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{{quote|''"A thousand stories, tens of thousands of families ... yet the newshacks couldn't wait to hustle up the dozen or so real freaks in costumes, the literally .001% that gave them what they wanted. Not even the kids in the [[Harry Potter]] outfits, or the Japanese anime kids, or even the clever unfolding [[Transformers|Transformer]] rigs -- no, they found every empty-eyed overweight forty-five year old [[The Flash|Flash]] or flab-rolled part-time stripper [[Catwoman (comics)|Catwoman]] and latched on tight for the creepy interview. In the American media there are two constants. [...] [[Acceptable Hobby Targets|In '''culture''', anyone who decides to poke their head out of the cultural world of the CBS primetime line-up is a sad, basement-dwelling loner]] screaming into his [[Hello Kitty]] pillow as crackling video dubs of [[Spider-Man (1967 TV series)|the original Spider-Man cartoon]] flicker on his television."''
|Screenwriter '''[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/sdcc-07-wonderland-monkey-and-boing.html John Rogers]'''}}
'''[[Revenge of the Nerds|NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!]]'''
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== The Canon ==
=== [[Anime]]
* If non-[[Hentai]] anime [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|exists at all]], it consists solely of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', and ''[[Speed Racer]]'', in order from most likely to least likely to exist. Something like ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' might exist if writers [[Did Not Do the Research]].
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* Geekdom on Television and in movies also often has a high correlation with the collecting of large numbers of either comic books or action figures (both likely in mylar or in their original packaging) because apparently mainstream interest in either kind of collectible is non-existent and the successful movies based on comic books have made is just an illusion. Meanwhile, the exact same hording and protection provided to sports memorabilia is perfectly acceptable.
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* There are no [[X-Men]] other than Cyclops, [[Wolverine]], Professor X, Nightcrawler, Storm, Jean Grey (A.K.A Ms. Marvel), and, if we're lucky, Gambit and Rogue. Because everyone remembers [[X-Men (animation)|the animated series]] and some people saw [[X-Men (film)|the movies]]... more often than not, however, [[Wolverine Publicity]] wins out every time. There exist no X-Villains besides Magneto, Sabertooth and Mystique, and they are always affiliated with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.<ref>Mystique was in '''a''' Brotherhood only once and it quickly turned into the government-sponsored Freedom Force. She mostly operated solo after the 1970s ended, Sabertooth never was in ANY iteration of the Brotherhood, with or without the name, but [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] does not make good referential jokes, does it?</ref>
* There are no [[DC Comics]] heroes that were not created in the Golden Age. Etrigan? [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]]? A [[Green Lantern]] who is not a WASP? What vivid imagination you have, you NERD!
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* Thanks to the movies, ''[[The Lord of the Rings]],'' ''[[Harry Potter]],'' and ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' exist. Fanboys can be heard occasionally complaining about someone named Tom Bombadil who was apparently cut from the movie. More often, they can be seen clutching some prized collectible and calling it their "precious", but that's [[Rule of Funny]]. The main thing known about ''Harry Potter'' is that dressing up as the title character consists of drawing a scar on your forehead, putting on round glasses, and constantly raving about being a wizard.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
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* All geeks can do calculus in their heads, have the periodic table memorized, have ''pi'' [[Mouthful of Pi|memorized to four hundred places]], and know what [[E=MC Hammer|those weird symbols you see on the blackboard whenever a science or math class appears on television]] mean. You only need a high school education or [[Genre Savvy|a background in troping]] to know what any of them mean: on most shows, [[Did Not Do the Research|absolutely nothing]].
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ===
* The only MMO Geeks ever play is ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Older shows will occasionally do something loosely parodying ''[[EverQuest]]'' or a more general parody, but...well, as expected, any video or computer game parody will be [[Pac-Man Fever|to a real video game what ''A Trip to the Moon'' is to the Apollo program]]. They might as well just call them ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Video Game]]''. Judging by subscriber stats, this one is borderline [[Truth in Television]].
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