have DeusExMachina on their side, DeathIsCheap.]]
* Maruo-kun in ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan'', who has the spiral swirls to match his neurotic personality. [[StrongFamilyResemblance This is a trait he gets from his mom]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Comic artist Scott [=McCloud=] draws himself with these in his book, ''Understanding Comics'', and the other books in the series. No spirals, though. Also [[DeconstructedTrope playing]] with it on one occasion, when he makes the point that the character he's depicting himself as doesn't really look very much like a real human -- and demonstrates this by taking off his glasses, [[spoiler:revealing there really are no eyes behind them]].
* Perhaps on a borderline of ScaryShinyGlasses and Opaque Nerd Glasses -- Jonas Harrow from the Marvel universe wears spiraly glasses.
* Franchise/{{Superman}}'s NerdGlasses are sometimes Opaque Nerd Glasses, DependingOnTheArtist. In comics, unlike real life, the blank white circles actually ''do'' mask his appearance. MediumAwareness, anyone?
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': 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.]]
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': This is true as well for Peter Parker, before his original transformation took away his defective eye sight.
* ''{{ComicBook/Norby}}'': The only characters drawn with glasses in the adaptation of ''Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot'' have just the white lenses instead of pupils or irises. For extra nerd points, they're all bird-watchers, too.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}}'':
** Dilbert is this trope personified.
** Wally too. AFAIK, all eyeglasses in that strip are drawn this way.
* Jason from ''{{ComicStrip/FoxTrot}}'' always has his eyes covered with his trademark glasses. Even when he takes them off, he often squints.
* Rob from ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' originally wore these, though they were gradually phased out.
* ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'': Marcie's glasses completely hide her eyes, and occasionally she lifts them when showing emotion for ease of reading her expressions.
* Honey Huan in ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', who sometimes seems like a grown-up Marcie.
* All glasses in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' are drawn this way. Female characters are also typically depicted with "cat-eye" frames - in animal panels this becomes a TertiarySexualCharacteristic.
* ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'': The glasses that grow with/on the [[ArtificialHuman lab-grown nerd]] are opaque, as seen in the picture on the box of store-bought "LAB NERD" mix.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Professor Cypress, an old man dedicated to researching doomsday prophecies whom many people view as a laughingstock, wears glasses so thick you cannot see his eyes.
* In ''This Toon Round'' - the FunnyAnimal version of ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'', the pub outside ''Series/DoctorWho'' continuity - the character of Daibhid Chelonidae is a geeky and nervous tortoise with nearly opaque glasses. Since he's [[Tropers/DaibhidC totally not based on a real person]], neither are the glasses.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'' Hikari wore these in the past to protect her eyes from her powers. The fact that she doesn't need them in the present is part of why Mikoto doesn't recognize her.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' has Rosa Klebb wearing particularly hideous thick-framed ''and'' thick-lensed glasses in many scenes.
* In ''Film/SLCPunk'', the toughest punk in Salt Lake City wears "square" clothing and a pair of nerd glasses. Other punks assume that he's a wimp and pay for it with a bloody nose.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Moaning Myrtle's glasses have been described as this, including being so thick they hide her eyes sometimes.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Greg's mom is almost always drawn with these types of glasses. Without them, her eyes are black dots just like everyone else's.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
%%* Bailey on ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' wore them periodically.
* One episode of ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' has Renee getting several pairs of glasses. We see her Opaque Nerd Glasses, and it is mentioned that she has two other colours and [[SnapBack also wears contacts for concerts]]. Kudos to them for at least ''mentioning'' the colour variety.
* ''Series/TheTonightShow'': Ernie Kovacs' oddball poet character Percy Dovetonsils wears glasses with insanely thick lenses. The Character originated on Ernie Kovac's own show "Three to Get Ready" which had appeared on local TV station WPTZ (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia in 1950.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** Henry Bemis from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]" is a particularly famous example.
