◊A sample of The Geek Hierarchy
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."So if they call you a dork
A spazz or a geek
Stand up and be proud
don't be meek (hey!)
Beautiful people
Haven't you heard
The joke's on you
It's revenge of the nerds"
A spazz or a geek
Stand up and be proud
don't be meek (hey!)
Beautiful people
Haven't you heard
The joke's on you
It's revenge of the nerds"
— Revenge of the Nerds theme.
Tropes about nerds, geeks, and their various aspects.
Tropes:
- Adorkable: When the audience thinks a nerdy character is cute.
- Asian and Nerdy: An (East) Asian character is depicted as a nerd.
- Bollywood Nerd: A nerd of Indian or South Asian descent.
- Badass Bookworm: Who said nerds can't kick ass?
- Basement-Dweller: A grown man with no life who still lives with his mother and wastes his time online geeking out over his fandoms.
- Bespectacled Cutie: A sweet, dorky bespectacled character that's adorable because of their glasses.
- Black and Nerdy: A nerd of Black African descent.
- Character-Driven Strategy: How they play board games, card games, video games and so on reflects on a person's character.
- Closet Geek: Someone who hides their affiliation with a certain fandom.
- Converted Fanboy: A normal character is persuaded to try something nerdy and winds up liking it.
- Cute Bookworm: A nerd who's very cute.
- Dork in a Sweater: Dorks who wear sweaters.
- Endearingly Dorky: Endearingly socially awkward and dorky.
- Even Nerds Have Standards: Nerds have limitations on their habits.
- Evil Nerd: A nerd who is evil, usually because of having been bullied too much.
- Extracurricular Enthusiast: Someone who's involved in lots of extracurricular activities.
- Extraverted Nerd: A nerd denies their unpopularity.
- Fanboy: A male fan of a certain piece of media.
- Fangirl: A female fan of a certain piece of media.
- Game of Nerds: Nerds love baseball.
- Gamer Chick: A female nerd who is big (and skilled) into games.
- Geek: A socially awkward fandom affiliate.
- Geeky Analogy: A nerd explains something using a reference typically only another nerd would understand.
- Geek Physiques: Nerds are either very skinny or very fat.
- Geek Reference Pool
- Geeky Turn-On
- Give Geeks a Chance: Nerds finally get a date.
- Goofy Buckteeth: Nerds (among other characters) with buckteeth.
- Hollywood Autism: Stereotypical autistic nerds who tend to be depicted as socially inept and obsessed with niche interests.
- Homework Slave: Bullying someone else, usually a nerd, into doing your homework for you.
- Horny Scientist: A scientist with sexual intent.
- Jewish and Nerdy: A nerd of Jewish ethnicity or religion.
- Jock Dad, Nerd Son: An athletic dad (jock) and geeky son (nerd).
- Lovable Nerd: A nerd with entertaining characteristics.
- Meganekko (some implementations): Cute dorky anime female who wears glasses.
- Nerd Action Hero: Who said nerds can't be heroic?
- Nerdgasm
- Nerd Glasses: A nerd who wears glasses.
- Nerd in Evil's Helmet
- Nerd Nanny: A non-nerdy girl who hangs out with nerdy guys.
- Nerds Are Naïve: Nerdy, geeky, and dorky characters are clueless about the world around them, especially anything related to sex, dating, and romance.
- Nerds Are Pervs: Nerds are portrayed as hyper-focused on sex, to an almost unhealthy or creepy degree.
- Nerds Are Sexy: Nerds are portrayed as desirable by other characters.
- Nerds Are Virgins: Nerds have yet to have sex.
- Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork: Nerds are all for complicated schoolwork.
- Nerds Speak Klingon
- Nerdy Bully: The Bully is also a nerd.
- Nerdy Inhaler: A nerd with asthma uses an inhaler to counteract their allergies.
- Nerdy Nasalness: Nerds are portrayed as having nasally voices.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: A scientist who is (or wants to be) knowledgeable in every form of science that the plot requires.
- Opaque Nerd Glasses
- Otaku: Nerdy anime/manga fans.
- Occidental Otaku: Western nerds who love anime/manga or other Japanese pop culture.
- Picked Last
- Polka Dork: If you like polka, you must be an outcast.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: A badass character is well-versed in popular media (not necessarily considered a nerd though).
- Proud to Be a Geek
- Public Hater, Private Fan: A character pretends to hate a fandom they're secretly a part of.
- Rail Enthusiast: People who are interested in railroads.
- Redheads Are Uncool: Ginger-haired characters are depicted as losers.
- Rich Genius: You might be an egghead, but you sure make a ton for it!
- Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times
- Sickly Neurotic Geek: A character with an illness that makes them very nerdy.
- The Smart Guy: The intellect of The Team.
- Stereotypical Nerd: An unattractive (by physical features or styling), socially inept, and socially unpopular stock character with geeky interests.
- Tech Bro: A guy who works in a tech company or has a tech-affiliated job, but is nonetheless jockish.
- Trekkie: A devoted Star Trek fan.
