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** Peter Parker started out in his teenage years as an average-looking nebbish guy in glasses with an interest in science, burdened by poverty and taking care of his aunt. But he still managed to date three bombshells before marrying Mary-Jane, one of the most beautiful women in all of comics.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, canonical character Ponder Stibbons is pretty much the resident supernerd, a scholarly research wizard with an intellectual bent. Being forced out of the university to do hazardous and practical things in real life does not appeal to him very much but it is his fate that these excursions happen with depressing regularity. [[Fanfic/NatureStudies On one such mission]] he encounters ActionGirl, Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes, who is seemingly his complete opposite and well out of his league. He discovers Johanna has her own deep-down inner geek. She appreciates his competence in a crisis. Romance happens. [[note]]Eventually - after a few years - it results in marriage and children. At time of writing, their daughters are beginning to show their potential to move and shake things.[[/note]]

** ''Fanfic/DreamsScentedOfCoconutAndApple'': Lindsay moves to Cody's school and quickly becomes friends with him. When Tyler breaks up with her after forgetting his name one to many times, she starts trying to convince Cody to make a move on her.

** ''Fanfic/SecondChanceAtLove'': After everybody else from the show hooks up, Lindsay and Leshawna realize they both have feelings for the last single guy left, Cody [[spoiler: ,and both love him so much and are such good friends that they'd rather share him than leave one of the single.]]

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'' has an older, miserable Cody being sent back in time into his younger self to before season one of the show started [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong so he doesn't end up like he did]]. The changes he makes not only makes him a lot more friends, but also gets him the romantic attention of Lindsay.....[[LoveTriangle and Bridgette]].....[[ChickMagnet and possibly Courtney]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Flik is a bumbling inventor and Princess Atta is the Queen Ant's gorgeous but stressed out daughter. While it's strongly implied that Flik has liked her all along, Atta's just annoyed and frustrated with him since his inventions often cause more problems for the colony, and [[SlapStickKnowsNoGender injury to herself]]. No surprise, she warms up to him over the movie.

* ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'': [[spoiler: Chiba admits to Tokita that she loves him and towards the end, Konakawa is informed that they are getting married]].

->'''Betty''': Are all nerds [[IdealizedSex as good]] as you?\\

** Gwen however averts this in the worst possible way. Despite Cody being nothing but nice to her [[note]] He knows better from future/past experience that she will never be interested in him, so doesn't even try to pursue her romantically [[/note]] and even getting her and Trent together, she can't stand him on principal ''because'' he is a geek, and as far as she is concerned [[AggressiveCategorism all geeks are creeps and perverts who only pretend to care about girls to get in their pants.]]

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'' has an older, miserable Cody being sent back in time into his younger self to before season one of the show started [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong so he doesn't end up like he did]]. The changes he makes not only makes him a lot more friends, but also gets him the romantic attention of Lindsay.....[[LoveTriangle and Bridgette]].....[[LoveDodecahedron and possibly Courtney]].

** Gwen however averts this in the worst possible way. Despite Cody being nothing but nice to her [[note]] He knows better from future/past experience that she will never be interested in him, so doesn't even try to pursue her romantically [[/note]] and even getting her and Trent together, she can't stand him on principal ''because'' he is a geek, and as far as she is concerned [[AggressiveCatagorism all geeks are creeps and perverts who only pretend to care about girls to get in their pants.]]

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'' has an older Cody being sent back in time into his younger self when the show first started to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong make things better for himself this time]]. The changes he makes not only makes him a lot more friends, but also gets him the romantic attention of Lindsay.....[[LoveTriangle and Bridgette]].....[[LoveDodecahedron and possibly Courtney]].

->'''Betty''': Are all nerds as good as you?\\

->'''Kim:''' You're weird.\\
'''Ron:''' Kim!\\
'''Kim:''' Shhh. I like weird.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''

* ABugsLife: Flik is a bumbling inventor and Princess Atta is the Queen Ant's gorgeous but stressed out daughter. While it's strongly implied that Flik has liked her all along, Atta's just annoyed and frustrated with him since his inventions often cause more problems for the colony, and [[SlapStickKnowsNoGender injury to herself]]. No surprise, she warms up to him over the movie.

** By all accounts Peter Parker is an average-looking guy who is incredibly nerdy, he still managed to date three bombshells before marrying a supermodel.

** His cause is helped by the fact that most artists post-Steve Ditko have given him a significant amount of [[ProgressivelyPrettier male polish]].
--> ''[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic And to his great surprise/It seems she prefers guys/Who can kiss upside-down in the rain.]]''
** Also {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Universe]]. When Johnny Storm tells Peter that he met a hot girl from the world of Spider-Man, Peter starts listing off every super powered female he'd ever run into. Much to the annoyance of Gwen Stacy and the envy of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Johnny]], [[ComicBook/XMen Bobby]], and (again) [[BiTheWay Gwen Stacy]].

