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* In ''VideoGame/BearAndBreakfast'': Will gets Hank to retrieve magazines and pamphlets from the trash to learn more about humans from them. Will often cites books as his source of knowledge about them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': While [[MrFanservice Sterling Archer]] is mostly known for partying and [[ReallyGetsAround womanizing]] during his free time, he is also shown to be an avid reader when no else is around. In one episode he chastises a female coworker to read a book and another episode shows him reading the Conquest of Mexico in bed [[ShirtlessScene wearing nothing from the waist up]] [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses except for a pair of glasses]] and possibly [[SleepsInTheNude nothing below the waist]] (although it it difficult to tell as he has a ModestyBedsheet covering him from the waist down) as can be seen [[https://twitter.com/verge/status/585067389781311489 here]].

** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': An [[ImpliedTrope implied]] but DownplayedTrope with the titular [[MrFanservice Ben Tennyson]] as a show of his room reveals that he has no less than three bookshelves, with one standing and two hanging, but is never shown much reading unlike [[MrFanservice Kevin Levin]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Both [[MrFanservice Bojack Horseman and Mr. Peanutbutter]] are [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version of this trope. For the former, besides the various scripts he is shown reading for his job as well as his dialogue [[ImpliedTrope implying]] that he is very well read, he is shown reading an unknown red book in a dream of him and Charlotte raising a horse child away from civilization next to a lake with said daughter splashing happily with a [[FanserviceExtra shirtless human guy]] who could be a friend or boyfriend. For the latter, he is shown reading the book ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' with an added funny bonus of having him wearing reading glasses on his nose, suggesting that he is farsighted and requires reading glasses, while his sunglasses are still on his head.

** Twilight Sparkle tends to do everything by the book and is relatively obsessed with them. For a while, she even lived in a library until it was destroyed in "Twilight's Kingdom". She then proceeded to get a castle, which had an even bigger library. Twilight once literally had a slumber party by the book.
** Downplayed with Rainbow Dash. During the episode "Read It and Weep," Rainbow becomes a fan of the Daring Do series of adventure novels while recovering from a broken wing, but is ashamed to admit it. Past Season 4, Rainbow Dash becomes quite vocal about her love of that particular series, but tends to view reading in general as for "eggheads."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lisa Simpson. Her family doesn't understand her passion much. One episode had her uncle Herb paying her a subscription to books from Western canon. Oh, and she had a very passionate conversation about her love of books with her grandma Mona.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Kyle Broflovski is shown to like reading more than his friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000”, he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads several books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says “Will somebody take those books away from him?”. His bedroom also contains more books and academically inclined things than the other kids’ rooms do.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The title character becomes one as an indirect result of [[ItMakesSenseInContext having his TV privileges revoked for 1,000 years]]. Steven's friend Connie has been one from the start ([[EstablishingCharacterMoment she was seen reading a book]] when we first meet her) and appears to be the one who got him into reading.

** Would you believe that Frank Castle aka ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' was one of these as a child? The one-shot story ''The Tyger'' depicts him as a quiet yet bright child who preferred spending the Summer immersing himself in countless books over playing outside. Favoring poems in particular.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Kyle Broflovski is shown to like reading more than his friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000”, he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads several books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says “Will somebody take those books away from him?”.

