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It doesn't matter if she's [[Teen Genius|13 years old]] or [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|13,000]], she's the greatest scientific genius in the universe and can prove it by building a 50,000-horsepower [[Humongous Mecha|battle robot]] out of [[Homemade Inventions|tin cans and an old transistor radio]]. Overnight. Sometimes her creations [[Explosive Instrumentation|fail]] with [[Stuff Blowing Up|entertaining explosions]], but they always work for at least a little while. In [[Anime]], the Gadgeteer Genius is usually female, and often still in grade school. In Western depictions the gadgeteer is usually male, and can be of any age.
There can be a very fine line between Gadgeteer Genius and [[Mad Scientist]].
A [[Wrench Wench]] is a slightly more realistic depiction. Expect her [[Battle Cry]] to be "''[[For Science!]]''"
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* Nina Einstein from ''[[Code Geass]]''. She invented a {{spoiler|NUCLEAR WEAPON}} in the last episode of the first season using the contents of a High School science lab! Granted, it was only semi-functional and broke down before {{spoiler|detonation}}, but STILL. And not to mention, she later ''did'' build a functioning {{spoiler|bomb}}... with disastrous results.
** And by the end of S2... she builds an {{spoiler|anti-FLEIJA}} device. ''In a month''. And it works, both for Lelouch and [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|her fandom reputation]] (partially, in the latter's case).
* ''[[Sonic X]]'': Chis Thorndyke's [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|aged up and smarted up version]] pretty much fills this role.
** Tails is a better example.
* Shari of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', who by the age of 17, had already created the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Danger Room-like]] training grounds of Riot Force 6 and the [[Empathic Weapon|Intelligent Devices]] of the rookies.
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== Comics ==
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'s'' Forge has the ability to intuitively determine how anything works, and by this point, after years of exposure to all manner of gadgetry, is able to whip up any manner of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] you can possibly imagine. We're talking ''[[Star Wars]]'' level.
** He is also a [[Magical Native American|shaman]]. This fact isn't brought up so much, because combining the two aptitudes leads to questions of why he has not whooped most of evil's ass by now.
*** Oh, but he has. He stopped the Adversary, an evil [[Physical God]] and banished it from the world. ''Twice.'' It's probably going to {{spoiler|resurface soon now that Forge is dead}}.
** Scalphunter, a member of the [[Complete Monster|Marauders]] that regularly clash with the X-Men has these technical abilities too, being able to reform mechanical components into anything he can think of. Given that he's a murderous [[Psycho for Hire]], he generally tends to create [[Big Freaking Gun|shotguns, grenade launchers, high-powered automatic rifles, and other lovely toys.]]
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** And of the male (and not quite as explosive) type, the school also hosts Zodon and Herschel Clay, who both have significant gadget construction and tinkering skills in addition to (or due to) being prime examples of, respectively, the [[Evil Genius]] and the [[Mr. Fixit]].
* [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Brainiac 5]]. He's been described as a genius among a species of geniuses, the type of prodigy that comes along once in a millennium (which is how far the Legion is from the rest of [[the DCU]]). The solution and cause of a lot of the Legion's problems. Is currently working on rebuilding the economy of the United Planets and inventing a new way to break the speed of light.
* [[Iron Man]], who in turn inspired a Gadgeteer Genius (aptly codenamed Gadget) to build a tech-suit in her garage. Probably [[Memetic Mutation|from a box of scraps]].
* In ''[[Astro City]]'', Beautie's origin is revealed: {{spoiler|she was built by a girl Gadgeteer Genius, the still more brilliant daughter of another Gadgeteer Genius. (Her father's reaction leads to Bad Things for both Beautie and the daughter.)}}
** Not to mention the Junkman, who uses stuff that's been thrown out to create his devices (as he considers himself cast off by society because of his age). Despite the self-imposed handicap, he is one of the few villains in Astro City who {{spoiler|actually win}}, as it is implied he {{spoiler|gets away from his trial}} with the recognition he craved and all the loot he stole.
