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Asian and Nerdy
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Pretty much any East Asian character in western media who isn't a martial artist or a gangster will be highly intelligent and/or unusually geeky. If done clearly and more on the intelligent side than geeky, this will be an exaggeration of the Brainy Brunette. The polar opposite of this, becoming more common in recent years, is the Asian Airhead — a character archetype centering on an Asian who is dumb as a brick. The reasoning behind this stereotype is that most Asian cultures regard education and smarts as very important things. Children are expected to study very hard to obtain good grades and get into good schools. This also means that "nerdiness" is viewed more positively in these cultures (as evidence of studying hard, rather than too hard as it is usually perceived in American popular culture). For this reason, this character is all but guaranteed to have an Education Mama. May grow up to be a Magical Asian if the character ends up being a mentor for his new students (who may also be nerdy). The possible Trope Codifier was Japanese leader Hideki Tojo, who wore glasses and had an overbite like so many stereotypical nerds, and was portrayed as very nerdy in World War II Allied propaganda. In fact, you could argue that the classic Nerd archetype is a combination of how Jewish people (supposedly) talk with how Japanese people (supposedly) look. The Other Wiki has an article on the "model minority" stereotype from which this trope is derived. Contrast All Asians Know Martial Arts, as most Asian and Nerdy characters lack the athletic ability for martial arts, though it's possible for these two tropes to overlap. For the South Asian subtrope, see Bollywood Nerd. For related tropes, see Germanic Efficiency, Jewish and Nerdy, and Black and Nerdy. |
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Suki from Tower Prep. Justified in that the series takes place at a school for the gifted. | |
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Firewire in Zoey 101. The rest of his clique is white though. | |
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The entire point of the song 'Nobody's Asian in the movies' by Maurissa Tancharoen from the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog musical commentary, Commentary! The Musical. The song ends with "I'm gonna go play with my violin and... math!" Possibly a jokey jab at the lead actress of Dr Horrible, Felicia Day, who is not Asian but was a violin performance/math double major. |
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The main character of Fisheye Placebo Vance Lee is a huge fan of anime/manga and memes, as well as a masterful hacker and computer science major, to boot. | |
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist: Tomine, who is Japanese-American, narrates an incident where a cartoonist assumed he was an internet technician rather than a fellow cartoonist. | |
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Averted on Bones for the most part. Angela is half Chinese and a gifted computer tech person, but she avoids the nerd stereotypes. She’s outgoing, confident,flirty and embraces her sexuality. | |
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Grimm: Lampshaded and parodied in Season 1, Episode 3. When asked if he can hack a blocked text, Sgt. Wu sarcastically retorts "Of course, I can. I'm Asian!" Hank laughs at the joke, but Wu has it hacked in seconds. This becomes a hallmark of Wu's constant ability to be both sassy and serious at the same time. | |
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Dr Chi Park, third-generation team member on House, is an over-achieving Bespectacled Cutie. In a twist of events, she's asked resident Chick Magnet Robert Chase out on a date, and he's said yes. | |
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Data from The Goonies is this in full 80's glory. | |
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Andy in Nowhere Boys. The character was created by Tony Ayres, who himself has an Asian background. It consequently has a realistic portrayal of a kid from a Singaporean migrant family, rather than a shallow stereotype. | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: Harold. Subverted by Cindy Kim and her East Asian Club. They appear to be straight-laced nerds, but turn out to be drug-using party animals. |
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Vince Masuka of Dexter. However, he subverts some of the stereotypes by showing interest in and, occasionally, success with women. And by not being very Asian, except in appearance. | |
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Pavel (Bombay by way of Seattle) of Bad Moon Rising is the go-to researcher for the vampire hunting heroes. | |
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Hiro in Heroes. It helps that he's played by Masi Oka, who's a genuine article geek. | |
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Averted in the Disney Channel movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. Wendy herself averts this trope, but because of the film's title falls into the stereotype of martial artist. Her brother, however, averts both stereotypes as a popular and somewhat dim jock. | |
