Chuck returns tonight for its two hour third season premiere . As Chuck deal out with his new and improved Intersect abilities , it ’s worth taking a look at other characters who get amazing Einstein upgrade … and some who were n’t so lucky .
1 . Chuck Bartowski , Chuck
Chuck download the original Intersect into his brain when his college roomy Bryce netmail it to him at the start of the serial . Since then , his neuronic supercomputer has allowed him to lead a biography far more exciting and carry through than he ever could have opine , but at the same time it ’s placed him and everyone he cares about in hurt ’s elbow room . At the end of last time of year , Chuck downloaded the Intersect 2.0 , which grants him newfound physical ability to go along with the vast supply of information hive away in his head teacher . However , as can be expected on a show like Chuck , his new powers are going to come with a bug or two .
2 . Echo , Dollhouse
Along with the rest of the Dolls , Echo can be imprinted with any imaginable acquirement set for any conceivable troth , as long as the guest is unforced to make up the Dollhouse ’s hefty fee . count it ’s a matter of seconds to altogether rewrite a mortal ’s brain , this is an perfectly unbelievable – not to observe terrifying and possibly world - destroy – patch of engineering science . Of course , consider all the Dolls ’ mind are pass over uncontaminating before they start their circuit of obligation , it ’s hard to call this an “ raise ” with a straightforward case , although one might look at the “ composite upshot ” that bird like Echo and Alpha experienced , in which every personality they had ever had imprinted became active simultaneously . Alpha argued this was the next step in human evolution . As with most thing on Dollhouse , there was disagreement on this case .
3 . Henry Dorsett Case , Neuromancer by William Gibson
The protagonist of Gibson ’s cyberpunk classic is just one of many “ console cowboys ” , who link up their minds directly into cyberspace using Einstein - computer interface . Although the novel starts with his skittish system wrecked , leaving him unable to connect to the globose computer meshing , a mysterious benefactor repairs Case in exchange for his services as a hacker . Perhaps the most extreme brain rising slope in the ledger is Peter Riviera ’s . Riviera is a sociopathic creative person who is able-bodied to design holographic images using only the power of his diseased mind , thanks to some moderately sinewy cybernetic implant .
4 . Prometheus , DC Comics
Conceived by Grant Morrison as the wicked inversion of Batman , Prometheus was the son of two psychopathological flower child bank robber . When his parent were at long last corner and killed by the constabulary , their young boy swore to destruct the forces of justice . After years of training , he began his quest in the biggest potential way : by have on the recently revive Justice League of America . Although he has no superpowers , Prometheus was able to defeat the likes of the Martian Manhunter , Green Lantern , and Batman with some fiendish traps and the help of his cybernetic implants , which allow him to download the skills of the world ’s thirty greatest warriorlike artists . Since Batman was in reality one of those thirty warriorlike artists , even the Caped Crusader could not hope to overcome Prometheus in individual combat .
5 . Most of the developed world , Ghost in the Shell
The world draw in the fabled Nipponese cyber-terrorist dealership is one where people augment their mind with various cybernetic implant . This allows character to practice their mind in ways not unalike from computers , which means they can do anything from download memories to fall dupe to computer virus .
6 . Joe McClaine , Joe 90
Gerry Anderson , better known for the live action shows UFO and Space : 1999 and the earlier creature series Thunderbirds , was also behind this 1968 show ( in which he also used the sophisticated puppetry technique acknowledge as Supermarionation ) about a nine - year - old boy who becomes the populace ’s most unlikely spy . Joe ’s don , the brilliant professor Ian McClaine , had invented the Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer ( BIG RAT for poor ) , which countenance multitude ’s mastermind pattern to be replicate and transfered to another person . Intelligence agentive role Sam Loover saw the twist ’s espionage logical implication and convince the professor to let his son become a “ most especial factor ” , using especially project glass with electrodes inside them to get at the requisite brain patterns . The serial then progressed on the premise that , no matter how serious the situation or how unpitying the enemy , no one would ever suspect a nine - year - old boy of wrongdoing and thus overlook him as a threat . Incredibly enough , this plan pretty much worked precisely as describe for thirty adventures , give or take the occasional dreaming sequence or clip show .
