The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius: Difference between revisions

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It follows the life of Barry Ween - the world's smartest human, a ten-year-old [[Gadgeteer Genius]] who hides his intellect from the rest of the world - and his friend Jeremy Ramirez, a hyperactive and sex-obsessed, but overall rather normal, boy of the same age who's the only one to know Barry's secret.

 

 

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: The only thing Barry's parents do in the comic is fail to notice anything weird in their son (it's implied Barry mind-wipes them when they do, to be fair). Jeremy's parents hardly ever appear, though it's made clear his mom is overprotective and zealously religious.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Sara is very clearly based in whole or in part on Winick's wife Pam Ling.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Barry has demonstrated to know enough anatomy to put most opponents out with a single finger. Just imagine what happens whenever he pulls out a weapon (of which he invented a lot).

** Winick never got around to discussing it in the actual comics, but if you read the single issues' letter columns, he discusses occasionally that part of Barry's super-intelligence is the ability to tap into his body's physical potential via biofeedback and other methods. Thus, when Barry has to, he goes flipping around the landscape like Spider-Man on a crack bender.

* [[Child Prodigy]]

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The series started out completely devoted to humor. A late story where he traveled to another world was significantly more serious.

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Barry is an expert of any subject known to man, plus some that are still unknown. If you have questions about aliens or Bigfoot, he's your man.

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: averted. Barry alters the world's sociopolitical equilibrium on a daily basis, but nobody knows it's him.

* [[Super Intelligence]]

* [[Time Travel]]: happens a couple of times by accident. When Barry intentionally builds a time machine, it only has a range of eighteen minutes - although he uses it to ''transfer himself into his old self, cell by cell'', which can be expected to be harder.

 

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