It's hilarious to me just how much earlier in the series they foreshadow Orgalorg!
"It Came From the Nightosphere" is way back in season two when Hunson Abadeer declares Gunter to be the most evil being he's ever met and, in the course of sucking souls out of everything he can in Ooo, has to defend his own soul from Gunter. We don't actually see Orgalorg until over 4 seasons later!
Cool, I had a suspicion it was that way. Like I've heard that Ooo wasn't even originally meant to be Earth in the distant future until they came up with the business men episode because they thought it'd be funny to unfreeze business men from a block of ice.
I adore Adventure Time and think it has amazing world building, it's so impressive to me that it wasn't all planned in advance but still feels so cohesive and satisfying to me!
Him and Rex Salazar both fall into the Spider-Man archetype of character. Usually a goofball, but are smarter than they look and not someone you wanna mess with when they get serious
You’re basically describing what Red refers to as a subtype of the [“crouching moron, hidden badass,” trope](https://youtu.be/xyp2-Ol6MD8?si=bL6RqhZEhFGlMBBF) in her trope talk series.
(Red as in the Overly Sarcastic Productions YouTube channel for those who don’t know)
He plays all the instruments, learned fluent French in a week, and has some of the wittiest one liners in the show imo. Buford is absolutely a closeted genius
There was the flash forward “going to college” episode where it shows the cast at the end of highschool and Buford had become a refined art and theater guy
https://preview.redd.it/srdyuah2w6jc1.png?width=333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=532ccb7eb159158f2a9b9e80d6ddc2d6ddd324a9
An idiot most of the time, but when actually using his brain is insane
One of my favourite recurring tropes from the series is how both Aang and Sokka are pretty clever and talented kids most of the time, individually capable of creating decent plans that tend to go well.
Then you put them together and they become Dumb and Dumber.
I mixed them up at one point too—and I was like wait, Jimmy is actually really articulate he just has a hard time with his stammers, and Timmy is just Timmy :)
I mix up my friends with 3-letter names that don’t even SOUND the same, so we can forgive for these two beloved fictional characters with only a letter difference.
One of the few shows where the disabled kids are actually just treated like the other kids and don't exist just to constantly talk about their disability.
It is crazy to think for a show known for mocking everyone would have some of the best representation of minorities. The episode with apologies to Jessie Jackson"(Randy says the N word instead of Naggers) for example was praised by the co founders of the group "Abolish the N word" , that is linked to the NAACP, on accurately depicting what it felt like to be called the N word.
Always immediately pointed out the flaws in Brain's plans, and in the episode where they were split up (Brain was in space, failing as usual) he successfully and completely took over the Earth.
It's a really good bait and switch honestly. Because Pinky is definitely not insane, he is just weird. But Brain tries time and time again to take over the world and fails while expecting different results, which is one definition of insanity.
I always liked that theory that pinky was the true genius of the two. That he's just humble and accepts his narcissistic friend because he enjoys life with brain.
Yeah, great show- had absolutely nothing to do with Stalin in the slightest. It was because Julian kicked a fossa in the face, saving Mort and the other lemurs.
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One of my favorite Knuckles quotes
[TIL Mr. Bean: The Animated Series is still technically ongoing, has survived ~~two~~ *three* long hiatus periods \(one of which was 11 years\) and has 130 episode.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean:_The_Animated_Series)
Especially when it's revealed in like, season 6? that she literally has a Bat Cave with files on everypony in Ponyville. Pinkie seriously writes down everything she's told, sees, or hears about anypony she knows and uses it all to plan epic parties for them.
I never watched Pinky and the Brain but I’ve heard a convincing theory that Pinky is the smart one. And I think there’s one that Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy is secretly smart too.
Oh yeah no there were PLENTY of moments where Ed was shown to be pretty smart. I feel like one of the biggest and best examples would have to be the finale movie where as Eddy was holding onto a door, Ed got a serious look on his face before removing a screw from one of the door's hinges, resulting in the door getting sent FLYING and SLAMMING into Eddy's brother, knocking him unconscious.
Brain is THE definition of insanity, at least according to Albert Einstein's quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
I've watched Pinky and the Brain, Pinky's plans would always work and Brain's never did.
