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Brainy Smurf is one of Corn Sky's "friends". He made friends with him in January 2022. He is the village intellectual who's not afraid to share his "wisdom" with his fellow Smurfs, even though it usually results in his being booted to the village limits or whacked in the head with a mallet. He is also a very prolific author of many books, usually with his name in the title, and he is Papa Smurf's apprentice and assistant in his laboratory. He is easily identifiable by his glasses and his books. Brainy is the most self-centered of the Smurfs, even more so than Vanity Smurf; he annoys almost everyone, up to and including Papa Smurf. Brainy has a penchant for showing off, claiming that he knows everything about everything, although the only things he knows well are things about himself... and even that is debatable. Brainy even claims to be his own favorite subject. Despite this, he is well-liked whenever he's not being a bossy know-it-all, which is all-too-frequently the case. His house is filled with of stacks of books all written by himself. The books are either manuals, encyclopedias, or his personal favorites. Brainy always wants someone to read them, but even the nicest people turn them down, or merely pretend to like them for Brainy's benefit. He enjoys being a leader, always eager to be one in almost any activity. He's dramatic in nature, often inflating problems or freaking out far more than other Smurfs, which can lead to them yelling at him. In general, he's not very patient. It's possible Brainy is quite smart. It's noticed that he was born to be a bookworm when he first got his glasses. Even before he started writing his books of wisdom, he was an avid reader of books, which may explain his mentality of doing things by the book. Besides Papa Smurf must have had a good reason to choose him to be his assistant. However, Brainy constantly fails to use his intelligence constructively and for the benefits of other Smurfs, including himself. He almost always believes his book-smarts are better than the hand-on smarts of the other Smurfs, which leads him to be either thrown out of the village or in a rivalry with another Smurf, where Brainy eventually humiliates himself. Basically Brainy is a bruised ego who consistently bruises it himself.