Line #80 Main/NerdsArePervs


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6	->'''Betty Childs:''' Are all nerds as good as you?\
7	'''Lewis:''' Yes.\
8	'''Betty:''' How come?\
9	'''Lewis:''' 'Cause all jocks ever think about is sports. All we ever think about is sex.
10	-->-- ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds''
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12	Sometimes nerdy characters are [[NerdsAreNaive depicted as being naive and ignorant about sex]]. Other times, however, nerdy, dorky, and geeky characters are shown to be ''hyper-focused'' on sex, to an almost unhealthy or creepy degree. [[note]]While a nerd/geek is often a loser and most pervs are ''also'' losers, being of the LoserArchetype is ''not the same'' as being characterized in-universe as a nerd or pervert.[[/note]]
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14	Like with NerdsAreNaive, this seems to be related to the stereotype that NerdsAreVirgins; the typically NoSocialSkills-having nerdy characters can't flirt well enough to successfully attract suitors, leaving them with a lack of personal experience regarding sex that becomes a ''fixation''. Such nerds might think about sex constantly, [[PervertedDrooling drool and ogle]] over the bodies of their peers, playfully grope their friends, have a robust collection of [[PornStash porn]], {{Hentai}}, and/or [[HGame H-Games]] (depending on the flavor of nerd they are), try to [[ThePeepingTom peep at]] the [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders popular cheerleaders]] or the unsuspecting in the privacy of their own homes, [[PantyThief steal the underwear of classmates]], engage in a perpetual QuestForSex, etc.
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16	At best, these nerds will be depicted as a ChivalrousPervert. Sure, they may think about sex constantly, but that doesn't mean they lack morals or boundaries or will force their desires onto others. Or they'll be shown as a CovertPervert: nerdy {{Shrinking Violet}}s or {{The Quiet One}}s who nonetheless have a [[NaughtyByNight hidden perverted side]] that is only revealed to the audience and other characters every now and then, often by them {{Nosebleed}}ing (and other actions [[SomethingElseAlsoRises to indicate horniness]]) in the background.
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18	Less favorable depictions will be like the CasanovaWannabe, constantly trying and failing to sleep with people. These characters seem to be either unaware of or simply not concerned by their own nerdiness. Or they're more like the LovableSexManiac, whose behavior towards others toes the line between acceptable and predatory, but is treated InUniverse as ultimately harmless. [[note]]This is becoming less common due to heightened social awareness regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault and that audiences are significantly less likely to view it as harmless or funny just because a socially awkward nerd character is doing it.[[/note]]
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20	But when a work isn't going for a sympathetic portrayal, nerdy characters will have an interest in sex bordering on the depraved. They'll masturbate to the worst horrors {{Rule 34}} has produced involving just about every {{fetish}} known to man, lecherously [[StalkerWithACrush stalk and predate]] on the [[AbhorrentAdmirer uninterested objects of their affection]], put explicit CandidsForSale, attempt to trick or coerce girls into sex or just zapping them with TheNudifier in public, or have a PerverseSexualLust that crosses over into full-blown delusion. Many in this category are {{Extreme Omnisexual}}s or {{Depraved Bisexual}}s, having few limits as to who (or what) helps get them off and willing to do the unthinkable ''to'' get off. The BasementDweller and {{Otaku}} of [[OccidentalOtaku all stripes]] are the most susceptible to this portrayal. LonersAreFreaks and FetishesAreWeird go hand-in-hand with this version. Closely related and on a slightly more positive note is BrainsAndBondage, since many nerds are genuinely intelligent. However, this can veer very quickly into BondageIsBad and UnsexySadist.
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22	A trait of many {{Stereotypical Nerd}}s and very prevalent in the teen SexComedy genre. HormoneAddledTeenager tends to overlap, but there are plenty of adults depicted in this way and often the more critical and negative portrayals are of adults. HornyScientist is very closely related and will often overlap. Male nerds are far more likely to be coded as perverted than female nerds as AManIsAlwaysEager and AllMenArePerverts. But when a female nerd is shown to be a perv, there's often a high chance she's a YaoiFangirl and/or just [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls loves to write fanfic]].
