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Idiot Savant
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Under virtually all circumstances, they seem to be so stupid and socially awkward that they likely have a mental disorder. But put them in the right kind of situation, and they'll demonstrate outstanding brilliance. Mathematics (or a certain area of it) is a common area for Savant skills to show up. A few such people in real life are amazingly gifted at calendar-based calculations. Give them a specific date and they can tell you in seconds what day of the week it was or will be. Intuitive mathematical calculations, such as the multiplication of large numbers or the identification of primes, also occur. Non-mathematical abilities include precocious musical ability, including perfect pitch and intuitive ability to play an instrument; unusual artistic ability, especially the ability to draw anything after having seen it once; prodigious feats of memory, such as memorizing entire books or a million digits of pi; or even the ability to learn a new language in a week. When Hollywood uses Savant characters, the most frequent talent the character will have will be something to do with mathematics. The term "Idiot Savant" is actually outdated, since the term "idiot" itself is no longer a medical term. The term "savant syndrome" is more correct. It refers to someone — usually someone with a developmental disorder, often autism — who has one or sometimes more extremely high abilities that are disproportionate to their normal level of functioning. The other wiki has more information. See also Genius Ditz when the person has stupidity outside his field of expertise rather than a mental disorder. All three tropes can be confused with Seemingly Profound Fool. Occasionally overlaps with Disability Superpower and Hollywood Autism. Compare/contrast Bunny-Ears Lawyer, who is functioning properly despite a few quirks and Crippling Overspecialization, which could be seen as the ability version of this in the world of Competitive Balance. Also contrast Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training, where the person may have no particular mental condition but has focused on one (or a few) skills at the cost of everything else. This trope is about people with an actual mental disorder. If the character is simply ditzy, then that's Genius Ditz. |
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Get Fuzzy shows Bucky to be one multiple times. The most famous example is when he fixed Satchel's broken watch. When Rob presses Bucky on how he knew how to fix a watch (remember, we're talking about a cat who thinks Ben & Jerry's Chunky Munky contains actual monkey), Bucky responds that he just kinda...did. | |
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Karl in Sling Blade is a mentally disabled man with mechanical skills, especially when it comes to small engine maintenance and repair. | |
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Patrick, House's patient of the week played by Dave Matthews in season 3's Half-Wit was this due to a car accident he was in as a kid. He couldn't even button his own shirt, yet he was a brilliant pianist despite never having practiced it. | |
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The Tick (2001). While he was always a ditz, the live-action television series plays up his ditzy traits so much that he seems barely capable of functioning in society. Notably, he doesn't even know his own real name or where he's from, he can't recognize other superheroes when they're out of costume (the other characters might have trouble at first, but The Tick never picks up on it even when it's explained to him), and at first doesn't even know what death is. When it comes to heroics, however, he's a genius: he's an expert fighter and shows a decent amount of philosophical thought. Notably, when he did discover that everyone (even potatoes) can die, he spent about 30 seconds thinking about it before giving Arthur a motivating speech that actually makes sense. | |
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"Coach" Ernie Pantusso in Cheers is implied to be The Ditz due to head injuries, but he's also a geography expert, even making up mnemonic songs about countries. | |
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Charlie Kelly in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is not a very smart man — he Never Learned to Read (although it's more like he tries and fails) and carries a general air of incompetence, but he's very adept at playing and creating music. When Mac expresses surprise that Charlie can play a keyboard, let alone with great skill, Charlie says, "Oh man, keyboards just make sense to me, man. I get 'em, ya know?" He also shows remarkable Improvisational Ingenuity as seen in "Charlie Work," where he has to create a complex plan on the fly to dupe the incoming health inspector into giving the bar a passing grade while covering up a very messy "chicken and airline miles" scam the rest of the gang concocted while Charlie wasn't there. | |
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The Simpsons: The male Simpsons can be classified as this at their worst. While being born smart, a gene causes that to deteriorate. However, both Homer and Bart have displayed excellent skills in multiple languages (Homer once speaking penguin). To say nothing of musical talent. Bart showed great skill with the drums, and Homer has repeatedly shown himself to be capable at anything - literally anything - connected to music. Two hit bands, several successful songs both with those bands and independently - he even shows incredible skill as a music manager, for both Lurleen Lumpkin and Lisa. | |