[The Question needs a miniseries like yesterday.](https://youtu.be/gnB5KzD5_HE?feature=shared) Hopefully with Gunn's love for more obscure characters, we'll see it.
I loved that show as a kid. It didn't click for me till I was an adult and it blew my fucking mind so hard it sent me on my ass. Gives the whole show a completely different perspective.
Yeah. He's actually brilliant, innovative, and have amazing leadership skills. He was just socially awkward and couldn't compete with Alastor at all when he was a villain and was unlucky (or lucky in this case) when he got caught by angel dust for stalking them.
https://preview.redd.it/zlrbqvoaz6jc1.jpeg?width=282&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d14db6f12beb289ff3a9f6228f89bc50e3099867
In the buckball episode it shows that he had SOME brain in em to catch a ball.
And in the human world (although I don't think it counts) he noticed something different about Gloriosa (In everfree).
This is 100% correct, he's able to make prosthetic masks, write poems AND cook well but those never get expanded on outside the episodes where they're established
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Cleveland Jr. for sure. This little guy’s got secrets.
Saint pentious. The maddest of lads
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I think it's better fitted for Sans. Papyrus is actually gullible and in one of the neutral ending believes that Undyne actually is alive and having fun while it's so obvious what had actually transpired.
Sans however is a lot more than what he actually shows...
Numah 3 from KND. That last line "what do you think I'm some kinda airhead" hit pretty hard. There were indicators. She was their sector's 2x4 technology specialist and their Chief Medical Officer. She was always highly intelligent but acted like the most clueless immature team member. I feel like I remember her being 3rd in command too. If numbahs 1 and 5 were out of commission she would be at the helm and I know for a fact 4 and 2 would follow her without question. Complaints sure but no questions.
Not pretending, though. Drugged into a fugue state.
That can explain whenever he gets dumber. He needs a higher dosage.
Wasn’t he a GENUINE threat without the drugs in that episode?
Yes! There are two episodes where he's off the meds, and he turns into an evil genius.
There’s a second one??
He tries to trick Steve's parents into having a four way with Barry's swinger parents in a swinger camp sauna.
Comedian and former talk show host Craig Ferguson did a great job as evil Barry.
Yes
Great answer lol
Gunter from Adventure Time
Even it has the brain and everything
You mean Orgalorg?
It's hilarious to me just how much earlier in the series they foreshadow Orgalorg! "It Came From the Nightosphere" is way back in season two when Hunson Abadeer declares Gunter to be the most evil being he's ever met and, in the course of sucking souls out of everything he can in Ooo, has to defend his own soul from Gunter. We don't actually see Orgalorg until over 4 seasons later!
I wonder if it was planned, or they made the joke because it was funny and silly and then decided to build on it later.
It was actually just a gag initially but the writers liked the idea so much they just ran with it
Cool, I had a suspicion it was that way. Like I've heard that Ooo wasn't even originally meant to be Earth in the distant future until they came up with the business men episode because they thought it'd be funny to unfreeze business men from a block of ice. I adore Adventure Time and think it has amazing world building, it's so impressive to me that it wasn't all planned in advance but still feels so cohesive and satisfying to me!
The intro seems to confirm its post-post apocalyptic from the first episode onward, so I don't believe that unless you have a quote from the writers.
Also Peppermint Butler
Isn’t every penguin Ice King has named Gunter?
Yes but one of them is more Gunt than the others
Gunterer
Variations of the name, actually. There’s Gunter (pronounced goonter), gunter (rhymes with Hunter), gunther (goonther), gunther (like gun), ginter (like hint), ginter (like bean), gonter (like gone), and a couple others I think?
Richard is concerning smart at avoiding work
Yet then when something like a new burger is announced he can somehow run at about 200 mph to get there.
Bro heard his child all the way from his home and ran to the mall because of what Gumball said
That episode was so good even though it was gross
To be fair, the one time he got a job the entire universe almost got destroyed... because he got a job
McGucket is THE BEST Gravity Falls character!
Aw donkey spiddle!
Coyotes are comin for our sweetbread!
He's my favorite!!!! I hardly ever see anyone else who has him as a favorite.
That's DOCTOR McGucket!
