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Black and Nerdy

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The Black Nerd is a countertrope to common racial stereotypes. Most nerds are portrayed by races who already have the stereotype of being weak or bookish, such as whites, Asians, and Jews. Black people, on the other hand, are often portrayed as jive-talking Soul Brothas, Gangbangers, or Scary Black Men. The Black Nerd upsets these trends by being, well, a Black Nerd. This is especially common in comedies, where writers are often reluctant to feed into racial stereotypes, but need flaws to make their characters funny. Giving a Black character personality flaws or traits which run counter to common stereotypes is a convenient way to add diversity, while trying to avoid accusations of discrimination.
Writers might deliberately invoke the trope to shake things up and challenge the audience's assumptions, but other times the trope is only used to turn a smart supporting character into the Token Black.
Often the Black Nerd is simply an expert in a nerdy field, such as computers, and doesn't really possess many negative characteristics commonly found in nerds of other races. This variant of the Black Nerd may become a case of Flawless Token if they have an overly high level of overall competence resulting from their intelligence, without flaws to counterbalance. There are also quite a few people that have a thing for geeky Black guys/girls, mostly due to them not being as prominent. A popular type of Token Black Friend. See also Asian and Nerdy.
Compare The Whitest Black Guy, note however, Values Dissonance now tends to look unfavorably on those who equate higher education/intelligence with Whiteness, especially in an era of prominent figures such as Barack Obama which often overlaps. Contrast Pretty Fly for a White Guy.
The trope is named after "White and Nerdy", a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Chris Rock expresses this opinion of his childhood self in Everybody Hates Chris: "Before the Internet, there were only two Black nerds. Me, and this guy."
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The upper-class psychiatrist in Watchmen is a Black man, contrasted with the low-class, street-smart, red-headed Rorschach.
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The premise of Smart Guy follows 10-year-old Child Prodigy TJ Henderson (played by Tahj Mowry), who is moved up to high school with his older siblings, Yvette and Marcus. Although he subverts the trope, having plenty of friends his age despite skipping six grades and likes to play sports, TJ does exhibit exceptional knowledge that may go over some of his high school classmates' heads.
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Effectively enforced within the setting itself for Elijah in Unbreakable: intelligent, Black, and suffering from a congenital disorder that makes physical activity impossible. His mother introduces him to comic books to give him something to do, and by the time he is adult he owns and runs a comic arts gallery.
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Nicole in Beauty Queens is very smart and wants to be a doctor. However, she isn't socially awkward and Beauty Queens explicitly discusses race.
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Miles Dyson in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is a genius Black man in a nerdy field (cybernetics), though he displays no nerdy qualities.
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer: Jason Mayeux Keralis is a Black Mad Scientist biologist with a great interest in Greek Mythology.
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Wonder Woman (1987): George is Wonder Girl's friend and Secret-Keeper who carries around a laptop with which she once hacked into an Apokoliptian Supercomputer, though she said it was only possible because the thing started warping and changing her computer's hardware as soon as she hooked into it.
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George Washington Carver from Clone High, much like the historical figure he's based on. True to form, he's portrayed as pencil-necked science nerd who is obsessed with peanuts to the point of absurdity.
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Carlton Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is a straight-A student, president of his school's glee club, and reads the dictionary for fun. Will, despite being the cool guy Foil to Carlton, fits the bill as well, being a huge comic book fan who is seen playing with Spider-Man action figures on more than one occasion. He's also shown to have a surprising interest in classical literature, leaving pretty sophisticated notes in his copy of Crime and Punishment for instance. It's heavily implied that he'd be just as high an achiever as Carlton is if he'd just put the work in, but his Brilliant, but Lazy tendencies keep getting in the way.
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And in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jeffrey Wright plays the nerdy Beetee (whose race was not identified in the book, although many people seem to have pictured him as Asian). Perhaps the fact that Wright often wears glasses in real life might explain the type-casting.
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100 Things to Do Before High School has Fenwick, who is said to be the smartest student in his grade.
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Olamide from The Cavaliers Series. In Oxford Blood is by far the hardest working of Harriet’s group of friends. She dresses in a fairly dowdy manner, has an equally nerdy boyfriend and is generally more at home in the library than the bar In Screaming Spires, she reacts to the trauma of her boyfriend’s murder by becoming glamorous and barely working, to the extent that she’s almost kicked out of Oxford.
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Similarly, Malcolm Barrett's character Phil in Better Off Ted and pretty much anything he's in is like that
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Angel: Gunn references Daredevil #181 as part of a Perp Sweating and later name-drops several versions of The Flash.
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Alex Wilder, in Runaways. He's even introduced playing a Marvel MMORPG.
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Gus in Psych. Shawn disapproves of all Gus's comic books, spelling bee and grammar fixations, but almost every episode some of Gus's obscure nerd knowledge comes in handy. He also likes tap dancing (Lassie ends up trying it and realizing that it helps him concentrate on solving crimes).
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Jal from Skins: smart, sensible, and a talented musician. Often teased for being too uptight.
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Rocky from Shake it Up is the biggest nerd opposed to Henry on the show.
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Dutch Gordy in Motorcity is the Burners' mechanic, and a Badass Bookworm who also becomes quite adorkable around Tennie.
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The Simpsons:
One of the three nerds who roomed with Homer at Springfield U. The character in question, Benjamin, was once mistaken for Urkel in the comics.
Also Lewis, Bart's friend, in some incarnations.
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Henry Deacon on Eureka, although he is also pretty outgoing and sociable. It's pretty much a given that any Black character in the town will fit this trope.
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Justin "Ransom" Oluransi of Check, Please!, while also the bro-est of bros, is a 4.0 GPA biology major and is frequently seen thinking in protein folding diagrams.
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Jen of Lumber Janes is a Black, female camp counselor who is an enthusiast of subjects such as astronomy and botany.
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Otto Lipton, the school's resident genius, in High School U.S.A.. He has built a robot that accompanies him everywhere.
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One of the black characters in The Orville, John LaMarr, is initially the navigator of the exploratory space vessel USS Orville and comes off as laid-back and non-intellectual. Later, one of his superior officers discovers that LaMarr had scored extremely well in aptitude tests. LaMarr says that he learned to hide his intelligence while growing up so as to fit in with his peers. Because of his new-found abilities, LaMarr is appointed as the Orville's chief engineer. Other than his technical expertise, he does not have any nerdy characteristics.
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Max Kanté from Miraculous Ladybug is willing to rattle off facts and statistics at the slightest provocation, is an avid gamer, and built his own Robot Buddy Markov.
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Isaiah in Someone Else's War. (Well... all the characters are Black, but he's the only one who's nerdy.)
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Micah from Heroes is a child prodigy, and probably the smartest character on the show. Technically he is multiracial (as is the character's actor), as his mother is white.
