I've grown up believing they were goggles, however i'm not completely convinced. The ones he has seems like shop glasses because of the temples, which don't usually protect against wind in the way aviation goggles do. But shop glasses essentially never have a full rim on the bottom, meaning that they would have to be normal glasses. Then again, I don't believe they make any single lens prescription glasses... I guess i'm on team "general purpose eyewear"
He only wears goggles because Mario Kart is a racing game, and goggles make more sense than glasses. The eBay listing was trying to get as many tags covers for their "safety galsses". Big wrap around goggles was just an aesthetic choice
I always thought it made more sense for gim to be wearing goggles because he is a flying character. And about toad, he is a giant mushroom because he probably is Peach's bio-WMD to rid the mushroom King dom of its original people: goombas, as suggested in Game Theory's episode about them.
Credit where it's due: You are really passionate about this. I'm one of "those" people who was never really into Mario, although Mario Kart 7 for 3DS was a top-notch game, so I don't really know. But it explicitly says "specs" in one game and that means glasses according to UK Google. Although I'm sure it's more than possible that the game studio's have changed many times and therefore so has whether they're glasses or goggles. So I'd recommend finding when he was introduced and what studio made that game and check if it says glasses or goggles in either that first game or the next few Mario games that studio made. Really interesting video though, thanks J.J.
I've always thought of lakitu as kind of a pudgy/nerdy character, yet I've always called his "specs" goggles even though I kind of see them as a mix; some sort of swimming goggle/glasses combo. I only really started getting into video games when the 3d games were already out, so that might have something to do with my interpretation.
The exception for the rule of cartoon-characters-with-glasses-are-nerdy would be if they were wearing sunglasses. Then for some reason they become cool instead of nerdy.....
The Answer: Lakitu, like every other character in the Mario series, has been redesigned dozens of times by different artists. And they make minor changes on the whim of the artist or games director. Miyamoto himself has changed tons of things about Mario based on how he feels at the time (see Yoshi's shoes or Peach's lips). So really, there's no conspiracy here. Nintendo doesn't care about design accuracy as much as the fanbase does. Also, there's lots of cartoon characters who have glasses without being a nerd. But since Lakitu was developed in Japan, you have to point out that they have very different standards. There are thousands of anime characters who wear glasses but are not stereotypical nerds/eggheads. Because Japan just has different views of glasses than the west does. Of course they do use them to signify nerds sometimes, but they generally add swirls to the glasses as well as an eccentric/shy personality to the character wearing the glasses. In other words, Japan puts character traits more into the personality and less into the outward appearance of the characters. This leads to some really weird design ideas westerners can't generally recognize, including with Mario characters. Like Wendy's big lips or Luigi's strange poses. And as someone who is working to get into the animation industry, I kind of feel insulted you lumped "everyone" into a box. Yes, these stereotypes exist. But not everyone follows them. And the use of these stereotypes is not because of a lack of imagination from the artists (though it can be for some). It is more that the most successful characters are designed to fit the preconceptions of the audience they are aimed at. Many of these stereotypes come from early works like Warner Bros cartoons, who were characterizing real life people, from famous Hollywood actors to World War 2 generals to other cartoon characters. These became so well known that they became the stereotypes we now know today. And so 75 years later, when someone wants to make a cartoon character who is a scientist, they have to conform to the standard. Unless they have multiple seasons to develop a character through other means, such as Hank Hill in King of the Hill, who doesn't fit the stereotype at all. There's entire episodes about Hank mocking nerds and worrying his son is becoming one. And Smithers isn't a nerd or egghead towards anything except dolls. I'm only pushing this so hard because you were making some REALLY sweeping generalizations in this video... Anyway, blah blah, from a design standpoint, I don't think Lakitu wore either when he was originally created. His original design in Super Mario Bros 1 on the NES just had him with green shading around his eyes. This is a common technique artists use, especially western artists, to be able to draw quick eyes. And it also really helped you notice his eyes in the small NES sprite. As time went on however, designers gave Lakitu glasses. Then over time, his headgear changed to goggles, based on the game he was in and the designers mood. These were made possible by having more detailed character models. In Mario Kart, he wears both depending on the activity he's doing.
I've always believed that Lakitu is more of a race in the Mario franchise. Like, there's not just one of them. It's shown in the newest MarioKart that while playing as Lakitu, there's still another Lakitu acting as the camera/track-putter-onner. I agree with JJ's idea of design, I think the idea of Lakitu was originally designed with aviator goggles to signify that he's a flying character, but throughout the game the designers just kind of forgot about that, which meant some Lakitus had glasses. In the franchise, some Lakitus have goggles, some have specs. I think a simple resolution is that there's multiple Lakitus, just like how there's multiple Koopas, Birdos, Bloopers, etc.
