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Nerd

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Nerd	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A Nerd is someone who... actually, it is easier to describe a nerd as what they are not. Not smooth, not handsome, and not someone you would instantly describe as 'attractive'. Not, above all else, popular outside a very narrow grouping of fellow-nerds. They are oftentimes a walking, talking fashion-disaster. One definition of a nerd is someone who not only didn't attend his high school prom, but would be puzzled or even offended at the suggestion that he would want to. Most nerds portrayed in the media actually fail this test, but real-life nerd Joss Whedon passes. (There are also many nerds who would want to go to the prom, but wouldn't be able to get a date.) The term gets conflated with geek fairly frequently, as it happens that a nerd can be fairly obsessive/informed about a particular topic. The nerdiest nerd is a nerd who isn't even a geek. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })One of the odd features of the nerd on TV is that they will be over-formally dressed (probably as a result of the Hollywood Dress Code) usually, at least a plaid polo shirt and slacks. In fact, in real life, both nerds and geeks tend to dress more casually than the average person, because they usually don't care as much about clothes or appearances. The hyper-formality is likely due to another stigma — that nerds let their parents dress them. There sure are some nerds whose clothes would fit the stereotype, though. A nerd is typically portrayed as a pasty, weak, scrawny, guy or gal with Nerd Glasses and/or a Nerdy Inhaler. They are bullied by the jocks, Cannot Spit It Out if a member of the opposite sex is anywhere within range, and are working on odd projects in their basements and garages. Geek girls (and some guys) will have super frizzy hair, if it's not done up in Girlish Pigtails (the girls, not the guys). They may also be obese, instead of scrawny. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })These are the nerd stereotypes that were most prevalent in the 70s and 80s, the ones that feature in movies like Revenge of the Nerds, the sort that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs looked like back in the day. ...Okay, Gates still looks kinda like that, but he's a billionaire now, wanna make something of it? You would think the nerds ruling the world nowadays would make this a Discredited Trope, but there's enough Truth in Television to Geek Physiques to keep this one running. Like with Geek, the definition of a nerd is not set in stone and can vary greatly depending on context. For instance, Fonzie’s earliest uses of the term implied somebody who was average and middle class, in contrast to his own streetwise survival and fighting skills. Dr. Seuss’ nerd was a nonsensical (and grouchy-looking) animal in his zoo. See also Geek, Asian and Nerdy, Black and Nerdy, Hollywood Nerd, Jewish and Nerdy. Contrast Nerdcore. Related to I Just Want to Have Friends when the nerd wants to be more popular. If you're looking for the musical about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, it's at: Nerds. Examples:
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Nerd / int_128dd982	comment	Police Academy as in the films several characters can be considered nerds, but the most radical example is Carl Sweetchuck who suffered a certain degree of flanderization from his movie counterpart.
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Nerd / int_17cdebcc	comment	Owen Pronsky from Less Than Perfect is a classic example, complete with Nerd Glasses, social ineptness and overall weirdness. Also, he sells office supplies for a living.
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Nerd / int_1beda93b	comment	The "cloner nerds" from Sluggy Freelance seem like a pretty extreme example. Then they release a plague that exponentially increases the intelligence of whoever it infects, while decreasing their attractiveness and social skills to the point where they become extremely nerdy zombie analogues.
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Nerd / int_1db3faa4	comment	Doctor Octopus was similarly nerdy, but it consumed him until he became embittered, vengeful, and villainous. For this reason he's often played as Peter's Shadow Archetype.
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Nerd / int_1f8462f7	comment	And sort of deconstructed with Spider-Man 2099. Miguel was a fairly nerdy kid, just like Peter... but this meant he went on to private education and a high-paying job. Instead of being shy and reserved, he became pretty self-centered and arrogant. This sort of shows how the stereotype has evolved over time.
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Nerd / int_2161674a	comment	The Gamers not only knows its subject very well, but also has many in-jokes that only D&D players will get, the first one more than the second one. Both have a cast that was probably cast from D&D players (though some in the second movie are doubtful). It is often referred to as "A D&D movie that mocks D&D players." Jen Page (aka female Luster) was at the time of filming an editor at Wizards of the Coast.
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Nerd / int_22119589	comment	Alias's Marshall Flinkman.
