Nerdy Girl

Posting that random cap yesterday made my think about many of the others I've done on the theme of nerdy and geeky girls.

Now this is not just capping girls wearing Star Wars one piece swimsuits or rolling around in comics but full on personality changes. I seem to have done it more often than I realise. I guess the main draw is the personality change, and I'm talking strictly stereotypes here and I do not intend in any way to cause offence. The image of the nerd, girl or guy, is a shy person, bad hair, braces on teeth, big black rimmed glasses, perhaps wearing a shirt and tie or some other geeky t-shirt. A love of all things sci-fi fighting for brain space with subject such as science, maths, astronomy, physics and the like. The delicious element is when you take a popular guy or girl and turn them nerdy. Role swaps are always fun to do and there are suprisingly a lot of them out there on this subject. Perhaps nerd is a more popular archetype than I thought.

I'll have to discuss the TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch at some point because it contained many magical changes and I used to watch it as a teenager. One 1996 episode Geek Like Me saw Sabrina turn popular girl Libby (a bully and therefore sharing the brunt of the witch's magic with her boyfriend Harvey) into a geek and, by the end of the episode, most of her class in an effort to save the science club. In The Role Exchanger 3 by Morpheus, a group of popular cheerleaders and nerdy guys switch places with the cheerleaders sitting down to play Dungeons and Dragons while the guys start thinking it's lame. Funnily enough, the next Quantum Leap I cover features D&D too.

There's also something about being jacked in with a lot of new knowledge, stuff that wasn't there before and is perhaps unwanted. I discussed in an earlier post about Star Trek and suddenly knowing all about the show. Years ago I recall a game show called Swapheads in which contestants answer questions on each others specialist subjects after a quick cram session and this appealed to the role change fan in me. The modern version of Doctor Who turns 10 years old this year and it suprises me how much I know about a show I didn't really watch until then. Never watched it as a kid, perhaps I thought it would be too scary, but when I  went back into the classic series and watched it for the first time I loved it. Ten years ago I certainly didn't expect to be able to name all the Third Doctor's companions or all the stories to feature the Sontarans.

Below is one of my favourite captions that  I've done over the years which illustrates this idea well. This was created for Lyndee Mason over at Rachel's Haven. I love this picture; sexy and stylish with her red hair standing out among the blues and greens of the image.

Dalek, I Love You (2012)