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* PlayedForHorror in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' with the BigBad, William Afton. He was a RobotMaster and SerialKiller who despite being brilliant was a [[TheSociopath low-functioning sociopath]] whose single-minded obsession with [[ChildHater child murder]] and [[DidntThinkThisThrough general lack of foresight]] led to him being HoistByHisOwnPetard on several occasions. [[spoiler:He decides to climb inside the springlock suit even when the condition it's in makes it highly likely to kill him, and even [[CameBackWrong as Springtrap]] ''knows'' that the pizzeria in [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator the sixth game]] isn't what it seems but can't resist the opportunity to kill more kids. Both of these examples lead to his death.]]
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* PlayedForHorror in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' with the BigBad, William Afton. He was a RobotMaster and SerialKiller who despite being brilliant was a [[TheSociopath low-functioning sociopath]] whose single-minded obsession with [[ChildHater child murder]] and [[DidntThinkThisThrough general lack of foresight]] led to him being HoistByHisOwnPetard on several occasions. [[spoiler:He decides to climb inside the springlock suit even when the condition it's in makes it highly likely to kill him, and even [[CameBackWrong as Springtrap]] ''knows'' that the pizzeria in [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator the sixth game]] isn't what it seems but can't resist the opportunity to kill more kids. Both of these examples lead to his death.]]
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* Uncle Albert from ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures'' is a skilled scientist and engineer, but according to the narrator, people would call Albert either a genius or a crazy man for doing "useless things" such as raising bugs, counting stars and building useless machines.machines.
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* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Johnny Silverhand can appear as either this trope or GeniusDitz depending upon what he does or is going to do when a person first meets him. On the genius side of the trope, one only needs to talk to him to know that he is well-read in a variety of topics including art history, political theory, cryptography, and computer science. On TheDitz side, however, he is someone who fully embraces the destructive nature of the SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll lifestyle without fear and then ups it by joining a [[BombThrowingAnarchists terrorist group]]. In addition, he is seemingly incapable of interacting with the world without insults or violence, destroys long-term relationships for short-term gratification, and hates corporations so much that he allows [[GreaterScopeVillain Saburo Arasaka]] to punch him in the nose if it results in him getting a bruised knuckle. In short, he is the epitome of an EruditeStoner who speaks in a SophisticatedAsHell manner, is impulsive, and has a short attention span as well as a shorter temper.
* Measurehead in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is a GeniusBruiser who works as TheDragon for the local NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters. A large ScaryBlackMan, who despite being [[PurpleProse eloquent]] and well-read, utilizes InsaneTrollLogic to defend his BoomerangBigot ideology based in anthropometric-based racism, to the point he has phrenology charts tattooed all over his body. He's also astute enough to be one of the only two characters in the game capable of convincing [[PlayerCharacter Harry]] that [[JerkassHasAPoint alcoholism is ruining his life and helping him quit]], and also shares with him the only good piece of advice that he gets about his goal to return to the past -- that he doesn't want to, and should embrace the freedom and opportunities of the modern world [[HopeIsScary instead of retreating inwards in failure]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Merrill is a brilliant mage and historian well noted for her talents. She's also extremely naïve, very socially awkward, has little in the way of common sense (for some time she considered muggings to be some form of greeting), and an absolutely abysmal sense of direction. This is both played for laughs and treated seriously.
* The Sophons of ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'', they're just as likely to run away screaming from a planetary anomaly or study it despite being irradiated. ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'' reveals their rapid advances (they were the first to use nuclear power, mine asteroids, and so on) came with similar amounts of catastrophic [[ForScience SCIENCE]]-induced cock-ups (they were also the first to crash their test rockets, set off artificial earthquakes on their homeworld, and accidentally blow up their own moon).
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Warrior of Light is TheAce and an InstantExpert at nearly every craft they put their mind to, be it battling {{Physical God}}s or becoming an artisan. But several of their dialogue options and journal entries make them come across as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. For instance, when looking for an object at the bottom of an ice-cold, murky pond, they can offer to try and ''drink'' the pond dry to get to the thing they're looking for. They can also be a SupremeChef but completely fail to register that the "squishy" spices they just retrieved from a shipwreck are rancid and moldy.
