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 .
EDIT : I have come to the conclusion that so may of lemmings didn’t get what my post was about . I don’t care if a charecter is an asshole or isn’t very good in other aspects of their life.
Elon musk
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.
Sherlock played by Cumberbatch. He looked like a stuckup asshole who I’d never trust with a baby or pet.
Wasn’t that the point?
When he had all those nicotine patches on him, my only thought was “what a fucking idiot”.
Hbomberguy made a video about it. There’s no nuance or foreshadowing in that Sherlock. He exists just so Moffat can feel smart that he knows something the audience can’t possibly know yet, nor does he give them a chance to figure it out.
I can’t dispute that, but in fairness, there are quite a few of the original Sherlock Holmes stories where the reader couldn’t be expected to solve the mystery. The Adventure of the Red Headed League is one such, as I recall, though it has been quite a while since I read it.
For me the fun of the show is in the chemistry between actors and in the development of Sherlock’s character as someone who discovers his own humanity and eventually forms connections with those around him.
Have you ever read the original stories? Holmes looks intelligent because Doyle lets him know things the reader doesn’t know. The Sherlock series works in that way but generates entertainment in other ways.
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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.
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
I think it’s well established that Dr. House is wrong way more often than he’s right… I still find it entertaining though.
Hmm never watched that series due to people saying it fell of during later series
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.
Nope, not a movie, hahaha! Looks interesting though!
New Amsterdam is a series, 5 seasons.
A new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America’s oldest public hospital.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7817340/
The Knick is also a series, more mature content, 2 seasons.
A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century.
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.
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.
James Bond
While he’s not exactly potrayed as super genious, he’s still supposed to be an extremely compenet secret agent yet the only thing he seems competent at is having an extremely good luck. The only reason he’s still alive is because the villains don’t kill him the first moment they get the chance but instead they always need to deliver this monoloque before executing him which is what causes him to then eventually get away and kill you instead.
Like how many of the movies start by him just naively walking into the enemy compound armed with pistol and wearing a suit while practising zero stealth and then getting caught by NPC security guard. If this is how you operate then how the fuck havent you been killed already?
The novels were way better than the movies except for a few of the early movies that followed the novels closely. The other movies were crap.
I agree, but having watched all Bond movies recently. Early movies Bond is a rapist. It ruined the whole two first films for me. And on top of that, the fight scenes are goofy and badly choreographed. As they progress, Bond transitions to a less rapey vibe into more of a Casanova, and the action scenes gain budget, the fight scenes increase in quality significantly and the plot morphs into the stereotypical spy superagent clichés we know today. The misogyny doesn’t go away until the Daniel Craig era though.
Maybe you’re right, I’ve never been into the movies much much. You might be remembering ones that I’ve forgotten or didn’t see.
Not to mention, he’s the most unreliable agent when it comes to his susceptibility to honeypots…
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
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.
Trump
Sam Altman. Just another power hungry a.hole
Elon Musk wannabe
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
I don’t think he is an asshole in joker movie as far as i can see all the people he killed were assholes. But i guess in the dark knight he was an asshole
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.
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.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
MacGyver.
Context as in which show or movie ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver_(1985_TV_series)
He’d always rig together ridiculous 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