* ''[[Alpha Flight]]'' supporting cast member Madison Jeffries has the mutant power to physically alter machines, metals and related inorganic objects, which he initially used as a mechanic. (His brother Lionel had a similar power over living tissue, which had [[Squick|gruesome results when he went insane.]] Another more conventional genius was Box, a quadriplegic who used his tremendous scientific skills to build machines that overcame his disability.
* The original, pre-Crisis version of [[Lex Luthor]] was the archetype of all comic book [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]], but he most displayed his juryrigging skills with his trademark jailbreaks. For instance, a substitute prison warden was dumb enough to get him to fix a printing press and he turned it into a tank like escape vehicle to smash his way out. Sometimes he would smuggle tools inside with him when he was carted off to jail -- tiny tools hidden under a false patch of skin on his thumb for example -- but he was perfectly capable of building an escape device without them.
* In [[Warren Ellis]]'s ''newuniversal'' (based on ''[[The New Universe]]''), this is the power provided by the Cipher [[Power Tattoo]]. Of the three known bearers, one was a prehistoric woman who invented electric lighting and energy weapons, but believed they were gifts from the gods; one was this world's version of [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]]; and the most recent is [[Humongous Mecha]] designer Dr Jennifer Swan.
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* Lewis, Mechanika's armourer in ''[[Lady Mechanika]]''.
* Al Jabr in ''[[Demon Knights]]''. It's [[The Dark Ages]] and he has a telescope and an electrified whip.
* [[Batman]] is this to a certain degree. Though most of his larger contraptions (like a Satellite that monitors all meta human activity down to the slightest) are built by a subsidiary of his corporation, WayneTech, making this overlap with [[Crimefighting with Cash]]. That being said, most of his arsenal (including the Batsuit) is designed and built by himself.
* Fantasio of ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'' was a talented inventor in the earlier volumes. [[Characterization Marches On|Later volumes ignored this attribute]] but his skills are alluded to in "Aventure en Australie", where he fixes a broken down train despite everyone in town insisting that it was beyond repair.
* Most recently [[Static (comics)|Static]] in the pages of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''. Previously, Static was just a very bright kid, but in Lobdell's Teen Titans, he's become a full blown [[Teen Genius]]: designing [[Batman|Red Robin's]] glider wings and creating a new costume from scratch for [[The Flash|Kid Flash]] that prevents his powers from vibrating him to nothing.
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* Anakin Skywalker of ''[[Star Wars]]'' fame built a [[Robot Buddy|protocol droid]] and a pod racer before the age of ten.
* ''[[The Specials]]'': Mr. Smart, smartest man in the world, inventor of such devices as a winged rocket-backpack and [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time|a machine that amplifies his sense of smell 3,000 times]].
* Flint Lockwood from ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''.
* Ling Ling Fat (008) in Steven Chow's ''[[Forbidden City Cop]]'' is a genius inventor who uses his wits to protect the Emperor better than the kung-fu masters making up the rest of the Imperial Guard.
* ''[[Buckaroo Banzai]]'' invented the Jet Car, a surgical technique to implant a microphone in the human skull so people can give orders to their own brain, and (with Professor Hikita) the Oscillation Overthruster. And that's just what was mentioned in the movie - it's implied that he's done much more.
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* Tinker in [[Wen Spencer]]'s ''Tinker'' novels.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels by Terry Pratchett, a recurring character is the befuddled genius inventor Leonard of Quirm (an obvious parody of real-world Renaissance Italian inventor and painter Leonardo da Vinci).
** In ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'', we encounter the gadgeteer Qu, an obvious parody of James Bond's Q.
* The ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series features quite a few gadgeteer characters, such as Jetman, but in a subversion, the gadgets they make don't actually work. Some of them actually have no means of operating. The gadgets are just tokens that serve as a crutch for their powers.
* Foaly from ''[[Artemis Fowl]]''. He is stated to be the reason the People are still ahead of humans.
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* Abner Perry in ''At The Earth's Core'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]].
