Do you think this was the first time hundreds of nerds had a sexual experience about someone who wasn’t an elf princess or Darth Vader? Could be. Angelina showed up at Comic-Con today, the first day of The Grand Festival of Nerds. She wore leather! Now Angelina is just being cruel to those poor boys. I bet at least one dude cried (because his boner hurt so badly).

Angelina and Liev Schreiber both talked up Salt, and my guess is Schreiber was doing some woodwork too. Notice how Schreiber was forced to sit two seats away from Angelina. Poor guy. Poor nerds! Here’s a little taste of their conversation:

Clad in head-to-toe black with a snug leather jacket, Angelina Jolie walked into Comic-Con’s Hall H today to the screams of nearly 7,000 fans, returning to the San Diego movie/TV/geekfest the first time in her post-“Tomb Raider” career.

Flying solo without Brad Pitt, Jolie was all smiles talking up Phillip Noyce’s spy thriller “Salt” — even if doing her own stunts in the reality-based action flick left her with more than a few bumps and bruises:

“Salt” required her to jump across highway overpasses onto semi trucks, perform hand-to-hand combat, and handle all manner of weapon — and during one action scene, Jolie thought she’d had a near miss with serious injury.

Jolie, who did her own stunts, said that during “one of the easiest stunts,” she rolled into a desk and cut her head.

“I thought I’d had a concussion,” Jolie explained while recalling having hearing problems after a particularly brutal fall, “but I had forgotten that I had my earplugs in from [shooting] the gun!”

No stranger to fanboy-pleasing action roles, Jolie jumped at the chance to play a complex, dark character and to get back into the kind of physical characters she played in films like “Wanted” and “Tomb Raider.” “My style got meaner and harder and darker, it wasn’t as pretty,” she said. “I think this is a better action movie than the ones I’ve done.”

And the weapons! “I got to play with just about everything,” she said with a smile. “Including using a fire extinguisher in a way I’d never used it.”

But her favorite kind of action in “Salt?” Good, old-fashioned fist fighting. “Hand-to-hand combat was our weapon of choice — to do everything down and dirty,” said Jolie, who trained in Krav Maga, Muy Thai, and other forms of martial arts.

And just like that, with a generous smile for the Comic-Con fans, Angelina swept out of Hall H leaving everyone dazzled — and just a little wary of running into her in a dark alley. (Who are we kidding? That would be awesome.)

Schreiber said he was less eager to do action stunts than Jolie. Before he agrees to do a stunt, he said he thinks about how long he’s going to end up spending with his feet in ice, whether he’s going to hurt his back and whether he’s going to tear his clothes.

[From MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal]

Aw, sounds like she was throwing some red meat to the martial arts and weaponry nerds. Good for her – they are her people, because I suspect Angelina is a nerd about weapons and combat training too.

More photos of the leather-clad Jolie:

Header photo courtesy of WENN.