Intelligence ranking the protags of my favorite series

 Just wanted to make a quick for fun blog scaling the protags of my favorite intelligence-wise. 

Generally just to be fair I will be giving all the characters on this list the benefit of the doubt. Several of the characters, for instance, have feats of "awareness" where they percieve all things happening in a set space. These seem to me like you could argue as either a sensory feat or an intelligence feat, in that it's technically the character sensing things but acts as a form of intelligence, though I will be counting it. Also a lot of the characters here happen to be really good at one thing, but don't have that level of general intelligence. For instance a character might be a scientific genius, but average otherwise, which I would put as basically a lower level genius intelligence than a similar scale all-around genius.

While some of these are fairly clear cut, some are fairly comparable and are just my guess. 

Tier 7: Below Average Human

32: Stanley (The Stanley Parable): The only character here who has literally zero intelligence feats as he spends the entire game possessed. He is implied to be below average as he has a job that consists of just pressing buttons that appear on a monitor, a job implied to be low in position.

Tier 6: Average Human Range

31: Yuki Yuna (Yuki Yuna is a Hero): Fairly average. Is a charismatic leader, but this seems more out of her will and passion than her intelligence. Suggested to do poorly in school. Does not have as dramatic anti-feats as Stanley.

30: Cure Black (Pretty Cure): Also fairly average. Does poorly at school, is a champion lacross player for her school and a good team leader. Nagisa vs Yuna is one of the most even comparisons here. Yuna is 3 years older than Nagisa by both series respective ends, that said older Yuna has basically no intelligence feats and Nagisa has even less dramatic intelligence anti-feats then Yuna, basically just being somewhat bad at school compared to Yuna falling for Togo's disguise.

29: Mew Ichigo (Tokyo Mew Mew): Ichigo is a fairly average middle schooler, seems to do better in school than Nagisa, and also demonstrated a bit more trickery when she tricked Tart.

28: Wirt (Over the Garden Wall): Wirt is fairly average but does reference and create his own poetry, and has a way with words. While a theme is that Wirt is exaggerating his own angsty poet visage, he does seem to be smarter than Ichigo at least, at least better read. While Ichigo was able to trick the childish Tart, Wirt was able to see through the deception of The Beast, who has tricked an unknown but likely large number of adults suggesting his intelligence is closer to average adult level. 

27: Panty Anarchy (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt): Panty acts pretty dumb often, but this is more personality defects than actual unintelligence. She is generally of adult level intelligence, and is by far the oldest of the characters in this tier (over 500 years old). While I have no doubt Wirt is better read than Panty, I definitely think Panty is more likely to trick Wirt than the inverse.

Tier 5: Above Average Characters (Has high intelligence feats in one particular category)

26: Princess Tutu (Princess Tutu): Duck by the end of the series if an extremely skilled dancer, able to replicate her transformed self Princess Tutu's dance moves identically as a duck, Princess Tutu being the greater dancer of the town. Otherwise, Duck is relatively average. While Panty is trickier than Duck, I do think the sheer degree of Duck's talent, probably puts Duck's average above Panty's.

25: Player Wizard (Magicka): The Player Wizards were the finest students of Castle Aldreheim, the most elite wizarding schools, and in their adventures defeated the magical uber-prodigy Grimnir in spellcasting and were considered the best spellcaster in the land. Midgard might be a nation or it might be a world, but either wise it's a vastly higher number of characters the Wizards scale past comparing their talent in spellcasting to Duck's talent in dancing. 

24: Hikaru Shidou (Magic Knight Rayearth): Hikaru is mostly an average middle schooler, but her talent with sword-dueling reached the power of equaling and surpassing Lafarga, greatest swordsman of the world of Cephiro. Hikaru has planetary talent in one regard, and she's also not socially inept like the Player Wizard canonically is.

23: Frisk (Undertale): Frisk is supernaturally good at analyzing the emotions of others and making friends, having a supernatural charisma, and I consider a supernatural talent like that to scale above a planetary scale talent like Hikaru's. Frisk also in general has better feats outwitting numerous puzzles while Hikaru doesn't really have any other intelligence feats, and in fact is sometimes lost when Umi and Fuu are talking.

22: Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho): Yusuke has an overal poor intelligence doing poorly in school and often not knowing things, but has an insanely good combat sense and ability to adapt to the point of outscaling in fighting intelligence millenia-old demons by the end of the series. I would consider this more defined superhuman talent superior to Frisk's vaguely superhuman ability to make friends, though Frisk does have better intelligence feats in other areas then Yusuke does.

