History Main / BlindWithoutEm

** Also, in the episode ''Starry, Starry Night'', Aurora the telescope is blind without her eyepiece, mistaking Lambie for a dog and Chilly for Stuffy, who she thinks is a porcupine and the aquarium for a big-screen TV.

* ''Webcomic/{{Karin-dou 4koma}}'': After Meguru's glasses are destroyed, she begs for help from a scale.

* The title character of ''Dr. Cyclops''. His miniaturized victims try to take advantage of this by breaking them.

* In the 1940 science fiction horror film ''Dr. Cyclops'', [[MadScientist Dr. Alexander Thorkel]] can't see at all without his coke-bottle spectacles; that's why he summoned the team of scientists to his island, because he needed to use a microscope to perfect his shrinking device, and couldn't use one while wearing them. After he uses them as test subjects, and kills one of them, the four survivors eventually decide to try to render him helpless by breaking the glasses. They only manage to break one lens, but that blinds him enough for them to trick him into chasing them to a mineshaft, where he plummets to his death.

** Carly from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' also can't see a thing without her glasses; except when her SuperPoweredEvilSide is in control. (In fact, Jack finds her half-broken glasses in the ruins of the Arcadia Building after she is recruited into the Dark Signers, and they play a big part of getting her to snap out of it later.)

** Carly from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' also can't see a thing without her glasses; except when her SuperPoweredEvilSide is in control.

Unrelated to FandomMyopia.

* Happens to a non-playable character in the in the survival game ''VideoGame/LostInBlue''. ItsUpToYou to keep the two of you alive and find a way off the island.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the Omnicronians are almost fooled when Zapp Brannigan tries to substitute an ape for Leela. Leela at first thinks this is because they have a hard time telling ''any'' creatures other than their own species, but seeing as Lrrr did indeed only figure it out when he used his glasses to get a better look, it seems bad eyesight may be at least partially to blame.

* Prince Nazagi of ''The Royal Trap'' without his spectacles is seriously impaired and completely unable to see people's faces, which makes social interaction difficult, since he refuses to wear the glasses in public.

* In the ''Anime/KimagureOrangeRoad'' story, "Manami-chan's Big Adventure", Kyōsuke's [[GlassesGirl meganekko]] sister loses her contacts while enjoying a day off from everyday household chores and is subsequently rescued from shady characters -- in the manga they're lecherous guys, in the anime it's [[{{Delinquents}} sukeban (girl gang)]] members -- by Kyōsuke. He fails to recognize [[SheCleansUpNicely his dressed-up sister]], and she fails to recognize him without her glasses or contacts (and he has a slight sore throat, which changes his voice) -- and they end up on a date together. (It makes sense in context and isn't {{squick}}y in the least.) In the manga story he's just being nice to a sweet girl he's met, but in the anime he ''does'' finally recognize her and treats her to the memorable day she wanted to have -- with Manami never realizing that this kind, gentlemanly boy she spends the day with was in fact her brother.

* While a number of characters in ''Manga/BlackButler'' wear glasses, death god William T. Spears is the only one so far who seems to need them outside of making a fashion statement. About thirteen minutes into [[http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=video&v=6172: episode 9 of Kuroshitsuji II]], he loses his glasses and starts fumbling around on the ground Velma-style—even admonishing a brick wall that he thinks is his partner.

* Edgar the Mole from ''Film/OnceUponAForest''. He is a mole after all.

** [[Film/HarryPotter The film]] of ''PrisonerOfAzkaban'' averts this trope nicely when Harry gets his glasses knocked off by the Whomping Willow, leading to a fuzzy but still somewhat intelligible [=PoV=] shot that's pretty close to what the world looks like through myopia.

* In {{Space Beasts}} [[TheHero Ichabod Crane]] doesn't need glasses at all for most of the main story, at the very end however, he gazes into the radiance of the magic crystal for too long (Despite his friends warning him to turn his head and not look) Because of this he is now legally blind and now needs glasses, (Ichabod isn't too upset about this though, as he always felt this day would come and it completes his nerd look his girlfriend [[CatGirl Marzipan Cheshire]] Likes the glasses as she thinks they make him look [[BrainySpecs Wise]]) However even when he loses he glasses Ichabod is NOT helpless! Having spent so many years living among [[PettingZooPeople Animal People]] he can use senses other then sight to find his way and even fight.

** Parodied on ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' with ''The Scary Door'', where the last man on Earth has just lost his glasses.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'', the Omnicronians are almost fooled when Zapp Brannigan tries to substitute an ape for Leela. Leela at first thinks this is because they have a hard time telling ''any'' creatures other than their own species, but seeing as Lrrr did indeed only figure it out when he used his glasses to get a better look, it seems bad eyesight may be at least partially to blame.)

-->-- '''Velma''', from the various ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' shows (whenever they need somebody to be incapacitated)

* A ''HappyDays'' episode had Fonzie confronting a vision problem and the fear he has with the prospect of wearing glasses. Richie tells him that glasses or no glasses, he's still the Fonz and he's still cool. When Fonzie later tells a contest audience that "wearing glasses is cool," the self-esteem of millions of children across the nation who wear glasses soared.
* ''DuckDynasty'': Silas "Si" Robertson's vision is so poor, with or without his original glasses, that he mistakes raccoon droppings for muscadine berries at one point. ''And eats them.'' He soon gets a new pair, though.

* Averted on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''{{Angel}}''. Both Wes and Giles are seen at times without their glasses and doing just fine. It's only when a spell strikes Giles that he actually goes blind.

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''', in a crossover with ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' (after tripping with the aforementioned and making both drop their glasses; then they pick up each other's)

* Christopher Lambert has Myopia and is almost entirely blind without his Glasses. Since he cannot wear contacts, he is often forced to act while unable to see anything clearly (Making the fact that almost all his roles require fighting or some form of strenuous physical activity all the more impressive). This is also the reason behind his trademark intense gaze as he is really just trying to see whats in front of him.

** Shows up every season of CanadasWorstDriver; it's mentioned only when a driver fails to fullfil this.

* Christopher Lambert has Myopia and is almost entirely blind without his Glasses. Since he cannot wear contacts, he is often forced to act while unable to see anything clearly (Making the fact that almost all his roles require fighting or some form of strenuous physical activity impressive). This is also the reason behind his trademark intense gaze as he is really just trying to see whats in front of him.

--->'''Velma:''' Jinkies! Everything's Dark! I'VE GONE BLIND!!

-->'''Johnny Bravo:''' I'm only going to say this once...[[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''Don't. Touch. The Glasses!''']]