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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] characters in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''[[Audrey Wait (Literature)|Audrey Wait]]'' has James, who has an endearing work ethic that results in him being socially clumsy around Audrey. Also Audrey herself, who is unafraid to dance and sing (poorly) in public to songs she likes (and she likes ''a lot'' of music).▼
* Fitz, from the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]. He's every inch of the [[Action Survivor]] trope, especially the "uncommonly decent" part, [[The Klutz]], [[Mr. Imagination]], [[Genre Savvy]], spends most of his run as companion alongside [[Waif Fu|younger women who could kick]] [[Non Action Guy|his ass]]. Top it all of with the fact that he is tall and skinny with unruly hair, a long nose, and wide eyes.▼
▲* ''[[
▲* Fitz, from the ''[[
** Also, Karl Sadeghi, from ''The Year Of Intelligent Tigers'': he's shy, bespectacled, has a stutter, and is basically the biggest music geek ever. And considering how [[Ho Yay|touchy-feely he and the Doctor get with each other]], it seems that the Doctor sees the appeal.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Mister Nutt of ''[[
** Mightily Oats in ''[[
** Carrot Ironfoundersson actually manages to make ''[[Lawful Good]]'' sexy, largely due to this trope.
* [[The Klutz|Klutzy]], gangly and sweet Glen O'Brian in [[The Purple Widow]].
* This accounts for a lot of Sam's popularity in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* The vampire Kostya in ''[[Night Watch]]'' is a pretty sensitive, nice guy, and there's a scene in ''Twilight Watch'' where Anton at first thinks he did a [[Charm Person]] on a woman to make her very helpful, but then realizes it was his natural dorky charm.
* [[Harry Potter (
** Bushy-haired [[Bookworm]] Hermione, who stutters approximately a third of everything she says.
** Luna Lovegood. Her [[Cloudcuckoolander]] nature is a big part of it, but it was cemented by her all too brief time as a Quidditch announcer. Being played by [http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41286000/jpg/_41286732_luna_evanna_big.jpg Evanna Lynch] doesn't hurt.
** Neville does qualify. In the beginning books, He's awkward, clumsy, and can't do anything right. Then, in ''[[Harry Potter and
* Marius from ''[[Les Misérables (
** Of course, his behavior towards other people (including his grandfather) kind of reduces his "adorkable" qualities.
* Butters from ''[[
* Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis from ''[[The Princess Diaries]]''. Especially in the film adaption where she's even more awkward and clumsy ''and'' wears glasses before getting contact lenses.
* Evan Tolliver from [[The 39 Clues]]. It's been told that's his girlfriend's secret nickname for him.
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* Michael from the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]''
* ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'', Piglet, and Rabbit.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': The squire Podrick Payne is a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] who never fails to stumble over his own words. Self-confessed coward [[Bookworm|Sam]] is also quite sweet, and is about as close as you're going to get to a medieval nerd.
* Richard Mayhew from ''[[Neverwhere]]'' has this going on, with his initial propensity to get pushed around, his collection of trolls (that got started ''by accident''), and his tendency to look like he's only just woken up. The latter is Lampshaded as making him more attractive to the opposite sex than he'll ever understand or believe.
* ''[[Carrie]]'' White. Especially in the movies.
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