* Morgan from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is [[spoiler:the player character's son/daughter and, much like their parent, is]] a BadassBookworm [[spoiler:with a love for tactics and Easy Amnesia]]. While it's clear from Morgan's thought processes that they're very intelligent, the issue is that, despite appearing to be [[VagueAge anywhere from fifteen to their early twenties]], Morgan spends a lot of time [[ItMakesSenseInContext literally bashing their head against posts]], asking bandits [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas if their mother would be proud of them for their actions]] ([[SubvertedTrope it doesn't work]]), and other similar actions. It becomes obvious Morgan lacks a lot of common sense and is very naïve, and their [[spoiler:amnesia]] probably doesn't help matters, either.
* PlayedForHorror in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' with the BigBad, William Afton. He was a RobotMaster and SerialKiller who despite being brilliant was a [[TheSociopath low-functioning sociopath]] whose single-minded obsession with [[ChildHater child murder]] and [[DidntThinkThisThrough general lack of foresight]] led to him being HoistByHisOwnPetard on several occasions. [[spoiler:He decides to climb inside the springlock suit even when the condition it's in makes it highly likely to kill him, and even [[CameBackWrong as Springtrap]] ''knows'' that the pizzeria in [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator the sixth game]] isn't what it seems but can't resist the opportunity to kill more kids. Both of these examples lead to his death.]]
* Voridus in the ''Awakening the Nightmare'' DLC for ''Videogame/HaloWars2'', who is surprisingly adept with Forerunner technology and successfully experiments with Covenant technology. He's also a competent fighter. But he is so eager to prove himself to Atriox that he inevitably keeps failing him, and despite repeated warnings from both Atriox and his brother Pavium, he [[spoiler:breaches the energy shield around the ruins of High Charity and releases the Flood, almost dooming the galaxy]].
* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, particularly high magic potential seems to be tied to intelligence, with characters like Zexion and Aqua showing high aptitude in magic. The character with the ''highest'' magical potential in the series? ''Donald Duck'', who isn't just a mage, but also a powerful wizard. He's also, well, Donald Duck, with all his usual stubbornness and lack of common sense.
* Yukiko Amagi of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has a bit of this. Intelligence-wise, she's very smart, as her best friend Chie remarks that Yukiko always ranks near the top of the school charts when it comes to exams, and she's also often the one to make important deductions about the murder case the group is working on (up until [[KidDetective Naoto]] joins the group, anyway). On the other hand, she's capable of being very air-headed too, often displaying a remarkable ability to miss the entire point of a conversation (for instance, not knowing that a guy asking her to "go somewhere" with him was asking her out on a date, or thinking Yosuke is making a dirty remark when he suggests Yukiko give him some "private lessons" during a conversation about studying), and occasionally spaces out completely when others are talking to her.
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the titular character Clank. Compared with Ratchet, he is the more BookSmart of the duo, but unlike most robots depicted in media, he [[InvertedTrope inverts]] the NoSocialSkills trope as he usually plays the StraightMan to Ratchet. However, he does have his ditzy moments with one example being the time he thought a DisguisedInDrag Qwark was his sister at first.
* Kiel of ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' takes great joy in reading books and learning about all sorts of things. However, he apparently failed to grasp the basic concepts of secrecy, deceit, or even just being a prankster, because he takes ''everyone's'' words at face value and can't keep anything in confidence--not that he deliberately goes around telling people, mind you; he just tends to let things slip when he shouldn't. He's also naïve and inexperienced in the real world, despite his vast reading list.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is a genius who [[ImprobablyHighIQ has an IQ of 300]], capable of singlehandedly building entire fleets of airships and space stations as well as armies of killer robots. However, he usually dresses his machines in garish colors, tends to throw temper tantrums whenever he's on the losing side and has a tendency to paste his face on everything. In addition to almost always including an incredibly obvious weak point in all of his robots (which is not unusual or unexpected for video game villains), special mention must be made of the [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Egg Dealer]] -- a slot machine robot that had a random chance of attacking himself or even giving Shadow immediate access to his ultimate technique. Got to wonder what he was thinking when he programmed those particular features in.