This is so useless yet so amazing and entertaining, J.J. is my favorite RUclipsr due to the way he ask and answers questions that very few people ask or gives much thought to, and makes five minute long videos diving into their histories, evidence for many cases, and finishes by asking for audience input. He is also a good satirist (in my opinion) and is one of the few people I can think of that could smoothly talk about video games, cartoons, and random/fun facts as much as he discusses politics, demographics, symbolism, history, and other such topics of (somewhat) importance. He is also the only person I can think of that can pull off a Nietzsche mustache. Also, you did a few videos on terrible flags as well as about twenty videos about Canada (as a geography nerd these videos really fascinate me), can you do a video about Canada's province and territory flags? Some are descent (Quebec and Ontario) while others are kinda ugly (British Columbia as well as Newfoundland and Labrador(which is a shitty province name for a list in my opinion)) I am kinda interested what you think about them.
Clark Kent has glasses as part of a disguise. Hank Hill I would say has glasses to convey a general nerdishness. Hans Moleman has glasses because he'd old. Peter Griffin is probably the best counter-example, since he's not nerdy or smart or old, just a buffoon.
I always assumed glasses, because of his role in Mario 64 as the camerman. I assumed he was in his high school's A/V Club, which is where all the nerds woild hang out anyway. Also, he is clearly wearing goggles in Mario Kart because he's a nery guy who wants to look old-timey because he thinks it's cool. I've always seen him as wearing glasses.
to be honest it seems like something that changes game by game, sometimes there's one lense but other times there's two, and the temples and straps switch around as well
Growing up I always thought it was either spectacles or goggles. But your analysis has proven that he switches in-between goggles and specs. And glasses can be worn in cartoonery by non-nerdy characters. But character props may evolve and change just as the character does. The real question for Mario lore-lovers is Lakitu a Koopa or a whole another species. 👓☁️
I always figured they were goggles, given Lakitus' preponderance for the air and the existence of Aqua Lakitu. However, there's another possible explanation: Lakitu isn't a character; Lakitu is a species. Some Lakitu wear goggles and others wear glasses.
4:10 I think glasses can also be used to show that a character is old. Think old man jenkins from spongebob, eustace and muriel from courage, moleman from simpsons and grunkle stan from gravity falls
I always assumed they were glasses, he usually gave the instructions in the beginning of the game so he's 'nerdy' in the sense he knows a lot of information.
I know im late to the party, but im on team Both. Hes vision impaired and has corrective lenses on both his normal glasses, and his goggles. You can see some people who play basketball with corrective lense goggles as well.
@3:59 Lakitu wears glasses because he drops Spiny eggs at random rather than throw them directly at Mario, which he could do if he could see well. All the other enemy sprites attack Mario directly, such as the Hammer Brothers, but they don’t wear corrective lenses (or maybe they *DO* wear contacts but how could we ever tell?) Programming the action of the sprite in the game influenced the design of the character.
Arthur was not a giant nerd! The nerd from that series was Brain who didn’t have glasses. I’d argue Arthur just wore glasses because of his poor sight. I think there’s even a book where he gets an eye test and had to start wearing them.
This question never came to my mind because in German it's all just brille. It's like turtle and tortoise it's just Schildkröte. We germans just make things overly complicated when it makes sense but English are you romance? Are you germanic? Are you a Frankensteins monster thing with parts from both? We shall never know....
This is super old but I wear both types of goggles in the lab. Regular glasses style for basic work and the heavier duty and more protective wrap around kind that won’t fall off my face when it is hot and sweaty. I would agree that it’s goggles, that makes more sense given his job. Lol (yes, I love Mario too.)
I think he's wearing glasses during the early years then Nintendo switch to have him wear goggles from time to time. Because in the early cartoon series (The Super Mario Bros. Show) he was wearing glasses. Everytime when he took them off he was nearly blind. So if they're glasses or goggles, it must be prescription eyewear.l of sorts. Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I've just received this video popped up in my feed today.
I wonder if Lakitu wears the goggles with straps in Mario Kart because he’s racing a go kart and sometimes when doing something dangerous with glasses, you wear goggles over them or prescription goggles, that are more durable in the case he falls off the kart.
