Basic Trope: A genius is much more interested in their chosen field than romance and sex.
- Straight: Bob is a brilliant scientist and is single with no interest in women.
- Exaggerated: Bob is the smartest man alive, and he believes Sex Is Evil.
- Downplayed: Bob is somewhat interested in romance, but he puts his work first and isn't too upset he hasn't found a girlfriend.
- Justified:
- Because Bob didn't focus his energy on romance, he was able to study and become very smart.
- Bob is asexual.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a brilliant scientist and The Casanova.
- Bob is a total idiot who has no interest in romance.
- Subverted:
- Bob seems more interested in his work than women, but it then it turns out he just needed a woman who liked science as much as he did.
- Bob turns out to be secretly gay.
- Double Subverted: Bob's relationships fizzle because he ultimately cares only about science.
- Parodied: Attractive women regularly lie on Bob's lab table as he ignores their advances to do his work.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob sometimes seems interested in romance, sometimes not.
- Averted: Bob is a brilliant scientist with a normal amount of interest in romance.
- Enforced: The producers are very sure nerds can't get laid, but don't want the show to look mean to intellectuals, so they make the intellectual character celibate.
- Lampshaded: "I wanna date a scientist, but they only care about work!"
- Invoked: Bob is raised to believe romance is a "distraction" from his work.
- Exploited: Bob is sent to deal with The Vamp because he's invulnerable to her charms.
- Defied: Bob's friends stage an intervention so Bob can have some fun and not be a workaholic.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob is the only member of his friend group who doesn't want to hit on women at bars.
- Deconstructed: Bob's single-minded focus on his work at the expense of all else is bad for his mental health.
- Reconstructed: Bob has fun and does activities with his platonic friends, he just doesn't want romance.
- Played for Laughs: Bob is an Accidental Pornomancer who has to fend off the advances of many women. His friends are all jealous.
- Played for Drama: The story is about Alice, who has a hopeless crush on the uninterested Bob.
- Played for Horror: Bob is a Mad Scientist who thinks everyone should be like him and tries to eliminate love and sex from the world and perpetuate humanity through artificial insemination.
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