* Luigi, of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. When he's turned evil in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', he manages to build a giant killer robot that takes over two hundred hits with an alien space laser to go down in a couple of hours, owns his own airship (that he's implied to have built himself), is a master at card games, is explicitly stated to be the brains of the brothers, when Mario has a job which already requires someone to be very smart, and, yet, acts extremely childish when he's on adventures.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'':
** Lamia Loveless in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' is a completely competent mecha pilot -- calm, analytical and deadly in battle. During her normal life, however, she tends to act ditzy. This is {{justified|Trope}} since she is a {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} who was created mere years ago and had only recently discovered what it felt like to be human.
** Yong Gebana of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration: Dark Prison'' has a seemingly serious personality when it counts and apparently operates "by the book" most of the time. She has a slight obsession with data, which is represented by how she acquires and utilizes data constantly when in actual combat (her debut chapter is called "Auditor Girl", referencing this). She has some slight "ditz" moments at times and we are usually shown her self monologues on which she usually "assorts" the current situation when she doesn't get something.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
** Harold from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'' is an eccentric, unpredictable, childish and sometimes downright psychotic young lady; yet, she is the genius behind the creation of the [[EmpathicWeapon Swordians]], and a magic expert. The writers of Vesperia seem to have taken a bit of her when making Rita; theory supported by a Harold mask usable by her (as an Attachment) and her Miska Doctoral Degree costume title, very reminiscent of Harold's garment.
** Rita Mordio in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''. A prodigy mage at the age of fifteen, but possessing absolutely no social skills. She's rude, direct, [[DisproportionateRetribution violently assaults those who bother her]] and cares nothing for other people. This can be chalked up to her young age and that she was raised (as an orphan) in a university town filled with self-absorbed scientists.
** Pascal in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' is a lot more sociable than Rita, but she's so energetic that she's nigh-incomprehensible when she gets excited, and she can't read social situations: she doesn't so much break the tension in a room as much as crash through it head-first. She also has no concept of personal space.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** Prolonged exposure to [[GreenRocks Australium]] can not only lead to TestosteronePoisoning of muscle growth, [[GirlsWithMoustaches women growing facial hair]], and men growing chest hair in the shape of a country or state connected to them, but also increases intelligence while lowering common sense leading to this trope. TheEngineer's grandfather Radigan Conagher was once tasked by the U.S. government to work with it, which increased his intelligence to the point of being able to create a fully functional prosthetic limb but also lead him to saw off his own hand so that he could use it. Australia’s population as a result of working with the metal has led it to become the most technologically advanced nation, but it also uses the technology for the most ridiculous of reasons and they decide their king through kangaroo boxing.
** TheMedic may look like [[GermanicEfficiency he has it fairly together]] on the field, but look a little closer and [[MadDoctor you'll find out otherwise]]. For example, he apparently believes that the best way to talk to a patient during surgery (the patient being his {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, no less) is to regale him with the story of how he lost his medical license (it involved removing the entire skeleton from a man who lived to tell the tale). It's fairly obvious that the man is both socially inept and generally round the twist.
* Uncle Albert from ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures'' is a skilled scientist and engineer, but according to the narrator, people would call Albert either a genius or a crazy man for doing "useless things" such as raising bugs, counting stars and building useless machines.
* Measurehead in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' is a GeniusBruiser who works as TheDragon for the local NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters. A large ScaryBlackMan, who despite being [[PurpleProse eloquent]] and well-read, utilizes InsaneTrollLogic to defend his BoomerangBigot ideology based in anthropometric-based racism, to the point he has phrenology charts tattooed all over his body. He's also astute enough to be one of the only two characters in the game capable of convincing [[PlayerCharacter Harry]] that [[JerkassHasAPoint alcoholism is ruining his life and helping him quit]], and also shares with him the only good piece of advice that he gets about his goal to return to the past -- that he doesn't want to, and should embrace the freedom and opportunities of the modern world [[HopeIsScary instead of retreating inwards in failure]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Merrill is a brilliant mage and historian well noted for her talents. She's also extremely naïve, very socially awkward, has little in the way of common sense (for some time she considered muggings to be some form of greeting), and an absolutely abysmal sense of direction. This is both played for laughs and treated seriously.
