Smart People Wear Glasses / Video Games

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Examples of Smart People Wear Glasses in Video Games.

• Amber Isle: Barnaby is an intelligent, verbose museum curator and archaeologist who wears glasses.
• Bio-Goddess: Doomsday Begins: Both Dr. Calvin Tam and his daughter, the player heroine Ashley wears glasses, are the only bespectacled characters in the game and they're both incredibly intelligent. The former is the lead scientist behind the Bio-Goddess viral research, the latter is the Student Council President and a smart student.
• BlazBlue: Characters originating from the science-based Sector Seven, such as Kokonoe, Tager, Litchi, and Roy (before he became Arakune), all wear glasses. The rare physical-based hard-hitters like Azrael or Makoto do not wear glasses and they're usually the less smart (in the book-learning manner) characters from that faction.
• Lex from Bookworm. He's a regular old bookworm who is able to tell if the paper he eats has letters on it and if said letters form words. As a result, he chooses to only eats words.
• Ciel Fledge: Ciel can be equipped with Purely Aesthetic Glasses that boost the growth of her Intelligence stat.
• Death Stranding: All three scientists that are a part of Sam's support team (Deadman, Heartman, and Mama) wear glasses.
• Ensemble Stars! has a few:
  • Keito is a top student at school (and has since graduated), was the student council vice president, and organizer of his own lecture circle to help improve others' grades. He's also the one who suggested the idea of using three (later five) Cloudcuckoolander students as Scapegoats in order to combat the school's decline which was caused by lazy students.
  • Ibara plays this more straightforwardly, being a successful business man at a young age and planning strategies for Eden to compete with other units and also runs a lecture circle just like Keito. Ironically everyone can see through whatever scheme he has cooked up.
  • The game's youngest character, Kanna can invent machines competent enough for commercial use, partake in research alongside academic studies, and he specializes in calculation.
  • This is played with in regards to Makoto. He is well-informed, has a wide information network, and is good with technology, but he's actually not very book smart. He also had a nightmare along the lines of this trope because he knows he isn't the best student in school.
• Fate/Grand Order: Double-subverted with Tepau; while he is a researcher, his glasses are actually Mystic Eye blockers that he would have to wear regardless of his intellect. He's actually pretty surprised when the party tells him that they make him look smart and distinguished.
• The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-: Hiruko Shizuhara and Eito Aotsuki both wear glasses and are among the smartest & most pragmatic characters; the former is mentioned to be a Straight A student in her prequel novel, and the latter is a bookworm that loves spending his time in the library.
• Iggle Pop!: Both Dr. Iggle and his assistant Rizzo are geniuses, and both wear glasses.
• Keith Courage in Alpha Zones: Keith's father is the only character depicted with glasses, and he was an esteemed nuclear scientist who developed the Nova Suit.
• Monty from Kindergarten is the only student to wear glasses (at least in the first game), and he's a Gadgeteer Genius who can reprogram or disarm bombs, synthesise the drugs Ms. Applegate is addicted to, and read (which is still more impressive than it sounds, given that the characters are kindergarteners).
• Shad from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an archaic researcher and Cunning Linguist at age seventeen. He's the first prominent character in the entire Zelda series to sport glasses.
• Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work: A few researchers who work at the FBI Laboratory wear thick glasses. Most other characters in the series don't.
• Lunar Lotus Festival: Okami, who is characterized as the “exotic and smart” one of the love interests, is also the only beau to wear glasses. Rhea has to find and return them to him, along with his clothes, after he turns into his human avatar upon being healed by her elixirs.
• Dr. Ray from METAGAL is a bespectacled genius who made nine robots.
• Miitopia: The Goblins Mages and the Banshee Brainboxes both wear glasses, invoking this trope. The Banshee Brainbox's description even alludes to her highly educated status.
• Osvald from Octopath Traveler II is The Smart Guy of the party, being a renowned scholar and magic researcher, and he's the only one of the main cast to wear glasses.
• Overwatch: The two characters that wear glasses are particularly intelligent people:
  • Mei is a brilliant Chinese climatologist who has a lot of research notes about trying to stop global warming.
  • Winston is a hyper-intelligent sapient gorilla. To drive the point home even further, Winston has the ability to Hulk Out and act like a mindless rampaging beast for a little while, and this ability tends to be associated with his glasses being broken (a pair of broken glasses is even the HUD icon for this ability). The real reason for this is because the glasses are a Tragic Keepsake from the scientist who raised him and having them broken seriously pisses him off, but the fact that his intelligence seems to correlate with what kind of shape his glasses are in has to count for something.
• Persona 5: Resident Hackette Futaba Sakura sports a large pair of glasses. If you have anything related to computers (up to and including hacking communication in the entire country), she's the one to turn to.
• Pokémon:
  • Pokémon X and Y: Gadgeteer Genius and Child Prodigy Clemont has a pair of Opaque Nerd Glasses.
  • Pokémon Champions: Player Characters Willem and Becca wear glasses by default and are portrayed as master strategists.
• In Puyo Puyo Tetris, Ai is the sole member of the S.S. Tetra's crew to wear glasses. He knows enough about repairing spaceships to act as the Tetra's engineer.
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: Invoked. Resident Ditz and assistant relic hunter Bolo is given a pair of X-Ray Specs to help with his nearsightedness. While it doesn't help with his vision, it does make him feel super smart, and he proceeds to identify the fossil he was given with a series of smart-sounding words. "It's been heavily pyritized, and contains high levels of sulfur." then procedes to clean it. "I've removed most of the sediment, but left a bit of matrix for stability." Some time later, the Techno Baron employs him as his assistant simply because of how super smart he looks with his glasses... whereupon this gets subverted as Bolo accidentally installs the circuit panel of the Targeting Module backwards, upside down, and inside out, causing the Disruptor Cannon to miss its intended target wildly and hit the Techno Baron several islands over. While Shantae initially believes that he did that on purpose, talking to him in Propeller Town afterwards proves that he had no idea about what happened and removes any doubts about him still being the same dunderhead as before.
• In Small Saga the mole party member, Siobhan, wears round glasses. These might be a nod to how real moles have very poor eyesight, but most other moles don't have them, and Siobhan is The Smart Guy who fills the other party members in on just about anything technical or scientific.
• Splatoon: Sheldon, the resident weapons expert and Arms Dealer, wears what appears to be a pair of brass binoculars as glasses. While he initially planned to join the military, years of staying up late at night tinkering with weapons and small parts caused him to develop nearsightedness. The military rejected him because of his poor eyesight, so he instead put his skills to use designing and selling weapons.
• Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar: Webby, the most "nerdy" of the five Nature Sprites who speaks very properly and doesn't use puns like the others, wears very large glasses.
• Them's Fightin' Herds: Oleander, as if she wasn't enough of an intellectual showoff already, wears a pair of teacher-like glasses when going over the mechanics in the game's tutorial mode.
• Turovero: The Celestial Tower: Edric, as a student from a well-regarded magical university, is the most book-smart of the party, as indicated by him being the only member wearing glasses.