* Violet Baudelaire in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. This girl used a window shade and six roller skates to make an automatic rolling pin. When she was ''five''.
* Cogs in ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles]]'' books are exactly this. Unlike most other examples though, Cogs tend to be specialized.
* The main character of [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]] is able to build a disintegrator gun out of parts from his microwave, flatscreen TV, laser pointer, refrigerator, and his wife’s hair dryer that plugs into any standard wall socket.
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** Starfleet Engineers in general seem to have a reputation for this. In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Rocks and Shoals," a wounded Vorta says of a broken transmitter system, "It needs repair, but I'm willing to bet that you've brought one of those famed Starfleet engineers who can turn rocks into replicators." Further, in the [[Expanded Universe]] there's an entire novel series ''called'' "Starfleet Corps of Engineers."
** Presumably, the dry dock engineers are geniuses too, since they manage to survive and repair all the alien tech that all homecoming vessels seem to be infested with.
** Spock was also sometimes expected to be a Gadgeteer Genius, even with only primitive materials to work with. In "City on the Edge of Forever," he expresses his frustration at having to do this with 1930's technology: "I am endeavoring, ma'am, to create a mnemonic memory circuit, using stone knives... and bearskins."
*** On [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original series]], while Scotty did an impressive job [[MacGyvering]] and was a remakably fast and thorough [[Mr. Fixit]], plot-resolving ''new'' technology usually required a teamup with Spock, who was otherwise fairly consistently presented as a theoretician and IT man.
** Justified with the ''Enterprises'' because, as capital ships, their officers are the ''best of the best'' from an organisation spanning hundreds of planets, or in the case of ''Enterprise'', at least the whole of Earth.
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*** Lampshaded in the 2009 movie: Scotty is just a little too smart for his own good, having beamed "Admiral Archer's prize beagle" across the galaxy for a bet. To allow him time to wait for it to arrive, he's sent to the Starfleet equivalent of a [[Reassigned to Antarctica|remote Alaskan radar station]]. Apparently, Porthos was going to re-materialize at the very end of the film, but it was cut for time, [[What Could Have Been|alas]].
* Seamus Zelazny Harper from the spaceship ''[[Andromeda]]'' is both an engineering genius (which by later seasons extends itself even to human cloning) and also a hyperactive archetypal [[Mr. Fixit]] and tinkerer.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has had several characters who could apparently create/repair [[Humongous Mecha]] in a matter of hours. The most egregious example is the [[Ass Pull]] of ''two fully-functional copies'' of a mecha introduced out of the blue. Cam's just that good.
** Then there's the fact that Billy Cranston, the first Blue Ranger, invented a collection of wristwatches that could be used both as personal communicators, and could remotely activate an alien teleportation grid. Villains aren't the only ones who could [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]].
*** The most impressive part? He put the teleportation thing in by ''accident''. He was just trying to connect to the alien communications network. ''The day after meeting the aliens for the first time''.
* Supposedly, the Professor from ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', though just how good he is remains something of a mystery as he can't patch a hole in a boat.
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== [[Magazines]] ==
* One of the [[Mascot|Mascots]] of [[Top Secret (magazine)|Top Secret]] is Prof. Dzemik <ref>(his name is a rather complicated pun on a Polish celebrity)</ref>, who originally was facetiously created as an expert who responded to the readers' technological questions, and also starred in the magazine's comics where he was usually a plot device who invented the time machine or exposited on a dimensional transporter that was the basis of a story's plot.
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*** Nockers are also capable of ''scaring'' a piece of machinery into working temporarily by ''cussing'' at it.
* In the second incarnation of [[New World of Darkness|the World of Darkness]]:
** ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' has the Iron Masters, who tend to stay close to humanity and urban habitats. They have an affinity for Technology Gifts that, at the highest level, allow them to make a technological device out of the base materials (that is, a circuit-board out of plastic and sand).
** ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' has the Free Council, modernist mages whose studies take them towards examining magic with a scientific lens -- often resulting in '''''SCIENCE!!!'''''
** ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' has the Wizened, who were kept as caretakers, craftsmen, and busybodies for [[The Fair Folk|the True Fae]]. They have an affinity with Contracts that allow them to manipulate and construct (or deconstruct) machinery; the top level of one set allows them to make a hovercraft out of a go-kart and an inflatable raft.
** And then there's the fanline ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'', where most of the player characters are these, capable of making inventions that bend the laws of physics to the breaking point. Powerful Geniuses are easily the most effective at gadgeteering, whipping up an entire fleet of spaceships is possible.
* The Mad Scientists in ''[[Deadlands]]'' are similar to the {{spoiler|Wild Cards}} series example above; the devices they make barely {{spoiler|work on their own, if at all}}. The power behind their science-breaking steampunkness is {{spoiler|evil spirits the characters are unwittingly channeling}}. Well, not Hellstromme, he knows exactly what he's doing.
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** Cid Highwind of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' fame is probably the most well known on this list. He does the same in the [[Kingdom Hearts]] games, except he doesn't fight. [[No Smoking|or smoke]](he gets a toothpick). [[Bowdlerise|Or swear.]]
** Cid Kramer of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' put up part of the money used to rebuild the mass people mover that would eventually become Balamb Garden {{spoiler|(The rest comes from [[The Mafia]], which causes problems later on)}}, which functions as the party's primary mode of transportation early in the story, and negotiates with a city of engineers to help actually create it to his specifications.
** Cid Fabool IX of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. His proficiency at designing airships has led Lindblum to become Gaia's prominent air power. [[Baleful Polymorph|He also spends some time as a frog after an argument with his wife.]]
** ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'''s Cid. He builds airships and he's loud and boisterous. He doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
*** His daughter, [[Genki Girl|Rikku]] counts as well with her "Mix" [[Limit Break|Overdrive]].
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* Max from ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'' can make items out of pretty much anything he sees. He just needs to [[First-Person Snapshooter|capture photos]] for inspiration.
* Lash from ''[[Advance Wars]]'', who combines this trope with being an [[Enfante Terrible]], much to the protagonists' dismay.
* Shinra from ''[[Final Fantasy X
* The Vances from ''[[Half Life]] 2''. Eli built a [[Robot Buddy|robotic dog]] for his daughter, Alyx. Over the years, she upgraded Dog into a super-strong, semi-sentient [[Lightning Bruiser]].
* Jeff Andonuts of ''[[Earthbound]]''. He's capable of using laser guns, bombs and the like, and can turn various broken irons, antennas, harmonicas, and the like into powerful weapons and battle items overnight. And did we mention that he's only thirteen years old?
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** He also built himself a robotic hand to replace his missing right hand. [[Mad Scientist|A hand that he cut off so he could replace it with a robotic hand.]]
* This trope is the defining characteristic of Gnomes in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Gnomish tinkerers are famous for inventing just about anything, including (but not limited to) helicopters, robots, guns, and even some mechanized melee weapons. Players can take the "Engineering" profession, which allows them to embody this trope. The profession even allows the player to create [[Mad Scientist]] style goggles.
** Although true to Gnomish tradition, player made inventions have a nasty tendency to backfire through explosions, accidental size modification, poultryfication, and teleporting you far above the ground. If it does not do any of this it is either a bomb, has a massive cooldown time, or is a robot or something that works once before breaking.
* Another gnome from a completely different universe/game (and a definite case of [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]), Jan Jansen from ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldur's Gate 2]]'' starts the game with a crossbow (including bolts), gloves, boots, and goggles of his own design, most of which give him a big bonus to his thieving skills. Originally, he would have invented more gadgets as the game went on, but this was sadly [[Dummied Out|scrapped due to lack of development time]].
* Grubb from ''[[Septerra Core]]''. He built several robots of different types out of rubbish thrown down from Terra 1.
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* The steampunk RPG ''[[Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura|Arcanum]]'' allows players to be gadgeteer geniuses, eventually building such things as steam-powered robots, staffs that shoot lightning and a device that can revive the dead.