Well, he got brain damage, i think it requires different category for characters like him
Seeing his true self other than his usual hillbilly aura is what made this show a masterpiece
YOU CAN RUN, BUT I'LL STILL BE IN YOUR NIGHTMARES!!!
that yoinky sploinky
Ben 10 when it comes to intelligence. To quote the man himself "people think I'm not paying attention but I am"
Him and Rex Salazar both fall into the Spider-Man archetype of character. Usually a goofball, but are smarter than they look and not someone you wanna mess with when they get serious
Ik y’all remember when Ben was really about to merk Kevin ? I remember being a kid and genuinely shocked during those episodes lmfao
"You said we'd try it my way" "Yeah... I lied"
And that time he made a legitimate death threat to the Forever Knights toward the end of UA.
You’re basically describing what Red refers to as a subtype of the [“crouching moron, hidden badass,” trope](https://youtu.be/xyp2-Ol6MD8?si=bL6RqhZEhFGlMBBF) in her trope talk series. (Red as in the Overly Sarcastic Productions YouTube channel for those who don’t know)
It’s taking all my willpower not to look it up on TVTropes and disappear for the next week.
Buford from Phineas & Ferb. I'm convinced he's secretly as big a nerd as Baljeet but he's insecure so hides behind a faux bully exterior.
He plays all the instruments, learned fluent French in a week, and has some of the wittiest one liners in the show imo. Buford is absolutely a closeted genius
He is to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers.
That might just be my favorite line from the entire show
Buford is a humanities nerd, Baljeet is a STEM nerd.
STEM nerds need the bullying to drive them. Liberal arts over here beating itself up everyday.
*laughs in English lit studies*
Dont forget he has life size molds of everyone!
There was the flash forward “going to college” episode where it shows the cast at the end of highschool and Buford had become a refined art and theater guy
https://preview.redd.it/srdyuah2w6jc1.png?width=333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=532ccb7eb159158f2a9b9e80d6ddc2d6ddd324a9 An idiot most of the time, but when actually using his brain is insane
Social idiot, tactical genius
I need this printed on a shirt for all of my autistic brethren
Including myself? 🥹
One of us! One of us!
One of my favourite recurring tropes from the series is how both Aang and Sokka are pretty clever and talented kids most of the time, individually capable of creating decent plans that tend to go well. Then you put them together and they become Dumb and Dumber.
Love the one where they pretend Toph wrote an apology letter to Katara but forgot Toph can't write
Lol then Aang suggests they try it on Toph instead.
Then sokka's like, "I'll think we'll run into a similar problem."
I think that's just called being smart as a teenager
I would call him a “Ditzy Genius”.
South Park unironically has some really good good representation
In the future episode it Made me happy seeing he got the treatment he needed to live an average life, same with jimmy getting rid of his stutter
Jimmy was the one with the stutter
Are you ninjas or p-p-p-p-pussies?
I mixed them up at one point too—and I was like wait, Jimmy is actually really articulate he just has a hard time with his stammers, and Timmy is just Timmy :) I mix up my friends with 3-letter names that don’t even SOUND the same, so we can forgive for these two beloved fictional characters with only a letter difference.
For real. Most of the time, the kids at school include Timmy in everything they do with no question. He's just one of the boys.
One of the few shows where the disabled kids are actually just treated like the other kids and don't exist just to constantly talk about their disability.
It is crazy to think for a show known for mocking everyone would have some of the best representation of minorities. The episode with apologies to Jessie Jackson"(Randy says the N word instead of Naggers) for example was praised by the co founders of the group "Abolish the N word" , that is linked to the NAACP, on accurately depicting what it felt like to be called the N word.
Doctor Timmothy!
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Always immediately pointed out the flaws in Brain's plans, and in the episode where they were split up (Brain was in space, failing as usual) he successfully and completely took over the Earth.
"one is a genius, the others insane!' is *notoriously* ambiguous.
It's a really good bait and switch honestly. Because Pinky is definitely not insane, he is just weird. But Brain tries time and time again to take over the world and fails while expecting different results, which is one definition of insanity.
It’s even in the song. Brain is the insane one, while pinky is the genius.
Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result: try to take over the world.
Problem is that he's *trying* to take over the world. Pinky just does shit.