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Nerd / int_24a6dfde	comment	Spencer from lonelygirl15 is a scientist who likes to wave a lightsaber around and claims he can't exercise because he suffers from nociception. All together: "What Up, Blogosphere!"
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Nerd / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The show referenced the difference when Milhouse insists to Bart he's "Not a nerd. Nerds are smart." Which is actually roughly the reverse of the definitions being used here, although "smart" is an attribute commonly associated with nerds. There was an episode where Homer went to college and yelled "Neeerrrd!" at a passing student. The same episode introduced the three nerds Benjamin, Doug and Gary. In the Show Within a Show, School of Hard Knockers, "Nerd" was apparently a catch-all to describe anyone who wasn't a Jock. Basically, taking the Saved by the Bell viewpoint and then dumbing it down to Homer's level.
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Nerd / int_263d5756	comment	Live Free or Die Hard: "the Warlock", a notorious hacker, is played by Kevin Smith. Yes, that Kevin Smith. Then the Kid Sidekick is played by Justin Long with his "gonna get beat up in high school" looks. The villain has a team of pizza eating mini-Smith working for him but he himself, meant to be the uber-hacker, is a very sharply dressed Timothy Olyphant with a hot kung fu fighting assassin girlfriend. However the contrast with those two and everyone else just underlines Evil Is Sexy.
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Nerd / int_27dc4bc7	comment	EarthBound has Jeff, an Expy of Lloyd. He's a freckle-faced 13-year-old in a suit and bowtie, complete with thick glasses and a bowl cut. He's also the Badass Normal of the main party, turning mundane broken items like irons and pipes into amazing, advanced machines that can block enemy Psychic Powers, nullify enemy shields, and shoot lasers.
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Nerd / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly has Freddie himself as a straight example. Especially in season 1 when the actor's voice hadn't changed and he was shorter than the actresses playing Carly and Sam (to the point of needing a Scully Box pair of shoes). In the episode 1 of season 2, when Freddie enters, Sam asks "What happened to your voice?" and Freddie replies "I dunno, puberty?" Season 4 he's become a full blown Hot Scientist as the actor is now nearly 18, spent time in the off-season break working out and is all muscled up.
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Nerd / int_2be8d594	comment	"Bad Decision?", Chapter 2 of LG15: the resistance features "the sexy nineteen-year-old fact finder also known as... Research Nerd!" (actually Sarah with Nerd Glasses, a collared shirt and tie and her hair tied back).
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Nerd / int_313c5eb9	comment	Napoleon Dynamite is pure nerd. No geek-ness at all, no skills, knowledge or, quite possibly, any understanding that there might be such things as skill and knowledge.
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Nerd / int_344b6e67	comment	Max Knight: Ultra Spy has this in droves. The villain (Seth Green) is an uber hacker who, along with his girl posse and various followers, looks and acts like contenders for "the popular kids of the popular kids at high school", and the story takes place at one point at a party that seems to mix hip-hop, R'n'B and rave, people drink out of test tubes, and you have to prove your superior intelligence to get in. You meet one awkward, sweaty nerd (who gets shot down by the female lead) near the start, and the female lead's sister is a borderline case (until the villain takes off her glasses and lets down her hair).
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Nerd / int_3558eaa2	comment	Garrett and Fat Neil on Community, the former of whom also has a pronounced lisp.
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Nerd / int_3913e40	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_3913e40	comment	The movie series Revenge of the Nerds, which describe themselves as including the Nerd, the Geek and the Spazz as their heroes (not to mention the slob, in Booger's case).
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Nerd / int_3ac83c7d	comment	Alan from Summer School. He's average looking, an academic underachiever in a family of overachievers, has poor social skills, and speaks in a high, weird voice.
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Nerd / int_3e6269af	comment	Real Genius shows a wide variety of nerds. Most of the physics students are nerds, including an Asian and Nerdy student, a Basement-Dweller (sort of), and a Teen Genius. Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), however, is handsome, witty, and outgoing.
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Nerd / int_3f4ad663	comment	Jerry in Parker Lewis Can't Lose Up to Eleven in the first seasons, although the third and last season made his character less one-dimensional and with more charisma, having other interests apart from "study" like filmmaking.
