Spectacles

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"Wait 'til Air Raid gets a load of these spectacles!"

Unlike the crude human devices known as glasses, these spectacles are worn by Transformers, presumably to enhance superior, Cybertronian optical sensors. They are most popular with scientists, but since fashionistas have sported them too, we can assume some bots wear them simply to look cool. Spectacles come in a variety of lens colors, including red.

Fiction

Super-God Masterforce

Not to be confused with Chip Chase.

Lander wore spectacles while in his Pretender shell, so they may just be glasses.

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

The scientist Bump wore clear glasses in his beast mode but not in his robot mode. Bump the Physicist

Beast Wars Neo comics

Archadis wore a red mask in his robot mode that doubled as spectacles. After putting Stampy and Break in a precarious situation, he took a moment to take off his mask, breathed on it, and used a cloth to clean the lenses before refastening it. Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky

Live action film series continuity

"All ze better to see you vith, my dear."

"The way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"

Scalpel glared menacingly through his clear, round specs at the captive Sam Witwicky. Revenge of the Fallen

Wheeljack (a.k.a. Que) also wore a pair of clear, round spectacles. Dark of the Moon

Animated cartoon continuity

All his remaining personality is expressed through his spectacles.

He's very interested in your technical specifications.

Perceptor wore a pair of yellow-tinted, frameless spectacles.

Scalpel was equipped with a pair of red-tinted, half-moon spectacles.

Tracks looked down, over his clear, half-moon spectacles at an organic visitor to Cybertron. This Is Why I Hate Machines

Transformers: All Spark manga continuity

Starscream-kun was a shoe-in for Class Representative.

Before going to Earth, Starscream occasionally wore spectacles.

2005 IDW continuity

Rung wore a pair of spectacles, which he removed to examine a copy of Towards Peace during a session with Megatron. Towards Peace

Notes

• In the Animated continuity, Tracks, Perceptor and Scalpel not only share the same fashion sense in optic-wear, but all three have been involved in alterations to external shells, being an Auto-Detailing Designer, a scientist who participated in upgrading Jetfire and Jetstorm, and a medi-bot behind Team Stunticon's disguises, respectively.
• Animation errors result in Trailbreaker appearing like he's wearing spectacles in "Divide and Conquer" and "A Plague of Insecticons".