21: Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya): Seiya is fairly similar to Yusuke in being kind of uninformed in a more formal sense, though not to the same degree and the saints are educated in various world myths. Seiya however has a talent for cosmo usage that allowed him to surpass billions of years old deities that existed and have practiced the usage of their cosmo since the beginning of the universe. This is pretty clearly superior to Yusuke's intelligence feats.

Tier 4: Gifted Level Intelligence

20: Omi (Xiaolin Showdown): Omi has an incredible learning ability able to learn moves just from seeing them once. While initially unaware of the wider world, he grows in cunning to the point of being able to trick the master criminal Katnappe, and has a vast amount of random info in his head from the Fountain of Hui. He simply has much better all-around knowledge than Seiya

19: Cutie Honey (Cutie Honey): Original Cutie Honey was something of a trickster figure used to decieving her enemies, even outwitting the entire criminal organization Panther Claw. While Omi outwit a single cat-themed criminal, Honey outwit a nation-destroying cat-themed criminal empire. 

18: Kratos (God of War): Kratos was a legendarily successful Spartan General winning countless battles even against unfavorable odds, and regularly defeated the puzzles and traps of some of the most brilliant architects of the world, as well as the mind trap of the goddess Hera. I don't think original Honey has any feats of general intelligence to that level. 

17: Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom): Aspires to be an astronaut, requiring a certain level of intelligence. Regularly operates and utilizes complex anti-ghost machinery, often better than its creators could do as well as outwits ghosts that have lifespans likely in the centuries or millenia. Possibly higher as the Fentons are called "a family of geniuses" though the credibility of the claim is questionable. Danny and Kratos both regularly fight primordial aged entities though Danny much more often wins via outwitting than Kratos does. Danny also has better feats in general.

Tier 3: Genius Level Intelligence

16: Minute Man (Freedom Force): Minute Man was an atomic scientist working on the nuclear missiles. Is the tactical leader of the Freedom Force, leading them successfully against the various threats against Patriot City. I think Atomic Scientist-level intelligence is above Danny's general intelligence level.

15: Yugi Muto (Yu-Gi-Oh!): Yugi has impossible seeming feats of gaming all over the place and Hikari Yugi was able to solve the Millennium Puzzle, a puzzle that not even Kaiba's team of scientists could solve in the Dark Side of Dimensions movie. Minute Man may be an atomic scientist, but I think a team of scientists scales above him.

14: Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club): Haruhi earned a full scholarship to an extremely elite school, Ouran Academy, purely through her intelligence. This is a very impressive feat but she at few times seems to be somewhat relative to Kyoya, such as seeing through his selfish mask, Kyoya having lower level superhuman intelligence feats. Giving her the benefit of the doubt would put Haruhi closer to the unrealistic end of genius tier, which I would put above Yugi.

13: Blossom (The Powerpuff Girls): Blossom is the smart one of the Powerpuff Girls and their team leader against highly devious traps prepared by superintellects like HIM or Mojo Jojo. Despite not having Bubbles language ability she learned Mandarin and given the girls are in Kindergarden the entire time this must be in the timeframe of one year. Mandarin is considered one of the few class 5 languages for a native English speaker requireing 88 weeks full time study to learn for adults. A 5-year old learning Mandarin part-time within a year is, while not impossible, definitely nearing the border, and is essentially a peak human type feat, probably higher than just intuiting through a low superhuman's cover a few times. There's an argument the PPG should be higher based on scaling to Mojo, but I don't think that's really supported even for a benefit of the doubt interpretation.

12: Bayonetta (Bayonetta): Bayonetta is considered a prodigy of the Umbran Witches, the Umbran Witches being one of two secret societies ruling the Earth since ancient times, with Bayonetta being considered the pride both physically and intellectually of her people evidenced by the fact that she also masters virtually any weapon "instantly" with either her hands or feet. This would be something like a higher end genius level intelligence, plus she's just generally very crafty. I think she's probably similar to Blossom in general intelligence, but due to personality and age is far more knowledgable and crafty.

11: Samus Aran (Metroid): Samus was raised by the ancient wise Chozo Race in special training to make her a master in essentially every civilized skill including mastering all forms of combat, trickery, knowledge of flora, fauna, and civilizations from across the galaxy, and scientific knowledge capable of building and repairing her own spacecraft. While I think Blossom and Bayonetta can match Samus in some regards, I think Samus' intelligence is just more versatile expanding to so many different topics that I'd put her this high. Samus' intelligence is essentially superhuman, in that it's peak in more regards than a human realistically.

Tier 2: Superhuman Intellects

10: Feliciano Vargas (Axis Powers Hetalia): The nations in Hetalia are abstract concepts representing the nations, suggesting Feliciano would have the intelligence of the Northern Italian populace, dozens of millions of people. This level of intelligence is supported by the nations learning all human languages and creating their own special language. I mentioned Samus is an unrealistic genius in many fields, but Feliciano, despite how goofy he is, is a superhuman intellect made of millions and millions of people.

