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* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': The CCG has some truly brilliant scientists, but all of their resources go into fighting ghouls instead of, oh I don't know, literally anything else. [[spoiler: As it turns out, Kanou's entire plan was purely to make the world aware of the alternate applications of ghoul biology, and by the end of the series medical science has advanced incredibly far thanks to his efforts. There's even food that ghouls can eat.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'', there are two major factions devoted to the GodOfKnowledge, the Intelligentsia Guild and the Genius Society. The Intelligentsia Guild is comprised of ordinary scientists and engineers, who believe that knowledge should be shared. The Genius Society is comprised of those directly recognized by the knowledge God and have an ImprobablyHighIQ. Geniuses are capable of inventing miracles, but with only the rarest of exceptions, most of them are exclusively motivated by self-enjoyment and have no desire to share their work. A couple ''have'' contributed their work in return for sponsorship, but even that is rare, most geniuses don't even seem to need funding. The biggest exception there ever was singlehandedly revolutionized science on a universal scale. Said genius is viewed as a weirdo by fellow Genius Society member Herta, who cannot comprehend why he would devote himself to the benefit of others. Most of the universe's technological progression comes from the completely ordinary folk of the Intelligentsia Guild.
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* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'', there are two major factions devoted to the GodOfKnowledge, the Intelligentsia Guild and the Genius Society. The Intelligentsia Guild is comprised of ordinary scientists and engineers, who believe that knowledge should be shared. The Genius Society is comprised of those directly recognized by the knowledge God and have an ImprobablyHighIQ. Geniuses are thousands of times more capable than normal scientists and capable of inventing miracles, but with only the rarest of exceptions, most of them are exclusively motivated by self-enjoyment and have no desire to share their work. A couple ''have'' contributed their work in return for sponsorship, but even that is rare, most geniuses don't even seem to need funding. The biggest exception there ever was singlehandedly revolutionized science on a universal scale. Said genius is viewed as a weirdo by fellow Genius Society member Herta, who cannot comprehend why he would devote himself to the benefit of others. Genius accomplishments often change the flow of history, but only rarely impact its technological progression. Most of the universe's technological progression comes from the completely ordinary folk of the Intelligentsia Guild.
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* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'', there are two major factions devoted to the GodOfKnowledge, the Intelligentsia Guild and the Genius Society. The Intelligentsia Guild is comprised of ordinary scientists and engineers, who believe that knowledge should be shared. The Genius Society is comprised of those directly recognized by the knowledge God and have an ImprobablyHighIQ. Geniuses are capable of inventing miracles, but with only the rarest of exceptions, most of them are entirely self-interested with no desire to share their work. The biggest exception there ever was is even viewed as a weirdo by Genius Society member Herta, who cannot comprehend why he would devote himself to the benefit of others. Most of the universe's technological progression comes from the completely ordinary folk of the Intelligentsia Guild.
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* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'', there are two major factions devoted to the GodOfKnowledge, the Intelligentsia Guild and the Genius Society. The Intelligentsia Guild is comprised of ordinary scientists and engineers, who believe that knowledge should be shared. The Genius Society is comprised of those directly recognized by the knowledge God and have an ImprobablyHighIQ. Geniuses are capable of inventing miracles, but with only the rarest of exceptions, most of them are entirely self-interested with exclusively motivated by self-enjoyment and have no desire to share their work. A couple ''have'' contributed their work in return for sponsorship, but even that is rare, most geniuses don't even seem to need funding. The biggest exception there ever was singlehandedly revolutionized science on a universal scale. Said genius is even viewed as a weirdo by fellow Genius Society member Herta, who cannot comprehend why he would devote himself to the benefit of others. Most of the universe's technological progression comes from the completely ordinary folk of the Intelligentsia Guild.
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** Interestingly, Leonard is derided by the others in the group for not doing anything particularly ground-breaking, fully expecting this trope to occur, and his primary body of research is just replicating experiments to see if the results come out the same. In real life, ''this is hugely important in the scientific community'', probably moreso than discovering anything new or ground-breaking, as it makes sure that the experiment done ''as specified in the original paper'' can produce the same results repeated times, increasing internal validity and legitimizing the study if it can be done consistently. So Leonard's own bemused "Nothing" is actually doing the reverse: severely downplaying his own contributions to scientific theory even if he's not really doing anything the public would consider spectacular.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'', the titular organization is seen as this by some, in-universe, as they are known to count several gadgeteer geniuses among their ranks and use advance tech in their missions (as well as Seers, magic users and aliens with their own tech). Magellan holds back said tech, under the combination of TheWorldIsNotReady, the cost of any widespread rollout and some of the tech being "Black Box" (due to the use of {{Unobtanium}} or unduplicatable super science). Retired super Premonitia defies the trope, using her future predicting powers to play the stock market, becoming a rich philantropist in the process.
