peter was a nerd but he was never much of an aw shawks golly gee type of guy who rarely talked, rarely emotes, lacks sarcasm, has no sense of humor, and gets picked on by the other loser nerds and even bus drivers .

geeks and nerds can skateboard nowadays . maguire just played a caricature of what other people accuse nerds of being .

peter was never ugly to begin with. you really never read much of the original comics .

not really since he doesn’t know much about peter nor a geek/nerd .

Garfield is a modern day geek/ nerd .