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** Alice is a complete idiot, but would rather die than admit her idiocy.
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** The writer's retcon CriticalResearchFailure as in-universe errors on Alice's part.

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** The writer's retcon CriticalResearchFailure as in-universe retcons the errors as InUniverseFactoidFailure on Alice's part.

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* '''Enforced''': The writer's retcon CriticalResearchFailure as in-universe errors on Alice's part.

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The writer's retcon CriticalResearchFailure as in-universe errors on Alice's part.part.
** Executives point out that Alice, TheSmartGuy of the team, has become annoying to the audiences because she is always right. The writers decide to write an episode in which she definitely does not knows certain necessary data but she is too stubborn to admit it and her making it up is going to lead to tears.
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* '''Enforced''': We want Alice to be annoying, and InsufferableGenius is not bad enough. Lets make her smart in her own head.

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* '''Enforced''': We want Alice to be annoying, and InsufferableGenius is not bad enough. Lets make her smart in her own head.The writer's retcon CriticalResearchFailure as in-universe errors on Alice's part.

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* '''Reconstructed''':
** It turns out the teacher was romantically involved with a student in the class; he's fired/arrested, the student is expelled and the rest of the class receives a passing grade. Alice assumes her poor performance was somehow due to the teacher's machinations and she regains her self-admiring style.
** Alice is too self-absorbed to remain shaken for long. Two minutes later she concludes that [[InsaneTrollLogic she is so intelligent that even the teacher can't comprehend her superior mindset.]] She immediately regains her confidence.

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* '''Reconstructed''':
** It turns out the teacher was romantically involved with a student in the class; he's fired/arrested, the student is expelled and the rest of the class receives a passing grade. Alice assumes her poor performance was somehow due to the teacher's machinations and she regains her self-admiring style.
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'''Reconstructed''': Alice is too self-absorbed to remain shaken for long. Two minutes later she concludes that [[InsaneTrollLogic she is so intelligent that even the teacher can't comprehend her superior mindset.]] She immediately regains her confidence.
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** Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.
** Alice was spoiled and indulged throughout her childhood, giving her an enormous ego and the belief that she's always right.

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** Alice was criticized [[CantTakeCriticism criticized]] and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.
** Alice was spoiled {{spoiled|brat}} and indulged throughout her childhood, giving her an enormous ego and the belief that she's always right.
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** Alice has subpar intelligence but thinks she's of average intelligence, but is stubborn when she thinks she's right (even when she's not).
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. [[RealityEnsues She doesn't.]] In fact, she [[EpicFail fails]] [[FMinusMinus horribly]] and flunks the whole class, [[ShockingDefeatLegacy something which leaves her confidence severely shaken]].

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome She doesn't.]] In fact, she [[EpicFail fails]] [[FMinusMinus horribly]] and flunks the whole class, [[ShockingDefeatLegacy something which leaves her confidence severely shaken]].
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** Alice is SurrondedByIdoits, being the marginally smarter one of the group, she can wow her friends with outrageous claims.

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** Alice is SurrondedByIdoits, SurroundedByIdiots, being the marginally smarter one of the group, she can wow her friends with outrageous claims.

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