The power to reduce the intelligence of others or oneself. Sub-power of Intelligence Manipulation. Variation of Reduction. Opposite to Intelligence Augmentation.
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[]
- Interpretation Reduction
- Memory Limit Inducement
- Memory Suppression
- Skill Reduction
- Stupidity Inducement
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 Absolute Intelligence are completely 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
- Tsuru Tsurulina III/Czar Baldy Bald III (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
- Molly Blyndeff (Epithet Erased)
Known Objects[]
- Brain Drain Helmet (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius)
- Happy Juice (Adventure Time)
- Harebrained Magisword (The Amazing World of Gumball)
- The Braniac Booster (Jimmy Two-Shoes) via reverse mode
- Dud/Suka Cards (Negima); anime only
- The Stupid Gas (Shaggy and Scooby Doo: Get a Clue)
- Orb of Confusion (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Stoopid Bomb (Super Mario Bros: Comic Book)
- ZZZ Gas (Astro Boy)
- The Chasm (The New Heroes)
- Blue Monkey (Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
- Brain Drain (We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story)
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.
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Molly (Epithet Erased)'s epithet is called "Dumb", one of its abilities allows her to hypnotize people by reducing their intelligence.
The Orb of Confusion (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Clifford DeVoe (The Flash) planned on resetting/rebooting everyone's brain so he though it could save humanity from technology and enslave everyone as its teacher.
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Blue Monkey (Looney Tunes: Back in Action)
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Brain Drain (We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story)
Video[]
Ape Transformation - We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story-2