Sandbox / Specs Of Awesome Check

Standard "Awesome/badass/etc. X" ZCE/tropeworthiness wick check for Specs of Awesome, a type of trope format that's known to be chairs.

Wicks checked 62/62. It was supposed to be 50/50, but I went overboard.

• Quick wick results:
  • 22/62 are "X is badass and happens to wear glasses" chairs-y examples, or 48%.
  • 28/62 are ZCEs and vague potholes, or 45%.
  • 1/62 are "glasses indicate badassery full context examples", or ≈2%
  • 11/62 are misuse and other unsorted examples, or 18%.

• Long analysis: The trope is full of chairs-y examples that are just, "trait + appearance item", with barely any connection between the two, meaning you can replace the trait and the item with anything and they'd make the same "trope"/meaning. Many of the examples have partial/zero context examples or are vague potholes. The rest misuse the trope for gushing about the glasses or how cool the badass character, or objectively describe how awesome the glasses are, not the wearer. There seems to be no way to salvage this trope.
  
  
• Solutions:
  • Cut.
  • Disambiguate between Cool Shades, Four Eyes, Zero Soul, Scary Shiny Glasses, and possibly other tropes.
  • Don't know if this is viable or not, but retool the trope into "glasses indicate badassery" (or make it clear if it's already defined this way) and clean up ZCEs and misuse.

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"X is badass & happens to wear glasses" chairs examples (22/62)

1. Hidden Badass: wearing glasses.
2. Stoic Spectacles: If you're dangerous even without removing them, they are Specs of Awesome.
3. Characters.A Certain Magical Index Academy City Leadership: (Mii), She's a badass Judgment agent who's always wearing glasses.
4. Characters.Akame Ga Kill Night Raid: (Sheele), Although she's a Cute Clumsy Girl with glasses, she's also an assassin who can tear people apart with her giant scissors.
5. Characters.Baldr Force: (Qu Wong), Sporting glasses and being the leader of a terrorist group sure helps.
6. Characters.Black Lagoon The Lovelace Household: (Roberta), Her permanently Scary Shiny Glasses only make her look even more badass.
7. Characters.Blue Exorcist True Cross Academy Staff: (Yukio), He is an effective exorcist and a professor with glasses.
8. Characters.Case Closed Shinichi Kudo: As Conan Edogawa, the awesomeness is furthered strengthened by the abilities that his glasses possess.
9. Characters.Dance In The Vampire Bund: (Heinrich), Heinrich wears glasses while operating as one of the Elite Eight in the Earth Clan of werewolves.
10. Characters.Dreamworld Paradox: Ben wears glasses and he has Elemental Powers, need we say more? — Yes, you do
11. Characters.Edens Zero Oracion Seis Galactica Associates: (Britney), She wears glasses that analyze her opponents' Ether readings, and is a talented Ether Gear user to match.
12. Characters.Hotline Miami: (Beard), He is a One-Man Army wearing glasses.
13. Characters.Life Is Strange The Protagonists: (Alex), She wears red round glasses that makes her extremely cute and is the most toughest character in the game. — Some gushing too
14. Characters.Negima Other: (Takamichi), He has no magical abilities, but is one helluva fighter. He's even nicknamed "Death Glasses".
15. Characters.Shakugan No Shana: (Margery), She's one of the most powerful Flame Hazes alive and she wears glasses.
16. ComicBook.Mr Beaver: Mr. Beaver wears specs, and is a stone cold badass.
17. ComicBook.Rat Man 1989: Janus Valker almost always wears a pair of glasses and he is arguably the biggest badass of the series. — Examples aren't arguable but fits here regardless
18. Manga.Kandachime: Takuma. He comes from a family of blacksmiths, and swordsman. He himself is a pretty badass when he wants to be.
19. Recap.Supernatural S 12 E 15 Between Heaven And Hell: Although Sam doesn't usually wear glasses, he is wearing glasses when he performs this week's act of badassery.
20. Roleplay.The Gamers Alliance: Richelieu, the resident Badass Bookworm, has these.
21. Webcomic.The Story Of Anima: Ada proves why you shouldn't hit a lady with glasses: you'll just get your face kicked instead.
22. WesternAnimation.Xiaolin Chronicles: Ping Pong wears light green-tinted glasses and is an excellent fighter like his role model Omi, if not better. Jack wears glasses during his IT/Geek Squad venture in "Xiaolin Redemption".

