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The typical Hollywood perception of girls (or, for that matter, guys) wearing glasses is that they are nerdy, homely, or otherwise undesirable in various ways. These ways could include the "sex appeal" department, and it could also include the strangely instantaneous deletion of glasses from the face of any up-and-coming hero or heroine in stories, movies, or television shows. Depending on your personal preference, this could be part of an Unnecessary Makeover. Always the first step in a Makeover Montage. (Oddly enough, a character that loses his/her specs as part of this trope almost never suffers afterward from the sort of vision problems that presumably required them to be worn in the first place.)

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  • The Glasses Gotta Go
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  • The typical Hollywood perception of girls (or, for that matter, guys) wearing glasses is that they are nerdy, homely, or otherwise undesirable in various ways. These ways could include the "sex appeal" department, and it could also include the strangely instantaneous deletion of glasses from the face of any up-and-coming hero or heroine in stories, movies, or television shows. Depending on your personal preference, this could be part of an Unnecessary Makeover. Always the first step in a Makeover Montage. (Oddly enough, a character that loses his/her specs as part of this trope almost never suffers afterward from the sort of vision problems that presumably required them to be worn in the first place.)
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  • The typical Hollywood perception of girls (or, for that matter, guys) wearing glasses is that they are nerdy, homely, or otherwise undesirable in various ways. These ways could include the "sex appeal" department, and it could also include the strangely instantaneous deletion of glasses from the face of any up-and-coming hero or heroine in stories, movies, or television shows. Depending on your personal preference, this could be part of an Unnecessary Makeover. Always the first step in a Makeover Montage. (Oddly enough, a character that loses his/her specs as part of this trope almost never suffers afterward from the sort of vision problems that presumably required them to be worn in the first place.) Pretty much, if "the glasses must go," then the example must go here. A common step in a Beautiful All Along transformation. Also see The Glasses Come Off, when the glasses are ditched so the character can be more Badass. Recently, an "Evil Through and Through" variation has started occurring in anime, where hidden villains remove their glasses to show that... well, yes, they are beautiful all along, but they don't have to hide their intentions anymore. Per Rule 34, there are of course exceptions to this work for writers who consider glasses to be sexy, and pornographic websites dedicated to people wearing glasses can be found without much effort. A common way to avert this one is to turn the character into a Badass Bookworm. Examples of The Glasses Gotta Go include:
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