This is essentially the reason I had to stop watching the show. He’s the “science liason” for the FBI. WTF? There’s three people dead in Indiana and there’s geology involved better get Hood. He’s in Alabama right now explaining Newton’s second law of motion to a small town police force , why these seemingly harmless little pieces of lead seem to be killing their citizens.
I accept Mr. Spock as meeting the criteria, but disagree with Mr. Holmes. While the great detective passionately studied anything that related to criminology, he was deliberately ignorant of such other scientific matters as whether the Earth went around the Sun or vice versa.
Not to mention the advances in physics that allowed him to ignore most of Newton’s laws involved action/reaction forces, balance and torque.
Dr. Miguelito Loveless, who had the added hindrance of working with 19th Century tools.
With the exception of Brainiac Five of the Legion of Super-Heroes, such characters always annoy me. At least Brainy has the decency to admit that his brain is super-powered.
That said, Batman is the worst offender of this type, as the other super-brains are not generally unmatchable badasses in hand-to-hand combat.
That USED to be true. When Spider-Man had some body-wide mutation a while back (since wiped out of existence by old Nick) Stark suddenly was a biology expert too. That annoyed me, as the Stark I knew & loved would have said, “I don’t know jack about medicine & biology, Pete. I have people I pay for that. Take this card and tell the doctor I’m paying for it.”
Super-powered?
Nah, the rest of us are just retards. (At least according to 3/4 Brainiac 5s.)
I refer to pre-Zero Hour Brainy. The one that was, you know, likeable. Occasionally nuts, but likable.
Hasn’t Spider-Man himself fallen victim to this on a few occasions? I know he’s a “science whiz” but still…
The Omnidisciplinary Scientist will sometimes have a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate.