Mine is light and L from death note . They were potrayed as some kinda of super genius characters but in reality it felt like every other characters shared one braincell and light and L were average .
Sam Altman. Just another power hungry a.hole
Elon Musk wannabe
In Stargate Atlantis, Elizabeth Weir is supposed to be some world-class diplomatic genius that has a resume as long as her elbow on earth.
She spends the first two seasons squabbling over the leadership position with Shepard, dealing with petty dissent from the scientists on the expedition, doesn’t manage to resolve a single conflict peacefully and she violates several basic human rights
She sounds like a realistic portrayal of current real life diplomats.
Not really that he was portrayed as a genius but Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother is kind of a dick, he’s selfish and keeps pursuing girls even after they say no. Still love the show though it’s miles better than friends.
So true. I was watching this on a whim recently and noticed Ted is just an incomprehensibly annoying human being. This guy constantly ignores good advice because wHaT aBoUt TrUe LoVe and is constantly dragging his so-called friends into his shenanigans and inevitable failures. Also he’s a bad friend to pretty much all of the other central characters and will constantly turn them down or ignore their needs in his relentless pursuit to find a girlfriend. Even Barney, the supposed sex hound, frequently makes time for his friends and genuinely wants to see them have a good time. Not Ted. Ted is a selfish bastard who thinks one “grand gesture” can make up for any transgression, so he let’s minor transgressions build until he has to make a grand gesture to smooth things over. That guy is toxic.
Trump
The crew of the Prometheus.
Really, Weyland, are you sure these are the best people you could hire for this task?
All I can think of is the whole stupid running from the falling tower scene.
The Prometheus school of running away from things. ding
Tried to watch the movie last week, but I only made it halfway through. The stupidity by almost everyone was just too much to bear.
Anyone on Doctor Who. There’s a universal war going on, and you have so many decisions made by characters that don’t make sense but are accepted as barriers anyways.
Doctor Who’s target audience is grade school children. If you keep that in mind, the characters motivations make more sense.
I was in middle school when I started questioning some of that, for example whenever the police try to combat an antagonist, it’s like they willingly use the wrong weaponry every time, or anyone can sneak in anywhere without being vetted. Given the plot armor, I wouldn’t put it past Davros that he wanted to fail.
I show it to my niece and nephew and they are crazy for it. But I learned the hard way that it can scare the shit out of them. The episode with the space whale… Those angry faces from the double headed machine people… So I have to make sure it’s tame for a while. I’m thinking they don’t get to know about the Weeping Angels until junior high
DON’T BLINK
Ty Burrell played Mr. Peabody in the Dreamworks film based on the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon shorts, where a super intelligent dog had mastered time travel. A year prior, Burrell was regularly being outsmarted by an orange in ads for Tropicana juice drinks.
I’m just sayin’, if you were going to hire someone to be a pompous canine smarty-pants, well… David Hyde Pierce is RIGHT THERE.
I think it’s well established that Dr. House is wrong way more often than he’s right… I still find it entertaining though.
He’s mostly right in the end. Being right instantly would make episodes last 5 minutes…
Every episode of house is basically
Patient gets sick
House is wrong at first
Everyone is wrong for a while
They think they’re right, but they’re wrong
House has a random epiphany, steals $50 from Wilson, and saves the patientMaybe I should watch House. I love Lucifer and every episode is basically
Lucifer has a problem
Someone else has a problem
Lucifer makes his problem worse
Someone else makes their problem better
Lucifer uses the solution from someone to make his problem better, usually after making an epiphany quip
Lucifer learns nothingSpeaking as someone who always loved the show and now consider it somewhat of a guilty pleasure, that’s spot on 😂
That wouldn’t even be so bad if he weren’t so god-damned smug about it.
Hmm never watched that series due to people saying it fell of during later series
It never lost quality. House M.D. is still in my top 3 favourite shows.
It lost quality. Dr Park and Dr Masters are both really tedious characters that are not well rounded or well acted.
That being said the show otherwise is generally pretty solid. The last season is definitely the weakest. Also fuck Lisa Edelstein for not even returning for the finale when everyone else and their mother did.
IMO It is worth a watch!
Compared to run of the mill hospital shows it is good tv.
Others you can check out:
New Amsterdam 2018
American medical drama television series, based on the book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
The Knick 2015
fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York during the early twentieth century.
I have watched amsterdam . It is the one with bale and margot robbie ? Good movie.
I’ve watched House over and over again over the years and always kind of idolized him. But something must have changed about me because the latest time around, it hit way different. I realized, “wow, I really wouldn’t want to be acquainted with this guy in the slightest.”
But I think that’s because I finally actually understood the show.
Also, Robert Sean Leonard is massively underrated as Laurie’s foil. Wilson is definitely now my favorite character.
Big bang theory, just, shake a stick
Specifically Sheldon for me. I was in grad school when that show was first aired and I hated it instantly and thoroughly. I was already aware that academia is an asshole-factory and couldn’t enjoy it.
The joker, well from movie to movie. In the dark knight he is cunning and is like a genius then in the movie joker he is just an ass hole
But he isn’t, really. He just comes up with elaborate plans that magically predict the future because the writers wrote it that way. The character himself seems to have an average level of intelligence.
MacGyver.
Context as in which show or movie ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver_(1985_TV_series)
He’d alwatlys rig together ridivulous contraptions out of random items, and it was all just so stupid
Eh, I think that show was very tongue in cheek with regard to the gadgets. Richard Dean Anderson has a great sense of humor
Elon musk
He was never a genius?
True, but he was a rich opportunist with good timing, so that made him look like a genius, as opposed to the serial fabulist and racist POS he ended up being.
A lot of people sure think he is though.
portrayed as a super genius in media
He’s been portrayed as one in the media though
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Elizabeth Keen in Black List. Writers constantly told us how brilliant and special she was, then showed her acting like a dimwitted, hormonal teen.
There’s some old quote about you can’t write a character any smarter than you are.
Rick from Rick and Morty. Though I feel like the show bounces back and forth from making it clear that he’s an idiot who causes all of his own problems and worshipping him as a god.
I said Jimmy Neutron for my answer, but I think Rick faces a similar problem.
He’s a genius when it comes to engineering/academics, but otherwise he’s a fool with an overinflated ego that won’t let him acknowledge that - I mean hell the Ricks literally made the central finite curve so they didn’t have to acknowledge the possibility of someone smarter than themselves out there.
Most of his problems come from him trying to engineer his way out of personal issues, or making overcomplicated solutions to simple problems that end up backfiring.
He’s intelligent and an asshole but that doesn’t make him less intelligent
He is proficient with magic technology.
He’s an idiot when it comes to literally everything else. He does frequently overcome his idiocy in other areas by using his magic technology to dominate the situation but it backfires just as often as not. He thinks he’s better than everyone else, and in one powerful way he is, so he uses that to compensate.
Anything to do with people or reality not filtered through an alcoholic depression lens it’s very clear he doesn’t know how to handle it, and that includes basic self care.
The problem is that a lot of idiot savant tech-heads see themselves in him but miss the constant intentional criticism of his character.
Yeah i guess that tracks