[[caption-width-right:348:[[MeaningfulName Yomiko Readman]] picks up some light reading.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': While Sterling Archer is mostly known for partying and [[ReallyGetsAround womanizing]] during his free time, he is also shown to be an avid reader when no else is around. In one episode he chastises a female coworker to read a book and another episode shows him reading the Conquest of Mexico in bed [[ShirtlessScene wearing nothing from the waist up]] [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses except for a pair of glasses]] and possibly [[SleepsInTheNude nothing below the waist]] (although it it difficult to tell as he has a ModestyBedsheet covering him from the waist down) as can be seen [[https://twitter.com/verge/status/585067389781311489 here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'': Kevin Levin is given this characterization that can be seen in multiple episodes. In the Season 1 Episode 9 “Hero Time” he is seen standing in line along with Ben and Gwen reading a book called Darkfall which appears to be based on the ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' series. In the Season 1 Episode 17 “Nor Iron Bar a Cage” when Ben and Gwen search his room in an effort to try to locate him, books are strewn around his room with them on the floor, on his desk, and even a bookshelf full of them. In the Season 2 Episode 8 “Basic Training” when the trio are forced to go through training at the Plumbers’ Academy, Kevin spends his free time reading the Plumbers Handbook in an effort to get his father’s plumbers badge back. Even [[BookSmart Gwen]] noted that when he was imprisoned that he read a lot of books along being good at math and being knowledgeable in history. All examples have compiled and can be seen [[https://www.deviantart.com/silverlady7/art/Kevin-and-the-books-745679891 here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'': Since [[MrFanservice Martin and Chris Kratt]] are both scholars and zoologists, this should come as no surprise that they are both this trope. With [[MrFanservice Martin]] preferring books like ancient texts on fire salamanders, Greek mythology/religion, and classical fiction such as “The Jungle Book”. While [[MrFanservice Chris]] prefers books like Lewis and Clark’s expedition journal, the origins of an animal’s common name, and the scientific name of different animals in Latin or Ancient Greek.

* Several characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' fall under this. They include Arthur himself, as well as Alan "Brain" Powers. Others include:

* This is one of Ba Nee's main character traits in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. She's introduced as a book-loving ill girl who needs eye surgery or else she'll go blind. After her eyes recover, her characterization switches to focusing on finding the whereabouts of her DisappearedDad, but her passion for reading isn't completely ignored. She encourages the [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate]] Roxy to learn to read.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', Dorothy Ann is the prime example of this. She's never seen without her book bag and relies heavily on her books for knowledge.

* Edwin Carmichael, Susie's six-year-old brother from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E26ToothOrDarePartyAnimals Tooth or Dare]]", when Susie, Tommy, and Angelica ask him about the Tooth Fairy, they get to his bedroom, which has so many books that Angelica mistakes it for a library. He has a copy of ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' by Homer, and is reading about quantum physics when they walk in. He also wears glasses with extremely large frames (bigger than Chuckie's) to drive the point home.

* Kyle Broflovski from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is shown to like reading more than his friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000”, he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads several books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says “Will somebody take those books away from him?”.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' becomes one as an indirect result of [[ItMakesSenseInContext having his TV privileges revoked for 1,000 years]]. Steven's friend Connie has been one from the start ([[EstablishingCharacterMoment she was seen reading a book]] when we first meet her) and appears to be the one who got him into reading.
* Raven of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. The books she likes to read are probably ancient tomes filled to the brim with powerful magic spells that could [[BadassBookworm make her even more devastating in battle]], but she still loses her patience when no one will leave her alone to finish the story of a wizard's battle with a dragon...
* Walden from ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' happens to have books be one of his three specialties alongside science and art. When Wubbzy was asked about how Walden got so smart in his interview, he says "books, books, and more books!"
%% * Phoebe Hyerdahl of ''Hey Arnold'' fits as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': Malik, the intellectual of the bunch, enjoys reading.

* Played with in ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies''. Bibliomancers literally draw power from the books in their possession; they gain charges by acquiring new books, and unlike other adepts, how many charges they can hold is capped by the number of books they own. However, the actual ''content'' of the books is effectively meaningless - for them, it is the simple act of ''owning'' the books that grants them power. Dime-store pulp novels are just as important as the classics, though they gain stronger charges from books of greater monetary value. In a way, they're as greedy as the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Plutomancers]]; they just draw power from a different source of wealth.

* Kyle Broflovski from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is shown to like reading more than friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000”, he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says “Will somebody take those books away from him?”.

* Kyle Broflovski from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is shown to like reading more than friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000”, he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. He reads books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says “Will somebody take those books away from him?”.