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The Once and Future Nerd has Nelson as a Black fantasy video game Genre Savvy nerd who indulges in Conversational Troping as the story proceeds.
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The Falcon in Avengers Assemble. In the show, he even designed his own wings/flight suit (as opposed to the comics, where they were built by the Black Panther).
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child featured Afro-British actress Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger, making Hermione into this. The Harry Potter fandom has been floating the idea of Hermione as Black for quite some time now, and although this isn't really true in book canon (Hermione is described as having her face go pale or white, or blushing, many times) J. K. Rowling (the author of the books) and Emma Watson (a white actress who played Hermione in the movies) have spoken in support of this casting choice.
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Grey's Anatomy:
Dr. Miranda Bailey is an interesting example as she is also the resident Sassy Black Woman. A flashback has her being very shy and awkward and even used to wear glasses.
Dr. Maggie Pierce graduated from medical school at 19 and became department head at the young age of 27.
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In Stardew Valley, the only two Black characters are Demetrius, a nerdy biologist, and his daughter Maru, an even more nerdy inventor.
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Ethan in Sky High (2005) is this, right down to the button-up shirts and dorky glasses.
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Miles Hawkins, the title character of M.A.N.T.I.S., is a scientist and has an interest in the arts.
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Paul "Lord Nikon" Cook from Hackers. Hosts viewing parties of pirate TV show Hack the Planet, Squees over Acid Burn's new laptop, has legendary hacker Zero Cool's exploits memorized (then again, his Photographic Memory means he doesn't have to actively memorize anything).
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Cassidy Williams, the Velma-counterpart in the previous incarnation of Mystery Inc in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, As Angel Dynamite, not so much.
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Community: due to Character Development and Flanderization, Troy goes from being a ditzy Jerk Jock to a huge geek, who is still a ditz.
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Max Dillon/Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The comic version of Electro is a blue-collar thug, while the film version is a meek scientist and Spider-Man fanboy.
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Daniela from Double Homework is a scientific research assistant who also has a job as a teacher.
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The computer game adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream makes Ellen a computer scientist and engineer. She still talks like a jive-talking Sassy Black Woman, even after being tortured by a supercomputer for 109 years.
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Black Panther is one of the smartest heroes in the Marvel Universe, though people tend to forget this because he's also a supreme badass.
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Turk from Scrubs is both a Black nerd (Or "blerd", as he calls it) and one of the show's cooler characters. He actually referred to his cousin as one. One episode had him as a temporary medical resident after breaking his arm and he wore Nerd Glasses to appear nerdier.
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Franklin Webb from Jurassic World. He is the systems analyst for the Dinosaur Protection Group and also runs their social media and online marketing.
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Played with Musa Kamala from Run with the Wind. He is a Tanzanian transfer student of science and engineering, while also demonstrating surprisingly fluent Japanese. However, he averts most nerd cliches, instead being an Academic Athlete and generally refraining from Techno Babble.
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Lemont Brown from Candorville is a rare main character example of this. He never acts in a manner contrary to the trope, so he can be a bit weak for a protagonist, but thanks to Character Focus he's more fleshed out than most examples.
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Dear White People: Seeing how the entirety of the film is set in an Ivy League-like university, most of the characters are nerdy to some extent. Most notably though are Samantha White, a burgeoning filmmaker/film buff and leader of the university's militant Black students, and Lionel Higgins, an introverted, gay, Black sci-fi nerd who — for his sexuality and geekiness — never gets any respect from anyone, white or Black.
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Taylor Mckessie, the African American head of the chemistry club from the High School Musical movies, with a straight A grade point average.
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Growing Up:
Kato Ababio is a Black nerd who spends most of his school time studying to become a doctor and his free time playing MMORPGs. He struggles with balancing the two and is socially awkward in real-life dating.
Richard P. Nelson is Black and has a special interest in music, particularly electronica, movie and video game soundtracks. Because he's sensitive and introverted, he prefers making music behind the scenes instead of performing in front of the crowd.
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In the Supernatural episode "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20), there is a Black college anthropology professor who is wearing glasses, a sweater, and a button up shirt.
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Jordan in The Bernie Mac Show is the nerdiest of the main cast, to a point where he tops the "Nerd Wall" in the girls' restroom at his school, much to his insecurity. Bernie then reminds him that one of the smartest and richest people were nerds, which causes Jordan to gain acceptance of his nerdiness.
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Power Rangers has had a couple of these.
Damon in Lost Galaxy is the team Grease Monkey and Mr Fix It, whose duties include helping repair their city-sized spaceship's engines.
An even better example would be Ethan from Dino Thunder — gamer, comic fan and nearly inseparable from his laptop (his first scene shows him hacking the school sprinkler system for a prank). He does have a hidden athletic side that gets brought out in "Leader of the Whack".
Power Rangers Megaforce has self-described computer geek Noah, complete with Nerd Glasses.
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Jericho of the Whateley Universe. He's fifteen years old and is building power armor. Working power armor. His clothes are also the most horrible thing on a campus full of Half-Human Hybrids and other monstrosities.
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AJ in The Fairly Oddparents. Although AJ has been Flanderized into an Insufferable Genius with a touch of Flawless Token.
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Ready, Freddy!: Robbie is Black and interested in science, and, as told by Freddy, "has read a million books". His mother is even a paleontologist.
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The rock musical Passing Strange focuses on a middle-class young Black man from L.A. who is into Zen Buddhism and spirituality, and leaves home to travel Europe and commune with other artists. Somewhat subverted in that he's also rock musician. The character is actually based upon the show's co-writer and narrator Stew, of the band The Negro Problem.
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Total Drama
Cameron has spent most of his life reading due to growing up in a bubble (literally), knows a good deal about psychology, and tends to trip up in conversation due to his lack of social skills.
Downplayed with Damien. He has a huge love for science, is mentioned to be a fan of a Dungeons & Dragons-esque game, and is one of the most intelligent contestants in the fourth generation, but he doesn't flaunt his knowledge on these topics all the time. To a lesser extent, the also black Bowie and Caleb are the only boys from the fourth generation alongside Damien who don't lack in the intelligence department.
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Rich Purnell from The Martian. He is the one who comes up with the idea to save Mark once everyone gives up. He is portrayed as a stereotypical nerd.
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Captain Raymond Holt who finds things like obscure historical references to be absolutely hysterical.
Also Terry Jeffords, who despite looking like a Scary Black Man, is actually a huge nerd. He enjoys fantasy books in particular, and used to dress up as a superhero when he was a kid. It's also discovered in a Season 4 episode that he secretly writes fanfiction in his spare time.