* The Sophons of ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'', they're just as likely to run away screaming from a planetary anomaly or study it despite being irradiated. ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace2'' reveals their rapid advances (they were the first to use nuclear power, mine asteroids, and so on) came with similar amounts of catastrophic [[ForScience SCIENCE]]-induced cock-ups (they were also the first to crash their test rockets, set off artificial earthquakes on their homeworld, and accidentally blow up their own moon).
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the Warrior of Light is TheAce and an InstantExpert at nearly every craft they put their mind to, be it battling {{Physical God}}s or becoming an artisan. But several of their dialogue options and journal entries make them come across as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. For instance, when looking for an object at the bottom of an ice-cold, murky pond, they can offer to try and ''drink'' the pond dry to get to the thing they're looking for. They can also be a SupremeChef but completely fail to register that the "squishy" spices they just retrieved from a shipwreck are rancid and moldy.
* Morgan from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is [[spoiler:the player character's son/daughter and, much like their parent, is]] a BadassBookworm [[spoiler:with a love for tactics and Easy Amnesia]]. While it's clear from Morgan's thought processes that they're very intelligent, the issue is that, despite appearing to be [[VagueAge anywhere from fifteen to their early twenties]], Morgan spends a lot of time [[ItMakesSenseInContext literally bashing their head against posts]], asking bandits [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas if their mother would be proud of them for their actions]] ([[SubvertedTrope it doesn't work]]), and other similar actions. It becomes obvious Morgan lacks a lot of common sense and is very naïve, and their [[spoiler:amnesia]] probably doesn't help matters, either.
* PlayedForHorror in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' with the BigBad, William Afton. He was a RobotMaster and SerialKiller who despite being brilliant was a [[TheSociopath low-functioning sociopath]] whose single-minded obsession with [[ChildHater child murder]] and [[DidntThinkThisThrough general lack of foresight]] led to him being HoistByHisOwnPetard on several occasions. [[spoiler:He decides to climb inside the springlock suit even when the condition it's in makes it highly likely to kill him, and even [[CameBackWrong as Springtrap]] ''knows'' that the pizzeria in [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator the sixth game]] isn't what it seems but can't resist the opportunity to kill more kids. Both of these examples lead to his death.]]
* Voridus in the ''Awakening the Nightmare'' DLC for ''Videogame/HaloWars2'', who is surprisingly adept with Forerunner technology and successfully experiments with Covenant technology. He's also a competent fighter. But he is so eager to prove himself to Atriox that he inevitably keeps failing him, and despite repeated warnings from both Atriox and his brother Pavium, he [[spoiler:breaches the energy shield around the ruins of High Charity and releases the Flood, almost dooming the galaxy]].
* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series, particularly high magic potential seems to be tied to intelligence, with characters like Zexion and Aqua showing high aptitude in magic. The character with the ''highest'' magical potential in the series? ''Donald Duck'', who isn't just a mage, but also a powerful wizard. He's also, well, Donald Duck, with all his usual stubbornness and lack of common sense.
* Yukiko Amagi of ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has a bit of this. Intelligence-wise, she's very smart, as her best friend Chie remarks that Yukiko always ranks near the top of the school charts when it comes to exams, and she's also often the one to make important deductions about the murder case the group is working on (up until [[KidDetective Naoto]] joins the group, anyway). On the other hand, she's capable of being very air-headed too, often displaying a remarkable ability to miss the entire point of a conversation (for instance, not knowing that a guy asking her to "go somewhere" with him was asking her out on a date, or thinking Yosuke is making a dirty remark when he suggests Yukiko give him some "private lessons" during a conversation about studying), and occasionally spaces out completely when others are talking to her.
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the titular character Clank. Compared with Ratchet, he is the more BookSmart of the duo, but unlike most robots depicted in media, he [[InvertedTrope inverts]] the NoSocialSkills trope as he usually plays the StraightMan to Ratchet. However, he does have his ditzy moments with one example being the time he thought a DisguisedInDrag Qwark was his sister at first.
