Adorkable/Comic Books

Examples of Adorkable characters in Comic Books include:

Spider-Man, especially when still a teen like in the Ultimate verse. Apt to start geeking out about the science behind whatever villain that week is using, and he trips over himself in social situations a lot. Still he goes out and does the right thing because it is right.
Clark Kent, more so Post-Crisis (where his moderate dorkiness is natural) than Pre Crisis (when his extreme dorkiness was just a facade).
Kid Devil is the single most adorkable Teen Titan, thanks to his geeky love of comics, superheroes and movies, and from usually being the underdog.
This is probably a big reason why fans love Ted Kord/Blue Beetle II so much. His successor, Jaime Reyes, shows it too, especially in Batman the Brave And The Bold.
Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II of Watchmen is based on Ted Kord, and therefore also fits. It doesn't hurt that he and his Love Interest Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Spectre II are, despite the uber-deconstructive nature of the story, the only two heroes in it that would fit in in a "normal" comic just as well. Dan's got some baggage, but it's normal, sane baggage.
One of Scott Pilgrim's defining character traits.
Tim Drake's (aka Batman's sidekick Robin) grown up a bit, but he's always been a huge geek and when he was younger was pretty unsure of how to act around girls. But he's still seen as pretty cute, and does end up getting an awful lot of girls.
Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen. He's been the textbook example of adorkableness in comics for nearly 70 years. Artists just love drawing him with that classic sweatervest and bowtie combo.
Jeff Smax, The Big Guy in Top Ten. Though he starts off as being rough and uncommunicative to his new partner Robyn and much of Precinct Ten, he gradually starts opening up, and is even visibly distraught when Robyn is nearly killed and trapped under wreckage by a rampaging perp. It really starts coming out in his own mini-series Smax, when he returns to his own dimension. There, it is revealed that much of his gruff demeanour comes from having No Social Skills whatsoever. He's also intensely embarrassed about his fantasy pastiche world, as well as his incestuous relationship with his twin sister.

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