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Morgan in Nerf NOW!!, originally a female Demoman of Team Fortress 2. She's the cast member with the clearest preference for classic, pretentious, and/or just plain brutally difficult games, the most disdainful of fanservice, and generally goes for the most complicated strategy in any game. On the rare occasions the Author Avatar appears based on Jo's actual appearance instead of the usual "purple tentacle," he also counts.
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Hiro Protagonist in Snow Crash combines this trope with Asian and Nerdy, being half Black and half Japanese as well as one of the better hackers and programmers around. However, he's not much of a nerd at all. In fact, he's got a beautiful ex-girlfriend, a bunch of friends, and badass sword skills both in and out of Cyber Space.
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Friendly Neighborhood Librarian is the epitome of Black and nerdy, geeking out over books in general, manga, and especially Dragon Ball.
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J.D. Bennett/I.Q. from Bionic Six, the (adopted) son of resident tech expert Jack Bennett/Bionic-1 and Teen Genius in his own right.
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Max Lewicki in Perception (2012) is a graduate student in Neuroscience and not only works as a teaching assistant to his brilliant professor boss, but also is in charge of figuring out ways to keep said boss grounded and in control of his schizophrenia. Max is also a cultural nerd who is sometimes seen indulging in Star Wars themed pastimes (including wielding a light saber in an unidentified game where he claims to "whipping some Jedi ass" and also attending a scifi convention dressed as Lando Calrissian).
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Power Rangers Megaforce has self-described computer geek Noah, complete with Nerd Glasses.
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Louis Starsky from Concept Road.
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Milton, the protagonist of Peepo Choo, is a young black teen who likes anime and manga, particularly his favorite anime Peepo Choo, but being black and nerdy isn't seen as acceptable in his native Brooklyn. His brand of nerdiness isn't all the way portrayed as positive though; because he also has zero clue how to act in Japan, he often tries to diffuse situations and bond with others the way the characters in Peepo Choo do it. He eventually learns to separate fiction from reality and makes equally as geeky friends during his trip to Japan.
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Dean Cain, the villain of How High. A subversion of sorts, since he's repressing an inner Soul Brotha, which is unleashed by THC.
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In the Jim Carrey comedy Me, Myself & Irene, the protagonist's three Black (technically, multiracial, as their mother is white) sons: Jamaal, Shonté Jr. and Lee Harvey are simultaneously Black Nerds as well as Slang-Speaking Scary Black Men.
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Nishan of High School Story is a Black nerd with a mohawk. He used to do homework for jocks before transferring to your school in addition to maintaining his own high grades, and eventually builds a scale model of a Venusian volcano complete with toxic gas clouds.
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Static/Virgil from Static Shock. He's an honor roll student that's heavily into Comic Books/Superheroes and occasionally gets bullied around (especially pre-series).
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Robin (1993): One of Tim Drake's high school friends is the Black roleplayer and movie aficionado Kevin Hudman, who has a natural talent for strategy.
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George "Sticky" Washington from The Mysterious Benedict Society is a neurotic boy who is highly intelligent due to his photographic memory. His parents abused this by forcing him into contests, which is why he ran away. Sticky is the the only kid to wear glasses, though the others are smart in their own rights as well.
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Marcus "Augur" Devereaux on Earth: Final Conflict, although he's a downtown cyber-punk hipster kind of nerd.
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Michael "Mister Terrific" Holt, the third smartest man in the DCU.
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Sydney Skelley of Ready Jet Go! is a Black preteen girl who loves sci-fi, especially an In-Universe series called Commander Cressida.
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Eugene, who substitutes for Dilton in The New Archies.
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The Ultimate version of The Falcon is a gifted scientist and engineer, and is actually the one who designed his wing suit in this continuity.
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Wynton Styles from Bakugan: Battle Planet is techy and a bit geeky. He also wears glasses.
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Jalil in Everworld, the only black member of the main cast, and The Smart Guy of the group. He's convinced he can reduce the magical, fantastic Everworld to scientific and logical principles that can be understood and controlled, something he equates to software engineering.
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Legendborn: Bree is a Black gifted student, demonstrated by her acceptance into and early college program, and makes several nerdy pop culture references (e.g. Lord of the Rings and Jane Austen) throughout the book.
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Cleo Carter from Tutenstein, when it comes to Egyptology.
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Jamie Foxx's character in Collateral.
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In Frazz, Caulfield. A third grader who regularly reads Shakespeare, Hemingway, Vonnegut, etc.
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Prodigy of the New X-Men used to be a variation; his mutant powers allowed him to passively borrow information from everyone around him, but precisely what he knew depended on who was around him at any given time. Later, when he lost his powers, The Stepford Cuckoos enabled him to remember everything he had absorbed, making him a straighter example.
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The Cat's alter-ego Duane Dibbley in Red Dwarf. He was introduced as the Cat's worst nightmare in the Despair Squid episode, then proved popular enough for a return appearance when a psychic monster sapped the Cat of his cool. John-Jules' claims the character is so popular because "no-one's ever written a Black nerd before�.
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Black and Nerdy
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One of the members of Minoriteam is Fasto, the jive-talking, womanizing fastest man alive. His civilian identity is that of Lando K. Dutton, a nebbish bookworm and professor of Women's Studies.
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Shuri in Black Panther is a the princess of the African nation of Wakanda, and is also a teenage Gadgeteer Genius who designs much of the advanced technology used by her people.
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In Walker, Texas Ranger, James Trivette, the best friend and partner of the titular policeman, is into the modern approach of catching the bad guys, preferring to use computers and cellphones. With his expertise in technology and Walker's martial arts skills, it makes an unbeatable combination. In the first season, he originally wore glasses, but did not in Season 2 and onwards.
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Black and Nerdy
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Molly of Denali: Daniel Mumford is a black guy who is an expert on all things aquatic and all things Alaska.
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Marcus Holloway from Watch_Dogs 2. A glasses-wearing hacker who loves old-school media (hence the username) and cheesy movies. A quick look at his internet history reveals a search for sexy anime elf babes, as well.
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The Owl House: While everyone in Luz's social circle has at least some level of nerdiness, Gus stands out as the resident Grade Skipper and even becomes the in-universe equivalent of a Trekkie in season 3.
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Wendy Wower of Big Hero 6: The Series fits the bill. She's a Black Genki Girl scientist (with green pigtails) who specializes in artificial intelligence, and was in fact the mastermind who came up with the thesis that was used to create Baymax (which she didn't receive credit for due to her former science partner stealing it). She later became a children's entertainer with her own science-oriented, educational TV program.
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Jacob of Shortpacked!. As almost everyone in the cast is also a nerd, the main contrast is that he's a 90s kid who makes Ethan and Amber (who grew up with Transformers and the Ninja Turtles) feel old.