* The whole Bui bui species from ''[[Loco Roco]]'' series. To lesser extent, Mui mui too.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' has Nitori and the Kappa race in general. In a setting that has a medieval level of technology, [[Schizo-Tech|Nitori has managed to create things like]] [[Invisibility Cloak|optical camo suits]].
* The Gadgeteer is an actual class in ''[[Wizardry]] 8'', and it's just as powerful as you'd expect. Thankfully the rarity of components means that you can't really have more than one in the party, which keeps the game from becoming unbalanced.
* Gadgeteering exists as a power set in the MMORPG ''[[Champions Online]]''. One of the abilities being an 'Experimental Ray' which has a chance for various effects, including turning the target into a teddy bear.
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== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ Agatha Heterodyne] of ''[[Girl Genius]]'', and the other Sparks ([[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]]). An example of [[Schizo-Tech]] because Sparks are able to screw with the laws of physics. Examples include electrical lightning moats, cloning pods, [[Death Ray|Death Rays]], giant airships, autonomous robots and Frankenstein monsters in a world that is otherwise at the tech-level of the 19th century. (That's her in the page image. Yes, that is a coffee maker. No, [[Gone Horribly Right|you don't want any coffee from it.]])
** Yes you do! If you haven't seen Vanamonde von Mekkhan's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070625 description of this coffee ], you will find the need to find the Foglios and have them tell you how they came to our universe so we can go there and get some. The only downside is you'll never be able to fully enjoy other cups of coffee again.
* Kat from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' builds an antigravity generator out of a thermos and coat hangers for the school [[Science Fair]]. She didn't see this as anything special, and built it simply in order to allowe her protein synthesis experiment to work properly. Much to her chagrin, nobody cared very much about proteins, but were fascinated by her anti-grav machine. Later, she converts it into a personal aircraft.
* Tedd from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' is a male version of this trope. Grace, the squirrel-girl girlfriend of Tedd, has her moments as well.
* Scarlett from ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' is either this, or an [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Idiot Savant]]. Several strips indicate that she'd be an engineering genius were it not for her [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|crippling case of ADD]].
** It later turned out she is actually one-fourth of a [[Wetware CPU|biocomputer]] [[Hive Mind|gestalt]], she is a lot more competent when she's with her "sisters"
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'''s Riff has built several robots, a device for opening gates to other dimensions, the Omnitaser Supreme, and a staple remover ''with a 100 feet range''.
* A more specific version, but ''[[Megatokyo]]'''s Largo can build a computer out of almost anything, including ''cereal boxes''.
* Sev'vil and Anira in ''[[Juathuur]]'' are the greatest scientific minds in the world.
* The titular pair from ''[[Casey and Andy]]''?
* ''[[Dr. Nonami]]'' stars a young female scientist who invents a variety of machines to fight evil.
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* ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' has a "house badger" by the name of Professor Kaboodles who has seemingly evolved in the background from being a simple pet badger to a full on goggle and lab coat wearing inventor. Though no one notices. Even when he's [http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=1137 shooting lasers at floating pygmy cows.]
* Walter from [[Dubious Company]], regularly upgrades the ships he steals with complex [[Magitek]], and is the go-to-guy for [[Techno Babble]]. His first on panel instance of this is in the shipwrecked arc, where he built a fully-furnished house in the course of an afternoon ''without'' tools. It was also a [[Visual Gag]] about his [[Winged Humanoid|animal instincts]].
* [[The Big Guy|Equius Zahaak]] from [[Homestuck]] uses his mechanical skills to build [[Artificial Limbs|new body parts]] for his wounded allies. He also builds robots for various personal uses.
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* A staple villain type in ''[[Super Stories]]'', usually with their own, restricted specialty. Veldron is a whiz at electronic circuitry, Clockwork is brilliant with medium-scale engineering such as, well, clockwork, and Devnull is a programming and hacking genius.
* There's also the ''[[Masks]]'' universe, where this is one of the mutant powers, besides for instance Bricks (really tough and strong) and Flyers.