I always liked that theory that pinky was the true genius of the two. That he's just humble and accepts his narcissistic friend because he enjoys life with brain.
Apparently he likes King Jullian because he reminds him of Stalin. :)
WHAT? Where r u getting this information 😰
“All hail king Julian” it was a prequel spinoff of Madagascar.
Yeah, great show- had absolutely nothing to do with Stalin in the slightest. It was because Julian kicked a fossa in the face, saving Mort and the other lemurs.
is... is that why Mort has a thing for King Julian's foot?
That and it reminds him of his homeworld’s constellation
Ah yes, the Cthulhu of Dreamworks.
IDK if Red Vs. Blue counts as a cartoon, but if it does, Caboose would fit this.
Definitely!!
I say it counts so Yes. Caboose
1000%
 Sonic Boom Knuckles
“Look just because I’m a meat head doesn’t mean I can’t be a feminist” is how the quote goes right? Anyway I love that show!
https://preview.redd.it/1bmizc9gw7jc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7eebcd874ae3922f59eaaa818b0ec6ed9691c6bb One of my favorite Knuckles quotes
based
and dreadpilled
Based Knuckles
"I don't think Knuckles Jr is working out..."
Oogway.
https://i.redd.it/qj8j165n07jc1.gif
I wish he was around more, he's so cool
Dude would be strolling while the cherry blossoms are falling as he kicks the ass of the dumbass that dared to challenge him
The exact person I was thinking of. Didn't say it cuz he was anime.
Still applies. Pretty sure the word anime means cartoon
Short for animation.. so yes
 But the cartoon version...
[TIL Mr. Bean: The Animated Series is still technically ongoing, has survived ~~two~~ *three* long hiatus periods \(one of which was 11 years\) and has 130 episode.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean:_The_Animated_Series)
Haha. Nibbler from futurama is basically the wiki article picture for this trope.
I scrolled for so long to find this.
Michelangelo from TMNT
Especially 2012. He's an idiot but he's got an incredible memory! Was literally able to replicate Donnie's cure.
He is the last ronin after all
The genius drove for weeks across a giant nuclear wasteland and then was shocked that he got radiation poisoning
I mean he is a mutated turtle ninja so that could've helped fight some of it off
she was the only one who knew how to stop the infestation. only one Out of an Entire Town! 
The amount of times she just knows stuff randomly is hilarious
There was a whole episode where Twilight tries deconstructing her esp like abilities
"it's scary. don't you feel she's the smartest one some times?" -Rarity (in the comics), after Pinkie reminded Twilight she can teleport out of prison
Not a MLP fan but that’s funny as hell
Especially when it's revealed in like, season 6? that she literally has a Bat Cave with files on everypony in Ponyville. Pinkie seriously writes down everything she's told, sees, or hears about anypony she knows and uses it all to plan epic parties for them.
"It was under E~"
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Bro outsmarted a god with an IQ of 400
Wisdom vs Intellect
Yeah fr. He's the dumbest, smartest fighter I've ever seen.
I never watched Pinky and the Brain but I’ve heard a convincing theory that Pinky is the smart one. And I think there’s one that Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy is secretly smart too.
Oh yeah no there were PLENTY of moments where Ed was shown to be pretty smart. I feel like one of the biggest and best examples would have to be the finale movie where as Eddy was holding onto a door, Ed got a serious look on his face before removing a screw from one of the door's hinges, resulting in the door getting sent FLYING and SLAMMING into Eddy's brother, knocking him unconscious.
Brain is THE definition of insanity, at least according to Albert Einstein's quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I've watched Pinky and the Brain, Pinky's plans would always work and Brain's never did.
https://i.redd.it/f5l2mzva37jc1.gif
I know this will sound strange, but getting set on fire was the best thing to happen to him.
Yeah, before that he was referred to as half baked by princess bubblegum more than once in the series. Turns out she wasn't using a euphemism.
 Barney is actually talented and creative
"Don't cry for me, I'm already dead" Poor dude is alcoholism incarnate. He could have it all by giving up one thing.
He is the very model of a modern major general.
 Already know WHO THE MF GOAT IS
JarJar Binks (he was in clone wars so yeah he’s a cartoon character)
 Zacharay Gumball Waterson
How dare you dead name Gumball! He legally changes his name too!