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Max Gibson from Batman Beyond is a computer hacker and scored a perfect 2400 on her SAT.
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Black and Nerdy
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Downplayed with Damien. He has a huge love for science, is mentioned to be a fan of a Dungeons & Dragons-esque game, and is one of the most intelligent contestants in the fourth generation, but he doesn't flaunt his knowledge on these topics all the time. To a lesser extent, the also black Bowie and Caleb are the only boys from the fourth generation alongside Damien who don't lack in the intelligence department.
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Ford Prefect as played by Mos Def in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). This, however, may be the result of the film, being produced by Disney, having downplayed (but didn't completely eliminate) aspects of Ford's character such as habitual drunkenness and womanizing.
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Claudette in Dead by Daylight was a botany student before she was pulled into the Entity's realm, where she uses her knowledge to heal survivors faster.
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In the first Die Hard film, the computer hacker is Black, wears glasses, and doesn't have any combat skills. He spends most of his time making basketball references, as if to prove that he's Black.
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Wasabi from Big Hero 6 is a huge science nerd and the most timid member of the group.
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Black and Nerdy
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Darius Hawthorne on Aaron Sorkin's short lived series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Sort of. He's just more intellectual than the stereotypical black comic of his era but he's not necessarily nerdy.
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Lunella Layfayette from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is a 10-year-old Black girl who also happens to be the smartest person in the Marvel Universe.
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Black and Nerdy
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Cash from Breaking In is such a big Trekkie the agency found him stalking William Shatner, and was able to get Captain Kirk's chair as a reward for keeping him away. He also wanted to do a paired Star Wars cosplay, and was offended when the protagonist refused to join.
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Alan Powers ("Brain") from Arthur. He's an animal like everyone else — a bear to be exact — but he celebrates Kwanzaa and has relatives in Senegal.
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Black and Nerdy
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In Continuum, Lucas Ingram is the Liber8 group's science and tech expert. As a zealous political terrorist, however, he doesn't actually have any nerdy mannerisms.
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Black and Nerdy
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Mac from The Fades, who has a very wide variety of geeky interests to which he compares the show's central premise.
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Black and Nerdy
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Byron is this on I Am Frankie. He's Cole's best friend, he's Black, he builds his own little robots, he cries when his robot is damaged, he's one of the smart kids...
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Brian in The Day After Tomorrow puts a lampshade on it: "Sir, I am president of the electronics club, the math club, and the chess club. Now, if there is a bigger nerd in here, please point him out."
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Jim Chapman in Resident Evil: Outbreak enjoys crossword puzzles, and is rather wimpy in all other respects.
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Black and Nerdy
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In Degrassi: The Next Generation, Liberty Van Zandt is the queen of the nerds. Lakehurst's Damian might also count for this trope. In later seasons, Connor takes over Liberty's role as Supreme Black Nerd.
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Black and Nerdy
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In Project Hail Mary, an African-American scientist named Martin DuBois is set to be the science officer of a spaceship mission to save earth from a hostile alien lifeform. He has doctorates in physics, chemistry and biology and is described as extremely rational and meticulous, e.g. he writes a detailed, multi-page memo on how he wants to die (nitrogen asphyxiation), given that the spaceship cannot return to earth. However, DuBois later dies in an explosion after a scientific experiment goes awry and the narrator of the book takes his place on the mission. DuBois, with his extraordinary, multipronged scientific expertise, is possibly a parody of the black and nerdy (counter)trope.
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Black and Nerdy
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Andre the Black Nerd invokes this in his name, and loves his video games and cartoons.
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Black and Nerdy
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Oliver Wendell Jones, from the comic strip Bloom County. Probably best illustrated in the strip sequence when his mother tries to get him to act a little more 'Black' by wallpapering his room with a huge picture of Michael Jackson's face. Oliver responds by hanging a picture of Albert Einstein over it.
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Victor "Cyborg" Stone, who, while not quite as smart as Holt, is still extremely intelligent and one of the premier scientific authorities in the DCU.
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Black and Nerdy
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Dear White People: Lionel. He dressed as Geordi LaForge at a high school dance, causing some mockery from other Black guys.
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Cookie in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is The Smart Guy to the protagonist, always coming up with crazy inventions and being one of the very few students at James K. Polk Middle School to make the honor roll.
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Black and Nerdy
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Odie in Class of the Titans; he's the team Smart Guy, being the distant descendant of Odysseus.
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Tracy himself would count. He's definitely nerdy, he just doesn't display any of the common drawbacks (in that he's popular, cool, and has lots of sex). He's stated to be a big fan of both Star Trek and Star Wars, and one of his most famous scenes has him running around while screaming "I am a Jedi!" at the top of his lungs. This would be a bit of Real Life Writes the Plot, since Tracy Morgan is a big fan of Star Wars in real life.
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Fat Charlie of Anansi Boys, in contrast to his cool "brother", Spider.
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Black and Nerdy
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Radar in Paper Towns, Quentin's Black Best Friend and obsessive editor and tweaker of The Omnictionary to the point of social isolation (sound familiar?). In a direct nod to the trope, his parents are fantatical collectors of Black Santa memorbilia, even earning a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Black and Nerdy
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Bad Boys (1995) has a very tall, Nerd Glasses wearing convict (played by the 7-foot-tall John Salley), who manages to parley his computer hacking skills for freedom with Miami police. According to him, illegal cracking is what got him into jail in the first place.
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Black and Nerdy
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Damon in Lost Galaxy is the team Grease Monkey and Mr Fix It, whose duties include helping repair their city-sized spaceship's engines.
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 Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
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Black and Nerdy
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Duncan Pinderhughes in Class Act, he is a genius high school student who was getting ready for graduation, but is somewhat disheartened to find out that, despite his perfect SAT score and 4.0 GPA, Harvard University will not admit him unless he can pass phys. ed.
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The Onion:
Racial Harmony Achieved By Casting of Black Actor as a Teen Computer Whiz.
African-American Community Calls For New Black Nerd Archetype.
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Cyborg in the animated Teen Titans (2003) series. Unlike the other interpretations of Cyborg over DC history, this version learned robotics and rebuilt himself. Also a Genius Bruiser.
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Black and Nerdy
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Jeffrey Wright plays a version of this in Source Code, although he was also rather a Mad Scientist.
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Black and Nerdy
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One of the earliest examples is Sergeant Kinchloe (played by Ivan Dixon) in Hogan's Heroes, the camp's radio and electronics genius.
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Black and Nerdy
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Seika in Princess Holy Aura, who is a Black bookworm and computer nerd.
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Black and Nerdy
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In Rizzoli & Isles, Detective Barry Frost is well versed in computer technology, action figures, and MMORPGs.
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Black and Nerdy
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30 Rock:
Toofer. In the pilot, he's told "Are there other Black nerds or is it just you and Urkel?"