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24	As always, being that this is a {{sex trope\|s}}, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	* ''Manga/DontToyWithMeMissNagatoro'': The popular, athletic Nagatoro clearly has this stereotype in mind when she constantly harps on her shy, geeky Senpai for his love of fanservice manga and his painting skills, on top of offering to model nude for one of his pieces. Senpai himself is no more perverted than any other boy his age, but the [[WordOfGod author confirmed]] that the reason he doesn't push Nagatoro away is because he is a [[CovertPervert closet masochist]].
32	* ''Manga/HidokuShinaide'': In reality, StereotypicalNerd Nemugasa is an example of NerdsAreNaive given his initial complete naivete and lack of experience with sex and dating and overall gullibleness. In a side chapter, though, that doesn't stop a horned up Maya from thinking to himself after some intimate time between them, "So it's true what people say about the smart ones being perverted," alluding to this stereotype.
33	* ''Manga/MidoriDays'': At a convention, Seiji sells hand puppets of Midori, the miniature teenage girl his right hand has become. Two nerdy customers take one and start taking its clothes off, leading to Seiji beating the crap out of both of them.
34	* ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'': In his previous life, Rudeus Grayrat was a BrilliantButLazy {{Otaku}}, later {{Neet}} and {{Hikikomori}}, who leeched off of his parents for ten years after being bullied at school. After his parents die, his brothers kick him out after they find him masturbating over porn instead of attending their funeral [[UngratefulBastard or showing any remorse for their death]]. He still retains a lot of his perverted qualities after he's [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in another world]], but he grows out of his worst qualities, becoming a LovableSexManiac and later a ChivalrousPervert, only perving on his three wives.
35	* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'': Tomoko is a CreepyLonerGirl, RomanceGame {{Otaku}} who decides she wants to become popular in her first year of high school. Problem is, she has NoSocialSkills and is both a self-centered {{Jerkass}} and a CovertPervert from playing so many [[HGame H-Games]]. Her reason for wanting to become popular? [[QuestForSex To lose her virginity]]. She's also [[AccidentalPervert constantly groping]] her friend Yuu out of misplaced jealousy over her larger bust. When she finally does make friends, though, they tolerate her perviness and treat her as a LovableSexManiac.
36	* In ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'', the first client we see [[TheOldestProfession call girl]] Maria with is a {{gonk}}y {{otaku}} who beds her in a room full of anime figurines. On coming, he blows her off to talk to them about how much they helped him "get there."
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40	* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': Nerdy characters Jason and Marcus are both source(s) of the strip's [[GeniusBonus science]] and Nerd culture ShoutOut humour. A few [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early strips]] have some punchline(s) where this trope is in play:
41	** One strip in a story arc depicting the Fox family getting internet has Andy comment about all the things the kids can learn. Cut to Jason and Marcus looking at the computer, where Jason comments that [[TheInternetIsForPorn "Ms. October sure has big hooters!"]] and Marcus pondering [[ComicallyMissingThePoint if that might affect the download speed]].
42	** Another comic strip depicts Jason and Marcus stargazing. Jason adjusts the telescope so he can view other celestial bodies...then tilts it so he can see a couple making out with a smile on his face.
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46	* ''Film/AmericanPie'': The film's a high school SexComedy about a group of friends on a QuestForSex to [[SexAsRiteOfPassage fulfill their destiny as men]] to lose their virginities before college, so all of the main characters are {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}s trying to get laid. But for this trope:
47	** Protagonist Jim is JewishAndNerdy, turns into an awkward, silent mess around girls he's interested in, boasts about his high SAT scores at a party, and opens the film (after the ColdOpen where he's [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown Caught With His Pants Down]]) discussing how hot [[PerverseSexualLust Ariel]] from ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'' is. He also infamously "[[ExtremeOmnisexual has sex]]" with an apple pie after he asks his friends what third base feels like and one replies, "like warm apple pie."
