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* '''Implied''': Five minutes after Alexandria gets her intelligence boosting procedure her little sister Amanda walks into the recovery room and comes running out one minute later crying and screaming "that ''thing'' in there is not my sister! I want her back! ''I want my sister back''!"
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'''Invoked''': [[BigBad Evulz]] makes sure that his EvilInc's intelligence-boosting drugs [[MayContainEvil include empathy blockers]].
* '''Exploited''':'''Exploited''': [[BigBad Evulz]] tries to recruit Alexandria to his side by pointing out that her friends don't like her new attitude and would prefer her to be an idiot.
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* '''Justified''': Alexandria's [[InsufferableGenius insufferability]] is a character flaw so huge that people really would prefer not having to deal with. If the only way to get rid of it is to knock down a few IQ points, then that's the way it is.



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'''Subverted''': Alexandria loses her smarts but [[InsufferableImbecile the insufferable attitude remains]].
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Subverted''': Alexandria is still insufferable but [[TooCleverByHalf is not getting people killed with the half-baked plans she assumed were not half-baked because she made them with her great smarts]], so it balances out.
* '''Parodied''': The intelligence-boosting procedure only boosted Alexandria's IQ by [[EpicFail one point]]. Her friends still decry it removed her humanity.



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* '''Enforced''': Alexandria's actress wanted an episode where she would be allowed to not act like an idiot and the executives compromised by 1) [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome making the intelligence boost temporary]] and 2) Alexandria would be a jerk in her "smart" phase.

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* '''Defied''':'''Defied''': "I'm smart now. And I may be a bit rougher around the edges now, but that is because I now have the mental faculties to understand when people are being rude to me, not because I became a sociopath. So deal with it."



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* '''Deconstructed''': Alexandria was "an idiot" because of something awful like brain damage and now that she regained full use of her mental faculties she is afraid [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome this won't last]] (regardless of how realistic is that fear), and the fact that some of the people she knows are actually looking forward to the time her brain will fail again rather than make an effort (or more of an effort) to [[WartsAndAll accept her as she is now]] makes her (understandably) furious.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alexandria really won't own up to it ([[MyGodWhatHaveIDone at first]], with [[TookALevelInKindness appropriate]] redemption arc), but she took a [[ExaggeratedTrope titanic]] number of [[TookALevelInJerkass levels in Jerkass]] when she became smart, and even the people willing to accept her as she is now that she is clever (and [[AlphaBitch a jerk]]) look back fondly when they first met her as a KindheartedSimpleton and the fact [[LovableAlphaBitch it won't ever truly come back]].
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'''Basic Trope''': An idiotic character becomes intelligent and the other characters long for the days that said character was an idiot.
* '''Straight''':
** The normally idiotic Alexandria becomes intelligent, but she becomes a hinderance, getting the others to want her to be an idiot again.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alexandria has the IQ of Einstein and she becomes so insufferable to everyone she comes across to the point that people want her gone.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alexandria becomes a bit smarter. Despite some flaws, people still accept Alex for who she is or are a bit annoyed with her at worst.
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** Alexandria becomes an idiot when she's usually intelligent and people long for Alexandria to become intelligent again.
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* '''Averted''':
** Alexandria becomes intelligent and people don't have an issue with it.
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