They’re pilot’s goggles, all flyers have at least one pair of pilots goggles (aka flight glasses, etc), my grandpa was a fighter pilot for the RCAF in the 1950s & 60s and I still have his, even though the flew enclosed cockpit aircraft, he still owned a pair. It’s pretty much the symbol of aviation.
Plus most top notch pilots have far better than average vision and don’t need glasses (fun fact brag, I have 20/15 vision and almost total night vision, I didn’t realize this was unusual ‘till I was like 19, “why do you guys keep bumping into things” I used to say)
I think that the designers haven't decided what his eyewear is, and thus it exists in a superposition of both glasses and goggles until they make up their minds and subsequently retcon their decision to have been obvious all along.
Not nerdy cartoons with glasses: Daria, Peter Griffin, Hank Hill, Otto Rocket, Reggie Rocket (though she never seems to wear the glasses over her eyes), Johnny Bravo, Sadness from Upside Down.
I always assumed he was wearing goggles... I probably just subconsciously associated it with what he does (fly around). Maybe he wears glasses normally, but goggles if he is doing an activity in which his glasses may fall off?
Wait. Lakitu attacks from a distance. Maybe he wears glasses (he is drawn with glasses) to emphasize that he won't (wouldn't) dare get near you because then you might break his glasses. Basically, Lakitu is a ***** and the glasses help emphasize that. Or Mario is a bully, and Lakitu is scared of him but still supports Bowser as best he can--attacking from a distance. Either way you look at it, glasses make sense.
I've grown up believing they were goggles, however i'm not completely convinced. The ones he has seems like shop glasses because of the temples, which don't usually protect against wind in the way aviation goggles do. But shop glasses essentially never have a full rim on the bottom, meaning that they would have to be normal glasses. Then again, I don't believe they make any single lens prescription glasses... I guess i'm on team "general purpose eyewear"
same I always assumed they were goggles
Also, hank hill, Scrooge mcduck, Peter griffin and Edna from the incredibles all wear glasses, and I don’t consider them to be nerds
@@kairomclean3457 edna is definitely very intelligent though which glasses often represent
I think he wears goggles with a perscription for sports, like mario kart, but for normal activities he wears glasses.
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Woah, it's been a long time
I wonder where he gets his prescription filled. The same place Magikoopa does?
This is my thought as well. Both glasses and goggles, depending on the activity.
Then presumably his goggles also have real corrective lenses.
peter griffin weares glasses for no reason
Thats what I thought. You nerd
Marcie from the Peanuts specials also wears glasses for no reason. She’s a nerd in the recent movie, but she wasn’t in the original specials.
@@jerryborjon she was always a nerd.
@@drewpamon - Not really. She was actually very air-headed
ISIS is defeated: I sleep
Lakatu is wearing googles: R E A L S H I T
*g o o g l e s*
*L a k a t u*
How about Lokote next?
I'm on team I Didn't Know That Character Had A Name. Lol
Same.
I'm on team _I could give you the name of all recurrent Mario characters or enemies_
I'm on team I'm that one guy who responds like 1-2 years later
J.J. back at it again with life's most important questions that plague us on a day-to-day basis
Personally I believe they’re glasses because of the temples. He probably wears goggles in Mario Kart because he’s racing
He only wears goggles because Mario Kart is a racing game, and goggles make more sense than glasses. The eBay listing was trying to get as many tags covers for their "safety galsses". Big wrap around goggles was just an aesthetic choice
I always thought it made more sense for gim to be wearing goggles because he is a flying character. And about toad, he is a giant mushroom because he probably is Peach's bio-WMD to rid the mushroom King dom of its original people: goombas, as suggested in Game Theory's episode about them.
Credit where it's due: You are really passionate about this. I'm one of "those" people who was never really into Mario, although Mario Kart 7 for 3DS was a top-notch game, so I don't really know. But it explicitly says "specs" in one game and that means glasses according to UK Google. Although I'm sure it's more than possible that the game studio's have changed many times and therefore so has whether they're glasses or goggles. So I'd recommend finding when he was introduced and what studio made that game and check if it says glasses or goggles in either that first game or the next few Mario games that studio made.
Really interesting video though, thanks J.J.
I've always thought of lakitu as kind of a pudgy/nerdy character, yet I've always called his "specs" goggles even though I kind of see them as a mix; some sort of swimming goggle/glasses combo.
I only really started getting into video games when the 3d games were already out, so that might have something to do with my interpretation.
