History TheSmartGuy / WesternAnimation

* Franchise/{{Batman}} in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' is, as in the comics, a mix of this and TheLancer. [[MartianManhunter J'onn]][[TheSpock J'onzz]] is a purer example.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has Mako (who doubles as TheLancer) as the street-smart and strategic, and Asami as a GadgeteerGenius who can fix, drive or fly seemingly anything.

** [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra The sequel series]] has Mako, who doubles as TheLancer. He is the street smart and strategic one of the group.

* Lisa Simpson in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Marge as well, in a few cases, but she is just a bit too oblivious to what constitutes as normal human behavior to do any discrediting.
* Velma Dinkley in ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' is, as in the comics, a mix of this and TheLancer. [[MartianManhunter J'onn]][[TheSpock J'onzz]] is a purer example.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTick'', the comics, animated and live-action series, the Tick's moth-garbed sidekick, Arthur, fills the role of the Smart Guy.
* ''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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', 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/TransformersGenerationOne'', 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.
* Kyle 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".
* Walden from ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' fills this role on the show. As the theme song says, "he knows about science and books and art."
* ''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.
* Tanya of ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks'' 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.
* 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.
* 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.

** Robin, being TheStrategist and Batman's apprentice, can fill this role as well, especially when assessing new threats or being [[MrExposition Mr. Exposition]].
* Heloise on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when [[ChaoticNeutral she decides to help Jimmy out]].
* ''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.
* Sokka from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' doubles as a BadassBookworm as he accumulates CharacterDevelopment. He also averts the 'no romance' part of the trope - he has at least two love interests and [[ThePollyanna Ty]] [[PerkyFemaleMinion Lee]] says she thinks he's cute at least once.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra The sequel series]] has Mako, who doubles as TheLancer. He is the street smart and strategic one of the group.
* 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.
* Flap Platypus in season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'', in season 2 Shifty Dingo takes over the role and Flap becomes TheLancer. In season 3, Ling Ling the panda qualifies.

* Valerie on ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''. Beauty and brains.

* Twilight Sparkle takes the role in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', though it's subverted more often than not due to her lack of real world experience to back up her vast book learning. She's certainly capable of some AwesomenessByAnalysis however, along with some hardcore exposition.
* Gretchen Grundler of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' gang.
* 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 SimpleStaff, and generally considered the TechnicalPacifist.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Sliced Ice from ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce''.
* As her name suggests, Gadget Hackwrench from ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers''.
* 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.
* Kin Kujira of ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}''.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' movie, Sunny/Saffron is this; she's very smart and analytical.
* Kelly Hamdon in ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'', as she knows everything related to [=SheZow=].
* 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.]]
* As in the comics, ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' has ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/AntMan, who are geniuses in different fields. [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] would also count, though he's not around as often as his alter-ego.
* 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.
* Buckwheat on ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' is a GadgeteerGenius, in one of several departures from the ''Our Gang'' theatrical shorts.

* Velma Dinkley in ''ScoobyDoo''.
* Kowalski in ''Penguins of Madagascar''.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} in ''JusticeLeague'' is, as in the comics, a mix of this and TheLancer. [[MartianManhunter J'onn]][[TheSpock J'onzz]] is a purer example.
* Numbuh Two in ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' varies between SmallNameBigEgo, AcePilot and CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass. He's generally the most technically skilled of the team though.
* In ''TheTick'', the comics, animated and live-action series, the Tick's moth-garbed sidekick Arthur fills the role of the Smart Guy.
* ''CodeLyoko'' has Jèrèmie Belpois, the only one who knows how to properly use the Supercomputer and the team's NonActionGuy. He is also TheLeader.
* In ''{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', 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 ''TransformersAnimated'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.
* In ''TransformersGenerationOne'', 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.

* Sam Dullard of ''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.
* Tako, the unofficial leader of the ''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.
* Jimmy Neutron in ''[[JimmyNeutron The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]''. 'Nuff said!

** 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.
** Robin, being [[TheStrategist the strategist]] and Batman's apprentice, can fill this role as well, especially when assessing new threats or being [[MrExposition Mr. Exposition]].
* Heloise on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', when [[ChaoticNeutral she decides to help Jimmy out]].

* In ''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.
* Valerie on ''JosieAndThePussycats''. Beauty and brains.
* Blossom and Professor Utonium on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' both shows 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.

* Dotty, Pepper's cute little sister on ''ClueClub.'' She's a computer whiz (for 1976) and has science and forensic moxie. At age 13.

* Kelly Hamdon in ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'', as she knows everything related to her.
* Edd ("Double D") from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is highly intelligent, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness 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}}'' - He's 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.

* Edd ("Double D") from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is highly intelligent, [[SesquipidaleanLoquaciceousnessloves 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.]]

* Edd ("Double D") from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is highly intelligent, loves to use "big words", and the other characters will often see him as an InsufferableGenius. But he also shows a lot of common sense, even if he can't understand that other people maybe aren't as interested in reading books and getting knowledge as he is.

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* Edd ("Double D") from EdEddNEddy is highly intelligent, loves to use "big words", and the other characters will often see him as an InsufferableGenius. But he also shows a lot of common sense, even if he can't understand that other people maybe aren't as interested in reading books and getting knowledge as he is.

* Edd ("Double D") from Ed, Edd n Eddy is highly intelligent, loves to use "big words", and the other characters will often see him as an Insufferable Genius. But he also shows a lot of common sense, even if he can't understand that other people maybe aren't as interested in reading books and getting knowledge as he is.

Edd ("Double D") from Ed, Edd n Eddy is highly intelligent, loves to use "big words", and the other characters will often see him as an Insufferable Genius. But he also shows a lot of common sense, even if he can't understand that other people maybe aren't as interested in reading books and getting knowledge as he is.

* Kelly Hamdon in ''Animation/SheZow'', as she knows everything related to her.

* Kelly Hamdon in ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'', as she knows everything related to her.

* Kelly Hamdon in SheZow, as she knows everything related to her.

* Edd from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' is this trope incarnate.

* {{Batman}} in ''JusticeLeague'' is, as in the comics, a mix of this and TheLancer. [[MartianManhunter J'onn]][[TheSpock J'onzz]] is a purer example.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' made a half-hearted attempt to avert the "usually the techonlogically-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.

* Numbuh Two in ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' varies between TedBaxter, AcePilot and CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass. He's generally the most technically skilled of the team though.