* Kyle Broflovski from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is shown to like reading more than friends and he clearly reads for fun and knowledge as well. In “The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000”, he becomes so distraught after finding out that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. Kyle reads books about philosophy, reality, and science. Cartman even says “Will somebody take those books away from him?”.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Kaneki, Rize, Hinami, Tsukiyama, and Eto (Sen Takatsuki). The first three are fans of Takatsuki, Tsukiyama likes elegant and interesting reads most notably books about gourmet food, and Eto and Kaneki are shown in the calendar to bemoan not having anybody to talk with about books. Kaneki, being a HurtingHero tries to cope by keeping his nose buried in books.

* The Bookworms in ''The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids'' (and the sequel, ''Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kindness'').

* Nita from ''Literature/YoungWizards''. It's apparently very common for wizards.
* Flavia Gemina of ''Literature/TheRomanMysteries''

* Alex Aruda who appears in two of the ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' books. This kid is such a bookworm that he borrowed the teacher's personal dictionary to study for an upcoming spelling bee, in which the teacher furious that her book was "Stolen" had given all the kids detention until it is returned. The kids desperate for help went to Alex who not only admitted had the book but was so focused on reading it that he never even noticed what had been going on the whole time (Note: This lasted for about three days)

*** Sam always wanted to be a wizard, prefers being a steward, and uses "I read it in a book" as his {{catchphrase}}.

A character who just loves to read and collect books. They tend to be smarter, [[EndearinglyDorky nerdier]], and more into school than other characters, but some book enthusiasts are of average intelligence. They tend to wear glasses, and often have few interests other than reading. Expect them to put off doing chores or outings with friends to read, or for them to have few friends because they ignore or avoid others so they can sit down in a secluded area and indulge in their hobby of reading. They often carry one or more books with them, have [[BookshelfOfAuthority many bookshelves]] at home, and books are often scattered around their house. If wealthy, they may have a home library. Favorite haunts are new bookstores, used booksellers, and public libraries. May be in a GeniusBookClub.

A character who just loves to read and collect books. They tend to be smarter, nerdier, and more into school than other characters, but some book enthusiasts are of average intelligence. They tend to wear glasses, and often have few interests other than reading. Expect them to put off doing chores or outings with friends to read, or for them to have few friends because they ignore or avoid others so they can sit down in a secluded area and indulge in their hobby of reading. They often carry one or more books with them, have [[BookshelfOfAuthority many bookshelves]] at home, and books are often scattered around their house. If wealthy, they may have a home library. Favorite haunts are new bookstores, used booksellers, and public libraries. May be in a GeniusBookClub.

A character who just loves to read and collect books. They tend to be smarter, nerdier, and more into school than other characters, but some book enthusiasts are of average intelligence. They tend to wear glasses, and often have few interests other than reading. Expect them to put off doing chores or outings with friends to read, or for them to have few friends because they ignore or avoid others so they can sit down in a secluded area and indulge in their hobby of reading. They often carry one or more books with them, have [[BookshelfOfAuthority many bookshelves]] at home, and books are often scattered around their house. If wealthy, they may have a home library. Favorite haunts are new bookstores, used booksellers, and public libraries.

Intellectual types (such as TheSmartGuy or TheProfessor) are likely into high-brow academic literature and scholarly works, especially [[OlderIsBetter older]] works. Young characters may have the same bent if they're nerdy, but just as likely, they may love popular escapist fiction like trashy romances and thriller potboilers that intellectuals would sneer at.

A character who just loves to read and collect books. They tend to be smarter, nerdier, and more into school than other characters, but some book enthusiasts are of average intelligence. They tend to wear glasses, and often have few interests other than reading. Expect them to put off doing chores or outings with friends to read, or for them to have few friends because they ignore or avoid others so they can sit down in a secluded area and indulge in their hobby of reading. They have [[BookshelfOfAuthority many bookshelves]], and if wealthy, they may have a home library. Favorite haunts are new bookstores, used booksellers, and public libraries.