History Main / AsianAndNerdy

* ''My Hot Ass Neighbor'' lampshades and subverts this with main [[HeroesWantRedheads Wong]] who has all the physical traits expected of a stereotype from [[ShorterMeansSmarter his height making him the shortest character by a wide margin save for his grade-school sister despite being in high school,]] to his coke bottle glasses and buck teeth, which [[FieryRedhead Sharona]] points out as the reason she needs him as a tutor [[GiveGeeksAChance (and then some)]] then subverted as he has [[BiggusDickus "something else"]] that gets the ladies going, too.

* WesternAnimation/GravityFalls has Mabel's friend Candy Chiu, a dorky Korean girl who [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses wears glasses]] and, in the episode "Roadside Attraction", displays some AwesomenessByAnalysis when helping her friends escape from a monster.

** Marcy Wu is a dorky teenage girl who gets effortlessly good grades and is into all kinds of nerdy things, especially video games and RPGs. Within Newtopia, she becomes an invaluable inventor, practically revolutionizing the whole city and molding her into a formidable warrior. Despite being extremely smart however, she is rather scatterbrained, and [[DitzyGenius her incredible clumsiness and obliviousness to the world around her]] tends to get her into trouble.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Averted with Anne Boonchuy, who is Thai and has terrible grades, being more of a people person. Played straight with her friend Marcy Wu, who gets effortlessly good grades and is into all kinds of nerdy things, especially video games and RPGs. Within Newtopia, she becomes an invaluable inventor, practically revolutionizing the whole city. This is balanced out a bit by [[DitzyGenius her incredible clumsiness and obliviousness to the world around her]].

* Kin Kujira from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is TheSmartGuy of the band and a GadgeteerGenius, although his kooky personality means that he more frequently leans into being a DitzyGenius. Subverted by his twin brother Kon, who is more of a GeniusDitz.

* Phoebe Heyerdahl from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. Technically she's half-Asian, [[ButNotTooForeign because her mother's white]] while her father's Japanese.
%% * Tom Chan in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'' and his brother Alan.

* Ace Nakamura, the resident tech-whiz and linguistics nerd on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}''.

* Yung Lee from ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries''.

* Blkmrkt, the 11-year-old PlayfulHacker from ''WesternAnimation/MajorLazer.''

* Love from ''WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has Marcy Wu, a dorky teenage girl who, while rather scatterbrained, is also extremely smart and her time in Newtopia molded her into a formidable warrior.

* Doubly subverted in ''Creator/GishJen'' "Mona in the Promised Land": Mona Chang is not particularly interested in school, but hangs out with her Jewish classmates and eventually converts to Judaism. Her sister, however, fits this trope.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' with Hay Lin, who is an artist and a bit of a scatterbrain. But also shown with [[SmartGuy nerd]] of the team being Taranee--who's technically half-Asian.
* Kin Kujira from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is the band's SmartGuy and a GadgeteerGenius, although his kooky personality means that he more frequently leans into being a DitzyGenius. Subverted by his twin brother Kon, who is more of a GeniusDitz.

* ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'': Averted with Anne Boonchuy, who is Thai and has terrible grades, being more of a people person. Played straight with her friend Marcy Wu, who gets effortlessly good grades and is into all kinds of nerdy things, especially video games and RPGs. Within Newtopia, she becomes an invaluable inventor, practically revolutionizing the whole city. This is balanced out a bit by [[DitzyGenius her incredible clumsiness and obliviousness to the world around her]].

* According to [[http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210917000589#:~:text=The%20report%20also%20showed%20in,OECD%20average%20of%2040.3%20percent. a report]], almost 70% of South Koreans are university-educated, moreso than anywhere else in the world.

* Marcy Park in ''Theatre/TwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' can be this, depending on the production. [[note]] The script suggests she's of Asian descent based on her last name, and was played by an Asian American actress in the original cast, but this is never explicitly stated.[[/note]] In a cast of nerds, Marcy is likely the smartest, as she placed in the top ten at the National Spelling Bee and has a whole song about how she is fluent in six languages. [[spoiler: The only reason she doesn't win the Putnam Bee is because she [[VictoryIsBoring decides to throw the competition]].]]

* Japan tends to be extremely fond of the GameOfNerds. Individual people vary, of course, but as a whole the nation is surprisingly into the Western sport. The game is also very popular in South Korea and Taiwan.

* Almost 70% of South Koreans are university-educated, moreso than anywhere else in the world.

* Macie from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' is half-Asian and fits in a non-typical way. She's not presented as particularly studious or smart, instead she is an unpopular, [[SicklyNeuroticGeek neurotic]] BandGeek.

* Joseph Cheng from the ''Series/LeverageRedemption'' episode "[[Recap/LeverageRedemptionS1E7TheDoubleEdgedSwordJob The Double-Edged Sword Job]]" is a villainous version of this trope, although the Asian part is {{downplayed|trope}}. He's a tech genius with NoSocialSkills who has created Searchlight, which is not only the most scarily advanced FacialRecognitionSoftware on the planet, but also predicts its subjects' behavior. He's too amoral to care who uses Searchlight, or why; a DomesticAbuser tracking down his terrified ex? Fascistic PrivateMilitaryContractors? Dictators making sure their victims can't escape? Cheng doesn't care as long as he gets paid. He also happens to be Chinese-American, although no one ever brings this up.

* Jenny from Literature/TheCornersvilleTraceMythos.
* Stacey Chen from Val [=McDermid=]'s Tony Hill books.

* Grant Imahara of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''.

* Averted on ''{{Series/Bones}}'' for the most part. Angela is half Chinese and a gifted computer tech person, but she avoids the nerd stereotypes. She’s outgoing, confident,flirty and embraces her sexuality.

* Sean Liu-Ogden in {{Creator/Peter Fenton}}’s ''{{Theatre/Abandon All Hope}}'' initially comes off as a straight (even exaggerated) example being an engineering major at an Ivy League school after having been Valedictorian and National Honors Society President in high school, but the archetype is deconstructed as it’s revealed [[spoiler:Sean put all the pressure on himself to be successful in these areas to differentiate himself from his parents, who are an A-List Actress and Director. He resents that the only Ivy he could get into was the school his father went to.]]

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', where Kim Kitsuragi is stereotyped as being a nerd due to his Seolite ancestry and dependence on NerdGlasses, and is assigned demeaning, geeky jobs by his employers (such as working with children, or assuming he will be good at playing pinball as it was invented in Seol). However, he is perfectly elegant and cool in a way your player character will never achieve. During his debriefing of your player character at the end of the first day, the player character's internal monologue might start fanboying over how cool Kim is, and may even ask him how he got to be that way, or even realise it's [[BeneathTheMask something Kim cultivated to protect himself from this stereotype]]. He does have some nerdy interests - in particular, he loves playing civilisation-building board games and gets excited when the player starts popping out play tokens - but his need to counter this stereotype forces him to act a little defensive about this side of himself. If the player is playing a DumbMuscle Harry, they will also have the option to call Kim a "bino" (a nerd), which Kim mostly ignores.

* Matt Scudder's occasional hacker-for-hire Jimmy Hong.

* ' ' WesternAnimation/OverTheMoon ' ' : Fei Fei is at the top of her class and also manages to build a functioning rocket all on her own.

* Kin Kujira from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is the band's SmartGuy and a GadgeteerGenius, although he frequently leans into being DitzyGenius. Subverted by his twin brother Kon, who is more of a GeniusDitz.