History Main / TheGlassesGottaGo

* ''Film/TheSexTrip'': Subverted. When trying to help Jess gain some confidence, Eddie asks if she actually needs her glasses, implying that they should be removed. Jess explains that she needs them to see, and Eddie agrees to keep them on.

* Spoofed in ''[[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!]]'' As TheHero falls in love with the HotScientist, she suddenly appears from his point-of-view in [[GaussianGirl soft focus]], removing her glasses and tousling her hair in a HotWind that gets stronger and stronger until he's shouting his LoveConfession as they both get blown across the room while catching a face-full of newspapers, leaves, and other rubbish. Annoyed, she puts her glasses back on and the wind suddenly stops, causing the hero to fall to the ground from the lamppost he was desperately holding on to.

* The Japanese music video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fq2cwZf7pc "LOVE Dokkyun"]] by [[CapitalLettersAreMagic CLUB PRINCE]] has the band in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin prince-like]] outfits teaching [[HotScientist scientist-looking girls]] how to [[ShapedLikeItself LOVE Dokkyun]]. It climaxes with the girls [[FlungClothing flinging off their nerdy attire]] to expose their [[SheCleansUpNicely happier, trendier]], [[BishieSparkle sparklier]] selves.

* In Uglydolls, Mandy is insistent on not wearing her glasses, because, in her mind "Perfect dolls have perfect vision". This is despite the fact she constantly runs into door frames without them. She eventually comes to accept that she needs them, and wears them freely after. The child that ends up getting her also needs glasses, and a scene during the credits is Mandy with her new child at the optometrist.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'': During her CostumeTestMontage for her superhero outfit, Kara comes out wearing the glasses she uses for her SecretIdentity (for the same reason Wonder Woman did), then realises her mistake and takes them off. Wynn, already DistractedByTheSexy sight [[ShesGotLegs of her legs]] thanks to her MinidressOfPower, starts mumbling how pretty she is until Kara brings him back to reality.

* The reality makeover show ''Series/TenYearsYounger'' employs Lasik eye surgery religiously.

* On MTV's ''Made'' Sweet, nerdy girl Kitty wants to be in a high school beauty pageant. The makeover works better than expected for a few reasons. One, Kitty turned out to have a great body (long legs, small waist, and big bust) that was hidden under the baggy clothes she always wore. Two, she had beautiful blue eyes that could be seen better without her thick glasses. She actually ends up winning second place!

* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' at the eyeglasses store, while George is buying new frames, Jerry looks at pictures of the female models on the wall, and says, "These women would be so much better looking without glasses."

* ''Series/CoronationStreet'' - Claire Peacock got glasses as part of a storyline where she wanted to become a bus driver. She kept them for a few months before they one day just vanished. Of course, her desire to be a driver had stopped long before that too.
* ''Series/Supergirl2015''. During her CostumeTestMontage for her superhero outfit, Kara comes out wearing the glasses she uses for her SecretIdentity (for the same reason Wonder Woman did), then realises her mistake and takes them off. Wynn, already DistractedByTheSexy sight [[ShesGotLegs of her legs]] thanks to her MinidressOfPower, starts mumbling how pretty she is until Kara brings him back to reality.

* On ''Series/SchittsCreek'', Johnny and David Rose do not wear glasses, unlike their respective actors, Eugene and Dan Levy, making it easy to distinguish between photos of the actors and their characters.

* One of the first steps of the makeover in ''Film/ShesAllThat'' is glasses removal.

A SisterTrope to LettingHerHairDown. Contrast with BespectacledCutie and GlassesAreSexy. Also, don't confuse this trope with TheGlassesComeOff.

* Paige Webb did a similar thing in ''{{Wrestling/Wrestlicious}}'', coming to the ring dressed as a HollywoodNerd. During her ring entrance, she would remove her NerdGlasses.

[[caption-width-right:275:[[https://www.marycagle.com/letsspeakenglish/14-relativity "Are you saying I'm usually hideous?"]]]]

A SisterTrope to LettingHerHairDown. Contrast with BespectacledCutie and SexySpectacles. Also, don't confuse this trope with TheGlassesComeOff.

** This trope is inverted in another episode, where Leonard is instantly taken when Penny [[SexySpectacles puts on glasses]].

* Inverted in ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' when Diana is getting dressed up to look more normal in early 20th century London, Steve picks up a pair of specs and pops them on to "complete" the look, which arguably only ended up making her even ''more'' eye-catching. [[Main/LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Etta Candy.
-->'''Etta:''' Really? Specs? And suddenly she's ''not'' the most beautiful woman you've ever seen?
* Played straight in ''Film/WonderWoman1984''. Shy and nerdy Barbara Minerva has used the [[MakeAWish Dreamstone]] to make herself more desirable. In one scene while surrounded by her now-admiring colleagues, she puts on her glasses to read something and is surprised to find she no longer needs them.
* ''Film/{{Predestination}}''. When Jane applies for the Space Corps who provide [[PlatonicProstitution emotional and sexual comfort]] for astronauts on long space missions, a member of the recruiting panel asks her to take her glasses off. When she does so, the astronauts on the panel are shown smiling in approval. When Jane does meet her OneTrueLove however, he falls in LoveAtFirstSight with Jane while she's still wearing her glasses. But that's a more complicated story...

Some people really ''do'' find glasses sexy in real life, and thus get a little annoyed when this happens, considering it an UnnecessaryMakeover. [[{{Meganekko}} There is even a large following specifically for this in fiction]], and of course there are plenty of [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} pornographic]] websites dedicated to people wearing glasses [[TheInternetIsForPorn that can be found without much effort]].

A SisterTrope to LettingHerHairDown. Contrast with {{Meganekko}} and SexySpectacles. Also, don't confuse this trope with TheGlassesComeOff.

* Creator/ChristopherNolan tried to find excuses for Creator/CillianMurphy to take off his glasses as Dr. Crane in ''Film/BatmanBegins'', so his baby blues could get more screentime.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015''. During her CostumeTestMontage for her superhero outfit, Kara comes out wearing the glasses she uses for her SecretIdentity, then realises her mistake and takes them off. Wynn, already DistractedByTheSexy sight [[ShesGotLegs of her legs]] thanks to her MinidressOfPower, starts mumbling how beautiful she is until Kara brings him back to reality.

* A great many ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfics have Harry ditch his glasses, replaced by contacts or repaired by magic, lasers, genetic engineering, surgery... pretty much anything. This usually coincides with the introduction of a MarySue and/or Harry's [[StartOfDarkness first steps to becoming a worse villain than Voldemort.]]

* Played straight in ''Film/WonderWoman84''. Shy and nerdy Barbara Minerva has MadeAWish that she be more desirable. In one scene while surrounded by her now-admiring colleagues, she puts on her glasses to read something and is surprised to find she no longer needs them.