In Season 7, Tracy dismisses Barack Obama as "that half-nerd".
Tracy himself would count. He's definitely nerdy, he just doesn't display any of the common drawbacks (in that he's popular, cool, and has lots of sex). He's stated to be a big fan of both Star Trek and Star Wars, and one of his most famous scenes has him running around while screaming "I am a Jedi!" at the top of his lungs. This would be a bit of Real Life Writes the Plot, since Tracy Morgan is a big fan of Star Wars in real life.
Also Grizz and Dot Com (to an extent), as they're both very well read, speak in soft eloquent voices, and are cultured in art and music, but their physical appearance suggest big, scary, Black body guards.
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MonsterVerse: Dr. Brooks, Matemavi and Ben are all highly-intellectual (and in at least two cases physically capable if unassuming) dark-skinned Monarch operatives, and Bernie Hayes is a wily, African-American Bunny-Ears Lawyer.
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Johnson, Bob Morton's friend and fellow exec at OCP in the Robocop movies.
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Superman's Muggle Best Friend Jimmy Olsen becomes this in My Adventures with Superman due to a Race Lift, becoming a black nerd who's fascinated by conspiracy theories.
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The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters have Winston Zeddemore and Roland, respectively. Winston's frequently seen brushing up on historical texts (a trait carried on to the 2009 video game) and is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes, while Roland loves classical music. Of course, they're both very experienced with advanced technological equipment as well, due to their jobs.
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Lincoln's best friend Clyde McBride from The Loud House. He's very intelligent and an excellent student, and even mentions that he helps his parents do their taxes.
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Wade from Kim Possible. He's a ten year old genius who already completed high school and college within eight months and makes all of Kim's gadgets.
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In Recess, Vince's older brother Chad is this, though it's used only to illustrate a difference between him and Vince, who's an ace athlete. Also Rodney, one of the Pale Kids.
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Leo of Fairly Legal is an avid World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering player.
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Arthur Cross of The Fold is a Black celebrity scientist and project lead of a space-bending experiment in teleportation.
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Raj from What's Happening!!!!, the original Black nerd, a Nerd Glasses sporting, uncoordinated, aspiring writer. Some elements of the character served as the inspiration for Steve Urkel.
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Jose Rodriguez, Ken Murata's doctor in Kyo Kara Maoh! is an Ambiguously Brown (Afro-Latino judging from his name) American with dreadlocks and glasses who is obsessed with Japanese culture and runs off to Akihabara whenever he goes to Japan.
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Brandi of Wapsi Square is a female example. While her intellect isn't always apparent, she's still a huge fan of Star Trek and other such shows.
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Kingdom's Disdain: Cardinal's knowledge of fantasy tropes implies he was this before being transported to Laskmeer.
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Daria: Downplayed with Jodie. She's Black and sacrifices a social life in order to do better in school, but she is not necessarily nerdy. She's considered "cool" by the others.
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Static. He openly plays Pokemon, tabletop RPGs, makes references to Doctor Who, and unabashedly pulled Ninja Log on one of his foes.
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Wonder Woman:
Wonder Woman (1987): George is Wonder Girl's friend and Secret-Keeper who carries around a laptop with which she once hacked into an Apokoliptian Supercomputer, though she said it was only possible because the thing started warping and changing her computer's hardware as soon as she hooked into it.
Wonder Woman: Warbringer: Theo is a gamer, programer and hacker who has an incredibly impressive resume for someone just out of high school.
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Darryl from Bob's Burgers is an Ambiguously Brown kid around Tina's age who wears glasses, is an expert at video games, and is fairly smart and analytical.
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The Chair (2021): Yaz is a promising tenure-track English academic at Pembroke University. She's also the department's only black woman, and a lot of her subplot is navigating the implicit racism and misogyny she faces from her older white colleagues.
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Duane Williams from Craig of the Creek is a computer programmer whose hobbies include cryptography and retro video games. He's also a former college athlete who works out in his free time.
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Malcolm and Hal's primary friends are a father and son team of these on Malcolm in the Middle. Stevie was also a Genius Cripple, making him a Twofer Token Minority.
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Chidi from The Good Place was an ethics scholar and professor who dedicated his life to understanding ethics and morality born in Nigeria and raised in Senegal in his earthly life. Eleanor calls him a "human sweater vest" and he considers rowing out to the middle of a lake while reading French poetry to be his idea of a good time in paradise.
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The Nitro Game Injection podcast has this in Larry Oji. Not only does he love video game music, he is also a huge Professional Wrestling geek.
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Brock from The Godzilla Power Hour isn't particularly nerdy, but he is Dr. Darien's science intern and definitely a smart guy.
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Andromeda from Big City Greens can be assumed to be African-American due to her voice actress, and is a nerdy conspiracy theorist. Remy also counts; he's unambiguously Black in an Amazing Technicolor Population and has many nerd stereotypes down pat.
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Futurama:
Hermes Conrad, a perfectionistic, overachieving high-level bureaucrat and accountant at Planet Express who also happens to be Jamaican. His son Dwight appears to be following eagerly in his footsteps.
It's a Running Gag that many or all of the 3000-era Harlem Globetrotters are The Ace mathematicians and physicists who rank among the finest scientific minds in the universe, with their leader "Bubblegum" Tate holding teaching positions at two different universities.
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In most adaptations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baxter Stockman is a black Mad Scientist with a very unassuming appearance... at least before he gets mutated or forced to slap on cybernetics.
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Harvard Law graduate David Otunga qualifies, what with his goofy bowties and argyle sweater-vests.
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Claudette from See You Yesterday with her time travel equipment she uses to try and save her brother from being killed by police with the help of Sebastian.
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Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle has the African-French Professor Pierre Pignon.
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Huey and Caesar from The Boondocks fit this to a T, especially Huey (who frequently references Star Wars). Riley has actually called them nerds on occasion.
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Nils Nielsen from Gundam Build Fighters is known in-universe as "The Early Genius," for an intelligence that has him performing doctoral studies as a teenager, and "Samurai Boy," for his apparent passion for Japanese culture. He enters the world tournament with his Sengoku Astray not to win, but specifically to discover the properties of the Plavsky particles that allow the series' titular toy mechas to move and fight like the machines in the show they are based on. Oh, and he's also a ninja.
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In the Temeraire series, Sipho Tsuluka Dlamini goes from being a poor child living in the bush in early 1800s South Africa to taking a liking to the mathematics, reading, and writing lessons the protagonist insists on for the youths under his command. He continues writing and publishing accounts of his adventures with the protagonists and studies of the dragon kingdoms of Africa more than 25 years after the end of the series, contrasting against his Blood Knight aviator older brother.
