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7	!!The following have their own pages:
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15	* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius'': Barry is a [[SuperIntelligence superintelligent]] ten-year-old GadgeteerGenius who often has to resort to heavy weaponry to "deal" with his failed experiments. He also TookALevelInBadass with each subsequent reboot of his series, and now he can bare-handedly wipe the floor with whole warrior tribes without even ruffling his hair. AwesomenessByAnalysis certainly has a lot to do with it.
16	* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', Roy Virgil was an engineering genius, aeronautical millionaire, and thrill-seeking spacefaring adventurer known as the Astro-Naut.
17	* In ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith'', Jedi librarian Jocasta Nu is made an AdaptationalBadass and manages to hold her own against Darth Vader and a battalion of clones for a time protecting the archives' list of Force-sensitive children from TheEmpire.
18	* Lilith Calah from ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}}'' definitely counts, being smart, well-read and having defeated at least two [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]
19	* Gina Diggers, in ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', recently discovered this after being the 'fish' in jail. She forgot that she's been, you know, hanging around superheroes without dying. It tends to work out muscles. She also has a right hook and can do the math to know EXACTLY how much it will hurt. Ancient Gina, her "future me from the past" is even more powerful, being capable of creating a planet.
20	* Qubit of ''{{ComicBook/Irredeemable}}'' is the smartest guy in the Paradigm, but as soon as fighting breaks out he's out on the front lines with the rest of the team. Never without his [[GadgeteerGenius gadgets]], of course, but he can also throw a solid punch when he wants to.
21	* Jill Trent, of the obscure [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] feature ''Comicbook/JillTrentScienceSleuth'', is an unusually early female version. Jill mostly relies on her prodigious science and engineering abilities to solve mysteries, as one might expect a Science Sleuth to do. But nearly every adventure ends up with Jill and her [[LesYay gal pal]] Daisy beating the crap out of the bad guys - [[ActionGirl just like contemporaneous male heroes would]]. (A public domain example of the feature can be seen [[http://nedor-a-day.blogspot.com/2008/10/jill-trent-science-sleuth-in-case-of.html here]].)
22	* ''ComicBook/PrimalWarriorDracoAzul'': Eric Martinez was once a high school social studies teacher in Los Angeles, though his true passion was archaeology. While on vacation in Cancún, he was attacked by Diablos while visiting a Mayan pyramid and found himself stuck in Draco Azul's cockpit--forcing him to quickly learn how to fight.
23	* Both Dwight and Wallace from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' are very intelligent, well-educated men who are more than capable of bringing down the bad guys.
24	* Franchise/{{Tintin}}: A highly intelligent young journalist and a force to be reckoned with. Solves crimes and punches out bad guys on a regular basis.
25	** Professor Calculus. Who would have thought that the meek-looking stereotypical absent-minded scientist is a ''savateur''? And if you make him really angry, he will prove that he's strong enough to lift a much larger man up from the ground and hang him up on a hook on the wall.
26	* After a brief stint with the Wreckers in [=IDW=]'s ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]'' comics, during which he was badly wounded, Perceptor decides he needs to improve his combat abilities. He does this by adding gyroscopic stabilizers to his arm, an advanced targeting visor to his head, and a bunch of other upgrades that have the end result of turning him into a brutally effective ColdSniper. (This takes place chronologically before his appearance in All Hail Megatron, thus {{retcon}}ning an answer to the question, "When did Perceptor get scary?"
27	* ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'' has examples on both sides.
28	** On the side of the Decepticons, Megatron started out as a humble mathematician, but thanks to predicting the rise of the Autobots, he formed the Decepticons to protect freedom, and invented the transformation technology to oppose them.
29	** Optimus Prime is no slouch, either. Originally a humble data clerk, he saw something that caused him to become AxCrazy, became the warlord Optimus Prime, and managed to reverse-engineer Megatron's transformation technology.
30	* August Von Herling of ''ComicBook/VonHerlingVampireHunter''; while very intelligent and scholarly, he shows no fear when facing vampires.
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