What/who has a lot of character without a lot of charisma? 🤔
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More seriously, you seem to be looking for people/things which are ethically strong but lack inherent social power?
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki. isn't quite it, but might be close enough to give you leads.
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There's a lot of variety to nerds, at least using my definition: someone whose non-social interests trump their social interests to some extent.
And I'm sure there are non-nerds that would also fit, I'm just pointing out a bumper crop of examples.
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