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Marcus in FoxTrot. He's actually the friend of equally nerdy Jason Fox, and his dad is apparently some sort of scientist; Jason borrows his oscilloscope on one occasion.
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Thunderball of the Wrecking Crew was originally a brilliant physicist who was said to be on par with Bruce Banner. The only reason he turned to crime in the first place is because his employer screwed him over and stole his work.
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Dave Ray from Loopmancer is the protagonist Xiang Zixu's weapon designer and a Gadgeteer Genius who provides him with all sort of equipment. He's also the sole black recurring character in the game and leader of their IT department.
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Moss, from The IT Crowd, is the extreme variation of this trope. He's nasally, awkward, timid, has no fashion sense and works in IT. He even has his afro parted to the side. That said, his Blackness is rarely if ever referenced. Incidentally, Richard Ayoade, who plays Moss, is half Nigerian and half Norwegian.
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Stranger Things has teenage Lucas Sinclair, who's a D&D fan and a long-time member of his school's AV club. His younger sister Erica is another example; she's a snarky 10-year-old girl who can solve complex math calculations on the fly all in her head, and has a pretty solid understanding of politics.
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Rufus Carlin is a nerdy, shy engineer and time machine pilot in Timeless. Another Black character in the same show, Connor Mason, is the inventor of the time machine.
Similarly, Malcolm Barrett's character Phil in Better Off Ted and pretty much anything he's in is like that
Phil LaMarr made a monologue in MADtv (1995) about how he was often cast in this trope as opposed to castmate Orlando Jones who came off as cooler
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Tucker from Danny Phantom is a black technology enthusiast and Gadgeteer Genius who is frequently considered uncool at school.
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Warhammer 40,000:
Vulkan, the Black Primarch of the Salamanders Space Marine chapter was, with the possible exception of Ferrus Manus, the most technologically savvy of the Emperor's sons, being an expert weaponsmith. His chapter carries on this legacy as they often design and build their own weapons, particularly flame throwers and the eponymous war hammers (playing their John Henry iconography for all it's worth), and are generally one of the more intelligent, or at least reasonable, Imperial factions.
The Space Wolves chapter is also something of an example, as the few dark-skinned members come from a mercantile culture that lives on their planet's southern islands rather than the more primitive vikings in the frozen north the chapter usually recruits from. As a result, Black Wolves are more familiar with technology and more likely to take up skilled positions like tank commanders or Techmarines rather than foot soldiering.
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Sensei Greg of El Goonish Shive is obsessed with anime, and even invented anime style martial arts.
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An even better example would be Ethan from Dino Thunder — gamer, comic fan and nearly inseparable from his laptop (his first scene shows him hacking the school sprinkler system for a prank). He does have a hidden athletic side that gets brought out in "Leader of the Whack".
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Clarence from Boston Legal although not strictly a nerd, was intelligent and socially awkward. The difference was that instead of replacing socialisation with intellectual pursuits, he found that he could socialise confidently in drag.
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Wyatt from 6teen isn't a complete nerd, but he is the most intellectual of the group. Though he looked very geeky as a kid (complete with glasses and vest).
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, when it comes to humanized fan-art, Twilight Sparkle's color scheme (consisting of varying shades of purple) leads to her often being drawn as Black, or at least noticeably tanner than the rest of the cast. She is a highly adorkable bookworm.
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Karen "Bumblebee" Beecher of Teen Titans. She has no super powers but was smart enough to create a suit that granted her the power to fly and fire energy blasts. Originally, she didn't want to be a superhero but used her technology to pose as a villain for her boyfriend Mal Duncan to defeat and look good in front of the Titans. The team was so impressed with her intelligence they made her a member anyway.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad: Sasha's college friend Bix, who is always bent in front of his computer and predicts, in 1993, that computer messaging is going to be a big deal and that social networking will make falling out of touch a thing of the past.
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James Parnell of Evolve happens to own a fairly large collection of comic books and is mentioned to be expanding it. He's also eight feet tall, ex-military, ex-mercenary, owns an armor plated combat suit and fights multi-story tall monsters for a living.
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Brother Mouzone from The Wire is exhibits some nerdy traits, such as being immaculately dressed in a bow-tie suit, a high-brow speaker, an avid reader, and an intellectual. However, he's also a ruthless drug gang enforcer.
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Creed III: Adonis Creed is shown to have had a bedroom full of anime and manga merch in a flashback to his childhood in 2002 (a nod to actor Michael B. Jordan's own interests). This includes a Naruto poster, which makes Donnie a full-on Occidental Otaku since this was before either the manga or anime were legally available in English (it was a launch title for the English version of Shonen Jump in January 2003, but a scanlation had been out for a couple of years).
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Yo-less in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy. So called because he never, ever says "Yo". "He was born with a defective cool."
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Jason Rusch, the second Firestorm. He was not particularly brilliant in the original continuity, but the New 52 reboot made him a science whizz so that he could be the "brains" of Firestorm (essentially filling the role held by Professor Stein in the original series).
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The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers has The Fanboyz, a trio of, well, Ascended Fanboys all of whom are Black And Nerdy.
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Woods later carried this trope into The New Day, a trio of gleefully nerdy Black men. Their pinnacle of nerdiness came at WrestleMania, when they came out into the ring dressed in Saiyan armor. When Woods isn't wrestling, he also has his super-successful YouTube gaming channel, where many of his wrestling co-workers appear.
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Dr. Diggins from Fossil Fighters. Brilliant scientist, able to understand alien technology. Lover of dinosaurs. Dorky enough to wear shorts and a Hawaiian shirt beneath his lab coat.
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Óscar de León in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is Dominican and Nerdy.
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Holby City neatly subverts this trope, with La Charne Jolly being a rare female example. Alternatively, Ric Griffin...no, not related to Peter...
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In Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic, Steel is a history buff, but mildly nerdy.
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Boomer from the classic Battlestar Galactica can fit this trope, since he does have a knack for hot-wiring, such as on 'hovormobiles' as revealed in the episode 'Fire In Space'.
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Bully's Cornelius and Sheldon, played straight.
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In Beverly Hills, 90210, Steve's friend Herbert, who helped "hack" into the school's computer to change his grades.
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Dr. Richard Tygan in XCOM2 is a biochemist and XCOM's head of research. He is described as one of the brightest minds on Earth.
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Clem Hetherington is an archaeology enthusiast who wishes to follow in her mother's footsteps.
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In the sequel series Leverage: Redemption, his sister Breanna is just as nerdy as he is — one episode has her as a huge fan of a Magic: The Gathering parody.
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In the Rivers of London books, by his own admission PC Peter Grant is more than a bit nerdy, gangly and tends to have a shaggy-looking haircut. Not that you'd know by the American covers where he is inexplicably metamorphosed into a Scary Black Man.
