Sorry for the double post- but OG IS AWESOME! I always end up liking the genius kids in cartoons!

well, Welcome to AFF first off.

also, really, dont worry about double posts; as you might have noticed, we lack an edit button, so it is the solution.

Ok, here's two that you can't argue with:

Gomez Addams from the Addams Family (seriously, the trains, the literal interpretation of Morticia saying all thumbs, the overall eccentricity)
Uncle Fester from the Addams Family (the fetching of a horse in order to "horse whip" someone)
Carter from Hogans Heroes (social awkwardness, literal interpretation, unintentional rudeness, obsession with bombs, naiveness, and much more)

That character from Boston Legal is Jerry Espinson. He has Asperger's and Tourette syndrome.

One that I think hasn't been mentioned (I tried to scour the entire thread, but I'm sleepy, so I might have missed it) is the Doctor from Doctor Who. He's brilliant, he gets really excited and talks very rapidly at times and practically bounces around the room from excitement (I get this way sometimes), he doesn't seem to notice when his female companions take a liking to him, and there are probably other things but I can't think of any more.

The four main characters in The Big Bang Theory are, IMO, on varying points on the spectrum, with Sheldon Cooper being the most stereotypically Asperger's.

I always thought Albus Dumbledore from HP was Aspie. He is obsessed with socks, he's brilliant, he says very odd things sometimes, and there are probably more examples that I can't remember.

Near.  Death Note.  Not just Asperger's but full blown Autism.  Physically appearance and behavior seems younger than it ought to be.  He's always obsessively building things out of his toys and uses them to act stuff out in order to figure out how it works.  Never appears in public.  Deals with everything with pure, cold logic.  No eye contact.  Always twisting his hair.  Sits in an unusual fashion.  Intense expression, don't remember if we see him smile.  It's pretty much certain, whether the writer meant it or not Near is an Autistic Savant.

Also (spoiler warning) when L dies and Mello is all freaking out, Near is totally calm and says 'If we can't solve the puzzle, we're nothing but failures.'

Also L's definitely an aspie.

I agree with all these.

I just want to state that as far as Yakumo is concerned, the AS-like signs are more prevalent in the Manga and the 2nd season of the anime (Ni Gakki).

Okay, I came by this thread and it sparked some interest in me:

Charlie Brown of the Peanuts cartoons
Waylon Smithers of The Simpsons
Snively from the Sonic The Hedgehog cartoon
Antoine from the same cartoon
Moe from The Simpsons (In the episode where he opens up "Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag", he kind of has a meltdown in front of the patrons, making them leave. He also yells at Ralph in one of the restaurant scenes just for him spraying him with water)
Professor Fink of The Simpsons
Lisa Simpson (definitely)
Ralph Wiggum (seems to have severe or moderate autistic traits)
Buster of Arthur (one pointed out in a fanfic he may have had a mild form of AS)
Sid from Toy Story (he likes to torture his toys for fun, he seems to have ADHD also)
Also Mindy Simmons (one timer from the Simpsons. She has the same traits as Homer, whose traits are sort of Aspie-ish and I should also mention she is played by the greatest actress of all time)

The Disney characters sounded pretty interesting because they were ones I didn't expect... Like Princess Ariel... I used to have a crush on her)

Soundwave was like, "[Name of cassettecon, normally Laserbeak, Ravage, or Rumble] eject. Operation [name of operation]" or tries to warn Megatron that Starscream is about to shoot him. Out of the Decepticon ranks, Megatron, Starscream, and Soundwave were the top three.

Soundwave is popular among fans and many were upset that he was not even in the movie (at least one of his cassettes, Frenzy, was in it). Rumor has it that he would be in the sequel as a satalite dish.

There is a Transformer character that I forgot. In G1, Rewind, the Autobot Archivist and one of Blaster's cassettes, stores his memory banks with what NTs would call "useless information."

Evangelion is my most favorite show ever!

I completely agree that Shinji may be on the spectrum. I've even noticed him having trouble making eye contact in some scenes in the series.

After watching just one episode with Rei, I placed her on the spectrum, with her having more severe autism that Shinji.

So I've just been watching Serial Experiments Lain, and whoa, the main character has some traits - hearing certain sounds (like traffic and electrical wires) either distorted or indeed, at all, her introversion, the way she freezes up under stress....

I only got around to seeing one episode of that show. However, I do recall the main character had super cute teddy bear costume pajamas!

yes, that's the one

I remember reading a post on some site where the poster thought Stork from Storm Hawks had AS, but I don't think so.

He's paranoid, but according to the show's creator that's a species, he has no problem with eye contact and shoves his face into others at times.

I think he has OCD though

I think there's quite a few characters on the show that aren't NT, Snipe, Dark Ace (megalomania anyone?), Master Cyclonis

Harrier, not AS, just extremely British