9: Dante Alighieri (Commedia): Dante by the end of the story has become like the souls in Heaven looking into the presence of God. Beatrice, one of them, mentions that she knows the thoughts of all people on Earth as they pass through the minds of the souls in Heaven as they travel up to God, meaning Dante should have the collective intelligence of everyone in his day. The estimated world populace of 392 million people, and somewhere between a Type 0.25 Kardashev Civilization (like the Roman Empire) and a Type 0.5 (The Industrial Revolution) while Italy as a whole today contains a population of of ~60 million. This is also not taking into account that Dante has learned deep secrets of the cosmos that Feliciano hasn't. 

8: Wander (Wander over Yonder): Wander is a Star Nomad, an alien race with vast information about the universe. Wander himself has regularly outwit Lord Hater as a matter of usual business, Lord Hater being able to easily create advaned technology like an all-terrain vehicle with lasers, robot limbs, and a pizza oven from scratch in a few minutes. This is technology signifigantly more advanced than a civilization like Dante-Era Earth could make (it's something that would be hard to build now), and Wander also generally has even more expansive knowledge of the universe.

7: Sailor Cosmos (Sailor Moon): With the Lambda Power, Usagi has access to the Mercury Crystal which grants an IQ over 300 that is relative to super-human intellects that can create holographical displays of a galaxy or nanobots that devours a body in seconds. The Mercury Crystal makes Usagi a pretty clear-cut Type 1 intelligence by Kardashev Scale models. This is probably superior to Hater's intelligence feat, and Wander doesn't outscale Hater enough in intelligence to think Sailor Cosmos wouldn't be smarter than Wander.

6: Amaterasu (Okami): Amaterasu is a supremely wise goddess who is implied strongly to have existed since the beginning of the universe and also saw through the deception of the demon Ninetails whose minion Tobi created a high tech base with robots and lasers. The Demons are also considered of notable intelligence to the Lunarians who create advanced spacecraft. Sailor Cosmos and Amaterasu are probably fairly similar in terms of intelligence, but I think Amaterasu's greater experience and the fact she outscales a Type 1 entitiy confidently, while Usagi is moreso just scaling directly to a Type 1 feat, means Amaterasu is probably higher. 

5: Tiara (Shamanic Princess): Tiara is hard to scale. She fused with the Throne of Yord, a transdual entity aware of all and seemingly omnipresent in all reality and dreams which at the very includes Earth and the Guardian World. After she attained enlightenment the two were one and she would have this level of awareness. I think this feat of multi-planetary omnipresent awareness scales more dramatically over "normal" Type 1 feats.

Tier 1: "Nigh-Omniscient" Type Intellects

4: Yuuko Ichihara (XXXHolic): Yuuko's intelligence is considered relative to Clow Reed, who supposedly saw all things that would ever be, including precisely events hundreds of years in the future save for love, and even then he had a high degree of intuition as to what it would do. This is really where benefit of the doubt comes in, whether you think awareness feats like this count as intelligence or what. Assuming it does Yuuko can see events across the multiverse, which is a lot farther than what is shown for the Throne of Yord.

3: Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura): Sakura is the descendent of Clow Reed and is said to be able to become all-seeing as Clow Reed was, and implied to have surpassed him, putting her pretty clearly as more inelligent than Yuuko. It does seem kind of weird because Yuuko is treated as the top tier trickster of the verse, intellectually a guide for people like Sakura, but that's mostly because Sakura doesn't want to be all-seeing like Clow Reed.

2: Kami Madoka (Puella Magi Madoka Magica): Madoka after ascended to godhood can see all timespace, all universes include those that could be, and could have been. Same deal with awareness feats and if they count. That said while Madoka's awareness has some mild limitations, it's less than Sakura's limitation of "love", though Sakura/Yuuko can still predict fairly well the affairs of love. Beyond that Madoka's awareness extends also to the past and to the end of the universes, and while Clow Reed's sight probably also did, it doesn't have feats for anything beyond hundreds of years in the future so Madoka has better feats here.

1: Superman (DC Comics): DC intelligence scaling is absolutely insane. Mr. Myzptlk has a similar deal as Madoka of "I see all realities that could be and could have been" including realities in other continuities and Superman regularly outwits him. Superman is considered similar in intelligence to Darkseid who can create machines capable of tapping into the Source, and turning people into infinite cosmic forces akin to Madoka. Superman has also remade the miracle machine, a machine that could grant a metafictional "happy ending" to the multiverse. Just in general Superman has often outwit entities similar to Madoka in "awareness" stature.