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: Max Hass, a gigantic Manchild who can only say his own name due to having a third of his skull missing, proves to be this. With Wyatt, he points out a paragraph in an ancient manuscript written by the Da'at Yichud to help him find the information he was seeking. While this might have been blind luck, he later beats Set at a game of chess, sending Set into a Rapid-Fire "No!" before he flips the board and storms off... Max just quietly takes out a paper and starts coloring on the now-vacant table. And said coloring is eventually revealed to be part of a larger mural on Max's wall depicting Klaus, his foster father who had died in the first game. | |
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WWE once featured a wrestler called Eugene who was billed as an idiot savant. He was mentally and socially way below the norm, but his wrestling abilities were pretty good, including pulling off numerous classical moves from the old days of pro wrestling. | |
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The film The Wizard features a young autistic boy who is fantastic at video games. | |
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Sasha in Attack on Titan. She's a Big Eater who's so stupid that she doesn't even understand that eating a stolen potato in front of her commanding officer is a bad thing, believes that people who give her food are gods, and goes so far as to steal food directly from her superiors and show it off to her peers. Still, she is fantastic with a blade and even better with a bow, and one of the most effective combatants against the Titans. When she's not being distracted by food, at least. | |
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Morty Smith from Rick and Morty is alleged to be stupid to the point of having a disability according to his parents and struggles quite a bit with basic math and schoolwork. When it comes to his knowledge of anything Rick, however, the guy reveals himself to be a quick and even ruthless thinker and planner capable of grasping advanced concepts about infinite realities and even disarming neutrino bombs. He also has a real penchant for understanding and utilizing technology developed by Rick, and has on several occasions helped himself to weapons and tech from Rick's lab and never once struggled to use such weapons. He also manages to fool Rick on at least a few occasions. Rick even implies, correctly so if Evil!Morty is any indication, that Morty is fully capable of becoming a Big Bad level Evil Genius if he gets the chance. Rick himself is later revealed to have Hollywood Autism that contributed to his status as an Impossible Genius, at the cost of crippling his ability to relate to others and making him a Heroic Comedic Sociopath. |
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Mashiro Shiina in The Pet Girl of Sakurasou is an internationally famous painter by high school age, but she clearly has zero skills in anything else — she doesn't know how to put on her shoes, or that she has to pay for items in a store, etc., etc., together with a long list of oddities (like No Social Skills or having a flat affect) to the point that the speculation of her being autistic has become a rather universally accepted Fanon. | |
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Rain Man: Raymond suffers from extreme autism and is usually restricted to a home. However, he has savant abilities with numbers, allowing him to count with lightning speed, do complex calculations in his head, and count cards. | |
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The Elenium: Adus is an evil example. A mentally handicapped, barbaric savage, Adus can barely speak, doesn't bathe, is almost illiterate, and frequently eats raw meat. He's also a combat savant, with a talent not only for physical fighting but small unit tactics. Give him an axe and a manageable number of troops, and no one is more dangerous. | |
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Malory Towers: Irene is forgetful and scatterbrained to a hilarious degree (often forgetting the classes she should be in and the like), but the narrative never fails to mention that she's also a genius in both music and maths. | |
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The Saxon Stories: Steapa Snotor is so stupid that he's nicknamed "The Clever", and is reckoned by the hero to be completely lacking in imagination. He is uneducated, illiterate, and can spend hours wrapping his head around the simplest of situations. The exception to this is on the battlefield, where he is both a terrifying warrior and an extremely capable commander. Alfred the Great, a man who admires only learning and otherwise only trusts literate and intelligent men, promotes Steapa to command of his personal guard, which frequently means effective command of his entire army. | |
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Exalted: The Primordials are often referred to by fans and writers alike as idiot savants. This is directly enshrined in their powers; when acting within their defining themes, even the basic abilities of a Primordial are transcendentally incredible. In any area outside of their themes, they are utterly hopeless. The relevance of these matters is a bit bigger considering that they are the immense and barely comprehensible Titans who forged the world and created all mortal and godly races; since those tended to be group efforts, the Primordials were never really fully capable of grasping the consequences or possibilities of their creations. It did not work out well for them. However, this only applies to the period from Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals to the end of second edition. Outside of that period, they're still portrayed as vast and barely comprehensible, but they're not idiot savants. |
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Dragon Age: Origins: Sandal is a savant when it comes to enchanting weapons. However, if you talk to him all he'll say is "Enchantment!" and "Enchantment?", probably owing to the amount of lyrium he's been exposed to. (Although the sequel reveals he is able to speak, he's just shy and inarticulate.) In the final dungeon at the end of the game, you also encounter him alone, covered in blood, and surrounded by heaps of slain monster corpses. So he would appear to be a bit of a savant when it comes to combat as well. That incident repeats itself twice in the second game. | |
