Favorite "Brainy" Characters

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Drago

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Who are some of your favorite cartoon characters having so much intelligence? Personally, I choose Edd from Ed, Edd n' Eddy because he often uses such professional vocabulary when he speaks. I think his voice is cool, too. I also like Velma from the Scooby-Doo series because she has a thing with science.
 
Just a few I can think of:
Brian the dog from Family Guy: Yeah everybody likes Stewie, but Brian has always been my favorite character.
Lisa Simpson and Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons: How can you not like Lisa? And Bob is smart and clever, yet always gets outwitted by Bart and Lisa, similar to Wile E Coyote. Which leads me to...
Bugs Bunny and Wile E Coyote: Both characters were very smart and clever, the only difference is Bugs almost always got his way, whereas Wile almost never got his way.
 
I remember when I was young, I really liked Gyro from Ducktales. Naturally my favorite episode was "Sir Gyro Gearloose".
I agree with :^:, except that Double D's voice is boaderline weird to me. I think he sounds way too feminine.
 
Gadget Hackwrench, she of the "mind-bashingly high I.Q." ;)

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Let's not forget about the characters with that word as their names, particularly THE Brain (Pinky and the Brain), Brainy Smurf, and Brain (Penny's dog on Inspector Gadget). They also had a Brain on Top Cat, but he doesn't count because he was the exact opposite.

Another notable smart character would be Elroy Jetson, boy genius.
 
professor frink has made some all time awesome gadgets. i wonder how many halloween specials have been centered around his inventions. might just be a couple but anyways he is awesome.

mandaark is good, dexter is better. both have flaws, mandark is arrogant, and dexter is obsessive. i love them both.

karl of johnny bravo is a good genius.

brain the ultimate genius or is he? pinky almost took over the world once then brain got involved. getting started is often the hardest thing and brain is great at that. he just needs a guy to help with the small details along the way.
though i often wondered how he would take over the world while everyone was sneezing?
 
Double D and Stewie are my favorite brainy characters. There bith different, ones evil and ones extremlly good yet has a sarcastic side. I also like Brain from Pinky and the Brain. Yakko I feels counts as brainy on Animaniacs, he's the smartest of the bunch. Batman is another favorite of mine.
 
I dislike it when characters are presented as intellecual mostly or only because they know a lot about "high" culture, like classical music and such. Not that i have anyhting against classical music, it's just that it's idiotic to honestly think that listening to it and knowing a lot about it's composers somehow makes you a smarter person than those who listen to rock or pop music. Being intelligent means having a high IQ, not knowing the names of all Beethovens sympohies. Defining yourself as intelligent only because you indulge yourself in high culture means that you are what is known as a pseudo-intellectual.

And for this reason, i have kind of a distaste for Brian in Family Guy, who often falls into that "im-smarter-than-you-because-i-know-how-to-pronounce-the-name-of-some-french-wine" territory. Like how when he declared a girl he went out with an idiot on account of just that, that she pronounced the name of a wine wrong, (and also didn't know anything about Mozart). And considering Brian is something of a confirmed author avatar, i suspect that Seth himself might be a bit of the same breed...

There is of course one such psedo-intellectual (who have also proven himself to be genuenly intelligent as well, it should be noted) character that i do like, and that's Sideshow Bob; in fact, he is one of my favorite Simpson characters. And a big part of the reason why i love him so much is because he is a parody, one might even say a deconstruction, of the "cultured" gentleman, as he sees his supperiority over "average" people as being so great that he have all right to abuse them any way he wants, and, when he is feeling alturistic, to attempt to teach them his cultured ways and turn them into proper gentlemen like him whether they want to or not.

I also like Lisa, because even though she also occasionaly act's like something of a snob, she seems to not be so much obsessed with elite culture in particular as simply obsessed with culture; mainstream culture, counter-culture, and also elite culture. She seems to find anything from Bach to Itchy & Scratchy to outsider art made by mental patients interesting, an i like that about her. And of course, she is also a very likable character in many other respects as well.
 
Dexter and Jimmy Neutron are my faves. But Dexter is the funnier character, because he's far more frustrated thanks to his loving, interfering ditz of a sister. And Brainy Smurf can be funny. Even on Robot Chicken! :D And of course there's the Brain. Pinky and the Brain were the closest Spielberg ever got to truly recreating Looney Tunes. They have the wacky humor and true personality found in the best of the offerings from Termite Terrace. They beat the heck out of the Warners and all of the downsized derivatives from Acme Acres (I didn't really like them much at all). Great voices too. Maurice LaMarche rocks!!!
 
Among my favorite cartoon Brainiacs:

Donatello from TMNT. He's not just a mutant Ninja Turtle, he's also a techno-geek with a knack for inventions. Plus, his bandana is purple, one of my favorite colors.

Tecna from Winx Club. She's a super-smart technology fairy from Techno Fairy Land. What a concept!

Brainiac 5 from Legion of Super Heroes. His super power is 12th level intelligence. He's a role model to geeks everywhere.

Edd from Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy. Despite being a Nervous Norvis and a neat-freak, this guy has a big ol' brain on him and is the island of sanity among the Eds.

Washu from Tenchi Muyo!. The only thing bigger than her IQ is her ego. But anybody who can create a portal to another dimension and stick it in somebody's closet is OK in my book.

Blossom from The Powerpuff Girls. Not only is this academic snob a kindergartner who knows conversational Chinese, but she can also thoroughly whip your butt with a well-laid out plan.
 
My all time favorite intelligent character is Daria Morgendorffer (well animated, i would say Holmes for live action as i've not seen his animated versions) Miss Morgendorffer is a good example of a Holmes/Nemo observant type, but more importantly also manages to exist quite normally within normalcy as well, as an element of normalcy and an observer. As a relatively normal character to say Doctor Who's Doctor she is however also of that rational intelligence and has a cynical observation method. (Not as rational as Holmes' perhaps what?)

Hmm... besides Miss Morgendorffer one thinks there are others too probably. Yes indeed there would be, but ones memory is unworthy.
 
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