Basic Trope: The Smart Guy is also friendly and polite.
- Straight: Winston is a genius who is also very caring and polite.
- Exaggerated:
- Winston is an Omnidisciplinary Scientist and also an All-Loving Hero.
- All of the geniuses in the setting are nice people.
- Downplayed:
- Winston is relatively smart, and also a pretty nice person to be around.
- Winston is an Evil Genius, but he's also genuinely polite in spite of this.
- Justified: Winston is a teacher or other educator, and figures that his students learn better when they're being taught by someone who's nice to them.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Winston is revealed to be Feigning Intelligence, and/or is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
- Double Subverted: He later takes a level in kindness and becomes smarter as well.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Winston is not particularly smart or polite.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Because of his affable personality, people are more likely to ask Winston for help if they need to learn more about something.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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