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Goku from Dragon Ball Z Abridged puts virtually all his brainpower towards fighting. Hence why he's good at fighting and fighting-related analysis (accurately and deeply explaining why Trunk's newer and bulkier form is bad by giving him power but makes him too slow to make good on the meager upgrade), and near-brain dead stupid at everything else. He is implied to have suffered brain damage as a child. | |
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In Cube Zero, this is creepily hinted at with Wynn as having become this at the end. He's lobotomized, thrown back in the Cube, and found by some other prisoners, mirroring Kazan's introduction. The last shot of the film settles on his tapping fingers as a computer interface is softly heard in the background... | |
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Mercury Rising centers on an autistic child who can intuitively decipher top military ciphers and a police officer who can convey character with a silent telegenic stare. | |
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Fallout 2: The NPC Algernon is an idiot savant with a talent for fiddling with weapons and upgrading them. The poor guy lives in the Wretched Hive New Reno and lacks the character and social acumen to hold his own there, only capable of expressing himself verbally through onomatopoeia, so an unscrupulous gun shop owner hides him in his basement and makes him work for food. If the player meets him, Algernon will help them with their weapons for free. | |
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Fallout 4: One of the Luck perks is named this. It gives the player a random chance of getting hugely multiplied experience points from any action, said chance being higher the lower their intelligence is. Every time you get the boost Nate/Nora makes a goofy sound or laughs while a Rimshot and a boink sound play along. | |
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Kyle in All The Small Things displays symptoms of high-functioning autism, being unable to relate to most people, saying very little, and speaking literally when he speaks at all. However, he's a superb singer and guitarist. | |
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Fate/strange fake: Flat Escardos is a complete and utter moron who thinks that Qin Shi Huang and Godzilla wanted the Holy Grail. He enters the Holy Grail War as a tourist and is bent on befriending every Servant participating. At the same time, he's frighteningly talented at magecraft, playfully rewriting meticulously laid wards simply by touching them for four seconds. He also summoned his Servant, Jack the Ripper, completely by accident simply by fiddling with the residual magical energy in the air. | |
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The Hodunk bandit clan from the Borderlands series are a bunch of space hillbillies, with all the lack of intelligence that implies, but are unparalleled vehicle mechanics, and build and race cars on their own racetrack. It's implied that they don't even understand how vehicles actually work or know what any of the parts are supposed to do and operate purely on instinct. Scooter, Ellie, and Moxxi are former members of this clan. | |
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Rom, a recurring Ferengi on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, goes far beyond basic idiocy. Somehow he is an extremely capable engineer and at one point, even able to spout technobabble on the level of Spock and Data. His skills seem to have been honed by the Ferengi's natural skill with mathematics and the years working as Quark's personal repairman for anything and everything. | |
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One book in the Baby Sitters Club series had Kristy sitting for a girl with autism. The girl, Susan, was mostly non-verbal and was generally not able to take care of herself, but was a brilliant piano player and could do the "identify the day of the week" calendar trick. | |
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Mass Effect 2 has a DLC side mission where Shepard takes on a rogue Virtual Intelligence that has melded to the mind of the project lead's autistic brother David. Through a series of holograms projected from David's mind, Shepard learns that not only was he a math genius, but he could actually imitate the geth language so accurately that the deactivated geth would respond to it. He's also shown calculating square roots in his head when stressed. Shepard remembers one of those square roots and uses it as a Trust Password in the third game when he meets David again, who is under attack by Cerberus: | |
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Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World: Karen Nieto is autistic. Tests have found that her intellectual abilities in most areas range from kindergarten to second-grade level, but she has savant skills in memory, spatial awareness, and concentration. She also has a unique understanding of the wants and needs of tuna, which allows her to become the first person to successfully breed bluefin tuna in captivity. | |
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Iqbal in Bromwell High, on one hand, is a very, very lousy headmaster at the titular school. On the other hand, he paints in his spare time (although has trouble selling his paintings), can memorize an encyclopedia, works a bit of amateur theater into staff meetings and assemblies, and can dance and sing. | |
