History Main / ImprobablyHighIQ

* In ''VideoGame/ApeEscape 3'', Dr. Tomouki is stated to have an IQ of ''1300''. Granted, [[spoiler:him having a prototype Peak Point Helmet permanently stuck to his head as the result of a FreakLabAccident might have had something to do with that...]]

* In ''VideoGame/ApeEscape 3'', Dr. Tomouki is stated to have an IQ of ''1300''. Granted, [[spoiler:him having a prototype Peak Point Helmet permanently stuck to his head from a FreakLabAccident might have had something to do with that...]]

** Tails is also not that far behind, able to hack Eggman's machines and even created vehicles similar to the quality of Eggman's mechs--though Tails doesn't have nearly the same amount of resources as the 'Eggman Empire'.
--->'''Tails:''' I've built a TV out of paperclips, and reprogrammed a supercomputer with dishwashing detergent and a toothpick.

* ''Series/WickedScience'' has a lab accident turning formerly average students Toby and Elizabeth into super-geniuses. It's never stated what their exact IQ level is but given the amazing technologies they come up with (from anti-gravity machines to cloning dinosaurs to shrinking and/or invisibility rays), it's pretty clear each is more brilliant than the best minds of Australia, if not the world.

* In ''The Paper Chase'', law student Franklin Ford III claims to have an IQ of 190.

* The creator of a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' heroine gave her heroine an IQ of 490 and argued that this was ''too'' possible because she, the writer, had a friend whose IQ was 520(unconfirmed).

* One of the funniest parts of ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'' has a character introduced who is literally named "Mary Sue." [[ParodySue She has an IQ of 250, is immortal, can talk to animals, and enter dreams.]] All she wants is to save her doomed people, her friends in prison, her evil inter-dimensional double and the [[{{Squick}} baby of Trunks, Goten, Piccolo and Vegeta that she bears.]] [[spoiler:She gets [[OneHitKO knocked out in one hit]] by [[{{Cameo}} Arale]] from ''Manga/DoctorSlump''.]]

* UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, the archetypal MadScientist, who has an IQ of 160, and his brain was even preserved for research.

* In Wilmar Shiras's ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheAtom'' the phrase "IQ three star plus" is used, but only as a code, never seriously. The description of the children's IQ measurements is accurate: at thirteen, "Timothy Paul came swiftly through the whole range of Superior Adult tests without a failure of any sort. There were not tests yet devised that could measure his intelligence."
* ''Literature/TheLittleBlackBag'' by Cyril Kornbluth never specifies an I.Q. for any character, but runs into this anyway when a genius is described as having "six times" the I.Q. of a clinically retarded character. Assuming that retarded character has an I.Q. of 50 (seemingly lower than the intelligence he demonstrates in-story), the genius would have an I.Q. of 300. (Then again, there are people in this setting who've developed PsychicPowers out of sheer intelligence, so maybe he ''is'' that smart.)
* In ''Literature/AFoxTail'' Vulpie's IQ is said to be 192, in the sequel ''Fox Tails'' it is revised to 230.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* In ''LightNovel/ValkyrieIntoTheHeavens'', Daniel Logan has an IQ of 185, which is said to be one of the reasons why he was recruited into the program. His fellow candidates have similarly high IQ scores, but theirs are never specified.

Compare EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain, another easy way to indicate a character is a genius.

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** In the episode "The Nth Degree," Lieutenant Barclay's IQ is temporarily raised to "somewhere between 1200 and 1450." Barclay, his mind boosted by an intelligence-enhancing device and then hooked up to the ''Enterprise'''s computer, estimated his own IQ in this case. Certainly if he were anywhere near as intelligent as his stated IQ implied, he would be capable of this kind of extrapolation.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode Roland, Roland apparently can't even be taught to operate a door opening system, has limited speech ability, passes the time in his group home with activities for young children such as stickers, but is said by Scully to have an IQ of slightly above 70. Short of comorbid problems, his speech issues alone indicate at least moderate retardation, but >70 IQ is above the threshold for even a classification of mild retardation based on IQ alone in modern times.