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* Beast Boy from ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''. Starfire's unfamiliarity with Earth customs and overall naivete can sometimes qualify her for this as well.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** Zuko, in season 3. His [[Fan Nickname|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 [[Determinator|stern persuer]]. But when he's forced to be social, he fails hilariously.
{{quote| '''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...}}
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** 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 (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]''. This comes of being a [[Man Child|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 [[Weasel Mascot|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 PartnersPartner'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 (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]''
** Cody; just ''try'' to watch "''[[Paintball Episode|Paintball Deer Hunter]]''" without having [[The Woobie|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 [[Ho Yay|Noah/Cody]], the Paris episode proves that Noah on his own certainly counts.
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** Mike.
* ''[[Gravedale High]]'': Max Schneider, Reggie, and especially Cleofatra.
* ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot (Animation)|My Life Asas 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 ''[[Ka Blam!|Life with Loopy]]''. He's sweet, shy, and a bit nerdy.
** Sniz and Fondue. Comic book obsessed buddies...who are [[Cartoon Creature|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 (Animation)|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]]''.
* [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]].
* [[Doug|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 ''[[FostersFoster'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.
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* Phillip J. Fry from ''[[Futurama]]''. Mostly due to his childish nature and his [[Cloudcuckoolander|kooky mannerisms]], and he's a [[Star Trek|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: theThe 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 10: Alien Force (Animation)|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.
* [[The Mighty B|Bessie Higgenbottom]]
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''
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** ''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 (Animation)|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 [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3 Lesson Zero|borders on the scary]]. It's on full display when we see [http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/93908?search=dancing 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 [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|Adorkability]], with fanart often depicting her love of books from an early age. [http://bronibooru.mlponies.com/post/show/11891/book-book_fort-comic-filly-twilight_sparkle-valcro 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.
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** 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.
{{quote| '''Scott''': ''Teleporter to Maximum, Mr Wagner.''<br />
'''Kurt''': Aye Captain!<br />
'''Scott''': ENGAGE! *Both teleport out of scene.* }}
* ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|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 [[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|animated incarnation]] is a combination of this and [[Badass Normal]]. Well, what else would you expect from [[Jackie Chan]]?
* Steve Smith from ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]''.
* Glasses? Bowtie? Complete nerd? Let's see... [[Word Girl|Tobey McCalister]], anyone?
* Mikey Simon from ''[[Kappa Mikey]]''.
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* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''
** Rocko
* Nonny of the new Nick Jr. show ''[[Bubble Guppies (Animation)|Bubble Guppies]]''.
* Alex of ''[[Totally Spies]]''. Also, Clover as well being a major [[Butt Monkey]].
* [[Oggy and Thethe 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 ''[[DextersDexter'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 Fromfrom the Book of Virtues]]
* ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename: Kids Next Door]]''
** Numbuh 2
** Numbuh 3
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** Arnold himself has his moments.
* Lola Bunny from ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]''
* Olivia Owl is the thick-glasses, lispy kind on ''[[Birdz (Animation)|Birdz]]''. She's somewhat like an older version of Twist. Plus, her voice actress played [[Sailor Moon|another certain nerdy girl who's very cute]].
* Chester from ''[[Beverly Hills Teens]]''.
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': Hamton J. Pig.
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** Milhouse.
** Homer Simpson at times.
* ''[[As Told Byby Ginger|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 (Animation)|Daria]], while she's not shy, she's unpopular due to her passive, anti-social and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] attitude and it somehow makes her more relatable and endearing as a character despite her emotionless personality.
* [[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|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 (Disney)|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''. Sometimes Cadpig.
* ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' has Tygra, an [[Always Someone Better]] [[The Dutiful Son|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 [[The Charmer|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 theSat Hedgehog (TV)AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]].
* Walden from ''[[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!]]''.
* [[Mr. Bogus (Animation)|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]]
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