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Unathletic Nerd
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In fiction, there's a tendency for high school and college athletes to not be very bright and for top students to be poor in physical challenges. This trope is concerned with the latter. This belief likely stems from the idea that focusing too much on studies doesn't give the nerd enough time to take care of his physical condition. They may develop a Geek Physique as a result. Often, a story with this type of character will have a more sporty character try and teach them how to play sports. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })If this character is paired up with the Dumb Jock, you have Brains and Brawn. If the character is paired with a jock father, you have Jock Dad, Nerd Son. Compare Squishy Wizard, for the close equivalent in fantasy settings. Contrast Academic Athlete. Examples: |
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In Runaways, Gert is possibly the smartest member of the team, but years of disdaining sports or any physical activity has made her such a poor combatant that she once got utterly thrashed by a thirteen-year-old with no actual superpowers. | |
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On Cheers, one of Carla's kids is somewhat of an intellectual. She drops him off at a softball game and has him play. His first attempt to get a hit fail, but he gets his second only to run the wrong way. | |
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The Simpsons: The plot of the episode "Lisa on Ice" is set off by Lisa attempting to improve her grades in P.E. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short "Little Boy Boo", Foghorn Leghorn tries to bond with little Egghead, Jr. over a game of baseball. Egghead, despite being a science genius, has no idea how to play — he tries to eat the ball when Foggy hands it to him — but after some calculations, he is able to hit the ball right down Foghorn's throat. | |
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Revenge of the Nerds: The titular nerds seem doomed to defeat by the Alpha Betas, but use their wiles to win the various contests (a javelin throw, tricycle race, and beer-chugging competition). | |
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In Harry Potter, Hermione does brilliantly in school, but is rubbish at Quidditch, the wizarding sport played on broomsticks. By contrast, Fred, George, Ron, and Harry all do about average in school, but are all on the Quidditch team. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: A Running Gag is that the guys, all accomplished scientists, have no aptitude for sports. (Sheldon does have a good knowledge of football due to having a father who coached his school's team, but otherwise has no interest in it.) This is often contrasted with Penny, who is not outstandingly athletic, but is still better at sports than they are. The episode that probably demonstrates this best is "The Rothman Disintegration", where Sheldon and Sitcom Archnemesis Kripke compete over who gets a newly vacated office. Since they're not in equal terms intellectually, they then decide to compete on the one field they are equally bad at: sports. They head to the basketball court and play a game of horse; when neither one manages to score one basket, they switch to a free-throw contest; and after not sinking a single one for forty-five minutes, they settle for who can bounce the highest, which Sheldon wins. |
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The Mr. Men story Mr. Men in Scotland demonstrates that Mr. Clever, in spite of knowing a lot about golf, completely fails at playing it. | |
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Azumanga Daioh: In spite of being a Child Prodigy, Chiyo-Chan is shown to be terrible at any athletic activity. | |
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Drake & Josh: Josh is one of the smartest people in his school, rivaled academically only by his rival, Mindy. He also chronically sucks at sports — in the pilot, he only barely passed his one-day karate course and was still immediately knocked out in a fight, and when he tried out for the football team, he failed so badly he got stuck as the equipment manager. | |
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My Hero Academia: At first, Izuku is wicked smart in his studies, but lacks the athleticism needed to be a hero — especially compared to his rival, the Genius Bruiser Bakugo. It takes months of training with All Might to even stand a chance, and even then, he's still last-in-his-class. As the series progresses, however, Izuku becomes far more athletic. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire has Samwell Tarly who doesn't want to fight and is not good at it either which got his father to disown him for not being manly enough and send him to the Night's Watch. However, Samwell is book-smart and has a huge interest in the history of Westeros as his first interest is to become a Maester. His intellect makes up for his contribution for the Night's Watch in finding ways to defeat the Others and he is the first to kill one. | |
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In The Stepfather III, one of the first signs that the Villain Protagonist is losing faith in his latest family is how the wheelchair bound son of his latest single mother target, is a nerd who is interested in criminal justice and investigations, and not interested in sports, which the Stepfather believes all good American boys should be into. The kicker? the boy is not really handicapped and let himself get weak enough to where he can't walk, out of the emotional impact of his parents getting divorced. This becomes crucial during the climax of the film. | |
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Code Geass: Lelouch has such bad stamina that he manages to be easily outrun by a woman in a dress. Probably why he didn't manage to catch Euphemia when he accidentally geassed her | |
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Whiz Kids: Averted. Richie is a computer genius, but nonetheless he goes out with his friends to ride a bike, engages in "mainstream" recreational activities and plays sports with his friends with regularity, and he's shown as reasonably good at them. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Common Ground", Quibble Pants is a fanboy of the Daring Do book series who particularly likes the more intellectual aspects of the series as opposed to the action sequences. Quibble tries to impress his athletic future stepdaughter by learning how to play buckball, and fails because of his extreme lack of athletic ability. He's so out of shape that he can barely lift a stack of a few books. | |
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House of Anubis: When every house has to compete in a dodgeball tournament, the nerdy Fabian gets stuck as the Anubis House mascot, because the others don't trust him enough to play. He complains about this until they finally let him on the court... and he ends up winning the game. | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, this becomes an overseen flaw of Cinch's plan to win the Friendship Games. Cinch blackmails Human Twilight into participating to ensue Crystal Prep would win the competition. Twilight aces the academic portion, since she's the smartest student at Crystal Prep. However, come the athletic portion, Twilight causes Crystal Prep to fall spectacularly behind. If Applejack hadn't stepped in to help Twilight with the target out of a sense of fair play, Canterlot High would've won uncontested. | |
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Eyeshield 21: Manabu Yukimitsu starts out as this, though not by choice, as his mother constantly pushed him into studying and discouraged him from joining sports clubs. Part of his reason to join the American Football team is to change this, and he eventually succeeds. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: The episode "Sports A' Poppin" involves Dad trying to teach Dexter how to play sports, only for Dexter to fail at every sport he tries to teach him. At the end of the episode, though, after Dad gives up trying to teach him, Dee Dee accidentally releases the monster from "Dee Deemensional", which prompts Dexter to use the sporting equipment that Dad had left out to fight it. | |
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