** Oliver Crangle from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E29FourOClock Four O'Clock]]" wears them too.
* ''Series/APBio'': Heather wears outrageously thick far-sighted glasses, so they either magnify her eyes to huge size or completely obscure them based on the angle.
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[[folder:Music]]
* John Flansburgh of Music/TheyMightBeGiants (the founders of nerdrock) is known for his spectacles. Bandmate John Linnell is also bespectacled, but he takes them off before going onstage.
%%* A visual trademark of Music/{{Devo}}'s Mark Mothersbaugh.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow''
** Scooter has thick glasses with his eyes on the lenses. His eyes are on his ''glasses'', ''not'' his face. His DistaffCounterpart Skeeter has an identical pair on ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies''.
** At the other end of the spectrum, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew has no eyes at all behind his glasses, which gives the effect of OpaqueLenses, even though the frames are empty.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Lucca from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has these, but actually manages to be [[{{Meganekko}} attractive]] despite it. Really, she's got the transparent {{Meganekko}} glasses -- you can see this in all the official art and animations, as well as her character information screen. They're just opaque in-game because of sprite limitations -- it's hard to denote "glasses" ''without'' them being opaque when the lenses need to be only two or three pixels wide.
* 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.
* Modo's son in ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'' wear some of these glasses to emphasize his genius trait. The guy built a space train all by himself, after all.
* 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.]]
* ''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.
* ''Videogame/{{MOTHER}}'':
** ''Videogame/EarthBound1994:'' Both Jeff, the GadgeteerGenius, and his [[ParentalAbandonment estranged father]], the scientist Dr. Andonuts, have these.
** ''Videogame/EarthBoundBeginnings:'' Lloyd, the pasty 11-year-old with a strong interest in computers and technology, has round glasses that are these.
* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', 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.
* ''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.
* 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/SuperMarioBros'':
** Some characters from the games have nerd glasses, 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''.
* One of the classmates in ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch'' is a girl named Shelly with glasses like these. Her [[MeaningfulName Japanese name]], Shiori, can be translated as "bookmark".
* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': One of the Metal Fish scientists has swirl lens glasses.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In ''Website/ScrubClub'', Squeaks's eyes can't be seen through his glasses.
* ''WebAnimation/TroubleBusters'': The green girl sports them, complete with the spiral swirl. She is also the nerd of the three protagonists.

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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Dr. Phage from ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' has these, complete with spirals. Turns out these actually ''are'' his eyes, and nothing is behind them.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', in which one of the lead characters pretends to be BlindWithoutEm; in actuality, his glasses are high-tech espionage gear (including an XRayVision feature which he removed to avoid temptation), and help hide the fact that he's so painfully girly that just looking into his eyes tends to cause StupidSexyFlanders moments in heterosexual males.
%%* 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]] his bizarre [[KaleidoscopeEyes color-changing eyes]] than denote nerdiness; Vriska's big lenses match those requirements, but her personality ''really'' doesn't fit.
%%* Emojueel of ''{{Webcomic/Juathuur}}'' sports them.
%%* Both ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' and his love interest Amber.
* 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.
* In ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'', Dave's glasses don't have the spirals, but function like Opaque Nerd Glasses in every other way -- [[spoiler:until he goes mad, and they suddenly become totally clear.]]
* Piffany from ''{{Webcomic/Nodwick}}''. The glasses seem only to get bigger as ArtEvolution goes.
%%* Ed, the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} of the main cast of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' sports these.
* Thaddeus Euphemism from ''Webcomic/ThePetriDish'' wears glasses that you can't see his eyes through.
* Chroma the First from ''Webcomic/PrincessChroma'' seems to have these, but it turns out the lenses are just amazingly dirty. Otherwise, they're just plain old NerdGlasses.
* 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.
* Mouse wears them in ''Webcomic/SquidRow'', though his eyes are shown in close-up shots.
