Superheroes With Glasses?

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 8:59 am

Does anyone know of any superheroes out there who wear glasses WHEN they're transformed? The closest I can think of is Fuu from MKR, and even she loses them when she's in her most powered-up form.

I do have a few Senshi with glasses, but they're mere fanfic characters and not real TV or movie characters.

Celexa · Post by **Celexa** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:09 am

That's a good point. WHERE are the glasses:?: Do you wear a pair? (Cleans her own)

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:43 am

Yes, I do wear glasses. They're actually rather thick, so I see prisms along the edges of things when I look at them from the edge of my glasses. It's like seeing rainbows all the time!

Don't mind me, I have a thing for rainbows, hence my Internet name.

Celexa · Post by **Celexa** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:59 am

(I love your avatar Rainbow. Best Yaten picture I've seen in a while)

I"m pretty near sighted but my glasses are rather thin. They get smudged to easily though

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:07 am

Thanks. I took it from Starlight Pops and shrunk it so it would fit in the guidlines. It's a picture from one of my favorite scenes in SailorStars (in the beginning of 189 where the Starlights are arguing).

Celexa · Post by **Celexa** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:11 am

What are they arguing about? I don't want to spoil the WHOLE episode in case I get to see Stars someday, but I like to know about little bits and pieces. (My mom isn't exactly thrilled about getting fansubs)

And now I'm an SMU wannabe! Yay!

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:27 am

If we're talking "transforming" characters...sorry, none come to mind. However, Cyclops from X-Men wears glasses/goggles when fighting (they material they're made from is the only thing that blocks his eye beams).

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:00 am

I can think of two:

1) In a Simpsons episode, there was an unpopular comic called "Biclops Man," which featured a wimpy superhero was glasses.

2) Bubbles on the Powerpuff Girls wore glasses for one episode. She was embarrassed at first because Blossom and Buttercup made fun of her, but then it turned out her laser eye beams were enhanced by the glasses! She ended up with normal vision by the end of the story, though.

Lucied · Post by **Lucied** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:19 pm

Fallout boy from the Simpsons wore glasses =D

FoxFire · Post by **FoxFire** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:25 pm

In The Authority, the Doctor (a Dutch junkie who is the most powerful shaman on Earth) wears some type of glasses/shades/goggles, but I have no idea what the significance of them is.

KoiNoVash · Post by **KoiNoVash** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:17 pm

Kinda sorta off topic:
This reminds me of when my friend and I were making fun of Superman and how 'brilliant' his disguise was and the day he made the mistake of getting contact lenses....

Back to topic:
As for superheros with glasses... Does Harry Potter count as a superhero? He's famous for his glasses. The reason why there aren't alot of superheros with glasses results from the fact that they can be pretty damn annoying while in the middle of a fight. I switched mine for contact lenses immediatly when I was old enough.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:26 pm

Maybe he is, I guess. But he doesn't transform all the time. I think it would be neat if there was a superhero who kept the glasses when they transformed.

As for glasses vs. contacts, well, contacts aren't for me for a few reasons:
1) I don't like the idea of putting them in my eyes like that.
2) Contacts would hurt my eyes more if something hit me in the eye, while my glasses have protecting me from things flying at my face on at least two occasions.
3) I don't think contacts do that neat prism thing.
4) You can't have pink rhinestones in your contacts frames!
5) It's the principle. I like my glasses. Period. I think I look better WITH them on than not. And I don't care about the "nerd" stereotype, not to mention I've never been CALLED that! No one has ever made fun of my glasses, except when I first got them, and that was just because they were new. I got a lot more teasing for getting a perm in 8th grade...I got called Shirley Temple! Not to mention being called a boy for having short hair all through grade school, too. I still wear short hair, though, and now think it's an honor...I like looking androgynous!

Celexa · Post by **Celexa** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:42 pm

Rainbow wrote:Maybe he is, I guess. But he doesn't transform all the time. I think it would be neat if there was a superhero who kept the glasses when they transformed.

