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The resident [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy or Girl]] in WesternAnimation television series.

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* Jimmy Neutron in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''. Who somehow can—among other things—give life to pants, transport himself into dreams, create a time machine, and build an intergalactic messenger out of a toaster.
%% * ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' has Simon for The Chipmunks and [[DistaffCounterpart Jeanette]] for The Chipettes.
%% * Anais and Bobert from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''.
* ''[[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' franchise:
** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]] from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' doubles as a BadassBookworm as he accumulates CharacterDevelopment. He also averts the 'no romance' part of the trope; throughout the series, he's had two girlfriends (Yue and Suki), [[PerkyFemaleMinion Ty Lee]] flirts with him on a few occasions, and [[LittleMissBadass Toph]] secretly harbors a crush on him. Sokka also manages to be both the smart guy and the {{plucky comic relief}}.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraMako Mako]] (who doubles as TheLancer) as the StreetSmart and strategic one, and [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraAsamiSato Asami Sato]] as a GadgeteerGenius who can fix, drive or fly seemingly anything. Together, they're the ones who are the brains of Korra's team.
* As in the comics, ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' has ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/AntMan, who are geniuses in different fields. [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] would also count, though he's not around as often as his alter-ego.
* Shy-but-sensible Austin of ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', both in and out of character. Uniqua also tends to play scientific types, while more excitable Pablo is usually used to play with the concept.
* Nonny from ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' is [[ShorterMeansSmarter smaller]] than the rest of the characters and wears [[TheShortGuyWithGlasses goggles]], and is notably [[TheStoic shy and withdrawn]] for a character on a preschooler's show.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainSimianAndTheSpaceMonkeys'' has a unique example: Dr. Splitz/Splitzy suffers from a SplitPersonality disorder, and ''both'' of them are very intelligent and innovative in their own right. Dr. Splitz is a textbook example -- he is the ship's engineer and sometime medic, and has the true heart of a scientist. Splitzy is a GeniusDitz who is [[MrFixit extremely skilled in mechanics]] and acts as translator for Dr.Splitz's SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Working together in combat, they make a BadassBookworm.
* Sypha Belnades in ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}'' overlapping with TheHeart and team mage, she's extremely book smart and figures out how to control Dracula's castle. Alucard is almost as smart as Sypha being very well read making a him a GeniusBruiser, both Sypha and Alucard make Trevor Belmont look like DumbMuscle in comparison despite his [[TheLeader leadership skills]].
%% * As her name suggests, Gadget Hackwrench from ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers''.
* Dotty, Pepper's cute little sister on ''WesternAnimation/ClueClub''. She's a computer whiz (for 1976) and has science and forensic moxie. At age 13.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' has Jèrèmie Belpois, the only one who knows how to properly use the Supercomputer and the team's NonActionGuy. He is also TheLeader.
* Numbuh Two in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. He is the one creating and repairing most of the tools and weapons the team uses in their missions. His official title is even "2x4 Technology Officer of Sector V."
* Both Tucker and Jazz in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. While both have extremely high intellect, Tucker is shown to be slightly brighter, though very immature.
* The titular scientist in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. He is stated to be a small child, yet can build a vast laboratory [[BiggerOnTheInside inside a suburban house]], and he can build huge robots and experiments to alter his own body (but cannot keep his sister from disturbing him.)
* [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceCallum Callum]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' is the smartest in the group. He makes most of the plans when it comes to strategic action.
* Fishlegs Ingerman in ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'' is the resident expert in dragons, the viking equivalent of a zoologyst and seems to have memorize the GreatBigBookOfEverything about dragons.
* Dewey takes on this role in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' , he frequently makes up the ideas to get them out of trouble.
* [[Characters/DuckTales2017HueyDuck Huey Duck]] takes on this role in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' as the smart one of the three brothers, as he's frequently an overachiever, making plans, doing research, and constantly consulting his Junior Woodchuck Guidebook.
* Edd ("Double D") from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is highly intelligent, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness he loves to use "big words"]], and the other characters will often see him as an InsufferableGenius. [[OnlySaneMan But he also shows a lot of common sense]], [[TVGenius even if he can't understand that other people maybe aren't as interested in reading books and getting knowledge as he is.]]
* Teebo from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'' is this throughout the first season, though he has moments in the second season as well. He listens to the trees, talks to animals, provides solutions to problems the gang is having and forms a closer bond with Logray, the village shaman.
