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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fic ''Fanfic/ThreeTestsOfValor'' Lindsay, a gorgeous curvaceous [[EverybodyLovesBlondes blonde]] is head over heels in love with Harold, an expy of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' not in spite of being a massive dork, but ''because'' of it. She tells him that she's 'always' been more attracted to nerds than the jocks her friends told her she should like.

* Cyrus from ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' is a handsome and charming scholar who is also hilariously [[CluelessChickMagnet completely oblivious to the gushing of women around him]]. He even manages to get [[BellyDancer Primrose]] to like him, and seducing people is ''her entire job''. She herself points out that women find intellectual men like him attractive, but she can't figure out if he is {{troll}}ing or genuinely guileless and doesn't understand the signals he sends out.

%%* All the time on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. Not only are they all HollywoodHomely, but they all really appreciate one another's giant, sexy brains.

* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' takes this to the logical extreme -- Amaranth is a physically perfect nymph, naked except for her glasses, who believes in science in a world of [[{{Magitek}} magic-based technology]]. Beyond the mere nudism, nymphs in MU follow the more ''open'' version in regards to sex and sexuality (the ultimate origin of the term ''nymph''omania) -- although Amaranth treats it as an enjoyable part-time job/chore more than anything.
** It's later discovered this is because of a teenage geek messing with the process that created her, creating the ultimate geek fantasy girl -- a confident, polite nudist who will put up with ANYTHING and literally can't get enough sex. Oh, and she's a geek, too. Unfortunately, he was too shy to talk to her afterward, which left her in the dark about the whole thing.

* Hephaestos in ''Literature/ThaliasMusings''. Also all of the Muses, Thalia included, Athena, Apollo, and Aglaia are very smart and well educated. But being gods they also are exceedingly attractive.

* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' takes this to the logical extreme -- Amaranth is a physically perfect nymph, naked except for her glasses, who believes in science in a world of [[{{Magitek}} magic-based technology]]. Beyond the mere nudism, nymphs in MU follow the more ''open'' version in regards to sex and sexuality (the ultimate origin of the term ''nymph''omania) -- although Amaranth treats it as an enjoyable part time job / chore more than anything.

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* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'''s Ryusei Date is the epitome of otakuness, having more interest in the features of whichever {{Fembot}} was currently in the hangar than real girls. Nevertheless, Latooni Subota and Mai Kobayashi fall for him, the former going as far as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fh1LghX9U imitating his geeky speech out of affection.]] [[CelibateHero Ryusei himself doesn't seem to mind, though.]]
* Philia Felice from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' is a really nerdy priestess, complete with nerd glasses, who has a penchant of inventing self-made bombs. However, that turns out to be one of her charms ([[LampshadeHanging she also admits that she's plain looking without her glasses]]), including her nice personality as well as [[Creator/KikukoInoue her voice]].

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': In the 15-minute short ''Expiration Date'', Scout explains that this is the reason behind his long-standing crush on the team's [[OfficeLady secretary]]/[[AlmightyJanitor assistant]]/[[CleanupCrew cleaner]] [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Miss_Pauling Miss Pauling]]. He describes her as a classy lady who smells nice, reads, and always has her glasses on a little crooked...
* Bespectacled astrophysics student-turned-time-traveling ninja Sasuke Sarutobi of ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'' is one of the game's romanceable guys. In his route, the female main character falls for him not just because of his [[NiceGuy kindness]], [[TheComicallySerious quirky sense of humor]], and [[DevotedToYou sincere desire to make her happy]], but also because of his intelligence and unquenchable thirst of learning that he's more than happy to let her participate in. She even admits to him in one ending that she was disappointed he didn't stay dressed in his lab coat for their date.

* ''Webcomic/NerdAndJock'': Tiger has a huge crush on Nerd, to the point that anything he does that is slightly cute makes her blush, and anything hot (such as him taking his top off) completely impedes her ability to think. The two are currently serving as the trope image.

* Moira and Nanetta in ''Webcomic/TalesOfGnosisCollege'' both seem to fit this trope.