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Fallout: Fallout 2: The NPC Algernon is an idiot savant with a talent for fiddling with weapons and upgrading them. The poor guy lives in the Wretched Hive New Reno and lacks the character and social acumen to hold his own there, only capable of expressing himself verbally through onomatopoeia, so an unscrupulous gun shop owner hides him in his basement and makes him work for food. If the player meets him, Algernon will help them with their weapons for free. Fallout 4: One of the Luck perks is named this. It gives the player a random chance of getting hugely multiplied experience points from any action, said chance being higher the lower their intelligence is. Every time you get the boost Nate/Nora makes a goofy sound or laughs while a Rimshot and a boink sound play along. |
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Colonel Klink of Hogan's Heroes is often thought of as one of these as anyone who meets him quickly realizes how dumb he is. However, when asked how he holds on to his job as the commandant of Stalag 13, they always bring up his perfect no escape record (which is because Hogan and the company keep it that way to keep the bumbling Klink in command). | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: "Dead End Street" features a woman who is almost mute and regarded as an 'imbecile' (in the parlance of the era), but has total recall and a phenomenal ability in making models. When she makes a scale model of her street with a tiny figure holding a rifle at the window, Murdoch realizes she has witnessed a murder and reconstructed it in the model. However, because she cannot distinguish faces, Murdoch has no way of identifying the figure at the window and has to work out a means of communicating with her to discover what she knows. | |
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Zen, star of the Thai film Chocolate is an autistic girl and martial arts savant. | |
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One episode of Law & Order had a suspect that could do quantum physics but couldn't remember a grocery list. | |
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On Boy Meets World there's a throwaway gag in one episode in which Shawn refers to himself as one after revealing he can speak French. This was during the period in the show where he got really dumb, which didn't stick as a character trait so this is never brought up again. | |
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From Red vs. Blue: Caboose is the dumbest character amidst the core cast, mostly as a result of all the brain damage he suffers throughout the series. Despite this, he has the best understanding of AI-based technology, capable of repairing both Epsilon and the MANTIS-class military assault droid "Freckles", but also capable of easily transferring them to other machinery. He is also able to understand some more abstract concepts such as time travel, a Running Gag being that random innocuous comments of his turn out to be the truth to how certain things working, such as time being made of circles. Loco (the Caboose counterpart among the Blues and Reds) is just as stupid as Caboose is, but is somehow able to construct advanced machinery out of simple materials. All of his inventions look utterly ridiculous but they work quite well, his grand achievement being a working time machine. |
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The Tommyknockers: smart enough to create DC-powered anti-gravity, dumb enough to never think of buying an AC-DC converter so they don't have to power it with batteries. | |
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It's never directly addressed, but in G.I. Joe, Metalhead, Destro's lackey, is one of the dumbest characters around, but can apparently do complex artillery calculations for his rockets in his head. He also has one of the best accuracy rates of any Joe or Cobra, mostly because he only fires at vehicles. | |
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura allows the player to take "Idiot Savant" as a character trait. It gives a bonus to intelligence and gambling skills, but speech is limited to Hulk Speak. | |
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White from Tekkonkinkreet plays this trope straight. He saves Black's life, perhaps more than once, and is eerily perceptive about some of the people around him: at the same time, he can't tie his own shoes or dress himself without help. | |
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Melvin Potter in Daredevil (2015) displays some very childlike behavior and is clearly mentally unbalanced, but he is also a savant when it comes to making armored combat suits. He takes an authoritative tone when he's in his element, but sounds like an insecure child the rest of the time. In Season 2, he acts more mature as a result of Fisk no longer being around to pressure him, taking medication against his mental disorder, and his parole officer/girlfriend acting as a stabilizing influence. | |
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Reese from Malcolm in the Middle. He is the dumbest person on the show but he is a genius in the kitchen and very naturally gifted. One example is him making an entire dinner for his family with a little help from Piama, Francis's wife, but he can't find the oven mitts. He then grabs the turnkey dish with his bare hands fresh out of the oven and tells Paima to move the oven mitts. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: The Demiprinces, a form of lesser Daedra born from the union of a Daedra and a mortal. Their dual nature gives them an odd perception of the world and time itself. In addition to their eccentricities, Demiprinces have an extremely difficult time maintaining knowledge that lies outside their spheres of influence. However, they are the undisputed masters of whatever lies within their spheres. | |
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Fry in Futurama is this, having a handful of genuine talents peppering his otherwise frightfully idiotic "brain". This may be a result of his strange mind due to being his own grandfather (which also provided protection against the Brainspawn): One episode reveals that he has an encyclopedic knowledge of campfire horror stories of all things. Naturally, it's Lampshaded: It turns out he's is a naturally-talented composer, at least for the Holophoner, though he lacks the dexterity to actually play it properly. In The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings, he switches his hands with the Robot Devil's and becomes an overnight musical sensation. |
