History TheSmartGuy / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': Huck has aspects; Harrison Wright has others.

* ''Series/LincolnHeights'': Lizzie Sutton falls under TheSmartGirl version

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Jessica "Jessi" Spano is a straight-A student and the stereotype of the StrawFeminist too. Screech is the stereotype of the nerd but he is hardly considered intelligent outside his academic achievements due to be the ComicRelief ButtMonkey of the series.

** ''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'': Kane Lucano / Beetle-Sazer plays this role among Sazer-X, acting as their main mechanic and technician for their [[HumongousMecha Ryuuseishin]]. Although [[TheChick Remy]] and [[BrotherSisterTeam Ein and Zwein]] also have enough mechanic expertise to help with repairs on occasion.

** Had Giles, and the spinoff ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had Wesley. Watchers are pretty much Smart Guy incarnate. ''Series/{{Angel}}'' also had Fred, a mixture of the Smart Guy[=/=]HotScientist and The Chick. In addition, Anya could be considered a Smart Guy when talking about demonic matters (with which she has personal experience), although less so in most other matters (such as "how to conduct myself in human society"). Willow was also very smart, as well as magical. Giles was better educated but functioned more as their [[{{Mentors}} mentor]], whereas Willow was clever/good with computers.

* ''Series/WeirdScience'': Lisa has superhuman intelligence, as she was designed as such. Not that Wyatt and Gary are dumb as they are actually stereotypical {{Nerd}}s, but they do can be very naïve and/or immature. The only really dumb character is Chett.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Jessica "Jessi" Spano is a straight-A student and the stereotype of the StrawFeminist too. Screech is the stereotype of the {{Nerd}} but he is hardly considered intelligent outside his academic achievements due to be the ComicRelief ButtMonkey of the series.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Sayid Jarrah is an expert in communications technology. In his time on the Island, he has built several radios and fixed a computer. Physicist Daniel Faraday also counts, besides his amnesia and moments where he isn't much clear while explaining. It's also taken UpToEleven in Season 4 when he takes a look at a chopper and states that it can fly and even more when he dismantle an H-Bomb, taking its core, later in Season 5.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Jessica "Jessi" Spano is a straight-A student and the stereotype of the StrawFeminist too. Screech is the stereotype of the HollywoodNerd but he is hardly considered intelligent outside his academic achievements due to be the ComicRelief ButtMonkey of the series.

* ''Series/WeirdScience'': Lisa has superhuman intelligence, as she was designed as such. Not that Wyatt and Gary are dumb as they are actually stereotypical {{Hollywood Nerd}}s, but they do can be very naïve and/or immature. The only really dumb character is Chett.

* ''Series/TheATeam'': Face filled this role as the [[TheScrounger scrounging]] ConMan who always had a financial scheme up his sleeve. There are episodes where he [[{{Nerdgasm}} geeks out]] over the intricacies of his latest con, and he was shown to be great with doing math in his head quickly. Ironically, Face was also the team's [[HandsomeLech handsome]] [[TheCasanova womanizer]].
* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'': Gary Bell is a high functioning autistic twenty-year old with [[{{Technopath}} transductive]] powers.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Felicity Smoak - an MIT double major early graduate whose been taking computers apart since she was seven - acts as the hacker and computer specialist for Team Arrow. Generally [[{{VigilanteMan}} Oliver]], [[{{MilitarySuperhero}} Diggle]] and their other allies will hit the streets [[{{MissionControl}} while she mans the comms]] [[{{NonActionGuy}} from afar]], although she does sometimes go into the field when needed.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. Lampshaded by Hughie Campbell when he offers to be [[MissionControl the tech guy in the van]] with the [[BuffySpeak thing in his ear]] for Billy Butcher. Ironically he does take on this trope (sharing it with Frenchie) due to his previous job of being a sales clerk in an audio-visual store. For instance when Frenchie wants to bug Popclaw's apartment, Hughie points out that a simpler way would be to install their own router which they can use to hack into her webcam.

** Between Seasons 6 and 7 Dawn had taken on this role, along with a bit of WrongGenreSavvy.
** Gunn got in on the Smart Guy role mixed with a bit of GeniusBruiser in season 5 of Angel, after his brain upgrade.

* Series/{{Chuck}}: Stephen and Ellie both fit. Stephen's work made for the entire plot of the series and Ellie - [=PhD=], MD - is one of the only people that can understand said work.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Sayid Jarrah is an expert in communications technology. In his time on the Island, he has built several radios and fixed a computer. Physicist Daniel Faraday also counts, besides his amnesia and moments where he isn't much clear while explaining. It's also taken UpToEleven in season four when he takes a look at a chopper and states that it can fly and even more when he dismantle an H-Bomb, taking its core, later in season five.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': [[PlayfulHacker Chloe Sullivan]] was the show's original Smart Guy. She also defies the unattractive part, being elected prom queen and five out of eight of the same-generation main characters has expressed romantic interest in her (and she ended up [[spoiler:marrying two of them]]). In later seasons the role was shifted to two people: GadgeteerGenius [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Emil Hamilton]] (who was also TheMedic, first appearing in season eight but never got main character status) and [[TheBaroness Tess Mercer]], a [[TheAtoner reformed villain]] (HeelFaceTurn in late season nine) and EvilGenius who served as the team's {{Chessmaster}}, [[TheCracker computer hacker]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive backer]], and resident ManipulativeBitch.

** Wesley plays with this one; although he's smart and the equal of at least the junior crewmembers on a technical basis, he lacks the credibility (partly due to his young age) to get the people with real power to listen to him. Usually Data will listen to him (because Data is only evaluating Wesley's evidence on its face alone), but occasionally Geordi, Riker, or Picard will be convinced--but ''never'' Worf.

* ''Series/{{OuterBanks}}'': Pope is described as “the brains of the operation”, being the smartest of the Pogues and with a scholarship on the line.