The Smart Guy - TV Tropes. Being an actual guy is optional for the title. Aang: The question is, how are we gonna stop that thing? Aang: You're the idea guy. Sokka: So I'm the only one who can ever come up with a plan? Smart Guyz - Don't drink and drive! We are a chauffeur service that collects you and your vehicle. Watch the official Smart Guy online at ABC.com. Get exclusive videos and free episodes. With Tahj Mowry, John Marshall Jones, Jason Weaver, Omar Gooding. Ten-year-old genius (Tahj Mowry) has skipped six grades into high school. This incredible promotion somewhat aggravates his teenage siblings. A 10-year-old prodigy named T.J. Henderson makes the leap from fourth grade to high-school sophomore and finds the social adjustment far tougher than the academic one. The Smart Guy is the guy in a Five-Man Band whose focus is on intellectual pursuits. This is the team member who will always be prepared, sometimes Crazy Prepared. They will be at the computer doing Rapid-Fire Typing. Henderson (Tahj Mowry) is a high school sophmore. He isn't just a regular one though. He is a ten-year old tenth grader! After being promoted to high school, T.J. Martinez is a smart guy and will have done his homework on the players he inherited in advance, and he's had a while to get used to them now. That's a lot of pressure. This is The Team member who will always be prepared, sometimes Crazy- Prepared. They will be at the computer doing Rapid- Fire Typing. Expect some fancy talk and Techno Babble from this character. Because their role is about ideas they initially leave the action stuff to the others. Of course, Weak, but Skilled is always in effect for this guy. They may even be a. Child Prodigy. The Smart Guy is sometimes written as mousey and withdrawn. If not antisocial, at least non- social, sliding into TV Genius. Can be expected to play a mean game of chess. Sometimes the Smart Guy is more street savvy then they appear. If this is the case it usually makes The Smart Guy physically as well as mentally capable. This is the path of the Badass Bookworm, or one who Minored In Ass Kicking. They remain firmly planted as the Smart Guy, but are just as ready to fight as everyone else. The results are often impressive, and usually have the advantage of surprise. Who expects the little guy with glasses to be an asskicker? Common types that you can mix and match on your way to Omnidisciplinary Scientist are. Techies who have great skill with technology and engineering. They build and repair devices for The Team, and hack in to steal from and sabotage the enemy. As you push towards pure sci- fi they may have an innate higher reasoning capacity than normal humans, either because they're of an alien race or they're robotic and have technology literally as part of their bodies. Like the techie, you can find them in the lab coming up with new Phlebotinum that does whatever the plot needs it to. The wizard can be equivalent in fantasy, and less frequently a priest if spirits and spirituality play a big role. Their knowledge allows them to find enemy weaknesses, do research (if they're not already a walking encyclopedia), and serve as Mr. Exposition (sometimes with The Big Board in tow) in order to explain plot points to the less intelligent members of the team (and the audience). As the idea guy, they can plan and direct missions. But their over- analysis and prattle is just as likely to be annoying. A thief archetype, detective or Street Urchin who has traded in knowledge and intelligence for know- how and intel. They figure out mysteries, track down foes, and get into hard to reach places. If they're good with tech too you get a Playful Hacker. An older Mentor Archetype, or the Wise Beyond Their Years. Only Sane Man who can keep a cool head, think their way around problems that seem to big to solve, and give really good advice. Smart Guy Theme Song Lyrics. A slice of life is T.J. Henderson Super intelligent, a fine young gentleman A ten year old whiz kid bussin high school A pugnacious little shorty with a thousand IQ He's got a way with the ladies.This can manifest as magic ability, Psychic Powers, or Super Intelligence. In a magical setting they may use spells or a Magic Staff. If martial arts are the go to, they may use a Simple Staff or an elegant sword. Fire as the 'birth of science' for curious types. Ice (or water) as the cold ivory towers of education and learning for bookish ones. Lightning to go along with machines for techies. Or as a mage they could use all three. Alternatively the smart guy can act as a loyal sidekick under The Leader, to contrast with The Lancer whose force of personality and vocal dissent is more of a partner on equal footing. Since the character type is outwardly sexless and non- masculine, turning them into The Smart Girl is not a big stretch. When used in this way, she's usually much less girly than The Chick. When they do, expect a subplot about the geek's unrequited feelings towards an unattainable cooler love interest for Smart Guys around the same age as the rest of the cast. Younger. Smart Guys may have a cute Puppy Love plot with someone their own age, or a Precocious Crush on someone much older. In most cases where the geek's love interest is not . He recognized the Heroin Processing plant, he can read the map, and he's the only one of the actors who had actually read the script and the book. He runs Wayne Enterprises, either invents or improves upon most of Batman's tech, and can come up with an antidote to Scarecrow's fear gas in the span of a night. I just wanted you to know how hard it was. Tony Stark, Insufferable Genius extraordinaire, doesn't even mind playing Bruce's assistant. Hermes sometimes fill this role in a trickster- ish sort of way. Pretty much every actual strategy mentioned in relation to The Trojan War starts with him, including (ironically) both one of the reasons for the war (the Achaean kings agreeing to protect whoever married Helen, to keep them from fighting over her) and the reason it ends (the Trojan Horse, of course). Naturally, Athena favors him and helps him out a lot (against the wishes of her uncle Poseidon, whom he had somehow offended). Although Roy Greenhilt has more common sense and Haley Starshine is more observant, V's sheer 1. INT has them beat. Besides, Roy and Haley are The Hero and The Lancer respectively. Now, she's so adept at her gift that she can predict the probability of future events with 9. What's more, the cast page of the comic's print edition describes her as . But when the team picks up Sal, she then becomes the The Smart Girl and Walter functionally shifts to The Leader. Despite not being the most intellectual member of the party Asia fits this trope perfectly. Unfortunately, her intellect's somewhat limited to what she learned in books. Even her mythological role as the Seer of Light marks her as a quester after knowledge. Jade is also very brainy, but her intelligence isn't as central to her character or role in the story as Rose's is. It's inferred that she's an expert in the medical field by her Cutie Mark, and she senses something bad is happening in the De Noir's castle. She has a reason for knowing all this stuff: she's a Faunas herself. He is incredibly knowledgeable about the paranormal due to his lifetime of research, but is inexperienced in the field. When PATRICK needs to know what something is or does, though, PHILLIPS is the one he looks to. Phase is over- educated for a freshman in high school, is most likely to use the big words, and is a smart aleck too. The Smart Guy they go to for gadgets is Bugs, who is a Hot Scientist. Blue, Simmons is arguably the smartest member of either team when it comes to pure common sense. Word of God (Matt himself) says that, if Matt's clones had a fight to the death, Eugene would win - despite being physically weak, he could build something like a tank to defend himself, because he's the only clone intelligent enough to do so.
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