* Author [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4030350/Rufus-T-Serenity Rufus T. Serenity]] is certainly a fan of this trope. Many of his ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfics feature the geekier contestants (Cody, Harold, Cameron, etc) having girls considered far out of their league (Lindsay, Heather, Bridgette, etc) coming onto them.

'''Ron:''' Ah! K.P!\\

* Larisa from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' (who is openly stated to be the hottest girl in school) started going out with Landon after he helped her get a B- on a math quiz (more so that that [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he was willing to help her]] than because she actually passed). Despite her [[GoodBadGirl self-admitted promiscuity]], she has remained faithful to him the entire time they've been together (well over half a decade real world time), and there's no sign that they're going to break up any time soon.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, canonical character Ponder Stibbons is pretty much the resident supernerd, a scholarly research wizard with an intellectual bent. Being forced out of the university to do hazardous and practical things in real life does not appeal to him very much but it is his fate that these excursions happen with depressing regularity. [[Fanfic/NatureStudies On one such mission]] he encounters ActionGirl, Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes, who is seemingly his complete opposite and well out of his league. He discovers Johanna has her own deep-down inner geek. She appreciates his competence in a crisis. Romance happens. [[note]]Eventually - after a few years - it results in marriage and children. At time of writing, their daughters are beginning to sohw their potential to move and shake tihngs.[[/note]]

* [[AlphaBitch Stacy]] in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' eventually does genuinely fall for Spud, though she insists on keeping their relationship secret to uphold her reputation.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. [[LovableAlphaBitch Quinn]] gets an older, brainy tutor named David, and begins to become smarter as they work together over the summer. She falls for him and asks him out, but he turns her down, noting that she lacks the "depth" he looks for in a girl. Quinn is heartbroken, since David is pretty much the only guy to ever turn her down (or for that matter, the only one she ever seemed to like for more than just looks or popularity). Daria consoles her by pointing A) the guy is kind of a jerk for dismissing her so coldly and B) she's clearly ''developing'' depth if she's interested in a guy for personality over looks.

* The trope is played with slightly cynically in later ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' strips, as hopeless geek Gary is frequently pursued by various members of the comic's stunningly attractive female cast (plus at least one gay guy and one {{transsexual}}). However, not many of them like him ''for'' his geekiness; their reasons include his blushing, bumbling cuteness, his supposedly glamorous status as a (wannabe) artist, and his fabled skill at cunnilingus. Zii’s attraction to him fits the trope more closely, but she fights it furiously.

* A Go Daddy SuperBowl ad once had a smoking hot model making out with a nerd (who turns out to also play one of the background geeks from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''.) The reaction to it was pretty much universally negative, mainly because of the apparently intentionally disturbing close-ups and sound mixing.

* Deconstructed ''and'' played straight in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': IntrepidReporter [[BrainyBrunette Roxanne]] [[WhenSheSmiles Richie's]] camera guy Hal is introduced as a painfully awkward nerd who is completely in love with her, but she just sees him as a workmate. Later, [[spoiler:after he gets superpowers]] and makes his move, he's revealed to be an EntitledToHaveYou [[spoiler: [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic]]]] ManChild who doesn't take rejection well. [[DeconstructedTrope What?]] Just because he's a nerd and likes her doesn't automatically make him [[spoiler:a good person]] or secretly the man of her dreams. However, Roxanne eventually falls for Megamind, who's quite the "dweebie intellectual" himself.]]

* What the Wife did in ''Manga/SpottedFlower'' and likes to make the Husband remember that so he can be more confident in himself, despite being a hardore oraku, he got a girlfriend, had sex with her, they married, and now she's is expecting their child.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': We never get to see how it starts, but there's no mistaking that [[TheOjou Reimi]] [[LadyOfWar Jahana]] is secretly making time with [[RighthandHottie her personal assistant]], [[HollywoodNerd Washio.]] As seen during Chiho's escape attempt from the Jahana Building, where she stumbles across Reimi's private rooftop rose garden and [[InterruptedIntimacy finds them making out with each each other.]]

* Author [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4030350/Rufus-T-Serenity Rufus T. Serenity]] is certainly a fan of this trope. Many of his ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfics feature the geekier contestants (Cody, Harold, Cameron, etc) hooking up with girls girls that they far out of their league like Lindsay, Heather, Bridgette and so on.

* Author [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4030350/Rufus-T-Serenity Rufus T. Serenity]] is certainly a fan of this trope. Many of his [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama]] fanfics feature the geekier contestants (Cody, Harold, Cameron, etc) hooking up with girls girls that would normally be considered far out of their league like Lindsay, Heather, Bridgette and so on.