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6	Characters from the classic 80's comedy ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' with some backround information on the characters and some tropes they provide examples of.
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10	!The Nerds
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12	[[folder:Lewis Skolnick]]
13	The main nerd in the film. He starts out at Adams College with an optimistic attitude. He later learns to stand up for himself and "the rights of other nerds", as he puts it. Played by Creator/RobertCarradine.
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15	* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: He develops a thing for Betty Childs in the first film and has sex with her towards the end. He eventually marries her.
16	* AesopAmnesia: In third film, Lewis has to learn the exact same lesson as the first. Deconstructed in that Lewis went so far in denying being a nerd that he lost touch with his college friends and had a bitter falling out with Gilbert.
17	* BreakoutCharacter: He's TheLancer to Gilbert in the first movie, but becomes TheLeader in the second.
18	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Gilbert. He later becomes one with Booger, even being picked as best man for his wedding.
19	%%* LovableNerd
20	* MotiveDecay: So in the first movie he learns to be proud of being a nerd, and then in the second one he doesn't like being called a nerd? In the third, he's shed his nerd persona and ends up taking it back up again.
21	* NerdsAreSexy: "All jocks ever think about is sports, but all nerds ever think about is sex" gets him the girl in the end.
22	* NerdsAreVirgins: He actually loses his virginity in the movie though, to an Omega Mu.
23	%%* ProudToBeAGeek
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:Gilbert Lowe]]
27	Lewis' best friend, who starts at Adams at the exact same time. He has a habit of seeing the negative.
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29	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Just about every noteworthy character appears in the fourth movie - ''except'' Gilbert.
30	* DemotedToExtra: In the second movie, he doesn't go with the others thanks to a broken leg, only talking to them on the phone.
31	* EpicFail: He manages to break his leg offscreen ''during a chess match''.
32	* GiveGeeksAChance: He and Lewis make a speech about this at the end.
33	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lewis. They grew up together and share a room in their original dorm [[spoiler: until the Alphas throw everyone out after burning down their own house.]]
34	%%* LovableNerd
35	* ThePoorMansSubstitute: For a cameo in the third movie.
36	%%* ProudToBeAGeek
37	* StereotypicalNerd: Downplayed. He's got the stock nerd fashion sense, but his personality is rather low-key and he lacks the comical idiosyncrasies of his fellow tri-Lambs.
38	[[/folder]]
39
40	[[folder:Dudley "Booger" Dawson]]
41	! Played by Creator/CurtisArmstrong
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43	Booger, who's real name is Dudley Dawson, may not be a "traditional nerd" like the rest of them, but he's still an outcast. Also he's around as smart as the rest of the nerds.
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45	* AmbulanceChaser: In the third and fourth movies. He's literally chasing an ambulance at one point.
46	* {{Badbutt}}: Easily the toughest of the Lambdas.
47	%%* CanCrushingCranium
48	* TheCasanova: In the third and fourth movie it is implied that he's humped and dumped most of the Omega-Mus. This becomes a bit of a plot-point in the latter movie when he's accused of having fathered a child and can't be sure he didn't.
49	%%* DeadpanSnarker
50	* {{FunTShirt}}: Most notable would be "High On Stress" and "Gimme Head Til I'm Dead".
51	* GassHole. Oh, ''definitely''. His contest-winning belch, at over ten seconds long, [[JustHereForGodzilla was the moment of the film most fondly recalled]] by [[UsefulNotes/TheEighties Gen-X kids]].
52	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Lewis in the fourth movie.
53	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's boorish and actively tries to gross people out, but he's always there for his friends.
54	* LadykillerInLove: Despite his history of sleeping around, he is absolutely devoted to his finacée in the fourth movie.
55	%%* LovableSexManiac
56	%%* NerdsAreVirgins: Definitely averted.
57	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is very insistent on it.
58	* ThePigPen: He's got the poorest hygiene of the nerds. There's a reason he's called "Booger".
59	%%* ProudToBeAGeek
60	* SmokingIsCool: Not just cigarettes, either.
61	* TheStoner: He's generally seen smoking a joint. In the second film, while the group of Nerds are on a deserted island, he is delighted to find a marijuana tree.
62	[[/folder]]
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64	[[folder:Takashi Toshiro]]
65	* AsianAndNerdy: A Japanese student who has been put in with the rest of the nerds.
66	* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Speaks in a [[JapaneseRanguage ''ridiculous'' accent]].
67	* FunnyForeigner: Becomes obsessed with 'hair pie' after Booger's explanation, but most of the girls don't seem to understand what he's getting at or find him cutely harmless even after he's photographing up their skirts.
68	* SuperGullible: Believes anything people tell him, and thanks them for it.
69	[[/folder]]
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71	[[folder:Harold Wormser]]
72	* ChildProdigy: He's a preteen who's attending Adams college.
73	* DirtyKid: At the party with the Omega Mus, its shown that because of his height he's about eye-level with the girls' chests. He's quite pleased. He also gleefully partakes in the voyeuristic observation of the Pi's after the Nerds install secret cameras in their dorms.
74	%%* LastNameBasis
75	* MinorWithFakeID: He actually has a few in the second film, which he uses to buy beer. They backfire on him when they get arrested and the cops don't believe he's a minor.