* Ingrid from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' is the smartest girl in school which is helped by her having a PhotographicMemory. She has some nerdy aspects, like owning an Abe Lincoln lunchbox, but it's not played up much.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' super-tech is so common that the Smart Guy is actually the only character capable of running the Planet Express delivery company, in the form of Hermes Conrad, a Level 34 beauraucrat and the team's OnlySaneMan. [[AbsentMindedProfessor Professor Farnsworth]] also counts, though more in a GeniusDitz / ReluctantMadScientist sort of way.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Lexington is a unique version due to being a FishOutOfTemporalWater from the Dark Ages. Upon awakening in the present, he becomes fascinated with modern day machines, leading him to study them and adapting more to the twentieth century than the other gargoyles.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoGoGophers'': Ruffled Feather is this, as he often finds out the coyotes' plans and easily comes up with ideas to thwart them. Don't let his [[TheUnintelligible unintelligible speech]] fool you.
* Dipper Pines in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', along with a BadassBookworm. [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor Ford]] is this as well.
* Kin Kujira of ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is the band's resident nerd and GadgeteerGenius, who develops crazy (and often dangerous) inventions to help Corey with his {{Zany Scheme}}s while also giving exposition in the form of "Rock Lore".
%% * Heloise on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when [[ChaoticNeutral she decides to help Jimmy out]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jingaroo}}'' had Humpty Doo, the outback's resident genius who usually has ideas on how to solve problems.
%% * Valerie on ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''. Beauty and brains.
* Gilbert in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBunch''. One of his favourite pastimes is conducting scientific experiments.
* Mr. Cat from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' is the only actual smart character on the show, the other "smart" characters being {{Ditzy Genius}}es. He's a [[GadgeteerGenius pretty good inventor]] and a MadScientist, and he constantly comes up with schemes to trick other people. He averts the "weak" part though as he's [[HiddenDepths actually a very good athlete]].
* Wade Load of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', a 10-year-old super genius who invents all of Kim's gadgets. Oh, and, he's voiced by Taj Mowry, who also played the [[Series/SmartGuy titular character of a TV show]] of the [[TropeNamer TropeName]].
* Buckwheat on ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' is a GadgeteerGenius, in one of several departures from the ''Our Gang'' theatrical shorts.
* L in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' is the team's scientist, medic and forensic investigator all in one.
* Pickles the Drummer, of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', although compared to his bandmates that isn't saying much. Although all of the bandmates have at least one area of expertise despite being catastrophically stupid otherwise, Pickles is implied to be very intelligent: he can play several instruments (and started a highly successful glam rock band as a teenager), understand complex mathematics well enough to explain them to Nathan, read and write music, and seems to have graduated college despite champion-level alcoholism. He might even be a genius, except that because of his implied-to-be-supernatural tolerance, he takes drugs the way other people eat potato chips, and his miserable childhood left him with a level of emotional immaturity that generally puts him on par with the rest of Dethklok.
* Tanya of ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' is the resident GadgeteerGenius and overall tech expert, although [[BadassBookworm she's no weakling on the battlefield or the hockey rink]]. She tends to stutter and lisp a bit, since her brain is moving faster than she can speak.
* Rath of ''WesternAnimation/MummiesAlive'' is the smartest one of the titular mummies, being skilled at using different kinds of magic, similar to Scarab, though he can be [[InsufferableGenius arrogant at times]].
* [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle Twilight Sparkle]] takes the role in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', though it's subverted more often than not due to [[ButIReadABookAboutIt her lack of real world experience]]. She's certainly capable of some AwesomenessByAnalysis however, along with some hardcore exposition.
** Her EvilCounterpart, [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSunsetShimmer Sunset Shimmer]], is only implied to also be one in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', with her being Twilight's predecessor as Princess Celestia's student and her rubbing that fact in Twilight's face. Her status as this is only made apparent after her redemption in the first movie, and she's shown to be more of a [[TaughtByExperience hands-on learner]]. Her expertise in magic is also emphasized in order to contrast with the science-focused GadgeteerGenius that is the human world's native Twilight.
* Gus from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is this to [[FiveManBand the Hexsquad]]. He's repeatedly described as a ChildProdigy due to his incredible affinity for illusion magic, and while [[TheLancer Hunter]] is generally more book-smart, Gus has an ''incredible'' eye for detail and performs AwesomenessByAnalysis ''constantly''. Due to being moved up a few grades, he's the youngest of his friend group at 12 years old (Luz, Amity and Willow are 14, Hunter is 16), and because his illusions are intangible, he mostly focuses on distracting or confusing the enemy (i.e. creating illusory duplicates of himself and his friends, casting darkness across the battlefield, making the enemy relive their most traumatic memories) while his friends do the heavy hitting.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', Kowalski is both TheLancer to Skipper, and the smart guy. While not short, he is notably the slimmest of all the penguins, and their TechnicalPacifist. He's notably the MadScientist and GadgeteerGenius types.
