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* ''Film/SniperTheWhiteRaven:'' Ukrainian sniper "Raven" is a former physics teacher. In one of the lessons at sniper school, the instructor says that snipers need to be good at mental arithmetic to work out distances to targets. When asked by the instructor, Raven gives the exact answer. Later in the film, he also shows himself to be very good at shooting people.

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* In ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan ("Ibn") is a poet sent into exile as an "ambassador." He's the only foreigner of fighting age in the tent when the witch says the thirteenth warrior has to be an outlander. Then a sequence of events show he's not the soft intellectual he seems to be, having expert riding skills, the ability to figure out a language just by listening to it, and, with some modifications to the design, a deft hand with a sword. And he's one of a few left standing at the end.



* Donatello of the Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 is a geek who loves to invent stuff. Given reason, he can also decapitate bad guys with his bo staff.
* In ''Film/The13thWarrior'', Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan ("Ibn") is a poet sent into exile as an "ambassador." He's the only foreigner of fighting age in the tent when the witch says the thirteenth warrior has to be an outlander. Then a sequence of events show he's not the soft intellectual he seems to be, having expert riding skills, the ability to figure out a language just by listening to it, and, with some modifications to the design, a deft hand with a sword. And he's one of a few left standing at the end.

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* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'': Donatello of the Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 is a geek who loves to invent stuff. Given reason, he can also decapitate bad guys with his bo staff.
* In ''Film/The13thWarrior'', Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan ("Ibn") is a poet sent into exile as an "ambassador." He's the only foreigner of fighting age in the tent when the witch says the thirteenth warrior has to be an outlander. Then a sequence of events show he's not the soft intellectual he seems to be, having expert riding skills, the ability to figure out a language just by listening to it, and, with some modifications to the design, a deft hand with a sword. And he's one of a few left standing at the end.
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* Quorra from ''Film/TronLegacy.'' When she's not derezzing Clu's mooks, she usually reads books from Kevin Flynn's library, which includes everything from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky to Buddhist scriptures and Creator/JulesVerne.

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* Quorra from ''Film/TronLegacy.'' ''Film/TronLegacy''. When she's not derezzing Clu's mooks, she usually reads books from Kevin Flynn's library, which includes everything from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky to Buddhist scriptures and Creator/JulesVerne.



* In the 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': Brendan's physics students see him this way when they find out about his MMA moonlighting. This one's based on the real-life history of UFC middleweight Rich Franklin, a math teacher before his fighting days.

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* In the 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': Brendan's physics students see him this way when they find out about his MMA moonlighting. This one's based on the real-life history of UFC middleweight Rich Franklin, a math teacher before his fighting days.
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* Donatello of the Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles is a geek who loves to invent stuff. Given reason, he can also decapitate bad guys with his bo staff.

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* Donatello of the Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 is a geek who loves to invent stuff. Given reason, he can also decapitate bad guys with his bo staff.
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* John Kramer aka Jigsaw from ''Franchise/Saw''. Do not underestimate him for being an old man with cancer. He's a skilled inventor with a penchant for nasty death traps, and is still fast and strong enough to put you in said death traps.
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* In ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior'', Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan ("Ibn") is a poet sent into exile as an "ambassador." He's the only foreigner of fighting age in the tent when the witch says the thirteenth warrior has to be an outlander. Then a sequence of events show he's not the soft intellectual he seems to be, having expert riding skills, the ability to figure out a language just by listening to it, and, with some modifications to the design, a deft hand with a sword. And he's one of a few left standing at the end.

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* In ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior'', ''Film/The13thWarrior'', Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan ("Ibn") is a poet sent into exile as an "ambassador." He's the only foreigner of fighting age in the tent when the witch says the thirteenth warrior has to be an outlander. Then a sequence of events show he's not the soft intellectual he seems to be, having expert riding skills, the ability to figure out a language just by listening to it, and, with some modifications to the design, a deft hand with a sword. And he's one of a few left standing at the end.
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* ''Film/TheAccountant'' is a high-functioning autistic who does the accounting for dangerous criminal organizations. The movie shows the kind of person who can do this job and stay alive when YouKnowTooMuch; he's an expert marksman, and an incredibly tough hand-to-hand combatant thanks to his military service and the TrainingFromHell his father gave him.

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* ''Film/TheAccountant'' ''Film/TheAccountant2016'' is a high-functioning autistic who does the accounting for dangerous criminal organizations. The movie shows the kind of person who can do this job and stay alive when YouKnowTooMuch; he's an expert marksman, and an incredibly tough hand-to-hand combatant thanks to his military service and the TrainingFromHell his father gave him.
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** Peter Quill aka Starlord & Rocket Racoon from the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' are [[GadgeteerGenius tech geniuses]] having equipment suitable enough to fight armies, gods and living planets. Despite Starlord and Rocket distinctly lacking the SuperStrength, blade [[MasterSwordsman skill]] and [[PlantPerson plant power]] of their comrades, also they're the two Guardians who actually pilot The Milano spaceship.

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** Peter Quill aka Starlord Star-Lord & Rocket Racoon from the ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' ''Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' are [[GadgeteerGenius tech geniuses]] having equipment suitable enough to fight armies, gods and living planets. Despite Starlord Star-Lord and Rocket distinctly lacking the SuperStrength, blade [[MasterSwordsman skill]] and [[PlantPerson plant power]] of their comrades, also they're the two Guardians who actually pilot The Milano spaceship.
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** Rivaling Tony in Badass Science there is Robert Bruce Banner who is M.D who specializes in Nuclear Physics, Biochemistry obtaining seven Ph.Ds... oh and he can also turn into a [[ComicBook/TheHulk massive green rage monster]] and beat the shit of gods and aliens. Hell Bruce being NonActionGuy when not Hulked out is up for debate as he [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron overpowered a telekinetic witch with just a headlock]], [[Film/ThorRagnarok flew a spaceship]] and [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar killed an alien monster]] “without changing a shade”. [[spoiler: In Film/AvengersEndgame he's combined Banner and Hulk together into one being, and is GeniusBruiser when he's not a GentleGiant]].

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** Rivaling Tony in Badass Science there is Robert Bruce Banner who is M.D who specializes in Nuclear Physics, Biochemistry obtaining seven Ph.Ds... oh and he can also turn into a [[ComicBook/TheHulk [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk massive green rage monster]] and beat the shit of gods and aliens. Hell Bruce being NonActionGuy when not Hulked out is up for debate as he [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron overpowered a telekinetic witch with just a headlock]], [[Film/ThorRagnarok flew a spaceship]] and [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar killed an alien monster]] “without changing a shade”. [[spoiler: In Film/AvengersEndgame he's combined Banner and Hulk together into one being, and is GeniusBruiser when he's not a GentleGiant]].

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