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In Community, the school's Math Club appears to be comprised solely of this trope, as lampshaded when Jeff and Chang (himself an underachieving aversion) are pinned down by them during a paintball tournament: | |
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Takashi in the first Revenge of the Nerds. | |
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Lee Ping, the main character of Detentionaire, is a downplayed example. He gets good grades and used to be on the Mathletes team, but it rarely affects the plot and he uses more Street Smarts and intuition than anything to help him get out of messes. He acts and looks almost nothing like a stereotypical nerd and apparently only joined the Mathletes in the first place because his mom made him do it. Mrs. Ping is, incidentally, a math teacher at his school, and is probably at least in part responsible for his good grades. | |
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Julia from The Rainbow Experiment is captain of the volleyball team, a member of the Chinese and National Honor Society, and a violinist. Matty is convinced that she'll someday be President. | |
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Chloe Park from We Bare Bears, a little girl of Korean descent who's already attending college. Though her unusual intelligence is attributed to being a Child Prodigy who was just smart enough to be able to skip middle and high school, rather than her Asian ethnicity. | |
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Doctor Matsumoto in Robot Jox. | |
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John Cho's character Henry on Selfie is the more grown-up, non academic version of this trope, being an intelligent Workaholic who is good at his job and almost obsessed with it. | |
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Asok the Intern in Dilbert. Scott Adams has said that if he keeps getting complaints about stereotyping, he'll make Asok a drug dealer. | |
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Tan and Patel, Spot's tech-support colleagues in iZombie, are heavy examples. | |
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In the Thea Stilton spin-off of the Geronimo Stilton series, Violet is the Chinese member of the Thea Sisters and has a passion for studying and reading, so much that her friends consider her a walking encyclopedia and Thea herself describes her as a "real intellectual, just like [her] brother, Geronimo". | |
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Ling-Ling Johnson from Guilty Party is The Smart Guy in a group that's already pretty clever, and in addition to being a cracking good Kid Detective, she's a Gadgeteer Genius who designed portable lie detectors. | |
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Kevin Tran in Supernatural. In his first episode, he's introduced playing the cello in his bedroom (which is filled with honors and awards). When his phone starts ringing, he doesn't pick up until a timed alarm on his computer tells him practice time is over, at which point he starts talking to his nearly-as-nerdy girlfriend. Then he gets hit by a celestial lightning bolt and appointed translator of the Word of God. Of all the things to happen on exam day... | |
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Generator (Jade Sinclair) of the Whateley Universe once invented real, working shoulder angels. The campus nearly didn't survive. | |
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Downplayed with Trixie from The Fairly Oddparents. Though a vain Alpha Bitch, she's also been shown to be a comics and superhero Closet Geek in "The Boy That Would Be Queen". | |
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Twoflower in the Discworld books is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of this, as well as a Japanese Tourist. | |
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Doctor Kitasato in Charite, though the trait isn't too pronounced seeing as all the non-Asian scientists and doctors in the series are, of course, just as nerdy. | |
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Lt. Michael Tao of The Closer and its sequel series Major Crimes is probably second only to Imahara in how incredibly this trope he is on contemporary TV. | |
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The "Asian Nerds" in Mean Girls. Averted by the "Cool Asians." | |
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Toshiko Sato in Torchwood is the team's shy, nerdy tech person. | |
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The White Lotus: Ethan Spiller is of Asian descent and made his money from tech, and (along with his Latina wife Harper) is one of the most book-smart and socially conscious of season 2's roster. More dramatically, his white friend Cameron frequently emasculates him, which Ethan resents. | |
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Macie from As Told by Ginger is half-Asian and fits in a non-typical way. She's not presented as particularly studious or smart, instead she is an unpopular, neurotic band geek. | |
