From The Big Bang Theory to Stranger Things, geek characters areincreasingly central to contemporary popular culture. They may beprimarily into technology or science but this is always grounded inextraordinary mathematical skills. As Tony Stark says in Iron Man “If mymath is right, and it always is...”. In this article, we map one aspect of howthe pop culture geek is represented: suffering-revenge narratives. We usethe Mark Zuckerberg biopic The Social Network as an archetypal exampleand argue that while suffering and revenge have always been part of geekrepresentations, they are increasingly taking on misogynistic forms. Thesenarratives legitimate the gendered policing of online geek spaces andwider sexism. As a contrast, we look at working-class Latina female geekBetty Aurora Rincón in the television series Betty en NY showing how sheresponds to suffering with forgiveness and empathy rather than revenge.