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* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', and related expansions explain away why sorcerers, who can do literally anything, don't just fix everything: Just about anything they do [[ForWantOfANail Butterfly Effects]] EVERYTHING. Minor changes here or there generally do not result in anything horrendous. Creating a thunderstorm to scare two armies into silence so you can badmouth them for an hour about how stupid their war is results in four other sorcerers spending years trying to get the weather patterns fixed proper. They could literally end wars with their power, but the methods might destroy the planet.
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* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', and related expansions explain away why sorcerers, who can do literally anything, don't just fix everything: Just about anything they do [[ForWantOfANail [[ButterflyOfDoom Butterfly Effects]] EVERYTHING. Minor changes here or there generally do not result in anything horrendous. Creating a thunderstorm to scare two armies into silence so you can badmouth them for an hour about how stupid their war is results in four other sorcerers spending years trying to get the weather patterns fixed proper. They could literally end wars with their power, but the methods might destroy the planet.
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* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'', there are two major factions devoted to the GodOfKnowledge, the Intelligentsia Guild and the Genius Society. The Intelligentsia Guild is comprised of ordinary scientists and engineers, who believe that knowledge should be shared. The Genius Society is comprised of those directly recognized by the knowledge God and have an ImprobablyHighIQ. Geniuses are capable of inventing miracles, but with only the rarest of exceptions, most of them are entirely self-interested with no desire to share their work. The biggest exception there ever was is even viewed as a weirdo by Genius Society member Herta, who cannot comprehend why he would devote himself to the benefit of others. Most of the universe's technological progression comes from the completely ordinary folk of the Intelligentsia Guild.
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* In defense of the ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' series, Optimus Prime says explicitly that [[YouAreNotReady humanity is not ready]] for the Autobots' advanced ''weaponry''. The same is ''not'' said about the Autobots' ''other'' significant technologies, such as (apparently) FTL travel, mindblowingly advanced computer miniaturisation, robotics, and fabrication. This is particularly egregious since in the first film Simmonds ''expressly'' says that ''much of humanity's'' best 20th century technologies -- from the CD player to the microwave to the internal combustion engine -- derives from what they learned studying a trapped an ''unconscious'' Transformer. Imagine how far they could have pushed if they had a consenting friendly one around to fill in the gaps. In the fourth film, one tech company manages to get their hands on "Transformium", the stuff Transformers are made of. Except their version is the raw stuff, giving it far more shapeshifting capability. We see it taking shapes like children's toys and handguns and [[spoiler:their own Transformers which they lose control of in short order]] -- wait, maybe Optimus was more right than we thought. To be fair, though, the only reason [[spoiler:they lose control of Galvatron is because Megatron downloaded himself into the new body]].
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* In defense of the ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' series, Optimus Prime says explicitly that [[YouAreNotReady humanity is not ready]] for the Autobots' advanced ''weaponry''. The same is ''not'' said about the Autobots' ''other'' significant technologies, such as (apparently) FTL travel, mindblowingly advanced computer miniaturisation, robotics, and fabrication. This is particularly egregious since in the first film Simmonds ''expressly'' says that ''much of humanity's'' best 20th century technologies -- from the CD player to the microwave to the internal combustion engine -- derives from what they learned studying a trapped an and ''unconscious'' Transformer. Imagine how far they could have pushed if they had a consenting friendly one around to fill in the gaps. In the fourth film, one tech company manages to get their hands on "Transformium", the stuff Transformers are made of. Except their version is the raw stuff, giving it far more shapeshifting capability. We see it taking shapes like children's toys and handguns and [[spoiler:their own Transformers which they lose control of in short order]] -- wait, maybe Optimus was more right than we thought. To be fair, though, the only reason [[spoiler:they lose control of Galvatron is because Megatron downloaded himself into the new body]].
