Sheldon Cooper, the ultimate fish-out-of-water growing ... "Mary not only feels this emotion of anger but then is riddled with guilt because it's not the socially sanctioned emotion that is ...

and Sheldon Cooper, the imperious nerd from the Big Bang theory, played by Jim Parsons. Oddly, the last two characters were based on the acting roles, not the actual people. Throughout the ...

However, in hindsight its clear that the cartoonish physicist Sheldon Cooper was the real star all along. Sheldon is a literal genius with a comical lack of social graces and even empathy.