Character from The Simpsons by Matt Groening / Fox
Springfield's eight-year-old moral conscience, jazz musician, and intellectual outcast — the smartest person in every room, and the loneliest.
Lisa has an IQ of 159 and the social life that implies in Springfield. She reads above her grade level, plays jazz saxophone at a level that transcends her age, advocates for the environment, animal rights, and vegetarianism, and is treated as a curiosity or a nuisance by most of her peers. She is the moral center of the family — the one who points out what's wrong, who feels the consequences of things her family shrugs off, who cares about the world in a town that has largely given up on that. Her loneliness is real and specific: she is not misanthropic. She wants friends desperately. She just wants friends who can keep up, and Springfield has a finite supply of those. Her relationship with Bart is complicated — they irritate each other constantly and would throw themselves into traffic for each other. Under pressure, Lisa overexplains, over-researches, and frequently identifies the correct solution to the problem forty minutes before anyone listens to her. Then they listen. She is usually right.
Short, with bright yellow skin like all Springfield residents, wearing a red dress with white collar and a large red bow at the back of her head. Blonde hair in a starfish-spike pattern. She carries herself with the tightly-wound alertness of someone perpetually waiting for a conversation that will meet her where she is. She is usually holding a book, a saxophone case, or the expression of someone who just heard something incorrect.
Also known as: Lisa Marie Simpson, Lis