Super glasses!

Speaking of eyeglasses, I’ve always wondered about Superman and Supergirl, ever since I was a little kid. In the comics — and more recently in the movies and TV shows — these two superheroes can always walk about unrecognized, just by putting on a pair of glasses.

Now, I don’t know about you, but if I put on a pair of glasses, I just look like me wearing a pair of glasses. This seems like a far more remarkable superpower than their ability to fly or to burn through walls with death-ray eyes, or even to bend steel with their bare hands.

There are lots of amazing wonders in the Marvel Universe, including a billionaire who flies around in an iron suit, a guy who can shrink down really really small, a giant green id monster, another guy who’s part spider, a talking raccoon, and whole family of Norse gods — the list goes on.

But not one of these people has that far more awesome and eerily inexplicable superpower possessed by our heroes from DC Comics: Just let these folks slip into an ordinary pair of glasses, and nobody will ever recognize them.

How cool is that?

3 thoughts on “Super glasses!”

  1. I don’t know, face recognition software seems to believe that when you wear glasses, you are a completely different person.

  2. Fun example: Harold Lloyd was one of the biggest movie stars of the silent era. At the height of his fame, he once bet a friend he could walk the streets completely unrecognized if he wasn’t wearing his trademark round glasses.

    Lloyd won the bet.

  3. It may not have been the glasses. Marilyn Monroe could do that even without glasses. She would just change her walk and body language.

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