Smart People Wear Glasses/Playing With

Basic Trope: Glasses used as a shorthand for a smart person.

• Played Straight: Bob, who is the smartest student in his class wears glasses.
• Exaggerated:Not just Bob wears them, all the doctors,scientists, and anyone who is highly educated has glasses.
• Justified:Bob reads a lot, so he needs them or his eyesight will suffer.
• Inverted: Bob is Book Dumb and wears glasses, while the much smarter characters don't.
• Subverted: Bob is the smartest in the class, and doesn't wear glasses...
• Double Subverted: Instead, it's revealed he has contacts, or doesn't like wearing them.
• Deconstructed: Bob is the smartest in the class, however dislikes his status quo and doesn't wear his glasses that show how much he reads, doing so, his eyesight suffers and his grades go down.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Parodied:???
• Averted: Bob, who is of average intelligence wears glasses.
• Lampshaded:???
• Enforced: "We need to make Bob look smart! Show, Don't Tell!"
• Invoked: Bob wears glasses thinking that they will make him look smarter.
• Defied:???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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