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See also We Want Our Jerk Back!, Compressed Abstinence, Tall Poppy Syndrome, Loss of Identity. If the character elects not to accept themselves and overuse the Applied Phlebotinum, you may have a Fantastic Drug situation on your hands. The polar opposite of Brought Down to Normal and Can't Stay Normal. If the character's friends force them to give up their improvement against their will, or if the character seeks to lose it because of mistreatment from others, then it can leave a very bitter taste in viewers' mouths.ĭone well, this is about accepting your limitations and making the most of what you have instead of relying on artificial enhancements. Note that how bad the Aesop is depends on how willing the characters are to go back to their former selves and how much the return was based on their own actions. Sadly, this is sometimes Truth in Television, as many geniuses do experience feelings of isolation. Charlie, though, finds that his intelligence isolates him just as much as his dimness did before it.ĭone poorly, this is a message that being smart or even above average will make you unhappy and insufferable, and the only way to have friends and be acceptable is to be at (or below) their own level.

To an astounding degree, as it turns out: his intellectual breadth and knowledge allow him to learn languages of all kinds, science of all branches, surpassing even those that performed the operation. In the story, the main character, cognitively disabled Charlie, undergoes a surgery that boosts his intelligence. In the Trope Namer short story Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (later expanded into a novel), it was a side effect of the imperfect procedure that granted the intelligence in the first place. At other times, it's a bow to Status Quo Is God. Sometimes, it's because the method used to acquire the new ability (or perhaps even the new ability itself) presents an actual danger to the character who has it ( and possibly even others). Sometimes, it's because the character's "normality" is required to solve a problem. However, by the end of the episode, the character is back to normal. loses something that is considered in general as bad ( jerkassery or stupidity as examples).gains something that is considered in general as good ( intelligence is a common one), or.

In a Flowers for Algernon story a character either: Characters are known by the qualities that make up their personalities.