Adorkable/Film/Animated Films

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

Helga: Cartographer, linguist, plumber... Hard to believe he's still single.

    • Roger of One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Just look at that nose!
    • Beauty and the Beast: The titular Beast at times during his more awkward moments. Also, Belle. It's why people think she's so strange because she loves books and always has her head in the clouds.
      • Belle's father counts, too. Just look at that face after a hunk of wood clonks him when it's thrown from his chopping machine and say with a straight face you don't go, "Awww..!"
    • Li-Shang in Mulan. His interaction with Mulan after defeating Shan-Yu has him stammering and not knowing what to say to her. Also, Mulan herself is this as she's quite clumsy.
    • Kuzco from The Emperors New Groove. Not in the nerdy way, but in the socially-awkward-kinda-woobie-way-- well, once he stops being a Jerkass.
    • Some people have found One-Scene Wonder Travis from The Princess and the Frog to be this. Also, Prince Naveen.
    • Flynn Rider (or Eugene Fitzherbert) of Tangled. Deadpan Snarker, Butt Monkey, gets pushed around by a hot girl half his size? An orphan who reinvented himself after his favourite literary character? That's weapons-grade adorkable right there.
      • Rapunzel herself. A bit of an overbite, lisps when she talks at times, hides in her hair during the song "Mother Knows Best" when afraid, Genki Girl, overall naiveness, pretty and downright adorably Moe.
    • Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear is this pretty much anytime he's around Affirmative Action Girl Jessie. Except when he goes Latin Lover in Toy Story 3.
      • Woody's got to count for something too; long, gangly limbs, awkwardness around his girlfriend, being something of a wimp in his early days? All signs point to this trope.
      • Andy. Especially when he plays with Bonnie in the end.
    • A Bugs Life's Flik, of the 'socially awkward and yet adorably sweet'-inventor variety.
    • Kari from The Incredibles.
      • And to a certain extent, Violet.
    • WALL-E's titular character.
    • Ratatouille's Linguini.
    • Up's young Carl and Russell. Also, Dug the talking dog.
    • Chicken Little's Chicken Little. And being voiced by Zach Braff adds to the dorky cuteness.
    • Dr. Delbert Doppler of Treasure Planet. This certain loan exasperation quote says it all:

"Dangit Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! Well, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor, I have a doctorate, but it's not the same thing, you can't help people with a doctorate, you just sit there and you're useless!"

    • |Hercules. Especially as a kid.
    • Ariel when she's human and on dry land for the first time. She takes in everything with an almost contagious amount of childish curiosity and wonderment. And who could forget the scene when she tried to brush her hair with a fork?
      • The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea features Ariel's daughter Melody, mainly due to her awkwardness as a teenager.
      • Flounder, the cowardly talking fish.
  • Megamind's Megamind, notable especially when he's disguised as Bernard and one of his most relatable, lovable traits. Just watch one scene and you'll see.
  • The Thief and the Cobbler: Tack, the titular cobbler, with his awkward pose, muteness and ridiculously pale skin.
  • Minku from The Return of Hanuman.
  • The titular Rango. Or as appealing as his character design would allow, anyway.
  • Rio is pretty much made entirely out of this trope. Blu is obvious (and given that he's voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, that is to be expected), but both of the human main characters are very much adorkable too.
  • Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat from Coraline.
  • Z from Antz.
  • Corpse Bride: Victor Van Dort.
  • Po from Kung Fu Panda. He may be the Dragon Warrior, but he's still a walking dictionary when it comes to kung-fu.
    • Also, Master Crane.
  • Humphrey from Alpha and Omega.
  • Arthur from Arthur Christmas. Bryony sometimes counts, like when she's getting excited about gift wrap.
  • Tom Thumb and Thumbelina of The Adventures Of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina.
  • The titular Thumbelina.
  • The Great Mouse Detective: Could briefly be used to describe Basil, of all people, after Olivia's My Parents Are Dead moment. He gets very awkward and tongue-tied before snapping back to his usual self.
    • Also the scene where he's awkwardly trying to cheer up Dawson. "I say...Dawson, old chap?" with a nervous smile.
  • Finding Nemo: Dory.
  • The titular Tarzan whenever he's confronted with something from the human world.
  • The Iron Giant: Hogarth Hughes.
  • The (young) Once-ler from The Lorax.
  • Rob/The Master. Lampy counts as well, being goofy-looking and cute at the same time.
  • The title character from Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken.
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