From billionaires to superheroes to treasure hunters to world-savers, nerds make for some of the most compelling main characters imaginable.
Nerds make perfect leads for this exact reason: everyone knows a nerd (or is a nerd, or was a nerd), which means everyone is able to relate to a nerd in some way or another.
However, a nerd isn’t always a taped-up-glasses wearing, button-up clad social outcast—in fact, movie nerds have come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.