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Played with in regards to Trini in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as she is shown to be a good student though the biggest nerd in the group is Billy - she was his Translator Buddy early in the series. She's more like a combination of Billy and Valley Girl Kimberly. | |
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Cody's nerdy Asian girlfriend, Barbara, from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She even takes A.P. lunch. She's also extremely competitive, as during one episode whenever Cody one-upped her she stomped on his foot. It only worked once, the next time she hurt herself because he was wearing steel-toed boots. Barbara also counts as Jewish and Nerdy. | |
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Both Beth Tezuka and her father Johnny Tezuka in Bravest Warriors. | |
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Myishi from The Wish List is one of Hell's top scientists and engineers, and was Japanese when he was alive. | |
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Alex from Kid Nation. | |
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Mei Ling from the Metal Gear series is a Chinese-American data analyst going to MIT at the time Metal Gear Solid game takes place. | |
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Tatsu from DC Super Hero Girls just moved from Japan. She's an academic and athletic Ace, only just barely bested by Diana Prince (AKA Wonder Woman). | |
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In Turning Red, protagonist Meilin "Mei" Lee is Chinese-Canadian, a straight-A student, and a general overachiever. On the geekier end, she wears a calculator wristwatch and carries a Tamagotchi pretty much everywhere with her. | |
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Also, Lau in The Dark Knight was hired by the mobs to launder their money because he was "good at calculations". This, with a few other examples above, grates on the nerves of Shirt Guy Dom. In particular, he was an accountant who lived in a country where he couldn't really be touched by the US. Still fits this trope, but it's justified. | |
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Toshi, one of Steve's friends in American Dad!, is a highly intelligent Asian. Who speaks Japanese all the time and wants to kill, humiliate or mutilate Steve, usually. Averted by Jerk Jock Vince Chung, who is "so cool that you forget he's Asian." | |
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Kin Kujira from Grojband is The Smart Guy of the band and a Gadgeteer Genius, although his kooky, childish personality means that he more frequently leans into being a Ditzy Genius. Subverted by his twin brother Kon, who is more of a Genius Ditz and an even bigger Cloud Cuckoolander than Kin. | |
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Marvel Universe: The Incredible Hulk supporting character Amadeus Cho is Korean-American and incredibly good at math, to the point that he's apparently one of the top ten smartest people in the Marvel universe. Takeshi Matsuya/Wiz Kid is a mutant of Japanese descent who has powerful Technopath abilities and the computer and engineering smarts to make full use of them. Fellow Avengers Academy student Hazmat outright calls him "Asian stereotype boy". |
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The main characters of Lou and Lou: Safety Patrol, Lou and Louise, are of Asian descent, know a lot about safety, and aren't shy about sharing their knowledge with those in need of it. | |
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Hannah, Nikhil, and Jake from Yearning: A Gay Story are all Asian (albeit of different nationalities: Hannah is Chinese, Nikhil is Indian, and Jake is Thai) computer science students who excel at classes and geek out over board games. Hannah in particular is said to have parents who expect her to get straight As and takes on a triple major in mathematics and Japanese in the epilogue. | |
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The 2009 live-action Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins Continuity Reboot has cast a Japanese-American actress as Velma. However despite being a Race Lift this isn't noted at all, and furthermore, when she's in the Velma costume, you wouldn't know she's Asian.◊ | |
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Reversed, possibly consciously, in Black Lagoon: the central team's techie is the only white member. | |
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Big Hero 6: Hiro Hamada and his brother Tadashi, who are half-Japanese and both robotics prodigies. Gogo is Korean and also a skilled mechanical engineer. |
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Glenn from both iterations of the The Walking Dead is a subversion, possibly a slight Deconstruction of most of the older Asian stereotypes. Before the outbreak, he was very far from the innocent, quietly nerdy Asian archetype. In fact, he never spoke to his parents, and was so far in debt from college and other purposes, he had to resort to car theft with his friends, and various low-paying jobs such as pizza delivery to make ends meet. After the outbreak, he quickly becomes the Guile Hero of his survivor group, as a comparatively rational thinker with a preference for sneaking around the walkers. | |