As for glasses vs. contacts, well, contacts aren't for me for a few reasons:
1) I don't like the idea of putting them in my eyes like that.
2) Contacts would hurt my eyes more if something hit me in the eye, while my glasses have protecting me from things flying at my face on at least two occasions.
3) I don't think contacts do that neat prism thing.
4) You can't have pink rhinestones in your contacts frames!
5) It's the principle. I like my glasses. Period. I think I look better WITH them on than not. And I don't care about the "nerd" stereotype, not to mention I've never been CALLED that! No one has ever made fun of my glasses, except when I first got them, and that was just because they were new. I got a lot more teasing for getting a perm in 8th grade...I got called Shirley Temple! Not to mention being called a boy for having short hair all through grade school, too. I still wear short hair, though, and now think it's an honor...I like looking androgynous!

I've worn contacts, so I can comment on each point.

1. I blink too much. It's hard for some people, easy for others.
2. Sometimes I don't have to wear safety goggles cause of my glasses. And yes it would hurt because according to my contact-obsessed friend it hurts when a ripped contact is in your eye.
3. No, they don't.
4. It would certainly be...interesting...but you're right.
5. I never got teased about my glasses...but...my friends got kinda freaked out when I came to school wearing contacts. There's something.

Cardcaptor Takato · Post by **Cardcaptor Takato** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:02 pm

The Beast in X-men wears glasses, too.

J Anderson · Post by **J Anderson** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:40 am

Beast typically wears reading glasses, nothing on the battlefield.

Duke Nukem has worn sunglasses steadily since his second game. I think the only time he's seen without them is in the first game. Shadow Man also typically wears dark sunglasses at night to hide his glowing eyes(he only turns into Shadow Man at night).

But typically, no. Possibly because they'd get broken in a fight, so anyone who'd need them would get contacts. Cyclops wears an eye visor strapped to his head in battle.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:30 am

I have some fic Senshi who wear glasses as Senshi, and still need them then. I guess I'm the only one...

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:46 am

Possibly...

Now, I don't mean for this to be mean/hateful/whatever, but I'd assume the reason the Sailor Soldiers don't have glasses in their soldier form is that transformation gives them a "perfect" physiology; remember, they ARE reverting to a form back when the people of the moon were considered "gods". One would assume that something as near to perfection as a god wouldn't require glasses to see correctly. That's just a hunch, however, and not meant to be derogatory to those wearing glasses AT ALL. No offense/knock against anyone who DOES use glasses-wearing fic characters either.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:52 am

That's not necessarily true. There are some times when it's pointed out that Sailor Moon DOES have some physical "imperfections" that she keeps from Usagi to Sailor Moon.
-The episode in R where Ami thinks everyone hates her (she's given an illusion). The monster does the illusion, and Sailor Moon admits something like that her bust size is too small.
-In the SuperS ballet story, Sailor Moon is shown with a bit of fat on her, when the lemures puts the tutu on her and then her fat bulges out a tiny bit

And she's still a klutz as a Senshi. The only one who really seems to improve physically is Saturn, and that's because when she becomes a Senshi she's free of Mistress 9, who was making her sick and weak all the time.

ParaKiss_Groupie · Post by **ParaKiss_Groupie** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:19 pm

Rainbow wrote: And she's still a klutz as a Senshi. The only one who really seems to improve physically is Saturn, and that's because when she becomes a Senshi she's free of Mistress 9, who was making her sick and weak all the time.

I always got the feeling that Sailor Moon was only kinda klutzy because Usagi was afraid. Whenever Sailor Moon was seriously ready to kick some ass, she was never a klutz. Otherwise, how could she pull off Moon Spiral Heart Attack and Rainbow Moon Heartache? All the spins and twists...
Also, Sailor Moon may be exempt from the perfection thing because she didn't exist on the Moon Kingdom. Princess Serenity was not needed to be Sailor Moon. If she was, then Luna would have known immediately that Usagi was the Princess.

Parallax · Post by **Parallax** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:25 pm

One super hero with glasses that comes to mind is.... Plastic Man!!