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{{quote|''"You've got the brawn, I've got the brain, let's make lots of money..."''|'''[[Pet Shop Boys]]'''}}
Teaming up [[The Smart Guy]] with [[The Big Guy]] (or [[The Evil Genius]] with [[The Brute]]). Sometimes,
Usually, in such a pair like this, [[The Smart Guy]] would usually communicate vital information to [[The Big Guy]], so that [[The Big Guy]] would utilize this information to his advantage. Other times, [[The Smart Guy]] would provide items and equipment for [[The Big Guy]] to utilize. Regardless, while [[The Smart Guy]] provides resources and information, [[The Big Guy]] must protect [[The Smart Guy]] with his life, so that he could gain more information and resources from [[The Smart Guy]].
When you have one character with both
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=== Heroic examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** And their enemies, Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy.
* Dwight from [[Sin City]] is capable of handling himself in a fight but if he can help it, he likes to think his way through problems while his friends kill the bad guys. He often has Miho do all the dirty work but one story did involve him enlisting Marv's help.
* Though they're not really a ''team'' as such, Dilton Doiley and Moose Mason from ''[[Archie Comics]]'' get on better than most peripheral characters when they do
* Rick Jones and the Hulk.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The eponymous pairing in the novel, ''[[Freakthe Mighty]]'' by Rodman Philbrick: Freak is a short handicapped kid (but brainy), Max (the narrator) is a [[Gentle Giant]] that people assume is [[Obfuscating Stupidity|stupid]], and [[All Your Powers Combined|together]] they are Freak the Mighty.
* Inigo and Fezzik from ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'', though they start the story as [[Punch Clock Villain
** Of course, Inigo isn't really very bright; he's just smarter than Fezzik. Conversely, Fezzik is much stronger than Inigo, but since Inigo is the world's {{spoiler|second}} greatest swordsman, he's quite capable of providing his own brawn. Unless he needs a door broken down.
*** He wasn't as motivated as {{spoiler|the man in black}} so I'm going with {{spoiler|best in the world}}
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{{quote|'''Miles:''' Do you think of ''yourself'' as an innocent bystander?
'''Ivan:''' God knows I try to be. }}
* The ''[[Gentleman Bastard]]'' series has [[Shorter Means Smarter|small guy]] Locke Lamora partnered with 'muscle and fat' [[Badass|bruiser]] Jean Tannen. Slightly averted as, although Locke is capable of making up vast and complex [[Xanatos Gambit
** It's also subverted, as Jean was the child of wealthy parents before being orphaned, and so he's actually a [[Genius Bruiser]] who is very well-read. While appearance-wise, Locke looks more like an aristocrat, he's a [[Satisfied Street Rat]] and a lot less book-smart than Jean and can be too impulsive.
* Mentioned, in name if not in spirit, in [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[The Ship Who]] Sang'' and its
* In a 1950s science fiction novel about the first manned spaceship flight to Mars, whose name I have long ago forgotten, the two-man crew is introduced to each by the chief scientist thusly, "Brains, meet Brawn. And Brawn, meet Brains"
* [[Artemis Fowl]] and ([[Battle Butler|Battle]]) Butler. Butler is actually pretty smart, but standing next to Artemis (Who, as far as we know, is the smartest person on, or under, the Earth) even he looks dim.
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** May be a subversion in later seasons, in that Sam is (much) bigger and stronger than Dean, but they still function this way.
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'': Merlin (brains) and Arthur (brawn). Merlin is sort of defaulted into the position of brains because (unlike Arthur) he usually knows what's actually going on. Amusingly, Arthur seems to consider himself the brains ''and'' the brawn of their two man band and takes delight in calling Merlin an idiot, useless buffoon, girl's petticoat, etc. -- although, if you don't know that Merlin has magic, his antics do seem a bit strange.
** In fact, as far as the magical side of the series goes, Gaius is the brains and Merlin is the
* ''[[Prison Break]]'''s protagonists are Lincoln Burrows, a street tough framed for murder, and his brother Michael Scofield, an engineer with a genius escape plan. The "brains/brawn" comparison is made several times.
* Eliot Spencer and Alec Hardison of ''[[Leverage]]'' act like this sometimes. Eliot, however, is implied to be somewhat of a [[Genius Bruiser]]. Hardison... fights the injured, although he appears to have slowly [[Took a Level In Badass|taken a level in badass over the course of the series.]]
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