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* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d early in ''Film/TopGun'' when Stinger chews out Maverick and Goose for the umpteenth time. Maverick's lost his qualifications as section leader several times, and has a habit of making high-speed passes by control towers and ''at'' [[TheGeneralsDaughter an admiral's daughter]]. About the only reason he hasn't been kicked out of the Navy altogether is that he's a damn good pilot.

* Dr. Robotnik from ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog'', naturally. He may be gleefully evil, have aspirations to TakeOverTheWorld, and be (as one member of the military's high command described him) a "psychological tire fire" who is almost impossible to control, but he also has five [=PhDs=], boasts an IQ of 300, builds machines ''worlds'' above what anyone else can create, a genius tracker able to decipher a creature's height, weight, and bone structure from a footprint, multilingual, a capable hand-to-hand fighter, and has a perfect mission record doing black ops for the Pentagon.

* Ian McKenzie (Creator/MarlonBrando) in ''Film/ADryWhiteSeason'' is a seemingly scatterbrained, eccentric attorney who seems too cynical about the case (and pre-occupied with his house plants) to even bother trying, but in court he presents plenty of undeniable evidence (including photos and eye-witness accounts) that Gordon (and many others) were tortured and murdered in police custody. He still loses because the judge is on the side of the police, but McKenzie's case would have surely convinced any impartial judge.

* Glen Whitmann, in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', is a brilliant computer hacker, who may have ADHD and exhibits extremely erratic, perhaps sociopathic behavior. Apart from a lack of basic manners and some sort of unspecified paranoia, his great passions in life appear to be video games and getting into places he does not belong. Which could honestly be said of 90% of computer hackers. Hacking is, after all, all about getting into places you don't belong.

* Film/DrStrangelove is a brilliant former Nazi with a severe case of [[EvilHand alien hand syndrome]] - his right hand gives the Seig Heil salute without his control, and takes extreme effort to force back into his lap, and occasionally attempts [[spoiler: to strangle him]]. Among other things.

* ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is certifiably insane -- manic episodes and schizophrenia, at the least. He is also very good with animals, a highly observant and capable investigator, a decent actor, very good driver, love-machine ''par excellence'', and no slouch in analytical thinking. He finds a stone in a dolphin's water tank filter, which he recognizes almost immediately as a stone from a Miami Dolphins' 1984 AFC Championship ring.

* Dr. Newton 'Newt' Geiszler from ''Film/PacificRim''. He's loud and eccentric to say the least. If he wasn't such a competent Kaiju biologist, he'd probably get checked into a mental hospital due to his borderline-obsession with the things.

* ''Film/TheSerpentAndRainbow'': Mozart is a bit of a duplicitous jokester, but once he actually does agree to make Dr. Alan real zombie powder instead of the (cheaper and easier to make) rat poison he'd been peddling, Alan compared him to a Harvard PHD while watching him mix his chemicals.

* ''Film/TheMartian'': Rich Purnell manages to somehow be completely unaware of anything outside his work tasks as a trajectory calculator for NASA Astrodynamics, including how to interact with his supervisor and who his non-immediate bosses even are, but is nevertheless a "steely-eyed missile man" [note] [=NASAs=] term for someone who has solved a mission-critical engineering problem under severe time constraints. [/note]

** Sonar, the Sonar technician has hearing so good that he's been considered a security threat. He can count money just by hearing it drop on the floor. Also, he's studying the language of whales. And he's a bit off. Nonetheless, he saves his crew from peril with all those abilities.

* ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is downright certifiably insane (manic episodes and schizophrenia at the least). He is also very good with animals, a highly observant and capable investigator, a decent actor, ace driver, love-machine ''par excellence'' and no slouch in a fight.