History Main / OpaqueNerdGlasses

** ''Videogame/EarthBound:'' Both Jeff, the GadgeteerGenius and HollywoodNerd, and his [[ParentalAbandonment estranged father]], the scientist Dr. Andonuts, have these.

* Ping from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' starts wearing these in an effort to look {{Hollywood Homely}} and fit in with the jealous girls of her class. To her horror it pretty much ends up as {{meganekko}}, no matter how nerdy the glasses.

* Miyuki Miyazawa in the TV series version of ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku''.
* Sandy Grayson in ''Manga/AoiHouse.''

* Watabe from ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours'' though he is more of an {{Otaku}}.

* ''VisualNovel/NanatsuiroDrops'' has Keisuke, a friend of main character Haru.

* Agent Monocle from ''ComicBook/InvestiGators''.

* Marcie from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}''.

* Bailey on ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' wore them periodically.

* A visual trademark of Music/{{Devo}}'s Mark Mothersbaugh.

* Meegs the wizard aprentice in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic''.
* Emojueel of ''{{Webcomic/Juathuur}}'' sports them.
* Ichabod of ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'' boasts an especially gigantic pair.

* Both ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' and his love interest Amber.
* Ed, the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} of the main cast of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' sports these.
* ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'': Tori was actually designed with this in mind.

* Alexa from ''[[http://www.shapequest.net/ Shape Quest]].''

* Nerdfighters!

They're not coke-bottle glasses he's wearing, they're paperweights in a frame. Glasses in Comics,Manga and animated media usually come in four forms -- there are tiny little things that don't get in the way (see CoolMask), so-clear-they're-almost-not-there spectacles worn by pretty girls (a.k.a. ''{{meganekko}}'') and [[StoicSpectacles handsome]] [[{{Megane}} boys]], lenses meant to hide the character's eyes from anyone who wants to get a glimpse at their soul (ScaryShinyGlasses), and then there are Opaque Nerd Glasses.

** It doesn't help that many works depicting [[TheFifties The Nostalgic Fifties]] [[TheSixties and Sixties]] tend to associate them with the prudish SchoolMarm or [[TheMan other unsympathetic authority figures]] trying their darnedest to suppress {{The New Rock and Roll}}. It's no wonder so many associate horn-rims with the [=McCarthy=] hearings or the BeehiveHairdo-sporting women of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''.

They're not coke-bottle glasses he's wearing, they're paperweights in a frame. Glasses in drawn and animated media usually come in four forms -- there are tiny little things that don't get in the way (see CoolMask), so-clear-they're-almost-not-there spectacles worn by pretty girls (a.k.a. ''{{meganekko}}'') and [[StoicSpectacles handsome]] [[{{Megane}} boys]], lenses meant to hide the character's eyes from anyone who wants to get a glimpse at their soul (ScaryShinyGlasses), and then there are Opaque Nerd Glasses.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'':

* Agent Monocle from ''ComicBook/[=InvestiGators=]''.

* ''Series/TheTonightShow'': Ernie Kovacs' oddball poet character Percy Dovetonsils wears glasses with insanely thick lenses.

* Mousse from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is an odd case: He has the glasses, but he's not a nerd. He ''is'', however, an obsessive StalkerWithACrush with no common sense. He's BlindWithoutEm, yet never puts them on until ''after'' he has, for example, spent five minutes talking to a tree under the assumption that it's actually Shampoo. He also has a habit of [[TheGlassesComeOff taking them off to attempt something dramatic]], then doing something stupid because he can't see. And even when turning into a duck, he still wear a pair of ''[[MagicPants duck-sized]] Nerd
Glasses''.

* Mamoru Kagemori, the title character of ''Anime/KageKaraMamoru!'' (a.k.a. ''Mamoru the Shadow Protector''), wears a fake pair of these to disguise the fact that he is a highly skilled teen ninja.

* Inverted for ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'''s Koyo Aoba, who evidently can't see a damn thing through his glasses, but everyone can see his eyes. [[spoiler:This is because they apparently work similarly to Cyclops' ruby quartz visor, except instead of lasers, Koyo's glasses simply hold back the true abilities he inherited.]]
* Benzo from ''Kiteresu Daihyakka''.

** The joke was later carried over into ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara'' (produced by the same staff) with Cocoa's sorta-expy Miyama Soshigaya/Death Crow, who [[Creator/SakikoTamagawa happens to share the same seiyuu as Cocoa]], but ''not'' the same personality

** Naru's {{Expy}} Chisame from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' started with the same look, occasionally falling back into it during her moments of annoyance. Compare: [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/love_hina/v01/c000/57.html Naru]] and [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v02/c012/7.html Chisame]].

* Officer Shinshi in ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''.

* Mousse from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is an odd case: He has the glasses, but he's not a nerd. He ''is'', however, an obsessive {{Stalker with a Crush}} with no common sense. He's BlindWithoutEm, yet never puts them on until ''after'' he has, for example, spent five minutes talking to a tree under the assumption that it's actually Shampoo. He also has a habit of [[TheGlassesComeOff taking them off to attempt something dramatic]], then doing something stupid because he can't see. And even when turning into a duck, he still wear a pair of ''[[MagicPants duck-sized]] Nerd Glasses''.

* Kururu from ''Manga/SgtFrog''.

* Eddie Sukenari from ''Manga/KimiWaPetto''. Results in BishieSparkle and women falling all over him when he takes them off.

In ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'' Hikari wore these in the past to protect her eyes from her powers. The fact that she doesn't need them in the present is part of why Mikoto doesn't recognize her.

* Blipbug, introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' has eyes without pupils that are pretty clearly based on this trope as part of its bookworm aesthetic.

** Prof. Frink wears these.
** Milhouse's glasses may also qualify, even though you can see through them.

** Waylon Smithers also wore these.
** And so as Ned Flanders!

* Curly from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' is an excellent example.

* Goseng from ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' has such glasses. She has an unusual look for the context -- few people in the Tower wear glasses at all, possibly because they're always improving themselves with [[MagicByAnyOtherName Shinsoo]], and they're a part of how she's drawn a bit more simply than other characters. The glasses also highlight how she's unusually ordinary for a Regular climbing the Tower, not exactly a superhuman powerhouse.

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* Milo Thatch from ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
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** Fawful from the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games sports red glasses, complete with spirals and crazy grin.

* ''VideoGame/LivePowerfulProBaseball'' has the recurring ButtMonkey [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Akio Yabe]], the primary sidekick of the main character. Frankly, he spawns at least four [[IdenticalStranger Identical Strangers]] who wear the same gigantic glasses throughout the metaseries.