Mine is light and L from death note . They were potrayed as some kinda of super genius characters but in reality it felt like every other characters shared one braincell and light and L were average .
EDIT : I have come to the conclusion that so may of lemmings didn’t get what my post was about . I don’t care if a charecter is an asshole or isn’t very good in other aspects of their life.
Big bang theory, just, shake a stick
Specifically Sheldon for me. I was in grad school when that show was first aired and I hated it instantly and thoroughly. I was already aware that academia is an asshole-factory and couldn’t enjoy it.
Big Bang Theory: a show about smart people written by dumb people.
Futurama: a show about dumb people written by smart people.
I’ve only watched the second one, but I really liked it.
Anyone who doesn’t like Futurama should be viewed with suspicion. It’s one thing to have valid criticisms, but to just not like it? They’re gonna get put on a list, if they aren’t already.
I’ve seen this joke before, but the second line was “Arrested Development”. I guess anyone can rewrite it inserting their preferred show.
I’ve only ever seen/ heard it with Futurama. I can’t remember where I read it first, but it was on the internet a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. It’s the only show it actually works with, though, because Futurama’s writers had like MBAs and PHDs and shit. It’s not an opinion statement, it’s a literal fact.
Elon musk
He was never a genius?
True, but he was a rich opportunist with good timing, so that made him look like a genius, as opposed to the serial fabulist and racist POS he ended up being.
He’s been portrayed as one in the media though
A lot of people sure think he is though.
portrayed as a super genius in media
The crew of the Prometheus.
Really, Weyland, are you sure these are the best people you could hire for this task?
Tried to watch the movie last week, but I only made it halfway through. The stupidity by almost everyone was just too much to bear.
All I can think of is the whole stupid running from the falling tower scene.
The Prometheus school of running away from things. ding
In the original trilogy of novels by Timothy Zahn, Grand Admiral Thrawn is a legitimate strategic genius who keeps winning until the heroes manage to squeak out a final victory by finding exactly the right flaw in his plans.
In the Ahsoka TV series, Thrawn mumbles vapid syllogisms that only sound profound if you listen to the tone of voice instead of the words. He constantly makes basic Evil Overlord mistakes and oversights, and only achieves the barest minimum success in the end through plot armor and luck.
It’s like they’re two different characters.
This is nostalgia talking. In the OG trilogy, Thrawn was killed in a painfully obvious coup that any competent commander should have seen coming for miles. His constant dismissal of the Noghiri was idiotic. He may not have known Leia was Vader’s daughter, but something was obviously happening with their society that he just waved away like nothing.
In Ahsoka, he has next to nothing to work with, uses his meager resources efficiently, and achieves his only goal completely (aside from Ezra’s infiltration anyway). Babylon’s betrayal is the only reason the heroes achieve anything at all. At the end of the day, Thrawn has always been a fun character who primarily looks like a genius compared to the complete idiocy of other imperials.
Sherlock played by Cumberbatch. He looked like a stuckup asshole who I’d never trust with a baby or pet.
Wasn’t that the point?
When he had all those nicotine patches on him, my only thought was “what a fucking idiot”.
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Hbomberguy made a video about it. There’s no nuance or foreshadowing in that Sherlock. He exists just so Moffat can feel smart that he knows something the audience can’t possibly know yet, nor does he give them a chance to figure it out.
I can’t dispute that, but in fairness, there are quite a few of the original Sherlock Holmes stories where the reader couldn’t be expected to solve the mystery. The Adventure of the Red Headed League is one such, as I recall, though it has been quite a while since I read it.
For me the fun of the show is in the chemistry between actors and in the development of Sherlock’s character as someone who discovers his own humanity and eventually forms connections with those around him.
Rick from Rick and Morty. Though I feel like the show bounces back and forth from making it clear that he’s an idiot who causes all of his own problems and worshipping him as a god.
I said Jimmy Neutron for my answer, but I think Rick faces a similar problem.
He’s a genius when it comes to engineering/academics, but otherwise he’s a fool with an overinflated ego that won’t let him acknowledge that - I mean hell the Ricks literally made the central finite curve so they didn’t have to acknowledge the possibility of someone smarter than themselves out there.
Similar to Neutron, most of his problems come from him trying to engineer his way out of personal issues, or making overcomplicated solutions to simple problems that end up backfiring.
He’s intelligent and an asshole but that doesn’t make him less intelligent
He is proficient with magic technology.
He’s an idiot when it comes to literally everything else. He does frequently overcome his idiocy in other areas by using his magic technology to dominate the situation but it backfires just as often as not. He thinks he’s better than everyone else, and in one powerful way he is, so he uses that to compensate.
Anything to do with people or reality not filtered through an alcoholic depression lens it’s very clear he doesn’t know how to handle it, and that includes basic self care.
The problem is that a lot of idiot savant tech-heads see themselves in him but miss the constant intentional criticism of his character.
Yeah i guess that tracks
Rick and Morty is great when it’s just taking the piss, but usually around once per season it suddenly equates nihilism = smart and it seems at least some of the writers really believe that.
I think it’s well established that Dr. House is wrong way more often than he’s right… I still find it entertaining though.
