“ | Sokka: Why's everyone looking at me? Aang: You're the idea guy. Sokka: So I'm the only one who can ever come up with a plan? That's a lot of pressure. |
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~ Aang telling Sokka that he's the brains of the group. |
“ | I'm the smartest man in the world. | „ |
~ Chase Davenport |
“ | It's more like, I know what I need to be doing now. | „ |
~ Blake Belladonna showing her smart nature to Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose. |
A heroic individual who has super high levels of intelligence and chooses to use their gifts for good rather than evil.
They are basically the heroic equivalent of the Doctors and Scientists or Mastermind archetypes. Geniuses often goes hand in hand with Wisdom but a genius is not necessarily a wise hero and vice-versa. The key difference between a wise hero and a genius is a genius will have the knowledge to do amazing things but a wise hero will be able to apply the knowledge they have with ease and is rarely wrong. Because of this, this category also proves that even the smartest and most talented of heroes can potentially be naïve, mentally unsound, too obsessed, insecure, or even absent-minded.
Frequently the Smart Guy of a Five-Man Band.
Note: Please do not add if under Mastermind as it is the step below and it is redundant. It is also possible for this category to overlap with the Dimwits category if these heroes prove to be rather dimwitted or foolish in many areas like social skills, despite being smart in other areas. Hence the meaning of the trope pages "Ditzy Genius" and "Genius Ditz".
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- A (Xenoblade Chronicles)
- A Ka Kin
- A Real Magic Skeleton
- A-ko Magami
- A.C. Eos
- A4
- Aang (Avatar)
- Aaron (The Walking Dead)
- Aaron Herres
- Aaron Pittman
- Aasim
- Abbott and Costello
- Abby Archer
- Abby Hatcher
- Abby Yates
- Abbé Faria
- Abe (Urban Vermin)
- Abe Sapien
- Abed Nadir
- Abigail (Once Upon a Forest)
- Abigail Cauldron
- Abigail Lincoln
- Abraham Erskine
- Abraham Sapien
- Abraham Van Helsing (Bram Stoker)
- Abraham Van Helsing (Dracula: Dead and Loving It)
- Abraham Van Helsing (Hellsing)
- Abu
- Accelerator
- Ace (DC League of Super-Pets)
- Ace (TwinBee)
- Ace Bunny
- Ace Hart
- Ace the Bat-Hound
- Ace Ventura
- Acid
- Ada Wong
- Adaline Pratt
- ADAM
- Adam Blade
- Adam Goldberg
- Adam Harrison
- Adam Jensen
- Adam Larson
- Adam Lyon
- Adam Strange
- Adam Young
- Add (Elsword)
- Adolin Kholin
- Adonis (The Kingdom of Ruin)
- Adorabat
- Adrian Monk
- Adrian Shephard
- Adric
- Adu Du
- Adéwalé
- Aech
- Aela the Huntress
- Aelita Schaeffer
- Aerith Gainsborough
- Agatha Heterodyne
- Agaton Sax
- Agent 9
- Agent Honeydew
- Agent K
- Agent L
- Agent Xero
- Agent Zoil
- Agito Makishima
- Agnes (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
- Agnes Brown
- Agnes Gru
- Agnes Jurati
- Agnese Sanctis
- Aguilar de Nerha
- Ahsoka Tano
- Ai (VRAINS)
- Ai Miyashita
- Ai Mizuno
- AiAi
- Aiden Pearce
- Aika Sumeragi
- Aiko Hatayama
- Air Bud
- Aisha Blanchette
- AJ (Blaze and the Monster Machines)
- AJ (The Fairly OddParents)
- AJ Gadgets
- AJ Styles
- Aja Leith
- Aja Tarron
- Akamaru
- Akame (Akame ga Kill!)
- Akane Aoi
- Akane Nishino
- Akane Tendo
- Akane Tsunemori
- Akashi (Kantai Collection)
- Akeno Himejima
- Akeno Misaki
- Aki Ross
- Akihiko Sanada
- Akiho Senomiya
- Akima Kunimoto
- Akira Kazama
- Akira Nishikiyama
- Akira Renbokoji
- Akira Takizawa
- Akisame Kōetsuji
- Akito Takagi
- Aku Aku
- AL
- Al (Ratchet & Clank)
- Aladdin (Disney)
- Alador Blight
- Alan Abernathy
- Alan Diaz
- Alan Grant
- Alan Keane
- Alan Parrish
- Alan Wake
- Alan-A-Dale
- Alastor Moody
- Albain
- Albedo (Genshin Impact)
- Aleph (Shin Megami Tensei II)
- Aleu
- Alex (Control Z)
- Alex (Jewelpet)
- Alex (Lockout)
- Alex (Madagascar)
- Alex (Totally Spies!)
- Alex Bailey
- Alex Chen
- Alex Danvers
- Alex Hopper
- Alex Mercer
- Alex Munday
- Alex Nichols
- Alex Norwood
- Alex O'Connell
- Alex Pruitt
- Alex Rider
- Alex Turner
- Alex Vreeke
- Alex Weiss
- Alex Wilder (Marvel)
- Alexa (Pokémon)
- Alexei
- Alexia Midgar
- Aske Stenstrom
- Alfred J. Kwak
- Alfred Knapp
- Alfred Pennyworth (Burton/Schumacherverse)
- Alfred Pennyworth (DC Extended Universe)
- Alfred Pennyworth (DC)
- Alfred Vint Svent
- Alia (Mega Man X)
- Alibaba Saluja
- Alice Angel
- Alice Garnet Nakata
- Alice Margatroid
- Alicia Masters (2000s films)
- Alisa Reinford
- Alisa Selezneva
- Alistair Fury
- Alistair Wonderland
- Allen the Alien
- Allen Walker
- Allen Westfelt
- Allison Taylor
- Ally and Jess
- Ally Dawson
- Aloe Cookie
- Aloy
- Alphas (Horizon)
- Alphonse Elric
- Alphys
- Alt
- Alter Ego
- Alternate Tawna Bandicoot
- Alternate Timeline Erica Wang
- Alto Goldfield
- Alucard (Castlevania)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- Alura McCall
- Alva
- Alvin Seville (Animated Series)
- Alvin, Simon, and Theodore
- Alvis
- Alyosha
- Alyssa Enrilé
- Alyssa Hale