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Matt Scudder's occasional hacker-for-hire Jimmy Hong. | |
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The Judd Winnick run of Power Girl features Nicco Cho, an expert hacker and inventor who aids Power Girl. | |
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Yoko Suzuki, a former Umbrella researcher from Resident Evil: Outbreak. | |
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Chloe Cho from Unidentified Suburban Object is one of the best students in her school, as well as a violinist who's made first chair in the school orchestra for the last three years. Adam Wheeler, her only real competition, complains that she only beats him because Asians have a violin-playing gene, which infuriates her. | |
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In now that i can see your face (i can stand up to anything.), teen Grade Skipper Velma is at least half-Asian. Her mother is from Japan. | |
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The Green Hornet Serials. This incarnation of Kato is a scientist and inventor. In one episode, Britt asks Kato to examine the superweapon they just retrieved from the crooks to see how it works. In another, when Britt needs to check on a scientist, his first idea is to send Kato over to talk inventions (and Kato's delighted to do so). | |
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Evelyn Kwong from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is the smartest person at James K. Polk besides Cookie, leading to a lot of competition. She subverts a lot of the accompanying tropes that go with this though, she's competitive, rude, loud, mean and a sometimes Stalker with a Crush. | |
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Ki Oshiro-Wellington from General Protection Fault, who can out-nerd almost anyone. | |
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Jester, the Asian member of Ben's ace tech team in Wars Of The Realm. | |
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This was double subverted in the weirdest way possible in Degrassi Junior High, where Yick Yu, a dorky bespectacled Asian kid, had to work extra hard in class to break the stereotype (that apparently exists in the Degrassi world) of Asians as Dumb Jocks. Originally to be played straight, but the actor complained. | |
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One article from The Onion interviewed a pair of Asian students who, due to lazy and stupid behavior, were praised for breaking stereotypes. | |
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MonsterVerse: Though an American Godzilla franchise, it has seen several egghead characters who happen to be of Asian nationality and exceptionally smart: Monarch's monster experts and field specialists include the MonsterVerse's resident Dr. Serizawa, the Chen family and San Lin, whilst Serizawa's son Ren is a technically-gifted engineer. | |
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C14 Dating: This is downplayed, but Shoji, the geekiest option among Melissa's potential love interests, happens to be half-Japanese. The two of them initially bond over a shared love of video games and one of Shoji's insecurities in his romantic route is that their relationship might not advance beyond the two of them becoming gaming buddies. | |
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My Hero Academia has Momo Yaoyorozu. Although the majority of the students at U.A. seem to be intelligent enough (excluding the fact that they're all Japanese), Momo seems to stand out amongst the other intelligent students, mostly the females. Not only does her good grades support this, but Momo literally knows everything about her Quirk, tutors her classmates to help with studying for finals, and even becomes the Vice President of her class. She also recognizes her classmate's failures during the battle trial, and specifically explains it through what she saw while the others watching couldn't recognize it at all. | |
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Erin Hasegawa from Girls on Film, who is Hardestadt's Japanese-American partner who adores technology, pop culture, and playing tabletop games. | |
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Space Force by Jeremy Robinson: Jian is a Chinese hacker who is the physically weakest of the anti-alien team, a huge anime fan, and a massive gamer who knows Captain Stone by his gaming livestreams versus special operations credentials. | |
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Kim and Kam Chin from Class of 3000— but mostly Kam, who is more bookish and reserved than his twin sister. | |
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Ryan Choi, who takes up Ray Palmer's mantle as The Atom, and also works at the same university. | |
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Peter, one of David's friends and fellow birders in A Birder's Guide to Everything. | |