* In ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'', Larisa's sudden [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/10/24/0319-larisa-is-not-aware-of-the-ladder-theory/ attraction]] to Landon seems like just a joke. [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2012/05/21/0378-a-walk-through-the-park/ It's not.]]
* Donovan from ''Webcomic/SilverBulletNights.'' He's short, wears old-fashioned glasses and talks like a middle-aged professor. Despite this, he has no problem [[spoiler: picking up a tall, dark and handsome stranger.]] Of course, it helps that Donovan is attractive in a nerdy sort of way. Kind of geek-meets-twink.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'', Ally and Alan are complete geeks over fighting games, and both are sexualised. Ally even attends conventions and cosplays. Moreover Lisa speculates that all practitioners of BDSM are in a way nerds, because (as the comic shows) the advanced stuff uses so much thought and attention to be done safely you naturally have to be an enthusiast type.
* Fuchsia of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' certainly thinks so, if [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-29 her portraits]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-27 of Criminy]] are any indication.
* ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' has a few ''sexy'' losers:
** Alice thinks so. [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/217 One strip]] sees her fantasizing about a guy looking hot while rolling his dice in D&D.
** Adam is sexy and a ClosetGeek, but when some girls found out he had nerdy hobbies [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/397 it made them like him more]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Whereas the previous incarnations of [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses Velma's]] character were HollywoodPudgy, ''"Mystery Incorporated"'' slimmed down her figure and portrayed her as being sexually aggressive. Shaggy even dated her[[note]]until they broke up, due to Scooby's jealousy[[/note]] and had to admit she was the one thing he'd choose over food. And for a BigEater like Shaggy, that's literally saying a mouthful!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', Janine has a crush on nerdy Egon for his high intelligence. So do a handful of minor female characters. Janine's crush was a holdover from the movie where she is quite blatantly hitting on Egon, and Egon is either clueless or doing a good job pretending he's clueless.
* Used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. After seeing [[CueTheFlyingPigs hell freeze over]] we are treated to a nerd dancing around in his underwear, gleefully singing about getting laid ([[{{Irony}} mis-spelling laid as layed as he does so]]). The hot girl in bed states, in a rather matter of fact manner, that she thinks nerds are hot.
* Tecna from ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', though her boyfriend is even more of a nerd than she is.
* Winston Dunsworth from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had this appeal InUniverse in the episode "A Bad Case Of Diary-Uh!" with teenage girls who attended Vicky's high school.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' nerd Neil dates Cicillia, who thinks his psoriasis is sexy.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Artie Ziff was considered the hottest guy in school and popular among the ladies despite having the look of a stereotypical nerd.

* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Immediately following the Ryoko incident, Kyon [[FreudianSlip let it slip]] that he has a [[GlassesAreSexy glasses fetish]], when he tried to hide it by telling Yuki she looked cuter ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial without them.]]'' Despite her confusion, she takes him at his word and goes without them for the remainder of the series.
* ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'': While Saya is undeniably cute and has a stunning figure, Hirano doesn't become attracted to her until he finds out she wears glasses. She even caught him [[CovertPervert perving on her]], in chapter 5, and booted him for it. He's clearly shown being awestruck and turned on by [[MrExposition just how smart she is.]]

* Taken to the extreme as the premise of ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows''. Keima Katsuragi is a [[ProudToBeAGeek proud nerd]] who spends all his time playing video games and prefers 2D girls over real girls. Yet his vast knowledge of {{Dating Sim}}s has made him [[TheCasanova an expert at getting girls to fall in love with him]] (in order for him to exorcise the evil spirits possessing them... ItMakesSenseInContext!), all the while remaining an unrepentant otaku. Not to mention he is pretty good looking and dresses pretty properly. It's hinted that a lot of the girls are impressed by his defiance of authority, even if the defiance comes through geeky activities that they don't really approve of.
* Professor Kiyama Harumi from ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', and she is thought of as this even before she started stripping in public... [[RunningGag again.]]
* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'': Frederica Greenhill had been carrying the torch for the socially awkward Yang Wenli ever since she first met him.

* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', Jane makes out with Benny immediately after Benny showed off his hacking skills.
* Kobachi Osaragi from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' looks rather nerdy at first glance, with her large OpaqueNerdGlasses and conservative uniform, but she's actually considered to be one of (if not the) hottest girls in the entire school.
* Played with in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' as while Brief isn't considered attractive by Panty or Stocking at first and they don't generally care about him, in episode 12 when Brief pulls back his hair, Panty has him as a LoveInterest and attempts to have sex with him at first only to fail due to Brief being BiggerIsBetterInBed, but they succeed later on.
* Richard from ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' is the most attractive human being Seigi has ever seen and draws incredible attention from everyone... but he reads grammar books for fun and has a master's degree from Cambridge.
* In ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', Mira took an interest in Ao due to the latter's passion for astronomy, or, in other words, Ao being an astronomy geek. While the current relationship between the two is rather {{ambiguous|lyGay}}, Mira originally had a crush on Ao because Mira mistook Ao for a boy.

* ''Cherry Comics'': Ellie Dee, who manages to nail the science teacher all of the girls are lusting after.
* This is practically the mission statement behind ''Comicbook/GoldDigger,'' a comic about Gina Diggers a really hot, really ... [[ReallyGetsAround "friendly"]] woman who's also a bespectacled supergenius, and her friends, many of whom are just as hot and almost as smart as she is (though they're generally less nerdy).

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku quickly becomes a CluelessChickMagnet thanks to being one of the ripped guys in his year and his warm, friendly personality. His tendency to ramble on and on as a self-professed "super nerd" does nothing to detract from his status as "the sexiest dork at Beacon".
* In ''Fanfic/AnInsecureViolet'', Kyoka finds her boyfriend, Izuku, to be pretty handsome despite his nerdy and plain appearance. It also helps that he's pretty ripped and [[CovertPervert is always ready to see him shirtless]].

* ''Film/MeanGirls'''s Miss Norbury, Kevin, and Cady. Part of Cady's conflict is that she dumbs herself down to get a cute boy to tutor her.

* ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'' has Janie who is supposedly nerdy even though all she really does is paint, wear overalls, wear glasses, and has a ponytail.
* There is a scene in a used bookshop in ''Film/TheBigSleep'': Humphrey Bogart spends an afternoon in an antiquarian bookshop with the clerk (Dorothy Malone). An unexpected rainstorm, a bottle of rye, and the line "I'd rather get wet in here", transforms Malone from book-worm to babe, who closes the shop an hour early (and the film fades to black).

* Film/{{Tanguy}} is a nerdy intellectual but he manages to chat up attractive girls (mostly Asian ones) with ridiculous ease.

* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles Xavier has mastered the art of transforming his knowledge of genetics into successful flirtation methods.
* 16-year-old Ally Hayden in ''Film/TRexBackToTheCretaceous'' definitely ''looks'' hot.
* ''Film/AndYouThoughtYourParentsWereWeird'': Beth is attracted to Josh specifically because he's a computer/robotics genius.
* Amy in ''Film/TimeAfterTime'' is attracted by the nerdy Creator/HGWells character.

* ''Film/AmericanPie'''s Nadia is established to be attracted to geeks. The only reason Jim doesn't get with her in the first movie is [[JizzedInMyPants that he's too nervous with her]]. Despite this, she tries it on with him in the second movie, only for him to eventually rebuff her when he realises how he feels about Michelle, who is herself quite geeky. Nadia has to make do with Sherman at the party. In fact, the last film implies that Nadia is not completely over Jim.
* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'': Spencer is a self-described teenage nerd who gets TrappedInTVLand as his video game avatar, the [[HeroicBuild muscular]] [[TheAce Ace]] Dr. Smolder Bravestone. When he confesses his feelings to Martha and admits his anxiety over returning to the real world, she tells him that she's not interested in his over-the-top video game persona but really likes him as a nerd. They get a RelationshipUpgrade at the end.
* ''Film/GlassOnion'': The suave, well-dressed, and handsome Dr. Lionel Toussaint. His friend Birdie comments that he's too good-looking to be a scientist.