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Nerd / int_3ff0f7dd	comment	When Terry of KateModern joins the Hymn of One, he becomes a cheerful, mild-mannered nerd, complete with a cardigan and, inexplicably, Nerd Glasses. In "Precious Blood" it is revealed that the nerd persona was all an act. One of the first things he does after being discovered is to get rid of the cardigan and the glasses - he can see just fine without them.
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Nerd / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama has the three geeky guys (Cody, Harold, Noah) who are thin/not in great shape and clearly act geeky, as well as Beth, one of few girls who doesn't look like a supermodel, socially awkward, Nerd Glasses, Braces of Orthodontic Overkill, and a not so imaginary boyfriend.
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Nerd / int_4e45b093	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory. Amy Farrah Fowler. Basically the entire cast (save for Penny).
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Nerd / int_5400d19	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_5400d19	comment	Cedric in The Raccoons alongside his Nerd Glasses and bowtie. Subverted in the sports' part as he is shown to be very good at playing baseball, swiming and fishing.
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Nerd / int_544b938e	comment	Mark Jackson (Gavin Crawford), the teen correspondent for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, looks and acts like the stereotypical Type 1 nerd.
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Nerd / int_5e2fa3a	comment	Supermarioglitchy4: Obviously...Lakitu, the cameraman. Mario often calls him this, apparently.
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Nerd / int_6276800c	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic has a troll nerd ("Douchy McNitpick") who constantly points out the errors in his reviews.
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Nerd / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged has Piccolo refer to Son Gohan as a nerd, whenever he goes off on a rant.
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Nerd / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Myron of Fallout 2, though he is also far more evil than most other examples here, being the inventor of the drug Jet and having killed countless slaves in testing.
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Nerd / int_6e57117e	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_6e57117e	comment	Weird Science: Wyatt and Gary (socially awkward school misfits interested in science and comic books) albeit without the traditional depiction of nerds, especially not in their attire.
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Nerd / int_71cc7096	comment	MOTHER: EarthBound Beginnings has Lloyd, an extremely pasty 11-year-old with thick, round glasses and a strong interest in computer software. He's a frequent bullying target at his elementary school, and is first introduced hiding from the bullies in a trash can on the school's roof. But by the end of the game he's taken a level in badass and pilots a tank. EarthBound has Jeff, an Expy of Lloyd. He's a freckle-faced 13-year-old in a suit and bowtie, complete with thick glasses and a bowl cut. He's also the Badass Normal of the main party, turning mundane broken items like irons and pipes into amazing, advanced machines that can block enemy Psychic Powers, nullify enemy shields, and shoot lasers.
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Nerd / int_73d660e	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_73d660e	comment	Konata Izumi of Lucky Star is a self-described hardcore geek, despite being inexplicably athletic.
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Nerd / int_75110adb	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_75110adb	comment	The Newest Plutarch features Go Nan Jen, a Chinese official who believed that the proper way to defeat an enemy is moving in a way that resembles the hieroglyphs for war, weapons, victory etc.
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Nerd / int_76580c92	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_76580c92	comment	Gary of Ménage à 3 is a geek with strong nerd tendencies. In fact, he'd probably end up as a full-on hikikomori if he didn't have some good friends, adorkable looks, and a strange sexual talent. His geeky lack of social skills veers towards nerdish total incompetence, and at the start of the comic, he'd collapse totally if an attractive woman so much as looked at him. He wants to have friends and lovers, but didn't have a clue how to get them to start with, and even in later strips he displays a painful lack of initiative in pursuing his options. However, his friends didn't have to clean him up much to produce quite appealing results.
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Nerd / int_7981ca33	comment	The two computer hackers David (Matthew Broderick) consults in WarGames.. One of the nerds in the above mention was played by Eddie Deezen who built his entire career playing nerds starting in the late 70s in such films as Grease, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and 1941.
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Nerd / int_7c6f5e19	comment	Harold on The Red Green Show.
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Nerd / int_7cec625d	comment	EarthBound Beginnings has Lloyd, an extremely pasty 11-year-old with thick, round glasses and a strong interest in computer software. He's a frequent bullying target at his elementary school, and is first introduced hiding from the bullies in a trash can on the school's roof. But by the end of the game he's taken a level in badass and pilots a tank.
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Nerd / int_859e6b38	comment	Back to the Future Part I: Marty's father, before Marty goes back to 1955 and while he's in 1955.