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One episode of NUMB3RS featured a very Rain-Man-like autistic savant character, right down to being able to count spilled toothpicks quickly and accurately. He was employed by a courier company to help track packages with missing or damaged bar codes, and when he was off work, they had to bring in at least ten people to do his job. | |
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The Stand: Donald Elbert, better known as Trashcan Man, is dubiously literate or numerate and has quite serious psychiatric problems, but can easily figure out the most complex machinery. | |
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Ricky from Trailer Park Boys is so dumb he struggled to pass even grade 11, constantly spouts malapropers, genuinely believes that evidence can be disposed of by simply flinging it into the air, can't even keep a goldfish alive, and can barely even speak without stumbling over words and swearing. However, he's a genius at pretty much anything that requires using his hands: he's better at growing marijuana than even Julien and the hyper-intelligent Bubbles, a very talented mechanic, and (despite his heavy diet of canned ravioli and chicken fingers) a capable cook. He's also shown to be very quick-witted when the time calls for it, frequently (but not always) able to talk himself out of a situation, such as the time he weaponized his stupidity to convince a judge to allow him to swear in court by pointing out that he can't properly defend himself without swearing because of how stupid he is... which works. | |
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Ethan in Ctrl+Alt+Del, emphasis on idiot (he thinks the best way to deal with paperwork is to Kill It with Fire). He claims he's intelligent for only a few seconds a day and created two intelligent robots without fully understanding how, since the only plans he could find were scribbled in sauce on a restaurant menu. When one of them needs to be fixed, he gives a very technical explanation of why he can't do it. The next strip shows him wearing all his winter clothes instead of, y'know, putting them on a chair or something because he needed the storage space. | |
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Jeffy from SuperMarioLogan had a difficult time fitting a star block into a square hole, yet was able to paint the Mona Lisa on an Easter egg, and make almost uncannily accurate chicken noises. He even said his ABC's backwards. And in "Pokémon Part 6", he somehow caught Cookie Monster in a Pokéball and taught him Thunderbolt. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen, book seven, Reaper's Gale: Beak has an incredible natural magical ability that would've put him on the fast track to High Mage rank, if not for a combination of an unspecified disorder, childhood traumas, and a Forrest Gumpish mental state — which combine to give him No Social Skills and a mental handicap in understanding the world around him unless it has to do with magic. Even that he simplifies to a great degree. While other mages see magic as a complicated net of cause and effect, Beak simply sees differently colored candles. And while other mages can use one, maybe two of the Paths of Magic, Beak can use all of them. The other mages usually take a whiff of his magical potential, hear him babbling on about something and just give him a hug before they walk away crying. | |
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Subverted when Charmcaster calls Gwen Tennyson this exact name in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, referring to Gwen's incredible but self-taught magical powers. "I've trained in magic my whole life, and you just pick up my spell book and you're instantly out-magicking me. You're not a real sorceress, you're an idiot savant." Gwen is a more realistic version of a Teen Genius and likely knows what an idiot savant is. Charmcaster was insulting her out of envy for her natural talent (due to being part anodite, a being of pure mana, the substance of magic). | |
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Paisley from A.N.T. Farm can't read or remember her name, but she can build a functioning helicopter complete with rope ladder out of balloons, which she can also make into a pony complete with functioning internal organs. | |
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The main character of Forrest Gump, particularly with things that require speed (running, loading weapons, ping-pong, etc.) in combination with an extreme, single-minded concentration. This was actually toned down from the book. | |
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The Cube film series: The first Cube has Kazan, a severely mentally handicapped man who, to the rest of the people trapped in the Cube, is a nuisance at first, constantly banging his head against the walls, making weird honking noises, and babbling about gumdrops. But later on, it's discovered that he could find the prime factors of huge numbers in his head, and he ends up as their savior. Or more accurately as his own savior. In Cube Zero, this is creepily hinted at with Wynn as having become this at the end. He's lobotomized, thrown back in the Cube, and found by some other prisoners, mirroring Kazan's introduction. The last shot of the film settles on his tapping fingers as a computer interface is softly heard in the background... |
