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== [[Film]] ==
* The Brain Gremlin in ''[[Gremlins|Gremlins 2]]''.
 
== Live Action TV ==
* Charles Gunn on ''[[Angel]]'', who got a lot of extra culture and knowledge uploaded with his brain upgrade in season 5. (Technically, it wasn't a brain upgrade—it was emphasised that Gunn had the intelligence all along, and all the "upgrade" gave him was the knowledge and memories of a law school education.)
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Detritus in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men Atat Arms]]'' suddenly starts using words he's probably never even heard, let alone remembers. However, since the intelligence was induced by a natural quirk of troll physiology, it's possible that he knew the words but couldn't normally remember them. Trolls are not stupid, but they move to the lowlands and ''become'' stupid, because the warm climate slow the working of their silicon brains. When Detritus goes to cold [[Überwald]], he starts getting smarter again. When he's locked in a freezer, he almost figures out a grand unifying theory of everything.
* Montaigne had plenty to say on this topic in his ''Essays''. It would seem it was his [[Berserk Button]] (but he was so politely scathing of it).
* [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig Zagged]] in ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'': Played straight and justified in that it takes some time for Charlie to learn and appreciate classical music when his intelligence is increasing. When his mind starts regressing again, [[Inverted|he loses all interest in it]].
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* Charles Gunn on ''[[Angel]]'', who got a lot of extra culture and knowledge uploaded with his brain upgrade in season 5. (Technically, it wasn't a brain upgrade—it was emphasised that Gunn had the intelligence all along, and all the "upgrade" gave him was the knowledge and memories of a law school education.)
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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