* Kiel of ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' takes great joy in reading books and learning about all sorts of things. However, he apparently failed to grasp the basic concepts of secrecy, deceit, or even just being a prankster, because he takes ''everyone's'' words at face value and can't keep anything in confidence--not that he deliberately goes around telling people, mind you; he just tends to let things slip when he shouldn't. He's also naïve and inexperienced in the real world, despite his vast reading list.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is a genius who [[ImprobablyHighIQ has an IQ of 300]], capable of singlehandedly building entire fleets of airships and space stations as well as armies of killer robots. However, he usually dresses his machines in garish colors, tends to throw temper tantrums whenever he's on the losing side and has a tendency to paste his face on everything. In addition to almost always including an incredibly obvious weak point in all of his robots (which is not unusual or unexpected for video game villains), special mention must be made of the [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Egg Dealer]] -- a slot machine robot that had a random chance of attacking himself or even giving Shadow immediate access to his ultimate technique. Got to wonder what he was thinking when he programmed those particular features in.
* Luigi, of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. When he's turned evil in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', he manages to build a giant killer robot that takes over two hundred hits with an alien space laser to go down in a couple of hours, owns his own airship (that he's implied to have built himself), is a master at card games, is explicitly stated to be the brains of the brothers, when Mario has a job which already requires someone to be very smart, and, yet, acts extremely childish when he's on adventures.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'':
** Lamia Loveless in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance'' is a completely competent mecha pilot -- calm, analytical and deadly in battle. During her normal life, however, she tends to act ditzy. This is {{justified|Trope}} since she is a {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} who was created mere years ago and had only recently discovered what it felt like to be human.
** Yong Gebana of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration: Dark Prison'' has a seemingly serious personality when it counts and apparently operates "by the book" most of the time. She has a slight obsession with data, which is represented by how she acquires and utilizes data constantly when in actual combat (her debut chapter is called "Auditor Girl", referencing this). She has some slight "ditz" moments at times and we are usually shown her self monologues on which she usually "assorts" the current situation when she doesn't get something.
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
** Harold from ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'' is an eccentric, unpredictable, childish and sometimes downright psychotic young lady; yet, she is the genius behind the creation of the [[EmpathicWeapon Swordians]], and a magic expert. The writers of Vesperia seem to have taken a bit of her when making Rita; theory supported by a Harold mask usable by her (as an Attachment) and her Miska Doctoral Degree costume title, very reminiscent of Harold's garment.
** Rita Mordio in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''. A prodigy mage at the age of fifteen, but possessing absolutely no social skills. She's rude, direct, [[DisproportionateRetribution violently assaults those who bother her]] and cares nothing for other people. This can be chalked up to her young age and that she was raised (as an orphan) in a university town filled with self-absorbed scientists.
** Pascal in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' is a lot more sociable than Rita, but she's so energetic that she's nigh-incomprehensible when she gets excited, and she can't read social situations: she doesn't so much break the tension in a room as much as crash through it head-first. She also has no concept of personal space.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** Prolonged exposure to [[GreenRocks Australium]] can not only lead to TestosteronePoisoning of muscle growth, [[GirlsWithMoustaches women growing facial hair]], and men growing chest hair in the shape of a country or state connected to them, but also increases intelligence while lowering common sense leading to this trope. TheEngineer's grandfather Radigan Conagher was once tasked by the U.S. government to work with it, which increased his intelligence to the point of being able to create a fully functional prosthetic limb but also lead him to saw off his own hand so that he could use it. Australia’s population as a result of working with the metal has led it to become the most technologically advanced nation, but it also uses the technology for the most ridiculous of reasons and they decide their king through kangaroo boxing.
** TheMedic may look like [[GermanicEfficiency he has it fairly together]] on the field, but look a little closer and [[MadDoctor you'll find out otherwise]]. For example, he apparently believes that the best way to talk to a patient during surgery (the patient being his {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, no less) is to regale him with the story of how he lost his medical license (it involved removing the entire skeleton from a man who lived to tell the tale). It's fairly obvious that the man is both socially inept and generally round the twist.
* Uncle Albert from ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures'' is a skilled scientist and engineer, but according to the narrator, people would call Albert either a genius or a crazy man for doing "useless things" such as raising bugs, counting stars and building useless machines.