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Common in the Triptych Continuum, in the form of falling into the mark, a mental disorder among ponies that causes their cutie mark talent to consume their life. Nearly every pony goes through a touch of it after cutiesynthesis, becoming just a little bit too interested in their new skills. Far too many ponies exist in its early stages, simply never really developing a true interest in anything outside the range of their talent. But for those who fall furthest, the condition can approach this trope: A single field in which they are supremely competent... and total incapacity in any other. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Savant Madboyz are Orks with prodigious powers of memory and calculation, twitchy and erratic behavior, and a firm obsession with a single specific subject, about which they will babble on unceasingly. Most Orks cannot make heads or tails of their rants, but Mekboyz consider them to be valuable retainers and keep them around as essentially living memory banks to consult during difficult projects. The Jokaero are basically space orangutans, in both appearance and intellect. Yet somehow, they are also mechanical craftsmen par excellance. |
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In A Boy Called Po, the titular autistic boy could read at age three, follows the stock market in the paper, and can do math that's way more advanced than anything his classmates can do, but he can't tie his own shoes. | |
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Dolphin Boy: Six-year-old Dibs can't talk, but he can draw beautiful sketches of sea creatures and almost perfectly mimic a huge variety of sounds. Most people treat him like a baby, but his sister Amy realizes how intelligent he is before anyone else does. | |
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In Ming and Ming, the autistic boy Xiaoming can multiply and divide large numbers in a few seconds. | |
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Komugi of Hunter × Hunter can really not do anything at all, due in part to her blindness, general Self-Deprecation and the belief hammered into her by her parents that if she ever lost a game of Gungi ever, she is nothing more than trash... but she is quite literally undefeatable at Gungi to make up for this, being able to lead and control a game of it hundreds of moves ahead of her opponents and always increasing her skill with every match, making anyone she fights completely unable to catch up to her no matter how hard they try. | |
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House of the Scorpion: Ton Ton has trouble speaking and is regarded as a dumb ox by his peers, but can work almost any machine. | |
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Cassandra Cain, the third Batgirl, is a dark example. She's essentially a combat savant who's quite possibly the best martial artist in the DCU... but she became this way because her father refused to teach her anything that wasn't fighting, not even how to talk. It took psychic intervention in her teens for her to even begin to understand English, and she can still barely read or speak. Her predecessor Barbara Gordon notes that the language centers of her brain are wired in such a way that makes it extremely difficult for her to learn spoken language, meaning she essentially has a learning disability. | |
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In My Sweet Audrina by V. C. Andrews, Audrina's sister Sylvia is born with a severe intellectual disability which means that she can't speak, walk properly, close her mouth or control her bodily functions. Despite this, she is presented as preternaturally wise and has powers of telepathy which allow her to communicate with Audrina, ultimately leading to her coming up with a very clever solution to save the comatose Audrina from Vera, who was about to switch off Audrina's life support machine. | |
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In The Innocent (1994), the autistic and intellectually disabled nine-year-old Gregory can produce highly detailed sketches of everything he's ever seen. When Barlow discovers this fact, he tries to get Gregory to draw the men who committed a mass shooting he witnessed. | |
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The Professional: Leon has no social skills and he doesn't even know how to read, but you won't find a man more apt at mowing down enemies with extreme prejudice. A lot of the movie centers on contrasting his ineptitude with normal life to his aptness at his hitman job. | |
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Sherlock Holmes was a self-inflicted version of this trope. He apparently managed to acquire and retain his encyclopedic knowledge of anything and everything to do with crime and detection in part by taking care never to learn anything that did not relate to crime-solving. In the first book, Watson is gobsmacked to find that Sherlock doesn't know that the Earth revolves around the Sun. | |
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Rimworld: Characters who survive a traumatic brain injury have a 12% chance of developing the "Trauma Savant" trait, which gives a 50% boost to the Manipulation stat used for technical work and melee combat at the cost of removing any and all ability to socialize. | |
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Spinister from The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye has a list of psychological issues that reads like the wet dream of a psychiatrist who wants a book deal. He suffers from delusions, hallucinations, and paranoia, he classifies random objects as good or bad based on the noises they make when punched, he has trouble counting, he doesn't even notice when his arm is removed...but he's also a brilliant surgeon who at one point works out an effective treatment to a very invasive and cruel procedure within an hour of learning it had even happened. | |
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Shaun Murphy, the main character of The Good Doctor is a clear example of this trope, being a genius surgeon with autism and savant syndrome. | |
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Tony from Journey of the Heart is an autistic piano savant who can't tie his shoes, tell up from down, or understand abstract concepts, but he can effortlessly play complicated pieces after hearing them only once. | |
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