Adorkable/Western Animation

"Zuko (after months of trying to capture or kill Aang, wishing to now join the group and teach Aang firebending): Hello, Zuko here. But I guess you probably already know me, sort of. Uh, so, the thing is I have a lot of Firebending experience and I'm considered to be pretty good at it. Well you've seen me... you know when I was attacking you? Uh, yeah, I guess I should apologize for that, but anyway I'm good now. I mean, I thought I was good before but now I realize I was bad, but anyway... I think it's time I joined your group and taught the Avatar Firebending..."
 * Beast Boy from Teen Titans. Starfire's unfamiliarity with Earth customs and overall naivete can sometimes qualify her for this as well.
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Zuko, in season 3. His Fan Nicknames are "Zudork", "Dorko", and "Failko", and that encapsulates his attempts at being normal. Poor guy really Cannot Tell a Joke. It's rather funny and odd because he spends most of the time being a no-nonsense warrior, Wise Prince and stern persuer. But when he's forced to be social, he fails hilariously.

"Sokka: YOU sent Combustion Man after us? Zuko: Well, that's not his name. .."
 * Also, his response to Sokka:

"Sokka: My first girlfriend turned into the moon.
 * His other response to Sokka:

Zuko: (Awkward pause) That's rough, buddy."


 * To be fair, what can you honestly say to that?

"Princess Luna: Ha-hah! The fun has been doubled!"
 * He was bloody talking to a frog and acting as if it were actually talking back.
 * Zuko's adorkableness actually started in season 2 in Ba Sing Se, particularly his date in Tales of Ba Sing Se. Exhibit A.
 * When Zuko and Mai are together and not fighting, their combined adorkableness reaches critical mass. Mai is not normally very adorkable, but around Zuko she gets all giggly and blushy and awww. They express their love in very awkward and adorable ways. The B-story in "Nightmares and Daydreams" is a good example of this.
 * Also the Earth King. who is extremely naive for his age since he was kept in the palace his entire life while Evil Chancellor Long Feng took care of politics. He is sometimes even called "King Adorkable." Seriously, his pet bear is much more worldly and mature than he is.
 * Meng from "The Fortune Teller" is a female example. A young girl with pigtails that defy gravity and a missing front tooth, who believes Aang is her destined lover solely because of his big ears.
 * The professor/archaologist Professor Zei from "The Library." Loves his work with a passion, fanboys over Aang not because he's the Avatar but because he is a "living fossil," tries to communicate with Appa (while hushing Momo), admires Won Shi Tong's "foxy assistants" (actual foxes) for being handsome and clever, and can not understand what is so funny about the term "flying buttresses" because he's too busy being genuinely enthusiastic about architecture. He's also almost a Perpetual Smiler in a non-creepy way. Yeah, he lives in his own little world.
 * Sokka, on occasion. His moments of over-enthusiasm are the farthest thing from cool, but still endearing in their way.
 * Aang himself on occasion as well.
 * Bolin from The Legend of Korra. This comes of being a painfully naïve sixteen-year-old boy who is spoiled by his older brother, as well as just a really Nice Guy and the team Butt Monkey. His pet fire ferret also helps a lot.
 * He's also The Charmer who clearly succeeds because of his Adorkable nature rather than sex appeal, and to top it all off, he has a Cat Smile! He is the fandom's puppy, and can do no wrong in their eyes.
 * Tenzin too, which is especially funny because he spends most of his appearances being super serious and pretending to not have a sense of humor. And then Korra brings up his romantic past with Lin Bei Fong...
 * Ingrid Giraffe of My Gym Partner's a Monkey may be the tallest in the class but she's shy and tries desperately to fit in with her classmates.
 * Max from A Goofy Movie, full stop. It's apparently genetic, since his dad Goofy definitely qualifies for this. Also, the girl he likes, Roxanne. People with the surname Goof are Adorkable, but how about the smart, pretty, popular girl? It really helps people root for her relationship with Max: there's no pity for one and annoyance with the other, 'cause they're both adorable.
 * Both Virgil and Richie from Static Shock. Both are Fanboys of comics, superheroes, zombie movies, and video games, and heavily interested in the sciences.
 * Total Drama Island
 * Cody; just try to watch "Paintball Deer Hunter" without having a sudden urge to pick him up and hug him. No wonder Sierra is so obsessed with him.
 * While this term is used to describe Noah/Cody, the Paris episode proves that Noah on his own certainly counts.
 * Ezekiel probably qualifies too, according to his fans.
 * LeShawna thinks of Harold this way.
 * Mike.
 * Gravedale High: Max Schneider, Reggie, and especially Cleofatra.
 * My Life as a Teenage Robot.
 * Sheldon
 * Brad.
 * Jenny whenever she deals with the real human world. Her appearance is quite cute and her insecurities and innocence can be quite endearing.
 * Larry of Life with Loopy. He's sweet, shy, and a bit nerdy.
 * Sniz and Fondue. Comic book obsessed buddies...who are ferrets (or cats!)
 * Henry borders into this depending on the episode.
 * June in the first season. For the rest of the show, the "dork" part was removed but she remained cute as a button.
 * Jérémie from Code Lyoko. He's got a 99.87 grade average and ungodly computer programming skills, and has worked tirelessly for two years to give Aelita a normal, stable life. So that makes him a colossal nerd, an angel of a love interest, and just downright adorable physically.
 * The titular Jimmy Two-Shoes.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants.
 * Doug Funnie. He's a shy, clumsy, awkward young boy with an enormous heart, which makes him adorable.
 * Skeeter Valentine.
 * Edd, Ed, and Jimmy of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
 * Mac, Bloo's socially awkward and warmhearted creator from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends And Wilt during his more "awkward" moments
 * Tom Chan on The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan.
 * The titular Invader Zim at times. As well as Dib.
 * Dib definitely qualifies as this mixed with a Badass Longcoat...in-training, considering he's 12.
 * Zim. First episode.
 * And then there's GIR.
 * South Park.
 * Butters
 * Kyle can be this when he's not busy going on adventures with his friends or trying to thwart Cartman's evil plans.
 * Phillip J. Fry from Futurama. Mostly due to his childish nature and his kooky mannerisms, and he's a Trekkie.
 * Ron Stoppable, Kim Possible's best friend/boyfriend, is a huge dork, but his loyalty to Kim and his unabashed optimism make him adorable.
 * Jimmy Olsen from Superman: The Animated Series has been seen as this.
 * Danny Phantom
 * Danny, especially in his human form. Sweet, awkward, shy, clumsy, those wide baby blue eyes, and more. His phantom form in the earlier episodes could count, being nervous and scared when he started out.
 * Tucker Foley definately counts, being the nerdy one.
 * Rocky Ballantine from Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman is a female example. Look no further than her mention in Digging Yourself Deeper.
 * Shifty Dingo from Blinky Bill who also doubles as a Shrinking Violet, Lovable Coward and The Klutz.
 * Humphrey, Shakey and Salty from Alpha and Omega.
 * Ben Tennyson at times. Kevin, more rarely. Cooper definitely counts; even after he's had a growth spurt he's still a sweet kid with a crush on Gwen.
 * Bessie Higgenbottom
 * Phineas and Ferb
 * Lawrence Fletcher
 * Phineas and Ferb qualify as well.
 * Candace when she's obsessing over Ducky Momo.
 * Baljeet. So. Very. Much.
 * Carl, and Doofenshmirtz during his saner moments. There's practically no shortage of cute nerdiness in this show!
 * Twilight Sparkle, of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. She's essentially a former shut-in who's just learning how to maintain friendships. Despite this she can still spend days cooped up in her home reading books, and has evinced a tendency toward Super OCD that borders on the scary. It's on full display when we see her dancing skills (or lack thereof) at her birthday party in Canterlot, and she takes it Up to Eleven when she was a filly, in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles".
 * The Fandom expands on filly Twilights Adorkability, with fanart often depicting her love of books from an early age. Her hiding in 'book forts' is rather common, and absolutely adorkable.
 * There's also Twist, Apple Bloom's nerdy friend with the huge glasses and strangely endearing lisp.
 * With the release of "Luna Eclipsed", Princess Luna qualifies for this easily, especially with her use of Flowery Elizabethan English and some of her other phrases.