7 . Jobe Smith , The Lawnmower Man
The 1992 moving picture and its 1996 continuation had fairly much nothing to do with the original Stephen King shortsighted account of the same name . Instead , the movies play along Dr. Lawrence Angelo as he uses his unparalleled admixture of drugs , cortex stimulation , and virtual world to dramatically increase the intelligence of his patient . His first test on a homo is the mentally disabled gardener Jobe Smith , who quickly answer to the operation , learning Latin overnight and have strange telepathic moments . The experimentation goes awry when Angelo ’s original military backers swap Jobe ’s drug with a far more grave cocktail of “ aggression factors ” , which turns him into a telekinetic psychopath who becomes hellbent on immix completely with the computer mainframe .
8 . John Heath , “ Lest We commend ” by Isaac Asimov
It would n’t be one of my lists without a reference to an Isaac Asimov work . In this 1982 shortsighted story , John Heath is an utterly , devastatingly average serviceman who is offer an incredibly opportunity by his employer , Quantum Pharmaceuticals . He is throw a drug that allows him total computer storage callback , which soon countenance him to remember everything anyone has ever said to him . This provides him with an opportunity for some serious corporate blackmail in the hopes of securing a good future for himself and his fiancée . Although this stratagem ultimately fails , Heath hold his new ability , promise his wife never again to habituate them to malign ends . Even so , the story ends with him think over that it may only be a matter of time before everyone has full recall .
9 . Arnold Rimmer , Red Dwarf
In the episode “ Holoship ” , the crew encounters The Enlightenment , an entire holographical ship where holograms of the sound and shiny Space Corps personnel explore the creation and have sex at least twice a day ( it ’s mandatory ) . Desperate to leave behind his quasi - beingness as a hologram on a ship full of living people , Rimmer applies to bring together the crew of The Enlightenment , but he is pull to pass an tidings tryout . Rimmer realizes he has no probability , so he does the only honorable thing : he cheats . He implants a mind - eyepatch that temporarily grants him a maven I.Q. , but he is lift by his own petard when his brain disapprove the maculation during the exam . The rest of the installment features a shocking tress that leads to one of Rimmer ’s most noble and self - sacrificing moments in the entire series , so peradventure we should just move on .
10 . Donna Noble , Doctor Who
Thanks to a biological metacrisis in “ Journey ’s End ” , Donna and the Doctor ’s hand exchange transmitted textile , creating a new half - human Dr. and make Donna part Time Lord . ( Yeah , it ’s still completely mad . ) On the one hand , this middling much instantly makes her one of the universe ’s most powerful intellects , able even of understanding secular grease monkey and operate the TARDIS . On the other bridge player , her human mind is simply too small to hold a Time Lord mind , and the Doctor has to forcibly wipe her mind of all memory of their escapade to block off her drumhead explode . It ’s a spot of a mixed grip , really .
11 & 12 . Fry and Guenter , Futurama
We close with two object lesson of brain rise from the universe of collective idiocy that is Futurama . In “ Parasites Lost ” , Fry does the unthinkable and eats a sandwich from a truck stop bathroom , causing him to get worms . But not just any worms – these are superintelligent worms , and they undertake the truly giant undertaking of farm Fry first to average news , then to genius - level intellect . This finally allow for Fry to gain ground Leela ’s heart , but he ’s unwilling to survive in a existence where he ca n’t take any credit for his own success , so he forces the worms to leave .
A more rigidly scientific movement to increase a being ’s intelligence is Professor Farnsworth ’s experiments with the scalawag Guenter . The prof scoff at the feeling that Guenter is the mathematical product of transmitted engine room , dismissing that as preposterous science fable mumbo jumbo . Instead , his intelligence information “ actually lie in his electronium lid , which rein in the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation . ” Ah , science . How I love ye .
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