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Ronald Wilkes in Cedar Rapids, a straight-laced and nerdy insurance salesman. In one scene, however, he lapses into a Scary Black Man impersonation in order to get his friends out of a fight. He reveals afterwards that he was impersonating a character from "the HBO program The Wire," of which he is a huge fan. Fittingly, the actor had a role in The Wire.
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Duane in Penny and Aggie, who is a huge English nerd to the point that his class presidency reelection campaign logo was just the letter A.
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Total Drama Legacy has Serena, a Black Occidental Otaku. There's also Storm, who is Black and is one of the most intelligent contestants on the show.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has Lenny Summers of the Van der Linde Gang. Almost in defiance to the common stereotype (at the time) that Blacks were somehow unintelligent, Lenny is very well-read and cunning. Justified by his father lucking out big-time with some semblance of an education in spite of being a slave.
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Alexandra Moreau from Poltergeist: The Legacy is the rare female (and positively portrayed) example of this trope.
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Karen, aka Bumblebee, from DC Super Hero Girls is a Shrinking Violet Teen Genius who engineers her own suit.
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Vulkan, the Black Primarch of the Salamanders Space Marine chapter was, with the possible exception of Ferrus Manus, the most technologically savvy of the Emperor's sons, being an expert weaponsmith. His chapter carries on this legacy as they often design and build their own weapons, particularly flame throwers and the eponymous war hammers (playing their John Henry iconography for all it's worth), and are generally one of the more intelligent, or at least reasonable, Imperial factions.
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Ian Jones-Quartey, author of RPG World, if his portrayal of himself in his autobiographical series IanComix is anything to go by.
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The Walking Dead (Telltale): Player Character Lee Everett used to work as a history professor before the Zombie Apocalypse. When his group meets Christa, another survivor, she can say that her boyfriend, Omid, decided to go on a cross-country tour of Civil War monuments, and asks, exasperated, "Who, other than old, white guys, would find this interesting". Lee will excitedly raise his hand.
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PJ Masks: Newton Star, a new hero introduced in Season 4. During the day he wears Nerd Glasses (though he loses them when transforming into his nighttime identity), and likes to spend all his free time in the library, studying anything space related. Even as a hero, he'd rather use his powers to go into space for exploration than to perform heroics.
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Anthony Anderson as Glen Whitman in Transformers (2007), to the extent that when Epps compares claw slashes in a steel wall to Freddy Krueger, Glen jumps in and geeks out by insisting that it was Wolverine, his reasoning being there were three claw marks (Wolverine has three claws on each hand) and Freddy Krueger has four claws. After a Beat, Simmons claims this outburst to be "very funny". Despite his nerdiness, the novelization has him end up with Maggie.
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Franklin Aloysius Mumford from My Wife and Kids.
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Thoth in Gods of Egypt is played by Chadwick Boseman. In Egyptian mythology Thoth is the god of knowledge, inventor of writing, and recorder of deeds. Pretty much everything you do, Thoth knows about and writes down. Basically, he's the biggest nerd in existence.
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Cyberpunk 2077:
T-Bug, the Mission Control V and Jackie work with in act I. She's a talented netrunner who quotes Aristotle.
The Voodoo Boys are a mysterious gang of hackers who are either of Haitian descent or just straight up from Haiti. Unlike most examples of this trope, they are dangerous and flat-out terrifying.
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Andre Junior, from black•ish started out as a nerd — his father, noticing there was only one other Black kid in his school, tried to get them to be friends, and was shocked to find out Junior had more in common with the nerdy crowd. He's mostly grown out of it to become a failed rap producer, but his younger brother, Jack, seems to be filling the spot.
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The Other Kingdom has British foreign exchange student, Winston P. Althazar who's shown to have a bit of nerdy personality aspects within in, especially with his obsession over the "wizardry" in Athenia.
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1.0
 The Other Kingdom
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_f7661425
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type
Black and Nerdy
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comment
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): Much like her comic counterpart, Lunella Lafayette is a brilliant multi-disciplinary scientist at the ripe old age of 13. Bubble guns, radioactive-powered portal generators, and a full-on secret lab within an abandoned train station are some notable inventions. She does have her blindspots when it comes to recognizing an old cassette player.
 Black and Nerdy / int_f9d963ba
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_f9d963ba
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023)
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_f9d963ba
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type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_fab6bdd9
comment
Patriot of the Young Avengers. While not immediately evident, it's mentioned in passing that he works as a librarian and attends the Bronx High School of Science, a very prestigious magnet school.
 Black and Nerdy / int_fab6bdd9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_fab6bdd9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Young Avengers (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_fab6bdd9
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type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_fb4de023
comment
The Flick: Avery is a young Black man. He wears glasses, he's socially anxious, he can be very shy, and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema. (He can't be beaten at Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.)
 Black and Nerdy / int_fb4de023
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_fb4de023
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Flick (Theatre)
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_fb4de023
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type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_fcf0b6c3
comment
Walter "Doc" Hartford of Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers both fits and subverts the trope. A bona-fide computer psychiatry Ph.D. and top-notch hacker, he is also prone to making pop culture wisecracks and fond of jive slang, often acting as the team's comic relief. However, he also acts as the team's Deadpan Snarker and the Badass Normal.
 Black and Nerdy / int_fcf0b6c3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_fcf0b6c3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_fcf0b6c3
 Black and Nerdy / int_fd8ef85e
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_fd8ef85e
comment
Louis from Left 4 Dead works in IT. That alone might not be enough to make him into a nerd, but in comparison to Bill and Francis, who are a retired Green Beret who served two tours of duty in Vietnam and a Badass Biker, he can come across as a mix of one and an Action Survivor. The Sacrifice DLC shows him to be a bigger nerd than once originally thought: he can read Japanese, makes a joke by comparing computer firewalls with molotovs, and is worried about having no internet or Xbox to play with when he and the other survivors go to the Florida Keys to live on an island.
 Black and Nerdy / int_fd8ef85e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_fd8ef85e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Left 4 Dead (Video Game)
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_fd8ef85e
 Black and Nerdy / int_feaced73
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_feaced73
comment
Donna King from Marine Corps Yumi is a Yaoi Fangirl and the smartest of the four main characters. Once she's out of boot camp, the first thing she does is go to a comic convention in San Diego.
 Black and Nerdy / int_feaced73
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_feaced73
featureConfidence
1.0
 Marine Corps Yumi (Manga)
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_feaced73
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff5c9ece
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff5c9ece
comment
Meredith Baker from Bliss Stage: First and Final Act was the top of her class before The Bliss hit, and a literary Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fangirl to the point of wearing a freaking House Ravenclaw scarf.