* Blossom and Professor Utonium on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' both show some moxie in the intelligence department, but they will often get Flanderized (Blossom as egocentric, the Professor as a haplessly overconcerned parent) to keep them from being too one-dimensional.
* Sean from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', who is a ChildProdigy and the smartest one of the group, sometimes acting as the VoiceOfReason.
* Egon Spengler in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': All the characters are very intelligent, after all, they are all scientists,[[note]] or more exactly: Peter is a social scientist as he’s a psychologist, Ray is never specified but is implied that he’s a physicist like Egon but his main usage is as TheEngineer, Winston does not have any college title but is an expert in mechanics, has military training and is very versatile in non-scientific endevours, so even when not all are officially scientists (unless you count that they all are technically parapsychologists), they all are very intelligent[[/note]] but Egon is so intelligent that he makes the other characters look dumb in comparison. In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' the role lands in Roland.
* Gretchen Grundler of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' gang, she does not make the plans, but is the one checking the numbers to see if they are feasible, and create the gadgets to put it in motion.
* Sam Dullard of ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' is a huge computer whiz and uses that knowledge to help the others improve their sports skills every once in a while. He has also skipped a grade.
* Velma Dinkley in ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', who is the one that check the clues and actually identifies who the villain is before everyone else.
* Kelly Hamdon in ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'', as she knows everything related to [=SheZow=].
%% * Sliced Ice from ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce''.
* [[Characters/SouthParkKyleBroflovski Kyle Broflovski]] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' often gets this role when compared with the others boys, and even [[WordOfGod Matt and Trey]] have called him the group's "smart kid".
* Mr. Hal Gibson from ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo''. He's the team's resident scientist and genius.
* Tako, the unofficial leader of the WesternAnimation/SushiPack, is the one usually called on to think of a plan to defeat the bad guys, and even has a standard "thinking routine". He also offers explanations of more complicated terms that come up in the show.
* Wildcat in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' is an exceptionally good mechanic and plane engineer, albeit a little crazy. Some could say that Rebecca is also the "Smart Girl" of the show as she's the more grounded, but at the same time some of her GetRichQuickScheme do not work.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', Donatello's intelligence rises sharply to the point where he can build just about ''anything'' within a day or two (it seems to vary on how soon the team needs it), and figures out how to adapt Utrom tech, along with almost all other alien technology. He's also the guy with the staff, and generally considered the TechnicalPacifist.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''':
** [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Cyborg Cyborg]] is a GeniusBruiser, and normally can work out with machinery to help out during fights.
** [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Raven Raven]] has elements of this, too, despite primarily being TheLancer. Of course, Cyborg also sometimes fills the role of TheLancer despite primarily being TheSmartGuy, so it all evens out.
** [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Robin Robin]], being TheStrategist and Batman's apprentice, can fill this role as well, especially when assessing new threats or being [[MrExposition Mr. Exposition]].
* In ''ComicBook/TheTick'', the comics, animated and live-action series, the Tick's moth-garbed sidekick, Arthur, fills the role of the Smart Guy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', Wheeljack and Ratchet shared this role in the first season, Perceptor joined in as a ''third'' Smart Guy in the second season, and the third season saw Perceptor become the sole Smart Guy after Wheeljack and Ratchet's deaths in TheMovie. The fourth "season" (really just a few episodes) introduced Brainstorm for this role, but the show ended before much could be done with him.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Transformers: Beast Wars]]'', Dinobot TheLancer was a ProudWarriorRaceGuy with little respect for trickery. Rhinox TheBigGuy was a GeniusBruiser who dealt with equipment as a MrFixit. Rattrap The Smart Guy was second-in-command and more skilled in the realm of [[GuileHero infiltration, sabotage and underhanded tactics.]] In fact, you could break the three of them down into a triangle of hybrids: Dinobot = Lancer/Big Guy; Rhinox = [[GeniusBruiser Big Guy/Smart Guy]]; Rattrap = Smart Guy/Lancer.
%% * Ratchet in both ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'', Sapphire sports glasses, preppy clothes, and the stereotypical nasally nerd voice, while also being the one most excited for school and studying. The rest of the Trollz groan at the mere mention of education.
%% * Mo' Money from ''WesternAnimation/{{Waynehead}}'' fills this role on the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' made a half-hearted attempt to avert the "usually the technologically-minded character" aspect by having the girls mention that [[InformedAbility Musa and Flora get the best grades]]; nevertheless, the show kept using Tecna in the role of TheSmartGirl. Timmy is also one for the Specialists, being the tech expert for them.
** In the 4Kids version this turns a little racist; Flora's name is cut out of the best grades line, meaning that Musa, the Asian-inspired character, is the only one mentioned.
* Walden from ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' fills this role on the show. As the theme song says, "he knows about science and books and art."
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