48	** Chuck Sherman, so nerdy that the idea of him getting laid before Jim and his friends is the motivation behind their QuestForSex, is a CasanovaWannabe who [[spoiler:has been spreading lies that he slept with a girl at Stifler's party, and many others. When she gets wind of this, she publicly exposes him at prom, revealing he's not only [[NerdsAreVirgins a virgin]], but he also]] once tried to have sex with a grapefruit.
49	** Michelle, the band geek that Jim eventually takes to prom who goes on and on about inane stories of her time at band camp, reveals herself to be a sexually dominant super freak, who shares how she used her own flute to masturbate in an infamous WhamLine and only agreed to be Jim's prom date because she knew he'd be an easy lay. In fact, according to her, ''all'' band geeks are sex-obsessed {{Covert Pervert}}s who use band camp as a place to hook up with each other. She gets [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] in the sequels, in which she becomes a full-blown {{Dominatrix}}.
50	* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', the young, nerdy George [=McFly=] climbs a tree to spy on Lorraine changing in a window.
51	* ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'': The members of the all-nerd frat at war with the jocks from the other frats are all sex-obsessed. They place spy cams in all of the bedrooms and showers at the sororities and spend hours watching the girls sleep. Lewis even commits RapeByFraud, pretending to be [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders head cheerleader]] Betty's boyfriend while wearing a mask to have sex with her. As the protagonists of a teen sex comedy though, they're portrayed as nothing worse than {{Lovable Sex Maniac}}s, and even Betty allows Lewis to continue after finding out about the BedTrick because [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization he's so good in bed]].
52	* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'': Geeky high school outcasts Seth, Evan, and Fogell are obsessed with getting laid before they graduate high school and leave for college. In the very first scene, Seth and Evan have a discussion about what pornography website he's planning on subscribing to.
53	* ''Film/WeirdScience'': The film is a WishFulfillment story about Gary and Wyatt, two socially awkward nerds who are so desperate for romantic and sexual female attention, they decide to build a simulation of their [[MsFanservice perfect woman]], Lisa, that ends up coming to life due to a freak thunderstorm. Their main priorities are her physical specs and they raid Wyatt's PornStash for material to base her off of. They also take advantage of Lisa being an InnocentFanserviceGirl to shower with her: them, clothes on, her, completely nude.
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57	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
58	** Howard Wolowitz, pre-CharacterDevelopment, is a lecherous twerp who starts hitting on every pretty girl, most often Penny the moment that he meets them. He has been known to have masturbatory fantasies involving Creator/KateeSackhoff, and was caught by his LoveInterest Bernadette having online sex with "Glucinda the Troll", causing a temporary break-up between the two.
59	** Amy Farrah Fowler also qualifies. When Penny pays her a compliment while chaperoning an early date between Sheldon and Amy, Amy asks if Penny is a lesbian, then notes that she'd have been more flattered if that was the case. When doing research on slumber parties on her smartphone, she notes that girls engage in "harmless experimentation in lesbianism", and attempts to put this into practice with Penny, while Bernadette says she would have just stuck to eating raw cookie dough. And lest anyone think that this behavior extends solely to Penny, when Sheldon catches Amy faking sick to get attention from him, she suggests (with barely contained enthusiasm) that he spank her.
60	* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': [[BornUnlucky George Constanza]] is a short, balding, PatheticallyWeak man with nerdy hobbies--he claims his greatest life achievement is getting the high score on a local ''Frogger'' machine. He's also ''constantly'' scheming to have sex. In one episode, a period of forced abstinence inadvertently turns him into a genius: he's able to perfectly hit home runs by describing the geometry and physics involved and becomes fluent in Portuguese simply by hearing other people speaking it. Jerry determines that since the majority of George's brainpower goes toward getting laid, not being able to do so has forced that brainpower to spend its energies elsewhere. Of course, [[StatusQuoIsGod by the end of the episode]], George finally has sex and becomes an idiotic nerd again.
