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* AspergerSyndrome: Debated. Actor JimParsons believes Sheldon has Asperger's, but the creators remain mum, possibly to avoid the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] that nerds are necessarily Aspies.

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* AspergerSyndrome: *AmbiguouslyAutistic: Debated. Actor JimParsons believes Sheldon has Asperger's, but the creators remain mum, possibly to avoid the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] that nerds are necessarily Aspies.



** AmbiguouslyAutistic**



* ChasteHero: As far as being openly contemptious of any kind of sexual desire.



** Well, he does have an IQ of 187...



* StopHavingFunGuys: MostTriumphantExample?






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* [[spoiler: OfficialCouple: With Leonard, as of season three.]]

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* [[spoiler: OfficialCouple: With Leonard, as of for part season three.]]
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* NoSenseOfHumor

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** AmbiguouslyAutistic

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** AmbiguouslyAutisticAmbiguouslyAutistic**
As for [[UnfortunateImplications]], isn't Wolowitz more likely to attract that.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Has a ''bad'' case of this.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: To a degree; Sheldon isn't really a bad guy, but correspondingly to the RonTheDeathEater effect that Leonard can be subject to, Sheldon's character flaws, arrogance and {{JerkAss}} tendencies can be drastically downplayed.

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* EverythingIsRacist: To him.

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* EverythingIsRacist: To him.him...
* ForeignPeopleAreSexy: ...but he still tries to milk ''this'' for all it's worth.
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!'''Sheldon Cooper, Ph.D.''' (JimParsons)

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!'''Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D.''' (JimParsons)


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** AmbiguouslyAutistic
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\n** May vary '''a lot'''. On screen, Wolowitz favourite targets include the emotional fragiles, fat, drunk, ''blind'', or in need of a Green Card. Has a story of sexual abuses, steals pantshots via webcam, lies ''a lot''. And is not below "a little of necrophilia".
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* RonTheDeathEater: Is frequently turned into this in order to promote the Sheldon/Penny pairing.
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** Mee-Maw

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** Well, he does have an IQ of 187...



* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler

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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler Fowler.
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Aka Raj, the TokenMinority Indian guy. Unlike theoretical physicists Sheldon and Leonard, Raj is an astrophysicist.

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Aka Raj, the TokenMinority Indian guy. Unlike theoretical physicists physicist Sheldon and experimental physicist Leonard, Raj is an astrophysicist.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Sheldon tends to lapse into this when he veers away from physics and into the life sciences.
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** At the end of season 3, however, a dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, who is essentially a female version of himself--asexuality included. Though they clearly enjoy spending time together, and Amy quickly becomes very important to Sheldon (to the extent that her terminating their friendship led Sheldon to adopt a dozen cats), both insist that they are ''not'' dating, and that coitus is "off the table".

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** At the end of season 3, however, a dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, who is essentially a female version of himself--asexuality included. Though they clearly enjoy spending time together, and Amy quickly becomes very important to Sheldon (to the extent that her terminating their friendship led Sheldon to adopt a dozen ''twenty-five'' cats), both insist that they are ''not'' dating, and that coitus is "off the table".
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* SuperOCD: Don't sit on his favorite couch cushion, you'll smush it out of shape.

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* {{Asexuality}}: Sheldon is conspicuously uninterested in romance, and is one of those rare TV characters whose asexuality is made more or less explicit in-universe.
-->'''Penny:''' I know this is none of my business, but I just... I have to ask - what's Sheldon's deal?
-->'''Leonard:''' What do you mean, "deal"?
-->'''Penny:''' You know, like, what's his deal? Is it girls...? Guys...? Sock puppets...?

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* {{Asexuality}}: {{Asexual}}: Sheldon is conspicuously uninterested in romance, and is one of those rare TV characters whose asexuality is made more or less explicit in-universe.
-->'''Penny:''' I know this is none of my business, but I just... I have to ask - ask: what's Sheldon's deal?
-->'''Leonard:''' What do you mean, "deal"?
-->'''Penny:''' You know, like, what's his
deal? Is it girls...? Guys...? Sock puppets...?



* AspergerSyndrome: Debated. Actor JimParsons believes this about Sheldon but the creators remain mum, possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications.

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* AspergerSyndrome: Debated. Actor JimParsons believes this about Sheldon has Asperger's, but the creators remain mum, possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications.the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] that nerds are necessarily Aspies.



* ChildProdigy

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* (Former) ChildProdigy



Nebraska-born neighbor of Leonard and Sheldon, and waitress at the Cheesecake Factory. She aspires to be an actress.

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Nebraska-born neighbor of Leonard and Sheldon, Sheldon. She aspires to be an actress, and in the meantime is a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory. She aspires to be an actress.
Factory.
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** At the end of season 3, however, a dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, who is essentially a female version of himself--asexuality included. They continue to not-date into season 4, with the agreed-upon stipulation that coitus is "off the table".

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** At the end of season 3, however, a dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, who is essentially a female version of himself--asexuality included. They continue Though they clearly enjoy spending time together, and Amy quickly becomes very important to not-date into season 4, with Sheldon (to the agreed-upon stipulation extent that her terminating their friendship led Sheldon to adopt a dozen cats), both insist that they are ''not'' dating, and that coitus is "off the table".



* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Amy Farrah-Fowler

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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Dr. Amy Farrah-Fowler Farrah Fowler



* SpotlightStealingSquad: Leonard was intended to be the main character.