Zero context examples and vague potholes (28/62)

1. Anime.Blood C: Saya. — Commented out
2. Anime.Dragon Ball GT: Gohan — Commented out
3. CSINY.Tropes 0 To L: Iconic Items: Mac's Detective Bureau lapel pin and the picture of Ronald Reagan he keeps in his office, Sid's glasses, and Danny's dog tags that were his grandfather's from the Korean War.
4. Characters.Astral Cabal Black Roster: (Toki in the Students L-Z' folder), — Commented out
5. Characters.K Scepter 4: (Saruhiko), — No context given
6. Characters.Soul Eater Troubled Souls Class Crescent Moon: (Caius, Kirikou 'Kilik' Rung & The Pot Twins' folder), He adjusts them by the bridge. — Almost no context
7. Characters.The Origin Of The Keys: (Daiki in Class C Keybearers' folder), — No context given
8. Characters.Zara And Erika: Erika wears glasses.
9. DarthWiki.Advance Wars Eternal War: (Keitaro), — Commented out
10. DarthWiki.When Good Girls Go To War: (Nina in Team Avatar's folder), — No context given
11. Fanfic.Fate Of The Clans Extra Stories: Glasses-wearing Reisi isn't Blue King for nothing. — Vague context
12. Fanfic.Tales Of The Undiscovered Swords: Kiriha is already described as fairly capable and does prove to be such during his confrontation with Ishida. And don't get us started on Sasanoyuki… — Vague context
13. Film.Battle Of The Sexes: Gladys Heldman in the boardroom, Billie and Bobby on the court and the press. — Vague context
14. Film.Duel: David, at the end.
15. Film.Sauna: Erik has these, a rarity for the 16th century.
16. The Ipcress File: Harry Palmer wears them.
17. JustForFun.Inspector Spacetime: Iconic Outfit: The Tenth Inspector was never without [[SpecsOfAwesome his prized coke-bottle glasses]], tight jeans, and various nerdy T-shirts. — Vague pothole
18. Literature.Nocte Yin: Umbra, Paine and eventually Nocte.
19. Music.Dubal C: Performs while wearing glasses in the school portions of the "In My Head" video. — Is he badass?
20. Music.Epica: Coen Janssen.
21. Persona4.Tropes O To Z: Every member of the Investigation Team (except Teddie).
22. CSINYS 07 E 07: Your Head A-Splode: Before the explosive factor of the bullets is discovered, Sid attempts to remove one from a victim's brain and his [[SpecsOfAwesome Click Readers]] are the only thing that save his eyesight from the blast. Jo gets him a new pair when he returns to work. — Vague pothole
23. Sandbox.Klug The Aspiring Mage: (Nicky), Nicky wears glasses, and while Sonic doesn't, he's able to get the job done. — Partial context
24. WebVideo.Undertaker Freak 1127: John sometimes wears glasses in his videos.
25. Webcomic.The Chosen Four: Specs Of Awesome: Jeff is prone to this. — + Tropeslashing
26. WesternAnimation.Extreme Ghostbusters: As always, Egon wears them.
27. WesternAnimation.Tale Spin: Myra wears them.
28. WesternAnimation.The Real Ghostbusters: Egon wears them.

Glasses indicate badassery full context examples (1/62)

1. Characters.Golden Kamuy The Abashiri Convicts: (Gansoku), Despite his round glasses, he's a burly muscled man who's tough enough to be a match for Ushiyama, provided Ushiyama doesn't get a judo hold on him. When he steps in the ring during a stenka session, his first punch throws Sugimoto several paces away, knocking him against the fence.

Misuse/other (11/62)

1. Characters.Far Cry 5: He wears normal glasses in contrast to Joseph's creepy yellow sunglasses. By the time of New Dawn, he's stopped wearing them.
2. Characters.Fillmore: (Fillmore), White glasses have never look so awesome. — "Looked" = it's troping the glasses themselves, not how it makes the character a badass
3. Characters.K Scepter 4: (Reisi), Unlike other guys who look dorky and unattractive because they're wearing glasses, he is one of the few who actually look awesome, and super sexy with his glasses on; he also looks this way without them on. — Gushing + describing the glasses themselves as awesome
4. Characters.Pokemon Reset Bloodlines Villains: (Vedia in Belladonna and Company's folder), She never took off her glasses during her fight with Misty. — Misuse/partial context
5. Characters.Team 8:(Shino), His specs just make him look even more awesome. — Gushing + it's troping the glasses themselves
6. Characters.The Worlds End: (Andy), His glasses don't detract from his awesomeness. — Kinda gush-y and doesn't describe how the glasses make him awesome
7. Characters.Uncle From Another World: (Uncle), His glasses got teleported with him to the other world and he kept wearing them during his adventures. Amazingly, his glasses never seemed to break regardless of how much he's roughed up. — Irrelevant context
8. Music.Steely Dan: Walter Becker was never seen without his huge glasses. — The trope isn't "character doesn't take their glasses at all"; misuse
9. PokemonResetBloodlines.Tropes N To S: Vedia never took off her glasses during her fight against Misty, and she probably would've won if not for Anabel's intervention. — Irrelevant context
10. Series.The Weakest Link: Anne always wears glasses for this show, perhaps as part of the "mean teacher" personality, unlike in most of her other TV appearances. — Glasses indicate something else
11. VideoGame.Comix Zone: Sketch has some nice Round Hippie Shades. — Irrelevant context

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