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Summary[]

To quote wikipedia

"Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including as one's capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability or inclination to perceive or deduce information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context"

Though there are some instances where most characters can surpass the limits of omniscience in ridiculous degree that it could just boggle your mind. Same goes for downplayed characters having the intelligence of a turd or even lower

Suggested Rankings[]

There is no way to reliably quantify intelligence, and even these rankings are just suggestions and guidelines for pages. It is more important that a page discusses a character's intelligence and gives feats for their varying skills than have a solid ranking, although it may help with quickly summarizing their overall intellects and how they measure up to others.

Dumbass: Characters having the intelligence of a turd or lower.

Learning Impaired: Characters that lack the ability to learn and understand.

Below Average: Characters of below average intellects and unremarkable skills.

Average: Characters of average intelligence. While they have more developed intelligence in certain subjects, in many cases, their overall intelligence remains average.

Above Average: Characters that show greater cognitive ability than the norm, but do not particularly stand out in any intellectual or academic fields.

Gifted: Characters who demonstrate high reasoning ability, can master difficult concepts with few repetitions, and display high performance capability or notable mastery in intellectual or specific academic fields, which makes them equivalent to real-world experts in these areas.

Genius: Individuals with an exceptional capacity for knowledge and intelligence, usually in one area of varying depth. This level of intellect is the level of real-world geniuses, polymaths, and genuinely extremely prominent intellectuals, and, in the absence of better feats, should be the default intelligence category for fictional characters with exceptional or superhuman intelligence.


Extraordinary Genius: Individuals whose knowledge spreads over multiple fields of science and who vastly surpass the real world's upper human limits. At this level, many are capable of creating extremely advanced futuristic technology, executing complex strategies even under high pressure, outperforming supercomputers,[1] and even accurately predicting the future through sheer mental calculations. This is where super scientists of exceptional scientific knowledge begin to appear.

Supergenius: The highest level of non-omniscient intellect, possessed by individuals with unfathomably superhuman intelligence who are capable of creating impossibly advanced physics-defying and reality-warping fantasy technology for extremely diverse purposes.

Take note that for a Supergenius rating to be given based on technological prowess, the character in question should be able to essentially warp reality as they wish on an at least universal (3-A) scale with their inventions, or even use them to overpower tier 1 entities for higher cases. Simply defying the laws of physics with futuristic technology is very common for Extraordinary Geniuses as well.

Nigh-Omniscient: Characters who have knowledge of nearly everything, with only minuscule gaps existing in their knowledge.

Omniscient: Characters who know literally everything. Be aware that even if they may know everything in their own setting that this does not grant them knowledge of beings from outside of it.

Beyond Omniscient: Intelligence being ridiculously above the likes of omniscience. It is usually saved for -1 characters.

Rick and Morty Understander: The pinnacle of intellect, these characters are smart enough to understand the subtle humor and cryptic references masterfully woven into Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Magnus Opus. This level is saved only for characters capable of understanding ALL of the jokes in Rick and Morty, so any character who only partially understands the genius writing would only be considered Beyond Omniscient.

Note[]

A character may have more than one intelligence rank if the statistic varies depending on the area. This means that they can reach exceptional levels in some respects, but be unimpressive in others.

Here are some examples:

  • "Below Average normally. Extraordinary Genius in scientific disciplines" may be appropriate for characters who behave in a silly matter, have klutzy mishaps even when trying to do simple tasks, or often make unrealistically dimwitted tactical decisions, but have displayed exceptional feats in fields of science and technology.
  • "Below Average normally. Genius in Martial Arts, combat & strategic thinking" may be appropriate for characters who behave in an immature, naive, uneducated, or unintelligent manner most of the time, but are absolute savants when it comes to hand-to-hand combat and associated strategic thinking.
  • "Genius normally. Nigh-Omniscient with X power" could be appropriate for characters who display standard levels of genius intellect normally, and can receive enormously greater amounts of knowledge from a separate power, such as Cosmic Awareness, but may not have access to this power on a regular basis.

Other statistics[]

  1. "Outperforming supercomputers" is here used as an umbrella term for the ability to perform extremely advanced thought processes such as calculations and multitasking. Perceiving the surrounding world in slow-motion, and similar feats, due to vastly superhuman Speed, is not remotely sufficient to qualify by itself.
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