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Indiana Jones
Geek Clique: He's a bow tie-wearing professor who gets visibly uncomfortable when girly students flutter their eyelashes at him.
Why He's Too Cool For School: He's no museum piece. Without exception, those holidays are legendary adventures
And, of course, he's handsomeness personified. Wasn't the pretty student lusting after him enough of a giveaway?
Thomas A. Anderson
Geek Clique: By day, he's an office drone tapping away on a keyboard for an anonymous corporation.
Why He's Too Cool For School: The small matter of being The One, the physics-defying demi-god of the virtual world.
What most geeks wish themselves to be, he is. See also: Kevin Flynn in Tron .
Will Hunting
Geek Clique: Although he's a janitor at MIT, secret genius Will likes nothing better than to sneak into classes after hours and correct the mistakes of the students...and the teachers.
Better still, his blend of encyclopediac knowledge and street-sense can batter smug smartarses into intellectual submission. How d'ya like them apples?
Peter Parker
Geek Clique: He lives with his Aunt and Uncle, spends his spare time in dark rooms developing photographs. No wonder real life is a challenge, particularly when laydeez are involved.
We'd have happily lived through those awkward teenage moments if we got to beat up criminals in our spare time.
David Lightman
Geek Clique: Most geeks are easy to avoid, given their preference for staying indoors and mucking about on computers.
Why He's Too Cool For School: As played by cheeky chappie Matthew Broderick, he has enough insouciant charm to get away with his indiscretions.
Which is saying something, when David can bring the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust with a few clicks of the keyboard.
Doc Brown
Geek Clique: The mad scientist of Hill Valley, people tend to give Emmet Brown a wide berth for his wild wild gesticulations and wild exclamations. Oh, and the hair - yup, that's wild, too.
There are few guys around with the balls to turn a sports car into a time machine and rip off Libyan terrorists to get it working.
Tony Stark
Geek Clique: He's an inventor, who likes nothing better than to muck around with real-life Robot Wars . However, his weapons cause mass destruction. Not cool , dude.
Plus, eventually, he sees the error of his ways and gets a Bono-like sense of saving the world. He probably campaigns against WMDs on Twitter.
Kate Libby
Geek Clique: Just to prove that the boys don't have a monopoly on geekhood, here's a sister who prefers to spend her days on the PC breaking into people's private accounts.
Why She's Too Cool For School: Short answer - she's Angelina Jolie.
Anybody else would look stupid calling themselves 'Acid Burn.' With Jolie, the name smoulders.
Chris Wright
Geek Clique: The shining star of Pacific Tech's elite weapons development unit, Chris knows more about laser technology than is socially acceptable for a man who looks like Val Kilmer.
Here's the geek as mellow dude and - as proved by cult 80s flick Real Genius - his casual karma rubs off on his fellow students.
Richard Wang
Geek Clique: This schoolboy inventor was always going to get bullied with a name like that, so it's no surprise he gave himself a nickname.
Why He's Too Cool For School: He's a truly proactive geek, who has applied his knowledge into a way of life.
A one-man mecha army with a gadget for every eventuality, he's as indispensable as a Swiss Army knife.
Scott Pilgrim
Geek Clique: Perpetually tongue-tied, embarrassed Michael Cera is Hollywood's go-to geek. Here, he's slacker Scott, who just likes hanging out and half-heartedly bashing away on his bass
In the forthcoming Scott Pilgrim Vs The World , the love of a good woman sends Scott on a quest to battle her seven Evil Exes...with punch-ups and lightsaber duels. Sounds pretty cool to us.
