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* The Doctor, from ''[[Doctor Who]]'', [[No Hugging, No Kissing|at least in the incarnations where he's allowed a love interest]]. Many characters seem attracted by just how intelligent the Doctor is, with such a wide range of knowledge that it vastly out-scopes anything we know. Of course, being good looking and having a time machine probably doesn't hurt, either.
** Several of his companions fit this trope, although they are usually [[Overshadowed by Awesome|overshadowed by the Doctor]].
* As Scully of ''[[The X-Files]]'' says of the two scientists in "War of the Coprophages" who walk off into the sunrise together: "Smart is sexy".
* ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' gets a lot of it. The title character may be cute and even beautiful upon certain occasions, but her sexy turns on only in the last few episodes of the series. Most of her boyfriends are often the embodiment of the trope, with nerdy accountant Henry having some serious male model-like body going for him.
* ''[[Modern Family]]'''s Alex is both absolutely gorgeous in all her nerdiness and
* Riley Davis, the tech genius in the ''MacGyver'' reboot.
* Felicity Smoak in ''[[Arrow]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Mad Scientist]] Kokonoe from ''[[BlazBlue]]''.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'''s Ryusei Date is the epitome of otakuness, having more interest in the features of whichever [[FemBot]] was currently in the hangar than real girls. Nevertheless, Latooni Subota and Mai Kobayashi fall for him, the former going as far as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fh1LghX9U imitating his geeky speech out of affection.] [[Celibate Hero|Ryusei himself doesn't seem to mind, though.]]
* Philia Felice from ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'' is a really nerdy priestess, complete with nerd glasses, who have a penchant of inventing self-made bombs. However, that turns out to be one of her charms ([[Lampshade Hanging|she also admits that she's plain looking without her glasses]]), including her nice personality as well as [[Kikuko Inoue|her voice]].
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* After finding out about this trope, ''[[FoxTrot]]'''s Jason Fox once tried to make himself as un-nerdy as possible because [[Girls Have Cooties]].
* Alice from ''[[Loserz]]'' thinks so. See [http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/217 this] strip.
** And Adam from the same strip actually ''is'' a sexy nerd (although he usually hides it - being a gaming nerd, not being sexy). See [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/397 here].
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[College Humor]]'' has the skit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx6BupgRmI "I'm Such A Nerd,"], in which a nerd [[Geeky Turn On|happily discovers]] that the rather attractive girl he's dating is herself a giant nerd... who then promptly dumps him for not being nerdy ''enough''.
{{quote|'''Girl:''' I thought he was different, you know, but he ''wasn't''. He...he couldn't even name all of the current Batman titles!}}
* [[Whateley Universe]]: brilliant inventor Spark is pursued by Reach throughout the story "The Big Idea". [[Hot Scientist|Genius inventor]] Bugs on the other hand, is regarded as one of the sexiest girls in [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy.
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