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''Megane'' (Japanese: メガネ, meh-GAH-neh, literally "glasses") is UsefulNotes/AnimeFanspeak for (preferably attractive) guys with glasses. They come in several [[AnimeCharacterTypes standard types]]:

* For cruel lovers (mostly men) with glasses who inspire kinky masochistic fetishes, see BespectacledBastardBoyfriend.

* For glasses explicitly treated as a fetish object, see SexySpectacles.

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[[caption-width-right:230:[-"Fetish object"? Fascinating-].]]

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No relation to the [[CoolCar Renault Megane]].

''Megane'' (Japanese, literally "glasses") is UsefulNotes/AnimeFanspeak for (preferably attractive) guys with glasses. They come in several [[AnimeCharacterTypes standard types]]:

''Megane'' (Japanese, literally "glasses") is UsefulNotes/AnimeFanspeak term for (preferably attractive) guys with glasses. They come in several [[AnimeCharacterTypes standard types]]:

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Hmm... [[{{Meganekko}} glasses are nice on girl]], even on a guy!

** Don't forget [[GentleGiant Sweden]], [[AuthorAvatar Estonia]], and [[CoolShades Australia]]!

* [[{{Superman}} Clark Kent.]]

* Tombo from ''KikisDeliveryService''.

* Leonard from TheBigBangTheory.
* There was quite a few times where [[{{CSI}} Gil Grissom]] wore glasses.

* Artie from {{Glee}}. [[YourMileageMayVary somewhat.]]
* Daniel Jackson from StargateSG1.
* Hiro from ''{{Heroes}}'' sports adorable spectacles. When we meet his {{Badass}} future self (and [[FutureMeScaresMe future him scares him]]), the glasses are gone.
** Same actor, different show: Max Bergman has glasses on in all his appearances on HawaiiFiveO.

* Kristoph Gavin in AceAttorney.

* Sven Bianchi from ''QuestionableContent'', who usually wears fairly small, round glasses and has one of the most active sex lives in the comic. ([[LadykillerInLove Or he did, anyway.]]) He doesn't quite fit under any of the subtropes about character types who wear glasses, since he's not enough of a jerk to be a SpectacledSadist, not stoic enough for them to be StoicSpectacles, and not remotely shy enough to be a male {{Meganekko}}.

* {{Megamind}} in his alter-ego form as Bernard. Definitely, the glasses add to the sweet & vulnerable look.

Hmm... [[Meganekko glasses are nice on girl]], even on a guy!

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''Megane'' (Japanese, literally "glasses") is UsefulNotes/AnimeFanspeak for (preferably attractive) guys with glasses. They come in several [[AnimeCharacterTypes standard types]]:

Examples:

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* For cruel lovers (mostly men) with glasses who inspire kinky masochistic fetishes, see KichikuMegane (troped here as BespectacledBastardBoyfriend).

''Megane'' (Japanese, literally "glasses") is AnimeFanspeak for (preferably attractive) guys with glasses. They come in several [[AnimeCharacterTypes standard types]]:

''Megane'' (Japanese, literally "glasses") is AnimeFanspeak for guys with glasses; the term is usually restricted to attractive characters where the glasses serve as [[FetishFuel a fetish object.]] They come in several [[AnimeCharacterTypes standard types]]:

Compare {{Meganekko}} ("glasses girl"). Also see the GlassesTropes.

