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Many tropes deal with demonizing intellectuals and/or idolizing "stupidity". For more tropes about intelligence and lack thereof, see Intelligence Tropes and Brain Chain.

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Tropes:

• Almighty Idiot
• Book Dumb
• Brains: Evil; Brawn: Good
• Contemplate Our Navels
• Dumb Is Good
• Everybody Hates Mathematics
• For Science!
• Gravity Is Only a Theory
• Idiot Hero
• Ignorance Is Bliss
• Insufferable Genius
• Intellectually Supported Tyranny
• Intelligence Equals Isolation
• Ludd Was Right
• Mad Mathematician
• Mad Scientist
• Measuring the Marigolds
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
• School Is For Losers
• Science Is Bad
• Science Is Wrong
• Science Is Useless
• Straw Vulcan
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• Working Class Hero

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Ambition Is Evil

Sour Grapes Tropes

Beauty Is Bad

Animeland

Stereotype

Asian Hooker Stereotype

Alone in a Crowd

Romanticism Versus Enlightenment

Arcadia