76	* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Because his actor aged in the three years between films, he's noticeably older in the second film.
77	* TagalongKid: Because he's much younger than the others, being still a child while in college, he fills this role.
78	[[/folder]]
79
80	[[folder:Lamar Latrell]]
81	* BigBrotherInstinct: He's very close to Wormser
82	* BlackAndNerdy: The TokenMinority of the nerds.
83	* CampGay: To the point that the other nerds design a javelin specifically for his limp-wristed technique.
84	* GayBestFriend: He's the one gay guy in the Lambda house, but they don't treat him any different from the rest of the Tri-Lambs.
85	* TwoferTokenMinority: He's the token black and the token gay.
86	[[/folder]]
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88	[[folder:Arnold Poindexter]]
89	* BlindWithoutEm: Well, it's more like he's blind with em'.
90	* DreadfulMusician: To be fair he gets better as the movie goes on, right up until the talent show and he plays his SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
91	* JewishAndNerdy: WordOfGod says he was Jewish.
92	%%* LastNameBasis
93	%%* NerdsAreVirgins
94	[[/folder]]
95
96	[[folder:Judy]]
97	%%* BrainyBrunette
98	%%* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe
99	* LoveAtFirstSight: She and Gilbert fall for each other when they first meet in the computer lab.
100	%%* NerdsAreSexy
101	%%* WeaknessTurnsHerOn
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	[[folder:Connie]]
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106	%%* DistaffCounterpart: To Poindexter.
107	%%* EightiesHair: And how.
108	[[/folder]]
109
110	!The Popular Kids
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112	[[folder:Stan Gable]]
113	%%* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil
114	%%* BeautyIsBad
115	* BigManOnCampus: Two time All-American Quarterback, dating the head cheerleader and JerkJock. Realistically, a NFL team would have drafted him. It could be speculated that injuries may have killed his football career early.
116	%%* ClosetGeek: In the third movie.
117	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Revealing he's a ClosetGeek is deliberately played as like someone revealing being gay, including the phrase "coming out of the closet"]].
118	* EasilyForgiven: Played with in the third movie. Lewis is perfectly willing to put past bullying behind him, but Betty is apprehensive and Booger is outright antagonistic. After exonerating Lewis at the trial and [[spoiler:revealing he's a ClosetGeek]], though, everyone embraces him as a friend.
119	* EvenEvilHasStandards: After Lewis gets arrested, Betty asks him if he's trying to coerce her to get back with him in return for Lewis' freedom. He replies that he'd never try something like that.
120	* FriendlessBackground: Implied during the third movie. Stan tells Betty that no one has any real friends, just people who use each other before moving on.
121	* HeelFaceTurn: In the third movie when he realizes that he has some geeky tendencies (such as being able to operate a computer), he actually eventually sides with the nerds.
122	* JerkJock: In the first film, he's the captain of the football team and makes life hell for the nerds.
123	%%* NerdInEvilsHelmet: In the third movie.
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126	[[folder:Betty Childs]]
127	%%* AlphaBitch
128	* NerdsAreSexy: She thinks so near the end anyways.
129	* SexFaceTurn: After she and Lewis have sex, she realizes that she actually likes him due to his skill.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Frederick Aloysius "Ogre" Palowakski]]
133	* TheBrute: The largest of the Alphas, he is the muscle for them.
134	* CatchPhrase: "NERRRRRRRRRRRRDS!"
135	* DumbMuscle: He might be the main muscle of the Alphas, but he's pretty lacking in the brain department.
136	* JerkJock: In the first two films, he goes along with the Alphas in their torment of the nerds.
137	%%* LargeHam
138	* MookFaceTurn: In the second movie, the Alpha Betas strand him along with the nerds when they realize he won't keep quiet about their misdeeds, and he ends up bonding with the nerds and taking their side. At the end, he's made a Tri-Lamb proper.
139	* PopularIsDumb: As an Alpha Beta, he's pretty much a big, dumb, violent brute, and they make use of him as one. Subverted in the fourth movie, when an offhand comment about working with relief efforts in Africa suggests that he shaped up after joining the nerds.
140	%%* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Revealed to be one at the end of the second movie.
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142
143	[[folder:Suzy]]
144	%%* BeautyIsBad
145	%%* GirlPosse
146	[[/folder]]
147
148	!Other
149
150	[[folder:Coach Harris]]
151	Played by Creator/JohnGoodman
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153	* BigBad: He is the main antagonist of the first movie, as he was the one who instructed the Alpha Betas to commandeer the Nerds' house and keep antagonizing the Nerds at each and every turn.
154	* LargeHam: Being a football coach naturally, he yells a lot. But the orders and motivational speeches he carries out are mostly out of malicious intent against the nerds.
155	%%* SadisticTeacher
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	[[folder:Mr. Skolnick]]
159	Played by Creator/JamesCromwell
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161	Lewis' father.
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder:Edgar Po Wong/Master Snotty]]
165	Played by Creator/JamesHong
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167	* CoolOldGuy
168	* GassHole. Even more than Booger. In fact, he adopts this venerable gentleman as his mentor.
169	* ThePigpen. Booger is both disgusted and in awe of Snotty's appalling living conditions.
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171	[[/folder]]

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