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Character IQ pages — what the methodology actually says.

"Walter White's IQ." "Don Draper's IQ." "Sherlock Holmes's IQ." Real searches. TVI doesn't invent IQ numbers for fictional characters — but the show's IQ Score tells you something real about how seriously the work treats the character's mind.

The honest framing: TV Intelligentsia scores shows and films, not characters. Assigning a measured IQ to a fictional character is fabrication; there is no methodology that produces such a number. But the search cluster — "[Character] IQ" — represents real curiosity about how intelligent these characters are portrayed as being. The TVI IQ Score is the methodology-anchored answer to that question: it measures whether the work treats the character's mind seriously.

Each page below answers a popular character-IQ search by routing to the show's actual TVI score, plus a specific reading of what the score reveals about the portrayal. Read the full methodology or what an IQ Score is for context.

Walter White

Breaking Bad

163Masterclass

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

176Masterclass

Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman

Better Call Saul

171Masterclass

Don Draper

Mad Men

171Masterclass

Elliot Alderson

Mr. Robot

164Masterclass

Logan Roy

Succession

162Masterclass

Dr. House

House

157Stimulating

Carrie Mathison

Homeland

155Stimulating

BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman

150Stimulating

Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal

149Stimulating

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock

148Stimulating

Megamind

Megamind

127Competent