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This is also why "SMART" characters in movies are often just really dumb but with nerdy/asshole characteristics. Because it is hard to write a character that is smarter than you are. The only real way is to research the topic at hand and learn from and listen to experts on that topic, so you can write a convincing smart scientist character by referring to actual experts in the field. But that's hard. Much easier to just write a character who says a bunch of technobabble nonsense and then acts like an asshole when no one understands them, it's not like emotional intelligence and communication skills are a sign of being smart or anything like that, gotta push a bunch of anti-intellectualism into everything.