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64	* In ''Theatre/AvenueQ,'' Trekkie Monster has only one thing on his mind: internet porn. He even has an entire song about how great the internet is...for finding porn. His nerdiness is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] by his name, which is a deliberate ShoutOut to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', as Trekkie Monster was originally supposed to be a {{Trekkie}}, until copyright concerns led the creators to remove all traces of the franchise, save for the name.
65	* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'': Jeremy is an anxious video-game-playing nerdy "loser," made clear by his EstablishingCharacterMoment: he's almost late for school because his online porn won't load, leaving him "[[RagingStiffie uncomfortable]]" all day. One of the first things his SQUIP (a supercomputer in the form of a pill that enters one's brain) does is punish him for masturbating, instead trying to get him to hook up with a popular girl.
66	* ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'': In "Beautiful", while all the other kids are fawning over the Heathers and what it would be like to be noticed by them, the Beleaguered Geek says, "I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats."
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70	* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': Earnest Jones is a [[CorruptedCharacterCopy parody]] of Lewis Sholnick from ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds.'' Earnest is obsessed with getting revenge on the Jocks for bullying him and his clique and seducing the girls of Bullworth. In "Paparazzi", he convinces Jimmy to take scandalous pictures of the head cheerleader, Mandy Wiles, to rile up the jocks but it's soon revealed that he only wanted the pictures for his personal pleasure. [[spoiler: The following missions "Defender of the Castle" and "Discretion Assured" show that the nerds have posted them across Bullworth as revenge porn, inciting the jocks to assault the observatory out of disgust for what the nerds did and Jimmy atoning for what he did by taking down the pictures.]]
71	* ''Videogame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Tora (as well as his father and grandfather) is a GadgeteerGenius, a Driver {{Fanboy}}, and TheSmartGuy of the main cast, who is passionate about creating an artificial blade, Poppi. Prior to the story, he became TheShutIn out of fear of the people who killed his granddad and to focus on his work, causing him to have NoSocialSkills. Tora shows a very clear fetish for maids (that he [[CovertPervert tries to hide]]), which heavily influences the design and functions of Poppi: he has several maid outfits for Poppi and has programmed some... questionable {{fanservice}}y functions into the blade. [[spoiler:Poppi QT and Poppi QTπ even take the respective forms of a maid girl and a riff on the {{Stripperiffic}} Pyra & Mythra]]. Considering that the artificial blades his dad and grandfather created ''also'' have some maid motifs, the fetish appears to [[HornyScientist run in the family]].
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75	* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': Sal Manella, the director of ''The Steel Samurai,'' is a sweaty {{otaku}} who speaks in LeetLingo and meme references. He's also disgustingly lustful, literally drooling over the teenage Maya and having a PowerDynamicsKink for his abusive producer, Dee Vasquez. This apparently works its way into his shows at time, as the studio turned down some of his scripts as "not appropriate for children."
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79	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Tedd Verres is a bespectacled AsianAndNerdy MadScientist who has a huge transformation kink (helped by his working TransformationRay) and proudly calls himself [[HornyScientist a pervert]]. But CharacterDevelopment through his love interest Grace eventually makes him [[SingleTargetSexuality only pervy towards her]] and [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2007-11-16 no one else]] (which she is perfectly okay with).
80	* An early ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' strip has [=PeeJee=] innocently wandering into a game store where the resident nerds immediately start picturing her naked. [[ScrubbingOffTheTrauma Cut to her washing and washing]], unable to get the feeling of creepiness [[https://somethingpositive.net/comic/reactions/ off her skin]].
81	* ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'' uses and lampshades the "nerds have bizarre and exotic fetishes" aspect of the trope through Yuri, the Japanese super-geek and budding transhumanist in the first series. When Dmitri puts his moves on all the women of the ''I.A. Starbanger'', Yuri is the only one who agrees to sleep with him -- [[https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/03/17/spacetrawler-24/ though she almost turns him down, concerned that his sexual tastes might not be adventurous enough.]] For reference, Dmitri would later go on to [[BoldlyComing bed every female alien with 50% or greater compatibility]], and Yuri still manages to make ''him'' reach for the BrainBleach.
82	-->'''Yuri:''' Listen, Dmitri, I've slept with quite a few geeks, and some were real freaks in bed. I'm not just talking costumes and ropes, I'm talking inflatable [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]. After all that, I'm not sure you have much to offer.\
83	'''Dmitri:''' How about this... ''[whispers in Yuri's ear]''\
84	'''Yuri:''' Better than I expected, but not great.\
85	'''Dmitri:''' Like you could do better. ''[Yuri whispers in his ear]'' '''HOLY FUCKING CHRIST ICK GOD, EAUUGHHH!'''
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89	* ''Literature/{{Jotaider}}'': Despite his many good qualities, the story doesn't hide the fact that stereotypical nerd Tsubasa Sato has certain feelings going through his body when coming across some of the corrupted Jõtaijin. He usually channels his perverted thoughts into his writing.
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93	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Steve Smith is a glasses-wearing dweeb who's often a [[JockDadNerdSon disappointment to his CIA agent dad Stan]] and the biggest loser in school. DependingOnTheWriter, he's either a harmless, socially awkward kid who is seen by some girls as EndearinglyDorky, or a HormoneAddledTeenager and CasanovaWannabe, who is always trying to hit on some of his female classmates, [[AbhorrentAdmirer much to their displeasure]].
94	* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': Andrew Glouberman is a JewishAndNerdy [[HormoneAddledTeenager Hormone-Addled Preteen]] who jerks off almost all the time, especially in places that are inappropriate to do so [[spoiler:([[ItMakesSenseInContext like in front of his dead grandpa's open casket]])]].
95	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Tucker is a CasanovaWannabe and PatheticallyWeak technogeek who uses his knowledge to spy on girls.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the "Treehouse Of Horror X" segment "Desperately Xeeking Xena", Creator/LucyLawless is speaking at a convention when she's suddenly abducted by the Collector (Comic Book Guy), who uses a giant magnet to draw her in her [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]] costume to him. [[GivingThemTheStrip She considers removing her breastplate to escape the Collector's magnet]], but decides to not go through with it when she realizes that the crowd is full of nerds with cameras who will photograph her bare breasts if she does so.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
98	** Cody is a short {{geek}} who thinks his interest in physics makes him "cool." He puts on airs of confidence to [[CasanovaWannabe hit on girls]], particularly Gwen -- he even makes a bet with Owen to get Gwen's bra. He gets ignored at worst and beaten up at best, with the exception of his own AbhorrentAdmirer, Sierra.
99	** Harold is a spindly nerd with gross habits and a socially awkward demeanor. He's implied to be a CovertPervert after it's discovered he wrote a series of "spicy" haikus to Leshawna. In the second and third seasons, this trait becomes more pronounced as he frequently talks about how he assumes several girls are attracted to him. He particularly loves Leshawna's figure (emphasizing her round behind), but Leshawna is less sure about her feelings for Harold.
100	--->'''Harold:''' ''[upon seeing Heather's accidentally-exposed breasts]'' Boobies...
101	** Sierra is a stereotypical {{Fangirl}}, obsessed with the Internet [[FriendlessBackground without having any friends in real life]]. She is also incredibly attracted to Cody, to the point of stealing his underwear, using his toothbrush, smelling his shoes, and even [[ForcedKiss forcibly kissing]] him at one point. This is made worse by the fact she has NoSocialSkills and seems unable to comprehend that he's not into her.
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