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Nerd / int_8e193f0b	comment	Stuart Minkus on Boy Meets World. In the episode, Cory's Alternative Friends, Cory decides that he wants to change his hairstyle, but it takes a turn for the worse, leading him to join a group of social outcasts who eat lunch together and have no desire to be normal.
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Nerd / int_8e549f61	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_8e549f61	comment	Existential Comics: The Logical Positivists of the Vienna Circle are dorky even by the standards of philosophers.
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Nerd / int_90ab7fe1	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Recess: Gretchen Grundler in terms of speaking like her nose is clogged up, wearing glasses and being a Child Prodigy. Gus Griswald dresses like one, but isn't really one personality-wise. The Pale Kids who opt to stay indoors during Recess and do science experiments. Vince discovers in one episode that his older brother Chad is really one, and fears he'll become one as he gets older.
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Nerd / int_920daaa7	comment	"Doc" Soto in Alcatraz who when he's not helping catch time traveling criminals runs a comics shop.
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Nerd / int_924bb56e	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse Dr. Claire Saunders. Yes, she's played by Amy Acker but she also has serious facial scars. However their visibility seems to vary from episode to episode. Topher on the other hand personifies this trope, though even he isn't exactly unattractive. Also heavily lampshaded with Doctor Bennett Halverson, Summer Glau's character. She's so drop dead gorgeous (except for the gimp arm, and that's really not that bad) that Topher assumes she is a doll who "broke" and was imprinted with some important skills - but proves otherwise. Also slightly subverted in a later episode, when we see Bennett at school before a friend gave her a makeover. She's still far from what any sane person would call ugly, but combined with her personality her geekiness becomes believable.
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Nerd / int_96f1ceb4	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_96f1ceb4	comment	The Police Academy film series have several nerdy characters joining the police, among others The Woobie Carl Sweetchuck and Fat Comic Relief Thomas "House" Conklin.
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Nerd / int_9888f901	type	Nerd
Nerd / int_9888f901	comment	Daria to some extend. She has many of the normal tropes associated with nerds; Nerd Glasses, good grades, unpopularity, niche interests and being social outcast. Nevertheless these facets are often overlooked because the character also breaks many of the stereotype been a Deadpan Snarker and The Cynic. If anything she's more likely to be doing the bullying than the other way around.
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Nerd / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters' Steve Urkel and Saved by the Bell's Screech are the flagships for the male version. Also see his nerdy girlfriend Violet, played by Tori Spelling in Nerd Glasses and ugly hairstyle. Steve Urkel's nerdiness is played up even more; his dress style, high pitched voiced and total social awkwardness.
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Nerd / int_9c698d34	comment	Eric of Loserz. See here. He might still be a geek, though, and later manages to get a girlfriend and get laid. Wish fulfillment?.
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Nerd / int_9de4ce95	comment	Cyrus Soliveré of Caelum Lex is a prodigal engineer who loves his craft a little too much and spends a great deal of time nerding out about engines, sometimes with fellow nerd Adrasteia Atelier.
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Nerd / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd. And here, we speak about the character, not the actor James Rolfe, who actually got a life on his own. And even the Nerd character only has the look of nerds in the general, his popularity is immense. Just don't imitate his style in real life.
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Nerd / int_a7518609	comment	In Doppelgänger nerds form an entire clique. Victor is one and so is Lisa to a lesser extent. However, Victor is so nerdy even the nerds don't want him.
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Nerd / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content: Marigold is a pimply MMORPG-addicted nerd with dirty hair and a messy apartment. However, She Cleans Up Nicely, like the type 2 Hollywood Nerd girl always does, but this could be Informed Attractiveness. Her friends tell her she's Beautiful All Along and boys have hit on her, but her artwork hasn't changed, her clothing hasn't changed and her social skills around strange boys CERTAINLY haven't changed.
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Nerd / int_b30ae4db	comment	Sam in Game of Thrones is a medieval version of a nerd: a shy fatty bookworm not very good in physical prowess by any mean, victim of bullying and a disappointment for his harsh warrior father. But very brave nevertheless.
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Nerd / int_b3682a09	comment	The eponymous character of Adam, due to his Asperger Syndrome.