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff5c9ece
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff5c9ece
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bliss Stage: Love Is Your Weapon (Visual Novel)
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_ff5c9ece
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff9ab17f
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff9ab17f
comment
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge. His inability to get a date is a Running Gag.
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff9ab17f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Black and Nerdy / int_ff9ab17f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Star Trek: The Next Generation
hasFeature
Black and Nerdy / int_ff9ab17f

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Black and Nerdy
 Damage Control (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Guardians (2004) (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Hardware (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Hardware (1993) (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Jay Garrick: The Flash (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Mage: The Hero Discovered (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Magnus (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Static (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Awesome Slapstick (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Red Ten (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Think Tank (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bloom County (Comic Strip) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Candorville (Comic Strip) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Frazz (Comic Strip) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Heart of the City (Comic Strip) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 PreTeena (Comic Strip) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Wonder Woman (Comic Book) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 BoundWithSilverThreads
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Chronicles Of An American Beauty And An American Psycho / Fan Fic
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 The Last Ringbearer (Fanfic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 A Wish Happened And Now I (Fanfic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 If We Fall Down (Fanfic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 American Fiction / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Attack the Block / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bad Boys (1995) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Beverly Hills Cop / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bill & Ted Face the Music / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black Panther (2018) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Blankman / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bloodshot (2020) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Catch That Kid / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Class Act / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Dear White People / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Die Hard / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Die Hard 2 / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Fear Street / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Free Fire / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Frenemies / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Glory / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Good Boys / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Gremlins (1984) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Hellbenders / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 High School U.S.A. / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Hitch / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Horrid Henry: The Movie / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Jumpin' Jack Flash / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Jurassic Park (1993) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Keanu / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Larry Crowne / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Les Misérables (2019) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Little Giants / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Love Don't Cost a Thing / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Minutemen / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Mope / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Necessary Roughness / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Night Hunter (2019) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 RocknRolla / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Runaway Train / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Save the Last Dance / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 See You Yesterday / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Sky High (2005) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The A-Team / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Big Year / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Day After Tomorrow / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Five-Year Engagement / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Sun Is Also A Star / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Unbreakable / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Word Wars / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Jurassic Park (Franchise) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 CoryxKenshin (Lets Play) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 A Visit from the Goon Squad / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Ananda's Fall / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bad News Ballet / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Beauty Queens / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bone Street Rumba / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Dr. Greta Helsing / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Harriet the Spy / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Kingdom's Disdain / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Legendborn / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Maniac Magee / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Miles Taylor and the Golden Cape / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Ready, Freddy! / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Sphere / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Atlanta Incursion / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Big U / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Enemy / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Homework Machine / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Lost World (1995) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Runaways / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Wonder Woman: Warbringer / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Muse Magazine (Magazine) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 BlackandNerdy
sameAs
Black and Nerdy
 DasAuto
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 JosieAndThePussyCats
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Luna87
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 MisadventuresOfAwkwardBlackGirl
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 PurePurity
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Rmctagg09
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Susiemary
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 TheAwesomeSlapstick
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Tongpu
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Wheezy
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Windweaver19
seeAlso
Black and Nerdy
 Peepo Choo (Manga) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Aborted (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Inferi (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Megan Thee Stallion (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Oceano (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 T-Pain (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Black Eyed Peas (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Wu-Tang Clan (Music) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Once and Future Nerd (Podcast) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 American Gods (2017) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Big Fat Quiz of the Year / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 black•ish / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black Jesus / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bless This Mess / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Blue Mountain State / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Brooklyn Nine-Nine / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Clique / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Continuum / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Cyberkidz / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Degrassi: The Next Generation / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 FUBAR / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Fam / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Family Matters / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Getting By / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Ghostwriter (2019) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Girlfriends / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Girlfriends (2000) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Good Luck Charlie / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Green Wing / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 I Am Frankie / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 In the House / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Insecure / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Invasion: Earth / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Key & Peele / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Law & Order: Organized Crime / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Legion of Extraordinary Dancers / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Lupin (2021) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 M.A.N.T.I.S. / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Moesha / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 My Wife and Kids / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 100 Things to Do Before High School / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Perception / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Perception (2012) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Poltergeist: The Legacy / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Power Rangers: Dino Thunder / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 RuPaul's Drag Race / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Rush (2014) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Shake it Up / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Silver Spoons / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Sister, Sister / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Smart Guy / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 That Girl Lay Lay / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Bernie Mac Show / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Carrie Diaries / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Chair (2021) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Cosby Show / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Great Indoors / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The IT Crowd / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Neighborhood / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Nightly Show / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Parent 'Hood / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Peripheral (2022) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Phil Silvers Show / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Wonder Years (2021) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 30 Rock / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Timeless / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Top Chef / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Unforgettable / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 WKRP in Cincinnati / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Welcome to Flatch / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 What's Happening!! / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 A Piece of My Heart (Theatre) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Passing Strange (Theatre) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Flick (Theatre) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Fossil Fighters (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Growing Up (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Ikenfell (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Just Cause 3 (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Kingdom (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Known Unknowns (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Middle Manager of Justice (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Mirror's Edge Catalyst (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Red Faction (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Saints Row (2022) (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 60 Parsecs! (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (2023) (Video Game) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 ACTUALLY HAPPENED (Web Animation) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Cocomelon (Web Animation) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Adventure Is Nigh (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Andre the Black Nerd (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Anyone But Me (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Black Critic Guy (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Deji (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Etika (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 MyMusic (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 React (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 TableTop (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Th3Birdman (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Rap Critic (Web Video) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Becoming Hero (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Better Days (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Dork Tower (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Freakwatch (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Pine Valley Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Serenity Rose (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Hazards Of Love (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Last Halloween (Webcomic) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Fight A Base (Website) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Batman Beyond / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Big City Greens / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Coraline / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Cosmic Quantum Ray / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Daft Planet / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Detentionaire / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Eureka! (2022) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Extreme Ghostbusters / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Ghost Force / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 High School U.S.A. / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Little Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Looped / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Martha Speaks / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Minoriteam / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 My Giant Friend / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Power Players / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Recess / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Rugrats (2021) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Station Zero / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Strawberry Shortcake / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Buzz on Maggie / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Jackson 5ive / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Kids from Room 402 / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The Last Kids on Earth / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Toon Makers’ Sailor Moon / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Transformers: Rescue Bots / int_38958f33
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Black and Nerdy
 Tutenstein / int_38958f33
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Black and Nerdy
 Wish Kid / int_38958f33
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Black and Nerdy
 David Otunga (Wrestling) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 The New Day (Wrestling) / int_38958f33
type
Black and Nerdy
 Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_38958f33
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Black and Nerdy
 Everworld / int_38958f33
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Black and Nerdy
 blackandnerdy
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Black and Nerdy