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Exactly What It Says On The Tin; this is an index of tropes pertaining to intelligence and intellectuals.

If this is too hard, try the Anti-Intellectualism and Contrived Stupidity Tropes.

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Tropes

• Absent Minded Professor
• Amplified Animal Aptitude
• Artificial Brilliance
• Badass Bookworm
• Brain Chain
• Brainy Brunette
• Brilliant But Lazy
• The Chessmaster
• Crouching Scholar Hidden Badass
• Ditzy Genius
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Game Of Nerds
• Genius Book Club
• Genius Breeding Act
• Genius Bruiser
• Genius Ditz
• Good With Numbers
• Hot Scientist
• Idiot Savant
• Insufferable Genius
• Intelligence Equals Isolation
• Intelligent Gerbil
• Magnificent Bastard
• Mouthful Of Pi
• My Brain Is Big
• Obfuscating Stupidity
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist
• The Philosopher
• The Professor
• The Rainman
• Renaissance Man
• Science Related Memetic Disorder
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
• Shorter Means Smarter
  • The Short Guy With Glasses
• The Smart Guy
• Smart People Play Chess
• The Spock
• Teen Genius
• TV Genius
• Viewers Are Geniuses
• You Fail The IQ Test (When writing intelligent characters goes wrong)

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