Nerd Glasses (new crowner 9/13/11): Nerd Glasses

Frame specific connotations would be Frames of Reference which needs a lot work.

Right now its written kinda about anime but Shape of frames thing meaning something in general can be universal (in drawn works a character design standpoint they always mean something hell their existence alone means something). Some specific types / personality combos are exclusive to one medium or another but not all.

As well as the trope is not very well defined.

Nerd Glasses is kinda a subtrope of that and a sister trope to Opaque Lenses (which is used when a person is hiding something and such.)

edited 10th Sep '11 2:26:33 PM by Raso

Smart People Wear Glasses is probably Truth in Television. I know a few people with doctorates who didn't wear glasses regularly until they got to writing up a thesis. It's hard on the eyes.

Linking this again to demonstrate that is is not unique to anime:

http://www.felixthecat.com/tv_video/poindexter.htm

Anyway, I'm thinking it is time for a crowner vote on names.

edited 10th Sep '11 3:49:04 PM by Auxdarastrix

I suppose we could call the other ones birth control glasses.

Okay, I'm asking a mod to attach two crowners: one for the rename of this trope, and the other to how we should treat the western variation.

We can only attach one crowner at a time. Which one do you want first?

Oh, do the page action crowner first then. We need to know for sure what we're doing before we can decide on a name.

This can happen outside of anime, it's just uncommon, and is actually a staple, visual metaphor in anime.

Also I think horned-rim glasses aren't really geeky, they are actually more...old-lady-ish, or fashionable? It depends. If young people (it's always girls) wear them it usually means they are fashionable, smart and retro, but if old people wear them it means they are stingy old bats.

edited 10th Sep '11 4:40:38 PM by NoirGrimoir

Hooked up and ready to go.

One thing we do need to do is clearly state the Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions between Nerd Glasses and Opaque Lenses.

All big round types that go opaque but dont quite show "The Nerdy" or other shapes but still Super Nerd. (IIRC I have seen huge Square ones EDIT: Nvm the example I am thinking of is Scary Shiny Glasses [1]◊.)

Generally if they get the round shape like that its always ment to be nerdy, just the opaque is Super Nerd. However there are a few not like that.

I mean this does not come off as Super Nerd (she is a shy Shrinking Violet not a nerd.)

edited 11th Sep '11 12:58:59 PM by Raso

If you say so, but without knowing more about the character, I wouldn't be able to make the distinction just by looking at the character's picture.

This is when she is not opaque, [1]◊

Anyway, Should this primarily be about shape with Opaque as an added bonus? or Opaque with Shape as an added bonus or has to be both.

I can think of a lot of ones that are the specific shape and are nerdy just not Super Nerd Mad scientist same shape◊. My Avatar same shape and an Otaku.

edited 11th Sep '11 1:09:39 PM by Raso

Only the specific type of glasses counts for whatever we're calling this trope; later on we'll probably YKTTW a more supertrope Nerd Glasses, as was discussed in the Cleaning Up the Glasses Tropes thread.

This is was I think of when I think of hornedrim glasses [1]◊

edited 11th Sep '11 2:27:06 PM by NoirGrimoir

Those sort of glasses are a trope, but I don't think it's a nerd trope.

Yeah, that's why I was kind of confused with everyone talking about horned rim glasses. i think those are also referred to as horned rim glasses.

edited 11th Sep '11 2:28:24 PM by NoirGrimoir

Those would be Opera Glasses I think or those masked parties.

No, those are Horn Rimmed Glasses. Women of a certain age and uncertain taste levels tend to wear them.

Whenever someone mentions hornrimmed glasses I think of those 3D ones with the lenses popped out that everyone is always wearing to look "nerdy", but I'm probably wrong.

oops I was thinking those as masks (I am not sure where I have seen them before) Opera glasses are [1]

No, that's another type of Horn Rimmed Glasses. Or least they look like those but with actual lenses.

How about Cup Glasses?

Like the ones Leonard wears on Big Bang Theory, right?◊

Huh? I don't see that making sense with any of the tropes we're talking about. That sounds like holding plastic cups up to your eyes and pretending they're glasses.

Yes, like those. This one is Leonard right?◊ I don't know that show.

edited 11th Sep '11 2:38:54 PM by shimaspawn

For a fourth option, what would people think about moving whatever we're calling Opaque Nerd Glasses to that page, and then making the western alternative Nerd Glasses?

Yes, it is. The word "right" was a link, but I guess it kinda blended in with the pothole.

edited 11th Sep '11 2:53:09 PM by Discovery