Adorkable/Western Animation

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  • 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.

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...

    • Also, his response to Sokka:

Sokka: YOU sent Combustion Man after us?
Zuko: Well, that's not his name. . .

    • His other response to Sokka:

Sokka: My first girlfriend turned into the moon.

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

To be fair, what can you honestly say to that?
    • 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. [dead link]
    • 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
  • 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) [dead link] at her birthday party in Canterlot, and she takes it Up to Eleven when she was a filly, in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles".

Princess Luna: Ha-hah! The fun has been doubled!

  • The title character of Pepper Ann
  • Tootie, Cosmo, Timmy, and (sometimes) Wanda in The Fairly OddParents
  • 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.

Scott: Teleporter to Maximum, Mr Wagner.
Kurt: Aye Captain!
Scott: ENGAGE! *Both teleport out of scene.*

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