History Main / YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses

* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' has King Candy trying to avoid being hit by Ralph by pulling a pair of glasses out from {{Hammerspace}}. Ralph simply takes his glasses off and then hits him with it.

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' has King Candy trying to avoid being hit by Ralph by pulling a pair of glasses out from {{Hammerspace}}. Ralph simply takes his glasses off and then hits him with it.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in ''Film/{{Batman}}''. Yes, Batman ''would'', especially if the same man with glasses also happened to be [[spoiler:the same guy who also murdered Batman's parents]]. Fun Fact: One especially stupid TV edit cuts out the entire climax after this point and goes straight to the Joker [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]].

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* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by TheJoker in ''Film/{{Batman}}''. Yes, Batman ''would'', especially if the same man with glasses also happened to be [[spoiler:the same guy who also murdered Batman's parents]]. Fun Fact: One especially stupid TV edit cuts out the entire climax after this point and goes straight to the Joker [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]].

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** In "The Bookworm Turns", Batman cites this trope as he prepares to battle the Bookworm's {{Mook}}s, requesting that they take off their glasses, which they oblige. Batman takes a moment to deliver AnAesop to Robin: "Never hit a man with glasses." Which is HilariousInHindsight considering MichaelKeaton's Batman would avert this trope 20 years later (and to [[TheJoker a guy who]] [[CompleteMonster definitely]] [[YouKilledMyFather deserved it]], no less).

* In the ''QuantumLeap'' episode "The Cam-ikazi Kid", Sam leaps into a dorky teenager who is harassed by bullies. He protests, "You can't pants a guy with glasses!" The bully replies, "What glasses?", takes the glasses, and pantses him anyway.

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* In the ''DannyPhantom'' episode [[FreakyFridayFlip "Splitting Images"]]:

-->'''Jeckle:''' I say...you wouldn't hit someone in glasses, would you? (''the bull headbutts him into the air'')

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by TheJoker in ''Film/{{Batman}}''. Yes, Batman ''would'', especially if the same man with glasses also happened to be [[spoiler:the same guy who also murdered Batman's parents]]. Fun Fact: One especially stupid TV edit cuts out the entire climax after this point and goes straight to the Joker [[DisneyVillainDeath falling to his death]].

* InsufferableGenius Agnan of the French novel series ''LePetitNicolas'' by ReneGoscinny gets hit by this trope, [[IncrediblyLamePun er, I mean, by his class comrades]] on a fairly regular basis. However, since he's the [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]], they rarely get away with it.

* On the last night of Season 4 of WWE NXT, BryanDanielson was talking with his rookie, EnsembleDarkhorse Derreck Bateman backstage before a tag team match. Danielson recalled that he'd punch Bateman if he got eliminated (which he did, the prior week). Bateman reaches down and ''immediately'' tries to invoke this; as soon as he straightens up, Danielson decks him. But seeing how he would go on and win the match for his team, Danielson's actions turned into a {{Wangst}}less version of GetAHoldOfYourselfMan.

** Bugs once put on some glasses to prevent his RivalInLove from hitting him. It didn't work.

*** FridgeLogic: Why would the Mooks oblige? They need their glasses to see properly.

** Batman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2wg2-JCCY#t=7m13s cites this trope]] as he prepares to battle the Bookworm's {{Mook}}s, requesting that they take off their glasses, which they oblige. Batman takes a moment to deliver AnAesop to Robin: "Never hit a man with glasses." Which is HilariousInHindsight considering MichaelKeaton's Batman would avert this trope 20 years later (and to [[TheJoker a guy who]] [[CompleteMonster definitely]] [[YouKilledMyFather deserved it]], no less).

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': Batman [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2wg2-JCCY#t=7m13s cites this trope]] as he prepares to battle the Bookworm's {{Mook}}s, requesting that they take off their glasses, which they oblige. Batman takes a moment to deliver AnAesop to Robin: "Never hit a man with glasses." Which is HilariousInHindsight considering MichaelKeaton's Batman would avert this trope 20 years later (and to [[TheJoker a guy who]] [[CompleteMonster definitely]] [[YouKilledMyFather deserved it]], no less).

Compare WouldntHitAGirl, contrast HoldMyGlasses. Not to confused with You Wouldn't Hit ThatGuyWithTheGlasses. Please never do that; he's fragile!

