The power to reduce the intelligence of others or oneself. Sub-power of Intelligence Manipulation. Variation of Reduction. Opposite to Intelligence Enhancement.
Also Called
- Intelligence Decline
- Kogata no Smarts
Capabilities
The user can decrease the intelligence of others or themselves. This ability can be used to enslave individuals by making them too intellectually deficient to think for themselves or distract and disable others.
Applications
Associations
- Brain Manipulation
- Devolution - decrease the intelligence of others by devolving them.
- Intelligence Manipulation
- Mental Manipulation
- Reduction
Limitations
- If the user is not careful, they can reduce their own intelligence as well.
- Users of enhanced intelligence may be immune.
- The victims can become too dumb to obey the user.
- Users of Psychic Shield (highly resistant) and Psychic Immunity (impervious).
Known Users
- Fighter (8-Bit Theater)
- Shaggy Man (DC Comics)
- Brain Spawn (Futurama)
- Professor Link (Totally Spies!)
- Scientist No.1 (Angry Beavers)
- The Algernon Forest (Fear Mythos)
- Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker (Arrowverse/The Flash 2014); via the Enlightenment
- Czar Baldy Bald III (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
Known Objects
- Happy Juice (Adventure Time)
- Dud/Suka Cards (Negima); anime only
- Orb of Confusion (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Stoopid Bomb (Super Mario Bros: Comic Book)
Gallery
Shaggy Man (DC Comics)
The Dud/Suka Mode (Negima anime) of the pactio cards reduces the intelligence of the card holder to infant/toddler levels, in other words they became mental Duds.
The Orb of Confusion (SpongeBob Squarepants)
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