"Scott: Teleporter to Maximum, Mr Wagner. Kurt: Aye Captain! Scott: ENGAGE! *Both teleport out of scene.*"
 * Brushie brushie.
 * Some Bronies classify Derpy Hooves as this.
 * The title character of Pepper Ann
 * Tootie, Cosmo, Timmy, and (sometimes) Wanda in The Fairly Odd Parents
 * Recess
 * Gus is a shy cutie who doubles as The Woobie
 * Gretchen's pretty adorkable as well. Doesn't hurt that she's a cute nerdy girl.
 * Mikey's naivety mixed with his Large Ham tendencies make him this.
 * The Pale Kids- a group of nerdy ten year olds who spend their recesses playing Daggers & Dragons and reading comic books.
 * Miss Grotke has many cute, dorky moments throughout the series. It's her over-enthusiasm about everything that really hits it.
 * T.J. can be pretty adorkable. His ditzy Book Dumb moments, his overly enthusiastic and optimistic nature, and he's got an enormous heart. And he was a Shrinking Violet in kindergarten! And he's been revealed to be a huge geek when it comes to comics.
 * Both Pi and Harvey from Sabrina the Animated Series.
 * Both Scott and Kurt in X-Men: Evolution have shades of this. Scott especially in the episode Power Surge, where he can't seem to move without tripping, hurting, or humiliating himself. For Kurt, there's his playful nature, adorable elf ears, and constant joking, as well as his tendency to make Sci-Fi references with Scott when the two are doing something.


 * Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes
 * Thor, especially when he is interacting with Jane.
 * Most of the science types are your classic hot badass types... then you have Hank Pym, who will geekily squee about the science-influenced powers of a guy trying to kill him.
 * On the female side of things, there's Wasp, who also happens to be Hank's wife. Seriously, she's d'awwww-worthy in most of her scenes.
 * Jackie Chan's animated incarnation is a combination of this and Badass Normal. Well, what else would you expect from Jackie Chan?
 * Steve Smith from American Dad.
 * Glasses? Bowtie? Complete nerd? Let's see... Tobey McCalister, anyone?
 * Mikey Simon from Kappa Mikey.
 * Jake, the adorable, messy Cloudcuckoolander fox cub from Babar And The Adventures Of Badou.
 * Eliza from The Wild Thornberrys.
 * Roba from The Problem Solverz.
 * Tino from The Weekenders
 * Velma and Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
 * Scooby adores Velma in A Pup Named Scooby Doo. And who couldn't? She's smart, quiet-spoken, and sweet as all get out.
 * Eileen from Regular Show.
 * Rugrats
 * Chuckie Finster. Which he apparently inherits from his dad, who's also this trope.
 * Stu Pickles
 * Rocko's Modern Life
 * Rocko
 * Nonny of the new Nick Jr. show Bubble Guppies.
 * Alex of Totally Spies. Also, Clover as well being a major Butt Monkey.
 * Oggy and the Cockroaches has Oggy.
 * Quite a few characters in Camp Lazlo are this: including Slinkman, Lumpus, Raj, Clam, Edward, Sampson, Chip and Skip and Lazlo himself.
 * Ed the otter from Brandy and Mr. Whiskers.
 * Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. Also Mandark.
 * Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls. As well as her male counterpart Boomer, of The Rowdyruff Boys
 * Both Scaredy and Dave from Scaredy Squirrel. Scaredy is a geek with OCD and Dave is a lovably awkward Fat Idiot.
 * Dexter Douglas from Freakazoid.
 * Socrates from Adventures from the Book of Virtues
 * Codename: Kids Next Door
 * Numbuh 2
 * Numbuh 3
 * In his comfort zone as The Leader of Sector V, Numbuh One is a calm, collected Badass. Outside of his comfort zone—i.e. during father-son bonding, or in romantic situations—he it a total nerd.
 * Otto Osworth from Time Squad
 * Hey Arnold!.
 * Eugene
 * Phoebe definitely counts.
 * Arnold himself has his moments.
 * Lola Bunny from The Looney Tunes Show
 * Olivia Owl is the thick-glasses, lispy kind on Birdz. She's somewhat like an older version of Twist. Plus, her voice actress played another certain nerdy girl who's very cute.
 * Chester from Beverly Hills Teens.
 * Tiny Toon Adventures: Hamton J. Pig.
 * Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron.
 * Lola from Charlie and Lola. She's eccentric, clumsy, and at times rather annoying - but you just gotta love her.
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Billy and Irwin.
 * Family Guy:
 * Meg Griffin because she looks like a geek (she wears glasses), she's called a "wannabee loser", and because of her Butt Monkey status she's constantly picked on and made fun of. You can't help finding her downright Adorkable.
 * Neil.
 * Chris in the earlier seasons.
 * Lisa Simpson.
 * Milhouse.
 * Homer Simpson at times.
 * Ginger, Dodie, and Macie. Also Hoodsey, Brandon, and Courtney (at times when she's dealing with things the normal less richer people deal with).
 * Darren too.
 * Daria, while she's not shy, she's unpopular due to her passive, anti-social and snarky attitude and it somehow makes her more relatable and endearing as a character despite her emotionless personality.
 * Young Justice has Kid Flash and Miss Martian as the most Adorkable members. Robin gets very adorkable around Zatanna.
 * Rolly and Dipstick from 101 Dalmatians: The Series. Sometimes Cadpig.
 * ThunderCats (2011) has Tygra, an Always Someone Better Dutiful Son in adulthood, revealed in Flash Back as a big-eyed, gawky boy who approaches his junior position on the palace guard with nerdy zeal. The present day Tygra has a flirtatious streak while his younger self couldn't even form a coherent sentence when he first met Cheetara.
 * The title character from Skippy Adventures in Bushtown shows shades of this but Pos the cameraman possum probably fits it even better. In the intro, Pos is shown trying to film Skippy walking towards him but the he trips walking backwards and falls on his butt so Skippy doesn't bump into him. It's only 1 or 2 seconds long and yet it is completely adorable.
 * Peter Puppy from the cartoon version of Earthworm Jim.
 * Antoine in Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * Walden from Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!.
 * Mr. Bogus
 * Lloyd, Kurt, and Douglas from Lloyd in Space
 * Doc McStuffins gives us Stuffy, the adorably awkward blue dragon voiced by Robbie Rist who also voices the equally Adorkable Star from Balto
 * Fanboy and Chum Chum and Kyle.
 * Aaahh Real Monsters had Ickis.
 * Storm Hawks had Junko and Stork.