* Subverted in ''GetSmart'' when Smart, 99, and The Chief are captured by KAOS agents and ordered to make a phone call for something. Smart notices that the agent covering them and closest to them is wearing glasses and he knows that the Chief can sing a note high enough to shatter glass. So, he makes up a story that the Chief needs to sing a certain note as part of a code on the phone, and the Chief sings that note to shatter the lenses of the KAOS agent's glasses, allowing Smart to tackle him. Thus their survival depended on specifically hitting a guy with glasses.

* In the ''ScoobyDoo'' episode "Jeepers, It's The Creeper" Velma tries this on the Creeper. He responded by removing her glasses, then Velma kicked him in the shin and grabbed them back.

* InsufferableGenius Agnan of the French novel series ''Le Petit Nicolas'' by ReneGoscinny gets hit by this trope, [[IncrediblyLamePun er, I mean, by his class comrades]] on a fairly regular basis. However, since he's the [[TeachersPet Teacher's Pet]], they rarely get away with it.

** In contrast, in later seasons after Urkel invented his Transformation Chamber, Urkel's alter egos (most notably, Bruce Lee Urkel) were non-eyeglass wearing.

* Narrowly averted in the Season 1 ''FamilyMatters'' episode "In a Jam," where a bully torments the glasses-wearing Urkel into giving him his lunch money. When Urkel stands up to the thug (who is more than twice his size), the bully -- aptly named "Bull" Watson -- threatens him with harm if he refuses again. When Urkel stands his ground a day later, Bull grabs Urkel by the collar and cocks his fist ... only for Eddie to show up in the proverbial nick of time to distract Bull and get him to reconsider. (Bull eventually gets a fist to his stomach, causing him to back off.)

* In the late 1980s/early 1990s WWF, the character of Brother Love was a bespectacled Southern preacher who -- during his talk show segments -- was clearly alligned with the villians and did everything to antagonize the faces. Several times, he attempted to get involved in the action, almost always leading to him gettting socked by the good guys. The most frequent people who struck Love (both while he was wearing his glasses, and after they were knocked off) were the top two faces of the WWF at the time: Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior. Roddy Piper has gotten a few licks in, while the Hart Foundation (the tag team of Bret "the Hitman" Hart and Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart) once clotheslined Love after a match.

* Narrowly averted in the Season 1 ''{{FamilyMatters}}'' episode "In a Jam," where a bully torments the glasses-wearing Urkel into giving him his lunch money. When Urkel stands up to the thug (who is more than twice his size), the bully -- aptly named "Bull" Watson -- threatens him with harm if he refuses again. When Urkel stands his ground a day later, Bull grabs Urkel by the collar and cocks his fist ... only for Eddie to show up in the proverbial nick of time to distract Bull and get him to reconsider. (Bull eventually gets a fist to his stomach, causing him to back off.)
* At least once on an episode of ''{{WalkerTexasRanger}}'', a criminal syndicate corners the glasses-wearing, elderly C.D. Parker (Noble Willingham) in an effort to intimidate him into getting Walker to drop his investigation. When C.D. tries to get them to back off by saying they shouldn't hit a guy with glasses, one of the crooks removes his glasses, breaks them ... and then beats him to a pulp. (Of course, Walker gets his revenge in the end.)

---> '''Daniel Bryan'''(To Bateman): Now get up. Because you've got a NXT Rookie Reunion Tag Team Match tonight, an I want you to win! And I don't want you to win for me, I want you to win for you! I want you to win for chicks! I want you to win for America! AND I WANT YOU TO WIN FOR [[CheapPop CLEVELAND]]!
---> '''Bateman''': [[LargeHam WAAAAARRRRGHHH!]]

-->'''Milhouse Van Houten''', ''TheSimpsons''

* In one episode of the ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon, some toughs in a bar are getting belligerent with Cyclops. He tries to play it cool and says the line, but one of them says "So ''take 'em off''!", grabs Cyke's shades, and things start to go downhill from there.
* In one episode of ''{{DuckTales}}'', Gizmoduck tries to persuade an attacking security robot not to hit him by putting on a wig and saying, "You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?" When that doesn't work, he adds a pair of glasses to his disguise and asks, "What about a lady in glasses?" He gets punted.

* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender is caught cheating in a game of poker using X-ray glasses. When he's cornered, he nervously states, "Hey...you wouldn't hit a guy wearing X-ray glasses, would ya?" Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.

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