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* Hiccup from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' fits this trope. Being a scrawny kid in a Viking Village, others ostracize him, and even his father is not very proud of him (though he ''does'' love him). Him being intelligent GadgeteerGenius makes all this worse due to having ideas others have problem to grasp, not being helped that they quite frequenlty backfire. [[spoiler:The situation improves for him once he and Toothless end war with dragons]].

* Gates from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'' has no friends other than Aria. Justifiable, considering that he's not pleasant to be with.

* TeenGenius Garrett from ''Literature/BootCamp'' has always felt like an older person in a kid's body, and has never been able to connect with kids his own age. As a result, his first girlfriend is [[TeacherStudentRomance his 23-year-old math teacher]]. His parents are so embarrassed by the relationship that they send him to Lake Harmony, an abusive boot camp.

** Light zigzags this trope, as he is fairly popular despite his intelligence, and he does have friends at school. At the same time, he's TheSociopath who exploits his charm and charisma to manipulate others, and has no genuine connection towards other people.

* Lelouch "Lamperouge" of ''Anime/CodeGeass''. Admittedly, it's also due to his issues with letting people get close to him stemming from [[FreudianExcuse his traumatic childhood experiences]].

* ''Fanfic/TheMoonCriesInReverseNaruto'': The ''presumption'' of this is PlayedForDrama after Anko is [[ForWantOfANail put in charge]] of Team Ten, which consists of [[TeamMemberInTheAdaptation Shikamaru, Sakura and Naruto]] here. Shikamaru's intelligence reminds her too much of her old mentor Orochimaru; Ibiki also notes that Sakura is intelligent in her own right, but was badly bullied at the Academy. In hopes of preventing their potential defection, Anko subjects them to TrainingFromHell and introduces them to T&I, where the trio are forced to ''torture people'', while the toll this naturally takes upon their psyches is treated as "evidence" that they were already veering down a dark path. Once Shikaku learns what's been happening, he laments how he got sucked into their paranoia and was actually starting to believe that his son might have been secretly evil all along rather than realizing how badly they were being hurt.

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A form of BlessedWithSuck. Compare EatingLunchAlone and BrokenAce. A counter-part trope is PopularIsDumb. May or may not include elements of LonersAreFreaks. Often used as a justification for why DumbIsGood: dumb people may be made fun of, but they won't be hassled and harassed for it. Contrast GentlemanAndAScholar, when a smart guy is well-liked and lacks none of the social graces.

%%* [[AnAesop The Aesop]] of ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''.
%%* ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'': Victor serves as a warning to Walton, who is in danger of becoming as obsessed with his exploration as Victor was with the science that led to the creation of his monster.

** Hiroki Sawada from the NonSerialMovie ''Phantom of Baker Street''. Either his school system couldn't quite deal with the child who would be studying grad school in MIT at ''[[ImprobableAge ten]]'', or he was given a highly accelerated homeschooling. Either way, he is friendless against his will-- which accumulated to his WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds status in the movies, because [[IJustWantToHaveFriends he just wanted to have friends]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}.'' This is more prevalent in the first season, after that the show becomes much less about "Daria vs. the idiots around her". In fact, around season two, we see her getting called out on her antisocial behaviours as well as the isolation being partially her doing - and her CharacterDevelopment is her ''not'' pushing everybody away.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Patrick [=SmartPants=]", the title character becomes highly intelligent after a jellyfishing accident, but quickly finds himself BlessedWithSuck as he is no longer able to relate to any of the people in his life. It's this trope that leads Patrick to find a way to be stupid again, because he reasons he'd rather be dumb with friends than smart and lonely.