Adorkable / Marvel Cinematic Universe

"Time travel!"

Examples of Adorkable from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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• Iron Man: Tony Stark. While he's a snarker and showboater in public, his adorkableness is on full throttle when he's around the few close people he has, teasing them and giving them nicknames. (Like Rhodey.)
• Thor:
  • Jane's usually a level-headed girl, but anytime Thor turns on the charm, she turns to a giggling school girl. Being played by Natalie Portman certainly didn't hurt.
  • Thor himself applies when he's on Earth. Despite being completely ignorant to how the mortal world works, he is a polite and chivalrous gentleman towards women, Jane in particular, even before his redemption. He even kisses Jane's hand and bows in farewell to Darcy and Erik for their help.
  • The Warriors Three and Sif demonstrated adorkability tapping on the glass window with huge grins when they found Thor.
• Captain America: The First Avenger: Even after becoming the peak of physical human perfection, Steve Rogers is still the earnest and kind-hearted man that he was prior to the Super-Soldier procedures.
• The Avengers:
  • Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner. Quiet, nerdy, wears glasses, has rumpled hair, and a slightly nervous demeanor, as he's working for a company he doesn't exactly trust, with other super-powered people who won't get along, and he's trying his hardest to stay calm and not to let "The Big Guy" out. Also, he rides a tiny motorcycle at one point. And with the return of the previously mentioned Steve Rogers and Thor, the film is just FULL of adorkable-ness.
    Bruce: I'm sorry. That was mean...
  • Usually dry and deadpan S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson turns out to be quite adorkable too, particularly as an Ascended Fanboy. For example, he tells Captain America, "I watched you while you were sleeping," before realizing how creepy that sounds.
• Captain America: Civil War: The Vision, after a year of two of being alive, hasn't quite gotten the hang of interacting with other people, leading to scenes like him not yet knowing he's supposed to use doors, or valiantly trying to make sense of a cookery book, all while decked out in casual clothing (despite being a hyper-advanced android).
  Vision: A pinch of paprika... a "pinch"?
  • The introduction of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in this film is this trope personified! He is a complete fanboy throughout his first battle ("Hey, Captain. Big fan. I'm Spider-Man.") and even the battle plans he suggests are nerdisms ("Hey guys, you ever see that really old movie, The Empire Strikes Back? And y'know they were on the ice planet... with the walking thingies?")
• And then in his own solo MCU outing, Spider-Man: Homecoming: This is your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man circa 2016 [1]
• Black Panther: King T'Challa of Wakanda, ruler of the most advanced nation on Earth, unstoppable badass... cannot talk to the woman he likes without freezing up, so much so even his stoic bodyguard taunts him about it.
  Shuri: Did he freeze?
  Okoye: Like an antelope in headlights!
• The successors of Black Widow and Hawkeye, Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop. Both are highly skilled combatants, with the former also being a trained assassin. And both are also twentysomething women behaving like teenagers who geek out over various things. Tellingly, the interactions between both are highlighted by fans as both endearing and hilarious. Helps that their actresses are both rather beloved by fans for their own in-real-life adorkableness.
• Ms Marvel: Just like her comic book counterpart, Kamala Khan is an imaginative and shamelessly nerdy fangirl of the Avengers (especially Captain Marvel) whose very first scene features her narrating a gushy fanfic she wrote about Carol turning the tide during Endgame's climatic final battle, to say nothing about how ecstatic she is upon gaining powers of her own. Her actress, Iman Vellani, being just as much of a Marvel fangirl in real life certainly doesn't hurt.