His glasses are helping him see Mario from up high
The exception for the rule of cartoon-characters-with-glasses-are-nerdy would be if they were wearing sunglasses. Then for some reason they become cool instead of nerdy.....
My boy Hank Hill wears glasses and he's the least nerdy man in existence, which loops right back around into him being corny as hell.
I think the bigger mystery is why in some games he just has one big eye with 2 pupils
This also applies to Sonic
I've always considered him to wear goggles, since Mario Kart was quite big part of my childhood and he wore goggles in the Mario Kart games
Prescription Goggles.
The Answer: Lakitu, like every other character in the Mario series, has been redesigned dozens of times by different artists. And they make minor changes on the whim of the artist or games director. Miyamoto himself has changed tons of things about Mario based on how he feels at the time (see Yoshi's shoes or Peach's lips). So really, there's no conspiracy here. Nintendo doesn't care about design accuracy as much as the fanbase does.
Also, there's lots of cartoon characters who have glasses without being a nerd. But since Lakitu was developed in Japan, you have to point out that they have very different standards. There are thousands of anime characters who wear glasses but are not stereotypical nerds/eggheads. Because Japan just has different views of glasses than the west does. Of course they do use them to signify nerds sometimes, but they generally add swirls to the glasses as well as an eccentric/shy personality to the character wearing the glasses. In other words, Japan puts character traits more into the personality and less into the outward appearance of the characters. This leads to some really weird design ideas westerners can't generally recognize, including with Mario characters. Like Wendy's big lips or Luigi's strange poses.
And as someone who is working to get into the animation industry, I kind of feel insulted you lumped "everyone" into a box. Yes, these stereotypes exist. But not everyone follows them. And the use of these stereotypes is not because of a lack of imagination from the artists (though it can be for some). It is more that the most successful characters are designed to fit the preconceptions of the audience they are aimed at. Many of these stereotypes come from early works like Warner Bros cartoons, who were characterizing real life people, from famous Hollywood actors to World War 2 generals to other cartoon characters. These became so well known that they became the stereotypes we now know today. And so 75 years later, when someone wants to make a cartoon character who is a scientist, they have to conform to the standard. Unless they have multiple seasons to develop a character through other means, such as Hank Hill in King of the Hill, who doesn't fit the stereotype at all. There's entire episodes about Hank mocking nerds and worrying his son is becoming one. And Smithers isn't a nerd or egghead towards anything except dolls. I'm only pushing this so hard because you were making some REALLY sweeping generalizations in this video...
Anyway, blah blah, from a design standpoint, I don't think Lakitu wore either when he was originally created. His original design in Super Mario Bros 1 on the NES just had him with green shading around his eyes. This is a common technique artists use, especially western artists, to be able to draw quick eyes. And it also really helped you notice his eyes in the small NES sprite. As time went on however, designers gave Lakitu glasses. Then over time, his headgear changed to goggles, based on the game he was in and the designers mood. These were made possible by having more detailed character models. In Mario Kart, he wears both depending on the activity he's doing.
The discovery of goggles with temples got me so good I smashed like.
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I've always believed that Lakitu is more of a race in the Mario franchise. Like, there's not just one of them. It's shown in the newest MarioKart that while playing as Lakitu, there's still another Lakitu acting as the camera/track-putter-onner. I agree with JJ's idea of design, I think the idea of Lakitu was originally designed with aviator goggles to signify that he's a flying character, but throughout the game the designers just kind of forgot about that, which meant some Lakitus had glasses. In the franchise, some Lakitus have goggles, some have specs. I think a simple resolution is that there's multiple Lakitus, just like how there's multiple Koopas, Birdos, Bloopers, etc.
This is so useless yet so amazing and entertaining, J.J. is my favorite RUclipsr due to the way he ask and answers questions that very few people ask or gives much thought to, and makes five minute long videos diving into their histories, evidence for many cases, and finishes by asking for audience input. He is also a good satirist (in my opinion) and is one of the few people I can think of that could smoothly talk about video games, cartoons, and random/fun facts as much as he discusses politics, demographics, symbolism, history, and other such topics of (somewhat) importance.
He is also the only person I can think of that can pull off a Nietzsche mustache. Also, you did a few videos on terrible flags as well as about twenty videos about Canada (as a geography nerd these videos really fascinate me), can you do a video about Canada's province and territory flags? Some are descent (Quebec and Ontario) while others are kinda ugly (British Columbia as well as Newfoundland and Labrador(which is a shitty province name for a list in my opinion)) I am kinda interested what you think about them.