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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Leonard ''Leonard'' was intended to be the main character.

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* [[DesignatedHero Designated Protagonist]]: He's called a nice guy, but where are a majority of the nice things he's done not relating to getting a girl?

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* [[DesignatedHero Designated Protagonist]]: He's called a nice guy, "nice guy", and is clearly meant to be the audience identification figure, but where are a seems to channel the vast majority of his "niceness" into efforts to get a girl. He has behaved in morally dubious ways towards the nice things he's done not relating to getting a girl?people he calls his best friends.



** At the end of season 3, however, a dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah-Fowler, who is essentially a female version of himself--asexuality included. They continue to not-date into season 4, with the agreed-upon stipulation that coitus is "off the table".

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** At the end of season 3, however, a dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah-Fowler, Farrah Fowler, who is essentially a female version of himself--asexuality included. They continue to not-date into season 4, with the agreed-upon stipulation that coitus is "off the table".



* BerserkButton: [[WilWheaton WIL WHEATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!]]

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* BerserkButton: [[WilWheaton WIL WHEATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!]]WHEATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!]]
* ChildProdigy



Of the four male leads, the only one without a doctorate. As an addition signifier of his status as the loser of the group, he lives at home with his mother.

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Of the four male leads, the only one without a doctorate. (He has a master's in engineering from [=MIT=], and is an aeronautical engineer.) As an addition signifier of his status as the loser of the group, he lives at home with his mother.



* NerdNanny



* ValleyGirl

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* ValleyGirl

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* {{Asexuality}}: [[spoiler: Played with at the end of season 3, where he actually lands a date -- whose personality is the female equivalent of himself. However, one of the stipulations with that date was "no possibility of coitus".]]
* AspergerSyndrome: Debated, Jim Parsons believes this about Sheldon but the creators remain num, possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications.

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* {{Asexuality}}: [[spoiler: Played with at Sheldon is conspicuously uninterested in romance, and is one of those rare TV characters whose asexuality is made more or less explicit in-universe.
-->'''Penny:''' I know this is none of my business, but I just... I have to ask - what's Sheldon's deal?
-->'''Leonard:''' What do you mean, "deal"?
-->'''Penny:''' You know, like, what's his deal? Is it girls...? Guys...? Sock puppets...?
-->'''Leonard:''' Honestly, we've been operating under the assumption that he ''has'' no deal.
-->'''Penny:''' Come on, everyone has a deal.
-->'''Wolowitz:''' Not Sheldon.
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the end of season 3, where he actually lands however, a date -- whose personality dating service matches him with Dr. Amy Farrah-Fowler, who is the essentially a female equivalent version of himself. However, one of the stipulations himself--asexuality included. They continue to not-date into season 4, with the agreed-upon stipulation that date was "no possibility of coitus".]]
coitus is "off the table".
* AspergerSyndrome: Debated, Jim Parsons Debated. Actor JimParsons believes this about Sheldon but the creators remain num, mum, possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications.

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* DesignatedProtagonist: He's called a nice guy, but where are a majority of the nice things he's done not relating to getting a girl?

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* DesignatedProtagonist: [[DesignatedHero Designated Protagonist]]: He's called a nice guy, but where are a majority of the nice things he's done not relating to getting a girl?



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* [[spoiler: SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In the fourth season premiere.]]

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* [[spoiler: SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In the fourth season premiere.]]Amy Farrah-Fowler



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Aka Raj, the TokenMinority Indian guy.

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Aka Raj, the TokenMinority Indian guy.

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guy. Unlike theoretical physicists Sheldon and Leonard, Raj is an astrophysicist.



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The neighbor of Leonard and Sheldon and waitress at the Cheesecake Factory. She aspires to be an actress.

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The Nebraska-born neighbor of Leonard and Sheldon Sheldon, and waitress at the Cheesecake Factory. She aspires to be an actress.

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* DesignatedProtaginist: He's called a nice guy, but where are a majority of the nice things he's done not relating to getting a girl?

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* DesignatedProtaginist: DesignatedProtagonist: He's called a nice guy, but where are a majority of the nice things he's done not relating to getting a girl?
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** There's a PeripheryDemographic of Aspies who like him as well. {{Adam}}, ''Mozart And The Whale'', and even the irreverent BostonLegal featured AS PlayedForDrama with WallBanger results and truckloads of FlameBait. Compared to some depictions, Sheldon is an AffectionateParody.
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* AspergerSyndrome: Debated, Jim Parsons believes this about Sheldon but the creators remain num, possibly to avoid UnfortunateImplications.
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* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In the fourth season premiere.

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* [[spoiler: SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In the fourth season premiere. premiere.]]
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* BerserkButton: [[WilWheaton WIL WHEATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!]]
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* InformedAbility: Sheldon's intellectual superiority to everyone else on the show, which has been undermined to varying degrees by events in several episodes.

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* {{Asexuality}}: [[spoiler: Jossed at the end of season 3, where he actually lands a date -- whose personality is the female equivalent of himself.]]
** Not exactly, [[spoiler: One of the stipulations with that date was "no possibility of coitus". It's purely platonic socializing.]]

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* {{Asexuality}}: [[spoiler: Jossed Played with at the end of season 3, where he actually lands a date -- whose personality is the female equivalent of himself.]]
** Not exactly, [[spoiler: One
himself. However, one of the stipulations with that date was "no possibility of coitus". It's purely platonic socializing.coitus".]]

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