History Main / EndearinglyDorky

** Yamada herself is [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]], oblivious, [[TheDitz has an odd train of thought that continually baffles her friends]], and [[ThePigPen stuffs her face with so much food that crumbs on her face are standard.]] And she is indeed considered to be cute by many. When he isn't snarking at her, Ichikawa finds her weirdness endearing.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', protagonist Luz Noceda is a free-spirited, energetic, and has a deep nerdy love for all things fantasy. It was these qualities that made Amity Blight, who had a bit of geeky side herself, go from Luz's rival to her eventual girlfriend.

* ''Series/MyDEadEx'': Ben is very nerdy and charming because of it, for instance being genuinely surprised about scrapbooking not being a common pastime among fellow teenage boys.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Ron is a huge dork, and often an awkward and clumsy sidekick, but his loyalty to Kim and his unabashed optimism make him adorable. He's the trope namer for GiveGeeksAChance, as his popular and beautiful friend Kim eventually develops feelings for him: Kim admits Ron is weird, but she likes that about him.

* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'':

* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Amy Santiago is an intelligent and attractive detective who is straight-laced to the point of embarrassing herself in front of authority figures she wants to impress, gets excited about organization and research, and is a proud TeachersPet. Her typical reaction to receiving a compliment is to giggle like a 5-year-old. This contrasts her with her eventual love interest, the playful and rule-shirking Jake, who adores and supports her drive and brains and finds her enthusiastic nerdy awkwardness attractive. In fact, he [[spoiler:decides he wants to marry her]] after seeing her getting worked up over a ''crossword puzzle''.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'': Chelsea is considered by herself to be and is portrayed as an awkward, unattractive, loner. In reality, Chelsea's actually very pretty, if not at least average but nowhere near ugly and ends up having at least THREE different guys chasing after her in the first two seasons alone.

* In ''Film/TheEvilDead'', Ash is nerdy and constantly trips over his words, puts his foot in his mouth, and isn't much of an action hero, but Linda seems to like him for all these reasons.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:'' Yes, Steve Rogers himself. When in the cowl as Captain America, he's a square-jawed manly man type who can effortlessly punch out supervillains and command gods. Out of cowl, having to interact with a member of the opposite sex in a romantic situation... "deer in headlights" sums it up pretty well. And yet as Diamondback thinks, this actually makes him ''more'' attractive to her.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

** This was invoked by Carlie Cooper, when she was introduced as a replacement for Mary Jane after ''One More Day''. She was a science nerd like Peter and much of their apparent chemistry was derived from her being as smart and dorky as he is, [[CharacterShilling which the many]] ShipperOnDeck voices in-canon would insist made her perfect for Peter. The "endearing" part didn't really come out, though.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Being charmingly silly seems to run in la familia Madrigal.

** The Flash, despite his attempts to appear as a cool DeadpanSnarker ladies' man repeatedly shows himself to be a huge dork. He's actually a guy with a child-like enthusiasm for the world around him and his role as a superhero, with much of his attempts to appear cool and flirty being clearly an act that most others see through (Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl, for instance, see through his flirty banter and find him endearing), and quite often his inner dork cracks through (such as when he becomes infatuated with Fire and can barely talk to her).

* The protagonist of ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' by Creator/CTPhipps, Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without MercyTM is a motor mouthed geek that is, nevertheless, sincere in his love of both his friends as well as wife. Later, love interests (ex or otherwise) express that it was this trait that attracted them over more badass and competent people.