Thanks so much for the very kind words! Yeah, I think a provincial flag video is long overdue. I will def make one.
Tl;dr
Does Clark Kent, Hank Hill, Peter Griffin and Hank Moleman all count as a nerd, I mean they wears glasses?
Clark Kent has glasses as part of a disguise. Hank Hill I would say has glasses to convey a general nerdishness. Hans Moleman has glasses because he'd old. Peter Griffin is probably the best counter-example, since he's not nerdy or smart or old, just a buffoon.
I always assumed glasses, because of his role in Mario 64 as the camerman. I assumed he was in his high school's A/V Club, which is where all the nerds woild hang out anyway.
Also, he is clearly wearing goggles in Mario Kart because he's a nery guy who wants to look old-timey because he thinks it's cool. I've always seen him as wearing glasses.
I watched a video of a grown, Canadian man talking about obscure video game character designs... And I loved it.
I love this video because it doesn't matter literally at all, yet somehow is still so intriguing and interesting to think about.
to be honest it seems like something that changes game by game, sometimes there's one lense but other times there's two, and the temples and straps switch around as well
Growing up I always thought it was either spectacles or goggles. But your analysis has proven that he switches in-between goggles and specs. And glasses can be worn in cartoonery by non-nerdy characters. But character props may evolve and change just as the character does. The real question for Mario lore-lovers is Lakitu a Koopa or a whole another species. 👓☁️
Kid: "Hey Mum, can we get Super Mario Odyssey?"
Mum: "We have Super Mario Odyssey at home."
Super Mario Odyssey at home: 0:19
He wears glasses most of the time and in Mario Kart he wears prescription goggles, which are a thing.
Mario kart makes sense because like they’re racing goggles and you don’t want your glasses to fall off your face
i've always seen him as a goggle wearer, but the points are good
HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT THOSE WERE JUST HIS EYES
What?
It's a hat
GET A SWITCH GET A SWITCH YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT
I think Lakitu is just a huge nerd who wears goggles to sporting events.
Sideplates or earpieces are what I have heard these glasses parts called. I do not play video games, but liked to watch my friends play them.
I didn’t know this was an argument I wanted to hear.
I always assumed they were goggles because he was flying around.
I thought they were eyes...
Prescription googles is now my head canon for Lakitu/Jegum. Thanks?
Okay listen I love all of JJs videos but this might be my favorite
Lakitu wears aviator goggles while in the sky. It wears glasses in some games depending on its role. That simple.
The only times I've ever seen him, he looked like he had some sort of sonic the hedgehog esque single eye thing going on.
Oh my god finally a new video :D
I always thought he was wearing goggles because he's a pilot
But you know it’s just a theory...a game theory!!!
He wears glasses and prescription goggles.
I always figured they were goggles, given Lakitus' preponderance for the air and the existence of Aqua Lakitu. However, there's another possible explanation: Lakitu isn't a character; Lakitu is a species. Some Lakitu wear goggles and others wear glasses.
I always bought they were goggles to protect his eyes from the wind, but I was never curious enough to study the temples.
I thought they were goggles. Yet you have presented evidence to support the "Glasses Theory"
4:15 Silver Spoon from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She is not a giant nerd.
4:10 I think glasses can also be used to show that a character is old. Think old man jenkins from spongebob, eustace and muriel from courage, moleman from simpsons and grunkle stan from gravity falls
I always assumed they were glasses, he usually gave the instructions in the beginning of the game so he's 'nerdy' in the sense he knows a lot of information.
Peter Griffin is a charecter who has classes for no reason.
Lakitu is one of my favorite Mario characters. I even own a plushy of him. And I always assumed he had goggles, even as a little kid.
I know im late to the party, but im on team Both. Hes vision impaired and has corrective lenses on both his normal glasses, and his goggles. You can see some people who play basketball with corrective lense goggles as well.
Maybe... Just maybe, he changes what he puts on his eyes from time to time...
@3:59 Lakitu wears glasses because he drops Spiny eggs at random rather than throw them directly at Mario, which he could do if he could see well. All the other enemy sprites attack Mario directly, such as the Hammer Brothers, but they don’t wear corrective lenses (or maybe they *DO* wear contacts but how could we ever tell?) Programming the action of the sprite in the game influenced the design of the character.
Toad is obviously wearing a mushroom turban
Peter Griffin has glasses
They could be a species with terrible eyesight and they have a hierarchy based on glasses or goggles
Arthur was not a giant nerd! The nerd from that series was Brain who didn’t have glasses. I’d argue Arthur just wore glasses because of his poor sight. I think there’s even a book where he gets an eye test and had to start wearing them.
