History Main / Meganekko

Pronounced "meh-GAH-nay-ko", not "MEGA-neko". That'd be [[MegaNeko a really big cat]]. Also not to be confused with Webcomic/MegaTokyo, or [[https://meganeko.newgrounds.com/ Meganeko]].

Not to be confused with Webcomic/MegaTokyo, or [[https://meganeko.newgrounds.com/ Meganeko]]. Or MegaNeko. You know, "really big cats".

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':
** Eisuke Hondou is a RareMaleExample, coupled with CuteClumsyGirl and DudeLooksLikeALady.
** Kobayashi-sensei. Without her glasses, it's hard to tell her apart from [[IdenticalStranger Miwako Sato]].

* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': Ila's glasses are actually [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pince-nez a pair of pince-nez]] with regular sized lenses. She's a member of the Magician's Guild though, by her own admission, she's only a novice. But makes up for it with [[TheSmartGuy extensive knowledge]] [[http://www.kivmanga.com/Rune_Soldier_Louie_-_Req_by_Valdimir/001.005/83/ of magical tomes and artifacts]], which she uses to help Louie and his friends.

* ''Film/FantasticFour2005'': Creator/JessicaAlba's portrayal of Sue Storm.

* [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110816042125/finaldestination/images/b/b2/282px-Castle-1-.jpg Olivia]] from ''Film/FinalDestination5'', which subverts UnnecessaryMakeover... by having her die during laser eye surgery.

* ''Manga/VictorianRomanceEmma'': Emma. Interestingly enough the series is set in age where it was rare for even the middle class to wear glasses, much less a servant girl.

Not to be confused with MegaNeko. You know, "really big cats". Or Webcomic/MegaTokyo.

* Kati Mannequin and Linda Vashti from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0p'' both qualify.

* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' doesn't reveal [[NerdsAreSexy Saya]] wears glasses until the second chapter, where she finally [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11312-32/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-2.html removes her contact lenses.]] Though the manga wastes no time establishing her as the smartest student at Fujimi High, by showing [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11310-5/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-0.html her analytical]] and [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11310-6/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-0.html decision making]] ability, which is how she and Hirano survived long enough for Takashi and the others to find them.

%%* [[spoiler:[[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080628051636/twewy/images/3/38/Realshiki.jpg Shiki's real form]]]] in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
%%** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3121 Fuschia poses as one.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4450 Satan is aware of the attraction: in his nightclub, one act is a meganeko succubus who sits down to read and winks at the audience.]] The storytime zombie, of course, loves her.

* ''Series/DoctorWho:'' The [[TheNthDoctor Tenth]] [[TheHero Doctor]] himself frequently dons his so-called "BrainySpecs" quite frequently. As he [[MrExposition exposits]] when he encounters his [[TheNthDoctor fifth]] [[Creator/PeterDavison incarnation,]] he doesn't really need them, he just thinks they make him look clever. A side effect of this is that they make him adorable, but that might just have something to do with the fact that he's played by Creator/DavidTennant.

* ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': StudentCouncilPresident Yamato Nadeshiko wears prominent glasses (when she's not in her [[SheCleansUpNicely sexy outfit]]).

* ''Series/StrangerThings'' has three: Marissa the Librarian who appears in the first two seasons and sleeps with the very single police chief Hopper, young teenage and redhaired Barb Holland who looks like Creator/ShannonPurser, and Suzie Dustin's long-distance girlfriend who he says is appealing as Phoebe Cates.

* ''Manga/PrisonSchool'': [[RightHandHottie Meiko Shiraki]] is perhaps the hottest and physically voluptuous example around. Yet despite how she dresses, she was bullied for her large chest when she was younger. This as you could imagine, made her into a strict, immasculating [[DrillSergeantNasty Dominatrix]], in more ways than you'd think.

* ''Manga/AirGear'': Ringo when she isn't riding on her gear.

* ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'': Marin, the female lead, wears glasses most of the time.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': Miyako (Yolei) Inoue.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' lampshades this when Tohru and Yuki go to Ayame's shop and meet his assistant -- a glasses-wearing girl in a [[{{Meido}} maid outfit]] who proceeds to explain the long tradition of Meganekko to {{HeroicBSOD}}ing Yuki.

** At one point in the story, Riza [[spoiler:pops out the lenses from [[TheShortGuyWithGlasses Fury]]'s glasses and parades around in them, as a (somewhat ineffective) disguise]]. She also wears glasses in several {{omake}}s and a video game. The "reason" for all this seems to be [[FanService she just looks hot in them]].

* Hachibe Eto in [[Manga/IonoTheFanatics Iono-Sama Fanatics]] as well as Iono's childhood friend and secretary-of-sort Kass Lucense.
* ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'': Matsuri is kind and studious, if easily fooled. She's a cute kid with or without glasses, but as she's BlindWithoutEm, and kind of clumsy at the best of times...
* ''Manga/StrawberryOneHundredPercent'': Toujou Aya is no less of a cutie with her glasses in place.

* ''{{Loveless}}'' has so many meganekko and megane it's believed that the author [[AuthorAppeal has a fetish for it]]. Some female examples are Shinonome-sensei, Kouya, and Nana.

* ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'''s Mune-mune. She ''is'' the series's MsFanservice after all.

* ''Megane na Kanojo'': This trope probably is [[AuthorAppeal the reason the manga was created]].

* ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MaiOtome'': Yukino Kikukawa, whose shyness provides a perfect balance for her very outspoken [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend]] Haruka. Her ''Mai-Otome'' {{Expy}}, Irina, also wears cute-girl frames, but they're smaller and rounder.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''[=/=]''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' has Tsuzuri, Mī and Hyouka. Subverted with the Dorm Supervisor of Tokiwadai and [[FourEyesZeroSoul Therestina]].

* ''ComicBook/KatyKeene'' 's titular character's sister, "Sis".

* ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'': Goldilocks. Subverted: she's batshit insane - violent, sexual, and a political extremist.

* ''Comicbook/{{Mockingbird}}'' used to have contacts but now wears spy glasses that also doubles as corrective lenses for her farsightedness.
* Comicbook/LePetitSpirou have the HotTeacher miss Chiffres.

* ''Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Mary Jane Watson eventually starts wearing glasses. In ''Comicbook/SpiderMen'' the Peter Parker of the 616 Universe, who started off wearing glasses himself states that his world's MJ wears contacts, but this seems highly unlikely given that she's never actually been ''seen'' anywhere near glasses.
* ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'': Taranee, both in the comic books and the animated series. She even wears glasses after transforming!

* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** Comicbook/KittyPryde/Shadowcat. Her [[{{Intangibility}} phasing]] prevents her from using contacts... awww, too bad!

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* Bee in "[Film/Where'd You GO, Bernadette?"].[[/folder]]

* ''Series/{{House}}'':
** A medical example, Dr. Cameron occasionally puts some specs on.
** Dr. Park is almost never seen without her glasses.

* Like [[Franchise/{{Superman}} her cousin,]] [[Series/{{Supergirl}} Supergirl]] wears glasses in her SecretIdentity.

* Some productions of ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'', Thea wears glasses.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s Litchi Faye Ling, a [[ChineseGirl Chinese]] HospitalHottie.

* ''{{DJMAX Trilogy}}'': You can earn the title "DJ [[GratuitousJapanese Megane]] Maniac" by playing songs whose background animations star glasses-wearing characters a combined total of 100 times.

* ''{{VideoGame/HuniePop}}'': Has two, [[HotTeacher Aiko]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Nikki]] both very attractive in their own right.

* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': Fiolina "Fio" Germi combines this with a healthy dose of MoreDakka.
* ''Manga/MidnightSecretary'': Kaya Satozuka, who wears glasses to hide her "baby face."
* ''VideoGame/MissingChildren'': [[MissingChild Mizuki]]'s mother wears glasses.

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' has Chihiro Fushimi, the adorably shy and meek class treasurer, as one of the Main Character's [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 social links]], and a datable one at that (woo!). She makes a cameo in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' - two years older, more confident, and somehow even ''cuter'', leading every one of your characters to feel swoony or envious at her all-encompassing beauty.
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' enforces this trope on the entire party, and so does the ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' spin-off FightingGame ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' [[http://www.andriasang.com/e/galleries/2011/09/08/persona_4_ultimate_screens/2132460403/ has an option appropriately called "Megane"]], that allows you to give your selected character glasses.
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' has Joker as a male example.

** Earlier Pokémon games introduced [[AnIceperson Lorelei]], one of the Elite Four from the Kanto Region. Her appearance and personality make her a classic in this category.

* [[spoiler:[[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080628051636/twewy/images/3/38/Realshiki.jpg Shiki's real form]]]] in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'': Shion Uzuki, although her glasses get broken early in Episode II.
* In ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'', during the previous year before the main story Chiaki was one, wearing glasses to complement his very shy and insecure personality. Significantly, at some point between then and becoming the loud-mouthed {{Pollyanna}} he is in the present day, the glasses disappeared.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Agatha, the title character. Her cousin Theo fits the rarer, gender-flipped ''megane'' category.

* ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' has [[CuteWitch Emily]].

** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3121 Fuschia poses as one.]]

** Meredith, an OfficeLady
** Cindy Donovinh, a reporter
** Flynn, former proprietor of the [[MoneyDearBoy Cash Shop]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'': The title character.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'': Marilyn Piquel.
* ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'': Poppy.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'': Penny Sanchez.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': Professor Squawkencluck.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': Cleofatra.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Mina and Allie.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Candy Chu.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'': Claire.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': Tulip.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Susan and Mary Test.
* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'': Betty-Ann from The Off-Beats segment.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Ron's mother.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Peggy.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Looped}}'': Gwyneth.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lisa Loud.

* ''WesternAnimation/MoonbeamCity'': Chrysalis Zirconia Tate, the hero's orange-haired sidekick.

* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Cylindria.
* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': The title character.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernoobs}}'': Jennifer Shope.
* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'': Deputy Mayor Callie Briggs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
** Luz's mom Camila.
** Willow.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'': Bridget.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}'': Dana.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Chloe Park.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'': Tish Katsufrakis.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': AlphaBitch Mitzi from Gardenia.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse: Luz's mom Camila.

The main one is of course Ami, though the

* For those who think the [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen]] is adorable (yes, some people have actually said she is cute even in her old age), in ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'', Her Majesty wears glasses when she reads speeches. Even the whole plot of the theatrical production is about several storybook characters going on a quest to find her lost [[MacGuffin handbag]], which contains her glasses.