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The DCU: Ryan Choi, who takes up Ray Palmer's mantle as The Atom, and also works at the same university. The Judd Winnick run of Power Girl features Nicco Cho, an expert hacker and inventor who aids Power Girl. |
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Futurama: "A Big Piece Of Garbage". Professor Wernstrom requests a group of interns, and that most of them be Chinese. Likely because it makes him look smarter (or so it has been suggested by tie-in comics). Amy Wong, though she's often shown to be dense and clumsy. She seems to be more of a Genius Ditz than a straight-up Asian Airhead, and she's introduced early on as a graduate student in applied physics and an intern working for Professor Farnsworth. In "That Darn Katz!", her research even managed to both doom and save the Earth! She even manages to earn her doctorate in said episode because of that research, and in episodes afterwards, she's often seen helping the Professor with his experiments around the laboratory. |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers, as its anthropomorphic characters are based on National Stereotypes. South Korea is said to love gaming and the Internet and Japan is a Teen Genius, a Gadgeteer Genius, and something of an Otaku. Taiwan is an anime fan and she cosplays in the 2011 and 2013 Halloween events, Vietnam is a gamer, and India is a Bollywood Nerd who's good with numbers. | |
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Sixteen Candles. Long Duk Dong - though it's subverted by the time the film is over, as he's gone into Full Wacky Pseudo-Stoner Mode. | |
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Fear Street: Phoebe is Japanese-American and probably the third or fourth smartest student in her class, although she's also a cheerleader. | |
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The sibling pair of Phoebe and Eugene in FoxTrot. | |
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Ellie in The Half of It is introverted, has excellent grades, wears huge glasses, plays the guitar and keyboard, and writes essays as a side hustle. | |
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The Incredible Hulk supporting character Amadeus Cho is Korean-American and incredibly good at math, to the point that he's apparently one of the top ten smartest people in the Marvel universe. | |
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Subverted in Disco Elysium, where Kim Kitsuragi is stereotyped as being a nerd due to his Seolite ancestry and dependence on Nerd Glasses, and is assigned demeaning, geeky jobs by his employers (such as working with children, or assuming he will be good at playing pinball as it was invented in Seol). However, he is perfectly elegant and cool in a way your player character will never achieve. During his debriefing of your player character at the end of the first day, the player character's internal monologue might start fanboying over how cool Kim is, and may even ask him how he got to be that way, or even realise it's something Kim cultivated to protect himself from this stereotype. He does have some nerdy interests — in particular, he has a keen interest in tinkering with machines and loves playing civilisation-building board games and gets excited when the player starts popping out play tokens from their cardboard frame— but his need to counter this stereotype forces him to act a little defensive about this side of himself. If the player are leaning into a Dumb Muscle playstyle, they will also have the option to call Kim a "bino" (a nerd), which Kim mostly ignores. | |
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The trope is heavily referenced in Takotsubo: The story of a superhero. Chinese-American Cord Cai is a troubled young man who repeatedly calls himself a failure because he's not a kung-fu artist or a doctor. After his fiancé Roland gets shot and the police completely mishandle it, Cord thinks this is a sign that leaving the streets is hopeless, shoots the murderer because gang justice is better than no justice, and resigns himself to running a vigilante gang. As the tagline states, Cord is a superhero who shoehorns himself into the villain role because he's never seen any Asian-American superheroes. | |
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Silent Wish: Trixie is Asian and described as an academic comic book fangirl. | |
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The Chang Triplets, Debbie, Julie and Billy, from The Proud Family. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Played with in regards to Tedd, who is half-Asian and very nerdy indeed. Although, he seems to have a lot more in common with his dad in that regard over his Japanese Missing Mom. Tedd's cousin Nanase averts this. Despite doing amazing at school thanks to an overbearing Education Mama, she's athletic and toned as well as very popular. Played completely straight by Chika, one of the characters in the Q&A segments. She's an analytical and level-headed Asian scientist, who plays the Straight Man to Amanda and Lisa. |
