History Main / SuperIntelligence

One the more challenging StockSuperPowers to possess and write for, Super Intelligence is taking TheSmartGuy and cranking them up to the [[UpToEleven Nth degree]]... in fact, they can probably acquire [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist various doctorate degrees]] in the [[ClockKing fifteen minutes, forty two seconds]] it takes a normal person to walk across the campus.

** Characters with only this aspect: TheChessmaster, MagnificentBastard, ManipulativeBastard.

* {{Superman}} has had versions of this at different times. He has super fast thought processes and perfect memory meaning, among other things, that he can speak most languages. Recently he's been shown having a combination of super spatial reasoning and super fast calculative processes that allowed him to knock around villains in a precisely calculated way. In AllStarSuperman the overexposure to sunlight that was killing him also tripled his powers including his intelligence. Other aspects of his intelligence (comprehension, creativity, etc) are explicitly not superhuman.

* RisingStars has Mathrew Brody. Notable for being smart enough to keep it secret and letting out just enough to make the money he need to fund his development. Once he's done... Well [[ReedRichardsIsUseless He is not useless]]

* But it is said of Niven's Outsiders that they have tech that humans can't even properly ''describe'', let alone emulate, so Protector-stage humans may not be the smartest players in town.

* ''Advanced reasoning:'' The character's brain works faster, with less distractions and greater focus. At low levels they can take known facts and reach a conclusion very quickly, even [[GoodWithNumbers crunching incredibly hard math]] without pen and paper. They may even be capable of a BatDeduction, using few and "unrelated" facts to reach a correct conclusion. At high levels they can create new scientific theories and design a machine in moments where it would take a normal detective, scientist or engineer weeks or ''years''. At its apex, this character will live in a CreekMoment of revelations, and be capable of ImprobableAimingSkills and launching {{Pinball Projectile}}s.

* [[BigBad Jail Scaglietti]] of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', who's revealed to be an ArtificialHuman [[spoiler:[[GovernmentConspiracy created by the TSAB high council and]]]] imbued with the [[MadScientist intelligence]] and [[ForScience unquenchible thirst for knowledge]] of the {{Precursors}} from Al-Hazard. Naturally, he's the reason why several technologies in the setting exists, such as [[SuperSoldier Artificial Mages]], [[{{Cyborg}}s Combat Cyborgs]], and [[GeneticMemory Project F]].

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* ''OrionsArm'' includes at least [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45c68b98779ad six grades]] of superintelligence, each differing by the lower ones not only by greater thinking power but also by different [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4b9f2a844034a cognitive paradigms]] (that's what's called a "toposophic barrier"). Trying to enhance your brainpower without modifying said paradigms [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460e7c6d840e5 is usually a bad idea]].

One the more challenging StockSuperPowers to possess and write for, Super Intelligence is taking TheSmartGuy and cranking them up to the [[UpToEleven Nth degree]]... in fact, they probably speed accredited [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist various doctorate degrees]] in the [[ClockKing fifteen minutes, forty two seconds]] it took to walk across the campus on the way for ice cream.

Super Intelligence can be divided into roughly four big effects, which can be used individually or stacked:

* ''Manipulator Extraordinaire:'' Least often, this is included. Commonly an application of advanced reasoning and perception, but usually developed with actual psychological learning. The Character can predict the actions of others, notice their ticks and [[BerserkButton buttons]], and manipulate them to create plans of [[XanatosGambit amazing complexity.]]

* That's the main plot point of WickedScience: two teenagers are zapped by a mysterious magnetic pulse that turns them into {{GeniusGadgeteer}}s. Since they have very different ideas about what to do with this gift - one [[IJustWantToBeNormal Just Wants To Be Normal]], the other edges on EvilGenius - they often clash with spectacular results, i.e. cloned T-Rexes and flying lawnmowers running amok in the school.
* In the episode ''The Nth Degree'' from ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', an alien UpgradeArtifact zaps Reginald Barclay, increasing his IQ [[YouFailTheIQTest in the four figures]]. Having become TheAce, Barclay ovecomes his usual insecurity, but everything is [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome normal again]] [[StatusQuoIsGod by the end of the episode]].

* [[DoctorWho The doctor]] but his intelligence is average by Timelord standards.

* ReedRichards is usually held up as the standard of human Super Intelligence in comicdom. He's made breakthroughs in virtually every area of human knowledge as well as inventing a few.

* Larry Niven's Protectors are phenomenally intelligent, and Protector-stage humans are possibly even smarter than Pak. Brennan, after transforming, is able to create a super-high-tech playground on a deserted iceball out beyond Pluto, not to mention cobbling together a number of phenomenal weapons during a later running fight with Pak Protectors, while Teela Brown deduces how Puppeteer stepping discs work, and how to tap into the system, based on no information except once having walked on one in the Fleet of Worlds.

* ''Super learning and eidetic memory:'' The character can learn things very quickly and rarely forgets anything, sometimes to the point of AwesomenessByAnalysis. May include PhotographicMemory.

That said, a super smart character has the potential to radically alter a setting and even create [[TheSingularity Singularity]] level tech. These changes can be positive or negative depending not just on their morality, but on how the setting treats science. If the StatusQuoIsGod, then ReedRichardsIsUseless, there are NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup, and all the PotentialApplications are [[ScienceIsBad destructive.]] If it's not? Well, then expect to see ''wonders.''