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* Jor-El from ''Film/ManOfSteel''. Krypton's chief scientist. Rides a dinosaur through a starship warzone. Goes toe-to-toe with a general bred since birth to fight. And sent Superman to earth a couple of days ''''before'''' Krypton exploded.
** Jor-El's computer clone. Manages to come up with the plan to defeat General Zod within mere moments of being briefed on the situation. While taking complete control of Zod's ship. He then deftly frees Lois and Clark both from Zod's custody, and gives Zod a BadassBoast on his son's behalf, followed by a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''
** Tony Edward Stark from the ''Film/IronMan'' films doesn't have years of [[TrainingFromHell combat training]] only a few [[BoxingLessonsforSuperman boxing lessons from Happy]] but Tony still used his technical genius to build a suit that gives him the powers of a superhero. It is through the combination of skill and technology that actually allowed him to be the first person to draw blood from [[HeroKiller Thanos]] (the dude who kicked the Hulk's ass) which earned him the Titan's [[VillainRespect respect]]. This is respect is further earned when fighting another version of Thanos where Tony managed to outsmart the Titan by snatching all 6 stones from his Gauntlet just before he could perform the snap to wipe out the entire universe before doing is own fingersnap to turn Thanos and all of his forces into dust.
*** And let's not forgot he made his first badass PoweredArmour in a cave... [[MemeticMutation WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS]].
** 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/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]].
** Natasha Romanov aka Black Widow, can not only mow through dozens of Hammer security in a whirlwind of acrobatic martial arts in the time it takes Hogan to finally beat down one guy, but she also speaks several languages--including Latin, which there's no practical reason to know how to speak it--and can easily hack through Ivan Vanko's re-programming job on the Hammeroids in minutes, shutting them down without breaking a sweat. In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' she truly flexes her brain power by not only providing tech support to Cap but also unlocking a decades old SHIELD base with her smart phone. ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' illustrates both sides very nicely: she outwits Loki -- ''a literal god of deception'' -- with the right psychological ploys to fool him into revealing his master plan, and holds her own in the Battle of New York against an extraterrestrial army with nothing but a couple of Glocks.
** Loki is shown to be bookish (as seen in [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld The Dark World]], fittingly for a younger brother living in his [[BloodKnight battle hungry]] big brother Thor's shadow. And despite not being as strong as his bro, Loki still killed thousands of Frost Giants, curb stomped Captain America in a fight and for a time successfully defeated the Avengers and SHIELD by scheming. Loki is the first real BigBad of the [=MCU=] and proved it.
*** While they fell to the wayside, Jane, Darcy, Selvig and Ian count considering they fended off an alien Dark Elf attack using nothing but portal technology and a car.
** Aldrich Killain from ''Film/IronMan3'' initially was just a poor nerd with a number of physical disabilities until he took some PsychoSerum and could [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]] and gain a HealingFactor.
** Another villainous example would be Johann Schmidt aka The Red Skull from ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Hitler's chief scientist Schmidt was the first human to harness the power of one of the Infinity Stones and create HYDRA an army surpassing that of the Axis powers.
*** Exceeding Red Skull in scientific evil there is Arnim Zola, who was only a meek assistant to Schmidt in his first appearance but thanks to being integrated into SHIELD managed to do 70 years worth of damage to the Earth by planting the seeds of HYDRA within SHIELD. Not to mention Zola effectively turned Bucky Barnes into The Winter Soldier who ruined hundreds of lives as an assassin, and to add the cherry on top Zola lived to 2014 by uploading his brain conscious to a computer in 1972.
** Peter Quill aka Star-Lord & Rocket Racoon from the ''Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' are [[GadgeteerGenius tech geniuses]] having equipment suitable enough to fight armies, gods and living planets. Despite 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.
** [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange]] M.D started out "humbly" graduating with a PH.D, photographic memory and successful career neurosurgery with his only real shortcoming being his [[AwesomeEgo arrogant ego]]. Which swiftly bites him the ass, as Strange gets his [[LaserGuidedKarma hands crushed in a car accident and crippled for life]]. Thankfully this leads to Strange putting his intelligence for better use studying magic under the Ancient One, becoming Sorcerer Supreme and saving Earth from an EldritchAbomination named Dormammu. Also if being a KungFuWizard physician weren't enough, Doctor Strange is the only person besides Iron Man to actually [[{{Determinator}} hold out]] against Thanos in Infinity War while the likes of Hulk, Thor, and Captain America were taken out quickly.
*** Wong deserves mention being a true BadassBookworm as the Librarian of the magic arts, but it gets better as [[WordOfGod according to Scott Derrickson]] Wong is far more powerful than Strange and serves as his MentorArchetype which is a welcome change from the comics where Wong is a glorified sidekick. Wong proves his badassery in Infinity War where he pulls a PortalCut against [[TheBrute Obsidian Cull]] successfully dis-arming the alien monster.
** As per usual Peter Benjamin Parker aka Spider-Man is a Badass Bookworm, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' shows that keeps old computer parts in his room, ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' shows how invested he is in science class and even breaks out of a storage vault by hacking the door. In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' Spidey makes use of Tony's hologram tec as effectively as Stark himself (much to Happy Hogan's joy). Aside from smarts, Spidey also has the usual superior strength, speed, reflexes, durability and [[SpiderSense senses]] which makes him one of the strongest characters in the [=MCU=].



* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Etta is a very capable secretary for a major wartime office. She might be gentle to a fault, but she isn't opposed to "a bit of fisticuff should the occasion arise" as she points out, if that can help secure women rightsnote . And she actually makes good on those claims to resort to violence when necessary, when she stops the leader of Ludendorff's agents with Diana's sword as his attempt at an ambush goes south for instance, or in the home video stinger, where she uses a beer bottle then a chair to kick the ass of the pub bruiser who came back at Charlie with a gun.
* Andy Knightley from ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' is a chubby, middle-aged lawyer with thick-framed NerdGlasses who's easily the best bar brawler of the Five Musketeers and absolutely tears through a mob of alien-made androids.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Charles Xavier is an Oxford graduate as shown in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', with a doctorate in genetics. He single-handedly prevents the Third World War with some quick thinking and telepathy; he blows up the vessel which was commandeered by the Hellfire Club through a Soviet officer on another warship. Later, he [[spoiler:holds a telepathic link in order to immobilise Shaw while Magneto pushes a coin through Sebastian's skull. Charles feels ''everything'', but he doesn't let go of the connection despite the agony he experiences.]]
** Hank [=McCoy=] earned his [=PhD=] (presumably in engineering and a biology-related field) from Harvard at the age of 15, as established in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. When he's in his blue, furry Beast form, he's blessed with SuperStrength, and in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', he's capable of defeating Magneto -- not even an adamantium-less Wolverine was able to lay a single scratch on the metal-manipulating mutant.
*** [[Film/XMenTheLastStand And]] [[http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/File:X-men-beast-hangs.jpg showing him reading...]]
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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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* 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 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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