This question never came to my mind because in German it's all just brille.
It's like turtle and tortoise it's just Schildkröte.
We germans just make things overly complicated when it makes sense but English are you romance? Are you germanic? Are you a Frankensteins monster thing with parts from both? We shall never know....
Always thought he was wearing goggles.
Peter griffin just happens to have glasses
Toad's head is totally a giant mushroom.
This is super old but I wear both types of goggles in the lab. Regular glasses style for basic work and the heavier duty and more protective wrap around kind that won’t fall off my face when it is hot and sweaty. I would agree that it’s goggles, that makes more sense given his job. Lol (yes, I love Mario too.)
I never realized Lakitu had anything on his eyes...
4:10 "Name a character who wears glasses who is not a Giant Nerd."
Scrooge McDuck.
Ehhh.... but those are old man glasses. That's kind of a different category. Like Grandpa Simpson or Cranky Kong.
J.J. McCullough Ah.
Amazing topic.
I have prescription goggles when I swim
When you pick up that book...Omg that's so sad..
Lakitu is so cute. Also his cloud is also cute. For some reason he is an enemy
I think he's wearing glasses during the early years then Nintendo switch to have him wear goggles from time to time. Because in the early cartoon series (The Super Mario Bros. Show) he was wearing glasses. Everytime when he took them off he was nearly blind. So if they're glasses or goggles, it must be prescription eyewear.l of sorts.
Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I've just received this video popped up in my feed today.
I always just thought that it was a pair of glasses.
It counts as a monocle because there is no split between the lenses
I wonder if Lakitu wears the goggles with straps in Mario Kart because he’s racing a go kart and sometimes when doing something dangerous with glasses, you wear goggles over them or prescription goggles, that are more durable in the case he falls off the kart.
Obviously he wears goggles because in some games the lens is a different colour to his skin colour
They’re pilot’s goggles, all flyers have at least one pair of pilots goggles (aka flight glasses, etc), my grandpa was a fighter pilot for the RCAF in the 1950s & 60s and I still have his, even though the flew enclosed cockpit aircraft, he still owned a pair. It’s pretty much the symbol of aviation.
Plus most top notch pilots have far better than average vision and don’t need glasses (fun fact brag, I have 20/15 vision and almost total night vision, I didn’t realize this was unusual ‘till I was like 19, “why do you guys keep bumping into things” I used to say)
Honestly this whole time I thought it was glasses, that was until I saw this
*clicks on video*
*gets glasses commercial*
I think that the designers haven't decided what his eyewear is, and thus it exists in a superposition of both glasses and goggles until they make up their minds and subsequently retcon their decision to have been obvious all along.
They are perscription goggles. That way he has the best of both worlds
I just always thought it was goggles that he was wearing
Not nerdy cartoons with glasses: Daria, Peter Griffin, Hank Hill, Otto Rocket, Reggie Rocket (though she never seems to wear the glasses over her eyes), Johnny Bravo, Sadness from Upside Down.
Eric Borja Daria and Hank are clearly nerds.
I think using sunglasses is kinda cheating though cause those are usually given to chill and cool characters rather than nerdy ones
I always thought his eyes were just mushed together like sonic
My dad wears goggles with temples when he mows the lawn
What I'm worried about is why he is a turtle but has the face of a human.
Last time I was this early, Lakitu didn’t exist.
Goggles 100%
You could almost say his eyewear is a... Mandela Effect
goggles all day round i have always seen his goggles been only one lense for me and therefore he shall have one lense forever
Fillmore is a badass with glasses
There is a Odyssey novelization? Also, add fishing to Lakitu’s odd list of hobbies and jobs.
Peter Griffin!!! Lol. Funny video.
I always assumed he was wearing goggles... I probably just subconsciously associated it with what he does (fly around).
Maybe he wears glasses normally, but goggles if he is doing an activity in which his glasses may fall off?
this the example of the mandela effect in mario
4:30 Peter griffin, although perhaps ironically
Wait. Lakitu attacks from a distance. Maybe he wears glasses (he is drawn with glasses) to emphasize that he won't (wouldn't) dare get near you because then you might break his glasses.
Basically, Lakitu is a ***** and the glasses help emphasize that. Or Mario is a bully, and Lakitu is scared of him but still supports Bowser as best he can--attacking from a distance. Either way you look at it, glasses make sense.