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The early John Cusack comedy Better Off Dead combined this with Jewish and Nerdy by having an Asian immigrant learn English by watching ABC's Wide World of Sports, and thus talk constantly in Howard Cosell's distinctive nasal voice. | |
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Sharri Barrnett, the Filipino programmer in Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool. | |
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Wang from Space: Above and Beyond is an unusual variant of this: he's specifically a baseball nerd. In one episode his parents send him a piece of sod from Yankee Stadium, and he's able to guess which part of the field it comes from by the smell. | |
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Roys Bedoys: Downplayed on both counts for Maker, who seems to be part Asian (his dad’s last name is Chan and looks like he could be Asian, while his mom is clearly white) and is the best student and sometimes has general knowledge the others don’t. | |
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Vivi Yukino from Mystery Skulls Animated is a Japanese horror and mystery enthusiast that works in a store that deals exclusively in horror themed novels and comic books and leads her own Scooby-Doo esque group of paranormal investigators. | |
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The late Grant Imahara of Mythbusters was a Real Life example. Grant plays up to this stereotype. He builds robots for fun and in the jailhouse rope episode had pi on his "prisoner" outfit as a "prisoner number". At least he's not a stereotypical bespectacled dork; he's very handsome (see picture above). When they tested lie detectors, Grant was asked if he had ever thought of building a robot girlfriend. He said "no", and the machine flagged it as a lie. He tweeted a photo of himself dressed as Spock, and played Sulu in the fan series Star Trek Continues. When he was inducted into the 501st Legion (think Civil War reenactors, only with Stormtroopers) he attended his ceremony dressed as the Tenth Doctor. |
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Giantkiller: Dr. Steven Azuma is a Japanese-American scientist specializing in bioengineering. He is the one who created the titular Giantkiller by splicing human and Kaiju DNA. | |
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The Great Greene Heist: Victor Cho is a self-proclaimed "intellectual nerd" who runs the chess club. Hashemi Larijani is a Trekkie and Gadgeteer Genius. |
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Sheldon Lee from My Life as a Teenage Robot a Gadgeteer Genius who has a crush on the main character partly because she's a robot. | |
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Over the Moon: Fei Fei is at the top of her class and also manages to build a functioning rocket all on her own. | |
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The Amazing Race prefers to cast this type of Asian team. They generally speak Chinese, too. | |
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In The Hunger Games, everyone in District 3 is implied to be Asian. While the books don't specify the races of many characters (which is justified, as the setting is a dystopian America After the End, so the racial definitions of modern society aren't the same), the engineers "Volts" Beetee and "Nuts" Wiress from from District 3 are described as having black hair, ashen skin, and small builds, traits which are common for the rest of their District and the narrator of the Scholastic audio books puts on a distinct stereotypical Asian accent. (The Catching Fire movie averted this by making the former black and the latter white—Beetee even gets the black-sounding surname of Latier.) | |
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Bruce (Masi Oka's character) in the 2008 Get Smart movie. Of course, he was flanked by two geeky white men: Lloyd and Max himself. Also, in the direct-to-video spin off Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control, Bruce is apparently more successful with the ladies than Lloyd. | |
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Halo 2 ARG I Love Bees has nerdy medical student Hiroyuki, roommate of the Middle-Eastern and Nerdy protagonist Kamal. | |
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Joseph Cheng from the Leverage: Redemption episode "The Double-Edged Sword Job" is a villainous version of this trope, although the Asian part is downplayed. He's a tech genius with No Social Skills who has created Searchlight, which is not only the most scarily advanced Facial Recognition Software on the planet, but also predicts its subjects' behavior. He's too amoral to worry who uses Searchlight, or why; a Domestic Abuser tracking down his terrified ex? Fascistic Private Military Contractors? Dictators making sure their victims can't escape? Cheng doesn't care as long as he gets paid. He also happens to be Chinese-American, although no one ever brings this up. | |
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Jenny from MySims has an Asian appearance. Her Interests are Geeky and Studious. More specifically, she "is president of five science fiction clubs, seven video game clans, and a prolific fan fiction author." | |