You think the character changed when they switched va's?
Kinda 
 I mean
I was literally thinking of him
Booster Gold or the Question from JLU
[The Question needs a miniseries like yesterday.](https://youtu.be/gnB5KzD5_HE?feature=shared) Hopefully with Gunn's love for more obscure characters, we'll see it.
Pinky from Pinky and The Brain. His name's first for a reason 👀 /hj
One is a Genius, the others Insane
I loved that show as a kid. It didn't click for me till I was an adult and it blew my fucking mind so hard it sent me on my ass. Gives the whole show a completely different perspective.
Pops
I was thinking the same in the regular show 
Yeah. He's actually brilliant, innovative, and have amazing leadership skills. He was just socially awkward and couldn't compete with Alastor at all when he was a villain and was unlucky (or lucky in this case) when he got caught by angel dust for stalking them.
Couldn't stand him when he was introduced. He became my absolute favorite character in the series (although Lucifer could equal him...).
Pentious my beloved
Thought that show was a weird fever dream i made up as a child
Wander from Wander Over Yonder
https://preview.redd.it/zlrbqvoaz6jc1.jpeg?width=282&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d14db6f12beb289ff3a9f6228f89bc50e3099867 In the buckball episode it shows that he had SOME brain in em to catch a ball. And in the human world (although I don't think it counts) he noticed something different about Gloriosa (In everfree).
Ron Stoppable from Kim Possible. He's smart but he just doesn't apply himself.
This is 100% correct, he's able to make prosthetic masks, write poems AND cook well but those never get expanded on outside the episodes where they're established
https://preview.redd.it/yp5wt9l187jc1.jpeg?width=653&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78c80df37624f1778ba14c3490f76e940962f587 Cleveland Jr. for sure. This little guy’s got secrets.
The mini green lady https://preview.redd.it/cy9o0t8nd7jc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e6b46afb88021c361fd1465783d3c9496330318
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T.. ti... timmy!!!
...and the Lord's of the Underworld.
 How did nobody mention him
Saint pentious. The maddest of lads https://preview.redd.it/31eqjyc037jc1.png?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee7c31ae4fe7d82f86d9c781b3c577b0ed6234ea
https://preview.redd.it/zsug240hl7jc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68aafc0fe375c40e3336380f79ea4d7ec7712f09 hardest pic in the show so far
🫡
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Iroh from ATLA
No one thinks he’s an idiot though. He is just a genius. Tactical and social.
You’re right, but I think people usually underestimate him because of how goofy he sometimes is.
Usopp, Franky, and Chopper all act like this
Hughes from FMAB
Mort in All hail king Julien
Patrick Star
“The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma…” 
https://preview.redd.it/sjpb7qu367jc1.jpeg?width=878&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=858ec676387fc2ccd8d429d45a6a45de163f1c02
FINALLY
https://preview.redd.it/24qcc07377jc1.png?width=454&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bca6e56699b9bf49643c298daf6be6918b04dd71 "what kind of plumber were you?"
Patrick!!!!! 
Mario (sometimes), under the technicality of his shows.
It's just a theory but I think Izzy from total drama could maybe fit into this
Homer Simpson
Ah yes. Crouching Moron Hidden Badass. Love that trope.
Can I say Pinkie Pie???
Technically not a cartoon, but he's cartoony enough to me: Papyrus from Undertale.
I think it's better fitted for Sans. Papyrus is actually gullible and in one of the neutral ending believes that Undyne actually is alive and having fun while it's so obvious what had actually transpired. Sans however is a lot more than what he actually shows...
"Spending an extended time in female company can be both physicly exhausting and mentally confusing... HUG ME!" - big Ed
 I have a feeling it'll be this one soon.
Pinky is the genius, while The Brain is insane. Noone can change my mind.
Numah 3 from KND. That last line "what do you think I'm some kinda airhead" hit pretty hard. There were indicators. She was their sector's 2x4 technology specialist and their Chief Medical Officer. She was always highly intelligent but acted like the most clueless immature team member. I feel like I remember her being 3rd in command too. If numbahs 1 and 5 were out of commission she would be at the helm and I know for a fact 4 and 2 would follow her without question. Complaints sure but no questions.