Comic Books characters with strength and smarts.
The following have their own pages:
Other Publishers:
- Asterix: He's referred to as the best warrior in the village, is capable of snapping chains without being under the effects of magic potion, prefers to try talking his way past problems, is noticeably smarter than everyone else in his village except Getafix, and regularly outsmarts the Romans' schemes.
- Atomic Robo, a big, rough guy who fought in World War 2, battled giant crabs, giant ants and giant assholes. He's also a genius beyond compare, not least because he's well... a robot.
- Big Bang Comics: Super-Frankenstein was created not only to be super-strong but super-smart as well. He has a doctorate in biological science, and is working towards degrees in medicine, physics, and English literature.With the mind of a genius, the strength of a titan and the heart of a giant, Frankenstein decides to devote his great powers to defending the innocent and combating crime, injustice and terror!
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck, especially in his youth, was tougher than the toughies and sharper than the sharpies.
- Roadblock from the G.I. Joe comic books. In the cartoons, he's an offensive rhyming stereotype. In the comics, he can snap handcuffs at will, is a genius in the kitchen, a brilliant tactician in the field and has deep philosophical beliefs. Granted, the Joes purposely recruit the strong and brilliant but Roadblock is a cut above a majority of the Joe team in both categories. The man carries a crew-served heavy machine gun and uses it like it's an ordinary rifle. Later, he gets his own cooking show. Doesn't last long, but it was his.
- Invincible has the Mauler Twins, a villainous pair of hulking omnidisciplinary geniuses. They're apparently the world's leading experts on cloning, and in all other fields are tied for 2nd smartest character in the book.
- And by "apparently" the leading experts on cloning, one means they are in fact a second and third generation clone created by their own process. Or maybe third and fourth... The memory imprinting process is so perfect that they can never agree on who cloned who.
- Axwell Tiberius, the titular "monkeyman" in Art Adams' Monkeyman and O'Brien, is a ten foot tall super-intelligent gorilla from a parallel dimension.
- Paperinik New Adventures: Xadhoom was once Xado, the leading astrophysicist of her planet. After Xerbia was conquered by the Evronians, she became a Physical God and,while prone to be The Berserker, she is intelligent enough to understand Uno's Techno Babble and acting as The Chessmaster.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Vector who is balanced in both brawn and brains, His physical strength is significant and he tends to fight using his tail and teeth. He also possesses keen computation and detective skills.
- Star Wars: Purge: Justus Farr is the biggest and strongest looking of the fugitive Jedi gathered on Kessell, and one of the most insightful.
- Star Wars Dark Times: Kai Hudorra has a quick and calculating mind, but it's also occasionally emphasized that he's quite burly and a good swordsman.
- Flynn "Flyin'" Ryan from Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool is a blue-collar construction worker, former Ivy League student teacher, handles the team's logistics and finances, and his hobbies include animal tracking and Eastern philosophy. Played up to eleven when it's revealed that he secretly developed the technalchemy behind the All-Purpose Power Tool.
- Superlópez: Bruto is physically the second strongest member of the SuperGrupo, after "Supes", but he's also the second smartest after el Mago. Superlopez is also supposed to be pretty smart himself.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello can re-engineer most any machine and invents some of his own, and he appears to be on par with the other turtles in brawn, even going as far to be the tallest turtle in the majority of versions. Interestingly, in the first TMNT Video Game, he's the Mighty Glacier of the group.
- Transformers:
- Computron, the gestalt form of the Technobots, takes this trope so far it's actually a detriment. Gestalt Transformers who are stupid, such as Devastator and Bruticus, tend to be very effective, because they don't have much problem trying to focus the five or six different individual minds that make them up. Computron, on the other hand, is massively powerful (like all gestalts) and intelligent, but has to think through the full effects of every move he tries to make, which weakens him in combat.
- Grimlock in Transformers: Shattered Glass started off as Dumb Muscle, but then got an upgrade that made him one of these, trading Hulk Speak for Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness . To wit:
Grimlock: "Oh, yes, it is I, Grimlock... and so much more now. To be specific, that would be 'so much more than you, now'. It does appear that there are certain linguistic idiosyncrasies that I, Grimlock, am still stuck with, however. But mustn't complain too much, wot?"- Grimlock is also very much Depending on the Writer either Dumb Muscle or using Obfuscating Stupidity. In latter scenarios, he's the equal of Optimus Prime in intelligence and leadership skills, but prefers not to be bothered unless he's in for a fight.
- On the Decepticon side of things, there's the one-robot army Sixshot. Yes, really. He's incredibly powerful—9s and 10s for strength, endurance, and firepower—but he's also wickedly intelligent, with a 9 in that stat too. Where most of the more brilliant Decepticons are on the physically weaker side, Sixshot kills entire planets by himself—not just the inhabitants, but the entire planet clear down to the topography.
- From The Ultraverse title Sludge come the Bash Brothers (No, not THAT kind of Bash Brothers, but they do come awful close); Burke (the lawyer) and Monroe (the doctor) Basherowski, complete with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
- Maul of the Wild CATS Wild Storm is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who gets dumber as he uses his powers to get larger and stronger. For a while, he was also able to make himself smarter by shrinking, but that turned out to have side effects.
- In The Second Life of Doctor Mirage, Carmen Ruiz is both a trained capoeira fighter and a genius engineer.
- In Sinsationals, Ashley Svensson was a brilliant biotech scientist before a gamma-irradiated protein shake turned her into the freakishly-muscular Gamma Sex Bomb.
- Mantícore: In this Spanish comic book, Kupp is a tiger-headed furry guy with broad shoulders and a mean rage, but also a spectacled intellectual. Understandable to some extent, as he does a lot of field work.