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There's a minor character in South Park named Kevin Stoley. He's a Chinese-American and is quite a Star Wars nerd. Barely more than a Living Prop, we don't know his intellect though. There's also the rather weird fact that other than explicitly saying he's Chinese-American, nothing else implies this, including surname or appearance. It's not like South Park is usually subtle with this sort of thing... | |
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Cheater/Dennis Woo of Hidden Talents. | |
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Janine Cho from Miracle Creek was practically ignored as a child so her parents could focus on her brother, their firstborn son. She rebelled by throwing herself into her studies, eventually becoming a doctor, while her brother dropped out of college to become an actor. She laughs at the irony: her rebellion against Korean gender stereotypes led her right into the white American stereotype of brilliant, overachieving Asians. | |
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Dr. Seth Park on Open Heart. He makes a makes a level-up joke when London delivers him a patient’s urine sample and sarcastically says "mission complete". | |
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Family Guy pokes fun at this trope often, such as when Peter tried using an elementary-age Asian boy as a calculator for a math test. | |
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Amphibia: Marcy Wu is a dorky teenage girl who gets effortlessly good grades and is into all kinds of nerdy things, especially video games and RPGs. Within Newtopia, she becomes an invaluable inventor, practically revolutionizing the whole city and molding her into a formidable warrior. Despite being extremely smart however, she is rather scatterbrained, and her incredible clumsiness and obliviousness to the world around her tends to get her into trouble. Averted with Anne Boonchuy, who is Thai and has terrible grades, being more of a people person. |
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Deconstructed in Better Luck Tomorrow. The protagonists are all high-achieving Asian American teens, who use their goody-two-shoes appearance to get away with a number of crimes, while they secretly live a wild party lifestyle. This rebellion is a response to the pressure of the role they're expected to play as top students- as the protagonist puts it | |
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Lawrence in School of Rock "I can't be in the band! I'm not cool enough!" | |
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Never Have I Ever: Devi is Indian, gets top grades, and even plays the harp. | |
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Zach from School of Rock though downplayed. He gets good grades and has very strict parents who dislike their son's interest in rock, preferring him to study classical music. | |
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4 Kids in 5E and 1 Crazy Year: The Chinese Ah Kum is a Shrinking Violet who gets perfect grades on most assignments and paints, writes, and knits. However, she is also a Deconstructed Character Archetype of this, as she enjoys hanging out with Lovable Alpha Bitch Destiny, secretly wants to dye her hair and only cares about her grades because her terrifying father wants her to be a pharmacist when she grows up to improve their status as poor immigrants and will make her life Hell over The B Grade, let alone anything less than that. Destiny makes a mental "Not So Different" Remark about Ah Kum and Max after seeing the look on Ah Kum's face as Max yells about his abusive father during an argument. | |
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Scott Fuller from From Dusk Till Dawn was adopted from China. He's also fluent in Elvish and uses ''Frack'' as a swear word. | |
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The 1981 film The Cannonball Run featured a pair of racers of indeterminate Asian origin (one of whom was played by Jackie Chan!). Their car is a 1980-81 Subaru hatchback modified to a James Bond-esque gizmo-mobile which even turns into a submersible at one point. Jackie returns in the sequel, this time as the team engineer for Mitsubishi and paired up with driver Richard Kiel. | |
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Mandark from Dexter's Laboratory is stated to be half-Japanese. His mother, Oceanbird, subverts the trope while his (apparently later retconned) little sister Olga is shown to be more of a ballet prodigy than an academic prodigy. | |
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The main reason why Park Sheridan in Eleanor & Park has such a hard time with fitting in his predominantly white and non-geeky community is his race and geekiness. | |
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Gravity Falls has Mabel's friend Candy Chiu, a dorky Korean girl who wears glasses and, in the episode "Roadside Attraction", displays some Awesomeness by Analysis when helping her friends escape from a monster. | |
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