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** It's occasionally been said that the difference between a good FF writer and a bad one is that the former realizes Ben is the smart one.

** Ben Grimm is at least smart enough that he can sometimes work as a mild example of a [[Genius Bruiser]]. A better example would be Johnny Storm, who's even ''more'' of a dumbass and has no higher learning backstory (he got his powers in high school). Yet on one occasion he was able to sum up a chain reaction streaming from unlocking unstable molecules and think of a way to contain the problem. Again, sharing living space with the smartest man in the world helps.

== Fan Works ==

* Used and lampshaded in ''[[Lisa Is Pregnant]]'' when, having "noticed for once" that something isn't right, Homer asks why Lisa was in the mountains, where Bart froze to death keeping her warm. She doesn't remember, though.

== Film ==

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** Another example: The Operative went by the popular misconception that the albatross was sign of bad luck. (For background, in the poem the misfortunes of the eponymous Mariner comes about because he killed the albatross; it is literally a weight around his neck because his fellow shipmates tie it there as punishment for killing a bird which was both a good omen and which could have led them to shore)

* Ragetti, the skinny one-eyed pirate from the [[Those Two Guys|comic duo]] in [[Pirates of the Caribbean]] displayed some quite commendable knowledge of mythology and philosophy in the sequels, though they were out of place most of the times.

== Literature ==

* In the third [[Artemis Fowl]] book, two of Spiro's [[Stupid Evil|nigh-brainless]] [[Those Two Bad Guys|henchmen]] "cleverly" come up with the idea to use {{spoiler|the stolen Cube computer}} to take down a rival of Spiro's company. Spiro finds this sudden brain activity a bit suspicious, but he can't deny it's a good idea. {{spoiler|Of course, the henchmen were hypnotized into suggesting this, because it's [[The Chessmaster|exactly what Artemis wanted Spiro to do]].}}

* In the third ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' book, two of Spiro's [[Stupid Evil|nigh-brainless]] [[Those Two Bad Guys|henchmen]] "cleverly" come up with the idea to use {{spoiler|the stolen Cube computer}} to take down a rival of Spiro's company. Spiro finds this sudden brain activity a bit suspicious, but he can't deny it's a good idea. {{spoiler|Of course, the henchmen were hypnotized into suggesting this, because it's [[The Chessmaster|exactly what Artemis wanted Spiro to do]].}}

* [[~~Discworld/Unseen Academicals|~~Unseen Academicals]] has the loveably [[Book Dumb]] Trev Likely informing the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]] Glenda on the difference between talons and pounces. And, after a brief moment of awkwardness, attempt to justify his knowing this with "you pick stuff up, ok?"

* ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'' has the loveably [[Book Dumb]] Trev Likely informing the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]] Glenda on the difference between talons and pounces. And, after a brief moment of awkwardness, attempt to justify his knowing this with "you pick stuff up, ok?"

== Live-Action TV ==

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* ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' fandom refers to the local Smart Ball as the Salem Brain. Considering many Days fans love snarking at plot holes, this evidently doesn't show up nearly as much as it needs to.

* Occasionally, a walker in ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'' will have a moment where they aren't mindless zombies. For example, one of the walkers plays dead, then bites Hershel in the leg. Another hides in the mud and grabs Megan before she can notice.

== Toys ==

* In ''[[Bionicle]]'' ''Legacy of Evil'', Reidak figures what the whole Plan is, given only the beginning. While the Plan wasn't ''that'' awesome, it's frightening because Reidak usually needs simple plans to be explained four times. So the other speculate Reidak may have ''forgotten'' to act as an idiot, and rest of time he acts stupidly because he want to be underestimated.

== Video Games ==

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'''Phoenix''': Did the Judge take smart pills over the recess?! }}

* For the first two [[Mass Effect]] games, [[Heroic Wannabe|Conrad Verner]] has bees seen as little more than an annoyance. Then come [[Mass Effect 3]] it turns out he is actually Dr. Conrad Verner and did a dissertation on dark matter energy, which helps with the construction of the Crucible.

== Web Comics ==

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* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the eponymous character of [[Walkyverse|It's Walky]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110404001135/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000521.html here.]

== Web ~~Originals~~ ==

== Web Original ==

* Caboose from [[Red vs. Blue]] occasionally has a good idea. There's also Donut, who, at one point, was able to correctly figure out the ridiculous string of events that led to the Red Team's jeep trying to kill Sarge. Of course, the rest of the team decided that this was a stupid theory. And there was the time Tucker managed to outwit Wyoming, a trained assassin. Half the cast is made up of idiots, so this is bound to happen a lot.

== Western Animation ==

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