* Fiore from Moony Witcher's ''LaBambinaDellaSestaLuna'' ("The Girl of the Sixth Moon") is a typical know-all, with special interest in history and Latin (she really likes to show her knowledge of Latin phrases). At the same time, she's beautiful, romantic and sometimes demonstrates a sense of humor. Given that Fiore means "flower" in Italian, this seems to be a case of MeaningfulName.
* In ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', it is stated that Jones, the sonar technician of the ''USS Dallas'', because of his nerdy looks and knowledge, gets enough action on the beach to "wear down a squad of marines".

* Joseph Carrion in the ''Literature/MediochreQSethSeries'' doesn't seem that nerdy [[OvershadowedByAwesome next to Mediochre]], but he's still a PopCulturedBadass, university professor, scientist and former TeenGenius, and is described as well-built and handsome.

* ''Literature/TheMartian'': Beth Johannesen is the computer specialist on ARES 3, and has a double doctorate in computer science and electrical engineering. She is also repeatedly referred to as extremely attractive; her poster is the best-selling piece of NASA merch ever, and according to Venkat decorates every teenage nerd in the world's bedroom wall.

* From the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', we have Billy Cranston, the original Blue Ranger, who got more romantic subplots than pretty much any Ranger in the history of the franchise (''damn'') but was played by David Yost, who is incredibly charming and built like a plow horse.

* [[http://oceanup.com/legacy/2009/05/26/david-henrie-selena-gomez-blond.jpg David Henrie]], who plays Justin, in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. He's the nerdy boy that builds robots, collects action figures, and can't do more pull-ups than his younger sister. Surprisingly (or not), in the show [[UnwantedHarem he has a lot of girlfriends]].
** Zeke is also a nice looking nerd. In an episode, dozens of supermodels want to play "Dungeons and Dragons" with him and Justin, rather than parade on the stage.
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' is this in a nutshell, seeing as Eureka is a town full of super geniuses/nerds. Good examples are Zane and Henry. Claudia Donovan counts if you include both Warehouse 13/Eureka crossovers.
* Ben Wyatt in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' is into math, model trains, skinny ties, plaid shirts, and ''Game of Thrones'', but that doesn't stop Leslie Knope, Shauna Malwae-Tweep, Marlene Griggs-Knope, and Joan Callamezzo from hitting on/chasing after him.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Castiel, despite being labeled in-universe as "nerd angel", is also referred to as "sexy" and "pretty" by demon, angel, and human alike.
** Sam Winchester fits this trope almost too well.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** The spin-off series has [[HotLibrarian Fred (Winifred)]], the nerdy yet cute science girl who joined the cast late in the second season. During the third season, her sexy nerdiness had Wesley and Gunn fighting over her for half the season. This was {{lampshaded}} in the famous scene in "[[Recap/AngelS04E07ApocalypseNowish Apocalypse Nowish]]" where Lilah Morgan dresses up in NerdGlasses and GirlishPigtails to taunt Wesley over his attraction to Fred.
--->'''Lilah:''' Did it turn you on? Watching her up there in front of all those brainiacs knowing she was the smartest one in the room?"
** Played with briefly when David Nabbit gives Angel financial advice in "[[Recap/AngelS02E03FirstImpressions First Impressions]]".
---> '''David:''' Oh. That's easy. You could look into seller financing, take over the owner's payments and skip the bank completely, or you could make a play for a preservation grant. Offer to restore the original décor and get the city and the feds to give you a tax break and a loan at a sweetheart rate. Or you could apply for an FHA and get a PMI in lieu of a down payment.\\
''[everyone stares]''\\
'''Cordelia:''' [[GeekyTurnOn Is anybody else getting warm?]] Do that 'tax breaks,' FHA and PMI part again.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** The show presents an AlternateRealityEpisode in which Samantha Carter is a frumpy, awkward nerd. Alternate O'Neill still thinks she's hot.
** In the main Franchise/StargateVerse, Daniel Jackson is paired up (or at least implied to have paired up) more often than anyone else in the series. O'Neill even comments on this once.
---> '''O'Neill''': Man, that kid's got a way with women.
* On ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'', Charlie asks Amita on their first date after she solves a particularly tricky mathematical analysis. Later they find out that math is really all they have to talk about, but this doesn't seem to be a problem since they're [[OfficialCouple still together]].
** And FBI agent Megan has a relationship with professor Larry.
** Ahem, "Luckily, I speak l33t," "That's so hot."
* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Series/{{The IT Crowd}}'' when Roy and Moss make a NerdsAreSexy calendar and it ends up being less "hot supermodel with glasses" and more "fat bloke with his shirt off".

* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Singled Out", the team was looking for a killer who believed in this trope, and Ziva goes undercover as a nerd in an attempt to identify him.
** This also comes into play with just about every girl who falls for "Timmy" [=McGee=], annoying the hell out of [[TheCasanova Tony]].
* In ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', there's an episode where Rory is seen sitting in the college cafeteria wearing a t-shirt with the logo, "Reading is Sexy." Considering she wears it while thinking about Logan, the third guy in the series she's attracted to for his intellect, it is a reflection of what she honestly believes.
* Dr. Spencer Reid of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' graduated from high school at 12, had two [=BAs=] by 16, has an IQ of 187, and an eidetic memory. In one episode, fellow profiler Hotch mentions that he "was propositioned by every prostitute we talked to."
** It becomes something of a running gag that sex workers hit on Reid.

* As Scully of ''Series/TheXFiles'' says of the two scientists in "War of the Coprophages" who walk off into the sunrise together: "Smart is sexy".
* ''Series/UglyBetty'' gets a lot of it. The title character may be cute and even beautiful upon certain occasions, but her sexy turns on only in the last few episodes of the series. Most of her boyfriends are often the embodiment of the trope, with nerdy accountant Henry having some serious male model-like body going for him.

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has Felicity Smoak, the Oracle to Oliver Queen's Batman. She is tech savvy and innovative enough to thoroughly impress the crew at Star Labs in the first of a few crossovers with ''Series/TheFlash2014'' and if it wasn't apparent already, the LittleBlackDress she rocks on a double date with Barry, Iris and Eddie seals it- the woman is a FOX. Very telling is the fact that besides her brief flirtation with Barry Allen, she's had both Oliver(Arrow) and Ray Palmer (Atom,) two billionaire superheroes, in love with her almost from the word go.
** Ray himself counts. His TallDarkAndHandsome appearance, [[TheSmartGuy intelligence]], and love for ''Series/DoctorWho'' were all reasons Felicity listed as to why he was practically the perfect man. He's a contender for ''the'' nerdiest character in the Arrowverse, played by an actor who once portrayed ''[[{{Hunk}} Superman]]''. That in itself should indicate how much he qualifies.
** Cisco in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' is no slouch in the department himself. [[DatingCatwoman Lisa Snart]] even outright says "smart is sexy" when he gives her the name Golden Glider, and it's repeatedly shown that she genuinely finds him charming.
** Clark Kent, as noted above--he's a total dork who is dating (later married to) Lois Lane, Cat Grant almost literally drools all over him, Lena Luthor flirts with him a little, and Alex Danvers (who comes out as lesbian later in the season) thinks he smells terrific.

* In ''Series/BeautyAndTheGeek'', just about every season one or two of the Beauties would wind up hooking up with one or two of the Geeks.

%%* All the time on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. Not only are they all HollywoodHomely, but they all really appreciate one another's giant, sexy brains.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Fitz and Simmons both have their dorky moments, and each one is attracted to the other's intellect. At one point they compare their growing desire for each other to the concept of "the singularity in transhumanism".
-->'''Simmons''': Just to be clear... are you comparing us sleeping together to crossing the event horizon? \\
'''Fitz''': Yeah.\\
'''Simmons''': It's quite lovely when you think about it like that.

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* The inhabitants of WebSite/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.

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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'': When Connor and Dave created a sorting algorithm deciding the hottest girl in Degrassi, Clare is ranked ''3rd''. Pretty good given she's supposed to be the plain jane girl next door type.

* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Immediately following the Ryoko incident, Kyon [[FreudianSlip let it slip]] that he has a glasses fetish, when he tried to hide it by telling Yuki she looked cuter ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial without them.]]'' Despite her confusion, she takes him at his word and goes without them for the remainder of the series.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Immediately following the Ryoko incident, Kyon [[FreudianSlip let it slip]] that he has a glasses fetish, when he tried to hide it by telling Yuki she looked cuter ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial without them.]]'' Despite her confusion, she takes him at his word and goes without them for the remainder of the series.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fic ''Fanfic/ThreeTestsOfValor'' Lindsay, a gorgeous curvaceous [[EverybodyLovesBlondes blonde]] is head over heels in love with Harold, an expy of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' not in spite of being a massive dork, but ''because'' of it. She tells him that shes 'always' been more attracted to nerds than the jocks her friends told her she should like/

* In the ''/WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fic ''Fanfic/ThreeTestsOfValor'' Lindsay, a gorgeous curvaceous [[EverybodyLovesBlondes blonde]] is head over heels in love with Harold, an expy of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' not in spite of being a massive dork, but ''because'' of it. She tells him that shes 'always' been more attracted to nerds than the jocks her friends told her she should like/

* [[{{Meganekko}} Ami Mizuno]] from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is somewhat popular among her peers for her looks and brains, she got a love letter in a side story although she didn't react very well to it. This is more present in the anime.

Compare EndearinglyDorky, where characters are charmed by dorks (who may or may not be nerds as well). See also HotLibrarian, GeekyTurnOn, BespectacledCutie, GlassesAreSexy, {{Nerdcore}}, LovableNerd and GiveGeeksAChance. Racial/nerd tropes like JewishAndNerdy and AsianAndNerdy are examples of ethnicities associated with intelligence where partners might be sought out.

Compare EndearinglyDorky, where characters are charmed by dorks (who may or may not be nerds as well). See also HotLibrarian, GeekyTurnOn, BespectacledCutie, GlassesAreSexy, {{Nerdcore}}, LovableNerd and GiveGeeksAChance. Racial/nerd tropes like JewishAndNerdy and AsianAndNerdy may be a reason for a character to single out specific ethnic partners.

Compare EndearinglyDorky, where characters are charmed by dorks (who may or may not be nerds as well). See also HotLibrarian, GeekyTurnOn, BespectacledCutie, GlassesAreSexy, {{Nerdcore}}, LovableNerd and GiveGeeksAChance and various racial/nerd tropes like JewishAndNerdy and AsianAndNerdy.

Compare EndearinglyDorky, where characters are charmed by dorks (who may or may not be nerds as well). See also HotLibrarian, GeekyTurnOn, BespectacledCutie, GlassesAreSexy, {{Nerdcore}}, LovableNerd and GiveGeeksAChance. Sometimes [[JewishAndNerdy overlaps]] with GentileJewChaser if the attraction is also in part ''because'' they're Jewish.

Compare EndearinglyDorky, where characters are charmed by dorks (who may or may not be nerds as well). See also HotLibrarian, GeekyTurnOn, BespectacledCutie, GlassesAreSexy, {{Nerdcore}}, LovableNerd and GiveGeeksAChance. Sometimes [[JewishAndNerdy overlaps]] with MatzoFever.

* In the ''/WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fic ''Fanfic/ThreeTestsOfValor'' Lindsay, a gorgeous [[GagBoobs curvaceous]] [[EverybodyLovesBlondes blonde]] is head over heels in love with Harold, an expy of ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'' not in spite of being a massive dork, but ''because'' of it. She tells him that shes 'always' been more attracted to nerds than the jocks her friends told her she should like/

* From the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' we have Billy Cranston, the original Blue Ranger, who got more romantic subplots than pretty much any Ranger in the history of the franchise (''damn'') but was played by David Yost, who is incredibly charming and built like a plow horse.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''

** Cisco in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' is no slouch in the department himself. [[DatingCatwoman Lisa Snart]] even outright says "Smart is sexy" when he gives her the name Golden Glider, and it's repeatedly shown that she genuinely finds him charming.

* In ''Series/BeautyAndTheGeek'' just about every season one or two of the Beauties would wind up hooking up with one or two of the Geeks.