He’s mostly right in the end. Being right instantly would make episodes last 5 minutes…
Every episode of house is basically
Patient gets sick
House is wrong at first
Everyone is wrong for a while
They think they’re right, but they’re wrong
House has a random epiphany, steals $50 from Wilson, and saves the patientMaybe I should watch House. I love Lucifer and every episode is basically
Lucifer has a problem
Someone else has a problem
Lucifer makes his problem worse
Someone else makes their problem better
Lucifer uses the solution from someone to make his problem better, usually after making an epiphany quip
Lucifer learns nothingSpeaking as someone who always loved the show and now consider it somewhat of a guilty pleasure, that’s spot on 😂
Hmm never watched that series due to people saying it fell of during later series
It never lost quality. House M.D. is still in my top 3 favourite shows.
It lost quality. Dr Park and Dr Masters are both really tedious characters that are not well rounded or well acted.
That being said the show otherwise is generally pretty solid. The last season is definitely the weakest. Also fuck Lisa Edelstein for not even returning for the finale when everyone else and their mother did.
IMO It is worth a watch!
Compared to run of the mill hospital shows it is good tv.
Others you can check out:
New Amsterdam 2018
American medical drama television series, based on the book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
The Knick 2015
fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York during the early twentieth century.
I have watched amsterdam . It is the one with bale and margot robbie ? Good movie.
Nope, not a movie, hahaha! Looks interesting though!
New Amsterdam is a series, 5 seasons.
A new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America’s oldest public hospital.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7817340/
The Knick is also a series, more mature content, 2 seasons.
A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.
That wouldn’t even be so bad if he weren’t so god-damned smug about it.
I’ve watched House over and over again over the years and always kind of idolized him. But something must have changed about me because the latest time around, it hit way different. I realized, “wow, I really wouldn’t want to be acquainted with this guy in the slightest.”
But I think that’s because I finally actually understood the show.
Also, Robert Sean Leonard is massively underrated as Laurie’s foil. Wilson is definitely now my favorite character.
Elizabeth Keen in Black List. Writers constantly told us how brilliant and special she was, then showed her acting like a dimwitted, hormonal teen.
There’s some old quote about you can’t write a character any smarter than you are.
James Bond
While he’s not exactly potrayed as super genious, he’s still supposed to be an extremely competent secret agent yet the only thing he seems competent at is having an extremely good luck. The only reason he’s still alive is because the villains don’t kill him the first moment they get the chance but instead they always need to deliver this monoloque before executing him which is what causes him to then eventually get away and kill you instead.
Like how many of the movies start by him just naively walking into the enemy compound armed with pistol and wearing a suit while practising zero stealth and then getting caught by NPC security guard. If this is how you operate then how the fuck havent you been killed already?
The novels were way better than the movies except for a few of the early movies that followed the novels closely. The other movies were crap.
I agree, but having watched all Bond movies recently. Early movies Bond is a rapist. It ruined the whole two first films for me. And on top of that, the fight scenes are goofy and badly choreographed. As they progress, Bond transitions to a less rapey vibe into more of a Casanova, and the action scenes gain budget, the fight scenes increase in quality significantly and the plot morphs into the stereotypical spy superagent clichés we know today. The misogyny doesn’t go away until the Daniel Craig era though.
Maybe you’re right, I’ve never been into the movies much much. You might be remembering ones that I’ve forgotten or didn’t see.
Not to mention, he’s the most unreliable agent when it comes to his susceptibility to honeypots…
In Stargate Atlantis, Elizabeth Weir is supposed to be some world-class diplomatic genius that has a resume as long as her elbow on earth.
She spends the first two seasons squabbling over the leadership position with Shepard, dealing with petty dissent from the scientists on the expedition, doesn’t manage to resolve a single conflict peacefully and she violates several basic human rights
She sounds like a realistic portrayal of current real life diplomats.
Trump
Anyone on Doctor Who. There’s a universal war going on, and you have so many decisions made by characters that don’t make sense but are accepted as barriers anyways.
Doctor Who’s target audience is grade school children. If you keep that in mind, the characters motivations make more sense.
I was in middle school when I started questioning some of that, for example whenever the police try to combat an antagonist, it’s like they willingly use the wrong weaponry every time, or anyone can sneak in anywhere without being vetted. Given the plot armor, I wouldn’t put it past Davros that he wanted to fail.
I show it to my niece and nephew and they are crazy for it. But I learned the hard way that it can scare the shit out of them. The episode with the space whale… Those angry faces from the double headed machine people… So I have to make sure it’s tame for a while. I’m thinking they don’t get to know about the Weeping Angels until junior high
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Jimmy Neutron. Almost all of his problems came from him trying to cheat his way out of something and/or making overcomplicated solutions to simple problems that inevitably backfire because of some simple flaw he never thought about.
Academically, he’s a genius, but his overinflated ego prevents him from seeing that he ain’t all that smart when it comes to the real world.
Welcome to academia. I see you’ve visited before
Sam Altman. Just another power hungry a.hole
Elon Musk wannabe
The joker, well from movie to movie. In the dark knight he is cunning and is like a genius then in the movie joker he is just an ass hole
I don’t think he is an asshole in joker movie as far as i can see all the people he killed were assholes. But i guess in the dark knight he was an asshole
But he isn’t, really. He just comes up with elaborate plans that magically predict the future because the writers wrote it that way. The character himself seems to have an average level of intelligence.
