History Main / GeniusSweetTooth

** With ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', ItRunsInTheFamily. After the climactic fight, [[GenerationXerox Phoebe]] perks up visibly when Venkman suggests they all have hot cocoa to celebrate.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'': Vector's love of cookies is exploited by Gru.

* Lemres from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' is a particularly interesting case. He's a senior mage from a neighboring school whose fame as the Comet Warlock is publicized for attaining his status before he even graduated school. Lemres also has a great affinity for sweets, and has a nigh endless stock of them and freely shares them among his peers. The twist? According to him, candy and sweets ''fuel his magic power''. In 20th anniversary, we get an episode of what happens if he abstains from having any sort of candy. It isn't pretty.

* The Professor in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' can always be expected to either be eating junk food of some kind or trying to get someone to give her some. And as for the "genius" part, she's only eight, but she's capable of creating robots so advanced that it counts more like creating life itself.

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* In ''Manga/Classi9'', Beethoven's love of sweets was unparalleled in Class S- until Ren came along. He is noticeably happier when there is pudding for dessert and cake has already distracted him from the matters at hand. Mozart also wakes him up with the smell of candy. The only time he didn't finish a piece of cake was after his fight with Wagner because he felt like cake wasn't actually that good if you couldn't share it with friends.

* Hexarch Mikodez in ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'' has an interestingly justified version - he abuses focus drugs which (like real amphetamines) suppress appetite and increase energy usage. Keeping his favorite high-calorie foods on hand at all times is part of how he stays passably healthy.

* Mentioned in ''Series/AgentCarter'' - according to his butler Jarvis, eccentric playboy inventor Howard Stark's two major weaknesses are [[TheCasanova women]] and raspberry truffles.

* Rory Gilmore from ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' - a BigEater and GoGetterGirl, who spends most of her free time eating sweets and junk food and reading very thick books.

* ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'': Sir Sweet is a confectionery well-known across the Netherworld, always finding new sweet things to develop. His bio outright mentions how his brain needs a lot of energy to keep going. Takes a turn for the disturbing when you learn [[spoiler: that his latest creation, the G-Sweet, is made of distilled ''Prinnies''.]] He returns in the sequel, needing to be baited into the Prinnies' PhantomThief trap with three specific items from the first three stages.

-->'''Flash:''' I can't think - I'm tired and hungry...\\

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules''' Amadeus Cho needs sugar to power his HyperAwareness. He prefers chocolate, to the point that he fills the Olympus Corp building with chocolate vending machines and instructs employees to report any shortages immediately.
* ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'' takes this trope to new levels with characters who literally become geniuses when chowing down.
* The Chief of ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' is [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist an expert on many topics]], but gets very cranky if he doesn't have his chocolate.

** When Arnold Vinick, the current Republican candidate for President, visits President Bartlet in the White House one of the first things he asks is if there's ice-cream available. Bartlet brings him down to the kitchen and they help themselves to catering-sized buckets of ice-cream while discussing their relationships with faith and how they conflict with their political parties (Bartlet being a Democrat but a devout Catholic while Vinick is an atheist while most of the Republican base is Christian).

* In ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'', Empel is an ex-alchemy master and magician, and also loves his sweets, despite him not really looking like the type to have a sweet tooth. His menu portrait shows him holding a pink frosted donut in his mouth while reading an ancient scroll.

* ''Film/Stargate1994'': Dr. Daniel Jackson packs two 5th Avenue bars before heading off into the Stargate. He gives some to a yak-type creature after arriving on Abydos, and the second to Shau'ri's father, helping gain their trust.

* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Ainsley Hayes is a brilliant legal mind who can more than hold her own in debates with the Senior Staff. She also has a well-known sweet tooth and can often be found munching on sweet foods and soft drinks. In one incident, she delivered a speech shutting down a rival and then asked if she could have their uneaten muffin.

* Kokonoe of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' is a MadScientist DeadpanSnarker who is usually drawn holding a lollipop. Her lab, when the player finally sees it, has a few sweets laying around, too. When she was PromotedToPlayable she still keeps a lollipop in her hand while fighting, and in one of her victory poses he starts scarfing down on a bag of chips.

** The Doctor ''loves'' Jelly Babies. The Second Doctor was the first to mention them, but "would you like a jelly baby?" was the Fourth's CatchPhrase. The Eighth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, and Creator/JohnSimm's Master have homaged it.

* Spanner from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' loves lollipops and [[IncrediblyLamePun chain-eats them]].

* ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'': Sir Sweet is a confectionery well-known across the Netherworld, always finding new sweet things to develop. His bio outright mentions how his brain needs a lot of energy to keep going. Takes a turn for the disturbing when you learn [[spoiler that his latest creation, the G-Sweet, is made of distilled ''Prinnies''.]] He returns in the sequel, needing to be baited into the Prinnies' PhantomThief trap with three specific items from the first three stages.

* In the original cut of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', Dr. Egon Spengler's sweet tooth was a little more obvious. Still, it can be noticeably observed throughout the final product. (Venkman rewarding him with a candy bar, munching on a box of Cheez-Its, and of course, the Twinkie.)

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Vector's love of cookies is exploited by Gru.

* In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Ema Skye conducts her forensic investigations while snarfing down her Snackoos.

** Once Ikkaku bribed Urahara with a lollipop, Urahara was seeing happily eating it with no problems.

* In ''Manga/NewGame'', there's the genius character designer Kou. Despite Eagle Jump provides free coffee, she prefers getting her caffeine from soda (particularly [[BlandNameProduct Red Gull]]), and sees her pudding being stolen in Chapter 17/ Episode 8 as SeriousBusiness.

** With ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'', ItRunsInTheFamily. After the climatic fight, [[GenerationXerox Phoebe]] perks up visibly when Venkman suggests they all have hot cocoa to celebrate.

* ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' has Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian, who [[{{Omniglot}} speaks no fewer than seventeen languages fluently]], has a Master's degree and a jeweler's license, seems to know something about nearly everything...and is also entirely helpless when it comes to sweets. So much so that his employee, Seigi, saved his autumnal sweets from Japan while Richard was out of the country for the season and missed the chance to sample them and Seigi can bribe Richard into doing almost anything for him with the offer of special snacks and Richard's favorite pudding.

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': [[MadScientist Walter Bishop]] loves his sweets: it's hinted at that he associates different types of dessert with different Fringe Sciences.

* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Ainsley Hayes is a brilliant legal mind who can more than hold her own in debates with the Senior Staff. She also has a well-known sweet tooth and can often be found munching on sweet foods and soft drinks. In one incident she delivered a speech shutting down a rival, and then asked if she could have their uneaten muffin.

* Kokonoe of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' is a MadScientist DeadpanSnarker who is usually drawn holding a lollipop. Her lab, when the player finally sees it, has a few sweets laying around, too. When she was PromotedToPlayable she still keeps a lollipop on her hand while fighting, and in one of her victory poses he starts scarfing down on a bag of chips.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' and [[VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou its sequel]] has Sho Minamimoto, a GeniusBruiser with an uncanny knowledge of mathematics. He likes sweets because sugar helps keep his brain active -- in ''NEO'', this is represented by him liking most sweet foods found at restaurants, unless it's mint chocolate.

* While immature, the Flash is one of the smartest characters in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' universe, so much that he was once used as a computer to process information faster than otherwise possible, and he's always eating high-sugar content food. It probably doesn't help that [[SuperSpeed his powers]] take a lot of energy to run.

* Lisa Simpson from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is often thought of as healthy due to her vegetarianism (starting from the Season 7 episode "Lisa the Vegetarian") but several episodes show that she has a sweet tooth. She makes fudge-stuffed toaster pies in "Sweets and Sour Marge", gorges on candy in "Homer Badman", tucks into Homer's giant ball of caramel-coated cotton candy in "The Fat and the Furriest", has an uncontrollable sugar rush eating British candy in London with Bart in "The Regina Monologues" and devours a huge cake after attempting to lose weight in "Sleeping With the Enemy".

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* Peni in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is constantly shown snacking on candy while inside her MiniMecha. She's TheSmartGuy and the resident techno-genius in the movie.

* ''LightNovel/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' has Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian, who speaks no fewer than seventeen languages fluently, has a Master's degree and a jeweler's license, seems to know something about nearly everything...and is also entirely helpless when it comes to sweets. So much so that his employee, Seigi, saved his autumnal sweets from Japan while Richard was out of the country for the season and missed the chance to sample them and Seigi can bribe Richard into doing almost anything for him with the offer of special snacks and Richard's favorite pudding.

* ''Literature/ShadowUnit'': Chaz and Hafida, who both possess brain-enhancing abilities, are both this, as using their abilities explicitly does [[CastFromCalories burn through calories]]. Taken [[UpToEleven a step further]] with the gammas, the superpowered [[SerialKiller serial killers]] the Shadow Unit tracks down; because using their powers burns through calories rapidly, one of the signs that the Shadow Unit often looks for is recent weight loss.