!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Some of the nation-tans from ''AxisPowersHetalia''. Notably, Austria, [[{{Eagleland}} America]] and his constantly ignored brother, [[TheWoobie Canada]].
** Don't forget [[GentleGiant Sweden]], [[AuthorAvatar Estonia]], and [[CoolShades Australia]]!
** And occasionally [[http://www.zerochan.net/532921 Germany]].
* ''YuGiOhGX'': Syrus Truesdale/Sho Marufuji, big time. Also, Professor Banner.
* Yuuno in later seasons of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''.
* Mamoru from ''SailorMoon'' wore reading glasses in the manga and he was ''adorable'' in them.
* Negi from MahouSenseiNegima, though when he takes the age pills to become a teenager, he loses his glasses. Though SheIsAllGrownUp and [=~I Didn't Mean To Turn You On~=] kicks in.
** Also HotTeacher Takahata-sensei. His nickname is "[[BadassTeacher Death megane/glasses]]" among the boys of the school district. As he usually solves the fights between them by beating everyone up.
** Konako's father [[IWasQuiteALooker Eishun]].
* Soubi, Yayoi, Kio and Ritsu from Loveless.
* All the Shinigami from {{Kuroshitsuji}}, as well as Claude, and Sebastian when he is in Tutor mode.
* Yasuyoshi "Aeon Clock" Sano from ''Manga/AirGear''
* [[ShrinkingViolet Chojuro]] from ''{{Naruto}}''.
* Hajime from ''Manga/{{Doubt}}''. It helps that he is a BadassBookworm and a med student. [[spoiler: He's actually not a med student but a police officer.]]
* Eriol from ''CardCaptorSakura''. As well as Sakura's father, Yukito and Clow.
* Watanuki from ''XXXHolic''.
* Minor character Autor from ''PrincessTutu'', leaning into StoicSpectacles.
* Subaru Okiya from ''DetectiveConan''.
* [[MeaningfulName Maximillian Jenius]] from ''{{Macross}}'' yet?
* Barnaby from ''TigerAndBunny'' is this, and also something of a StoicSpectacles type.
* [[HotScientist Dr.]] [[MadDoctor Franken]] [[SociopathicHero Stein]] in ''SoulEater''. Though he's very prone to ScaryShinyGlasses.
** Also Ox Ford and Kilik. Along with Harvar and his CoolShades.
* Oujou quarterback and team captain Takami in {{Eyeshield21}}.
* Jin from ''SamuraiChamploo''.
* Anti-social otaku Keima from ''TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', who is known on the Internet as "The Capturing God" where there is no DatingSim game he hasn't beaten.
* We have Maes Huges in ''FullmetalAlchemist''
** From the same author, we have Yugo Hachiken, the protagonist of ''SilverSpoon''.
* Cho Hakkai from ''Saiyuki'', of the StoicSpectacles type. EvenTheGuysWantHim for this (at least I do.)
* Ariga Makoto from ''WanderingSon''. His friends [[BigBrotherBully aggressive older sister]] even calls him "megane" several times, as an insult though. Fumiya Ninomiya also wears classes.
* ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'' has the gentle and honest Kagura, the male lead, wearing glasses.
* The character Dexter from ''Hamtaro'' is named "Megane" in Japan. He's actually an aversion though - as he's a hamster it simply looks like he has glasses (in actuality it's just his fur).

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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* [[{{Superman}} Clark Kent.]]
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[[folder:Film]]
* Tombo from ''KikisDeliveryService''.
* Seymour Krelborn from the musical ''LittleShopOfHorrors''.
* ''{{Megamind}}'' has Bernard, who seems closer to the stoic example, and [[spoiler: Megamind as Bernard]] who is a sweeter example.
* TheMovie version of ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' has Peter this before getting his spider powers that allows him to see without his glasses. He wears those again in the sequel when he becomes normal. It's averted in the third movie, though.
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[[folder: Literature]]
* The titular ''HarryPotter''.
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[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* In the live-action Japanese drama of ''NodameCantabile'', there was an instance where the already hot [[http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs047.snc3/13445_1523250320096_1199735118_31456358_5970947_n.jpg Chiaki]] wore glasses in a disguise. His [[FetishFuel sexiness]] promptly increased in dramatic, overloading doses.
* Leonard from TheBigBangTheory.
* There was quite a few times where [[{{CSI}} Gil Grissom]] wore glasses.
* {{Adorkable}} and [[NerdsAreSexy sexy]] Spencer Reid of ''Criminal Minds'' occasionally wore these. TeamDad Jason Gideon may invoke a more BadAssGrandpa and GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave.
* Artie from {{Glee}}. [[YourMileageMayVary somewhat.]]
* Daniel Jackson from StargateSG1.
* Hiro from ''{{Heroes}}'' sports adorable spectacles. When we meet his {{Badass}} future self (and [[FutureMeScaresMe future him scares him]]), the glasses are gone.
** Same actor, different show: Max Bergman has glasses on in all his appearances on HawaiiFiveO.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* Citan Uzuki and Hammer the Supplier from ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''.
* Kristoph Gavin in AceAttorney.
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[[folder:WebComics]]
* Sven Bianchi from ''QuestionableContent'', who usually wears fairly small, round glasses and has one of the most active sex lives in the comic. ([[LadykillerInLove Or he did, anyway.]]) He doesn't quite fit under any of the subtropes about character types who wear glasses, since he's not enough of a jerk to be a SpectacledSadist, not stoic enough for them to be StoicSpectacles, and not remotely shy enough to be a male {{Meganekko}}.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* Tom Chan on ''TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan''.
* Cyclops/Scott Summers from XMenEvolution wore special sunglasses to keep his EyeBeams in check, but his youthful and handsome design in the series seems to have been made with the ''megane'' archetype in mind.
* {{Megamind}} in his alter-ego form as Bernard. Definitely, the glasses add to the sweet & vulnerable look.
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* For glasses treated as a fetish object, see SexySpectacles.

* For cruel lovers (mostly men) with glasses who inspire kinky masochistic fetishes, see KichikuMegane (troped here as SpectacledSadist).

Compare {{Meganekko}} ("glasses girl").

* Kristoph Gavin in 'AceAttorney'.

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* Citan Uzuki and Hammer the Supplier from ''{{Xenogears}}''.

* Ariga Makoto from ''WanderingSon''. His friends [[BigBrotherBully aggressive older sister]] even calls him "megane" several times, as an insult though.

* Yasuyoshi "Aeon Clock" Sano from ''AirGear''