- The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find ;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas ;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.—Andrew Marvell, "The Garden"
Exactly What It Says on the Tin; this is an index of tropes pertaining to intelligence and intellectuals.
If you are looking for tropes related to "intelligence" in a military context, see Espionage Tropes.
Contrast with Anti-Intellectualism and Stupidity Tropes. See also Gambit Index, Indexed and Nerdy, and Logic Tropes.
Tropes:
- Absent-Minded Professor
- Academic Alpha Bitch
- Academic Athlete
- Acting Your Intellectual Age
- Adaptational Intelligence
- Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome
- Amplified Animal Aptitude
- Artificial Brilliance
- Badass Bookworm
- Brain Chain
- Brain Critical Mass
- Brains and Bondage
- Brainy Baby
- Brainy Brunette
- Brilliant, but Lazy
- Calculus Is Arcane Knowledge
- Celibate Eccentric Genius
- The Chessmaster
- Child Prodigy
- Clever Crows
- Crossword Puzzle
- Cunning Like a Fox
- Deadpan Snarker
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
- Ditzy Genius
- Dumbass No More
- Dumb Dinos
- Encyclopaedic Knowledge
- Eureka Moment
- Evil Genius
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Game of Nerds
- Genius Book Club
- Genius Bruiser
- Genius Cripple
- Genius Ditz
- Genius Slob
- Genius Sweet Tooth
- Gentleman and a Scholar
- Gibbering Genius
- Good with Numbers
- Guile Hero
- Hopeless with Tech
- Hot Librarian
- Hot Teacher
- Hot Scientist
- Idiot Savant
- Impossible Genius
- Improbably High I.Q.
- Ingesting Knowledge
- Instant Cultured
- Insufferable Genius
- Intelligence Equals Isolation
- Intelligent Gerbil
- Inventor of the Mundane
- "Jeopardy!" Intelligence Test
- Manipulative Bastard
- Moose Are Idiots
- Motherly Scientist
- Mouthful of Pi
- Minored in Ass-Kicking
- Mr. Fixit
- My Brain Is Big
- Nerves of Steel
- Nobody's That Dumb
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist
- The Omniscient
- Only Smart People May Pass
- One-Man Industrial Revolution
- Pair the Smart Ones
- Persecuted Intellectuals
- The Philosopher
- Prescience by Analysis
- The Professor
- The Proud Elite
- The Rain Man
- Renaissance Man
- Ranked by I.Q.
- Robot Master
- Rubik's Cube International Genius Symbol
- Sapient All Along
- Science-Related Memetic Disorder
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Sherlock Scan
- Shorter Means Smarter
- Smart Ball
- The Smart Guy
- Smart People Build Robots
- Smart People Know Latin
- Smart People Play Chess
- Smart People Speak the Queen's English
- Smart People Wear Glasses
- The Social Expert
- Southern-Fried Genius
- The Spock
- Steampunk Gadgeteers
- The Strategist
- Street Smart
- Super Intelligence
- Techno Wizard
- Teen Genius
- They Just Dont Get It
- Think Twins
- This Ain't Rocket Surgery
- TV Genius
- Viewers Are Geniuses
- Weekend Inventor
- World's Smartest Man