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Nerd / int_b4996199	comment	Peter Parker. A scientific genius from a young age, rather milquetoast from being raised by a loving but elderly couple, and in early appearances socially inept and unfashionable (but he got Progressively Prettier and more confident, to the point some argue he's become a mere Hollywood Nerd). Doctor Octopus was similarly nerdy, but it consumed him until he became embittered, vengeful, and villainous. For this reason he's often played as Peter's Shadow Archetype. And sort of deconstructed with Spider-Man 2099. Miguel was a fairly nerdy kid, just like Peter... but this meant he went on to private education and a high-paying job. Instead of being shy and reserved, he became pretty self-centered and arrogant. This sort of shows how the stereotype has evolved over time.
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Nerd / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken has a recurring, unnamed nerd character as one of the most recurring characters in the series, only referred to as simply The Nerd. He frequently daydreams about being part of various odd situations and franchises whenever he appears.
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Nerd / int_bf1cda2f	comment	All the geeks of Freaks and Geeks. It featured nerds more than geeks, mostly because freaks and nerds don't rhyme.
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Nerd / int_c3b69789	comment	Matt Santoro has a very nerdy clone named Eugene, who is socially inept and wears Nerd Glasses.
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Nerd / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, believe it or not, isn't limited to this neither; Episode "Putting Your Hoof Down", has a stereotypically nerdy pony with taped glasses, moustache, unfashionable mane-cut, bowtie, acne, and robot cutie mark. When he buys the last asparagus, which Fluttershy wanted, Rarity tricks him into selling it back to Fluttershy by calling him strong and handsome. A slightly more socially adjusted example is Twilight Sparkle herself. A Season 5 episode reveals that Twilight's old Canterlot friend Moondancer is this too - and after Twilight left town, became even more of an introvert who rarely spoke to anyone.
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Nerd / int_c43df4d8	comment	Malcolm from the Doctor Who special "Planet of the Dead." Very much a Doctor fanboy, too.
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Nerd / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: Bud describes himself as a Nerd in "The Colonel's Wife".
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Nerd / int_ccfef5a0	comment	FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman's Glen, or as he likes to be known as, "Glendalf".
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Nerd / int_d4caf593	comment	The Nerds are one of the four main cliques within Bullworth Academy in Bully. They can mostly be found in and around the library, and they have a stronghold in the observatory near the football field. Outside of the school, they often meet up in the basement of the comic book shop for games of Grottos and Gremlins. Their combat skills are, as you would expect, sorely lacking compared to most other students, and they often find themselves getting picked on, though they tend to arm themselves with stink bombs and other such weapons in a bid to level the playing field.
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Nerd / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: Nerd zombies, geeking up over a Yipper card. Of course, they weren't really zombies, just painfully obsessed.
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Nerd / int_e0f72cac	comment	Ruby of Sticky Dilly Buns is arguably a non-standard female example who looks more like a Hot Librarian at first glance. She's quite attractive in Hollywood Homely style, her social ineptitude takes the form of abrasiveness rather than bumbling, she doesn't seem very interested in science or computers (her degree is in Business Administration), and we have no evidence about her physical fitness. However, the glasses, the opinionated attitude, the total lack of cool (she's downright neurotic), the virginity, and the privileging of intellect over social relationships, are classic nerd. If she is a nerd, though, she's the sort who geeks despise, because she tries to use her intelligence for profit rather than for a hobby.
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Nerd / int_e179ec3a	comment	Andy from Calvin and Hobbes: The Series.
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Nerd / int_e4599d61	comment	Mindy of Cinema Bums. Particularly on subjects related to movies.
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Nerd / int_e5898a53	comment	Eli from The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth.
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Nerd / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!! has all Type 1 nerds. Unfortunately there was an episode where Rhonda is forced to wear glasses and is immediately classified as a type 2 nerd despite looking perfectly normal. And this episode was made AFTER Harry Potter came out in America.
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Nerd / int_ee829854	comment	House of Anubis: Fabian admits to being one after being lightly teased about it, and Mara also fits- she's obsessed with school, grades, and is the one person in the House who is smarter than Fabian.
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Nerd / int_f197ea60	comment	Dinosaur Comics: In this strip, T-Rex conflates nerds and geeks when he speculates that God's omniscience must make him the Ultimate Nerd.
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Nerd / int_fa3e5824	comment	The three main characters in Superbad all look like believable teenage outcasts. In fact even the popular cute girls in the movie are only normal-school pretty rather than drop dead gorgeous models.
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