* This is a super-power in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''. Some [[Gadgeteer Genius|Gadgeteer Geniuses]] have only the power to make one very, very advanced device (Roland Jaffe created an iPod-sized battery that could store more electricity than a ten-foot-high pile of car batteries, and Peter Dansker, a technician for Lucent, built a truly sentient android over the course of a weekend), while others are able to toss out new technology as easily as they can breathe.
* In the web novels ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' there are two characters who fit this, one is Robert who took actual schooling on robotics and the other is Brandon who's super power actually allows him to understand machines.
* Essay (hero), Gimble (neutral) and Triton (villain) are notable examples in the Academy of Super Heroes universe. Gimble is notable because she makes physics-violating tech that ''everyone'' can use -- even [[Anti-Magic|Anchors]].
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** Phineas and Ferb.
** Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. Despite being a normally [[Harmless Villain]], he is capable of building -inators that are as impressive as the inventions of the title characters.
** Also, the Fireside Girls, led by Isabella. They're usually just helping the boys out, which is impressive in itself, but they ''can'' build a Time Machine.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' is only a kid, but he has already surpassed any known scientist in capablity. Each episode focuses on one of his invention although his inventions usually fall pray to [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]].
* Gadget Hackwrench from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.
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* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has two. Adrian Toomes is the inventor of the Magnetic Air Transport System, a suit of [[Flight]]-capable [[Powered Armor]] that he uses as the [[Super Villain]] Vulture to antagonize Norman Osborn for stealing his designs. Chameleon's henchman Mason (aka, the Tinkerer) is responsible for developing all the [[Shoe Phone]] technology the Chameleon needs for his work as a [[Master of Disguise]].
* Widget from ''[[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!]]''.
* Jack and Maddie Fenton in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' seem to fit this trope, with their inventions being proven inoperable by a normal person, or even [[The Men in Black|The Guys In White]], due to the quirks because of said "tin cans and an old transistor radio" method of construction.
* Professor Utonium from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' creates things like a supersuit or a giant robot or a car that can turn into a giant robot.
** [[Captain Obvious|...or superpowered kindergarteners.]]
* Jérémie from ''[[Code Lyoko]]''. His gadgeteering occurs more in the virtual world, however, as he is the primary programmer and the one who is most adept at using the Supercomputer. However, it is a confirmed fact that he can build robots, participating in a robot competition in Season 1. He also created an EMP bomb in episode "Ultimatum," which has efficiently stunned a XANAfied person at this occasion.
** [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Unfortunately that EMP bomb in "Ultimatum" also fried Ulrich's cell phone, preventing the news that Yumi and Odd were alive and rescued from getting back to Jeremie]]. Ah well; easy come easy go I guess.
* Wade from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is able to build more or less anything that the plot demands. And the Tweebs that were able to really pimp Kim's [[Cool Car|car]]. The three of them are 10 years old...
** On the villainous side, Motor Ed is a mechanical genius. [[Verbal Tic|Seriously!]]
** In his "bad boy" mode, Ron Stoppable is this. It's even latent in his "good" mode, when he builds a weapon (at Drakken's insistence) [[MacGyvering|IN A LAIR, from A BOX OF SCRAPS]]!
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* ''[[Tracey McBean]]''
* Philly Phil from ''[[Class of 3000]]''.
* Coop from [[Megas XLR]] tuned up a [[Humongous Mecha]] until it worked better than the original, even despite all the parts he keeps breaking on account of [[Genius Ditz|not being all that bright besides.]]
* The Mechanist from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
* Wheeljack, from [[Transformers]]! How has he not been mentioned yet? He created the Aerialbots and the Dinobots, and while some of his inventions don't quite work out, in the, ah, explode-y sense.. his fuel pump is in the right place. I mean, he also invented lots of useful things! Like the Immobilizer, which worked great until it blew up, and the Negavator, which worked great until IT blew up, and that bomb they used one time, which was supposed to blow up, so it DEFINITELY worked great, and I think I'm starting to sense a trend here...
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