Examples

• As depicted, Miyuki Takara from Lucky Star engages in this.
• Anri Sonohara from Durarara!!
• Yomiko Readman also does this.
• The members of the Student Council in Heartcatch Pretty Cure, Itsuki being the only exception. A rare not moe at all example.
• This is how Yuno from Hidamari Sketch puts her Cool Shades on. See for yourself.
• In One Piece, this is often how Tashigi adjusts her glasses. She attempts it in the Punk Hazard arc, only to remember that she is in Smoker's body, who doesn't wear glasses.

• Arthur apparently does this as a nervous habit. In later episodes, it becomes his "tell" and if he does it then you know he's lying or at least not being entirely truthful.

Examples

• Shiho and Karin from Naruto.
• Autor from Princess Tutu.
• In the Pokémon anime, Conway combines this with Scary Shiny Glasses for a particularly creepy effect, usually when addressing Dawn, the object of his affections..

• Clark Kent is often seen adjusting his glasses this way, especially in Post-Crisis stories where Clark was given a more agressive personality. Often used as a punctuation for his snarking.

• Pe Lanza of Restart, occasionally.

• As seen above, Martin Summer does this constantly in Hotel Dusk Room 215.
• The concise Shizune of Katawa Shoujo often poses this way.
• Ema Skye in the Ace Attorney series. Unusual in that she very rarely wears the glasses over her eyes, so the adjustment is mostly for the sake of adjusting.
• Jeff from EarthBound is doing this as his pose on his Super Smash Bros. Brawl trophy.
  • There is also an NPC in MOTHER 3 who does this for his talking animation.
• Jihl Nabaat of Final Fantasy XIII

• The Nostalgia Critic has a habit of doing it whenever people with glasses get treated badly in the movies he reviews.

Examples

• The trope image is Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion. When he's not doing his trademark GendoPose◊, he's doing this.
  • As a recent trailer for the next Rebuild Of Evangelion movie reveals, Mari also prefers to use the bridge.
• Rossiu's assistant in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann does this all the time.
• As does Takamizawa in Midori Days.
• Bleach: Mostly an anime-only trope, although it sometimes happens in the manga. Uryuu Ishida, Ryuuken Ishida and Nanao Ise all adjust their glasshes by the bridge. They tend to do it when they're making a point, or irritated, nervous, thoughtful or about to enter combat or a confrontational situation.
• Mahou Sensei Negima!: Haruna Saotome.
• In Tree of Tranquility, Jin (one of the eligible bachelors) does this as his "talking" gesture (which all the characters have).
• Shizuo Heiwajima in Durarara!! does this with his Cool Shades on occasion.
• In Naruto:
  • Shino and Ebisu both push up their Cool Shades this way.
  • Kabuto does this to his Scary Shiny Glasses.
• Kyouya Ootori of Ouran High School Host Club does it with alarming frequency, often triggering Scary Shiny Glasses.
• Nikaidou Yuu of Shugo Chara! does this frequently,often triggering Scary Shiny Glasses, but stops after his Heel Face Turn
• Kirio a.k.a. "Mr. Glasses Man" from Kamichama Karin.
• Keima in The World God Only Knows generally does this except when he's pretending to be nicer than he is, in which case he'll adjust them by the sides. It plays out interestingly when Keima and Yui switch bodies and he tries doing it by habit, but Yui's vision is better and she doesn't need glasses. He's momentarily confused.
• Shou Tucker does this in Fullmetal Alchemist. This combined with Scary Shiny Glasses are clues to show that something isn't quite right with him.
• Mai Minakami from Nichijou does this occasionally, but with her, it's because she's trolling her friends. A notable example is when she and her friends are playing "Red Light Green Light".
• Takamatsu in Angel Beats! does this many times in a row when saying things. Yuri claims he's actually quite dumb and just wears glasses to seem smart.

• Justin Hammer does it this way in Iron Man 2, showing that he has a lot of nervous energy and is an awkward man.
• In Now And Then, Nerdy Morton does this as a child while saying "hello dear" to Chrissy, and it becomes his defining characteristic so we later recognize him as an adult once he's married to her. Awww.

• Hiro in Heroes does this - it does a good job straddling the western 'dork glasses' and eastern 'serious moment.' It also lampshades itself from time to time, like when Hiro meets his younger self, and they both adjust their glasses at the same time.
• In Psychoville, the younger Jeremy does this multiple times during his flashback of Ravenhill.
• The Stefan & Krister character Olvert Bengtsson does the Flipping the Bird variant in almost all his sketches.

• Meibo from Infinity Game does this in an attempt to look threatening, it usually works.

• Auron does this with his Scary Shiny Cool Shades after every battle in Final Fantasy X. And he is most definitely not a nerd.
• Ace Attorney: Grey does this a lot in the second game, as well as Kristoph in in the fourth.
• Clive of Wild AR Ms 3 is a Badass Bookworm and does this constantly.
• Otacon does this in Metal Gear. It's a nervous habit that persists even when he's not wearing glasses.
  • Wearing a scientist disguise in Metal Gear Solid 3 allows the player to make Snake do this.
• As does Roxis in Mana Khemia. Even on the pause menu. His Graphics-Induced Super-Deformed field sprite uses Type 2, however.
• Tager does this in the BlazBlue games.
• Jade does this in both Tales Of The Abyss and The Anime of the Game, triggering Scary Shiny Glasses more often in the latter. Despite this, it seems to be a nervous habit as much as anything - watch the OVA closely and you'll notice he usually does it when he's trying to hide a lie, and he does Type 2 at least once when he's really just trying to see something better.
• Rare Western example of badassery: the Medic in Team Fortress 2 does this in Meet the Medic.
• Hubert Oswell of Tales Of Graces is shown doing this in his menu portrait and this also seems to be a standard gesture of his in skits.

Examples

• In One Piece, Kuro adjust his glasses by pushing up on the bottoms of the lenses with the heels of his hands, an early hint to the fact the he is used to wearing clawed gauntlets.
• In Black Butler, William T Spears uses his death scythe to adjust his glasses.
  • At one point, Sebastian uses a violin bow to adjust his glasses while teaching Ciel the violin in Episode 13.

• In The Girl With The Silver Eyes, Katie is used to lifting her glasses via telekinesis. After she finds others like her, they jointly complain about how frustrating it is to try to remember to do it with your hands when it's so obvious and easy to do it the normal way - mentally!