* Goseng from ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' has such glasses. She has an unusual look for the context -- few people in the Tower wear glasses at all, possibly because they're always improving themselves with [[MagicByAnyOtherName Shinsu]], and they're a part of how she's drawn a bit more simply than other characters. The glasses also highlight how she's unusually ordinary for a Regular climbing the Tower, not exactly a superhuman powerhouse.
* 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]].
%%* ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'': Tori was actually designed with this in mind.
%%* Meegs the wizard aprentice in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic''.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Professor Farnsworth in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a pair of Nerd Glasses, and indeed his eyes are never seen in the series. Subverted in one episode where he needed his "reading glasses" -- and put on a pair several times thicker than his already fairly enormous glasses (to the point that they looked like glass cylinders). At least somewhat of a JustifiedTrope: Professor Farnsworth is 160 years old. Anyone's vision would become pretty bad by that age.
* An early example of this is Poindexter from the old ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' show. He not only wears nerd glasses but he also wears a lab coat and a graduation cap and mortarboard.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Prof. Frink wears these, which hide his pupils.
** Milhouse wears a pair with smaller lenses.
** Bart wore some temporarily to correct his lazy eye:
-->''(Bart and Milhouse see their reflections in each other's glasses)''\\
'''Bart:''' ''(gasp)'' I'm a nerd!
-->'''Milhouse:''' ''(gasp)'' So am I!
** Waylon Smithers also wears these.
** And so does Ned Flanders!
* Franz Hopper of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Okay, so Jérémie Belpois is pretty unfortunate in the eyewear department as well, but at least we can still see his eyes.
* Sheldon Klutzberry on the ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' wears glasses that are so thick and heavy they cripple his posture and pinch his nose making him sound like Jerry Lewis. And yes, when he takes them off, he unwillingly turns into a middle-school hunk.
%%* Alexa from ''[[http://www.shapequest.net/ Shape Quest]].''
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' has Max have to temporarily wear nerd glasses because he'd messed up his eyes playing videogames. With Max despondent about it, Goofy told him a story about an ancestor of theirs in the wild west who stopped a bandit thanks to his own nerd glasses.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. Like Scooter on ''The Muppet Show'', the title character's eyes ''are'' his glasses--the lenses are all white, with dots in them for his pupils. Most other characters end up this way when they end up wearing glasses. In [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference earlier flashback episodes]], his eyes sans spectacles were the same as everyone else's, but they soon gave him ''Peanuts''-style floating dots instead.
* Beth and Harold from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' also have dotted eyes without their nerd glasses (although it's a bit more common in their universe). They are also considered to be the nerdiest of the contestants.
* WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants wears these for safety when out jellyfishing.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': Beavis gets an eye exam and when he can't read any of the letters, because, well, ''he can't read'', is given a massively thick-lensed pair of glasses, making him functionally blind, and somehow even goofier-looking.
* Became a major plot point in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' where RichBitch Rhonda (in karmic retribution for her earlier discriminatory attitude towards geeks by having them sit in the back of the bus) is forced to wear nerdy glasses when her school nurse and aunt reveals she is short-sighted. The humiliation in sitting in the last row prompts Rhonda to discard her glasses, but her short-sightedness causes her to get into embarrassing situations such as getting gum on her shirt and toilet paper on her shoe. Furious at the inequalities she and the geeks are forced to endure in school, she stages a revolution and gets back at one of the cool kids who forced her into the back row by refusing to budge from her first-row seat and convincing the kids to sit wherever they want (ending in the cool kid having to sit in the back row). In the end, as icing on the cake, Rhonda gets a better pair of glasses.
** Curly from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' is an excellent example.
* Cedric Sner in ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' albeit his eyes are small like two dots to begin with. Due to this he was called [[PunnyName Cegato (Blindy)]] in the Spanish dub.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Bifocals and glasses that correct for astigmatism.
** 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 TheNewRockAndRoll. 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.
%%* Nerdfighters!
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